The Archive · 1928

Loh Hwa v. H. M. Navy

Readiness to seize their scoring chances, whether they are the out come of accident or design, has ear-"fled Loh Hwa to. many such this. season, even though the run' of the play is not accurately gauged by the final score. This sums up the state of affairs at the Pioneer Field on Saturday afternoon, where the all-conquering Chinese team entertained an leven from. HIS, Hawking ani galnad possedslon of JF.A, Senior Cup by the odd The: prime essentials in ti five football are to score goa Frovent the otter algo fom. doing the same, and i€ for no other reason ffhan that Loh Hwa excelled. their Dppsnents in this respect, they were Dntitled to their victory. There was nothing fury about the win. hey. had not anything like s0 much the play as the sailors and they were nothing like 50 virile in attack, but they had a magnificent Hetenee, and with fewer opportun-{tion their forwards showed greater! eupacity for utilising th Perfect, weather "conditions f0~

Police ground but they never recovered from the shock of three goals scored against them within the space of 15 minutes from the time that Sir Sidney Barton set the ball in motion and all hopes of a struggle were set at rest when Goldman and Stokes added to the "bag" before Tardy came along with the consolation point for the Engineers! shortly before the interval. In the second half, the Engineers made the: belated move of bringing Allan back from centre-half to partner Favacho in the fullback division, a movement which had the effect of narrowing' the struggle down to one more goal for their opponents but it did not bring about the desired change in attack and although the Engineers had more than a share of the play in this moiety, they could never break down the determined resist~ ance of Turner and Couleher, in front of whom, Pote-Hunt, Schaffer and Gardner were equal to all occasions,

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