-25-. ."I MAY 3l8t. V OID CROCKS. Home. Lost 19-15. The following account is taken from the Jjaercury:- "Rugby to please the most critical vwas seen at Kearsney College, when the annual match between the misnamed Old Crocks and the College fifteen was played. To those who looked on it was sheer delight. Among the players whom Alf Walker had tgatheredtogeth er for the visit were many who have played an honourable part irt South African and Natal Rugby, and they showed once again that age has no terrors for them and that even today they can run and handle a ball - and what is more, keep it up even though opposed to a vigorous and fast crowd of schoolboys. There is no doubt that though you may tell a boy many things many times and in the end he will know what is needed, he will learn the same things very much more easily if he is able to see them, and ths.t is where the true value of the annual fixture lies, for these old players, having htmg up their boots for always, take them down once a year only - and in this ^me they endeavour not to use their superior weight, but to play rugby as it should be played. And so we had Howard Fellows-Smith at the base of the scrum showing just how a scrumhalf should break, not only to bring about tries, but also to pull the defence off the flyhalf. And further back we saw Wally Clarkson, the finest centre Natal has ever produced, crowding on the pace as he received the ball and bringing off that inimitable dummy,with a shrug of the shoulders rather than any elaborate attempt to mislead, and then cutting away at an altered angle to pull his line through the defence before letting the ball out. On the wing (strange place for him). Bill Payn, keen to battle for a try if necessary, but also on the alert to let the ball go to advantage if that were pos sible. His last feverish plunge for the line, when he turned across the line of the attack to find his legs fail him with the line yawning at him will not soon be forgotten. In the forward s were such artists as Alf and Bill Walker, and B. V.Vanderplank, (all internationals) with Frank Norris, J.Odendaal and Archie Gwillam to keep them ccxapany, and these men, too, made luerry in fine style against the lighter, but very keen and eager College forwards. Here was no ruthless slamming in of weight (inthe
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