Rising superior to the appalling] weather conditions, the women hockey players and the male soccer team from Hongkong carried off the ter port honours from Shanghai. They will both be warmly congratulated on the successes whick were richly] deserved. Hongkong' soccer team had one piece of luck—luck of the right kind. It owned a goal-keeper wha, by saving three apparently ir-[vesislible shots, put his side on good Terms with themselves in the carly. part of the game. Hongkong's victory Wax due to better team-work and to shrewder appreciation of the re~ quirements of the climate. Whereas Shanghai adhered to the short passing ame, Hongkong at once saw that Tong passing would pay more handsomely. The visitors played a robust game and, there again, the decision was justified by the result. Revelling viventy-two youns women failed to settle their diffe joes on the hockey field until, half-Way. through the second half, Miss Phyllis Gittens—dramatically justify ing. an. eleventh-hour invitation—scored Hongkons's only goal, Tt was enough; "would serve. Shanghai baaltled bravely but the second Interport Women's Hockey honours went] fo the same custody as the first. Set off against these defeats was Shans als highly gratifying victory at rus for on the Colony's own ground. The cabled advices agree that Shanghai won a great match. It is also clear that Bidwell was in splendid. form; both he and MeGill scored good tries. Gubb's successful place-kick will the former being really the decisive factor, in Shanghai's victory, for Hongkony crossed the visitors' line twice also. The opinion that Shang hhai's forwards were beaten must accepted with respect, but the fact Temains that, somehow or other, the winning three-quarter life managed get the ball and, to adapt the sugges tion interrogatively made to M. Milarius, surely the pack had something to do with that? Reuter may not therefore be so far wrong in throwing a bouquet at the feet of the Shanghai scrummagers,
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