THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 8, 1938.
The above group is the Royal Navy triumphant Triangular Rugby Tournament fifteen which defeated the Club last Saturday in a memorable game at Causeway Bay Let to right (top-row) are: Surg. Lt. Ellis (Medway); P. O. Askwith (Dainty), Lt. Walsham (Adventure), Lt. "Mike" Harvey (Odin) (Captain). Lt. Talbot (Otus), A. B. Northcott (Adventure) and Lt. Walters (Olympus). (Bottom-row) Lt. Maydon (Orpheus), Lt. Ogle Phoe nix), Lt. Anderson (Olympus), Lt. Woods (Grampus), A. B. Thatcher (Eagle), A. B. Romans (Eagle), Sergt. Burston (Tamar) and Rev. J. T. B. Evans, R.N. Naval Rugby Secretary. (“Mail” photo).;.
(Adventure), → Sig. Ford
PROBABLES'
MISTAKES
IN FIRST
WELSH
TRIAL
CHANGES WHICH
SELECTORS
MIGHT MAKE
NEWPORT GROUND
FIASCO
The International Rugby classics will commence next Saturday at Cur- diff when Wales meet England in the first encounter in the series,
(By ROWE HARDING)
London, Décember 8,
HOOK TO FIGHT KANE ÎN LONDON
Toronto, November 26.-Henry Hook has agreed to fight Peter Kane in London in January. He has already cabled his acceptance. [ Hook,, who is the seventh ranking ob- bantam-weight, has not yet visited
ball back did not pay and England. He was given the deci-
vious game was the wheef rush, with an occasional quick- heel in their opponents' twenty- five,
·NEVER SO BAD
The point, though, is that on in- ternational grounds like Twicken- ham, Murrayfield, Swansea and even Cardiff conditions will never be so bad as to make orthodox pass- ing movements as unprofitable as they were at Newport.
sion against Baby Yack, the Cana- dian bantam champion, here in September, and was also awarded
Delarosa, of Mexico City. the decision recently against Chris
MILSOM ON FOOTBALL
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turning at the wicket the strike had left.
run out by inches only.
My partner was to blame for the throw- ing away of my wicket when I was confident we had won the game.
· “SAILED PAST WICKET” past the wicket after running one, "My partner had no right to sail
because it was my call for the sec- ond run, which I would most cer- tainly have made. Again, I was running to the wicket to which the ball was certain to be returned, and what danger there was I was taking. We lost by. 30 runs a match I have always thought we must have won.
It was only when I had got half- way on the second ran that I no- ticed my partner had sailed on long past the wicket after his firs run. I at once slipped up on a wet London, December 4.--At his own surface in turning. But picking my- I do not know what the selectors request Milsom, the Bolton Wan-self up, I dashed back, to be run think about Saturday's happenings. derers centre-forward, has been, Naturally, they cannot be alto-placed on the transfer list. Since gether satisfied, but there is no joining Bolton from Rochdale in reason, either, why they should be 1930 Milsom has scored 152 goals unduly alarmed, If Jenkins, Wool- in League and F. A. Cup games. So much of my report of the ler, Edwards and Cliff Jones did. He previously played for Bristol second Welsh trial match had nothing to enhance their reputa-Rovers, perforce to be devoted to a cata-tions, their respective opponents logue of withdrawals, injuries, did not better, though W. T, H. and substitutions that some fur-Davies played well enough to make ther thoughts on this most un-me wish that the selectors had Probables forwards as little as satisfactory match may not be tried the experiment of playing five-eighth, Tanner, Bas- Saturday's fiasco confirmed the sett and Clement were well out of opinion I had previously held it. that Rodney Parade on a wet
The Possibles forwards who im- PACK DID BETTER day, or after rain, is about the The Probables pack did rather pressed me most were Bowen and worst first-class ground in better than in the first trial match, Taylor, the wingers, -not so much Wales, and good Rugby is quite without exerting a definite super- for their destructive work as for Impossible on its greasy sticky fiority. Morgan for Law, Anderson their clean handling of the greasy surface.
for H. Rees, Bowen or Taylor for ball and their knack of bobbing up Whatever misgivings we may A. M. Rees or Leslie Evans are in the right place at the right time. have about our forwards this sea- further experiments the selectors Either would be an addition to the son we have none about our mid- might try, though personally I attacking resources of the Pro field players behind the scrum; yet think they should interfere with the, bable team. on Saturday, in spite of their num- erous chances, they could engineer only one try. For the rest of the game they were fast-bound in the mud.
amiss.
WEATHER FACTOR The moral is that important trial matches should not be played at Newport for in this uncertain climate it is at least as likely that on a given Saturday the weather will be wet as that it will be fine. It may be afgued that a good team - should be able to win whatever the conditions, and, within limits, this is true.
The Probables did not win more decisively because they adopted the wrong tactics. They should have realised' after the first ten min- utes, that monotonously, jeeling táo.
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“These cases of run-out are well worth consideration, the first being due to one of those unfortunate mistakes that will happens and the had not been in with me before, second to the fact that my partner-
conversant with and was not so my methods as others, and that he misunderstood my Coming two, as I passed on the first run.”
COMBINATION BETWEEN THE BATSMEN AT THE WICKETS, HOW EVER, EXTENDS IN OTHER DIREC- TIONS. IT WAS ALWAYS A STRONG POINT IN THE GREATEST TEST TEAMS OF AUSTRALIA. THIS WILL BE DISGUSSED LATER.
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NEW I. C. CAPTAIN London, November Frank Riseley was elected cap- tain for 1938 of the International Lawn Tennis Club, at the annual general meeting, at Desborough presided.
Riseley – has
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Great Britain in the avik Cup, won the All-Comers; aingl Wimbledon three times, and
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