The Portuguese Sporting Association, with a weak and incomplete team, went under rather badly to the Shanghai Football Club, despite the fact that some of the Club's best stalwarts of last season Coulcher, Smith, Phillips and Owing were absent from the team. The Portuguese were sadly lacking in team play and that, combined wi a wonderful amount of miskicking, in the first half, was largely responsible for their heavy defeat. The Recs-Police game, in which the referee received much verbal assistance from at least 50 enthusiasts the lines, produced a hard t which there was no single i lent of play worth "writing home about," the brand of football being worthy of neither team. The Three Cultures were more superior to the Artillery than the score of 3-1 would and obviously will be competitors for championship, Incidentally. the pitch a he Pioneer field is in poor condition Saturday,.owing to the rain, the rround was very heavy and to make matters worse there were several spots, notably in front of the south goal, where', re-turfing is very; necessary. A proper ground mam Img machine would also be a dis tinct acquisitiSh.
In the Second Division of the League, as has been mentioned above, three games had to be pest-poned indefinitely owing to somebody's zealous desire to save the surface of Hongkew Park from abrasion. On the Recreation ground, the Rees' Second Team made an inauspicious start by forfeiting a goal and two points to the Thomas Hanbury School, owing to inability to raise a complete team. The Police second string, in a game which was very much of the kick-and-rush variety, were able to get full points from the Deutscher Sportverein, despite having started with an incomplete team. Playing against the Jewish R. C. on the Widow's Monument ground H. M. Navy won deservedly by six goals to one. They had a much better balanced team and were streets ahead of the Jewish in defence.
Shanghai Football Club 10 Portuguese Sporting Association 0
With the flags of the Shanghai Cricket Club and Shanghai Football Club flying over the S. C. C. pavilion, with a football match on the one'side ang a game of cricket} on the other, and with good footballers playing cricket and good] cricketers playing football, the} faithful who attended to watch tie summer game and the football followers who came to see football, were torn between the alternatives! of seeing boundaries scored and seeing goals obtained; an _the general opinion of those who saw Some of each was that the cricket in its expiring gasp had been better to look upon than the football in its rejuvenation. It was not that the football was consistently poor s9 much as that it was consistently uninteresting; and while the Club eleven was by no means the Dud eleven of last year, it was able to inflict defeat on the Portuguese to the tune of half a score goals. There is not much that can bs written about the actual play. The Club were early on the aggressive and remained so much' so that at half time they were five goals to the good. The deciding factor undoubted. ly was the Club halves, who from the onset took complete charge o! the Portuguese forwards, permitting] them only an occasional breakaway, which Gowan ang Moor and Large had little difficulty in dealing with, The teams were as follows:— ne; Gowan, and Moor:
for, and. Price; Baxter, el Iman, Hood, and Camp:
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