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Local Sports Reviewed
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THE REGATTA
The rowing regatta on Satur- day tell to Canton, as generally Anticipated, but
the day's sport, it was "really hard luck on the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club that they did not win, for out of the four races which were considered Interport events, they won two. Canton one and the V.R.C. one. The senior fours, which tell to Canton, however, carried eight points with it while the other championship events carried only 6 points for a win. The Yacht Club won the junior fours and the junior pairs and in Ramus and Hebert they cer- tainly have a very strong junior pair. The winning crew of the and senior pair, S.A. Marcal L.A. Soares are full of promise and should be good for several
it seasons. Marcal not be generally known.. is
forty and had been a of keen oarsman for many. years. He is a good example of a keen enthusiast taking up a sport for
more
man
sport's sake.
CANTON'S SUCCESS
may
The Success of Canton Rowing Club is due very largely to great interest. they take in rowing, and the keen way in which they prac- tice. The Canton Club are for- nate in that they have very good water to practice in and I understand from one of their crew
that up in the river there they frequently stroke as high as 40 to the minute, whereas on Saturday, in the open sea, they were un able to do more than 32. have two very good
men
Canton
Wylie and B. Rasmussen and if anyone can threaten the V.R.C.
in the regatta to be held in April. this, pair Will be the спе to
watch.
SOME OLD HANDS
Before leaving off the subject of the VR.C. regatta it would perhaps not be out of place to congratulate the club on the suc- cess of their effort. Admittedly, through a misunderstanding the start was delayed an hour, but the Club has many old stalwarts
not won a
loon team, held their own for a while, but appeared to luck stamina and broke down. *COMTM interval. pletely even before the
us F. C. So far the Kowloon
match in the second division and to all appearances like being wooden they look spoonists. The Athletic who wen the second division last season are not much ahead of Kowloon, much the same as the Royal Ar tillery, who were runners up last year in the first division are now
DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1933.
HONG KONG
ASSOCIATION
FOOTBALL
"Civil Service Beat The Army
- Special Air Mall Service
London, Nov. 8.
HOME FOOTBALL
How The Teams Will Fare
PENALTY-KICK OUT OF DATE
Belfast is not a place where the footballers of Wales shine as a rule. The players of the Prin- The Civil Service beat the Armyalpality have only done” “Injus- at Chiswick yesterday by three goals to one.
The Army team was largely ex- perimental, and there are sure to be changes in the side before the inter-Services matches are played. last but one in the senior league. T. Taylor, the goalkeeper, is young The race for first division, hon-and inexperienced, but he played a ours appears to be a very close
one,
RACING
All eyes of racegoers are now turned on Saturday's racing and particular interest of course is attached to the week's training timea. It is
see gratifying to Carroll, Black and Caplan. back to their work. The first two have only one more win to take them out of the novices class, and it will be interesting to watch their
success at the next meeting.
understand Carroll will be riding Swale in the novices event, and if that is the case, he should have a good chance of getting out of his novices class. A CLOSE RACE.
There is much interest
among
plucky game, and his anticipation was good. The backs were disap- pointing. They were both very slow, and were inclined to balloon the ball into the air. Brock, at centre-half, it somewhat crude, works hard and tries to keep his wings ca the move. Eastham, in the right half-back position, plays a constructive game, and always tried to do something when he was in possession of the ball. The shooting of the forwards was weak. Their midfield work was good, but the attack always broke down in front of goal. McKay is fast and controls the ball well, while Mud- ford was the best of the inside forwards Christmas is inclined to lie too far back, and was often out of position to take passes from the half-backs.
The Civil Service de lance
WAN
racegoers as to the fate of the superior to that of the Army. Their Australian race on Saturday. It backs covered each other effective- is learned that Night Star is noty and they did not delay in clear, likely to go to the post and un- ing. A. J. Broadis, at centre-half- der the circumstances, Woodland back, not only did his work of Stag is sure to start a hot favour-marking the opposing centre-for- ite for the race, The Giraffe, ward effectively, but also kept his City of Brisbane, and Rosy Morn, wings moving well. W. C. Caesar however, are likely to give the and A. G. Brown were quick in it is just possible that record time and their midfield work was always Dunbar candidate of a good race and getting back to help the defence,
will be touched, if not lowered. constructive. E. L. Atkinson, cen- Rosy Mom is very fit at the mo-tre-forward, was the best forward meat and over a mile he is a on the field. He is fast, uses his sound proposition.
head, and shoots hard. G. Robey worked the ball along his wing well. and his passes into the centre were well placed.
MOTOR SHOW IN
SINGAPORE
About a quarter of an hour after the kick-off Broadis sent the ball beautifully through to Robey. The last named player beat Robinson and sent a well-placed pass to Atkinson, who headed into goal,
in their ranks and they were not Events Staged On Old Immediately afterwads, the ball
-backward on Saturday, for when
the two starters were delayed;" Mr. C. J. Cooke stepped into the breach and started off the firs? race, and in other ways aisted in making the afternoon's sport a success. I understand, that in addition to being one of the best swimmers of his time. Me. Conkè was also a good 'oarsman arid the VR.C. 18 lucky to have him i their ranks. Several other ald timers were at the scene of the regatta, including Mr." A. A. Alves. who was there to watch his sen stroke the V.R.C)'s sceior fours
Race Course
came through the centre to Atkin- }.. son, "who scored his second goal, with a beautifully timed shot, which would have beaten any goal- | keeper. These quick reverses seem- Singapore's first motor showed to rattle the Army, and it was and gymkhana, held yesterday not long before the Civil Service on the old Racecourse under the scored their third goal. The ball suspices of the Singapore branch came out to Roy-Hill on the right of the Automobile Association of wing, who beat Lalley and passed Malaya, was organised at short
into the centre for Atkinson to head notice and without previous ex into goal. perience of such events. There fore it is great credit to the organisers that they achieved the success they did.
From the experience which they gained yesterday, the pro- moters will be in a position to organise the next event of this
After the interval, the Army im- proved and several promising movements only just failed to bring goals. About 10 minutes from the end of the game, McKay beat White, and centred across the field for Mudford to score the Army's only goal.
The tespis were —
tice" to Ireland there in two of the seven matches played since the war. Clearly Ireland have chance this week-end.
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In the case of Arsenal difficulty is being experienced in living up to the high standard which they them-
selves have set in the recent past, and the supporters are becoming restive. Even though still below their best, however, Arsenal are. still better than most of their com- petitors, and Portsmouth may be added to their list of victims un-
less their forwards pull out some- thing extra
To find forwards who can score goals is the Birmingham problem,
it must have been something, ap- proaching desperation which caus- ed them to put Roberts at centre- forward a few weeks after he had played his first trial, game for them as an amateur, The defence of Birmingham is so good that if the attackers can manage just one goal, victory over Liverpool may be their lot,
Now that centre-half Tom Gri inths la back at the top of his form, and Camsell also scoring goals, Middesbrough are a greatly improved side, Stoke seem likely to be beaten on their first visit to Tees-side for many years.
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FRIENDLY HOCKEY
Radio And Engineers. Draw
# FRIENDLY CRICKET
Press v. Indians
A very fast game, with neither side being able to score, resulted
The following have been select- when Radio Sports Club, met Royal Engineers in
ed to represent the Hongkong A friendly hockey match at Sookunpoo yesterday. -
Press a friendly cricket match The game was very fast through against the Indian Recreation out and it was dize to the good work put up by the defence on both Club against the Indian Recrea- sides that the final sounded with tion Club seniors at Sookumpoo on neither side 'getting anything past Saturday at 2 p.m. "sharp:---R, the respective goal-keepers,
Abbit (Capt.), A. R. Abbas, M. K. The Radio forwards were perhaps | Abbas, F. M. M. et Arculli, F. E. the fastor of the two but in defence | W. Lammert. J. R. Luke, E. Mac- Nider, A. M. Omar, F. D. Pereira, "If I have my way," he adds, the Engineers were slightly the bet- "the Scottish League will appeal | tor team. to the S.F.A. to try to bring the penalty klek up-to-date."
to prevent a goal being scored?
"The award against the Hearts was according to law, but harsh on the face of it."
APPEAL. FOR CHANGE
SCOTLAND V. AUSTRIA Everybody in Scotland is agreed that young Walker, the Hearts In- side right, is one of those natural- born players who come up once in à while. "Play him against the Austrians," say some. Other say. "Too young."
Walker has passed his eigh teenth birthday. He is young to be mentioned for Internationals, but others as young have been capped, and did not let their country down. Neil Gibson among them.
ONLY ONE ANGLO-SCOT?
My own idea, however, is that for the Austrain match Scotland will do well to stick to Marshall,
who had such a big hand in her victory over England läst Apri.
Another outstanding problem is centrehalf. The selectors, I believe, have. -still 1 hankering for Meiklejohn. He is not in love with the position, although he would al- ways be glad to do his best 'any- where,
I think Anglo-Scots are needed, but I am told that only Duncan, of Derby, may be chosen. transfer him."
And if we can do that we will
The Spurs will go to West Brom- wich without O'Callaghan, and consequently must make their first
It was simply a question of part- change in the attack since the season started-a remarkable re-ing with Gurney at a moment
Tottenham men go.
when his transfer value is at its cord seeing the pace at which the
This game maximum poit, should be about the fastest imagin- able, but if the Spurs deputy inside-right can keep the machine working they should not lose,
Every possible point "has been gained by Port Vale from their, home matches, and Oldham do not look quite the sort of side to make a mess of this record. The advance of Nolan as a goal-scorer has a lot to do with the eminence of the Potteries atde: He has already scored more goals than during the whole of last season,
NOT SO GOOD! During this season Swansea, have developed the disturbing habit of dropping odd points on their own ground, But as Bradford have not yet picked up one point, when playing away from home, the "Swans" song should be a cheery one,
Popular opinion in the North is to the effect that there is only one thing wrong with Chesterfield. That is, they are too good, Cynical folk will say that the reverse applies to Rotherham, so Chester Beld seem to be booked for another away win.
Queen's Park Rangers have donë so well since they returned to their old ground at Loftus Road that they must be sorry they ever left
visiting teams, and though Charl- ton Athletic will show all the fight
and perhaps will be able to Civil Service.-H. Flight, goal;t. This is not an easy pitch for
secure
FOOTBALL SURPRISES Much ink has been spilled over the football surprises this week-ature on more generous" knės end. I don't know which the bigger of the two upsets, the
B more satisfactory site G. A. Hughes and A. & White, defeat of South China by the for the event than the racecourse backs; J. W. Bloxham, A. J. Club or the defeat of Lincolns by prove to be. The absence of Broadis, and J. Ruston, half-backs; St. Joseph's. Dealing first with control of the spectators made G. Robey, W: C. Caesar, E. L. the Lincoln's match. St. Joseph's it impossible for many to witness Atkinson, A. G. Brown, and P. J. fully deserved their win as they
the events in reasonable comfort. Roy Hill forwards. outplayed the soldiers 11 every There was a large attendance The Army-App.-T. Taylor (R. phase of the game and were
in spite of the threatening state A.O.C.), goal; Lance-Corporal M. much faster than the heavier of the weather, and an attractive Lalley (Durham Light Infantry) team. The Lincoln's, however, programme of events had been and Bugler A. Robinson (Durham seemed to be distinctly off and planned in connection with the Light Infantry), backs; Lance-Cor- did not deserve anything else but gymkhana. Most of them had poral A. Long (Royal Engineers), a defeat. It is not often--that a been ingeniously designed to test Private J. Brock (Royal Tank penalty kiek is missed by the the skill of the driver and at the Corps), and Lance-Corporal East- Lincolns, but it actually happers. same time his ingenuity in deal-ham (King's Own Royal Regiment), ed on Saturday when a penalty ing with the kind of incident half-backs Sapper Christmas (Ro- was awarded agamat St. Joseph's that might be encountered val Engineers), Lance-Sergeant, K. and Betts, who took the spot the road.
Mudford (Royal Engineers), Pri- kick not only failed to scare but For instance, the slow race for vate G. Austin (R.A.0.C.) Cor- kicked wide of the post...
King's Regi- motorcycliste, in which the last poral Collins (the
1. Makay man to cross the finishing linement), and Private after travelling the length of the Queen's Own Cameron Highland-
forwards. ers),
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SOUTH CHINA › SETBACK
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Kad South China won their course within a three feet lane" game against the Club on Satur- at as slow a pace as possible was day they would have been at the the winner. had the air of head of the football league table novelty about it, but its value is the passengers alighting 'and by this time, but somehow, foot- obvious. Similarly with the ac- seating themselves. Another ball surprises have a knack or celerating and braking contest amusing event was the Gretos -coming up at the same, time and for motorcyclists, in which the Green race, in which cars were
while the Lincolns were having competitor had to make a stand-
tied together! by a ribbon, and a bad time with the College, tig start, dash 100 yards, and then had to delve up "the Course South China was having even a then pull up on the finishing and reverse to the starting line worse time. With Fung King" line.
again without the ribbon being Cheung out of the line-hp (South A race for syces, and two open broken." China, felt his absence badly)| races for ladies and gentlemen,
The obstacle
ladies race for and with the trend of the game which called for skilful manoeuv-
was the most amusing event. going all against them. the Chin-ring of the car were the, driving The passenger had to Blight ese team found themselves three skill races. In these the drivers
from the car and 'take a needle goals down at the interval. This had to burst with the front Was due to the fact that when-wheels of their cars a number the Club forwards broke of balloons placed in their path. ever through, they managed to spore manoeuvre the cars to within 12 while the Chinese forwards were Inches a "kerb" and then absolutely at sea in front of goal. reverse the full length of the The Chloese were fortunate to course and finish with their rear reduce the lead after the interval wheels resting on the starting by two goals, for had not Howe line. Byces, in addition, had to been obliged to retire through stop on the way back, take off Injury, the Club forwards might, a wheat and replace it with the have given their side a bigger spare wheel Icad.
A BIG DEFEAT
in
of
AMUSING EVENTS
had to
of which they are capable, and Pearce will be after the goals, the Rangers should survive,
AMATEURS SHOCK ARSENAL The Arsenal gained only a bare victory by the odd goal in five over Kingstonian in the second round tie at Kingston, though at one time they were 3 up.
Faulty shooting wasted many
opportunities, however, and it was not until eight minutes from half- time that Hill, with a free-kick from near the touchline, opened
the scoring.
Hill soon added another 'goal after the ball had frequently gone scross the Kingstonian goal, and Beasley got the third.
The Kingstonen halves and full backs played very keenly, and the forwards received the ball often enough to have caused a lot of trouble. A few raids almost broug- | ht_reward, but not until twenty minutes after the interval did neat passing leave an opening for McCarthy to shoot into the net.
The amateurs kept up their bace, and showed such undagging energy that they fully deserved the second goat, which came after 8 well- placed corner kick by Macey," from which a scramble ensued in front of the posts and Clark was, credited with scoring.
A Scottish League official writes: FAIR as it ought to be? I
"IS THE PENALTY KICK AS
because of a vital goal lost by the
Ibrox
and thread, thread the needle while the car proceeded to the next point; they then alight, take an exg and a spoon, Hearts agatust the Rangers at and hold the spoon at arm's length over the side of the car while it was driven back to the start in reverse.
A standing start motor-cycle race over a measured quarter of a mile, and cycling races of one lap of the course completed the programme.
There was sa touch of novelty, One of the biggest defeats of this imparted to the proceedings by In the show section there was season was sunsred by the Row- the musical chairs race, in which a good selection of 1094 models their drivers-carded a passenger and of popular cars on show, and loon Football Club
circled ring in the centre of there was candideri interest match against the Royal Navy in the second division, when the which were a number of chairs taken in the new season improve latter emerged victorious by the When the marshal dropped his ments which had been embodied score of 11 goals to 1. The Kow-flag the cars had to be stopped, in the various models,
"When the infringement which place, the ball was in mid-field. brought about the award took
There was no likelihood at the mo- ment of a goal being scored
"The incident revealed that many people who have followed the game all their lives did not know the law. They were amazed to see the ball being brought from mid-
eld to the penalty, spot. Brok
After all, was not the origin of the penalty kick the desire to penalise the defending side for an infringement which was com
mitted with the clear intention.
تلف
Sa Sunderland wrote to three culbs and said they were willing to transfer Gurney. They did not state any price; and up to this moment they have only had one reply-from Manchester City, who actually said they could not possibly take the player on Sun- derland's terms.
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Now, however, Leicester City are nibbling again.
During the week chesterfeld have held the distinction of having scored more goals than any of the .88 clubs in the Football League, and of conceding fewer than any team except Aldershot. Why?
Because, they posses the best all- round side the club has had since the war, and the machinery soon got into "gear. But the men who have made the wheels go round are Malam, the inside-forward whom. Half the First Division' clubs are after, and Silman, the captain and pivot,
A. H. Rumjahn, A. R. Sufflad.
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