The Archive · 1935

Tung Hwa Wins the Soccer Championship

Association Sportive Francaise Score Surprise Win from Shanghai Municipal Police THONS Hwa took the Shanghai soccer league championship, not that there was much doubt about it, when they defeated the Jewish Recreation Club 6-1 at the Canidrome on Saturday, the losers' engagements thus being completed while the winners have three games in hand, One other match took place yesterday, at the Stadium, where the critics were confounded by the 5-3 defeat of the Shanghai Municipal Police at the hands of the Association Sportive Francaise: the Police fixtures are ended and they take third place in the league, Three Cultures being second. The only, matches left unplayed are one each of the Inniskillings, Rees and ASF, that of the last-named against Tung Hwa was to -have taken place to-day, but subsequently called off.

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