"THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1957 -
LADIES' INTERPORT GAME DRAWN
NO LADIES INTERPORT
HOCKEY REPLAY
Mrs. P. M. Harrop. Hon. Secre- tary of the ong Kong Ladies' Hockey Association, this morning stated definitely that there would be no replay for the White Trophy.
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TO-DAY'S HOCKEY
ENCOUNTER
Shanghai To Meet Rest Of Colony
Following their fine performance
THRILLING HOCKEY WITNESSED.
AT THE VALLEY
BRILLIANT DISPLAY BY MISSES BOMKO AND FOWLER
FOUR GOALS SHARED AFTER EXTRA PERIOD
(By "STICKS”)
THE better team shared the spoils. This aptly describes the Shanghai Ladies' Interport hockey team, who gave a very fine display against the powerful Colony Ladies' eleven on the Hong Kong Football Club ground yesterday afternoon, when they shared four goals after an extra against the Hong Kong Ladies' In-period before the largest crowd on record and in ideal weather. Playing a standard of hockey slightly above that of the local team, the North- erners caused a sensation when they took the lead five minutes after the interval following a goalless first half.
terport: eleven, with whom they?
shared four goals in yesterday's thrilling classic on the Club ground, the Northern team are expected to
record their first win in the Colony to-day when they encounter the Rest of the Colony eleven on the Y.M.C.A. ground.
The latter team is a fairly good one, but I doubt very much whether they will be able to stand up to the fine defence of the Shanghai team, and the latter's fine forward line.
Rest of Colony:-Mrs. Lunson; Miss B. Pope and Miss J. Smalley; Mrs. L. Silva, Miss M McCaw and Miss O. Peters: Miss F. Wong, Miss M. Booker,
Miss E. Hamon, Miss P. Gittins and Miss D. Hunt,
Shanghai's team will be announc-
ed on the field.
TO SUM UP THE GAME, SHANGHAI PLAYED HOCKEY AND HONG KONG RELIED MORE ON INDIVIDUALISM THAN ON TEAMWORK TO CARRY THEM THROUGH. TRUE, BOTH OF SHANGHAI'S GOALS EMANATED FROM MELEES ALMOST IN THE GOAL- MOUTH, WHEREAS HONG KONG'S FIRST WAS THE RESULT OF A MISTAKE BY MISS CARION, ALTHOUGH MISS SMITH'S SECOND GOAL WAS A VERY FINE EFFORT, RE- SULTING FROM A LONG FORWARD PASS BY MRS. DONALD.
The outstanding feature of the game was the magnificent defensive play of Miss Francis Bomko, the right-back of the Shanghai team, who, up till the time she received a bad knock late in the second half, was unpassable. Her first-time clearances and well-timed interceptions were the constant worry of the Colony attack, and she had Miss Smith and Miss Westcott, parti cularly the latter, well bottled up. Miss Victal, her colleague, gave a rousing display and achieved much without polish. Her unintentional obstruction did not seem to worry her at all and she was always on the spot where she was most wanted.
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One cannot quote the Shang-lifting the ball. This may have hai defence without mentioning been, however, owing to the bumpy Miss Elsie Little, at centre-half, nature of the ground. Miss Gray who must have played the game was very steady, but did not have of her life to completely bottle her "eye" in, except in the latter up Mrs. Donald. The Colony stages of the second half, when her leader was placed in as much interceptions broke up innumerable the same predicament as the movements on the Shanghai left- Colony soccer leader was last wing. Thursday, and could not take a
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Miss Woolley, at right-half, fully
step without Miss Little edging justified her inclusion with in her stick to divert the pass. magnificent display of spoiling, but What I particularly liked about she counter-balanced this with the Shanghai defence was the con- shockingly bad distribution and structive play of the halves, who threw away at least three oppor did not do the obvious. They fedtunities by taking free hits from the wingers with well placed shots just outside the circle without giv- and worked with splendid cohesion, ing her forwards a chance to posi-
Hong Kong's backs were ragged tion themselves at the start, although they made tremendous improvement as the game progressed. The three halves were great spoilers, but lacked sting in their distribution during the second half and extra periods. FORWARD WEAKNESS
MISS WONG SHINES Miss Wong, the centre-half a tireless worker and berth, was her speed in covering ground responsible for breaking up many promising Shanghai movements.
Miss Glover probably gave her The Colony pivot was always on finest display to date and was very the spot, but had the mortification rarely outpositioned. Her support of seeing the majority of her passes of the Smith-Westcott wing in at- to the right-wing intercepted by tack should have borne more fruit. The forward-line, which on paper Miss Marsh, who completely ruined that wing by poor positional play. should have been the biggest dan- Both wingers lacked anticipation, ger to the Shanghai team, was ex- while the inside forwards were traordinarily disappointing. Except rarely seen in a good passing bout for a few good movements in the The Shanghai attack, on the other second period of extra time, it was hand, figured in fine sweeping very disjointed. Mrs. Donald, of movements, taking the ball down whom so much was expected, was the centre at the start and sending completely blotted out Miss Little their wingers away. The two inside the opposing pivot marked her so forwards were definitely good parti-efficiently that she was very seldom cularly Miss Lotti Schmidt, whose able to make her typical solo break- play at times reached the standard aways.. of men's hockey.
Individually, neither of the goal-
DELAYED PASS
Miss Smith worked hard through- keepers had much to do and both fout and made many splendid open- should have stopped the first goals ings for her wing partner,
Westcott, who however, had a com- scored
plete off-day and was unable BRILLIANT FULL-BACK Miss Bomko was streets ahead of get in a really decent centre True the remaining three backs, while he made several spectacular Miss Fowler, the Colony left-back dashes and covered a great deal of was in brilliant fettle and relieved ground, but she invariably delayed many a dangerous situation with a ner pass just that trifle too long timely clearance, although at times and it was always intercepted she was mclined to be dangerous by (Continued on Page 19.)