THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 80, 1937.
ABERDEEN BEATEN IN S. AFRICA
RANGERS HELD AGAIN
POMPEY LOSE AT
HOME
London, Saturday.
The English Football League season opened last Saturday with the following results:
FIRST DIVISION
Bolton
2 Brentford
0
Charlton
1 Leeds
I
6 Liverpool. 1 Arsenal
Chelsea
Everton
H'dersfield ́ 3 Blackpool Leicester 0 Derby Portsmouth 2 West Brom
4 Grimsby
2 Birmingham Sunderland 3 Middlesbro'
Union's Amateurs World's Best AUSTRALIA MAKING PORTUGAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR SWITZERLAND VISIT NEXT
NEXT YEAR
MANY SOUTH AFRICANS
IN HOME 1ST DIV.
TOURING TEAM DIFFICULTIES
(By" Pivot")
RECENTLY I suggested that Australia should
OUTCLASS
Gutierrez Shield
Preliminary
Portugal qualified to meet Scot- land in the First Round of the Go- tierrez Shield Internationals bowls competition by beating Switzerland in the preliminary round yesterday at the Kowloon B.G.C. by 32 shots to 10.
The Portuguese team were head season. At the week-end I received interesting not flatter them.
team, and the margin of victory did news. Aberdeen, with the team that lost to Celtic
invite a South African soccer side to tour next and shoulders above the Swiss
A six on the fourth head for
i in the final of the Scottish Cup, have been beaten Portugal was the biggest o 4 three times in South Africa.
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0
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count of the day. The Portuguese also scor-
MR. J. SACKS, OF NATAL (SOUTH AFRICA), WHO IS ed four threes, and six twos. The TOURING AUSTRALIA WITH THE SPRINGBOKS, CALLED RE-Swiss had two twos and six sin- CENTLY AND, IN THE COURSE OF A CHAT, SAID THAT AUSgles. 1TRALIA WAS IN FOR A GREAT TREAT IF WE SUCCEEDED IN
The first round proper will be
2 LANDING A SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM NEXT SEASON. “1 HAVE played next Sunday. 1JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT ABERDEEN HAVE HAD ANY-PORTUGAL 3 Manchester C. 1 THING BUT A HAPPY PASSAGE THROUGH THE UNION," HE L. F. Xavier
TOLD ME.
SWITZERLAND J. S. Landolt
Preston
Stoke
Wolves
SECOND DIVISION
Aston Villa
2 West Ham
0
Bradford
4 Barnsley
Burnley
2 Bary
Chesterfield
Two months previously Celtic could beat them only by the odd A. Alves 3 goal of three, but Natal, Combined Transvaal, and Eastern Trans- 0 vaal proved too good for them. In several other matches Aberdeen 0jjust scraped home.
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1. Wednesday
Manchester U. 3" Newcastle 0
Norwich Plymouth
Sheffield U. Stockport
Swansea Tottenham.
4 Southampton 3] One of Aberdeen's star play- first time since the English profes-MISS BRADBURY
4 Fulham oler, Strauss, is a South African, sional team was here 12 years ago.
2 Notts Forest 1 and don't lose sight of the fact However, Aberdeen won the first WINS K.C.C. LADIES 2 Luton T- 1 that Riley, Gordon, Hodgson, Test against South Africa, despite
3 Blackburn
0 Coventry
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)
Nieuwenhigs, and other South an earlier reverse or two.
0 African players have gone
straight into English First Divi- sion teams.
Bristol C.
3 Gillingham
1
Clapton Crystal P.
Mansfield
1 Cardiff
1
1 ́Aldershot
4 Northampton 1
Newport Notts Co.,
2 Exeter
2
3 Swindon
0
HCAP. SINGLES
Mr. Sid Storey, the CFA presi-
dent, is an astute Soccer oficial. In the Final of the Kowloon Have we any men in Australia He has a golden opportunity to put Cricket Club Ladies Singles Han- who could make this grade? Crow-Australian Soccer 1hurst might do so, but I cannot bringing about an Australian visit beat Miss Alison Mackenzie (30) on the map by dicap, Miss Violet Bradbury (3.6) name any others.
by 11-9, 6-0.
Queen's Pk R. 2. Brighton 1
1 Millwall
Reading
Southend
Torquay
Watford
Accrington
Chester
1 Bournemouth 0] 1 Walsall
4 Bristol R 0
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)
Darlington Doncaster Gateshead Hull C. Lincoln N. Brighton Oldham Rochdale
Rotherham
1 Carlisle
1 Halifax
1 Southport
4 Bradford C.
24 Crewe. 3* Wrexham
2 Hartlepools
2 Barrow
3 Port Vale
0 York
2 Tranmere
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
FIRST DIVISION
Aberdeen-
3. Partick
1
However, to get away from matters controversial I can as- sure readers that Australia's i Soccer chiefs will bring · off a great coup if they can induce South Africa to tour here next. season.
WORLD'S- BEST
1 The Cape Argus" of June 15 contains the following: Mr. F. W.
0 Fell, president of the South 2 African Football Association, said 1apropos of the Aberdeen visit. 1"Our Soccer is the best in the 0world in the amateur sphere.
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0 "Serious repercussions may fol- low Aberdeen's defeats as far as future tours are concerned. It difficult to induce other may be
professional sides to make the trip
1
Arbroath Clyde
24 Ayr
*Hamilton
1 St. Mirren
Hibernian
1
to South Africa. My one ambi
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Hearts
Kilmarnock
Third Lanark 1 Celtic
tion is to get an English or Scottish international side to visit South Africa.
Morton
Dundee
Motherwell
Falkirk
Queen O'S
Queen's Park
Rangers
St. Johnstone 2 cialised that everyone
Played on Friday. SECOND DIVISION:
cerned about League
aboak an 27
Alloa
the policy of
too arrange
ably.”
OVERSEAS TOURS
Oversea Soccer is so
con-
next season.
WHEN LIFE LOOKS GRIM
JUST TRY A PIMM
PIMM'S No. 1 CUP
"THE GOLDEN DRINK FOR THE BLUES"
SOLE AGENTS:
playing and public
jective com by me
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