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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1960.

Police do it at last

BEAT CLUB FOR FIRST TIME

IN PENTANGULAR : RUGBY

By PAK LO

The Police have done it! At long last they finally managed on Saturday to beat the Club in the Pentangular Rugby series, and beat them well and truly into the bargain -by the score of 11 points (one goal, one

'try, ∙one

.

penaly goal) to five points (one goal).

Although the margin was close the game never was, and Club, who have always presumed that the one team they could beat was the Police, received a rude awakening.

game of the the Police pack in the loose, and

the first aftercon played on the same ground at the Hongkong Football

· Club, Club "B" hent RAF Lible Sai Wan by 11 points (one goal, two penalty goals) to three polats (one penalty goat) in an evenly balanced, I scrappy.

Kame.

On the other side of the har- hour at the Army ground at Boundary Street, the Witfield Wanderers proved too good for the 1st Royal Tortka, winning the friendly match by 33 points

to .

Taam standings

As a result of their win, Police

lop now trupy

place in the Pentengulo Tournament 10- gether Brigade, while Club now have little chance of winning the competition.

The team standings now are: PWDL F A PU

Brigade

Police.

Garrison Club RAF

311 38 15 7

5 31 33 16 7

530261/24 6

4 1 1 2 22 31 3 50 14 371 1

failed to cover their threes to any extent. This was one of the things the Police puckt_de- finitely did and did well. They were always eavering, and their tackling was much too good for Club,

The Police pressed from the start but Moore, with a nice run. eventually took play back into half where Steven the Police missed a long offside penalty conversion from 40 yards out.

Spoiled

Police swung · back and Haigh broke through from a scrum, passed out to McNiven who ran between the line and one Club defender, smashed Bennett's his way through tackle and scored half way gut. Hobbs.converted, D-0.

Then came the clincher as tar as Club was concerned. From a serum on the half way line Halah went away and passes out to Hollis who broke through, and then when eftal- lenged, passed (națile to Haigh who dived over near the posts, Hobbs missed, 8-0.

Play swung back again and Moore missed another penalty from the Police 25 well out on the wing. Then Orsier mined a 23 yard touch by literally using This head. Tancock had kicked the ball for touch but it hi Orster smack on the forehead from a range of ve yards and alled beautifully into touch on the Club 25. Hollis had just put nice kick to within one yard of the Club line when the whistle for half-time was blown.

Lucky break

to

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FAVOURITE COMES IN

Favourites enjoyed a successful day at the second day of the Seventh Race Meeting at Happy Valley on Saturday. Here, Mr and Mrs G. S. Watson's Babook, the top favourite In Race 6 the Mirs Bay Handi- cap for Class 5 ponles over six furlongs is seen staging a strong finish to win comfortably from Confuser and Okay. Babook, which was ridden by Chun Kit, paid $14.70 for a win and $6.90 for a placé.-China Mall photo.

Wrong

If they as well. Club players in succession : "31" Trophy

this win entered the serum from the pull them off then

-side, and 15 a resull Indeed bo "The Year" in the

·Club Toi the ball and a big

annals of the Police XV. advantage, when they shoul have been penalised.

Johnson kicked ahead and once again McNiven was faced with the unlucky bounce that rent the ball well clear of him. D'Eath grabbed his chance and the ball and went for the line. He was in the clear and scored ear the posts, Moore converted. 8-5.

4

Final score

PPoliec pressed thereafter, and Hellis missed a long penally but finally after another application the 10 yard Law, Hobbs hammered home another penalty conversion from 30 yards cut, Thus ended the Polion's greatest

cí

gime.

The second half opened with

And given McNiven almost scored again Club attacking within a minute when he inter-penalty. They followed this up rusted a ball un his own 25, with another under the ten yard and kicked ahead. Law. Club then tried with a It is reported that Garrison broke away has been strengthened greatly in The ball bounced stralatt buck short penalty kicks and inter- batter their way the East week, and their battle over his head from the impact passing artina Brigade on Wednesday on the ground, and McNiven through the Police defence but evening will be the needle who was by then in the clear never had a hope. match. Should Garrison win. saw his beautiful move spolied.

Johnson, taking the bail from For years they have languish then there is a good chance of

Then Haigh broke blind from the half-way line to where the led at the bottom of the Pentan- Folter slipping in to cllach then serum on the Club 25 but war Club had retreated, made hisgular Table with their one hupe that if they could top honours.

caught just in time, and Club first and last good breait of the and prayer cleared upfeld. There about day, and a nice kick ahead looked not win, then at least they could ten yards from the hailway us it I might be dangerous, but beat Club. line Moore missed a difficult Hobbs was there again to gather penuity attempt. The Police and clear casily. swept back on Club fumbles, and Hobbs In his turn missed o undly angled penalty.

in

Club v. police

Both Hobbs and Roberts were, after all, found fit to play, and though both had a big hand in this victory, which was based on a fine strong at- tack by the Police pack, the honours of the day go without question to Omster, who play- ed a game that would not have disgraced ♫ major County side in the UK.

He dominate the lincouts, and

the Joose completely overshadowed Roberts à feut that takes a lot of doin

The Police threes passed well and crisply, but it was

their covering and tackling that ruined Club's hopes. Not a man got through, except once. and that was a lucky break for Club,

Never has a Police team had the ball bounce Ea badly for them, and still win so comfort- ably, for let it be stated here that it was a comfortable win, The Police never looked in dan-

Ker.

Haigh had A wonderful game at scrum-haif and his partner Hollis took the smogth Basses and found the gaps,

Never happy

Club never Looked

happy. Their pack, surprisingly do- minated the set scrums, bul Johnses

had an off-day, and dropped-passos galore, many of them bad ones from Tancock.

Newcomer Moore played a very nice game in the centre, and is a defalte acquisition to the centre, But the other threes never got going. Johnson was seldom able to find them, and though they tackled well had little chance Lo show their abilities.

The Club pack had no answer to the forceful, manoeuvres of

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FOUR ́D. JONES

MADDOCKS

FERDINAND

NANCY

This at last they have done are also in the and now they Then came the lucky break | running for the Pentangular ond, for Club. In a loose maul two recording to rumours, far the

Club "B" v. RAF

Little Sai Wart

This was not an excliing game, as there was far too and Ints. much kicking handling.

Club were slightly superior as the score shows but made far too little use of their threes, who were definitely the boiler lot.

won the scrums.

Th Airmen and shared the lineouts, but feed his Fellding would not threes and the airmen never had & good attack mounted.

Hutt at stand-off for the Club, ran too much across Beld and Wiggett, who was out, for e tril run with the "3" to see if his shoulder would hold out (it did) never got enough of the ball, and yet was responsible for all Club "B's points.

ONES SEA CHES POR HIS HOJP.

A LITTLE

FOR WEAD

BUT NONE THE WORSE

|NOW HOOP

MY OLD MATE,

NOW I REMEMBER

"ROCKET FALLING ON THE TUNT... AND

AH! HERE WE ARE

COME IN HERE AND TAKE YOUR MEDICINE, NANCY

CAN I

TAKE IT IN HERE?

"BRICK BRADFORD

COME ON,

PAM, LONTO FIND A PLACE "TO HIDE? -

THOVE SHOOTING AT US WITH THAT

CANNON.

OKAY, BUT WHY ?

--BANIE

· BUSHMILA, FILA

IRMA IS OUTSIDE AND I'M MAD AT

HER---

THEY'RE GETTING OUR RANGE / DIVE THROUGH THE

SKRUBBERY,

LET US SPE

WHAT WE

CAN PINO THIS TIME

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

*** AND I HATE:

·TO WASTE

"THIS

NASTY

FACE

·By ·Paul Nortie

THEY PLUNGE THROUGH STUMBLE AND HALL, ENTED.

Wigreit opened the scoring Wiggett missed two penalties when the ball came from in the second half, and then

a loose mail on the RAF 25 to the Club threes who gave Wirgelt his chance, and he touched own under the posts. He then converted. 5-0.

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HE DOES THE 100 YARDS IN EIGHT SECONDS

But it's not a record

Meet an Australian who

can' rival 'even hustlin' Herb Elliott when it *comes Ito tackling a killing training pro. gramme. His name is John Barrett, a 22-year- old Sydney school- teacher.

Barrett's method enables him to run 100 yards.in olgin seconds -which s 1.3. seconds inside the world record, What's more, he can achieve that time every day

But he does not qualify off- cialty for the title of the fastest man alive. He achieves his eight- second sprint with the ald of a

car.

The car takes him in tow, This system-the car is driven at about 25 mph on ITRES encbles Barrett to increase his stride by eighteen inches and forces him to keep on his toes

all the time.

Eventually this touch. Austro- Club were penalised for not put-lim hopes to dispense with the

+

car and, after only two years as a tng the ball straight into Darum, and Crouch converted to sprinter, crash his way into the Australian Olymple tesm for put the Alemon back into the Rome. the picture.

-fLondon Express Service),

Then after 2

Tagyed

but

Botafogo beat strong Club attack, HAF were

Austrian team

at soccer

Bologa, Jan. 24. The Botafogo soccer team of Brazil defeated Austria Club of

Vienna today woals to ni.

two

penalised five yards from their

own line, and Wiggett converted.

8-3.

Sports Diary

TO-MORROW Itaring

Finally, 30 yards from their own ine, the qirmen were Entries for the Eighth Race Meal- penalised for lying on the balling will close at noon.

Golf Wiggett

converted Grain and

Faoling golf: Captain's Prize, 9.30 4.1, making the final ecore 11-3.

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The half-time score was 1-0. Paulinbo scored the goal after 38 minutes in the Árst half, Zagalo scored the of second in the 23rd minute the

A crowd of second half. 22,000 cheered both teams but were more Impresed by the Brazilian power.

With

Botafogo this victory have now won a four-learn tournament in which two Colomblan clubs also parti- The Brazilians were cipated, undefeated. In the tournament. -AP.

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