TALL SCORING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 18

TALL SCORING

INTERNATIONAL RUGBY > OUTSTANDING FEATS Some outstanding scoring feats by individual players in international Rugby:— W- C. Crossman. — 17 points, try and seven goals, for N.S.W. v. Queensland on May 18, 1929, at Sydney Cricket Ground. T. C. Barnes— 16 points, five goals, two penalties, for N.S.W. against Queensland dh August 12, 1933, at North Sydney Oval. F. C. Fryer. — 15 points, five tries, jfor New Zealand v. Queensland at | Brisbane, July 27, 1907; and 12 points, four tries, also against Queensland, three days earlier. A. J. Van Heerdern. — 15 points, five tries, for South Africa against N.S.W., at Royal Agricu'ltural Society 's Ground on June 25, 1921. R. G. Bush. — 14 points, one goal and four penalties, for New Zealand against Australia, at Eden Park, September 12, 1931. R. G. Stanley. — 14 points, one try, one conversion, three penalty goals, for N.S.W. against New Zealand, on August 15, 1922, at Royal Agricultural Ground, Sydney. He also tallied 10 points, two penalties and a -pot, when New Zealand won the first Test, 23 — 19. After he had score all 14 points to New Zealand's S, Stanley followed this OUtstanding feat in the second Test by goaling a try to win S— 6 against the side ied by E. A. Belliss. A. W- Ross.— 14 points, four goals, two penalties, for N.S.W. against Queensland at Sydney Cricket Giound on August 1, 1931. In the first Test for the Bledisloe Cup in 1934 Ross kicked 13 of the points, by which Australia virtually won the trophy that day, August 11, at Sydney Cricket Ground, by 25 points to 11. Ross also kicked 13 points against Queensland in 1931, 11 against New Zealand at Sydney in 1926, ad 10 against Britain at Sydney in 1930.

N. M. Bradanovich.— 13 points, two tries, two goals, one penalty, for New Zealand against New South Wales at Carisbrook on September 8, 1928. This is accorfling to Australian statistics, but New Zealand records credit the tries to Arthur Knight (Auckland) and P. Robinson (Canterbury). However, in the first Test at Wellington three days earlier, Bradanovich (now sole selector of the Franklin Rugby Union) kicked four penalty goals at Athletic Park to raise a dozen points. After New Zealand had won these two Tests against New South Wales, 15—12 and 16—14, the champion kicker was dropped for the final game at Lancaster Park, where Sid Malcolm and. company conquered the All Blacks, 11— 8, Bradanovich's partner, A. E. Cooke, having gone to play on the West Coast that afternoon. Other double-figure Test scores for New Zealand were by Len McLean, 14 points, for New Zealand against New South Wales at Wellington, 1923; WJ. Wallace, 13 points, for New Zealand against Australia in the initial Test between the countries in 1903; Dr. R. J. B. Sinclair, 13 points, for New Zealand against New South Wales at Christchurch, 1923; DuncaA McGregor, 12 points (four tries), for the 1905 All Blacks against England; Teddy Roberts, 12 ponits (two tries, three goals), for the 1920 All Blacks against New South Wales; Mark Nicholls, 12 points (six goals), for the 1925 All Blacks against Tom Lawton's New South Wales side at Eden Park; Tom Lynch, 12 points (four tries), for the 1914 All Blacks against Queensland. A noteworthy feat was that of the great Queensland three-quarter, S. A. Spragg, who, when the Rev. Mullineux's Britons beat Australiaii 11 — 10 in the third Test at Sydney in 1899, scored all the losing points — two tries, both converted. Also Diclc Roberls (Taranaki), the 1914 New Zealand captain, scored two tries and kicked two goals — ten points —against Australia at Sydney; and Joe O'Leary, also skipper, kicked three goals and potted one for New Zealand against Australia at Dunedin in 1913. Both led their men to victory after such an inspiring example.