Ang Soon Hoe, President of Rovers Sports Club hosting a dinner to send Chia Boon Leong off to England. Chia is seated third from the left. Fraser and Neave ran a competition to select Malaya’s most popular football star. The reward for Chia who came up tops and the runner-up Edwin Dutton of Selangor was a two-months training stint with Arsenal in London.
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Chia Boon Leong Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore