Wants to Play League
p. 157 · Read in the full issue
—And For Money
THE wish of a Fijian rugby union footballer to play the league code in Australia is likely to cause raised eyebrows in the Colony, where professional sport of any de scription has only the slightest hold.
The footballer is a pretty good one, too —Orisi Dawai —captain of the 1957 tourists in New Zealand, a mem ber of the 1954 Fijian team in Aus tralia, a Ist Battalion player in Malaya, and a sprinter of more than the ordinary ability. He was a mem ber of the Fijian Empire Games team at Auckland in 1950.
Orisi reasons that at 27 he has three years of top-class football in him. He wants to take a leaf out of the book of numerous amateur sportsmen who have joined the monied ranks to secure their future.
He has a chance of getting an offer from a Sydney club, but whether officialdom would allow him to leave Fiji is another matter. He would jump at any offer.