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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 19, 1940

Eastern Not Extended

(By "REFEREE")

EASTERN HAD LITTLE difficulty in beating Police by 4 goals to 1 in their First Division soccer match on Club ground yesterday.

Police did not deserve to be beaten, his forward line by being pulled up by such a big margin as they had am- often for infringements while Pile, on ple opportunities.to score but their the left wing, was poor in his centring. forwards were extremely poor in front When he moved into the inside posi- of goal. Wong Man-kai, their leader, tion, he tried hard but found Kong was off form and did not send in one Sing-keng too fast. shot during the game, though given many chances.

Police used their weight to advant- age but in the latter stages of the game were out run by the speedy Eastern team.

Howlett spoiled the effectiveness of

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EASTERN'S SHORT PASSING The Police half-back line played as well as could be expected but they were often drawn out of position by the short passing of Eastern, while both backs were uncertain in their tackling.

Eastern

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were always dangerous when in front of goal and gave Police defence a harrasing time.

Hsu King-seng, in the pivotal posi- tion, was sound and Lo Wai-man was dangerous in his tackling at times but did well.

Police opened the Howlett headed in from a pass from scoring when

Wong Chi-man but Eastern drew level when Hsu King-seng sent in a hard grounder from outside the penalty area into the corner of the net.

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interval when Hau Ching-to from close in.

scored

share of attacking but Hau Ching-to In the second half Police did thetr

scored twice in breakaways.

Eastern-Lau Hin-bon; Kong Seng-hing and Tsang Chung-wan; Lo Wal-kuen, Hau King-seng and Two Wing-kuen; Chung Yung- sum. Cheung Kam-hol, Lee Tak-kee, Woo Gay-tsang and Hau Ching-to.

Police had their opportunities regain the lead but the inside for- wards were far too slow to take the chances offered.

Eastern took the lead before the and Pile.

Kong-yin; North, Gough and Brooks: Wong Police:-McHardy, Blackburn and Chang

Chi-men, Howlett, Wong Man-kwal, Ferrier

My Pals!

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