The programme of ladies hockey for this week-end will again hold the interest its large followers as the long anticipated International Knock-out competition which is entering its second week of ply and is now approaching a critical stage.
Two matches of this series are booked for this week-end but the [highlight of the programme will be the tussle between the British "Blues" and choukuo, billed in a ten-round main event at the Russian Club Portugal, which will be played on er March 21, while a week later comes the All-Amateur Boxing Contest between the U.S. Fourth Marines and the Shanghai Muni-pal Police at the S.V.C. Drill Hall in aid of the British War Fund and local charities.
The amateur card will bring out the best from the two camps for according to reports, the boys are coming. along nicely, They have been in strict since training the beginning of the week with quite a few of them endeavouring to pack a punch which should spell curtains and thus save the judges the trouble of casting their votes. The "kayo" is being developed when it was given out that the contest was to be held under Olympic Rules calling for a decision one way or the other no matter how close the final ta be. Consequently, the leaving nothing to chance,
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