THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1937.
BADMINTON SEASON
SEASON CONCLUDING
PRESENTATION NIGHT
MONDAY NEXT
EXCELLENT PROGRAMME
ARRANGED
S. P. CHAN IN MIXED CLASH
NEXT
(By "ADREM")
been
EXT Monday, the annual Presentation Night, officially brings to a close, the local Bad-
The 1936/7 season has minton season. the most successful since Badminton definitely became an integral part of the sporting life of the Colony, and it is only fitting that it should be wound up in a suitable manner,
Chenk Shek-kam, above, played for South China "B" against the Navy yesterdayîn their First Division League soccer encounter, which the latter unexpectedly won by 4 goals to 2.
THE COMMITTEE HAVE SPARED NO EFFORTS TO AR- RANGE AN ENJOYABLE PROGRAMME AND ALL THAT RE-Winner: P. H. Wong (Chinese "Y") MAINS TO MAKE A SUCCESS OF THE FUNCTION IS A LARGE Runner-Up: T.: C. Lee (University)
MEN'S DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP ATTENDANCE.
As is usual, on these occasions, exhibition games will be played between the outstanding players of the Colony, a special attraction being a singles encounter between Patrick Wong, the most dominat- ing badminton personality at present in Hong Kong, and the brilliant P. K. Hui.
CHINESE "Y"- SECURE BADMINTON WIN
Chinese R.C. Lose At Bridges Street
Those who were unfortunate enough to have missed their semi-final
(Chinese "Y")
Winners: P. H. Wong and C. E. Chng Runners-Up: M. A. Oliveira and J. J.
Remedios (Recreio "A") MIXED DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP winners: P. K. Hui and Miss Ulian
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Khoo (University) Runners-Up: M. A. Oliveira and Miss
Mylthie Silva (Recreio) MEN'S DOUBLES "A" LEAGUE match in the cham-winners: University "A" pionship, will thus have an op- Runners-Up: Recreio “A” portunity of seeing these two fine singles players pitted against each other.
Wong will be favoured to win, but I am quite sure that Hui will make every effort to avenge his de- feat of last month. At the moment he is the only local player who is capable of even extending Wong, who is generally conceded to be in a class by himself.
MEN'S DOUBLES “B” LEAGUE Winners: King's College Ranners-Up: Kowloon Tong "A" or St.
John's
MIXED DOUBLES LEAGUE Winners: Recreio "A”
...
GOVERNOR GIVES CUP
H.K.V.D.C.
DEFEAT ARMY XV
Fourteen Men Win Hard Game MILITARY BACKS FAILURE
The Hong Kong Volunteer De- fence Corps' Rugby team fielding only 14 men throughout, caused a sensational upset on the Club ground yesterday, when they beat the Army first fifteen by two goals and a try (13 points) to a goal and a try (8 points), although the military side threw away two wonderful chances in the second half owing to selfish- ness on the part of the centre- threequarters.
The Volunteers. had a fairly
without the services of several useful team, although they were of
their best men. They only scored in spasmodic breakaways, their backs, particularly Bidwell, Grieve and Carruthers being in fine form, although Bidwell's de fence was deplorable at times.
The Army were forced to make two changes, Lewis coming into the threequarter line in place of Davies, this considerably weakened and their attack as he was very selfish and threw away a golden chance of giving the Army the lead, when His Excellency the Governor, Sir the score stood at 10-8 in favour Andrew Caldecott, himself a bad- of the Club.
WHITHAM SHINES- Whitham Was
was the better of the minton enthusiast, has presented a TEAMS COMPLETE
trophy for the Men's Singles Cham-two backs, Barry being not so con- pionship, while Mr. E. M. Raymond fident in his kicking, while he was THEIR FIXTURES
and Mr. E. Abraham, both honor unable to stop either Grieve or KEEN DISAPPOINTMENT When S. P. Chan, the brilliant ary vice-presidents of the Hong The Chinese “Y” and the Chinese
College left-hander,
an-Kong Badminton Association, have Bidwell Whitham's smother tack- les had the desired effect and he Recreation Club completed their King's
break- programme in the “A” Division of nounced that he was not entering presented the Mixed Doubles and
Colony championships, Men's Doubles Championship tro-stopped several dangerous the Men's Doubles Badminton Lea for the gue last evening, when they met at great disappointment was express-phies, respectively.
League challenge trophies have Munro and Peers were very slow the Bridges Street, the former teamed by the many who have seen him
fell on brunt of the work
the in action. It will be recalled that been presented by Messrs. A. G. on the wings, and as a result the winning by 7 games tó 2.
centre-threequar- Chan, in partnership with Miss M. Spalding Bros., Mr. E. da Sousa,
ters. Grieve, at stand-off-half, work- Griffiths, defeated A. G. Meise and Messrs. G. S. Brothers, Mr. F. Hshoulders of the
ed very hard although he found Mrs. Burton the Shanghai players, Kwok, Messrs. Dunlop Rubber Co.,
some difficulty in taking the passes in the exhibition matches held last and Rev. J. R. Higgs, President of October..
from Redman, who was handicap-
the Association.
aways.
The C.R.C. turned up one man short, and as a result S. W. Liang had to partner H. C. Ho in his first and third game, H. W. Ho partner- ing him in the second game.
The Chinese "Y" have lost only Added merit is given to this re- four fixtures out of the 14, one to sult by news, recently received Mrs. J. R. Higgs, following which, Ped to a certain extent by sluggish
from the north, which states that Meise and Mrs. Burton have just been crowned mixed doubles cham- pions of Shanghai.
the University "A," two to Recreio "A", and one to the Chinese RC, when they met them at Causeway
Bay.
Last night's result was as fol- lows:
C. E. Chng and T. W. Wong (Chinese "Y") beat. C. Y. Yung and H. W. Ho 21-16 beat S. W. Liang and P. C.
Leung
21-12 beat H. C. Ho and S. W. Liang 21-17
Fred Koh and T. J. Ong,
(Chinese "Y"
* Prizes will be presented by
the Club pack. there will be dancing to the strains heeling on the part of
Bradford, Watson, Dunnett and of Micky's Melody Makers Band.
Cost of admission $1.00.
Salter were the pick of the pack, and were always in at the death.
In view of the fact that the The Colony Snooker Champion- standard of the game in Shanghai ship commenced yesterday evening is acknowledged to be far above with two matches in the first round, that in Hong Kong, as the visit of F. A. Noronha defeating E. Zim- the Eliot Hall team, some time ago mern, at the Club Lusitano by 132 more than amply demonstrated, points to 125, and H. R. Sequeira at the Craigén- idea
of beating G. Singh of the standard Chan's doubles game can be fairly gower C. C. by 154 points to 112. accurately guaged.
some
FLOYD DANGEROUS : Davenport was not given many chances to shine and actually the brunt of the task of scoring fell on the shoulders of Floyd, who, after his very fine try, was a mark- ed man and could accomplish little. Jones und Wilkins worked very (Continued from next Col.)
hard on the two wings, but likewise MIXED EXHIBITION –
terval Bidwell made one of his found their passage barred. Preece. Chan, in partnership with Miss
send was, as usual, very good at characteristic breakaways to W. Cheung, also of the C. R. C. will 21-11 be seen in action against E. L. H. Grieve over for a Volunteer score, base of the Army scrum, but his Shute, who was also an absentee the latter adding the goal points hard running and sudden
himself.
throughs should have resulted scores once or twice.
Morgan, Harrison, Chaney and Bebb were the pick of the pack,
.21 6 21-6
beat Yung and Ho
beat W. Liang and Leung
beat Ho and H. W. Hơ
Henry Koh and S. Y. Hong (Chinese "Y")
lost to Yung and Ho beat Liang and Leung. lost to Ho and Liang
University
LEAGUE TABLE
"A"
Recreio
Chinese
Y.M.C.A
Recreio C.R.C. -University
"R" St. ndrew's
Free Lances.
29
P. W. L. FA. Pts.
the
cut-
from the championships, and either
The second half opened with the Miss U. Khoo, mixed doubles. title- holder with P. K. Hui, or if she is Club attacking, and Bidwell made another breakaway to score а unfit, Miss M. Silva, who, last Tues- day, revealed herself as being very fine try which Grieve improv- but Harrison's knee troubled him among the first three lady players ed upon. Just before the end, Peers and he was compelled to drop out of the Colony.
scored an unconverted try in the of the game for a short while.
MORGAN'SCORES A men's doubles game will com corner.
Morgan opened the scoring with plete the programme of exhibitions. H.K.V.D.C.-J. P. Whitham; W. E a try in the corner which Gillespie after T. C. Lee and K. L. Yong, of the Peers, H. D. Bidwell, Carruthers, K. A. failed to convert, and soon University, will play against M. A Munro, W. E. Grieve and F. A. Red-Floyd cut through în brilliant fa- Oliveira and J. J. Remedios of Re-man; M. S. Cumming, K. W. Salter, shion to cleverly sell the dummy to
M. Scott, I. H. Bradford, B. Hynes; Whitham, and score between creio, and a very keen game is cer- A Watson, and J. S. Dannett. tain to eventuate. 6T PRIZE WINNERS
14 13 1 69 21 26
12 10 2.81 27 20
14 10 477 49 20
18 8 5 50 55 16 14 6 8 49 88 12. 13 3 10 39 68
14 8 11 45 75
6
14 1 13 31 7752
The following is the complete list of (prize-winners;
MEN'S SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP
The teams are:-
Army-Berry; Jones, L/Cpl. Lewis, posts, Gillespie adding the Lt. Davenport and Wilkins; Floyd and points. Preece; Lt. Lincoln, Fua. Hoolahan,
the goal
Watkins, Bebb, Chaney, Morgan, Cpl. A few moments before the Harrison and Capt. Gillespie.
Continued at foot of preceding Col.