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R.A.O.B. CLUB AT BILLIARDS.
Junior N.C.O.'s Club
Defeated.
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DARTS CONTEST.
The members of the R.A.O.B. Club were "at home" to the Junior N.C.O.'s Club, Lyemun, yesterday evening and again a very enjoy- able evening was spent.
The usual billiards and darta matches were played with the fol- lowing resulta
BILLIARDS.
R.A.D.B. Club.
Holloywood
Willis
Turner
Elliatt
Holt
Cullen
Junior N.C.O.'s Club.
Seal
Radford
Luckham
Luf
Perry
Wilson
150 160
150 150
150
73
823
88 100
42
174
86
21
460
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ARMY RUGBY CUP
RECORD.
Duke of Wellington's Regt. the Champions.
LINE NOT CROSSED.
“TEDDY” FINCHER IN THE FINAL.
LO ELIMINATED.
Can Rumjahn Stop His . Run of Successes ?
FORMIDABLE OPPONENT.
Lo Worried.
[BY "Bane Line."] A much improved service and a The 1st Duke of Wellington's devastating cross-court drive have Regiment set up a record for the carried E. C. Fincher into the final Army Rugby Cup competition at of the Open Singles tennis cham- Aldershof when they defeated the plonship this year. Yesterday in Training Battalion of the Royal the semi-final, as in the sixth Engineers from Chatham In the round, he won in straight sets. most one-sided final since the war. M. W. Lo, a past champion, was They won by a placed goal, hopelessly outclassed and could not dropped goal, and four tries to stand up against the well mixed nothing, and secured the trophy shots of "Teddy" Fincher, without having their line crossed in any of the five cup matches.
The Dukes up to the final had scored 130 points-without reply in the four qualifying games, but no one had anticipated such an easy They win for them in the final. outpaced their opponents and out played them at every point.
The Sappers were unlucky to find the Dukes at the top of their In their previous games the Dukes had been unimpressive behind the scrums, but this time their backs played an inspired
form.
game.
hla ini-
After having witnessed the com- plete eclipse of Honda earlier in the tournament. Lo must have ex- perienced some doubts as to abilities against the much proved Kowloon player, but he managed to conceal these signa frst set. With the during the
core at 4-all the match looked as if it would not be such an easy victory for "Teddy" as was expect- ed. Fincher, however, found little difficulty in taking the set at 6-4. This was the beginning of the end, Corporal Townend, who played the inferiority complex, which Lo forward in an international trial, had been able to overcome in the always occupies the stand-off half first set, proved two much for him position in the regimental team, in the remaining two sets, and re- and played a bigger part in his pented blunders gave his opponent team's victory than any other in the match at 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. dividual player. His cross-kick- The honour of the highest breaking was often dangerous, and he fell to Turner, of the R.A.O.E.
of
The last mentioned game billiards was taken on time, owing
to the late start.
Darb
Turner and Wattley (R.A.0.B.) lost to Radford and Luff.
Bishop and Matthews (R.A.0.E.) beat Phillips and Luckham.
Cook and Holloywood (R.A.0.B.) beat Gutely and Beal.
Elliott and Tindel (R.A.0.B.) beat Perry and Seal.
Reed and Holt (R.A.0.B.) Jost to Luckham and Parmelia.
The Junior N.C.O.'s Club were rather unlucky to lose by a big margin of pointa. It seemed as if they were suffering from "stage fright" or were they shy of the "Buffaloes"}
At the conclusion of the billiards match the Chairman of the R.A.O.B. Club (Mr. F. Cullen) wel- comed the members of the Junior N.C.O.' Club, Lyamun, and hoped that at some future date they would come along again to the R.A.0.B. Club and endeavour to reverse the results of the evening.
A
found touch, well, but he was less consistent with his place kicking,
Townend dropped a good goal in the second half, and converted a try before retiring in the last ten minutes with a badly cut lip. By that time, however, it was only a question of how many points the Dukes could score.
ENGLISH LACROSSE VICTORY..
Irish Ladies Badly Defeated.
London, March 30. England overwhelmed Ireland in the women's international lacrosse match at Liverpool on Saturday, after leading 8-1 at half-time. winning by seventeen goals to five
FINE SPRINT BY
Loser's Weakness.
Was
It must have Indeed been a dis- appointment to Lo's supporters to see him crack up so badly, but it can hardly be said that he below form-he was up against a combination of strokes which left him hopelessly outpositioned and at the same time proved so dis- couraging to his play. He
Was unable to cover Fincher's beauti- fully judged cross-court drives,
and several times, when placing
a
himself in an endeavour to avoid the inevitable, he found that Fincher had substituted. a
can- |ningly disguised drop shot, which had him instantly at a disadvant- age. When he was in a challeng- ing position he failed at the not in a most surprising manner and his strokes, though executed in orthodox style, lacked conviction:
Weak Tendency. Fincher made many bad mis- takes during the match and tendency to take things easily when in a good position left one wondering whether he is good enough to beat C. A. L. Rumjuha. A disconcerting streak of sunlight across one side of the court caused him some trouble and did not allow him to make full use of his newly. Members of the R.A.D.B. Club
jacquired drive, but, nevertheless, will proceed to Stonecutter's
|he was not by any means up to the R. Holland, a Bedford school-form which he displayed when op- Sunday next at the invitation of boy, on Saturday beat the British posed to Honda. His first service, participate in various outdoor and public schools record at the school however, proved very reliable and indoor games.
sports by running one hundred constantly worried Lo. His base The R.A.0.B. Club is arrangingvious record was 10-2/5 secs.
yards in ten seconds. The pre-line duels were featured by an ac "at homes" to various Clubs and Units on Mondays, and all inter- ested are cordially invited.
Mr. Luff, on behalf of the visi tors, thanked the R.A.0.B. mem- bers assembled for the kind in- vitation that had been given them and also for the enjoyable evening that had been spent in the R.A.O.B. Club.
on
the N.C.O.'s Club; Stonecutter's, to
H. M. MARTINEAU'S
TOURING XI.
First Two Matches on Egyptian Soil.
MOORE AND KEMP-WELCH.
SCHOOLBOY.
Bedford Boy Breaks 100 Yards Record.
London, March 30.
"BILLY" MITCHELL.
PASSING OF OLD-TIME BILLIARD STAR,
MANY BREAKS OVER 1,000.
Followers of billiards will re- gret to learn of the death of Billy
carate length when keeping the ball low, but once he tried to gain
any height in his return he in- variably gave Lo a valuable point. His shortening of length was ex- tremely good to watch, but waa perhaps a little over-done, as sur- prisc is the chief asset of this stroke.
Mitchell, the veteran player, who DUTCH DAVIS CUP
passed away shortly after noon or March 21 at the Firvale Hospital, Sheffield. In recent years Mitchell had not had the best of health, and he was prevailed upon to en- ter the hospital some time ago.
Alexandria, March 31. A century by this year's Oxford captain D, N. Moore, and some good scores, by other University
Born at Birchinlee, near Ches- players, such as W. O. B. Lindsay terfield, on October 18, 1854, Mit- (76), and G. D. Kemp-Welch, the chell had an adventurous career, Cambridge captain of 1930, con and became quite a character in
TROUBLES.
Team of Reserves As Representatives.
Amsterdam, Yesterday:
and T. Vaneek.-Reuter.
GOLF.
HANDICAP COMPETITION
"AT KOWLOON.
tributed to the high total made by the billiards world. He started Owing to Hana Timmer, the as an errand boy In Dutch lawn tennis champion, con- H. M. Martineau's teams in their bia career first match in Egypt, which began 1868 and 21 years later he won valescing from pleurisy and A. to-day
against the Alexandria what was termed the World's
Diemerkool being unavailable, the Sporting Club. Moore's 115 in Championship Tournament, in cluded 18 fours, and C. H. Knott which his chief opponent was composed of reserves, Vander- Dutch Davis Cup team will be had six sixes and nine fours in W. J. Peall, who was one of Mit heide, O. Koopman, M. Wetselaar, his 98. Martineau's eleven declar chell's best friends during his re ed at 454 for five wickets and cent bad spell. Alexandria scored 102 for one In these days of four-figure. wicket before stumpa were drawn breaks, it is interesting to know
Cairo, April 8.
that Mitchell made over 1,000 Last year's Cambridge captain, four-figure breaks, and he claim G.D. Kemp-Welch, followed the ed the distinction of being the first example of his counterpart at Ox-player to make a thousand break, ford, D. N. Moore, in scoring aa performance he accomplished HIGH century, to-day for H. M. Mar nearly 50 years ago. His break tineau's team, who are playing at 1,065 included 350 consecutivo number of matches in Egypt spot strokes Mitchell was re Moore scored his century In the cognised as a master of the apol first match at Alexandria, in which atroke, but he was one of those
The following is the result of Martineau's eleven beat Alexan- Professionals who helped to har the High Handicap competition played over the Kowloon course on Bria Sporting Club, by an innings this particular shot. and thirty-three runs To-day, in Mitchell took part in a number Sunday. The match was over 86 the second match of the tour of big money matches, and was
koles, medal play, the winner be against the United Services, Kemp recognised as one of the best ing W. Hyde B4, 86, 170 less 80 Welch hit ap 103, and was ably money players in the country. Hec. Sinton 88, 89=177 leas
[h= 140,- supported by C, H, Knott, who had was an exceptionally fast scorer,-145, and W. G Trice 88, 92 made 93 In the previous match and had he taken more pains, with
tied for and who to-day scored 59. This, sngt stroke play he would have lineau's team were all out for 808, been credited with a bigger break and they obtained four United than 3,620–Including 880 consecu- Twenty-five cards were return Services wickets for 111 cunst tive spots which was his record edi
.
181 Jess 36 145,-
second place,
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