THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1935.
ALL BLACKS TOURING SIDE ARRIVE
COMMENCE TOUR ON SATURDAY WEEK WITH MATCH AT DEVON PORT
TWO COUNTIES COMBINING AGAINST
THE NEW ZEALANDERS. --
(By T. H. EVANS BAILLIE.)
Under normal conditions the Rugby season steals upon us gradually. A preliminary loosening up of practice games in North and East, a series of not very exacting inter-club matches in the West and Midlands; next univer-
Boris Karloff in "The Bride of Frankenstein" with Valerio Hobson and sity match play in October, and the inter-county matches
Colln Clive, coming on Thursday to the King's Theatre.
looming ahead in the middle of that month, with Decem- ber's opening to mark the beginning of international trial And thus to the inter-country series starting in games. mid-January.
LOCAL SWIMMING
INTERPORT AGAINST
SHANGHAI
220 YARDS TRIAL
In connection with the forthcoming swimining Interpart against Shang hai, Hongkong held another trial in the V. R. G. bath yesterday afternoon, when the 220 Yards Free Style was contested between L. Roza Pereira and A. A. Rozn.
Raza Pereira completed the course In 2 minutes 33 2/5 seconds, while Roza's time was 2 minutes 37 seconds, Further trials will be held this afternoon..
The following in the complete pro- gramme for the Interport contest?
12.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,
100 Yards Free Style-Bags over
220 Yunds Free Style-Interport. 59 Yarda Free Style Handienp— Ladies,
100 Yards Free Style--Junior, Championship of the V. R. C.
50 Yards Free Style Handien;-; "C" Class Members' Ággregate.
100 Yards Breast Stroke-Inter. part.
50 Yards Free Style Handicap Boys under 12.
5 Yards Medley Relay Handicap Members
Relay-Interport, (4 men, 50 yards
euch).
Water Pola-Shanghai v. Rest of! Hongkong.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20.
50- Yarda Bark Strake Handicap-- Boys under 12,
THE ST. LEGER
Bahram Now 2 To 1 Odds On
DOUBTFUL POLICY
of being able to shove 115 stone of humanity off the ball?
These New Zealand forwards are all fust, as well as being strong and heavy, so that complicated plans for quick breaking with per- functory efforts to secure the ball in the serum would soon be coun- tered. The one factor in favour of home packs is that combined forward play in the tight is, at its best, probably more highly dove- loped here than in New Zealand. There are, though it is doo rarely recognised, means by which a well- drilled pack can outinanoeuvre the opposing right while the ball is in the serum. "Half, or feint whiöels," chocked and suddenly swung on
the opposite side of the curve are just one form of play which can be brought off by the correct pres» sure of arms on neighbours' ribs, and harmonious by controlled
skilfully guided thrust, transference of wolght and by
Nor should innate national ta lents for footwork in loose ruañes
be overlooked.
To effect anything like this, it is true, tonnage approximating to No such easy ond almost leisurely
that of the New Zealanders is a working up to games of importance
There are features about the fix-first requisite and it is here that is permitted to us in 1936-36 for
lint for this season's tour] Ireland, if they can keep intact the tour of the Now Zealanders,ture
unsatisfactory. The the 1934-6 pack which helped them an event which we hope will be which recurrent at least every two lustrn, blending of two counties, for into the championship, have an out- brings the West, Country into seri-stance, for the purpose of a single standing chance. The fallowing a the latest callous action on September 14, when match is hound to some extent to over for the St. Leger;
London, Sept. 9.
Bahram 1 to 2, Ink and wanted. Fairbairn 10 to 1, 6: 100 to 9 t. Plassy 13 to 1, 1 and a. Solar Ray 18 to 1, t. and o. Buckleigh, 26 to 1 n; 28 to 1. Hairan 33 to 1 o. Flash Bye 40 to 1 o; 50 to 11. Pry Second 100 to 1 o.
Field Trial 10 to 1, t and D.
Reuter,
100 Yunds Free Style-Jaterport. 440 Yards Free Style Junior Champ.onship of the V. R. C
100 Yards Breast Stroke Handicap
Members,
880 Yards Free Style--Interport. 75 Yards Free Style Handicap Ladies.
Diving-Interport.
60 Yards Free Style Handicap- "B Class Members' Aggregate.
Medley Relay-Interport, (3 men, 50 Yards each).,
Water Polo-Hongkong v. Rest of Hongkang
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21.
Devon and Cornwall combine to oppose them at Devenport, and all the international teams into the feld between November 23, when Scotland are met, and January 4, the dato of the match against England at Twickenham.
are
NEW ZEALAND LIMITATIONS play into the hands of the New side's Zealanders. The touring
Devon and Cornwall, both humb- combination is almost bound to im-ly placed in last season's cham- prove at the expense of a series of pionship and with only one "active two-county sides who lavo most of service" Saturday in which to pre- the disadvantages of a scratch side. pare their team, will merit high It has long been maintained by a
praise if they can extend the All In view of the large number of large section of Rugby players and Blacks before the latter have quite players and clubs whose adherence followers that only the very heat got their land-legs. to the Rugby code is of recent date, club sides, habituated to each It is an well to recapitulate briefly other's methods and automatically the history of New Zealand Rugby prepared for sudden changes of in its relations with this country. policy, are likely to overcome Visiting teams from the Mother- strong touring combination. land to New Zealand had fared well There are, however, many sound when David Galingher and his men reasons for the avoidance of invi- arrived in 1905, and smashed 4dious selections for the honour of supposedly strong Devon County
place in the programme, and the
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Possession of the ball, however, does not infallibly connoto a pile of scores to the possessore, and there should be, in, each team which takes the field against Now | Zonland, some definito scheme of combination in defence which avill have for its object the rapid turn- ing of defence into attack. Back-
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side--they had done well in the first present need is for all con- ing up in such a way as to compel Effervescing-Cooling - Refreshing championship-by half a hundred cerned to tackle the All Blacks the tackled man to play the vall points, going on from that triumph along the lincs most likely in a way disadvantageous to his to win thirty-two matches out of to succeed in the circumstances side, for instance, can only be thirty-three-the other lost to ordained. For some,
as effectively brought off if each man Wales by the mast-discussed try in the homogeneous clubs grouped is certain of the movements which 50 Yards Hurdle Race Handicap-the history of Rugby-and score round Coventry and Leicester, he can rely on his next man to Members.
868 poluts to 47, (Those figures which assure, some sort of team carry out. should take some beating.)
(understanding, and those similarly situated in Wales, it will be far easier than for others.
50 Yards Free Style-Interport. ', Exhibition Diving-Shanghai and Hongkong tenis.
100 Yards Free Style Handicap Members.
100 Ladies,
port.
Ten years later most of that All Blacks team and their successors
Should New Zealand be beaten for possession there will be the opportunity to play on those points 440 Yards Free Style-Interport.
in skill and fitness were engaged in Before attempting to reckon the which, if not actually weak, are Championship of the V. R. C.
220 Yards Free Style Junior für stemmer strife, but their re-strongest chances of defent for the less strong than others. G. Gil- gimental and, after the Armistice, New Zealanders, it is as well to bert, the full back, has not yet Yards Free Style Bunticap-collected sides still gave evidence consider the reputed distribution shown form that warrants a com- of the high standard of New Zen-for the strength and weakness of parison with the G. Nepla of 1924, 100 Yards Back Stroke-Inter-land Rugby. The 1924-25 side theso 1935 All Blacks. Well in- whose rush-stopping often saved 75 Yards Medley Relay-Boys than their predecesora, achieved
though winning by smaller margins formed opinion in New Zealand New Zealand, the halves are a link and nowhere in there a higher which might break under pressure, dards Back Stroke-Members, wonderful unbeaten record with 721 standard of general information and the defence on the wings may Hung-points scored, against 112, in thirty and knowledge of the game's finer i be more vulnerable than it was
matches, all won.
points is practically unanimous when in the hands of A. H. Hart as to the strength and pace of the and K. S. Svenson. forwards. the scoring power of The tourists arrived in England the wings and the possibility of on Monday week., having at least one five-eights who
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Sadler, and to the comparatively
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A PUSH PROBLEM
And here, it seems to me, we have the key to the matter. „New Zealand can put in the field a prek | averaging 14 st. 5 lb. and 6 ft. They have cut out "winging" spect- alists as such (though they form down in specialised positions), and hard work in the tight and loose has been the sovereign re- commendation for a place in the side. Which team in the fourt countries will have the best chance
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