The Loyal Regiment hockey team need just one more victory to capture the First Division championship of the Shanghai Hockey Association and they are, this Sunday afternoon, meeting the Shanghai Hockey Club at the Race Course. Owing to the many postponements, this week-end's encounter will mark the initial contest of these two sides officially and will certainly cause much concern among hockey-minded. people.
From the commencement of the current season, or rather, ever since the arrival of the Regiment in Shang: hai, no team has succeeded in giving the soldiers a trimming on local hockey fields. Lately in their two engagements, the reigning champions were somehow below form and looked "stale." Against the Germans, only a final drive pulled them out of the fire while in the United Club contest the army players were hotly pursued by a bunch of game opponents who refused to be daunted.
The Club are not conceded much chance of stopping the rampant Loyals but still they are not completely hopeless, 1t is not likely that J. Pote-Hunt.will be wearing the civilian colours but W. H. Keep's service should be available. The defending titleholders should have their hands full. In their match against the Germans last Saturday, the Club's forwards worked bard, especially T. H. Kendall on the right flank, but they failed to co-ordinate through a lack of inside leadership.
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