FOOTBALL.
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] WALES BEAT FRANCE. PAULS, April 5. At International Rugby, Males heat France by 7to 5. The attendance was forty thousand. It was a hard, fast game, half way through the first half the French three-quarters participated in a neat movement ending in Gei'intes scoring a try between the posts. Gonnet converting. The W elsliineu fought strenuously hut met with stubborn resistance and at halt time France was 5 to 11. On the resumption, the Welsh forwards rushing tactics severely taxed their opponents defence. From a scrum in the French twenty-five, Cornish secured and dropped n'«oal and then a mistake by the Fren<'.7full-hack let in R. Jones, who scored an unconverted try. Towards the end. the Frenchmen spurted and there was a fierce struggle in the Welsh twenty-live, but it was ineffective.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1926, Page 3
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136FOOTBALL. Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1926, Page 3
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