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LOCAL HOCKEY.
CLUB AND NAVY DRAW.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1925.
cured a victory had their forwards by nine or ten mon of the opposing | boen able to take advantage of team at once, but the force of his j
many
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Ap-
after all that concentrated energy had been of no avail.
At the beginning of the game the Navy got to work calmly, and gently persuaded the ball to enter the net. For a time both sides played with serene confidence, but after a time the game became more exciting and developed as explained above. At half-time,
a number of centres from the wings. | run and his weight carried him
through without the ball. AN AMUSING VERSION.
-parently missing that Indispensable A contributor sends us the fol- articic, he sat down with a won- An Interesting game was played
dérful command of dignity Just between the Hongkong Horkey flowing version of the match:
Hongkong Hockey Club showed Inside the net, und grazed reflective- Club and a team representing the submarine flotilla, at the U.S.R.C.distinguishing features against aly at the havoc that was being ground, Kowloon, last evening. team representing the Submarine wrought a few feet from his face Each side scored one goal, and this Flotilla last evening, but in pas-by about eighteen players. For an was a fair representation of the sing, it is only fair to say that the appreciable time nothing was to be play. Neither side showed its Navy also displayed certain traits seen but clouds of dust, lying best form, and at many times the that have been hitherto unsuspect heels, waving sticks, and appalling! ed. This fixture enabled twenty-marks. It is to he hoped that the play was decidedly scrappy.
At the beginning of the game the two players and a few spectators to latter were caused by stick versus Navy took up the offensive, and enjoy themselves immensely. The stlek ar ball and not, heaven forbid. notted in the first minute through match was like the proverbial Par unprotected shins. After matters had quietened down a bit, it was Andrews. Urged on by this early son's egg, good in parts. success, they continued to test the parts but the main feature was that seen that no score had been made, Club defence severely, and attempt so many humorous incidents were so ed several shots, some of which provided. went wide and some being saved A new style of play was notice- by Mills. A breakaway by the able in several phases, Club forwarda transferred the ball seven or eight forwards, and three to the other end and the Navy were or four backs. Nay, the Club went called upon to defend their goal even belter and had nearly ten vigorously. After various minor forwards and one back, at one time, attacks had been repelled, play went the latter being Mills, who had to midfield, both sides being unable come out to clear, and lingered, to get going. Shortly afterwards, apparently, to see what the awful were still one behind, but on the the sailors began to get the upper noise and disturbance among the re-start they paid the Navy back hand; but Farquaan and Sherman, ton forwards was all about. After in their own coin, and hooked the! at back, with Mills, proved equal to apparently satisfying himself that ball into the net in the first minute, the occasion, and with well direct the trouble was simply about a ball, and the scores remained unchanged ed hits they relieved the pressure.re returned to his charge. Occasion at the finish.
It is a significant fact that the Before the Interval, the Club made al flory bouts between two players strenuous efforts to equalise, but were watched with fatherly in Navy turned out in multi-coloured were unsuccessful, and half-time terest by the other twenty. These, shirts that can only be likened to arrived with the Navy leading by however, usually ended with ten a rainbow. Probably they had con- or fifteen players suddenly fallingceived the sinister idea of so dazzl- one goal to nothing.
From the re-start, the, Club at-pon that inoffensive ball at once, ing the Club that victory would be! Д few tacked right away, and, slipping and belabouring it with joyful zest. theirs. Had they added
It is saddening to think how much more colours of particularly bright easily through the opposing defence,
paint that ball lost, and whether hue, they might have won! Woodward succeeded in bringing the sticks lost much of their weod. the scores level. After this, the Once, Evans, with tremendous play became uninteresting for a time the ball travelling from end to rundled, that ball (the same one). strides and a. stern sct face,
end in unsuccessful attacks. Price sent in a promising shot towards the Navy goal at 100 miles It seemed at the which went wide. The fight for an hour (or so the winning goal now became very seemed to him to have been
time), whereupon what must have keen, both sides playing hard, but when the final whistle bles the hundred sticks tried to Eit acore remained a draw, one time there was, confusion.
the ball at once, and for a Brave- each.
goal
the Club
SOVIET TRADE.
CENTRALISATION ADOPTED.
Moscow, Nov. 19.
M. Zuriupa, vice-president of the Council of People's Commissaries, has been appointed head of the now Commissariat of External and Internal Trade, which unifies the The combination on both sides
hitherto separate commissariats of was not as good as it might have
foreign and internal trade of which been, although some good play was
the respective ex-commissaries noticeable at times. All the Navy A worthy effort by Sillitoe Krassin and Scheinman have been team played heartily, as did the merits mention. Making 'n gal- appointed Zuriapa's deputies.- Club, but the latter might have ge- lant run,, he was assailed, as usual, Reuter.
ly Evaná tried to batter his way through, but it was aseless, and the ball sald goodbye to that fore- cious group for a time.
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