eT THE DAILY BRITISH i z Te - ee re HE WANTS ENGLISH RUGBY 5 rise to them. The, answer fs in. the formution laid down and the principld, of possession of the ball. 0 . r GAME. pert tacklers deploved in 1 HS OLD COUNTRY GA {cut off the three haif-backs,, it is 1 3 1 5 3 RTP He Declares 3 Rugby is | 21most impossible for the latter ever Uni ihe Dunadian. x # | 0 Bet .an open run started, because MMuteseating in Comparison UE | they are almost invartably downed in Game is Referes-Ridden. their tracks. H. W. Macdonnell, of Queen's, { "0 + What a | writes as follows to the Toronto | portant reason, is ous rule. which " Star: { allows the side holdifig the ball when 1-have. seen two games of rughy [it becomes "dead" to put it again as Ty Tthis season, the Queen's-University | fate play. This rule has impressed » A ' of Toronto, and the McGill-Univer- | 850 deeply on players'. minds tee Hare) good old-fashioned "| sity of Toronto games. - 1 came away | necessity 'for getting the ball ballad song that's 'making | trom the first match strongly of tha Hit hag become 4 mania. An instance 8 H one of the biggest sentimental. hits on record. Henry Burr j opinion that our present game i which happened the other day will sings the appealing words and | Poor one, but was afraid that this | illustrate my meaning. The ball { opinion might be partly due to the |had been missed by a half-back. One beautiful melody with sincere and tender feeling. . Coupled { fact that the team 1 once played with | of the opposing wings dashed past {had been badly beaten. However, | the MoGill-Toronto game, I had | with no rene between him and the i exactly the same feeling, though I | opposing goal! Instead of dribbling { had no personal interest in the game, | the ball -down "the gpen fieM or "land I find many who share my views. pleking it up and running with it, { = What everyone wants to see in a | he Yell on it, and was applauded on «" iting'? rom "ey 3 rugby game is a maximum of open al! hands. A man who 'did this in, with Waiti (f Listen | running and passing and a minimum | for example, the English game, : Lester™) arles Harrison. | of 'bucking? The present game, | would have forfeited all right to be 3 : | however, exactly reyerses this, and | considered a player. : 88----90c¢ | ®lves us a minimum of-bpen running | : A27 90c . | and passing, and a maximum of clese | AD incidenta¥Wefect in my opinion, [mass play. This, I submit. - spoils | Which is made pdssible Dy the fact ¢ " ; the game for spectator and player | that we have "possession of the ZF x : | ball," {is the elaborate organizatton d {alike. That it spoils the game for | ! ¢ r O00 ecoras | the spectator will be universally ad- |fosuiting In a» squall, elaborate sys- nt al . mitted: that it spoils the game for lem of code "signals, which we now ' RARE . {the player is to my mind proved by | have In oy ame. Eh opinion . ! " {the fact that after the scheduled | } ) 'TELL ME' --Fox Trot : A2783 | ho fact that rugby football is not | Universal), is that this feature of = > = : | played, eyen in schools and universi- | OUT game is very yafortunate, 1 "BREE ZF y Fox Trot a aa 90 Hes where people, have leisure to do | Pelieve at we have 4 " | Take Me Back to Canada"--Burr ; Hoop pther Wualitles, sugh as 4 » , s |. Nor is the undue amount of close |21ertness ability to- act quickly, ete. " " y { mass play the only defect of the | I have already said enough to in- Hearts of the World --Quartette SA IRISH JIGS-+Ac¢cordion IRISH REELS Accordion . 1 i | dicate that my. cure for the presen . present game. Another serious fault | dica i ! ) 5 90 abe it gets worde every year--is | eVils Is to stop tinkering at our pre- | hat the game has become "referee- | 5eRt-game and to abandon it entirely Al9] 7 | ridden." . The ideal thing in any | ID favor of the English game. i game, it will be readily admitted, is | It would make this letter anduly R40 l 3 combat. s.r Yr | that it should be 'as free from {lodg if T atte pted to set out what (technicalities as possible, 'and that |; consider the advantages of the { ¥here should be a minimum of inter- i English game. | I shall merely say | ference By the referee. Nothing 'S [that it is . free from what I. con. | more annoying, to spectators and { ayers alike, than a game in which | ee the referee's whistle is continually | fi det agsiots of the ball aad blown and the play stopped. But [that it has developed to a very high i under the present rules the game is {pitch the rumning passing gpme as full of technicalities as an old-| which I beliéve evervdhe wants time law suit, and whether he will or | = reasons for this I conceive to j mot the referee: must continually |, mainly two. In the first place, the {stop the game and penalize one side.) oy oy the ball when it becomes jor the other,.more often than not-- |. 30 bi 0 to be struggled for. in and this is important--for reasons | yo "serum," and may be gained by Which are quite unintelligible, Rt | efther side means that there is no only to, the Ordinary 2 ectator, po | inducement to hold the bail, as in : A io 5 | our game, but, on the contrary, ever | happened to have attended the latest aT Eames to get rid of i toy | meeting of the rules commission. A | being tackled, the result being a game of which this is true, is, I sub- | game with far fewer stops, much mit. self-condemned. : more like gur own game of hockey. 1f the above-described evils do | mp. gocomg réason is, I think, that exisf, what is it in our rules that has | when the ball is put in play the ---- pe | ik formation of the forwards | | enables the moks to initiate re. peatedly open plays in which the forwards can join. It 'must not for a moment be imagined that the open plays ajone. } Zealanders and South Africans play {in England, and. it not infrequently {happened that the ball changed hands during one run as many as ten or a dozen times. Space does not permit me to dwell on the many other excellences of the English game--the skilful dribbling, entirely absent from our game, the clever cross-kicking, developed in the best teams to a high art. and many other features. Jt may not be amisé to point -out the widespread popularity which the game has won throughout the world, in France and. other ' European SolrutHes, in Australia, in India, in South Africa, in New Zealand, in Nova Scotia and. British Columbia, a# well as in the British Isles. This in itself surely speaks volumes for the game. It is necessary to add a word of caution. {The English game badly piayed is hopeless," and there is no use In expecting that it will gain 'jtavor either with players or speota- tors unless pains are taken to see that en adequate exhibition. of it is somehow provided. Se far-as I can See there are only two possible ways fof having such a demonstration sp eee a nnn, 0 Best selection of Records Between Toronto and Montreal EY BC Re oh, LAG INCOR; Sporting Goods Co. - 88 Princess St. Ha Kingston, Ont <TR. PHONE 529, yo INNEENEAEENEREERRN NREREERENRREE NA rt PA A, i a, preferably the "Little Big Four," to be. sufficiently coached to be able to put on a satisfactory exhibition, and the other is to bring out two English 'teams of the first rank (one is no good, because a game between one English team and a Canadian \ team ignorant of the game would be a fatlure) and have them go through the country giving a series of ex. Hibition matches. 5 5 WHIG In the World of Sport 1 believe that so long as we have | AN OLD QUEEN'S PLAYER FAV. our present formation with ping ex- | width to] The second, ahd ven more im-, that | at {him and bad the ball before him, | My own opinion | sufficient | The fact is that the game is | Organization" in other departments | | no donger a sport--it is a gladiatorial | Of life, and that games are meant sider the two insuperable defects in| A aro Mined Lo tue-bagks | has heen accepted by the local team. given; one 1s for some of the schools; |, | General Sport Eleven Buropean bicyele riders {are on. the ocean for America to jcompete in the six-day race at New | York, November 30th, - 5 3 ' \Brossean has cancelled his bout at {Montreal Monday with Levinsky on | account of his injury at Portland, | Maine. = ! A Clacinnati heavy named O'Brien has hands that theasure nine Inches Irom the wrist to the tip of the | middle finger. , They are five and | one-half inched in width agross the | back, and the fingers are ur and one-half inches long. The minor Jeagues' committee con- | ferred: informally with the National Commission yesterday with a wiew to resuming the old relationship. Vincent Daly, in the elghties a {member of the New York team, fa | dead at Rochester. Says President Fultz of the Inter- | national: I do not care to comment j further than to say I regevd the op- | position of Mr. McCaffery as. both { complimentary and harmless." LEONARD AND DlinbEE 1 TO FIGHT 20 ROUNDS | It VIII Be First Bout Over the | { | Long Route For the Champion. 3 = } t is reported that Benny Leonard, | the world's - lightweight champion, | {and Johnny Dundee, the clever Ital- f { lam, Will box twenty rounds to a de-| | cision at New Haven on January { | 36th. These lads have already met | | something like séyen times, with the { honors, fairly even: | Mere dre any number of fans 'who { | think that Dundee could outpoint the | | clever Hebrew over the ronte. John- | | ny has se 1 times participated in | | long distance bowls, 'wherras Benny | { has yet to-go the route, i A lot of experience is needed to go over twelve 'rounds. Dundee tcels | | absolutely confident that he can de-| { feat Benny on points. AThough he is punching better than ever in his | career, as evidenced by his recent | kn out of Tommy Huohey, he! | doesn't venture the opinion that he | | will stop the clever champion. IHow- i | ever, 'he feels sure that jhe will pile | up enough points bo earn for him an | easy victory, It will be the first real | championship fight at New Haven | since the days of the McGovern-Cor- { hett fight. 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