POLICE USE BATONS
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) CAPE TOWN. Aug. 5. Police used batons on coloured spectators who twice stormed the gates to the non-European standing section, when a capacity crowd of 50,000 watched the third Rugby Union test between South Africa and the British Isles at Newlands on Saturday. A European died of heart attack and about 40 coloured spectators were injured. Groundsmen shortened the in-goal area so that a few hundred spectators could be moved behind the dead bail line. Schoolboys sat around the touchline and the British wing forward, A. Pask. strained his ribs when he was crashtackled into the crowd in the closing minutes of the match. It might he four weeks before he is fit to play again.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29893, 6 August 1962, Page 12
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