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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1937.

INTERPORT HOCKEY ATTACK MUST BE STRONGER

GLOOMY SUNDAY

AT CAROLINE HILL: POOR FOOTBALL

S. CHINA "A" GET TWO GOALS FROM FREE KICKS

S. China "A"

(Puno Ring-cheuna 13 Kowloon Chinese

(By "Veritas")

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up for silly infringements. A num- ber of free kicks against them early on appeared to take all the heart out of the team, the attack in particular

ONE needed either a blind love going to pieces.

of the game, or, as in my case, a strong sense of duty, to sit through the entire match played yesterday at Caroline Hill between South China "A" and Kowloon Chinese.

The weather was none too invit- ing, and the football offered no sort of compensation, Without abusing one'a sense of values in any shape or form, the match can be written down

wn ps one of the most uninterest ing seen in

in Hongkong this season. There seemed to be no honesty of purpose among of the players. any They kicked the ball more as though It were a duty forced upon them rather than because they liked doing it. The ball was tapped from player to player with little serious effort to get it towards the goul, let alone In it. It was sheer mockery of i highly scientifle game

FREE-KICK GOALS

I suppose it is true to say South China should have won seven-nil, yet the fact must also be admitted that not once did they look like scoring from forward line movement. Their two goals resulted from free kicks.

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Chlef weakness, however, was in the half back line. The frio was over-run and cast much heavy work on Mak Sul-bon and Kwok Ping- long. Both full backs came out of the ordeal with a fair amount of credit.

Lau Hon-hon gave n. creditable account of himself in goal, and though not tested with anything out of the ordinary, effected a sufficient number of good saves to keep the scort down.

Dut even when regarded dis- Passionately from this distance, t remains a game one much prefers to forget.

Fung King-cheung converted the pennity in the first half and added the second, us described, midway through the second period.

Wong Wah- Guy

The first was a penalty which Thwarts St.

from where I was sitting looked a cloubtful decision, and the second u place kick from Just outside the when Fung King-cheung the entire opposillon defence

fooled

with

a clever slot.

Joseph's

(Castükel

(Lee Shek-you)

Kowloon Chinese methodically St. Joseph's 1 S. China "" lined themselves up to protect their goal, and for a minute or so the referee spent his time getting The players suficiently far away from the ball. Then Fung calmly, and very deliberately, placed the ball into the far top corner while the outwilted Kowloon Chinese defence looked on helplessly. The first goal in this match should

St. Joseph's played Wong Wal-

guy, South China "3" custodian in a league match yesterday and drew with him one.alt.

after a bright left wing movement which ended with Wong Wing-hong planting the ball square in front of goal. Yeung Kwan-po proceeded to Lap it over the bar from three yards

range!

At least this was the general in- pression spectators gained at Son- unpoo yesterday. St. Joseph's were Immeasurably the better team, but Wong stood in their way all the time and robbed them of the full com plement of points.

Conner, the Ulster Rifles goalkeeper, makes a spectacular sys in Saturday's league football match between the Rifles and Son- forth Highlanders, which resulted in a win for the Scottish team. (Photo: Ming Yuen).

METEOROLOGICAL CRICKET AT K. C. C.

Sunshine Cloud And

Form Is Shown

(By "Veritas")

CRICKET in the match at Kowloon Cricket Club last Saturday

between K.CC. and the Hongkong Cricket Club might aptly'

The delightful partnership be-| tween Owen-Hughes and N. P. Fox awakened overybody out of the dispassionate somnolence which had descended upon the entire

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Yesterday's Trial Revelations

TO-DAY'S SPORTS FIXTURES

TENNIS, RUGBY BADMINTON &

BILLIARDS

The opening of the Colony tennis championships, a number of badmlu ton league matches, the preliminary rounds in the Seven-A-Side Rugby Tournament, and a semi-final match in the

Junior billiards championship of the Colony, are among the chief sporting fixtures for to-day.

The H.K.C.C. courts are likely to be on the soft side this afternoon, but unless further rain falls, the pro- gramme is fairly certain to be carried out.

On the other hand the rugby play- ers will welcome last night's rain, as football grounds have become shock- ingly hard during the last few weeks. Here is to-day's complete pro- gramme of events.

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP

Men's Singles-1st Round

6. A. Gray v. S. Wong

Wong Shui-wing v. 8. A. Hussain

J. W. Leonard v. D. Anderson

S. A. Rumjahn v. A. L. Sullivan

G. C. Burnett v. A. Crawford

B. O'M. Deane v. G. E. Clarke Firdos Khan v. F. Grose Toul Wai-pui (holder) v. I. N. Lee

LEAGUE BADMINTON

"A" Division

Recreio "B" v. University "A". University "" v. Free Lances

St. Andrew's "A" v. Chinese YM.C.A.

"B" Division

V.R.C. v. Kowloon Tong "A"

RUGBY Preliminary rounds in the annual Seven-A-Side Tournament on Club Ground, Happy Valley at 3.30 p.m.

BILLIARDS.

Junior Championship semi-final between Wong Yut-chee and AA. Lewis at Civil Service Cricket Club, 8.30 p.m.

Gavia Wins

ground, and when Fox hit a six off Another

Tennis Title

be described na meteorological. For the most part it was as dull It was very entertaining football as the overcast sky. And as the clouds became heavier and a haze which the teams served up to quite a from the harbour fog began to spread over the field, so the Club crowd of exelted "fans." Hussain, batting became more and more defensive, and the K.C.C. fielding This was the only time the losers Costa, White, Leonard and Sprinkle less and less worthy of a first division team. looked anything like dangorous in adopted Ideal methods of thwarting uttack, and for the most part they the neat movements of the Chinese As though resenting this mimicry, were outplayed.

atinck. Leonard was an admirable the weather took a swift turn about -South-China "A"-apparently-ap-centre-half and the two backs, ably four o'clock and the sun peeped preciating their superiority carly on, supported by Tsang in goal complete through the clouds. The challenge decided 49

play "gallery" stuff.

was immediately accepted by Owen- Ly subdued the opposition. Which is acceptable if it is played well. But in this esse it wasn't, and

St. Joseph's forwards swung the Hughes and Fox who had been bat-

rather dolefully,

Sargent, one felt that it wasn't ruch and the next the therefore

abad kind of game after all. became ball about more than the Chinese and quarter of an hour produced the exchanges frankly boring.

these tactics paid handsomely. The brightest play of the match. Fifty

Fox so completely dominated the TIED UP IN KNOTS

Chinese intermediate line was thrown runs were added in that short time, Fung King-cheung rarely did any out of gear and only Leung In-chan and the visitors, instead of facing the scene that he put together 39 while thing useful in distribution, while at full back could anticipate the moves prospect of being all out for about his partner was adding something

Four boun Lal Shul-wing and Ho Ka-keung in-well enough to hold up the Saints!

100, discovered that they could score like a dozen to his score, variably got themselves tied up in keen offensives.

sufficient runs to make the game daries and a six were the gems which studded Fox's Innings-a life-saving knots. In any case Mak Sul-bon 'al-

Bafe.

effort, not only for his side, but for ways know how to

But it was Wong. Wah-guy who was Ho Ka- stop

| the chief obstruction to the Saints, his

the spectators. keung. Tse Kwal-shing was the pleit of a mediocre forward line and he goalkeeping ranking un some of the displayed too many tricks for seen in local football for a long usually Chung Kin-fai and Kwok Ping-tiong, the opposing left half and left back respectively, Tay Qua lang was

form. well below

agoin

time.

South China "B". gained the lead when Lee Shek-you headed in after Yeung Shui-yick had struck the cross Wong Mee-shun mode some at bar, but the point was somewhat tempt to pull a ragged team together, against the run of play. St. Joseph's and his defensive work was first-continued to exert pressure and were rate. Lau Hing-choi was also fair finally rewarded when Castilho got to middling at right half, though he the ball into the net. was not completely at ease against

the tricky Chow Man-chi.'

Tum Kong-pak was a spectacular back, but Mak Sui-hon gave a more impressive showing för Kowloon Chinese.

The losers fell AWAY badly, especially after they had been pulled

BRADFORD

F. C. RUMOUR

They proceeded to do so, batting until half past four at which time they declured with a score of 174

for 9.

Perhaps the best way of revealing the Club innings is to present the following Ogures. The innings start- ed at 2.18, and the 50 was hoisted at 3,12 (54 minutes play): the 100 went up al 4 o'clock (another minutes) and the 150 at 4:19. The faal 26 runs were compiled in a little under 15 minutes.

Owen-Hughes reached his half- century watchful and rather than a characteristic innings, and went on to make his score 01 before leaving. He took 85 minutes and hit eight boundaries

FILIPINOS IN FINE GAME

!

Colony Badminton Championship

P. K. Hui and T. C. Lee, the brilliant Univer- sity badminton players.

entered yesterday

the quarter-finals of the men's doubles championship of the Colony, when they beat J. W. Walkden and Lul Kwal-yau of King's College, 15-2, 15-5. The match was played at King's College and the winners now meet S; W. Liang and F. H. Kwok in the third round.

KUMAONS

PLAYERS

DID NOT IMPRESS

Opposition Very Weak

(By "The Filgrlin")

SCORING

two goals in first half and another two in the second, the hockey Interport trial XI yesterday overcame the Indian Police on the Club ground in a so-called trial

BEATEN BY match. MACAO

Fine Hockey

·Match

(By Our Own Correspondent)

Macao, Feb: 20.

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Actually the

game was one-sided, due to the poor op- position, that many, onlookers. left the ground long before the game was finished.

In the first place the three best

the Kumaon Rifles players from

Narain Singh" and Gerlinder Singh, Pataub-falled to put in an appear- ance. Whether or not they had been the match, I do not know, Informed of

to Macao to play for but they went thoir Regiment. Another absentee

were going

Despite the inclemency of the wea was M. H. Hassan, who played against

selectors Waseda. The ther, a large crowd gathered at the Macas hockey ground this afternoon to try him at left-half, and Hassan, to witness a friendly tussle between who has played right half and centre-

in Justice Ninco and a team of the Kumaon forward, did not think he would do that position. Rifles, which resulted in a a victory

the for Lieut. Gordon of the Navy was the local side by four goals to one.

other nominee who failed to play. The game was one of the best ever

Goal-scoring honours were divided played here, play being extremely fast on

a slippery ground. Early between Pyara Singh (2), 5. Fowler thrills were provided as raids reade und Wull. Pyara Singh's goal in the tecelving the ball from n short- on both goals seemed to promise re-second half was of a doubtful naturo suli.

corner, he ran in to shoot first-time After twenty minutes Macao open-without apparently, first stopping the ed the score when Pedrinho Angelo, ball.

shared centre forward, registered following

Though they occasionally a quick pass. The visitors equalized the exchanges in both halves, the Ave minutes later when

a skilful break through the opposing defence Police team gave but an ordinary dis- enabled Trilok Singh, centre forward, play, and could not fully extend the

|Trial players. to send a swift shot into the net.

Macao almost regained the lead a few minutes before the interval but F. Nolasco, outside right, slipped over

as he was on the point of shooting from close range.

SOUND DEFENCE, BUT WEAK ATTACK

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The Interport defence was sound; Gonsalves with Brown, Reed and Shortly after resumption, a neat very much in the limelight. E. L. combination rewarded the local side Gosano at left back was a tower of with a fine goal scored by Angelo. strength and covered numerous mis- Macao's next goal secured by Huge hits by his partner Lieut. Stileman, Rosario, inside left, resulted from a who was rather too slow, Souza in short corner.

goal had

hollday, and during the Thereafter the visitors made some whole of the game had only two kicks gallant efforts to reduce the lead and at the ball. I wondered why the on Selectors did not find it more desir- launched repeated flank attacks the opposition goal, which but for able to pit him against the Interport

masterful

of attack. custodianship Almada must have borne fruit,

Eventually a splendid dash by the The Colony attack failed to im- Macao forwards was successful, press, with the exception of Lieut.

of himself at inside-right. minutes before the close. Angelo getting his final goal five Wright, who gave a brillant account

the

ONLY SUPERIOR IN COMBINATION

Until Owen Hughes and Fox be- time. Lay, his partner, was much and accurate baseline plac magishi, trojan, The agility of the wingers

came associated in an eighth wicka! stand which realised 81, the Club had followed a strictly defensive and negative form of batting against

GLOOM DESCENDS

the Phasing game with the backs, intercepting

Manila, Feb. 25. Leonardo Gavla, Philippines' No. deflant, 1 ranking tennis player and national champion, captured the 1937 inter- national men's tennis singles cham plonship, defeating Felicisimo Ampon sensational young player of the Far

.The rest of the forward line were too individualistic. Pyara Singh at Eastern University, 0-3, 7-5, 2-0, 6-3,

centre-forward was spectacular, but Starting their innings about quar-in the finals yesterday afternoon at

The visitors conceded nothing and selfish to a degree, and neglected ter to five, KC.C. put their tail-the Rizal Memorial Tennis Stadium.

Although Gavla defeated pon, tested Macao's mettle. to the full numbers of opportunities for giving enders is to open. C.BR. Sargent immediately became purposeful and the latter thrilled the farms by out- The local side's only superiority lay his colleagues chances, Pyara Singh smacked the ball valiantly to the long smarting the veteran Gavin many in neater combination. The halves would do well to get rid of the ball on boundary, to collect 26 in a short times in the match with his cunning served the forwards nicely and Capt. quicker and more often.

Stapleton at centre worked like #1 and

G. H. Fowler was slow in acilon Mrs. Matsudaira S. more subdued, but he looked like

to watch and their and therefore could not turn his splen- the two visiting women representa-wickwork very tricky. Ram Singh at opportunities to account, while Wall,

Pretty getting runs until Bond took

the women's did catch at extra-cover, Jumping tives of Japan, won

doubles

tournament by defeating the goal effected many fine saves. on the wing, had an off day. into the air at the last minute..

was Ochon

Minda and Aidă, of The home team's defence

S. Fowler on the other wing com- Lammert and Rosario, admirable Women's University,

he | ate without being notably "devi

and clearing bined neatly with Wright and True, Lee made them pop up a

After that gloom descended. a close

amazingly well. Almada's custodian-scored a perfect gem of a goal from a and the batemen

1-6, continually Simpson, missing three out of every score of 8-8, "gardening" Lay's leg breaks were hve balls, somehow managed to stick

Ampon extended Gavis in the ship was a classle exhibition. The very difficult angle. In the second halves had a particularly hard game also inclined to stand up and to turn around for a long tirae, und before second and third sets,

The game, as a whole, can fairly be set the wretty sharply, but Lay was made to somebody conceived the bright idea and it was tled many times. With i tributed accurately to their forwards described as ragged, and quite often

score seesawed throughout against a vigorous attack, and dis-

uninteresting. I rather think the appear more dangerous than he of bowling him a rank yorker which Ampon leading, 5 games to 4. Gavia whose lightning movements were a Selectors will have to make a number really was because most of the bats- spread-cagled his stumps, succeeded men refused to use their feet and in coliceling 18 runs. It was not the launched a furious attack to tie the treat to the spectators.

score

Playing for the Kumaon Rides of changes before the beat Colony at 5 games-ali and then went

team is found, notably in attack. I get to the pitch of his slow-flighted | typ

type of innings over which Mr.

were: Ram Singh, T. Singh, to capture the next two games to spinners.

Nevill Cardus would rhapsodise. I on

win the set, 7-0.

Singh; B. Singh, might accurately be described as

MS Capt. Stapleton, B.certainly can't picture yesterday's S. Singh, Trilok forward line penetrating the powerful In the third sot, Ampon came back Bugs, Singh, Partop, Even Owen-Hughes took a long

But occasionally Simpson stubborn.

After dropping time to appreciate that his big reach made a goodly-looking cover drive, strong

the first Singh, Bradford F.C. have received a was enough to turn many of Lay's and once he got the ball away from

game in the sot, Ampon anneƒed five For Macao: C. Almada; R. Rosario, stronger opposition for the next trial? letter from a syndicate associated length deliveries into full tosses his toes to the leg boundary in ex-

games in row to lead 6 games to 1. G. P. Lammert; J. Nolasco with a London stadium containing When he did realise it he swept the cellent style,

Gavia managed to win the seventh Alrosa, L. Costa (capt.); F.. Nolasco, d proposal to transfer the Park spin bowler to the leg boundary three

game, but Ampon, copped the eighth Albert Airora, P. Angelo, Hugo Avenus club to London.

But I think the Club could have game to win the set, 6-2. Gavin Rosurio, A. Angelo. times in rapid succession.

got him out much earlier If they easily won the first and fourth sets. had bowled some really bad balla to him.

NAVY'S LACK OF IS SCOTCHED

ENTERPRISE

ATHLETIC A MUCH BETTER TEAM

Royal Navy o Athletic..

密

(The Tab-kee, Chen Chi-fal)

Not Moving To London

Navy suffered their second defent in successive days, and in this match, .played yesterday ‘at Causeway Bay,! never looked like saving the game. Thoroughly disjointed and lacking any sort of enterprise, the Navy fell

This reminds one of the story that back on the defensive from the start, Tex Rickard, the famous American and played negative football through- sports prometer, once seriously sug- gested taking over the Epsom Derby Athletic, on the other hand, well race meeting as a going concernl aarved by Tang Kwon-sum, who

There are two reasons why the seemed to give inspiration

the London syndicate's proposal will fail: rest of the attack, and enjoying the

were

It was intowling Green Club end. ¡

in a

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services of a dependable defence,). (1) Bradford wouldn't listen to B, from the believe, it has part the Fincher brothers played out timesup being exceedingly clean, and his

always looked winners and deserved

EAGERLY-AWAITED INTERPORT

G.

Alcx

Macao defence,

Incidentally what about a little

Photograph Decides

Macau Confident Of Race Winner

Victory

INTERESTING BOWLING Goodwin's bowling was easily the most interesting. I use the word 'interesting' in two ways. It was in- By the time Simpson left K.C.C using their feet his spinnere could teresting because It boasted the marit had lost Ave wickets for some 40be converted into respectable and The Club fielded excellently, at of variations in pace and fight, and runs, but even at that stage no match run-scoring off-drives.

because he bowled was ever more inevitably a draw.

Anderson and E, F, Flacher added times brilliantly. Bond was note- Hitherto, I

been a

A few, and then in gathering gicom worthy at cover-point, his picking firmly Implanted bellef on the

throwing-in most

FRO commendable. Ernest bowl oodwin, that he can only.

a methodical 25. compiling a

fielding made a sad contrast. Whitmarsh bowled very well for from the mullion cod: the Club, but he was kept on tool. Four catches were dropped and there

Saturday, and against It really 's 'Umo speculative sportal His works on teet Sunday, should be ) long. He obtained a certain amount i was a noticeable slackness in ground next Sunday is cogerly awaited in handicap, one of the most important Phillips a great trier on Le right promoters realized that football is not sufcient to convince him otherwise. of vicious top-spin which required wasted by the inside more were a game to be exploited commercially. He nearly always had the batsmen careful watching and his figures of allowed to go for four at two, Ipared to make the visit of the

The FA has always set its face watching the bail right on to the bathe good work ha ́secomplished, thought the batsmen in this match Hongkong interporters a deelded William Du Pont's. Rosemont, with Tang Kwong-sum gave Low Tak-1 against that and I hope will continuo and several poked their bats Valt Owen-Hughes made a' Ane foll' at tho went out of their way to flatter źlio success,

a big' score.

Only two players realised expecta- tions in the Navy side. Nicholson

was a stalwart in defence and

wing.

But his fino

And

(2) The Football League wouldn't

sanction it.

DE

Volunteers

at deliveries which they only

three for 43 do not fairly represent

work, many ordinary singles being

With the exception

Arcadia, Cal, Feb. 28. Stewards at the racecourse here The forthcoming Interport hockey to-day used a photograph to decide match which is to be played here the winner of the Santa Anita race Macao. Much interest is vested in events of the American racing sea- the occasion and no effort is being son.

They awarded the rses to Mr.

Ben Biscuit second and Indlan Broom kog his first goal, and the right to do so.

Lieut. F. O'Costa, the "father" of third, winger also sent in an ideal corner

wicket which was only faintly hostile hockey in Macao, who is shortly to which Chen Chi-tal headed in. Two In the meantime, it is not true that saw. Goodwin may have a profer other end, though I thought some of bowlers. Pace of the scoring on a other goals were notted by the a Lancashire syndicate bas made an ence for the pavilion end; but he may ng boten treated him with tree wid, with such a fast outfeld, should go home to Portugal, is confident that

Anderson respect;

and Fincher

(Continued on Page 9.) nodwed bo offer to remove the Chelsea dub to rest assured that he bowls equally showed later in the game that by have been doubled, Chinese" but were cause of infringetnents.

Chowbent.

na well from the other. end."

It was one of the most exciting

races ever sees on the famous track

at Arcadia.—United Press""

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