Navy Men Run Roughshod Over S.R.U.F.C. to core One Goal, Five Tries Without Reply ISPLAYING marked superiority in all phases of the game, a team from H.M.S. Birmingham ran roughshod over a Club XV yesterday afternoon at the Race Course, overwhelming their opponents by a goal and fi tries to nil in a game that was marked by the brilliant handling, passing and straight running of the Navy backs.
Securing the ball from the majority of set and loose scrimmages, Birmingham's scrum-half, Sub-Lieut. Dickie, was able to set his threes in motion time and time again and only the fine tackling and defensive play of the Club prevented an even larger score being chalked up.
Lieut. Lewis, the Navy right-winger, and incidentally a Welsh trial cap for three seasons, was the most outstanding player on -the field, his safe gathering of passes from all at gles, his delightful dummy selling and forceful, straight running, being as good as anything seen in Shanghai since the days that Harold Bidwell was in the regular habit of baffling his opponents.
Lieut. Manners, Sub-Lieut. Dickie and Pay-Master-Midshipmen Collins also showed up prominently in an attack that was ever on the mov H.M.S. Birmingham: E. R. A. Bec) A. B. Iredale, P. M. S. Collins, Midshi man Cleve, Lieut. E. Lewis; Lieut. Manners, Lieut. Dickie; Lieut. Meyrick, Lieut. McCann, Lieut. Brown, Marine Nicoll, 'Stoker Rogers. Lieut. Hewlett, Lieut,' Fanshaw and Stoker Barnes.
'A Club XV: W. P. Hetherington; R, N. Bryant, A. Thomas, G. E. Bennett, E. S. Blackwood; G. C. Williams, L. R. St. Louis; R. V. Stapleton-Cotton, W. F. Gilbert, T. D. Adams, R. J. Lucas, G. H. Hodgman, J, March, J. Havtorn, K. Monnot. Referee: D. W. Leach
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