RUGBY RUBBER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16530, 14 September 1921, Page 3

RUGBY RUBBER.

WHO WILL WIN IT? THE PREVIOUS FINALS. Will the New Zealanders meet their Majuba on Saturday? Every football enthusiast is reckoning up the chancel this week, reviewing again the Spring boks’ wonderful record, and calculating how New Zealand arc to retain fch* - Ashes of International Rugby. It in going to b© a great final. Ten third test matches have bean played. New Zealand has won eight, lost on© and drawn one. The only match lost by the All Blacks was the only one of the series that was played in the third week in September—Au§* tralia beat New Zealand in Christchurch by 16—5, on September 20. 1913. Fanning (Canterbury) scored the try, converted by O’Leary (Auckland), who captained the team. No third test match has yet been played in Wellington. If internationals are included, then we must record the defeat of the 1905 All Blacks in the third of the series when they lost to Cardiff by 3 point* to nil. Therewas a remarkable circumstance surrounding tho victory of Wales, R. G. Deans, the All Blacks’ three-quar-ter, sent the following telegram to the London “ Daily Mail ” after the match. “ Grounded hall six inches over line. Some of Welsh players admit try. Hunter and Glasgow can confirm was pulled back by Welshmen before referee arrived.” Had the try been allowed, tlia result would either have been a draw of three points each, or. if converted, a win for the All Blaeka by two noints. Of thirty-three matches played, it wa6 tho only one they lost. RESULTS OF THIRD TESTS. Appended are the results of third test matches:— 1884:—Beat New South Wales. 16- —O. 1893—Beat New South Wales, 16—O. 1897—Beat New South Wales, 26— 3. 1903—s Beat Australia. 252—3. 190-s—Beat Australia, 14—3. 1907 Drew Australia, o—s. 1908— Beat Anglo-Welsh. 29 —0. 1910—Beat Australia, IS—l3. 1913 Lost Australia, o—l 6. 1914 Beat Australia. 22—7. SPRINGBOK TOUR. Third Tests (or internationals) bav\ up to the present been won by thfe Springboks of the past. In their tw.“ tours of Great Britain, they won fifty matches and lost five. In the Lhird international, in 1906. they inflicted the only defeat Wales suffered at Swansea for a quarter of a centurv. Of the eight internationals played in the twotowns, tho Springboks lost one (Scotland) and drew one (England). RECORDS OF THE TEAMS. The international records cf the two teams are:— NEW ZEALAND. 1903—Beat Australia, in Australia. 22—3. . 1904 Beat Sievwright's team, m N.Z. ; 9—3. 1905—Beat Australia, in N.Z., 14—3. 1905—Beat Scotland, at Glasgow, 12—< - 1995—Beat Ireland, at Dublin, 1905—Beat England, at London, 16— 1 9 1905—Lost to Wales, at Cardiff. o—■ ■>. 1905—Beat France, at Paris. 3S—S 1907—Beat Australia, in Australia, 26—6. 1907 —Beat Australia. in Australia> 14—5. 1907 Drew* with Australia, m Australia, 5—5. 1908— Beat Harding’s team, in 32—5. 1905 Drew with Harding’s team, ir N.Z., <3—3. . x __ 1908 —Beat Harding’s team, m N.Z/., 29—0. - _ 1910—Beat Australia, in Australia o—ll. t 1910—Lost to Australia, in Australia o—ll. 1910—Beat Australia. Australia, 18—13. _ . 1.913 Beat Australia, in N.Z.. o-— l^ 1913 Lost to Australia, in N.Z., 5 ro. 1914—Beat Australia, in Australia. s—o. ■ 1914—Beat Australia. in Australia, 17—0. 1914—Beat Australia, in Australia. 1921—Beat South Africa, in N.Z., 13—5. 1921 —Lost to South Africa, in N.Z.. Record:—Played 25, won 39. lest 4. drew 1. SOUTH AFRICA. 1906 Lost to Scotland, at Glasgow, o—6. 1906—Beat Ireland, at Dublin, lo—l2 1906 —Beat Wales, at- Cardiff, 11—0. 1906--Drew with England, at London. 3—3. 1912—Beat Scotland, at Glasgow, 1-3 —■o. 1912—Beat Ireland, at Dublin, SS —0. 1912—Beat Wales, at Cardiff, 3—o. 1912—Beat England, at London, 9—3. 1921—Lost to N.Z,, at Dunedin, 5-—l3. 1921—Beat X.Z., at Auckland, 9—5. Record: Played 19, won 7. last 2. drew 1. There were two members of the famous Market family in the Springboks* tour of 1906, and four of them, including Boy ” Morkel and Gerhard Merkel, 'in the 1912-13 combination. In the same team there were three of the Luyts, one of whom is travelling with the Springboks as representative cf a number of South African papers. The second Springboks won all five internationals—a- feat that eclipsed the record of the mighty All-Blacks of 1905. They beat Wales by the same margin that the Welshmen beat the All-Black*?-—3 points to nil. POTTED GOALS AS MATCHWINNERS. To revert to the second Tesy wkUJt was won by South Afrit*:* by margin of a potted goal: An Auckland critic stated that this is the third cf easion when victory was so garden. glance through the statistics of th * game fails, however, to Lear out tin < statement. In 1899 the Pev M. Mu' lineaux’s British team defeated N• South Wales in a great match in Syr: liey by a goal from a mark (then count - ing 4 points) by Esmond Martelli, the young Irish full-back, to r. try by Ward. In 1903, at Wellington, Auckland was defeated by a £oal from a mark by George Spencer to a try bv Absolute.