THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 7, 1989.
INDO-CHINESE SOCCER TEAM FOR COLONY? To Return Visit Made By Eastern Last Season
WILL ARRIVE SOME TIME NEXT MONTH
negotiations are successful, Hong Kong will be visited in early
If are will be voted in
Arrangements for this visit are being made by the Eastern Athletic Association, and will be in the nature of a return for the visit paid by Eastern during the latter part of last season.
SWIMMING
GERMANY LEADS ENGLAND
The visitors will include several Chinese in their side among them being Sammy Tsang, the former Eastern goalkeeper, who has been in Haiphong for some months.
Sammy Tsang is arriving in the Colony to-morrow for a short holi- day and will take this opportunity of discussing the matter with the Eastern Committee and making the necessary arrangements.
SHORT STAY.
The visitors are expected to spend about a week or 10 days in the Colony and it is hoped that the usual three games will be arrang- 1ed for them.
Out of the nine races held on by the first day, seven were won Germany, outstanding performances being a new German record of min., 17.9 secs., in the 100 metre This backstroke event for women. was set up by the young swimmer Lisel Weber.
The first game will probably be against Eastern Athletic Associa- tion, the second against Hong Kong Football Association, if possible, or against a selected side, and the last game against the CombinedĮ Chinese.
The remarkably fast time of 2 mins 40.4 secs. in the 200 metres breast stroke event for men was
Eastern Athletic Association achieved by Balke of Bremen, this time being unequalled in a 50-me-have also received an invitation to visit Bangkok in September but tre pool.
In the women's
Inge are unable to give a reply one way events Schmitz won the 200 metre. crawl or another until they have decided the what can be done for the Indo- and Olga Eckstein achieved
China team. first place in the high diving.
The English victories were secur- ed in the relay and the 400 metre
In a five-inning game yesterday, the crawl, which was won by T. D. Hutton in 5 mins., 51 secs. Trans-Chinese Baseball Club beat Club de Re- creio, 10-5, when he called the game on account of rain.
Ocean.
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YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL
our athletes, K. H. Bailey, N. W. Griffin, D. G. Brady and G.
R. Harris are taking part in a most unusual race across the Atlan- tic. Aiming to run non-stop to New York on board s.s. Europa, they run in relays and started as soon as the ropes where cast off at Southampton on July 22. Here, you see the four athletes on a practice run just before the ship left Southampton. (Copyright, Fox, by Air Mail).
Kent
YORKSHIRE RETAIN LEAD
The following is the County Cricket Championship table to date:
County Pte. Awarded . Yorkshire
P. W. L.
12
1st Inns. win, but T.match lost W.
6
Result on 1st inns.
L. T.
Pts. Avge.
4
2
20 13
3
3
1
176
8.80
*Middlesex
15 10
4
1
128 8.53
Gloucester
20 12
4
3
156 7.80
19 11
2
136 7:16
+Essex
19
8
122 6.42
Worcester
20
8
7
118 5.90
Derbyshire
17
7
92- 5.41--..
Lancashire
15
6
80 5.33
Surrey
17
7
88 5.18
+Warwickshire 14
70 5.00
Sussex
22
104 4.72
Notts
15
68 4.59
Glamorgan
17
68
4.00
Somerset
19
74- 3.89
Hampshire
20 1
13
40 2.00
Northants
15 1 8
28 1.86
Leicester
15 1 10
3
16 1.00
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H.K. BOWLERS
IN ENGLAND
BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following is to-day's programme The result of the Esplin Cup match of games in the Second Round of the has at last arrived, but practically no Open Singles Lawn Bowls Champion- details accompanied the report, which
ship: also includes the programme, played by the H.K.L.B.A. team which fol- lows: Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Monday
July 17th Essex County (Weatcliff-on. Sea). 18th Croydon
19th Dulwich
20th W. Wimbledon 21st Wanstead 24th Button.
Although the weather was unfav- ourable most of the week, our play- ers seem to have had a very enjoy able time, the hospitality of the var ious clubs being most generous.
Our team met with no success, on one occasion winning on two rinks but being badly down on the other. Three rink matches were played in all cases except at Sutton, when pro sumably some of the players had de-
Only one rink was played in the Faplin Cup, and our selected four (Gay McGowan, Hyde-Lay and Mc- Kelvie) put up a great fight before | being beaten at the very last head,”
hich was entered with the scores all |
At Kowloon F.C. C. G. Silva v, R. F. Luz; Y. N, Tang v. W. Gill.
At Kowloon C.C. F. X: Soares v. A, M. Calman; W. Way v. J. A. Lus,.
At Civil Service W. S. Dall v. C. Dowman; B. Bradbury v. A. J. Coelho.
At Club de Recreio
V. Atienza v, H. Nish or J. C. Brown; F. Cullen v. E. G. Fincher.
At Hong Kong F.C. m. E. G. Post V. V. Chittenden; A. E. Coates v. D.; Fitches.tudies:
At Cralgengower C.C. A. Jillott v. A. M. Holland or H. A. Alves; E. Kirman y. A. W. Grimmitt.
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