Play was.of: a robust character [Raine ah the dotiinatiie' everything, with nether set of tarsus being lee cine provety, te 9 tne Senter tsatverealt afore against' Stetart. "Phere "may Sly have been more toi thu was Apparent la the stands;: but it appeared that the ball, struck Stewart's arm quite accidentally, and hig side certainly derived no advantage from the contact. We cannot, Rut, con-Ger that he ciresiatanes, a usual, converted the spat-kick. 77 minutes: $nE"A few. seconds eter, the Shanghai forwards got going again. There was some quick passing Gowan; Phillips; Dailey; Goldie and the ball was in the Hongkong het once more. 78 minutes: 5—4
Then came 10 minutes of real thrills. First one forward line and then the other would get away the most dangerous incidents being long shot from Couleher which Rodger turned behind: a solo effort by Gosano at the other end; two! missed chanees by Dailey; and a very determined attack by the Hongkong forwards in the last three minutes, Moalem being extremely fortunate to get one shot behind for a corner. There was no further and a hard, vigorous, une Scientific, unsatisfactory game ended in Shanghai winning by the score of five goals to four.
The final score indicates eloquently. how evenly the teams were matched; yet, looking at the game di sion ately, one is forced to the cor clusion that Hongkong had the dotter-balanced side and were unfortunate to lose. The small ground undoubtedly had an adverse effect fon the play and it fs by no means improbable that, had the same teams played on say the S.F.C. ground or the Polo ground, we should have seen some real football, fully up to Interport standard. Taking the lines of the teams vis-a-Rodger was immeasurably superior to Moalem, who gave a sorry exhibition of goal-keeping,
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