RUGBY TRIUMPH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 59, 10 March 1944, Page 3

RUGBY TRIUMPH

ALL BLACKS ABROAD REST OB’ EGYPT DEFEATED. Cairo, March 5. In Egypt, New Zealand base units have kept the Second N.Z.E.F. to the ioie in Rugby by beating the Rest of Egypt at Alexandria by 9 points to 7. The star of the game was the All Black half, C. K. Saxton, wno played brilliant football, inspiring the team on attack and defence. The powerful opposing side, which included live of the unbeaten Springbok divisional team, could not match the stern determination and good combination of the New Zealanders, C. J. Nicholson and J. O. Hall scored tries and the former Rugby League representative player, C. E. Smith, kicked a penalty goal. Games in Prison Camp. “The standard of play in this camp is extremely high; above that of most senior Rugoy in Auckland,” writes Flying-Officer John D. Rae, D.F.C. and bar, from a German prison camp in a letter to his mother, Mrs. E. C. Rae, Remuera. Flying-Ollicer Rae, who was a Spitlire pilot, has been a prisoner of war since last August. He was hooker for the Wasps, the champion club at the end of the series, a New Zealand fifteen for which he was hooker played a South African side and was beaten by 12 points to 6 alter a great game, on which the betting, in chocolate currency, was very high. The writer states that in the camp were two international hookers, one Irish and one South African. At the time of writing, in November, FlyingOllicer Rae said there was unlikely to be much more football, because of the-, ba nines of the frozen ground.