Rugby

As compared with the deplorable showing against Wellington the previous week, the Senior XV gave a much-improved exhibition against Onslow on Saturday. The light and fast Onslow team, however, put up a good showing and made the game quite interesting.

On the whole, the tackling had improved and in this connection Bryers was outstanding, invariably bringing his man down hard.

The forwards played with much more light, particularly in the tight, wheeling the scrum effectively and breaking away in sweeping dribbling rushes. Absence of regular hookers necessitated playing McNicol, Thomas and Hansen as the front row. This was a better balanced row than that of last week, and was quite successful in securing the major share of the ball in the scrums. McNicol was conspicuous for a good all-round game, and Russell. Thomas and Hansen were also prominent. Lewis played a good but loose game and followed up well, but did not use his weight to the best advantage in the tight work and the set scrums. Meads also was a hard toller.

Buddle was right on his game at half, and one of his blind-side dashes was particularly good. Wild and Bryers concentrated on passing quickly to the three-quarters, and did not attempt too much on their own. This was a good policy, as the three-quarters. Eastwood. Tricklebank and O'Regan, were all playing well and running strongly. Tricklebank did some good penetration at centre, and altogether played a fine game. Kissel was again very sound at full-back and did his defensive work well.

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Although there are clubs in Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru. Hamilton, and Auckland, the popular English indoor game of Squash Racquets is little known in New Zealand. Extremely fast, it is played with a black sponge-rubber ball about the size of a golf ball, and a racquet similar to that used in badminton, only much stronger. The enclosed court is about eleven yards long and seven wide. For years the world's outstanding player has been Amr Bey; an Egyptian, who is apparently as superior to other players as Devlin was to local exponents of badminton.

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