How Australia Created History

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 743, 16 August 1929, Page 7

How Australia Created History

BY WINNING TESTS “New Zealand has held the most eminent place in the activities of RugbyUnion football for forty years. Their phenomenal teams of 1905 and 1924 created imperishable memories in Great Britain. Over in Australia, they have risen to heights in combination and electric individualism at times bordering on the uncanny, notably in 1903,” says an Australian writer, commenting on Australia’s three test wins. “And in South Africa last year, after early rebuffs, they finished with honours easy in the four Test matches, to win the distinction of being the greatest Rugby team that ever visited tha t. country. “It is, therefore, a wonderful thing for Australia, with the backing of the combination of the Waratahs, to hav* defeated the All Blacks in the three Test matches just finished. It is h very emphatic tribute to the football spirit of the great public schools and to the loyal and nurturing—we might say, paternal—backing from New Zealand since the war. “It means that, after both countrier have tackled the great British team next year, the meetings of Australian d New Zealand in the cities of the Dominion may develop into the biggest Rugby Union games of the century.” MORE PERILS FOR GOLFERS The Board of Governors of the Westbury (U.S.A.) Golf Club has gone one better than the Englishman who erected a tall flagpole in his garden to prevent airplanes swooping down over his house to land on the adjoining airport, as it has decided to erect a steel fence 125 ft high and 2,000 ft long between Roosevelt Field and the golf course. This action has been taken following complaints received by tlic board that ; forced landings endangered the live' of players, damaged the fairways, and I in general had a bad effect un putting.