The Archive · 1940

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In the 40th minute Lee headed a beauty into the net from a centre from Chang. The scorer broke away from McCusker and countered right in front of Downie.

From the resultant kick-off Scotland attacked. It took the trailers only two minute to locate the net as Sims cut in towards the posts and scored from Duncan's grounder across the goal-mouth, catching the Chinese goalie on the wrong foot.

Right upon the resumption Cochran missed an easy one from a corner kick taken by Hall. The Scottish centre lifted the ball within a few Roberts collided with Greenberg in the 32nd minute and hurt his ankle. The. inside-left went out for treatment, leaving only four men in the Surreys front line. Jelly was pulled up for fouling. Petterson passed to Foyn who in turn gave the ball to Karoliteh. The latter outwitted Paget and drove towards the goal. The ball bounced off Arnold's shoulder and hovered over goalie Morris to enter the far corner of the net, giving the S.F.X. the lead.

In the 38th minute, three minutes after the opening goal, Garwood made a costly mistake in carrying the ball too far up. He lost possession for Kinsella to dash through the opposition. Schultz could not stop the raider from shooting. Kabbert was beaten by a fast one from point-blank range, Shortly before the interval Austin sent a long pass forward to Dennis. The latter cleverly dribbled past Schultz and, with only the goalie to beat, drove against ihe outside of the net.

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