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HONG
KONG DAILY
PRESS, MONDAY,
FOOTBALL STARTS IN FINE WEATHER
Club Opens With A Win
SOUTH CHINA "A" SHOW
GOOD FORM
glorious was ushered in with The 1935-36 football season weather and although it is yet much too early to make any forecasts, the form displayed by the various teams on the open- ing day leads one to the conclusion that the season will be successful one.
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A full programme of matebes was carried out on Saturday & Sunday and many thousands of supporters. ever loyal to South Chipa, turned out to watch their "A" taking full points from the East Lancashire Regiment at Caroline, thus starting the season in a manner worthy of the name of League Champlons.
esterday Chinese Athlete met the Royal Artillery at Soo- kunpoo and once more it was the Chinese who were triumphant, reply from the soldiers. In a scoring two goals without any second division game which was in the nature of a curtain tais er. East Lancs had the better of Fastern, the score being 3 goals in I in favour of the military
The trouble with the Portuguese, is that they have not the finishing touches and this was evident on Saturday. Gomes was quick with the ball but failed to follow up his tackles. Gonsalves played well during the early part of the first ha but he soon tired "Els shois were good from oblique angles and but for the sureness of McHardy in goal, they might have found the riet.
STEVENS SCORES AGAIN The Police soon settled down in the second half and five minutes after the start Stevens scored again. From a corner kick Green scored the third goal.
During a "melee in front of the Recrets goal, Gosano put the ball into his own goal to give the police a 4-0 lead.
Blackburn, who played an ex- cellent game, then handled in the penalty area, and B. Gosano scored with ease. This goal served as a the Recreio and stimulant for Gomes scored from 10 yards out from a good pass by Alves.
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CHAMPIONS WIN
Athletic Beat The Gunnersbal League w
Saturday's Results
Club
Fusilters
Rivers then took the ball on the a hard right wing and drove in shot which Tim Lim saved well. The Gunners were trying very hard the of the c.osing stagca match, but Ah-fal, at 'centre half. was as steady as a rock and re- fused to let them through his ter- support ritory. He received full from his two wing halves when- ever the Gunners made a danger- The final whistle sound- cus raid.
ed with the score unchanged t 2-0.
DIVISION I
at
R A. Stone
4
cutters
0
4 Lincolns
4
Recreio
2. Police
5
. China "A"
5 East Lancs."
0
#L. Joseph's
6 Kowloon
DIVISION II
1 Kowloon
1
2 South China z
5 Ków.oon
0
2 Recreio
3
5 "Club
2
DIVISION DI
Liga Portu-
East Lancs.
4 guesa
2
St. Joseph's
2 Chinese Police 3
2 Fusiliers
4
1
3
Radio University Aletle
R.AS.C. and
R.A.O.C.
Fusiliers
Lincolns
Engineers. 'Rallway
European
2 Police
Air Force Athletic "A" bad The China their first eague match against the RA. at Sookrnpoo, and won The Gunners by 2 goals to n were a very weak combination and could not do very much with the nippy Chinese team The Chinese felded their usual team, but a notable change was that of Dar- kie Chan to centre forward. The g me opened with the Athletic making an unsuccessful raid on
EASTERN BEATEN
The commencment of the Foot ball League saw South China "A", champions of last season, open their deague programme with the East Lanes "at Caroline Hill an fivé níl victory Saturday with a after a thrilling game. The same opened with the Chinese making the first raid, and Harmsworth from was called upon to save Fung. A good movement by Smith gave Mather the opportunity to put over a neat centre which Wong Wingsted away. Then Fung broke through to give the South China the lead. The speedy Chin- ese attack found the soldiers' in-
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ed to the unmarked Fung, and he made no mistake with a low drive from 10 yards.
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SEPTEMBER 30, 1935.
HOCKEY
The "Y" Wins
The YMCA. seniors had their South China commenced the
ön second half in brilliant style, add- first practice hockey game ing two" more gouls in the first Saturday at King's Park when they beat HMS. Duncan by the four minutes.
YACHTING
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Osla Wins In Good Style
RIFLE SHOOT
At Stonecutters
A. G. Berlyn and T Grinham in the SR. (b) and 8. F. (a) practice respectively qualified for spoons in Osia, piloted by J. R. Bergaethe Spoon Shoot and Practice com- Coupland, won the "A" Class event petition of the Hong Kong Ride Fung was a very able leader and } odd goal in three after leading by over 2 miles at the Rogal" Hong Association which was held on the Kong Yacht Club on Saturday Royal Naval Range at Stonecutters when she beat Pat (Mrs. D. W.
on Saturday afternoon. Perssa) by 1 minute 58 seconds, in a race favoured by a fresh wind.
Sirius (Mr. H. M. Finley) won the Mixed Classes event by a com- fortable margin from Colleep (Mr.
..B. J. Baxter).
his accurate distribution to his 1-all in the first half.
Ray was very scrappy through- wings left nothing to be desired.
out and the opening found the The fifth and last goal was the re- sult of a fine pass from the left" attacking strongly through wing, and Fung sent on to Chan the Fowlers and Baldwin. who made no mistake.
The teams were as follows:-- South China "A" Wong Wing: Tam Kong-pak, Lin-sang: Leung Wing-chui, Wong Mee-shun, Lee Kwok-wal; Tao Kwal-shins, Chan Tak-fal, Fung King-cheong, Ip Pak-wa and Tay Quee-liang.
Lancs: Harmsworth; Lawton, Smith. Swain, Steel; North; Mather. Horner. Sandford, Ridings and Griffin.
SAINTS BEAT KOWLOON
At Causeway Bay St. Joseph's beat the Kowloon team to the tune
:·" ":, of 6 goals to 1.
The Kowloon fcrwards tried the short passing game but were un- able to penetrate the Saints' de- fence,
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On the other hand the excellent work of Gurbachan Singh and the Ward and laside forwards, Souza, proved too much for the Kowloon halves, White and Hesse were often called upon to back.
drop
Before the first half was ter- minated the Saints had a 3 ni lead, Fernandes, the Saints left-" wing, scored the fourth goal when bis centre was deflected into, the net by Everest. Gurbachan Singh scored the Arth goal as the result
G.H. Fowler scored the first goal for the after some bright play. EMS. Duncan equalised the second stanza through Smith and Baldwin who had been play ing a very enterprising game Osla scored the winning goal.
Y.M.C.A.:-Moss; Luke and Dor- mer: J. M. Wilson, Bates" and 8. Smith; Macoy, 8. Fowler. GE Fowler, A. B. Henry and R. Bal-
Whiskered: Shreeve.
win.
H.M.S Wilson
Duncan :
Fiship; and
white and Lt. Comdr. Alexander: Hobson, Haight Smith, Spurway and Lewis
A CLASS STARTED 14.3) Yacht
Finished Psn.
16.28.57 1
16.29.47 3
(J. R. Bergne-Coupland) Artemis
Over 50 members turned out in conditions which if they were ideal so far as persona) comfort was con- cerned, could not correctly be so described from a shooting point of view. Very credible performancea were returned, the detalled scores being as follows:--
Name
`S.R. (b) H.P.S. ≈ 105 -
200 500 600 Ttl
#32 29 30 91
29 29 30 30
►
A. C. Berlyn
32 34 28 94
(G. G. Wood) Isobel
(DF. L. J. Davis? Cicada Pat.
18.29.53
D.N.F. 18.28.54
4
J. Ottley
Stephens
33 27 30 00
G. A. Johnson
31 31 27 89
2
H. Toda Eheen
27 30 28.85
S.R. (a) H.P.S.=105
T Grinham
24 33 33 GO
C. F. J. Simpson...
31 33 24 88
30 31 28 87
JAE Peters ....
20 90 25 81
21 28 29 78
(Mrs. D. W. Perase) MIXED CLASSES, STARTED 14.40 Corrested Psn. 16.28.06 2
a penalty kick from which Baldry Siskin ........
scored.
Ariel
With the scores even the play (W. N. Greenwood) began ta brighten up and the Robena
Colleen
(J. S. J. Baxter)
D.N.F,
16 28.27
3
16.99.47 5
18.46.28
16.30.31 4
D.N.F.
8
(Capt. W. J. Fennell) Sirius
(H, M. Finlay)
16.22.38
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D.N.F.
Fusillers scored a. good gual (Capt. R. de B, Hardie)
Gael through Sullivan.
After the interval the Lincoins (D. Hope-G) were awarded another penalty and Toynette Baldry again scored from the spot. Eunice Fifteen minutes later Ellis put the Fusiliers further ahead, from a free kick.
THIRD PENALTY Not long after, however, another
saw .the penalty award levilled. Rowlands saved Baldry's! Brst shot. but talled to prevent him from netting from close quar-
termediate line a bunch of apoll of a neat pass from the right wing ters before he had time to recover
ers, and Lawton at pivot was ex- cellent, 11
Just before the close of the first
In a second division league en- counter the East Lancashire Re-half the E. Lancs were attacking giment defeated the Eastern Ath-
strongly but the Chinese defence
letic by 3 goals to 1. The soldiers lived up to the occasion and re- played delightful soccer and persisted fect understanding was a treat to' watch.
Play started with the E. Lancs doing some pretty passing. The to bunch Chinese were inclined and as a result left the soldiers to do all the raiding, E Lanes the did most of the pressing in first half and could do everything but score. The first half arrived with the score sheet blank.
THORPE NETS
Shortly after the resumption Thorpe netted for the E. Lancs. and a few minutes later Costa put in another, thus giving the
the right wing. A second move on soldiers a 2-n lead. Wing Sing the right wing gave Chan a head- got control of the ball and went
Chinese.
Just before the final whistle Ecclesley drove a hard shot from found about 25 yards out which the corner of the bet, the soldiers thus winning by 3-1.
"CLUB'S FINE START
er but this was missed. Then Ah-in to score the first goal for the fat drove in a shot that went wide. Fifteen minutes after the start "Kwang Sum nested with a delight- "Itf grounder to give the Chinese the lead. The Athletic continued pressing and the R.A defence had terrible time keeping the for- wards at bay... A melee in front of the R.A. goal resulted in Kwong am, who was playing magnificient -football on the right wing sending in a piledriver from 20 yards out which beat McKif the way.
The RA, forwards were # de pleated lot and could not get go- ing at all, or perhaps they found the Chinese defence much to their dislike. Tout A-lai at centre half was up to his usual standard and found little difficulty in coping with the "feeble "RA. forwards.
The Club started the season in nine style when they met .A. Stonecutters at the Valley BRID won by four clear goals.
The Club were superior in al departments, u their combination being splendid The Gunners on the other hand were a disjinted crowd, with only two of the play- ers-Hall and Matthews-calling for any praise at all. The first goal was scored after fifteen min- utes play and was the result of WING HONG MISSES
a fine passing move which enabled Kwong Sum sent over a good Fowler to find the net with a low pass to Wong Wing Hong who drive. The Club scored their sec:: missed a sitter right in front of
and goal five minutes after the the goal. Apparently he could resumption when Lammert gave connect properly- with the result Fowler the opportunity to score that his shot was.. a. tame
saved. Darkle which McKrull Chan was always a great danger whenever he got possession but he was too well marked and did a wise thing to distribute whenever he got the bull. The R.A defence Farrow who drive a shot to beat
one
were now kept very busy, and Hug- ging and Clampton at back and Morton at centre half played well to keep the Chinese trom increas- ing their score.TA
Kwong Sum dropped a shot right u front of the R.A. goat but Chan mlased with his head, McKitti in the RA. goal was playing a rip- ping game and was called time and again to save, one very good effort in particular was a shot at point bank range from Lee Hung Ching. The ball rebounded to King Yu who, sent it wide.
The interval arrived with the score 2-nil in favour of the Athle-
his second goal,
A few moments later the Cluti pressed again and Fowler took another crack at goal but Hall punched out, the ball going to
Hall
GUNNERS RALLY
At this stage the Gunners began to liven up and took the ball into the Club territory." Barraclough 1 & terrific drive which sent Rodgers tipped over the bar for a traites corner
The Club secured their last goal. through Gulchrist who put the ball forward for Farrow to rush in and take it from Hair's feet and, put it into an empty goal.
POLICE BEAT RECS
tle. On the resumption D. Chan work in their encounter with the
The Police soon settled down to Club de Recreio on the lattere ground at King's Park on Satur- day, and ran out victors by 5 goals to 217.
went to the inside right berth. The R.A. soon took the offensive but still their forwards Tacked the mishing touches. Reece was trying
The early raids of the Police some long shots but these invaria- bly went wide. Huggins and were met with very stout rests- Giampton were both kept worried tance by AV Glosang and and had a busy time keeping Bowan, After 15 minutes play "Darkie" and his wing partner Moss sent on a ane centre for Stevens to net with a good header. away.
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every dangerous attack. Tam excelled with his headwork and Li's powerful first time kick- Ing gave the ever trying E. Lanes forwards very little chance of tak- ing a drive at goal.
FUNG SCORES
A breakaway by Ip, and a quick pass to Tay, saw the ball return-
and just before the end Hussain added the sixth
A DRAWN GAME
A thrilling encounter at Saokun- poo on Saturday saw the Lincolns share points with the Fusillers, both sides scoring 4 goals cach.
The first goal came from Ro- berts with a grand shot from an ackward angle which surprised the Lincolns custodian. Shortly after- wards the Lincolns levelled with
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The term S.R. (a) means shoot- ing with a rifle as issued, le. with- out sling or aperture sight whereas
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WHAT A CHANCE PROMOTED
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What A Chance, winner of the first leg of the "double" last
Lola
scores only goal scored by J.
Shortly after the resumption C. Duncan equalised from a shot that Not rebounded off the cross bar. many minutes later the left wing or the
Club, put them further Saturday, has been promoted to ahead when he netted with a cross" Class in the classification lists shot, just before the final whistle of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. sounded, O. M. Omar equalised for the "Press" with a ground shot that followed a good movement down feld. The final whistle blew with play in midfield.
The Lincolns then went ahead with a smart goal from, Ridley. Curiously enough the Fusiliers equalised when they were awarded a penalty kick, Harrison scoring.
DAILY PRESS DRAW. »
WITH CLUB
A team from the Hong Koni Football Club, in a friendly game of soccer against the "Dal y Press," shared four goals, after the "Press" had a lead at the interval by the
The outstanding player for the Club side was A- Peera, (centre half) who put in a lot of good spoiling work, The pick of the Club forwards was G. Duncan, For the "Press" the forwards com- bined well, but were slow in front
of goal. Mak Bau Lun played a sound game in the defence for the "Press" while O. M. Omar was the best forward on view.
The following represented the "Daly Press":-Chang Hon-tang: F. M. el Arculli, Mak Sau-lun; 'A. R. Markar, S. MacNider, E. R. Markar; Lee Wing-lum, Lo Ka-kit. Lo Chai-wa, J. Franto and" O. M. Omar.
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