THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1936
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GENERAL SATISFACTION EXPRESSED REGARDING H.K. SOCCER XI
Leonard Or Lee As Best Leader? PEN SKETCHES
Sports
Chatter
(By GEOFFREY SIMPSON)
London December 2.
PYVEN with wagera fairly made,
EVEN
EAST LANCS.
JUNIOR HOCKEY
TEAM BEAT “y
Dickinson Best Forward On-View-
MILITARY SIDE MUCH TOO GOOD
the McAvoy-McCoy - fight In a scrappy hockey match at happens to remind us that Bri-King's Park yesterday afternoon. tish fighting stock, when properly the East Lancs. second team de- nurtured and taught, is the equal feated the YMCA by the odd of any produced in foreisa ring goal in three. The score how It happened all right at Madi-lever, is no criterion of the respec
tive ments on the teams, for thej son Square Garden, New York when Mr. Joseph Bamford. soldiers were obviously the better mill band of Rochdale, alias Jock side. They might have won by a large margin had their forwards | McAvoy, handed a beating to Al
advantage of McCoy, rated No. 1 contender for been able to take the world light-heavyweight cham-the openings. pionship.
ex
Most of the play during the first half was in the “Y's” ares;
McAvoy won op points over ter. B. Henry, the "Y" right-back rounds by such a wide margin
putting in some very good worky. that he exploded all the experts with quick and accurate clear- in New York and confounded the
Jances. The other back, E FÓW- Dismal Jimmies at home.
To get this victory in the corer, was obviously playing out of rect perspective it should be noted Position, and gave a much better account of himself when he that in the world rankinga for:
ịchanged places with E F. Selk, November the name McAvoy (the inside-left, at the interval. E meant so little to Americans that Smith and C. Brock were the best they did not grade him in the first in the "3" front line, while B. A ten cruiser-weights.
So they made McCoy favourite Bates and J. Millington were both
reliable in the intermediate line. and hoped that the Britisher would be able to "take it."
WARMLY PRAISED
F
the fourth round the favourite was visiting the canvas from a thump on the chin, and did not look so good. By the end of 10 rounds he looked worsë.
McAvoy got the decision and a warm oration from the crowd. Americans can be seathing aboutį fighters who cannot or will not: fight, but when they get what they want they can be most generous.
This to-day McAvoy finds praise being showered on him from all sides. "The best Brit- ish fighter I've seen here," 521d
Jack Dempsey. The best since
Teung Shui-yick, above, tributed in no small measure to win over Lyemun last Saturday. South China "B's Senior Shield
CATHOLIC UNION CLUB LEAD
Steel, Coulson's Billiards
CHANGE IN POSITIONS POSSIBLE
BICKFORD AND TALBOT DANGEROUS WING
T
IS SID STRANGE GOING UP AS A PLAYER?
HE selection of the Interport soccer team to meet Shanghai on Friday week in the North- ern city has met with general satisfaction and ap-| proval in local football circles, and the consensus of opinion is that the team chosen is a good and well balanced one.
The last-minute announcement by Lee Wai-tong that he would be able to make the trip was a source of much pleasure, and his inclusion in the team has greatly enhanced our chances. of beating Shanghai.
Experience has shown that during most of the matches in Shanghai it was the local forward line that failed, but there is every reason to hope that the line chosen will do what is expected of them.
-One little-point to be considered is whether Leonard:would not be better suited to the centre-forward position with Lee Wai- R. E. SERGEANTS CLOSE ON tong at inside-right. Lee can play equally well in both positions,
THEIR HEELS
but he can draw the defence and open up the play considerably better than Leonard, who generally relies on his weight to carry him through the opposing defence.
to
Dickinson Excels
As a result of recent matches. Dickinson, the East Lanch in the Catholic Union continue side-right was easily the best for head the Steel, Coulson's Billiards ward on view, and gave McCarthy, League, whilst the R.E. Sergeants the centre-forward, every support have displaced the Prison Officers.
McCarthy opened the scoring
to secure second place. for the soldiers midway through the first half, and added the other after the interval W. J. Brown scored for the “Y“.
SMITH BEATS SKINNER
Colony Billiards Championship
The following are the latest m
C&PO.'s Club 1 R. E Set's Ramsay
150 Warr Savage
Harris Edmonds
Darwent
115 Harris
113 Raynor
116 Staples
136 Chant
150
PEN SKETCHES
OF COLONY'S DEFENDERS
Fitting Conclusion To 150 Rodger's Career
150 150
R.X. Yard Police Prison Officers & BELTRAQ, FINE ALL-ROUNDER
Staford
Philpott
Gomman
137. Pile
118 Pile
63 Perry
150
150
150
The following are pen sketches 156 of the Colony's defence:
150 GEORGE RODGER, kzoWŁ to
Cheng Shui-hong, above, is the mainstay of-Exster's team and was largely responsible for his team's splendid via against the Fusiliers in the Junior Shield last Saturday.
OF COLONY'S
FORWARDS
Lee Wai Tong's Fine Record
B. GOSANO'S FOURTH INTERPORT
The following are pen sketches of the Colony attack:
Born in Hong Kong in 1910, B. GOSANO learned his soccer at St Joseph's College, and was a member of the team that won the School's League m 1923 He turned out for the Recreio in the Second Division in 1926 and made his First Divison debut in 1928- 29.
He played with considerable success on the right-wing and secured his Erst: Interport cap against Shanghai in the 1930-31 season. He played again for the Colony in the November 1982-33 game and in February, 1933-34. In 1929-30 and 1931-32 be re- presented Hong Kong against the Portuguese Lusitano Cup Interport. He tour ed Java in 1981 with the Athletic team and in 1933 he was a men- ber of St. Joseph's team that toured Manila in the same year during the Carnival Week.
PEN SKETCHES
OF RESERVES AND Shanghai in
MANAGEMENT
Bliss, Example Of Perseverance
Bickford and Talbot played SID STRANGE HAS FINE RECORD very well together on New Year's!
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DAVID LEONARD was born in Hong Kong in 1909 and learn- St Joseph's
day, and if they can develop an The following are pen sketches ed his football at even better understanding during of the Colony's soccer reserves College. He started playing in next Saturday's practice game and management: this wing will need very care:
the League when only 14 years
chosen to re-
GEORGE HILL, who was bom of age, at right-back in the Third ful watching by the Northerners in Glassgow in 1908, was playing Division. He has been playing The defence looks very for the senior team of his school for the Saints ever since, and has sound, without any apparent
lab the age of 13. Not long after been for several years their main weakness. Swain and Pile are
leaving school he played in the goal-scoreż both fast, while the halves,
Third Division of the Churches In 1931 he was with the exception of Lee Kwok-wai, have all had Inter- port experience. Lee lost his place last year to Parker aw- ing to an injury just before the trials.
League in Clasgow, and a 'year present. Hong Kong as "inside-left later found him in the First Divi-in-the Interport team, but the trip sion.
cancelled owing
to the He how-
From 1928 to 1930 he played for trouble in Shanghai. the Battlefield Football Club in ever, travelled to Shanghal. an.
the Scottish Amateur League, 1934 as a reserve forward. his more intimate friends 2.4
The Association are sending up and in 1931, he joined the Dunoon He toured Manila with the St. 116-Smiler is one of the younger a trainer, together with a mana. Milton Rovers, a Second Division Joseph's team and is now one of
Brotherston 137 Gwyther 91 Shaw Catholic Union 5 Civil Service GO
150 Grimmitt Periera last Santos night, S. G. Smith beat L. D. Skin-Silva . 150 Phillips.
Jordan
Santos made a break of 56 med
Berg," said Jimmy Johnston, the At the Club de Recreio Garden chief—and so on.
All of which means that Mc-ner by 300 points to 292 in the "Avoy, who has already done him- Junior Billiards. Championship.
self well out of boxing, his hotel. M. J. Medina received a walk- DRC and his riding school, is about to over from Ma Chun-man at the Newham start collecting American dollars. Club Lusitano.
Lewis Ash
BIG OPPORTUNITY
FOR
150 Rakusen
150 McGowan
150 Strange,
24
4. St. Patrick's
150 Santos
145
150 Remedios
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LEE WALT, the idol
51 veterans" in First Division foot-ger, for the first time in the his- team participating in the West of their best all-rounders. 123 ball in the Colony to-day. Borntory of the series. It is not quite Scotland Amateur League. While in Hong Kong in 1890, Rodger certain whether S Strange is at Home he played at back, but Periera, made one of 69 (unánished) first played football in Aberdeen, being considered as a player or when he joined the Kowloon Foot- the Chinese soccer public, has Scotland, as an inside-left: not; if he is not the selectors ball Club in 1931 he was played been playing football for the last 15 years. His first game was at 89 then returned to the Colony in should choose another player to in several positions.
1916 and played for the Kowloon make up the four reserves allow- In 1930 he joined the Hong inside with the second eleven, Football Club. The next seasoned by the rules of the Interport Kong Football Club, where he has but he showed such good form been partnering Sid Strange at that the following season (1921) 150 found Rodger in the ranks of the competition.
Hong Kong Football Club, though
full-back, though he has also been found him in the first team."bl He was a member of the South Abe did not have much football The following have been select seen among the forwards. -10-9 1 40 10 owing to a cartilage injury.
Aus- He has played for Scotland on China team which toured I:ed to represent the Colony against 19 was in the same season that Shanghai in the Interport contest Herald Charity Cup competition return to the Colony, won the several occasions in the Sunday tralia in 1922 and which, on their
The matches between H.-W. Mar Staples and E. D. da Roza (at the Bright C.S.C.C. at 8:30 pm) and P. A
150 Castilho 150 Castro -142 Bemedios TABLE TO DATE
·P. T. L E
O some years the best light Ivanovitch and Lam Cho Cha (at.c
heavyweight in the States the Cheero Club. at 8:30 pm). R. E. Sets. was Marie Rosenbloom (otherwise both of which were scheduled for Prisons Officer "Slapsie," because of his opeto-night, have been postponed RW-F glove bitting). Then
until next week. there wa Bob Ülin, and, lastly, John Henry Lewis, a coloured man.
The arrival of McAvoy will sti mulate à doll, division, and the next we can expect to hear is that the Lancashire fighter has been paired with Lewis for the world crown.·'
{C & C C.
D. R. C. TO-DAY'S GAME
Garrison Syt Lasitano:
C.P.O.'s Mai Chan-jed v F. A. Broadbridge R. N. Y. P.
| St Patrick's
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TO-DAY'S HOCKEY ·
The following will represent This match should net McAvoy the Hong Kong. Hockey Club about £6,000, bat, more important against the YMCA on the Club it might bring the championship Ground, King's Park, at 5 pm to Britain-and can we do with to-day.
***
McAvoy has a splendid oppor tunity of making boxing history.
He has the incentive, he has the moral-assurance of a smart vie tory over America's best conten- der, and if he needs any further encouragement he can find it in the remit of a recent fight in-San Francisco,
POLICE LEAGUE FOOTBALL
3.9%
10 7 3.32 : 18 10 3. 31
Interport XI
5 2 22 13 played for the Defence Corps in Shanghai on January 24, and 35423 team which won the United Ser-will sail from the Colony on the and in other representative games. League championship.
45.20 30 vicer League, a competition which | M.V. Victoria on Sunday next, re-
84420 20
9. 27. 16 29 was inaugurated during the War. turning on January 30 by the
7 8 16 34 Later in the same season Rodger BMS. Empress of Russia.
11 34 was given his place in the Club
NEW ZEALAND VISITORS
Line-Up For Game Against Colony
wireless
first eleven when "Archie" Gold-G. Rodger (Club)
enberg, their regular goal-keeper, Pie Swain (East Lancs.)
was forced out of the game C Pile (Police)
ing to an injury to his foot. Ex-
cept for the periods when he was Leung Wing-chui (S, China "A") away on leave, Rodger has play-N. Beltran (Recreio)
In 1924 Lee went to Shanghai and threw a his lot with the Lob
A. S. BLISS, the Kowloon cen- Hwa Club, securing two Interport. tre-half, first learned how to Lick caps and captaining the team a football when at the Diocesan that this Club sent to Australia Boys School and later at the in 1930. ***
Kowloon British School, now the The following sexson found Central British School. Although Lee back in the Colony again, and he is only 26 years of age, he has he has since then appeared fairly had 11 years' experience in leagnefregularly for South China. Ee football, having first played for is the captain of the "A" team the third test of the Kowloon this year.
Football Club when but 15 years] He has taken part in three Fir of age For the last eight years, Eastern Olympic Games, while (Capt.) however, Bliss has played for the he was also captain of the South-
Kowloon seniors
em China team, at the National The Kowloon pivot has played Meet held in Shanghai Izte to mostly in the intermediate line, 1935. though he has occupied both the full-back and gosi-keeping par-
tions for Kowloon f
·R TALBOT," of the Fusiliers, He had very bad luck in 1930 (frat came into the limelight when, after being selected to local football when he was fore- make the trip to Shanghai with led to take Keneghan's position as
ed for the Club even since. He Lee Kwok-wai (5. China “A”) was captain of the team which
B. GOLD (Recreo) E. F. Shields: J. Rodger and I. E
won the league championship in D. Leonard (St. Joseph's) Power (Capty; G. Sommer, J, G. A
message has 1925-26 and is shipper again this, Lee Wai-tong (S. China A Cotesworth and J. L. Tetley W. A been received from Mr. Mar his last year in senior division Fus. Talbot (Fusiliers)
Smith Reed, RA Bates, S. A. Fowler, D.
the fol giving Carey and E. C. Woodhouse.
football
B. L. Bickford (Cình). lowing as the line-up of the
Rodger won his first Interport] · New Zealand Universities' Eugby
@Reme=res: cap in 1925-6 and has since figur-G. Hill (Club) team to meet Hong Kong to-mored in the matches between the A. Bas (Kowloon) row on the Club ground, com Colony and Shanghai in 1929-30, Wong Kai-sh (8. China "A") mencing at 4.30 p.m. The following will represent the
November, 1922, and February, Manager L Ralkon GR Bush; B. V. A. Jones, ELE
Trainer: S. H. Strange European Police team in & Third Fookes, J Watt, C..C.. Gillies; G. 1965. Division Football League match A. Parsons, J. J. McAuliffe; W. K He has been chosen again this In this Lewis, though not de against the RAMC to-day on
Laney, H. E. Burke, E. J. Thomas, L. season, thus bringing to a fitting interested in the game and his the Colony team, he was so badly pivot, following the latter's un- fending his title, was well beaten the Kowloon F.C. ground-at 3an. A B. Chesterman, I. O. Stace soccer career for the Garrison, at Preston. In prior to the Interport that he had ed regularly for the Fusiliers as S. Drake, D. A. Hudson. O. W. Chap close what has been, a brilliant first big match was when he played injured in a match only a week fortunate accident. He had play by Rosenbloom, who, for a puglist, Pizza. 2- Maming: Salter and must be getting quite elderly.
The players of both teams will Podger has played for Scot 1982 he played, for the battalion to be left out of the side os forward before that, and Greig Cameron, Brittain, and be numbered and programmes land regularly since 1923 in the at Catterick Camy. In 1983 the thing daunted, however, Elias per though he himself did not. score Campbell; Bose, Dowman, Willer-are being printed giving details Sunday Herald" International battalion came East, and during severed and when Hong ton, Green and Shishkin, Be-of the Universities represented. serves Terrett, Hutchinson, Wi- These programmes will be on sale Charity Cup competition, and has their short stay in Shanghai sent a team North again in 1982, sible for the openings through lis and Jessop,
been captain of the side on nam- Swain turned put. for them in be made the trip. In addition to which his side scored erous occasions ?
He this, Bliss has played - In
The ore of Ridley in the Colony robi bum Sunday Herald
of obtaining a Lai place as a forward in the Amny burt in
UNITED STATES TRIALS FOR DAVIS CUP
At least air players are expect- ed to be given trixis for the-1936)
American Davis Cup tesin, includ-
ing Wilmer L. Allison 12 the
at the ground.
1935 HARDCOURT: TENNIS
SCHAMPIONSHIPS.
K.C.C. LEAGUE TEAM-
GF. SWAIN, the righ the East Lancashire Re The following will represent book Hitle Interest in The seating accommodation for the Kowloon Cricket Club against be fined the Army rational, akampion Johnny Van the 1986 hard court lawn tennis the Civil Service in the
he improved, Byn, Allison's doubles partner, J. championships at the West Han's cricket, league at the Donald Badge, Frank Shields"
“Bitsy" GranË.
-did zo" weil læst. year
merits. z, tryout turned down3_DTO.
Lawn Tennis Club, Melville Park Saturday:
Bournemouth will be increased F. Goodwin (Captain) appeurimately by 1,040 seat, and her, EF Finche there will be much more, standin
zoom for specta
AW Ramse
most of their league
has played com
of while they Colony,
Charity Cup as well as the |Wah Cup: matches.
WONG MER football in 1923,
for the
ong many quals, was largely respon»
far he has shown ny
aday other