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Friday, March 15th.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1946,

CUP GAMES DRAW HUGE CROWDS

LONDON, MAR. 13. CHARLTON, BIRMINGHAM, BOLTON AND DERBY ADVANCED TO-DAY INTO THE SEMI-FINALS OF THE FIRST POSTWAR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION CUP COMPETITION, AS FOR THE SECOND WEEK IN A ROW. MORE THAN 180,000 FANS JAMMED THE GROUNDS WHERE CUP GAMES WERE BE- ING PLAYED. TRAGEDY MARKED A SCORELESS GAME AT BOLTON BETWEEN THE WANDERERS AND STOKE

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LOCAL SOCCER

AT CRukuWAY day vs.orday, Eastern and No. 1 Commandos entered the Semi-Final Round of the football Shield competition when they beat Nu. 6 Commandos and R.A.S.C. respectively.

The

frit game between R.A.S.C, and No. 1 Commandos was evenly contested and the Commandos fully deserved their win

In the other game Eastern were definitely superior and by virtue of their better combination and understanding, was easily.

Displaying better combination In the attack and better finder- standing in the defence. Eastern had little difficulty in beatine No. Commandon by four goals to twe In the Second Round of the foot- ball Shield competition at Cause. way Bay yesterday.

good

WHEN A STAND-WALL COLLAPSED · ON PART OF THE MASS CROW'D BUT BOLTON MOVED INTO THE SEMI-FINALS BY A TWO GOAL MAR-

The Commandos had several GIN IN LAST WEEK'S FIRST LEG FICTORY,

good players and it was obvious that they had not played лд л Stoke had their chances to-day 2: Newport 1. Wolves 3; Notts team for a long time. The for but both aldes

were obviously. Forest 1, West Ham 1:

wards were soon affected by the accident. Bolton mouth 3, West Bromwich muyements but these fizzled out have lost only 16 cup-lies out of Swansea 4 Leicester 3.

when within shooting distance. 71 played since 1914.

League Threo

North-west Re.

Ford, who has represented the pion Cup-Aceringion 2, Chest leader but had the continual nt- Army here before, was 4 Road 1; Barrow 0. Southport 3: Oltentions of Ian King-seng. who hom 1, Tranmere 2; Stockpoor 4, Crewe 1; Wrexham 2, Rachdale 1.

The most exciting game of the day was at Derby where Aston Villa got on to terms with the cup favourites after 10 minutes play. Tempors became frayed when the Villa centre half brought down the Derby right-winger. Sammy Crooks, who had to leave the field for the rest of the

preased

Despite th strongly and with one minute of the first half left, they deservedly levelled the senre to keep shend on agereichte. After Villa Jost their right-half Parkes half way through the ne ad half the task always seemed to be an them.

Birmingham had little

scope,

Coleman give him such League

North-cast Region and Harvey, the wingers. Cup-Bradford City 5, Rother- were too well marked to be really

am 1: Carlisle 5. Darlington 1: dangerous. Cinteshead 3. Doncaster 3: Hartle pool 1, Halifax 1: York 6. Xin- coln 2,

League Three, South, North Region Cup-Clapton 0, Port Vale 0; Ipswich 2. -Mansfield 1; Northampton 2, Notts County 1 Southend 2, Walsall 2: Watford 1, 1. Queen' Park Rangers 3.

League Three South, South Re. gion Cup-Aldershot 1. Swindon in disposing of Bradford to reach 3: Bournemouth B. Bristol Rovers the last four in the cup. They 3: Bristol City 3. Cardiff 2: Exe took the lead immediately front 1er 1. Torauny 1: Reading 4, the kick-off and maintained sacre- Brighton 1.

difficulty

2.

mney throughout. Their forwards Lengue Three South, North and Dougall, Bodle and Mulrancy| South" Region Cup: Palace eached scored two. Mulroney got Norwich 3. the last two within BERG of two minute, mag the end of the game,

DURRANT BEREAVED

SCOTTISH "A"

0:

Aberdeen 2, Partick 1: Clyde 5. Queen's Park 1: Humilton 2, Fal- kirk 1: Hearts . St. Mirren 1; In the remaining tie between Kilmarnock 1. Hibernians Brentford and Charlton, Brent Queen of the South versus Mc- ford was informed before the therwell postponed. Rangera 1. match that the wife of their Morton 0; Third Lanark 0, Celtic centre-forward Durrant and died 1. earlier in the day. Durrant had maintained a constant vigil at his wife's

throughout the bedside week. Ils place in the team was taken by Townsend,

Aerdele 5, Dunfirmline 1; Ar- Proai

ron Brent broath 1. Sterling 0; Houghton- ford's point of view the game was belth 3. East Fife 7: Dundee C350 of missed chances. Had United 3, Dumbarton 2: Rith e, out of the fire. Allon 3: St. Johnstone 9, Albion

they accepted them, they might have pulled the As it was Chai

followed the opposito policy and shot at every ennertunity.

acored"

SCOTTISH "B"

0; Stenhousemuir 2, Ayr 3.

OTHER MATCH

·

Brentford's solitary goal was

Milwal . Nowcastle 7. by half-back Scott who

Irish Regional League:-Clit- showed the forwards the way by tonville 1, Distillery 1; Glenteran slamming in an unstoppable drive 1, Belfast 5; Linfield 4, Derby 3, from 25 _yurs Charlton entered -Reuter. the semifinal for the first time in

their history.

One hundred and cluchty thou- HONG KONG

sand watched

the four cup-tie-

games to

to-day according to the latest estimates, making an aggro- gate of 370,000 spectators for the sixth round..

The draw

for the semi-finals will be made

un Monday. The one-game tics will be played on neutral grounds. ·

football WIS

League

rather vershadowed by the Cup to-day. The feature of the League games was the early scoring by a num- ber of sides.

BASEBALL

(By "Fair Play")

Hill and Bryden the inside- forwards. were scen in Koveral good movements, but found thel oposing hack. Hau and Fook in good form.

Nisbett, in goal, played a useful| rame and was in no way reapon- sible for the defent of his side. In front

of him Goodchild and Dent were great defenders but were.

off their feet by the short in- terassing of the Chinese side...

Thorne, in the pivotal position.

run

played well and Bannister at lefi half had the better of Tang Kwong-sum

Eastern "cored early in the came through Chan Tak-fai, and not long after the same player added another. Before the interval Lai Shuiving scored.

In the second half. Ford reduced the lead bul Lal Shui-winr scared for the Chinese. Harvey scored the other geal for the Commandos.

1 COMMANDO IMPRESS

No, Commando, in their first appearance on the local

Rocter feld, acquitted themselves well. defeating comfortably 781 Coy.! R.A.SC. by four goals to one to enter the semi-finals of the Shield) Competition.

Commandos were the better bal- anced team and with the backs) having the upper hand of the

R.A.S.C.forwards they did the)

most atta

attacking. The whole de

fence was on top form and had the losers' front line completely bottled up.

Doughty, Commiandos goalie. hat an easy afternoon. In cun- trast his opposite,

Wiggin wası constantly harassed and was none 100 confident.

Gray and Jones

were two ro liable defenders, while the hal ves, Inglis, Rudeley and Turner. were a hard-tackling trio. In the forwards Savage and Perry form eil a perfect wing combination and were the main source of danger. Wilson was a good len. der.

ARBROATH PLAYER The R.A.S.C. defence had a hard day. Peters who was in- jured hut carried on, and Witham played well but the halves wore

Before a large crowd of base- ball fans yesterday, an All-Hqng Kong Nine beat the US.S. Los Angelea by 10 runs to 8 jn seven-innings encounter

at the Club de Recreio ground, King's The Third Divisioners Reading

Park. It was the Los Angeles weak. Brat defeat in Hong Kong. wer two up in as many minutes

Included in the R.A.3.C. Iino) In in exciting first aga.ast Brigion while Everton,

innings, was an exprofessional, McMahon. Arsenal, Notts County, Leeds, the un bases, Sequeira (Hong Kong) colour in the Scottish League.

with

Tony Alves and Wally Ching who used to don the Arbroath Wolves and Chester, their account within three minutes

all opened hi

the ball between first and He worked hard but lacked sup of the start.

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Yanks then Quted t

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All Members now resident in Hong Kong are asked to register name and address as soon as possible at the Club's premise where a list will be available as from March 11th. At this time until there is established a mort United were too good for Liver

robbed Commandos of goals. R.A.S.C. defence put up a credi complete Roster of Membership pool. Their victory gives them a

In the next three inning. the table display, though handicapped the Bye-Laws of the Club pre-clear two point lead over Ever Hong Kong Nine went on a spree by a strong wind. However, they 4 SHOWS: 2.30; 5.15; 7.15; 9.15, A. E. B. de Sousa, clude consideration of applica- ton, who were held to a draw on Auctioneer,

received in- tions for new membership by their home ground by Shefeld and made sight more runs while broke down under continued pres-

Wedocaday. The Wednesday were The Binal score wRA

Yanks registered only three. sure and two quick goats by Stead the structions from the Custodian candidates of other, than

two als in arrears but fought, Kong Nine, 10; U.S.S. Los An- a two clear goals lead at the in- All-Hong and Savage gave the Commandos of Property to sell by Public American Citizenship,

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terval. By Order of Committee, Le South was little affected geirs, 8.

by to-day's game as the four ing for the Hong Kong Nine: gave in their favour the Service Corps After resumption with the wind FR. PIDCOCK, ́ Teaders were engaged in the cup brilliant display at second. He improved slightly but at found

Secretary. Eames.

The Oxford University student. also pitched in the last two the Commandos too strong. Hong Kong, March 9th, 1945. J. C. Moncrieff, led the Halifax is. Antonell!, Los Angeles' Following some

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attack against Hartlepool scored after seven minutes, Hartle pool equalised later in the game.

In a day of high scoring in Scotland, Mackintosh gut six of St. Johnstone's nine goals against Albion Rovers the Division "B". Cap. Snow caused the postpone- ment of the Queen of the South- Motherwell game.

Football matches played to-day resulted as follows:- -

F.A. CUP

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