The Shanghai Football Assocation lomeially opened their season's [vities on Saturday when at the Cani-[drome the Worcestershire Regiment defeated the Association Sportive [Francaise by the odd goal of seven.
Tt was perhaps. fitting that last season's champions should be the [Brst to set the ball rolling, but they' will have to display more team-work than they did against the winners who, playing attractive but far from perfect soccer, led at the interval by three lear goals.
Many of those present never ex: pected to see the French side get goal; yet, half way through the second half, Jimmy Ward, the best of five) indifferent forwards, seized an opening and the ball was in the net, Sud-Jdenly the crowd started to cheer, and in less than no time the side had in-Jereased the score to three, and it might have been a fourth, but the Jdefending Worcesters suddenly awoke to their responsibilities and reverted to their first half activities, but further goals accrued to either side.
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