HOLD
NAVY AT RUGBY
Royal
(By "8CRUM-HALF")
OTH. Hvỳ. Bty, played very well indeed
Engineers, winners of the to beat Kowloon in: the Football League Army Rugby League, did very well on Saturday by 5 goals to 1 and enter the Indeed to hold a strong Navy team to semi-final of the Junior Shield. It was ima 3-8 draw in yesterday's Rugby match fortunate that Guy their brilliant centro- half was injured during the first half as at Causeway Bay.
A this kept him out of the Army game on Sunday. The semi-finals of the Shield are sible as follows:
30th Bty... South China
V Police
Engineers V
of passing
strong'.... wind. was respon-
for a certain
handling, poor.
amount but. the
on the whole was woe-Pike, all three of whom are doubtful fully weak. Play never reached a high | starters for the Sevens.
Sgt. Denyer, with 5 for 41, was the most 30th Bty, and Engineers.and this would be standard, Sappers's crude methods of
successful bowler of the match.
Extras (B16)
On present form the finalists should be
a tip-top game. The Engineers are playing well this year and have annexed the leading attack nonplussing their more or- Sevens Tourney position in Second Division "B" of H.K.F.A. | thodox opponents. 9 League. Final positions at the top were:— Sappers would have won, probably The annual
Engineers
22 pts..
deservingly, had Artingstall not bad-Tournament has attracted Royal Scots
21 pts. Kwong Wah
20 pts.
'ROYAL ENGINEERS
Sgt. Megson, b Emberson
Spr. Ratcliffe, b Emberson
06
Capt. Wilkinson, b Emberson
5
-Spr. Bailey, not out
67
Sgt. Denyer, not out
29
16
Total (for 3 wkts. dec.)
212
Sgt. Goodwin, Sgt. Shipp, Spr. Cork, Spr. Heath, Capt. Parsons and Spr. Goss did not bat,
Bowling Analysis
*Boocock
O. M. R. W. .11
1 70
Emberson
13
54
3
-Fender
2
0 35
0
Munton
2
0
13
0
Roberts
2
0
24
R.A.O.C.
-Capt. Bridge, b Parsons
33
S/Cdr. Gardner, b Ratcliffe Cpl. Boocock, b Shipp
15
5
32
-Sgt. Munton, e Shipp. b Denyer
S/Sgt. Emberson, b Parsons Pte. Reynolds, b Denyer ....
·Cpl. Jeffery, lbw., b Denyer
Pte. Stoner. c Heath, b Denyer Ptc. Roberts, not out
Pte. Pender, st. Wilkinson; b Parsons Lieut. Ebbage, b Denyer
Extras (B12, LB1)
Total
Ratcliffe
Megson
Stipp
Cork
Denyer *Parsons
A very close finish denoting the balance of the teams concerned. Well done Sap pers; bad luck the "Jocks".
MY
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Seven-A-Side Rugby
some 20 ly fumbled a wild pass on his own teams this year and the preliminary line instead of touching down and not rounds will be played on the Club worrying about getting into position ground on Monday and Wednesday, to find touch.
March 11, and 13, commencing at 4.30 For Sappers, Birrell showed speed p.m. The finals will be played on the and initiative on the wing while Waite Club ground Saturday, March 16, and AY remarks concerning the game be did all that could be expected of him the Blarney Stone Shield will be pre- tween the R.A.S.C. and 24th Bty. Inst considering the very poor service he sented to this year's winners by H. E. week were a bit previous, as, owing to the re-arranged League fixtures in Third Divi- received from Foley, who has seldom the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote.
Proceeds this year will be donated osion, this game was put back until Satur-played worse. At forward Ford, Pike,
day.
Sheldrake and Brinkley, were pro-to the British War Organisation Fund. However it will still be a good game de
are 10 Among the teams entering finitely affecting the result of the champion-minent, especially the first named.
Davidson was very safe at full-back | various Army units, two Navy teams, ship. To those whom it may affect don't take the Kumaons too casually. They are for Navy, saving one certain try when Police, the holders, R.N.V.R., Civil playing fine football at present and upset Birrell broke away and he grassed him Service, R.A.F., H. K. Bank, B & S. South China on Saturday. No mean feat!
The threequarters and Rest of the Club. R.A.O.C. have tried out their newcomers in perfect style. and up to the present, have one outstanding were seldom seen in a passing move- player in Reynolds, their goalkeeper. He ment due to the weakness of Carter must get out of the tendency to "palm off**
more than necessary, however, Clutching at stand-off. Clark had an off day and 1 the ball accomplishes more in the end. was unusually slow in getting the 12 Apart from this he should be in the running | ball back. King, Gale and Ferris were
o for representative matches later on.
12 The other newcomers don't quite seem to have got used to the grounds yet and are probably not absolutely fit Time will tell.
1
1
13
125
R. W. 1
Bowling Analysis
O. M.
6 2. 9
2 0 16
3 0 22
1
2
▸ 14
0
0 41
4
0
10
COLONY
TENNIS DRAW
0
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THERE have been a lot of hard things said about some of the Army players in Sunday's match against South China, but the whole trouble seems to lay in the fact that the Army team only see each other as
a team on the day of the match. They cannot possibly be expected to work up an understanding on the day of the match and
the pick of the forwards.
Winners of the tournament to date have been Club, 1932 and 1833; H. K. Bank, 1934; Club, 1935-1938; Police, 1939.
2 MATCHES TO-NIGHT
With the wind behind them in the BADMINTON first half, Sappers opened the scoring when Birrett, went over in the corner after picking up a pass that Kennedy had over-run. He made a good attempt to land. a goal but was wide. In the second half Paul failed to kick an easy. penalty goal and, after King had fail- ed to land a penalty goal from the touch line, Carter managed to secure a touch down when Artingstall badly the defect is particularly noticeable when fumbled a wild pass on his own line. 3 watching the Chinese distribute the ball,,
They pass to a "position" and the player Paul failed to convert from a com- gets there through having perfect under-paratively easy position. standing. The Army team cannot be ex- ENGINEERS-Otway; Birrell, Jones, Ar- pected to cope with this and have to relytingatall and Martin;
Walte and Foley: more or less on individual performances. Ford, Pike, Eouzan, Blackman, Davis,
Reports on the game have been very con- Sheldrake, Killear and. Brinkley, fleting but without wishing to make it fur-] NAVY-Davidson; Bowden, Paul, Honny ther confusing a few further remarks may will and Kennedy; Carter and Clark: not be out of place.
Palmer, Brown, Davis, King, Longmuir, Ferris, Gale and Jeffries.
Duncan falled to maintain his form of the first half but before condemning him in any
way it must be remembered that a goal. Players Will Be Missed
keeper cannot have on inspired day if' the opponents keep whipping one in without giving him a chance. He was certainly not up to form, however,
Sappers will be shortly missing the
Naysmith and Sheehan played hard but services of Waite, Artingstall. and that understanding before mentioned is hard to counteract and Sheehan seemed more
capable of it than his partner, although the opposing right seemed to have a bit more scope than was good for us. This seemed to be the result of both left-back and left- half concentrating on the inside forward.
Bright played a hard game but the well- known Lee Wai-tong is a difficult man to control. It may appear he is being held simply because he doesn't always move championships which start shortly: very far but he gets the ball away to his team mates nevertheless. Bright played as well as can be expected under the circum- stances.
Following is the Colony singles and
draw
for
doubles
OPEN SINGLES
the tennis
Byes into second round.-S. A. Rumjahn v B. C. Fay; P. S. Leong v S. A. Gray; Kwok Hing-chung v0. Rumjahn; Lam
Kwan v J. W, Leonard: H. D. Rumjahn v Firdos Khan.
First round.-Marsland Ma v E. Zulauf; H. Y. Ho v A. R. Kitchell; Paul Kong v Lt. J. S. Theobald; W. C. Hung v T. C. Chan: S. A. Hussain v Chan Kwong-lu; Ben Loule v O. Umetani; Tsul Yan-pul v T. J. Gould; J.-L. C. Pearce v Peter U; T. A.. Pearce v Wong Hok-nang: R. G. Biesel Jr. v J. R. Turner: Y. C. Lau v Wel Chung. Byes into second round.-M. Pagh; Ten- nie Kwok v I. M. A. Razack; A. Crawford | v Ip Koon-hung: Pang Olam v Lee Hua- kek; Leung Ping-chiu y J. Gonzalves; I. Agaturoff v Tsut Wal-pul.
OPEN DOUBLES
Byes into Becond round.-Tsui
Wal-pul
but
The halves unfortunately could not always get the forwards moving successfully when they did that little extra bit of cohe sion was lacking. Saw and Thomas unfor- tunately did not get going at all which is a surprising denouncement against such a fine player as Saw.
Bundy kept his partner going in the first half with some fine passes but the Chinese tmelt danger and battled this player up almost completely in the latter stages. Hossack was the success of the forward line and used his football ability to advantage where he had plenty of moving space. These two should make a good combination with further games together.
If both flanks don't work cohesively the. centre-forward does not get much chance and Fox played as well as can be expected. He was certainly worth the goal he scored.
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and Tsut Yan-púi v S. A. Hussain and O.HOSE who have the stamina to read this Rumjahn: Dew Shing-cheong and Ip Koon- every week will remember my com- hung v AR. Kitchell and 1. M. A. Razack.plaints about lack of support. There was a First round-T, and B. Aghfuraff v Wong great improvement on Sunday, however, the supporters
· Fook-nam and Lam Kwan; Wong Hok-nang and it is unfortunate that
were not rewarded by a win, for their keen- and Lee Chi-man v T. C. Monaghan and Tness in turning up. Bring your friends next J. Gould; J. Gonzalves and A. V. Remedios time and see if we can yell down that tro- v. Ng Kam-chuen and Tsol Ping-fan; Faul mendous opposition.. Kong and B. Szeto v Ho Ka-lau and Lee.
-Yue-wing: E, C. Fincher and W. C, Hung
-v. A, Chan and 3.. Hsu: Kwok Hing-chung
-and Lul Kwal-fan v C. H. R. Hyde and J. THE Sentor and Junior cricket XI's both
registered wins last week-end.
Tho
J. Ferguson; T. A. Pearce and B. C, Fayformer defeated University through the v T. C. Chan and Marsland. Mai. F. H. magnificent bowling of 1/Cpl. i Young who Kwok and S. W. Liang Lt. J. S. Theobald look 8 for 10. Webb once again captured
the batting honours with an 88-nóf out, - and 8. Garrard.
second round.-Pang Ol-lam Byes into and Leung Ping-chiu v-J. L. C. Pearce and D. I. Bosanquet: Lee Hua-kek and J. Leo ...nard v. 8. A. and H, D. Rumfahn,
The 2nd XI beat R.A.F. comfortably, the bowling of Hatfield and Blount being too much for the airmen. The former took 8 for 16 and Blount Justified his return to Army, cricket with 8 for 1.
There will be two matches in "B" Division of the Badminton League to- Teresa's night, the game between St.
and King's College being postponed.
To-night's matches will be St. An- drew's v Kowloon Tong; St. John's v K.C.C.
Gillies St. Andrew's:—B.
and A. E. Brown; H. Kew and E. F. Fincher: A. E. P. Guest and A. S. Bliss.
Kowloon Tong:-R. E. Lee and F. S. Ko; N. A, E. Mackay and P. B. C. Fletcher: A. E. H. Castro and A. Chan.
K.C.C.:~A, L. Fisher and J. L. Anderson: T. Madar and B. C Kevan; A. Zimmern and H. S. Jones,
St. John's:-H. Eardley and R. Beavan; F. Kwok and D. Kwok; P. Wilson and N. L. Smith.
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