BAY ON TOUR

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 164, 13 August 1929, Page 7

BAY ON TOUR

RUGBY TEAM LEAVES FOR NORTH. 1-OUR PLAYERS UNABLE TO TRAVEL. On a three-game northern tnur, the I Hawke's Bay Rugbv lcpicsontatiye | team lei't by the express train this i moriiing undor the managcrship of Mr ! A. IV. II. King, of Napier. Of the team originally cho>en, Gren- j side (tbi'ee-quaiter), Smitli (live- i eighths.), and tho two Goiumclls ( 1 01- j wards) were unahle ior variou- reasons , io travel. Tlieir places wero taken by ; Brodie (T.C.O.B.) threc-quarter, Mc-I Donald, the I'irate live-eigliths, Butler, a Waipukurau hookcr, and Johson, a Wairoa forward. The team will reach Hamilton in the early liours of to-morrow morning and will plav Waikato to-morrow afternoon. Tho gamc against Auckland, the most important match of the tour, will he played next Saturday, and it is expected that two extra players will i be sent forward for that game. The touring team as it is now constituted : — Fonvards. — Mclvav (Daiinevirke), wiiig-forward ; Rohinson (Wairoa), Butler (Waipukurau), and Cairns (Hastingsi. liookers : IVilson (Wairoa), Jobson (Wairoa), Roach (Hastings), Campbell (Hastings), Heffernan (Napier H.S.O.B.). and McNeill (Napier H.S.O.B.). middle and hack row fonvards. Baoks. — Beckett (Wairoa), half; Baird (Wairoa), contre three-quarter ; MacDonald (Pirates), iive-eighths or three-quarter; Hickling (Wairoa), fullhack ; Setford (Dannevirke), fiveeighths; Brodie (T.C.O.B.), tlireequarter; Phepherd (Hasf ings), threequarter; Evans (T.C.O.B.). full-back; Bothonvav (Hastings ILS.O.B.), fiveeighths. Yates (full-back). Ruru, South Rei, Appleby and Hapi (three-quarters), Hall (half), St ra oban (hookcr), "Keehle (wing-forward) and Steere "(forward) j were prnniiuent players not included in the team to tour, some of these heing not availahle to make the trip. Tho team eoneludes its tour with a game against North Auckland to-mor-row week and relurns home to play Poverty Bay at Wairoa the following Saturday.