1934. THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22,
SUNDAY'S SENIOR SHIELD SEMI-FINAL
ARTILLERY'S TWO
NEW PLAYERS
WILL PLAY IN SUNDAY'S JUNIOR SHIELD MATCH
GUNNERS OUGHT TO BEAT S. CHINA
(By "Veritas").
With two newcomers whom they hope will prove to be a strengthening influence, the Royal Artillery are facing their Junior Shield semi-final tie with South China "B" in perfect confidence.
The new draft of men which. arrived here to make the new 9th AA Battery to strength, turned out to include two very
Hopkins Rivers
Sell.
South China "B" expect to field useful players in Morton, a right the same team as that which de half, and Fisher, an inside right. | feated the Recreio, and there is They were given a trial on Tues-no ignoring the fact that, although day at Lyemun and fully realised a third division team, they are good enough to extend the "xpectations.
Artillery to the limit.
As a result, the Gunners will have a somewhat different line-up to that which hus operated for the major portion of the season.
Clancy will continue to partner Price at back in place of Lowen, but Morton comes in for Scott at right half, and Scott moves over to the left flank to supersede McDonald.
THE TEAM.
Smith loses his inside right position to Fisher, and Rivers wit again displace Hardy.
:
The team therefore will be:
Wood:
Cinney
Price:
Morton
flunt
Scott: Edmunds
Fisher
I expect the Artillery to win be- cause they are much heavier and In addition are now on the crest of a wave, having met with some marked successes in league and shield during the last two months.
Morton and Fisher may And some difficulty in settling down to local conditions, but if reports which reach me are correct, this factor is not likely to play tou prominent a part in the game.
PROBABLE S. CHINA XI.
The South China line-up will probably be:
Sang Yat-ming: Cheung Pak-wing Tang U-pang;
Hul Kiu-kwong
Yau Wan-hing
Siu Kit-man: Cheung Ping-lun
Kam Sik-wai
Ng Po-kul
Mok Sang Tse Sin-yu.
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Special
Leo Frost, champion jockey, who scored three goals for Jardines in a match against the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, in a duel for the ball with one of the Bank's defenders. (Photo: Mae Cheung),
Club & Borderers Forced To Make Changes
UNDERWOOD MAY RETURN: BALDWIN
SUCCEEDS BICKFORD
The composition of the Borderers and Club teams to meet in the Shield on Saturday is a very questionable matter. Both have lost regular players this week. Wallace and Harris sail by the Neuralia to-day, and Bickford and Skinner will be absent from the Club side.
At the time of writing neither team has been picked, but it is possible that if his injured foot has recovered, Underwood will find his place in the Borderers senior team once again, taking over Wallace's vacated right half berth. Pallister is the likely successor to Harris at
inside right.
Mullane
* Morrison:
Underwood Podmore Jones: Mathias
Pallister
Fortey
Hazlewood Duncan.
The return of L. G. Robertson A not unlikely line-up will be: will do much to solve the Club's problem. He will come in to take Smith:
over Skinner's pivotal job.....
FEBRUARY
19TH TO 28TH
FOR THE RACES
SCOTTS
SOFT FELT
HATS $19.50
not
USUALLY $29.50.
CHAMOIS LEATHER
GLOVES $5.00 not
USUALLY $8.50.
MACKINTOSH'S
Men's Wear Specialists.
I hear that Baldwin, who has made two successful appearances for the Club second string this year, will operate on the left wing with Ernest Strange, and that the probable team will be:
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Rodger: Hynes S. Strango: Dominy Robertson A. Duncan: Fowler
Hill
Howe
E. Strange
Baldwin.
This is not a bad team, but I doubt whether it will be good enough to beat the powerful Borderers cleven, especially on the Railway ground.
The Week-End Programme
SHIELD AND LEAGUE MATCHES Senior and Junior Shield ties and matches in the second and third division of the League form this week's football programme which lo ng follows:
SATURDAY.
SENIOR SHIELD,
Club v Borderers-Kowloon, 4.15
LEAGUE.
2nd Division
Borderers v Lincolns-Soo kunpoo, 2.15
3rd Division
Radio
Park, 4.15
RA.F.
Park, 2.45
SUNDAY.
ST.
TIE OFF
JOSEPH'S NOT TURNING NOT
PLAYERS ATTENDING A DEVOTIONAL SERVICE
CLUB'S COMPLAINT AGAINST
THE ASSOCIATION
NOT OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED of CHANGE OF DATES
INTOLERABLË POSITION. CREATED
(By "Veritas"),
"St. Joseph's will not be playing their Shield match on Sunday”—Mr. R. M. Omar, St. Joseph's F.C. official.
"I have heard nothing about St. Joseph's not playing on Sunday"-Mr. G. T. May, Secretary H.K.F,A,
And so once again we arrive | refused. Now
to
it appears the at one of those all too-frequent alteration has been made, but wo misunderstandings which have have not been oflleially notified, and arisen between clubs and the the players have made their、ar- St. rangements to attend a special re- Football Association.
ligious observance on Sunday. It Joseph's plead that firstly they clashes with the football and it is have received no official com-Impossible to expect the boys munication from the F.A., re-alter their arrangements." garding the re-arrangement of
And not
persuasive even the the match, and secondly that in
powers of Mr. Archie Goldenberg, any case, members of the team if he cares to exercise them when return from Shanghal to- are attending a devotional ser-he
likely vice and will therefore not be morrow, are
to alter this decision. When rumours were, fly- nvailable.
ing round carlier this week, it was In the meantime the Hon. suggested that the players would Secretary of the Association is in be prepared to accept Mr. Golden- entire ignorance, and so far as he berg's ruling in the question, is concerned the match is an but this apparently, is not so, and established fixture for Sunday "the boys" having "got together" afternoon, South China having have arrived at their own definite already signified their willingness line of action. to the altered date.
;
ST. JOSEPH'S CLAIM.
INTOLERABLE POSITION,
But this decision has not yet
MY FORECAST.
TO WIN
SENIOR SHIELD.
Borderers
JUNIOR SHIELD.
TO WINI-
TO WIN
R. Artillery
LEAGUE
SECOND DIVISION,
Borderers
THIRD DIVISION.
TO WIN-
Lincolns R.A.F.
TO DRAW:—
Radio
SEQUEL TO SOCCER INCIDENT
COMMITTEE TO MEET TO-NIGHT
SOME STARTLING REVELATIONS LIKELY
(By "Varitas").
A. M. Omar, Captain of the Young Indians football team and Razack, right half, together with the Chinese Athletic player who refused to divulge his name to the referee in the incident which led to his being sent off the field, have been ordered to attend à meeting of. the Emergency Committee to morrow evening.
The Committee will then receive a report of Mr. Shobbrook; the re- feree, who was forced to abandon the second division' game between these teams' last Saturday, and
St. Joseph's, who were not re-been conveyed to the Football Asso-will also, enquire into the clr- presented at the Council Meeting clation, the Saints' attitude being inst week when it was decided to "we have not been officially noti play off the tie on Sunday instead fled about Sunday's arrangements, of Saturday claim that the only and therefore we shall turn out Intimation they have had of the ready to play on Saturday." - change in dates. is through the nowapaper reports of the meeting--It-is-n position.not.new in local football, but that does not make It Furthermore, as they have any less intolerable. South China heard nothing to the contrary, are presumably, not to be even con- the players have been told to sidered. They have signified their turn up to the Club ground onwillingness to play on Sunday Saturday.
instead of Saturday, but unlean the Association care to take any notice Nothing, I understand, is likely of what is written here, the Chinese to enuse them to alter their deci presumably will turn up at the Club sion, because, as it was put to me, ground to find themselves indulging "It is rather hard on the boya to lîn a wild goose chase. expect them to turn out now,
When we applied for permission to
The situation is one calling for play the match on Sunday it was a strict official enquiry.
FIVE MINUTES FOOTBALL.
Trying to Beat the Third Back
QUIXOTIC SITUATION CREATED BY DEFENSIVE CENTRE-HALF
Clubs have created the defensive centre' half, making him to all intents and purposes a third back to give extra protection to goal, and now they are searching for ways to beat him. It is truly a quixotic situation.
under
(By "Saraces")..
is not
with
on
Razack, the Young Indians player who was concerned in the football Incident last wook which will come before the committee to-morrow. cumstances which led up to the affair:
From what I hear some rather startling revelations will be made. The match was abandoned after 29 minutes play, when the crowd in- Young vaded the pitch following a brawl between Athlotle and Indian players,
ALLEGED SENIOR PLAYER.
WAB
It is alleged that Razack was From an attacking point of, position or even stiil further view the centre half, who is content to the wing, but if the half underdoliberately attacked after ac- to be a "stopper" has set up the stands his job thoroughly he cidentally tripping up the Athletic
outside left. The latter follows, greatest problem in present day
But plans are being worked out ordererd off the field, but, accord- football. He hangs about in the penalty area whenever there is a and they may succeed because ofing to eye-witnesses, ho refused no the surprine which they crente. to go, and further it is believed threat of danger and conditions does he ever stray be Billy Walker, for instance, has told that he refused to reveal his name. I understand that It has been forces against the established that he is a player who attacking Lincolns v RAS.C.-Sookun-yond the half way line. And all how the Wednesday arranged their
the time even when he poo, 4.15
University-King's directly concerned in the play ho Afsenal and how they once fockey has thrice appeared in the Athletic the ed Roberts into a false position to first division team this season, in-. la rubbing shoulders
enable Devar to score a goal. The cluding games against the South Engineers King's opposing centre forward.
Wednesday's plan was to have only China on December 80 and against
front line, the Borderers on January 0. It is said that there are no first four mon up in the class centre forwards to-day; there leaving the middle vacant. The are certainly very few. The confifth forward lay behind, really in ditions under which the game is the place which the old fashioned The Hongkong Jockey Club announ-
All and the ces the result of the draw of hu played.are largely responsible for contre hall used to this. Owing to the persistency centro half proper became an tralian grifins, of this season for the
Sydney Malden Stakes, as follows: with which he is covered the part undisguised back.
The Sydney Maiden Stakes (First of the contre forward is in my This arrangement Is not really
Boction)-ALīna, -Bobnjak Blar, The Arsenal have themselves Bronto Em, Chocky Face, Flummary, opinion the hardest in the game new. and the measure of success which practised it with domes picking up High Finance, Macbeth, Mountain Mutiny Eay, Nell Gwyn, Princase he achieves depende mainly on his the loose balls in the middle and Cat, colleagues: Unless he is given working in close co-operation with Angoline, Racing Heart Racing The Sydney Maiden Stakes (Second adequate support, no matter how. Roberts. To a considerable extent Streak, Sunny, Chance, Bwan he may scheme himself, he is they made a success of the scheme helpless.
and if defence continues to be Section)-Able Amazon, Alacrity, Every contre forward is told developed I shall be very surprised Australian Boy Bar Tor, Dancing Hall, Dinty, Empire Day Fanling W. G. K. Mackin; librarian, Mr. W the same thing-Get away from the attucking members of a Fox, Glorious Start That, H. C. Robson; committeo, Messt. J.
and W. Grolg.
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The following officers were elected for the ensuing, year at the annual general meeting of the Kowloon Dock Recreation Club:
Chairman, Mr. R. G. Draig; vico chairman, Mr. J. Revlo; hon. secret ary. Mr. G. R. Logan; hon, treasurer, Bir. P. B. Parks; bar convener, Mr.
N-Sweeney, J. Kimpton, V. M. Hart the centre half." But it is not | team aríž not disir/buted in some Montgod Currency, Saucy Facts -The
easy. He may move into an Inside fresh formation.
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