WELSH RUGBY METHOD.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 14

WELSH RUGBY METHOD.

DENIALS OF UNFAIR PLAY. [raosi oxjA own correspondent.] LONDON, 25th February. Mr. Hamish Stuart, who is the Rugby football authority of the /Daily Chronicle, has aroused the Welshmen to great wrath. A few days ago he had an article 01* \Velsh Rugby and methods, I in which he said that when in Wales during the Christmas holidays, he saw enough of Welsh club football to justify the- statement that the game in Wales had degenerated into asi gross a libel on the real Rugby as the purist ever visioned in a nightmare. Various correspondents* consider the charges as utterly uncalled for. An old Swansea boy says: "How we in Wales used to fear the English forwards in the old days ! What a terror Sandy was when on the rush ! The little Welshman was unmercifully handled then. We then thought our opponents played 1 very rough football — also that they were too intent upon playing to win ! No Hamish Stuart lamented for Wales. We took our lickings — and started thinking. In time we built up a style of back play which often atoned for weakness forward. And gradually we asserted ourselves in the pack. The English eight were matched and beaten — and now this year those one-time rough Scotch forwards were routed." ; WELSH CASUALTIES. An Aberdare correspondent writes : — "It is a notorious fact that in a football sense Welsh casualties in 'outside' matches, game for game, far outnumber those sustained when Welsh team.9 are opposed. It is significant, too, that games between Wales andi Scotland are productive of a greater number of injuries than any match m which Welshmen engage. To mention thafc both Gibbs and Winfield were severely hurt I at Inverleith in 1907, thai Bancroft was j kicked unconscious on the same ground I (and then penalised for not playing the ball !) in 1909 ; or that the South Africans complained bitterly of the ultravigour of the Scottish forwards, may not disprove Mr. Stuart's allegation, but it should remind that gentleman that preaching purity in any circumstances is like charity, in that it should begir at home. "As to the charge that we 'play to win,' one is forced to admit it with what the Bishop of Manchester would call a 'sorrowful acquiescence.' And If a Welshman displays a little too much keennees in an international match, the English, Scottish or Irish referee officiating is partly to blame. But it would i appear that what is. honest and manly \ vigour in a Scotsman is sheer brutality in a Welshman. The following is an ex- I tract from an article written by Mr. ] Hamish Stuart, to a Northern sporting j paper, on tho eve of the Scots-Welsh match, 1908 : 'Induce some fear of forwards ii> a Welsh third line, and you will kill much of the opportunism upon which their success depends. . . This plan means that ono Welsh back is put out of action and has felt the bearlike tackle of a resolute and determined forward.' "

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