1938-03-16 — Page 20

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 16, 1938.

ENGLAND'S FANTASTIC VICTORY

CROSS IRELAND'S LINE SEVEN TIMES IN DUBLIN

Poorest Irish Pack Within Memory: TO-DAY'S

Championship Tangle

IRELAND

IN

(By HOWARD MARSHALL)

14 pts.

ENGLAND -

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TENNIS PROGRAMME

FIVE SINGLES MATCHES

a match which might come straight out of "Alice in Wonderland" Eng-The following is today's Lav

· land beat Ireland in Dublin by the fantastic score of six goals, a pen- alty goal and a try to a goal and three tries. Who said, I wonder, that modern defence has cancelled out attack?

Fifty points in an international match nowadays is grotesque. I feel inclined to delegate my report of the affair to the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Much grubbing in the dusty annals of the game convinces me that never before have, Eng- land or Ireland run up such a total against one another. Somewhere in the bronze age or there abouts England massacred Wales by eight goals and six tries to nil, and the Frenchmen met with heavy reverses on several occasions, but recent history records no comparable riot of scoring.

How did it happen? Not, let me assure you, by brilliant football. A roaring wind blew England 23 points in the first half, and Ireland, playing like a team of preparatory schoolboys, could never recover.

I think myself that we

must

his centres will follow him more closely the England attack will not have to fall back upon opportun- ism.

NICHOLSON AT HIS BEST Nicholson was extremely good, the best centre on the field, and if

Tenis Championship programme:

AE Douglass

Singles Champonship

Paul-Kong

W-Sander

J. W Leozazd Leong Ping-chiu v S. W: Liang F. H. Kwok Tsui Yu-pui-

Cheng Ping-yeung Pang Oil-lam -Doubles Championship H Owen Hughes and TA Pearc A. C. L Bowker and W. M. Barton. Singles Handicap

C. C. Stark (276) ▼ EE Storey (—-3/6).

RK Valentine (—2/6) †‚F. V. Har- rison (-576).

Club Singles Championship-

G. W. Sewell v J. G Pool..

MINIATURE FOOTBALL

All the sense was, blown out of the game, in fact; but nothing can write this match off as just one of we saw little of Cranmer in attack |

Following the organisation of the his covering was indefatigable. the wings, had no chances is permittee is called for to-night at 7 The fact that Unwin and Sever, on Hong Kong Miniature Football Un- ion, a general meeting of the com-

land's mid-feld tactics, but we have Pm in the Confucian Club to dis- haps in itself a criticism of Eng-

cuss. the opening of a league

excuse or explain the lamentable

the curiosities of Rugby football. display of the Irish forwards. They It leaves the international cham- lolloped about drearily in the loose pionship in a queer tangle, for and humped themselves like por England, Wales and Ireland have poises in the tight, with no weight coming from the back row at all now all been beaten once. Never have I seen so lifeless an Irish pack, and there the tale of disaster began

The Scotsmen must be chuckling, but so perverse is form this season that Ireland are quite capable of knocking the stuffing out of the Murrayfield on Saturday week.

PACK SATISFACTORY

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to remember that the ball Was

hands as he waited to take a pass. frequently blown out of a player's

It is noteworthy that the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo may become the Pre- sident of the Union.

SPATE OF SCORING.

Parker, at full back; naturally found it difficult to gauge the flight England won 42 set scrum-at

of the ball, but his place kicking mages out of 57, a tribute to Toft and the English forwards and a

was beautiful in its easy power and madness started to creep into the partial explanation of the Irish Now for some random notes. It certainty. To have converted six

game when an England "forward landslide. Even so, the final an- is quite likely that the England tries and landed a penalty goal in one passed wildly through his legs, for alysis of the play remains ob-selectors will keep their team in-international match must be very McMahon to intercrept and send scure, an exercise in the higher tact for the Calcutta Cup match. nearly a record, and some of the Lyttle tearing away for the line. mathematics which is beyond the The forwards were satisfactory kicks were from wide angles.

Unwin just managed to stop him, mere layman.

and far more compact and lively. THE LESS THE BETTER

but Ireland were pressing until Why, for instance, with that Marshall played particularly well, The less said about Ireland the Toft dribbled clear, and once more young hurricane behind them, and took advantage of the general better, though it can rarely have the wind drove play into the Irish could England score no more confusion to score a great try, happened that a team which scored 25. than eight points in the first running nearly 50 yards from the four tries should lose, Little half-hour against a defence with line-out with remarkable power Cromey. at stand-off half, darted Sever had a bang with a drop as many holes in it as a gruyere and speed and looking more like W. Jabout tirelessly, and Lyttle and which went wide, Reynolds hit the cheese? And how in the next 10 W. Wakefield than ever.

Daly ran hard when the ball came post with another, Nicholson tore crazy minutes did they bump Giles was in his Coventry form their way, but on the whole the holes in the Irish defence, Marshall their total up from eight to 23? at scrum-half, and Reynolds, apart Irish team sadly lacked solidity dribbled grandly to the line, but

SPRINGBOKS PROVED-IF from one period of bewilderment and direction.

for 20 minutes England were held Why, with so much of the ball; under pressure, proved that he is. A great crowd gathered at Lan- at bay. did England fail to score a single exactly the type of thrusting, sdowne-road, unaware that they Then suddenly the spate of straight-forward, orthodox try? straight-running stand-off half we were really attending a performan-scoring started Reynolds, jinking Are we to fall back upon the parrot need

ce by the Crazy Gang at the Palla-cleverly from short range, dived cry about orthodox attack, al-Time and again, in the first half | dium. The ground looked normal over for a try, Nicholson smashed though the Springboks have so reparticularly, he ran round Cromey cently proved it to be both possible and swung inwards, only to find and profitable?

himself alone and unsupported. If

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enough, apart from the wind, which gloriously through the centre after blew the flags out straight, and picking up a dropped pass, and biased spectators, who owed the found Bolton alongside him Bolton Irish Channel a grudge, sighed sent Unwin wriggling and crashing with relief when they observed that through in the corner, and in the England had won the toss.

remaining couple of minutes be- England began heeling like clock-fore half-time Marshall went work, and taking scrums at the roaring away from a line-out line-out, a comforting sign of score his glorious tay. confidence, Cranmer punted dead England, 23 points thead, th after a run by Nicholson, Giles proceeded to slumber awhile, and mocked the Irish defence, and nip-Ireland came to life. A terrific ped away through vast gaps, and kick by Morgan began it, and soon then Marshall led a fine rush to Cromey charged down a punt by the Irish line. Crowe fell, a loose Reynolds and flopped over for a try. maul formed, England heeled, and It was Cromey who started the Giles, quick as lightning, slipped next move with a beautiful piercing Fover to score

run, and Bailey was stopped only inches short of the line.

LIKE A SLAUGHTER Ireland replied with the sort. of England gradually pulled them- ruah they too rarely produced, and selves out of their trance, and Cromey "flashed through and punt Giles darted through a gaping hole ed, for the ball to roll over the to send Balton over under the posts deadball line as McMahon raced up. By this time it was just a matter of Back came England, Reynolds be statistics. Ireland drew blood fgan his slashing runs, and Parker next when Bailey punted an

the had kicked a penalty goal to put Eng-touched down after. land eight points ahead in as man

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post and then Prescott Furled himself This looked like, slaughter, but over from a loose

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