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Show AUSTRALIAN RUGBY PLAYERS ARE COMING NEW TORKj Aug. 24 Word comes from the Pacific, coast that the Rugby football team that is to make a tour of the west next fall will not be Australasian Aus-tralasian as at first planned, but strictly Australian. The new South Wales Rugby union, which has com- Flete charge of the arrangements on he other Bide, forwarded an invitation invita-tion to the New Zealand union to become be-come a party in the tour and supply a number of first class men tor tho Australasian Aus-tralasian team. This offer has been refused bv the NTew Zealand union, with the excuse that inasmuch in-asmuch aB the finances of the recent visit of the Australian universities uni-versities team to Australia and New Zealand had not been satisfactorily satisfactor-ily adjusted, the New Zealand union could not see its way clear to coming into the proposed team. The coast universities are the innocent inno-cent cause of the rupture between Australia Aus-tralia and Now Zealand. The combination now making tho trip will be selected from the New-South New-South WaleB and Quensland players and will be the strongest Australian combination that has over loft the Antipodes. An-tipodes. Up to this year Queensland has not been strong in the Rugby world though in the series of games this year the once weak state teams have shown remarkable ability and in a recent game in Brisbane defeated the New outh Wales team by 18 points to 15. |