1940-11-22 — Page 14

ARMY SOCCER

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 22, 1940.

Company Teams Of Royals Enter Small Units' Semi-Finals

FOOTBALL Two Matches

Played Yesterday

HIGHLIGHTS

By "REFEREE",

WITH the

÷By “Sportshawk”

“D” COMPANY and "H.Q." Company of Royal Scots entered the Semi-final of the Small Units' Knockout Football Competition when, at Sookunpoo yesterday afternoon, they beat R.A.F. and 22nd "F" Company of Royal Engineers respectively.

ARMY SPORTLIGHT

By "SQUADDY"

was Now that the Small Units Capt. Hook, of the R.A.,

Rugby competition is under badly missed, and his substitute, somewhat selfish way some very interesting games Keeble, was local

should be seen.

with the ball, which, if passed. have seen a Two keen matches were played about more, might Football League sea-

on Tues-different result.

at Middlesex, in their match with son almost half over

Rugby Football day

Sookun-the Club "A," could not get going it seems certain that the

After being led by 3-1 at the position. His heading was worth poo, Engineers beating 12th Hvy. and Club beat them by 12 points race for the champion-

end of the first half; R.A.F. im-watching.

Regt., R.A., and Royal Scots "B" to nil.

Capt. Man, in the Middies' de- considerably on the re- Forrest, Pow, and Giblen was beating 6th. Hvy. Regt., R.A. ship now lies between proved

First match between the Sap-fence, played an outstanding gamie South China, Eastern and sumption and eventually held "D" the pick of the forwards.

For the Airmen, Brown, be-pers and the Gunners resulted in and saved his side from a much Sing Tao, with the latter Company, of R.S., to 4 goals to 1.

Callender, the winning goalie, tween the sticks, was shaky but win for the former by the only heavier defeat by tackling well, game, scored in the and not giving the Club forwards

much chance. -in slightly a better posi-was almost starved, but did quite

well when called upon, while the who has played in tion, having only lost one two backs, Park and Penman, had point against four each little to do. by South China and East-

ern.

Sing Tuo and Eastern meet in a fortnight's time at Caroline Hill: when another record crowd is expected. In the First Round Eastern conceded the points ow- ing to their inability to feld

team.

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Halves In Form

Edmunds, a new recruit for R.A.F., try of the

the some closing stages. position for R.A.F. at Home for Sappers might have had a big- many years, was the outstanding ger score had Jones, their stand- player in the Airmen's team.of-half, passed the ball more in-

he spoiled tend of hanging on to it. Playing at left-back,

game in

the

many Scots' raids but lacked sup- Birrell and Picton played a fine Their intermediate line, com-port from his partner, Henley.

the defence, with posed of Fleming, Falconer and Gosh, the right-back, played former scoring the try which gave Gibb, was at its best, Falconer well, while Richardson and Man-Sappers the victory. being the outstanding half

and field were the pick of the forn the second game Royal Scots surprised the critics by beating-8th playing brilliantly in the pivotal wards.

Pow opened the scoring for the Hvy. Regt., R.A., who had one of Royals and Forrest added another the strongest teams in the com- goal from a pass from Dowing, petition by two trics (ù points) to while Manfield reduced Royals' nil. lead with a powerful shot, which entered the bottom corner of the net. The interval whistic sound- ed with a 3-1 score in favour of the Royals.

them in the Governor's Cup game on Sunday. Without the presence of the stars from both teams much of the interest of the competition,

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team;

Though the Chinese team chosen by the Federation and known as the Federation the Cup was presented for the Promoting of better feeling and sportsmanship between 'Chinese and non-Chinese footballers.

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The Airmen made numerous efforts to score within the first 10 minutes after the breather, but they were repulsed.

Gibien Scores

The Scots played well together and only once did the Gunners get within scoring distance, when Richards, making a clean getaway, cut in towards the left iristead of running straight down the wing, Loughlin a few yards from the only to be brought down by line Picton scored twice for the Scots.

Both Sing Tao and Eastern were fully extended last week by Middlesex and Kwong Wah res- pectively. Sing Tao were dut-¡ would be lost. played for the greater part of the game and Middlesex were unlucky not to garner at least a point, Coomer played a sound game on the right-wing, and it was prin- cipally on this performance that he has been chosen 'to represent the Association on Sunday.

After a good: mid-field move-At Boundary Street on Wed- A Junior player can only get ment, Auld sent in a good shot nesday, Artillerydrew with Drake, in goal, in place of the injured Jackson, gave a sound into a representative side in Hong which touched the hand of the Police, neither side scoring. display and had no chance with Keg by chance. Few ever catch Airmen's pivot. A free kick was the shots that beat him.

the eye of Members of the Foot-awarded and Auld took the kick, ball Association and it is very which was pushed out by Brown, With а centre-forward. who consoling to find that the Army The ball dropped onto the ground could take advantage of the op- are holding trials with the view and Giblen, followed up and tip- portunites offered, St. Joseph's to both giving a chance to the ped it into the net. About 10 min- could easily have obtained both less known players and getting utes from: the end, Royals were awarded.. a penalty kick against points from Navy. Gomes, San- the best possible side together.

Edmunds for hands and Auld tos and A. Leonard played well in the attack but were weak in

converted.

front of goal.

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Wednesday's trialsgave the Army authorities a wide range of selections and Owens, Shaw, ---Itis gratifying to note that both Birrell, Weir, Pelham and Clarke, Sing Tao and South China, who all from Junior teams, played are not members of the Federa-well and are worthy of further

́consideration. tion, are accepting the invitation of, the. Federation to represent

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BETTER

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"D" Coy, Royal Scots:-Callender: Park and Penman; Fleming. Falconer and Gibb: Dowing, Forrest, Auld, Pow and Giblen.

R.A.F.:-Brown:" Henley and Ed- munds: Gosh. Berry and Moore: Good- win, Richardson, Bartlett, Smith and

Manfield.

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SAPPERS UNLUCKY TO LOSE

By “Sportshawk”

"HQ Company;!'Royal Scots, did not altogether deserve their victory against 22nd- "F". Com- pany, Royal Engineers, though they won by 4 goals to 12 rafter leading by the body/goal in three at the interval.

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T. Sookunpoo, on Wednesday Army held its second. trial, which proved much more success- ful than the first.

The Reds beat the Whites by four goals to one, Fox, Pelham, Morgan, and Martin Soccer scoring for the Reds and Hossack for the Whites.

Owens of R.A. was. the best

player on the field and, having proved his worth,should be a strong: contender for the outside- right position,

Cpl. Weir, of R.A.S.C, was an- other good find and he played a hard game at inside-right for the Whites, his touches being pretty knowledge of football. to watch. He obviously has a good

Bright played his usual game and is still the best centre-half the Services have.

Army have an excellent de- fence in Freshwater, Naysmith, Wilkinson, Bright and Parnaby and I think that Moxham will still retain his place between the sticks. Selection of the outside-left position is still proving a hard fask- and neither. Martin, nor Gilroy played up, to expectations on Wed- nesday.

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N the Garrison Billiards, tourna- ment. Engineers beat Billiards Signals on Wednes-

day by four games- to two.

The following are the results-of games played.

ENGINEERS

SIGNALS C.S.M. Gates, 159 Cpt, Blount.......94 110 Sip: Morgan... 160 L/G. Bate L/C. Thompson 150 C.Q.M.S. Sayers" 69

(Break 25)

Ser Crittenden, 150 Sgt Brackenbury 89

(Break 23)

Sappers defeat was mainly due to their fuck of combination, though they showed good indivi-Spr. Ratcliffe:: 113 Sip. Binningaley 150

dual work

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Spr. Simmons:150 L/C. Pitcher...109

Total .... 823 Total 651 To-night. the Signals will play

Dobson was to be blamed for allowing Royals to register many goals, particularly the last two goals. T. Jones played a the R.A.P.C. at the Soldiers' Club commencing at 7. p.m., and the sound game in front of Dobson.

Birrell and Shaw also appeared. Signals are making one change uncomfortable at right-half and in their team by bringing in L/Cpl. pivot, respectively, although they Murphy in place. of C.Q.M.S. both sent over a few good centres,Sayers.

Li Wai-lam..right-wing, and

Fox, the Colony: Interporter, who

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gue (Departmental Corps) there are still two

played at inside-right, were a pair N the Small Units Hockey Lea- of good forwards in the Sappers' team. They combined.. impres- sively and did everything but

score.

Hockey matches to be played between the R.A.F. and C.M.H., and Signals and the C.M.H... Parnaby Shines Royals' deferice was best served by their right-back, and gave little rope, to Sappers' forwards,

If Air Force beat the G.M.H. in their next match they will win the League, and below is the review of matches played.

OSKSignato R.A.SC. R.A.O.C.

2, RAF + 2)2=CMH,

R.A.M.C. Jaunia.8.0..

Gibson distinguished himself in the pivotal position. This player R.A.M.C held Foxwell in check besides Signale: distributing well

RA.F... Glitoy was unselfish and initiat C.M.H. received a

opportunities w/o from

ed several scoring

which Gordan and Godfrey turn ed to account.

The Play

blood

-first. Sappers drew through Fox, and Gordon equalls- ed for the Royals, while Bailey added a further goal; for the Royals.

RA.M.C. Signals

R.A.5.0.

R.A.F.

R.A.0.0.

INGRIA,DIC.

RAFI O/C.M.H. 4:\\R.A.M.C.

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R.A,O.C. R.A.M.C. received -4 w/o from

signals

R.A.S.C.

On Sunday at Poktulam Signals will be playing the University in' the Hong Kong Hockey Tournu- ment, bully off 10.30 a.m.

The following, are most likely to represent the Combined Small Units at Hockey:AR.

Chung Sing, left-wing, equalis- ed for, the Sappers, shortly after the interval, but Mulr and God- trey euch netted to determine the L/Cpl. Dove (Sigs); Mohammed Singh: (RA) and Sig, Harring- Suq”. Coy. - foyah Scots: Sulterion (Sig, Kakar Singh (R.A.). Parnaby and Fraser: Gibb, Gibson and sagh Singh (R.A.) and Cpl. Gor- Symons; Muir, Gordon, Godfrey, Baileyman (HAM.C.); Llout. Bellon

ssue.

and "Glroy,

H.Q.). L/Cpl. ~ Govier, (Siga.), //Cpl. Holland (Sius)Sgt. Bart ctt. (RAF) and S/Sgt. Duffeld

22nd "F": Coyij÷Royal Endingora: Dobson: T--Jones and Sponear; Birrell; Bhaw and F. Jones: Li Wallam, Fox Devony. Sarsfield and Chung Sing, ] RAOC.).