Hongkong, Feb. 4.
In overcast weather and' before record crowd, Hongkong swamped Shanghai by seven goals to one in the Interport soccer match played here this afternoon.
The visitors generally played a good brand of football on the slippery ground, but their forwards were woefully weak in front of goal, and it was a tale of missed opportunities For Shanghai Harry Madar, Alec Boisserie and Favacho were oulstand-
Ing, but the visiting backs and the goalie were very weak.
The first half was just a tale of goals, the Colony obtaining six and the visitors one, through a penalty, Almost immediately from the! centre-kick Hongkong went one up, {Tam Kong-pak taking the ball from Madar's foot and netting. The neat minute the Colony wear further ahead. through Ridley, who put the finishing. touch to a pretty movement.
Shanghai then came into the picture, invading home territory for the fr lime. After frittering away several} opportunities the visitors were award-oda penalty, with which N. Z, Lee made no mistake, This goal served only to spur the home team to greater efforts, and within the next 15 minutes Hongkony had amassed such a commanding lead that the fate of the visitors was sealed then and there.
'The' penalty brought forth two immediate replies, one from Tso Kwai-shing and the other from Howe. The latter's goal was the result of a bril~ int solo effort, lobbing the ball over:
advancing' goalie's head after! beating three defenders.
Pardoe, the local centre-half, next increased the margin with a send tional Goal. He ballooned the ball from almost the middle of the field, and Ward misjudged it to allow it to pass over his head into the top of the net Hongkong's sixth goal was tha result of penalty just before the interval, Tam Kong-pak making no mistake.
At half time the Colony led by six goals to one.
Shanghai improved afier the resumption and pressed continuously, Lut the visitors were unable to finish off movements.
'The only goal of this half came from Howe. 'In a. breakaway the! coal centre-forward ran through the Shanghai defence and beat Ward with' 1 grounder.
Although Shanghai came near success several times, there was no further scoring, and the match ended one of: the heaviest defeats suffered by the northerners in an inter port against the Colony—Reuter.
Honours Even with Chinese XI
Hongkong, Feb, 6.
Following their heavy defeat in the interport match, the Sharghai soccer team gave an improved display against a combined Chinese XI this afternoon and emerged with honours even. The score was two goals all.
Tae Northerners have one more chance to gain a win before leaving SIA, Lencue Time Division rung Wen 3, Kwang Lou 1 SHX. 4 Latey 0
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.