Hongkong, Nov. 15. inst League championship. They were defeated by the Shanghai Football Club, but now that they have got into playing form, they should give both the Rees and the Club, who have been filling the two top places of the League with monotonous regularity for years, good struggle for premier honours and, incidentally, introduce a much-need-clement of interest into local senior soccer. It was a happy coin-
The Interport cricket match between Shanghai and the Federated Malay States was begun here this morning in ideal weather.
Shanghai batted first on a dry wicket, but were all: dismissed for 119 runs. Scots evidence that Mr. W. 8, Campbell, 0 whose regard for his beloved Engineers is equalled only by his fervid desire once more to see Scotland wrest. the Prentice-Skottowe B)
International Cup from the Sastenachs, should have arrived back from Home just in time to seo his team got the better of the redoubtable! cham though his ardour ie their cause is ever undiminished, whether they be victorious or othe wis In the other First Division game, the Police, on their own ground, just managed to serape a victory from the babes of the League, the Portuguese Sporting Association, by the odd goal in seven, in a game in which the football was generally patchy, often poor and occasionally brilliant.
On the form which they had previously displayed this season, there were few who could really have expected to see the champions of Jast season, the Shanghai Recreation Club, 0 clearly and decisively defeated on their own ground by the Marine Engineers on Saturday afternoon, though none who saw the game could justly claim that the Rees, on the general run of the play, deserved otherwise than to be defeated.
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