BRADBURY AND C.G. SILVA IN TITANIC STRUGGLE Kowloon Cricket Club Still Challenging
GRIMMITT PLAYS GOOD GAME.
(By "SKIP")
AFTER priding myself on at last making an entirely correct forecast in last Saturday's “China Mail,” I heard of a reversal of one of the results as printed in the "Sunday Herald." Hur- ried enquiries revealed that H. G. Cooper actually lost to J J. Basto by 12 shots, but believe it or not, the two skips signed one card with the opposite result, and one with the correct score.
A. W. GRIMMITT
A little more care and co-operation may well be expected by the press, which after all gives our sport an adequate amount of space and publicity. SECOND DIVISION This win places the Club de Recreio “B” team on level terms with their victims although the Portu-THREE ONE-SIDED guese have a game in hand.
The Champions had a good win later, when with the enemy counting against Craigengower, Dick Alves car-five ho trailed the jack for three a ying the day for them by trouncing difference of eight shots with one Basa's rink. The Kowloon Cricket wood. Club secured their revenge for their away defeat at the hands of the Po lice when these two teams first met whilst the Civil Servants gave the Indians a severe beating at the Valley in spite of the absence of Fred Jones, who fell sick a couple of hours before the game. Arthur Grimmit filled the breach ably, Syd Eccleshall coming up as his third man.
C. G. Silva shone at the 20th head when he drew the first wood only for Bradbury to beat him to it, whilst with the scores level at the last end,, the Portuguese skip brought the house down with a perfect draw with last wood of the game.
GAMES WITNESSED
THIRD DIVISION
KOWLOON C.C. FULLY EXTENDED
BY FOOTBALL CLUB
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WETO
In the Third Division, the Kowloon Cricket Club maintained their lenge to Club de Recreio, who resting, by winning well against the Hong Kong Football Club at the Valley.
The Prison Officers' Club had their biggest win to date, Craigengower be ing their victims whilst the Electric- ians and the Kowloon Bowling Green Club also had big wins at home.
- The Kowloon Cricket Club had to go all out to overcome the Football Club at the Valley and there was nothing in it for the first 10 on 11 heads but after that the visitors seemed to get going better and won on all rinks, Jack's seven-shot-margin against V. Walker being the best.
All square at the 19th a four hav ing put Walker in that happy position, Jimmy Jack chalked a five at the next head and then a brace to finish sever in up.
Tommy Carr, after a friendly three, thanks to a four at the inter-change of sixes, beat Pegg by head.
Inst
Only three games were played the Second Division, and the Kowloon Football Club hav- Kowloon Tong ing played off their postponed game on the King's Birthday.
All games resulted in huge wins.] Taikoo accomplished a good feat in the beating Craigengower severely, whilst the Kowloon Bowling Green Club won by nearly 50 shots against depleted (Civil Service team.
a sadly The Hong Kong Football Club had still less opposition from the Police whom they beat by 52 shots.
one the
jack through a narrow port, being of
the kind one dreams about.
COLLYER'S GREAT SHOT The best bowls at the Civil Service Club was on the end rink where Jack THE VALLEY GAMES
Hollidge just managed to get the bet I concentrated my efforts on the ter of A. K. Minu after a tight strug- Valley games on Saturday and fully gle. The two leads, Dai Davies and expected to see closer results at the Jeff Hoosen were both good with the Craigengower and the Civil Service former again in the ascendancy, whilst Clubs, but I was disappointd, especial- Collyer showed improved form, ly at the former club where Alves al-shot in particular, when he took ways had enough in hand to make the game fairly safe for the visitors.
Whilst admitting that the opposition was weak, it must be said that his team played well for him, all shining in turn. Dick Basa was the only play- er to display anything approaching First Division standard but as he was always "up against it," he could not be expected to pull out his very best. "Spuggy Silva and U. M. Omar had a close game, the Valley player securing two fives and four in his total of 21 to beat his opponent by a couple of shots.
win of eight shots would seem to indi- Harry Strange did better than his cate for Dallah got a nap hand at the 20th head. The latter also scored a four carly on but for the most part had to be content with singles.
"Rakusen was in good form for Strange, but the best player on the Civil Service side was Grimmitt, who played a rattling game on the next rink to beat the badly supported Abbas by no less than 20 shots. The Civil Service skip assisted by his Open But the game which caught the eye Rink combination which lost 80 re- and which I admittedly followed close-cently, made "whoopee" at the ex- ly was that between C. G. Silva and pense of the I.R.C. four, which scor- B..W. Bradbury, a decision which their ed only nine shots on six heads. respective positions in the skips table, quite. apart from their personalitics, seem to justify..
They had a great game and one never knew what these
two would do.
NYDE'S USEFUL WIN
The game "at Kowloon Dock very even throughout: Johnny Kemp
was ton hung on to B. Basto to lose by only three, after seeming to be in for a so- At the seventh head for instance, yere beating as the Portuguese play- Bradbury was three to the bed and lyer led by 13 to 1 at one time. Bob ing a singleton near the ditch when Carlos, quite wrongly, I thought, drove to pick him out. In doing so he re- moved his second shot to leave Crai-
gengower with four shots and Brad Bury in spite of being perturbed by players standing apparently in front of the jack, drew a beautiful shot, the very first as it turned out, to se cure a nap hand.
Morrison always had the lead against "Baba" Remedios and won by nearly a dozen, but Glen Cooper after losing a five and recovering rapidly to lead by a couple of shots, could do little else and J. J. Basto chalked up 19 shots to his brace in the following dozen heads or so, to run out by a dozen.
down to "Jock" Fender and Frank Goodwin just scraped home in his game with Orem,
Jimmy Hyde had a big win against Then at the next head, after Mar-Joe Carey at Cor's Road and this ques had drawn a beauty, the Crai made victory. possible as Fincher was gengower skip called. Coates up to view the head: the latter having all the back stuff put in a couple of heavy ones, the first of which improved the position slightly, “Brad” came up with what looked like a perfect shot but just missed, and Recreio got a single- ton: which seemed hard on B.W.B.
Marques, it should be mentioned,
FANLING STARTING TIMES
SUNDAY Old Course
was playing" a great game and his 9,10 a.m. J, B. Harrison and M. Pol-
9.20
stylishly delivered woods were always where they were wanted. There waES- more fun at the 14th head when the 9.24 homo skip with a weighty one, took me out no less than three of Recreio's £28 shots only to see. “C G. draw the 9.32 || very first shot.
Bradbury was playing a grest game 0.88 and earned a round of applause a little
lock, de
E. G. Price and R. Young, J. M. Pearson and R. J. K. Walker.
D. S. Robb and I. H. Geare. S. H. Dodwell and Brig. "MacLeod,
E. R. McKee and J. W. Mayhow.
at the Civil Service Club as the Kow- There was little interest in the game loon Bowling Green Club were all over their opponents. Owing to team alter- ations due to sickness, the home team was severely weakened. Vie Ebbage, skipping for the first time put up the only six shots, but the other two rinks best show in losing to Waterton by were badly beaten.
AN UNUSUAL INCIDENT
Over at the Football Club, the home team were far too good for the Po- lic and there was little interest in the game after the first half dozen ends, by which time the homesters led by over 20 shots. There was a rather unusual incident in the game Jake Sel- by was playing Willie Dall, The lat- ter drove the jack with such force that Jack Howell could not get out of its way. After tentative efforts to es- timate in which part of the ditch it would have rested, the home skip quite do, it being solely in his option to de- rightly asked Dall what he wished to cide. The head was re-played.
CHALMERS' HUGE VICTORY
...
wing
the
The Prison Officers had, big on two of their rinks against Crai- gengower, Tommy Pile beating promising, S. Leonard by 15 and Tota- my Gooding being eleven up on Alves. George Ladd finished up strongly to overcome McCutcheon by three. The scoring on this rink was worthy of note as five fours and a three were stored in the last eight heads,
MODEL SCORE CARDS
against the Yachtsmen, Bert Muskett The Electricians were up all round
six and H. V. Wilkinson securing seven beating George Costello by 16, G. G. S. Thompson beating Bert Maughan by
in the last two heads to beat A. W. Brown. The score cards on this green I might mention were a model of per fection: all namse and initials clearly filled in and the scores neatly recorded. The only fly in the oint- ment was that two of the skips sprawl- ed their names across the front of the cards, Again no names, no pack drill!
were
and
John Dinnen fell sick on Saturday morning and was unable to skip for the. Kowloon Bowling Green' Club against their neighbours the Kowloon Football Club: but Jack Watson prov- ed to be an adequate substitute played a great game to beat "Doc" Smalley Lockhart had a big win against Petherick who scored on only six heads and P. J. Hamilton, after al flying start, always had the edge on
Morgan. Peter.
SPORT ADVT.
of the Taikoo
I never had any doubt of the result Club's game against Craigengower but I did not expect to see such a big win for the home team. Chalmers had a huge victory over Herbert Randall who scored. on only six heads: Bob. Wallace on the other. HONG KONG LAWN TENNIS hand scored on nine heads only yet beat Bill Way by seven, in spite of the latter's six shots in the last two heads. There were twelve singles in the first thirteen heads în' the Munro Rosselet game (and five more afterwards) but Donald Munro got most of them.
U.S. BASEBALL
American League: New York Yan kees 5 Washington Senators 7; Phila- delphia 5 Boston Red Sox 7: Chicago, White Sox 8 Detroit 4,
National League Boston 8 New York 6; Brooklyn 3 Philadelphia 0 and Brooklyn 8 Philadelphia 3 Cinc 4 Chicago Cubs 61
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