TITANIC BATTLE.
RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP.
France Defeats England in
Gruelling Game.
DROP GOAL GAINS THE DAY.
(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 1 p.m.)
PARIS, April 6,
What will probably be the last Anglo-French international Rugby football match for some time, unless France speedily settles her internal squabble, resulted in Finance, despite a handicap by the absence of several of her foremost players, triumphing magnificently.
The crowd was the smallest for many years, although it numbered 30,000.
' England was superior at the start and secured an early lead, but France played as if inspired in the second half.
The lead, changed five times. England was leading 13 to 10 ten minutes from the end, after which Bailette picked up from the loose and brilliantly scored a drop goal from 40 yards-
That kick elevated France to second place in the international championship, which Wales had won. England is the wooden spoonist.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 81, 7 April 1931, Page 7
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