The South China team, represent" ed by the Hongkong Chinese players trimmed the East China representatives by 8 goals to 2 in the opening game of the Inter-sectional cham= pionship series on the Pioneer Field on Thursday afternoon. Owing to the bad weather which prevailed during the morning and afternoon, only a few hundred people turned out to watch -the game.
The ground was soaked with the two days? downpour, and the in front of the northern goal wai soggy that players found great diMieulty with their footwork. The whole fietd was in fact slippery, and fast and good football was out of question.. The game was, therefore, sefappy and slow, and.coupled with the exe-sidedness of the score, the contest lacked the interest. which ely. fom the onteet, and took South China started very agree
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