1940-03-04 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4, 1940

SOCCER

CLUB'S

DESERVED WIN

AGAINST EASTERN A.A

Hsu King-Seng Makes Great Effort For Losers

GOOD DISPLAYS BY WINNING FORWARDS

(By "REFEREE”)

CLUB FULLY DESERVED their win against Eastern yesterday when, playing at home. in their postponed First Division encounter, they won by the odd goal in three after having most of the play and missing a penalty in the second period.

SATURDAY'S SPORT IN

RETROSPECT

The Ladies' Hockey season is fast | were the best of the forward line. The drawing to a close and on Saturday former displayed good stick work and St. Andrew's completed their Caer her first goal was the result of some

Clarke fixtures neat reverse stick work, Ladies' Hockey by overwhelm-

in the lowly

placed Recreio Ladies by seven clear

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"Y" ladies had little difficulty with goals.

St. Andrew's juniors whom they beat Miss Reid and Mrs. Bliss both re-by seven goals to nil. Mrs. V. Fowl- gistered "hat tricks" and sent in shots er scored five goals. Saints had se- Eastern were without Tsang Chung-wan and Kong from all angles during the game. Miss veral scoring chances, however, but Sing-king, their full backs, while Club were without Barros, in Recreio goal brought off failed.

some good saves. McEwan.

ficit shortly after but in spite of every ARGONAUTS require only one more endeavour to obtain the equaliser

point to secure the Brawn Cup point against C.B.A. it seems that Dio- Club were able to hold Eastern out. championship in their first year of cesan Schoolgirls, who were not en- Club:-Odell; Bone and S. Strange: Skin- competition and did well to beat Cen-gaged on Saturday, will finish up, at ner, Forrow and Eardley: Wilson, Pryde,tral Schoolgirls by three clear goals.

least runner-up for the Brawn Cup Competition.

Hsu King-seng, the Eastern pivot, again played well and he was the man who held the defence together and spoiled many a dangerous move by Club forwards.

Fowler, Bickford and Wilson.

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The rest of the defence was erratic

Eastern:-Lau Hin-hon; "Ching Ying-kuen Miss C. Silva, of Argonauts, is fast under pressure and Lee Tak-kee and and Lee Tack-kee; Lau Chi-chan, Hsu King-developing to into a good centre half Ching Ying-kuen were both danger seng and Lo Wai-kuen; Chung Yung-sum, and should in a short time hold her ous in their tackling and were pulled Cheong Kam-hot, Wu Chi-tsang, Fun Kwan- own against some of the senior pivots. up for dangerous play, on two occashing and Hau Ching-to.

Miss C. Xavier and Miss I. Mathias sions, once just outside the penalty

and on the other just inside. HOCKEY Pryde took the kick but failed to .convert.

area

PRYDE AND BICKFORD POLISHED

Fowler and Wilson were dangerous in the Club attack and with their bustling methods completely upset the Eastern defence. Pryde and Bick- ford provided the more polished play

at home on the left wing.

TEAM NOMINATED SHOULD

NOT FAIL SELECTORS

(By "ADREM”)

As the result

of Recreio losing

a

Recreio should have won this game with something to spare but their for- wards were very weak in front goal,

of

The annual match between the Bank and Club resulted in a draw of 9-all but failed to come up to expec- tations, Charter holding up the Club's superior attack as the result of selfish- ness at fly-half. Bosanquet and Wil- son were starved on the wing, and the Rugby Bank centres were much too deadly in their tackling to allow a break through in the centre.

Matthews played well for the Bank, as did Bompas and Kennedy at for- ward, For Club, Macrae, Walkden

while E. Strange was not very much THE COLONY INTERPORT hockey selectors are wast- In defence. Forrow bottled Nying little time in getting a team together for the forthcom- Kee-cheung, while Skinner kept a ing game with Macao and, following a rather disappointing watchful eye on Hau Ching-to. Eardley did his share against Chung trial yesterday, when form, in many cases, was at variance

astern forced the play in the early to the known capabilities of the players, a probable team as the result of Sutherland's fine

Yung-sum.

stages of the game and looked like scoring any minute.

was selected.

The selectors make it quite clear, The remainder of the period was however, that their norminees who evenly contested with both sides miss-will be engaged as a team against

ing opportunities.

Kumaon Rifles on Friday on Club In the second half, Club did more

ground are not the final selections, : attacking and Wilson and Fowler

and the right has been reserved" to missed, when well placed. Club make such changes as are necessary. took the lead when Fowler headed a A noteworthy selection is Sgt. centre from a corner taken by E.Homburg, of Royal Engineers, a cen- Strange and a few minutes later should have gone further ahead when Pryde missed a penalty. He, however, made up for this when he completed some good work to beat Lau with a grounder.

Cheong Kam-hoi reduced the de-

PROBABLE TEAM

V. M. Benwell and T. Lock- hart; V. C. Bond and Datta Ram; Lt. G. W. Hook, W.`A. Reed and N. B. M. Whitley; S. A. Fowler, Lt. Pritam Nath, 8gt: Homburg, Nerain Singh and Partaub Singh.

tre-forward who has probably scored more goals this season than any other player in the Colony. Although not providing anything outstanding yes- terday, he showed himself to be a fine self well and is very good with the opportunist who does not believe in reverse stick, while Datta Ram rare- dallying in front of goal. He hasly makes a mistake with his stick and been entrusted, with the leadership of is an exceptionally hard hitter, a

(Other Sport On Page 15) the Probables' attack.

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FABT ATTACK

The forwards, as selected, appear to be the best available. There is a nice blend of experience and new blood.

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and Bidwell (a forward) shone in the pack.

Army "A" were too good for Navy

hooking and they deserved their win by 14-5. Giblin and Jones were im-.. pressive in the centre and Coombe in- itiated many fine back movements. At forward. Ford, Sheldrake and Evens were prominent: Taylor was quite the best Navy player, the backs being handicapped by the fact that they had secure possession only as the result of mistakes by their opposites.

to

secured six wickets dur-

Capt. Grose of Army was the out- standing batsman in Saturday's Lea- gue Cricket when he scored 69, while Capt. Skipworth (Army) and Gegg (University) were next with 44. most, necessary attribute against a A. M. Omar of Craigengower team of the speed of Macao's.

juniors, obtained the best bowling Although Lockhart has been nom-

figures with 6 for 30 but inated as an alternative custodian, there is little doubt in my mind that Cricket several other bowlers also The old firm of Nerein Singh and the position will go to V. M. Benwell, ing the afternoon. Partaub Singh have again been of Club, now showing more confid- Following are the leading performances chosen to provide the left wing and ence than at any other time in his in Saturday's cricket programme:- having regard to their displays in the career.

BATTING past and the fine understanding shown Although there will be various Capt. Grose (Army) by them yesterday, they will not be schools of thought who will feel that Capt. Skipworth (Army) 'found wanting.

other selections might be more worthy, F. R. Zimmern (C.C.C.) W. S. Gegg (University) Pritam Nath, erstwhile Colony lead-the selectors could not do much bet-E. L. Gosano (Recrelo) er, has been moved to inside-right to ter than to leave the team as it now C. Pope (P.R.C.) make room for Homburg. His part-stands and utilise the time remaining W. L. Clarke (PR.C.) ner will be S. A. Fowler, not as con- before the match in welding this team F. J. Lay (K.C.C. ^2nd) vincing this season as in others but a into the formidable, unit that only H. A. Barros (Rec, Ind) man capable of rising to the occasion. practice together is required to make 4. V. Gosano (Rec. 2nd)

With a hard shooting, speedy attack, it. Hong Kong should not miss many op- portunities of scoring goals.

The intermediate-line, however, looks even better. Willie Reed, will again occupy the pivotal position, supported by Hook. and Norman Whitley. Neither of the latter show- ed the form of which they are capa ble yesterda

ring to lack a lot of their old confidence with their sticks, but more practice should get

** them into fine working shape.

LOGICAL CHOICES. Victor Bond and Datta Ram, on their The logical choices for full-back. The former positions him-

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J. E, Noronha (Rec. 2nd) K. Y. Tam (University)

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Following teams took part in yes. A. Les (G.C.£.).. terday's trial-

M. I. Razack (I.R.C. 2nd).. Whitsa:U. B. Souza (Radio); Datta Ram E Zimmer (C.C.C.) (Rajputanas), V. C. Bond (Club), Capt. GT. Lock (C.C,C. 2nd) W. Hook (B.A.) W. A. Reed (Club). N. D. J. N. Anderson (K.C.C.) Whitley (C.B.A.); Shah Wall (Rajputanas),

Bowling Homburg (R.E.). Pritam Nath (Rajputan-ƑA. M. Omar (C.C.C. 2nd) as), Nerain Singh (Kumaons), Partaub Ainalle (C.S.C.C. Ind).

el Arculi (IR.C, 2nd) Singh (Kumaons);

Guterres (Rearalo Ind)

(K.C.C.

R.

6 for 30

6 for 35

6 'for 36

6 for 44

A for-35-

5 for 67

4 for 12

4 for 30

"Hong Choy

University)

Coloursí--V. M. Benwell, (Y,M.C.A.)

Reed (Nomads); J. Gonsalves (Recreio); B. T. Alver (Recreio), M. H. Hassan (Radio), Krishna Singh (Kumaons); S. A (Club), 'P, O. Gemmell (Navy), G. H. ToVÉ er (Club), P. O. Gemmell. (Navy), - Fowler. (C.B.A.), Gurbachan Singh (Radio)

J. Soares (Recreio),

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