One Up, One Down
- , .Aftf WM gained and a try WM lost on Lancaster Park Oral an Saturday throurh playen not observing two simple unwritten rules ot Busby—playing to the whistle and grounding the ball in the in-goal area with both hands it. at all possible. ’ th., the representative match between Canterbury and South Canterbury, the South Canterbury half-back, B. Fleming, scored a try because he played to the. whistle and the Canterbury players did not. The ball was not properly hooked from a scrum and while the Canterbury players were waiting for Mr V. C. Empson to blow his whistle, Fleming scooped the ball up, dashed past several very surprised Canterbury men and scored a good try. in the earlier game, between Christchurch and Linwood, the Linwood centre, R. Spriggs, raced away from all opposition and crossed the line. As he attempted to ground the ball with one hand while running, however, he dropped it and a certain try was lost.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28368, 29 August 1957, Page 15
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