THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1934.
S. CHINA SLAY THE CHAMPIONS: SUPERB FOOTBALL
Smith, Borderers goalkeeper, savou
a hot shot from Tay Qua-tong during yesterday's important league match at. Sopkunpoo, when South' China
heat South Wales Borderers after a keon encounter. (Photo)
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Ninety-three Goals Scored In 18 Games To Open The League Season
"BRIGHTER FOOTBALL”· CAMPAIGN?.
(By "Veritas").
JUDGING by the number of was anybody's game, but Eastern goals scored in the opening gave the impression of being matches of the league season, slightly the better balanced aide. one would imagine local foot-
SIX teams failed to find the net,
but none of them figured in the first division where a total of 38 onl
VAN recorded. There an average of six goals per
WILA
Inatches on record.
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division team. guals. Green Rush of the Lincolns (third division) were next in order of merit with three each.
IGHEST score of the day wan
were the
firat
ROUND records were shattered
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Magnificent Team Work Earns THE LAST INTERPORT
Fine Victory
CAROLINE HILL ELEVEN BACK TO OLD FORM
. (By "Variins"},
TRIAL
Nominees In
* Splendid
Form
YOU try to tell me that South China first string won't win the first division football championship this season, but I should contest the point. In fact, if I had no knowledge of the sort of opposition they are to HAPPY OUTLOOK expect, I should, on the strength of their display against the Borderers yesterday, whom they beat by 5 goals to 2, plumb for them to win the title. For anything approaching a similar conception of match-winning Owen Hughes Bats Very football which the Chinese revealed at Sookunpoo yesterday, one has to switch the memory back to 1930, when the all-conquering Lee Wai-tong and his colleagues were setting an entirely new standard of the game in Hongkong.
All of last season I deplored South Ching's in- explicable preference to the close passing game in front in defensive play, Morrison workyd
like a nigger, but I noticed moments. of goal, and numberless times I stressed that with the when he was not very clever in hair obvious latent talent to be found in the team, any of being too eager to take the
positioning, and there wa n sugges alteration of such tactics would put them back into win-ball in front of the opposing forward. ning form.
evitable.
CONTRASTS.
wandering, and positional play was
Smith was beaten all ends up five tintes, bul otherwise ጊ312 seldom sapphire of them all. The return) troihled. He made one or two good of Ip 'ak-wa atid Fung King Clearnices from corners, and it woul cheung is going to make na enor- be riliculons to suggest that the mous difference to the South Chlan Borderers' defent could be traced vanguard, especially if they main directly to him. „inin yesterday's form,
Fung has not yet totally recaptured
THE GOALS.
Soundly And Fields Magnificently
(BY RABBIT)
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and
Alec Poarce, McInnes, G. R. M. Ricketts, thras of the playara selected for the Hongkong cricket, Interport, taking the field at the K.C.C., during the final trial. (Photor
Ming Yuen)..
The Cricket played on Saturday afternoon and Sunday last has been of the greatest interest. I do not propose to give a detailed account as there are so many general facts of interest, and by this time no doubt the general account will have appeared.
T. E. Pence's side was undoubtedly ||
A COLLAPSE.
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ex-
BOWLERS.
for him
This Shanghal team is reported to be a very strong batting combination
Yesterday we saw that alteration, and we alsu saw the effect. For the major part of a really fine. game, the Chinese played grand ballers had planned a Brighter SEVENTEEN Services teams took; football. They moved the ball Bike. Football campaign. Thirty
au Interport side with one or two is probably better suited to his type part in the week-end pro- lightning, players running correct- teams scored 93 goals between gramime, six of them clasbing.
doubtful spots. The Rast were ly inte position, and when the op- them
of batting than number one. Ho got much wenker side but it must not be} in eighteen matches. Tire only winners
portunity came for shooting they his former skill in feeding the wing, the That's an average of three over Royal Artillery in
For three quarters of the game, the assumed that they were rabbits. Pereira away square three times, but shot, kard and true,
but his shot is as sure as ever, and exchanges were contested at a fierce Mackay, E. J. R. Mitchell and J. P.the first was a bad shot off which three's for each team and three division, Navy and Lincolns in the
he should have beon eaught; but his over fives for every game.
These tactics, plus the individual his two goals were drean affairs, pace, highly complimentary to both Williams of the Interport fourteen second division, Borderers, Lin-skill in ball control, hending, tackling Pak-wah war nent in all he did, teams in view of the oppressive cyadi were on the side (though I hear that luck was in and it went clear through colns, R.A.S.C., Air Force and and passing, inade South China and Tso Kwal-shing was nearly tions. The fast ground, of course, blackay will not be able to make between the field. But East Lancashires in the third combination to whom goals were always a little too elever for Under- made its contribution to this, but it the trip but this I publish subject to Pereira would have had better figures division.
wood and a trifle too fast for Morri-was noticeable that the ball was rarely correction). To bowl they had Elwin, thun, three for seventeen. son. Tam Kwang-pak and Tay Qua- overrun, nur did it often beat the man Millbank, Redmond, Stewart, A. M. Minu took four for eight! Ricketts. tong played suitably passive
Rudahn an Freddie Zimmern. and Pearce had no success but Garth parts.for pace. They generally made good use of thei A huge roar from something like And they had a dual personality, for waite found his length after tea and At Sookunpoo yesterday. And what a contrast their game ball, but invariably it was to provide four thousand throats greeted South the Duckitt of Saturday was the match in this division, some of Every available sent was taken, made to that of the Burderers. The openings for the idols, Fung and Ip. China's first goal which came after Teddy Fincher of Sundiny. They also took three quick wickets, for sixteen. the tallest scoring for first day and military police spent most of Borderers did not play badly. I saw The Borderers felt the absence of about ten minutes play. Fung King- bad Ernie Fincher, an old Interporter.
THE FIELDING. the afternoon stopping Chinese them play many more worse games Duncan and Hazlewood probably cheum was solely responsible. He spectators from encroaching on all before them. But in comparison | Searle
last season when they were carrying rather more than they expected. secured the ball just inside the penalty
All through the fielding of the INDIVIDUAL honours went to the crickut pltch
and Herbert, their deputies aren, and, side-stepping Mullane, drove adjoining the forwards were puny, dinorganised, were very hard workers, but whereas in a swerving shot
When the Rest butted first there robable side was excellent. Owen Albert Howe of the Club and Enthusiasts
with his right was. climbed
Hughes took four catches, and beauti complete triumph for trets and and wretchedly ineffective in front of Searle suffered mostly through lack of foot. Smith, attempting to anticipate bowlers. The only people to
theful ones they wore,three, being off Purcell of the Borderers third swarmed the surrounding embank-goal. They always seemed to be experience and the inability to klekit, went across to the wrong end of anything were Duckitt, who hit four
do Minu, Mcinnis shone as usual and Both netted four ments, white hundreds of others running for a ball that was too far strongly with his left foot, Herbert the goal. Four minutes later Fung fours in his twenty and was very everyone did their share. I do not of the Police and clustered around the Tung Waudirected pass; the inside men were | kandicap of playing out of position. fast rising oblique shot which entered bat to one of T. A. Pearce's which better. Ho certainly is a tower of. forward, or doubling back for a nuis was obviously labouring under the beat Smith again, this time with unlucky to be out: ho gave the dead think I have ever seen Dunkley keep Hospital.
the corner of the net
turned outsile his legs and it spun strongth behind the sticks. JONES DISAPPOINTS. LE Wai-tong who returned mostly conspicuous by its absence.
A Borderers debacle was hinted, back ou to the leg stick; and G. A. This was not entirely true for the from Caxton for the match, whole of the game. There were True he often had the mortification of with refreshing skill and courage and cellent innings for twenty-seven not
Jones was the big disappointment. but true to form, they fought back Stewart who again played was seen in the role of adviser. examples, especially in the first half seeing his well established movements set up a series of well conducted raids out.
of a quintette, fully alivo to the with Hazlewood completely mis- which culminated in Searle socuring Minu cut out his faster and shorter and it is a fortunate thing that not team during the interval. Three advantages of quick and accurate interpreted by Searle, yet there were close in and pushing over a neat ball and bowled uncommonly well only have we live regular bowlers, goals for South China followed! passing. But the better the Chinese other times, and several of then, centre for Forty to nad the ball into: 153-6-21-4. Garthwaite did not find but there are three more-Madar,
became, the work of the Borderers, when he had chances of shooting at the net. Almost front the kick off a length much in his three overa. ERNEST Strange of the Club notably in the attack, deelined. goal and rejected them, and when his the "24th" swept down the field and
McInnis and Owen Hughes who might Albeit there was some splendid end passes to the right side of the field another movement from the left wing, most part but was not as accurate over or two an a change. And there Pearce bowled leg theory for the easily get a wicket I used for an HIGHEST aggregate was shared was a spectator and he told
by the Pollee and Athletic In me he would be turning
to end exchanges of n very
resulted font were all asteny.
In Mathias securing with in his length he usually is. It is plenty of contrast in the sort of the first-division, and-Navy and against the
anture which thrilled the biggest Fortey played a usual game, being the defence spreadeagled and he drove fortunate--that-Pereira-is-stendying bowling we have. -- East Lancashires crowd ever to assemble at Sookunnon, somewhat indifferent; promising much, the bali past Wong Wing with un-down in direction. He sent down Young Indians In the second., Both next week Incidentally Hill The Borderers were at their best in but fulfilling little, while Mathias was ring sini. games saw ten goals scored." returns from Shanghai during the latter part of the first half, when only effective when free of the at-
nine, overs and though he only claimed. the next few days and is expected they drew level after being two goals tentions of Li Kwok-wai, which was
one wicket, the Gatsmen could do
ttle with him and he only gave It is the batting I am more afraid to appear in the Club team next in arrears. After that equalising goal seldom,
A promising start in the seven runs away, Madar got six of than anything. Owen-Hughes Saturday. Gamble will probably there was just a suggestion of a
Outstanding on the field was second half, the soldiers faded out of wicket, and Ricketts had two, but his seems actually to have been helped Padmore. To comment thuswise is the picture in face of brilliantly con- bowling was not very convincing.
by his cluinge over to glasses and T almost guilty of being trite, hut as selved attocks by Fung and his
A. Pearce is a tower of strength. But a plain statement of fact it remains colleagues. The halves too, during THE OPENING BATS. after that we have so many batsmen incontestable. Until he tired ten this period, moved up with the attack,
who do not always come off, Garth- minutes from the close (and the offering through passes along the tion of the opening batsmen
Another attempt to solve the ques waite, Bicinnis, Madar and Ricketts result was then foregone), Podmore ground.
was should be remained on his own as a defender Jp Pak-wah put South China in the nnde when Owen Ifughes and Baines though the Inst usually goes in so first division. Eastern's drawn players. Duffield of Kowloon in every department. Li
cum attacker par excellence. lead again with a fine snap shot and went in. The latter shaped very late in these practico games thint game with Borderers in the cut off for hitting an was in his element, and in front of ly below form. Both were too often take by Morrison, put the bail past one of Elvin's and was caught at justice,
Underwood and Davis were distinct Tam Kong-pak, following up a mis nicely until he scraped forward at ho never has time to do himself Athletic player, and Glass of the him Li Kwok-wai (Interport left hall out-manoeuvred by wily wingers, and the outcoming Smith. The final point the wicket. Navy also catching the reproving this season,, unless I'm very much both were prone to hug their own was the result of one of the finest But after that both on Saturday Personally I think on the form dis- ROYAL Artillery, comprising the age of the referee while playing wistaken), Wong Mee-shun and Leung penalty areas to the detriment of the first time drives I have seen, in local evening and on Sunday morning Owen played on the trials and considering
majority of last year's second "gainst the Young Indiana. Wing-chai formed a very effectual attack They will have to move up football. Ip Pak-wah received
Hughes and T. A. Pearce were telding that Mitchell has earned his barricade to the onslaughts of the more often with the play if they are all on his right foot with only former's long, reach was
masters of the string players becamo Inspired
situation. The place, though not as a first batsman. aftor a quick equalising goal on IT'S an early start, and the As-saldiers forward line.
of great We shall see, to contribute an adequate share of small portion of the goal visible, but assistance to him, and especially in sociation will do well
The forwards were delightful to constructive work.
without hesitation he drove in, and playing Elvin; for he could reach theį behold. Every goal scored was a Mullane was practically faultless beat Smith who dived too late for pitch of most of them, and if ge, with Ip Pak-wah's inst the and vied with LĮ Tin-sang for honour the corner.
HIGH
credited to the Borderers against the Raliway Club in the third division. Thoy notched eight goals.
ONL
NLY one match resulted in a goalless draw--Club v Univer- alty in the second division.
He had a quiet talk with the
out
be sent up to the half back line brought relief, and after the interval Chinese collapse, but half time!
10 make way for the former they jumped back into their stride
and never let up again.
SURPRISE results:--Artillery's Kowloon back.
defeat of Kowloon and Recreio being held to a drawTHERE were a couple of displays of bad temper, both by junior
by the East Lancashires in the
second division,
to
the Club ground. Kowloon wilted before a virile attack, being poorly adopt strong preventive measures
served in defence, an unexpected feature of the ganie,
RECREIO, playing at least 20
per
cent. below
practice
while the season is yet young.
HIERE were a couple of dozen
Fouls noticed by the referee
in the South China v Borderers match form, only just escaped match, but in such a game they defeat yesterday. Unleas Bowen Were to be more or less expected. Ingroves, A. Goanne Will Tempers were fairly well held in probably have to be taken out offences. the forward line. The GoAnno brothers could do nothing right
V.
spite of one or two aggravating
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as a combination, and the rest TAY Qua-tong's penchant for
jumping when beaten for the
of the Portugese attack suffered ball should be immediately check- accordingly..
ed. Such tactles aro. both dan-
EAST Lancashires gave signs of Rorous
and unecessary. Twice
a big Improvement, and It is yesterday Borderers players had
on the curds they will upset more arrow escapes of being hurt by
of the lending teams Tay's high leaps.
than one this year.
SOUTH China's
three teams
RUGBY AT HOME
started convincingly, all three recording victories, The "B" eloven in the first division necom.
London, Sept. 20. The following are the resulta of the plished an excellent performance principal rugby matches played in disposing of the Lincolns. The to-day! Caroline. I club in yearly inckheath becoming Hicher au richer in
London Seatth 19 talent,
Old Leylana
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Cardiff
THE Chineas youngsters made Redford
rings round the soldiers. They Bestel too have inculcated the principles Coventry of attack by fast inter-passing Croskeys from wing to wing, with the whole eester team moving with the ball, Llanelly
THE Bordarars Hotond string,
Headingley
SOUND ALL-ROUND. The Chinese were excellently served
HOWE BEATS THE
IP'S MAGNIFICENT SHOT. After
the
SAINTS-AND HOW!
THREE BRILLIANT GOALS IN AN
AMAZING FIVE MINUTES
POTE-HUNT PLAYS NOTABLE PART IN SENSATIONAL VICTORY,
hef
could not a step-back made most of the shorter bathe into long hops whiciv he hooked unmercifully.
Pearce was not quite so comfort- uble and scored a good deal slower Finally he was well taken at first ali by Millbank off Redmond, who
In front of him Gamble was crude had hind a pretty long sped with the and clumsy In his attempts to deal ball and would have ind better with the virile Fernandez-Rocha com-kures, hnd he not bowled a bit on bination, and the extra burden pinced the leg side to Owen Hughes, with on Strange threatened at one time the hevitzole resint.... to become too much oven for thin experienced player.
MCINNIS AGAIN.
BATSMEN.
Bound combination
GRIMMETT WANTS WORK
Famous Bowler's Bad Luck
London, Sept. 4. Cricket famo is not everything.
It has its ashes.
dering what he is going to do about another job when he gets back home; for circumstances beyond ·
There was a noticeable weakness Except for ons pretty cui off which
Even so famous a person as the among the wing haives, but Pote-Hunt five were run, Garthwaite failed, but Australian bowlar "Clarrio" Grim- played consistently well throughout. Meinnis again played an excellent mett has just had it brought home and lots of honours are going to fall knoel, and a lot of people could take to him that fame itself does not In about the most startling ten minutes of football seen for in his lap this season if he carries a useful hint from the way in which accessarily earn years in Hongkong, the Club on Saturday piled on four goals to
on as he has started.
ono's bread and ho uses his feet. He made all his butter. The forwards were dashing, but dis-stroken crisply and hit the ball in the snatch a brilliant victory against St. Joseph's, and to provide 'n tressingly unsystematical. The laside middle of the bat. Ho was very nice- significant gesture for the opening of the league season.
men inched knowledge of the finer ly caught and bowled by Redmond so well at the Oval against the Yesterday, when he was bowling points of positional play, and Ilowe, when starting to hit out. Bioantime Switchback fluctuations, kept the to suggest that St. Joseph's were who early on showed he was likely Owen Hughes had been caught and Minor Counties that he took two game alive up to a quarter of an unlucky to lose. By dint of superior to he very effective if given a fair bowled by the same bowler off a wickets with successive balls, his hour from the end, after which thoro football in all departments they had, chance, waited in vain for such op alower one that propped up a little. friends know he was probably were bowildering exchanges which some ten literally left the spectators dazed,
minutes before the end portunities from him front line col is eighty-six was a very nice bit worrying about other things won established a lead of three goals, and leagues.
of cricket. If Albert Ilowe, Club centre had given no sign of n collapse. forward does nothing else this reason,
I feel that the Club will be woll; But the "Glorious Uncertainty" is advised to bring Baldwin into the
MADAR SHINES. 12 he will be able to look back on this to be found in games other than forward line, preferably on the left
match with rent satisfaction, for a cricket, and Howe and Pate-Ilunt wing, and put Tavila back to loft from Madar who played some beau-enry for him to seek now employ-
The only other innings of nole came anyone's control have made it neces wonderful display of opportunism and proved ita pomalhities up to the hilt, half, in which position he has given marksmanship turned certain defeat when, as though working to a set real promise during the trials. Oftiful shots and seems to have recover-mont,
plan, they literally took command of course, a good deal of the
ed his form after a poor sonson last Club
In view of the valuo they stiil set. the game, brushing aside, with almost troubles will be alovlated whon Ernest played himself into the side,
He has I think now definitely on his services, it will be surprising HOWE AND POTE-HUNT. Howe was the only Club forward thwart them of their objective,
contemptuous caso, any attempts. to Strange returns to the attack, but
As for the bowling, until then they may possibly find it. 14 who looked capable of scoring or who
lang na possessed any idea of going about this appointing; certainly they were much line.
Yet as a team, the Club were dis-ndvloable to reconstitute the forward Elvin was not up against Owen do not take steps to help secure
Hughes or Mcinnin he was always 15 insk, Ilo was wretchedly supported below the form revealed in the recent
dangerous. He took nix for sixty-five. to Jack Pote-ilunt, who also found went their way, they wont to in
THE REST collapse. In a three goal. deficit,. Just the individuals. In the first half it was outfit, and I shall be very surprised spiration to create complete revolu- George Rodger In goal, who continual if they fail to settle down into one more or less a procession. The only Australian aido; and Grimmett, I When the Rost want in again it was is not shared by officials of the tion in the exchanges,
Regarding the game in its full 70 istent attacks of Rocha, Ward and first division. They will be foolish to Mackay and E. J., R. Mitchell who That is the view, too, of officials
ly repulsed the very lively and per- of the neatent combinations in the innings of any note wore those of know, hopes to come here again, minutes perspective, one in Inelined.Co. elder.
(Continued on Pego D.) went in number aix, a position which with the Australian team.
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by Enslern, The“ résült fairly Harlotonlara indicated the run of the play. It Warpe
on both fails, and owed everything practies games. Whatever honours
SPLENDID OUTFIT.
St. Joseph's are again a splendid
year,
If the Australian cricket authorities Grimmitt's future,
It has been hinted that he is. making his last appearance in Test cricket in England, but this view
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