FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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FOUR CUP SEMI-FINALS TO-MORROW FOOTBALL FORM GUIDE
1. A. Duggan, Leeds United and Ireland 2-8. Weaver, Newcastle United and England 3-G. Brown, Glasgow Rangers and Scotland
MANCHESTER
CITY AND WEST
HAM FOR FINAL
Motherwell Should Meet The Celtic
Complete Cup Statistics
(By Referee.)
No
sooner are one set of Cup Derby County their opponents. have figured in nine semi-finals. ties over than there is an but have never yet carried off the other to contemplate, and we pass up. They are the only team of from sensation to sensation. To-the quartette who have not played morrow probably 400,000 people at Wembley. will witness the semi-final rounds
of the F.A. and Scottish Cup.
I confess that it is necessary to reverse my prediction, made some weeks ago, that the Hearts would reach the Scottish Final. In view
of their strenuous endeavours in
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The following shows how the team ocked the Sixth Round, of the FA Cup: WEST HAM UNITED:—
ent Corinthians Arenete miku-st-Bromwich
1 Brighton
best rmingham
the League and even in the face MANCHESTER CITY:---
beat Gateshead
beat Walkn!) bent Boltan beat Burnley EVERTON:-
bent Leicester hrat Bury hos Leeds
of their remarkable rally against the Rangers on Saturday. I do not think they will overcome the Celtic, dour Cup fighters with everything concentrated on to-morrow's game. I am not going to go back on my former
prediction regarding · DERBY COUNTY:-- the other teams and in spite of several remarks 1 have heard since that forecast was published I am tavouring the ebances of Man! chester City and West Ham for the Final.
ben Luton
beat Wolves
beat Southend
Put Aldershol
best Sunderland
thes replay.
2--0
1-0-
4-4
1-0
1-0
3+;
3--1
2-0
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3--2
2-0 0
J.
W. Allen, the Wednesday marksman who has plac- ed the Sheffield side in a strong. challenging position for pre- mier league honours, and J. Robson (Right) the Grims- by centre who is shortly to be transferred,
Only seven teams have an unbeaten home record - Sheffield Wednesday, Tolten- ham Hotspur, Bury, Hull City, Doncaster Rovers, Northamp- ton Town and Glasgow Ran- gers.
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Consternation!
MONSTERNATION was caused in Wolverhampton by the transfer Celtic, the hope of Glasgow, have of vill, the Wanderers recent re- own the Cup on thirteen occasions,cruit, to Charlton Athletic, a corres-, their most recent triumph being in pondent assures me. the 1930-1 season when they over-ed "Wolves" from Oldham Athletic Ivill only join- came Motherwell. They were in on November 4 last year, and the Final Round with the Rangers although he had made more than 250 in the 1908-9 season, the year that consecutive the Cup was withheld. Hearts,
The Lancashire alde he was dropped their Edinburgh rivals, after three successive games. have won on four occasions.
has played in only one match since.
Ivill's position during his career had always been at right back in his first game for the Wolves against the Arsenal, he played left back. Manchester City, Sunderland and Blackpool are the only other teams Ivill has played against in his short First Division experience.
THE BETTING FIGURES
THE most recent betting figures from London are as follow:-
9- Derby County
10-1 Manchester City
15- Everton
20-1 West Ham United.
The following has been the pro-
the teams gress of
to the Semi- Final Round:
MOTHERWELL.
beat Hamilton
bent Montrose
beat Dundee
Motherwell have never won thr 'Scottish Cup, though they have bent Kilmarnock
figured in several Finals, their CELTIC. The following are my selections: gst recent appearance being in F.A. CUP -Semi-Finals, 1981 when they were beaten by
DERBY ♥ MANCHESTER C.
Celtic. This year they will meet daughty opponents after comfort- tat Huddersfield) able semi-final tie with Clyde, who
EVERTON WEST HAM
r another team (ut Wolverhampton) eluded.
SCOTTISH CUP- Semi-Finals.
MOTHERWELL CLYDE
(at Ibrox Park)
CELTIC HEARTS
(at Hampden Park)
I have been struck by the
study which has Ixeen given!
afa
to the tactical play of teams since the commencement. the competition. As Noon AS the draw for the Third Round was announced club officials made it their business to go and watch their opponenta. Even teams have been taken to see the men
They were to meet.
Dixie Dean, the star Everion leader in going tu trouble the Hammers, but they have a sound; defence with experience in favour of youth predominating. The
League leaders have not enjoyed;
un altogether happy season
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2-0
5-
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beat Dunfermline beat Partick
7--1
2-1
beat Albion
3--1
CLYDE,
beat Fraserburgh
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beat Leith Athletic
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the
Cup hae
(Bye into Fourth Round)
beat-Stenhousemiur
3-2
HEARTS.
beat Solway Star
0
beat Airdrieonians
4-1
brat St. Johnstone
beat Hiberniana
ZnamŮ 2-0
• denotes replay.
This is how the teams fared in the past two years: 1931-2
Clyde Jost Round.
DIXIE DEAN.
(Everton).
have
La Hamilton in 4th
Hearta lost to Motherwell in 3rd
Round,
Celtic lost. La Hamilton in 3rd
Bound
Motherwell lost to Rangers in
4th Round.
1930-1
Celtic bent Motherwell in Final. Clyde lost to St Mirren in 2nd
Round.
Hearts lost to Kilmarnock in 2nd
Round.
Home Football Forecast
For To-Morrow
FIRST DIVISION.
(-) v Wolves
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West Ham United, Rother- ham United, Mansfield Town, and Cardiff City are the only four teams to have failed to record an away victory
season.
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|Dewar for Manchester.
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this.
EIL DEWAR, the Scottish In-
ternational and Third Lawurk | F.C. centre-forward, whose name has recently been coupled with one or two of London's League Clubs, has been transferred to Manchester United. The transfer fee is stated
to be one of the biggest ever receiv ed by the Glasgow club. Dewar played for Scotland against England at Wembley Stadium last season,, and this season be has played against Wales, scoring a goal, and for the Scottish League against the Football League, again figuring among the scurers. The transfer is merely due to Dewar's wish to better his financial position..
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The Arsenal lead the Ran- gera by a goal, having secured 95 to date this season. Cow- denbeath have conceded 96 goals to date, while Newport, Swindon, and the Air. drieonians have had 88 scored against them.
ine Also. FOLLOWING their signing of Dewar, Manchester United secured from Huddersfield Town, the transfer of Hine, their inter- national inside-right. Hine joined Huddersfield Town from 'Leicester City during the close season. Last campaign he headed the City's goal scoring fist with 23 goals in 36 League appearances, and captained the side. He played for England (-) against Ireland and Wales in 1980,
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TENNIS
RUMJAHNS
ENTER THE
FINAL
Worst Display For Many Years.
COMPREHENSIVE TA BLE SHOWING FORM
OF CLUBS AT A GLANCE.
COMPREHENSIVE guide to the form of all the Football League and Scottish League clubs will be found in the tables given below. To assist in comparing the teams, details of how they have fared in the last five League matches are given. The letters W. L and D indicate matches won, lost or drawn respectively. Games played at home are shown in capital letters and away games In smaller type. The figures in brackets denote the position held by that team at the conclusion of last season. The asterisk denotes Rumjahn cousins have entered the a promoted team and the sword signifies a relegated team.
OPPONENTS LACK UNDERSTANDING
For the ninth successive year the
Colony Doubles Final. Yesterday they defeated Y. Hachiuma and J.
The League positional tables give home and away details and W. Leonard by scores of 6-4, 5-7,
include all matches played to date.
FIRST DIVISION.
Arsenal (2) DdWid Aston Villa (5) bwHW Steffield Wednesday (3) wiwWI Newcastle Utd. (11) Wldw W. Bromwich Albion (6) dWdWi Derby County (15) WIDIA
Leeds Utd. (-) DILLA Huddersfield Town (4)
WWIDL Sunderland (1) IWwid Everton (4) Ww
་་་ Portsmouth (8) WIWwD Sheffield Utd. (7) LDDW Blackburn R. (16) WIW! Liverpool (10) WLWD Birmingham (9) www. Bolton Wanderers (17) IWOD Manchester City (14) IWiwa Blackpool (20) WdwLi Middlesborough (18) DIWDw Chelnes (12) ILDIW *Wolverhampton W. (-) ¿DIDD Leicester City (19) WWw]D
HOME P. W. D. L. 33 11 2 3 31 13 0 3
12 3
AWAY W. D. L. 9 5 3
12 2
31
SECOND DIVISION.
Tottenham (8) WwDdW Stoke City (3) WIL Bury (6) www Notts Forest (11) dWwWL Plymouth Argyle (4) DIWwW Millwall (9) DwWW! Manchester United (12) WdWID Notts County (16) wLIWw *Fulkow (-) DdD
Bredford City (7) ILILI Swansea Town (15) wWILI Southampton (14) DIWDd ... Preston North End (13) DdW&W Bradford (5) AWNI Port Vale (20) AWILA
Lincoln City (-) wat Chesterfield (17) WIW Oldham Athletic (6) LlwWW tWest Ham United (-) WIDI
Grimsby Town (-) DwlD Charlton Athletic (16) IWIW= Burnley (19) LUW
GOALS
6-3, 6-2, after giving quite their worst exhibition for many years.
H. D. Rumjhan was again the do- minating figure on the court, and A. Pts. it is no small tribute to him to say 95 46 47 that he carried "S. A.," Colony 24 50 24 42
F.
65
46 42 champion, to victory.
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50 36
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It was only the superior court- 36craft of the Rumjahns, coupled
57 64 33
70
65 29 45 28
60 74 21
51
17
43 34 with the lack of understanding be- 44 34 tween the Craigengower pair, that 64 33 won the day. The challengers 62 32 1985 32 played well above what was ex- pected of them, and had their 80 30 ahots, especially their volleying, 23 possessed more power behind them 452 they would undoubtedly have car- 62 ried the match to the full distance. 66 25 Leonard was weak at the net and 61 27
a little disappointing, bis ground shots being also very erra- tic. Hachiuma strove manfully to drive his way past the Rumjahns at the net, but, though he suc- ceeded once or twice, he was sel- dom seen at his best.
Ind-the-challengers-made-more- use of the lab to Sirdar Rumjahn, who was again uncertain aver- head, they might have achieved
40 59 23 63 85 22 40 70 21
GOALS
19
3 0 12
1 4 11
1 3 12
HOME
P.
W. D. L.
AWAY W. D. L.
12 4 0
5 4 6
32
9 3 4
9 34
6 0
32
0 0 4
7 6 3
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11 2 3
3 4 9
54 51 36
10 4
4
3
36
5 2 9
10
3 11
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH).
Brentford (5) dWwW! Norwich City (10) dWdwW Exeter City (7) IWdWd Reading (2) dWww Coventry City (12) WIWw Crystal Palace (4) WIWIW Northampton (14) WD
Brighton & Hove (8) IWLIW Bristol Itovers (18) DwdWd Watford (11) DIWAD Southend
United (3) Wail United (19) Wdwd
Bournemouth (15) DIDL Gillingham (21) IDDID Queen's Pk. R. (13) WIDID Luton Town (6) IWAID *Aldershot (-) IDIDL
Brirtal City (-) WaWDd Clapton Orient (16) DILWI Cardiff (B) IWNW "Newport_(~) LWWI Swindon Town (17) IDDLI
F. A. Pts. 82 41 42 56 28 42 СВ 47 40 48 40 38
28628887286568
59 74 24
55 75 24
48 65 24 51 67 23
GOALS
F. A. Pta.
66 34 45 70 39 45 43
71 36
59 49 35
66 46
35
48 51 32
54 56 29
58
43 88
HOME
AWAY
P. W. D. L.
W. D. L.
30
12 1
1
8 4
44
32
12 3
12
4
30 12 3
5 5 4
85 48
12
33 10
87 60 36
32
04 10
10
8
31 11
3 11
30 10
30 10
50
2 10
23
430
4
3
4
55 GG
4 10
5 10
50 69 29
49 49
3 11
55 56 48
67
1 5 9
14 11
47 75 24
30
9
0 3 11
50 77 23
1 3 13
6 5 4
1 1 14
HOME
AWAY
P. W. D. L
W. D. L.
51
12 a 0
6
7 28
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06
71 45 36
4
A
78 AR
D
KO
A
B
59
11 02 34
AR 68 34
56
18 20
y
59
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54
19
DY 32
71 OR
48
DZ
2 11
310
92 *
55 65 26
61 HO Z6
41 58
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH).
Hull City (8) wIWW] Chester (3) Lwddw Wrexham (10) #WWW] Barrow (3) LWIW Stockport C. (12) dWdWw
Barnsley (-) WIWWI Walsall (16) WIWWI Gateshead (2) ILIDI Crewe Alex. (6) IW=IW Southperi (7) #LWIW Accrington 8. (14) 4WHW Doncaster R. (15) WIW Rotherham U. (19) Walw Tranmere R. (4) whini Hartlepools (13)
WWIW! Halifax T. (17) UWD York City (B) WWZW *Mansfield T. (-) WILD Rochdale (21) LLDII. Darlington (11) LIWWI Carlisle U. (18) IDOW New Brighton (28 WildW
31 11 4 2
30 14 1 1 NR 10 3
32 12 32 12
2 14
3 3 9
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
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EXETER (-) | Luton
(6) v Reading Newport (-) NORWICH (0) NORTHAMP- (1)
(3) v Cardiff
(1)
(1)
and again last year.
TON(6) v Queen's P.R. (1)
(2) v Britsol R.
(6)
Chester Transfer.
CH
HESTER FC. have secured the transfer at a substantial fee of
Rangers (2) WwWwD
He
Motherwell (1) WwLW Hearts (8) dWlwd
HAM (4) v Chelsea
Mackpool (1) v ASTON VILLA(3) | SWINDON Jurda WEDNESDAY (3) Leicester
(-) v Liverpool L-) TORQUAY (3) ▼ Watford
(1) SUNDER
THIRD DIVISION (North). (3) BARNSLEY (-) v New Brighton (~)
ARSENAL -compared with last season, but the BIRMING same can be said of the Hammer Relegated from the premier divi Mackburn (3) y Boltan sion the Upton Park team are now fighting to avoid relegation. They have, however, shown considerable improvement within the last month and have given Londoners every hope of representation at Wembley this year,
LAND (1) v Huddersfield WEST BROM-
WICH (3) Portsmouth BECOND DIVISION. BRADFORD C. (1) v Charlton Everton have won the Cup once BURY (4) Presion -boating Newcastle by a solitary Chesterfield (1) NOTTS F
{FULHAM
(-) Plymouth (-) Burnley
..
(0)
(1) HULL
12) v
Darlington (--) v Mansfield (-) R. G. Viner, a centre-half of DONCASTER (2) v Rotherham int
(0) Accrington Stanley. Viner la con- GATESHEAD (8) v
(8) v Rochdale
sidered one of the best centre half-i (1) HALIFAX (1) Barrow
(0) Hartlepoo
(2) backs in the Third Division and CHESTER (a) v Accrington (STOCKPORT (0) Southport
(0) several clubs have been anxious to secure his services. Injury has Tranmere (8 v Carliale WALSALL **(2) v Crewe
Geossalfatad - Chaster,going into the WREXHAM (2) ▼ York (1) transfer market for the directors Intend to make every endeavour to secure promotion, Viner stands 6 foet 1' inch and 'weighs IZat. 6lbs., (2) and played against Barrow at Sea-
goal in the 1905-6 season, West LINCOLN Ham have reached the Final once MILLWALL (-) v Grimsby
the first year that the Wembley Nolta C (1) v Manchester I. Bladium ground was used, losing Port Vale (1) TOTTENHAM (3)
Southampton (1) v Oldham Swansea (1) ▼ STORE
THIRD DIVISION (South),
to Bolton.
This will be Manchester City's fifth appearance in the semi-final Bournemouth (1) v Brighton round. They too have
the BRENTFORD (1) v Gillingham trophy but once in 1908-4 when BRISTOL, C. (-) Southand
Won
CLAPTON (-) Aldershot
they beat Bolton by a lone goal. COVENTRY (8) v Crystal P.
(1)
(1)
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
AIRDRIE (2) y Dundee Cowdenbeath (1) Ayr
(01
| (1)}land Road last week. He has been | with Aegrington for three years. Vínar has also had experienos with St. Johnatone (51 Leicester City. -.
E. Burling - Third Lanark HAMILTON (4) v Aberdeen Kilmarnock Morton
''(2) ▼ RANGERS
Celtle (9) Law
*St. Johnstone (-) wawiw Hamilton Ace. (10) WwWw! Aberdeen (7) DIWA Queen's Park (16) DWwwW -81. Mirren (3) IL]DW-TIT
Partick Thistle WILN
(6) Falkirk (18) WLWL Third Lanark (4) IWILW Kilmarnock (9 DwL! Clyde (13) WWW Dundee (11) WEDW Ayr United (17) Ld=WW Cowdenbeath (12) IWIL! Airdrieonians (10) DdWWI Morton (12) ADLI *East Burling (-) ILALA.
10
31
6
21
8 3 6
1 2 12
5 1
3 0 12
456
31 13
HOME
AWAY
P
W. D. L.'
12 5 0
11 1
8.
12 2 1
W. D. L..
4 2
10 3 8
F
GOALS
F. A. Pts,
74 84 43
7140 42
894441
WAB
more success.
form
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USA. Was definitely below and fell to pleces in the second and third sets, and it was anly the consistency of "H. D."
which held the partnership to- gether.
Holders of the championship for the past eight years the Rumjahns will meet E. C. Finchor and 1. Goldman, last year's finalists, in the Final, which will probably be staged at the Hong Kong Cricket Club on Thursday.
Tennis Results.
THE
THE following were the resulta
of yesterday's tennis encoun
Lers
Open_Doubles Semi-Final,
R. D. Rumjahn and 8. A. Rum- jahn beat Y. Hachiums and J. W. Leonard 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. Club Handicap "D"—Semi-Final.
C. W.
McBride
Bishop beat A. . 6-4, 8-0.
Club Handicap "A".
G. Gamble beat R. M. Hender- son 3-6, 6-4, 18-11.
Handicap Doubles.
Rev. Lewis Bryan and P. 8. Cannon beat T. C. Monaghan and C. E. Holmes 6-2, 6-1.
Mixed Doubles.
A. J. Stocker and Miss Hancock beat C. C. Stark and Mrs. Stark 6-1,4-0, 6-1.
SOCCER.
10 38 SAINTS
DJ
03
24
53 74 23
29 50 23 47 78 20
GOALS
F. A. Pia, 94 27 51
92 38 45
72 40 42
4.7
5 6
56 28 41
7 8
62 61 40
1 8
85 139
81 -40 -23%
68 69 26
63-34
59 45 12
39 40 41 64 18 31 64. 70 29 41 70 29
2 50 62 27
0 10...
BA
11
4 8
1 10
2 13
1 16
48 84 24 35 98 21 20 88 19
5.9
17 86 15
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CONCEDE
POINTS
Sports Interfere With
League Game.
REVISED TIMES FOR TO-MORROW
Owing to the St. Joseph's College holding the heats for their Annual Sporta to-moTTOT › their Third Division team have conceded both points to the Ro yal Air Force in to-morrow'a game in preference to a post- ponement.
Oficial times for the commence. ment of soccer league matches to- morrow are as follow:
First Division----4.30. (p.m.-... Second Division-3 p.m. In view of the senior shield game at Bookunpoo between the Border- drs and St. Joseph's, which is due to kick off at 4.0 p.m. in case extra [time is necessary, the Division II match at Bookunpoo between the Borderers and Chinëse”Athletic will commence at 2.20 p.m.
All other games in Division II. will kick off at 8.0 p.m.
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