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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 80, 1937.

ABERDEEN BEATEN IN S. AFRICA

RANGERS HELD AGAIN

POMPEY LOSE AT

HOME

London, Saturday.

The English Football League season opened last Saturday with the following results:

FIRST DIVISION

Bolton

2 Brentford

0

Charlton

1 Leeds

I

6 Liverpool. 1 Arsenal

Chelsea

Everton

H'dersfield ́ 3 Blackpool Leicester 0 Derby Portsmouth 2 West Brom

4 Grimsby

2 Birmingham Sunderland 3 Middlesbro'

Union's Amateurs World's Best AUSTRALIA MAKING PORTUGAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR SWITZERLAND VISIT NEXT

NEXT YEAR

MANY SOUTH AFRICANS

IN HOME 1ST DIV.

TOURING TEAM DIFFICULTIES

(By" Pivot")

RECENTLY I suggested that Australia should

OUTCLASS

Gutierrez Shield

Preliminary

Portugal qualified to meet Scot- land in the First Round of the Go- tierrez Shield Internationals bowls competition by beating Switzerland in the preliminary round yesterday at the Kowloon B.G.C. by 32 shots to 10.

The Portuguese team were head season. At the week-end I received interesting not flatter them.

team, and the margin of victory did news. Aberdeen, with the team that lost to Celtic

invite a South African soccer side to tour next and shoulders above the Swiss

A six on the fourth head for

i in the final of the Scottish Cup, have been beaten Portugal was the biggest o 4 three times in South Africa.

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0

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count of the day. The Portuguese also scor-

MR. J. SACKS, OF NATAL (SOUTH AFRICA), WHO IS ed four threes, and six twos. The TOURING AUSTRALIA WITH THE SPRINGBOKS, CALLED RE-Swiss had two twos and six sin- CENTLY AND, IN THE COURSE OF A CHAT, SAID THAT AUSgles. 1TRALIA WAS IN FOR A GREAT TREAT IF WE SUCCEEDED IN

The first round proper will be

2 LANDING A SOUTH AFRICAN TEAM NEXT SEASON. “1 HAVE played next Sunday. 1JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT ABERDEEN HAVE HAD ANY-PORTUGAL 3 Manchester C. 1 THING BUT A HAPPY PASSAGE THROUGH THE UNION," HE L. F. Xavier

TOLD ME.

SWITZERLAND J. S. Landolt

Preston

Stoke

Wolves

SECOND DIVISION

Aston Villa

2 West Ham

0

Bradford

4 Barnsley

Burnley

2 Bary

Chesterfield

Two months previously Celtic could beat them only by the odd A. Alves 3 goal of three, but Natal, Combined Transvaal, and Eastern Trans- 0 vaal proved too good for them. In several other matches Aberdeen 0jjust scraped home.

A A. Remedios R. F. Luz

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1. Wednesday

Manchester U. 3" Newcastle 0

Norwich Plymouth

Sheffield U. Stockport

Swansea Tottenham.

4 Southampton 3] One of Aberdeen's star play- first time since the English profes-MISS BRADBURY

4 Fulham oler, Strauss, is a South African, sional team was here 12 years ago.

2 Notts Forest 1 and don't lose sight of the fact However, Aberdeen won the first WINS K.C.C. LADIES 2 Luton T- 1 that Riley, Gordon, Hodgson, Test against South Africa, despite

3 Blackburn

0 Coventry

THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)

Nieuwenhigs, and other South an earlier reverse or two.

0 African players have gone

straight into English First Divi- sion teams.

Bristol C.

3 Gillingham

1

Clapton Crystal P.

Mansfield

1 Cardiff

1

1 ́Aldershot

4 Northampton 1

Newport Notts Co.,

2 Exeter

2

3 Swindon

0

HCAP. SINGLES

Mr. Sid Storey, the CFA presi-

dent, is an astute Soccer oficial. In the Final of the Kowloon Have we any men in Australia He has a golden opportunity to put Cricket Club Ladies Singles Han- who could make this grade? Crow-Australian Soccer 1hurst might do so, but I cannot bringing about an Australian visit beat Miss Alison Mackenzie (30) on the map by dicap, Miss Violet Bradbury (3.6) name any others.

by 11-9, 6-0.

Queen's Pk R. 2. Brighton 1

1 Millwall

Reading

Southend

Torquay

Watford

Accrington

Chester

1 Bournemouth 0] 1 Walsall

4 Bristol R 0

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)

Darlington Doncaster Gateshead Hull C. Lincoln N. Brighton Oldham Rochdale

Rotherham

1 Carlisle

1 Halifax

1 Southport

4 Bradford C.

24 Crewe. 3* Wrexham

2 Hartlepools

2 Barrow

3 Port Vale

0 York

2 Tranmere

SCOTTISH LEAGUE

FIRST DIVISION

Aberdeen-

3. Partick

1

However, to get away from matters controversial I can as- sure readers that Australia's i Soccer chiefs will bring · off a great coup if they can induce South Africa to tour here next. season.

WORLD'S- BEST

1 The Cape Argus" of June 15 contains the following: Mr. F. W.

0 Fell, president of the South 2 African Football Association, said 1apropos of the Aberdeen visit. 1"Our Soccer is the best in the 0world in the amateur sphere.

1

0 "Serious repercussions may fol- low Aberdeen's defeats as far as future tours are concerned. It difficult to induce other may be

professional sides to make the trip

1

Arbroath Clyde

24 Ayr

*Hamilton

1 St. Mirren

Hibernian

1

to South Africa. My one ambi

0

Hearts

Kilmarnock

Third Lanark 1 Celtic

tion is to get an English or Scottish international side to visit South Africa.

Morton

Dundee

Motherwell

Falkirk

Queen O'S

Queen's Park

Rangers

St. Johnstone 2 cialised that everyone

Played on Friday. SECOND DIVISION:

cerned about League

aboak an 27

Alloa

the policy of

too arrange

ably.”

OVERSEAS TOURS

Oversea Soccer is so

con-

next season.

WHEN LIFE LOOKS GRIM

JUST TRY A PIMM

PIMM'S No. 1 CUP

"THE GOLDEN DRINK FOR THE BLUES"

SOLE AGENTS:

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