THE, CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1934
Sporting Page I
SAINTS HOLD RECREIO TO DRAW IN PREMIER LEAGUE SOCCER
ATHLETIC
OUTPLAY
LINCOLNS
Superior In All Departments
OPPORTUNITIES WASTED
ON BOTH SIDES
Playing before packed stands at
EARLY PENALTY GOAL
NULLIFIED
GOSANO'S HAVE POOR
MATCH
(By "Rover")
Saturday's Results
At A Glance
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FIRST DIVISION
8. CHINA "A" 5 S. CHINA "B" ARTILLERY
POLICE
-0 NAVY
1 CLUB
SECOND DIVISION
ATHLETIC
FUSILIERS UNIVERSITY CLUB
R.A.O.C.
Soskumpon yesterday, the Athletic THE Recreio received a surprise and something
in the nature of a shock in their First Divi- RADIO played excellent football to beat the Lincolns by three clear goal. sion encounter with St. Joseph's, on the Caroline POLICE Although the Lincolns missed a few Hill ground yesterday when they were forced to RECREIO
proved share two goals. the Chinese chances, superior in every department and fully merited their success.
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poor The Lincolns gave exhibition, and with one or two exceptions, the team was listless, niskicking being rampant.
The forward line was particular- ly weak, and missed chances galore.. Higgins was often out of position. On occasions he was too far in front, and on others he fell
The Recreio were well below their usual standard, the most noticeable factor being their complete lack of understanding, con- trasting vividly with their former excellent combination, which On numerous occa- had been their most dependable feature.
sions brilliant individual work was revealed, but they were never maintained.
RAILWAY
5 EASTERN
1 KOWLOON
• LINCOLNS
2 8. CHINA
THIRD DIVISION
0 FUSILIERS
3 R.A.F.
0 LINCOLNS
3 ENGINEERS
1.E LANCS
SATURDAY'S GOAL SCORERS
FIRST DIVISION
Cannell (Navy) Wearmouth (Navy) Cousens (Navy)
Ip Pak Wa (S.C. “A”)
THE SAINTS ON THE OTHER HAND, PLAYED EXCEP- TIONALLY WELL-COMPARATIVELY-AND KEPT PEGGING Howe (Club) AWAY AT THE SLIGHTEST OPPORTUNITY. THE DEFENCE, Fowler (Club)
Tam Kong Pak (S. C. "A") HOWEVER, WAS MAINLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESULT.Mose (Club).... BY BLOCKING THE OPPOSING MOVES AT THEIR COM-Ng Po Kui (S. C. "A")
SECOND DIVISION too far back, the result being that MENCEMENT, THEY HELD A USUALLY MOST EFFECTIVE Lai Sui Wing (S. C. "B") Chan Tak Fai (9. China) quite a few centres-which merited | FORWARD-LINE, WELL IN HAND.
'conversion went abegging,
Itis play in the Army-Chinexp
Herridge showed up consistently
match of laat week was too recent well in the attack and in addition to
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Unlucky Not To Beat
Cheung Moon Wing (Athletic) Fisher (Club) Purvis (Club)
Winch, (Kuwloan)
Ip Yu! Po (S. China)
Rush (Lincolns) Clayton (Lincolns)
Harper (Lincolns)
a lesson to be forgotten, and the causing Marques much concern, he PENALTY. MISSED Evans (Fusiliers)
Ward was in- AND NAVY DRAW Chinese stuck to him like a leech.was both accurate and opportune in
his approach work. The Lincoln half-backs played very well, particularly Robson, who clined to lay too far to the rear, und in consequence lost one or two Tang hard. In very Kwong-Bang Robson had a tough nice openings, but he, nevertheless, proposition, and his work was cut contrived to give quite a good ac- but in watching this speedy winger count of himself. who played one of his best games this season.
worked
Beatty was very clever in dribbl- ing, but he was at fault for holding
Leonard Prominent
Meakin in goal saved very well on to the ball too long. and he was well supported by Ash, | who tackled and cleared in fine style.
East Lancs
BRIGHT INJURED
Tse For Lim (Athlelle) Au Kim Fung (Athletic) Chan Chun Ying (Athletic) Fang Trai Po (Eastern)
THIRD DIVISION Turner (Lincolns) Santos (Recrelo) The Navy were unlucky to emerge Sandford (E Lancs) with only one point from their Wood (Engineers)
Routledge (Ordnance) Second Division encounter with the Clark (Engineers) East Lance at Causeway Bay yes- Thorpe (Lincolns) Jones (Engineers) Ferris (Engineers) Bright, the Navy captain, suffer- Woodcraft (Ordnance) In the destructive phase of his ed an injury to his knee shortly Singleton (Fusillers) work, he received invaluable aid after the match opened, and al-Salter (Fusiliers) from Elms on his left, and together though he returned to the field they provided a barrier which even quarter of an hour later, he was the two Gosanos had great difficulty passenger. In evading..
Leonard was outstanding as the leader of the halves, playing sound constructive football which enabled terday. Chinese Forwards Good
his forwards to make many danger. The Chinese forwards pretty to watch swinging the ball ous advances on the Recreio goal.
from side to side.
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FUSILIERS
were
DROP POINTS IN
LAST 10 MINUTES
FINE RALLY BY EAST LANCS
Reeson (Lincolns) Lilley (Lincolns)
Davis (Faalllers)
a
Crossley (E. Lancs)
a Wong Ham Woon (Railway)
Yesterday's Results
FIRST DIVISION
1 ST. JOSEPH'S
O ATHLETIC
2 FUSILIERS
The Navy, however, continued to Dellar, in support, confirmed his do well, the intermediary line under interport status by excellent anti-Bower doing exceptionally good cipation and clearance work, and his work, and to this both Solomon and
RECREIO aide, Souza, was almost equally as Smith added a steady and reliable
especially LINCOLNS support. Solomon was good.
accurate and neat in the clearances, EAST LANCS
Parratt and his inside partners:
Gosanos Weak-Display
up
BECOND DIVISION
5 ARTILLERY' 1 NAVY.
4 MEDICALS
FIRST DIVISION
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A group photograph taken on board the s.s. Changte last Tuesday shows Kwok Chun Hang, the brilliant Chinese breast-atroke swimmer, who is now en route to the Melbourne Centenary Championships. Kwok in second from the right, Mr. Wong Burn-man, who trained and coached him, is immediately behind. In the centre, with his hands crossed in front of him, is Mr. Leung Tit-sang, the Chinese Olymple coach and swimmer, and on his right is Shek Kam-pai, the Canton champion.
KOWLOON
INDIANS KEEP
100 PER CENT. UNITED RECOVER IN SECOND HALF Gurbachan Singh Most Outstanding Forward On Display
The Kowloon Indians' Tennis Club retained their 100 per cent standing In the Mamak Hockey Tournament yesterday when they defeated the United by the odd real in three on the U.S.R.C. ground.
The United were playing with only ten men, Minhinnett their custodian, being an absentee. In the first half. Naidu played in goal, Bcored when two goals were against him, but after the interval he played in his usual place at right-back while Kahn, who had been playing at right-back, went in goal. While. Naidu was at back not scored.
Flashes From The Field of one Foal was traded, leader,
THIS Air Force were sadly off form
G. Singh, the Indians'
The Eastern side showed flashes of was the most outstanding forward
in the Third Division on Satur-good form after the interval, during on the field, his clever and fast day, losing to the Ordnance Corps by which period Fung Tsoi-po displayed a stickwork carrying him through on three clear goals. The intermediate good sense of ball-control and culminat- line failed to combine with the fored his efforts with several splendid wards, and to this is attributed their drives. downfall.
many occasions. He was well sup- ported by Pinto and Sousa, on his left, but H. S. Singh, on the right-
The Club staged a surprising come was very unreliable, and his pass- The Club juniors did not lose to South back in their First Division encounter ing was not as accurate as usual. China as inadvertantly reported in against the Police, and won an even contemporaries, but forced a draw of encounter through excellent work in the intermediate line and by the wing for
two goals all. 钠
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Payne gave a much improved ex- hibition between the sticks, and appar- ently had mere confidence in the back division, comprising Manning Railton
and Binnie.
Railton, who made his first ap- pearance this season, has lost none of
wards
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The halves also played strenu- ously, T. Singh, in the centre play- ing a good defensive game. Naidu Outstanding
Skinner, the Club pivot, gave John-
For the United, Naidu, in tha son, leader of the Police forwards, very few chances, his tackling and passes to second half, was outstanding in the llowe and his wingers proving very defence-only once did the oppos- effective,TM
ling forwards get past him, but then
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The other wing-halves, however, they could not shoot. He his dash and the terrific pace failed to were sorely tried. Andy Duncan was backed up well by W. A. White, at fire him. Binnie was over-worked on outplayed by T. Pile, while Tavlin had left-back, the left and often bungled things with great dimeulty in holding Moss. mis-timed clearances.
FARROW PROMINENT
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FOWLER'S SHOOTING
G. Singh often started his for-
wards on dangerous attacks but
jwas too well marked by Gubbay to
The Club wingers, Fowler and Bick-be of any real danger until late in Farrow again was in the limelight ford caught the eye in the first half, the first half... playing an excellent game in the pivot the former being especially quick to The Kowloon Indiana scored a position. He is making a hold bid for seize on a loose ball, and send in snap goal through G. Singh, who netted after a solo run down the the senlor eleven berth next season.
right wing, This goal was
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snap shot.
Howe, apart from his effort which The forwards failed to combine," and Fisher was the best of the five. Dun-produced the first goal, had very few followed by another from the same can was sadly lacking in distributory chances, while the insides Drown and person's stick.
E. Strange, while combining well with powers.
their leader in the first half, were sub- Mak Yui-sang was the pick of a very dued by Parker and Brooks, the Police fine South China junior forward ilne, wing halves, in the latter stages.
UnitedKhan; Naidu and W. White: and his efforts are deserving of speciali
T. Pile and Moss impressed most Praise,
among the Police, but their accurate Gubbay and Cassey: Muller, Reed, G.
(Continued on Page 51 K.I.T.C.-Ramzan; K. Singh and A. Singh, J. Noronha, T. Singh and M. Singh; H. Singh, D. Noronha, G. Singh, Pinto and Sousa.
Au Kim-fang, who has played many centres were wasted on Green and John-White, Joncs and Nabi. splendid games for the Athletic seniors, non. Stephens, at inside left, worked proved to be their main scoring factor hard but his short passes were erratic. for the junior eleven in their game
Sanford of the East Lanes' third division team retained his reputation as
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Mamak League Table To Date
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P. W. L. D. F. A. P
7 6 0 1 21 0 13
His passing to his wingers was the a "goal-getter" and recorded the "hat-H. E. last word in accuracy, and he combin-trick" against the Railway. ed brilliantly with his two insides, Chow Yin-chung and Chan Chun-ying, GOOD APPROACH WORK
A. V. Gosano, was, to a great ex-| tent out of the picture in the opened rather slowly, but improved ENGINEERS GOOD DEFENSIVE TACTICS
Recreio attack, and showed only as the game continued, Dodda con-EAST LANCS
THIRD DIVISION The East Lancs, after being a very occasional glimpses of histributing a not inconsiderable share
The East Lancs defence was also R.A.S.C. goal, down for the greater part of normal tactics,, and, though his to the good work. their game with the Fusiliers, brother, "Bertie," worked hard and
a stirring finish, energetically for the major part of well to the fore, and showed fought back to and can but winners by 2 goals to the game, yet, he also found the conspicuously well in all phases. Har- YESTERDAY'S GOALSCORERS against the Eastern on Saturday. 1 in their First Division League work a little tiring, and was lack-wood and Steele being prominent by Soccer encounter at Chalham Roading in his usual polish. Both wing-reason of several excellent blocking Tang Kwong Sum (Athletic)
ers were fast, and sent over several movements. Their forwarde, however, Ho Ka Keung (Athletic) yosterday.
re-Harrison (Fusiliers) netting, which necessitated a
Gorman (East Lanes) The East Lancs deserved their good drives their centring, how-found considerable difficulty in Lee Hung Ching (Athletic) narrow victory, exhibiting--better ever, was poor.
Beltran was weak in his distribu-shuffle following the intervals, but O'Donnell (East Lancs)
B. Gasano (Recreio)" staying powers. than the Fusiliers,
Herridge (St. Joseph's)
SECOND DIVISION and putting up a splendid display-tion, but came to the fore with even this was of no avail.
Darby (Engineers) Howlett (Engineers)
Thorpe, (East Lanes) Parratt (Navy)
log of defensive football against a fast forward line.
A Forward Wanted
effective tackling and several hard drives.
Penalty Opens Score
The main force of the Saints was But until changes are made for- ward, the East Lance will never borne exceedingly well by the backs, prove a real menace to other First Silva-Netto and Bowen, cach kick-
Division teams.
O'Donnell and Tuley played well,
Ing hard and true in the clearances,
V. Marques giving reliable support. torched Bowen inadvertently.
but there is still wanted someone Beatty's effort at goal with his
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band, and a penalty was awarded, Herridge placing Saints in the lead:
SERVICE CORPS from the spot kick.
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GUNNERS SWAMPED Brudden (Engineers)
IN POOR GAME
Concede Five Goals. To Engineers CREAGH MAN OF MATCH The Engineers were by far the
THIRD DIVISION Clarke (R:A.8.C.) Beasley (R.A.8.C.) Flood (R.A.B.C.) Pym (Medical) Poole (Medicals)
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R.C. of Signals K.I.T.C. Although the Artillery went down in St. Andrews .. the First Division by 4 goals to 1Police
R.A.8.C. against the Navy on Saturday, they dis played their best form but were just University
United unfortunate in having to meet a bet- Buffolk
Diamond Medway
1Both the latter players exhibited ter-ter team. 1rifle drives whenever the Eastern goal
loomed in front of them, and, in spite. Durham between the sticks certainly Duncan 2 of not-too brilliant hall-control, they stayed off a greater defeat by some re- 12th Battery 2lost nothing in their approach work.
markable saves. He was well-support-C. B. A.
¡Dainty ed by Hopkins and Clancy, his two backs who gave a sound display, but who were no match for the fast mov- ing Navy forwards.
PORTUGAL'S. INTERNATIONAL
SOCCER ELEVEN
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HANDICAP
Pardoe is as good as ever, and prov- GIFFEN WINS Y.M.C.A. SNOOKER Portugal, who meet Wales in the cd very dangerous even when some dis- Sunday Herald International Charity tance from the goal, with some well-
The European Y.M.C.A. Snooker Cup on Wednesday at Kowloon, placed and stinging long range drives,
1 occasions.
Handicap for members concluded on have selected a very strong team, to which all but found the net on several be captained by Alves, the Recreio's
Saturday when G. W. Giffen won the left winger.
The Navy as a team were excellent, The following is the team:-E. M. and the only cutstanding feature was final round against J. Hickman, The BEAT MEDICALS other and B. Gosano, better team at Sookunpoo yes-
by a great effort, deflected the ball lerday, and had little difficulty in South China 'A' 10 10 30 Marquen; R. Silva-Netto, 3. Souza; the brilliant display of Wearmouth, on other semi-finalists were F. Fowler into the net to nullify Herridge's beating the Artillery by five clear South China 'B' 117 2 2 27 18 18. N. T. Delgado, N. A. Beltrao, F. the left wing, who originated many fine and R. Selk. The billiards section
goals in the Second Division. previous effort..
Fast Game In Third
Division
At the other end, the Recreio!
LEAGUE TABLES
FIRST DIVISION
P. W. L. D. F. A.Pte.
movements and directed in some excel-
11 8 2 4 29 20 14 Elms; B. Gosano, A. Ward, A. V.lent centres. His road towards the was won by E. Ponsford against L.
[ment has been arranged. 12 6 5 1 24 2018 Gosano, J. Gomes, J. L. S. Alves closing stages of the game was a bril-Skinner. Another handicap tourna
Police
St. Joseph's: Pearce; Souza, Dellar; The Engineers were superior in Victor, Leonard, Elms; Lee, Beatty, every department. Ward, Herridge and Fernandez.
Recreio: V. Marques; Silva-Netto,
Lincolns Club
.10 4.24 21 19. 12 (Capt.).
Athletic
9 4 2 3,30 10.11
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In general, the game was very Recrelo The R.A.SC continued in win ning vein yesterday, defeating the
Artillery RA.M.C. at Chatham Road, by 4Bewen; Delgado, Beltrao, E. Marques; poor, with only one team in it. If Fusiliers
Castilho, B. Gosano, A. V. Gosano, Engineers had concentrated more and Navy
the tried a little harder, they would East Lanca goals to 2, in their third Division Gomes and Alves,
have won by a bigger margin. The St. Joseph's soccer encounter...
man of the game was Creagh, who Kowloon
The Medicals' defence proved
very sound, both backs putting in
some good, work with lusty clear CHARITY FOOTBALL GAME
ances.
In the second half, the Service
Corys were fully extended to hold
ENDS IN DRAW
gave an excellent display on the Lincolns
left wing.
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Reserves: V. H. Marques, J. F. 9 3 3 3 19 18 9 Victor, J. Gonsalves, T. M. Castilho, .10.34 3.19 179 L. Fernandes and C. Santos.
123811843 7. Kick off, 3.80 p.m. Colours 11 2 5.4 15 21 8
White Shirts, Blue Knickers. 2017 29 294 9171 13 283
BECOND DIVISION AN DAM
THIRD DIVISION
10 10 0 0 34 11:20 411 812 36 18-18 East Lanes
11 82 1-42 13 17. R.AS.C. ...12 6 5 2 23 25 12 Air Fares
862 0.24 9 12 Fullers 10 4 8 3 25 15 11 Lincolns University29441 18 19 9 Radio
10 343 19 179 RAM.C. 11-48 120 24: 8 RAD.C. 11-06 511 31 5 Recreio 10 27 1 12 29 5 Polica 11 09:15 42 2 Railway. 60511051Engineers
Ope of the facts attributed to East Lanes the Gunners defeat, was their Artillery
Athletic The annual charity football game policy of long-passing the ball South China the Medicals speedy inside men, between the staff of the Government was "skled" from place to place but Pym and Poole.
Civil Hospital and the Hong Kong rarely to a waiting man the En Fusiliers and University, was yesterday played to gineers snapped up all opportuni- Engineers the a draw of two goals each. Ktles and were rarely any distance Bastern Poole Goon and E. L. Gosano netted for from the Artillery goal mouth,
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Clarke, Beaseley, Flood, Gority (own goal) netted for winners while Pym and scored for the Medicals.
Club 0%
liant Individual effort.
Hong Kong's Gridiron Victory
In a very poor and scrappy comparatively poor. game at the Valley yesterday. The bail was dropped on in- the Hong Kong team avenged/numerable occasions by both their gridiron defeat at the hands sides, while when touchdowns. of the Lingnam University, by seemed. almost certain the man 18 11 2 0 66 17 22 winning by a touchdown and a in possession would make a clumsy effort to run across and 13 11 2-0 40 22 22 convert (7 points) to nil
The sides were fairly evenly was brought down.” matched, with perhaps the Hong From scrum-down in the Lingnan half, Walter Ching took Kong team slightly the faster.
Off-side infringements were a neat pass to burst through, 11470 19.28 frequent, and the game was and touch down for the only try,
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marred to a considerable extent, the effort being converted.
The game was refereed by two The tackling on both sides was good, but the passing was ratings from a US gunboat.
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