FOOTBALL
WALES BEATS ENGLAND.
Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright
LONDON, Saturday
In a Rugby football match at Murrayfield, before 55,000 people, the Springboks concluded their tour Avith a clean sweep of all four international matches by defeating Scotland by 6 points to 3 after a desperate game in a gale and driving rain. The Springboks were losing 0/3 at half-time. At Swanset, Wales upheld their prestige as international champions by defeating England by 12 points to 5, The first spell ended Avithout score. The attendance of 35;000 included the Princo of Wales.
SUCCESSFUL TOUR.
ONE MATCH LOST.
LONDON, Saturday
The South Africans Avere minus two of their regular three-quarters in tho match against Scotland, owing to influenza. The game Avas played in half a gale of Avind, rain and sleet. The Springboks’ forwards Avere triumphant. The team Avon twenty-three matches, drew tAvo and lost one, the vanquishers being the Midlands.
The Prince of Wales’Avatched the first Welsh Rugby victory over England for ten years. Hundreds of men and Avomen rushed tho ground and stood bareheaded before the Prince to sing “God Save the King.”
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 January 1932, Page 5
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