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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 379, 13 June 1928, Page 1

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ALL. BLACK FORMATION MATCH WITH FREE STATE HORE GETS FIRST GAME (Australian i’A —United Service J Heed. 9.5 a.m. KROONSTAD, Tues. The Transvaal Rugby Union has reported the Finlayson incident to tl e South African Rughy Board, saying that it had dealt with tha matter, and now considers it closed. The team for to-morrow’s game is as follows: Lilburne Grenside Lindsay Robilliard Strang McGregor Dailey Scrimshaw Hore Swain M. Brownlie Alley McWilliams Ward Harlett Emergencies: Carlton, Stewart. The rest of the team stayed at Johannesburg for intensive training for the return match with Transvaal on Saturday. The opinion is that the New Zealanders will win to-mor-row. The Free State team contains 13 Bloemfontein players. ORTHODOX SCRUM LINDSAY AS CENTRE THREEQUARTER On paper the All Black team for to-morrow looks strong. It is solid from the scrum out, and the introduction of Lindsay at centre should complete a useful chain of inside backs. Hore gets his first game in the front

row, and there will be general hope that his presence will improve the hooking. In other respects the scrum looks solid rather than brilliant. It is by no means the heaviest scrum that can be packed, but McWilliams, Hazlett

.. if imiXIO, .1 I dale L t and Alley are all toilers. Kroonstad, where the match against Orange Free State is to be played, is 130 miles from Bloemfontein, and 4,500 feet above sea-level. The Orange Free State team is by no means to be despised. It has a bunch of fine forwards headed by Jordaan, Visser and Basson, and first-rate

backs in M. Francis, du Plessis, Marais (a promising half) and R. Wansbury, a particularly fine centre. Wansbury was considered by R. CoveSmith, captain of the British team that toured Africa in 1924, to be the best centre in Africa, but this high opinion

is not shared by Wansbury's own countrymen, who consider him inconsistent.