het omdat sy lood eike keer ..vashaak". Sy maats het toe vir horn gelag maar die volgende dag nader geskulf toe die kafee-eienaar dit smaaklik voorbereid voorsit. Ons kon darem 'n paar visse by die teekamer op ys wys wat te klein was om weg te kom en te groot was vir die kat om weg te dra. Sommige seuns het graag tentpenne ingeslaan, ander het graag by die karavane langs gekuier, ander weer het langs die see gaan stap of geswem of gaan visvang. Op onverklaarbare wyse het lewendige krewe ook toegang gevind tot beddens en kussings van beddens verander. " In alle opsigte was dit 'n baie geslaagde kamp wat deur alma! geniet is. Baie dankie aan alma! wat meegewerk het om dit 'n sukses te maak. j yy ^ RUGBY MEMORIES The pjty about the memory Is that It can be so unreliable. One finds this at examination time and as one grows older. Some Inconsequential happening when%"J.rn,?„H'- try scored only yesterday afternoon, and yel Obliging ^ important events It can grow so obstinately unwith Mr.Jimmy Hopkins and Mr. G. M. S the earlier days at Kearsney (that is from 1928 onwards) a number of names cropp d up that i had quite hones ly forgotten about. An yet, as soon as the particular fellows vvere mentioned by name, they fitted perfectly Into the and ther! players running about on the field, e flooded back rugby scenes in which they had bee the principal actors. far Off'^davs n! forward. The little chaps (In the tute^a« Mr. o " ®^ "t'ndergarten under the able M ? 7" were too small and much too young to play among the would havpT ®'^® ^®'"® babes to make up a game. Notthat they ve knovvn in any case what It was alalb ut If one was able o field 30 fil» r"°"f ® their rugby fun within We laTfor hk ^ area quite large enough for them. Newton Walker,a down « h. ® °I1® u P^P t™®t he came far^- ^'r ®® opponents. Tears streamed down his ce, tears of rage at this unfair mob violence. He told me that h thought It vvas unfair that so may tackled him at the same time. We chatted about It, and un '®*®''®' t'''®s through a mist oftears. He ended r«n« it ® '™®- '^® '"<'®®'^' although he did not hi i Jo d ^'^'■'*®^ " '' was easy to see even then that he was going to be a g o player in later years. ® " '"^'931 we started at Kearsney the series of Old Crocks matches Famous Springboks, Alf and Will Walker, BIN Zeller, Taffy Townsend, Bill Payn, E V Mmes®'^PerhanJ"t ^'^'"'<='0" wye among those who graced the earlier ZenJJ'nnd w'^fi 'VV"|, ' contact which brought the sons of Alf Walker, Bill i5ji.1«fhl^ ^1p'' to Kearsney. I shall never forget the day when the rresistib e Bill Payn came to take part In an Old Crocks match. BIN never worried 296
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