THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1940
CRICKET NOTES
AINSLIE
BATS WELL
Carries The Civil Service C.C. Against R.A.F.
LAWRENCE'S FINE KNOCK AGAINST C.C.C.
(By "ADREM”)
Saturday produced the first draw in a League match; thus far five games having been won outright out of six fix- tures. This game was played at the Valley between Civil Service and Royal Air Force and the hitherto not highly- .considered C.S.C.C. team displayed their best form.
To thank for their success was G. Ainslie, former C.B.S. boy, who batted extremely well against a fine bowling side to score 86.
'He was associated with Victor Bond
in a useful fourth wicket partnership
and hit 16 boundaries. Another re- .cent member of the C.B.S. team also Stone did well, G.
being second- highest scorer with 33.
Army's limited stock of bowlers tried hard but without much success-Youngsaye and
gower then fell behind the clock, a food
REV. SARGENT
IN COLONY
of
Rev. C. B. R. Sargent, former headmaster Diocesan Boys' School and one of the most en- thusiastic cricket members of Kowloon Cricket Club, la now in the Colony on a brief visit.
This afternoon, at D.B.S., he will lead · team against the School.
Rev. Sargent is now Bishop of Fukien Province.
ARMY CRICKET
BAILEY'S
BIG SCORE
Royal Engineers scored an easy victory over the Royal Air Force at cricket at 500-
Hung scored freely and although Craigen- innings by Winch helped to rectify matters and with Omar doing his bit, the game was won in the last over of the day." Craigen-kunpoo yesterday. gower gave a sound all-round display, al- though I think the Army Captain
R.A.F. might New, © Pelham, b Denyer
hand swingers can be most disconcerting.
With the respectable total of 183 behind them there was never much danger of Civi have tried Whatman as a bowler-his left Litlie, c Carpenter, Cork -Service being defeated. Actually, had they been able to get rid of W. G. New, who carried his bat for 60 out of 100, there is little doubt that they would have won, as they managed to dispose of all the Air 'Force's best bats,
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Club de Recreio had ន bad afternoon against Police, and were up against throughout. Lewis and Pope, who opened the Police attack, proved much too powerful a combination for the King's Park side and in a very short space of time they lost five of their best wickets for only 19.
Then came a promising stand between A. -V, Gosano and G. “A. Guterres, which ap- peared likely to add quite a few. Guterres, however, in having a beat at Danbrowsky's first ball was ruled stumped,
decision which from the pavilion appeared rather doubtful. The outgoing batsman had shaped .confidently and was just beginning to open
out when dismissed.
GOSAND'S BATTING
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A. V. Gosaño was rather a surprise. His total experience in cricket has been confined to the last two years and one might have expected rather crude methods. His met
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hods were not crude by any means. -brings his bat down very straight and uses
his feet quite nicely.
After his dismissal there was not much more to it. Danbrowsky, bowling some very cunning slows, proved too good. His figures would have been even more impressive had he not come up against J. A. Soares.
Why the latter was not put in earlier is beyond me. He played three beautiful shots off Danbrowsky, all of which went for four, but this effort was too belated as Mendoncs
·was unable to survive Forrest's next over.
At the outset of the Police innings, it appeared that Recraic, as they have a habit of doing, might pull the game off as they had two Police wickets down without a run being scored. Stephens, in attempting to hook Guterres, failed to get on top of the ball and Soares and at square-leg took a simple catch, Loughlin, in the same over, was caught by, -Gosano, also off Guterres.
Further success might have attended Re- crelo's efforts had they accepted a chance offered off his first ball by Pope. Not only however, but was this catch put down, several others that followed.
Tommy Hunter, who batted very nicely for 29, and Pope saw the scores tied and afterwards Danbrowsky scored freely, the Police total being carried to 144 for when stumps were drawn.
Recreio bowling was not very impressive. -Guterres tried hard and Gosano kept a good length but it must have been particularly discouraging for these bowlers in having their catches dropped-not a usual habit of the Recreio team.
LAWRENCE HITS HARD
score
Army's bowling once again let them down. -On Saturday, after a shaky start, they put
together 142, a fair enough
for n League match. Capt. Whatman made 23 but finest innings of the match was played by Lawrence, who is one of the most dash- ing batsmen in the Colony;"
· Lawrence always gives the impression that if he would curb a desire to hit boun». daries off every ball he would make a stack of runs. If he doesn't do that now, however, "he still plays a brand of cricket that always
makes him a pleasure to watch. ---
Major Awyres also made a useful score, while Q.M.B. Green, whó is better known in Army circles for his bowling; took part in a -useful last-wicket stand with Swyres.
There was. a' suggestion of real village - cricket about him! With the Wedgeab ́at
· “Joust', reasonable proportions, Swyers fell to a first-class running catchi^by Winch in the outfeld.
University 2nd XI, despite all the rude things that have been said about them, started off their League programme quite promisingly and if there had been bit more batting in the side might have done even better.
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K.C.C, took first use of the wicket and, as usual, were given a splendid start by Mul- cahy and Francis Lay. The former batted really well, while Lay was his usual solid self.
The two erstwhile members of the First Team. Baxter and Broadbridge, did well to score 16 and 26, respectively. Curtis also distinguished himself with an enterprising knock of 24 not out. He is certainly find for the Champions as he is easily their steadiest bowler,
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University's earlier batsmen could not get going, although Kenneth Lo was shaping well before being beaten by one of Curtis' best deliveries. Chin played valuable innings, hitting hard if not always correctly for 44.
Curtis was easily the best K.C.C. bowler, taking 5 for 19 in a little over eight overs, while Baxter also took a couple of useful wickets.
Paling, b Radcliffe Nancarrow, b Denyer Waddington, b Ship King, b Denyer
Bartlett, c Goodman, b Denyer Goodwin, b Denyer
Harrison, e and b Denyer Gillespie, not out Lewis, run out
Extras
Total
Bowling: Denyer six for 11, Radcliffe for 9, Cork 1 for 18, Ship 1 for 17.
ROYAL ENGINEERS Balley retired
Pellen, b Nancarrow Radcliffe retired
31
6
0
3
4
0
FINCHER'S CENTURY
IN GLASSES!
(By "ADREM”)
Kowloon Cricket Club seniors had a field-day on Saturday at Hong Kong Cric- ket Club, where they ran up the huge total of 234 for 4 in about 90 minutes.
For this they had to thank Ernie Fincher, Duggle Hung, and to a less degree, Donald Anderson.
Anderson and Hung opened. The former was dropped by Fortescue behind the wicket before he had scored and for a long time was unable to get the ball away.
Hung, however, was in great form and batted more attractively than he has done hitherto this season, to score 43, which in- cluded eight fours.
DOMINATES SCORING
Fincher got going as soon as he reached the wicket and completely dominated the scoring. Dropped by McLellan, at slip, be- fore he had scored very many, he hit no fewer than 18 boundaries in his 101 scored out of 172.
it is interesting to note that Fincher batted in glasses for the second time. On the first occasion, against Civil Ser. vice, he was run out before reaching 20. 1 don't think he will be at all chary about batting in them again!
Club's bowling was not good apart from Perry and a few nice ones from John 3Pearce, and, on the easy wicket, it was not 3 surprising that they had a pretty sorry time 2 of it.
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Club good start. The latter made 23 but I am told was not very impressive. "Dickie" Richardson, on the other hand, batted really 73 well, hitting a six and 13 boundaries in his
173.
Richardson and Fortescue gave
There was not very much else to the Club innings although they were never in any 85 real danger of defeat.
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50
Goodwin made a welcome reappearance to the K.C.C. side but is evidently in need of a spot of netst
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CLUB'S FINE WIN
6 Club second eleven did very well to win 12 against I.R.C. The latter opened quite
Wilkinson, e Waddington, b Nancarrow 15 Green, run out Tale, not out Goodman, b Nancarrow Cork. not out
Extras
Total
18
101
Ship, Denyer and Carpenter did not bat. Bowling: Nancarrow three for 44. ··--
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o steadily but Rumjahn was extremely lucky 3 in being given not out to a catch behind the
wicket off Charlton.
When the opening pair looked like settling down, a change in the bowling saw the partnership broken and, with the two follow- ing men going cheaply, things looked dark for the home side until-Ismail.came in. and.. let out at everything-not classic but useful. The tall did not wag however and the innings was over in just under two hours, for 186.
K. M. Rumjahn was by far the best bat in the home side and his innings was well worth watching.
Razack lifted a few dangerously but lučki- ly just out the reach of the fielders. Club's fast bowlers were disappointing although Dow was handicapped by a badly cut left hand.
Robb bowled steadily, apart from one or two loose ones, with his high delivery prov ing deceptive.
The out-fielding was not good, though four "'cripples" were included in the side. Special mention should be made of Parson's catch to dismiss M. R. Abbas.
When the visitors batted, the Indian bow- lers gained a brief ascendancy, Bishop and Paterson going cheaply, but Parsons and | Armstrong brought the score up. though
very slowly indeed.
When Parsons went, Booker watched one right on to the wicket. Mitchell followed to a good catch in the outfield and then Arm- . strong mishit Barma to put the Club in a bad way. Potter, however, came to the rescue and, with a goood, though per- haps not classic innings, with help from Robb, the Club just managed to get ahead of the clock and, in fact, the winning hit was scored in the last over.
Indian
T. bowling lacked variety, Y. Barma with his deceptive flighting of the ball, proving the most dangerous. The fielding was poor, several sitters being bungled.
K.C.C. TEAMS
The following teams have been se- lected to represent Kowloon Cricket Club in their League gaines, with Craigéngower Cricket Club on Satur- day
Find XI (Home)-F: Goodwin, E. C. Fincher, E. F Fincher, D. J. N. An- derson, R. E. Lee, N. A. E. Mackay, N. D. Lloyd, D. Hung, WL,” Rapley, A. Zimmern and T. A. Madar,
Becond X
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