ARMY RUGBY
NEW ZEALANDER’S DEFEAT GUY’S HOSPITAL ISSUE NEVER IN DOUBT, WINNERS GIVE SPARKLING DISPLAY". (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON-. December 29. The New Zealand Army Rugby team beat Guy’s Hospital by 33 points to 3. The army side was much heavier and faster and the marking and tackling were so close and resolute that Guy’s were rarely seen .attacking. The New Zealanders gave the Hospital team little latitude and hemmed them in in their own half most of the time. The New Zealander G. King, was absent for the greater part of the match, being injured. Tindill was a brilliant best at half-back and paved the way for most of the tries. He also got one himself and converted one of Solomon's two tries. Parane, left wing-three-quarter, showed surprising speed going to the line, which he crossed four time. Neighbours, at five-eighths, often had the defence in two minds with tricky runs. Solomon, who opened the scoring nine minutes after the start, also McLean, Thompson and Donoghue were outstanding forwards. After Solomon’s first try, others by G. King. Parane, Neighbours and Tindill followed regularly and at half time, the Dominion, team led by 19 points tc nil. Parene, whose running was a treat to watch, then got three tries and Solomon, who was most enterprising, got another, which Tindill converted, before Guys scored a penalty goal. The final score fairly reflects the all-round cleverness of the New Zealanders, who improve with every match they play. The New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan, watched the match. Another New Zealand Army team lost to Gloucester by 8 points to 33. The New Zealanders played determinedly but never quite recovered from an inspired spell early, when Gloucester built up a lead of eighteen points. McKane and Brown scored tries for the New Zealanders. Erickson converted one.
WAR CONDITIONS MAORIS PLAY DURING RAID. TEAMS GO TO EARTH. (Received This Day, .11.0 a.m.) (From the Official War Correspondent with the N.Z.E.F.) BRITAIN. December 29. Spectators were discouraged at a Rugby match which the Maori Battalion's Second Fifteen will not easily forget. It was played at the Thamesside coast, while, as has frequently happened at our twice-weekly interunit competitions, enemy aircraft passed high overhead. A bright passing movement went smartly out to a Maori. The wing set sail for the line. He fended oil' a forward, side-stepped the inside back but looked likely to be in trouble from the opposing wing and full-back —until suddenly both stretched full-length on the ground. Out of the corner of his eye, the runner saw others of the local team go similarly to earth. Then his ear caught the whistle of an approaching bomb and he followed suit. The bomb burst a couple of fields away and the Maori boy. being slightly faster from a prone start, is said to have been past the other two before they could touch him.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1940, Page 6
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