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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 302, 21 December 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

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of ejght hacks, in my opinion, is an improvement on the eld style. It admits of greater possibilities in attack e.na defence, the game is made more open, and the ball when heeled is much quicker from the scrums, which makes the scrumniliging of shorter duration, Wales did. t)|e correct thing, also, in playing the extra man outside. The All Blacks' avenge speed being greater, we should have keen unable to cope with their attack i% the backs had been eight to our seven. . Percy "Walks Off." One of the names that will always H er long in the Bugger memories oi Se\y Zealanders is that of Percy Bush, fly-half i,, Bedell-Sivright's Bntish team which toured New Zealand in IJO-l, and of the victorious Welsh fifteen in UK. As captain of the Cardiff fifteen ten days later Bush made the greatest Wunder of Rugger of that ffi ore anon. On the eve of the match between the 1924 All Blacks and Swansea, Bush had an article published m the South Wales "Evening Express on tow to beat New Zealand, despite which tte All Blacks were unkind enough to «ioek Swansea out by 39 points to a. Perhaps now he will write a new version of it—"The Dream of Percontuis —•foretelling how Swansea would be the only team to beat the 1935 All Blacks. Anyway, in the course of this article was a gem of humour that would have W>ne honour to that great librettist, W. s - Gilbert. Here is Bush's version ot the famous incident in the second spel of the Wales v. New Zealand classical "•Counter:— . "Vojci: There has been a mad rusli V the l'ernlanders, which left the le »eree and the major portion of tlie Werg well behind, and it culminated W Deans getting the ball and going for V» line, all out. Gabe, Harding (the captain in New Zealand, farming za Wansanui dis-

hut the referee was dpwnfield, and did not see what happened. Moreover, the nearer being truly beaten. (h) That reverse pass of the late «Jkky" Owens (wide out to the rover riff Pritchard—after feinting to Pu^U +1 llind—thence to Gabe, next to ™i,«=S y behind cl««cd «jt» 1.1 Mr J D. Dallas, the refereo, had n British pass. ■ Bush's Baa Break. ,T7, +i,, TOOT Ml Blacks met GarWhen the l»oa au al)o ther the teams 12 minute.

meat of the game, and those steadfast Cymric hearts which quailed nol j throiigh all the long run of unbroken All Black successes, disdaining the possibility o Welsh defeat, must now be glowing with rare pride and satisfaction.

"The scene on the Cardiff ground Wβ* an unparalleled one. From the vast scene of excited, eager faces there arose a continuous crackle of ardent Celtic chatter, broken every now and again by the deep, harmonious resonance of some patriotic refrain, which, started by a small knot here and there, was caught up on either side until the whole field became'enveloped in a noble volume of sound, perfect in rhythm and feeling, as from 40,000 trained choristers, led by some invisible master baton. An entirely different crowd froifi those that witnessed the defeat of Scotland, Ireland and England. Full of fire and enthusiasm, with only one thought—the thought of victory. There was a semireligious, almost fanatical invocation in the fervour with which the vast assembly took up the strain: 'The land of my fathers! The land of the free.' '•'The All Blacks listened spellbound to the weirdly beautiful incantation, and they never seemed quite able to shake off its effects while the great game lasted." Let us hope that the Smith and Stead of the 10: i.-> All Blacks are not missing on that identical pitch this afternoon, for it will be no place for temperamental nieii like McGregor and Mynott! Only 15 seasons ago the huge crowd at Swansea broke bounds, and but for masterly tact by Referee John Baxter, of Liverpool, the Scotland v. Wales match could not have been played out. As it happened, Gwalia was de-