INTERPORT
Leung Wing-chin, above, makes his Fourth Interport appearance for the Colony against Shanghai next Thursday.
COLONY XI PEN SKETCHES
FIRST CHINESE TO CAPTAIN COLONY
FUNG IS BORN SCHEMER
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 8, 1957.
SOCCER FEATURED
SHANGHAI ELEVEN
STRONGEST EVER
VISITORS HAVE THREE
MATCHES HERE
THE
HE outstanding feature of this week's sports programme is the annual Interport Football contest which will be held on the Royal Navy Re- creation Club ground, at Causeway Bay, on Thurs- day at 3.30 p.m. The Shanghai Football Association are sending down one of their strongest sides in- cluding six members of the A.S.F., who at present lead the Shanghai soccer League.
Speed, ball control and deadly marksmen ably describe
defence, will have to play to scratch to avoid a defeat similar to that of February, 1933. Shanghai will play three games, the other two being against the Hong Kong Chinese at Caroline Hill, on Saturday, and against the Combined Services at Sookunpoo, next Monday.
Shanghai attack, and the Hong Kong team, and particular the
The Colony team, with one ex-] against the Rifles. The Inter- port should produce one of the ception, are all reported fit, but most stirring struggles within Lee Tin-sang sustained a bad the last six years and on current knock on his right-ankle in yes- form, the betting is 2 to 1 on terday's League encounter Hong Kong.
INTERPORT SOCCER
TEAMS
M. Campbell, above, the Rifles' and Army centre-half, will make his first appearance as an Inter- ́porter next Thursday at Causeway
Bay:
COLONY XI PEN SKETCHES
GOSANO'S FINE RECORD
LEE TIN SANG IS BEST BACK
A. V. GOSANO was born in Hong Kong and was educated at St. Joseph's College. He took up soc-
The following are the two Interport Football teams and re- cer with the St. Joseph's College in-
LEE WAI-TONG, idol of the Chinese soccer public, and Captain of the Chinese football team to Ber- lin, has been playing football for the last 15 years. He is a commer- cial secretary by profession, He
of the member team which toured South China. Australia in 1923 and which, on Victal (Lusitano) their return to the Colony, won the
was
2
serves:-
SHANGHAI
League championship. In 1924 Lee Marcal (A.S.F.) went to Shanghai and founded the Collet (SR.C.) Lob Hwa Club securing two Inter-
HONG KONG
De Boissezon (A.S.F.) GOALKEEPER Pau Ka-ping (S.C. “A”)
RIGHT-BACK Lee Tin-sang (S.C. “A”) LEFT-BACK A. V. Gosano (Recreio)
RIGHT-HALF Leung Wing-chiu (S.C. “A”) CENTRE-HALF M. Campbell (Rifles)
LEFT-HALF R. Evans (Fusiliers) CEN.-FORDARD Yeung Shui-yick (S.C. "B") INSIDE-RIGHT Fung King-cheong (S.C. "B") CEN.FORDARD Lee Wai-tong (S.C. “A”)·
(Captain)
port "caps" (1927, 1928), and cap-J. Ward (A.S.F.) taining the team that this Club sent Cochran, (S.R.C.) to Australia in 1927. The following
Belinsky (S.B.C.)
Bossuet (A.S.F.)
season found Lee back in the Co-Foyn ̈(S.F.X.). lony again, and he has since then appeared fairly regularly for South China. He has taken part in three Roboostoff (A.S.F.) Far Eastern Olympiads (1925, 1930, 1934), while he was also captain of the victorious Hong Kong Chinese team at the National Meet held in J. Ward (A.S.F.). Shanghai late in 1935. He was given the unique honour last year of be- ing the first Chinese footballer to captain a Colony side against Shanghai in the Interport series, after having been awarded his first Colony "cap" în 1925.
Un-
I. Greenberg (S.R.C.)
Bell (A.S.F.) Parkinson (Loyals) W. Ward (A.S.F.)
INSIDE-LEFT A. Wilson (Club) OUTSIDE-LEFT B. L Bickford (Club.)
RESERVES
J. Talbot (Fusiliers)
N. Beltrac
(forward) (half-back)
(half-back)
(full-back)
(forward)
B. Stevens (Rifles)
D. Knox (Kowloon).
Glimpses Of Saturday's League Football
Cheuk
termediate team, representing them from 1919. He later played for the seniors from 1921 to 1922-23.
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After leaving school Gosano joined St. Joseph's Football Club, representing them in the Second Division of the Hong Kong League. He was then transferred to Club de Recreio. He played for Recreio seniors from 1924 to 1933 and was in the team which won First Divi- sion honours în 1926. In 1983 he went back to St. Www Joseph's, touring Manila with 15 others. Two seasons ago he went back to Recreio. There is probably no other foot- baller or sportsman in the Colony with as brilliant an Interport re- cord as Gosano. He was invited to play in the Interport every season from 1926 to 1936 and played in all the games excepting those in the 1932 and 1936 seasons. He has also. played in the Lai Wah Cup Com- petition, Governor's Cup Competi- tions, and in the "Sunday Herald" International Charity Cup Compe tition
"LEE TIN-SANG - was born in Hong Kong. He is reputed to be the finest full-back ever produced by China, Starting soccer with South China AA. in 1926, he later toured the South Seas. He represented China at the Far Eastern Olyn- piads in 1930. (Tokyo) and 1934 (Manila), visited Australia in 1927 with the Lob Hwa team, represent- ed Hong Kong against Shanghai (1933 and 1935) and was one of the
FUNG KING-CHEONG is doubtedly the greatest soccer lead- er China has ever produced. A born schemer, he is invaluable to any attack. He first started with South China juniors in 1924, being promoted two years later, since when he has been one of the most prolific goal-scorers. He played for the Colony against Shanghai in 1932, he led the China attack at the
The Fusiliers are now losing grip on were scored in breakaways. 1934 Far Eastern Olympic Games their chances of winning the senior Shek-kam and Chan Tak-fai were in
On Saturday deadly form near goal: in Manila, has also toured the South soccer championships.
were surprised by Kowloon and j Seas on several occasions, and play-outplayed in all departments, except in Bickford and Wilson showed glimpses ed against Great Britain at the Ber- the intermediate line where Evans and of their old understanding which au- lin Games this year.
Taylor were outstanding.
LEUNG WING-CHIU was born YEUNG SHIU-YICK was born in,........
in Hong Kong and is a banking Hong Kong. He first came into pro- The Police forwards were very weak
clerk by profession. He is another minence in the 1929-30 season, against the Seaforthe Willerton was
hard worker of the bustling type, The Kumaon Rifles gave a better of the many players who started when he played for the South China Backed polish Brooks was the display against the Ordnance Corps with the South China second team A.A. senior team. Last year he play-only forward who tried to play con- and their forwards have improved in 1924. He has been cap- ed on the right-wing for the "B" instructive football.
greatly since their arrival here their debut in the senior: Hong
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gurs well for the forthcoming Inter port, while Wilson gave Elliot and Kemp numerous opening
Kong League. He toured the South Failure of the Ginb forwards to take Parker was outs Seas under Pan Ka-ping and was advantage of the opportunities offered gineers' attack agai one of the All Chins soccer team them resulted in their being beaten by them easily. P
6 goals to 1 by South China "B". In necessRZY ZIPP reserves at the World Olympics last spite of this big margin the Club had for himself for the
more of the play and most of the goals gapie.
August
the
outstanding Chinese players at the World Olympic Games.
ped four times for Hong Kong in the Interport series (1933, 1984, 1936 and 1937), and played for China once in the Far
stern Olympic Games (1934) and was member of the All-Ch na
soccer eam to Berlin, last August.