It was quite manifest from the start of the game that the Navy would be playing a defensive role throughout most of the match and this it did manfully and with a great deal of success. For the first twenty minutes the Club was continually on the attack and only sterling defence kept the civilians out, the play, with the exception of a rare breakaway, being entirely confined to the sailors' 2 Several excellent Club threes' mov: ments should have opened the scoring, tut wrong tactics adopted by Mill and White, coupled with some e: cellent tackling by Brans, kept the invaders out.
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