ARMY RUGBY

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 21, 3 May 1940, Page 7

ARMY RUGBY

rentham Team Beats : Burnham ITCH IN CHRISTCHURCH i-. ' . * ■ <-ked stands and packed embankments incaster Park on Saturday afternoon ■he first Army Rugby matches of th( lit war under perfect conditions. A .1 estimated at 10,000 enjoyed fast hrilling play provided by four teams (markably fit and vigorous soldier pliers. J the opening match the South Island force team beat the North Island Norce 9-8. All the players’ in this n came from the R.N.Z.A.F. station lligram. , the second match, the main one of Afternoon, the Trentham Army team ;the Burnham Army team 12-9. It . he greater dash and more compact ‘•imaging of the Trentham forwards ligave their side the victory. The ham backs were also quick to grasp minifies and slightly superior in conwork. Scorers for Trentham were Hint D. C. Latham, Private F. Rich[ji (tries), and Sergeant D. G. BarJwo penalty goals). For Burnham, A 1 Lieutenant R. K. King, the 1939 Ojiealand League captain, scored a try Privatae J. McLean a try and a Cly goal. Birring scene before the game started ..[Parade of men of the second echelon. ’Jliwere greeted with ringing cheers rail parts of the ground. Next, the flam camp band played the teams the field where they were inspected lonel E. T. Rowllings, officer comlJ ng the .southern district. The masy inds played the National Anthem i-.ch the crowd joined. (Ether stirring spectacle occurred mt the interval when non-commis- _ officers of the third echelon marched the ground. Gaps were deliberately p™. the ranks so that any young man Klfished to join could climb over the j[[ind do so. A call for recruits was minced over the loudspeaker and immeM four strode across from the eastern MS They were followed by six more myie eastern embankment and within \utes there were 22 recruits. jPQlers in the Air Force match were: —lsland, H. P. Evans, J. E. Price, OtllDunstan (tries). North Island: eralLucas. G. Engel (tries) and W. F. (conversion). 101