"To aray "Terrific Pace at we) Beginning Soon Slows Down {o a Walk naich at the: Race Course. in which the the Se Highlanders, The Old Crocks rugby: match 1939 will certainly go down in local sporting afmals as one of. the keenly-played and entertaining es of tbe: serles yet seen in Shang-Paisa huge crowd thoroughly enjoying the efforts of the "Have Beens" and the "Once "Weres" to play football with all the zest. and vigour.' that (during the earlier phases) would not have shamed many a local fifteen of age. The encounter, that ed about the largest gathering f spectators seen on the Race Course yed in three ten-and surprisingly enough, the majority of the exponents finished tp passably well, although it must be admitted that most of them were, -manifésily- suffering "bellows to mend."
'The: result, three points each, stored by wey of unconverted tries, was reflex of the play,' though the "Have Beens," under trojan Jeadership of. BW Richmond, n certainly had. more' chance to increase their The game began at a terrify M.
ahd those on the side lines began to.rub their eyes in. wonderment, but as the struggle wore, the speed of the proceedings dropped perceptibly and the final third, it was an obvious fort for' any' member of either side to raise more than a walk.
Orders From Touchline tea/Seaforth Highlanders' 1st XV met their ursa yesterday afternoon at the hand:
civilian backs proving vastly superior "and goal yt four tries) to, five (one goal).
fivittory, the final score reading seven-croy paving. the "way for' what
The et an [early lead and grimly hung on to it. for gressive "tactics adopted: by the Club \pack (the clever handling of the.outsides began to tell its passed and the: Club; definitely was on' top g quite! three-fifths advantage from a territorial Mr. Juracko, of the United States ines, handled the game with a restraint that spoke volumes of the *elings of fleet-footed Youth for the "trying" efforts of Age. He did his oh most capably and was the first to observe,. after the proceedings had seen under way for five minutes, that he Whites, (Have Beens) had only "fourteen men on the field, while by ome trick-or other, the. Çolours (Once Veres) had seventeen players in their "eriks., It- was then: discovered that he Whites' vice-captain was -basking in the warm sunshine on.the touchline from where he continued, by vocal efforts, to direct his forwards for the remainder of the struggle.
Capt, Cole and the Rev. J. A. Williamson, the Whites' halves, played splendidly together and layed several: brilliant flashes of the form that in the past earned for them, International Trial caps at home.
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