CRICKET
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 23, 1940.
TWO GOOD SENIOR MATCHES ON TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME R. E. Lee Making First Appearance Of Season Debut Showing TO-DAY'S BOWLING ALLEY Of Command H.Q. RUGBY
JOTTINGS
By "Adrem".
Thera aro two Rugby matches to-day, and--both are. on the Navy ground at Causo. way Bay,
pm. Volunteers meet
By."STRIKE"
MENTIONED in my last notes,! Highest individual score of the that U.S.S. Tulsa and the match was 100 made by Ismail
MOST CRICKET TEAMS are depleted to some extent to-day by players at Volunteer camps and the most interesting match should be seen at King's At volunteers and should win Alley Team were to meet in in his second game: Park, where Recreio entertain the champions, Kow-by a comfortable margin, while Ave-game Duck Pin match on This resulted in
loon Cricket Club.``
This is the second meeting of selves and I think they will do the two clubs. In the first fixture. It, on their own ground. · of the season K. C: C. won by the The Command Headquarters large margin of 78 runs, princi- team makes its first appearance pally due to a half-century by this year and will be opposed to D. Hung and the fine all-round Royal Air Force. Led by ex- 10rm of F. R. Zimmern, then mak perienced Brigadier McLeod, the ing his first appearance for the, "Brass-Hats" should win; Cox's Road team.
Lee's First Game
Following is the programme and some of the teams:- FIRST DIVISION
V. H.K.C.C. V. K.C.C.
C.C.C. SECOND DIVISION--
LR:C.
K. C. C. will be sans N, D.. Recreio Lloyd this afternoon as he is at C.S.C.C. camp, but it will be interesting
V.
V.
I.R.C.
V.
Recrolo
V.
C.S.C.C.
V.
Royal Scots
y, Command H,Q; TEAMS H.K.C.C. 1st XH, Owen-Hughes, J. J. L. Isley, N, D. Lawrence, Booker, C. D. N. Walker, T. G. C. Knight, E. P. Miller, L. T. Ride, D. C. E. Grose. W. G. Finnie and J. L. C. Pearce.
Good Match
at 4 p.m. a combined, Navy and November 12. Police team is not expected to a win for Tulsa by 110 pins.
On November 15, there was” d hold the powerful Army, fifteen, Vasko for Tulsa was top scorer providing the latter are at full of the match with a good 485 and itween Spenko and his Tulsa team good:five-game Ten pimmatch be- strength.
he was followed very closely by and a representative team from Following are some of the Drewes, with 481.
the Alleys, the match resulting in. teams:
a win for the former combination, by no less then 487 pins.
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VOLUNTEERS-F. M. Thompson (No. 1 Coy.): H, van Leeuwen. (Mobile Columa), M. G. Carruthers (Mobile Column). D. G. Day (No. 1 Coy.) and P. B. Wilson (Corps Artillery): J. Hu- chison (Mobile Column) and F. J. C. Clemo (No. 1 Coy.); 1. M. Macrae (No 2 Cor.). JF. Burford (Corne Artillery .G. G. Davies (Corps Artillery); J; S Lee (Mobile Column), C. F.. Needham (Fortress Signals); G. B., Godfrey (No.
Wright for the Alley Team was third: highest scorer with 479, or almost 96 pins per game, while Bellor for Tulsa made a good 473: Hofman of Tulsa did not bowl aa confidently as he usually does and only made 415 or an average of 83 pins per game.
Another fair score han's 430 but
2 Coy.). A. J; G. Taylor (No. 4 Cay.) Ismail for the and J, Redman (No. 1 Cny,).
NAVAL VOLUNTEERS Sub-Lt. were off, Cleggett
and Ismail 424.
was Vaug- Cleggett and Alley Team registering 411
Spenko and his team wore in the excellent form, and caught Alley. Team napping.
Peterson of Tulsa was, 'the star-bowler of the match, scor- Inga Brilliant 898; which would have been even better, had he not made a poor 147 in his.se- cond game. This, player regis- tered the highest Individual ECOTO with 221 in his fourth game.
Moore of Tulsa was second high-
to see how Robble Lee fares on H.K.C.C. his Arst appearance this season. | K.C.C. He was down at practice a couple C.C.C. of times in the course of the week | P.R.C. but was not able to get in very | R.A.F.. much bowling owing to the fact that there was no-one to bowl. to! I have a feeling that a shock attack of F. R. Zimmern and Lee, on the Recreio wicket, which is still said to be pretty tricky, might be pretty dangerous — and that might almost be taken liter ally!
Another good match should be seen at Sookunpoo, where I. R. C. will be at home to Cricket Club, N. Anderson, R. E. Lee, E. F. Fincher, K.C.G, tat:XI-B, C, Fincher, D. J. Most of the latter club's military A: Zimmern, F. R. Zimmern, D. Hung. members will be playing, although W. L. Rapley, R. T. Broadbridge, T. Alec Pearce is a notable absentes. | A. Madar and F. J. Lay. 1. R. C., at full strength should C.C.C. fat XI:-E. Zimmern. · P. J. do well but I don't think they
Bilimoria, A. B. Hamson, A. J. Hulse, have the batting to win.. R. R. Iranec, B. R. Irance, W. Hong BADMINTON MEETING 92.7 pins, while the Allev-Team's
Civil Service, without Griffiths, Sling, G. Souza, E. A. Lee, A. K. Ismail Colledge and several regular R.A.F.-W. E. Gillespie, A. R. members of their side, should Paling. H. A. J. Cook, H. R. Stockham, nevertheless be too good for J. R. S. Stimson, W. II. Smith, L. R. Craigengower, who, although Hunt, F. L. Hemsly. T. H. Hawkins, strong enough in bowling, appear N. R. Clarkson and C. E. Abbas. unable to muster runs,
Brown; Sub:-Lt. MeGill, Cat, Lambie, Lt. Morohan, Sub-Lt; Poale; Sub.-Lt, There were only seven scores of Smith, Lt. Rutherford; Sub-Lt. Eager, over 100, but no fewer than 13- Lt. Watson, Lt. Moodle: Cdt, Thornhill. Sub.-L. Beattle: Li, Carcy, Sub.-Lt. over 90. Scores of over 100. were est scorer with 875. He also put six for Tulsa and one for the Al- (E) Benn and Sub-Lt. Dalziel.
up. two good scores-a. 206 in his. NAVY AND POLICE-Wall (Police): ley Team, Bellor of Tulsa malt-second game and 208 in his fourth. Taylor, (Follçe), Tel. Honeywill (Navy), ing two of them, a 100 in his se Spenko was not his usual self, A/Ldg. Tel. Paul (Navy) and A/Ldg, cond game and another 100 in his although his 793 contributed very Tel. Bowden (Navy): Lieutenant Carter fourth game. Drewes registered largely, to the debacle of the Al- C.S.C.C. 1st XI:-J. E. Richardson, (Navy) and Lieut. Cdr. Clark (Navy); two also-110 in his first game ley. Team. A. E. Perry, D. McLellan, F. Baker, L:S.A, Palmer (Navy), Lt. (E.) Brown and 103, in his fourth. K. J. Attwell, D. J. Hollidge, N. Whit-[(Navy), Cullinan, (Police): E/Lt. Tay- les, N. L. Smith, A. Watson, T. Lock lor (Navy); C.P.O, Wir. King (Navy); Wright-Nooth (Police), Innis (Police) hart and. A. M. J. Wright.
and Dempsey (Police).
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Junior Games
and T. Lock.
Reservoat-Reynolds (Police), Todd (Police), Sgt. Manfield (Navy); F/Lt. Wright (Navy), and A.B, Longmuir (Navy).
LEAGUE STARTS
ON DECEMBER 11
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P.R.C. XI-C, Pope, A. E. Carey, W. L. Clarke, J. Shepherd, H. Dan- browsky. J., Orem, A. Estall, B. G.
At a meeting of the Badminton Baker, J. Lewis, H. Matches and A. Association held yesterday Billingham.
was decided that the League HK.C.C. 2nd-X1:—EJI-Mitchell, start on December-11. D. S. Robb, D. O. Parson, W. Stoker, St. John's, winners of
The solitary-score of over 100 made by Alley Team was bag. god by Wright with 104 in his fifth game.
The average score per player per game for Tulsa worked out,
average worked out at 87.2.
Ewo. Semi-Final
Landolt top-scored Allay. Team with - a useful 790; but again, in his case, a chance of a much higher score... was.spoiled:: by a poor 138 in his third game. Ismall did pretty well to score-- 781, this score including a bril- liant 216 in his first game..
́Signals' Success
Vaughan, who is more accus- tomed to Duck Pins than. Ten Pins, did not distinguish himself. while Murphy was completely off form. I rather think that Murphy's There was quite an interesting lack of experience of match five-game Ten Pin match played games contributed very largely to on November 14, it being these his poor showing cond of the semi-finals in the Ewo Indoor Bowling League, between Argonauts and the Wash Outs (the winner of the other semi-final be
There was a very keen five- Most interesting of the junior the match ber games should be
"Btween the Dare Devils and the Fame Duck-Pin-match played on Túlsa tween the second teams of K. C. C.
Hyjackers being the former, who Saturday between U.S.S.
on November and Royal Corps of Signals, which and Recreio.. The former team has . Dow, R. S; W. Paterson, Cmain in this division as several won by 247 pins
resulted in a tight win for Signals. now run right into form and has Gahagan, G. P. Charlton and C. W. E.
by 51 pins. players of last year's team would been doing extremely well of late.
On this occasion the Wash Outs, C.S.C.C. 2nd XI-H. E. Strange. H. not be competing. Smarting from their experience F, Harper, G. Ainslie, J. F. MacGowan, This permission was granted won very narrowly by 26 pins in the first game this season, when J. Mitchell, G. Davidson, G; Stone, F. on the understanding
that if and subsequently played the
in the ·Fin-: Recreio put them out for 34, they E. Lawrence. H. P. Cunningham, A. they maintained a winning stand- Dare Devils will be all out to avenge them (Continued, at foot of Next Col.) ard in the first five games of the als, in a match described lafer in
League they would be transferred this article. ¤···········*...........00000000 to the "A" Division.
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Emerson of Tulsa, was unable to complete his games and B. M. Gordon deputised for him.
Varko of Tulsa and Blount of Signals tied for top score with 519-and to-decide the superior- Ity they each played an--extra- frame," which, was: won
by: Blount with a spare, against Vasko's 9.
Chief Petty Office Summers for 1 Rev. J. R. Higgs, and Mr. T. Argonauts, and Albert Odell were S.Whyte-Smith were elected unable to turn out and A. A. Borg vice-presidents of the Association, and C. W. Engle, of U. S., S. Tulsa.
A donation of $50 was made substituted for them.
Wright of Signals, was next to the Bomber Fund.
With the exception of Borg for with. 481, feature of his bowling Following are the "B" Division the Wash Outs, the scoring all being his wonderful consistancy, teams:
round was low for such an impor- his scores being 99, 97, 93, 98 and Section A-Chung Wah, King's tant match, Borg was top scorer 95. Drewes College, Recreio, Jewish Club; with a good 815 and would pro-
of Tulsa averaged 91 Victoria Reercation Club...
bably have done much better had, pins per game and Oszajac did Section B.St. John's, Kowloon, he not started with a 136.
well to make 423. Tong, St. Andrew's, Kowloon Police.
INTER-NONG CRICKET
TEAMS
was
Ismall of the Argonauts next best, with 761 while Cleg- Belt for Argonauts was third top scorer with 757. Hall, and Bir- keft of Argonauts were right off form as were Talan, Odell' and Engle, of the other team.
Close Affair
I do not remember this play. or having played in a Duck Pin match In there Alleys before, his useful attempt therefore be ing all the more creditable, Both Watts and Cleggett, bowled quite well.
Following have been chosen for
There were seven scores of 100 the annual cricket match between † Jardine's " and the Hong Kong
and over, the Tulsa team bagging the Bank, which will be played at the
four of them, and Signals Kowloon Cricket Club, commen-
others. Drewes made 100 in his cing at 11 am, to-morrow -
was a very close first game, Vasko 126 in his se- Jardines XI.-N. L. H Ráillon, and hard-fought one: Argonauts cond. 112 in his fourth, and 108- KM.. Baxter, N. D. Booker, NJ led after four games by 45 pins in his fifth game, and Watts 100 Bocker. DI Bosanque, but the last game saw the. Wash in his fifth.
The match
E. M. Brazel. G. J. P. Carey, G. Outs go ahead to win by 26 pins...
P, Charlton, D. Hung, D. O. Par- sons, and G. P. Stone.
| H.K. Bank's XE-M.F.L; Hay- ines, D. G. Day. B. A. Bompas. B. Gósano, G, M, Gosano, C; Harring; ton, D. JA. Fle'den, J, S. Lee, E HP Miller FM, Thompson and C.
DAN. Walker
Shephardiandis, Barrow,
K.C.C.X2nd: XJ ;—–—S.... A‚· Gray,, E. Cur-) Us, L. R. Burch, R. A. J. Simpson, K., Baxter. G. A, Goodban......R, J, Fenton, J. R. Luke..B. Leigh, G. Giften and II. Brokenshire.
c.c.c, / 2nd! Xt:—A, M. Omar, W. K. Way. C. W. Lam, A. Hùng, Li W. Leonard; E3. Mitchell, L. - Young saye, N. Broadbridge, U. .. Esmail, “A. 11. Esmall and-1, L. Forman,
LR.C. 2nd XI-M. R. Abbas. A. II. Jimall): the T. Barina, M., Y, › Razack; ||FA. Curreem, A, ul. Artulil, T. Al, AR Suffled; J; (M."A. "Rumjahn, A. CO3 Bahming and M.-D.-Alaskan,·
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B. Lilliorap, manager of the Bowling Alleys, presenting the Ewo Indoor, Bawling trophy tó H. Blount ceptain of Dard
llo, winners of the competition,, Jast Tuesday,