1937-11-01 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 1, 1937

HARLEQUINS MAY LEAD REVIVAL IN SCRUMMAGING

VALUE OF THE WHEEL

NEW ZEALANDERS PROTEST

(By HOWARD MARSHALL)

League Tables To Date

Kowloon Middlesex

FIRST DIVISION:

Goals.

P. W. D. LF.A. Pts.

6 4 1 1 12 6 9 64 1 1 15 13 9 South China B‍440 011-48 Seaforths 6 4 0 2 15 11 8 South China. “A” 5 2 ∙1 2 13 9 5 Bastern

5 2 1 2016 12 5

Police

Indian summer persists, Rugby footballers, St. Joseph's.

Club

like brave Falstaff, will be larding the lean K. Chinese

with a vengeance this afternoon. The heat is

no great matter. Players can afford to sweat away some of their too solid flesh. It is the hardness of the ground which perturbs us, and already this week I have seen an England selector gazing in agonised apprehension at potential England repre- sentatives as they bounced on the unkind turf.

Totals

Middlesex

3 2 8 1 13 7 4

5 10 4 15-14 2

4 0 0 4 13 19

6 0 0 6 533

0

.50 234 23 128 128:50

SECOND DIVISION

5th A.A. Bde.

RA South China Kwong Wah. Royal En

gineers (E.) Seaforths

Goals.

P. W. D. L. F.A. Pts 5 5 0 0 19 4 10

5′′ 0

6 4

0 19 9 10 217 2 8

5 2 2 1-18 8 6

6 2 1 5 I 2 32 8 20

3 14 13

5

2 7.9 4

4

I CANNOT REFRAIN FROM EMPHASISING ONCE MORE THE FACT THAT THE HARLEQUINS SCORED THEIR FIRST Club

3 11 18 TRY AGAINST THE PARK BY WHEELING THE SCRUMMAGE Chinese Police

4 11 25 4 Kowloon 5 1 1 3 7 11 3 SOME 40 YARDS OUT. I HAVE PERHAPS ALREADY ES-

Engineers (C) TABLISHED MYSELF AS THE CLUB BORE BY THIS INSIS-Eastern TENCE ON THE VALUE OF THE WHEEL, BUT IT IS PART OF A CRITIC'S DUTY TO PERSEVERE, EVEN AT THE RISK OF MONOTONOUS REPETITION, A CONTINUITY OF TRADITION.

Totals

10

3 7 15 2 004 2 13 0

.56 25 6 25 132 132.55

THIRD DIVISION (HONG KONG)

So I say again that this season we must continue to hammer

Engineers away at the true principles of scrummaging. I was reminded of

R. A. M. G. this at Cranleigh School, where I watched a game this week in the Police evening sunlight between the Old Cranleighans and an International 5th A.A. Bde. XV.

It was a rousing game, and the schoolboy cheering which rose as the Old Cranleighans struck va→ liant blows at their redoubtable] opponents warmed the cockles of at least one aged spectator's heart. We saw much lively football and some fine individual endeavour. R. B. Bruce-Lock- hart, unless I am much mistaken, tremendous

form.

They have

is going to set the Cambridge swept the All Blacks off the field back division alight this winter, in the tour which has just con- and W. B. Young bids fair to be cluded. And, as we know well one of the best forwards in the enough, they scrummage mightily. four countries.

2

NEW ZEALAND REPLIES Even so the game was patchy.

New Zealand correspondents, in- The wing three quarters waited patiently for chances which never cidentally, have taken me to task came to them. Twice this season for quoting a letter from New Zea I have watched E. J. Unwin,

land in which the All Blacks gallant runner if ever there was methods of preparation for inter- one, and not once has he been national matches were criticised. I given the ghost of a scoring oppor- must remember, say these corres- tunity. I doubt, in fact, whether pondents, that players in New in those two games he handled the Zealand have to travel great dis- balt more than three times in all, tances, and that their chances of are few. It and something is seriously wrong playing together when such a player is starved would, they add, have been a poor compliment to South Africa if the All Blacks had not gone into their training camps for a week before At Cranleigh the fundamental the representative games,

and trouble was indifferent scrum-made special preparations. maging. The old, old story, in

FUNDAMENTAL TROUBLE.

short no binding, no concerted On the whole, I am unrepentant shoving, slow and clumsy heeling. I admit that there are unusual dif- The familiar traditional war-ery ficulties in New Zealand but my of th mack leader, "low and point is that we are in danger of tight, must be heard in the land taking our international football again.

altogether too seriously.

R.A

RA O C ̈. R. AS. C. Stanley Powhatten

Goals.

P. W.D. L. RA. Pts. 440022-38)

5 3 1 1 15 7 7

3 0 0 15

6

5 2 1 2 166 5 2 1 211 14 5 6 2 1 3 10 14 5 4022 8.13 2 0 0 6 5 420

Totals 38 16 6 16 102 102 33:

THIRD DIVISION (KOWLOON)

Goals: P. W.D. LA Pts Portuguese SA 5 4 10 277 9 Seaforths 6 3 12:16 16 7 20th Bty. RA. 6.2 3. 110-107. Signals

6 2 2 2 12 14 6 24th Bty. RA. 5. 2 1 2 10 10 5 6 2 1 3 17 18 5 Kumaons RAF. 6 2 1 3 9:19 5 University

05 9:16 2

Totals

ISPRINGBOK

STAR TO JOIN GUY'S

L. BABROW DUE

HERE IN NOVEMBER

L. sta

(By HALF-BACK)

London, September 30. Babrow, South Africa's centre-threequarter, and one of the best players that the Union has ever produced, willl, I hear, be seen in London Rugby before Christmas. He is joining Guy's Hospital in November.

Babrow is at present in Aus- tralia with the Springboks tour- ing side, who have won 24 of the 26 matches played largely due, according to reports, to the su- perlative form of Babrow in the centre.

Guy's, after several lean seasons, seem to be coming in for a turn of fortune. Not only is Babrow join-

ing the Hospital, but he is bring- ing with him P. J. de Wet, who is his partner in the centre for Cape Town. De Wet and Babrow should make all the difference to Guy's in their efforts to wrest the Hospitals Cup from St. Mary's.

GOOD FULL-BACK

South Africans, of course, have always been fond of Guy's and nearly all medical students from the Union go there. At the mo“ ment Guy's have A Forbes and C. F Ziervogel, forwards, J., Van A Steytler, stand-off, and C Fala- mandres, full-back, all from South Africa in their team Halaman~ dres would. know, prefer to play at stand-off, but he is too good a full-back to be moved.

The South African contingent at Guy's will be further increased next week by the arrival of L. H Fuller, another forward, who has played for Cape Town and of whom .46 18 10 18 110 11046 big things are expected.

SATURDAY'S FOOTBALL RESULTS

AND GOAL-SCORERS

KOWLOON SOUTH CHINA “P”

FIRST DIVISION

Lau Chong-Ban 2, Umm Tak p Lee Shel-yar EASTERN

Haat Ching-to & Au-Lingok SEAFORTHS

McGuigan, Dunnichie 8, Fraser.

KOWLOON

*- . Hussain," CHINESE ENGINEERS

MIDDLESEX

ST. JOSEPH

Costa 2.

CLUB

Wilson, Fowler : 2.

KOWLOON CHINESE

Make Yu

SECOND

DIVISION

5TH EDER.A.

Chaplain, Smith 3, Bancroft KWONG WAH

de Rocha

MIDDLESEX

Izzard S, Marabel

POLICE (C)

Kong Hing, Wong Ching-yau. SEAFORTHS

Samson Smith.

CLUB

empater, Ste

Now

THIRD DIVISION (HONG KONG)––

POLICE POWHALTEN-

*5TH BDERA SERVICE CORPS

Hodgkinson, Hughes and Bas- borough,

Good

means enjoy- This is not true of New Zealand able

football. Nothing is more only. It is a criticism applicable Postponed tantalising

intelligent play-to every country. In my opinio than the purposeless welter of and I am prepared for the inevit 24TH BTY. RA. opportunism is the able brick bats, it would be an ex-Jones, Farmer. ding factor Next summer,cellent thing for the game if inter- SEAFORTHS

a British will be national matches were dropped al in South Afri and we together for a period of years.

know the arguments against such a wild suggestion. but they leave me quite unmoved.

shall need real forwards there we are to escap from hideous slaughter, The Springboks are in

THIRD DIVISION (KOWLOON)

Bertrum, Ferguson 3. 20TH ETY R.A.

McAndrew. 2. Kennedy (cwn goal)*** SIGNALS

Bromley 3, "draons.

UNIVERSITY

Lee Phin-Tuen, PORTUGUESE SA.

Santos 2, Campos, Gaan.

AIR FORCE

Elton, Smith 2

KUMAONS

Narain Singk, Fariap Singh 2,