Jim Hale
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"James Alfred Hale" (1916-1992) was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s.

Jim Hale was graded with the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 1940 and switched mid-season to join the St George Dragons with whom he played eight seasons between 1940-1947. He is remembered as the second-row forward in the St George Dragons/St George side that was defeated in the 1946 NSWRFL season/1946 Grand Final by Balmain Tigers. At the end of the game, Jim Hale and his team-mate Herb Gilbert, Jr. were involved in a brawl when a spectator jumped on to the Sydney Cricket Ground playing area and punched Hale. The incident almost caused a riot amongst rival players and fans and resulted in a number of arrests by police. Jim Hale, like his father Percy (1887-1953), was an amateur heavy-weight boxer, and the brawl between him and Gilbert was a huge talking point in the Sydney press for days afterward. After retiring from Sydney first grade football, Jim Hale captain coached the Boorowa Rovers Rugby League Club in 1948-1949.

Jim Hale died on 28 December 1992, aged 76.

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We just didn't shoot the ball well from the field or the free- throw line.

We feel like we are peaking at the right time. But we know that nothing is going to come easy for us because this is a very tough tournament with a lot of great teams in the field.

We just didn't shoot the ball well from the field or the free-throw line. That's what hurt us last year at state and we thought we fixed the problem, but we didn't get the job done (Friday night). That's also a credit to Del Norte to because they play great defense.