How Rugby Tests Were Played
SPORTING TRIBUTES There is a great spirit in Rugby Union football, says the “Sydney Sun Pictorial,’’ apropos of the third test. After the game was over yesterday, Lawton, Australia’s captain, was chaired and cheered. Had he not led the victorious team and played a great part in the victories? * , ~ The players then adjourned to the Hew South Wales room, where Mr. T. H. Bosward,
chairman of selectors, mounted the table and congratulated the visitors on the way they had played the game in the face of adversity. Porter, whose thin patch and burly frame had been in the forefront of the battle all day, replied.
“We have enjoyed the games," he said. “They have been keen, hard, and fair. I congratulate Australia without reservation of any kind.” “Cliff Porter and chaps,” Tom Lawton said. “I’m proud to have been in these games against such fine sports, and I’m sorry that you didn’t win one of the matches.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6992, 19 August 1929, Page 4
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