THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 18, 1939.
DIOCESAN GIRLS WIN SCRAPPY GAME
Central British School Lose Brawn Cup Tie
MISS P. KIRBY AND MISS V. CHURN GIVE GOOD PERFORMANCES
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KING BEATS SCOTTISH FEATHER- WEIGHT CHAMPION
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Johnny King (Manchester), British Bantam-Weight Champion, out- pointed Frank Kenny (Glasgow), Scottish Feather-Weight title-holder, over ten rounds, at 9st Sibe, at Liverpool Stadium.
The contest was arranged at 48 hours notice, and proved a mixed offering, in which King" always seemed to be boxing with something” in hand. King allowed Kenny to do most of the forcing, but the Boot's pinching was not effective. In the fifth King scored with, a “brillaret - right cross, which put Kenny down for eight. Both men slipped down,
Diocesan Girls' School secured another two points in the Brawn Cup League yesterday at Homuntin when they beat Central British School by 4 goals to 2 after a very scrappy game featured by a total lack of understanding in any of the departments in the two teams.
Diocesan Girls were actually better equipped than their op-after-missing with heavy blows. King, though taking matters comfort- ponents and made the best of their opportunities, although they were woefully weak in the circle where they threw away many scor- ing opportunities by overcrowding.
Their defence, however, al- though matter-of-fact in their methods, cleared their lines and were powerless to prevent the two] Central British goals, which were the best of the match.
BRAWN. CUP TABLE TO DATE
C.B. School
Seaforth L. H.K. Ladies For the winners, their two full- Recreio. “A”* backs were fairly sound although D.G. School lacking in an understanding when- C.BA. Ladies over one of them advanced beyond “Y” · Ladies her line. Miss V. Churn was the Recreio "B" live-wire in their attack, while Miss St. Andrew's A. Chang, centre-forward, and Miss C. Kotewall, left-winger, were also good and made the best of their op- portunities, lacking as they were of any material support.
MISS KIRBY SHINES Miss Kotewall has some touches and cleverly scoops the ball
nice
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TENNIS
PLAYERS
over her opponent's stick although RETURN
she is a trifle slow in getting the ball into the circle.
Probably the best player on view was Miss P. Kirby, Central British School's right-half, who worked like a Trojan throughout, breaking up many dangerous movements by timely interceptions.
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ably, did well in the clinches.
PROMISING MATERIAL AVAILABLE
Police Rugby Debut Against R. Scots
[D. H. TAYLOR & WALL IN GOOD FORM
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speed but hung on to the ball trifle too long. The same remarks apply to Jackson, in the left wing threequarter berth, but bothTM are promising and should improve.
DIFFICULT TASH
Both halves are very experienced [players. Luscombe had a dificult task, however, with a slow heeling pack and as a result it was mostly Police Rugby Football Club made loose balls which he sent back to their debut yesterday afternoon on Wilson.
the Sookunpoo ground where they
lost to a team from the Royal Scots Cullinan, ex-Army second-row TWO OF HONG KONG'S RE- by a penalty goal and a try (6 forward, hooked and was well sup- PRESENTATIVES IN THE INDO-points) to a goal (5 points) after ported by Searle, an experienced CHINESE CHAMPIONSHIPS RE-a fairly interesting encounter. second row forward, Oakley, Jen-
ner and Hemsley.
TURNED TO HONG KONG YES-
TERDAY IN THE HELIKON. Police have the nucleus of a fine THEY WERE A. E, P. GUEST AND team in the making and with SZETO BICK.
TRIPLE SELFISH
Police front row packed a trifle MISS BOUSSEAU'S MISTAKE
se-too high and as a result their Miss S. Bousseau, left-half, was
veral friendly games ahead of flanking forwards were often lifted also very good, spoiling with great
The trip, which was an excep-them, should be able to field a off their feet when the second and benefit to her team, but she concen-
tionally rough one, took no leas fairly strong fifteen next season. back rows shoved. trated too much on her left-wing than five days, the boat leaving
They possess several promising combination of Miss Bradbury and Saigon on Thursday.
threequarters outstanding among Miss Beraha who were much, too. Both players were enthusiastic whom is D. H. Taylor, brother of
Royal Scots were fielding an "A" slow to be effective.
regarding the manner in which the A. J. G. Taylor, the Club vice-cap-fifteen of no particular strength Miss J. Moss is an excellent lead-tournament was conducted al-tain. A modern hercules, this and played with almost fourteen er and should make an admirable though they said that playing un-strapping young giant is fast, has men throughout, Bos coming into player in time when she fully mader artificial light at night was a fine swerve and side-step and a the game later in the second half. tures. At the moment she has extremely difficult.
sound hand-off which he fully ex- Marshall, their full-back, was fair- some very pretty touches with her
The Indo-Chinese tennis officials ploited yesterday to score what ly safe although slow in finding stick and cleverly deflects the ball past an opponent, from a centre, to follow up immediately. Miss Nash has the power to hit the ball, but is afraid to-do so,
GOOD SPIRIT PREVAILS
made every effort to insure the comfort of the visitors who thor- oughly enjoyed themselves on their short trip.
George Choa is staying over for a short while.
A. E. P. Guest, The game was held in a very Kong's players
last of Hong sporting spirit, the bumpy nature fell to a Javanese player by 6-3, to be eliminated, of the ground resulting in many 6-3, 6-4. hard knocks being given by the bouncing ball, but happily there were no casualties.
Miss V. Churn (2) and Miss A. Chang (2) scored for Diocesan Girls while Miss J. Moss (2) re- plied for the home team.
LOCAL INTER-"VARSITY
MATCH TO-DAY
appeared to be one of the tries of the season, running 70 yards.
WALL MOST CONSISTENT
finest touch, while Gibeon and Nealen, fully the halves, were the pick of the back division, although the former was a trifle selfish with the ball. He was kicked on the head shortly before the interval and had to Probably the most consistent leave the field, returning in the
Wall, their full-back, who display- player in the Police team was second half.
and lent valuable vocal encourage- ment in the loose dribbles and lineouts.
ed a sound knowledge of the game. Scots, made a good job of his task Ross, hooking for the Royal He had a very safe pair of hands. and kicked an excellent length ball. Probably his best asset was a cool head in a dangerous moment.
Mackenzie was too slow off the Royal Scots took the lead when mark in the right-wing threequar- Ross kicked a penalty goal for a
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The annual Oxford versus Cam- bridge (local) cricket match will be D.G.S.: Miss G. Darby; Miss H. May held this afternoon on the H.K.C.C.ter berth and was often tackled in scrum infringment and, soon after and Miss D. Hall; Miss P. Lang, Miss ground, commencing at -2- P. Dodd and Miss B. Greaves; Miss V.
p.m. possession; while Morrison, in the Gibson dashed over for an uncon- Churn, Miss I, Hicks, Miss A. Chang,
centre, displayed a good turn
several of verted try. Police had
scoring opportunities, but by run- ning across the field instead of making for the, goal-line, they nullified these efforts.
Miss B. Longbottom and Miss. C. Koto- wall.
sharp.
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C.B.S.: Miss J. Mucfnyden; Miss D. SPECIAL OFFER IN CARPETS & RUGS
Handyside and Miss J. Burroughs;| Miss P. Kirby, Miss A. Smith and Miss S. Bousseau; Miss X. Hyde Lay, Miss A. Nash, Miss J. Moss, Miss J Bradbury and Miss P. Beraha.
ARMY TEAM FOR LAI WAH CUP
The following have been chosen to represent the Army against the Civi- lians in the Semi-final Round of the Lai Wah Cup Competition to be play- ed
on the Kowloon Football Club ground on Saturday at 8.80 p.m. -
Hartley; Watson and Sheehan; Winatanley, Proctor and Wilkinson; Grogan, Courtney, Mynton, Saw ahd Calvert.
Reserves: Jackson Fraser, Rides; Guy, McCullum; and Flanders.
AXMINSTER
BRUSSELS
AND
INDIAN
CARPETS & RUGS
ALL LESS 15%
WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
There was only one score in the second half when Taylor gained possession just outside his own 25 yard ares and scored a brilliant try after a 70 yards rub,' Wall [converting.
Royal Scots: Sgt. Marshall; Pte. Phillips, Pte. Garrie, Pte. Laing, Pte. Laughlan; Lt. Gibson and Cpl. Nealan; L/Cpl. Combe: L/Cpl. Sutherland, L/Cpl. Durie; L/Cpl. Dunsmore, Pte. Mackenzie; Pte. Grove and L/Cpl. Ross.
Police R.C.: J. Wall; V. J. Mackenzie, W. J. Morrison, D. H. Taylor and H. W. Jackson; G. S. Wilson and E. W. Luscombe; E. -Wheeler, P. J. Cullinan, A. F. Rose; J. S. Riddell, L. A. Searle; L. Oakley, T. J. Hemsley and R. W. Jenner.
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