ENGLAND SUPREME

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 83, 24 April 1937, Page 17

ENGLAND SUPREME

SLL THREE INTERNATIONALS 'THE DEFEAT OF SCOTLAND i ! THKELLS AT MURRAYFIELD V .SEVER'S GEEAT WINNING TRY \ • Malntaining the supremacy .which won against the All Blaehs in 1936, England's Rugby Union jteam this season defeated both •Ireland and Wales and thus came through the year with championship honours well defined. The victory against Scotland, In a match played at Murrayfleld, also annexed the Calcutta Cup. Jo ne man above all others did the Jxugby sfeasoif leave with a feeling of rsat elation in his heart. It was H. Sever, well remembered by the All Blacks. He did the scoring which Won the three internationals for England. He dropped the winning. goal against Wales, scored the great winning try against Ireland (described on this page last week) and scored, the Winning try against Scotland. He grounded the ball under the crossbar to win a great match. Sever is a wing three-quarter of the right Rugby 'type. Y England had never won on the •Murrayfleld ground before and their success in the third and last match of the international series this season demonstrates the superiority the team anjoys. There are many who hojd to •ihe belief that the success gained at the expense Of the 1935-36 All Blacks l4cted as an inspiration to the better turn of events in England's Rugby world. The game won lustre for itself an that great day at Twickenham last *ear. The defeat of Scotland this seaioh was by the narrowest of margins, i (two unconverted tries) to S (a pen*lty Mck). Until the final ten minutes jhe game was a draw, three all. } Win Deserved. , T. H. Evans Baillie, commentlng In he Sunday Observer, said of Engand: — "They deserved to win in the jenae that any other result would 4ave seriously disrepresented the run >f the play. Their win would have been more cchvindng if they had heen able to show a bigger tally of points. Gertainly in the second half Scotland's paek began to get on something like ejqual terms in the matter of possesflon In the test serummages, but in the flrst the monopoly was almost Utdierous. A nelghbour of mine who tept a record inade out only three Heels by Scotland in the whole forty jalnutes. "Whether this reckonlng Is correct jc not, It Is certain that, even allowag for the valour of Scotland's de;ence, England's backs ought to have :iad inore than one try. It was to some aktent the old fault of badly-timed md badly-dellvered passes by the lentres, but much more was It the reailt of having no disceraible plan of oampedgn. They wero not let down by the new captain, F. J. Reynolds, who gavethe mevery chance and E. J. Unwin, by the way he scored his try, qtoved that we have long known to 3e true of him, that what he lacks in speed he makes up for in football flrtdns. " *Tt is the centre that England wlU "iave to seek improvement in next seajon. Elsewhere she is well equipped, nr H. G. Owen-Smith gave^a perfect axample of full-back play. B. C. Gadley was as sound as ever in his Ibng raising out, and the forwards, if kcking the fire and pace of Scotland n the loose, performed their first luty of gettlng the ball admirably." Scoring of Points. .j*-'* One of Murrayfield's biggest crowds 10,000 strong— watched the match. rhe flrst score cairfe just before halfi me, when Reynolds sent out a per-.bctly-timed pass from which Cranmer md Candler fed Unwin, who, accelerxting as he neared Marshall, shot over h the corner for a perfect try. Cranner could not convert, but England 3ius led at the interval by three joints. The remaining points were scored h the last ten minutes. From a scrumnage near the left-hand corner flag hey heeled, Gadney whipped out a ?ass to Reynolds, and Sever, who had eome in to make the extra man, swerved past Marshall to touch near the posts. Cranmer failed to convert, and Scotland, the roserve of dowiihearted, rushed down to the other end, where, after Owen-Smith had carried over in fielding a high kick, England were penalised and G. D. Shaw placed a goal six minutes before ime." Celebration. ' 7" "" They carried Owen-Smith triumphmtly to the dressing room after the match. They tried to earry Sever. Asmall boy with an autograph book sprang mysteriously from every tu'ft of grass," wro'e Howard Marshall in the Daily Telegraph. "Championships, caps, and crowns you may keep, for all I care, but humble the Scotsmen at Murrayfleld aifd every English. player becomes a hero. If the "reverberations of England's triumph were to be heard at the Waverley Station later that evening, \yh° shall complain? England had beaten the Scotsmen in their own lair, thumped and spreadeafjted them properly at last;, and celebration was surely justified." The teams were: — t Scotland: K. W. Marshall (Edin"autgh Wanderers) ; G. W. S. Johnston (Richmond), R. W. Shaw (Glasgow 3igh iSchool F.P.) ; D. J. Macrae (St. Jtndrew's University), R. H. Dryden (Watsonians) ; W. A. Ross (Hillhead 3lgh School F.P.), W. R. Logan (Edinlurgh Wanderers); M. M. Henderson (Dunfermline), G. h. Gray (Gala), W. Hf. Inglis (The Army), G. B. Horsiurgh (London Scottish), C. L. Melville (the Black Watch), W. B. Young (Cambridge University), J. A. Waters (Selkirk), G. D. Shaw (Gala). England: H. G. Owen-Smith St.

Mary's Hospital), H. S. Sever (Sale), P. Cranmer (Richmond), P. L. Candler (St. Bartholomew's Hospital), E. J. Unwin (the Army and United Services), F. J. Reynolds (the Army and Old Cranleighans), B. C. Gadney (Leicester) ; H. F.W heatley (Coventry), H. B. Toft (Waterloo), R. J. Longland (Northampton) , T. E. Huskisson (Old Merchant Taylors), A. Wheatley (Coventry), W. W. Weston (Northampton), R. Bolton (Harequins), J. G. Cook (Bedford). I The referee was Mx\ S. Donaldson ' (Ireland).