Club ground, this match was ¢xpected to provide the tit-bit of the afternoon's football; and in first half it certainly did, with {ho play being datnety of the cupavlety, full of Interest and excitement during the whole 45
The members of the Engineers' teat all played wil, and hero was not a really weak link in the whol Sham of layers, For the Poi the pek were Gash, Hurry, El cold and Boddy. Mr. A. H.'Leslie proved a capable referee.
The teams were as follows:— ern alaan Centon ap int, ngineers:—Moalem; Falconer and fant Clark, Austen, Nash, Begg and Daley. angles carey, Gash and Body, Hil, iNce:—etstall; Cligsold and
Philips, Watson, "Palmer and Robin-short, and when another was hurt! in the second half, there were only ight men to-play. It was a continuous attack of the Unions from beginning to end, and the Cultures had only time for defending.
Play was slow and uninteresting. The Unions scored five goals in the first half and two in the _second while the Cultures team tallied but} ence in the middle of the first half. Out of the seven Union goals, Lee Wai-tang, the former Hongkong, star, netted five.
The same teams will meet on the same ground next Saturday afternoon in the second game of the series.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.