Club Again Succumb to Driving Attack of Teutons, This Time by 1-0: Many Minor Games WITH a minimum of scoring but a maximum of anxieties the German Hockey Club inflicted upon the Shanghai Hockey Club a defeat of one-nil at the Race Course yesterday afternoon.
The tussle proved the second and last meeting of the two strongest civilian teams as far as the Shanghai League is concerned.
In the previous fixture which took place in the early part of last December the Germans were also victorious, winning by 2-1
Both sides played without the vices of their most valuable men the forward line. The deficit was evenly divided as the Germans mis ed Pracht and Siemssen while the Club lost Pote-Hunt and Keep. Pra-clit and Pote-Hunt were confined to hospital the former having high fever and the latter suffering from an attack of appendicitis, while both Siemssen and Keep preferred to be riding in the week-end's Paperhunt.
Although teamwork was lacking among both sets of forward the game was keenly fought end was sparked by occasional bursts of i dividual brilliance which on one occasion enabled the Teutons to score the one and only goal of the match within two minutes of the end of the first half, Lemmser, having been forced to take up the centre position, actually had more share in the winning tally, although it was Rodde, a.second league man whd filled the inside-right berth, that converted the shot. The two teams were:—
German HE. Tiefenbacher. Melchers, Astor, Wetzell, Droese, ' Soenksen, Lemmser, Schoemann, and Jessen SHANGHAI H.C. "A"i—E. H. Brazel, C. A. Bowen, H. A. Crickmer, C. B. Broadbent, M. W. Turner, B. W. Ed. wards, L'H, Kendall, P. Watkinliams, C. 'H. W. Robertson, J. S. Kenyon and J. F. R. Loutit, Association, 5-0, in a Third Division tussle at the Race Course. The army players were without the slightest doubt a superior side- concluded the first period with a lead of four goals. In the resuming half the winners just toyed, adding one more point to their total, Simultaneously, three other encounters were run off at the Race Course, The United Club "B" trounced the German Hockey Club "C" by 4-0 and still remain in the running for the championship in spite of having succumbed to the Loyals a week ago, 2-1 The Junior Athletic Club, meeting SIN. Gaol in a Second Division match, won by a score of 1-0. By virtue of yesterday's result, the Gaol team were no more in the cellar of the League.
A second engagement in the Second Division saw the Shanghai Hockey Club "B" drop out of the championship race when they fell victims to the Durham Light Infantry by the Odd goal in three. This victory decidedly gave the soldiers the title
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