THE CHINA MAIK, NOVEMBER 8
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WELSH RUGBY CLUBS' BIG PROBLEM
DEARTH OF YOUNG SATURDAY'S FOOTBALL RESULTS
RECRUITS
SWANSEA EXPERIMENT BEARING FRUIT
LAST
(By ROWE HARDING)
London, October 7. week I outlined the difficulties which have beset Welsh first-class Rugby since the war, the breaking down of the pre-war tradition, and the difficulty of establishing a new one because of the attitude of independence adopted by second- class clubs towards their first-class neighbours, which has checked the flow of promising young- sters to the nurseries of the first-class teams.
The position has become so acute that Newport and Cardin alone of the Welsh first-class clubs now run a second team, and even they find it necessary to disguise the true character of their reserve teams by rechristening them "Newport United” and “Car- diff Athletic" respectively.
KOWLOON
AND GOAL-SCORERS
KOWLOON CHINESE
FIRST DIVISION.
RASTERN Les Tak Koc SOUTH CHINA "B"
Chan Tak Fai (2), Lau
“Chong
CLUB
Sang (2), Yeung
Tix Yung Fot, Tao Sing Ho, Tam Fowler (5), Wilson (2),
Koon-lam.
SOUTH CHEN A “A”
Cheuk Shek- ST. JOSEPH'S
Gomes, Gastelhe
CLUB
KWONG WAH
(2)
SEAFORTHS
Thompson, Dunnuckis.
POLICE
Howlett, Morrison.
SECOND DIVISION
Chin Chi Fun (2), Las Wing Kui. ENGINEERS (3)
Beale, Pelham STH EDERA Bancroft ( MIDDLESEX
Isard (4), Marable (3).
The Swansea reserve team was disbanded this season, osten- sibly for financial reasons, but really because the side had not jus- tified its existence by supplying a reasonable proportion of good 20 BTL. RA players to the first fifteen. It failed to do so because it could not attract raw material of the necessary quality from the surrounding second-class clubs.
The village players nowadays,
will not leave their village teams
unless they can step straight in KOWLOON GOLF
to a first-class side, and few of
them have enough experience or CLUB ANNUAL
knowledge to justify the
-
step
So it is that the general standard CHAMPIONSHIP
of first-class play has detersirat-
ed.
SCHOOLS TO THE RESCUE
It would be a good deal lower than it is were it not for the for-. tunate circumstance that about 12 years ago some genius
Qualifying Scores And Draw
The Qualifying Round, of the conceived Kowloon Golf Club's annual Cham- the idea of forming a union of the pionship, was held yesterday, and Rugby-playing secondary schools, the scores of those qualifying for which stimulated interest in the the competition proper, with their game in those schools and improved scores are as follows:— the standard of secondary schools Rugby immeasurably in a very few years.
A glance at the list of secondary schoolboys who have played for Wales in the last ten years will quickly prove how much Welsh club and international } Rugby owe to the Secondary Schools Union. But the products of this ad- mirable system cannot wholly satisfy the demand for players for the first- class teams.
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Only a certain proportion of them have the necessary qualities of physique and speed to stand the buffetings of Welsh first-class Rug- by. How, then, is the demand to be satisfied?,
SELF ORGANISATION
A. J. Dennis (84) v. R. K Collings (78).
A. W. da Rozz (88) v. W. C. Simpson (88)..
F. EA. Remedios (75) ▼. S. Jex (90).
T. Paton (76) 7. F. C. Barry (84).
A. A Lopes (84) v. E. 0. Murphy (86).
C. G. Anderson: (88) -v. W. Taylor (76).
WA. Stewart (81) ▼ J. D. Thomson (79);
W. M. Groves (93) v. E. D. da Roza (83).
The First Round will be played
The answer is that the first-class next Sunday, November 14, 1937.,
sides must themselves
organisation which will
în place of the
second-class gby
Coleman, UNIVERSITY
POLICE
Tse Stu-yu (2), Mak Yu-yat. 7 EASTERN
Lee Bing-hon. SEAFORTHS Samson (2).- KOWLOON
CHINESE ENGINEERS Li Wai-lam
THIRD DIVISION (KOWLOON)
24TH BTL. RA Findlay (2), Sumners. AIR FORCE
I'm Song Hong, Lien Hong Sang Elton (2), Lilly.
(2). KUMAON RIFLES
SEAFORTHS
P. S. A
C. Santos (2), H. Santos,
(2). SIGNALS
Oven, McDonald, Lindsay - (2), Parker.
Charmes (own goal),
POLICY
ORDNANCE
THIRD DIVISION (HONG KONG)
MEDICALS
Munton (2).
POWHATTAN
Liun Yak-Tim, Wo Ah-choy,
AT 6.30
Howells (4). SERVICE CORPS.
STANLEY Lacey, Freer.
EVERY EVENING
BOOTES OH Matured is carried Edo the
was that founded this
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had
was a man of no mean judgment, for in
BOCTES as the-gin of his
hom of maturity that
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Gaan
CAPTAIN'S CUP
AT FANLING
Two Players Qualify
Returning a card of 84-11-73;
only
We
W. Sharp qualified
tam's Cup
Old Course
fast
Other
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the Car
over the
last Sunday,
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