SEEMS TO HAVE LOST PACE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21090, 16 July 1938, Page 16

SEEMS TO HAVE LOST PACE

Prince Obolensky Best individual sporting battle of the week was between fair, floppyhaired Prince Alexandre Obolensky, Oxford’s right wing three-quarter flyer, and Victor Lyttle, Ireland’s flashing left-wing “three” in the match between the Barbarians and East Midlands at Bedford, says Cavalcade, of March 12. “Obo” arrived on the field ten minutes after the game began. Hundreds of eagle-crested Bedford School rugger fans cheered as he took up his position. Nippy, blond Cliff Jones, I Welsh fly-half genius, soon made an opening for him and off he streaked along the touch-line. Lyttle overhauled and threw him into touch, and the batte began. Cliff Jones swung the whole of the “Baa-Baa’s” attack on to “Obo.” starving Cantab Forrest on the other : wing. The Trent College Muscovite i hadn't a chance against Lyttle. He I was out-run and out-smarted. Either Lyttle is the fastest wing in the four countries, or "Obo” has lost speed and needs some practice on the I track. The Rugby Union Selection ; Committee, represented at Bedford, passed him over for the Calcutta Cup match against Scotland at Twickenham. They also dropped captain Peter Cranmer, making way for medico Peter Candler, at inside “three.”