the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuawa Dany News"
StI wish to give expression the gratifying response by the Shang-hal public on the occasion of the first fag day appeal of the society which ig most opportune as the society was faced with the possibility of having seriously to restrict its activities.
I desire especially to thank on behalf of the Society, all the ladies Jand children who so generously gave fof their time in selling flags. Also IMr. H. Gale Duncan' who kindly donated the flags and shields, Mrs. IL. "Barden. for the loan of office ce, the Tramway Company for' fedvertising on their tramcars, Mrs.
H. Clark for donating extra col-ceting boxes, the Press for valuable [publicity, and all others who rendered assistance. Of the officers of the [Society I. would ike specially to mention the untiring work of Mrs. IV. F. Craig who was in charge of tie arrangements, and our Secretary, Miss D. Pellew.
Street collections amounted to $3,058.06 to which must be added a [special contribution of $50. largest crowd ever seen Kiangwan polo ground, an International Recreation Club. team on Sunday defeated, by five goals two, the 32nd Army team, from Pel-ping. General Wu Te-chen was a keenly interested spectator of the. game, for which he had kindly presented four beautiful silver" cups. The winners were decidedly lucky, and owed their success chiefly to the fact that Riggio was very much on his game, as until the last chukker, when they rather went to pieces, the losers played far better polo.
'There was a big sensation at start of the third chukker, an Army player getting away again, pursued by Moller. He failed to score, and very fast' play ensued. "Kiang.: n pressing, through Tung, Mokrojs missing a good chance a moment later.
The 32nd Army team were impress-{ing spectators with their dashing play, and especially with ther, American style of swinging their Ponies. They were invariably quick-(er away, and their ponies noucean'y hendy. Riggio hada shot at goal that was cleared, and a moment later Mokrejs nearly scored with a backhander. The 32nd were able to clear the play from the vicinity of their goal by means of a penalty Shot for a foul by Kiangwan. A. drive by Mokrejs came over the, boards and knocked one of the Mayor's cups off te presentation table. For the first half of the chukker the visiting team played well, and were distinctly untueky, but towards the end they went a bit to pieces, enabling the Club side to score three goals (Riggio-2, Mokrejs-1D, and put the issue beyond doubt.
Prior to introducing General Wu Te-chen, N. F. Allman referred to the immense amount of work put in by Browne, and one must admit that the club had done everything it could to make the match against the visitors a success. The match was umpired by Hayes and Neppo, MeMichael refereeing.
'The Mayor presented the cups to the Club team, and algo Kindly consented to present the American Express Cups to the team that had won earlier in the afternoon (Bradford, Harris, Taylor and Rodger, who' defeated Allman, Franklin, Painter and Sutterle by five goals to two).
A. G. Messer President, SSP.CA.
Shanghai, Oct. 23.
The afternoon's sport was concluded by rounds of cheers for the Mayor and the-Chinese Army team.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.