1940-02-10 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 10, 1940

SOCCER

INTERPORT POSTPONED AT LAST MOMENT

Saigon Delayed Further Arrive Late Afternoon

BIG MATCH TO-DAY; VISITORS HOPE FOR WARMER

WEATHER

(By "REFEREE”)

THE INTERPORT GAME with Saigon was cancelled shortly after noon yesterday when it was learned that the visitors would not arrive in time.

The team was to have arrived here early yesterday morning but was delayed some 12 hours owing to heavy

weather.

Owing to war restrictions, no com- The tickets for the Interport and munication was available with the South China games are practically ship and the agents themselves

sold out and

postponement of the unaware of the time the ship

South China game would result in arrive but believed it would

further inconvenience. about noon.

were would dock

All ground arrangements were com- plete and at noon, in the absence of any notification that she had yet been sighted, the game was postponed by a meeting on the field.

The Salgon team arrived shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday and were met by a number of members of the As- sociation and friends.

ROUGH VOYAGE

COLONY DRAW SECOND MATCH IN SHANGHAI

the

Shanghai, To-day. Following their defeat In Interport football contest on Thursday Hong Kong played the Shanghai Chinese yesterday, the aldes sharing two goals.-Reuter.

The following are the teams:-

Hong Kong - Robinson; Blackburn and Lee Tin-sang; Sung Ling-sing. er, Fung King-cheong, Lee Wai-tong,

Williamson and Hsu King-seng; Fowl-

Thorburn and Bickford.

Manager:-Mr. W. E. Hollands.

Salgon:-Tai; Cui and Corea; Ven, Paccini and Bui; Guichard, Dai, Tot, Tlen and Hoa.

Mannger:-Mr. Baurain.

TO-DAY'S MATCHES

Owing to the Interport game

this

This resulted in much work to the Mr. Paccini, captain and only En-afternoon at Caroline Hill at 3.30 p.m. side, to-day's League programme has been .officials as band, police and other ar-glish-speaking member of the

rangements had to be cancelled, while said that they had a rough voyage and greatly curtalled and only a few the invited guests had to be telephon- most of the players were still feeling Third Division games will be played.

The following is the programme. ed to prevent them from coming to the the effects. ground.

Z.B.W. ASSISTS

He was sorry for the inconvenience caused. He would make no comment on his team's chances but said that he Station assisted hoped that the weather would be The Broadcasting

in warmer so that Saigon could give Hong greatly by broadcasting the news English and Chinese and posters and Kong a good game, 'handbills were rushed out and dis- tributed at the principal bus and tram stops en route to the field.

Shortly after, 2,000 people, unaware of the postponement, wended their way to Caroline Hill and every bus and tram was crowded.

Posters had been placed near the field but the crowd were doubtful and still continued up the hill.

Excellent work was done by

Traffic Department.

the

The following programme has now been arranged for the visitors.

To-day they will play the Interport and to-morrow will meet South China. The game against Eastern will played on Monday.

The game will be controlled by Mr. Stokes assisted by Messrs. Beard and Foster.

Third Division

12th R.A.

V 5th A.A.R.A. (Stanley, 2.45 p.m.).

V

24th R.A.

Engineers (St. Joseph's, 2.45 p.m.).

Service Corps V South China

(Military, 4.15 p.m.).

Before the game and during the in- terval the full band of Royal Scots, by kind permission of Lieut. Col. Mac-Kumaons Dougall and officers, will play.

V Electric (Chatham Road, 2.45 p.m.).

GOOD GAME ON TAP AT KING'S PARK

(By "ADREM")

There is only one match on the card in First Division of the Cricket League for this afternoon but it should be a particularly interesting one. It will be played at King's Park between the Cham- pions, Club de Recreio, and the greatly improved Civil Service Cricket Club.

Recreio have a very well-balanced side and will be hard to beat but there are several fine batsmen in the Val- ley team who should be able to pro- vide quite a lot of opposition,

Both teams are at full strength and although Recreio, playing on their own ground, will take a lot of beat- |ing, they will be unable to take mat-

ters too easily.

THE JUNIORS

Division, Craigengower, who have victories over K.C.C.. Junior Champions, and Army to their credit, should account for Recreio juniors, but again an upset is not un- likely.

In Junior

the

In the other match, Civil Service, fresh from their first victory of the season scoféd last week at the ex- pense of University, will be all out for blood against Army but in view of the strong batting in the Army tearn are unlikely to do better than draw.

Friendly matches will be played be- tween Club and Army, and K.C.C. and Cralgengower among the seniors, and H.K.C.C. Juniors and Police.

To-morrow, a strong Volunteer eleven will be opposed to Police in a whole-day game. Although Police are unlikely to win, this game should be as enjoyable as this type of fixture always is.

Following is to-day's cricket pro- gramme and some of the teams:-

FIRST DIVISION

Recreio

be

CALDBECK,MACGREGOR & COLTR

C.C.C.

C.S.C.C.

INTRA-CLUB GOLF

In the Kowloon Golf Club President versus Vice-President's teams match on Thursday, the latter won by 13 points to 10%.

scores were:

President's Team

The

Vice-President's Team

R. K. Collings

1

A. E. Davies

0

A. J. Dennis

0.

W. A. Stewart

1

T. B. Low

0

W. Aherne

1

F. C. Barry

1

W. C. Simpson

0

T. Lamb

1

E. F. Fincher

0

S. Jex

14 W. Baston

0

W. Kershaw,

1

N. Hardie

0

J. E. Humble

1

E. O. Murphy

14

J. Coles

1

W, Davenport

A. Butterfield

1

T. "Henderson

14

B1%

3%

FOURSOMES

Collings

Davies

and Dennis

0

and Stewart

2

Low

Simpson

and Barry

0

and Aherne

2

Lamb

Fincher

and Jex

2

and Baston

Hardie

and Murphy:

2

Henderson and ́

Kershaw

and Humble 0

Coles and

V. C. Labrum .0 Labrum

:(bdd'nair)`

D. L. Williams: 2 WILLEMIM

(odd pair)

TRADE

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WE SELL BY THE BOTTLE.

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K.C.C.

Army

v C.S.C.C.

SECOND DIVISION

H.K.C.C. 2nd XI

V Recreio

v Army

FRIENDLY

✓ C.C.C.

✓ H.K.C.C. 1st XI V P.R.C.

SENIORS

C.S.C.C.:-D. McLellan, A. E. Perry, J. Barrow, T. V. N. Fortescue, J. E. Richard- son, B. C. K. Hawkins, W. H. Colledge, ·N. Whitley, R. J. Fenton, F. E. Lawrence and D. J. Holidge.

RECREIO:-A. M. Rodrigues (Capt.), E. L. Gosano, P. M. N, da Silva, Jr., W, A, Reed, L. G. Gosano, E. M. L. Soares, G. N. Gosano, H, L. Ozorio, J. M. Gosano, A. P. Pereira and N. Beltrão.

C.0,0.1—E. Zimmern (Capt.), P. J. Bil- limoria, A. R. H. Esmail, U. H. Esmail, A. J. Hulse, H. P. Lim, E. A. Lee, W. Hong Sling. G. Souza, G. Winch and F. R. Zim- mern.

Umpire:-G. Laddi

Scorer:-H. W. Randall. JUNIORS

C.C.C.-B. R. Iranee (Capt.), N. Broad- bridge, A. B. Hamson, A. Hung, C. W. Lam. T. Lock, J. W. Leonard, A. M. Omar, U. M. Omar, W. K. Way and J. L. Youngssys.

Scorer:-W. Broadbridge.

OTHER CRICKET

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