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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 6, 1937.

READERS

DISCUSS

WHO IS REALLY TO BLAME THE PLAYER OR REFEREE?

WHEN GOOD WORK IS

PENALISED

(By HOWARD MARSHALL)

Page

RUGBY RUGBY LAWS

YESTERDAY'S JUNIOR FOOTBALL

COLONY LADIES LAWN TENNIS SINGLES TITLE

Miss Rose Perry And Miss M. Griffiths Reach Final

In the Semi-Finals of the Colony Women's Lawn Tennis champion-

The match between Miss Perry

Kwong Wah defeated the Chin-ships, held at the United Services

Recreation Club vestertiny, ese Engineers by 9 clear goals at Causeway Bay yesterday, Rocha Perry beat Mrs. A. Oliver 7-5, 6-3 (3), Chan Chi-fun (21 Lan Wing- and Miss M. Griffiths beat Mrs.

C. C. Chiu 6-3, 6-3. kui (2) and Leung Bing-kam and London, November 3.

Wong King-cheung were the goal scorers FI may judge from my correspondence, the

1 Rugby laws are rapidly superseding crossword The Ordnance created a surprise and Mrs. Oliver was very fast, the drives proving her best weapon of puzzles as intellectual exercises. Letters keep in the Third Division, when, with latter's heavily sliced fore-hand rolling in about them, and I begin to believe that followers of the game are as analytically minded as master chessplayers.

Oddly enough, the letters have a way of cancelling one another out. Here, for example, is one which begins: "We shall get no farther until players take the trouble to read and master the laws If they won't read them, and continue to infringe persistently, they must be sent off. A sharp lesson or two is what they need The chief trouble is the players own apathy and stupidity.”

only 10 players they defeated the

Medicals by 4 goals to 2 at Soo kunpoo yesterday. Munton (3) and

K Duffield scored for the Odnance while Gantzer (2) netetd for the losers.

the run throughout.

attack, but Miss Perry had her on

The first set between Mrs. Chiu and Miss Griffiths was a duel of sustained base-lines drives. Mrs. again, and we might hope to return Chin was not seen at her best, her her down.. "Miss Griffiths took to the happy state of affairs des idriving from the baseline letting every opportunity and hit the ball cribed by Gwyn Nicholls in his pre- face to Cliff Jones' book.

with plenty of pace. In the last “CATS AMONG PIGEONS” "As far back as my playing days," set, Mrs. Chiu improved somewhat with the winging forwards of other occasions with accurately placed countries. C. V. Rooke, of Ireland shots. (1891), was, I believe, the origina- tor England had their Pillmans; Scotland never failed to start with

Then comes the story of a some knowledge of the problems by says Mr. Nicholls, "we had to cope and caught her opponent on marry referee in a first-class London' which a forward is beset.

match the season who remarked cheerfully just before the kick-

administered.

*NO ENCOURAGEMENT"

"Firstly, he has no encourage- the tight

I

all like cats among the pigeons if

TO-NIGHTS

we persisted in heeling and pass- BADMINTON

ling.

=>

PROGRAMME

The following is to-night's pro-

off that he hoped he would do all ment to-day to work in

Hard shoving, with conse right, because he had only read scrum. the revised laws that morningquent retreating of his opponents a couple of spoilers, and they were In the tight, leads more often than From this it follows, agues_my} informant, that players cannot be not to the penalising of his scrum-

half for ball not în straight.' expected to obey laws so casually now the obvious answer that he

“But when we found our backs has no business to be shoving to

too much interfered with, instruc- that extent before the ball is fairly tions were given to the pack, who THE MIDWAY COURSE My own opinion takes a midway in the serum. But under the aver-

were usually chosen with a strict course between these two extremes: age modern referee (perpetually *I refuse to believe that all players haunted by the bogey of scrummage eye to their scrumming abilities, to gramme in the "A" and "B" Divi-

make it generally a robust forward minton League are pirates or all referees weak-infringements from the powers that cease heeling, to push, wheel and to sions of the Men's Doubles Bad- lings. Many referees, indeed, take be) any forward motion of the

sulted in forcing the shirkers back great trouble to master the laws scrum means an unfair advantage game This almost invariably re-

into the scrum. We were then fair-King's College and their implications, and many in possession of the ball, and must players do their level best too combe checked immediately.

ly frequently able to ply with the revised rulings. There "The resultant discounting of the Welsh back play. It was a matter are exceptions, of course, but on hard work that the young forward

We need, I submit, every possible the whole I think we tend to exag-has expended rapidly breaks his of mixing our tactica gerate the present discontents.

heart, and he gives up that constant

“A” Division.

St. Andrew's

aige in University “B”

Recreio

tical flexibility to-day. It may be, as another correspon-shoving whose gospel you preach incentive to a revival of such tac-1st. Andrew's dent suggests, that the relations beso ably.”

MATTER OF IMPORTANCE tween referees and players need to

This is a matter of some impor- be defined more clearly. Is the re- feree

a policeman, or merely tance. My correspondent has put friendly arbiter who should remain his finger on a serious defect in the as unobtrusive as possible? "There modern game. I have heard the seems to have been more whistling same criticism bitterly expressed this season than ever before, says at considerable length by no less a

(6 pm). University “A”

Chinese "Y"

(6 p.m.) Division

v Chinese B.C.

(8.15 p.m.).

SATURDAY'S FOOTBALL RESULTS

AND GOAL-SCORERS

EXHIBITION GAME

THE REST Howlett

JUNIOR SHIELD

20TH ETY, RA.

Oliver.

SECOND DIVISION

this reader. "No sooner does a person than the great John Daniell, ROYAL ULSTER RIF game begin to open up than the re-who said, in effect: "What is the Killen feree closes it down for some petty good of picking a scrummaging

Lai Wai-lam, Tsang Wai. technicality. Surely a referee pack for England when the for- CHINESE ENGINEERS should use his judgment, and let wards aren't allowed to get the first

shove?" the game flow without insisting al- ways on the strict letter of the law, He was thinking, no doubt, of a provided there is no manifest ad- Calcutta Cup match not so long ago CLUB

ther."

when the England scrum-half was vantage to one side or the

penalised time after time for put- REFEREE HAS NO OPTION Well, that is a nice point, and one ting the ball in crooked, though ac- that is frequently raised. I sym-tually the England forwards were pathise with my correspondent merely shoving over it as cood for- Ideally, a referee is merely on the wards should. field to interpret the spirit of the game, much as a violinist interprets

Duncan.

KOWLOON

Betta Balpin. 5TH AA EDE

SEAFORTHS

Samson McAloon, Ayres, Tang Chung-pak (own goal).

THIRD DIVISION

Postponed. ENGINEERS (EUROPEAN)

Marriott 3, Fox.

5TH AA EDE

STATIC AFFAIR We have come to regard the a piece of music. The laws exist, scrummage as a static affair which for all that, and their ultimate pur- must take place on the exact spot pose is to balance a game fairly where the infringement occurred. between two sides. The referee, as This, I am convinced, is fundamen- I see it, has no option. He must tally wrong Certainly the for- POLICE abide literally by the laws. Hewards must form down on that spot, Willerton 4, Fan Sailau cannot contract out of them, how- but they should not be compelled to ever admirable his motives may be remain there until the ball is put

24TH BTL RA. Now another most interesting let-in. As soon as they are down, a ter from a reader who says: "I have, scrummage is legally formed, and

Postpor been playing club football for 14 they should thereafter be allowed 20TH BTY. RA. seasons, with another five years be-to attempt to gain ground and mo- «fore that at school.

of the

time as a forward and a hooker. 1 A premium would thus be placed AIR FORCE presume on these grounds to have upon shoving and quick packing! Holloway, Brown,

ENGINEERS (EUROPEAN)

Beale 2, Duddridge, White, Denger, Jonės. BATERN

The Yan-liang. MIDDLESEX

SOUTH CHINA

Yip Yan po, Ng Kim-man, (HONG KONG)

SERVICE CORPS

STANLEY

Box fown goal), Flanders Boche, Taylor, Freer. POWHATTAN

THIRD DIVISION (KOWLOON)

PORTUGUESE S.A. Santos, Remedios. SIGNALS

KUMAONS

Shen Singh,