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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF IN LOCAL SOCCER
CLUB DESERVE SURPRISE WIN
THOSE LONG PASSES AND
A CLEAR RUN
HIGGINS BOTTLED UP WHEN AGAINST SAINTS
YOUNG INDIANS UNLUCKY.
(By OUTSIDE LEFT).
þROBABLY the finest game the↑ by Wong Mei-shun, but his shoot-
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Saints Rout Leaders
THE Saints caused the
Toiggest sensation this soccer
season when they completely outplayed the Lincolas to re- gister an overwhelming victory by 4 goals to 1 at Sookunpon,
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Army Beat Chinese By Only Goal
Greenshields Scores Late In Final Half
CHINESE DESERVE TO WIN
(By SPOT KICK)
Aictory Over the Combined Chinese by a goal to nil in the goal by Greenshields late in the second half gave the Army charily soccer match, in aid of the Tung Wah Hospital, at Caro- line Hill yesterday. Owing to a misunderstanding the start of the game was delayed 25 minutes on account of a Second Division match being in progress.
The Lincolns were never allowed last five sexons was witnessed at in the Club goal had an easy time. to settle down to their usual game, Caroline Hill on Saturday when
and their star forward was thut they caused the biggest sensation The Club's second goal was about out. in local soccer by defeating South the finest I have ever seen” Howe
Higgins, now well-known for ble China last year's League cham-snapped up a clearance from S. scant respect for goalkeepers, was pions, by the odd goal in five. It Strange, and sent forward a long grassed so many times that he was only another ease of history forward pass, E. Strange boating must feel very sore with Gosano right half in place of Wallace, and Greenshields partnered Hoc- repeating itself.
both Li and Lau Mau to the ball and Beltrão. to score with a glorious drive from about 30 yards,
WIN.
The Club thoroughly deserved their magnificent win, for such it) On South China's showing! against the Club I do not wonder the Police gave them a fright last week-end.
One of the outstanding features
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Several team changes were made. mainly owing to injuries sustained in Saturday's league fixtures. Jones came in AL.
quard on the left. Lau Mau was an absentee from the Chinese team, and his place was filled by Chung Pak Cheung.
in possession. A great sche-
mer, he invariably distributed the ball to advantage. Wong Mei-shun, while being quite
The Lincolns' forwards were at no time working together, Marques The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotowall, was troubled rarely and the Hac-C.M.G., LL.D. kicked off for the South China attacked strongly quard-Bidley wing were well held Army, but the Chinese were the from the kick off, but
Strange, in check. Railton and Hynes put up a mag were the best of the forwards with the first few minutes were anxious good, did nothing brilliant, being
Baldry and Higgins first to take up the offensive, and nificent front and kept the visiting McGuinness a great help in de ones for the Army defence. Com-too well covered by Jones, Chinese forwarda at bay until Dun-fence, but Beltrao. Elms
Tang and bey did well to keep his charge Kwong-sum made some nice runs can dropped back to relieve the Marques did their work well.
safe. of the game was the magnificent | pressure.
on the right wing, and several of Most of the players appeared his centres should have been con- ground passes of the Club's for-
Beltras is gradually recovering tired, having played on wards, some of which culminated in youts.
South passes to the wings and down the quently not as fast as usual.
was cobse- safer than that of the Army, Li
Tin-sang being outstanding. China's first goal when Strange centre made him outstanding.
Greenshields was the best Army My suggestion in Saturday's mistimed a clearance and the ball
Chinese Nearly Through Chino Meil that the Club should rebounced breast high to Wong. The
The real stumbling block to the forward, but at times was right out
of position. - Hocquard sort to a couple of long passes and latter attempted a high kick, miss-incolns attack, however, was
V. Gosano. Time and again he his usual partner, and with Green-opening a clear run for either Howe or the ball and fell over, while Low- broke up dangerous movements, shields often at the other side of misjudged the fight of a high His headwork was great, and none of the Lincolns forwards had a
chance with a high ball withi Gosano near,
Wong Mei-shon missed a glorious his form of last season and his vious day, and play the pre-verted. The defence was
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apportunity of netting
Strange was fully exploited and so punched clear. resulted in three perfect guals
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Least among the outstanding features of the game was the very poor shooting by the South Chine forwards, both Pau Ka-ping and Wong Mei-shun missing a dozen sitters each throughout the game
A pleasing display was given by the South China backs. LA! Tin- song and Lau Mau acquitted them- selves admirably, and it was fault of theirs that the Club senr ed three goals.
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The Club team have before played so well together, although it must be admitted that several weaknesses were upparent.
BOYD'S DEBUT
по
Bord, who made his first division
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CLUB'S THIRD POINT
Howe netted the Club's third goal, the ball again coming from Bickford, who sent a quick return to a punt from E. Strange for Howe to net with a terrific ground drive from point blank range.
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Leonard Does Well
A..
missed
the field, had very little to do.
Higgins Subdued
much
The Chinese almost scored in the minutes when Combey
bouncing ball, and only just manag-
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ed to tip it over the bar for fruitless corner. The Army
Higgins was very subdued, and did not bustle the Chinese defence keeper made some good saves dur- as is his wont. Harris would haveing the following ten minutes when been more use had
the Chinese made repeated attacks. he dropped The Saints' forward line had but back to help the defence
Tang drove hard from close range.
a shot which was weak link, Fernandez. He sionally. Very often there was a
cleared with played quite well, but the others fifty yards gap between the defen-
difficulty. were on the top of their form. ders and the forward line. Baldry
onc
OCCB-
During an attack on the Chinese
ball down from just under the crossbar.
D. Leonard showed a clean pair of was quite good on the right, but goal, Harris and Greenshield both heels to Turner and Ash when again a number of his centres went sent in good efforts, while Higgins The Club's goal spent an An- given the right kind of pass, and behind. The defence on the whole missed narrowly with a good hoa- xious five minutes when South his two goals were object lessons were sound, ones they had settled i der. Wong Kee-leung pulling the China's forwards bombarded in in opportunism. With Rocha and down after a shaky start. close formation, but Lowaon did Ward on either side, this trio tied heroically and saved his charge the Lincolns defence in knots and from being penetrated with with B. Gosano playing his best punches, diven and by confident game of the season on the wing, handling of the high headers sent Cork and Bett could only In by Tam Kong-pa
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the The opening minutes of second half were both thrilling and disappointing.
Pau Ka-ping again missed a "sitter" when he slammed in a red hot drive from about three yards, but Lowson brought off a brilliant
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centrate on defence,
East Lancs Break "Duck"
Tam Kong Pak Was the Chinese star performer, and was always dangerous when
con- LINCOLNS WIN OVER
FIU SING.
THE EAST LANCS secured
their first set of full points on Saturday, when they displayed ап all-round superiority to defeat the Recreio by three clear goals at King's Park,
The East Lancs were by far the bet Jer side and quickly settled down to give a good exhibition of open "fool-
Friendly Game At King's Park.
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TN a friendly soccer match at King's Park yesterday afternoon a scratch team from the Lincolns defeated the Fiu Sing Athletic Association team by 4 goals to 2.
Stones (2), Rush and Lilley scored for the winners.
debul is to be congratulated on his excellent showing. His main fault lay in his inclination to jump at the ball, a practice he found in jurious when he lauded heavily on Wong Mel-shun's shoulder and was
South China netted their árst forced to leave the field for a goal through Tam Kong-pak, who couple of minutes.
scored with a first-timer from Yeung Shui-ylck's perfect centra
Their defende again played well SOUTH later, encouraged ball. ings which resulted in E. Strange's by their efforts, South China were with Thompson outstanding, and it was not until late. in the second half lucky to decrease their deficit fur that the Recreio were seen to any ad- two goals, was badly crocked in the ther when the rough ground caused vantage, Grat five minutes of the second half the ball to Jump up and hit Strange'j when a sliding tackle by Ll Tin- Hong was responsible for his knee on the hand, the referee awarding a penalty, Tam added his second being badly twisted. He left the from the "apot kick"; field for good.
Albert Howe, who was reapon- sible for the two brilliant open-)
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Five minutes
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With Howe out of the game and Fowler made his first appearance Fowler practically a passenger the for over a month, and, although he Club hung grimly on to their lead, gave a plucky display, he clearly the final whistle giving them a showed that his injured left foot, magnificent
wall-earned and was still troubling him.
During victory. the second half he was a passen- ger-the Club were really playing: nine men against South China.
Tam Kong-pak gave a good and Bound display, his lightening ground and overhead passes to his wingers being a feature of his game. He was, however, still dis
The Club "Double.”
The Club second caused À mir-
prise by defeating the Artillery by two clear goals, thereby recording the Clas "double."
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A feature the Lancs' play was their fine understanding and passing, Silva Netto and Bowen "kaving to make some quick decisions in defence,
Woods, the inside-left, was the xtne player of the game, his trick play and Brat-class player. He made some with quick footwork' stamping kim an
fine openings for Ridings:
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The Goalscorers.
Langmead (Navy)
| Leonard (B1. Jonphs) |Harris: (Borderera).
Lewis (Kowloon)
Wong Mel-sban (8. China)
(Club Lancs)
(BL
playing his bad fault of dangerous game, and both sets of forwards what Repka)
jumping" and "was frequently pulled numerous scoring.
| through slowness.
ed up,
EARLY THRILLS
The opening minutes of the game
werb thrilling, Bickford hitting the
There seemed to be little life in the
opportunitus Gosano (11) (St. Joseph's)
Biggins Lincolns) Fortey (Borderers) Williamson had a golden opportunity Duncan (Borderers) to place the Club in the lead when Matthias.
Fieber sent over a nice.centre, but|Slánner purderera):
shot very weakly at Wood.
[Smith (N
Bell was the bent of the Club for AWLON (E. Lance) Anoin left side net after receiving a beaur wards, and got through a tremendous tiful ground pass between Li and amount of work, besides maldag some Lau Maui from Howe.
not, get going, but was poorly support. Bayer The opening score saw Bickford ed. on him left, and
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fat good, efforts ̋at zoul 'Duncan Euola A
KNAS
Shoebrook
Thomas
White
(Kowloon)

send along a fine ground pass; Howe The defences were moderate, "and".
Duncer
|rinining to meet it, let it slip be- the Artillary forwards were not in the
***{[/nçolna) clear when necessary, Gambie was following".. Immediately behind the best defender for the Club
THIRD DIVISION. banged a beauty into the top right
Clarke (Lincolns) corner of the net
The Arüllery“ forwards combined) Te. Wat kung (8, China) better than their" rivala," but "[their] Dudley (Lincolns) From the restart Pau Kaping finishing was weak, Fries and Gili, Matkowe (Lincolns) was presented with several silters made some good clearances,
bons were a safe pair of backs, and Tang Man-hing (S," Ckins) Hei fui-kwong (8, China)
} tween his feet and E. Strange, best of form, the - Club were able to rent incolan)
BEAT
CHINA THE ATHLETIC
Wong Off Side
The Chinese commenced the raid, second half with a determined
and
A very promising movement was spoiled by Wong, who, when well positioned for & shot, found himself yards offside. At the other end, Harris threw away a chance of scoring. He had sent locquard away with a nice Iqng pass, but when the ball returned, he fumbled as easy open- ing.
WIN
Wong. Combay almost let in when he ran out to punch Tung's centre clear, pushing the ball to Wong, who hung on just a frac- tion
goal too long. The empty, and a quick tap would have acored. Combey, however, to de-
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flect the ball for a corner. The Chinese wore strongly attacking, and again Combey ran out to flat
efforts by Morrison and Allan pre- vented a goal being scored.
Leung Misses Penalty the ball, and only tremendous
In First Half
VENUE CHANGED AT LAST
MINUTE
(BY SPOT KICK) poor Second Division game, the start of which was delayed, some thirty-sainutes, resulted In victory for South. China ‘over the
Chinese Athletic by two clear] goals.
A few minutes after, Combey ran
Combey Beats Tam
out of goal for the third time, but' this time his doing so was |necessary."
very
A long forward pass by Li find caught the Army defence unawares, and Tam was racing through. Had he got to the ball before - Combey, a goal would have been inevitable, Apparently the Club ground is
but the Army keeper kicked not available for second division
clear in the nick of time. games on Sundays, and yesterday,
The Army now took up the run- the ground was not prepared. At ning, and Cork sent Baldry away. the last minute the match was The winger ran well down before. transferred to Caroline HlILMMA
sending over a nice centre, for South China: Awere definitely
Greenshfelds to beat - Wong Kee- auperior, and played much better leung with a fast rising shot. The football than their opponents, “
Ng Po-kul played well for South Chinese tried hard to get even, but despite their endeavours, the China, scoring the first goal after
a nice solo effort. South China Army, defence held out until the
Anal whistle.. [should have gone further ahead
Army:-L/Bdr, Combey (BA) when awarded a penalty for hands L/Bdr. Allan (RA), Pie. Morrison against Cheung, Leung, however, 15.W.B.); Fie, Tones (§.W.D.), L/Cpl. failed to score from the spot Just Cork (fancaine), Pte. Podmore (8.W. before the interval, Ip Koon Wing B): L/Cpl. Raldry (Lincolns), Pte. netted South Ching's second goal Harris (B.W.D.), Pue. Higgins (Lin
coina, Gar Gret
Groenshields (RA) and with a fast low drive. Lt Bocquard (Ancolns) Wong Ker
South Citina Wing Wa-kai: Chung Combined Chinese: ***** Chi-yu, Yu Hing your Yau Wa-line. Jeung (B. China); IA Tin San La Tako In Koon-ning: Ng Pa-klu. China). Chung Pak-Cheung (8. China); Rapk-chis (Athletic), Laung Lal Chiu-wing, Kau Li-wal, Leung Tat-) Lui:
wing and Yeung Poon-lion. Wing-chuk (8. China), Li Kwok-wal
Athletic-Leo "Ho-chun: "Chèung '(8.-China); Tang Kwong-sum (Athle-le Yip-plu, Chan Shul xhun; Li Ping-plu, tic) Wong Mel-shun (8. China), Ila Ng Tak-wing, Lo Chung-chol; Chau Kakaung (Athletic), Tam Kong-pak In-cheung, Chen Cheung-in, Koo Fung China) and Li Hong-ching (Athie-
heung, Cheung Mon-wing and Ewok tic) alumin Ying wing.
Referee:-Caplain E. Hagua
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