THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 9, 1940.-
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SELECTIONS
BOWLS SEASON CLOSES RAPIER'S"
OFFICIALLY TO-DAY Annual Aitkenhead Shield Match At K. B. G. C.
GOOD
CRICKET
MATCHES
By "Adrem"
Best cricket matches of the week-end will be those between
senior teams will meet at Kow-
powerful sides for a match
11 a.m.
Service members.
+
KOWLOON
Kowloon Should EXPECTED
Win Easily
By "Skip" ́
TO EXTEND SING TAO
By "Referee"
FOR MACAO
Race No. 1.
COUREUR BLEU COUNTRY FLOWER SHIH YIN GRAND
Outsider; Merry Fatty.
Race No. 2.
ASCOT VALE. RADIUM STAR DOW-JONES
Race No. 3.
Outsider: Lucky Eleven.
THE TIGRESS JACK O'LANTERN HURRICANE
Race No. 4.
RING'S ENVOY
KING'S WORTHY
BLACK DIAMOND
Outsider:Mac's Adventure.
Race No. 5.
MEADOW EVE SHANGHAI 4 HOGMANAY
Outsider:--Fairy, Ouzel,
SPORTS VENTURE · HIGH TOWER THE MERMAID
Outsider: Persian Cat.
Kowloon Cricket Club and Hong TO-DAY SEES THE official closing of the 1940 Kong Cricket Club. To-day the season with the annual match between Hong Kong loon, while on Monday-Armistice and Kowloon for the Aitkenhead Shield, which will Day-both clubs have selected be played at Kowloon Bowling Green Club. Chater Road which will start at Competitors are asked to note that the game
The best game on the will begin at 2.30 p.m. in order to allow plenty of The Cricket Club cleven for to-
week-end soccer pro-Race No. 6. day is a good one but not nearly time for the presentation of the season's trophies as strong as Monday's, when they afterwards.
should be gramme
at This function will be performed by Sir Kowloon, where the Home will be reinforced by their Civil Atholl MacGregor, vice-president of the Associa-
Another good match should be tion, in the absence from the Colony of Mr. G. S. First Division; the latter 0000000000000000000
team meet Sing Tao in the Recreio-Craigengower fixture, which will be played at King's Archbutt, the President.
team will have Park. The former team was not
to play Eastern A few comments on the games well though the former is playing very much better than in action last week but Craigen-may prove of interest and, with just now. "Champ" Rakusen and gower had a sorry experience at such an uncertain game as bowls, Spuggy Silva's rinks are pretty they did last week to re- Service Corps the hands of University and will it is quite interesting to try
and to be all out to redeem themselves. forecast the winners. I will say former playing right at the top of
with the tain their unbeaten They will again be assisted by F. right away that Kowloon appears his form just now, he may be able cord. R. Kermani, the Shanghailander, to me to have the easiest match to pull it off, but while H. P. Lim,
their it has ever. had-laugh at me if | Marques will see to that! steadiest batsmen, makes his first the "Sunday Herald" proves me appearance this year. I have 4 to be wrong-but I give it as my feeling the Valley team will do honest opinion that the Mainland- better to-day although I don't ers should win by 50 shots. think for one moment that they are capable of winning.
one of
I will take the games one by one as per the draw. The first should result in a narrow win Indians At Full Strength for the islanders, whose lead and second man should lay a solid Religious fasts behind them, foundation for Deakin, captain of 1.R.C. will once again be able to the Hong Kong team. Kowloon's
evenly matched
I
doubt it-
I am 100 per cent. for Simpson's rink against Bill' Way, as I have formed the opinion that the latter is not playing as well this season as hitherto, whilst Carlo Silva's four look good enough for much stronger opposition than they are meeting to-day.
Following are the teams:
D. M. Khan, W. Hong Sling, W. Dall, ' J. Deakin (Hong Kong) v V. C. La.
turn out most of their regular skipper is Frank Goodwin, by the brum, W. Parsons, J. Fraser, F. Good-
pro-
Following is to-day's gramme and some of the teams:
FIRST DIVISION
way.
win.
J. Hayward, G. S. Ladd, W, J. Bag- ley, C. S. Rossclet (Hong Kong) v.H. A. Castro, T. K.. Lim, W. J. Howard,
A. J. Kew.
V Navy (Caroline Hill, 4.15 p.m.).
Second Division
V Engineers (St. Joseph's, 2.45 p.m.). re- | Kowloon
V Sing Tao (Kowloon, 2.43 p.m.).
V Middlesex (Sookunpoo, 2.45 p.m.). Ordnance
V Navy (Caroline Hill, 2.45 p.m.).
Third Division
V Shell
Sing Tao will be at full strength, but Kowloon are expected to fully extend them. Ground conditions will greatly assist Kowloon, while Williamson should be able cope with the Chinese forwards.
to
Blake will have to be carefully watched and his bustling methods and speed should give the Chin- cse defence some anxious
ments.
Junior Matches
mo-
Club
30th R.A.
Medicals
(St. Joseph's, 4.15 p.m.).
V
Air Force (Military, 2,43 p.m.)..
2016 R.A.
V
* 12th R.A. (Chatham Road, 2.45 p.m.). Service Corps
35th R.A. (Military. 4.15 p.m.). 24th R.A.
V International (Chatham Road, 4.15 p.m.).
To-morrow
In Third Division, Air Force meet Medicals, who created a big surprise last week by accounting R. Scots for International. The other good S. Yusuf, C. W. Lam, R. Basa. U, M.
game is between International and St. Joseph's Omar Hong Kong) v G. W. Deacon, 24th Royal Artillery, the cham-
W. Waterton, G. H. Sherriff, A. M.pions. The latter have not pro- R. Scots
duced their best form this season,
Holland..
M. Pile, A. Jillott (Hong Kong) v Athe services of their star player, J. McCutcheon, R. A. Edwards, T. while the former will be without A. Dand, Y. Abbas, C. Dowman, R. A. Leonard, who has decided to Hall.
E. Casey, J. Prentice, G. Perkins, E. play in better circles. G. Post (Hong Kong) v W. L. Walker,
The needle game between En- Sir Atholl MacGregor, J. G. Meyer, A,gineers' and Service Corps in Second Division has been post- and will be played during- poned owing to military duties
week.
Following is the week-end pro
J. Hall.
members and I feel that Univer- sity batsmen will have no answer for the guile of A. R. Minu, Good Match Envisaged
Civil Service are turning out a fairly representative senior team Rosselet should be able to beat against the Royal Engineers and Kew's four from Kowloon Tong they should manage to win if Ma- by eight or 10 shots, but the jor. Grose does not prove awk-match between Adam Holland ward.
and U. M. Omar should be good There is a large programme of to watch with tactics playing a Junior matches but none of them big part, for the Kowloon skip look likely to be particularly in- should have the advantage in his teresting, except the H.K.C.C. first men, especially as they are Small Units fixture at Chater, at home. I think Holland will Road.
I win narrowly.
The next match, I find one of G. Duncan (Hong Kong) v H. Overy, G. Stephens, R. C. Butler, W. GII. the hardest to forecast.
The A. W. Ramsay, W. Hyde, E. Kern. Stanley contingent-with Ronnie R. Main, G. Patterson, 'W. Melrose, Edwards co-opted so to speak-J. Chalmers (Hong Kong) v A. M. looks pretty solid but there is no Calman. T. Coleman, R. Morrison, J. Gramme:— weakness in the Kowloon Football Club four either. Because I am
C. Needham, C. Strange, L. E. Lam- not going to be so kind to them J. A. Luz, C. H. Basto, H. A. Alves. bert, A. Brooksbank (Hong Kong) v further down I will tip a narrow J. E, Noronha, win for the Hong Kong side. The A. G. Gardner, W. B. Harris, J. game between Alf, Hall and Ted | Orem, 'J. C. Fender (Hong "Kong) "v Post should be pretty good and it H. White, J. C. Gill, A. Hyde-Lay, R.
Duncan. is anyone's. Casey will not see which way Willie Walker is going Gowan. M. N. Rakusen (Hong Kong)
J. C. Gellatly, A. B. Allan, J. F. Mc-000 but Joe Prentice, like his opponent, Sir Atholl Mac-v. V. Ribeiro, F. X. Silva.
a left hander F. X, Monteiro, C. E. Marques, F. Gregor, should make up some of the leeway, The threes and skips are as even as you could pick but as it is a home game for Hall, I think he should wfh by half a
Recreio
K.C.C.
IR.C.
C.S.C.C.
V. C.C.C.
V. H.K.C.C.
v. University
v. "R, Engineers
SECOND DIVISION
P.R.C. H.K.C.C.
C.C.C.
University
R.A.P.C.
V. K.C.C.
Small Units Recreio
V.
V.
V.
I.R.C.
V. C.S.C.C. TEAMS
H.K.C.C. 1st XI, Owen-Hughes, N. D. Booker, W. G. Finnle, J. H. Fox, M. F. L. Haymes. J. L, Isley, T. G. C. Knight, J. C. C. Matthews, D. O. Par- sons, J. L. C. Pearce and T. A. Pearce, K.C.C. 1st XI:-E. C. Findlier, N. D. Lloyd, D. J. N. Anderson, E. F. Fin- cher, A. Zimmern. F. R. Zimmern, D. Hung, W. L. Rapicy, D. D. Lay, R. T. dozen. Broadbridge and T. A. Madar.
1.R.C. fst XI:-K. Nazarin, M. el Arculli, A. R. Kitchell, S. A. Ismail, A. H. Madar, M. P. Madar, A, Baker, K. M. Rumjalin, A. H. Rumjalin, A. M. Rumjahn and A. R. Minu.
Ernie Kern's K.C.C. rink looks strong enough to get the better of George Duncan, though here again there should not be a very big margin at the finish. By a coin- Recreio 1st X-E. L. Gosano, L. G. cidence, teams from Taikoo and Gosano, J. M. Gosano, G. N. Gosano, Kowloon Dock have to meet and W. A. Reed, A, M. Prata, E. M. L. there will be as dour a game as Soares, H. L, Ozorio, A. M. Rodrigues, A. J. M. Prata and N. A. Beltrao.
one could wish for with the odds C.S.C.G. 1st XI-J. E. Richardson, in favour of Kowloon, whose first
W. H. Colledge, A. E. Perry, D. two men should have the advan- McLellan, F. Baker. R. H. Griffiths, tage.
T. V. N. Fortescue, K. J. Attwell, N. Whitley, D. J. Hollidge and N. L. Smith.
C.C.C. fat XI:-E. Zimmern (Capt.),
P. J. Billimoria, A. B. Hamson, A. J. Hulso, B. R. Irance. A. K. Ismail, R. Kermani, H. P. Lim, T. Lock, G. Souza and J. La Youngsnyc.
H.K.C.C. 2nd XI:-R. S. W. Patterson, C. W. E. Bishop, G. P. Charlton, C. E. Gahagan, R. D. Gillespie, R. M. M. King, Brig. T. McLeod, E. W, Pudney. D., S. Robb, W. Stoker and C. D. N. Walker.
I.R.C. 2nd XI-A. H. Ismall, H. T. Barma. M. I. Razack, J. M. A, Rum- Jahn, A. Ebrahim, A. Rahmin, F... A. Curreem, M. A. Wahab, O, el Arculil, K. Singh and A. R. Sumad.
י
McKelvie.
►
C. Gowland, H. W. Randall, S. Eccle-
shall, W. K. Way (Hong Kong) v B. Evans, R. Ogden, V. Atlenzé, W. C. Simpson.
Jahn, M, Y. Adal (Hong Kong) v J. A. J. Hoosen, A. S. Sufflad, S. M. Rum-
"Remedios, D. C, "Alves, J. J,' Basto, C.
G. Silva.
LEAGUE
BADMINTON TO CONTIQUE
Big Win Indicated At the Annual Meeting of the Badminton Association held yes- Brooksbank will have more than terday and presided over by Rev. he can manage in tackling Jackie J. R. Higgs, it was decided that Noronha's four, which Joe Luz and Dick Alves-I even season would close on November Includes League entries for the coming go so far as to say that this Kow-22, with the League starting carly loon rink's win should be one af in December. the biggest of the day. The two front men in Bob Duncan's rink should be able to decide the issue for I consider Bert White and J. C. Gill much more consistent as a pair than Gardner and Harris,
shiro and J. W. Bertram,
to
Mr. Kwok, the Hon. Treasurer, said that the finances of the Asso- ciation were in a healthy state.
In proposing Mr. S. A. Gray as president of the Association, Mr. Higgs said that he had come the meeting with this thought foremost in his mind. He referred to the splendid work put in by Mr. Gray since the formation of the Association and said that the growth of the Association in the last six years was; in measure due to him.
Mr. Gray was unanimously
Recreio 2nd XI:-E, A, R, Alves, A.
6.5.C.C. 2nd XI:-H, E. Stränge, A.. E. Noronha, P. M. N. da Silva Jr., A. Watson, T. Lockhart, T. Seddon, I. p. V. Gosano, H. A. Barros, A. M. Rome Cunningham, J. Bendall, J, Mitchell, dlos, M. A. Remedios, J. Soares, A. A. G. Davidson, B. C. K. Hawking, A. M. Lopes, B. T. Gosano and J. M. Fonseca. J. Wright and A, Sheppard.
Small Unita Xli-Major J. E. Swyer,
P.R.C.A. E. Caroy. J. Shepherd, Major W. G. Harvey, Capt. J. Dewar, H. Tyler, J. Lowls, H. Danbrowsky, A. Lieut. A. H. R. Coombes, Sgt. Webb Billingham, A. Estall, W. L. Clarke, elected President. L/Sgt. French, L/Bgt. Boocock, Cpl. B. G. Baker, J, Orem and O. Pope. Blount, L/Cpl. Logan, L/Cpl. Murphy and Cpl. Ingleby.
no small
The other officials elected were: 0.0.0. 2nd XI-N, Broadbridge': (Capt.), U, H. Esmail, A. H. Esmail, Mr. E. de Souza (Vice president), #t.C.G. 2nd XI-S. A. Gray, E. Cur- E. ft. Esmall, A, Hung, M. C. Hung, Mr. Frank Kwok (Hón. Trennur- Us, G. A. Goodban, J. R. Luke, R. J. 5. Leonard, 0, M. Omar, Mitchelf, H. Cr) and, Mr. M. Talan (Hon, So- Fenton; R-A, J♫ Simpson, H. Broken- Forman and Leo, Choa. “
[cretary).;
To-day
First Division Kowloon
v Sing Tao (Kowloon, 4.15 p.m.). Middlesex
v Club (Sookunpoo, 4:15 pm.).
the
IN THE
First Division
V Police (Sookunpoo, 4.15 p.m.).
South China (Caroline Ht, 4.15 p.m.).
Second Division
V 30th R.A. (Sookunpoo, 2.45 p.m.). South China V Kft Chee
(Caroline Hill, 2.45 p.m.).
V Police (Boundary Street, 4.15 p.m.).
Third Division Engineers
V Signals [Chatham Road, 4.15 p.m.). A.S.A.'
V 7th R.A. (Boundary Street, 2.45 p.m.).
Kwong Wah
The
Kowloon Inter-School Small Boys' Miniature Football League, which is being held un- der the auspices of the Children's Playgrounds · Association, will make an inaugural start to-day at 2.30 p.m. on the McPherson Play- ground, Homuntin.
The League has drawn 10 teams of over 100 schoolboys,
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