Busy Referee
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) SINGAPORE.
The Auckland club Rugby champion, Otahuhu, was held to a 3-3 draw by an all-Singapore fifteen in the final match of its Malaysian-Singa-pore tour on Saturday. The match had to be stopped three times because of wild and dangerous play, the Singapore “Sunday Mail” reported. The newspaper said the New Zealanders “too often cast aside sports-
manship as they fought hard and wildly” to hold the local team.
The Singapore fifteen "were the much better team in a bruising match in the mud and deserved to win,” the newspaper added. It said the referee had to stop the match three times to issue a general warning against wild and dangerous play but “it appeared to have little effect on the hard and wild-tackling New Zealanders."
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31317, 13 March 1967, Page 14
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