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HOCKEY

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1989.

CIVILIANS' DEFENCE KEEP SERVICES OUT

Bond's Finest Game Of Season At Right Back

OSMAN AND SOUZA

GOOD IN GOAL: LT. CARR A FIND!

(By "ADREM")

THE local hockey season wound up officially yes- terday with the annual match between Civilians and Services.

The heat was blistering and, in consequence, the exchanges, especially in the latter stages, lack- ed spirit.

The Civilians, combining far more effectively, won by 2-0, after leading by a solitary goal for the majority of the match.

THE SERVICES TEAM-lost to the Civilians in the final match of the local hockey season at King's Park yesterday by 2-0.

good game, picking up passes on, DAVIS CUP the reverse stick at great speed and sending over some excellent

as

the

tres.

Fine Goal-Keeping

A feature of the game was unsurmountable obstacle, the splendid form displayed by last line of defence. the Civilian detence. They were magnificent without exception.. Wine Reed, in the pivotal posi- tion, gave an educational perform- ance in which his perfect suck work and fine distribution were prominent features.

cen-

HUNGARY the THROUGH

Gemmell and Shah Wali on right were too well watched to be Outstanding member of the Ser-effective, as was Pritam Nath, in vices team was Pte. Osman, in the centre. from all angles, many of them from goal. He saved scorching shots point-blank range, and was mainly responsible for keeping the scoring

down to only two goals.

Ernie Fowler and R. J. Reed, the latter a younger brother of the cen- tre-half, were good spoilers and Carr, at right-back, also impress- their quick tackling and firm cleared. His cool work under pressure, ances prevented that

sound distribution and speed of re. effective short-passing between the Indian Covery marking him as a player 01 members of the Services team, at

high order. which they are so adept.

Provided he stays in the Co- lony, much will be heard of Carr next season in represen- tative matches.

Victor Bond, at right-back, gave one of his finest displays of the season and was ably supported by R. Xavier, playing vice A. E. P. Guest. These two players, with Souza, in goal, proved a virtually ger.

In attack, the left-wing combin ation of Nerain Singh and Partaub, was again the chief source of dan Partaub had a particularly

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The Scoring Civilians opened the scoring ear

chan Singh, gaining

first half when Gurba

possession after a short corner had been tak en, worked his and beat Osman with a nice flick.

way into position

There was no further scoring un til five minutes from the final whis tle when Sydney Fowler banged the ball past Osman, unsighted by a large crowd of players scrimmaging in the goal-mouth.

Teams:-

Bucharest, To-day. Hungary

eliminated Rumania from the Da- vis Cup by three matches to two.

After Saturday's play, Hungary led by two matches to one but Ru-. mania evened matter yesterday in the first of the two final singles when Caralulis defeated Gabory 36, 8–6, 6–×4, 6—~2.

In the last singles match, how- ever, Asboth carried the day for Hungary by beating Schmidt, of Ru- mania, in a desperately fought five set match, by 1-6, 6–2, 6–3, 6–8, 6-2. Hungary will meet Yugoslavia in the second round.

SWITZERLAND ELIMINATED Vienna, To-day. Switzerland has been eliminat- the Davis Cup. The Henkel and Metaxta

and R. Xavier; E. Fowler, W. A. Reed Civilians-U, B. Souza; V. C. Bond and R. J. Reed; S. A. Fowler, Jur- Singh and J. Wall. bachan Singh, G. H. Fowler, Pyara

Services: Pte. Osman; (R.A.0.C.); ed from Lt. Carr (Navy) and 'Datta Ram. Germans (Rajputs); Bdr. Dilnot (R.A. Lt. defeated Maneff and Fischer in the Hook (R.A.) and Lt. Firth (Navy); Duubles, 6-2, 6-4, thereby gain- Shah Wali (Rjputs), E. R. A. Gem-

mell (Navy), Lt. Pritam Nath (Raj- ing the third and deciding point. puts), Nerain Singh (Kumaons) Partaub (Kumaons).

SCHOOLS' MATCH

and

Prior to the match between the Civilians and Services, a team of! Combined Schoolboys met a team of combined schoolgirls on Club ground and defeated them by 5 goals to 1.

K. Singh (2), G. Singh, P. Rull and R. Castro scored for the boys, whilst Miss A. Chang, the D.G.S. centre-forward, scored for the girls. The schoolgirls' defence kept scoring down to a solitary goal at the interval.

(Continued from Next Col.)

Germany will now meet Poland in the second round of the European zone. Trans-Ocean.

POLAND'S VICTORY

Warsaw. Poland are leading by two mat- ches to one against Holland. Count. Bavarovski beat Van Swol 9-7, 6-3, 6-0, and Tloczynski beat Hughan 60: 6-2, 6-1-Trans-

Ocean. -

By winning the doubles on Satur- day, Holland reduced the 2-0 lead which Poland had gained on the first, day.

The Dutch pair Swol and Hug- han beat Tłoczynski and Hebda.

in the Davis Cup here against Hol-6-4, 6-4, 12—10.-Trans-Ocean. land and thereby won the

1.-Trans-Ocean,

match

Warsaw, To-day,

Poland won the last two singles

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