THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1933,
NAVY WITHOUT BUCHAANAN AGAINST SOUTH CHINA
The Services Sporting
CHINA FLEET FOOTBALL
LUCKY WIN FOR H.M.S. KENT
RETAIN DIV. I LEADERSHIP
A lucky win at the expense of H.M.S. Berwick consolidated H.M.S. Kent's position at the head of the first division of the China Fleet Football League, when the teams met at Happy Valley yesterday,
The Kent, who have now won three out of seven matches, yet remain undefeated, enptured the points by the odd goal in five, after
Section
Conducted By.
"The Scout"
NAVY LOSE THEIR RIGHT BACK.
BUCHAANAN SAILS FOR
ENGLAND."
A real blow to the hopes of the Navy bringing off a coup against South China in the first division of the football league on Saturday has been given in the depar- ture from the Colony this week of A. Buchaanan, the Navy's right back.
He left for Europe on the 5.5. Archilles yesterday, and is retiring from the Navy.
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the Berwick had twice held the CHINA FLEET FOOTBALL
lead.
The losers enjoyed the greater ahare of the play, but could not force home their advantages,
CRICKET.
ARMY ✔ KOWLOON
C. C...
The following have been selected to represent the Army in the les gue match against the Kowloon C.C. to be played at Kowloon C.C. Ground on Saturday commencing int 2 p.m.:
Capt. P.V. Williama, R.A. (Capt). Lieut. C.C. Garthwaite, IA. Lleut. R.J. Walker, R.E. Major, V.J. Bonavin, R. A.M.C. · Capt, D.B. Micholl, R.A. Lieut. J.T. Williams, E. Lanes, Lieut. M.A.F. Warlng, R.A. Lieut. D.B. Butler, Id. Qra. Sergt. A. Taylor, R.A.F.C. Sapper. E. Tucker, R.E. Pte. Barnaby, Lincolns.
Scorer: Lieut.. T. H. Shields,
R.A. LEAGUE TABLES
Jones and Hambly of the wings Kent, Keppel, Wishart
put in some fine work for the Ber- wick, but even with Langmend In the middle, goals went begging.
In defence the Berwick were best served by Funnell, who rarely made a mistake.
FINE GOALKEEPING.
and Medway Lead
The following are the up-to-date tables in the China Fleet football league, which include yesterday'sĮ matches.
Hancock kept a magnificent gont for the Kent, and the op- portunism of Green, together
Kent with the thrustful work of Hud-Engle speth on the left wing, made the Cumberland Kent attack very dangerous Medway & when on the move.
Morgan gave the Berwick the lend early on, but Green had a shot deflected into the net by Jenkins level things up. However the Berwick again went ahead when Jones made use of a chance, but a
IST, DIVISION,
Submarines Suffolk Berwick
half time lead was denied them, Keppel
I scoring for the Kent.
The second half saw some fairly Loven exchanges, with the Berwick holding the advantage territor- Jially.
Cornflower
Wren ...
Whitehall Verity... Falmouth
Goala
Umpire: Sgi. Major It. Jordan, R.E.
The Navy's Team
The following will represent the Navy in their match with the Hongkong Cricket Club at King's Park on Saturday:-
Lieut. Cmdr. Stephenson (Kai- Tak), Capt. Culler, R. M. (H.M.S. Suffolk). Lieut. Carver (H.M.S.- Veteran), Lleut. Eaden, Sub. Lleut. Cheyne, Lieut. Marsham, Lleut. Cmdr. Browning and A. B. Peat- PW DLFA Pt field (all of H.M.S. Medway), A. B. 7 1 4 01 10' 10 6 1 3 2 8 9 5 Large (H.M.S. Cumberland), Sub. 51 2 2 0 8 4 Lieut. Alexander Sluclair and L. S. A. Richards (HMS. Berwick). 4 Lieut. Guard (H.M.S. Keppel) is 3 twelfth man.
5 1 2 2 9 12 111 3 2 1 0
2ND. DIVISION.
Section One. *
Goals
P W D L F A Pts 230 13 0 7
3 120 54
3 0 2 16
3 1
Bridgewater
1 0
Whitshed
0 0
0 0
Section Two
Wishart Tamar
The issue was put beyond doubt † Sandwich when Green snapped up a chance, and placed the Kent ahead for the first time. Teams:
Berwick-Funnell Millan-and Jenkins: Kent, Thomas and Cas- Witch soll: Jones, Morgan, Langmead, wild Swan Ryan and Hambly.
Veteran... Folkestone
Kent: Hancock: Lockett and Bruce McLea: Schofield, Redman and Herald Heap: Green, Bowles, Stevenson, BBs and Hudspeth.
MEDWAY'S SMART
RECOVERY
Hold Berwick To
A Draw
'After being led two-nil at half time, the Medway recover- ed in great style against H.M.S. Berwick in a third divi- sion match of the China Fleet Football League yesterday at Happy Valley, and finally suc ceeded in forcing a draw of two goals each.
Goals
P W D L F A Fis
32_01_7 4 2 2 7 200 30 21 10.7 1 10010 1116
0 13 0
Goala
P W D L F A PU
3RD. DIVISION.
Bledway &
Submarines
Kent Eagle Suffolk Berwick
2 1 1
7 6 1 1 21 9 11
6 4 0 2 12 10
4 2 1 3 13
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LIEUT. WALKER
HITS OUT
SIGNAL'S ATTACK
FLOGGED
The Royal Engineers played the Royal Corps of Signal at Sookunpoo
The Berwick thoroughly merited in Tuesday and won easily.
Lieutenant Walker was in form with
Mrs Moody Not
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THRILLING MATCH PROMISED
D. Hynes (Club).
HEAVY SENTENCE
SUSPENSION OF PLAYERS
FOOTBALL FIGHT SEQUEL
(By. "Veritas").
SAILORS MAY EMULATE CLUB'S EXAMPLE
CHINA HALFBACKS MUST IMPROVE
IF DEFEAT IS TO BE AVOIDED
TAY QUA TONG TO FILL LEFT WING POSITION
(By "Veritas").
ro WIN
MY FORECAST.
FIRST DIVISION,
. Artillery
Borderers Club Lincoln
TO DRAW –
Navy. SECOND DIVISION.
TO WIN-
Artillery Lincoln
Navy
[TO DRAW:-
Athletic
"I CONSIDER the Navy the finest team in the
League." THUS the considered judgment of a leading local authority on football, and although I have no wish to assist in the development of an inferiority complex on the part of South China, TO WIN- I feel that this is what they will be up against on Saturday:
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THIRD DIVISION,
S, China Borderers R.A.F.
The Railway Ground promises to stage one of THE matches of the year, for with the meet- ing of the Navy and South China, we shall not only have brought together some of the most Skinner will materially help the skilful footballers in the Colony, but there will Club,
The return of Robertson and
NECESSARY.
be other influences at work to make the LAST WEEK'S STANDARD. exchanges keener and more exciting.
always perform woll at Caroline Hill. Though its rough surface
If they can maintain last Satur The Navy will take the field)Tam Kong-pak to put through some day's standard, I favour the Club brimful of confidence. They of his favourite forward passes, to beat St. Joseph's, because they have struck a winning vein, are the Navy may experience a whole well in running for the leader- heap of trouble from this wing.
I think we can expect a goneral ship, and can back these factors brightening up of the Chinese at- with a team of talented players. tack as a result of Tay's Inclusion.
South. China, on the other hand, have first to efface from memory their last two perfor mances in order to start on level footing, and must then play a better type of football if they are to win.
What South China scem to have lost sight of is the fact that in Yeung Shui-yic they possess about the finest outside right in the Colony.
The sequel to the disgrace- ful scene on the Recreio foot- ball ground last Saturday, when two players came to blows, spectators invaded the pitch and the game had to be
When I have claimed this in abandoned, was the appear-
conversation it has been hurled ance before the Emergency
So far as I know the Navy line back that he lacks experience and Committee Inst night of Toup will be the same as that which that he has not yet fully developed, beat Kowloon with the exception Perhaps he may and confessedly of Buchannan, who has loft he has not. But there is no gain for home, in which case, Lau Raying that Young has this season Mau and Li Tin-sang are going to "produced the goods". be up against as big a problem ne presented last week by the Club attack,
Not Wai-hing of South China and
To Play For Two Years
STATEMENT TO THE PRESS
at
San Francisco, Nov. 24. Helen Wills Moody, out- standing woman tennis player, will not compete again for a least two years because of the displaced vertebrae that caused her to default in dramatic fa- shion to Helen Jacobs in the national finals in September at Forest Hills, LI.
"Little Poker Face" sald to-day ahe probably would not be permit- 31ted to swing a racquet until 1935. The announcement was not whol- ly unexpected as her father, Dr. C. A. Wills, said on Oct, 2 that she
heir half time advantage. They the at scoring eighty and Q. M. S. ere vastly superior in the opening Blackler, 31 not out. The RC. Signal tages, and only the excellentfalled badly only three of their men oalkeeping of Leech kept the acore reaching double figures. Scores: down.
Braddon broke through quite arly In the game to open the Berwick's account, and after some that exchanges, Coombes, with ffue solo effort, added a second.
CLEVER WINGERS.
During this period the Medway fore handicapped by playing one short, but later the team was com
leted, and they immediately began
1 gut into their strido.
ROYAL ENGINEERS.
Lieut. Walker, b. Erridge Sapr. Whitefield, b Erridge Sapr. Pegg, e Mills, ↳ Erridge Major. Mousley, run out Q.M.S. Binckler, not out Sapr. Budden, e Butlery, b Erridge Sapr. Tucker, not out Lleut, Cooper Sergt. Anderson Sapr. Wells Sapr. Ball
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Mrs. Wills-Moody.
might have to relinquish her titles, 31 including the Wimbledon crown she 12 has won six successive times. Ho anid: only time would tell whether she would ever be able to take part again in tournament tennis.
Did not but
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Total (for 5 wkts dec.)' 210
R. C. SIGNALS.
Clover work by their wingers, Tarr and Branton led to continual riids on the Borwick goal in the Bocond half, and it was from Bran-Big. Shove, e and b Blacker ..... ton's pass that Hodgkinson reduced Sig. Bryce, run out the deflelt. Later Branton. broke Sig. Convoy, c Wells, & Blackier through himself to score the equall-Sig. Mills, and b Walker... ser, completing an afternoon of Sig. Erridge, Wolls, b Blackler splendid achievement. Teams: Sig. Short, e Tucker, b Pegg,
Colley, not out
Berwick XI:-Davis Kean, Gray, Blackler, b Wells Lako; Olliffe, Braddon, Williams L/Cpl. Rafferty, Blackler, b Peng Worthington, Coombes, Kennedy, Sig. Battery, Wells Breese, Parsons.
Sig. Dilley, Wells
Medway XI:-Laecir: Magill, Rdoves; Barrot, Robertson, Bright; Tarr, Donaldson, Elgey, Hodgkin- son, Branton,
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Miss Wills herself however. sold two weeks later she hoped to return to Competition next year. She was then out of_the_ "hospital and' walked with diM-
culty with the aid of a cane.
1 Californian, Miss Jacobs, in the When she defaulted to her fellow national women's finals she was wearing a brace on her back. She said she believed she injured her- self while fting a stone on a 18 camping trip last summer.
Miss Willis failed to defend hor
national title in 1932, when Miss Jacobs first won, and then default
ed this year.
INTERPORT INVITATION
ACCEPTED.
SHANGHAI TO BE VISITED NEXT YEAR.
Hongkong Football Associa tion have officially accepted the invitation of the Shanghat F. A., to send & team North next year to meet Shanghai-in- an Interport contest, declared Mr. G. T. May, Hon. Secretary of the local Association this morning.
No definite dates have yet been arranged, but the local team have been nuked to make -the visit during next Chinese
New Year.
M. Oliveira of the Recreio, the two players concerned. After hearing the
pros and cons, the committee found both players guilty of misconduct.
Oliveira was suspended for two months until January 21, To Wai-hing one month, his ban to end on December 24.
THE INCIDENT,
· To . Wai-hing, a South China forward, had already scored three goals, and his team were leading five-nll, when he came to blows with Oliveira, playing at left back, for the Recreio,
Mr. G. Mose, the referee, went, forward to nervene, and this. was the signal for a xeneral invasion of the playing pitch by hundreds of spectators.
After the police had been called in and order had been somewhat, restored, the players requested} that the game be continued.
Mr. Mose, however, declared. {t! abandoned.
COUNTY RUGBY
KENT DRAW: EASTERN COUNTIES-WIN
London, Nov. 290,
THE BIG QUESTION,
BRIGHT FUTURE.
I see an extraordinarily bright future for this young player. There is nothing stereotyped about Can the Chinese defence avert his play. He's got tricks and he being swept off their feet in the knows how to use them. His ball first half? This will be one of the control could give points to many main questions, Last week they a more experienced player, and he gave a negative answer, and It cost can centre with ofther foot. them two points.
But if South China are to obtain Kowloon discovered to their evat | full value from this clever young- how thrustful can be those cager ster, Leung Wing-chui and Leungj Navy attackers. The fleet footed In-chan have got to show a little Hudspeth, aided by the elever schemings of Smith, and the force- ful lendership of Langmead, re- quire a defence well above thei
Leung Wing-chi (S, China).
average to prevent them from riddling the goal.
But na my callengte "Wandezer“ inted out on Monday, it is the splendid balance of the Navy team. which counts so much. This has been evidenced in the whole of their games this season.
Practically speaking there is not a weakness in the combina- tion. An especially reliable half back line helps to tighten 1. up ̧n defence which has once or twice given signs of breaking down.
South China will assuredly have. to be at their beat to add the scalp of the Navy to their acason's hunting.
Inne
E. Strange (Club),
more consideration in their passes makes it one of the most difficult
It has been the collapse of the pinying pitches In the Colony, the half back line which has caused Club have always managed to over- the deterioration of the Caroline come the disadvantages. Hill team these past two weeks. Of course they will have no easier job In beating St. Joseph's Leung Wing-chuf seems to have than of South Ching. But the team forgotten how to hand out those is capable of big things. long sweeping ground passes of] Leonard has to bo severely his which rarely failed to catch awatched, but I shouldn't be sur defence napping, and there has prised to see much of the sting been a general slovenliness about taken out of Saints' attack by the the whole work of the intermediate subjugation of Gosano on the right
[wing.
trio
The recessary return to form in Hynes and Robertson are capable this department may possibly of keeping a strict enough watch mean all the difference between on Fernandez und Rocha. two points and defeat.
But regarding it by and large, i hesitate to prononunce any definite; attitude to the probable outcome of Saturday'a match. Anything might happen, although I think the Navy will at least start the game with the balance slightly in their favour.
CLUB PLAYERS RETURN
ROBERTSON AND SKINNER
Whether the Club's achieve. ment, a week ago was just a flash of inspiration, or whether it ip to lay the foundation of a' successful future will probably be determined when they meet St. Joseph's on Saturday,
A single goal will more than
Lau Mau (5, China). likely settle this issue, for St. Joseph's are just as strong in de- The Club will be strengthened they enjoy a slight superiority
fence us the Club. If anything by the return of Robertson at right | half and Skinner at centre-half.
CAN ARTILLERY WIN?
THE RETURN OF TAY.
Fogwall is still an absentee, but A KING'S PARK auch an excellent deputy has been -CONUNDRUM. Tho Chinese have one consola found in Lowson, that the "Blue tion. Last week's left wing de- and Whites" aren't worrying any. In a hard fought county cham-ficiency will be remedied by the reward, is a doubtful starter. Ile Albert Howe, the Club centre-for- pionship rugby match to-day, Mid-ture of Tay Qun-tong.. Tay come told me this morning that his in- dlesex and Kent, draw, each scoring out of his suspension to-morrow Jury is slowly yielding to treatment,
and is certain to be included in: Saturday's team in place of Tong but he cannot yet say whether he Eastern Counties made a BUCKwan.
will be fit for Saturday.. cessful visit to Surrey, defeating the home team by 10 points to to a fairly busy afternoon.
So that Parkins can look forward If he cannot turn out I should not be surprised to find either Bell or three.
In his only other previous ap- George Duncan Included. Cambridge University proved pearance this season-ngainst the Duncon has been leading the Club much too strong for the Watsonians Borderera at Sookunpoo Tay re- second eleven with distinction this and won by 20 points to five-vonlod, a turn of spoed truly year, and Bell is consistently the
a try.
Reutor..
astonishing. And if he can got best of the reserves, forward line,
If two teams have been play ing league fotball for a couple' of months, neither of them have won a single point, and. they meet, what is likely to happen? No, prizes are offered for the solution of this con. undrums and anyhow, if you
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