The Archive · 1939

Lido Have Trumps

For the next fifteen minutes or so, Lido continually held the trump cards, swinging the ball from one end to another. Wang, Chang and Woo had a few shots which went straight to. the goalkeeper. Suen drove two shots over the crossbar while Tsao also muffed a few chances.

The Surreys elected to play an all-attacking game during the last twenty minutes, apparently aiming to break the silence. Parr was very promising. One of his shots hit the post on {he far end and he also put over a lovely corner kick. Roberts and Jelly all tried long shots which Loh handled without mistake, Catching the soldiers' defence napping in the 40th and 43rd minutes, Suen countered two more goals with hard cross drives and the contest finished with a one-sided score of 5-0,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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