After an extremely rough trip from the Colony in the s. Esang, the Hongkong Rugby footballers arrived here yesterday morning at 10 a.m. and all were pleased once again to stretch their legs on terra firma. Walkden, the captain of the invading team, was non-committal in his replies' to questions asked as to the chances of the southerners regaining the Saker trophy, but he declared that the side, as a whole, was reasonably fit and was quite strong. He stressed that the fifteen was not properly representative but in view of the prevailing conditions in' Hongkong, the selected team was lucky to make the trip north.
Walkden admitted that wet grounds had been unknown this season in Hongkong and that the team would find the going in Shanghai a little difficult during the earlier stages of the interport struggle, but he flatly refused to express an opinion as to thet chances of the invaders against Shanghai beyond the fact that he thought that his side had a Rfty-fifty chance of winning.
The Colony team is appended.—
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