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FOOTBALL

RUGBY FRANCE BEATS IRELAND. T LONDON, Januarv 25. Jn a Rugby football match at Belfast, before 25,000 spectators. France beat Ireland by five pointe to nil. ENGLISH COUNTY MATCH. LONDON. January 25. . . Union county championship Lancashire beat Cheshire by 12 to W. E. HENLEY AT HOME. According to “ Olympus,” of the Daily Chronicle, there is some d-ebate in Irish Rugby circles whether W. E. Henley (New Zealand Rhodes Scholar), the Oxford University forward, will be asked to play in an Irish trial. In the recent University match, Henley was one of the hardest workers in tire pack, and was conspicuous in many loose rushes. As to eligibility, it is argued in Ireland that as Black, a South African, with an English father, has been chosen to play in the English trial at Gloucester on Saturi a New Zealander, with an Irish father, is just as eligible to play 111 an Irish trial.

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Otago Witness, Issue 3959, 28 January 1930, Page 50

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FOOTBALL Otago Witness, Issue 3959, 28 January 1930, Page 50

FOOTBALL Otago Witness, Issue 3959, 28 January 1930, Page 50

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