Football Notes: … (discussion of local teams and results) … The match between Dartmouth and Totnes was like most of the other matches on Saturday, played under miserable conditions … I was unable to go to Yeovers to see the match – circumstances prevented. Even had I known that Totnes were to be defeated so badly, I could hardly have gone … (recollections of other games and discussion of the game) … Somehow or other Mr. Referee generally managed to pick a nice pool (for scrums) in which the oval would well-nigh float … The most important absentee from the Totnes team, an informant who has supplied me with the following details of the game says, was Pinsent, their back, and I can quite believe it, for judging by what I have heard he has been playing a smart game this season. Whoever was the Totnes back on Saturday, it is the opinion of my “shadow” that he was practically incompetent. “You only had to shout at him,” he adds, “and he would drop the ball.”. … ….
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GRO0750 Devonport: Robert Maye Pinsent: 1881 – 1944