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SIAMESE BADMINTON
LAWN BOWLS EVENTS
DRAW MADE
Rinks Ties For
Next Sunday ALL ENCOUNTERS ON SAME GREEN
A meeting of the Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association Sub- Committee was held in the S.C.M.P. Board-Room yesterday
evening to draw for the First TO-DAY'S LAWN
Round of the Colony... Open
Singles, Pairs and Rinks Cham- BOWLS LEAGUE
pionships, and, in view of the
length of time
taken by the PROGRAMME
Pairs event, it was decided to proceed with this championship right away.
The draw for the first round of - the Open Rinks Competition also made, and it was decided to play nine matches all on the same day and these will be held next Sunday, May 30..
Recreio Should Beat Kowloon Docks
last week.
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 22, 1937.
STARS SHINE
FIRST BLOOD IN TWO DOUBLES GAMES
SHAW BROTHERS GIVE BRILLIANT DISPLAY
PATRICK WONG'S LONE COLONY WIN
(By “ADREM”)
CONTRARY to general expectations, the Siam-
ese touring badminton team took the honours in the first day's play in the unofficial Interport contests at Club de Recreio last night, securing two victories against Hong Kong's solitary win.
SHOWING VAST IMPROVEMENT IN ALL DEPARTMENTS OVER THEIR DISPLAYS IN TWO PRACTICE MATCHES PLAY- ED EARLIER IN THE WEEK AT KOWLOON TONG AND RE- CREIO, THEY DISPLAYED THEIR ABILITY TO ADAPT THEM- SELVES TO A TYPE OF GAME THAT AT THE OUTSET, WAS QUITE FOREIGN TO THEM, AND ALSO QUICKLY ADAPTING THEMSELVES TO THE STRANGE CONDITIONS, WERE FULL VALUE FOR THEIR TWO VICTORIES.
Twelve matches in this com petition will take place next Some
very good lawn bowls week, weather permitting, and should be witnessed this afternoon, following the decision of the weather permitting, when Club de Council, all the matches on the Recreio visit Kowloon Docks, where As a curtain-raiser, Chart Shaw, captain of the visitors, en- same day will be played on the
they are expected to be fully ex-gaged Patrick H. Wong, Colony singles title-holder, and although same green.
tended, although favoured to win. he lost in straight sets, he gave a plucky and promising display, At Cox's Road, the Kowloon Cric-albeit rather lacking. in knowledge of the subtleties of the singles wasket Club entertain the Kowloon game.
He revealed that he has the strokes, but failed completely Bowling Green Club and should also in the various phases of courtcraft at which his experienced op- win, in view of their fine perform-ponent was adept. ance against the Portuguese Club For instance, in the first set, imagination and I am looking for- he played right into Wong's hands ward with much eagerness, to a re- All players are notified that in- should experience no difficulty in the court and quite naturally, paid future.
by attempting to smash him off turn visit of this player in the near dividual cards informing them of the Second Division where they the penalty. The subtle Chinese The first game of the series be- the date of their matches will not meet the KCC., while the Juniory" player merely dropped
them tween Oliveira and Remedios, and be sent this year, but the complete Champions should perform similar-short, to leave his opponent floun- Umporn and Lek was extraordinari- draw will be forwarded to their re-ly against Talkoo.
dering in attempting to regain his ly disappointing, all four players spective clubs and will be an- In the Third Division, all homes balance. Shaw's service was also being clearly out of eye The Siam- nounced in the newspapers. They teams with the exception of the quite inadequate, Wong placed the ese pair were obviously overawed are expected to keep track of their Hong Kong Electric are expected to short ones where he liked, and by the occasion and as a result of matches themselves.
smashed the shorter lob-services at trying to demonstrate to the local pro-will. At this stage of the proceed-public that their short game was gramme the favoured team being ings, although Wong never looked not nearly as bad as it has been underlined:
Announced In Papers
The following is the draw for the First Round of the Open Pairs Lawn Bowls Championship.
Monday
(to be played at Kowloon Cricket Club)-
H. C. Cooper and A: S. Russell v. H. Stoneham- and C. B. Hosking.
J. V. Ramsey and J. McKelvie v J. F. Riberio and J. J. Basto.
Tuesday
(To be played at the Hong Kong Football Club green.)
A. E. Coates and R. Basa v A. E. Silkstone and F. Goodwin.
E. W. Hanlom and J. C. Gill v W.
Ward and W, K. Way.
S. Eccleshall and A. -W. Grimmitt v. H. Nish and. W. Robson..
W. Hayward and C. `H. Gough v P E.. Knight and J. Hollidge.
Wednesday
(To be played at the Kowloon Docks Recreation Club).
W. Gill and G. Duncan v F. A. Ma- chado and C. Roza-Pereira.
V. Peterick and J. Watson v A. Warr and J. Cook,
J. Gibson, and J. Ferguson v N. P. Karafjía and J. Pau.
Thursday
(To be played at the Civil Service Cricket Club,)****
G. E. Stephens and P. Morgan v W. Greig and W. Campbell,
L. Glendinning and W. Glendinnirig v 1. Hoosen and A. R. Minu.
LF. Xavier and C. F. Remedios v J. W. Leonard and J. R. Soares.
OPEN RINKS
The following is the draw for the First Round of the Open Rinks Lawn Bowls Championship.
FIRST ROUND
F. A. Machado, C. M. 3. Alves, H. A.
Barros and PA Yvanovich v A. Cal-
The Indian Recreation Club
win..
The following is to-day's
C.C.C. (55)
FIRST DIVISION
K.C.C. (51)
K.D.R.C. (51) ·
C.S.C.C. (—)
SECOND
L.R.C. (—)
C.C.C. (64)
K.B.G.C. (—)
P.R.C.
THIRD
C. de R.
K.T.R.C. (—)
HEF.C. (-)
*H.K.E.R.C, (38)
P.R.C. (53)
K.B.G.C. (52)
C. de R. (64)
H.K.F.C. (~~)
DIVISION K.C.C. (—)
JT
C. de R. (62)
TAIKOO
H.K.F.C. (−) DIVISION
K.F.C. (—)
C.S.C.C. (—)
0.0.0. (~)
R.H.K.Y.C.'(69).
really worried, he nevertheless ap- made out to be, they attempted peared to be sadly out of practice, dropshots at every opportunity and and one missed those beautifully more often than not found the
which middle of the net. placed drives and smashes just clip the side-lines.
Fortunately for them, the Recreio Profiting by lessons learned in pair could do nothing right, Re- the initial part of the game, Shaw medios in particular being pathetic. revised his ideas somewhat in the and profiting by the numerous er- second set and, as a result, was far rors, they took the game at 15–12. more convincing. Apart from an
HIT OFF COURT occasional smash across the court,
From the changeover, the visi-
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he neglected almost entirely this tors were an entirely different pair. mode of attack and concentrated more Playing their natural game, which on deep lobbing, alternated with is to hit hard and hit often, they clever drops. I particularly liked completely swept their bewildered his cross-drops on both hands, with opponents off their feet to win al- Admittedly, which he scored on numerous occa- most as they liked. sions. He made one big mistake, the Recreio pair again tallied however, when going for high lobs aces, but this was due, to a very which looked as though they might great extent, to the fact that Um- have cleared the base-line.
porn and Lek, sensing their superior- ity, went for shots which I am cer-
(*In Second Division last year).
In all ball, and similar games, it tain they would not have attempted (Figures in brackets denote result of is absolutely essential that the ball, if pressed. corresponding, games last season). or the shuttle in this case, is watch-2 Umporn, a tall left-hander,
ed until it is struck by the racket. nothing short of brilliant. He play- H. F. Stoneham, S. A. Bright, J. Beach and R. O. Read v A. Warr, J. Shaw made the fatal error of taked all his strokes with great sever- Ford, A. N. Other and J. Cook. (Ating his eye off the "bird" to, mark ity, especially overhead, and if he Taikoo Dock Recreation... Club).- ig the position of the line, with the appeared a trifle fortunate in mak- L. J. Silva, L. F. Xavier, F. V. N. consequence that when he did strike, ing returns with a blind sweep over Riberio and H. A. Alves ▼ E. G. Post, his timing was somewhat faulty, the back of his head without look w. Campbell, J, Fender and W. Mair. (At Kowloon Cricket Club).
He displayed a rare aptitude foring anywhere near the shuttle, he
FAULTY TIMING
ANTI-CLIMAX
Was
very
WG, T. Colman, G. Duncan and making a return backwards, over rarely failed to send back, and with W. Walker v V. Sorby, C. E. Gaghan, his head, after the shuttle had pass-interest, the hardest smashes that S. Deacon and J. F. Lunny. (At Crai-ed him, but this was nearly always Oliveira and Remedios, both 1* R., Moulson, J. Fraser and F. gengower Cricket Club).-f Callen (AL Kowloon Bowling Green J. Watson, C. B. Hosking P. G. Graig hegatived by the fact that he could severe overhead, could crash over. and. A. Hyde Lay v. G. M. Silva, FX not obtain sufficient length, and Gutierrez, J. M. Silva, C. E. Marques and C. G. Silva. Wong made no mistake with the
The final game of the evening be- Bothelo v M. 1. Me (At Kowloon Docks Recreation Club).
"kills" thus presented.
tween the Shaw brothers and T. C. hitema W. K. Wấy ánd] J. A. R. Soares, J. W. Leonard, L.
Lee and K. Hut, beyond reveal- (At the Civil Service C. B. Souza and C. S. Rossalett v. E., C. Club.)
Fincher, H. Kew, T. Madar and. A. J. A little more experience and 1 ing that the former are equal to the Eccleshall, E. W Simmonds, R. P. Kew. (A1 Club de Recrelo).
would back Shaw against anybody best In Hong Kong, was rather an Phillips and A. W. Grimmitt v A. M. D. W. Waterton, J., L. Tetley, Vin the Far East. He has all the anti-cir The local pair, 'nei- Omar AA Razack, K. N. Omar and Peterick and S. Armstrong v U. M. Omar. (At Hong Kong Football latley, L. A. Collyer, J. A. R. Selby and natural attributes of an excellent ther of hom have played since the
singles player-speed, stamina and (Continued on Page 19) Club.)
JF. McGowan.
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