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ENGLAND TEAMS NEW SCRUMMAGE LAW

Drop Goal Still 4 Points

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Should More Players

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INTERNATIONAL BOARD AND REFEREES

Changes in the scrummage law Australla Won the Afth Test of the game were announced "re- match, and with it the Ashes becently after a meeting in Edin- cause they were the better side, |burgh of the International Rugby writes a Home correspondent.

Football Board. which discussed As it has been suggested that the the laws of the game. The chan- fuck of the toss and the rain con- ges affecting the scrummage lawa spired together against England, it is worth while considering what would have been the course of the game had G. O. Allen won the tos and taken first innings,

England might have batted till tea-time on the second day and scored just over 400 runs; and by the end of the third day's play Australia would have been almost on level terms. Once more. Eng- tand should have had to bat on the rain-damaged wicket on the Tues- day. But if the bowlers. after Farnes had bowled Bradman the beginning of the second day, had been equal to the task of get- ting rid of Badcock and Gregory cheaply, the rain would have been our friend. Clearly we have no cause to bewall our luck in the deciding game.

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The remarkable thing about this Test series has been the poor show the Australians made till England" were caught in the rain in the third Test match. The Australian team which toured South Africa a year ago was by common consent, Immensely strong, though Brad-

nan did not make the trip.

were:-

taken by any player of the team, and for a place-kick the kicker may place the ball. In every case the kicker's team, other than the placer for a place-kick, must be behind the ball until the kick has been taken. All players of the op- posing team must retire to or be- The player putting in the ball hind a line parallel to the goal- shall stand not less than three feet tine and ten yards from the mark from the serummage, and, with or to their own goal-line which both hands below the knee, shali ever is nearer to the mark, and 'the but the ball fairly in at a moder-ball must reach this line unless ute speed so that it first touches arst played by an opponent. II the ground beyond one foot of the the mark is in-goal, the line shall nearest player of each front row." be the gaol-line: All players of The law at present reads that the opposing team must remain the ball is fairly in' when it has motionless with their hands by passed along a line mid-way be- their sides until the ball has been tween and parellel to the unes of kicked." feet of the players forming each front row of the scrummage and has touched the ground.

The law regarding a penalty try now regas:

"If a pénalty try is awarded it It is legal for any player must be awarded between the either front row to raise or ad-post." vance his foot until the ball is Formerly, a penalty try was fairly in.

awarded where the infringement occurred.

The words "unless he is stopping

to pick up the ball" have been de- The members of the board also leted from Law 19; which.. con-expressed dissatisfaction, with the cerns charging and obstruction, rerereeing in International mat- The altered section of the law thus ches and decided to send a letter reads:-

to each "referee on the Interna- tional panel informing him that

"A player overtaking an oppon- ent also running for the ball must not push him from behind.” -

The law regarding the penalty kick was also changed and has been made to read:-

"A penalty kick must be taken at or behind the mark, on a line through the mark parallel to the touch lines. The kick may be

"Daily Mail" Golf Tourney

STRONGER THAN IN 1934 It was expected; therefore, even before Allen's team did so badly in the State matches, that they would have a very difficult task against Australia. But there is; I think, a tendencious streak in most of the Australians, and the very quality which makes them such re- doubtable opponents renders them a little llable to quarret among themselves when they lack an adversary worthy of their whole. attention. At any rate, they play ed like a team divided against it-

slatant fasharing - with Henry self till the chance of victory was Cotton the chief honours after the thrust upon them at Melbourne. first two rounds of the "Daily Then they put everything out of | Mall" £2.000 golf tournament mind except the necessity of beat Ing England.

"London. Aprli 8. Max Faulkner, a 20 year-old

which is benig played at Little Easton, Warwickshire.

Faulkner had scores of 15 and 68 (143) at the close of to-day's play, while Cottog returned 71 and 72 (143).

Australia have now got together a better team than Woodtnila 1934 eleven, and as they are so full 01 young batsmen they may be stronger still when they visit Eng- The tournament is virtually the land in 1938. The averages for the professional medal play cham- Tests just finished suggest that, pionship of Britain and is the "without Bradman," Australia's richest plum. of the golfing sea- batting is about as dependable as son. England's, and that they seem to

Reuter.

Archie Compton and Arthu have the more varied and danger-Lacey both had rounds of 72 and ous bowling.

73, and were, placed immediately "It has been suggested that as after Faulkner and Cotton. the Australians are used to the Alfred Padgham with cards or time-limitless game, the only 78 and 75 (153) qualined by one chance of England against them stroke for the final two rounds was to copy their methods, avold to-morrOW.- all risks, and dig. themselves in. All this ignores the fact that only ! Test Matches are played to a finish In Australia, and that the Austra- Kans-winning or losing-con- sistently faster than do the Eng- land, batsmen. This was true of Chapman's and Jardine's tours as well as the present one, and it is true of the Australians in England. They are the more confident stroke-players.

1.000 MAGICIANS TO MEET

About 1,000 magicians" will visit Berlin in May on the occasion of the congress to celebrate the twenty-Brth anniversary of the SUCCESS OF BARNETT

German 'Magic Circle.2 It has been said by a good judge appreciated 3,700 years B.C., ac-

Conjuring performance that strokeless batting rather than sameness in bowling cost England cording to an Egyptian papyrus in

the rubber. This view is support-

ed by the success of Barnett alone

of all the new batsmen included

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In the team, for he is full of fash- that if more than sixteen men Ing strokes. The failure of several make the trip some of them would promising young batsmen, though disappointing, should not be taken too seriously. E. R. T. Holmes had a very poor season in Australia and New Zealand a year ago, yet he did well enough last summer to be included in the Lord's Test against All India; and it may be hoped that Fagg and Fishlock will equally find their best form again next summer,

soon be woefully short of practice; but the truth seems rather to be that eighteen or nineteen players would save most of them from having to travel overnight from.] one maten to the next.

HUGE RECEIPTS..

The receipts from Test matches are now so huge that twenty men's expenses would do little to reduce The most disquieting feature of the surplus-and the stronger the the tour-or at any rate of the Test team the bigger the crowds will be. matches-was the way the burden The problem of travelling is less had to be carried by the men who acute for an Australian team in had played against Australia be- England, for distances are relative- fore. It would be churlish to sug-ly short, and matches are generally gest that the selectors had chosen arranged to give a fairly compact badly, but it is true that for once itinerary; yet a few small injuries they were unlucky. They were and minor ailments have before quite right to take a chance with now forced a touring side to play. some of our young hopefuls, and it men who were not quite fit, slin-.. was not to be foreseen that injuries ply to make up an eleven. and loss of form should 'combine against England. '-

It is time to recognise that Inter- national cricket is à commercial undertaking as well as a game and

Allen's experience on this tour may lead to the numbers of the to organise for success in both di- are to

́ ́ next M.C.C. side for Australia. be-rections-though how we

ing still further increased, One organise an English Bradman I do argument that has been used is not pretend to know.

was his duty to referee Inter- national matches in full accord- ance with the laws of the game.

Discussion took place on the various methods of scoring, part- cularly, that of a dropped goal, and it was decided to make no chan- gen.

Mr. H. 8. Lyne (Wales) was in the chair and others present were: Messrs. James Baxter, M. F. Wa- ters, W. T. Pearce, and Admiral. P. Royds, representing England; Messrs. J. D Dallas and R. T. Nellson (Scotland); and Messrs. H. Thrift and R. G. Warren (Ireland); and Mr. J. Jarrett, who, with Mr. Lyne, represented Wales.

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