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SPORT IN ITS CRADLE
GLAMORGAN AGAIN! First
London, To-day.
Two first-class cricket matches concluded yesterday: Glamorgan beat Notts by 10 wickets and Lancashire beat Derbyshire by an innings and 105.
Glamorganshire batsmen are in great form at the moment. Fol- lowing on their huge score against Gloucestershire, they again topped the 500 mark, E. Davis making 134 and Brierly 113.
Notts were forced to follow on when J. C. Clay took ☎ for 77 and were dismissed in their second innings for 290.
Thanks to a fine innings of 222 by Paynter, Lancashire scored a smashing victory over Derby. Phil- lipson and Nutter bowled very well in Derby's second innings.
Scores.
Glamorgan-501 for 8. dec. (E. Davies
134, Brierly 113), and 8 for 0. Notts-216 (J. C. Clay 5 for 77) and,
followed on, 290.
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Lancashire-483 (Paynter 222).
Derby 202 and 170 (Phillipson & for
38, Nutter 4 for 28).
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 6, 1989.
First Soccer
Soccer Ball Was A Dane's Head
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LEGEND says that the first football in England was the head of a
Dane, but, anyway, football is centuries old.
Edward III was not the only king troubled by the enthusiasm with which football-a barbaric game to the twentieth century-was played. England's foreign policy-fighting in France--demanded long bows and skilled archers, but young England much proferred kicking a foot. ball to shooting at the butts.
In Elizabeth's time, one could be imprisoned for playing the game, The Puritans of the seventeenth century disliked such an unseemly game. It was “develishe" and a "friendlie sorte of fyghte", to one of them.
It seents that football, the hurly-burly game of the streets, went out of favour for a century or so, and was not brought back until well into the nineteenth century.
In 1801, Joseph Strutt told how well the common folk used to like playing it, but it was in disrepute then.
Old boys of the Great Public Schools of England met in 1848 or '49, and drow up a code of rules--the Cambridge rules-for playing football using the feet only.
What happened to them no one knows, but the Football Associa- tion, the principal English Soccer body, was formed in 1863 when ad- vocates of Rugby-as it was to become-broke away from a confer- ence called to evolve a national game for England.
The principal clubs of England met at this conference, at Free- masons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, London,
At first the Football Association was not concerned primarily with Soccer, for, ostensibly, it had an open mind on which game it would adopt, and the leading, schools of England, each with a game of foot- ball of its own-Eton, Winchester, Westminster, Harrow, Rugby, and Charterhouse-were called in to assist. The advocates of the carrying game, however, broke away and formed their own association.
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LAWN BOWLS
DRAW FOR SECOND ROUND OF OPEN RINKS
At a meeting of the Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association Sub-Com- mittee yesterday evening, the draw for the Second Round of the Co- lony Open Rinks Championship was made.
It was also decided that bowls conveners of all League Clubs make their own
arrangements to play off their postponed League
| fixtures especially First and Third Divisions, on any available dates, such as holidays or Sundays, so as to prevent the League season from extending too far into September.
All players
concerned are also requested
to do their utmost to play off their outstanding Open Pairs matches this week, on the same greens and days as selected for last week. Green Rangers are asked to make the necessary reser- vations.
The Sub-Committee have also decided to recommend that the starting time of League matches on Saturday afternoons be at 3.30 p.m. as well as at 4 p.m. This is left to the discretion of the bowls convener of the home team.
The second round draw of the Colony Open Rinks Lawn Bowls Championship, which will take place on Sunday, weather permit- ing, is as follows:
D. M. Khan, M. Y. Adal, A. K. Minu and A, R. Dallah v. G. Lee, A. Madar, A. W. Ramsey and T. A. Madar (K.F.C. green).
S. Strange, E. Strange, C. Strange and H. Strange v. R. P. Phillips, H. G. Bicknell, J. S. Logan and J. G. Mey- er (PR.C. green).
J. W. Leonard, K. M. Omar, A. E. Coates and B. W. Bradbury v. J. C. Remedios, C. C. Pereira, O. P. Reme- dios and E. de Souza (Civil Service green).
J. Hoosen, A. Bakar, A. 0. Madar and M. R. Abbas v. W. J. Penny, A. A. Razack, A. M. Omar and II. M. Omar (Hong Kong F. C. green).
L. Lammert, A. N. Other, G. Dun- can and W. Gill v. L. C. R. Souza, W. Ward, W. K. Way and C. S. Rosselet (P.R.C. green).
N. Fraser, S. Farlow, J. McWalter and J. S. Riddell v. R. Ellis, F. W. Channing, W. Mair and J. C. S. Fen- der (Hong Kong F. C. green).
J. Gibson, C. Dowman, V. Chitten- 'den and W. V. Field v. A. M. Calman. M. Ferguson, R. Morrison and J. C. Brown (Kowloon C.C. green).
R. Main, H. O. Gillies, W. Melrose and J. C. Chalmers v. W. McNeill, C. W. Lam, N. P. Karanjia and E. Zim- merns (Indian R.C. green).
J. M. Forrest, G. S. Alexander, G. Perkins and J. Oram v. J. H. Xavier, G. S. Ladd, T. Locke and J. Pau (In- dian R.C. green)
M. E. Purvis, W. J. Burling, W. Hill- yer and M. N. Rakusen v. J. McCut- cheon, S. Hodge, A. Jilliot and C. Gow- land (C.C.C. green).
A. S. Russell, W. Walker, A. J. Hall and R. Duncan v. F. A. Machado C. M. Silva, J. F. V. Ribeiro and F. X. M. da Silva (Kowloon C.C. green);
A. M; Xavier, D. C. Alves, G. M. S. Alves and C. Roza-Pereira v. A. EH. Castro, W. J. Howard, J. L. Stephen and A. Spary (Kowloon, Docks green). H: Overy, V. C. Labrum. Fin- cher and F. Goodwin v. W. Excell A. Eastman, V. Petherick and T. Fergus- son: (Kowloon BG.C. green).
J. I. Barnes, C. F. Needham, J. Wat- som and J. H. Gailing v. A. J. Coelho, F. X. Delgado, D. Rozario and M. J. Medina (Civil Service.green),
J. S. Howell, W. J. Reid, N. J. Beb- bington and AL Brooksbank v. G. Bow- den J. Smith, W. Hobbs and R. S. Men- dows. (Gralgangiwer" green);
A: Haweng J, S. Hisch, S. M. White and S. Raudik vi 6. F. Kemedion A. P. Guttermer 16 Blato and B. Basto
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14 Winners of the match between the rinke skipped by J, H. Gelling and M. J. Medina will meet E. W. Simmands, V. Ebbage, Eccleshall and Af W. Grimmitt (Police R.O, green).