Thousands of spectators Hongkong defeat Shanghai in the Interport football match on the! Hongkong Football Club ground Chinese New Year Day. Hongkon; won by four goals to nil, and al: though it might be said that Shans. hai were unlucky to lose by such big margin, the victory was undoubledly well dose:
Shanghai failed to drive home 'y|their advantage 1 hale, }when, with the wind in their favour, they had much the better of the play. Their half backs repeatedly set the forwards in motion, but the! front line rarely looked dangerous fand only on two occasions had Clarke, the Hongkong goalkeeper, really ' to exert himself to clear. Their forwards relied too much on the short passing game, and even when their movements got beyond] ithe Hongkong half back line, they ]were soon broken up by Wyane and Bishop, who both tackled and intereepted brilliantly.
On the general play they dveeryfed to be one or two goals up instead of goal down at the interval, te being scored by Gosano, who converted a penalty awarded for foul on Brown, who was going through when he was brought down from behind in the goal arca.
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