"Upon resumption the trailers redeemed themselves and began with a rush, The whole forward line broke down the field in unison and within Ave minutes' time Pote-Hunt hung up the equalizer, Silvey and Lyle oded in bringing the bali into tke soldiers' circle for Keep to pick it up and pass to Pote-Hunt who made no mistake to convert, giving Sharpe no earthly chance to save.
However, the Fusiliers immediately returned in kind as in less than three minutes directly after the resultant bully, Kennagan jumped into the limelight for a second time and slammed home a winner A speedy attack from Kenny on the right extreme caught Crickmer unwares and the ball was flicked to Kennagan who deftly netted.
Following up the advantage, the Fusiliers kept on pressing and in the 20th minute Bruton scored to put the score at 3-1, Here the Club braced once again and commenced to fight doggedly, Choice movements down the left wing and centre were stifled by lack of understanding. A few beautiful passes swung across the goal-mouth but the other end of the line had not kept up with the play and these fine efforts went for naught. Besides, four penalty corners were forced but none of the tries had any effect and the civilian side suffered a 3-1 defeat as full time came, Sunshine made the atmosphere pleasant and Shanghai's reigning champions were seen in fine fetile. Landlock, the right back, was confined to hospital and Lieutenant Smith filled the vacancy. The whole aggregation played brilliantly with Hancock and Cronin standing out. The former hus been in top form lately and yesterday he was all the more outstand-ug in serving as a spearhead of the attack. Cronin again proved he was indispensable by his great all-round play, being clever. nimble, and fast.
Throughout the entire first thirty-five minutes, the Loyals played a top-flite game to show that offence is the best form of defence. Clean hitting, finesse, dash and understanding enabled them to rip through the opposing lines time after time and establish a substantial lead. They hardly gave the German a breathing space with the results that the losers were split to parts and could never assert themselves to originate any concerted attack. jue. Pyatt, Han-Wilcox.
G lefenbacher, Schroeder, As-ior, Remmeile, Melchers, Siemssen, Soenksen. Lemmser, Weizell, Pracht. and Rhodde.
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