1940-01-31 — Page 2

PAGE 2-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

SOCCER REVIEW

Lai Wah

SUCCESSFUL

DEBUT BY

TAYLOR IN GOAL IN REPRESENTATIVE MATCH

Forrow's Surprise Display

In Lai Wah Cup

BY "PILAT":

AS ANTICIPATED, A LARGE CROWD TURNED OUT TO WIT- NESS THE "LAI WAH CUP MATCH between the Chinese and the Civilians, which the former won by four goals to two.

The Civilians put up a much better fight than was expected and, had the forward line not been weakened by the absence of Fow- ler, who was injured, no doubt the result would have been cicaer.

Royal Scots in a replay by four clear goals.

Taylor, in his first representative rame, was a success in goal, using his-height and long reach to great advantage.

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The Scots were in splendid form; Hossack was more energetic than usual, outmanoeuvring Forrow and always proving & yard faster than the Club defenders.

The Club halves, who played.20

The outstanding man on the neld, however, was A. V. Gosino. He gave a sterling display in the pivotal berth, concentrating his at- tention on Chan Tak-fai, Lee Wal-well previously, were not on such tong and even Fung! So effective- good form, ly was his bottling up of the Chi- nese attack that Chan, so noted for his snap-shooting. was not given a chance.

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Forrow, who played ut inside left. proved the surprise packet of the game. He impressed as a schem- ing inner and combined excellent- ly with Bickford. This should solve the problem of selecting the Interport intermediate, line.

PRYDE IMPRESSES Bertie Gosano was a hard work- ing centre-forward and Fryde (m his second big match of the sea son) again impressed,

deteriorating form and lost to St.

Kwong Wah continued to" show.

Joseph's by three goals to one.

The Saints, although without A. V. Gosano, played one of their best games for some time and, surprisingly, showed bet- ter combination than Kwong. Wah.

Bowen and Woo were a hefty pair of backs and gave adequate support to Sammy Tsang who kept a sound goal.

Honniball was again to the fore in the intermediate line. The for- . wards combined Well together

Leonard, however, seemed to have left his "shooting boots" at home. being far too erratic,

Cheung Wing-chol was his usual steady self between the sticks for the Chinese and brought off sever- al difficult saves in brilliant style.

Of the Kwong Wah team nothing Lee Tir-sang and Lee Kwok-wal, much can be said. The forwards. Individually, were good defenders well-supported by the halves, but did not show up well as initiated some fine movements

a unit Hsu King-sing was pro-which, however, always seemed to minent among the halves and was fizzle out when nearing goal. well supported by Scong Ling-sing, but Leung Wing-chiu proved too slow agains. Bickford.

On paper, the Chinese front line looked unstoppable but actually they were far from being so.

PRESS V. REFEREES

As I suggested in my notes last week there was quite à crowd on hand to lend support to the Press v. Referees match and they had no regrets for doing sol

KOWLOON LOSE

The other League game was rather a one-sided affair in which Kowloon last to South China "B" by 2-1 on their own ground.

That Kowloon were defeated by such a narrow margin was entire- ly due to the magnificent display of their defence, which has so far stood them in good stead this season,

Willamson worked like a That the "Fen" is not mighter trojan at centre-half and is. than the sword (the "Whistle" in without doubt, one of the this case) was borne out by the Anest pivots in the Colony. fact that the scribes lost by two Though hard pressed by the clear goals. But, in fairness to the quick Chinese attacks he neverthe Press, It inust be said that they less found time to ply the forwards "included, as reported by a con- with beautiful passes which, how

temporary, several veritable ever. went astray as the forwards "green-horns."

were too weak to make better use Another interesting fact that of them.. emerged from this game was that The whole of the Chinese team our usually strict observers of the played grand soccer, every one letters of the game can also show putting in his share of work. The the young 'uns a thing or two in: forwards revealed their best form the matter of law breaking! and, a little steadiness on their part, would have given their team a more substantial victory."

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ARMY VICTORY

On Saturday, Army defeated Navy 5-2, and thus earned the right to meet China in the final

of the La Wah Cup. Army were the superior side and combined better as a team. Fox and Guy. two of the best Army finds this season, were outstanding.,

"Guy justified his inclusion in the Interport eleven and gave a great display as pivot, completely check- Ing the Navy attack, while Fox, with Saw supplying the scheming, was given ample shooting op- portunities and fitted perfectly into the Army attack

Robinson, Navy's custodian, had, no chance with the shots that went past him Hendy worked

hard all the time against great odds but was given little or no support.

CLUB'S EXIT

HK.F,A. COUNCIL MEETING

Football Association Council, will A meeting of the Hongkong pe held at the Association's office on Monday, Feb. 5, at 5.30 pm.

BUSINESS....

SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1940.

Cup Football WIND PROVES TROUBLESOME AT

ABOVE-group picture of the Chinese and Civilian teams which met in the Lai Wah Cup football match on Sunday. Standing In the centre is Dr. C. T. Wang, who was introduced to the teams; On his left is Mr. Walter H. Chen and on his right, Mr. J. Skin- ner, respective managers of the sides. In the front row, on Dr. Wang's right. is 'A' V. Gosano and on his left Lee Wai-tong. BELOW--Taylor (wearing cap) the Civilian custodian in action. also in the picture are Bone and Blackburn, the full-backs.

EXHIBITION SOFTBALL IN AID OF B.W.O.F.

TEAMS SELECTED

FOR FEB. 9

In the exhibition matches to be played," in aid of the British War Organization Fund. on Feb. 9, at the Kowloon Football Ground, the following teams have been selected to appear:

LADIES MATCH Mar, Nip Lam, Mgr. H. Wing Lee

China

The Rest Mary Loule p. Therese Noronha D. Louie e. Lena Luongo Paula Chan 2nd b. Celeste Marques Lily Mar 1st b. Yvonne Yolle

May Chung 3.3 M. Oliviera. Mabel Loute 3rd b. Irene Castilho.

Mary Mar 11. Irene Pereira Doris Mar c.f. Mrs. I Stone quan Khoo r. Mrs. M. Read

Utility

Jean Lee, J. Anderson Bella Mar, Thelma Collaco Gloria Mar, Cynthia Motta

Ella Chinn, Thelma Motta Rose Loule, Mra: Burson

MEN'S MATCH

1 Minutes of Council meeting Mgr. H. A. Barros, Mgr. Nip Lum

No. 8.

Portugal

The Best

2Mnutes of League ManageJ. J. Alvares p. Herbie Quon ment Committee meeting M. Mendonca c, Nip Lum

No. Tube 8

3. Minutes of Emergency Sub

4.

Committee meetings Nos. 6. T & 8 Accounts

N. A Beltrao 1b, Terry Leonard

Tony Alves 2b. Hans Waggoner George Souza ss. Wally Ching A. F. Pereira 3b. Earl Wong Gerry Gosans lf. H. All

3. Draw Semi-finals Senior & EL Gosano c.f. Denham Crary

Junior Shield

6.

Any other business.

Caco Marques ri. Stan Leonard

Utility E Zinho Gosano, H. Wing Lee

Club made their exit from the NAVY 'A' V. CLUB 'A'. Fonseca, Wilbur Wu Senior Shield on Saturday when

A. Ozorio. K. Nazarin

they were convincingly defeated by AT RUGGER TODAY C. Netto, A. R. Kitchell

The following have been select B. Gosano, Tuffy Chin ***

ed to play for Navy "A" verans

ground: Kick-off at 5 pm.

ADVERTISEMENT Club "A" today on the "Club

HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.

INTERPORT MATCHES, Hong Kong i Saigon, Thursday, February 8, 1940,

Eastern A.A. v Saigon, Friday, February 9, 1940.

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South China A.A ̈v Saigon. Sunday, February 11, 1940.

All matches will be played at Cardline Hat 3:30 pm. each

day,

SPORTING

FIXTURES

TODAY

Midshipman Roe; Sub Leu- tenant Nicolls, B. B. A. Aadis," Midshipman O'Riordan, Marine | BADMINTON V.R.C. Kow- Jeffries: Lieutenant Carter, Lieu- loon Tong: K.C.C. v. Recreio. tenant Commander Clark: Col FOOTBALL Third Division, Royal Marron, Ldg. Wtr. Barlow, 8 E. "Corps Signals v, Royal Army A. Davis, A, B, Jeffrey, L. 8. spirit, Service Corps (Bookunpoo) 4: Pay Lieutenant Charles, Mid pm. shipman Murray Jones, Pay. Bub LAWN BOWLS-H. E. The Gover- Lieutenant Sumner.

nor's Team v. USRC, at Gov- Reserves:-Ldg. Sig. Inglis,

ernment House, 3.15 p.m..! Midshipman Teare, Ldg. W. SHOOTING.--Hongkong Rifle Asso- Ferris, P. O. Little:

clation Weekly Spoon, & Practice Shoot, a: Kowloon City, 1.45 p.m.

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ARMY RUGBY LEAGUE GAMES POSTPONED The two Army Rugby League matches which were to have been Reserved seats: Covered stand played at Bookumpoo yesterday $2.20.; Uncovered stand $1,10... evening were postponed as a mark Booking now open to the Public of respect to soldier of the Royal tat, Messrs.. Mantrie, and Co., Ltd. Beots who was killed in a moter and Messrs. China Bports Co. accident on Monday and whose

funeral took place yesterday.

The matches were Royal Scots Middlesex Regiment, and the Royal Engineers v. 8th Heavy R.A. INTERPORT CHANGE

in the composition of the Inter- A further change has been 'made

port rugby afteen, D. H. Stewart, Wine three-quarter, is unable to go and H. Van Leeuwen, Captain of the Club "A" XV. has been in- vited to take his place,

·H.K.R.A. SHOOT AT STONECUTTERS RANGE

Good Scores

Registered In S.R.(a) Class

Sixty-four members attended Stonecutters on Saturday and othe good scores were obtained, although some were troubled, by the wind. which was inclined to fishtail.

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The tight was good until 650 yards was reached, the last detail belig unfortunate in this respect.

Sgt. R. J. Heap. of the RNRS, | Mr. H, J., S. topped the 6.R. (b) class with 98, scoring a possible at 500 yards, but S.I. (R) the light beat him at 600 yards for his century.

Blake scr. 3 32 27 01

C. C. Chau se#. 34 31 26 91 Capt. F. F.

Some good scores were made in the SR (a) class, Sgt. M. F. Rush-P/Sgt. (R) man of the RNR.S. making a very good score of 94, and QMS. J. Ball Pte. G. & and Sat. Major Maslen scoring 90.

Lt. F. V. V.

LEADING SCORES The leading scores on Saturday were as follows:

S.B: (B)

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Y,M.C.A. HOCKEY

TEAMS

The following will, represent the T.M.C.A. in hockey matches this week:

THURSDAY

.."A" XI ▾ Royal Scots 2nd XI., ("Y" Ground, 5.15 pm.): Benwell (Capt'); Jordan, and Perry: Smits. McLellan and Tomlinson; Macey, Gemmel, Taylor, Coombe and Baldwin.

SATURDAY

1st ×a ✓ Radio ("V" Ground, 4.15 pm): Benwell Capt.); Jor- dan and Yourleff; Bates, McLellan and Colledge; Macer, Gemmell. Taylor, Waldron and Coombe.

2nd XI RA.O.C. ("Y" Ground" 3.00 pm): Cleggett; Killeen and Perry: Smilts,

Tomlinson and Broch; Stone. Dormer (Capt.). Spare, Greenberg and Banks

AUSTEN LEAVING

Mr. A. F. Austen, "Y" Hockey. Secretary for the past three sea- sons, who was largely responsible for making the Club the success that it is, will be leaving for England in a day or two.

Remedios 10 28 26 29 77

Sequeira scr. 29 31 30 90

K. C. Hoc L 29 31 29 89

Ribeiro 3 30 33 28 89

Ribeiro il 29 27 27.83' Mr. L. W..

Peckham 3 27 28 26 81. -H'p 200 500 600 TEL

S.R. (A) Sgt. R. J. Heap scr. 33 35 30 98 Sgt. M. F A.S.P. (R)

Rushman 6 31 31 32 34 | Cpl. A. F.“ ......• D. Lofe 1 32 33 32 97K QMS. J. Ball -sex. 30 30 30 90 Mr. J. A. Guard scr. 53 31 32.96:

R.S.M. F. Sgt. GE. Breese 1 92 33, 30 95

Masten 2 32 29 22 90- SI (R)

Mr. W. K.

Gillman ser. 28 30 27 85 Cpl. F. Cole 5 29 29 27 85 Pte. G. A.

Noronha 10 31 25 28 84H Mr. E. S. Jones 10 28 29 25 82 Mne. Jas.

Fletcher 8 26 28 27 81 L/Cpl. J. M.

Xavier 7 25.30 24 79

A. C. Chan 2 33 32 29 94 Mr. W. Trenouth 1 33 33, 28 94. Mr. H. G...

Foreman 2 31 32 30 93 Mr. H. L

Langley 2 32 32 28 02 Mr. A. L

Warburton 4 32 33 27 92 Mr. J. G. Biles 3 30 30 31 91 Mr. A. Simpson 3 29 32 30 91 L/Cpl. 8. G.

Brighty scr. 31 32 28 91

Even if you have every shot in the bag Player's CLIPPER

CIGARETTES complete your pleasure!

PLAYER'S

CUPPER

CIGARETTES

Mne. R. J.

Cpl. J. C.

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Jeffery 14 26 28 24 783

PLAIN OR CORK-TIPPED.

PLAYER'S

Ferreira 11 32 20 24 76 Spr, E W. Allo 8 28 28 32 75 Mr. N.V. Whyte & 28 20 26 72 M. V. R. J.

Merrett 7 26 24 18 68

Pte L. J.

Remedios 14 19 28 19. 66 12/Lt. E. .

Pte. P. A.

Cunha 14 22 23 18 6I

Symons nil. 18 26 18 50 (N) winner of Nett spoon. (H) winner of Handicap spoon. (B) winner of Button. Winner of (N) or (H) will have his handicap reduced by one point.

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VIRGINIA CIGARETTES

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