But the game did not reveal the best of form on both sides, the Club giving indication that considerable weeding out will have to be done to select their representative fifteen, and that the Loyals have yet to fit in new men to fill the gaps caused whose terms have been completed and who have gone back to England.
Sportsmen yesterday "carried on" in the attack, which this year is unas usual despite the recent movement. doubtedly weak. of the actual conflict closer to the Of the threes, W. H. B. Rigg showed Western District. The players showup well and is gradually finding his ed their usual enthusiasm; spectators, old form, which if he does, will stamp including a number of "sweet young him as a certainty for the Ist XV. things" recently returned from the R. H. Roe ran and tackled hard as outports where they had been holi-usual, but the positioning and passing daying, watched interestedly, and of the three-quarters could have been "everything in the garden seemed improved considerably. Thornley perfectly grand." But interrupting and McGill on the wings rarely saw this scene of normalcy was the inthe ball, and when the former did, termittent sound of machine gun he was too bottled into his touchline fire from the nearby conflict to be given a chance to get away on Thibet Road Bridge corner—only a bare mile away—while in the background reports indicated that planes seen flying over Pootung were bombing, and a muffled thud from the West showed that the Settlement outposts in that sector were under fire.
All these were taken by the spectators as normal—a scene to be viewed from afar in safety. Little did they know that some of those fifteen men playing for the Loyals were due to go out to the Western Sector on Monday to relieve the Ulster Rifles, and were "playing the game yesterday" on the field of sport, as they will do on duty on Monday.
It is a pity that he was tried on the wing as his size is against him in this position, and he might do better in the centre,
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