BOWLS INTERPORT PRACTICE
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1939.
Little Purpose Served SPORTS By Sunday's Game PARADE
(By "SKIP")
"HERR Hitler stayed here a fortnight ago. This was his bedroom.”
So
QUITE A NUMBER OF spectators turned up at the James Allen, £10,775 centre half and Kowloon Bowling Green Club on Sunday afternoon to see he was ushered into his apartments captain of Aston Villa, was told as the Interporters tried out by rinks skipped by A. W. Grim-recently at a luxury hotel at Baden- mitt and R. Duncan, and quite a number went away before Baden, Germany, writes an English there was an interval for tea: and one could hardly blame sports critic. It's the German way of doing things now money-football them, as, on one rink at any rate, the scratch rink was very gates included-cannot come out of weak and put up no sort of a fight.
the country. British teams are given luxury trips-swell liners, swell hotels, paid. But no share of the gates their everything first class. All expenses
also came away with a £45 camera players
a piece. The German F. A. spent £5000 on the Villa's three-weeks' tour.
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Quite a number of spectators turn-Channing right off his game-which ed up at the Kowloon Bowling is another point in favour of having Green Club
after more than one trial match: I said in Sunday on noon to see the Interporters tried my notes last week, that Channing out by rinka skipped by A. W. Grim- should have walked into the team in mitt and R. Duncan, and quite a
the trial game, yet, had he been number went away before there was selected on that day's play, as others an interval for tea:
and one could apparently were, where would we be? hardly blame them, as, on one rink at any rate, the scratch rink was very weak and put up no sort of a fight,
Dall played a pretty consistent game and might have done better had his opponent been stronger; but Rus- On this rink, Grimmitt skipped again-sell had an off day and not only fail- st A. J. Hall, the former had F. Chan-ed to put down a good wood, but most ning, J. Russell and J. C. Chalmers of his bowls were really bad. He in front of him whilst J. S. Landolt, must have been very disgusted with W. S. Dall and B. W. Bradbury were himself. Hall's front men.
I was rather surprised to see the composition of the two “Shanghai" rinks as I thought that a potential rink would have been tried out; one that the Captain liad in his mind as being his first Interport team.
That such was not the case is proved by the playing of one reserve in each of the rinks, No doubt the Captain is waiting until he gets to Shanghai to see how the players take to the fast greens, and thus he can- not be seriously criticised for doing so, for after all nearly a month will elapse before the first Interport game takes place, IF IT DOES!
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brothers, Eric
THE cricketing twin
and Victor Bedser, brought into the Surrey team a few weeks back, are so much alike that, in a club game the scorer put down the runs scored by Victor to Eric, and the wickets secured by Eric to Victor. One of them usually wears an armband to distinguish him from his brother.
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Hall was always handy and did | INDICATING that Spain intends to good work with his short ones--and return to world sport participation, he does like them short. Grimmitt was the National Council of Sports recent- playing a lone hand for the mostly approved part, as even Chalmers, as his right sentatives for the
the entering of repre- 1940 Olympics at hand man, was off his game.
Helsingfors. Spain may also send a hockey team to the world champion- ships at Amsterdam in 1940.
OMAR'S BRILLIANCE
On the adjacent rink Bob Duncan's four put up sterner opposition to
Omar's rink and eventually ran out
winners by two shots.
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AAR. Robert Weatherhead Kenyon, of
Horrobin Lodge, Turton, Lan- cashire (Eng.), for many years a mem- ber of the Turton Urban Council and a former chairman of the Bolton Wan- derers F.C., left £85,018 gross, with net personalty £73,958. Apart from family bequests he left £1000 to his friend, Mrs. residence, furniture, and a row of cot-
Elsie "Lord, and
tages in Bromley Cross to her for life.
his
It would be little exaggeration however to say that Walker as lead won the match for the Kowloon Rink. He never put down a bad wood and was uncanny in his drawing to the jack. So it can well be understood why George Duncan was overshadow- ed, though he did not play at all well, Charlie Silva and Sam White were patchy only, both putting up good woods on occasion, whilst Field was the better of third men, Carey failing to find his touch with either a draw or a drive. U. M. Omar' was as good as ever and it was due to his brilli-match for £500 a side, he did not re- Landolt was patchy but found ance that the scores were so close.
I have said that the opposition to Hall's rink was weak but had it been a good deal stronger the honours would I think still have gone to the "select- ed" as they were playing quite well together, with Bradbury at Number
Three probably the best of the eight on view.
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WHEN Bobby Locke, South Africa's whitcombe, former holder of the Bri-
golfing wonder, defeated R. A..
tish Open title, in
a recent challenge,
ceive the £500 The money was put up by his backer, Norbert Erleigh, a South African mine magnate, who in cidentally started Locke on his golf career by sending him to Britain for the amateur title hunt. Erleigh, in put- ting up the £500, guaranteed Locke a present of £150, win, lose, or draw. But Erleigh, though entitled to, did not keep the £500, He handed it to a deserving charity.
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ENGLAND'S GOLF TEAM
London; August 17.-A strong team will represent England in the amateur golf international matches which be- gin at Royal Lytham and St. Anne's on September 20. It is
8. E. Banks (Hillamahiro). A. L. Bentley (Hesketh). H. G. Bentley (Hesketh).
L. G. Crawley (Brancepeth Castle). J. E. Gent (Bradford Moor).
E. Nugent Head (Addington).
8. Lunt (Moseley).
C. W. Mole (Calcot).
J. J. F.. Pennink (Royal Ashdown
- Forest).
C. Stowe. (Penn).
T. J. Thirsk (Bridlington) (capt.). C. W. Timmis (Royal Liverpool), Reserves E. Bromley-Davenport (Wilmslow), E. W. Fiddian (Stourbridge, K. (Thorpe Hall).
LAWN TENNIS
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BRITISH WIN
IN STATES
Brookline (Mass.) August 17--After
a very hard match, in which the first set went to 22 games, Miss B. Nuthall and Miss N. Brown, of the British Wightman Cup team, beat the Ameri- can pair, Miss D. Bundy and Miss M. Arnold by 12-10, 6-3. They thus en- tered the quarter-final round where- they meet the holders of the cham- pionship, Miss A. Marble and Mrs. S. D. Fabyan.
There were several thrilling vol- leying duels in the long first set. Miss Brown did some neat work at the net, and combined well with Miss Nuthall, who hit very hard, especially on the forehand.
MASKELL'S. WIN
London, Aug. 17.-Dan Maskell, the Davis Cup coach, had an easy first- round victory in the professional lawn tennis championship, of which he is the holder, at Eastbourne yesterday. He lost only three games in defeat- ing F. C. Hare (Ascot), 6-0, 6-0, 6-3.
A. C. Roberts (Torquay) was un- lucky in his game against E. H. Ten- through a leg ton, having to retire strain when leading.
then, in two matches, helped to dis- A "Sunday Express" item recently miss ten batsmen for Leicestershire, is very interesting: "Dawkes has all caught behind the wicket. Against now done a singular thing. When he Oxford University' in the previous caught two of the West Indies he had match he had, made eight catches."
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