BRITISH TEAM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23100, 27 July 1938, Page 22

BRITISH TEAM

SOUTH AFRICAN TOUR THIRTEEN GAMES DECIDED APPROACH OF INTERNATIONAL The touring British Rugby side in South Africa has played 13 matches to date, winning 10 and losing throe. The team's record so far is impressive and gives an indication that in the test matches it will lie hard to heat. The association of British and Sou African Rugby dates back to 1891, when a team captained by W. E. MacLaglen triumphed in all the 19 matches in tho Union. In another tour in 189(3, when 21 games were played, the tourists won 19. lost one and drew one. The match lost was one of the four tests decided. Not since that time have the Springboks lost the rubber on their own grounds. Good wins were scored in the last two matches played by the present British team. Both were against Rhodesia. The score in the first game last Thursday was 23 —11 and in the second on Saturday the margin was 20 points greater, the tallv being 45—11. Results of matches to date are as follows: Points Opponents Result Fnr Against Border . . won 1 1 8 Griqnaland West . . won 2'J !> W.P. (Town-Country) lost S 11 "W.P. (South-West) won <> 4 Western Province lost II 'J I Western Transvaal won •_'<> » Orange Free State .. won <i Orange Free State .. won is :! Johannesburg Reef .. lost :i l<> Xorth Transvaal . . won 20 J'J Cape Province .. won 111 a Rhodesia . . . . won 1 1 Rhodesia .. . . won 45 1 1 The next match to be played by the British team will be on Saturday, when it will meet a Transvaal fifteen. The first test match will he played on the following Saturday at Johannesburg, the second test will take place on Sep- ! tember 3 at Port Elizabeth and the ! third test on September 10 at Cape- i town. Ten matches altogether remain I to be played as follows: Saturday.—v Transvaal, at Johannes- j burg. August 6.—First test, at Johannesburg. ! August 13.—v. Natal, at Dudban. August 1". —v. Natal or Northern Provinces, at Maritzburg. August 20. —v. Border, at East London. August 24 —v. North-Eastern Ca[>e, at Btirgersdorp. August 27—v. Eastern Province of Cape, at Port Klizabeth. September 3. —Second test, at Port ! Elizabeth. September 10. —Third test, at Capetown. September 14.—v. Capetown and Stellenbosch Universities at Capetown. ;