Warner Performs Well For Winners A mixed Club'side composed of players from the ist, 3rd, and 4th fifteens as well as the Police, secured an easy victory over a weakened Area Details XV at the Race Course yesterday affernon, the. final. score reading 13 (two-placed goals and a try) to nil. The soldiers were outclassed in all departments of a quite interesting match, but they fought with plenty of spirit up till the last whistle and, for period on end, were battering away at the Club's goal line without, however, attaining success, The Club's forwards, among whom were R. U. Reynolds and J. R. M. Warner, performed very well and these two players were responsible for the tries scored, the latter forcing his way through once in each half to go under the posts for St. Louis to convert both. Reynolds, in the closing minutes, made a forty yards dash to take the ball over near the W: corner flag.
Woods, the Area Detail" nippy three-quarter, nearly opened the soldiers' account on three occasions. but he was pulled down each time a few yards from the line when abou: to go over. kick, the ball hitting the near upright above the bar.
During the next five minutes Read performed remarkably well, his tackling being most deadly and responsible for breaking up several promising Navy movements. A little later, the Club attacked with: a will and, having much more of the play, looked like scoring on three different Occasions. Eventually the pressure told, ana after a useful handling movement among the backs, Aucott was put in possession, and the left-centre, showing a remarkable burst Mai: of speed, outdistanced his pursuers to.|Eo over far out.
Read's attempt at conversion failed, the ball rolling over as he was about to kick.
Immediately after the resumption, the sailors surged into their opponents' half, and from a loose scrum en the 25 yard line, Yeo secured and taking his time, dropped a beautiful goal from nearly thirty yards to put Suffolk ahead again.
Midfield play predominated for the next fifteen minutes until Kennedy put Innes away on the left with an excellent pass for the latter to shake off the dogged efforts of the Navy Back. to bring him down, to go over near the flag after an excellent 35 yards run. Mair's ensuing kick hit the cross bar with a resounding bang but rebounded into the field of play.
One point behind, the Club played up more spiritedly in the closing minutes, but a tricky move by Spittle, who secured from a line out, made d and then passed fo the well positioned Culmer, spelt disaster for ihe civilians, the latter leisurely making his way over to place the ball under the posts, for Dunlop to add the extra points.
There were three winners in yesterday's hunt and two new pinks. The field was comparatively small—about thirty riders actually participating—and were taken through quite fama-liar districts except for the finish which was at Von Schubert's Granada Finish which consisted of two good sized jumps.
The hunt was won by L. Riggo on Orthello (2). He has been knocking round for bit at the door but never quite made the grade and was rather unlucky twice this season. F. Bille finished second on Baby Harp, the I frst Y in, and consequently gave his rider a new pink: C. S. Fanklin was third winner when he came in fourth on Steve Brodie (Y) to take the heavyweight prize.
F. Kaufmann, the plucky little German thruster who recently won his pink, was very unlucky not to have won. He was with the leaders and going away from them when his pony sudden shied at a little platform and swerved off when only two hundred yards away from home.
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