1941-01-20 — Page 14

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 20, 1941.

MONDAY MORNING

COMMENTARY

Easy Victory For Sing Tao England And Scotland In

Royal Scots Overwhelmed 5-1: "Hat-trick" For Lai Shiu-wing

(By "SCRAMBLER")

IN A DULL GAME, during which play was chiefly monopolised by Sing Tao, Royal Scots were defeated yesterday at Sookunpoo by five goals The heavy conditions of the ground and the slippery state of the ball wore not conducive to good football, but the Chinese were able to master conditions.

'to one.

Stout-hearted Defence

Sing Tao fielded the same team that beat South China, and the machine-like movements of their forward line which were so much in evidence in their last game were again on view. The feature of the match was the stout-hearted defence of the Scots.

League Tables

South China Eastern

Sing Tan

Middlesex

First Division

F. W. D. L.

10 12

SOPPORIONNNS

10 12

16 11

15 7

Kwang Wal Kowloon Navy Police

10 4

12 4

14 3

14 A

14 3.

12 3

Second Division

16 13 2

16

St Joseph's

From the start there was gealle beaten struck the upright

and rebounded into play, only one team in the picture:

Hanker in goal gave a fine per- Royal Scots Sing Tao settled down, and held formance, and was instrumental in

* Club every firm grip on the play.keeping the sente down by timely Nay- Every man did what was re-judgment and daring anve". quired of him at the right month and Fraser both cleared hard,

found the Chinese just that Engineers. buat ment and in the appointed place. shade too fast and cunning for them. South China

In the course of the whole game, They had lot of territory to cover, Cheong Wing-choy had less than o dozen shots to deal with, and thence their intermediate trio were only mistake he made was to allow unable to hold the nippy Chinese Navy allppery ball to get past him.

The

pair of Eacks, Hou Yung-sang and Lee Tin-sang, clented and defended well, and their coverings of their front men were not only timely but well planned.

inside-forwards.

I.A.S.C.

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Roynt Scots l'arnaby was a tower of strength 30th R.A. in the pivotal position, but despite Kit Chee his hard work. the middle line Kwong Wah found the Chinese too good for R.A.O.C. them. Adamson and Clarke both Club had

a great deal to do, and Clarke Kowinen did not relish in the Idea of keep- lug check on the fast moving;

Shul-pick whose centres In-

spell danger.

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I.A.F.

Third Division

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15 12

18 10

12th R.A.

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15 7

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15 7 1

10 6 3 7 30 30

13 5 3

Again it was Sing Tao's, Inter- mediate trio that paved the way to an easy victory, where Taul Ah-fal, Leung Wing-chiu and Soong Ling- King dominated, and were always Of the forwards, Marshall was the Sirmais ready to lend a hand both in attack best, often going back to relieve 30th R.A. and defence. They allowed very when hard pressed, and at other RAMC.

le to get past them.

times taking the ball up to his other 24th RA. Sing Too's quintette, Yeung Shul- forwards. He was not strongly sup. Engineers yick, Lai Shul-wing, Fung King-ported by his other men, and Auld 7th R.. cheung, Kwok Ying-kle and Ip Pak- appeared to me to be too hasty in th RA wah indulged in some pretty move-hli stride. Both wingers were of International ments, and whenever the wingers colour, and were unable to put across 20th .A.

Shell were on the move, they were dan-any decent centres in the course of gerous. Both men sent across many the whole game. beautiful centres, and played a very

understanding game with their insider

men. Fung King-cheung led bis

Never in Doubt

A.S.A.

men well, and was the schemer in ROM the initial kick-off, the the forward line, often drawing the superiority of the Chinese were Cricket defence out to allp the ball to his never in doubt, for from a sweeping Inside men to score.

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SCOTLAND V. WALES

One of the moments of action during the Scotland v. Wales International Tournament rugby match on Saturday. · A. J. G. Taylor (Scotland) has just got rid of the ball before being tackled.—Ming Yuen.

WEEK-END GOLF COMPETITIONS

MISS SEQUEIRA WINS COUNTRY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP

Junior First Round Matches At Fanling

the

International Final

Ireland Defeated 8-0: Wales Trounced 31-0

(By. "Fly-Half")

WITH CONDITIONS IDEAL underfoot, and despite a slight drizzle which fell throughout the afternoon, some keen rugby was witnessed at Causeway Bay on Saturday when England beat Ireland 8 points (a goal and a try) to nil, and Scotland trounced Wales 31 points (two goals and seven tries) to nil in the International Tournament.

PLUCKY DISPLAY_

BY HOPKINS

A dashing display by the Irish forwards in the loose, who were nided by Carter's touch-kicking, prevented the much stronger English aide from dominating the game. Despite the fact that THE GAME between Scot. Burford gained possession re- land and Wales was marked by peatedly by excellent. hooking, a plucky and serviceable disthe English threes made littlo play by Hopkins, the Welsh ground with the slippery ball.

Paul might have kicked ahead to full-back, and the bouts of

which inter-passing in

the more advantage Instead of trying to break through on his own. Charter Scottish backs and forwards held the greasy ball well, and tackled joined in.

Carter in grand style. Day and Hopkins flelded the slippery bail Mursh seldom received the ball owing In masterly manner and never either to a dropped pass by the Insides. Coombes and Paul, or to generally bowled over by the hefty their being grassed in possession.

Bowden did yeoman service behind- Richards was a strong inside three the serum although he dodged about for Wales who did more than his too much before passing out, share. Honeywell, though not fea- turing in attack, gained rounda 01 applause by his over-taking of Mac- donald and tackling of the Scottish winger when well set for a score.

falled to find touch although he was

Scols forwards,

Stark, Hughes and Walkden were the best of a hard-going but weak

Welsh pack, which was up against the strongest pack in the tournament.

D. IL Taylor, at full-back for Scot- land, was seldom in dificulties. He made one blunder when he fly-kicked and missed the ball completely.

Delightful Football

Strong Pack

A strong English pack were not allowed to settle down through the forceful faciles of the Irish pack, who kept the ball amongst the for- wards as often as they could, The weaker Irish backs played pluckily and tackled well with Giblin the only one able to break through, Rutherford and Carter, Navy halves. by keen tackling, kicking and falling on the ball, kept a good grip on the game to prevent the English backs. from getting the upper hand,

the Up forward, rugged Trish pack deservo comment for their whole-hearted display, especially - Callinan, Dempsey and Hynes,

The Game

First Round matches for

The Scottish threes, once they had MISS A. SEQUEIRA, winner

Junior Championship of R.ILK.G.C., of the Ladies Cup, yesterday Fanling.

settled down produced some yesterday resulted да

́delightful football reminiscent of secured the women's champion-follows:

the days when Grieve, Dldwell and ship of the Country Club, N. D. Lloyd beat L. Jackson 7

Stewart used to weave their way Sheungshui, beating Mrs F. E. and 5.

upfield by inter-passing.

A break-away by Bowden and a D. J. Valentine beat J. Linaker A. Remedios 3 and 1.

Stewart, on Saturday, playing his good pass to the English threes gave a and 2. Captain's Cup

first senter game locally, as in inside Paul an opportunity of which he F. A. Redmond beat

Capt. three, was

not a success for the made good use. His try close to the Thursby 1 up.

first fifteen minutes when he could posts was converted by himself. S. L. Lloyd bent J. E. Richardson hold no passes, and when in posse After a series of missed opportuni- also played and resulted as follows: 6 and D.

sion ran at half-speed to pass out ties by the Englishmen and many last C. H. T. Suen beat M. F. Pinna 3

P. V. MoLane beat R. D. Gillespie before drawing his man.

minute clearances by the Irish team, and 2.

6 and 4.

Then he ran into form going full Paul went through to pass to Day out for the line and gave Macdonald who scored at the corner. Paul same grand openings,

falled to convert,

First

movement along the left, to Pak Best Week-end c round matches in the Captain's

nt goal. Dankier cleared and Kwok

| Ying-kie chine up to score from

THE Scots were unable to settle close range. At the other end, a THE

down to the conditions of the promising movement was nipped in ground, with the result that Sing the bud by Hou Yung-sang's timely Tao had most of the game. Al-clearance.

though they went very near on several occasians, the weak finishes

of the forwards robbed them of at

Sing Tao dominated play there- after, and it was only the goal-

keeping of Bankier and the fine. play of the pair of backs that kept

Batting And Bowling Feats

RAIN WASHED out several of the cricket matches over the week-end,

K. T. Oei beat J. J. Basto 3 and 2. A, W. Ramsey beat W. C. Hung 23

UP

A. R. Pinna beat B. Basto on the 19th.

and

1.

T. Y. C. Lee beat E. J. M. Churn 3

least two goals, yet at one perlod two shots which had the Chinese_the_score down. However the but-of-those-played, the following. X. Sliva beat Geo, Lee 2 and 1.1

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R. E. Lee beat C. II. Basto 2 and 1.

were the outstanding performers A. T. Lec beat A. A. Guterres 4 (L—Leaguɔ, F--Friendly);

BATTING

and 3.

Men's Foursomes

4

91

M. A. Remedios (Rec.) L

Not Out.

44

B. Basto and K. R. Pinna bent M. A. Simoes and W. G. Williams on walk-over.

*E. L. Gosano (Rec.) L...

BOWLING

P. M. N. Silva (Rec.) L

Mazura (Univ.) L

S. A. Gray (K.C.C.) F

8 for 10

4 for 15

4 for 3

J. W. Bertram (K.C.C.) F_3 for 14

Chinese kept up an incessant at- tack, and Ip Pak-wah, obtaining possession, raced down to cut in

and scored with a cross shot.

The Scols retaliated, and a shot taken by Marshall at goal struck the upright and

went back to play. Again Bankier saved at the other end from the foot of King-cheung,.

Fung and with play transferred to mid- feld, Sing Tao's halves were always the masters of the situation. From a well conceived movement Initiated by their leader, Ip Pak-wah sent across to Lal Shul-wing who directed the ball into the net from close in.

A. J. Dennis beat J. M. Thomson and

2.

F. N. Merritt beat C. W. Bishop 2 and 1.-

E. J. Price beat P. Morrison and 1.

E.

McGill was dangerous and found

England. Thompson;

Day, Paul, Charler · und

little dimeulty in handling the Coomber and Marsh:

Bowden: Manfield, Burford, Heannan

2 ball. Thomson and Aitkenhead were King, Bompar; Wright-Nooth, Hewitt and

safe halves with the nippy scrum-Needham.

Ireland-Morahan: Jackman, Giblin half forever there when an opening Mullen and P. Wilson; Carter and Ruther presented or when a recovering had fard; Page, Cullinan, Dempsey: Hackett, to be mode,

Thorribill; Stout, B. Nyños” arid“Mohack. Millar was a stalwart Scottish forhead failed to majorise. Then Mc- ward, joining in the passing the threes as well as carrying on in Gill and Macdonald scored further good dribbles amongst the forwards. Ford established a monopoly of the and Thomson scored further un

In the second half, Stewart, McGill ball in the set scrums from the kick-converted tries which were followed aff and never lost it.

Geo. Lee and A, T, Lee beat C. H. Basto and A. A. Guterres 4 and 2.

J. J. Basto and A, R. Finna beat F. X. Silva and M. F. Pinna 3 and 2.

W. Williamson and C. S. Thom bent C. E. Marques and B. Alves on a

walk-over.

Armstrong Beaten On Technical Knock-out

NEW YORK, Jan, 18 (Reuter).—Fritzio Zivic, World Welterweight Boxing champion, to-night successfully defended his title against Henry Armstrong, the former holder, who was technically knocked out in the 10th round of their scheduled 15-round bout at Madison Square Garden.

Easy Win For

K.C.C. Over A British Ship

A TEAM from one of the British ships in harbour were entertained by Undeterred by this goal, the Scots to Kowloon Cricket Club In alternated play with long passes, cricket match yesterday. The home and it was from the foot of Marshall team had Iktle difficulty in winning, that they reduced the arrears when but a most enjoyablo zamo was kad, this player's first time shot at goal despite the fact that rain held up was allowed to slip in by Cheong the game until about 3.30. Wing-chdy.

Clever Movements.

Scores were! Kowloon.--111 for 6 wkts. dec. R. J. Fentori 28, E, Curtis 24, L. R.} FTER the change-over, Sing Tao Burch 20).

British Ship,-08 (McGeo Indulged in some clever passing,s. A. Gray 4 for 3, J. W. Bartram and every one of their movements 3 for 14).

was very well conceived. Play was getting duller due to the one-sided play, but the display of Bankler In

32.

goal somewhat kept the spark of slon, they might have been able to interest alive.

reduce the score.

Ip Pak-wah had only the goalle

Armstrong, whose eyes were closed in the ninth round, announced utter the fight, "My eyes won't hold up any inore, so I'm through. I'm going into the wine business in California."

Henry Armstrong, who was the only boxer ever to hold three World titles simultaneously he held the Feather- weight, Lightweight and Welterweight titles in 1938—was one of the gamest and mest popular champions the world has over seen, as shown by the record 23,190, while more than 10,000 intend- Madison Square Garden attendance of ing spectators were turned away.

Zivic boxed very cleverly, mixing hard straight-lefts with wicked right- crosses and battered the gallant Négro to pulp, Zivic was complete master of; Ithe "fight from start to finish.—Reuter,

Armstrong lost the Welterweight title in a 15-round' bout at Madison took a terrible beating. He had to Square Garden saveral months ago and

have 10 stitches for the culs received in that fight.

Officials Elected At Chinese R.C. Meeting

The annual meeting of the Chinese

Junconverted tries.

converted.

Sutherland appeared to revel in the up by a try by Douglass which Millar loose play where he was generally the first to fall on the bail to stem Welsh dribble.

The Game

scoring with another unconverted try. Pinkerton completed the Scottisli

Scotland-D. IL "Taylor! Mcdil Douglass, Stewart arid Macdonald; Altkem- head and Thompson: Waigon, Ford, A pass back to Douglass by McGill Staerar; Milar, Sutherland; Kennedy, A. led to the first Scottish try, which J. 0. Taylor and Pinkerton. Watson falled to convert.

Wales-Hopkins; } Moqre, Richards, T. In a boot and rush attack, Pinker-Morgan Palmer, Lewis, Blockham; Benn, "O." Morgan "and Bevan; Honeywill and ton went over for a try which Aitken-Stark: Hughes, Walkden and Turner,

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In the course of the second half, to beat when his shot struck the Cheong Wing-choy was rarely called cross bar. Bankier did well to save upon to perform, thanks to the keen immediately from the foot of Lai watch kept on the Scots forwards Shul-wing. by his front men. Although kept in With play confined to the Boola" their own half for the greater part half, it was not long before Sing Recreation Club was held yesterday. of the game, Scola made several Tao scored again, as from another The following officials were elected.----- abortive spasmodic raids, and in one

of those well-thought-out move-Mesers Yu Tok-cheung, Chan - Wal- of their repulses, Young Shul-yick

ments, Lai Bhul-wing scored to yeung, Lee Wal-tong, Cheu Kwan- centred for Lol Shul-wing to score

complete his "hat-trick.”

Jam, Ho Ka-inu, Yu Tak-man, · Sluj his second goal.

ROYAL SCOTS: Bankler; Naymmitt, Chun-chul Wong Wing-man, Ling Traseri Adamson, Parnaby, Clarke; Garris, | 818-fan, Leung Ting-ngok, Thank Thereafter, the Scots were content BING TAGS Cheon wing-choy, Hou

Marshall, Aud, Munroe, Swan.

Young-look, Wong Kwok-sau, Lam 2 Chator Road. Yuk-ying. in keeping the Chinese out, although Yung-sang. Loe Tin-sang-Freul Ah-tal. if Gerrie had been able to dispose Leums Wigg-chlu Boong Ling-sing: Young of the ball on more than one occa-i cheung, Kwolt Ying-kte, ip Pak-wahi

Shul-yick, Lai Bhul-wing, Fung King

This commitice will hold fta first meeting on January 30 at '7 p.m."

SOLE AGENTS:

Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co., Ltd.

Tol. 20075 & 30644,