A strong forward line that constantly kept the ball within scoring distance of the Aurora goal netted the St, Francis Xavier a 7-1 victory over the French university in the first soccer match of the seas played at the Canidrome yesterday morning. A friendly match between the two first-league teams, only a few enthusiasts, not more than 300, turned out to witness the game.
Play was quite interesting during the first period, the opening twenty minutes being especially good.
Aurora drew first blood in the eighth minute through their inside-right, C. M. Ling. The Saints were slow to start. It took them twenty minütes to get warmed up when Freddie Foyn received a fine pass from Karolich and netted. Chang, the goalie, came out to stop the ball but Foyn eluded him completely and kicked into an open goal.
A few minutes later Paterson, inside-left, garnered the second goal for the Saints. Foyn was robbed of a sitter by Tsiang, the fullback, and the ball went out, After the resultant goal-kick, M. Greenberg passed to Paterson, who dribbled up and shot a hard one into the top corner of the net Ten minutes from half-time Paterson tallied his second goal from a perfect corner taken by Foyn. The ball soared over a bunch of players in the goal-mouth for the inside-left to counter, giving Chang no chance to save. The Aurora team put up a Gesperate fight but the forwards were too slow to cope with the defensive play of Stangard and Borodin. Three minutes to the rest period Foyn evened Paterson's, performance by tallying a long shot about twenty yards out.
Upon the resumption the Saints continued to press. Foyn scored in the fifth minute but the point was disallowed as Edwards had violated the off-side rule. Later the flectfooted outside-right succeeded registering his third goal when hid angular shot hit the post and deflected into the net. The Saints missed a penalty kick in the middle "aaas
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