The Archive · 1941

W.D.P.S. Triumph 5-1 Over Cathedral School

Swift Attack in Opening Stages Proves Decisive Storming into their opponents with a thrusting, whirlwind attack that carried all before it in the opening stages of the game. the western District Public School junior soccer team defeated the Cathedral School juniors by the decisive margin of five goals te one in & match played on the latter's ground yesterday. Battered and bewildered by the unexpectedness and the speed of the sudden "blitz-greig," the Cathedral schoolboys allowed their opponents to net their entire total of five goals within the first 25 minutes of the game before they awoke to a full realization of the desperate nature of their situation, In those amazing opening seconds the W.D.P.S. boys launched an unceasing barrage of shots at the Cathedral citadel and a deluge of goals was the result, until they were suddenly halted in their tracks by a team that had taken a new lease ort Life in the nick of time. Chang opened the scoring in the eighth minute and four more goals were slammed in in quick succession by Nissim, Koreisha and Villas (2).

Staging a rémarksble recovery towards the end of the first half. the Cathedral schoolboys rallied hard and fumed the tables on their sesressors in the second session by taking the offensive for the first time. Scott tellied otice to reduce the leeway to 1-5 and then both sides went at it 3|hammer and tongs. Neither team. however, could make any further headway and though the battle raged desperately on until the final whistle, the score remained unaltered. That opening blow of the W.D.P.S. when they attacked like fury to net those five. lightning goals, proved the decisive factor of the match, and the Picture An ANATOLE LITVAK Production

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