The Archive · 1938

St. George's Ladies Defeat It. Andrew's

Shanghai, Nov. 25, Little merey was shown by the ladies of St. George's Society when they thet the ladies of St. Andrew's ina golf "match yesterday "morning the Hrungiao Goit Club's course Of the nine matches, the victors wor George's won by 7 points to 1ik:

six, halved two. and lost one, One point was awarded. the winner and out he bye elle 'A bad slip by Pitts, Who otherwise slayed a sound game at full-back, ten ninutes. after the second half hac begun, spelt disaster for the Police yesterday afternoon at the Ract Course in a match against the Tun: Wen College Ist XV. The tall law: n trying to touch-down behind own line was beaten by the bonne:

the ball and before he could re-sover. Maeda fell on it to tally the opening try for the Japanese.

The final score, which read 8 goal and try) to 3 (a try) in the collegians' favour, was about a fait indication of the' play, although towards the end of the game the Police side had very bad luck in not scoring at least once after hammering the Tapanese goal line for ten minutes on end.

A huge crowd of spectators watchec the match and the general opinion: prevailing before the game started was that the Police would go down badly, since it was felt that the fas! moving Japanese threes would romp through the Police defence with the drearest of ease.

Taking the last ditch is Chester Tune of the season by @ narrow margin from his closest rivals.

Tung Wen 1st, XV: Nakamura; Yoshi-ura," Hara, Nagano, Baba: Akabo "Takase, Ishida, Murak-

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