THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1936.
BADMINTON SEASON OPENS IN TYPICAL STYLE Three Teams Make Clean Sweep: Promising Debuts
RECREIO “A” IN GREAT FORM
ST. ANDREW'S TAKEN BY SURPRISE
KOWLOON TONG “A” MAKE AN IMPRESSIVE START
(By "Veritas")
BRILLIANTLY successful debuts were made in the
badminton league last night by King's College and the Chinese Y.M.C.A., both teams winning their encounters by nine clear games. The Y.M.CA, made an impressive showing against Victoria Recreation Club, although they were not up against the full strength of the swimming club as S. A. Rumjaha was an absentee.
The
Kowloon Tong "A" also put up a great performance in beating St. Andrew's "B" on the latter's court by seven sets to two. vlaltors owed everything. to their first and third pairs, who won three games each.
Both Club de Recreio "A" Division teams accured points, the senior visit- Club and ing Chinese Recreation
nuking a clean sweep of things against a team feeling the loss of 9. P. Chan and H. T. Woo.
were practically The Portuguese unplayable and they scored points at wiu. Only F. H. Kwok and S. W. Liang offered any serious resistance, and they obtained twelve aces in one game, ten in another and 13 in the third.
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At Club de Recreio, the home team did extremely well to overcome St. Andrew's "A", though there was only the one game in it.
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SURPRISE WIN
The visitors were taken by surprise when E. F. Fincher and H. Kew lost to L. A. Sliva and E. A. R. Alves. It
was the best encounter of the even-
recover from arrears of 8-14 to lead
Detailed scores of the matches
follow.
"A" DIVISION
C.R.C. v. RECREIO "A"
At Causeway Bay last night, Club de Recreio "A" beat the Chinese Recreation Club by 9 games to ali:
Yung PC. Leung and C. T. (C.R.C.) lost to J. J. Remedios and M. A. Oliveira 8-21; lost to L. A. Carvalho and A. M. Silva B-21: lost to E. da Souza and H. A. Alves 4-21.
F. H. Kwok and S. W. Liang (C.(L.C.) Lost 10 Itemedion and Oliveira 12-21; lost to Carvalho and Silvn 10-21: lost to Souza and Alves J3-21.
S. W. Wong and T. F. Lo (C.R.C.) lost to Remedios and Oliveira 3-21; Jost to Carvalho and Silva. 4-21; Tosť to Souza and Alves 8-21.
RECREIO "D" *. ST. ANDREW'S "A"
Playing at Club de Recreio, the home team beat St. Andrew's "A" by five games to four.
Pand
Players who took part in the annual golf match between the St. Andrew's Society and St. George's Society, snapped at Fauling on Sunday last, (Photo: Ming Yuan).
Clubhouse Chattor
By "Veritas'
PROFESSIONALISM IN RUGGER
Alarm Over Lack Of Clear Stand By Players
London, Oct. 10.
There is a growing alarm among the Rugby Unions at the growth of velled professionalism in their ranks. Payment for "broken timo" such as led to the "Great_Split" of 1893 does not exiui, bai cash consideration for services rendered, made in the form of excessive ex- penses, certainly does.
It has been the practice of recent frequently. Unless one is on the yeora among several of the big cluba |spot and recognizes the player it is to pay for everything that a player exceedingly dificult to obtain definite may require in the shape of jerseys, |proof.
boots, stockings, laundry and so on. No one these days blamos a man The growing migration of players for becoming a professional Rugby to certain centres la being carefully player, but there should not be any watched, but it is almost impossible inlirting with professionaliam. Either to stop it. A man free agent to one thing or the other, and since take up a job in any town
the rule is perfectly clear on the Then, again, it is common know point it should be realized that taking ledge that Rugby Union players, part in a professional club's trial con- under fictitious names, go for trials stitutes a breach of the rules as much with professional clubs, though not as signing a professional form.
Council's Thumbs Down DRAW FOR THE £100,000
To Chinese Soccer Protest
SOME PECULIAR AND NOVEL ARGUMENTS ADVANCED
THE comprehensive document)
through which the Chinese
voiced clubs
their protest against the decision of the re- feree in abandoning the Lal A. E, Xavier and H.
A. Barros Wah Cup tie during extra time (Recrelo "B") beat S. A. Gray and between the Army and, the A. E. P. Guest 21-2; lost to E. Chinese, contained several novel Fincher and H. Kew 14-21; bent F. Lag, and saw the Portuguese couple Wong and F. A. Broadbridge 24-10. features, but perhaps the most A. Noronha C. C. Pereira surprising was the insistence cad (Recreio) lost to Gray and Guest 19-18. At that stage all four players 5-21; lost to Fincher and Kev 3-21; K. O. competition, there should that as the Lai Wah Cup was a were affected by the excitement of
Wong
ong and Broadbridge 13-21. the occasion and service passed hands lost to
L. A. Silva and E. A. R. Alves (Re- be no question of a replay, Last three times without any addition to
creio) bent Gray and Guest 21-13; evening the Hongkong Football the
score. Finally the aggressive tactics of the home pair pulled them beat Fincher and Kew 21-18; beat Association turned their thumbs through, though Silva was a trifle Wong and Broodbridge 21-13.
down to the argument and de- fortunate to secure net cord points
cided by a big majority that the The visitors were also disappointed KING'S COLLEGE ♥. S. & S. HOME tie should be replayed in its in the performances
ontirety, thus upholding the re of Quest and
At King's College Sailors and commendation of the Referees' Gray which were below par. This couple was completely outplayed in Soldiers Home were beaten by nine Committee which had first con-
games to love. the first game, and although they re- covered little to beat the third T. Lam and S, P. Chan (King's sidered the protest.
College) beat Stephen and Brown
at vital stage of the game,
"B" DIVISION
determined methods of Silva-Alves 21-2; beat Merritt and Yang Chen Only Rightful Decision
string, they could not withstand the combination.
very
Wong and F. A. Broadbridge beat J. Bain and W. Sprague |
H. T. Woo and H. N. Chung (King's THIS theory that a knock-out com- petition should not permit of a replay is curious, and, so far as I know, unsupported by precedent or example. It is defeated by the very fact that extra time, which is in
ery nearly snatched a surprise win against A. E. Kavier and H. A. College) beat Stephen and Brown Barros and actually led 10-2 and 21-4; bent Merrit and Yang Chen lator 19-17. Then Recreio took | 21-1; beat Bain and Sprague 21-1. zeven points in a row for the match.
(Continued on Page 9.)
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tlfles. It is a very "hot" draw, and survival of it will make the league champions warm favourites. South China "B", the holders, look fairly safe for the second round, but then they will meet either Kowloon Chi- nese or the Club-either team being fully capable of f upsetting the holders. On the whole St. Joseph'e seem to have got the best break. They play Eastern In the first round, and, if the second. they win, Recreio in Fusiliers too have nothing to grumble -Harold Begbie. about. A bye in the initial stage of the competillon brings them against East Lancashires. Belther Police or
Timing is the result of concentrating the whole pur pose of the mind on one part of the body; and that the sen. sitive hand.
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SHIELDS
S. CHINA "B" TO PLAY THROUGH
R.E.'S RECEIVE
A BYE
Soccer Stand Opened
GREAT DAY, FOR THE ARSENAL
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The draw for the senior and junior 100,000 stand at Highbury was The Arsenal Football Club's new
football shield competitions was
opened to the public last month. made last evening by the League
It is the most luxurious stand on Management Committer and resulted any football ground in the country padded the tip-up scats being of as follow's.
leather and the rake so steep that a perfect view of the play is provided for everybody.
Police. I.
Police III (European) or Athletle v. South China or Police II. (Chin- est).
Rifles or East Lancs. v. Kumaon Rides.
RE. v. RA.O.C.
1.K.F.C. v. R.A.S.C. Liga Portuguesa v. Kowloon F.C. Kowloon Chinese v. Navy.
SENIOR SHIELD
First Round Kowloon FC. v. Royal Ulster
Fucs
Eastern v. St. Joseph's Navy v. South China "A" Kowloon Chinese .v. H.K.F.C. Police v. East Lancs, Athletic v. South China "B" Byes-Royal Welch Fusiliers and Club de Recreio.
Second Round ·
Kowloon...or Rifles.v.Navy..or South China "A"
Kowloon Chinese or HK.F.C. v. Athletic or South Chnía "B"
Eastern or St. Joseph's v. Recreio Fusiliers v. Police or East Lancs.
FIRST ROUND
First Round
Spectators reach their seats from six different floors. There are two luncheon and tea rooms-the west stand
Ari already has one-and enormous bar for light refreshments.
The players' quarters are the last. word in comfort, and referee, lines. men and staff all have rooms with baths, Even the trainers have special seats under glass at the on- trance to the playing enclosure,
FLOOD-LIGHTING
A new loud-speaker equipment will assist in packing the ground, and the ground can be floodlit, so that the staff con level the turf after a match when frost threatens, and thus ensure play on subsequent days, even if the ground is frozen.
The estimated accommodation of the ground is now: New East Stand
10,000
(2s. 6d. upwards)
West Stand Standing at Za.
1,000
20,000
Standing at 1s.
41,000
Total
50,000
Provision has even been made for television, if and when it becomes n commercial proposition.
Royal Ulster Rides v. East Lanes. Folke III (European) v. Athletics Fusiliers v. Eastern
On league form, at least, they should rather effect a replay, is ordered under the best either of these teams. rules governing this particular com favour the Rifles, St. Joseph's, South petition. The argument that the China. "A", Club, East Lancashires, game should only be replayed from and South China "B" to survive the the time it was abandoned does not first round, and possibly South China result wUI "A" or Rifles, Club, St. Joseph's and a definite prove that
ecessarily be obtained within that Fusiliers to figure in the semi-finals. period. It is possible that had the FA ordered such a
a replay
Badminton Starts in com- pliance with the alternative request of the protesters, the match would last night's results in the badmin- have been continued for
several hours. ton league mean anything, it Because a team is leading by a goal would seem that Club
de Recrelo six minutes from the finish of extra "A" team is going to prove practi- time, does not mean that they are cally untouchable again this winter. certain winners, and unless the re- and that the "B" Division is going to feree 1
is entitled to use his discretion, enjoy same lively competition. Any the game could go on interminably. team which can visit Chinese Re- Furthermore it is well to bear in creation Club and win nine-nil is in mind that in providing for the play- a class of its own. Recreio did this ing of extra time, the HKFA has yesterday, but I doubt very much behaved in no novel or unprecedented whether such a feat will be repeated
Extra time in cupties manner.
by another team this
season.
While R.E been a regulation governing English it is only meet to point out that the football for years, but never have. H. T. Woo, a glance at the Individual Chinese were minus S. P. Chan and known it be a practice for a game, abandoned during that extra time, to scores will quickly prove how bril-
anity the Portuguese played: be finished all from that point. A
for full replay is always ordered. The visitors to the Causeway Court II.K.F.A's decision was the only ob- start off with a handleap of some vlous and rightful one.
Quite
three or clearly three four points owing to the
dimcult they could not award the match to very
conditions. Cancult playing the Chinese оп the
When Chinese Y.M.C.A. beat Sailors assumption Whe that because they held # goal and Soldiers Home in a friendly lead they would have won the game the other evenirur, the full match: equally certain is it that they significance of the trouncing was not could not order a replay from the appreciated: but last night the new- time of the abandonment. They had comers to the league piled things on one line of action only, and this has at King's College, the collegians did by wiping up the V.R.C., while up been taken,
likewise to S, and S. Home. It does Another Laboured Point pronounce these two teams as im- not demand great perspicacity to
has
portant contenders for the champion- cannot also help feeling that un-ship. But this new competition is due stress was lald on the wicked- all for the good of the game, and the ness of the referee observing at the "B" Division standard of play will end of the match that there would benefit accordingly.
be a replay. The objectors
parently tried to convince the As- sociation that whatever
a referee says at the close of a game is law; yet surely once the match is ove
la over the referee becomes nothing more than an ordinary human being, with his own ideas on the match carrying o 150
more weight than those of a se
tor? He has to submit a that is true, but it is a report
LADIES' DOUBLES
Second Round Encounter
Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Dowling, ing with facts and does not call for who are expected to win the Ladies" any comment as to what action Doubles Championship of the Colony, should be taken. Any such comment surmounted their Brst obstacle yes would be ignored by an adjudicating terday when, playing on the U.S.R.C. body. Mr. Stokes's promise of A courts, they beat Misa B. Abraham "word to the wise" may be a nice and Mrs. Curtis in the first round gesture on his part to appease 4 by 6-1, 0-1. group of susceptible objectors, butį
I really see no necessity for. It.
L
Senior Shiold Draw
cannot be said that South Chinà
London, Nov. 16.
The following is the latest call- over for the Manchester November
I have been very nicely treated landfcap.
made
off
by the Senior Shield draw yesterday. They have to start by meeting the Navy, and if this test is survived they will probably run up against the Royal Ulster
Penny Royal, 10 to 1 o, 100 to 0 t. Prudent Act 100 to 8 o, 100 to 7 t. Flam, 100 to 6 o, 20 to 1 t. Sea Bequest, 25 to 1, t &.0.
-Reuter
F.C.,
Portuguesa, Kowloon Kowloon Chinese and Navy.
Second Round yeemun) or RM.AC. v.
or Eastern v. Recreio or
R.A. (Lyemun) v. R.A.M.C. Recreio v. Police I (Chinese) South China v. Police II (Chinese) R.A. Byes-Kumaon
Rifles, RAFR.A.F. R.A.O.C., H.K.F.C., R.A.SC., R.W.F.
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