1940-01-15 — Page 17

THE CHINA 'MAIL, JANUARY 15, 1940.

SOCCER.

EASTERN IN GOOD FORM

Fully Extended By

CASTILHO, HONNIBAL AND

A.V. GOSANO

PLAY WELL FOR LOSERS

AFTER HOLDİNG EASTERN to only one goal in the first half, St. Joseph's crumpled under the pressure in the second period and were defeated by 4 goals to 1 in their First Division game on the Club ground yesterday.

Saints flelded a strong team which T. Castilho, on the right wing, was included A. V. Gosano in the pivotal starved and when he did obtain the position and C. Marques at right | ball sent over some good centres. back.

The Eastern forwards found the Saints' defence to top form in

the first half and were seldom dangerous, as their attacks were easily held. The Saints had their share of the attack and Kong King-seng and Hsu King- seng saved the Eastern side with their tackling and clearances.

D. Alves was not able to turn out at the last moment and W. Maher -filled his position on the left wing.

but

The Saints played well in the first half and had no reason for not being in the lead as they had several scor- ing chances during that period Leonard was slow and missed them 'Added to this Castilho failed when well placed.

There was little combination in the

· Saints' team, Hussain, at right half,

A. could not quite understand V.

•Gosano's play and was continually wandering towards the centre

with the result that Hau Ching-to had plenty of scope.

Added to this Hussain was playing a restrained game and seldom used his weight as he should.

Saints But Win 4-1

SATURDAY'S SPORT IN

RETROSPECT

LTHOUGH Hong Kong Ladies did not,however, they are going to have many such

against the Caer Clark champions on

disappointments.

quite get there, they certainly have every reason to be satisfied with their show. The frightful state of the ground probably had a lot to do with their inability to get Saturday.

a shot in at goal without a great deal of Beaten in their first fixture by the large manoeuvring-the factor that lost them the

On Saturday

margin of five goals, they only went down game. CAER CLARK CUP Salary proach themselves for their part in

Two girls, however, have little need to re- the goal-a rather fortunate one it might be proceedings. They are Miss Belty Goodwin added.

and Miss Rousseau. The former is a speedy, determined full-back with a clean hit; the latter is one of the best little spoiling half- They backs I have seen for a long time. should go far.

Having regard to their record and their performance against C.B.A., considered their

'When ladies' hockey in the Colony wAE first put on an organised basis Hong Kong were acknowledged as the strongest team In the League. Since then they have had their ups and downs. At the beginning of

Such the season it was definitely down! was thought would be their standard that ter the Brawn Cup. their coach tried to pursuade them to en-

They were not having any; preferring, pro-

bably for the sake of tradition, to fare bad- ly in good company rather then to dislin- In the second period the Saints guish themselves in an inferior competition. were on the offensive in the opening Justified. They have improved progressive- Their confidence in themselves has been

minutes but could not score. Easy with each match they have played. Now tern were now concentrating on the they cannot be ranked lower than third, and left wing and Hussain had a busy time. I personally, am of the opinion that they

Eastern scored in the first half through Lee Tak-kee and in the se- cond period Chung Yung-sum and Hau Ching-to (2) added further goals, B. Gosano scored for the Saints.

will finish up in the runners-up berth,

"Y", without several of the, players with whom they started the season, appear to have been somewhat demoralised. They

when Recreio held them to a draw. were given a severe shaking up recently

Their game with Hong Kong can have St. Joseph's: R. Marques: C. Marques, given them little cause for self-satisfaction. Ne Tak-wing: Hussain, A. V. Gosano, Hon-Nevertheless they have now assumed such B. Cosano, D. Leonard, a commanding lead in the table that they niball; Castilho, Pereira and Maher.

can afford to meet with a reverse or two.

C.B.S. missed a great opportunity of beat- terval and generally had the belter of ex- ing their old girls when they led at the in-

changes territorially.

Eastern)—Lau Hin-hon; Kong Shin-king, Tsang Chung-wan; Lau Chi-cham, Hsu King- sing, Lo Wal-kuen; Chung Yong-sum, Cheung Kam-hol, Lee Tak-kee, Chan Ying-kuen and

A. V. Gosano, at centre half, cover- ed the centre well and it was left to the Eastern wingers to make any raids on the Saints' defence. Honni-Hau Ching-to. ball, at left half, played a sound game and with L. Woo had the full mea- sure of the dangerous Chan

sum.

Yung-

R. Marques, who came into the team in place of Tsang, gave a credit- able display in goal, though he was at fault with the first one as he could have easily covered the centre.

Maher, on the left wing, was not at home in an unusual position while - Pereira had his ankled injured in the first minutes of the game and was, in consequence not at his best.

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the Illustration, Helen Hicks and Lawson Little are doing an excellent job of staying down to the ball. Even though the sphere has been dispatched on its way both golfers have re- tained the body position assumed at address. Naturally their chin is not pointed back of the ball, at the particular moment registered here, because the right shoulder has come through and forced the head to turn gradually toward the

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Until they rid themselves of their dread- 'ful habit of dilly-dallying in front of goal,

HEAD DOWN

Utilise the winter months ahead by practising the art of keeping the body position constant during the stroke and keeping the head down until well after impact. Hit the ball against afirm left leg as the golfers above are doing. This will have a tendency to discour- age these errors.

Wednesday.

Choosing The Water Route.

BRAWN CUP strongest challengers, I shall be very surprised if Argonauts do not earn promotion in this. their first season in League hockey.

They are a very businesslike outfit, fast on the ball, adequate in combination and most direct in their methods.

Their convincing win over C.B.A. marks them as being in a class of their own in this type of hockey and as most of them are in their early

be teens, they should ready for the senior League by next season provided they maintain their present rate of progress.

Just one point arising from the Argonauts- 'C.B.A. game; Mrs. Mackay would do well to rid herself of her habit of under-cutting. One of these days she is going to infilet a serious injury on one of her opponents.

D.G.S. have climbed from obscurity in re- cent matches and now occupy quite an ex- alted position in the League table. They did very well to beat Recreio having regard to the recent showings of the latter team. and, I might add, there were no incidents! 窈 Following the Triangular Rugby Tourna- ment matches,

between Saturday's game combined Club and Police and Combined

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RUGBY Services was most disappoint

ing, and one was given the im- pression that many of the players were stale. Bidwell scored a fine try, Needham was at his beat, Burford hooked well for threequarters of the game, but that Was about all that could be said regarding the civilian team. For Services, Stevens Was deadly in his tackling and Taylor, Pinkerton, Cuthbertson and Wright were prominent að forward.

The "A"

Carruthers game proved that should have been given a trial in the first Afteen-he was the most dangerous three- quarter on the field. Henderson played well -at-the base of the scrum,- and Heasman- and Richardson caught the eye at forward. Boe was the livewire of the Services side.

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