RUGBY LEAGUE TOUR.
PLAYERS AT AUCKLAND. ON WAY TcT~ENGLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 3. The Australian Rugby League team arrived at midday and will play the first of three matches in Auckland next Saturday. The team, which includes 28 players, is regarded as one of the best that has left Australia and has a leaven of young players. Mr R. Savage, the business manager, said that, ill addition to 30 matches in England, 10 matches would he played in France, and the managers would report to the Australian Board of Control on the standard of the French play with a view to France hemg invited to send a team to tour Australia and New Zealand. Mr H. Sunderland, tho team manager, said that years ago League football was only a dream in France, where now they had 200 teams, including 150 amateur teams. Regarding League football in Victoria, he said it was not intended to push it there until the Rugby mind had been cultivated. Tlie players on- tour receive £4 a week and a bonus at the end of the tour. On the way to Auckland the players held a meeting and decided to invite Tottev. who had been originally selected, but was unable to pass the medical examination, to join tlie team and ho is following by a later boat, the team members and tlie managers having agreed to pay the cost of his trip.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 3 August 1937, Page 2
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238RUGBY LEAGUE TOUR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 3 August 1937, Page 2
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