4 Q After Being Routed in First Half, Ireland Score Four Tries: Parker's Infallible Toe OME people are never satisfied, the writer in "The Times"
included. One had hoped to see England play better than they did at Dublin on Saturday, (February 12) yet they won by the score of six goals, one penal ty goal, and one try (36 points) tö one goal and three tries (14 points), and an aggregate of 50 ints brought out all the adjectives and the books of records in profusion.
Long before no-side the critics had become mere flustered pencillers and almost as tired as the players. The swaying crowd first of all watched England, with the aid of a high wind and G. W. Parker's infallible placekicking, score 23 points to nothing. Then it was Ireland's turn—to some extent—for, in the second half, they obtained four tries to three and even might have made it into a match if, by some means or ancther, they could have prevailed upon Parker to change sides.
The English- changes in personnel following the game at Cardiff certainly worked wonders in the matter of amassing points. Parker's steady toe and eye upon the ball brought 15—11 of them in the decisive first half. F.J.
Reynolds, in the stand-off position, scored a brilliant try and, along with J. L. Giles, at least placed England more often and more truly upon the offensive than one -has grown accustomed to seeing them in recent years. Again, R. M. Marshall, a new forward in the second row, was a stupendous Success, and that not only because he ran some 50 yards to score the try of the match. As for the return of R. E. Prescott to the front row of the scrummage, it certainly appeared to be successful apart from his try, though the new assortment of Irish forwards took a long time to settle down and never compared with the Irish packs of the last 10 seasons. Only one of them, the veteran S. Walker, stood out, and only two others, R. Alexander and the new cap, J. W. S. Irwin, accomplished anything worthy of note, though it may be said that R. B. Mayne's try came into that category.
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