Australians Agitating for Covered Wickets Brisbane, Dec. 26.
'As a result of England's victory In the first. two. 'Test_matches, there is strong agitation that the Australian Control Board should adopt the English systerii of cov~ fering the wicket, "It ig. asserted that' an uncovered pitch gives bias to the side winning the toss, and this tuck has been with the MECC, lourists heretofore—Reuter, isto, b. MeCormick Agra, ho anes eton br ete [Bl sonttekeRee corneas hooker. The other is to put the pull shove on suddenly just us the ball ig about to be put in, and so throw the opposing scrum slightly" off its balance. Other solutions will doubt Jess suggest themselves to the able minds that direct Shanghai Rugby, who may even believe that the prob: Tem docs not exist at all; in which ase no harm has been done to anybody.
"Another obvious advantage of the Japanese method - is that there hothing to impede the progress of tthe ball out of the scrum ones it Is hooked, as there Is no one packing behind the hooker.
criticism. of the Me'ji three-quarters heard last Sunday was that they passed too soon. It is. impossible to agree allogeiher with this criticism, unless it is balanced by the criticism' that the Club three-quarters, Usually pass (oe late, By the Meiji method of the quick pass before the man is tackled, all the outsides main on their fect ready to take a hand in the movement until it is smothered, By the Club method the Uiree-quarter who is downed just as ho passes is out of the movement altogether. "It used tobe an. old maxim that a man on his feet Is Worth sny number of men on. the ground during an attack. And it is possible fo "draw" one's man quite effectively without allowing him get near" enough to tackle,
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