RUGGED SOUTH ISLAND FORWARDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 779, 27 September 1929, Page 13

RUGGED SOUTH ISLAND FORWARDS

AUCKLAND COURSING CLUB TOMORROW’S MEETING After a lapse of just on 15 years, tho coursing enthusiasts will have an opportunity of witnessing this exciting sport on the Otahuhu Trotting Club's course at Mangere crossing tomorrow afternoon. There is a good stock of well-schooled hares on the ground, and these have been trained to find the many escapes, and are fed daily in the home enclosure. The plumpton is 450 and 250 yards, and the turf is in perfect order, and considered by the officials to be the best enclosure in the Southern Plemisphere. Every facility has fceen provided for the hares to make a clean get-away. The first course will take place at 2 p.m. sharp, and in all 30 runs will be witnessed during the meeting. Two stakes will be run off, the principal event being the open stake, which carries with it the Auckland Cup, donated by the Auckland • Coursing ClLib. and in this event 16 of the Lominion’s leading dogs will be seen in action, representing Frankton, Te Aroha, Patea, Waihi, and Auckland. Each entrant has a performance to uphold. In the maiden stake, the majority of the dogs are from local kennels. Letails are advertised.

many guns as the North. Certainly Lilburne is now a star of some magnitude, and he has with him as second five-eighth a good reliable man in Strang, who gained fame by winning tho second test in SoLith Africa with a potted goal. Strang has lately been playing for the Temuka Club in South Canterbury, and is reported to be showing good form. But as an attacking combination, Mill, Cooke and Johnson should be more effective than Holden, Lilburne and Strang. Holden, although he played well in the interisland game last year, did not show up too well in the first test against Xew South Wales.

The Southern threequarter line possesses a very useful type in McClymont who. as a wing-threequarter, was one of the best of the Southern backs in the inter-island game last year and also in the three tests against the Xew South Wales side. Xot a great deal is known about Olliver, but McDonald, the other winger, might easily turn out a first-class man. He first attracted attention when he played with the South Island Maori team prior to being selected for the Maori team that toured England and France. He has speed and size, and both his physique and football have developed considerably since the English tour. According to reports he has been playing good football for the Marlborough representative team, and no doubt he will be closely watched by McKenzie and Company tomorrow.

Pitted against the Southerners, However, will be a strong threequarter line in Minns, Lucas and Elvy, a trio that possesses a wide variety of attack. Minns is purely a speed merchant, but Elvy and Luca« are as elusive as a bagful of eels. Playing for Welling ton against Auckland recently, Elvy gave a display that showed the ex-Canterbury man to be playing up to his best form. With Cooke to open up for them, and providing that ground conditions are