THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1941. “ÄRMY SPORTLIGHT"
Revolutionary Moves In Sappers' Football Eleven
May Well Cost Them The Championship
Harvey Retains Snooker Title
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Club Tournament by defeating the casily. Harvey 59-Lt. Dixon 46: Signals by 1,600 points to 798. | Horvey 90-t. Dixon 23; This is the second time in the last Harvey 06-Lt. Dixon 23. three years that the Volunteers To-night the Volunteers have won this trophy, and the playing the Medicals truth time since the competition | liards Match in aid of the B.W.OF. Was started in 1907. The best commencing at 6 p.m. break of the evening was made Owing to the Military exer- by Hiekinan, with a good 55. cises this week the Garrison - freira made breaks of 27, 26, 20, Hards League has not been com- THERE are only three members, plants, to 643. S/Sgt. Tersan made | and 36, and Baptista made three plcted and the following is the
of the Royal Eagmeny fout the highest break of 30, he also breaks of over 20, Hickman easity | Lague table to date.
ball Lemm **
made other breaks of 20 and 28, | beat his opponent, who only
P. W. L. D. Pls. against 1/Cpl. Chit, who only
46 against se red
his 200. R.A.M.C. secard 72
Hutchinson and Lilty of the Sig- R. Scots Whitton defented Lieut Sgt
mals were the only members of Dixon by 20 points after both the lovers to score over 100. fork it in turns to be in the lead. 1/Cul Thomson also did well aganet Opt Harvey, who is the Medical Corp's best player, seur- 20g 118 with a break of 22 Hat - ve made breaks of 24 and 22.
Division of the Foothal, League
who have not seured a goal; their goalkeeper and two; backs. (Moxhan, T. Jones and
Tang Chung-bak )
To give these players an up- portunity of scoring, the Sappert intend moving Jones and Tang Chung-pak into the forward-line
Association Second
Football
The first penalty that is awarded ham, the goalkeeper What if the penalty is going to decide the match? They will also be weaken- ing their defence, which at the present moment they cannot afford to do although they are live points ahead.
them will be reserved for Mux-
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Medical.
Remaining games were played |
of the Up Harvey between Sgt. Wyre. whe lost to Corps won the Amateur Snooker 1/pi, Willis by 95 points, Pte. Championship for the second time succession when he defeated defeated 12
Howe, R.A.M.C., who
the Soldiers' Club, Harvey won
Capt. Hyde by 90 mts, and Pte.Larut Dixon, R.A.M.C. by four Whybro, R A.M.C., who defeat- frames to two on Wednesday at ed 1/Up! Teggenty by 57 ponits.
the first frome by four points, Lt. Thixon the second by 24 points, and the third by 96. It looked as it Dixon would emerge winner at this period but Harvey rallied and
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Tuesday evening the
With 11 matches still to be play- ed, anything is liable to happen HK V.D) Corps won the Soldiers' won the remaining three frames and the above moves might eost them the League championship.
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Royal Scots will play Sing Tao on Sunday at Sookumpoo and they will have to give A much better performance than in their last three or four matches if they want to share, or even take points from Sing Tao who cannot afford to lose at this time, when they are fighting for League Championship honeurs.
Middlesex will have a hard game on Saturday against Kow- loon, who are next to them in the Leagur. The Midties are ane.d! of all the non-Chinese teams in this League and if they win this match, they will have
a good
chance of remaining in this posi- tion for the rest of the season.
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Royal Army Service Corps are playing Middlesex juniors in the Preliminary round of the Junior Shield at Sookunpoo on Saturday. This should be an interesting
• match to watch as the last time they met, the game ended in a draw, each side scoring two goals after a very exciting match.
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trial
TO-DAY at Sookunpo a
match for the selection of the Army (British) hoc-
Hockey key eleven will take
place at 3.15 p.m. and the following have been selected to take part.
WHITE-L/Cpl. Windfield (Mx ); Sgt Groston (R.E.)
Bdr. Anderson (R.A.): Cpl. Alscy (R. Scots). Capt Hook (R.A,) and Capt. Skipwith (R.A.): S/Sgt. Duffieid (RA O.C.). Spr. Shaw (R.E.), Cpl. Hitchcock (R. Scots), Sgt Denyer (R.E.) and 2/Lt. Clague (R.A.). COLOURS-L/Cpl. Duve (Signals); Cpl. Painting (Mx.) and Cpl. Neve (R. Scots): L/Sgt. Waldron (Mx.), W.0.1 Ashmore (A.E.C.) and Bandmaster Jordan (R. Scots): Capt. Patterson (R. Scots), Pte. Sheehan (Mx.), L/C. Bright (Mx.). Gur, Marshal (R.A.) and Capt. Douglass (R. Scots).
RESERVES-Sgt. Homberg (R.E.). Bdr. Barraclough (R.A.) and L/Cpl. Govier (R.A.M.C.).
There are one or two noted players not included in this trial, but it is possible that the selec- tion committee consider them good enough without further trial
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Among these players are Stick- ley of the Middlesex, who has re- presented the Army for the last three years in Hong Kong and has also been capped. for the Colony; Sgt. Homberg. who is down as .& reserve, n good player with good ball control; and Sgt. Crowley, an- other Middlesex player, tuns play- ́ed for the Army during the past three years and is an excellent centre-half.
ON Monday evening at the Sol- diers Club,. Royal Army. Medical Corps, retained the Gar-. rison Billiards Challenge Cup for 3the third-year in Billiards succession, defens-
Kinggihe: "Corps,
Bolice in the final by 785
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