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HONGKONG'S BIG WIN.
A QUESTION OF PSYCHOLOGY,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1925.
game, head by head. Shanghai PLAY AND PLAYERS. won the toss and opened the score
with a "2", and repeated the
number in the second head, thank The Association Meeting— to fine play by Phillips. Hong-A Retraction 7-Question kong then scored and, the fourth bead
&
brace, ALW
'no score" decision by the umpires, oven after the use of callipers. At the fifth head, Shanghai added a singlo, and this was the last time they scored until the 17th, head. Hongkong do- minated the play, adding one's and two's and, on one occasion. four. At the top interval, the scord stood at 16-5, after which it
of Extent.
[BY "WANDERER."}
Though they could scarcely be
Winning by a margin of 20 shots, the Hongkong Interport Lawn Bowls team, made them- selves appear very much more
ensured for wishing to delay the superior than they actually were
members of the Hongkong Foot- inevitablo interview with the when they met the Shanghai
ball Association as long as pos bowlers on the Taikoo green yes- torday afternoon.
Hongkong was carried to 25-5 before Shang: Navy and Army" would perhaps sible, the "representatives of the deserved to win, and to win hand-hai broke the spell with a single bo well advised to be early at somely, but the figures of 28 At the 19th. bead, Shanghai scored this afternoon's important meet- points to 8 would seem to indicato two, but Hongkong added singles ing. The situation is pregnant a very much wider disparity in the last two heads and the game with possibilities and should the than there really was.
closed with the score reading members feel an urgent desire to Hongkong 28; Shanghai B.
Except for the first few oponing heads, Hongkong's team played like winnors all through the after-had made wonderfully complete Navy and Army were to greet The Taikoo Recreation Club kiss them, it might be more guitablo as a spectacle if the hoon, whereas the Shanghai four, and generous arrangements; there once they began, to loso, took the matter over-seriously and strug people present representing every
was a crowd of fully two hundred each delegate individually as he
came through the door.
Meanwhile we would like (and) gled against themselves as well Club in the Colony; Messrs. as against their opponents. It Lapsley and Grimmett were eff- we cannot be prevented) to caution was the old story of bowls psycho- ciunt umpires; and the weather Tao meeting is one of great im against unnecessary "hot air." logy or temperament--nothing was all that could have been succeeding like success.
desired. It was a well-staged and portance and its result, insofar as after the tea interval, a fateful conducted Interport, and the pity it affects the Association's posi- spell in so many cases, Hongkong' of it was that Shanghai should tion in official circles, may be could do but little wrong and went have been so totally eclipsed. ahoad until the score made the
Even
Detalled Scores,
The following. are the detailed
Scores:
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very far reaching. It is now our opinion, however, that the whole thing is about to fizzle out, and that the Association's status as well as its position in relation to
outbreak." More's the pity that C. Atkinson, No. 1. F. L. Marshall. grounds, will be as prior to the A. Clark. No. 2., G. Johnson. G. Green No. 3. T. G. Main.
the issue was over raised. J. Ferguson. Skip. R. Phillips. Heads. Shots, Total Shots Total.
Hongkong.
Shanghat
2
2
2
last few heads a matter of routine. To deal with the players in couples. Marshall, a veteran player and an old Interport visi- tor, was not a sound No. 1. He be- gan extremely well and was bettor than Atkinson, Hongkong's No. 1, for a while. But he seemed to lose nicety of judgment, especially in the matter of length, and Atkin- son was, on the play as a whole, much more often lying the 'shot." As regards the No. 2's, Clarke, for Hongkong, played parhaps the best game of any man in both teams. He was on top form, never made a mistake, and was equally at home either in long or short heads. Johnson, for Shanghai, like Marshall, began extremely well but, was over- shadowed by Clark, He made some delightful draws during the afternoon's play, but was against a man who did not really give him look in. Groen, the Craigengower representative, was
To-day's Match. also in splendid form, and was Shanghai will play the Kowloon frequently. applauded for the Cricket Club to-day, the team being
as follows: finesse of his work. He was
Kowloon C.C. master of the green-its strength, J. Fraser. and its draw on either. fore or A. O. Brawn. No. 2. C. A. Pratt. back hand-and proved a tower. Hyde.
1
19
20
21
of strength to his skip. Main, J Gibson.
för Shanghai, played against (
odds. At times he was good but
Shanghai
No. 1. R. Phillips
No. 3. A. McLeod. Skip.
T. G. Muin.
There will no doubt be two or three. prosent who are prepared to get on their feat and, tell the meeting nothingmore helpful than their candid opinion of the person who made the statement at the Recreation Grounds "Committee moeting that the Association is not the controlling body of foot- ball in the Colony. To call a person an ass may convoy the speaker's meaning thoroughly but it neither establishes anything nr proves anything, and further more it indicates mental in- solvency.
We are continually digressing, bat to proceed a little further, we are given to understand on very reliable authority that it is the intention of the representative of] the Garrison Recreation Club to a Imit to the meeting that somebody blundered and that the G. R. Č. does recognise the H. K. F. A. to be the governing body of football here. The Association however must not be satisfied with retraction.which goes no farther than that. It must be made clear to the Army and Navy (the Navy cannot be separated from the issue though ya understand that: in the first place it was an Army minoeuvre) that the objection to the asterisks and footnote on the recungmendations of the Recreation Grounds Crimmittee, must be with- drawn and that they must.concur in their restoration.
ho seemed keyed up a little too entirely between" themselves. It much and did not uniformly give would be the best way out of the of his best. At least twice he present tangle. failed rather badly. When one
There seems to be some misun comes to speak of the skipe, there derstanding regarding the Recrea- is a lot to be borne in mind. Fertion Ground Committee. It is an guson rarely went down to the unofficial body which makes re-a delivery. end to save the score commendations to the Governor- but to protect or add to it, whore-in-Council The H. K. F. A. not u Phillips had a much different being a club is not represented
In conversation yesterday an proposition and bowlers know but they were able to influence
into official of a local club suggested all about that. "As it generally the clubs last season happens in such a case, the skip unanimous assent to their control that the Garrison would probably of the winning team could do no of the grounds allotted to clubs stand by their guns, but as they wrong, and it certainly must be under their jurisdiction. When probably realise said that Ferguson played a two prominent clubs, the Navy anyone outside, really great game,often re-making and Army, raised an objection, artillery is all on the side of the the score after Phillips had dis: the Committee was obliged to Association, and a stand would turbed things. Phillips did not cancel the previous vote, and to only bring drastic action on the show up well, although there were erase the asterisks and footnote, part of the FA. which would
inconvenience The Committee is waiting for seriously times when he had the hardest of luck, just missing the object by result of this evening's meeting G. R. C for the coming season inches. In every bowls match, before its recommendations go at least.
Of course if the Association! somebody has to have the luck of into Council, and it is entirely the game, and Hongkong cer- erroneous to allego any wrong and the G. R, C. or any other tainly had it yesterday in addition action on the part of the Govern interested body, come to
ment sinco the Colonial Secretary amicable arrangement in respect to playing their best.
Pressure on our space to-day wrote to Mr. Hollands in his capa- of their grounds, that is a matter forbids a detailed resume of the city as chairman of the R.G.C. (Continued on Previous Column)
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