The Shanghai Rugby Football Club cannot be congratulated on the: week-end's performances. All three! teams wore well beaten by the U.S. Marines who have so sportingly de-Joped their knowledge of an alien ime, The rugger never approach ed the standard to which the Shanghai public looks if next month's In-export match with Hongkong is to retrieve last year's fiasco. The} ed Ives to be betrayed into, first XV showed keenness but allow-
ive kicking. As for the other ist-minute defections led to the introduction of men who could not be expected to find their feet at once. If the Club maintain the proper standards it} ig essential for the rank and file outside the first XV to show them, selves eager to keep up the level of the game, On them, in reality, the success of the Club' depends, "for, unless they develop their powers, the first XV tends to become stale and to lack the incentive which knowledge of other talent knocking. at the door of recognition invariably provides. It is to be hoped, too, that the "old crocks," or lesser veterans, will continue to support the junior XVs with their experience' and playing ability, even, though their places in the first XV have been filled. Many a club owes: the training of of its young "stars" to the good sportsmanship of former XV men who endeavour to keep fit, even if their speed has diminished, in order to help the "A" men to get into the habit of winning matches.
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