The Archive · 1940

Big Trophy For Light Horse Winner

Mrs. H. Maitland presenting the Ralphs Challenge Cup to C. N. Abbott who won the Light Horse Point-to-Point held yesterday Capt, Maitland is in the middle of the picture. The Cup was originally presented by Lieut. Ralphs who commanded the unit from 1912 to efforts, to say the least, were certainly pleasing from a football point of view. Their handling, clever running ud passing were up to the usual high and ard expected of this team and their task was made all the easier by the pitiful endeavours of the Club, whose backs and forwards seemed to have forgotten even the most elementary rules of the handling code. prevent what appeared to be another certain try.

Within thirty seconds of the resumption Koyakumaru gathered from a maul and leaving the defence literally standing ran 20 yards to score far out and level the total.

His effort was not improved upon.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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