Rugby results
The touring Irish rugby team scored five tries in a comfortable 35-7 win over the Australian Capital Territory, in Canberra yesterday. The five-eighth. Tony Ward, scored his first try in 10 games for Ireland and finished with 19 points from his try, three conversions and three penalties. He finished up kicking six out of eight attempts at goal, one a glorious effort from the sideline.
Ward's efforts and the over-all strength and polish of the .Irish team was too much for the young A.C.T. side, which scored one trv through the flanker, Peter O’Neill. At Pukekohe (be former All Black, Bob Lendrum, was in
ties breezing away from Waikato in the last quarter of their representative match yesterday to win, 27-15, after leading, 10-6, at half-time.
Lendrum (2), R. Kukurangi and P. Penny scored Counties’ tries and Lendrum kicked a conversion, penalty goal and dropped two goals. Lehi Hohaia dropped a goal for Waikato and M. Meinung kicked four penalty goals. Auckland beat King Country, 17-7, in a match at Te Kuiti yes terday, with Auckland’s bigger forwards dominating the scrums and line-outs
Scorers: — Auckland: M Schraff t, G. Brunsden, L. Harris tries: j Buttveld penalty and conversion. King Country: M Jones try, J. Lang penalty.
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