THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 23, 1941
K.C.C. BEAT ST. JOHN'S
K.C.C. King's
“B” DIVISION: LEAGUE-TABLE
St. John'#
Recrolo
St. Andrew's
St. John's will not now Chung Wah be promoted from "B" Kowloon Tong Division to "A" Division of V.B.C. the Badminton League. Police
Last night, with Eardley, they went down to. E.C.C, by the odd game, despite a great effort by Smith and Wilson who won all three games.
J.R.C.
Games
P. L. W. F. A. Pts.
4. 0.4 23 13
8
3 0 3 21 #
4 1 3 25
11
0
3 1 2
19
B
4
3 1 2
17
10
4
4 2 2
18
18
4
3 2 1
8
19
2
4
3 1
17
19
2
4 4 0
7 20
4
4 0
7
20
0
beat Dingsdale and
rier
In other matches St. Andrew's beat Police and V.R.C. beat Jew-bent Siu and Shepherd ish Recreation Club.
M. M. Davies and B. (St, Andrew's).
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BET WINNINGS WAITING FOR UNTRACED SOLDIER-BACKERS
HERE'S A STRANGE war echo. In the office
of a leading firm of London bookmakers there are many cheques for winning bets made by soldier- customers waiting collection, writes a Home corres- pondent.
I have no doubt other big start- had ing-price bookmakers have 15 21 the same experience. Fer-
For-
21
21-5 Gillesple
duly sent out They were
on last settling days during racing winter and spring, but came back marked "address not known."
Following were the scores; -
St John's lost to Kowloon Cric-lost to Gilies and ket Club by 3 games to 4.
Gor-
don
•
D. Kwok and E. Kennard (St. beat Dingsdale and John's).
lost to A. L. Fisher and
rior beat Siu and Shepherd
Wynter-Blyth
11
21
bent J. L. Anderson and ti
S Jones
21
18
lost to A. E. P. Guest and
E Zimmern
15
N. L. Smith and P. Wilson John's).
beat Fisher and Wynter-
Blyth.
218 21
5
Match Postponed
The probable explanation Is the movements of B.E.F. troops prior to Dunkirk.
Most of the untraced winners may now be prisoners of war in Germany. Some, alas! may never
pier to hand it over than the book-~ maker.
There Are Others
The reverse side of the picture is the man who left for other spheres of action without having the chance of paying his bookie.
It is to the credit of the much-
abused layers that they never dream of bringing actions against
soldier-debtors.
The civilian defaulter is in A The match between King's Col-return. 21lege and Club de Recreio was What is certain is that when-different category, and I gather is
the untraced soldiers come increasing in numbers. postponed, owing to fact T. Lam ever (Stand T H Lo of King's were in- back they will find their money One Tattersall's rails man who
attend the waiting for them and no one hap- did not
Nottingham jured during a recent gam
21--13 beat Anderson and Jones. 21 19 beat Guest and Zimmern 21 16
R. Maynard and G. S. Ladd (St. John's).
lost to Fisher and Wynter-
Blyth
12-21
lost to Anderson and Jones 6 21 lost to Guest and Zimmern 9-21
J.R.C. v. V.R.C.
At Robinson Road, Jewish Re- creation Club lost to Victoria Re- creation Club by 5 games to 4.
meeting said to me: "First of all I have to win on the day and then I have to collect tho cash. I can easily win, money on the book, but lose on the day."
SWIMMING EXHIBITION
Uni-
Members of the Rikkyo versity swimming team, who re- gently competed with great success in the Philippines championships, will give
the an exhibition in European Y.M.C.A. pool to-day at A charge of $1 will be made, 50 per cent, of which will. be donated to charity.
2 p.m.,
Three reasons for
BURLEIGH popularity:
J. Odell and M. Talan (J.R.C.). lost to D. N. Xavier and S.
A. Rumjahn
21 -23
beat A. A. Remedios and F.
Castro
21
10
beat A. Basto and M. M. de
V. Soares
A. R. Pollak and L. Landau *(J.R.C.).
lost to Xavier and Rum-
.21 12
jahn
.10 21
lost to Remedios and Cas-
tro
.21--23 7-21
lost to Basto and Soares
S. Ramler and 9. Godkin
(J.R.C.).
lost to Xavier and Rum-
jahn
8--21
beat Remedios and Cas-
tro
21-7 21-14
Burleigh
beat Basto and Soares
St. Andrew's v. Police
Playing at home, St. Andrew's
beat Police by 3 games to 1.
E. F. Fincher and H. Kew (St. Andrew's).
'beat W. Gillies and L. Gor-
don
beat H. Dingsdale and J.
Ferrier
beat C. Y. Siu and J. She-
pherd
.21--18!
21 5
.21 2
A. E. Brown and S. A. Gray (St. Andrew's).
beat Gillies and Gordon ..21- 9
SERVICE
OTHER RANKS NOT ALLOWED TO TRAVEL
By "Adrem"
this
not be
I was officially informed morning that Service personnel, other than officers, will available for the trip to Macao for the annual Hockey Interport with the Portuguese port,
:
* Several changes have according- ly been made in the trial teams for. Saturday which will now be as follows
Colours: V. M. Benwell (Club); V.Bond (Club) and R. G. K. Thompson (Club); M. H. Hassan (Khalsa), W. A. Reed (Club) and N. B. M. Whitley (Club);- Tejja Singh (Police), T. S. D. Whitley (Club), Jesbir Singh (Police), J. Fonseca (Recreio) and W. Brown
(Police), AN
Whiter-U. B. Souza (Khalsa); Man Singh (Police) and A. M. Xavier (Nomads); D. McLellan (Club), Capt. Woods (Rajputs) and T. Alves (Recreio); Lt. J. Ross (Punjabs), M, Akram (Punjabs), Gurbachan Singh (Khalsa), E Fowler (CBA) and Narwant Singh (Police)
Following are requested to at- tend DTE Smith":(CBA), R. zad iques. (Reareto), B. 1. Blek-
F(Club), 3. Gonsalves (Ro
RJRead (Nomada), ankes Kampta Parsad (Punjabs)
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