A Running Commentary by W. P. COLLOPY on The INTERNATIONAL RUGBY FOOTBALL MATCH
Relayed from LANSDOWNE ROAD, DUBLIN
(This commentary is under the direction of the Dublin Broadcasting Station)
(From Belfast)
THE Springboks will have a great welcome at
Lansdowne Road this afternoon; a week's rest after their match with Ulster of last Saturday will have brought them back into their best form. They were in need of this '.breather.' Last year Ireland, with some of the old guard gone or past their prime, was unable to field a team comparable with some of her National sides of the past. However, this season they should be good enough to give South Africa a very hard game and possibly a beating if the luck runs their way. In Dublin they still talk of that wonderful game against the Springboks of 1906, when Ireland were within a goal of beating them. This match produced one of the finest tries ever scored in an International game, when Basil Maclear made a run of fully seventy-five yards across the visitors' line. Perhaps Captain Wakelam will have equally thrilling events to describe to us from the commentator's box to-day; we know that it will be a fine and a hard game with no quarter given and none asked : Ireland's Rugby is like that.