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Home soccer:

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1930.

Hockey:

Thrilling struggle between London Reminders Nomads prove no match

giants ends in 2-2 draw

London, March 18.

Arsenal and Chelsaa must meet again at the Tot- tenham Hotspur ground on Wednesday to decide who is to represent London and the South in the Cup Final at Wembley on April. 29.

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•At one period early in the semi-final game, few of the 67,752 spectators could have visualised such an outcome to this battle of the' London giants.

HOME SOCCER LEAGUE STANDINGS

FIRST DIVISION

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So masterful, in fact, were "In both rections of the Tixird | Liverpool ... Chelsea at the beginning that Division two clubs have outstrip-Wolvra " - after 25 minutes they stood two ped the rest. Although they did goals ahead. At that stage Arsenal well to fight back from a two goal looked in danger at being sut- deficit and take a point from played and their usually cool de Walsall in the Southern Section, fenders showed distinct signs of Notta County are only two points becoming rattled.

ahead of Torquay, who beut They were troubled must by the Bournemouth casily. unorthodox centre-forward eplay of Roy Bentley, who scored both Chelsea's goals, one with n lobbed shot which hit the underside of the bar and the other with sparkling header from u clearance by Hughes.

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usual defence in. dept ung everything into an attack. A few seconds be fore the interval, right winery

Cox scored direct from a corner. The second half mostly be Innged to Arsenal. Chelsen were forced on the defensive and were handicapped when. insido let!,

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Doncaster Rovers found Roch- uke

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Willington and Blahop Auck. Tamu, two Northern clubs, en. terad the final of the Amateur Cup, both beating Southern clubs, Willington beat Barsing 2-1 and Bishop Auckland de- feated the Wycombe Wanderers by the same score.

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Today

Crown Land Sale by auction,

PWD office, 3 pm. European YMCA, Whist Drive,

p.m. British Counell sponsored lecture on Chinese civilisation "Chinn and Europe" by Praf. Chenh Te-kun, Council ibrary, 8.30

p.m.

HK Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd, annual meeting, 12 noon.

for Recreio “B”

At King's Park yesterday, Nomads proved no match for Recreio "B" in a Hockey Associa- tion League fixture and were defeated by soven clear goals.

Nomads started off quite well and although Roza

got an early goal, it appeared that their backs would be able to hold the Recreio forwards. The forwards of the Nomads never much in the pig-

HK Stage Club, casting meeting,

for radio play at FRO Lee- were ture room, 8.30 p.m.

Coming Events TOMORROW

HK Rotary Club luncheon, Roof Garden, HK Hotel, 12.30 p.m. European YMCA, Bridge Drive,

8 p.m.

ture

At the start they were ongor.

keen to do well, youngsters. energatią and anthusiastic. Nowadays, there is more craft and guile about them and with

maturity this should be a vers one teain in a year or two..

Played to a standstill

asian attacking force, their timb being, to a great extent, occupied in tackling back, at which Reed did is share.

Their altckwork and general Consequently, the Recreto bucks appreciation of the finer points 12 12 30 33 Nine Dragons Sorvices Club, ad plenty of space and time loof hockey have improved Im-

Billy Tingle, PT and boxing, get the ball under control, and mensely. 0 p.m.; Whist Drive, 8 p.m. used it to the best advantage, 32 14 6 12 42 30 31

WEDNESDAY

The main weakness in the Tuc I club meeting, 60 Mac-Nomads: Leum,

was at one fell, donnell Road, 8.30 pan. half-pack, for the line never ap- On the Nomads side, Barretto Legislative Counell, budget de- peared to have the "legs" to set it well enough and Xavier and

bate, 2.30 p.m.

behind their forwards, and so Soures at buck played themselves Nine Dragons Services Club, left a gap which was fully ex- to a standstill, but the halves Aim show, HK Band Call, 8 ploited by the Reerelo halves and could not cope with the nippy p.m.

Inside forwards, and their own | Recreio forwards. European YMCA Debating So-forwards had to come back mud

ciety. Open Forum, 8.45 pm. 10 which Reed moved, in the Castilho, when he moved the

eventually. Even

to left-half, and 42 Commando, Royal Marines,

do then Ceremonial Parade, Chatham but little improvement, for by there was

Rond, 11.30 am,

The Recreio "had their tails up" and were in dominant mood.

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their left-half, Hewitt. Stott rid the hui-trick in their 7-2 victory. Even so they held out in a most i

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in for a long spell injury to the goal-keeper, Nicol.

A numbar of surprince. tile biggest of which were the de. feats of the First and Second Division leaders, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur. Manchester United badly miss ed their Englund centre-forward, Jack Rowley, who was injured. They attacked for most of the game against Blackpool but could not press' home their midfield ad- vantage.

The 10 year old South African left-winger, Billy Perry, dis- played excellent ball control in his League debut for Blackpool.

Stan Mortensen got their two goals,

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Blackpool's victory narrowed

gap between them and Man chester United to three points and they have two games in hand.

Liverpool me! their second suc- ressivo home defeat against Wol- verhampton Wanderers. Everton, whom they meet in next Satur- day's Cup semi-final at Man- chester, also showed indifferent form in losing nl Stoke,

At the bottom of the First Division, the struggle_to_avold. the last two places grova keener, By defeating Man chester City, Birmingham drew javal with them оп points. Charlton, also in danger, tost at Bolton.

Tottenham Hotspur, who need only six points from nine games to be sure of promotion from the Second Division, were not at their best in losing to Barnsley. They were handicapped by an injury to Nicholson.

Shefeld United remain in second place, although they drop- ned" a point at home to Leicester. But they have played threo games more than Sheffield Wed- nesday, who won well at Swan- sea and are only three points behind the United.

Bradford and Coventry, who recently spent heavily in transfer fees in trying to escape reléga- tion, have not met with immediate success.

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Bradford suffered a 4-0 defeat at Grimsby and dropped to Inst place, and Coventry forfeited a home point to Blackburn,

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A. A. Remedios Jr. was the stur of the Recreto side, although all of them dild their phare.

Keynote of succoss

Silva tried hard at forward as did Reed, and in the second half, with little support from halves, the forward line wag to impotence, practically reduced

After Roza

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