Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-12
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WILL TACKLE RUGBY TEAM AT
SAN BERNARDINo
Jack Densham Probably VIII Act as
Referee on Account of His Ex-
tcnsive knowledge Of
Game

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season was fired last Saturday, when the
Castaways met the Stanford fifteen and
put up such a fine showing. The visit of
the northerners has aroused considerable
| interest in the new game, and adherents
| of the different schools that are playing
Rugby this season are looking forward to
| watching the games that are to be played
under the newly formed Rugby union of
| Southern California
| The second game of the season will
| take place at San Bernardino today be-
tween the high school In the Gateway
| town and the Castaways. Since the good
| game they put up last Saturday, the loca.
| old-timers have been flooded with appli-
cations for membership In the team, and
the secretary has been kept busy answer
| ing letters.
| Many of the Castaways are unable to
get away from business early enough to
catch the train to San Bernardino, but
the places of those who are unable to
go are very soon filled by players who
are every bit as enthusiastic as those
who took part in the first game
The Castaway lineup will differ ma
terially from that of last Saturday. Tom
Higgins will not have to cool his heels at
fullback, as he will take the place to
which he is best adapted-in the three
quarter Inc. Witt. him will be his cousin
Pat, the nonpareil Australian athlete
These two will play nearest to the serum
while Edwards and Ross Homes will be
on the outside.
The Castaways should easily outweigh
the San Bernardino lads in the serum, so
they will play only seven forwards ana
Charlie Sweet will act as the fifth three
quarter or five-eighth, as 1t is some times
called
Tom Higgins place at fullback will be
taken by Monk Pierce of Polytechnic
This little Irishman shows signs OF becom-
ing the greatest back player on the coast.
He is a certain tackler can punt the ball
up the touch line with great accuracy,
which is very important stunt in Rugby
and is swift and clever runner and
dodger. He plays equally well on the
tnree-quarter line or at ful,back, and 1t
is clever line that runs around him and
scores.
Crouch Has Chance
Tomkins will not be able to go with the
team, so his place will be taken by
Crouch, who refereed the game between
the Castaways and Stanford He looks
like a good player and has a chance to
make a record for himself as a clever
man behind the serum.
A new Castaway will work the serum
with Crouch. His name is Jack Brun-
ming, and he showed up like an excellent
football man at the Wednesday night
practice held in st. Vincent's gymnasium
San Bernardino telephoned down that
they were unable to secure suitable
referee ard asked the Castaways to bring
one with them. This being the case
Jack Densham will probably act. He is
almost as good in that position as in the
serum, having made study of refereeing
since Rugby was introduced here He
has coached with good success, but is too
slow to do very much in the forward line,
although hard work and excellent wind
enable him to follow up to good, adj
vantage.
Mitchell, who is coaching Long Beach
and played such a magnificent defensive
game against Stanford Hunt, the sturdy
little Englishmans Walton, McGrew of
Compton; Dutch" Lull, the Stanford au-
tomobile reception committe, Manning
and Hendrickson, the two cleverest drib-
blers In Polytechnic, will be the for
wards. Will White and Rheinhard, who
keep fit by chasing kids who play hooky
from school, both hope to be there and
will fill out the forward line. White was
out at Polytechnic Thursday afternoon
and played a splendid game. although he
had the intercollegiate idea of freezing
to the ball. With this aggregation the
Castaways should be able to make hard
work for the San Bernardino lads.
Have Good Coach
Tom Clapp, who captained the Welsh
international team for three years, has
been coaching the San Bernardino play
ers. They have learned from him how
and when to pass the ball, and most inn
portant of all, how to dribble. The boys
are In the pink of condition, and the old
timers are going to have no easy task to
run around them. The high school team
will certainly be better at tackling. They
are practicing every day and being
coached in this important part of the
play, and should make a good defensive
game, even is the Castaways do outweigh
them in the serum.
| One of the Castaways' best players is
unable to go today. He is Galley of the
| Dyas & Cline company. 1t has been
whispered that the firm agreed that he
was to be allowed o attend al
| the games on Saturday if the team
bought their outfits at the Dyas & Cline
store. The Castaways have faithfully
purchased their jerseys, boots and foot
| ball pants there and now, when Galley
is badly wanted for this game and would
have to leave the store at 10:30 o'clock,
| 1t is inconvenient to let him off. Galley Is
one of the best all-round Rugby players
on the coast. An intercollegiate player
when he was at college, he was persuad-
| ed to take part In a Rugby game last
year, and Is now one of the most enthu-
siastic boosters of the new game. He is
fast and strong and can play in any posi-
tiop or the field and acquit himself well.
His loss will be a grave disadvantage
to the Castaways in the game this after