![]() The story now was one told with great pride by Dr Louis Babrow, the 1937 Springbok, a medical officer with the 1st Transvaal Scottish regiment, who had been taken prisoner at the Sidi Rezegh but had managed to escape with four others. That was in July 1942 and then the allies, led by Field Marshal Montgomery, rebuilt their army, buoyed by their July success. ![]() But at the railways station of El Alamein, west of Cairo, the Allied 8th Army stood firm and stopped his advance, an insignificant station that has become famous in history. He famously took Tobruk and marched on towards the Suez Canal. In the early 1940s, German General Erwin Rommell’s Afrika Corps were battering the Allied forces in North Africa. To our story – which also needs corroboration. It is said that the player who was the first in the world to use “the blind pass”, the dummy, was Dan Smith of Kimberley, who was first a forward, then a halfback. The first is that the dummy (pretended pass) was a South African invention, dating back to Kimberley in the second half of the 19th century. There are two aspects to this use of the dummy that it would be good to corroborate.
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