The Archive · 1940

Tsz Ling Cup Final Today

Italian Navy Favoured; Attractive Programme Of-Football Threatened; Lido Meet Surreys

F the weather clears up and grounds are playable, the season's heaviest as well as most interesting schedule of football games will take place this afternoon.

At the Race Course the Tsz Ling Cup which was presented by the "North-China Daily News" in 1925 for annual competition among junior clubs of the Shanghai Football Association will go into the hands of either the Italian Navy or Maccabi as these two teams have reached the final round.

The Italians are favoured to win as they have a much bigger and heavier side than the Maccabians, The latter did extremely well in earlier rounds, eliminating Jewish Recreation Club in the third round and Area Details in the semi-finals.

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

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