By at the Canidrome when they defeated the cup-holders by two Durham Light Infantry won their Skottowe Cup semi-final goals to one on Monday.
The Canidrome looked better than expected, although it took only a few minutes to show the tricky nature of the footing. Players found it rather difficult to control the ball and on the turn they were not comfortable.
The game was fought at a fast speed for the full ninety minutes, The 1,800 spectators present were treated to a thrilling game, with both sides contesting every inch of the way. There will be several sore throats in Shanghai as the spectators shouted loud encouragement, The Duthams treated us to a lot of good football in the first half but it did not get goals, The Army side had the best of the exchanges in the first half, a fact which was amply proved by the condition of the ground in that half of the field which the cup-holders defended. They constantly over-ran their opponents, and we had Boissezon, Collet, Marcal, Bell Segalin and Neuborg playing a defensive game, constantly finding touch in order to hold up the eager soldiers, The French rear certainly put up a gallant and defiant defence. Three men made the Durhams attack, They were Fulton, Thomasson and Brown. The A.S.F. front line ionnd that the Durham defence was just as*sound as their own Curtiss pli gf à fine game, and although the fact that no goals had been scored against them might be considered rather flattering to the ASF., it must be remembered that their rear lines played strongly to keep out the soldiers. beating Hay, was about to cross when Thomasson, running across, blocked his effort to find touch near midfield. The pivot then found touch near the carlier-flag for Curtiss to relieve danger, A free-kick for pushing held up the next A.SF. attack. Bolan sent away on the left. The winger, beating Collect in the run, shot past the far post.
The ASF. raided and Lough kicked against Jim Ward to see the ball go for a goal-kick. Following some pressure by the Durham Neuborg cleared to see Favach making progress, Allan kicked against the winger in attempting to clear, but recovered to challenge and Curtiss cleared, At the other end, Wilson went through, and Boissezon pulled the ball back as it was on the line to save a corner, the referee stopped play to restart it by dropping the ball just near the post. Danger was cleared.
A fine concerted movement in which Thomasson Wilson, Fulton
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