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MBER 30, 1941.
RAKUSEN IS GIVEN SHANGHAI ANXIOUS TIME BY SWIMMING MACKAY IN OPEN
2. M. N. RAKUSEN, COLONY LAWN BOWLS CHAMPION, CAME VERY NEAR TO BEING ELIMINATED IN THE 1941 COLONY SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP WHEN, PLAYING N. A. E. MACKAY IN THE SECOND ROUND AT KOW- LOON FOOTBALL CLUB YESTERDAY, HE WON ONLY BY 21-18 AFTER 25 ENDS. HE WAS TRAILING 17-18 AT THE 24TH.
Ja addition to the above game, 12 other Sec- ond Round ties woro-decided, all these resulting as expected, the easlest win of the day being
· credited to U. M. Omar who in beating Y. Abbas by 21-4, took 11 endo to reach game, allowing his opponent to score at only two ends!
2 A. R. DALLAH, FINALIST IN four threes and four twos in his 1939, SHOWED GOOD FORM total. WHEN HE BEAT H. NISH 22-8 AFTER 18 ENDS, THE EQRMER WINDING UP WITH A "POSSI- BLE" TO FINISH A GOOD DAY'S. BOWLING. BUT HIS CLUB- MATE, S. M. RUMJAHN, TOOK
DOWMAN'S 18.
W.M. Omar: 10232 0332 23-21 Y. Abban: 0100 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 4
Hall Recovers Well
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24 ENDS TO SCORE 22 AGAINST Hall beat R. Basa by 21-10 at the At Kowloon Football Club, A. J.
19th end.
Basa started well and was lead- Shepherd Police - Eskip,ing 0-2 at the 6th, and 7-4 at the had a surprisingly easy win over 9th. Hall then had 2 3 4 2 to A. H. Rumjahn and B. W. Brad-lead 15-8 at the 14th. After con- bury beat J. H. Gelling, after 19 ceding two singles "Hall finished ends, by 21-8
A. J. Hail: 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 3420
Cricket Club.
at Civil Service up with 1 0 3 2.
Walker Succeeds
At Police Recreation Club W. L. Walker beat D. A. Rozario 21-10 at the 21st head.
by
The score was eight all at the 12th but Walker with 2 3 2 11
took the lead to 17-8 at the 17th. After conceding a two at the next end he finished with 1 1 2:
W. L. Walker: 101010121010
2 3 2 1 1 0 1 1 2 21
D. A. Rotario: 010102000103
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Aitken Through....
At Hong Kong Football Club J. C. Aitken beat W. Ward by 21-9 at the 16th end.
W. Ward: 02001021200000
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R. Basa: 0112 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 11
0 1 0 0 10
Three At 23rd
At Club de Recreio, J. G. Meyer heat R. Leigh by 21-18 at the 23rd end thanks to a 3 at the last head. The score was eight.all at the 9th. The game was evenly contested. At the 13th Meyer led 9-11 but Leigh with 1 1 2 led 13-11 at the 16th. A three at the 20th gave Meyer an 18-14 lead, but Leigh drew level at the 22nd with 1 and 3. Meyer scored a three at the
next end.
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Aitken was down 8-6 at the 9th but with 4 1 2 4 2 led 19-8 at the 14th. Ward then scored a single but Aitken finished the game with
At Kowloon Cricket Club, C. M. a two.
Silva beat H. White by 21-132 at J. C. Altken: 2 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 4 1 2 the 20th end.
20 221
White started in grand style, open- ing with a four and was leading 7-5 at the 5th and 12-6 at the 8th. White failed to score at the re- Bradbury Wins Easily maining ends and Silva reeled off
At Civil Service Cricket comfortably.
six singles and 2 1 1 3 1 1 to win Club B. W. Bradbury beat C, M. da Silva: 023001001111 J. H. Gelling by 21-8 at the 19th
112 113 11 - 21 end.
10-9
Bradbury led by only 9-7 at the 10th but was leading 20-7 at.
the 17th with 1 2 2 1 3 1 1. Gel- ling scored a single at the next
SEASON
EARLY IN THE SUMMER WHEN SHANGHAI AMATEUR SWIMMING ASSOCIATION MET FOR THE FIRST TIME LITTLE HOPE WAS ENTER- THING BUT MEDIOCRE AND LACKING IN NEW TAINED THAT THE SEASON WOULD BE ANY- TALENT, WRITES THE "NORTH CHINA DAILY NEWS." THERE WAS CERTAINLY GOOD REA- SONS FOR THIS ASSUMPTION.
All of the outstanding swim scratching earlier in the evening mors of the past two years-Dick-but he maintained a Hall in the breast stroke, the sen- driving pace that easily swept the sational Jackie Lumsdaine of back record by the board. stroke fame and "Toby" Gavriloff, Shanghai's leading free style swimmer in a decade, were no
year's sprint champion,
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to approxiately a 69 second: 100Caloutle Outside the record 34-1/5 seconds set up by M. Mat-yards, or virtually the Shanghal sushita in 1936, this was the best record of 68-3/5 seconds which
Dick Hall established in 1939 and Canton performance in the 440 ever seen in a local competition.
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employing the, normally faster stroke. by 11 seconds. The Chinese was never extended throughout the with the exception of G. Stephen race-all the other competitors
0 0 0 0 0 0 = 12
Close Struggle
At Kowloon "Football Club. H.
and at the following end Bradbury Overy beat L. A. Jordan by 22-18 obtained the necessary shot to win. at the 20th end
B. W. Bradbury: 10 10 2040101
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J. H. Gelling: 0 2010 2010100 Jordan scored 11 shots at six ends
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At Civil Service Cricket Club, J. away three Qvery then had 3 3 1 18-17 at the 24th, but a four Shepherd beat A. H. Rumjahn by 2 to lead 18-16 at the 17th, at the next end gave the cham- 21-10 at the 21st head,
Jordan tied the score at: 18-all at pion victory. Shepherd led 14-4 at the 12th the next end but Overy scored the M. N. Rakusen: 1931 0.0 0.0 13.1 but Rumjahn with 11 1:1:2 re- necessary shots with 1 1 2 to win duced the lead to 14-10 at the
a hard game." 17th. This was the last of his scoring as Shepherd ran out with
2 3.1.1.
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Rumjahn was down 13-5 at the
At Club de Recreio, A. R. Dal-, 10th but with 2 2 3 was only one lah beat H. Nish by 22-8 at the shot in arrears at the 13th. The 18th end. ".
Dallah led 5-0 at the third and jahn finished strongly with 1-11 score was 16-all at the 19th, Rum- 13-2 at the 9th. He took the lead 03 to win by four shots. to 18-5 at the 15th Nish then 6. M. Rumjahn: 20.000 10 0 2 0 3 scored a single and a two but 2300 1.2 1.0111002 Dallah scored a four at the next.
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WH. EVANS THOMAS, N.A,E. Mackay: 0400111 7.000 close to the record in the 200. 10:1-1-0-1 -1 0 01201 10-10 | yards, in “which-he, was clocked POSTPONED GAMES-record, set by Hall in 1939, is at 2 minutes, 52-4/5 seconds. The
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Like Grebenschikoff, Ernie Smith swept the board in the Back afroke championships, with ⠀⠀: V. | Matiuk, a promising newcomer from the Foreign “"'Y,” taking sec- and place, while Smith also won the men's 150 yards medley swim Sir-From a perusal of the re-in fast time. With three cham-Current Accounts and Savings port on the semi-finals of the Open pionship to his credit, Ernie Smith Accounts opened. Fixed Deposits Pairs Lawn Bowls game played was thus the outstanding indivi-recolved at rates which will be yesterday, my friends and 1 do not dual swimmer of the season quoted on application. agree with the report of your In the ladies' frea, style events Safe Deposit Boxes for hire. scribe in that the elder Omar once it was Lecia Heliking all the way.
PHILIP GOOKCHIN, again carried the young one in while the back stroke and breast their triumph, as is the wont of stroke championships fell to the
Chief Manager, At Kowloon Football Club, Mthis particular scribe in his other respective champions and record- N. Rakusen, holder; beat N. A. E. descriptions of their games. Young holders Jill Pencil and Doreen Mackay by 21-10 at the 25th Omar lent his weight admirably Gray--without difculty, continue and tie German press men Sports fatalilles on the castern front At Kowloon Bowling Green through a possible at the last end throughout and, although there is Club, U. M. Omar beat Y, Abbas After a four at the second, no gainsaying the fact that
From present indications the tions Herp Tiotel, of Frankfurt, reven by 21-4 at the 11th end.....
Mackay was down 4-5 at the 4th older. Omar played as well as was ecedingly interesting,
the 1042 cliampionship should bo ox. uimen International footballer for Gør- Abbas scored at only two ends, but with 11 12 lcd 9-5 at the to be expected AM was worth potential record materiala Jalkanen, world champion & long dis with such many; Kallo Jadivinen, Olymple Dames a single at the second and a three atif. Rakusen led 13-11 at the 15th his weight in gold to his brother, Charlie Butt, Ballerand, Hojcking Lance akler in 1938, also for Finland,
field avonta star, fossFinland, and Kalla: at the 0th, while Omar included|and 16-13 at the 18th Mackoy
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