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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1941.

Army Service Corps Spoil Sappers Unbeaten Record

ROYAL ENGINEERS, leaders in. Second Divi- sion of the Football League sustained their first League defeat yesterday when at Sookunpoo they were beaten by three clear goals by Royal Army Ser- vice Corps, their nearest rivals, after being led at the interval by two goals.

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BURMA CHINESE ARRIVING APRIL 10

At the monthly meeting of the Council of the Football Associa- worked hard, Birrel never gave when he shot over the bar when tion, it was stated that the As- sociation would be willing to bear At the other end up trying while Taylor did his well placed. snare, In the early stages of the Martin and Clarke had hard luck the cost of hospital and medical Service Corps expenses incurred by Lee Ting- game the halves left too big a gap with good shots.

white between themselves and their for-increased the lead through Clarke.ng, who broke his arm

playing on behalf of the Associa- wards and in the second period, Chung-sing had a hard shot

tion recently, but were unable to in an attempt to give them more saved by Mattison while Fox again do anything more financially as assistance they allowed the op-missed from a good position. The this would cause Lee Ting-sang

game ended with Sappers trying to lose his amateur status.

posing wingers too much scope.

Palmer made a welcome return hard to reduce the lead.

ENGINEERS, Moxham; Palmer,

Goals

to the Sappers' team and he gave sound in his clearmces and Malti-

a really good display at full back.Tsang Chung-pak: Birrell, Shaw, Tay- lor: Lee Wai-lam, Chan Ying-kuen. son in goal, brought off some good He was the best Sapper-player on Fox. Folham and Chung Sing. raves in the latter stages of the view and his good clearances and R.A.S.C. Mattison; Murray, Brad- hard Kicking kept the Service shaw: Smart, Young, Hammond; Glen, Engineers were weak in the for- Corps forwards from scoring Morgan, Clarke. Weir, Marin.

Pelham worked hard more. Tan Kong-pak was erratic

SECOND DIVISION trying to get his forwards going at times. but both wingers appeared timid Service Corps opened the scor-

in poor shootinging in the first half through Mar- R.E. while Fox was Tommy. Shaw 1,vened up the attack, gan from a partially cleared cen- |R.A.S.C. when he changed places with Chantre from Glen and a few minutes Sing Tao Yung-king, but most of his hard later the came player agam scored. S. China

Sappers attacked from the re-Middlesex 19 work was spoiled by the slowness.

start and Fox missed a great op- R. Scots... 18 of the other fowards.

lead R, Navy.. 18 the The Suppers' intermediate line portunity of reducing

Service Corps were the

more methodical team though they took more time to settle down than the Suppers but once they did, they played well and fully deserved their win,

Service Corps showed better ward line. combination in the forward line and all the forwards were dan- gerous when in possession. Glen, on the right win, sent in good cen- tres while Morgan and Clarke needed constant attention Weir was always assisting the defence and kept Martin continually on the move. The latter made some neat: runs down the wing but missed several good scoring chances.

Hammond Plays Well

Hammond, at left-half play- ed well and kept the well

speedy Lee War - Jam

in check while Young m the pr- votal position had Fox well e iver –

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MACAO SURPRISES S. CHINA

By "Sportshawk”

Fielding only four First Division plavers. South China were defeat ed by Macao Football Association yesterday at Caroline Hill by the odd goal in seven, after leading i at the interval by 21.

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The vigten, played gonal fool

The serotici hadt, although they were fagporntet ut la fii: per sot!

Micro's THE LOW

VICTORY

1 Colony Champion nught b.. attributed to the hulbant keep ing during the later stages of the ' Seond half of Carvalho, who wa however, shaky cartier in the game

During the last 10 minutes ni the play South China appled

great pressure and appeared like- ; ty to force a draw, but their heavy rands were all repulsed by Car valho

The Visiting back, cleared web. while their two inside forwards Guerreiro and Badarraco, showed good combination.

Apart from their senior players. none of the South China players impressed.

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Tse Kam-hung was sound defence, Lam Tak-10 was safe in the pivotal position, while Chow Man-chi and Lee Tik-kee were outstanding in attack,

South China drew first blood about five minutes from the start through Chow Wing-kuen and Chin Chi-fan added a further goal shortly after.

Visitors Equalise

The visitors reduced the lead in the 20th minute of play through Chong Houg-kong

Only about three minutes after the resumption, Macao equalised through Guerrero and, shortly after, took the lead through Ba- darraco.

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Apparently heartened by lead. Macao played much better soccer thereafter and Ip Po-tou placed the visitors still further ahead with a good ground shot.

The local players applied great pressure and were seen in visitors' circle for most of the 15 minutes before the end, during which they were only allowed to net once through Chang Wei-. cheung.

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SOUTH CHINA:-Ho Po-pul; Wong Sul-kee and Tse Kam-hung; Chang Wei-cheung (Chow Man-chi second half), Lam Tak-po anti Ho Lok-kee: Lai Chung-yin, Chow Wing-kuen (Chang, Wel-cheung second half), Lee Tak-kee, Chow Man-chi (Lee Shek-yau second half) and Chin Chi-fan.

MACAO:-Carvalho; Chifu and Car- dova: Mendes, Airoga and Magalhaes:. Chong Hong-kwong, Sousa, Guerreiro, Badarraco and Ip Po-tou.

Soccer Postponements

Owing to Volunteer Camps, the First Division Football match between St. Joseph's nud Royal Navy, and the Second Division match between Club and Middle- sex, both scheduled for Saturday, have been postponed.

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A letter was received from the Chinese Amateur Athletic Eedere- tion advising that the Burma Chinese football team would are 10 rive in the Colony on April and asking the Association to al- lot them dates.

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pte. It was decided that permission 19 15 3 1

79 21 33 be given for the games to be play- 20 15 2 3 90 29 32 ed on any date after April 10, ex- 18 12 3

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