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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 22, 1989.
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Hutton, Bowes And Goddard Perform Brilliantly
Splendid Win For Gloucestershire
London, To-day.-Rain throughout the country badly inter- rupted all County Championship cricket matches, only two definite results being secured, strangely enough, both by counties chal- lenging for the title.
Thanks to two of their Test stars, Yorkshire had an easy passage against Sussex, whom they beat by 10 wickets. Bowes took 7 for 54 to dismiss Sussex for 156 in their first innings, and Hutton made 177 towards Yorkshire's 386 in their first venture.
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Gloucestershire, the other team
Birmingham, win, pinned all their hopes in Goddard, Warwickshire and Middlesex abandon. another Test selection, and again hed with Warwickshire 55 for 0. did not fail. After dismissing Hunts for 103, Gloucestershire passed total by only one run with the loss oi 6 wickets and then declared.
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Goddard then bowled irresistibly t take 8 for 36 and put Hants out fo 66. Despite the simple task confront ing them, Gloucestershire did not fin. run-getting by any means simple an they lost 5 wickets whilst scoring th 66 runs required for victory.
Apart from a win on the first ! nings by Somerset over Notts, al other matches, including the Navy Army fixture at Lord's, were aban doned.
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At the Oval, match between Surre and Glamorgan abandoned with Surre 123 for 9.
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At Dudley, match between Worec tershire and Derbyshire.... abandon: with Derby 338 for 8 (Smith 132).
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A Nottingham, Somersetshire bea Nottinghamshire on the first innings. Somerset-186 (Gunn 5. for 85) and 9
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Yorkshire Scarborough, Sussex by 10 wickets. Sussex-156 (Bowes 7 for 54) and 31: Yorks-386 (Hutton 177; Nye 5 for
100) and 90 for 0.
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At Colchester, match between Lan cashire and Essex was abandone with Lancashire 267 (Peter Smith for 87) and Essex 80 for 5.
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Bristol, Gloucestershire Hampshire by 5 wickets. * Hants-103 (Scott 4 for 18, Goddard
for 36) and 66 (Goddard 8 for 36) Gloucestershire-104 for 6 dec. and
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OTHER MATCHES At Lord's, annual match betweez Army and Royal Navy was abandone? with Navy 40 for 3.
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TEST PROSPECTS FAIRLY BRIGHT
Manchester, To-day-With sun- shine drying the wet wicket re- sultant upon the recent rains, the prospects of the Second · cricket Test-between England and the West Indies being played arc bright provided the present wea- ther continues.
The probable West Indies team will be--R. S. Grant, J. Stoll- meyer, G. Headley, A. Gomez, B. J. Sealey, J. H. Cameron, L. N... Constantine, A. Williams, E. A. Martindale, L. G. Hylton and C. B. Clarke.-Reuter,
TENNIS LEAGUE
MRS. SWEENEY PLAYS HER BEST GAME
After leading 2-1 at the end of the first round and 4% at the begin- ning of the last round, Kowloon Cric- ket Club "A" beat. Club de Recreio by 7 Bets to 2 in the Mixed Doubles League yesterday at K.C.C..
Outstanding lady player was Mrs. Sweeney, who gave her best displa this season. If she could overcome th: tendency to take balls that are going out she would rank high in the Colony ladies doubles list. To overcome fault that loses valuable points she wil need to play at net or on the base-ling not from three-quarter court as she is doing now. Yesterday she brought of her ground shots were always reliable, many outstanding volleying coups while particularly on the forehand.
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Olga Ribeiro again' gave hard-hitting display, and she is gra-
The results of match be- tween H.K.C.C. and. K.C.C. “B” will be found off page 4.
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dually controlling her shots. practice, here's a coming player.
A. V. Gosano was probably the best of the men, most of whom seemed to be feeling the effects of the hot spell. He served well, and his volleying was crisp and well angled.
This was the second K.C.C. win, their other success being against their "B" team. They have lost to U.S.R.C. and H.K.C.C. and now have to play LR.C. and C.R.C.
E. C. Fincher and Mrs. O. Burnett (K.C.C. “A”).
beat A. V. Remedios and Miss 0. ́❘
Ribeiro
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drew with A. V. Gosano and Miss
M. Ribeiro
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beat J. Gonsalves and Miss M.
"Silva
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A. E. P. Guest and Mrs. Clark (K.C.C. “A”).
drew with Remedios and Miss Ri-
beiro
lost to Gosano and Miss Ribeiro 6 beat Gonsalves and Miss Silva 6-1 G. C. Burnett and Mrs. Sweeney (K.CC. "A"),\"
·ARMY- SPORTLIGHT
(By "SQUADDY")
Dates for Army Swimming events have been provisionally fixed us
fol- lows. The half mile race will be held as usual at Stonecutters, on August 28.
This is a team event, each side com- posed of five competitors, but only the first four home can count for points. Points are awarded, one to the first man home, two to the second, and so on, so that the team with the lowest number of points wins the event. In order to give even the Small Units a fair chance in this competition teams are limited to Batteries, Companies and Independent Small Units.
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The Marathon Race has been fixed to take place at Repulse Bay on Au- gust 30. The course is approximately a mile in length and teams consist of "six men, four of whom count in the result. An interesting feature of this event is that it is usually fixed on a 'date which will allow competitors to train for the Cross Harbour Race at the same time. However, for the last few years the Army have had to put
a ban on the Cross Harbour event öw- ing to the prevalence of Cholera. It is hoped this year that the epidemic will have abated enough to allow the ban to be lifted.
** * ** The first unit swimuning gala this year is the Medical's which will take place
Y.M.C.A. on July 29 at the Kowloon. Unfortunately there are no Open Events at this gala, but never- theless there is enough good material in the R.A.M.C. to make it quite in-
Small Units will not be holding a gala teresting.
I understand that the Combined
but the this year,
events which are usually held at this gala will be run off at different times during the season, one at a time, so that the tro phies may possibly change hands.
Owing to the lack of competition it
was
senggested this year that the pre-
holders of trophies should keep them permanently, but after consider- ation of the fact that competition might possibly be keener in a few sea- sons time it was decided that the tro- phies should be kept for competition annually.
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The Army's decision not to give fin- ancial backing to any swimmers se- lected to accompany the Interport side to Shanghai is not a great surprise. I Army very much doubt whether any Water-Polo player or swimmer could be selected on his merits for the side at the moment. The swimming in the Army here now is at rather a low ́ebb and although some swimmers have shown some promise there is no really outstanding. Norman, of the R.A might possibly have obtained a place in the side but he has now left the Colony for home.
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the The Military Police defeated 6 Royal Engineers in their Billiards match this week by four-points_to three, despite the fact that the En gineers won the aggregate point by the narrow margin of 759 to 756. beat Remedios and Miss Ribeiro 6-8 L/Sgt. Ship of the R.E. was the big- beat Gosano and Miss Ribeiro gest winner of the evening, defeating beat Gonsalves and Miss Silva. 6-2
(Continued from Next Col.) The Medicals, rather swamped the Signals by five points to two, winning four of the games and taking the ag-
gafe point by 801 to 668, The aurprise of the evening was. the defeat of Cpl. Wyre the Medicala startst the? nd of L/C. Pitcher who Just now, by 160 to dedien, breakesor 24 Unly other Signal
Saras Gignalman Leut, Dixon 150 or the Medical
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his policeman opponent Cpl. Baxter by 150 to 54. Another big win was that of Opl Whitton. M.Fover L/C. Thompson by 150 to 78. All the other games were fairly even although L/C. McLew of the Military Police was beaten by 160 to 102 by Sgt. Gales. In the other games L/C. Willis defeat- ed the R.E. Spr. Crittenden 150 to 112, L/C. Taggarty, M.P. managed to defeat C.S.M. Raeburn 160 to 189 and L/C. Thomson defeated L/C. Wade, R.E. 150 to 180
Highest breaks were those by L/C. Thomson, M.P. who mustered 21 and L/C. Wade of the R.E. who manag Sated to run up a 29.
Continued at foot of Preceding Col,