In view of the grouping of senior ranking players in their first team the Race Club are favoured to win again, especially as Wade is back in town. Others likely to play on their team jate Cumine, Pote-Hunt and H. Maitland, although the last named may help out the newly formed Light Horse team, in the Second League.
The Country Club have F. E. T. Marshall, L. Handley-Derry, and McCabe to assist Cassels, and in all probability Paul Welch who has also are likely to give the Race Club the strongest fight in the league,—The Foreign Y.M.C.A. has become weakened in the loss of Carson and Squires, and with Green holding his own against the first stringers of the other senior clubs, there is a gap difficult to bridge thereafter as C. J. Smith is unlikely to play due to illness, and J. P. Hawes, J. G. Forbes and M. Green will have to go up a place to contend with stronger players than they met last year. The Columbia Country Club have only entered in the first division, being similarly placed as the Country Club. Carson and Squires will serve as a strong leadoff, and Randall Gould, Dr. Nance, C. D. Broádbent and G. G. Brown returned to Shanghai recently.
They will probably make up the side.
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