The annual sports meeting of the S.A. Police is such a popular event that the comparatively' small attondtance at the Stadium on November 1 can only have been duo to the lack of a general understanding that the sports would be held. The outlook, as regards the weather, was 30 lacking in promise the evening before, and even yesterday morn ing, that people could be excused for thinking the sports could not. pos sibly be held. However, as it was }s0 late in the season, and as a post-Ponement might bring even worse conditions, the committee decided kong & Shanghai Bank, and. Mrs.|that as rain was not actually fa try, erging the Loh Tua club to withdraw "from all competitions which axe sponsored by foreign Jathletic associations, It is understood that those tolorama are the outcome of the we. tion of the Hongkong Football Association in suspending two Cantonese players from football in Hongkong.
The Hongkong Football Asvoclas tion, it will be remembered, fed the players because it was alleged that they received monetary. consideration on a football tour and consequently forfeited there
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