Bermuda gave a good account of themselves in the opening game on the second day of the World Rugby Classic yesterday, but they were unable to turn effort into points.

The Island team were dealt a crippling blow in the opening minutes when number eight Derek (Bobby) Hurdle broke his collarbone in a try-saving tackle and had to leave the Nationals field.

The match was scoreless at this point but shortly afterwards South Africa settled down and proceeded to run in eight tries.

Wings Hugo Van As and Deon Oosthuizen scored two apiece while William Hills, Trevor Adams, Nicky du Plooy and Ivan Jacobs each added scores. Hooker Charles Kleinbool kicked two conversions and Oosthuizen kicked a third.

Bermuda replied with a try from wing Sean Kelly just after the interval which was converted by Keith Hodgkins.

After the match Springbok captain Jannie Breedt said: "We started off a little bit shaky and could not get our passes away. It was the first time I had met four or five of our players but everyone fitted in well.

"Bermuda played with guts. They were very committed but did not do the little things they needed to do to score tries. They should have played the ball wide to the wings from the outset to stretch us.'' Bermuda coach Peter Shillingford said he was "quite pleased'' with his side's performance.

"I thought they did themselves proud. If we hadn't forced a few things like the last pass we could have had a few more scores.'' Captain Alvin Harvey added: "I think we gave a good account of ourselves. The boys never gave up but we did lose a bit of our sharpness so we will need to polish up a few things.'' Classic Lions 38 Uruguay 10 Irish eyes were smiling as Classic Lions' wing Keith Crossan ran in a hat-trick of tries during yesterday's second match. Classic newcomers Uruguay had no answer to the Irish speedster who was capped 41 times for his country and showed yesterday that he had not lost a step.

Crossan was joined on the scoreboard by Lions Ken McLeish, Mike Budd and Dave Irwin. Derek McAleese added four conversions for the combination side of Welsh, English, Irish and Scottish players.

Uruguay applied most of the pressure through the game with the Lions finding it difficult to contain their frenetic style of play. However, the South Americans were only able to reply with tries from Walter Widerman and Richard Lagos.

Lions captain Ian Stephens was unhappy with his side's performance despite the wide margin of victory.

"Our lineouts, scrums, passing and tackling were terrible today. We will have a big problem in our next game if we don't sort these things out by then.

"We will try to sort out the forwards by Thursday and I hope it will be a totally different game. We will try to create a few things up front and finish them off.'' Uruguay skipper Alberico Passadore said: "We are very happy to be in the tournament for the first time and I think we can improve. We will see in two days if we can get our first win.''