THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 24, 1940.
BRITISH SPORTSMEN NO SOCCER KILLED IN SERVICES
RUGBY PLAYERS once again figure promin- ently in the latest lists of war casualties, as many as five prominent players having been killed.
The game has lost a brilliant young centre three-quarter in Lieut. John Harrison, of the Duke death from of Wellington's Regiment, whose
wounds has been reported. Harrison was with the late Prince Obolensky, the England and Oxford wing three-quarter, in the Trent College team, which in 1933-34, scored 539 points against 22.
and a well- school Harrison amateur soccer team After leaving captained Sandhurst and played known Corinthian footballer, was wife when their for
before joining the killed with his Surrey Army. His Services
house received a direct hit during Rugby al-
a recent air raid over the South tracted the England selectors, and he was chosen as reserve centre of England. for England. He also played for Rosslyn Park.
He played for England at cen- tre-half against Scotland, Ireland He also played for and Wales. English teams in Germany, Hol- land and Switzerland. He was Cambridge football blue and also Cambridge in minor Counties cricket.
Another former captain of the Rugby XV at Sandhurst, 2nd- Lieut. M. G. Johnson, M.C., has recently been reported killed by enemy action. He captained Sand-played for hurst three years ago,
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Acting Squadron-Leader chael Fitzwilliam Peacock, Oxford Rugby Blue and former Richmond captain who was re- ported missing is now believed to have been killed in action in the Arras-Cambrai sector m May. He was awarded the D.F.C. in Febru-
ary.
Accidental Death Lee.-Cpl. H. Greenwood, whose death at Wantage Cottage Hos- pital, Berkshire, following an ac- cident, is announced, was a men- ber of the Leicestershire and East Midlands XV which defeated the South Africans at Leicester in the 1931-32 season, He played in an England trial while assisting Lel- cester and also played for Bed- ford, his native town. He volun- teered for the R.A.S.C. at the out- break of the war.
Another well-known player to Rugby followers to die as the re- sult of an accident is B. H. Cattell, who was knocked down by a motor Car and killed ne.in Coventry, when on duty as 21 special con- stable. In his younger days he was on the verge of international honours as a forward of the robust type, and once chosen as reserve for England. For years he played for Moseley, then at the height of their power, and for the Midland Counties.
He was a brother of R. H. Cat- tell, the Oxford and England scrum half-back, and until three years ago practised us an auc- tioneer at Rugby.
Other Sportsmen Other sportsmen who have been reported killed recently are-
Lieut. Pater Eckersley, R.N.V.A. (Air Division), the Lancashire cricketer, who has been killed in action, Six years he led the Lan- cashire Eleven, one season to the Country Championship. He toured with the M.C.C. in India in 1926, and with Lionel Tennyson's sidd in the West Indies two years later. In 1936 he was elected to the M.C.C. Committee, following his decision the previous season to give up active cricket.
Lieut. M. D. P. Magill (Royal Berkshire Regiment), reported killed. in action, was regarded as one of the finest Oxford cricketers ever to get a blue, He went to the university after two years at Eton, and played two matches for the Dark Blues. While at Eton he captained the Rugby XV.
Eton Captains Killed
It is announced by the college authorities that two other former captains of sport at Elon have been killed on active service.
They are J.F.B. Bougley, cap- tain of cricket in 1938, a second lieutenant in the Coldstream Gu- ards, and B. M. Fisher, captain of cricket in 1935, Pilot-Officer in the R.A.F.V.R.
Pilot-Officer G. TN. Mitchell recently reported killed in action secured his hockey blue for Cam- bridge. He was also a Scottish International.
Six Service footballers on the League club lists when war began. have lost their lives. They are:-- Tom Cooper (Liverpool and Eng¬ land right back); Robert Gordon (Huddersfield Town, right half- backy Joe Car? (Shergeld Up back)
Prisoners Of War
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A number of sportsmen who had been reported missing are now of- ficially reported to be prisoners of
war.
The best known are:-Maj. William Eldon Tucker, R.A.M.C., the English rugby international and Cambridge blue.
INTERPORT
Word has been re- ceived that Shanghai Football Association are definitely unable to send O team to Hong Kong for the Interport game dur- ing Chinese New Year. Several causes con- tributed to their deci- sion, among these be- ing, the difficulty of their players, most of whom are Volunteers, obtaining leave; the uncertainity of sailing dates between the two ports and their pro- bable inability to raise a representative side, in view of the depar- ture of the British troops.
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