THE CHINA MATE OCT
RUGBY GAME IS IN GRAVE DANGER
Ignoring True Spirit Of Game
RUGBY
INTERPORT
VENUE?
SHANGHAI MAKE
SUGGESTION
FUSILIERS ARE WELCOMED
Shanghai, October 14.
Saker
the pre ency of the
GREAT EXCITEMENT PREVAILING IN
NEW ZEALAND
Shanghai Rugby Union Football SPRINGBOK'S FIRST TEST
Club, he having served in this cap- acity before-and with credit.
to
WAS FINEST EVER
PLAYERS IN TRAINING CAMP
(By HOWARD MARSHALL)
London, September 25.
The president asked the meeting to stand in honour of E. M. Slater, Now that the tumult and the one of Shanghai's best rugger play- shouting of the "war" has dwin-ers who had been killed while per- dled into an ordinary every-day forming his duties as a police of undertone, the thoughts of ficer in Shanghai. Shanghai sportsmen have been Mr. E. S. Barraclongh made exploring the prospects for win-suggestion that Hong Kong
THE Rugby football season really opens in Lon- ter activities. Of this branded to send an interport
don to-day. No longer can we make excuses were the rugger men who met Shanghai this year instead of the yesterday evening to plan for the local team going down to Hong
Kong, as the present situation made for players on the score of summer lethargy. We coming season.
Prospects may have appeared it difficult for men working in offs shall have to judge games by the highest stan-
ays supposing that dull up to a week ago, but it was to get away-- divulged at last night's annual the present hostintes were ended dards, though I suspect that spectators take some
time to settle down into their best critical for general meeting of the Shanghai by Chinese New Year! Bagby Union Football Club that local and other rugger fifteens are to find a good test from the
ROE ELECTED CA
IT MAY BE THAT I AM A LAZY OR UNWILLING BUT THE OPENING GAMES OF THE SE |LARLY LITTLE IMPRESSION ON ME. I EN
I hike to watch from the touch-line, standing behind the ropes on small grounds, where I can hear the thunder of the gate, the
R. H. Roe, who made a welcome TAINLY BUT ONLY MAJOR TACTICAL FRIUMPHS OR
ING ATTI to retam to form last year, was electDERS FORCE THEMSELVES ON MY WANI Welch Fusiliers who come Shanghai with reputation well ed captain of the 1st fifteen of the TION. THERE IS SO MUCH ELSE TO KEEP OUR IMAGI
the Club this year, and A. W. KennedyATION BUSY. worthy of their forebears Welch regiment which several who proved such an acquisition to years – age brought everlasting the forwards last year, was unani- fame to the name of "Welch" on mously requisitioned for the office
of vice-captain. Both will be well Pounding of feet, and the thud of the tackle. It is not enough t
see Rugby football through the pages of a text-book. the rugger field.
ward play in the very The Weich Fusiliers who were to the fore in this year's matches, I
First we must recapture the brought up here to assist the pre-and the local team should be well
strength have an en-in the running for any honours that stram and sweat of it, the heave tion of the game during viable reputation in Hong Kong and are going for despite losses of the scrummage, and the beni-days of our football prior other parts. They have played through transfers, they retain the son of the second wind. In ima-war and in 1924 What is more. against the best of Ragby teams best of their forwards and if their gination at least we must become he adds that "the first Test match is and have come off with their colours halves problem could be solved they players again, and experience it generally held to have been the finest
will be much a strength to be con-all, from the hasty packing of game of football ever seen fying,
tended
The following once bearers were elected for the season.
New
bags to the glory of the hot bath. Zealand”
DISQUIETING NEWS- THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE QUADRANGULAR CONTEST
irrelevant, and That is considerable praise, and Perhaps this seems 1 Indicions point to a quadrangu- President, PM Saker; Vice-Pre lar competition between four senior sidents, ES Barraclough, Dr. Myet I think it has an importance. If it comes from a level-headed and Burton Commandant, I. Fabre, H. W we can enter imaginatively with the conservative observer. In a sense it in H. Martin, G. D. Nicholl game, our perspective is corrected is encouraging, for we hear so teams, which should provide specta-
and B. D. E. Silby, Captain, R. H. Roe We view the scrummage laws, much of the deterioration of Rugb tors with some excellent fare.
The four teams concerned are the Vice-Captain, A. M. Kennedy; General Shanghai Rugby Union Football Committee, W. J. Richmond, H. for example, from a position of vant football, though I have always ta
Carter, and G. M. Mils; Selection Comage in the second row, with our ears the tales of past. glories Club 1st fifteen, the Welch Regi-mittee, R. M. Saker, 1. M. McCrae, and bent back and our noses close to least a small pinch of salt. ment, the Loyal Regiment and the H W. Carter Hon Treasurer the ground, and our lungs bursting
and our feet shpping as we shove side to it. My corres Fourth US Marines. It is difficulty March; Hon Secretary, G, M., Mils
easy to forget the players uneasy about the spirit to predict the winner of a series
new, to legislate in terms the game is played. It and overlook the dificulties he maintains,
played between these four teams, The Bruce Peebles Amateurs have but undoubtedly all matches in such got a well equipped new
a series would provide some of the
est
don and all&followe
the handling game will look fo
teams
Last popular
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AMONG OUR AUTUMN RANGE
THIS NEW VENTILATED PORK PIE HAT
Will be most popular. Outstand ing for its
it will appeal
There is,
speculation in New Zeal the early days of Fantastic sums ar prefer to seek the gen-Even
eral feel of the game, and abandon ities. I am quite
into camp for 2
ОТЕК Well, you
to leave Twickenham this afternoon matches, and with details of the coring very hike lapse in my mind. We shall see a good match, and that is enough. Is the result, I wonder, so desperately important, when all is said and done?
I ask this with a purpose. At Auckland to-day New Zealand South Africa meet in the third their three. international
The score is one all New Zealand won the first, South Africa the
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