The return game of this grand, time-honoured match came off'on Monday, on the grounds of the S.C.C., and, taking into account the disadvantage of playing such a high wind, was one of th association games ever played in Sha Starting ayainst a strong and rather slanting wind, the Shanghai team were hard pressed: three times the ball was shot behind their goal line, and then came a truer shot, which goal keeper Abbott tried to fist out, but missed, and W, 8. Campbell (then nearly if not quits off side) tipped the ball bask over his head, and secured the first goal for the Engineers. Shortly after this Campbell—playmg grand game "gut cuntrul of the ball, cleared the forwards, outpaced the backs, and then, though full twenty yards from the posts, let fly so hard, low, and wind-driven a kick, that it proved too much fur the goal keeper: score two goals to love. Then ensued a claim of "hands": the whistle barely sounded in time to disqualify a other goal for the El eu! Then, for a while, play was more even; the Shanghai forwards warmed up to yood combined actiou, and made a fine run, but their shot at goal went wide, and the Engineers ran. the ball back behind the Shanghai goal line partly owing to wind the kick out fell short of the Shanghai backs; in an instant Campbell passed them and, with a hard drive, secured the third goal for the Engineers.
Nfter half time the play was more eve 'The Shanghai forwards (especially Moule) passed beautifully, but the gineers' backs—notably Long and Mauchan—were very strong: after ten minutes of grand play W, Moule and Drummond made fine side run, and just at the right moment Moule made a most excellent centre to Robertson, who promptly, popped the ball through' the Engineers' goal posts. After this W. Moule made another good centre, but the shot at goal went astray. Thereafter play was very even, very spirited; Long foiled another good centre, Shearer made a dashing side run, and Mauchan butted back a good shot at goal but nothing more was scored, and the Evgineers thus wen by three goals to one.
The Shanghai forwards, though at first bothered by the wind, played a grand combination gaine; it was a treat to see W. Moule, well backed up by Drummond, dash down & side line, and centre at the proper moment; Bruce' Robertson made a good centre forward, but fortune does not always favour the brave: Catterall was a reliable back: against a strong wind fisting out by goal keeper seldom pays.
The Hogineers won on their merits: not that they deserved to win by as much as three goals to ove, but the excellent back have never wholly censed fur the last year The appeals for help for starving people anda half, and as the winter advances they only grow more piteous.
"The spectacle which now presents itself is that of more than a million of people, reduced to the last state of destitution, most of whom must perish from starvation before next summer, unless relief is afforded them," writes Dr. Nevius from Chefuo.
"The people live for the most part on kaoliang, ground up and mixed with chaff and wheat sprouts. In many cases they have to depend entirely on the chall and wheat sprouts, having no grain to mix with it. Even this food, is to be had only in very insufficient quantities by many sv that as they say, ' we are always hungry!" writes Mr. Bergen from Tsi-nan, And then follow heart-rending accounts of the Yellow River districts, where, however, Chinese charity is flowing ing stream, The first impulse is to empty the purse, pick up and forward all sup fluous clothing and decidetolive on rice uni until there is no more starvation around. But is it practicable? Are the vari European communities in China, even if business were much more flourishing than it is, in a position permanently to feed and clothe millions of Chinese? And would it not be wiser and worthier to take means to avert the colossal calamities by which this great country is always being overshadowed, rather to pick up our fragments in order tu minister to their distress? We in England are gradually getting more and more imbued with the principles of charity organisation, and realising how much more a dollar earned can buy of comfort, thin two dollars given, New modes of industry are ever the cry with us! New fields for labour! Here in China on the other hand the governing classes still hold to the old ideal, "Let each [village, nay each house hold, be self-sufficing; eating what it sows, wearing what it has woven!" They oppose all gathering of men together whether for mining or for factory labour, as witness the opposition to the cotton ginning mills lately attempted to be started in Shanghai, and the curious fact that Japanese coal is used by the steamers on the Yangtze, although the Great River flows throught what Richthoven pronounces one ut the greatest coral fidds in the world.
In like manner the ancient, roads of China have been dug up, that individual peasants might add to their scanty crops therefrom, and thus every means of transporting Gantly supplied with any of the necessaries plentiful crops to other regions less abun: of life has been injured. It is only natural that the sume government that does not care for its roads, should be intolerant of railways, and opposed to all further introduction of steamers. Thus play of Long and Mauchan, and the scien- the poor Chinese are forced back on
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