DU TOIT OUT
—Press Association.
Springbok's Injury Has Not Yet Healed CRAVEN A CASUALTY
By Telesraph
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. An unexpected change in the Springbok tcanx to play Canterbury was announced at 12.30 to-day after the playerg lxad returxxed from practice at Lancaster Park. Ben du Toit, the big fqr-. word from Trnnsvaal, who was injured in tlie match agaixxst Nqw South Wales in July bufe was thought t-o liave reCQvered, is now unlikely to play for the rest of the tour, Axx X-ray examinatioix. disclqsed that the break ac the baso oi the spinq has hot mended as autu'ipated and that du Toit /efinitely should xxot have been playing in, the Blenheim match. It is ratlier axxiaring that he was able to se© th^t (u.ture out without collapging. Ihe perixianent loss of du Toit hus come rnther as a shock to the South Afric&ns. as he was expeqted to I o a strong candiflate for the second Teet side. Ebbo Bastard will replacn Du Toit ou the side of the scrum. D. Craven, the Bpringbok half, visited the doctor this . morning. He is auftering from a severe leg injury he received in the match at Blenheim. Although he is able to walk without a noticeable limp, he cqmplained this nxornixxg that his leg was "dead."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 183, 20 August 1937, Page 5
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