BE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 9, 1937.
CRICKET WILL SOON BE UNDER WAY
INDIAN R.C. HAVE NO DEARTH OF TALENT
H.K.C.C. LACKING IN NEW BLOOD
·LT. J. W. A. STEPHENSON FOR HONG KONG
(By "ADREM”).
WITH August come and gone, and September fairly advanced, local sportsmen are beginning to tear their minds off the northern "war", events in the Mediterranean, refugees and other equally weighty matters, and make a somewhat belated shortly to join his brother and re- survey of what they hope to accomplish on the fields of sport during the coming Winter.
S. R. Kermani, the Shanghai In- terport cricket, above, is at pre- sent on long leave in Persia and is? likely to return to Hong Kong
latives who are here on account of the Northern situation.
ORDINARILY. OF COURSE, BY THIS TIME EVERYTHING season with the
VETERANS DEFEAT YOUNGSTERS
Novel Cricket Match
In England
The
London, Yesterday.
novel first class cricket match between the Over 30's and Under 30's played at Scarborough ended to-day with victory for the former by an innings and eight rums.t
The winners scored 530, Leslie Ames contributing 149. To this colossal total the Under 30's replied with 256, Goddard capturing f
"giants" of County wickets for 95 runs. Following on.
IS SETTLED. CRICKET CLUBS HAVE A GOOD IDEA OF THEIR Cricket and an extraordinarily suc- the Under 30's were dismissed for STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES AND ALL POTENTIAL cessful tour with his old boys team, 266 MEMBERS OF TEAMS ARE EITHER HARD AT WORK AT the Charterhouse Friars
M.C.C. Team Draws THE NETS OR OVERHAULING THEIR GEAR IN PREPARA- The absence of H B. Neve in The MC.C Australian XI drew Canton is not likely to cheer the with Mr. H. G. D. Leveson-Gower's Many teams have even played matches. I once knew a band Cricket Club authorities very much team, after having slightly the of enthusiasts who used to play regularly from the beginning of but I cannot find
TION.
August Their keenness, however, bordered on the fanatical, there other te absentees from last
trace of any worse of the game.
Mr. Leveson Gower's team scored Mitchell is due back at 432 for 8 declared and 232 for 8 The M.C.C. Australian will get a eleven responded with 301 and 246
for 7-Reuter.
is no other way of expressing it. Stumps would be pitched at 7 year. o'clock in the morning and play would continue until lunch with a the end of the month short interval for breakfast at about 10.00.
Of such material, Interporters are made. To my knowledge, four of those "early birds" have represented, the Colony, all, with more or less distinction.
I appear to wandering. I really sat down to write an article on cric-
blematical whether out it is pro-declared.
place in the senior team
Holden is still available so there
will be at least one reliable bowler "C" DIVISION
to keep an end going. So, with a certain amount of luck and the TENNIS
trend them LEAGUE GAMES
so far last season, HKC.C.-may yet show us all how it is done.
AUSTRALIAN
ket prospects but not being one of several of their experts and, des- these super-enthusiasts, the very pite the constant moaning of my thought of the game makes me per-respected contemporary, Mr. spire. A couple of captains I ap-Abbit, local British firms, with gross proached on the subject seemed to inconsideration, have failed to im- SUBSCRIPTION be similarly affected and confessed port any new public school pro-
given little ducts, and thus furnish them with PONIES, 1938 that they had
thought to the probable compost-recruits, the Indians are likely to tions of their teams.
Three matches are down for de- cision in the "C" Division of the Lawn Tennis League to-day, the clash between Craigengower and Recreio being the tit-bit.
The following is to-day's and to- morrow's programmes:
Drawn Last Friday At Jockey Club
C.R.C. (1) C.R.C. (2)
place two teams in the field powerful as any that have I have little doubt that it as as I would have been the case in nor represented a club that is always mal times, budding cricketers had up with the leaders at the end of
The draw for the Hong Kong
C.R.C an Interport to look forward to in a season.
If the war in the north has done Jockey Club Australian Subscrip- C.C.C. November, things might have been
nothing else, it has at least resulted in fion Ponies, 1938, was made at the S.CA.A 2 little different but as it happens, the arrival of several refugee, evacnee I fear me we will have to be con- or evacuatee cricketers, all of whom are Jockey Club Stables last Friday K.C.C.
evening and resulted as follows. tent with the ordinary run of things potential IR. C. players... with even more interest taken away owing to the absence of our two
Brand No. battalions at the "front" and the likelihood of seeing little of the Senior Service in the course of the
season.
POTENTIAL ENGLAND PLAYER
Among the more prominent of these are S. F. Shroff, R. F. Shroff and P. Kermani, the latter a brother. of Sam Kermani, of Interport fame.
PEREIRA WILL BE MISSED
To offset these additions, all pro- minent members of the Parsees Cricket Club, in Shanghai, so have been given to understand, they have suffered an irrepairable loss It appears that Lient recently in the departure of Fran promoted Cantain, J. W. A. Stephenson Of course Frank missed the Army, Essex, and a strong con-
I garnered one little crumb from the Middlesex Regiment.
tender for the fast-bowler's berth in the part
of last se
England eleven to do service against certain it will be some time the Australians in their next visit, has cricketers will be able to been posted to the local battalion
One can well imagine the stimulus themselves to the idea that would be given to the game locally were such an an personality as he to live among us However, I have since been told
build too many happening, as in informed circles, it is considered that the chances of Stephenson coming this way, while there is a
against IRC with no Fra
to put the fear of the Almighty into
with his fast bowling,
to four their bowling to the
Justy if somewhat -un-
of his being capped for
te very remote.
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