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POLICE DETERMINED TO
BEAT CHAMPIONS
KOWLOON DOCKS MAY BEAT
CLUB DE RECREIO
(By "Skip")
10-MORROW the lawn bowls league matches which were not
I played on June will, weather, permitting, completed
With Craigengower “A” in such a strong position in the senior league, much of the interest has left the competition- and whether the Kowloon Bowling Green Club or the Recreio finish as runners-up, does not seem to be a matter of great conse quence.
The best contest to-morrow should be that between the Police and Craigengower "A-" The Police will fight this match. out to the last head, and such a feeling of determination has been expressed by the home team that I am almost convinced they will succeed.
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1935
FRASER'S GRADUAL
DETERIORATION
LUZ VITAL FACTOR IN
CHAMPIONS' WIN
BEBBINGTON SHOULD REMAIN SKIP
(By "Skip")"
CRAIGENGOWER "A" made their position
E el Arculli, the successful Craigengower "B" skip, first, commenced, playing bowls
Club
very secure in the premier lawn bowls league by their brilliant victory over the Kow- 1924, with the Indian Recreation loon Bowling Green Club last Saturday. It is almost certain now that they will win the cham-ARCULLI MAKES pionship for the second year in succession, and for the sixth time since the Club commenced its bowls activities.
They fully deserved the points. U. M. Omar, who was in opposition to L. Guy, just managed to win on the last ̈ ́head. Sending up a well directed shot, be razzled the jack through for a count of two when Guy was lying one, and Omar thus took his revenge for many previous defeats at the hands of Guy.
OMAR 100 PER CENT. IN SKIP'S TABLE
GAME IN HAND AGAINST RECREIO LEADER
CHALMERS RETAINS POSITION
A. in the Second Division last Saturday, beating A. Brooks-
V. BARROS, of the Recreio, made his debut as a skip bank's rink by 9 shots.
-The following are the complete records of every skip for the 1935 seison:
Shots
First Division Table To Date
Shots PW L D F A Up Du Et 13 12 0 1 362, 178 184 0 25 12 12 0 0 290 162 128 0 24 13 10 3 0 202 246 26 0 20
COMEBACK IN
BOWLS LEAGUEM. Omar (C.CC. "A")
First Played For Indians
FINE CLUB RECORD
C. G. Silva (Recreio)
A Hyde Lay (K.C.C.) · A. M. Holland (KBGC) J. Shepherd (Police) A. R. Daliah (LR.C.).. BW. Bradbury (CCC "A").. L Guy (KBGC) ..........
J. McKelvie (KDRC) R. F. Luz (CCC “A”)
F. L. Silva (Recreio), A. W. Grimmitt (CSCC) F. J. Jones (CS.C.C.)-.
J. C. Brown was in difficulties with R. F. Luz during the en- tire game. Try as he liked, he could not get on level termS.
Luz. in this match, reached his highest standard for the A very interesting bowls per- season and he could not have chosen a more opportune time sonality is E. el Arculli. the Crai-el Arculli (CCCB) for his excellent demonstration, as Holland's rink was walking gengower "B" skip, whose rink away from Bradbury's and, but for a great effort by the latter has been largely responsible for at several heads, would have won the match for the home Club. whatever success the team has en-
joyed this year. Bradbury drew into the heart
Arculli commenced his bowling of a well-placed five at one head career when the Indian RC first for the shot, and at another entered the bowls league in 1924, He did this in after having had only a few saved four. each case with his last bowls games. The Indians" invasion of
MITCHELL
BEATS BROWN
IN THE OPEN
Loser Caught On Off Day
POOR STANDARD OF BOWLS
(By "SKIP") Although G. N. Mitchell played quite well to best J. C. Brown by 21 shots to 11 when they met in the quarter-finals of the Colony Lawn Bowls Singles Champion ship on the Civil Service green yesterday, it must be stated in fairness to Brown, that he was caught on an off day.
which left the opposition with league bowls was not then what it no chance of retaliating.
is now, and the following year D. Rumjahn was inclined to be saw no Indian team in the League. a little rash at some of the heads, Although his first taste of the 20th in particular, but this competitive bowls was somewhat can be overlooked since he brought unusual. Arculli had developed a off some of the most accurate liking for what he saw of it, and, bowling ever seen on this green. determined to continue to play in His driving was very "deadly.
The standard of bowls was- jhardly worthy of men who bad reached the last eight of a com- petition such as this.
To be quite candid, last,granted. The Civil Servants have week's encounter between the been rather unlucky recently, and
Brown opened very poorly and Kowloon Bowling Green and the should Fred Jones's rink
come conceded a "four" at the outset. Craigengower "A" laid bare a back to the same form disclosed He rallied a bit after that, how- lack of cohesion in one of the by them earlier in the season, the ever, and held his opponent for a latter's rinks. and it is possible visitors might pull it off. Such a while. His greatest fault was his for any of the Police fours to result would place both teams lack of weight, and he never over- give this quartette a drubbing equal in the league table with six came this. He was also, on occa- Should such be the case, there points each. is every chance of one surprise Unfortunate In Skips at least.
+
Farrell had the measure of Coates and was in splendid form Farrell is always seen at his best on a fast green.
K.C.C. Disappoint
the league, be became a member of the Craigengower C.C. in 1925, playing one or two games for them during the year which saw the Valley Club record their first championship success. - ̈
No. 3 To Omar The KCC disappointed their Later he became No. 3 to U supporters when they last to Crai-M. Omar, and played in this posi- gengower "B" by the small marginition for several seasons. This (Continued on Page 13.). rink has proved to be the most suc-
cessful in the Club.
CLUB TOURNEYS
He was prevented from playing] from 1932 until 1934 on account of health reasons, and his súc- cess this year has been highly commendable when one takes this
C. S. Rosselet (CCC "B") W. E. Hollands (Police) J. Cavanagh (CCC "B") J. Brown (KBG.C)
A. O. Madar (LRC) F. Callen (KDRC) J. Fraser (K.CC) H. A. Alves (Recreio)
S. Gray (KDRC) J. Hollidge (CSCC)
G. C. Moss (Police) L A. Gutierrez (Recreio) A. E. Silkstone (KCC) A. R. Minn (LRC) E. G. Post (Police) K. M. Omar (IRC) N. J. Bebbington (K.C.C) K. Basa (CCC "A") G. Cooper (K.D.R.C.) W. S. Drake (KBGC) W. Greig (K.D.R.C)
R. P. Phillips (K.C.C)
C. E. Marques (Recreio) W. V. Field (CCC. “B′′)
W. McHardy (Police) R. Lapsley (K.D.R.C.) AM. Wahab (LRC) H Nish (KBGC)
TOTALS
fact into consideration.
Arculli's most successful year was 1929, when he
won the
J. Chalmers (TDRC) Championship of the Craigen G. H. Sherriff (KB-G.C) CC beating R Basa, BT. F. Stainton (T.DEC)
J. J. Basto (Recreio) G. E. F. Thompson (KBGC) F. X. Soares (Recreio). H. H. Rose (KBGC)
gower
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Second Division Table To Date
Shots" PWLD F: A Up Da Pts 14. 11 2 1 325 207 118 14 11 3 0 346 236-110 15 11 4 0 335 271 64 13 10 3 0 282 188 94 14 10 4 0 311218: 93 15 9 6 0 302 247 55
·13 8 5 0 247 211 36 ∙13 8 5 0 276 247 29 14 86 0 283 264 19
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Basa's Rinks Carry Off CC.C. Title
The Hong Kong Bowling sion, somewhat unfortunate in his Clubs are well ahead of the choice of hands, and this contri-Kowloon Clubs in their various W. Bradbury and U. M. Omar in his path to the Final He also The KCC are a trife unfor-buted to his failure.
tourneys, particularly Craigen- The Police can win this match.
won the Handicap Singles of the but to do so, must strike form tunate in their skips, and they Mitchell often took the shots gower and Taikoo.
The rinks contest at the Valley Club, with a minus seven mark just a little over anything they are not the only Club who are ex- with the only good wood of his
Club has been decided and Basa's against him, and the rinks con W. Way (CCC). have shown in previous contests.periencing this difficulty. Hyde four.
test!—"Skip" Scores:
rink are the 1935 champions, with one exception, and that was Lay has built himself a fine four. their magnificent effort when they The introduction of N. Bebbington Head defeated the Recreio..
has worked · wonders, but Form such as that, will pull Fraser has gone off form and is them through against their on-only a shadow of his former self-† 4 ponents to-morrow.
Watching him playing last week, 5
the
Would Awaken Interest Outside Craigengower general opinion is that a win for the Police would again awaken interest in the League race and would probably give the Portu- guese team the opportunity of. getting on terms with the cham- pions.
1
DOW
I was surprised at the great dif- 6 ference in his exposition of the game since last I saw him.
year.
A W. Grimmitt will probably 10 be a starter against Shanghai this:11 What a splendid lead hel12 would make for one of the rinks! Silva's Four Deteriorate Kowloon Docks will
15.
Cross 16 17%
has 19
The K.C.C. are due to entertain words with the Recreio, and may 18. the lowly placed Civil Service win. The Portuguese team team and, though their is little received some nasty jars lately, 20 or nothing at stake, these two and Silva's rink in particular was 21 Clubs will probably give specta proved not to be unbeatable last 22
Sunday. tors a fine display.
not operating Victory should go to the Cox's Road bowlers on present form. in its usual decisive manner, the but nothing can be taken for shipbuilders may take the points
INTERNATIONAL BOWLS
Two Games For Sunday Next
The much talked about interna- tional bowls matches
on Sunday.
commence
With this four
I. C. Brown G. N. Mitchell while the other competitions have
4all reached the final stages.
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(Continued on Page 13.)
The following are this week's OVERY'S FATAL
5 results:
N. Drummond beat D. Peoples and
5.
TAIKOO R. C
5
8
Club Championship (Second Round)
8
9 plays T. F. Stainton who beat S. Pel-
9
lock; A. W ̧ Norrie beat J. Watson
10
11
T. Swan; A. McArthur best J. Waid;
12
C. H. Summers beat A. Park and
ERROR DURING
SINGLES TIE
and plays J. C: Chalmers who beat Approach Blocked On
13 plays D. B. Bone who beat A Stalker.
Singles Handicap (Second Round)
F. Pattinson (+3) beat D. B. Bone 15(scr.), and plays J. C. Chalmers (----5)
who beat A. Park (42).
14
14
17
18
18.
(Third Round)
T. F. Stainton (-4) beat J. Waid 20(-3) and best W. Cunningham (~~2) 20 who beat R. Wright (-2) and is now
in the final
--- POLICE R. C
10
11 11
INTERNATIONAL BOWLS
|
of the Shield
The Second Round
International as the other two Recreio quartet-Gutierrez
CRAIGENGOWER C. C.
Singles Handicap
Final Head
BRADBURY'S GREATER POWER AT OBSERVATION
(By "Skip")
The Open Singles match Inst Wednesday between H. Overy, of the KCC and B. W. Bradbury, of Craigengower, seemed
an easy
H. McKay and W. 1. D. Cameron thing for the Kowloon player when are the two finalists in the Novices he led his opponent 13-3 at one competition.
stage of the game. but Bradbury, whose greater power of observa hands gradually overhauled him tion-revealed by his choice of
and eventually won 22—20.
(Continued on Page 15)
tes are on a par with the Docks competition will be played on enter the final and will now play G. Duncan beat A. S. Gomes to standard. Silva's rink definitely Sunday, September 3. The greens either W Way or W. V. Field.
has been the mainstay of the team have not yet been chosen. and, following their first defeat of the season, anything might happen to-morrow.
DORRANCE CUP GAME
(Continued on Page 18)
"SKIP'S" FORECAST FOR TO-MORROW
¬FIRST DIVISION.
POLICE R. C. (42) The annual bowls competition KOWLOON CC. (55) between
Taikoo and Kowloon Docks for the Dorrance Cup will KOWLOON DOCES (44) Scotland are favourites at the take place at Hunghom
next moment, but some alteration may Sunday.
CRAIGENGOWER “B” (~~) take place in this rink, as Holland] ( might be unable to play. In that
It is understood that there will be case, P. Duncan, who should a meeting of the General Committee, never have been out of the team of the HALLRA. next Friday. will be brought into the four with
JC, Brown, as skip, k
The Indian rink have not munch.
GRIMMITT BEATS RAKUSEN
CRAIGENGOWER (67)
CIVIL SERVICE (50)
CLUB DE RECREIO
H. K ELECTRIC (59)
chance against Scotland; 20 A W. Grimmitt, last year's matter how their quartette is Open Singles champion, beat M. N. built.
CRAIGENGOWER “A” (84)
CIVIL SERVICE. (61)
CLUB DE RECREIO (63)
INDIAN RC (-)
· SECOND DIVISION
POLICE EC. (54)
KOWLOON-C.C. (53)-
TAIKOO EC. (-)
YACHT CLUB (52)
FOOTBALL CLUB (43)
In the other match, the Philip the Civil Service C.C. Champion-
Rakusen in the Second Round of KOWLOON=BGC:{[(67 WAS
pines should win, as Malaya have aldy yesterday-winning by 21 not a strong rink.
abots to 17.
sckets
se the result of the
favoured to
FIVE ON LAST HEAD DECIDES MATCH
H. Westlake Sr. (CSCC) A. Brooksbank (H.K.F.C.) W. Glendinning (Police) A. W. Smith (Police) A Macfarlane (H.KFC) W. Ward (C.CC) A F. Paul (HKERC)
G. H. Stewart (T.D.R.C) T. Carr (K.C.C.) L. E. Lammert (KC-C-) G. Logan (Police) H. Overy (K.C.C.)
G. Costello (RHKYC) A O. Brawn (CS.CC-): J. W. Bonnar (EHEYC) B. E. Maughan (EHKYC) C. Strange (CSCC) A Webster CHKERC) A H Basto (Recreio) H. Rosario (Recreio) J. P. Robinson (K.C.C.)
A, Kitchell (CCC) E. Kern (BCC)
W. B. Muskett (HKERC) E. Remedios (Recreio) L. de Rome (HKERC) H. Hampton (K.C.C.) J. Watson (T.DRC)
A. V. Barros (Recreio) A Jackson (HKFC) B. Wallace (TDRC) L.A. Luck (CSCC) W. McHardy (Police) T. Abbas (CCC));
One of the closest and best) J. Purvis (CS.CC) games in the Craigengowe CC.] R. Basto (Recreio) .... pairs championship took place yes- C. J. Tacchi (ECC): terday when J. W. Leonard and] W. Geall (ECC) ... |J. Cavanagh beat Dr. Femando · D. Fernando (CCC) and C. S. Rosselet by 17 shots to E Tuck (HKFC) - 11 to enter the Final The win-J. M. Jack (KCC) ners secured a "five" on the last R R Davies (CSCC) - head
J. Russell (HKFC).
INDIAN RINK AT PRACTICE
The Indian rink which has entered for the International com- petition for the Gutierrez Shield, consisting of E. el Archib, AM Omar, D. Rumjahn and BAM Omer (skip) were seen in happy mood last night when they beat practice rink by 10 shots.
FL Rapley (KBGC). NM Curie (HEFC). A A Lewis (CCC) G. S. Alexander (Police)" EG. Post (Police EC.)" LA.C.B Sogn (CCC) C. H-Basto (Recreio)
J. L. Shellshear (R.HK
TOTALS
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