RUGBY TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 132, 2 December 1930, Page 4

RUGBY TOUR

/■ SPRINGBOKS' ITINERARY

f VISIT TO GREAT BRITAIN

' Aii important event so fax as Bugby '■ football in the Home Countries is eont cerncd -will be the tour next season \by a Squth African team. It is not ; since-the: 1912-13: season 'that a South. -'- 'African representative' Rugby football ■ team hai visited Great Britain, but in '■ the meantime Vthe' Springboks have 1 paid a visit to New Zealand (in 1921) ■ which was returned by New Zealand ;an 1928. South Africa had a visit ' from a British team in 1924, and since ■' the Springboks were last in England -' the Home countries have been visited *by New Zealand—All Blacks in 1924-25 I aud Maoris in 1926—and by New South •i Wales (the "Waratahs"). ■->■'■ ;< ' On their last visit to the Home '. Countries the Springboks won all their r internatianal; matches, defeating Engi land, Ireland, Wales, and. Scotland, and :- of the other matches played they lost V «nly three. The next team to England ;;' will no doubt be- opposed by niany iC of the British players who visited > New Zealand this year. ~ It will be.in September of next year ''•: lhat the .Springboks loavo for Engr land, and, according to informatiowre-, ; «eived by Mr. S. G. Bonsor, of :Wel- ; 3ington, their list of engagements will > be as follows: — ;: Srd October. —v. Gloucester and Som- '.■ erset, at Bristol. - Sth October. —v. Newport, at Newport. i -10th October. — y. Swansea, at Swani' sea. ;; J4th October.—v. Cross Keys and I Abertillery, at Abertillery. _ , '; 17th October. —v. London, at Twicken- ;' ham. C 21st October.—v.~ Midland Counties, at \ Birmingham. <i ■. 24th October. —v. Northumberland at i Durham. :. 28th October. —v. Glasgow, at Glasgow. ': 31st October.—v. South of Scotland, at :■■ Melrose. : .' '4th November. —v. Cambridge Univerl' sity, at Cambridge. ]. ,7th November. —v. Combined Services, •. at Twickenham. •" 32th November.—v. Oxford University, ;' at Oxford. '. 14th November.—v. Midland Counties, C v at Leicester. .. ISth November. —v. Cornwall and Devon, probably in Devon, :, 21st November.—v. Cardiff, at Cardiff. ;• 24th November.—v. Llanelly, at Llan- .'! e-lly, :,. ; ■ . ~ . • • . ■ . . ; . 28th • November.—v. Aberavdn and ! Neath, at Neath. ■■' sth December.—v. WALES, at Swan- . sea. , f 9th December. —v. Lancashire and '.' Cheshire, at Manchester or Birkenhead Park. v 33th December.—v. Ulster, at Belfast. ■' 19th December.—v, IRELAND, at , Dublin. ';■■ 26th December.—v. London, at Twick- ! enham. •; 2nd January.—v. ENGLAND, at 7 Twickenham. ;." 6th January.—v. Yorkshire and Cumberland, at Workington.