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Saturday's Rugby Internationals
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1951.
OXFORD ON THE RIVER
England Had A Harder Job Of It Disposing Of Ireland And Wales
Says "HANLINCODE"
At the Navy Ground, Causeway Bay, on Saturday,.a good crowd of rugger Fans saw Scotland beat the Internationals by a small margin and England beat the Ireland, Wales XV by six points.
The first game between Scotland and the Rebels was, until the last quarter of an hour, anyone's game. It was then that the Scottish pack seemed to settle down and the threes to work together as a line. Credit must be given to the Rebels for the very fine show that they put up. On paper the task looked pretty hopeless but, with Forsgate unable to play for Scotia, this evened things up a little in the van.
The Rebel forwards put all they had into the game and led by Thorneycroft they certainly put up a splendid show, Their In the loose was far neeling superior to Scotland's and be hind them Bleakley and Sherrard-Smith played a very Show at fullback played his usual line game.
sound game.
was, and finished with England having to fight hard to keep the green jerseys out.
It was a good, open game and was
contested at the way. England definitely hart the upper hand in the first half and did most of the pressing. The first score came from Lattey who crosskicked to allow Wynter to crash over in midfield. Hutson converted..
In fact, the whole XV played very hard. clean game and
The second score was from a proud of their can be justly
It performance. They scored first beautiful drop goal by Lattey,
was n real effort and ho mis- with Peyton-Bruhi
Take. In fact, it went so high penalty.
that from the stand it could not be Judged at all. However, there was no doubt at all about
kicking o
This reverse Breed to galvanise Scotland into more decisive action, because after The interval the forwards put moge energy into their game and Campbell at standoff half seemed to improve as the game went atung. The threes sevimed to feel their feet game opened
Jost some of >arupiness.
more
and the
out better and
ity first
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from the field. This made the score at half time England 5, Ireland and Wales 0.
In the
whole team resulted in Reynolds giving Denyer the ball to make the Anal bld and touch down Blavins second try. for the again added the extra two points ant this really did bring the erow up onto their toes.
It was, however, no use. The Englishmen were just too good all the Greens' and despite chdeavours the game ended- England 10, Irelatid & Wales 10. The Game was controlled by
Allwright W. C.
in a very capable manner.
TEAMS
With the 1949 strokes, Davidge (Oxford) and. Jennens (Cambridge) there are distinct prospects of another neck-and-neck finish to this year's Boat Raco between the two Universities. Here is the Oxford crew in action on the Thames at Henley.
They are C. G. V. Davidge (stroke, Eton and Trinity), D. N. Callender (Eton and Trinity), L. A. F. Stokes (Winchester and New), M. J. Hawkes (Bed- ford and New), C. G. Turner (Winchester and New), J. Podizer, (Magdalen S. G. and St Peter's Hall), A. J. Smith and J. F. E. Smith (Eton and New).-Central Press Photo.
TEN NATIONS WILL COMPETE IN THE FIRST ASIAN
New Delhi, Feb. 27.
England: Gibbons, Lattey, Barrett, Norman, Layton, Lawes, Hutson, Carrel, Bogg. Bence, Carter, Minio, Gregson, Wynter, Wright-Nooth,
Asia's first Olympics-the First Asian Games-will second half England Ireland & Wales: Ciemo, see the cream of athletic talent from 10 eastern countries
services of Reynolds,
Roberts, Slevin, were without the Bence who had to leave the field Gower, Mynott, Tolputt, Moseley, vie for team and individual honours in the biggest sports owing to a rib injury. After Davin, Handcock, Jones, Denyer, festival staged east of the Suez. the interval the fretand-Wales Thomas, Blaving, combination began
to play a
In the second half J. Render- more purposeful type of rugger on equalised with
the forwards a penaltynd
certainly wal and then a goal
nice run by played hard and well, Thomas, Stewart resulted in Campbell Handrock and Moseley being touching down, but McNabb very much to the fore.
was Scotland 6, Rebels 3.
After this the game was fast and furious but no further score was chalked up and so Scotland
pass Into the Anal.
Padre Gover reffed the match well,
TEAMS
WHY COUNTY CRICKETERS GO STALE
Over 500 men and women athletes coming from cities as far apart as Teheran and Tokyo. will take part in the march past on the opening day, March 4,
Thousands of pigeons will In addition to the standard flutter over the perfectly pro- Olympic track and fick events, portloned newly completed Na- there will be basketball, cycling, tional Stadium in this scient
seat swimming. and weight-lifting capital-venue of the Games competitions.
ds
March 11.
failed to add the two pointe It was a second half full of a good kick and the scure thrills for the fans because whilst England never looked like losing, the Irish lived" up to their reputation for fighting and they were more than ably assisted by the Welsh elements There ia a significant of the team.
England scored again in the paragraph in the recently second half when Layton went published 1950 annual re-
The march past will be an missed port of the Warwickshire Scotland:
over for out. Hutson J. R, Henderson,
intriguingly colourful the kick.
Cricket Club. It tacle. Among County McNabb, D.
Indian's Henderson, C. J.
wil be Campbell, Stewart, R. M. Camp- The next one was scored by says: "Lack of success was banned athletes bell. Goldschmidt, Logan, Gregson, who
Sikhs. and Raj was England's due among other things to tall, bearded Mellan, Moffatt, Farquharson, most prominent forward. McCallum. Elmsley, Henderson, utt.cepted a pass and made a senior professionals towards there will be co
He staleness in the play of the puts, and the, slightly built
quick run to touch down mid- way between the centre and the the end of the season, in-skinned Burmans; big-propar-
tioned
Smith
Minto made touch.
Internationals: Snow, Kilvert, Blackburn, Franklin, Cowan,
no mis-duced by seven-day-a-week Sherrard Smith, Bleakley, take with the kick and this cricket." Thorneycroft, Peyton Bruhl, completed England's score card Moxon. Atkinson, Philipson at 16 points. Fawcett.
ENGLAND v. IRELAND & WALES
The green shirts now really got cracking and went all out and gave England some nasty moments. Blavins touched down after a rush and he
Now that hits at some thing vital, yet not apparent on the surface. Seven days
Indian forch bearer, The entries: athletics (men) moving with rhythmic grace, ) --- ali 10 countries: athletics will enter the amphitheatre to (women)-Burma, India, Indo- kindle the Olymple Timme nesla, Japan, Singapore; basket- which will burn, day and night, ball--Burma, India, Indonesia, the Philippines; cycling until the last day of the meet,
Burma, India, Iran.
Japan; football Afghanistan, Burma, India, Indonesia, Ira
Iran, Japan, Philippines; the
swimming (men)--Burma, India, Iran, the Philippines; weight-lifting - Burma. India, Afghanistan, Indlabs. Too, Iran, Japan, the Philippines there will be compact, brown and Singapore.
spec- tur-
seen
The modernistic stadium Afghans; handsome modelled on. London's Wembley Persians;
nemotional, loose- Stadium--is a gift of the two- limbed Japanese; nimble Min-year-old National Sports Club layans; agile Ceylonese; proud of India to the nation, United Indonesians: sturdy Filipinos; Press. and, hardy Thais,
India, host nation, has the
a week, you might reason-biggest contingent with 187 This game turned out to be
ably say, surely they mean athletes, Japan, with 83, comes the best of the two and was more or less the reverse of the converted his own try. The six? The Committee do not next. Afghanistan (41), Burma (80). Ceylon (4), Indonesia other game. IL started by Greens pressed again and and mean any such thing.
(33), Iran (43), the Philippines England being the superior team, their efforts rewarded when a
(33), Singapore, (18) and Thal- which-on-paper-1 undoubtedly_passing_movement by nearly the
The_point_is_that_more fans-(22) are the other squads. and more professionals are rallying to the assistance of their brother pros by
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS ANNUAL RACE MEETING
Saturday 24th, Wednesday 28th February and Saturday 3rd March 1951
The First Bell will be rang at 11.30 am. and the first race will be run at 12.00 Noon, cach day. The tiffin interval is after the fourth race (1.30 pm.)..
playing in Sunday matches Change Of Date for current Benefit Matches. For
Each season there is now at least one player getting a benefit in each county, and on Sundays, after a tiring week in the County Cham-
There are eleven races each day (33 in ali). The "Pearce pionship. visiting sides re- Memorial Cup" is scheduled to be run on the Second Day, Wed-
pair to pleasant village nesday, 20th Februaty, Race No. 6 at 3.30 pm.
to the smaller greens or towns and help swell the "kitty".
Through Tickvis at $68.00 each may be obtained at the Com- pradore Office of the Treasurers, 1st floor, Telephone House, also tickets at $2.00 each for the Special Cash Sweep on the "Pearce Memorial Cup", the sale of which will close at 5.00 p.m. on Tues- day, 27th February.
Through Tickets reserved for this Meeting but not paid for by 10.30 am on Friday, 23rd February, will be sold and the reservation canceled for future meetings,
To avoid congestion at the Club's Offices at Telephone House, non-members are requested to purchase their sweep tickets at the Club's Bronch Offices at:-
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Or
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BY ORDERTALA 1. A CLEAR,
Secretary.
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of their hearts. It must be clear that man can put in the best part of Ave months Intensive cricket in this country, add Sunday! games to it, and then do him- aelf or his country Justice in the Tests.
Doncaster
St Leger
Pan-American Games Open
GAMES
Tennis Exhibition Matches On Today
The exhibition tennle matches at Chater Road with the participation of the visiting American and Swedish players will take place this afternoon unless the weather deteriorates;
The matches will be: Miss Dorothy Head v. K. 8. Wong (Schools Champion);
Sren Davidsson V. Irving Dorfman;
Irving Dorfman & Fred Kovaleski
10 Koon- hung & Sven Davidsson,
Champion- The Colony ahip programme postpened. from yesterday has been further postponed to morrow.
to-
Sunday's Hockey
Fixtures and umpires for League hockey on Sunday, March 4, are given below,
A Ladies' League game be- tween King George V School "A" and-King-George-V-School "B Buenos Aires, Feb.-27.-
will, weather-permitting, be Curtis Stone of the played at the KGV No. 1 [United States won the ground tomorrow, bully off 4 10,000 metre, run in the pm. The umpires for this game Pan-American Games today are Fit Sgt Aldridge
Hunt. with a thrilling spurt in the stretch that shaded Argen- tina's Ricardo Bralo.
Statos*
Sunday's Axtures are:
Men's First Division
Police "A" v Recrelo "". Police Ground Boundary Sweet 11.00 .m. and J. C.
it was the United London, Feb. 28, The Doncaster St Leger, last
Arst championship in the Unapitek P. F. Xavier classic race of the English flat warm siln with 35,000 spectaclub Club de Recrelo 11.60 m
Games that opened under aiarcal.
Recrolo "A" v Hongkong Hockey racing reason, will now be run Saturday, Setembr
13. Lors In the
Peron umpires R. 5. M. McClennan and
WO K.G.M. Smith. Instead of Wednesday, Septemn Stadium. ber 12.
Bralo led mosi The change in dates follows with
of the way Stone, durable
the
The
President
former
pursuer and finished
and SM Hannan.
R.A.F. v Argonauts "A". Tak 11.00 am. Umpires WO Padley
Kal
Men's Second Division
Argonaute "B" v Y, M. C. A. Ums pires J. Blackburn and A. V. Comano.
15. The move is aimed at pre-off his vanting loss of production in with a brilliant spurt, winning 11.00 m.
mining the important
and by five yards. industrial area around Doncas- ter-Reuter,
and
Bookunpoo
a meeting to-day between the Penn State star now liv.ng u The playing results in Aus-Stewards of the Jockey Club Brooklyn, dogging his heels. tralia, reflect to some extent the and Mr Chuter Ede, the Home
Finally, staleness that sets in from this Secretary, and a representative from home in the gruelling 35 a lap, and a half over employment. I can say of that four of our men "Duwn Power.
Minister of Fuel and lap race, Stone took the lead. Thunderbolla y HKAAF, RN. 920 am, Umpires no námes no
The crowd chanted Argen-.. Ground pack Under
McWilliams Sadn Loader dates of the four-day tina. drill,
Argentina" were regular participants
Dя Bralo Major Samoon. been challenged in the last lap, but Dutch in Sunday matches out of the Doncaster meeting navc
v ftovers. goodness
re-arranged to September 12 to down the stretch Stone fought 1100 m. Umpires G. B. Geure
vitch and G. T. Palmer,
Pokfulam "University y Nomads,
Umpires J., B. Grewal and Major Vickary,
Ladies' League - Shortly afterwards Virgil Dean Severns of the United Gremlins **
V University States won the high jump at Police Ground Boundary Street six feet 4 inches.
300 p.m. Umpires J. B. Gonsalves and A. L. Nery. Senora Ingeborg Mello de Victorians
Gremlins "A". Preisa of Argentina won the KGV No 1 3.00 p.m. Umpires
Fit Set Aldridge and A. M. Būve. chly other championship by tossing the discus 120 feet 5% Fecreio v Dutch, Club de Ite
crein 3.00 .m. Umpire inchesAssociated Preis.
The Boul and Z. A. Abbas.
*Any umpire who ・ is unable to
M attend is requested to inform D. J. Steyn Parve, who at the
MT- moment taking care of these rangement. Telephone 3208.
Sheffield Shield
South
RESTRICTED
Some counties have restricted,
Adelaide, Feb, 27. their professionals' activities to
Weat
Australia gained first six Sundays a season-Hamp-
hire, Sussex and Somerset innings points against among them. In Warwickshire, Australia In the last Sheffield
Shield
the season match of Ord had a beneft last
which ended here today. Grove gets one this summer, and I cannot see the players South Australia carried their suddenly withdrawing their overnight score of 334 runs for nino wickota to 335 runs and support, although it may одсе again result in their forfeiting West Australia in their second. the Championship. --
Innings mada 215 runs for eight wickets. Equally remarkable in the West Australia hail a lend of Warwickshire report is the re- 73 runs on the first innings,
club scoring 302 runs velation that the county
in reply to has spent nearly £30,000 In|South" Australia's 228 rūna, the last two years on ground Reuter,
at their Edgbastoss
miz headquarters.
Randolph Turpin
Knocks Out
Luc Van Dam
London, Feb. 27. Randolph Turpin, 159 lbs., knocked out Luc Van Dam, 157 lbs., of the Netherlands in 48 seconds of the first is an amazing sum to have
but expanded, The club, which Badminton · Results round tonight to win the is ambitious on and off
European Middleweight field, a to be commended. in The following ware the ro- Championship
the
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
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