THE 'SPORTS SPECIAL’
ANOTHER BIG RUGBY BAY The rapidly closing Rugby football season provides again to-mor-row a goodly catalogue of big fixtures for ' Sports Special ’ readers, as their mere enumeration indicates; —Otago v. Wellington (Ranfurly Shield), Canterbury v. Australia, Auckland v. Hawke’s Bay, West Coast v. Marlborough (the Coasters’ challenge for the Seddon Shield, which they aim to pick up en route to try us out for the big shield), Wanganui v. Wellington B, and Ashburton - v. South Canterbury. The principal local fixtures, in addition to the shield match, are the Soccer match Mosgiel and Seacliff for the Charity Cup, the 50-mile amateur cycling race, and harriers’ sports meetings, while at Christchurch the Otago Hockey team will meet Canterbury, All these engagements will be substantially reported in the issue, of which other special features will be the final article In the great cricket series and the fifth article in the Springbok-All Black series, in which A. C' C. Robilliard (1924 and 1928 test player) reveals some sides of the game in which the Springboks fail. The 1 Sports Special ’ will be on sale in the streets to-morrow night from 7 o’clock.
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Evening Star, Issue 22447, 18 September 1936, Page 12
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191THE 'SPORTS SPECIAL’ Evening Star, Issue 22447, 18 September 1936, Page 12
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