SOUTH AFRICA A DAY AT THE STADIOM ONE OF THE FEW WAYS 
THAT SOUTH AFRICA'S HAPLESS BLACKS AND COLOREDS HAVE TO EXPRESS THEIR 
DISMAY AT APARTHEID IT TO BOO VIGOROUSLY THE ALL-WHITE HOME TEAMS 
AT INTERNATIONAL SPORTS CONTESTS . IN 1955 THE UNPATRIOTIC FAVORITISM OF 
NONWHITES AT A RUGBY GAME WITH GREAT BRITAIN AT BLOEMFONTEIN BROUGHT 
ABOUT A RACIAL SLUGFEST THAT RESULTED IN A TENYEAR BAN ON 
BLACK AND COLORED SPECTATORS IN THAT CITY ; FIVE YEARS AGO, 
A SIMILAR CLASH FORCED OFFICIALS TO HALT A SOUTH AFRICA-BRITAIN SOCCER 
MATCH IN JOHANNESBURG'S RAND STADIUM . NONE OF THESE FEUDS MATCHED 
THE BATTLE FROM WHICH PORT ELIZABETH WAS RECOVERING LAST WEEK . 
THERE 50,000 WHITE FANS WERE ON HAND TO WATCH SOUTH AFRICA'S 
SPRINGBOKS FACE AUSTRALIA IN THE FINAL MATCH OF THIS YEAR'S RUGGER 
WORLD SERIES ; SOUTH AFRICA, WHICH HAS HELD THE CHAMPIONSHIP FOR 
NEARLY 50 YEARS, WAS BEHIND TWO GAMES TO ONE . THIS 
WAS QUITE ALL RIGHT WITH THE CROWD OF 5,000 NONWHITES, WHICH 
INSIDE ITS SEGREGATED ENCLOSURE FELT NO SYMPATHY FOR THE LOCALS . 
WITH THE VISITORS AHEAD IN THIS FINAL MATCH, THE NONWHITES CHEERED 
SO LOUDLY THAT THE PUZZLED AUSTRALIAN PLAYERS WERE TAKEN ABACK . 
THEN, WITH 18 MINUTES TO PLAY, SOUTH AFRICA BOUNCED BACK TO 
TIE THE SCORE AND THE BLACK BLEACHERS EXPLODED IN A ROAR 
OF ANGUISH . NONWHITES BEGAN POURING OVER THEIR FENCE ONTO THE 
FIELD, HURLING BOTTLES AND BRICKS . POLICE WITH DRAWN CLUBS RUSHED 
THEM, JOINED BY VOLUNTEER WHITES . A WHITE FARMER EMPTIED HIS 
PISTOL INTO THE AIR . ON THE FIELD, SOUTH AFRICAN FORWARD 
DICK PUTTER WAS CUT IN THE MOUTH BY ONE MISSILE, AND 
AS A BOTTLE SPUN TOWARD REFEREE PIET MYBURGH, A HUSKY AUSTRALIAN 
SAVED HIM WITH A FLYING TACKLE . AFTER PLAY RESUMED, SOUTH 
AFRICA WON, 22 TO 6 . THE SCORE AMONG THE SPECTATORS 
: SIX WHITES AND 20 NONWHITES HOSPITALIZED, TWO NONWHITES ARRESTED, 40 
CARS IN THE PARKING LOT DAMAGED FROM ROCKS RAINED ONTO THEM 
FROM THE BLACK STANDS . POSSIBLY HINTING THAT NONWHITES MAY BE 
BARRED FROM ALL STADIUMS, FOREIGN MINISTER ERIC LOUW THUNDERED THAT " 
ACTIVE MEASURES ARE NECESSARY TO PREVENT THIS SORT OF THING, " 
WHICH, HE COMPLAINED, " IS GIVING SOUTH AFRICA A BAD NAME 
OVERSEAS . " AS FOR PORT ELIZABETH, THE AUTHORITIES THERE DECIDED 
THAT THE WISE COURSE WOULD BE TO SELL NO MORE BEVERAGES 
IN BOTTLES AND TO DOUBLE THE ADMISSION PRICE FOR NONWHITES AT 
FUTURE GAMES . 