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FOOTBALL.
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H.K.F.C. v. H M.S. "OCEAN." These teams met on the Club ground at Happy Valley on the 20h i st. and a good match
witnessed. Among the spectators, of whom there was a large crowd, was H.E, the Governor. Sir Henry A. Blake. The teams lined up as follows :
H.K.F.C.-C. C. Hickling, goal; T. E. l'earce and J. W. C. Bonuar, backs; G. B. Macdonald, C. T. Kew, and R. Ker, halves; W. R. Lemarchand, E. J. Librand, C. R S. Cooper. W. W. Cl rke, and G. A Cooke, forwards.
H.M.S. Ocean-Lewis. goal; Harper and Hall, backs; Bates. Whitworth and Richards, halves; Clarke, Husband, Wincarls, Lewis and McLean, forwards.
Referee Mr. Lane, II.M.S. Glory. The Club kicked off with (Ler ba ks to the
sun.
Their initial rush was checked effectively and the ball was quickly taken into their own territory by the Oceen, who within the first five minutes of the game had two nasuccessful tries at goal. In a third attempt which followed the Navy had hard lines in not scming, for Hickling foczled the ball and but for Bon- nar coming to the rescue a goal seemed inevi. table. Several times the Club broke away; their charges, however, were of Lo avail again-t the stone wall defence of Hall and Harper. while Whitworth, the Oe an centre,half was proving himself a thorn in the side of the Club forwards. In one of these ruus Libeaud exp-ri- enced hard luck iu not Guding the net. On the whole the naval team were doing most of the pressing. Yet, coutrary to expectation, the Club were the first to store. Their left wing got away on the run and from a beautiful contro pass Libeand scored a very neat goal. After tuis the Ocean pretsel hard. McLean got away down the wing and passed across the goal mouth but his p:ss was missed by bath Winearls and Bates. Then followed a bit of a loose scrimmage in front of the Club goal, and Husband getting the ball at his foot sent in a decept ve half-skied shot which beat Hickling by reason of its very deceptivenes. Appar ently he misjudged its flight. This half a 35 minutes half, owing to the referee's watch stopping-ended without further coring. though the Navy had the privil-ge of a penalty kick the Club goil-keeper rauning too far out whilethaudding the ball.
Half-Limo scoro- H.K.F.C., 1 goal; Ocean. 1 goal.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Result--Ocean, 3 goals: ILK F.C, 1 goal The Club right wing was strong, the left weak. Kew and Rutherford distinguished themselves. The full-back line played a fine game and Hickling kept a boffer goal than the three points scored against him would Of the Orean tem. Whitworth at indien e. centre half and Clarke on the on'sida lef were the most prominent. Wiuearls played a strong game, too, and, as for the back division, we have already commented upon the stone-wall nature of its defen.ca. The Ocean won on merit.
THE NEW PENALTY RULE,
The following new rules regarding the goal area, penalty are, and peual y mark have been kiudly supplied to us by Mr. Frank Browne, the Hon. S cretary of the Hongkong Football Club:-
Goal Area. Lines are drawn 6 yards from goal posts for C yards perpendicular to goal
line.
Penalty Area--Lines are drawn 18 yards from goal posts for 18 yards perpendicular to goal line,
Penalty Mark.-Chalk mark-spot ouly 12 yards perpendicul rly measured from c-utre of goal. Ball placed on penalty mack and kicked forward; all players outside peualty area except kicker, goal-keeper in goal area.
HONGKONG CHESS CLUB,
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The Hongkong Chess Club, at a general meting held on the 22nd inst, decided to move its headquarters to the City Hall, the Com- mitee of that institution having consented to Thes allow the Chess Club space for tables, etc. Club will therefore moet in future in the City Hall Library on Monday and Thursday evenings., It is hoped that the greater publicity of the meetings will have the effect of attracting. more members. As a fournament is about to start, uames of intending members should be snt in to the Hon. Secretary at suce.
The match for the Club Championship has been won by Mr. P. W. Sergeant, holder of the Pollock Cup, who defeated Mr. P. C. de Souza, challenger, by 3 games to 2. The latter, recovered from the bad start which he made in the match, aud the last game was hard-fought right to the end.
HONGKONG.
A cse of plague was notified as occurring is, the Colony during the day ended at noon on the 19th inst., the victim, a Chinese, dy ng at, No 5, Wo On Lane.
The appointments are notified in the Gazette of Mr. J. Macdona'd rs Gov.roment Mariue Surveyor; aud of Mr. W. A, Crake as Assistant asd Mr. W. Crchar a Secoul Assist ut,
Marine Surveyora.
[December 29, 1902.
It is notified in the Gazette that Mr. J. R Wood has parsed his final examination in Chinese,
On the 22nd inst.. at the Central Police Station, a Japanese sa lor who is accused of murdering his wife in a house in Ship Street ou Sunday morning was identified from amongst a number of countrymen by several Japanego female inates of the Lous s where the tragedy took place; none of these showed amy hesitation in pointing out the accused, who is a strong ya built man and appeared to realise the gravity of his position. Two women who rushed into the room when they heard the woman's screams say that they saw him jumping on her with his booted feet as she by in ted. Tuo defendant was brought up at the M. gistracy and &,manded.
On the 20th iust, while P.C. 96 Baker and a crew of five Chiursa were conveying ratious to the station on Yungshüwan Island on the other sd of Hongkong, the'r boat (o. 7) while under sail was struck by a sudden squall-and capsiz d. All the occupants of the beat were thrown into the water. Luckily there wero some fi-hing-boats near at baud and the crew were`r scuod, though not without difficulty nor without being in great danger of losing their lives, for the currents at the place where the accident occurred are very strong and treacher- ous, The rescuing craft was fishing-junk 3,607;| master, Fan Yung. The police boat crew were taken to Aberd en in fishing-boat 6,586, AIN thra ions and loose fittings wore lost, and Constable Baker also lost his cape and other accoutrements.
The Pars e communi'y of 1kongkong has lost another esteemedand fam liar fignre in the sudden death of Mr. Muncherje› Maneckjes Melita, who has so ably represented the well-known Parsee firm of Tata & Co, for the list six years in this Colony. The de ased gouilem in's experience in China tride extended to over eighteen years. He came to the Far East in 1885, aui resided at Amoy, Foochow. Tainaufoo, Shanghai, and Hongkong. Owing to his extremely affable and kindly nature he bad earre i the esteeem not only of the members of his own commuuity, but Mr. Mohta alsof all British Indians here. cied at the age of 55 yours of sudden failure of the heart, following an acute attack of congestion of the lungs. The fauerul took place yesterd y morning and was attended by all the Parsees and
"f a large numbr British Indian merchan's. Mr. Mehta was a trustee of ins Parsee chari funds
The police reported on the 22nd iust, that a 80- rious street fight betwon Europeans aud ludian soldi-is took place in Elgin Road, Kowloon, on Saturday wight. Th ngh bad enough at its finish, the affair had a very trifling origin. At the place where the fire in Elgin Road recently. took place an Indi.n consfuble was stationed on duty, and du: ing the e.ening he was aco sted by about half-a-dozo Indian soldiers, one of whom complained that he had been robbed of a dollar in a certain Chinese house and H E. the Governor has appointed the folk w asked the constable to arrrest the person ing to be members of a board for the examina whom he suspected of the act. The custable tion of interpreters: -The Registrar-General ¦ explained that he could not leave his post, and (chairman) ile Inspector of Schools, Mr. on his refusing absolutely to proceed to the houso indi- ated the native soldiers set upon FA. Haz-Land, and Mr. C. Clementi (secretary).
M. H. Baptista, a clerk in the Hongkong Magis-him and attempted to “frog-march" him to the Chamber of Commerce, was remanded at the barracks on the other side of the roadway. tragy on the 24th inst. ou a charge of embezzling The constable succeeded in sounding his whistle on divers dates a sum of $2,600, the monies of for assistance, aud iwo or three Europeans, oug the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Looker, who
of them a police man in civiliau a'tire, came appeared for the prosecution, said his clients were
from the Queen's Hotél to his help The Indian prepared to prove defalcations to the amount of constable, as may le guessed, was having a rough about $5,000, and a ked that any bail allowe! times of it, but, outnumbered though he was, he Mr. d'Almada represented hung on tenaci us'y to one of his assailants, be made heavy. the accused, who was allowed bail of S1000
said to be a jeradar. The Europeans directed The cas comes on for hearing on the 2nd their attention to rescuing the constable from
his plight and attempting to arrest some of thes January.
others, but reinforcements of soldie's from the adjoining barracks made the odds against them too heavy, and compelled them to so k safety in flight. These reinforcements are said to have numbered Lout a hundred men, arm-d with Lockey sticks, which they wielded with the greitast energy, overcoming all opposition an quite clearing the street. The matter wa reported to the police at Tsimsha ru station who in turn apprised the English officers of the Indian regiment of the occurrence, and develop ments are now awaited. The affair is one that should be sifted to the bottom, for such flagrant cannot possibly be breaches of the peace
The opeuing stages of the second half were marked by fast play without much advantage being gained ou either side. Then the superio stamina of the naval team b came apparrut. They invad d their opponent's ground and hardly ever left. i. Clarke, the Oc au's outside. left the Club's outside left was also a (laike) showed up ren arkably well alon with his fine run of his was partner Husband. A brought to an end by Bonnar, who however had to concede a corner. From the corner-Nick the Ocean secured their second goal in a very clever manner. Play was afterwards transfer- red to the other end of the field and a penalty was awarded to the Club for one of the forwards being fouled inside the line Rutherford took the pemly but it proved fruitless, for he scut the ball right into Lewis's feet and the latter cleared in good style. I utherford, notwi h- tinding this failure to score off the plac d kick, was playing a bus liug useful game and had hard lines several times in front of goal. The ravy left wing coutinued to giro Ma donald at half-back more than enough to do between then, their invasions of the Club territory being frequent and swift. Nor was the right wing of te Ocean unnoticeable. McLean had more than one good rịu, clever The Deputy District Grand Master of Hong tough fruitless. But this continuous pres ure kong and South China, Worshipful Brother of the silors upon the home defence was E. C. Ray, attended, with his officers, the re
n ceting of the Victoria Lodge No. 10 6 on mak ng an impression. Wiucarls, securing the bill in centre-field, passed it to Iusband, who the 2nd inst., aud iustalled Bro. E. H. Ray as sut it on to Clarke, his partner on the wing. Worshipful Master. He invested his officers
Bro, C. Clarke mado no mistak Ho took the ball as follows: Seuior Warden. cleverly up the line and centred nicely when near goal. Mclean and Lewis were waitig for the pass and between them the goalkeeper was rushed and tie ball banged into the net. Towards the close of the game, which ended without further scoring, the Club had some trics ut goal. but weak shooting characterised almost all their attempts.
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Longuet; Junior Warden, Bro C. I tir:ce; Treasurer. Bro. 1. Mirow; Secretary Wor Bo. A. GD. Gomediu ; Scuior Dana, Bro J. II. Swan; Junior D-acon, Bo. W. C. Barrett; Organist, Bro. C. F. G. Gimble; Director of Ceremonies, Bro. W. J. G. Whily; Inner Guard, Bro. P. W. Goldring: Steward, Bro J. M. Crago; Tyler, Bro. J. Vanstone.
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