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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1936.
FREE LANCES STILL POINTLESS, BUT PLAY WELL
FATHER AND SON WIN THREE
GAMES
Recreio Hotly Pressed By Chinese R. C.
(By "Veritas"}
Though without A. L. Fisher, Free, Lancos last evening gave St. Andrew's “A” a good run for their money when they met in the return badminton lengue match. St. Andrew's won 6-3, but the feature of the match was the winning of three games by father and son, E. L. H. and War. wick Shute.
Shute senlur touched his best form
GUINC during the evening making especially clever shots in the opening same against E. F. Fincher and H.
first Saints' Kow. The
Armg were thrown right out of their stride by the effective court craft of the opposition, and though they made soingthing of a recovery after losing the first eight nees, they never looked like winning the game.
St. Andrew's pairs were too good for the remainder of the visiting team, and after they had been held up to three-all, run away with the next three games.
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Leung 21-15; bend Yung and Ho 24-19; beat Linng and Wong 23-20.
1. A. Silva and E. A. R. Alves (Recreto "1") Host to Choy and Leung 10-21: lost to Yung and Ho 15-23; beat Lang and Wong 21-10.
"B" DIVISION
KING'S COLLEGE v. K. TONG “B”
At Bonham Road Inst night, the King's College best Kowloon Tong *** by nine games to nii.
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T. Woo and H. N. Chung (King's College) beat J. A. de V. Soares and 21-13; beat K. N. Lee C. D'Aiman zi-
M. Pong 21-13: beat 5. and J. Smedley and J. Alvares 21-7.
John Iau and K. H. Lo (King's
College) bent Soares and D'Almade 21-12; beat Lee and Pong 21-0; beat
diey and Alvares 21-8.
Ň. Chrung und K. L. Lul (King's College) bent Soares and D'Almada 21-18: heat Lee and Pong 21-2; ut Sindley and Alvares 24-
28.
LEAGUE TABLE
"A" Division
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pia.
Recreio won the match strength of two setled games, when H. A, Barros and N. Bellrno firstly feat. C. Y. Yung and II. W. Ho 24-19, and then snatched a close victory ar S. W.
and S.
Wong W. close game was
There was some first-rate admin- ton at the Club de Recreio where ho "D" team received Chinese Re- croallon Club, and repented their per- Recreio "B" formance of a week ago to win by Reerele "A Mix games to. three.
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path by Tong "D" nine gamen to love. The 'Humo played on the Bonham Road
court
and only J. A. de V. and
C. D'Almada could make Soarus any impression on the Collge pairs. They
obtained 13 aces in one game, 12 in another and 16 In the third.
The surprise of the evening was the fine effort of S. Smedley und J. Alvares, the visiting third string, against W. N. Cheung and K. L. Lui, They succeeded in setting the game, only to lose it 20-24.
Detailed scores and Amended
Jeagues follow.
"A" DIVISION
ST. ANDREW'S "A" v. FREE LANCES
Played at St. Andrew's Church Ifall, the home team winning by six games to three.
E. F. Fincher und H: Kew (St. Andrew's) lost to E. L. H. Shute and
W. Shute 12-21;, beal J. L. Ander- Aon
and K. Shute 21-8: Fowler and Harris 21-4.
beat G.
RECREIO "B" v. C.R.C.
*23**
"ELIGIBILITY LIST"
ABOLISHED
Royal and Ancient Club
Introduce Reforms
The Royal and Ancient Club have
decided to abolish the "cligibility
The St. John's Hall team, this year's winners of the Hongkong University Inter Hostel tennis tournament. Standing:--H. T. Tana, P. K. Leung, U. Ling, G. Chang, S. Wang and H. H. Li, Sittingt--Y. W. Wong (Hon., Sec.), Rev. G. K. Carpenter (Warden), Mr, K, J. Chua (Chairman), Mrs. Carpenter, and Y. N. Tan (Sports Capt). Photos by A. Fong.
Clubhouse. Chatter
By "Veritas"
ALLEN'S DECLARATION
VINDICATED
ASTUTE MOVE PUTS ENGLAND
ON TOP IN SECOND TEST
THEN it was first known in VV Hongkong yesterday that England's first innings in the second Test match had been des clared at the overnight score of 426 for 6, lots of people mutter- u "Is the man gone crazy?". By "the man" they meant "Gubby" Allen, England's cap- tain, and their astonishment and dismay could easily be for- given. Though the very action
of Allen made it clear the wicket
was likely to be extremely dim-
SES REKURINGTONE CON Our Daily Golf Hint
The club must go ол through and finish. A res- tricted finish is the effect of something wrong with the swing.
-Bobby Jones.
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cult, quite a number of enthu-DO YACHTING
siasts argued, and not without reasonable grounds, that Allen
could afford to go in and muck RULES NEED.
the pitch up for half an hour or so, get together a few more runs
and still leave it horribly sticky
for the Aussies. This, at least, was an arguable theory in view
of the lack of definite informa
tion
23 to actual conditions. But the alors of Australia's first
innings which closed for 80, and
their recovery, in the follow-on conclusively revealed the wis- dom of Allen's apparently mean- ingless declaration.
He
Guessed Right
REVISION ?
Fresh Code Is
Suggested
The conclusions-arrived-at- by- the permanent cummfiles of the International Yacht Racing Union. which met in London at the end of November, are not yet known in Hongkong. A few days before the committee was to meet The Times published an article, which stated one of the main subjects for that discussion would probably be sug- gestions for an improvement in the Right of Way Rules. The article is reproduced below as an item of in- terest for local yachtsmen. Most racing yachtinen are of the
list" which has been in operation in connection with entries for the Ama- teur Golf Championship, states The history of yesterday's play at Sydney shows that the wleket. The event is now open to Tines A. E. F. Guest and S. A. Gray (St. all golfers whose club handicaps do though suffering from the effects et Andrew'a) lost to Shute, and Shute not exceed one stroke. The Cham- overnight rain when the match was 14-21: beat Anderson ond Shute 21-pionship Committee of the club, in a resumed, was still capable of roll- 11; bent Fowler and Harris 21-4. statement issued recently also an out easier after a little drying This must have been F. A. Broadbridge and F. V. Wong nounced important changes in the sun and wind.
the conclusion of Allen when he made (St. Andrew'u) lost to Shute and Open Championship conditions. Shute 10-21; beat Anderson and Shute The Championship Committee of his early morning inspection and the 21-10; but Fowler and Harris 21-25. the Royal and Ancient Club of St. events of the day fully proved how opinion that the existing rules need Andrews announces that the Eligibit-right was his conjecture. Australla revision, and some even hold that 42
were tumbled out on ity List which has been in operation | WC
shocking new code should be introduced. The is necessary to re- existing rules, It for some rears in connection with the wicket, but the cabies tell us that eatsles for the Amateur Champion-from the lunch interval onwards it member, are essentially the same as ship has been abolished and entries was always improving, and that the Regulations for Preventing Coill- will now be accepted from all golfers quite clearly the roller put over it stons at Sea (usually called whose club handicaps do not exceed between the innings restored it to
"Rule of the Road" at sea), of which approaching
the one stroke. In the Open Champion-something
four guiding principles are (a) ship the number of competitors to wicket. Tad Allen continued the overtaking vessel keep clear; (b) quality has been increased from 100 overnight innings, the Englishman port tuck vessel keep clear; (e) to 140, but number to remain in for would have suffered the l-effects of vessel with the wind free keep clear the last two rounds has been reduced the rain, while Australia would have
une sailing close-hauled;
The started their first knock on an im- windward vessel keep clear. and from 00 to 40."
proving pitch, and very probably object of these rules in, of course, to would never have been dismissed for prevent the risk of collision. In 80. If Allen deserves commendation yacht racing, however, opposing ves- for his astute captaincy, equally seis are sailing at close quarters, fre- sincere must be our appreciation of quently and for long
within the valiant effort by the Australians the zone of risk of
in er
gumes to 3.
At King's Park Recreio "B" beat the Chinese Recreation Club by
H.. A. Noronha and A. E. Xavier (Recreio "B") lost to W. C. Choy and P. C. Loung 17-21; beat C. Y. Yung and it. W. Ho 21-19; beat S. W. Liang and S. W. Wong 21-13.
IL A.. Barros and N. (Recreio "B") beat Choy
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the
to make a fight of it in the second der to distinguish these many and innings. They are faced with almost varied positions and to legislate for a hopeless task, yet one cannot have them it was, therefore, necessary to but admiration for the manner in extend and to qualify the four main which they are fetting about to re-rules of the road, trieve lost fortunes.
|How Long Will It Last?
AN AMERICAN SUGGESTION With the course of time footnote has been added to footnote, quali- fication to qualification until n THE most important question seems originally simple code has become a to be: for how long can the complex one in which, many com- wicket, which dried out so qulekly, plain, it is not always clear which remain reasonably good? This rule should be applied to a particu- morning's play will probably give us lar caso. During the summer Mr. the answer. Australia start the day H. S. Vanderbilt, helmsmon of re- America's Cup defenders,
A
201 runs la arrears with nine wickets had a poper in which a fresh In hand. This means that they can hardly hope to win unless they add code of rules was suggested. As another 300, That is possible, but soclated as authors with Mr.Vander think very unlikely, for the wicket bilt were two other leading will not continue to improve, and I rather think Australia will find her- can yachtsmen-namely, Mr. P. J. Merle-Smith. self fighting desperately after the Roosevelt and Mrs.
paper proposes that the four
first half hour's play this morning basic rules be reduced from four to to avold the innings defent, 1f Aus- two. The two rules to be (a) On trolla does make England bat again the same tack, windward yacht keep it will be a magnificent performance, cicar, (b) On
runs on a pitch full of snares and
[They Have Bowled
for it will mean the scoring of 490 tack yacht to keep clear tacks, port [hazards, and in the face of a situa- The paper claims that the simpli-
tion sufficient to dampen the cour-fication would
succeed-f
-first, by re- age of any team.
ducing doubtful situations to a mini- mumi
y eliminating the secondly, possibility which exists to-day, of more than one interpretation of the come rule: thirdly, by "letting the right of way follow natural fines"; fourthly, by eliminating dangers in- IT. would be silly to deny that Eng-herent in the present rules because lant owes much to her present of the changes which have taken
(Continued on Page 13.) place in, sails and rig.
Splendidly!
HOW ENGLAND LOST, THEN REGAINED ADVANTAGES IN THE FIRST TEST Detailed Descriptions Of The First And Third Day's Play
THE first detailed descriptions of the first and third day's play in the Bris- bane cricket Test have just reached Hongkong. Neville Cardus of the Sydney Sun has written brilliantly on the match, and his comments, pun- gent in wit and sagacity, are, reprinted below. In these two articles he describes how England let slip her advantage of winning the toss by losing cheap wickets on the first day, and how she regained her position by dis- missing Australia on a good wicket for 234 runs. He criticises the Australian batting, saying that the slow bowlers worked a huge bluff, while Voce bowled magnificently.
Brisbane, Dec. . or Buckinuham Paines end. Ward's first over On a good wieket England threw was a clever variation on the theme of
with his hat away the boon and blessing of firstly. Barneti played it
conely padlocked door, Innings by irresolute batsmanship before lunch against high-tempered _quick_bowling by McCormlek, whe then became äflicted of lumbago, of ali complaints to suffer here, so far from Manchester,
.NERVES TAUT
The struggle could be felt. Intensely, for | all serves serere tant; a grand tune of gene tention wi beini aniwed by the variisua duge, But Harnett was coni azil brave, and though
land tenperature eased a little. In fact, nj muesive offeftive for alx by Harnett from Ward let momentary breeze blow, He bli the next bat for four arrogantly in the masore of a man ja a belengureed thy, who tonipting & mortie,
Leyland could not do o he wished the Eng
McCormick bowled well with the new bali.
ball. He made it rear severni times breast or head high, but more frequently he threatened no vital or Intellectual part of the batsman's person or anatomy,
Hammond and Worthington both noted certainty of arch. I felt the both got out by making what the expert play strokes which the bowlers wanted them mental psychologists call rettex - to make, and which they themselves would tions at bouncing balls. Worthington | rather have evaded.
Barnett was notmirable, but the batting sti
Leyland and Karnett were often obliged to
swept his bat at a ball going p1.80, when the cricketer eamy
Sul, no further disaster occurred before
from all over the field.
in to lunch
Robins and Verity
IRRESOLUTE BATTING
ENGLISH SPIN BOWLERS' BLUFF...
VOCE SPLENDID
(By Neville Cardus)
his head where he could not see or after a scalding morning's work.
Brisbane, Dec, 7. control what he was at Hammond After lunch, Ward bowled at the pavilion, Yesterday England attacked. This mistook a not lofty kicker to rush or White Club, end, and Lerland sent
high chance to McCormick at mid-on, The Was a new team. Voce bowled at his into an unpolicted stroke which Job- Australian felling was only good: I did not best and most accurate. with no bed up a catch so simple that I could feel always that organised hostility with every theories--only one man stood for lim have wept for
to see greatness so put man shooting rare of menace at the batsmen at short leg. All these facts will. I out of countenance.
Harnett want his stylish confident way 310pe, emerge from the narrativo be. A brilliant and thoroughly cult-making strokes strong and Bandsome, 1 low: they deserve special emphasis in vated display by Barnett saved Eng-particularly liked his cal treatment of Ward's advance. land's innings from the empirical in. He waited for it, which was often easy
for him to do, for Ward tended to plich Voce did his damage mainly with commonplace and unprincipled-that shert
the good length ball which went and Leyland's character, for frankly O'Reilly seemed industrious this time rather away a little. He scarcely Leyland was not technically, at his than creative,
The game's balance became more,
nicely bowled a short ball, and when he best for a long time, and was given poled, though, England's track was will long did bowl one, it was fatally looked two or three innings,
and uphill None the less the cricket of by McCabe. The downfall of McCabe
ກ ap
the Australian
once--the tail is long enough to wag the dog off the field.
ever
Harista once more was a prey to Barnett suggested that a standard bearer had opel which should be filed up at
self doubt. How he survived five minutes of slow spin was mysterious. JUST BOWLING
Yet, with all the encouragement given them, the Australian Bowlere tid not always convey the impression of utilring botility or of tight technical control, nor did the Geldsmen suggest one entreinst Inviable barbed wire entanglements, which Australian
sly contrives to fix 011 the batenga's reting of imagination,
I
OʻNelity appeared this time a inore it less willing horse, endeavouring to make progrem Ly the mural qualities of application and p. Tristence. eild discern no great splitairy ni mapin - or --Night -in-hin-warka – denil-wany before McCormick went out of metion thought he was much dependent on the now bat. Ward has exertent moments when he Alte his pin; often, though, he bowl overmuch to the gmund, so that he can be played back lefzurely, with almost a yawn of impatients.
During the Darnett-Leyland stand 1 feli hut the day is quickly "coming when Use England batamen wil naert themariven, Is to-day's showing Australia's attack is to t all out of the ordinary, and can be more or levi put down.
led the balleeridden England colours, whil was determined to keep them sloft. And innings Leyland was his soldier at arms, hard pressed now and then, maybe, but shrewd and full of horse sense;
Teyland was again mlined, this time in the all off McCormick, with his senre in the twenties. The Australians were not putling forward thele trafonal ruthlessness and keeping the enemy down once they war down.
BEATEN BY` FORM
The next advance of Australia curred because of one of those mistakes which only, batament make who are in form; Barnett sought to turn a quicklsh ball by Offteffly to leg and was caught by the matchless Old fold......Ranjitainħji... wrote. @n--illuminating preilge once demonstrating how it needs a Anery and a gool player to get caught at the wicket In the way Barneit war caught Barnett's cricket throughout appealed to the imagination and to our sense of cricket's art. Occasionally he wavered before the good length spin, Jail, sa I have fiinted, the splat did not canalatently pltch on the blind spot
The wine of a wicket made O'Reilly's til temporarily stand up, and he nearly over whelmed Amen first ball,, lag before, and, Judata from Oldfield's femp forward, caught at the wicket from a "heaven help me push
And Australia's methods against slow spin bowlers were as unscientifle (Continued on Page 13.)
the
It. Chipperfield bowlwell amiably from pavlion, or Crown Jowels end. And the we
ems for the ilme to Jangulah and meat, Haeli.
Tex pbviously refreshed the bowlers, for at once Ward spun a bail from kw at the well- Bghted length he must always try to bowl. Ame-felt for it and died the logical death--- caught in the slips,
Haristaff once again had to come in against slow spin to elude the fazion which have bouch pursuing him, and again he suffered many anguished pulsations. How he survived at aft was hard to say. I was reminded of the fair lady at the fair who has kalv thrown all round her body” and menpes hurt,
Leyland nursed him, but Leyland was ones more badly missed. now at 71, from a return to Ward.
The cricket was not herealout good enough for a Teat match. It needed more clam and On the whole I came away from Wool | si a most ad-tempered delivery.
personality. But Leyland perslaind and con- Toongabbs in the suddenly dracending twilight The weather cooled, but the electricity re-usered his rare character. not at all depressed about England'e katting- i mained in the game, though I did not always |__Hardstalt somehow
himself resurrected the doubt the bowling, which to-morrow feel the Australian bowlers were sa aggressive gradually, and his innings had a Lasarus kind will get its opportunity.
an they tried to kuk after the morning's taste of second birth; waybow, he stayed Leyland's hundred, he 1 say, was another of the blood of tree Englishmen.
Meanwhile, Ierland reached his century, and proof that he is a man of humour, who takes - Slevers. I am afraid, only an honest thrivest on his work it went on. things as they come, and never allows an effort by nature to repent. Alan Fairfax: she peklemiz devotion to technical Irregularities ¦ never even tries to presi a mustemlere in interfere with private arul obtinate Inten- the breaks the mould in which a Trumble ilune.
or a Turner la fashioned,
CATASTROPHE!
Allen and Bradman came forth to toka, and Allen won, and the storm clouds went by, and the crow simmered, and before the action Iwgan they stood up and examined the Pres na though we wore demented raged animals, which probably we were! Humour, with a thuanand Longues, and typewriters, atrode le binet. A slight dusistorm saldod to the gene- ral comfort.
The beginning
calastrophic and Pandemonium
unleashed. MeCormick's ; Ami ball, which he bowled Uke a hurricane, i pitched short, rove high at Worthington's left Whaulder. Worthington hooked Impulsively, eviged his struke, skied it, and Oldfield, after starting lake, can forward all frenzy and vorselty, and held the catch,
Wax
Poor Worthington stood dased a moment, then departed hood down,
In the same over McCormick struck Farr mailšahāpe, and the agony was abated while Farr retired to dry dock for repairs, McCormick'e Deal ball Pose near cranium, and we could son for ourselves that † McCormick's two short legs were not merely fecorative, but accessory, at least for a while, unit the ball lost its newitems. But one of McCormick's short læge - was moved to the alipi, and the rising angle of the wilnek
tame more in accordance with the modern hakiman's view of respectable fat bowling. In sulck sequence Barnett eat McCormick för four, edged him dengerously for four, and ut him again with a great kaupmerswing right from the shoulder.
Blovers at the other, and kept a length, and once or twice. « late swinger, wrinkled Fagg's brow.
The game momentarily quietened, but, ah,, the crafty way the great game prepares Ele galact
tronine] Fagg, tried a leg alance
McCormick and Oldfield caught him with the most lively aldoway, swoop.
FALLEN MONARCH
And 10, and woe, for Englandi' Hammond perished first ball! McCormick sent him one Just short of a length, and it rise above Hammond's left hip at an acute angle. Ham mand contorted himself, stabbed with madden zeluctance trying to get the bai) away to the on somewhere and somsharee. Ila spooned !! up horribly and silly short leg had no alterna tive but to hold a catch which, in ija halpiena. TEM, ALW Hammond and, dispossessed
- monarch.
Thus dùi the old skip of England run again into aboala and engulfing, su.. McCormick bawled with hostile aim and at the pace which compels the hurried irrational: fatroke. And
while the ball was now he cleverly varied his
attack on the_lex stump to a danger, some putalde the off stump, Now 'and again be Inserted kicker, Is Tength was not, po far as I could see, shorter than his phot Warranted.
- Leyland, looking, like Yorkshire with her back to the wall, Jothed Darnell, and O'Reilly lambered into the fray, wheeling - his arma heavily, and: Ward came on at the pavilion
Towards tea time i felt that the Australian attack really dk need tea-with something in
in.
He and Barnett balled the water out of the simont expaired boat, and when he foll Bre minutes from the close of play, even 11udder field or Pudsey could not have given him a warmer ovation back to the pavilion (or veilrs] presence), end of the ground.
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