FOOTBALL.
No wonder the Springboks adapted themselves so well to the mud and slush in which they played their third Test match with New Zealand, in Wellington. A North Islander wl :» spent many years in South Africa, and watched Rugby football there regularly, has conveyed to a journalistic friend the information! that he saw scores of matches played there on muddy grounds, Und that the talk apont the Springboks being used only to dry. fast grounds, is “bunkum.” He has forwarded, a copy of the Cape Times, of July 2, containing photograptic illustrations of the annual match between the universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. These pictures show that the match was played in torrents of rain., with the ground partly submerged. , Indeed, the pictures show more of water than earth, and the conditions must have been evwt worse th*in those for the SpriuebokM' idatch/ In Wellington/ '
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1921, Page 3
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147FOOTBALL. Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1921, Page 3
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