THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 12, 1938.
RECREIO'S MIXED DOUBLES TEAM
LAWN BOWLS
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canny in his drawing to the jack, and was ahead of Cheesman most of the way. Ted Thompson, at No. 2 for the Kowloon side, made up much leeway in a fine exhibi- tion, but Hall, although playing some great shots, was not consis- tent. The only visiting skip to win was Bob Duncan, pitted against Dick Basa, and he and his men had à grand spell midway through the game and scored 10 shots to give them a useful lead.
NO SIREE!
"Standing em up" is
never
claimed by a player using a bow! "beyond reproach," and the best medicine for those birds who claim to "stand 'em up," providing you
· can show them a well-drawing bowl, is to hand them one of your set when the green is fiery and say: "Here, stand this one up!" Like the wise rodent that beholds a morsel of cheese dangling from a suspicious-looking contrivance, they "won't be taking any of THAT."
Strong Lineup For "B" Division
Craigengower Decide On Pairings
H.K.C.C.'S PROBABLE MIXED
DOUBLES PLAYERS
(By "REFEREE”)
Omur and Joe Meyer followed suit im-
IN YESTERDAY'S İSSUES OF THE “CHINA MAIL” I COM- Joe Landolt, whom I heard de-mediately afterwards, against Cavan-.
agh.
MENTED UPON SEVERAL OF THE CLUBS TENNIS PLAYERS scribed as the "brainiest lead in
Logan managed to pull up # few FOR THE FORTHCOMING LAWN TENNIS LEAGUE SEASON, Hong Kong," did not have it all against Marcus Souza, but the last
THE MIXED his own way
with John Watson, head arrived with the homesters need- WHICH COMMENCES NEXT MONDAY, WITH
DOUBLES LEAGUE AND I CONTINUE TO-DAY WITH SEVER- but he just had the edge.. It was ing to count two on Meyer's rink.
Cavanagh was lying two, one side AL OTHER TEAMS. Ernie Lines, however, who was so of the jack about a foot away and good at this stage of the game, and tried to block. His opposite number
Although Club de Recreio have not finally decided upon their he needed to be, for Alfred Coates succeeded in trailing the jack a little, pairings for the Mixed Doubles League for the season, the follow- was in deadly drawing form, though but made no difference to the count. ing will probably open for them on Monday next:
Cavanagh again failing to block, Meyer not so good with the few weighty drove heavily in an effort to carry the
A. V. Remedios and Miss Marle Ribeiro. ones which he was called upon to fuck to one of his woods the only
A. V. Gosano and Miss Cissy
deliver.
back-wood on a short head. He was J. B. Gonsalves and Miss Alice wide with his drive, but wicked-in to and knock his first toucher just far enough carry the jack, follow through
Sam White found his
game after tea when Lines dropped off a
In addition, C. A. Barretto and, little, whilst the two skips were alto count three for the match a J. J. Remedios will also be avail- ways doing more than useful work, better reward than the shot_deserved. able as reserves should the occa-
The Police and Civil Service
SEVERE DEFEAT
sion arise. Among the lady match ended up in an unexpectedly
The Civil Service juniors sus-
reserves are Miss Marie M. Alves easy win for the home team, only tained a severe defeat at the hands and Miss A. C. Remedios. Jack Hollidge winning for the Civil of Recreio, only Syd Eccleshall be- to hold his man, J. J. Servants, and that by a bare shot. ing able
STRONG PAIRINGS had the biggest He had a wonderful game with Bill Basto. B. Basto
The three pairs above will play Hollands, an exceptionally high stand-win for the home team as he had whenever possible, and represent ard of bowls being played by all eight the better of A. B. Allan by a the best in the Club. Miss Cissy of the players.
dozen or more, but F. X. Soares, Botelho, who is paired with A. V.
the match I asked him who was the
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Botelho. Roza.
above will be given a chance, as the three last named players are of almost equal strength.
C.C.C. DECIDE
Speaking to one of the eight after who I am sure likes skipping in Gosano, is the present holder of Craigengower Cricket Club held
teams:
“B” DIVISION J. W. Leonard and G. Choa. W. J. Howard and G. Lai. F. R. Zimmern and R. Choa.
star turn and he replied that the whole this division better than playing in the Recreio Ladies' Singles Cham-a meeting the other night to dis- cight were, at various periods of a low the premier League, was also well pionship, while Miss Alice Roza,
cuss League tennis prospects and scoring game..
He made a great recovery who is paired with J. B. Gonsalves, decided on the following pairings Sherriff and Perkins were three-after being seven down at the mid- the present holder of the Men's for their "B" and "C" Division all after six heads, but after that,
way stage.
title, was a former lady champion the latter galloped away from his
A peculiar feature about Cook's of the Club. opponent and finished up 16 to the score was the fact that although his
Recreio are making a firm bid to good in a contest in which the visi-rink scored on only seven heads, they establish their mixed doubles team tors were not favoured by the run chalked up a six and five. And speak
ing of peculiarities, it may be noted and will probably take some time of the woods.
that Eccleshall and J. J. Basto had a in settling down. They are, in their In the remaining match, both dead head as the finish to their 17-all present formation, a formidable Shepherd and Moss enhanced their match! reputations. Man for man the home team were out-bowling their guests, even Sam Randle being unable to play up to anything like his normal
game.
TAIKOO DO WELL
team on paper, but how well they
“C” DIVISION
W. Rapley and D. Hung. T. Lock and A. Kitchell.
A. R. H. Esmail and G. Winch. They are undecided at the mo- of ment about the composition their "D" Division line-up, and the team will be selected from the following players:
and G. Ladd.
The Taikoo team did well to beat will fare in the League remains to the Police seconds, two of their be seen. rinks being up and only Joe Carey DEPENDENT ON “A” SELECTIONS scoring_for_the_visitors. It was. Recreio-are_at_present_uncertain In the Second Division, the Keown who carried the day, though of their line-up for their "B" Divi- H.K.F.C. “A” team more than as he was 15 to the good at the sion team, and are dependent at
Dr. C. W. Lam, A. Zimmern, H. justified expectations as they finish. Munro just pipped Teddy the moment on the "A" Division literally swamped the "B" Booker by one shot.
selections.
"A" | P. Lim, T. Leonard, E. Zimmern, Should Recreio team, setting up some records After their big win against Hong Division team be the same as last Wee Tong-lee, O. Sadick, V. Souza which are not likely to be Kong Football Club, the previous year, then their "B" team will be beaten this season.
week, I fully expected to see K.C.C. fairly strong. Remarkable as it may seem, when beat Craigengower, but they went As the position now stands, their 11 shots on the Cox's "B" Division team will probably the overwhelming majority is con- down by sidered, two of the rinks, skipped Road Green, Hughie Nish and Lilli-be: by Haynes ("A") and Brooksbanks crap figured in a very low-scoring ("B") actually finished up all game, with the former just win- square. Jack Rodger had the huge ning by virtue of a three and a win of 44 shots to 7 scoring four singleton, on the last two ends. But fours, a five and a seven in this his was the only home win, for Tom total, and Walter Gill overcame Dr. Carr was similarly beaten by At- Selby by 22 shots, the whole side kins, and Penney's team was al-cided scoring a total of 91 shots to their ways having the better of Hirst's that opponents' 32.
four, to win by eight shots.
"VIC". CHITTENDEN STARS: A different story has to be told of the match between Craigengower and In the match between Kowloon Kowloon Bowling Green Club, at Aus-Football Club and Kowloon Tong, tin Road, for there was only one shot which the Chatham Road men won in it at the finish!
Nine shots to the good all round, and by a narrow margin, Vic Chitten- only three heads to go, it looked den was one of the bright stars good thing for the home team, but for, although Bob Lapsley's rink, first of all Drake lost a six to K. Min which he was third man, won
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by only three, it was Chittenden who made the victory possible. He was saving time and again and made. Lapsley's task simply one of placing blockers in.
Field had another good win,' overcoming Harry Gittins by a big majority: it is no figure of speech to say he overcame Gittins, as I be lieve this skip played a marvelous game and was responsible for prac-
L. A. Carvalho and M. A. Oli veira.
The Hong Kong Cricket Club, al- though they are by no means de- cided on partners, will be fielding a fairly strong team in the Mixed Doubles League. Their men will probably be selected from H. Owen Hughes, H. J. Armstrong, T. A. Pearce and W. Sander, while the L. A. Silva and L. F. V. Ribeiro,
ladies will be Mrs. Lindsay (nee or W. A. Reed or A. M. Silva. The last pairing is not yet de- Joan Massey), Mrs. J. P. Whitham and it is quite on the cards and probably Miss D. Dodwell, all all the players mentioned 1of whom are fairly good.
J. J. Remedios and Dr. A. M. Rodrigues.
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