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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1938.
NAVY DESERVE SOCCER VICTORY OVER EASTERN F.C.
BETTER IN ALL DEPARTMENTS BUT SHOOTING
CHINESE SCORE TWICE IN TWO BREAKAWAYS
(By "Abe")
Leading twice in the course of the match, the Eastern F.C. failed to consolidate their advantage and were îmally defeated by the Royal Navy by thres goals to two in the First Division of the Hongkong Football League on the Club ground yesterday.
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Actually, Eastern took their lead The Eastern forwards did not have each Ume against the run of play. the came chances on their counter- Therefore it was, but just that the parts, but always seemed the more. salfors finished up, on the winning itongerous in front of goal. Lee end; for they were undoubtedly the Tal-kee, the inside right, with his better team. Only weak finishing on splendid first-time kicking, was al- many occasions by their forwards ways a menace but nu Ching-10, prevented them from emphasising the outside teft, did not have a good their advantage in midfield play. same. He was too prone to get off- side and on one occasion when Lee Territorially the Navy were far
was just about to shoot, he took the auperior. Their intermediate line of hall off his colleague's feet and mess- Honeywill, Dixon nad Ridley dietated|ed up his own attempt, Suen Intro- terms for most part of the maleb,eed some deft touches into his play and niso helped the forwards con-
and fed his men well, but he was siderably during the Navy raids. On seldom in possession of the ball when the other hand, Hsu King-shing, the
within shooting distance. Eantern pivot, played the third-back Hame, and while he was'n tower of strength in defence, he gave his for wards little or no assistance. The task of feeding the vanguard fell to the wing-halves, but with Dixon playing such a prominent part in the middle of the iétd, they did not accomplish this successfully and the inside-forwards bud to go back to forage for thṛqelyan,
DANGEROUS FORWARDS
In the breakaways, however, East- ern were always dangerous. It was during a breakaway, 15 minutes after the commencement of play that Lee Tak-kec broke through to
scure.
The second Eastern goal was due to a bad mistake on the part of Fisher, who missed the bail completely when he had an easy chance to clear, and Lee Tak-kee rushed in to score with
were
a beautiful shot. These only two successes garnered by the Eastern forwards.
Eastern took the lend after 15 min- utes when, as a result of a misunder- standing between the Navy backs,
places.
FINISH OF THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE at Newmarket last month. French horses lled the first two. Those above are enumerated in the order they passed the post--1, Helleniqua (D. Guimard, 50-1); 2. Khannadar (E. C. Elliot, 8-1); 3, Domaha (G. Richards, 100-91; 4. Couvert (E. Gardner. 18-1): 5. Edgehill (W. Nevelt, 100-8). Itelleniqua won by a head; same distance between 2nd and 3rd.
Bowlers Take Upper Hand In Cricket Matches Played
Over The Week-End
Bowlers generally had the upper hand in the cricket matches Lee Tak-tee found himself with the played over the week-end. In most cases, scores were on the low hall with only McAllister to beat and side; the highest of the day was 194 for five wickets declared by he made no mistake. Within a few the Diocesan School boys against the Kowloon C.C. seconds, and tolautes, Eastern nearly became two up. Two fine shots by Lee were the lowest was 39 by the Indian R.C. juniors against the Police.
mothered, unce by the goal-keeper) Best individual performances were [RE. and the other by a Navy defender om undefeated century by Grorge on the goal-line after McAllister tatt Souz
Souza, for the Cralgengwer C.C., been beaten.
against the Preas; and the nine for five returned by C. Pope, bowling C. Pope (Police R.C.) for the Police against the Indians. L.I.C. 2nd XI
Suuza was extremely lucky 1 Pic. Hatfield (Army) reach three figures. He was dropped before he had seared ten, and then C. B. R. Sargent (D.B.S.) v. later on he gave several chances K.C.C. 2nd XI
NAVY DRAW LEVEL However, Navy drew level after a perind of presting, through Hunt, who sent in a shot which hit the post before entering the bei.
32
Denotes
retired,
not out;
BOWLING
↑ denotes
Recreio
POLICEMEN
SURPRISE RECREIO
(By "The Pilgrim")
Rugby
WEAK CLUB SIDE
DEFEATED BY: STRONG NAVY XV Civilians' Grim Tackling Kept Down Sailors' Score
(By "Fly-taif")
At Causeway Bay on Saturday, the Navy defeated the Clab at rugger by 14 points to nil after a very interesting encounter. In attack it was all Navy; the Club seldom looked like scoring, and then only through MacGrath, who had the right idea in making for the corner flag as soon as he received possession.
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However, credit must be given to Thatcher were the pick of the Navy The Club men for their splendid eight who excelled in the loose. tackling in face of tall odds. The whole back division tackled
well
From a penalty given for handling with Henderson, Carruthers, Mac-on the ground, Elliot obtained the Grath and Grieve conspicuous with points from well out in Trent of the Some timely interventions on their posts Tries were then scored by own line.
Walters, who crossed twice; Elliot Converting one. Navy backs made the most of their opportunities,
In the second half, Wella added for they were playing behind a losing serum. The another three points for Navy with Club eight, picking well, had a
o try ten minutes before the whistle per cent, share of the ball from the for full time went. owing to the fact that they were the Navy pack appeared to tire, the Carruthers, G. S. Wilson, E. ver After a delay of half an hour set serums Late in the game, when Club.-J. R. Henderson; M. G. unable to place a full side in the Club took scrums instead of line-ner, W. M. MacGrath; W. E. Chee
eld, the Hongkong Police defeated outs the Club de Heerejo on twr home| ground at
at Mongkok yesterday morn
JUDICIOUS KICKS g by a
nil. Road Both teams in the first half made! Lieut. Elliot again got his threes good use of their wings and attacks agolog without loss of time, ond were frequent at both ends. No although he was not so evident us Lieut. Roads, however, were scored up to an individualist, he had some judici- Bayly the interval
ous kicks to touch. Grieve in oppo- (Dainty), In the
second half, Recreio gut | sition to Elliot held his quickly into their strike but the practically every time. strong defensive efforts of the Police
Both kept them at bay. Parker, as pivot
particular, was outstanding.
opposing It was all licereo's game in this round the trung quickly and were phrey (Dorsetshire), Lieut. halt
forced to get the ball out without (Phoenix), Lieut. Anderson (Olym-
through. Lic. pus)
.
serum halves
forwards wing
found
to
brenk
Navy.-Lieut.
E. C. Luscombe; K. A. Watson, K. W. Salter, T. H. Pratt, E. W. Sioul, C. M. Stark, G. J. P. Carey, A. J. G. Taylor and W. B. Richardson,
Stevens (Kent): Walters (Olympus), Lieut.
(Early), P.
O. Askwith Wells man Lieut. Elliot (Eng
(Medway); Lieut. B. Thatcher
Talbot
Supt.
Capt
(Olus) (Eagle), Shpt. Staples (Engle), Ldg. the Sea. Ronians (Eagle), Lieut. St. coming John (Pandora), Lieut. Pum- Ogle
and Pay. Mid.
Young
5 for ninated in poor Anishing, Thef Talbot was the more polished of the Dorsetshire).
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the
ter
which were not accepted. He batted E. 1. Gosano (Recreio) v. Lee once more put Eastern ahead very well on occasion, however, hit- when Fisher missed an easy kick. Laut some lovely shots. He made 100 A.
Arms Again he darted in to beat MeAilis-out of a total of 148, his best scoring,
T. Lee (Press) V c.c.c. strokes being a five and 17 bounK. L. Ng (University) Five minutes later, Newlands beat|
daries.
H.K.C.C. 2nd XI Lau Hin-hon with a beautiful header Aided slightly by a bumpy ground, Y. T. Barma (1.R.C. 2nd from a left cross by Betts, and be- Pope was almost unplayable at XI v. Police fore the whistle blew for balf-time, Happy Valley. Keeping an immacu D, Crary (D.B.S.) v. K.C.C. Bells scored with a low shot past a late length, he ran through the 2nd XI number of players.
Indian R.C. seconds, laking nine C. W. Haynes (C.S.C.C.) v. wickets for only five runs.
R.E...... formances of the day:
The following were the best per-II. J. D. Lowe (ILK.C.C.
2nd XI v. University BATTING Georgo Souza (C.C.C.) V.
9 for 6 for 20
5 for 22
5 for 20
V.
4.for 13)
4 for 27
4 for 27
4 for 53 I for
A. K. Ismall (0.0.0.)
Press
Press
100
D. Crary (D.B.S.) v. K.C.C. 2nd XI
F. Lay (D.B.S.) V. K.C.C.
A. M. Prata (Recreio)
Army
3 for 15
3 for 23
07
J. . Hsley (H.K.C.C.)
Y.
I.R.C.
3 for 28
10
H. L. Haymes
(II.K.C.C.
I.. D. Kilbee (H.K.C.C.) v. J.R.C.
Lleut. CHN Recreio
50
(Army)
K. M. Baxter (KC.C. 2nd
XI v. DBS.
3 for 42
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G. Singh Gill (University)
D. McLellan
(C.S.C.C.)
v. II.K.C.C. 2nd XI
3 for IG
For the rest, the Navy were attack- ing most of the time, and only too much pattern-weaving by the for- wards stopped them fromi piling up more than three goaln. Instead of shooting when well-placed, they in- sisted on close-passing, giving the Enstern defenders their opportunity to clear.
Play
always was
interesting throughout, though it cannot be said that a high standard was muin- tained. All the goals were scored in the frat half, The second period was not as good as the first, and only in the last few minutes when Eastern made desperate 'attempts to get on. level terms did the exchanges rench the same high level.
Eastern should have scored in the Just minute. A cruss from the right found Hnu Ching-to with the Boll and only the goal-keeper to beut, but he shot straight at McAllister, who had no dificulty in clearing at the expense of corner, which proved abortive.
Teanis:
Eastern-Lau In-hon; B. Y. Zee, Mew Wah-kwok; Soong Ling-sing Hou King-shing, LD Wai-kuen; Cheng Su-hong, Lee Tak-kee, Suen Kam-shuen, Chow Man-chi and Hau Chlag-to.
Navy. MeAllister: Bellis, Fisher: Honeywill, Dixon, Ridicy: Phippens, 2nd XI Murlistun. Newlands, Betty,
Hunt
and
English F.A.
President Passes Away
London, Nov. 1.
2nd XI) v, University ... 3 for 31
Schoolboys Hypnotise
Kowloon C. C. Juniors
but their forwards lacked u operation. Several promising moves biggest shock of the day occurred six!
iwo. m.nutes from the end, and here A.
for Lieut. Stevens, at full-back Rodrigues was at fault. He fumbled the Navy, was very safe in defence a clearance and Narwant Singh, the and was instrumentui in openinit up left wing, seizing his one and only the game once or twice by fielding chance, broke through to give us a kick-ahead and running up to his side victory with a splendid gool. threes to put them in motion. Ite
I'loy Why fast and interesting had Recreio looked like winners but they Grath once when the winger war a marvelous tackle of Mac- failed to beat a fur cuvaring detenes going all out for the line, bundling Wall, Brown, Mann Singh and Moher ball and man into touch just a yord Singh did splendid work for the from the goal line.
urulans of the faw,
FREAK
BOWLS SCORE
near
ARMY TEAM OVER-RAN CLUB "A"
The
very re.
Army Belded Contrary to what usually happens presentative sido against Club "A" In a Navy v. Club game, Navy did for the curtain-raiser
to the big not over-run the opposition in the same, and over-ran the opposition. last quarter of an hour. That final But for a tendency of hanging on too effort by their efforts was wanting long by the three-quarters, the Army. on Saturday.
score might have been more than 21 points.
With the shortage of players 'avall- able on Saturday, Club enlisted the.
All over no fault could be found with the Navy backs, who all did well and but for good tackling by their opponents would have scoredaid of several Dorscishire men.
Boc, the Army stand-off, was the
on more occasions. Wutters showed some good turas of speed on the outstanding back on the field, pos- Navy left wing, being frequently sessing a dangerous swerve in addi- tackled when within Ave yards of Lon AL elever 'dummy. Wallis the goal line. Wells, on the other again led What must be very
the Army forwards in record-if it actually is not one-in despite being Injured and having to
the wing again gave a faultless display grand style. There's something about schoolboys which seems to send the lawn bowls scoring in the Colony we leave the field, for a spell, Bayly (2), Kerrick and Page. Berry con- The death is announced of MK.C.C. junior cleven players all ga-ga, and they put up performances seen on the Cralgengower C.C. green and Askwith were two nippy In- William Pickford, President of the English Football Association.
which would disgrace a Prep. XI. A week ago they were dramatic-sterday in the course of a friendly skies who seldom put a foot wrong. He had completed 50 years of un-ally beaten by the Central British School after they had dimissed the team from the Kowinan Bowling match between the home side and bruken service as a member of the boys for 60. On Saturday they suffered their second defeat of the Council, and was responsible for season when they came up against the Dicessan Boys' School. The of the forwards, Huntress Essociation football club team was soundly thrashed by 143 runs, being sent back for
-Renter Special,
the pitiful total of 51.
DIXON PROMINENT
Both defences were quite sound. 'Dixon was a dominant figure in the midfield play and was well-support- ed by his wing-halves. Bells, the right back, was steutler thrm Fisher, on the left. was the best of the lot.
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HARD-WORKING PACK
Army scored through Wallis, Boe verted three,
Knapman, the Dorartshire full back, who assisted Club, played a sound game although he found on A C.C.C. rink, comprising L. C. R. Watson, Storic and Soul, T. I. Lock, V. N, Alienza and wore ave the average in a hard-ckles were futile aguinat Wallis, Lie Richardson more than one occasion that high K. Way (sk.), defented E. V. working pack. Anderson, Ogle and big Army forward. Searle, L. E. Combs, T. Armstrong
it is doubtful whether local cricket, twice his age might envy. And there and W. Macfarlane (skip) by 1-3. R 0 Biore werkmanlike Junior is concentration and sureness in the After conceding a single on the first grade team than the D.B.S. Not team's fielding which provides one head, Way's men scored on every one only are the boys keen, but every of the chief reasons why so much of the next 18 ends to pile up 33 thing they do to determined, and quite success attends their matches.
shots! Macfarlane's rink finished up a fol of it has polish. F. Lay, for It is true the team enjoys a moral with two singles, example, wicks a bat with rather backbone in the presence of three, The match was a three-rink affair, more style and technique than is to masters, but their inclusion is not the home side eventually winning by be found among the average school-fallowed to eliminate the boys' 1- 70-37.
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boy. Crary can bowl swinger which
many
cricketer
elsewhere in this issue.
Hockey
RADIO & KOWLOON
Scores of the match are published i INDIANS BATTLE TO
A TWO-ALL DRAW
The senior players of the Clat de Recreio praved too good for the Macao tennis stars over the week-end when the teams mei at King's Fark. The local men won caslly by `ninn matches counter the scores were led at 41⁄2-41⁄2 matches Picture shows the senior players Staff Photographer.
to all. In the Junior en-
before the match.
(By "The Pilgrim")
At Caroline Hill last evening was seen one of the most thrilling games played in the Hongkong Hockey Association Tournament this scaron, and the draw of 2-2 was a fitting result.
The Radio attack started off well, The visitors' attack, led by Pyara and gave the Kowloon Indian Tennis Singh, who was well assisted by the Club defence plenty to do. Within speed demon, Partab, on his right 20 minutes the home tenin took the could not take complete command of lead through G. Singh, who found the situation; for the brilliant Radio the net with two snap goals.
defence, with Stickley, M. H. Hassan After this the game evened up and Kitchell, played magnificently.
U. B. Souza, in goal, was also effec Live with his clearances..
Hockey Lecture
Players and umpires are re- minded that a hockey lecture will be given on Thursday, November 10, at 6 p.m. at St. Andrew's Church Hall.
Radlo provided a last-minute thrill when Jangeer Singh almost gave them victory. He sent in a terri
r.ve from the edge of the circle, but Mann Singh gol his foot to the ball Just in me to deflect it for a long
corner.
The KIT.C. forwards combined exceptionally well. J. Pinto and Malk, the halves, gave a capital dis though the Radio maintained their Singh, at left back, also showed up play in tackling and passing. J. 2-0 tend to the interval.
KIT.C. put on pressure on re between the teams and despite the wed. Territorially there was little tumption and Parlab, with a good speed and severity of the exchanges run through the Radto defence, rt-
duced the defelt with a brilliant alck high standard of slickwork was
hot. A few minutes later, A. P.
maintained to the end. . Souza drew level from an unmarked position.
Lieut. Douglas. and Sgt. Meitam. took control of the game.
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