For the first time in many years, there will be no official' football matches on the Faster holidays, although the Durham Light Infantry, the Recreation Club and the Shanghai Football Club, have not yet completed their programmes. It is not know whether the lack of games is due to the inability of the Shanghai Football Association to secure grounds or not, but in view of the fact that at home a big football programme is provided, it seems quite reasonable io expect that some soccer would have been provided for local enthusiasts who, due to the present conditions, are unable to leave Shanghai for the Easter week-end Tung Hwa, the Chinese team, are anxious to have a game, according to a reliable source of information, and the Seaforth Highlanders might have been provided with a game, so that local enthusiasts might have been given an opportunity of seeing in action the side that defeated the Durhams last week.
As a fitting climax to the end of the squash season, the Rest of Shanghai will play the Shanghai Race Club, winners of the 1938 League. today on the latter's courts starting at 530 pin.
The Association have selected a strong team to oppose the champions. The Country Club take the lead in having three players who are H. K. Cassels, H. Martyn-Snow and F. E. T. Marshall. The Foreign "Y" have two men, D. Green and C. J, Smith while the Columbia Country Club and the Shanghai Rowing Club are represented by one exponent each in C. S. Squires and S. Godin.
Cassels, the Shanghai singles champion, will meet W. A. Welch, while Green, surprise conqueror of C. D. Carson in the semi-finals and victim of Cassels, is to play L. H. Wade, the Racers' second singles. The full list of events will be:—
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