However, the home fans were celebrating their second try a minute later when subtle offloads from lock Justin Harrison and prop Duncan Bellset up fellow forward Short, with Davis once again adding the extras.
In 1919, at the age of 72, Bellset a marine speed record of 70.86mph on the Bras d'Or Lakes with his HD-4 hydrofoil, a replica of which resides, along with many of his personal artifacts, in the museum of the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada, across the lake from his house.