It was chiefly due to a grand effort by the forwards that England looked more like winning the game in the second half, against the wind, than they had in the first 40 minutes. But fairly early on the defence of the centres—once regarded as impregnable—was, weakening, and more and more one looked to Giles and the forwards—and, of course, Perker—if the chance came to land more goals, which it did, Parker's touch-finding and place-kicking against the wind. it should be added, were remarkable. On the day he quite outshone Roberts, who was rather disappointing. The game, if anything, grew in intensity and excitement, Two breakaways by Shaw were foiled by Unwin and Giles respectively before another hot attack by the English forwards, well supported by Giles, brought a scrummage in front of the posts and a left-footed dropped goal by Re} naids, England were anoad again, as it were, by the skin of their teeth.
Scotland, however, had a prompt reply in a breakaway by Dick, defeated only in the very nick of time by a tackle of Renwick by Unwin who had dashed right across the field to do so, This ranked as a failure, but not so Crawford's penalty goal which closely followed, a fine kick from a wide angle. A little later Parker, at 35 yards, was just beaten by the wind, and at the end of 25 minutes England fell five points behind when Crawford made light of a range of 50 yards.
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