The report of the Shanghai Hockey Association's prospects for the coming season is most satisfactory. The retiring President, Mr. F. W. G. Clarke, who has so enthusiastically championed the cause of a fine game when support was still in the embryonic stage, must feel greatly heartened as he notes the activities foreshadowed in the season's programme. He is succeeded by another sound exponent of the game in Herr Hans Melchers—a selection which will give great satisfaction to hockey players who know his quality as a player and what splendid service the German Hockey Club has rendered to the game in China, The military teams here are expected to make admirable contributions to Shanghai hockey. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, by achieving the record of winning the championships of both divisions of the League last season, have already established themselves in that respect. As polo has been described frivolously as hockey on horseback it may be assumed that their successors the Durham Light Infantry whose prowess at the mounted game is widely famed will prove acquisition to the hockey field here as well. The amateur spirit of the game is beyond reproach. It has therefore a special appeal to sportsmen of the right type and there is every reason for Shanghai hockey players to look forward to the coming season with confidence and prospective pleasure,
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