SPOILING TACTICS MAR GRIM GAME
ENGLAND'S DROP GOAL
WIN OVER WALES
FORWARDS CARRY THE DAY
London, January 18.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1937.
Fus. Taylor, above, gave a good display at left-half for the Com bined Services against Shanghai yesterday at Sookumpoo.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RAGE MEETING, 1937 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 27th
February, 1937.
On Saturday, 20th, Monday, 22nd and Tuesday, 23rd February, the first bell will be rung at 11.00 a.m., and the first race will be run at 11.30 am. On Wednesday, 24th February, the first bell will be rung at 11.30 am, and the first race will be run at 12 o'clock NOON, and ou Saturday, 27th February, the first bell will be rung at 130 p.m., and
ADROPPED goal to a try is no great matter, but since England beat Wales at Twickenham by this slender margin that single point has its im- portance. Too much importance, some may say, for Wales did score the only try of a somewhat tructive backrow forward lying the first race run at 2.00 p.m. sterile afternoon, and a draw would perhaps have right up ready to pounce, a man met the case more equitably, writes Howard Mar-with a mission. shall in the "Daily Telegraph."
DESTRUCTIVE 'ROVING
on
WHETHER THE MATCH WAS WORTHY OF THE OCCA this account, though he seemed to
I do not quarrel with Long SION I LEAVE YOU TO JUDGE. THE MODERN OUTLOOK stretch the off-side laws consider UPON RUGBY FOOTBALL IS NOT MINE, AND THIS WAS AN ably. He had a job to do, and very EXPOSITION OF THE MODERN GAME. YOU MAY HAVE effectively he did it. He was an in- FOUND IT EXCITING, SINCE THE SCORES WERE SO CLOSE tegral part of the modern theory,
The tiffin interval will be taken after the fifth race on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, and after the fourth race on Wednesday.
MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURES Members are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed and it is with the theory that I do throughout the Meeting.
Do you No one without a badge will be consider that purely destructive admitted to the roving of this sort is in the best closure.
YOU MAY HAVE ADMIRED INDIVIDUAL PLAYERS - THE LEVEL-HEADED AND AGILE OWEN-SMITH, FOR EXAMPLE quarrel most violently,
AND THE EXCELLENCE OF THE ENGLISH FORWARDS PERHAPS TOOK YOU AGREEABLY BY SURPRISE.
Members En-
interests of the game? If so, I can Badges admitting non-members only answer that the game is not to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rngoy football, but a greatly infer-Rooms at $10.00 per day including:
or development of it.
tax-or $40.00 including tax for the
Within the limits imposed by modern theories the game doubt less had its merits. It consisted, in the main, of spoiling and kicking, good enough of its kind, with some grand tackling to re- assure those of us whose views are inclined to be old-fashioned Virility was there in plenty, and ability, but I ask this in all hu-
There you have it, at any rate Meeting (ladies $5.00 and $20.00 mility where were the true ingredients of Rugby football?
are obtainable: a mixture of poor scrummaging, de-respectively) Look at it in this way. Poten-fensive winging, and in-general an through the Secretary upon intro- tially great attacking players aimless welter, a witless wrangling, duction by a member, such member like
Wooller, Davies, Kemp, if I may purloin Mr. Linklater's ad- to be responsible for all chits, etc. Cranmer and the wing three-mirably descriptive phrase. Per- Badges admitting to Members" quarters had no chances what-haps it satisfies you, and I will not Enclosure will NOT be on sale at ever. There was only one con-deny that the players did their best the Race Course. structive movement the whole to put some spirit into it.
The Secretary's Office, 1st floor, afternoon, and that was when
FRUSTRATION
EXCHANGE BUILDING,......... (Tel.
&
THIL STILL CHAMPION
Brouillard Beaten On A Foul
AFTER DECISION REVERSAL
Paris, To-day.
Tanner slipped away from a Old fogeys like myself, however, 27794) WILL CLOSE AT 10.00 a.m. loose maul and Wales scored hanker for the more spacious days ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, and their try.
when forwards and backs worked at 12.00 NOON ON THE FIFTH to a plan, and thought more of DAY.
DEFENCE CANCELS ATTACK
building up their own attack than A limited number of tiffins will Otherwise defence cancelled out of frustrating attacking moves by be obtainable each day at the Club attack completely. Why was this? their opponents. And it is only be House, provided they are ordered in To begin with, the Welsh forwards cause I feel we are in danger of advance from the No. 1 Boy, Tel. were beaten in the tight scrum-losing so much of the essential 21920.
Marcel Thil, of France, veteran holder of the world's middleweight mages and the loose mauls. When grandeur of Rugby football that I On no pretext will children be boxing title, last night successfully they did manage to heel the ball persist in this apparently querulous permitted in either enclosure dur- ing the first four days of the Meet-- came back so clumsily and slowly criticism. that England, could destroy the Welsh attack at leasure.
retained the championship, when he beat Lou Brouillard, the French Canadian, who was disqualified in the sixth round for an alleged foul blow.
Now to the good points, and here ing.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE let me say at once that the English
The price of admission to the- forwards justified the selectors confidence in them. Campbell, Public Enclosure is $2.00 per day Milman and Huskisson were parti- including tax for all persons in-- enlarly active, but the whole pack cluding ladies, and is payable at came most effectively to life.
the Gate.
The mighty Wooller with his tre- mendous stride, Davey, whose sud- After the first round, which was den thrusts we had every reason to even, Thil won the second, third, fear, the smooth-running Davies fourth and fifth rounds. In the sixth all of them were lost in the confu-
Kemp, with Long shadowing him Soldiers and Sailors in uniform round Thil dashed from his corner sion which follows slipshod scrum tirelessly, made the best of a bad are admitted to the Public En- and received an apparently low maging. There is the first indict-job, Cranmer's energy was im-closure at $100 per day including blow, which sent him to the canvas.ment of the modern neglect of fun mense, Sever spared neither him- tax.
The Referee counted the holder damental principles
self nor his opponents and dropped. Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc. out and awarded the fight to Brouil- And what of England, heeling a beautiful goal, and Owen-Smith will not be permitted to operate lard, and then reversed his deci- from two out of every three scrum-at, full-back was invaluable with within the precincts of The Hong sion! Brouillard lost in similar mages, both in the tight and the his remarkable fielding, his accur-Kong Jockey Club during the Race manner in a title bout against loose? Kemp, at stand-off half, ate kicking, and his sense of posi- Meeting. Marcel Thil on January 20, last year. took his passes like a juggler, but tion. -Reuter
with the ball came Long, a destruc-
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SERVANTS” PASSES. The Welsh forwards, out-scrum-
Passes for Servants will be- maged, were nevertheless fast in the loose and lively in the line-out, issued on application to the Secre and Tanner did all he could to re-tary, 1st floor, Exchange Building. trieve the situation behind a beaten Any persons found loitering with pack Clement on the left wing, Servants' passes in their possession moreover, proved that with even will forfeit the same and will be reasonable opportunities he might removed from the Enclosure.
By Order, have startled us, and I daresay that is true also of the whole Welsh: back division.
WALSH DEFEATS DAY
January 15, Jimmy Walsh (Chester) the Bri- tish light-weight champion, had one of the hardest tasks of his career when he beat Alby Day (Old Ford) | over 10 rounds at the Stadium Glub, London, last night.
C. B. BROWN.
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 15th February, 1937
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