"Freakes, after repulsing Marshall, led a beautiful forward rush, and Teden followed up with a short punt ahead to touch down for England in a corner of the field.
Heaton's kick rebounded from one of the uprights.
It was a good attempt at conversion, considering that the ball was heavy and greasy, and was kicked from a difficult angle.
England nearly scored again a few minutes later, when Heaton missed by a narrow margin when attempting A drop-goal from the twenty-five yard line.
Towards the concluding stages of the match, Wales showed spirit, and attacked in determined fashion. land's defences withstood the test, however, and the whistle blew after a fine exhibition of first-class Reinforced Area Details Defeat Club 3rd Fifteen By Slim Margin After having matters all their own in the first half, the Area Details Rugby XV, greatly strengthened by the inclusion of players from the East Surrey Regiment, nearly came a cropper yesterday afternoon at the Race Course in a Second Division Spunt Cup game against the Club srd XV, but after surviving a persistent civilian attack in the closing minutes, ran out narrow winners by nine points (three tries) to eight (one placed goal and a try).
The soldiers deserved their win, for they were far more businesslike in their methods, but slackness at the wrong time cost them dear and both the Club's tries came as a result of "leave it to you, sir" tactics, and had McMichael converted the second score, which he should have done, the Details would only have had themselves to blame for defeat.
Hamlin and Kerrich, at stand-off and serum half, combined very effectively and they were a thorn in the Clubs defence throughout the game. Barclay played a very good game at full-back but was inclined occasionally to come too far up the field when there was nobody replacing him. Of the forwards, (Crewe, Hall and Evans put in some very hard work that greatly assisted in opening up the game, which was keenly fought from start to finish.
Dickinson shone for the Club, while Ward and Fabian both put in a tremendous amount of work. In the pack, Chadwick and the veteran Poate, were seen to advantage. Hefherington, too, did well AREA DETAILS.—Capt. Barclay: Pte. Whybro, Driver Simpson, Pte. Wilmot, Cpl Ward: Sgt. Hamlin, Lieut, Ker-rich; Sgniman. Hall, Cpl. Searles, Sgniman. Evans, Lieut. Crewe, Pte. Faulkner, Pte. Sharpe, Pte. Grainger and Pte. Rogers.
CLUB 3RD XV:—W. P. Hetherington; B. H. McMichael, R. N. Bryant, S. J. Ward, E. A. J. Fabian; A. Thomas, R. Lickinson; T. D. Adams, C. H. Hodgman, F. W. Gilbert. J. W. Chapman, R. J. Sheppard, F; W. Poate, G. L. Hinds and W. V. K. Chadwick.
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