THE CHINA MAIE, JULY 16, 1988.
OUR LONDON AIR MAIL SPORTS NEWS
Edrich In Form
INEARLY
A MAJOR UPSET
C.R.C. EXTENDED BY K.C.C. “B”
At Causeway Bay yesterday, Chinese Splendid batting by Edrich provid- Recreation Club won the Mixed Dou- ed plenty of interest in the early bles League title for the fourth time, stages of H. H. Gibbons' benefit match when they just managed to beat Kow- on July 2.
loon Cricket Club "B" by the odd set There had been a heavy dew, but in nine, the visitors taking all three Robins decided to take first innings sets in the first round and led 4 sets and Edrich promptly made some fine to 2 in the second, only to concede the late cuts off the Worcestershire open-match in the final round. ing pair, Ferks and Martin.
The Chinese took things much too easily as a result of which their op- Quite early, Perks had Robertson ponents shot into a commanding lead, twice missed by Cooper at short fine from which they nearly caused a ma- leg. Robertson, however, did not jor sensation. stay long, for when at 25 Perks and Martin changed ends he snicked a ball into his stumps, the first wicket falling at 30.
BENNY LYNCH AND
WORLD TITLE
W
The Overweight Scandal
PLUCKY FIGHT BY JURICH
(By AIR MAIL)
Glasgow, July 3. THE common practice of champions making their matches, other than those for their titles, at a W. C. Hung and Miss W. P. Yeung little short of a scandal.
few pounds overweight has for some years been When a champion ap- pears in a boxing contest, whether for the title or Brown then joined Edrich in a pro-
otherwise, the spectators are entitled to assume fitable stand, after he had been missed beat E. Blum and Mrs. Bradley 61 'when twelve off Warne at slip by
Kong and Miss Y. Loo that they are seeing him at his best. Martin.
(C.R.C.). beat Gray and Mrs. Clark
(C.R.C.).
lost to S. A. Gray and Mrs. Clark 5–7. beat A. E. P. Guest and Mrs.
Sweeney
P.
H.
by beat Blum and Mrs. Bradley
7-5
One ball from the Worcestershire lost to Guest and Mrs. Sweeney 4-6 To come overweight merely provides him with an excuse should slow left-arm bowler was pulled Brown on to the pavilion roof.
Lee Wal-tong and Miss W. H. Loo where their titles were not at stake. The Boxing Board of Control 6- he lose, as champions have constantly done in the past in matches Edrich refused to take risks, but (C.R.C.). completed a sound 50 in 110 minutes beat Gray and Mrs. Clark At lunch time the Middlesex total was lost to Guest and Mrs. Sweeney 57 not long ago they fined Lynch himself £200 for being over the 6-8 are rightly strict as to the weight contracted for being made, and lost to Blum and Mrs. Bradley 3-6
weight he had agreed to for a contest.
117.
During the interval there was a ter- rific shower. It left pools of water on the wicket and these were soaked up by using sacking.
RECREIO OVERWHELMED
At King's Park, Central British As- sociation beat Club de Recreio by 9
8. C.).
The sun reappeared, but the resumpsets to nil, in the "D" Division of the beat Razacks tion was delayed until 8.15. The pitch Lawn Tennis League. then seemed to be lifeless. Edrich, F. D. Angus and G. H. Fowler lost to Markar and Kitchell
after some big hits, was caught near
(C.B.A.).
the sight screen. He made 65 in two beat A. M. Remedios and E. A.
and a quarter hours.
►
No sooner had Edrich left than Brown fell to an easy catch at leg.
His, bright 54 contained
6's and five 4'8.
Noronha
short beat. M. Guterres and A. E. Xavier 6-0 beat R. Marques and T. Alves.. 7-5 N. B. M. Willis and S. A. Fowler (C.B.A.).
two
po-
Martin found the pitch responsive beat Remedios and Noronha to his leg breaks and with only 3 runs beat Guterres and Xavier
beat Marques and Alves
D. T. Smith and B. (C.B.A.). beat Remedios and Noronha beat Guterres and Xavier beat Marques and, Alves
added he clean bowled Hulme.
Meanwhile Compton played in 'lished style, and he and G. O. Allen
put on 20 before
the tea interval arrived with the total 166 for wickets.
#
*
four
ARMY'S EASY 'WIN
6-0
7-5
lost to Nazarin and Razikk
L. Sousa and Au Kam-moon
8. C.)..
drew with Razacks beat Nazarin and Razikk beat Markar and Kitchell
ODD SET VICTORY
But the practice of boxing at a weight exceeding that which 8-1 must be made for a championship 3-0 contest is bound to make it more 3-6 (Radio difficult for a boxer to reduce to the required weight when that 66 is necessary, and this is appar 6-1
ently what happened to Lynch in 6 1
his match with Jurich for the world's flyweight championship.
At the Valley, Kowloon Cricket Club 64 beat Police Recreation Club by 5 sets
It is notorious that it is
hard
Bickford to 4, in the "D" Division of the Lawn work for Lynch get down to 8
Tennis League. ⠀ ng
1.
st. but hitherto he has always suc- L. Calthrop and A. R. S. Major ceeded in doing so when his cham- 4(P.R.C.).
64 beat D. Orr and R. T. Broad-
bridge
2
A Century By Wyatt. At Sookunpoo, Army Tennis Club beat Craigengower Cricket Club by 9 Geary, captaining an all-professional sets to nil, in the. "D" Division of the Leicestershire side, put Warwickshire Lawn Tennis League, in to bat on a soft pitch on July 2. E. Flinter and H. C. Daniels (A.T.C.). For a time his policy paid, but sound beat F. A. Peterson and S. Leo- innings by R. E. S. Wyatt and Dollary beat S. A. Cassumbhoy and H.
nard
made the position less precarious for the home team...
Sling
-J. Carruthers
(P.R.C.).
and
lost to Orr and Broadbridge lost to Burson and Hume beat Gillard and Hazel
pionship was at stake.
IMPOSSIBLE TASK
6-3 beat H. Burson and L. W. Hume 6—2 lost to M. Gillard and A. Hazel 4-6
PH. Loughlin At Glasgow, however, after Juric the American challenger, 46 had weighed in at 7st. 121⁄2 lb., it 6-4 was found that Lynch was no fewer than 61⁄2 lb, overweight, The cham- pion was given an hour to get the -0 weight off, but the task was tob- viously impossible, and under the rules of the British Boxing Board of Control Lynch automatically for feited his world title.
61
J. Howlett and J. Jackson (P.R.C.). lost to Orr and Broadbridge 63 lost to Burson and Hume Croom and Santall decided to get beat E. H. Esmail and J. Chan 6-2 beat Gillard and Hazel
A. Aslett and J. Emberson (A.T.C.). runs quickly, and in a quarter of an hour scored 24: Then Flamson-de-beat Peterson and Leonard ceived Santalk Next Geary disposed beat Cassumbhoy and Sling of Paine, caught at second slip, and beat Esmail and Chan with 5 added he beat Croom.
60 ..:6-1
6--3-
S.C.A.A. SWAMP C.S.C.C. At King's Park, South China. A. A. beat Civil Service C. C. by 9 sets to 62ail, in the "D" Division of the Lawn
Tennis League. 63 K. C. Wong and K. T. Wong that Jurich became champion, for
00
A. Barton and J. Webb (A.T.C.). ( At this, anxious stage Wyatt and beat Peterson and Leonard Dollery came together. The intro-beat Cassumbhoy and Sling duction of Lester, bowling leg-breaks, beat Esmail and Chan tempted Wyatt, and twice in three balls he hit the slow bowler for 6 to leg. Thursting, too, was
boundaries.
uncertain
I
RADIO BEAT. INDIANS.
At Sookunpoo, Radio Sports Club in length, and Wyatt cracked several beat Indian Recreation Club by 54 sets to 3%, in the "D" Division of the At lunch the score was 122 for three. Lawn Tennis League. Wyatt, batting splendidly and de- M. Sheriff and W. J. Chanson (Ra- termined to complete the recovery, randio 8. C.)...
►
to 50 out of 80 in seventy minutes, lost to M. U. Razack and Y. A. but he lost to Dóllery, taken at deep
Razack
mid-on, with the total up to 188. beat K. Nazarin and M. T. Ra-
The pitch seemed to play quite earily when Ord joined Wyatt, and it look
ed as if Geary's gamble was going to fail.. Ord hit up 29 in his first half an hour.
Ord helped Wyatt to put on 67 runs in an hour for the fifth stand before the new ball brought about the down fall of Ord, taken at the wicket.
Geary switched his attack about, but nothing could unsettle Wyatt until Armstrong was introduced at 250. Then Wyatt mistimed a drive .and fell to a catch at backward point. In
107 out of 200, and hit two sixes and seven 4's.
(S.C.A.A.).
beat B. Bostock and D. Shear-
wood
beat S. C. Peck and C. Brown beat A. J. Peaker and D. W.
Beeken
This does not, however, mean
championships in this country can 62 only be won in the ring. It would 6-1 appear that Lynch is still British and Empire champion, for these 7-5
titles were not at stake.
62 69
P. Y. Kwok and J. Kwok (8.C.A.A.). beat Bostock and Shearwood beat Peck and Brown beat Peaker and Beeken
C. M. Teang and K... P. (8.C.A.A.).
zikk
6-1 beat Bostock and Shearwood beat A. R. Markar and 1. Kitchell 6-4 boat Peck and Brown ? M. Hassan and · D. Scott (Radio beat Penker and Beeken
ww
EVERYTHING FOR THE
BEACH & PICNICS
AT
WHITEAWAY'S
6-1
GOOD PERFORMANCE
Sung No doubt, to reduce
two hours fifty minutes Wyatt scored SUNSHADE UMBRELLA. Water-proofed gayly coloured cloth,
fast dyed, strongly mounted and hitted with brass tilting adjuster.
Price 1500 each.
Cranmer played with enterprise, and at tea-time Warwickshire were 285 for six wickets.
**
Presentation To
-Players
match
Before the start of the Dollery and Buckingham were pre sented with silver cigarette cases as mementoes of their record sixth wicket stand against Derbyshire last month. Their partnership added 220, and enabled Warwickshire to force a great,
victory.
the heavy financial loss which would have re- sulted from the abandonment of the contest Jurich consented to moet Lynch at catchweight, and, after a gruelling contest in which he several times sent down for counts the American was knocked out in the twelfth round.
was
long
LI-LO LOUNGE. Nothing to beat these for fun in the water or of age, and even a few pounds are a comfort in the garden.
each.
Price 1900 MULTI COLOURED Beach Towels From 125 to 375 each. UMBREAKABLE Tumblers, cups saucers, plates etc.
In attractive colours: Blue, Yellow Tango, Green & White
From 50 cts. each.
1st FLOOR
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
As he was probably giving away nearly a stone by the time of the contest, this was a good performan- ce on Jurich's part, and it is to be hoped that the heavy punishment he took will not affect him unduly. It it a pity he should have received it, as he is still under twenty years
tremendous handicap to men in the lighter weights. Jurich is certainly entitled to be one of the contestants when the world championship is decided, and he will probably stay in this country for the purpose. In- terest in flyweight contests is much greater in this country than in the United States, and purses are pro- portionately higher.