In Securing
Ground For
For Play-Off League Trying To Arrange Game For Saturday
M. R. ABBAS FIRST
BOWLER TO
REACH 30 WICKETS
(By "ADREM”)
THE SENIOR CRICKET LEAGUE, for 1939-40 is now <ended as Civil Service have decided, in view of the lateness
SENIOR CHAMPIONS
TO CELEBRATE
Senior League orloket cham- plons, Kowloon Cricket Club, will celebrate their success on Tues- day next when they will be en- tertained to a curry-dinner at the club by Mr. F. Goodwin, cap- tain of the club.
of the season, not to play off their matches against Craigen- Prata reaching double-figures. gower and Army-the only fixtures outstanding.
Junior Division is on its last legs as being caught by Lock off Omar when the top positions have been decided, only six runs short of his century. with Police and Indian Recreation, He was rather slow at the beginning Club tieing for first place.
of his innings but later, in partner- ship with Danbrowsky, he scored no fewer than 72 out of the 96 runs, added for the sixth wicket. Included in his innings were 17 fours.
At the time of writing, no arrange- | ments have been completed for the -play-off on Saturday, as, I understand, is the intention, chiefly owing to the difficulty of securing a ground, The
•League authorities, however, have the -matter in hand and every effort is
being made to fix the match.
Police, although B. C. Fay, on whom -a great deal of reliance was being placed, failed to turn up on Saturday, .won surprisingly easily against Craigengower. Although they were -up against a bowling side, which, on paper, looked as strong as any attack in Junior Division, the Police batsmen found little difficulty in scoring runs and they were able to declare at 188
Other useful scores were made by J. L. Stephens, who later, in going for દ difficult catch, injured his shoulder and had to enter hospital, W.L. Clarke and H. Danbrowsky.
As was to be expected, Craigen- gower bowlers did not meet with very much success, Lam's 2 for 40 being the best analysis! ·
Only Arthur Hamson was able to cope with deadly bowling by Lewis and Craigengower could only muster 56. Lewis secured his first three wickets in four overs
•for 6t
without con- ceding a run and finished up with 6 *BIG PARTNERSHIP
for 13 easily his finest performan- Pope was easily the highest scorer, ce of the season. I shudder to think what score Craigengower would have made had Fay been playing as well!
CLOSE GAME.
COMPLETE RESULTS
OF H.K.V.D.C. RIFLE MEETING
Following are the complete final results of the HK.V.D.C, Annual Rifle Meeting:- CORPS CHAMPIONSHIP
Class 1-Lt. Austin (No. 4) 64; Lt. Ham- ilton (M.C.) 60; Cpl. Hammond (No. 1 Coy.) 58; Capt. Dewar (No. 7 Coy.). 52; Pte. Tocher (Mob. Coln.) 50; Lt. Holmes (No. 1 Coy.) 50; Sgt. Salter (No. 4 Coy.) 49; Pte.
. Curtis (No. 2 Coy.) 48.
Class. :-Spr. Pao (Fd. Coy. Engrs.) 56; Pie. Aman (No. 1 Coy.) 51; Pte. Wong (No.
In contrast to this one-sided match, that at King's Park between Recreio and I. R. C. was a very close one and the issue was in. doubt almost to the end.
Recreio batted first and, as they are so apt to do, failed miserably with the bat, only A. J. M. Prata and A. M.
Abbas again bowled well for I. R. C. and took three wickets, which makes him the first bowler In either division of the Longue' to reach
aggregate of 30 wickets.
He conceded only 9 runs în his first 8 overs and finished up with 3 for, 18 in 11.2 overs. J. M. A. Rumjahn met with most success, securing 5 for 30 in 9 overs.
TRIALS OF THE POLICE
(By "ADREM")
The three blank Satur- day's which we had in the course of the last month may mean the Junior Cricket championship to the sport- ing Police team.
If the play-off is arranged for Saturday, Police, at best, will only be to field a skeleton of their team of last I. R. C., despite the simple task week. P. H. Loughlin and. Freddie confronting them; were in difficulties Forrest are proceeding home on leave right away and their first five wickets in the course of the next few days, fell for only 33 runs.
With eight J. L. Stephens is still in hospital.and wickets down, they still required six is unlikely to be able to play, while runs and, as Recreio's fielding was A. E. Carey is nursing an injured leg now razor-keen, anything might have and is also a doubtful starter. happened.
Fortunately for the Indians, how- ever, Razack was still there and the runs were hit off without further loss. Razack's 26 definitely saved his side and it was chiefly due to his fine defensive powers, that I. R. C. live to fight it out with Police.
Guterres bore the brunt of Recreio's attack, although M. A. Remedios and A. M. Prata returned the best analyses.
K.C.C. BEAT JEWISH R.C.
In a friendly badminton match play- ed at the Jewish Recreation Club last night, Kowloon Cricket Club beat the home team by 6 games to 3:
NAVY SCORE ANOTHER
GOOD VICTORY
Of other members, of the force who might have been called upon, C. W. E. Heath, who returned some very fine bowling figures last season, is also off to the United Kingdom.
BAKER MIGHT PLAY
I understand, however, that B. G. "Ginger" Baker, who, together with Pope, formed one of the most success- ful junior bowling combinations in the two seasons preceding the one just concluding, might be persuaded to come out of his shell.
Since his return from leave some months ago, he has not made one ap- pearance in the Police team but he.
in has kept himself
fine physical shape with tennis and would not re- quire more than a net or two to get his arm in.
I sincerely hope that Pope will be able to raise a decent side as frankly I would like to see Police win the
FIELDING THE SAME TEAM which defeated South shield. They have been well up with .4 Coy.) 47; Pte. Marvin (Stanley Pl.) 47: China “A” last Saturday, Navý accounted for the "B" team the leaders for several seasons, are
.Gnr. Stone (1st Battery.) 44; L/Cpl. So, (No,' 4 Coy.) 42; Pte. Lomaev (Mob. Coln.) ..42; Sigman. Ip (Corps Sigs.) 42.
Class 48; Pte. Antonio (No. 6 Coy.) 48; Pte. Cas-
:-Sigmn. Salter (Corps Sigs.)
tro, A. J. (No. 6 Coy.) 45; Pte. Castro, R.A.
(No. 5 Coy) 41; Pte. Jitts (No. 3 Coy.) 40. MUSKETRY COMPETITION Class :-Cpl. Hammond (No. 1 Coy.) 57; L/Sgt. Remedios (No. 5 Coy:) 57; Sgt. Swan
at Caroline Hill yesterday by the only goal scored ten inin- utes after the start by Thorburn. ¿
Roughley and Honeywell were safe.
backs for Navy and, with Nichols in had to forage for themselves and, Yeung Kan-po and Tam-Chan-kin
great form in the centre-half berth, though they had plenty of room in Chan Tak-fai was not as dangerous which to manoeuvre, they were not as usual,
able to send any useful passes to their Britt and Honeywill, the wing other forwards.
(No. 2 Coy.) 55; Lt. Anderson (No. 3 Coy.halves, gave the defence ample sup-in defence Lam Tak-po was out-
54; L/Cpl. Crawford (Mob. Coln.) 53; Pte. Gutierrez (No.
6 Coy.) 53; Sgt. Baleros port though they did not assist their standing with his heading and clear- (No. 6 Coy.) 53; Sgt. Johnson (3rd Baty.) forwards enough. The early lead ances, while Kwok Ying-kee gave 62; Capt. Dewar (No. 7 Coy.) 52.
gained by Navy enabled them to play another sound display at left half. Class II:-McTavish (Stanley. Pl.) 55; more on the defensive, Gnr. Stone (1st Bty) 52: Cpl. Young (No.
Hau. Yung-sang and Lau Wai-piu 4.Coy.) 50; Pte. Prettojohn (No. 3 Coy.) good display
Robinson, in goal, gave another were gööd in their clearances though 48: Pie, Hircock (Stanley P1.) 48.
and brought off some the latter was not so safe in hi good saves, The ones from Chan- tackling. Tak-fal, early in the game, and later Navy: Robinson; Roughley, Honeywell: from Tam Chan-kin were most note, R. Honeywell, Nichols, Britt: Phippens, Le
Class :-Pte. Rosario (No. 5 Coy.) 51; Sigmn. Salter (Corps Sige.) 50: Ptc. Cas-
tro, R.A. (No. 5.Coy.) 49; Gnr. Landau (1st Bty.) 40; Pte. Manson (No. 3 Coy.) 43.
BLAKE SHIELD
Class : No. 1-Coy: A (Major H, Owen- Hughes, Capt. R. M. Wood, Lt. L. B. Holmes, Cpl. Hammond, 183, Corps A 165; Corps - H.Q. 158.
worthy.
LE PAGE SHINES
wingers, with Le Page slightly the bet- Le Page and Bourne, were two good
ter of the two. In the centre Hendy FRANCIS, CUP
worked hard while Thorburn was a A (Sgt. Boleros, L/C, Xavier, L/C. Pereira, Pie. Ribeira): great trier, although he did not com-
bine well with Bourne.
Class 1:-No. 6 Coy.
||Pago, Hendy, Thoburn. Bourne. -
South China-Ski Tim-lin; Hau Yung- sang, Lau Wal-plu; Kwok Ying-kee, Lam Tek-pa, Lak, Tat-sung Cheung Lal-sing, Tam
Shak-yau chan fin, Chan Tak-fai, Yeung Kan-po, Lee
122; Corps Sigs, A 121; 2nd Battery B 119;; No. 1..Coy, A 112; No. 5 Coy. A 111; Mob. Chinese Colp. A 111; No. 3 Coy. A 108.
were without Cheung, Wing-choy and his place was taken by|| in Claus H-No. 6 Coy. (Ple, Sequeira, Siu Tim-lin. They started attacking|lows Noronha, Antonio, Castro) 108; No. 8 Coy from the start and were unlucky 90: No. 3 Coy. 86.
when well placed. Chan Tak-fai, was: well Beld in the centre And it was No. 5. Coy, A (L/Sgt. Remedion. C.S.M Britto, L/Cpl. Remedios, Pte. Castro) 13:
left to the wingers, sa Shek and No. 1 Coy. D 12, Stanley Platoon -11: No. Yeung Shulykk to ovide:
dan' 8 Coy. B 11.
ger to the Navy, Tansley Brift.
less effective:
FALLING PLATE
Revolver Competition:
(281. Bat.)
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HOCKEY
kiwin and
School will hold their "a?
school
always a fine side to play against, to see them in Senior. Division next season, a Junior as it is quite possible that try their skill in more august com- League title would encourage them to
and it would be interesting
pany.
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