3-4-1 SCRUM

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 296, 5 July 1933, Page 3

3-4-1 SCRUM

Wallabies' Experiments

In recent matches the Wallabies have bin SZUtf* with the JH -JJ mag e formation, no doub _ with a SSrf Malcolm through anmjuryThe scrum-half play has not upto standard since that players enforced snell and. unless Malcolm is available, his in itself will go badly against then in the Test . The tremendous weight oi L Springbok pack will also tell agams the visitors. It is to be expected that the Wallabies are on the Tests, and as a final preliminary to the first Test they are likely _to one of their hardest games of the torn, XL will be the match with Western Province at Cape Town to-day In 1928 New Zealand met Western Province (town team) in the second match of the tour and met their first defeat 13-7;. The results of matches played by me Australians on their present tour are:v. Natal, won 14-3. , v. Western Transvaal, won 20-3. v. a Transvaal fifteen, lost 6-13. v. Pretoria, lost 8-13. v. Griqualand West, lost 9-14 v. Rhodesia, won 24-5. v. Rhodesia, won 31-0. v Northern Districts, lost 8-16. New Zealand's record in the same matches on the 1928 tour, when only one match was played against Rhodesia, was as follows: v. Natal, won 31-3. v. Western Transvaal, won 19-8. v. Transvaal (first match), lost 0-6. v. Pretoria, won 13-6. v. Griqualand West, won 19-10. v. Rhodesia, won 44-8. v. Northern Districts, drawn 18-18. It was during the match with Northern Districts, at Kimberlcy, that Kilby had an ankle broken and was incapacitated for the rest of the tour. In reply to a cablegram from Australia inquiring whether, in view of the injuries to Malcolm and- Hodgson, the Wallabies are in need of reinforcements in South Africa, the manager (Dr. W. F. Matthews) stated: "Consider extra players unnecessary; team happy and most popular."