SEEKING RUGBY CROWN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 328, 13 April 1928, Page 9

SEEKING RUGBY CROWN

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HERBERT LILBURNE began his football career at the Woolston School, where he played for five years. In 1922 he was one of the Canterbury Primary Schools representatives who won the South Island championship. On leaving school he joined the Albion Club’s fourth-grade team, which won the premiership in its grade in 1923. In 1924 he played for the Albion first-grade team, and was chosen for the Canterbury B team. He lias remained with Albion, and has represented Canterbury in 1925-26-27. He also represented the South Island last year. In club games he prefers to be second five-eighth. j Wing-Threequarters j

ALAN C. C. ROBILLIAHD learned the rudiments of the game at the Ashburton primary school. Then he was at the Ashburton High School, and was in its first fifteen, for two years, but in those days he played as half-back or as first five-eighth. He came to Christchurch in 1921 and joined the Christchurch Club. His first two seasons for the club were spent in the second-grade team. In 1923 he came into the firstgrade side as a five-eighth, but later it was found that he was a fine wingthreequarter, and in that position he has played for the club since, and has won his higher honours. He has represented Canterbury in 1923-25-26-27, the South Island in 1924-25-26-27, and New Zealand in Great Britain and France in 1924 and in Australia in 1926.

BERT GRENSIDE, wing-threequarter, is a Hastings boy, but is one of the few members of the team who have never attended a secondary school. He has been a stalwart in Hawke’s Bay Rugby for the past eight years, being in the team that won the Ranfurly Shield in 1922. Grenside is the only player in New Zealand who has scored 100 points in Ranfurly Shield matches. He has represented the North Island twice.

FREDERICK W. LUCAS started his Rugby career at Remuera School and was selected to play for the Auckland school boy representatives in 19.13. During the war, he was a member of the brilliant Ponsonbv junior team which won the championship in different grades four years in succession. J3e came straight up from third-grade into first-grade to play for Auckland in 1921. In 1923 he played for New Zealand in the second Test against New South Wales at Christchurch. He went to England with the 1924 All Blacks and on his return represented New 7 Zealand against New South Wales at Auckland in 1925. Lucas was selected to tour Australia in 1926, hut could not go. C. E. RUSHBROOK learned the game at Wellington College. When he left he joined the Wellington College Old Boys Club, first playing in that club’s first-grade team in . 1926. He soon caught the eye of the selectors, and he left bis mar k on Wellington provincial football as a w'ingthreequarter, but this is his first appearance for New 7 Zealand. He represented the North Island last year. Centre-Threequarters |

DAVID LINDSAY was captain of the Timaru Boys’ High School team in 1925, and, going to the Otago University the following year, at once found a place in the B team. Last season he was one of the victorious \ team, and also won his “blue” as a member of the New’ Zealand University team that visited Sydney. While in Australia he developed into a wing three-quarter, but he can play lull-back or centre-threequarter. T. REGINALD SHEEN first played lor Christ’s College first eleven in 1919, at the age of 14. He represented the college till 1922. Returning to Auckland in 1923, he played in the second grade for King’s College Old Boys. In the same year, without having played firstgrade football, he was selected lor the Auckland team, playing five representative matches that season. Sheen was operated on for appendicitis at the end of the 1923 season, and he missed the All Black trials in that year. He went to Australia with the 1926 All Blacks.

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MARCUS F. NICHOLLS has represented New Zealand on more occasions than any other man in the team, and is certainly the most experienced back in the party. Nicholls is also a product of Wellington College, and is the son of “Sid” Nicholls, himself a noted player and captain of Wellington representatives. Mark Nicholls was only 19 when be gained bis first Wellington cap in 1920, and lie has done much service for the province as well as for the Dominion since then, including the tour of England in 1924-25. He played in all three Tests against the Springboks of 1921.

NEIL P. McGBEGOB began bis football at the Mataura School, Southland, and played for the Gore High School first fifteen in 1917 and 1918. Later, lie played for the Public Service team in Invercargill. In 1923 he went to Wellington and played for the Wellington Club, and also for the Wellington representative team. He came to Christchurch in 1924, and joined the Christchurch Club. By his play in the trial matches and the inter-island game of 1924 lie won a place in the All Blacks for England before lie got into the Canterbury team. He also played for New Zealand against tlie New South Wales team which toured the Dominion in 1925, but was unable to go to Australia with the All Blacks of 1926. He played for Canterbury in 1926 and 192? and for the South Island in 1925-26-27, as well as in 1924.

L. M. JOHNSON, better known to the crowd as “Lance” Johnson, has already been honoured with representative "caps for Wellington and Hawke’s Bay. Originally, however, he came from Southland, having learned the rudiments of the game at the Southland High School. In 1925 he represented the Dominion in the team w'hich visited New South Wales, and also represented the North Island since then.

SIDNEY R. CARLETON started his Rugby at the Riccarton primary school. After that he was at the Christchurch Roys’ High School, w'here he gained his first-fifteen colours in 1918. In 1921 he captained the school’s great Moascar Cup team. From 1922 onwards he has played in first-grade Rugby as a member of the High School Old Boys’ Club, usually as centre-threequarter, but sometimes as second five-eighth. He played in the Canterbury B touring team in 1923, and later in the same season he gave a fine display in the CanterburySouth Canterbury ~ team against New South Wales. Fie has played for Canterbury in each season since then, and represented the South Island last year; WILLIAM ARCHIBALD STRANG, one of the “juniors” of the New Zealand team, began his football at the South School, Invercargill. Afterwards he was at the Timaru Boys’ High School, for whose first fifteen he played in 1922-23-24, captaining it in 1924. Then he joined the Timaru Old Boys’ Club. He first represented South Canterbury in 1925, and continued in the two years following. Last year he played for the South Island. / Half-Backs |

WILLIAM C. DALLEY was a fine halfback even when he was at the West Lyttelton School. In 1916 he went to Christchurch Boys’ High School, hut did not win his first-fifieen colours until the following year. After he left school Dallev went to North Canterbury, but came in to Christchurch on Saturdays to play for the High School Old Boys second-grade team. In 1921 he was in Ellesmere, and he represented the Ellesmere sub-union and the Country team against the city. He also found a place in the Canterbury representative team. Until 1924 he represented Ellesmere as well as Canterbury. In 1924 he went to England with the All Blacks, and he visited Australia with the New Zealand team of 1926. He has. of course, continued to represent Canterbury, and he played for the South Island in 1926 and again last year. F. D. KILBY is really better known in the South Island than he is in the

The Rugby premiership of the world is to be decided in South Africa in the approaching winter. That is at least the view of both South Africans and New Zealanders. The team which is leaving Wellington to-day, on its way to Durban, represents a country that has yet found no superior in international Rugby.

All Blacks’ Itinerary

The last draft itinerary of the All Blacks’ tour received by the New Zealand Rugby Union, and approved by it, is as follows:

Monday, May 21—Arrive Durban by Euripides. Tuesday, May 22—Leave Durban. Saturday, May 26—Arrive Cape Town. Wednesday, May 30—Play at Cape Town. Saturday, June 2—Play at Cape Town. Monday, June 4 (4.15 p.m.)—Leave Cape Town. Tuesday, June 5 (7.30 p.m.)—Arrive Kimberley. Wednesday, June 6 —Play at Kimberley. Thursday. June 7 (7.30 p.m). Leave Kimberley. Friday, June 8 (7.30 a.m.) —Arrive Johannesburg. Saturday, June 9—Play at Johannesburg. Tuesday, June 12 (11 a.m.)—Leave Johannesburg. Tuesday, June 12 (5 p.m.)—Arrive Kroon stad. Wednesday, June 13—Play at IvrOonstad. Thursday, June 14 (12.37 p.m.) Leave Kroon stad. Thursday, June 14 (6.15 p.m.) Arrive Johannesburg. Saturday, June 16—Play at Johannesburg. Tuesday, June 19 (10.10 a.m.) —Leave Johannesburg. Tuesday, June 19 (2.40 p.m).—Arrive Potchefstroom. Wednesday, June 20—Play at Potchefstroom. Thursday, June 21 (2.20 a.m.)—Leave Potchefstroom. Thursday, June 21 (6.15 a.m.) —Arrive Johannesburg. Thursday, June 21 (2.15 p.m.) Leave Johannesburg. Friday, June 22 . (6.52 a.m.)—Arrive Maritzburg. Saturday, June 23—Play at Maritzburg. Monday, June 25 (8.35 a.m.) —Leave Maritzburg. Monday, June 25 (12.16 p.m.)—Arrive Durban. Saturday, June 30—FIRST TEST, Durban. Tuesday, July 3 (9.56 p.m.)—Leave Durban. Thursday, July 5 (4.13 a.m.)—Arrive Bloemfontein. Friday, July 6 (9 a.m.)—Leave Bloemfontein. Friday, July 6 (1.28 p.m.) —Arrive Kimberley. Saturday, July 7—Play at Kimberley. Sunday, July 8 (8.35 p.m.)—Leave Kimberley. Tuesday, July 10 (8.40 a.m.)—Arrive Bulawayo. Tuesday, July 10 (6 p.m.)—Leave BulaNorth. He is a product of the Southland Boys’ High School, a very fertile area for Rugby players. He has represented Southland, Wellington and the North Island. : | Wing-Forward ) GEORGE SCRIMSHAW began his football at the St. Albans primary school, where he played for one vear. He went to the Waitaki Boys’ High School in 1919, and plaved at the side of the scrum in the school’s first fifteen. In 1920, however, he was the school’s wing-forward. On leaving school he went to Gust, and played for the Cust club. He repre-

I Wednesday, July 11 (10.12 a.m.)— Arrive Victoria Falls. I Friday, July 13 (12.30 p.m.)—Leave Victoria Falls. Saturday, July 14 (7.30 a.m.) —-Arrive Bulawayo. Saturday, July 14—Play at Bulawayo. Monday, July 16 (5 p.m.)—Leave Bulawayo. Wednesday, July 18 (4.34 a.m.)—Arrive Johannesburg. Saturday, July 21 —SECOND TEST, Johannesburg. Monday, July 23 (5.10 p.m.)—Leave Johannesburg. Monday, July 23 (6.25 p.m.)—Arrive Pretoria. Wednesday, July 25—Play at Pretoria. Thursday,. July 26 (6.30 p.m.)—Leave Pretoria. Friday, July 27 (7 a.m.) —Arrive Bloemfontein. Saturday, July 28—Play at Bloemfontein. Monday, July 30 (7.15 a.m.) —Leave Bloemfontein. Monday, July 30 (3.07 p.m.)—Arrive Burghersdorp. Wednesday, August I—Playl—Play at Burghersdorp. Thursday, August 2 (3.07 p.m.)—Leave Burghersdorp. Friday, August 3 (6.30 a.m.) —Arrive East London. Saturday, August 4—Play at East London. Tuesday, August 7 (11.05 a.m.) —Leave East London. Tuesday, August 7 (1.53 p.m.)—Arrive Kingwilliamstown. • Wednesday, August B—Playß—Play at Kingwilliamstown. Thursday, August 8 (2.14 p.m).—Leave Kingswilliamstown. Friday, August 10 (6.05 a.m).—Arrive Port Elizabeth. Saturday, August 11—Play at Port Elizabeth. Saturday, August 18—THIRD TEST, Port Elizabeth. Sunday, August 19 (3.45 p.m.)—Leave Port Elizabeth. Monday, August 20 (7.20 a.m.) —Arrive Oudtshoorn. Wednesday, August 22—Play at Oudtshoorn. Thursday, August 23 (7.35 a.m.)—Leave Oudtshoorn. Friday, August 24 (7.51 a.m.) —Arrive Cape Town. Saturday, August 25—Play at Cape Town. Saturday, September I—FOURTH1 —FOURTH TEST, Cape Town. Tuesday, September 4 —Sail by Ceramic ' from Cape Town. sented the North Canterbury Sub-Union for three venrs. Coming to Christchurch in 1924, he joined the Christchurch club. For three parts of a season lie was in the club’s second-grade team, and for the rest of the season he was full-hack for the first-grade team. In 1925 he went up to wing-for-ward, and has stayed in that position. He has represented Canterbury in 1925-26-27, and the South Island in 1927. | Back-Row Forwards j E. SNOW started his Rugby at the Central School, Nelson. On leaving school he joined the Nelson Ciub, for which he has played ever since. First selected to play for Nelson in 1920,

he has represented his union in every j Seddon Shield match it has played since then. In 1920 he toured the < North Island with the South Island country team, and played in every match. In 1921 he was emergency for the South Island team, and he played for the combined Scddon Shield districts against the South African touring team. He represented the South Island in 1923, and again in 1927, but in 1924 he was only an emergency for it. In 1926 be toured the North Island with the combined Seddon Shield districts team. Snow played in the trial matches of 1924 as well as last year’s. RUPERT McWILLIAMS learned his football in the Waikato at the Eureka School. He did not worry much | about the game until he was about 19 or 20, when he joined up with the famous Ponsonby Club in Auckland. He j started the 1921 season as a junior and ! finished up that year as a lirst-grade j player. In the next year, he went into : the Auckland representative team, and j with the exception of 1923, has been there ever since. CYRIL BROWNLIE, brother of tl«e , captain of the team, was educated at St. Patrick’s College, Wellington. He | first came to the front as a member ot the Hawke’s Bay team of 1922, and he , has played for his province in each year since. Besides his appearances lor the North Island, he has played for New Zealand in the British tour of 1924 2a and the Australian tour of 1926. | At The Sides Of The Scrum | MAURICE BROWNLIE, captain of the team, and one of the best-known players of Rugby to-day, was educated chiefly at St. Patrick’s College, \\ ellmgton, but played as a back in the college first fifteen for two years. After he left school, and before lie could take up first-grade football, the Great \\ ar claimed his attention. He was a member of the New’ Zealand service team which won the Moascar Cup in Egypt. After the war lie did not play football until 1921, when he joined Napier High School Old Boys. He got into the Hawke’s Bay representative team that year. From” 1922 onwards he has captained the splendid teams which have represented Hawke’s Bay. His first appearance for New Zealand was in IJ--, w’hen he went to Australia with the team that E. A. Beilis captained. Brownlie has been in each New Zealand team since. In the 1924 tour ot Great Britain and France he was the All Blacks star forward. INNES FINLAYSON, popularly known as “Bunny,” learned the Rugby game at school at Maungaturoto (North Auckland). Later, he played for Maungakaramea and then for the Kamo and Wliangarei suburban club. From there he went into the North Auckland representatives, and in 1925 played for the All Blacks against New South Wales at Auckland. In the following year, he was one of the outstanding forwards in the New r Zealand team which visited Australia. RONALD T. STEWART began ms football career at the Timaru South School. Then, for three years, from 1918 to 1920, he was at the Timaru Boys’ High School, and played tor its first fifteen. Subsequently he played f„ r the Timaru Old Boys Club, which he has captained foe several years. In 1921 he gained a place in the South Canterbury representative team, and has played for it ever since, except when he toured with the All Blacks. He has represented the South Island 0,1 six occasions (1922 to 1927), and has been a member of the New Zealand teams of 1923-24-25-26, these honours including the tour of Great Britain and France. ... “PAT” WARD has represented South Canterbury, Canterbury, Taranaki, 1 an - ter'bury again, Taranaki again, and the South * Island. Born in Timaru, he learned his football at the W’aimataltai School and afterwards played for Zingari. W’hen he was barely 15 he represented South Canterbury as full-back. Later he was wiifg-threequarter, and it was not until 1919 that lie played as . a forward. All this time, and for some vears afterwards, he represented South Canterbury. He came to Christchurch in 1923, played for Linwood, and appeared for Canterbury in that year (as a forward) and in the following year (as wing-forward). In 1925 he _ was a Taranaki player. He wore Linwood,

Canterbury, and South Island jerseys in 1926, and Clifton Club and Taranaki colours last year. WILLIAM E. HAZLETI did not know ( he could play a good game of football | until his last year at Waitaki Boys* High School, lie got into the School ; team that year (1924). In 1925 he joined the Pirates Club. Invercargill. and played for Southland before the season was out. He represented Southland : again in 1926 and 1927. and the South Island also in each of those years. In 1926 he was, too, a member of the New Zealand team which visited New South Wales. I Locks lAN 11. HARVEI started playing Rugby under the jurisdiction of the Tenui Sub-Union i ii\ Wairarapa). and it was not long before he was recognised as one of the coming New Zealand representatives. In 1921 he was playing at full-hack, but going up into the' pack he secured representative honours for Wairarapa the following year, and he has been in the picture ever since. He was a member of the 1924-25 All Blacks in England and France. GEOFFREY T. ALLEY started playing Rugby at the Wharenui School, , Riccarton, as a full-back. He went to Christchurch Boys’ High School in 1915, and in 1919 he got a place in the school first fifteen as a hooker. In 1920, though, he was the ‘*lock” of the team which won the Moascar Cup. He played very little football in the next three seasons, but in 1925 he appeared for the Lumsden Club in Southland country Rugby, and soon got into the Southland representative team, as well as the Otago-Southland fifteen against the New South Wales team. He played for Southland, the South Island, and New' Zealand (in Australia) in 1926. Last season he played in Christchurch, for the ’Varsity Club, and represented Canterbury and the South Island and the New Zealand University. | Hookers | I JOHN P. SWAIN was born and educated at Napier, receiving his schooling I at the Napier Technical College. Later j he went to Wellington and wore Welj lington representative jerseys from j 1922 to 1925. He then returned to Hawke’s Bay and has been a member of I the Hawke’s Bay side since. ] SWINDLEY HADLEY learned the I A B C of the Rugby code under the able ! guidance of the Marist Brothers at ! Bere c ford Street School, Auckland. In ; 1923 he joined the Marist Old Boys* Club, playing in the third grade. In | the next vear, he went up to the second j grade, and in 1925 was a first-grade player. The following year found him I in the Auckland representatives, where i lie and Palmer made a great name for j themselves as front-row forwards. In between the 1926 and 1927 season, he ! put on the best part of a stone in weight, and played magnificent football I last year, culminating in his selection i for the North Island and then the All i Blacks. | JAMES T. BURROWS came from j North Canterbury primary school Rugby to Christchurch Boys’ High School, where he gained his first-fifteen colours in the school’s great team of 1920. He was vice-captain of the school team in 1921, and captain in 1922. He played for High School Old Boys ir. 1923, and won a place in the Canterbury representative team. Appendicitis kept him out of the game in 1924, and when he took up Rugbv again in 1925 it was for ’Varsity In that year he played for Canterbury, for the Canter-bury-South Canterbury team against . New South Wales, and for the South Island- Through study having first call on his time he did not play in 1926, but last year he represented Canterbury and the South Island again. JOHN HORE is u product «>i the Macandrew Road (Dunedin) primary school. He joined up with the Southern Club on leaving school, and quickly worked through all the grades, reaching the first-grade ranks in 1925. He gained Otago representative hono ~ps in 1926, and at once made good. He played for the South Island last year.