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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1934.
ST. JOSEPH'S FORWARDS SHOW WHAT THEY
FOOTBALL CHATTER
BY
"VERITAS"
ND now you can tell me who's
AN
going to win the first divi-,
sion championship.
I give it up.
WHEN you get the Lincolns and
Navy going down to teams whose chief concern is to koop away from the bottom place in the table, and St. Joseph's lonping right back into the leadership race with a convincing win over the Borderers, one must resignedly confess
that anything may
happen.
THE dramatic qualities of this
championship struggle can
easily be appreciated. It is like a
Smith, the Borderers goalkeeper; } who had to concede two goale in the
against vital league match
Joseph's on Saturday.
well directed film, deliberately How They
muring to its climax, and there is
not likely to be any anti-climax.
N
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IN fact I shall not be surprised
to find that the first division
honours still
Stand In
romulhanlanded The Tables
when the programme officially ends On April 29.
NEVERTHELESS 1 think Kow-
N
St.
SAINTS MOVE UP
· AGAIN
the
1'0-
loon finally quashed the Lin- colns hopes. With St. Joseph's and South China each with two
The following are ames in hand. and the Bordorers with three, one of them are bound suits of Saturday's league football to top the present leaders, who and the present league inbles in
all three divisions. are only holding to their position by a single polat.
KOWLOON'S determination
to
show that it is not only the Jesser fry which they can beat, and further that there is
more than a grain of truth in the
assertion that they are worthy of more impressive record, carned
'FIRST DIVISION,
St. Joseph's, 2 S. W. Borderers E. Lancashires 3 R. Navy Hongkong F. C. 2 RA. Kowloon F. C. 1 Lincoln Regt. Recreio
0 K. Police League Table.
4
P. W. D. L.
for them one of the finest achieve-fincoln Regt. 17 12 ments of the day.
IT
St. Joseph's 15 11
South China 15 11
14 11 14 9
Goals
was their liveliest and happiest S. W. Bor-
dercra display of the season. They beat the Lincolns becauso they Navy were much faster, more scientifle Kowloon F. C. 16 6
II.K. F.C... 14 #1 33 44 13 and vory much more cohesive.
•Athletic
15 5 0 10 34 43 10 East Lance-
IT
38 13
1 shire Regt. 14 4 9 17 37
FT is a long time since the Lin-
colus have been so hustled. | RÄ. They found tho quickness of the ILK. Police Kowloon men extremely dis- Recreio concerting. Their attacks wero never allowed to develop and the /defence was constantly kept on South China
the alert.
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15 4 0 11 22 38
13 3 2 8 17 23
1 14 16 60 1 .. 16
SECOND DIVISION.
0 Young Indians
League Table.
Goals
R 3829e coom
9
8
8
TIE BORDERERS INTO KNOTS WITH SKILFUL FOOTBALL
SOLDIER'S CONFIDENCE SHAKEN & TEAM COES TO PIECES
THE INIMITABLE A. V. GOSANO
(By "Varitas").
LET there be no mistake about it. When St. Joseph's beat the Bor- derers by two clear goals at Caroline Hill on Saturday, they did so entirely on their own merits. There may have been one or two con- tributing factors not directly due to the Saints which made the result inevitable, but ignoring these, the winners can be described as accom- plishing a splendid performance.
For weeks now, the general feeling among those
who have watched St. Joseph's this season, has been that by his partner. until the forwards showed improvement the team stood a much greater chance of defeat than success. Well, that improvement came on Saturday, and any of us who held doubts about the effectiveness of the attack when on form, had them quickly dispelled. But the effect of this rejuvena- tion was not only noticeable in regard to the vanguard. The whole team played better as n 2result, Quick decisions
were
made, but even quicker was the omanner in which those decisions were put into practical form.
THE TUTORS TAUGHT. Without wasting a second the ball moved from player to player And this rapid passing avas backed up by some porfect positional play, so that rarely did the ball miss ita objective. The Borderers were in the position of the tutor being taught.
- Mullane was splendid and was almost as prominent 08 A. V. Gosano. He did not make a single mistake in a gruelling battle of wita and football skill Smith shaped confidently and His fine scase of anticipation, had very little chance with the his quick judgment. which al-shots which beat him. lowed him to make correctly
Although, as I stressed in the first timed interceptions, and his paragraph, St. Joseph's won de- coolness in every situation, made servedly, it la equally true that him the one real stumbling block territorially the Bordorora onjoyed to the Berdereras aspirations.
It was a magnificent display, in keeping with the onviable reputa tion which A. V. has now built up for himself as a full back.
HANDS TO IT in the rugby match between the Hongkong Football Club and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank played on Saturday, which onded in • draw. (Photo: Mee Cheung).
HOME FOOTBALL
SOME UPSETS ON SATURDAY
.
ARSENAL SECURE
REVENCE
CAN DO
KEEN RUGBY AT HAPPY VALLEY
(By "Line Out").
After a keenly fought match the Hongkong v. Shanghai Bank draw with the Club at Happy Valley on Saturday afternoon each sido scoring one goal and two tries (11 points).
There was nothing very briliant in any of the movements on either side, the game really being fought out at forward where the Club hold a distinct advantage right up to the last ten minutes. The Bank outsidies looked Har more their opponents dangorous than whenever they got going.
McGilchrist, playing his first game In the Colony, ran sireng- ly, but was inclined to attempt too much in his own.
The Club forwards starbed off ut great pace and kept it up welly McLellan showing the way and all the rest backing him up brilliant-
ly
The quickness of each not of wing forwards however stopped the game being oponed up, and it was therefore somewhat dreary game to watch.
HUTCHISON PERFORMS WELL.
Hutchison did very swoll for the Club, and cut through brilliantly on more than one occasion. The scoring waa opened by Mocion when he dribbled past the Bank defence, and picking up ten yards from the line threw himself over (By "The Pilgrims")
for a try which McLellan convert- ed. The Bank rotaliated strongly, Arsenal scraped home against and McGilchrist cut through and Aston Villa to whom they shaking off many attempted have just renounced their cup- tackles, got over for a try which tis hopes; Huddersfield beat Robertson unaccountably missed West Bromwich away from converting.
most of the play. For ten minutes they romained in the St. Joseph's half immediately following the interval, and it would not be un
bome; and Derby-the hope of fair to say that they were attack-
that the old
Hutchison made the opening the Midlands-collapsed on the for the next try and passed out to baseball ground before the all- Harbord, who ran over too far out conquering Pompey team in for McLellan to convert. After the week-end Home football half time the Bank went ahead, programme.
Lowson scored after a long period The result is that Huddersfield of pressure by the Bank, and then Boon after the same player and Arsenal stand together at the top of the Division and Derby attempted a drop at goal which well and beat Harris Walker. now have to fight out their posi- went wide, but Moutrie followed tion with Spurs.
The presence of Hulme and for the touchtown. Robertson
converted.
Noble then intercopted a pass James in the Arsenal attack was a
bined run with Hutchison
up
right out of their hands, and had work which has so delighted their Morrison made a poor attempt to welcome aight for the Highbury in his own half and after a com
WOS
In analysing the performance ing for 70 per cent. of the game. of the Borderers, one feels com-
THE GOALS. pelled to believe that they were
But the raids were not of the affected by the importance of the occasion. This, in fact, is the type likely to lead to goals, and only thing which will explain their the task of the Saint's defenders complete change of form.
was perhaps much easier than one would imagine under the circum- To put it rather brutally, they stances.. Hitherto it has been these very
lost their heads.
It was after two strong attacks characteristics which the Border-
All those finely conceived move-on the home goal, ors have featured so prominently. But St. Joseph's took the initiative ments in attack; and ideal. team collegians swept down the field.
crowd. them well beaten in speed and supporters and sent their cham-clear, and Leonard swung the ball
Derby'a dafcat Was largely pionship stock soaring to the skies, through for Gosano to cut in and a tactics.
absence of almost over. From the five yard the were without the slightest justi beat Smith with a first-timer. The attributable to the The difference between
second goal was a very fine effort Crooks and their other Inter scrum Merke worked the blind teams was that St. Joseph's were fcation, forgotten or ignored..
In which most of the forward line national wing but they wore per the oqualising try.
sido and sent Hutchison over for,
the Borderers. wore haphazard,
took part, culminating in Leonard
The result was a fair indication
of attack.
At Newcastle-the-Chelsea of the run of the play, of kick and rush play which held an oblique shot..
Defences were on top in the Leonard, leader of the Saints' no terrors to the Saints rearguard, second half, although both goals Pensioners fought a grim game
'and shared. four goals. forward line, revealed vastly im- and therefore little hopes of suc-had narrow escapes. proved form. His daahes through cess. The forwards were badly the middle were a continual source leorganised, and when it come to of worry of Mullane and Morrison, shooting they took over the erst- the latter in particular finding him while role of their opponents' at- difficult to deal with.
tack, and alternatively it was a Ward and -Leonard,
Bernle
case of wouldn't or couldn't shoot. Gosano also combined with rare- 4 S. W. Bordorera 1 understanding, and the trio were
an entertainmont in themselves.
CLEVER SCHEMER.
ALTHOUGH they were a little
playing according to plan, whilst FORWARDS AT FAULT. P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts unfortunate in losing, I be South China 10 13 0 3 54 13 20 "fieve that the Navy havo now be- Lincoln Regt. 16 10 3 3 4031 23 lacking..especially a decisive_form_They-were-forsaken for a tspn/driving the ball past Smith with haps unfortunato not to gain a
R.A.
II.K. F.C.
10 3 4 64 21 21
10 10 10 8
15 0
40 20 21
20 35
gun their decline, and that they . Navy cannot any longer be seriously S.W. Bor- regarded as contestants for the derers championship. THE East Lancashires snapped Young Indians 14 4 1 21 48 9 1 11 20 63 6 Athlotle ... 14 2 up all their chances, and once Kowloon F.O. 15
1 1 13 13 57 3 they had acquired a three-nl load, there was small hopes of the Kavy
THIRD DIVISION, Having the game. Nevertheless they staged a fine fighting finish and did well to reduce the arrears to a single goal,
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L.E.
League Table.
Goals
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts.
A rearranged forward line in the Lincoln Regt. 18 18 0 0 777 30
hnd
2 4 30 22 22
31 21
17 7 3
China 16 10 second half made a lot of South
8.W. Dor- difference. Incidentally
derers
17 10 Skinner been better supported, Recrelo there would probably have been a R.AS.C. different result.
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THE thrustfulness of the East Radio Lancashire's attack was a new R.A.F. feature, and only goes to prove my
University contention of a few weeks ago that consistently good forward displays would find the soldiers winning afbe required for this number of matches.
Aixture with St. Joseph's goes by the board.
A
MORE than fair share of luck
match,
their
St Joseph's supporters should be pleased.
division of points.
WHAT HIBES DID.
To-day's
Stoke was another club which Stand Court
had luck on its side. Hibbs was only called upon to deal with one
In the latter phase, Hazlewood KOWLOON'S BEST hot at goal but that one be mis
;
was the leading offender, and he missed a couple of sitters, by loft- ing the ball yards over the bar when almost on the goal line. On Ward, indisputably one of the the other hand Herbert refused to cleverest schemers in local foot attempt to steer the ball in the ball (I always think of Lee Wal-direction of the goalposts, Scarle tong when I see him in action) was never up enough to get in a was the best-forward on view. shot. Generous and skilful in his dis. tribution of the ball, he kept Leonard and Gosano plied with ideal passes, and most of the St. Joseph's attack had their origin in the young inside right, Gosano gave him splendid sup- port despite being well marked by Jones, whose tireless work prob ably saved several more goals.
Mathing, who was so starved In the first half that he might excusably have paraphrased passages in the Lord's Prayer, had a dip and a splash at goal- scoring in the closing stages, and made mess of both at- tempts.
:.
Boiled down to hard fact, only
MUCH TOO GOOD FOR LINCOLNS
(By "Wanderer.")
Kowloon 1 Lincolns D
judged, and gave the visitors both points.
There was a deal of excitement nt Bristol City where Gillingham were the visitors and shared the points. The spectators continual- ly found fault with the refores who had to be conducted from the field by police at the conclusion of the game.
Brentford are faltering in their upward climb and although de- finitely the better team than Southampton, they failed to clinch the issue and were satisfied with
goalless draw.
Motherwell wore soundly thrash-
Tennis
DOUBLES MATCH
SCHEDULED
The open tennis cham~ pionships have made such excellent progress, that the programmes have been cut down to one match a day on the stand court. These aro quarter-final games, and next week will seo semi-finals com- pleted.
This afternoon the last remain-
Kowloon's re-shuffled side gave a seemingly inspired lisplay, keenness compensat ing for what they lacked in finesse, and they held the initiative almost throughout.
ed by Celtic and now find them- ng bracket in the doubles soral- point ahead of Rannals wil be filled, and without Only during one period, for about selves but
pui, The suggestion made in thess Duncan on the left wing played a ten minutes, did they seem like losing gers who won away from home at doubt by Ho Ka-lau and Tsui Wai-
their grip. It camo immediately Heart's expense.
The C.R.C. pair are opposed to was enjoyed by the Clubs and SIGH of relief by the Artillery 1
columna recently that he could normal game: and this, in view of tor Elliott had scored his delightful their defeat of the Artillery didn't
Harry Owon-Hughes and Capt. afford to shoot more often was the lack of support, was wasted.
goal, the excitement of the success So far as the losers wore con-against the league leaders being the
P. Cannon, whose progress in impress one bit. It was doubly tough on the Gunnorn that they PRACTICALLY the last vestige substantiated by the fact that he
the netted the first goal, and went cerned, all the honours left over of hope held out by
quietly, that the possibility of were denied point through
the lead lod the defenders into some very, very close on to other by the Saints: went to the hair apparent cause; over-anxiety to keep INTER-HONG GÒLF the tournament has been on so
backs and Muliano. The
them appearing in the last four omni-erratic kicking and nearly produced a nera-up honours in the third divi- casions in the second half.
given serious With Leonard, Ward and Gosano present Podmore played one of the breakdown. When control had been FOURSOME CONTESTS has not bean
Lincolns were alon was washed out on Saturday, 1
thought. hardest games of his career, al-re-established, the
DECIDED
But their convincing succOBA GEORGE Duncan made a suc- when they were trounced by the constantly as fairly overshowed though in his anxiety to give nover again dangerous,
left wing was cessful appearance at inside Royal Engineera.
possible support to the for-
Only two of the matches arranged against the Portugese pair Inst In a game whore defences showed every But Rocha accomplished some right for the civilians. Don't be
Everest, surprised if he becomes a per- THE position new is that not useful work as a fourth half back, wards, I thought he allowed most capelli vee, Kowloon rest and for yesterday in connexion with the week suggests that they will at
Leonard rather too much
worth their victory. rope. only have the Borderers to win and Costa, although missing two was more.often clashing with and Cord was rarely troubled, while the Kowloon Golf Club werò playeɗ) least give Ho and Tauí a good run manent fixture in the team for the their one remaining match, but grand opportunities of acoring. Boltrão and Ward, and the fact iss at centro-half smothered Malpas. off. The results of those two games for their money this afternoon..
Willis played like the book at full-back Inter-Hong Foursomes tournament at
Pardoe's fallure to convert a Borderers of capturing the run-
penalty.
rest of the season.
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South China must lose both of WHICH reminds me that the their outstanding fixtures if there
Artillery aro
now in the is to be any change in present peculiar position of being usable standings. to turn out a first division team without destroying the status of THIS possibility is about one their second division players,
thousand to one against.
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have made one monior
..
to Кеор
testines
were as follows: The Sanitary Do
CROSS COUNTRY RUN
passing shots a ticklish business to accomplish successfully, Can- non too is generally seen to bet-, ser effect in doubles, and it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that Ho and Teul will have to con- : cede a act.
The Chinese are threatoned was sufficiently lively Davies and Mullane fully occupied. these duels with the ball giving his best display of the season. pariment (Seddon and Braley) beat with one dificulty: to pass Oweni- Once the Saints had obtained a these Somewhat less expected was the re- the Naval Yard (Henderson and part Hughes when he is at the net. markably fine performance of Gner), one up: Kowloon Wharf and Owon-Hughes is one of the safest grip on the game, the half backs to his relentless tackling. wore seen at their best. Beltras MORRISON'S FIRST BAD GAME. White at right half, Opposed to Godown Co. (Eastman and Groves) not players in local tornis and his Ridley and Hocquard, the most ground, and with
dangerous Lincolns wings, White beat the P. W. D. (Simpson and Mur-long reach makes both lobbing and covered a lot of
Jones was another to figure stepped into a position quite foreign phy} one up. the assistance of A. V. Goanne, completely subdued Herbert, the prominently, and Davies generally to him and gave a highly impressive
centreforward. Elms had the measure of Costa.
exhibition.
Forward, too, Kowloon wero sur- ALL of the reserves have now NEVERTHELESS the Services Borderers
also did extraordinary well, and
For the first time this season I boen tiaed In the
prisingly efficient, and forceful. It was bravo showing
Marques was prominent in the
saw Morrison play a really poor never an easy task to settle down match allowed under the rulos, in the league this year. The And the junior shield final, the Lincolns have won the third divi- closing stages, when most of the game. He went to pieces after an against the keen tackling and well- conclusion of which will release sion with the record breaking forward line thrust was coming early claph with Leonard in which balanced Lincolns half-back fine.
from Hazlewood and Duncan.
ha Was beaten for the ball, but reintroduction of McKelvie to National Championship theas players, is still a fortnight achievement of `remaining un-
Thoreafter he seemed obsessed the forward line made a world of in 18 matches, The defeated
GOSANO THE GREAT.
of displaying his difference. He adopted the role of with the idea Lincolns have also finished run-
and kopt Diako and HAPPILY the exhibition game ners-up in the second division,
London, Mar. 10. But in defonco A. V. Gosano powers of dribbling the ball. The constructor
S. Dodd of Wirral Athletic Club game, they should earn the right between the Services and whilst the third, fourth and fifth stood on his own. He monopolised result was the first goal and many Elliott on the move with swift and
couragingly enterprising,
the National Cross-country to meet, their old foos, the Rum- South China for the opening of places have been filled by the Navy, the exchanges in front of goal, narrow escapos. He was shaky accurate passes.
"unconfident and It nooded The Lincolns were sold in defence, championship of ten miles in 50 mins Jahn cousins.
The match is on the stand court, the new pavilion at Caroline Hill Borderers and Artillery in that time and again emerging from aand
crowd of players with the ball at Mullone's best covering work to the wing halves being particularly and 26 sacs, Birchfield Harriers won is acheduled for next Saturday, order.
hide the many blunders committed prominent, but their, attack was inopf, the team event-Router,
starting at 4.80. his feet. and an overal of the Gunners will
off.
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(Continued on Page D).
"V, White was 21-
Фол
Won. By S. Dodd
Ho Ka-Jau has not figured in the tournament for over a week, but this is not likely to upset hilmi If the Chinese pair play a normal
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