HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937.
MAMAK HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP WON
BY RADIO SPORTS CLUB
The above picture shows the combined 1st and 2nd teams of the Royal Ulster Rifles, season 1936- 1937. They are, standing:-McCauley, Tomlinson, McCullough, Galbraith, Connors, Stevens, Pickering, Barnwell, Ferguson, McKinney and Murdock; sitting: McGonigal. Doherty, Erwin, Moore, Killen, Miller, Boyd and Miller; front: Ries, McDowell and Godney. The 1st team of the Royal Ulster Rifles won the Senior League Championship in their first year of participation in local football,
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE
SOCCER FIELD
Rifles Flourish In League Climax
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(BY ROY MURRAY)
RIFLES FINE FINISH
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attracted my · at- this seasoTL strange A3 it may seem, out of the abundance of local teams and players, I can only pick tour who meet my re- quirements.
artisty of Lee Wat Tong and Fung Let me congratulate Rides who King Cheong, it is quite interesting have practically won the Benkor to spot promising youngsters, who League Trophy, after "that long will eventually make their mark drawn "marathon" with South in football. Looking at the game team manager's point China, "A."" who adopted a lack-from adaisical air after their Benior of view, and spotting budding Shield triumph, which seemed their players who sole ambition this season. This was tantion very much in evidence during the Kowloon match, when they felded a team of Second Division calibre. My confidence of a Rifles cham- plonship year was cemented after that lion hearted Navy XI, hum- bled a strong South China side. to Although many are inclined name the Kowloon victory over China "A" as the decider, I am convinced that Navy proved Rifles "fairy godmother?" when they con- vincingly beat the strong China “A” AI
FINE SPIRIT.
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These are Jorge, of
of La Salle College and Kowloon 2nd XI. Stevens, Rifles, Tam Kwon Kon. Athletic goalkeeper. and La! Shut Wing. South China "A."
REFLECTIONS
Throughout the past season I have compiled a diary, merely for my owu amusement, which I pass on. In it I have noted what are in my opinion the highlights of the vanishing season. Here they In my opinion the inspiration are:--Lee Wal Tong's unforgettable of Rides' success has been their last minute equaliser against Army fine spirit and stamina,
in the Kotwall Cup; Rifles drama- always had a paralysing effect ontle equalising goals against South sides
indulged who
fancy "A" after being twice in arrears. tactics. No other team has extend- Campbell's inspired trial display ed, a side which was practically to gain Interport honours: Fung composed of the Olympic XI, and King Cheong's exhibition... of the Chinese never took any brains and ball juggling in the "chances when facing the mili-Shield Final; Rifies' fine Lengue tary team. Rifles literally rolled finish and South 'China. "A's." lapse up their sleeves and got down to at the vital stage. it in real honest-to-goodness style. and will now reap the reward of A hard season
tour, c-i Manila as a refresher.
with a
SERVICES HAT TRICK With the Senior League trophy almost on Rifics sideboard at Shamshuipo, Navy's runaway race with the Second Division, and Fusiliers carrying off the honours in l. I. we can call it a Ber- vices hat trick. Four years have lapsed since a Service XI annexed the laurels in Division I South Wales Borderers being the 1933-34
“H.D.” FOR THE FINAL
Easy Win Over F.H. Kwok
H. D. Runjahn proved to be too good for F. H. Kwok when they
met in the semi-final of the singles tennis championship on the Stand Court of the HK.C.C., yesterday afternoon and won by scores of 6-2, 6-0, 6-4
Rumjahn played very well indeed and concentrated on his opponent's backhand, thus forcing Kwok to be on the defensive right through the game.
Kwok's returns lacked sing and Rumjahn was able to score many "Aces."
In the third set Rumjahn made mistakes and al'owed several Kwok to draw level at 3-all, Rumjähn, however, won the next game to take the lead again, but he faltered in the eighth game with several double faults and Kwok agala drew level.
Rumjahn went up to the net for
the next two games and gave his opponent no chance, winning the set and match to enter the final where he will meet either S. A. Rumjahn dr E. C. Fincher.
CLUB HANDICAP SEMI-FINAL In the semi-final of the Club Handicap Harrison defeated H
Owen Hughes in two straight sets, the score being 6-2, 6-2. Harrison now meets M. Pagh in the final and if he shou'd display the form де showed yesterday, Pagh will and him a very difficult per- son to beat.
NAVY'S GOLF WIN
Shek-O Club Lose By Two
A GOOD SECOND Let me also congratulate South China "A" local team of all the talents, for supplying 85 per cent, of the prettiest football I have seen this season. I venture to say that the Chinese XI threw up the sponge a little too soon, and seem-military champions. It is a long played between Shek-O Club and ed content with the Senior Shield, Their clashes with Rifles stand
out as the season's best.
PROMISING PLAYERS
A golf match (four balle) was
time since. Chinese teams ex- the Royal Navy at Shek-✪ on perlenced such a lean season and | Wednesday when the latter won by with the exception of South China "A's" position on the Senior chart,
While we are all well acquainted they have been sadly out of the with the undisputed
„football | running.
Sporting Fixtures
TO-DAY
Hockey. Mamak Tournament Champlona v. The Rest (H.KS.R.A.
'Athletica.Inter-School Athletic Meeting, S.C.A.A. Stadium, Caroline Ground), 4.30 p.m. Sh
Hill. 2 p.m.
Badminton.-Y.M.C.A. Badmin- ton, in the West Lounge, 8.30 p.m. Bridge. Cheero Club Duplicate Contract Bridge, 8 p.m.
Meetings Kowloon Chess Club, at St. Andrew's Church Hall, 5.39 pm.
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Tennis Open Singles Semi-final, S. A. Rumjahn v. E. C. Fincher
(stand court)
TO-MORROW.
Athletics HKVDO, Annual Athletic Meeting, Sodkumpoo, 2.30 p.m.; Bt. Andrew's Sunday School Sports-3 p.m.
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MONDAY, APRIL 26 Boxing-Final Inter-Unit Army Competition, Murray Barracks, 8
p
Meeting.-R.K. Football Referees' Meeting. Gloucester Bullding, 1.8 Dm..
Snooker. Open Championship: E. A dos Remedios y. C. Strange
12-10, the details being as follows:
Shek-O Cinb v. Royal Navy
Up. Da.
Major R. D. Walker and A. G. Sheldon v. Capt. Whit- marsh and Burgn. Lleut. Steele Perkins
G. B. G. Gifford Hull and
D. H, Blake v. Lt.-Comdr.
Barry and Capt. Rush- brooke
V.
A. C. L Bowker and D.
Drummond
Comdr. Balter and Comdr. Wan-' chope.......KANSLATİBLİKARAKO Major Churcher and W: J. A Cragg v. Pay-Lieut. Morant and Comdr. Ar- bathnot.........
8. A. Sleap and H. 8. Hills,
Engr. Capt. Dibley and Major Bramall bé...
L. C. F. Bellamy and D. Macalister v. Lt.-Camdr. Waymouth and Lt.Cdr. Helbert .................
(Kowloon CC.); D. Stafford v J. R. Sturt and 14.-Col.
Noronha, (Catholic, Union). 9 p.m. Tennis. Open Douples (semi- Anals) Wong Shiu-wing and; Luk Ding-cheung v. H. D. and 6. A. Rumlahn or A, V. Gosano and A. V. Remedios.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 21 20 Snooker, Open Championship:
Club's Fourth Extra Race Meeting, A. Noronha V. A. J. Osmund (R.
at Happy Valley, 2 p
NYP, Canteen). MP Her SUNDAY, APRIL 25medios v. LV. Antonio (C: P. C. Athletics-Indian R.C. Annual and P. O. Rec Room), 9.p.m.
(Bookunpog), 1
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Tootball, Bunday ›Hergide Inter- national Cup Final: England v. Tre fand, Caroline Hill, 4.15 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL2:28: Shooting HK Rifle Association Spoon and Practice Shoot (Army Range, Kowloon City), 2 p.m.
Dowbiggin v. Rear-Adml. Sedgwick and Comdr. Disbrowe
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The championship of the Mamak | forwards, with a wealth of good Hockey Tournament was decided i passes. E. Fowler, at left halt, yesterday afternon. when
the also worked hard and time and Radio Sports Club, champions of again cleared ́a' dangerous situa- the "B" division defeated the tion in the Association team's dea Central British Association, “win- ders of the "A" division; by three goals to nil, on the HKARA Marina ground. In the first of the series of the matches to de- cide the championship, the Radio defeated the C.B.A. by a goal to nil last week.
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In yesterday's match, which was played at a fast pace, the Radio Sports Club fully deserved victory. | Their forwards' combination was far superior to their opponents who lacked Anish in attack. The Radio's defence, too, was steadier.
Capt. G. W. P. Kimm and Mr. A. F. Austen umpired the match in a very efficient manner.
The Radio were without Kalwant Singh and his place at left back was taken by T. Singh. The C.BA made no changes in their team.
Exchanges were fairly even in the opening minutes and after
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ing the mainstay of the attack. before the final whistle Just sounded, the C.B.A. were awarded A short corner but they failed again to make use of the oppor- tunity.
Hassan
Wallace. ut right back for the C.B.A., played a brilliant game and
For the winners, Awtar Singh was by far steadiër than 3. Mac-and Bertie Quest combined well in Nider." Wallace cleared with the forward line, whlie
B.C curats, strong hitting and his dis- was outstanding in defence. The play throughout was outstanding. outstanding players for the losers were Wallace, Blyth and the three Fowler brothers.
In the second half, the C.BA forced innumerable corners, both short and long, but their forwards were at fault in first time stopping and thus many gorders opportun~-
ties find the net went begging. The Radio goal underwent ; con- siderable pressure Clarke putting in some good clearances while Rocha: kept a sate charge between
the sticks.
The teams were as follows: Radio 8.C.:-Rocha; G. Clarke and T. Singh: J. Bingh, M. H Hassan and M." Singh; T. Singh, A. E. P. Guest, Axtar Singh, J. Wall and K. "Singh..
C.B.A.-J. J. King; Wallace and 8. MacNider; R. Blyth, B. L. Hik- ford and E.-Fowler; W. E. G. Hirst Midway through this half, Wall S. A. Towler, OH Fowler, T. B. D.
and Whitley and V. C. Bond" once again broke through- following a mishit by King, the Association goalkeeper, on the edge of the circle, followed through to obtain an easy goal.
Towards the end the C.BA. pressed hard, Tom Whitley, George Fowler and Bond (left wing) be-
each goal had been raided, the Radio opened their. score through Awtar Singh, centre-forward, who beat, King with a splendid shot from close range. The goal might ( xxmyCZE have been prevented had. Bickford,' the Association pivot, let the ball 80 put instead of attempting a clearance in the dee.
After continued pressure on the CBA. citadel, Wall, receiving the ball on the left worked his way
through the opponents defence and put the Radio further ahead. Wall put the ball into an empty net as the result of a miskick on the part of King.
end where S.A. Fowler and G. H. Play was transferred to the other
Fowler went very close with suc- cessive shots. Hassan, the Radio centre-half, cleared admirably under pressure and was ably. sup- ported by the wing-halves, J. Singh and Mohinder Singh, the latter spolling many efforts on the part of W. Hirst and S. Fowler.
In the C.B.A. Intermediate line. Bickford was definitely off form, and while intercepting well his distribution was very poor. Bob Blyth did trojan work at right- half, checking the Radio attacks from the left wing and feeding his
HOME SOCCER RESULTS
Promotion Race Still Goes On
London, Apr. 21. The usual end of the season struggle to avoid relegation is going on in the first division of the Eng- Lish Football League.
Shefeld Wednesday to-day made a big effort to lift themselves from the foot of the table by going to West Bromwich Albion and win-
ning 3-2..
On the other hand Leeds failed at home to Wolves, while 'Manches- ter United, another threatened team, isited Sunderland and drew one-each,
At the present the three bottom places are occupied by Manchester United with 32 points from 41 games, Leeds with 30 points from 40 games and Wednesday with 30 points from 40 games.
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In the third diision, Luton con- tinued, their challenge to Notts County for the championship and by winning against Swindon. 5-1; brought their tally of points to:54 for 40 games as compared with the County's 58.1rom the same number of matches. Notts need three points from, their remaining two encoun- ters to make promotion a certainty. To-day's results were as follows:
ENGLISH LEAGUE First Division
Leeds Sunderland
W. Bromwich
o Wolves
1 Manchester U. 1
2 Wednesday
Second Division
7
Notts F
3.Tottenham
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Third Division (South)
Bournemouth 9 Northampton
Lutonn
5: Swindon
Third Division (North)
Chester
York
Partick
6 Gateshead
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U.S. BASEBALL RESULTS
Mighty Hitting Encounter
New York, Apr. 21. There was only one game in the Big Leagues to-day, that a mighty” hitting engagement between the Chicago SoxTM and the St. Louis Browns.
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Browns, always noted for their heavy hitting in the past few Bea- sons, but lamentably weak in pitching talent, outhit the Box. They connected with 22 safeties and tallied 15 runs. Moreover, they kept errors out of their play
Chicago, trying hard, scored ten times on 17 hits. They, too, were without errors.
Hornsby and Clift hit homers for the Browns.
In the National League the Philadelphia-Boston, New York- Brooklyn, St. Louis-Cincinnati and A PROTEST.
Pittsburgh-Chicago rames were Following the match. It was called. Nh
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another Cleveland-Detroit fixtures. players had played for
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