In one of the most promising soccer games arranged in Shanghai for many a season the Royal Ulster Rifles and the Association Sportif Francais will meet at the Canidrome: Ground this afternoon. The teams are reigning champions of Hongkong ard Shanghai and to the hundreds of partisans expected in the stands the encounter will have the highly gkciting flavour of an Interport./ The season is young and the men/will be badly short of match practice, nevertheless the Army players are always in good condition and the local pre-miners have had one good try-out and plenty of runs in the last fortnight AS.F. Confident Both teams are bel at full strength. Miller, the Rifles' left-half, has an injured knee and will be the only absentee, from the team which finished up as Colony champions. The OF. will be short of their usual outside left who has been replaced by a useful understudy. "We are very confident," declared the ASK. spokesman yesterday. One of the Rifles was more cautious. "We have not seen them yet," he answered the question of prospects, Tet will probably line-up as follow
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