1937-11-08 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIK, NOVEMBER 8

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WELSH RUGBY CLUBS' BIG PROBLEM

DEARTH OF YOUNG SATURDAY'S FOOTBALL RESULTS

RECRUITS

SWANSEA EXPERIMENT BEARING FRUIT

LAST

(By ROWE HARDING)

London, October 7. week I outlined the difficulties which have beset Welsh first-class Rugby since the war, the breaking down of the pre-war tradition, and the difficulty of establishing a new one because of the attitude of independence adopted by second- class clubs towards their first-class neighbours, which has checked the flow of promising young- sters to the nurseries of the first-class teams.

The position has become so acute that Newport and Cardin alone of the Welsh first-class clubs now run a second team, and even they find it necessary to disguise the true character of their reserve teams by rechristening them "Newport United” and “Car- diff Athletic" respectively.

KOWLOON

AND GOAL-SCORERS

KOWLOON CHINESE

FIRST DIVISION.

RASTERN Les Tak Koc SOUTH CHINA "B"

Chan Tak Fai (2), Lau

“Chong

CLUB

Sang (2), Yeung

Tix Yung Fot, Tao Sing Ho, Tam Fowler (5), Wilson (2),

Koon-lam.

SOUTH CHEN A “A”

Cheuk Shek- ST. JOSEPH'S

Gomes, Gastelhe

CLUB

KWONG WAH

(2)

SEAFORTHS

Thompson, Dunnuckis.

POLICE

Howlett, Morrison.

SECOND DIVISION

Chin Chi Fun (2), Las Wing Kui. ENGINEERS (3)

Beale, Pelham STH EDERA Bancroft ( MIDDLESEX

Isard (4), Marable (3).

The Swansea reserve team was disbanded this season, osten- sibly for financial reasons, but really because the side had not jus- tified its existence by supplying a reasonable proportion of good 20 BTL. RA players to the first fifteen. It failed to do so because it could not attract raw material of the necessary quality from the surrounding second-class clubs.

The village players nowadays,

will not leave their village teams

unless they can step straight in KOWLOON GOLF

to a first-class side, and few of

them have enough experience or CLUB ANNUAL

knowledge to justify the

-

step

So it is that the general standard CHAMPIONSHIP

of first-class play has detersirat-

ed.

SCHOOLS TO THE RESCUE

It would be a good deal lower than it is were it not for the for-. tunate circumstance that about 12 years ago some genius

Qualifying Scores And Draw

The Qualifying Round, of the conceived Kowloon Golf Club's annual Cham- the idea of forming a union of the pionship, was held yesterday, and Rugby-playing secondary schools, the scores of those qualifying for which stimulated interest in the the competition proper, with their game in those schools and improved scores are as follows:— the standard of secondary schools Rugby immeasurably in a very few years.

A glance at the list of secondary schoolboys who have played for Wales in the last ten years will quickly prove how much Welsh club and international } Rugby owe to the Secondary Schools Union. But the products of this ad- mirable system cannot wholly satisfy the demand for players for the first- class teams.

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Only a certain proportion of them have the necessary qualities of physique and speed to stand the buffetings of Welsh first-class Rug- by. How, then, is the demand to be satisfied?,

SELF ORGANISATION

A. J. Dennis (84) v. R. K Collings (78).

A. W. da Rozz (88) v. W. C. Simpson (88)..

F. EA. Remedios (75) ▼. S. Jex (90).

T. Paton (76) 7. F. C. Barry (84).

A. A Lopes (84) v. E. 0. Murphy (86).

C. G. Anderson: (88) -v. W. Taylor (76).

WA. Stewart (81) ▼ J. D. Thomson (79);

W. M. Groves (93) v. E. D. da Roza (83).

The First Round will be played

The answer is that the first-class next Sunday, November 14, 1937.,

sides must themselves

organisation which will

în place of the

second-class gby

Coleman, UNIVERSITY

POLICE

Tse Stu-yu (2), Mak Yu-yat. 7 EASTERN

Lee Bing-hon. SEAFORTHS Samson (2).- KOWLOON

CHINESE ENGINEERS Li Wai-lam

THIRD DIVISION (KOWLOON)

24TH BTL. RA Findlay (2), Sumners. AIR FORCE

I'm Song Hong, Lien Hong Sang Elton (2), Lilly.

(2). KUMAON RIFLES

SEAFORTHS

P. S. A

C. Santos (2), H. Santos,

(2). SIGNALS

Oven, McDonald, Lindsay - (2), Parker.

Charmes (own goal),

POLICY

ORDNANCE

THIRD DIVISION (HONG KONG)

MEDICALS

Munton (2).

POWHATTAN

Liun Yak-Tim, Wo Ah-choy,

AT 6.30

Howells (4). SERVICE CORPS.

STANLEY Lacey, Freer.

EVERY EVENING

BOOTES OH Matured is carried Edo the

was that founded this

Theary. Whosoever

had

was a man of no mean judgment, for in

BOCTES as the-gin of his

hom of maturity that

B00%ies as the one FINE-

Gaan

CAPTAIN'S CUP

AT FANLING

Two Players Qualify

Returning a card of 84-11-73;

only

We

W. Sharp qualified

tam's Cup

Old Course

fast

Other

SCOT

the Car

over the

last Sunday,

BOOTH'S

THE ONE Matured GIN

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