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Week End
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1931.
Sport.
SOUTH CHINA'S CHANCES FOR THE CUP.
SWEEPING VICTORY OVER ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE.
CLUB OVERWHELMED BY NAVY: RECREIO SURPRISÉ BORDERERS,
By virtue of a six-it-victory over St. Joseph's, on Saturday,, South-Chinn-further enhanced their chances of becoming champions of the acnior division in the local football league this season. Club do Recreio created a sensation by beating the South Wales Border- ers, while the Athletic, Navy and Kowloon gained wins over Police, Club and Artillery, respectively.
The Athletic took the points from Kowloon in Division 11. while the Borderers beat the University by the narrowest possible margin. Royal Engineers and R.A.0.0. emerged victors in their third division matches with ILA.F. and South China, respectivoly.
BORDERERS LEAD IN DIVISION II.
RESULTS AT A GLANCE. ́.
Division I.
Chinese Athletic
Kowloon F.C.......
Palite Royal Artillery
0
1
Hong Kong F.C.
0.
S.W. Borderers
1
0 St. Joseph's
South China
Kowloon F.C. .................... University
R.A.F. R.A.0.0,
DIVISION I.
Royal Navy ................................. Club de Recreio .....
Division II,
0 Chinese Athletie .............................
0 S.W. Borderers
Division III.
0 Royal Engineers South China
POLICE. ». CHINESE ATHLETIC.
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for a tie, but the Recreio's defence held out long enough to enable them to get full points.
Williams
The tents were :---- Borderers:-Johnson; On the Kowloon ground, the and Mullane; Morgan, Eynon and Police and Chinese Athletic met Underwood; Pallister, Davis, Chan- in a very even game, the latterninge, Morgan and Duncan, getting the verdict by the only goal scored in the match.
Recreio :---Figueirego; Sousa and Silva-Netto; Guterres, Gusano and Gongaives, Beltrao, Lawrence; Ward, Rocha and Santos.
CLUB ». NAVY.
The Chinese attacked early and forced a corner but the fing-kick was well-cleared by Wynne. They - kept on pressing, however, and gave Perkins a lot to do but the goalie
The Navy te, a had a fairly easy proved equal to the occasion and cleared time and again. Just be-time when they met the Club on fore half-time, however, Suen Kam the latter's ground. At the interval Shun ran away on the wing and they were three goals up and before alammed the leather into the net. the final whistle they had notched six goals in all. The Club could
The second-half saw both teams playing very good football but not score. neither side could got through. To- wards the end, the Chinese con centrated on defensivo play and this
For the winners, Wyatt scored all three goals in the first half, thus bringing off a "hat trick. In the
The College tonin was overshadow- ed altogether by the excellent team werk of the Chiness.
The teams were
ROYAL NAVY RUGGER VICTORY.
SATURDAY'S TRIANGULAR TOURNAMENT MATCH. THE CLUB CRASH AT HAPPY VALLEY.
The Club turned out the same team that defeated Shanghai in the Interport with the exception that King worked the serum instead of South China:-Pau Ka fing; Lau Selby, whose kner, as far as Rugger Mau and Lá Tin Sang: Leung inis concerned, is gone until he has Chan, Leung Wing Chi and Tong Kwan; Cheng Siu Hong, Chu Kwek Luen, Fang King Cheung, Tom Kong Pak and Ip Pak Wah,
St. Joseph's-Newlands; Hyler and Gomes; Welis, H. Omar and Harvey, Sousa, Leonard, Atkins, Simon and Fernandez.
Referoo: Mr. Allen, R.N
DIVISION II.
KOWLOON . CHINESE
ATHLETIC.
Making the journey to the Kow loon ground, Chinese Athletic -re. turned winners by one goal to nil.
Kowloon kicked off and in the early minutes the, Athletic had a trying time but their defence held out. Play was confined to maid field for a time and at the interval there was no score at all.
About twenty minutes from the recommencement Fung King Ui broke away and centred to Lai Ting Choi who, in attempting to head into goal, sent the ball out to Tang Kwong Baon. He put over a fine centre and the Kowloon backs in attempting to clear muddled each other and Lai Ting Cho scored with a hard shot giving his side a win by the only goal scored in the match."
·UNIVERSITY v. BORDERERS,
On the Athletic ground, Happy Valley, South Wales Borderers bent the University by one goal to sit,
The game was dull and uninter eating, and but for the fact that their forwards were continually making mistakes, the soldiers would have won by a bigger margin. Pod more scored for them in the first neither side could get through, play being confined to mid-field for the greater part of this half.
half, but in the second stanza,
DIVISION HIL
R.A.F. v. R.E.
The teams met on the Chatham Rond ground and the match ended in a 3-0 win for the Engineers who were by far the better team.
win. Even then, had their centros pulled themselves together and fed their wings early they would prob. ably have done it but it was the old game of cutting through and then either being tackled in poses. sion or giving a wild pass at the Lammert got, over last moment. but he had put a foot into tonch.
Club Scoro.
Grimths
a shade to far and the Navy back
Navy Reply.
Then for once the ball came out From the kick-off the Navy work quickly and More went over, Pears From a failed to add the points. The Club od down to the attack. sorium on, the Club twenty-five the then made desperate attacks but ball went down the line but the Navy rose to the occasion and Drought was tackled in possession, held up their end and made some A good run by More relieved mai. very dangerous attacks. ters for a time but the Navy caine at this point did some splendid lack. They wore given a free kick defensive work as did the Chih for and instead of going for gont, wards. Thon for a moment the punted straight on without finding Club looked like winning More, touch. King kicked nicely to mid who played 'n very good game on' field to relieve. The Club had a the whole, picked up and swerved short spell of attack and Turner in going straight for the posts. was nearly through but as usuale punted over Woods' head but hung on too long and then passed wilds. Back, came the Navy and at last these efforts were rewarded as they got the ball away and David (I think) got over the line as he was inckled. There is a bit of uncertainty about this try and no one I saw after was very clear, If David when brought down had the ball over the line the try was obvious. But after as he lay on it do pashed it out and a Navy man it with his foot picked it up and who had backed instead of playing hopped it over the line, which to #8 an infringement. my mind The place kick-by no means too
time to go on the table and say it with knives. His loss was felt n great deal but it is only fair to King to say that he played a very tont game and dezorvos roses rather than fat-irons; which is more than one can say of some of the outsides. After the bad hand ling in the Shanghai match, I went down expecting to find that con- stant passing practice had polished things up. I saw an exhibition of handling which would, have dis- graced the second fifteen of a small public school, I don't know if the Club had had passing, practice, but my impression is that there was a lot too much confidence about. In defence the threequarters indivi- dually did some splendid work, and
Deplorable Handling. the two Geoffreys on the wings
Desperate play followed näd were quite dangerous though they dropped far too many possible Lammert seemed aways but was Enely brought down by Roberis. passes. But the stand off half and The rest of the half day he de the centres, in attack, held on too scribed ns a continual huccession of long, falled io take passes, passed Club attacks as continually spoilt handling. The only time the Navy out badly and when they had made by selfishness, had passing and bad nice openings by cutting through ever looked dangerous was when nearly always spelled them by wild and blind passing let thom bullocking straight on upon their break away, and then Whitham always dealt with the matter. The own. Thoy failed in everything but Navy kept its line intact to half- courage, and, with some of the for-time, though the Club should have wards, were guilty of that cardinalscored at least three tries, and
led by five points to three, sin of passing blindly. It is only fair to Turner to say that I under- stand he was far from well. But the Club had no business to risk playing an unfit man,
Forwards Fair.
The Club forwards were a little but of condition and they did not do half as well in the tight as they had done in the Interport, largely because the unkind Navy fellow insisted on having an equal share of the game. In the scrums it
seemed that all three front row forwards on ench eide were hooking with both feet at once and there was a perfect forest of legs up. In the loose they got the ball away to their threes excellently, and the way in which, when the Navy wore all over the Club he and a seare seemed inevitable, they would hurl the game back to the twenty-five with a boot-full rush, was beyond praise. They cannot fairly be
policy paid as the long whistle second half the goals came throug" but their forwards were slnky in blamed for the defeat though lack
found the Boore sheet unaltered.
The teams were:- Police-Perkins; Wynne, and Baker; Thorp, Brittain, and Shep- hard Pile, Whooter, Orani, Brown, and Bentley.
Chinese Athletic: - Li Hung Ching; Leung Yuk Tong and Wong Ping. Ng Sao Lan, Kai Kwok Chui and Choi Ying Chan Kwong fu, Li. Yin Shun, Lath Yuk Ying, Buen Kam Shun, and Fung King Yu,
BORDERERS. RECREIO..
The Club de Recreio surprised followers of from when they took
full paints from the Borderers on
Saturday.
The soldiers were a far superior
Dickenson (2) and Peacock.
Q.M.S. Scott lined out the follow ing teams:-
Club:-Rodger; Strango and Bishop; Skinner, Stewart and Dan-
Watson, Gray, Raillon, Me- Bride and Baldwin.
Navy-Bices; Dixon and Ward; Rush, Gray and Bobertson; Tigwell, 'encock. Wyatt, Dickenson and Skinner..
R.A.. KOWLOON.
Kowloon scored a 3-1 victory over the Gunners when they met on the Chatham Boad ground. The Gan- ners started off with a rush and Walker tested Penny with a hot This drive but this was cleared. player camo back again, however, and beat the goalie with a rising shut, Play after this was of a vigorous natate, minor fouls being frequent on both sides. From a free-kick against the Gunners, Gillot
The IF.A. pressed from the start front of the goal. Towards the close of this half, Himbury soored to put the Sappers one up while Morgan added two more goals for then before the hal whistle.
R.A.O.C. v. SOUTH CHINA,
South China received the R.A.0.C. at Caroline Hill and were beaten by 8 goals to 2. In the first half the soldiers got four goals, Dolan (2), Sansom and Sands being responsible.
of condition made them a bit slow in coming round at times.
Whitham at back played an excel- lent gume, tackling ficreely, finding touch well and coming up to help his threes when things looked des. porate at the end. In fact when More scored the Chub's last try Whitham was lying unmarked out bide him and would almost certainly have touched down between the posts. But More knew he could get over himself and pazzes had been going hotribiy adrift. Ho was quite right to take the certain three
After the interval the Chinese points. scored twice through Yuen Shui Yuk but not before Bands added the filth goals for the soldiers.
LEAGUE TABLES TO DATE,
Division 1.
Goals. P. W. D. L. F. A. Pu Argylls .10 13 3 3 42 21 team in the first half, and had they obtained the ball and put Kowloon S. China... 10 14 0 2 69 17 28 been able to establish a lénd early da level terms.
Midfield play en Kowloon ....15 9 3 3 38 23 21 Athletic 15 10. 1 4 32 20. $1 on, the result might have been very sued for a period and half-time ar-
Navy 1800 40 3 19 different. As it was, the Recroio rived with a score of 3 goal all.
The second half saw the Kow- Recreio 16 81 7 98 28 17
defence proved very stubborn and loon players combining intich better Borderers...13.8 18 31 21 13 they cleared time after time when than they did in the first half. They Police 15 41 10 22 28 things looked all against them gave the Gunners' defence a lot Club
Even a penalty against the did not reauit in the soldiers' opening to the score and it looked as if there would be no acoring in this -first-ball, but Morgan broke through |
and phit lite soldiers ahead.
.17-3-9-19--10--40-6- of bother and before the long L.A. 30 4 1 19 18 63 7 whistle sounded added further goals St. Joseph's.17 30 14 25 50 6 through Grimwood and Gillot.
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The teams were:—
SOUTH CHINA . ST.
JOSEPH'S.
Division II.
"P. W. D. LA F. K. Pu
GOK.
The Navy
It is more difficult to criticise the Navy as I only know a few of them Individually. They played deaper: ately Hard football, were good op. portunists, and had someone, Dog- ket I was told,ho knew some thing about place kicking. The forwards were Heavier than the Club's, and held their own well. Francis, at sofiit hall, worked hard, but his falden were on the low side, The centres had trick of overrunning Cheh older which spoiled combined work, and the Wings were starved. Roberts play- ed a very fine game at stand-of- half and Woods át back wna nde- quate, though he is hardly in the sume clán as Whitham, Glads, got. fery little to do and did it well. He is the daly original Navy three- quitter left on the Blation I fincy. I exinot help thinking that a Glass putride a Drought is & ad com- bination-though possibly ustal In the Sorvion |-
The Pidy.
It.A.: Combey; Ashley and Taylor; Gough, Frearson and Salt Bryant, Monley, Allen, Moore and Borderers ...92 17 3 2 45 10 87 Walker
Navy u29-17 058995-34 Kowloon: Penny: Martin and Argylls 10 13 3 3 49 91.20 The inféryal did the Recreio Dewman; Hedley, McKelvie and Eastern 18 13 14 30 13 27
The Navy won the town and team a world of good and on re Blies; Pile, Simpson, Gillot, Grim- Club1 10 4 7 23 98 24 Athletic.22 10 29 32 24
elected to play from the Eastern University 18 7 40 33 26 · 18 auraing they put up a much better wood and Innson.
goal From the kick-off the Club St. Joseph's 21 8 11 20 40 18
Went through with a burst. They exhibition. Whereas their backs
Kowloon 9474 11 20 30 18
were nearly in but the Navy lought played up wondertally in the first
6. China... 4413 22 9 19
the game pak to the twenty-five. half, it now became the turn of the
The ball came away and Phimmer "made"s nies" "opening for Lammert- forwards to contribute their quota::
South China A.A. bad littlò dif. This they did exceedingly well.
P. W. D. L. F. A. Platho was pushed into touch near ficult in accounting for St. Joseph'n,
the corner flag. Just after Griffiths They literally bombarded the Bor Galaling up in their match at Caro R.A.0.0.16 18-3.1.48 18 25
should have sent More. over but -aborera" délénce” and ventonly fine Hill with six goals in their Borderers 10 11 4 1 49-1923
15 8 5 2 27 7 27 16 passed too late and it wont stray. Fukien 15 6 2 2 30 35 14 However just after-More gathere maké a reply. Ward drew level for the Reoroio. favour, the Saints being unable to RE
Faced round his wing and lobbed Fung King Cheung scored three H. China. 10 5 7 4 28 37 14 The Portuguese tam virtually
.10 10 0 34 30 12 du easy plot to the centre where monopolised the game at this stage, goals in succession for the Chinese B.A.F.
15 4 8 3 20 25 11 Leckie saapped it up and was dyer. and fordi & Beramble in the Bardon the first half and of the three Athletiu
was responsible for one while Tam Recreio 2010.3.
TA 5 18 became the soldiers turn to struggle and Ip scored the other two.
Division III.
Goals
́ors' goalmötth, Rocha netted. It / goals scored in the second-hait, he RA80104111-87800 The place kick was 'a aittof_but_it:|
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was missed a mistaks which was to cost the Club the game.
easy was successful
Navy Improve,
The continual failures rathoé gót the Club's tails down I think and the Navy had fully as much of the game in the second half until just at the end. The play ranged from one end of the held to the other, the Navy forwards doing splendid work. The Oldt fed vne glorious chance but Griffiths spoilt it by an appalling pass. Then, after the Club forwards and gal- lantly forced the game from their line to half-way, they. got the ball out and Turner cut through but passed without looking straight into Dover's hands, and the lattor was over the line before Whitham could get at him. The kick tailed, and the Club woke up to the fact that they had to get over twice to
NEST
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got to the ball first and kicked I heard it said that he dead. could have passed instead of kick- ing but it looked to me as if there was a Navy man on each side of him who would have intercepted.
The End.
This was the last chance the Club had and shortly after the end came with the Navy winning by eight
points to six. For the Club it was a tragedy. They should, with oven. mediocre handling have scored Afteen to twenty points. The tot wards wore quite good though there. are too many of them who play the wing game. For the Navy Nichol- son, Benmish and Sim did a tremendous lot of work though al! the forwards were good and they it wna who enabled the Navy to anatch victory from the better Afteen.
WAS-BIRD.
Chen-Back: J. P. Whitham; three-quarters (1. P. Emmert, G A. L. Plummer, R. II, Grifiths, E. R. More: hatt back M. W. Turner, J. W. King forwarde E. F. Buttress, J. M. MeElney, W. E. B. P. Massey (Capt.), D. L. Mile- Peera, F. R. Burch, W. F. Leckie, Day, E. B. Gammell,
NAVY: Back: Lieut. Woods
Glass(Medway), Mid-Drought (Medway) three-quarters: Lieut. (Hermes), Mid. Dover (Hermes). lieut. David (Medway; half-backs: Sub-Lt. Francia (Marazion), Mid.. Roberts (Suffolk); forwards: Surg. Lt. Nicholson (Capt.) (Medway}," Surg. LI. Brosnan (Cimberland), Lieut. Robertson (Suffolk), BA, Wilkinson (Medway), E.R.A. Do gott (Hermes), F/0. Beami (Hermes), A.B. Doaken (Peters field), Lt.-Comdr, Sim (Sterling),
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