MIDDLESEX DETAIL REACH SINGAPORE F.A. CUP SEMI-FINAL
DEFEATED BY CHINESE IN LAST MINUTE
The following account of the Singapor FA Cup semi-final is very interesting in view of the fact that the Middleser team which lost to the Straits Chinese team, were comprised from the detait left
Singa pore when the Battalion was ordered to Hong Kong and speaks volumes for their prowess-
Chinese
(By NIMROD)
Singapore, October 13.
Middlesex Regt.
THE first eleven of the Chinese are in the Sing- apore Cup final! They beat the Middlesex Re giment (Singapore Detail) by 2 goals to 1 yester day, their winning goal coming in the classic min- ute before the end, but at one stage, the hundreds of spectators fully expected them to lose. For 50 minutes they played lackadaisical and poor soccer, beaten time and again by lively Middlesex attack- ers and defenders who went all out.
WITH THE TYPE OF SOCCER THEY WERE PLAYING FOR THAT PERIOD IT WOULD HAVE RICHLY SERVED THIS CHINESE RIGHT IF THEY HAD BEEN DEFEATED. MEAN TIME, THEY WERE FACING A ONE GOAL LEAD BY THE MIDDLESEX. THEN CAME THAT CHANGE WHICH STEALS OVER A TEAM WHICH IS FIGHTING WITH ITS BACK TO THE WALL, BUT WANTS TO WIN THEY RALLIED, AND THEY EQUALISED, AND THEN THEY BECAME SUPERIOR FINALLY THEY WON.
And the Middlesex had to acknowledge tha minutes they were fighting against a team much against a team which was passing better and it had done in the previous 50 minutes, and against was unbeatable in that mood.
AND
hich
Clargo realised it most of and he gave a scintillating dis play in those last ten minutes. Haigh and Bayliss, stout defen- ders though they had been Thelped by Bright and company-
were puzzled and they could not be blamed
MORE GOALS
retain the wealth they earned with
It was unfortunate that the Mid- their fists.
dlesex forwards did not go up arz bagnios, casinos, and race-tracks of Dempsey lost a lot of money in line, otherwise they would certain- Abraham Lincoln was born 100 the old and new worlds "Lil Ar wild-cat speculation, but had saved ly have scored more goals years too soon. Nowadays, with thur," himself soured disappointed, enough to purchase a large annuity. The insides lay too far his commanding height and broken in fortune, earns a precari-With what was left over, he opened helping the defence and were reach, and athletic prowess he ous living as a member of a jazz a cafe, across the road from Madison able to recover ground in order was the best wrestler and rough band.
Square Garden. It became the mec help Dean, Denham, and Groga and tumble fighter in Illinois
Sam Langford, the "Tar Baby," ca of the sportingly inclined, and who were all game opportunists.
Until those last ten minutes, the "Ole Abe" would be besieged by and Johnson's most formidable rival, works out at a steady £10,000 a year supplicating managers, eager to is a pensioner on food relief in New profit. So Dempsey is sitting pret Middlesex had all the limelight present him as a heavyweight
and deserved it. They pity is that "White Hope.”
Tunney's wealth is estimated at they were able to take their
chances and win. Too bad he lived and died be. George Dizon, "Little Chocolate, £500,000. Nowadays the former fore the fistic goose started to and Joe Gans, the "Old Master New York shipping clerk is a
world champions both, reaped a gold registrate (he married a niece But to get back to Joe Louis. en harvest when in their - prime. Three years ago he hadn't, a dol- Neither made provision for a ramy lar to his name To-day he is day. Dixon died a pauper and the rich and famous. His first pair bounty of sportsmen smoothed
shabby boxing gloves proved way of the "Old Master be twin lamps of Aladdin.
lay golden eggs.
Fame and fortune are his.
PLAYS IN JAZZ BAND
York City.
Joe Walcot,
the most destructi
weight
ty.
Up to the last
is angli
of only
to who lived Then and the tw Gonz
The boy has won the
Andrew Carnegie) and country Island, a State brains.
CARPENTIER'S STORY
Come and in the history of the game, is a
Georges Carpentier, Jimmy Wilde, Quite recently humble gym sweeper, in Chicago. Peter Jackson, greatest of all colour-and "Bombardier" Billy Wells won ed an English
fortunes with their fists, only to had earned ed pugilists, hadn't a penny when chand the
pitted their ring alone Grim Reaper mowed him
company and busi- teen," down.
Georges, after £40,000.
The former will endure, but Dame Fortune is a fickle jade,
pion puglista
Her
changed to coloured
EASY COME EASY GO
Of
Gene Tunney
alone
lose
ness
the financial life-line when he nnands
Tex Richar £50,000 for When I hung
ume in the £200,000.
inform-
She
bar on the Champs. Since I retired I have lost
greater part of my fortun returns mm a comfortable in- and ill-advised