THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 4, 1941
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JUNIOR LEAGUE
LEAGUE CRICKET STARTS THIS AFTERNOON Civil Service Should Do Well Against Recreio
K.C.C. FOR THE JUNIOR TITLE
TO-DAY'S RUGBY
CLUB ARE FAVOURED TO WIN
To-day's Rugby match between Club and Army at the Valicy. commencing at 4 p.m., will decide
which team will be runners-up to Navy in the Quadrangular Tour nament.
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Army are almost unchanged Berry has been left out in favour of Heath, and Hook and Coombes have changed places but Club than stronger considerably they have been for some tazae". Carruthers
Aitkenhead are and back in the threequarter line with Charter at fly-half, and Walkden? is in the front row in place of the injured Hensman. with Thomas taking his place as wing-forward. It should be a close game with the odds slightly in favour of Club, though much will depend on the hooking duel between Ford and Burford.
Prior to this game, at 2.45 pm Club "A" will meet Army A" The match between Police and Navy has been postponed to Wednesday, January 15.
Following
teams:
By "Adrem"
THIS AFTERNOON MARKS THE OPENING OF THE LEAGUE CRICKET SEASON AND THREE JUNIOR MATCHES ARE DOWN FOR DECISION.
Civil Service will be at home to Recreio and, as Civil Service cricket, the junior section in particular, has been in the doldrums for some time, most fol- lowers of cricket would be inclined to write them off without further argument.
trees
TO-DAY'S WEEK-END HOCKEY FOOTBALL FIXTURES
Following is this week-end's Football programme.
To-day
FIRST DIVISION
Kowloon
V Eastern (Kowloon, 4.00 p.m.) South China ν Middlesex (Caroline Hill, 4.00 p.m.)
V St. Joseph's (Boundary Street, 4.00 p.m.)
SECOND DIVISION
V 30th R.A. Kowloon
(Kowloon, 2.30 pm.)
V Ordnance South Ching
(Caroline Hill, 2.30 pan.) Service Corps v Navy
(Navy, 2.30 p.m.) Club
V Kit Chee (St. Joseph's, 4.00 p.m.) Sing Tao
Middlesex (St. Joseph's, 2,30 p.m.)
THIRD DIVISION
A study of their team, however, icy team have been unable to get | Police
me think otherwise.' going this season,
and Both K.C.C ad-
Recreio are Providing they turn out as vertwed. I can sen
giving taking this afternoon's match very J. M. Recrem quite a lot to think about, seriously and except that With A ushe Stone, Mitchell and Gosano will be an absentee from Norman Stuth to look after their the Recreio team, both sides will attack. I cannot see Recreio scor-be at full strength and anxious to K.C.C., with ing many runs, especially as the try themselves out. Civil Service wicket, unless one Robbie Lee back In the attack, In great is thed to it. is not conducive to and with their batsmen run getting.
form at the moment, should win.
SENIOR FRIENDLIES
V. C.C.C.
I.R.C.
H.K.C.C.
Barrow, also, should stiffen the with the CSC.C. batting, and, other
University more youthful members of the side fine form with bat. the run-getting should also du well.
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department'
Recreio will be without captain J. E. Noronha, whie A.
K.C.C.
Recreio JUNIOR LEAGUE
C.8.C.C. L.R.C. C.C.C
V.
V. Recrelo
v. K.G.C.
V P.R.C.
K.C.C 1st XI:--E. C. Fincher teap
D. Lloyd. D. J. N. Anderson,
V. Gosano, who latterly his detain). N veloped into a very useful bowler, RE Lee, D. Hung. A. Zimmern, F R. has been laid up and is unlikely, Zimmern, to take any further part in games NAE.
this season.
K.C.C. For
Championship
Fidge
E.
F. Fincher F. J 1.04. Mackay and R Ꭲ . Broad-
H.K.C.C. let XI:-L. T Ride cap- tam). N D. Booker. A. J. Dewar, W. H Furlesque, R G. Finnie, T. V N Griffiths, M F. 1. Haymes, D McLel Ian. D Q, Parsons, A F. Perry and J K Richardson,
F
J
Mitchell.
V
20th R.A.
Engineers
V International (Military, 4.00 p.m.) Signals
(Boundary Street, 2.30 p.m.) 24th R.A.
36th R.A. (Chatham Road, 2.30 p.m.)
V 12th R.A.
35th R.A.
V
(Stanley, 2.30 p.m.)
Navy
To-morrow
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FIRST DIVISION Kwong Wah V R. Scots
(Boundary Street, 4.00 p.m.)
Sing Tao (Causeway Bay, 4.00 p.m.)
SECOND DIVISION Kwong Wah V Engineers IRC will entertain Kowloon C.C.C. 1st X-E. Zimmern (captain).
(Boundary Street, 2.30 p.m.) Cricket Club at Sookunpoo. As P J Billimoria. T 11 Edgar, E. H.
R. Scots
V Police J. Hulse, A. the K.C.C. senior team will be Email, A. B. Hamson, A
(Sookunpoo, 4.00 p.m.) having
K. Ismail,
W. Hong full-dress a
rehearsal
THIRD DIVISION L Youngsaye. against Recreio in preparation for Sung. G. Souza and J.
Shell Recreio 1st X-E. L. Gosano teap-7th R.A. their League matches which startan). W A Reed. A M
(Military, 2.30 p.m.) Rodrigues. next week, their juniors will have #L Ozorlu, LG Gusano, G N Go-A.S.A.
Air Force
A 1. Soares, N Belirao. (Sookunpoo, 230 p.m.) Duke the services of Madar and Rapley, sano, E. M
who have had to make way for A P Pereira Jor.. J. Fonseca and A Eddison, ¦ Robbie Lee and Mackay. With
these two players to bolster their, R. Baldwin, G. A. Goodban, F GoodTM batting, which has been inconsis-win, W. W. Parsons, T. A. Madar, K. tent this year, K.C.C. will be a M Baxter, L. R Burch, W. L. Rapley, difficult team to beat and i not, E Curtis and H Brokenshire only tip them to win this after C.C.C. 2nd XI-A. M. Omar (cap
tam. N. Broadbridge. U H Esmail. neon but will go für her and fore- cast for them the League chamA. Bung. CW Lam, E. A. Lee, J. W pionship.
are
the
selected
Heath, pas. and Gillam
ARMY Picton. Richards. Hook. Douglass and Medunald. Coombes and
Sutherland. Ford, Wedderburn,
130 Millar Pinkerton.
Berry
Reserves:--Fuley. Barclay and Marsh
CLUB-Thampson, Bosanquet. Car- ruthers, Aitkenhead and Stewart: Char-
and Thomson, Macrue Burford, Walkden. Gairdner, Needham. Thomas, Taylor and Kennedy
NAVY --Morahan; McGill, Honeywill., Paul and Bowden: Carter and Ruther-
ford; Winter, Watson, Manfield; King. Taylor: Longpair. Beattle and Puole
Reserves:-Kennedy, Lambie, Palur
er and Stuckham.
CLUB "A"Redman: Day. Nelson,
Lavalle and van Leeuwen: Morgan and Clemo; Moodie, Castleton, Olesen; B Hynes, McEwan; Stout, Stoker Godfrey.
Referee:-C. Austin.
HALL OF GOLFERS FAME FOR
and!
The Hall of Fame" idea is spreading since the baseball people thought it up, and by next summer the nation's golfers will have a full-fledged shrine of their own, it was learn-
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Prata K.C.C. 2nd XI:-5. A. Gray (captain),,
A R
Alves
Leonard. S. Leonard. T. Lock. U M Omar and W. K. Way. Reserves: 0. Craigengower, who meet the, M. Omar and L. Choa Recreio 2nd XI:-E champions, P.R.C., will have their] strongest team out but they will captain). P. M N da Silva, Jr., H Barrus, A. J. M. Prata, F. H. Car- have to be at their best to beat valho, A. E. Noronha. B. T. Gosano, the Policemen, if the latter are at J. A. Soares, F. J.Remedios; M. d'A)- full strength. The champions inada Remedios and A. H. d'Almada have not a well-balanced
tean, Remedios.
C.S.C.C. 2nd XIX. E. however, and 1 shall not be sur-
Strange prised if they are beaten,
(captain). H. F Harper, G. Ainslie, J. Barrow. H. P. Cunningham, F. E. Lawrence, FJ. McGowan, J. Mitchell. N. L. Smith. G. Stone and A. Watson. Reserves: H. Parrott: Umpire: D. Hol tolidge; Scorer: J. T. Lacey.
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SING TAO'S HARD TASK AGAINST
NAVY
By "Referee"
Central
British Association Ladies will entertain Argonauts in a friendly hockey match at King's Park this afternoon, commencing at 3.30 p.m.
TO-MORROW'S HOCKEY
Following is to-morrow's Tour- nament hockey programme and Some of the teams:-
AT 10.30 A.M.
A. N. Other XI. v Police "B"
(King's Park),
Umpires: W. Whaten and L.
Coombes.
Destroyers
(Navy).
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C.B.A.
Umpires: E. Vasco and Gor-
man.
Gunboats
(Navy).
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Umpires:-Capt.
Pirve.
5th A.A. "13"
(Lycemun).
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C.B.A.
Martin and
Recreio
Umpires:-V. Bridle and J.
Tomlinson.
Royal Engineers v Khalsa
(Sookunpoo).
Umpires:-K. Hussain and J. W.
Dove.
Signals
AT 4 P.M.
V
5th A.A. "A" (Sookungon). Umpires: Tyas and V. B. Bèn-
well.
TEAMS
C.B.A.-Lockhart; Parsons and D. Taylor; Ure, N. Whitley, Dunne; D. Smith, T., Whitley, E. Fowler, F. Fowler and Blake.
Recreio:-H. L. Gonsalves; G. N. Gosano and J. Gonsalves; R. A. Marques, W. A. Reed and A. M. Alves; G. Yvanovich Jnn, S. H. J. A. Sequeira, B. E. Gosano, Soares and J. Fonseca,
MULE RACE MEETING
Both Sing Tao and South China, teams in First Division leading have hard games this week end,
The when the former moet Navy on
Middlesex Regimental latter Sunday and the
engage Mule Race Meeting held, at the Middlesex at Caroline Hill to-day. Kwanti race course yesterday Navy are fielding a re-organis- afternoon proved very enjoyable Senior Matches
ed side on Sunday and veral players promoted from the Stewart. O.EE., M.C., was pation se- and amusing. Lt.-Col. H. W. M.
H.K.C.C. will be at home Craigengower at Cox's Road and
I.R.C. 2nd XI:-M, R. Abbas (cap- Junior team may upset Sing Tao, of the meeting. although they are by no means attain, A. S. Ismail, A. M. Rumfahn, who have not been able to feld
ïtheir best side for some 'time, K. M. Rumjɛhn, A. el Arculli, M. full strength should have little Razack. A. R. Sufflad, T. All. F. A. difficulty in winning as the Val-Curreem, H. T. Barma and A. N. Other.
Target Practice
BY BEST BALL
To get the most out of prae- tice sessions, they should be
ed recently from Freddie GRAPHIC GOLF
Corcoran of the P.G.A. writes a correspondent from New York.
A committee of newspaper golf writers is being formed to vote on the nominees, and the P. G. A. in donating a plaque on which to inscribe the names of the fairways inmortals. In time it is hoped to
· build a regular shrine like the baseballers have at Cooperstown and to install busts of golf's heroes.
There will be an argument over the site of such a shrine. Some al- ready have plumped for the hal- lowed spot at Brookline, Mass., where young Francia Ouimet in 1913 sank the putt that beat the two great Britishers, Ted Ray and Harry: Vardon, in the National open championship. 2.947 m. 1. •
MAKE PRACTICE. INTERESTING
ABES SKILL. ACCURACY
made as interesting as possi- ble. Just hitting a ball time after time palls even if at the start one is more than usually observant of the mechanical processes involved. Add some target or some means of com- petition to the programme and one's senses not only be- come more alert but continue In that state longer. It adds Keenness to one's attention and to touch.
"Many a" golfer has become an "accomplished "short pitch and' chlp shot player by methods similar · to those above. The object may be a pall, a jar or an indoor canvas target. Any mark will serve Just so long as it affords some 'thing' concrete to hit the ball at. Even if the percentage of successful shots is lów at first, interest in the shots remains at "high-pitch. Perseveranco swill' add accuracy and a grea-. ter capacity, to judge the tre "and distarice of one's 'shots.
Next Arti618—Taking The Count.
There was a bookle and his penciller and a 50 cents tote win! In the Junior Division, Service only with no place betting. Corps meet Navy and a good game As for race 6 there was e sefl- should be witnessed. Service ing sweep which netted $239. Corps 'still have a chance for the The proceeds of the 'meeting Championship but Navy are al- are for the Bomber Fund. ways able to field a strong“jun- The Band of the Middlesex for hide.
Regiment was 'in attendance and Police should easily account for played during intervals. St. Joseph's who are hoping to be able to field their best side. There are no other games of any impor-
tance.
no
Races 1, 2, 3 and 4 were bare- spurs, back, no whips and while Races 5 and 6 were with saddles, no whips and no' spurs.
EWO PILSNER
THE NEW LIGHT BREW
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