The Hankow players seem to have ween well in their stride from the start.
Dupree, playing No. 1, is a sight that fs famailiae to some of the regular players here in the course of his brief visits to this port, He is principally noted for his riding-off propensities, and that uncanny Gribble intended to exasperate the ig back and which is most He "scored three goals for his side.
Lyon at 2 has apparently steadied down and given up, those wild gal-opponents (and oe. casionally the ball!). He played 4 fast game and seems to have been devoting a good deal more time to his stick work. He was responsible for some brilliant. runs, and many of us wish We could have been there to see him play, "He ended up with tivo als to his credit, Newbiging, the fs an old Shanghai interport 0 and his) play: is, therefore, Known tous all. He apparel excelled himself that afternoon was heartily applauded for sume of his brilliant shots. "He is a Player who is always in the pink of condition, an extremely hard rider "with a delightful drive on both sides of his pony, defence by Hankow prevented Franklin scoring, and then, a good bit of combination enabled 'Lyon to score. This score of five goals to two is rather depressing for any team to face, with only about four minutes to play. However, Pollosk scored with a well thought out long shot, and Shanghai fairly rushed their opponents' goal after the throw in with the result Franklin scored, making the score Hankow five, Shanghai four. Pacr felt justified in taking a chance on a brilliant individual effort, and nearly scored.
This ended the first of what hoped will be a series of match>s between the two ports, The Reinforcement Cup Wednesday, October 3, the -an team inflicted a serve defeat on a team consisting of Bott, Hayes, Soong, and Bairnsfather.
result' however, was not surprising, even though the score was 6 to 2, when we remember that the American team have played together continually all through the summer, and have in consequence fine working knowledge of each other's play and also that they were Jundoubtedly better mounted. The losers were in part handicapped by their cattle and were all [forwards. Any com consequence almost an imposeil team were again ing of Gibbings, Andrews, and Rothe.
This was a far better balanced game than the last, and though the winning team finished with the comfortable lead of 2 goals, play
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