1937-02-13 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1937.

LADIES' INTERPORT MISS FOWLER AND MISS

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The only genuine thrill in the Miss Marsh at inside-right, was first half took place after 33 min- very week and her bad ball-control utes' play when Miss Kelly sent a was fully exposed, but she trie splendid centre across the Colony hard throughout and the opposing goalmouth, Miss Wong clearing off defence were forced to pay her the goal-line after Miss Rose had quite a lot of attention. Miss Dal-completely missed the ball and just ziel, for the major part of the game, as Miss Sheridan and Miss Schmidt was not far enough forward to bore down. The goalless first half effective and as a result several ex- was a good indication of the run of cellent passes to the right went as the play. tray.

HIT ON KNEE

WONG SHINE

COLONY SIDE SHOW BETTER

FORM BUT LACK FINISH

(By "Referee").

AFTER having monopolised play for four-fifths of the game, Hong Kong did well to share the spoils with Shanghai in the Ladies Interport Hockey.

GOOD CENTRING

The second half commenced at She was very fast when in pos4.05 p.m. and three minutes later The failure of Miss Marsh and session and improved on her fault Miss Fowler stopped a ball with her the half-back trio to realise the of delaying her centre, with the re-left-knee, but pluckily played on. value of a hard pass down the sult that her passes more often than Forwards and backs on both sides

centre instead of the monoton- not reached their objective. She were continually in the picture and would have been far more effective the game seemed to have taken a nearly resulted in the Colony's ous feeding of the wingers very

if she had received more support new lease on life.

first defeat in the series of Inter- ports. Only late in the game during extra time

was Mrs. in concentrated form and, from Donald given much to do, and In the second-half of extra time, scrimmage in the circle, Miss Sheri- then it was too late. Shanghai the fine movements on her wing dan placed the ball in the net to also changed their tactics and were a feature of the Colony attack. give Shanghai the lead!.

the menace was averted. and on several occasions goals very The Colony retaliated very strong- nearly resulted from her excellently and Miss Smith equalised amidst ony team were Miss Fowler, who a great shout from the spectators gave a brilliant display at full-back.

from Miss Marsh, who fed Mrs. A sweeping Shanghai attack saw Donald far more than was neces- the northern forwards sweep down

sary.

centring.

The two best players in the Col-

Miss A. Fowler, the Colony left- back, above, was the outstanding“ defender in the Hong Kong side.

On the Shanghai side the backs after 15 minutes' play, topping the and Miss Wong, who, however, and intermediate-line must be given ball which was miskicked by Miss could have risen to even greater full marks for their very fine work, Carion. Miss Bomko, Miss Little and Miss Eleven minutes later Hong Kong gap between herself and Mrs. Don- heights had she not left so big a Petigura were outstanding for the took the lead for the first time when aid when the Colony were on the quiet cool manner in which they a long pass by Mrs. Donald across attack. Time and again she would checked the Hong Kong forwards. the Shanghai circle, $2w Miss

: PERFECT UNDERSTANDING Smith stop the ball and then send she been up to take advantage of have helped to continue a raid had Miss Victal and Mis Bomko dis-

it past Miss Carion into the net. played 2 perfect understanding.

a mishit or the fact that one of the Excitement was "terrific and The former, while being rather

two inside forwards had over-run Shanghai experienced very bad clumsy in her tackling was, never luck when a fine centre by Miss

the ball theless, effective, but I felt that Schmidt was missed by the three Mrs. Rose was very safe in goal she was rather fortunate not to

Shanghai forwards.

and could not be blamed for Shang- LADIES' have been penalised several times

Another thrill awaited the crowd, hai's two goals, while Miss Gray for infringing the "sticks" and ob-

however, and with barely a minute was always re'iable and quick to INTERPORTS struction rules.

to go Shanghai stormed the Hong intercept a wear pass. Of the two Kong citadel, Miss Sheridan netting wing-halves Miss Woolley was the the equalising goal just on time. more impressive, due to her first-

Hong Kong Lead By Extra periods of 10 minutes each time hitting abilities, although : Two Clear Games: way were then played and the Miss Glover's spoiling was invalu- The former, in addition to holding Colony supporters were nearly hy-able to her side.

Miss Little, as pivot, and Miss Petigara, the left-half, were a re velation. They rarely mishit and were cool under all circumstances.

sterical when Miss Smith netted

· RELIABLE MISS GRAY

PREVIOUS

FORMER TEAMS AND RESULTS

Mrs. Donald, which was a feat in itself; fed her forwards with an ac-what everybody thought was

Miss Dalziel was the better wing- the er in that she knew when to centre curacy that was a delight to watch. Miss E. Bloomfield, the visitor's the restart, but she was clearly off-two glorious centres both of which winning goal, two minutes after during extra time she sent across

The following were the results skipper, had an off day and together side.

should have been converted. Miss and teams representing Shanghai The second half of the extra Westcott showed a fine turn of and Hong Kong Ladies in the two fence. She worked very hard, but period saw Hong Kong dominate speed, but it was wasted owing to previous Interport matches: never seemed to become accustomed play, and a thrilling breakaway in her erratic stickwork and slowness 1935: Hong Kong won by a soli-

the last minute of the game by Miss in centering.

with Miss Carion, were the weak links in an otherwise brilliant de-

AGGRESSIVE FORWARDS

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CHIEF JUSTICE E

OUTSTANDING FORWARD

tary goal scored by Miss M. Wool- ley (Mrs. White) in the third min-

Hong Kong: Mrs. R. Rose (St. A.); Miss E. M Gray (EL E Ladies) and

to the bumpy nature of the ground, Smith looked like the winning goal,

The Shanghai forwards were res-but her resultant shot, with only Miss Smith gave a grand display ute of the second half of the extra ponsible for several dangerous Miss Carion to beat, was deflected at inside-left, being the only for-period. Match played at H.K.F.C. movements, most of which were off the Shanghai goalkeeper's pads ward to cause the visiting goal-February 5. initiated in the middle, where Miss as the final whistle blew.

keeper much concern. There were Shanghai:--Miss G. Ephgrave (Ex- Schmidt, Miss Sheridan and Mrs.

times, however, when she could have S.P.G.) Miss F. Bonko (Ex-S.P.G.). Williams were a bustling and ag- At the conclusion of the match, passed to Mrs. Donald instead of and Miss E. Victal (JAC.); E. Bloom

field (Sports Girls), Miss H. Gunther gressive trio. Miss Schmidt and Mis. T. E. Pearce presented momen-attempting to break through on (German H. C.) and C. Getz (Sports, Miss Sheridan, in particular were tos to the members of the Hong her own. Miss Marsh was disap- Girls); H. Collaco (J.A.C.), C. Nichols the biggest source of danger to Kong and Shanghai teams.

pointing at inside-right, her lack of (Sports Girls), D. Eardley (Sports Girls), A. Collaco (J.A.C.) and J. Rae- Hong Kong and their thrustful met- Calling upon Mrs. Pearce to make speed losing many valuable oppor burn (Amazons). hods were rewarded by two nice the presentation, Sir Atholl Mac-tunities.. goals. Mrs. Williams was a trifle on Gregor said: The last time that I Mrs. Donald had a surprisingly the slow side, but she gave good had this very pleasant duty to per-poor match and must now realise Miss L Woolley (St. A.); Miss I Wong (St. A.), Miss B. Pope (H. K. Ladies) support. Miss Nora Kelly, the right form was at the first Interport that all the fine team work shown and Miss M. Bryson (CBA. Ladies); wing, who was brought into the ladies match two years ago, which in trials is completely forgotten in H. Knill (C. B. Schoolgirls), M. Smith team on the inability of Mrs. Mac-many of you will remember was the excitement of an Interport It (CBA Ladies), M Woolley (St. A), Keon to make the trip,

acquitted played in a sea of mud. (Laughter). was a great pity as the Colony's S. Dalziel (YMCA.) and Miss O.

Brown (YMCA.) herself with credit, especially in

First of all I would like to con- hopes of success rested mainly 1936: Hong Kong won by a soli- the later stages of the game when gratulate those responsible for the with her. She was at fault in that tary goal scored by Miss P. Gittins she sent across several passes arrangements in seeing that we had she seldom "looked" for the ball, in the second half of the match. which might have met with better such a splendid day this afternoon. preferring to wait for the one pass Match played at Canidrome, Shang- results.

I would like to congratulate both in every 15 minutes.

hai, on Sunday, January 26. teams on giving us a very excellent

FOUR BEST VISITORS

Shanghai:-Miss L. Carion (JAC); Four Shanghai players impress- Miss E. Bloomfield (Sports Girls) and The first half provided a ding-and extremely exciting exhibition dong struggle in which both goals of hockey, (applause) and if I may ed me Miss Bomko, who played Miss E. Victal (JA.C.); Miss D. For- underwent narrow escapes, the de- say so, I think that a draw is a an even better game than she did shaw (Amazons), Miss McCracken (Sports Girls) and Miss F. Bomko- fences on both sides being in the much more satisfactory conclusion on the same ground two years ago; (Rowing Club); Miss E Little (Sports limelight. Miss Bomko's timely to such a splendid game (applause). Miss Victal, who was a tower of Girls), Miss M. McCracken (SAS). clearances and Miss Fowler's great would like to thank the Hong strength in the defence, Miss Little, Miss J. Bloomfield (Sports Girls), Miss hitting were the main features, al-Kong Football Club for giving us who played constructive hockey at E. McCracken (5.A.S.) and Miss U.

Berg (Germans). though. Miss Little, the Shanghai the use of their ground and thank centre-half, and Miss L. Schmidt, pivot, came into the picture by the two umpires who have not only who proved to be an enterprising blocking Mrs. Donald's every move performed so well but so gracefully inside forward.

Miss Westcott's lack of anticipa (Laughter).__

THE GAME

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tion and Miss Dalziel's poor posi- In conclusion, I would like to tioning she was lying too far thank the organisers for the admir-Hazrop who has worked so untir- back, were also features of the able arrangements they have made ingly and uncomplainingly.

game.

and especially thank Mrs.

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Mplause).

Hong Kong:-Mrs. J. Lansom (H. K. Ladies); Miss E M. Gray K. La dies) and Miss A Fowler (FMCA); Miss J. Wong (St. A:), Miss M. Bry son (H. K. Ladies), and Miss M Bell TEL K. Ladies), Miss M. Smith C.BA), Miss S.. Dalziel (Y.M.C.A.), Miss P. Gittins (St. "A), Miss J. Adey (Y.M.C.A:) and Miss M. Westcott (YM.C.A):