Totnes v Buckfastleigh: At Totnes, in showery weather, before fair attendance. … The home men rushed along the touchline, and attacked, but Hamlyn relieved, and Pinsent was tackled in possession in the centre … Just after Rodgers scored, but Pinsent failed to majorise. … Totnes put in a grand bit of passing, but Baker was checked just in time. The visitors came away smartly, but Pinsent kicked on, and Totnes following up quickly, lost a try by Butchers kicking too hard when they had no opposition, the ball going dead. After a short spell on the defensive, Butchers carried play to the opposing back. The “Bucks” broke away, and Pinsent was called upon. Baker put in a fine run, and assisted by Knott, the first named scored a clever try, which Pinsent again failed to convert. … Rumbelow relieved, and just after Pinsent saved a score …
(elsewhere) … Pinsent was given a good deal of work in checking the rushes of the visitors, and came through the test creditably to himself, but the three-quarter line was not tested as it might have been …
(elsewhere) … Argyle are to be met at Plymouth … The team to represent Totnes will be … R. Pinsent, back, … …
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Referenced
GRO0750 Devonport: Robert Maye Pinsent: 1881 – 1944