TACKLE WHICH SHOULD BE ELIMINATED FROM RUGBY
By E. G. BLACKWELL
An
It was interesting to rend the other day that the Manchester Y.M.C.A. Rugby Union club has installed a tackling apparacin, excellent idea. It has seemed to me for 'some years that real honest-to- goodness tackling has become a thing of the past,
"Go low" was always. the sound slogun for effective--and one might almost say spectacular tackling. It is ill more ahserved in the Rugby Union than the Lengue code, and the latter has certainly lost a great deal in consequence.
demning it. It general.
has become too
THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH ' THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1937.
FINAL ACCEPTORS FOR BIGRACE
Cesarewitch Odds Announced-
Loridon, Oct. 20. The Anal acceptors for the Cesaro- witch are us follows with their Jockeys:
Buckleligh (Carslake), Dytchley In Rugby League foolball the ten-
(Pat Benuly), Near Relation (Perry- dency of recent years has been to
a new form of The smother Lockle brought in to inan), Nightcap 111 (Marshall), Solar develop and perfec-tackle it is defent the Australians lias been Beur (Jones). Organent (Villacourt), Lackio. The
(Beary). Punch (Sant called when you wish to be polite, copied by clubs, and not a single Epigram
Sir Calidore
(Navett), When you are less charitably dis-side can be said to have escaped its Wragt),
evil influence.
Marant (Weston), Miss Windsor nosed you call it a fistic tackle or a
(Brethes); rough-house maul.
To my mind, there is not the (D. Smith), Harewood
(CIM Richards), Fet African Lily lightest doubt that the smother tactichardson), Idaho (Lynch), Arch- kle is largely responsible for most of
duke 1 (Pratt), Corred (E. Fox), the "rough play" In the Rugby Prudent Act (Chelstle), Muscovado League.
(Weils).
nud Tapageur (Lucey), Repondant (Gilbert),
This, I am afraid, in another made in-Australia Innovation that has not improved the general character of the game. The Australians are not responsible, but the smother tackle пол been perfected to counteract their style of play.
backing-up
RUFFLED TEMPERS
In the old-fashioned type of tackle the two players went down together By intensive
the and there was no loss of temper. In Colonial teams destroyed the effecll-foet, they seemed rather to enjoy it, veness of the low tncide. "Get your but nowadays a pretty hefty tackle nan and others can look after the invariably produces ruffled tempers, ball," it used to be urgod.
There is only one way to deal with the recall Jimmy Sharrock, this, it should be made a penal of former Wigan full-back, who went
fence for a player to tackle an op- to Australia with the Northern Unionponent above shoulder high,
With "such a rule
sure feam of 1914, declaring that he never
26 "dummy."
maiches would be much more clean- in at his career took
ly contested and the work of trainers but always got his man.
and club doptors made much less arduous, very
STILL THE BEST ADVICE He impressed that person Arongly upon Sullivan when as a
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The following, have accepted but no jockoys have yet been found for them:
Weather Blackfd,
Carlon, Sportam III, Vane, Faites Vos Jeux, Castinelle, Earth Stopper, Tote In- Zeros, vestar, Titlark, Beleofured, Empire San. Grecko, Thirt! Hazard, Fox Star md Fair Lead-Reuter.
LATEST CALL OVER
London, Oct, 20..
The following is the latest call-
As a start, I hope these respons-over at the Victoria Club for the
more youth the present Wigan cap-ble for team and tactica in the forth- Cesarewitch: fajn came from Cardiff.
It is still the soundest advice for a full-back, for if the man running with the ball is checked the defence has a second or third chance.
The player tackled must part with the ball, and even if he can make dellberale pass, there is the possi- bility that his colleague who is in apport
knock-on, muy another defender may be up to over- haul him.
or
that
The Australians perfected in truly amazing siyle the ability to get in à as when tackled, and there were fimos when our home players were made to appear slow and cumber- some In comparison,
coming Test matches will insist on our players dispensing with this smother fuckle. In order that the public shall see some bright, enter- taining football.
Test matches produced the smother tackle. Let International rivalry lead the way towards its all- mination.
LOCAL CYCLING
Plan To Try Out Route The fumother-tackle came into be- From Canton To Swatow
ing to counteract this. Who was responsible for introducing it I can- not say.
suppose It was one of those things which grew. Bomething had to be done to check the Australians, and the only way to do it was to tac- klo the man in auch a way that he could not park with the ball.
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In other words, man and ball had be "anothered. Therefore, in-
Aead of tackling low, or at any rate no higher than the hips, our players went for man and ball, and that in- variably meant a head-high tackle.
An almost inevitable outcome was the reckless and Indiscriminate Onging about of the arms, and even a clenched fists. Worst of all, re- forces and touch Judgen have come fo take no serious notice of such things, but accept them as part and parcel of the game.
It wil be better for the game if this type of tackle is prohibited, No use of passing pious resolutions con-
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The Hongkong Cycling Club's oc- vities of late have been confined to club runs at week-ends, training Purposes on the island. A number of unpared rond time trials been held which, however, failed to produce any record figures. The following times were achieved during the past month:
have have
September 23,5 miles, W, H. Peck- ham. 14.20 mins.
10/1 Epigram . and o 108/9 Near Relation 1. and o.
1/1 Solar Bear 1, and o. 100/6 Harewood £ and v. 11/1 Maranta t. and o. 11/1 Buckleigh L and o. 11/1 Punch 1. and o. 18/1 Ms Windsor t, and o. -20/1 Nightcap III . 22/1 t.
21/1 Fel £ and o. 28/1 Tab
Idaho o. 30/1 t.
38/1 Muscovado 1. and 47. 13/1 Castanelle s. 40/1
35/1 Organeau, and o.. 35/1 Weather Vane and .
35/1 Dytchley t, and e. 40/1 African Lily 1, and o. 10/1 Fultes Vos Jeux t. and o. 69/1 Fox Star . and o. 60/1 Repondant i, and o. 50/1 'Sir Calidore and o. 65/1 Grecko 1. and o.
6/1 Beleagured & and o. 90/1 Earth Stopper t. and o. 66/1 Prudent Ad 1. and o. 04/1 Zeros m. 80/1 t. 80/1 Archduke II
and o.
Reuter.
WEEKLY HOCKEY COMMENTS
Two County Rugby Matches
London, Oct. 20, Two Rugby Union county matches werò decided to-day. Eastern Counties beating Kent at, Ilford by 13 points to three and Surrey defeating Sussex-at Thames Ditton by 25-8.
St.
The match between Bart's Hospital and Cambridge University was postponed.- Reuter,
Baer-Braddock
Fight Is Postponed
Jimmy's Hand Injured
New York, Oct. 90. The fight arranged between Max Baer and Jimmy Braddock, both for- mer heavyweight boxing champions of the world, hus been postponed in- definitely owing to an injury in Braddock's hand.
Mike Jacobs, the famous promo- ter, will announce the date and place of the fight in a few weeks.
The Baer-Braddock fight is part of an eliminating contest to find un opponent for Joe Leuls, the present champion-Reuter,
K.C.C. Tennis Guest Wins Singles Handicap
BODIKER LOSES
September 30, 5 miles, S. C. Wong riders mentioned when not partic- TWO MATCHES, 14.38 mins; Yuk Liang, 15.35 mins. | pailag in an attempt.
Further progress has been made in the Kowloon C.C. tennis champlon-
October, 10 miles, 5. C. Wong Further trials are scheduled and 31.18 mins; R. Alves, 31.53 mins.
include distance up to 30 miles October 14, 10 miles, W. H. Feck-Particulars as to club runs and even- ham, 20.53 mins; S. C. Wong 30.34 ing spins may be obtained from the ships.
Hon, Secretary, Mr. W. H. Peckham
ming.
A. E. P. Guest has won the Hundi- On each Occasion Peelthum and R.AS.C., Wellington Barracks. Ir cap Singles by defeating G. Bodiker Wong showed improvement on the spite of the unsettled conditions in in the final. Playing from owe 30/1, previous performances, whilst
His oppon- the neighbouring Chinese territory, twe Guest won by 7-0, 6-2.
first allempts made by Alves and Yuk or three members of the Club are in-ent was owe 30/3.
Liang are very creditable. Omicials tending to carry out a tour in the Bodiker was also. beatch.in.the. taking part in checking the above near future with the object of trying semi-finals of the Singles Champion- rides included Messrs. R. A. G, Kentes out the route between Canton and ship, losing to E. C. Fincher by three (timekeeper), F. L. Bradley, A. Bot- Swatow in preparation for future sets to one. Fincher now meels
Quest in the final
ler and J. L. Smith, in addition to the long distance records.
BY "THE
PILGRIM"
SURPRISE St. Andrew's MATCH
MOVE BY Ladies Set
To Work
K. I. T. C.
Two Canton Men
Turn OutTM.
Should Do Botter
This Season
Realising the fact that they
did not do too well last season,
DECIDED
AT LAST
Police Overcome Club de Recreio
The third meeting between
the St. Androw's Ladies have Club de Recreio and the Hong- set seriously to work and are kong Police in the Inter-Section out to give a better account of Tournament - the first two themselves this winter. No matches having been drawn- fewer than 26 players were out was played on the Police Train- at practico last week and,
ing School ground last evening, judging from the talent on the result being a splendid win view, I should imagine the for the keepers of the law by the Saints' 1st XI will be making convincing margin of four clear a bold bid for at least the run- ners-up position in the Caer Clark competition.
In their Inter-Section Tour! nament match against the Radio Sports Club last week, the Kowloon Indian Tennis Club fielded two players from Canton who were allegedly non-residents of the Colony. This was a surprising move.on the part of the Kowloon In- dians and one which, it seems to me, should not be en-has thrown in its
lot with the notable absentees. The Police made Saints; couraged.
and most of the schoolgirl no changes in the team. members who are all day-secheinrs
goals.
It was hard luck on the Recreio
ICSCFVER: that they had to held six The Diocesan Girls' School, which Basto, has withdrawn from the Brawn Cup, Ozorio and L. G. Gosano were the Beltran, Alves, Marques,
schoolgirl membera
Though the Police went all out for
The Radio team was beaten and will form the Saints 2nd XI. playing a win from the start, the first half took defeat in a very sporting way in St. Andrew's colours, Though the Radio men had every
produced no goals in spite of the The
artnet that they dominated most of the reason to protest, they did not do so. Misses D. Hall, M. Lawson, V. play. On changing over, the Police
The Inter-Section Committee, how Churn,
M. Chura, E. Churn, C. ever, took the malter up but Kotewall, E. Chang, S. Roberts, J.
Other
allowed it to silde at the request of all and B. Greeves. the itadio Sports Club, whose mem-new members are D. Draw, S.
bers telt positive that an incident Arne I. Arnold and S. Sanh.
su early in the season would not be Arnold, at all nice.
tw
I Was very impressed by the
display given by Miss E. Chang at Had the Committee decided not to left back; she will make am able leave the matter alone, a replay be substitute for Miss Ruth Stevenson, tween the K.I.T.C. and the Radio who will be leaving for Home short- Sparts Club would have been niceesty. With Miss G. White as her sary. Nevertheless, Bie Kowloon
partner, the pair ought to form a Indians would be well advised to solid liric of defence.
Another bide by the rules and play the game player to attract the eye was Miss
D. Drew at outside left; she is
In future.
а
I have since heard that the Com-recruit who possesses speed and mitee has severely reprimanded the seems to know quite a bit about the KIT.C, and has also warned the game. She would be much better that if those players in question are if she could manipulate the hat! their team in future, more to her left instead of Just con-
centrating play to her right only.
GOOD TEAM LIKELY With the inclusion of these two
inciled in
will be trouble. tudio Sports Club has been The
praised for the manner in which the players accepted defent. My con players, the Saints will certainly be gratulations to them for their nea team to be reckoned with. The Misses F. Wong, Read, P. Gattins and Roza were also seen in action,
sporismanship.
side
Kowloon Indians have 21 which is good enough even without and the help of their players from Can-and if they intend forming the niinck ugain this year, they will undoubted- ly need speeding up. There is still
tou.
FOOTBALL TEAM Changes In Saints' Line-Up
to
V. Costa
J. Gonsalves
hero of Recreio's defence.
that bit of "ginger lacking in their were still pressing and went ahead play which keeps them from scoring, through Howlett who, following a Miss P. Gittins, the Captain, is still fine movement between the three in- a good leader and would do well to side forwards, shot the ball in bes remain in tal position. I can't tween Mendonca's legs. Imagine any one else relieving her
Inspired by this lead, the Police- of this bort
berth, Miss J.
Humphreys attack proved too much for the Rece. was sound at right half, Miss d.who cracked up badly. Wall look Wong
the Interport pivot, gave possession of the ball after a pretty Injuries
and. C.glimpses of her true form, Mrs. bout of dribbling past M. A. Oliveira Marques have necessitated changes Host, who is reported to be in batter and C. A. Marques found the net. In St. Joseph's line-up in their First health this season, was very reliable, The recs rallied in the face of this Division soccer matches against in goal. The probable 1st XI line-
reverse, but were unsuccessful. Not Kowloon on Saturday. The follow-up will be:
afterwards, lowlett and Wall ing will turn out:
Mr. Rose; Miss G. White and added further goals for the Pollee. 1. Marques; J. Howen, J. Alves; N. Miss R. Cliang; Miss Humphreys, With the exception of a few break- Delvado, A. J, Hussain, W. Maher; T. Miss J. Wong, Miss S. West; Miss Faways by the Portuguese forwards, Castilho, A. Ward, D. Leonard, J.Wong (Vice-Captain), Miss Read, the keepers of the law. were not Goines and A. Alves.
troubled and had the game well in
hand.
HOW THEY PLAYED Teja Singh, Howlett, Parker and Wall formed a perfect combination, first-named especially keeping the crowd cheering with his splendid dashes down the right wing. Brown, Gough and Willis were a hard-work- ing trio with Brown outstanding. Hayward was the best back. Though they were well beaten in the second half of the game, the Recs. gave a collant display. Pinnn. J. M. Oliveira and Guterres gave of their best in a weak attack. J. Gonsalves as pivot proved a tower of strength,
(Continued on Page 9.)
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HOCKEY UMPIRING
All Civilians interested in hockey and wishing to quality for their Umpires certificates are reminded that lectures on umpiring' will be given by Capt. G. W. F. Kima at the Area Educational Centre, block;
und B, overy Wednesday. Capt.
is so well-known in locall Kimin is hockey circles that it is unnecessary for me to mention anything regard- ing his knowledge of the game, would advise all elyllians who are anxious to learn more about hockey to make every effort to attend these lectures
na Capt. Kimm will be leaving for Home at the end
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