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TODAY'S HEXANGULAR RUGBY
Club Face A Big Test Against RAF But Both
Teams
Army
Norm O'Neill Shows The Way
EXPOSES THE
Should Win
FOLLY OF
By PAK LO
the packs in should get a plentiful supply of the strongest
Army North the ball. The halves and backs ↑ Colony and the
are definitely good with Kaye at should win again today. full-back. Kaye will be remem- Clubbered as the Kaniere star full-
The Club face their big test in the Hexangular Tournament this afternoon when they clash with the Senior Service on the Club ground at 4.15 p.m., for a win here will take them to second place in the Table. Both the Army XV's are in action this afternoon, and both are expected to take the two points from their opponents. At Kai Tak at 3.00 p.m. Army South face bottom-of-the-table Police, while at 4.15 p.m. on the same ground. Army North will have to go all out to beat the airmen who are at home today.
The other game on the Chab
is between #round
Club "B" and the Whitfield Wanderers. The Wanderers have always been impressive on the ground, and are ikely to w again, today.
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The Answer?
TORTOISE TECHNIQUE
IN 1ST TEST
From Alax Bannister
miserable batting failures
first cost England the Test by the large margin of eight wickets.
Sadly mistakon tactics and
Australia won deservedly.
his
The budding genlus of Nor- man O'Neill provided in malden Test, the first sane bat- ting approach,
In the minor game at Club, Club "B" are stronger today In magic sight of ола
back, and he also played for the Colony in that position, but they Опо other mino
will be up against the hard scheduled between RAF "tackling Club backs today
will be lucky to penetrate to any great extent.
and the 1st Lanes at 3.00 pm. on the Army ground in Boun- dary Street.
The Club are putting out the strongest XV avaliable this afternoon, but ire miking Cheong in the centre of the threes with Addis
The Club threes are the more dangerous, and if they get the ball they can and should score, The Club have, if anything, the slightly faster and better back τον coming in
in their pack, and these three are able to hamper Haenga and Melbuish in getting the ball away.
In
in his place. Otherwise the Chis back division is unchanged. the Pack, Newbigging now it ngain returns to the second row.
Definitely Good
The Club also will be all out tv show that last week's defeat was merely a dash in the pan, und they should just win this with-afternoon, though a draw here
would be no surprise.
the In
The Navy are of course still without Rodd, but even out him they have a very strong XV this afternoon,
With Lancs as hooker they should win the majority of the scrums, and while they may have to share the lineouts, their backs
Sports Diary
TODAY
FLACIO
Second Day of Fitin Race Meeing, Happy Valloy, 2 pan.
Cricket
Army South-Poltec Rume plac Police have kept O'Hare at scrum-half with ach
behind him, but have had to drop Dunn back to full-back as Kinger was Injured in the mid- week game. Though few spoctu- tos knew I he played most of the game with a deep gush that required eight stitches after the match.
batsmanship.
and the first genuine class
1
the back, and have brought
The pupil gave the expert- Wiggett
30 up
outside ny
enced English professona Tancock. This might well be
salutary but elementary lesson the answer to Cub "A"'s pro-that the bot is an offcusivo
funt against the
the bien but
weapon, whether used on breaking Wanderers pack they
village green or on the Test are going o have title chance to
areas. rettle down, and the Wanderers with their good,
out- If not threes should win stunding ogain.
Ist the game at Boundary Struct. the 1st Lancs, who 0: course have lost some men to the senior Army alde, face
RAF pack, fairly strong
bub the RAF threes have not been
date spectacular
and the steady the more Lanca with back division should win this one by a narrow margin.
■
The Teams
Following are the teams for today's games:
Club: Lochrie, Browne, Me- Tavish, Addis, Inglis, Valentine, Bennell,
Whiteley. Shaffer, Newbigging. Willams, Howe,
Stronger, Faster Pack Penman, Steven, Campbell,
Club "B": Martin, Hutt, Army South have the stronger, Heenua, Laville, Cooke, Wiggett, Inster pack and should prove Tancock, Turner, King, Kilvert, Division: Army "South" v
the lineouts and | Walker, superior In
Ult, Collinson, Sank. Optimals. Av Novy & Dockyard, Kezrelo v RL, Sourpions x ke loose, particularly the latter, and D'Eath. Police
this will give the Army bucks a Police: Dunn, Fisher, John- 20 Div
Centaurs v Anny “South", Navy & Dockyard v RAF,
study supply of the ball.
ston, Scott, Bellingham, Riach, v Recreio, KCCC v KGV, Army
The Army today can be ex- O'Hare, Purvca, Cunningham, "North" Polter, DDS v Phucoix perted to play a wide open'game | Shelley, Newton, Counsell,
for nothing upsets the Police Roberts, Russ, Bryan, more, and the Army should win
Asher
Borger
by a reasonable margin.
1st Division: RAF Sai Wah v South China (CH), Kwong Wah v CAA In the other game at Kal Tak (Navy) Sing Tao v Kitchee (25): 3.30 p.m.
Army North, now at the top of the Table will be all out to stay there. They have the superior
Keserye Divislost: wong Wah v
CHA n"), Sing lau Ỹ Kitchee
(B9)
2nd Division: RAF Kal Tak v forwards, especially in the Prisons CH 2 m.. Club Blincouts, and with The iwo Josep V. 3.30 p.m.
Phillips behind them have httle
ara vadon: Kin, Godown v RIL
2 p.m. Hon Ying v C & W 2 p.m. Dodwell y University 2 p.m.
sv Rediffusion 7 p.m. Koon Wun v JK Gas 3.30 p.in. a motches al Happy Valley.
Rogby
Police
Heanngular: Club "1" Army XV (Club) & p.m.: Club "A“ v Navy (Club) 4.15
v Asty
Army "North" (81) 4.5 p..
"South" (But 3 p.m.; RAF Y
to fear from the almen.
The airmen are playing a newrumer ni serum-half today and if he hits it off, the RAF with: Martin and Radclyffe in the centre of the threes could upset the favoured Army side.
The RAF pack while good in the loose is up against one of
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Army
Woodward, South: Birdsell, Sharp, Gould, Brown, Warrington, Clarke, Chappel, Uttley, Lemage, Mander, Gibby, Camey, Clarke, Lees.
Army North: Leppard, Bedc- Cox, Bopes Jowett, Peasley, Phillips, Graham, McIntosh, Morrison, Wynn, Muntz, H Hodge, Whitmore.
RAF: Wilcox, Burwood, Mar- tin, Rodelyffe, Poynor, Lowe, Sample, Steer, Hill, Wright, Moss, Ahern Brackenbury, Ro berts, Conway, Touch-judge-| Coombes.
HAF "B": Fitchett, Sweating. Hughes, Kelly, McShane, Blake, Howili, Richardson, Jones, Kings, Forsc, Campbell, Bird, Segar, Haigh, Touch judge Francis
Loader Lapse
In 113 minutes at the wicket, he not merely proved his poten- lial greatness, but shattered the foolish myth that it is impos- sible to make strokes on a pitch of this pace.
bat there From O'Neill's flowed perfectly executed cuts the und drives which made pulse quicken.
With Jimmy Burke, who stayed for the duration of the match-winning innings, O'Neill | shared in a partnership of 89, highest of the match.
A up
His only mistake was when G1, He scooped
boll from Lock, but Loader, up- parently blinded by the sun, allowed it to drop harmlessly at his feet.
O'NEILL GOING IN TO BAT
Frankly. O'Neill made Eng- land's tortoise batting technique look absurd. It Peter May is the captain I think he is, he say to himself, to Gro- will veney, Cowdrey and, possibly, Dexter: "Go and do likewise."
two
So Lock was denied a second lost England much' prestige' and wicket which he richly deserved. | good will in Australia, Only a positive approach from how on can restore that lost conndenco.
0.1 is that in. The truth matches in Queensland; English cricket sank to levels which were not pleasant to see. Only the truly great bowling per formance on Saturday Wald worthy of a team boasting the title of world champions,
Lost Prestige
I am convinced that, if Eng- Innd follow their natural me-
second rescue
The bowlers having rescued thods, they can take heavy the side saw the batsmen re- toll of
an Australian attack cater the ocean and drown. A net was hover which is full of holes.
possible on wicket which Those futile, ridiculous wait- remained so good to the end ing and wearing-down tactics that one wondered how on earth not only invited disaster, but such paltry scores were made.
J
PRAY FURNISH ME WITH
THE RULES OF GOLF ON
ONE SHEET OF PAPER
Says HENRY LONGHURST
"Pray furnish me," I should like to say in fine Churchillian style to the members of the Rules of Golf Committees of the R. and A. and the U.S. Golf Association who are due to meet in the spring "Pray furnish me with the Rules of Golf on one sheet of foolscap paper." What a stimulating mental exercise. it would be! What a fog of
pernickety points and general verbiage would be swept away! The present voluminous book warranted. Ever heard of that make it a rule that the, pinyer of rules,
aro and the even vaster one? Rule 11 (6) If you
farthest from the hole shall gratt volume of case-law bohind It în Interested-and I don't blame first and finish the hole Navy: Kaya, Watson Delaney, the form of Decisions, has you if you are not.
If he treads on another manin's Puttock, Devon, Melhuish, grown up, I fancy, partly Of course, if people are go-line, well, it can't be helped. Heenga, Rose Isaaces, Strachen, through a desire to conform withing to play golf for £10,000, After all, the players, ahead Russell, Hunt, Douglas, Hollick, our American friends in they will have to retain the
doing were
so only a few
Price.
world-wide, code, but mainly on present rules for the purpose, minites before. Anything to get Whitfield Wanderers: Craw-account of the enormous stakes but that is no reason why the ford, Watson, A. N. Other involved in modern golf, in other 90 per cent of us should Now I come to think, of it, I Sanderson, Youngs, Woolender, money to professionals, and not have ours on a sheet of fool-am not sure that I should even Elliott, Wiseman, Richards, prestige to amateurs and near- scap.
give them a sheet of foolscap. Grimsell, Tonbridge, Cleary, amateurs.
One fertile fold of elimination They ought to be able to do it Hellings, Priot, Lodge.
could concern occurrences on quarto. the green.
Referees
Club "B" v Whitfield Wan- derers-Harley.
Club v Navy-Richardson, Police v Army South-Dow. RAF v Army North-Qual-
trough.
SPORTS QUIZ
姓
As to conforming with the Americans which, like almost everyone, I strongly supported at the time-the more I play on bath sides of the Atlantic, the leas I think it really matters to elther of us.
Nobody Minds
After all, we play with a different ball which you would think to be the first item of conformity and nobody eller minds or, for that matter, knows the rule. (It is, briefly, that we can play with their's here; they can't play with our's there; but when we play matches against
1. Which world uille fight each other elther can play with
nitracted the largest pald either anywhere.)
in boxing
*The main
proof that all is
Attendance history? 2. Where will the 1002 not well with the present rules European Games be held? is that, broadly speaking, no- 3. Who the new Australian body knows them.
cricket captain?
come world famous?
If professionals, who live by
4. Under what name did Rocco golf, have only a remote idea of
Francis Marchcgland be them, who can
expect the rest of us who play strictly for amusement--though sirletly, too, a kind of honourable,
moster them.
5. How
men's have
стад Wimbledon
champions to singles
turned professional incorrect, cade of our own to
since the war?
d. What do "The Sport of
Kings"7
7. Who has mado, £A300 be-
tween arch and tea break?
Penalised
8. In which sports can you Gary Player,
Rimet Cup, Swaything Cup?
(c)
|
Not Concerned
on.
So far as I am concerned, my opponent can do absolutely any- thing he likes on the green— bar, naturally, move his ball nearer the hole. He can plek up his ball and clean it; he can tread down pitch marks; he can putt with the flagstick in or out or with someone holding it; and, for all I care, he can produce a small roller and roll a path between bla ball and the tinie. And, when he has done that, he has still got to stand over the wretched thing and bit it into the hole.
At the moment, believe it or not, you may not "text tha mur-
the green or .. face of roughen or scrape the surface," In heaven's name why not? Penalty, loss of hole.
One Addition
I wonder how many holes could be claimed and legitimate- ly won on that round alone
this week-end? Tens of thou- sands I dare say, And pretty scenes there would be in the clubhouse afterwards!
Nevertheless, there is one addition for which at all costa 1. should make room on my sheet of foolscap,
Only the oiler day in Mexico who plays for
It has become, of necessity, compete for (a) the farry large sums of money all over Varon Trophy, (by the Jules the world, got himself penallied common, practice in siroke plas the two strokes through amorance competitions to send the players of a rule which I will wager not out in threes, and in the Canada 9. What are the surnamNES of one club golfer in a hundred | Cup in fours--which to my mind
tennis could accurately quote.
lo, as a 'sportscle, the absolute player(s) Dariend... In doubt whether his first bottom. This involves Incessant (b) Dinny... (c) Frank ball was an ground under re-marking, and even ro-marking pair, he holed out with this and of balls and teade to that curse
thene
10. Gelo Tunney lost only one with a provisional ball, intend of modern golf, the five-hour
content during n unroer Ig to seek a ruling at the end, round.
lastest "eleven years, beat hien?
(Answero Du Pago 33)
Who but failed to declare to the I see no way round it axcept, Minarker which ' tall he would ball in the foolscap det and elect to count provided the rules the full golɛ-lawyer's set, to
a move on.
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