Local Men Ready to Subdue Hongkong's Strength Shanghai Championship Fixtures Announced NEE Hongkong has accepted the invitation of the Shanghai Amateur Swimming Association to participate i the Interport to be held here on August 26, 27 and 28, both Tien! and Kobe being unable to muster strong and sufficiently representative teams.
The local team will make strenuous endeavours to win, for out of the nine encounters between Shanghai and Hongkong since the inception of Interport swimming in 1909, the Colony have won seven and the local team only two, had been hoped that Tientsin would have been in a position to! send down a team this year, as the triangular interport galas have been. an established practice since 1931, and "have taken place every. three years. Hongkong won the first and Tientsin the second, so that St es: Shanghai's turn now and it was hoped to pit the very strong team. available, against the best of opposition from the other two ports to make the expected victory all the more notable. Tientsin only have Noel Hammond and McKenzie. With only weak support these two stars could not provide strong enough competition.
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