THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
1987.
BRILLIANT BADMINTON TRIUMPH FOR ST. JOHN'S
Beat King's College And Lower 100 Per Cent. Record
THRILLING NINTH GAME DECIDES
It was apparent, however, that the Varsity players had little in hand, scored # great tri-though they could not afford to take things too lightly, Some of the play
ST. John's Cathedral
plause,
ay-
umph in the badminton was exceptionally fast and some keen league last evening when rallies provoked considerable they beat the hitherto un- defeated King's College by the odd game in nine after one of the most thrilling matches imaginable.
The encounter was staged at the Cathedral Hall, and so evenly matched were the teams, that when the last game was started they were on level terms at four-all.
Then in a spectacular and exciting finish, Norman Smith and Peter Wil- son of the Cathedral beni T. Lam and KI, Lo 21-19.
Alt of the games were finely con- tested. In the opening match of the evening Roland Koh and G. A. Smith took II. T. Woo and II. N. Chung to 21-24 before losing, and it therefore when J. came as a deep surprise Bennitt and D. Kwok beat this first pair as easily as 21-7.
St. John's victory, though magnif- cent, has come too late to affect the second dylision champlonship which College. for King's ls assured Nevertheless great credit is due to the Saints for their achievement.
E. F. Fincher and H. Kew (St. Andrew's "A") lost to T. C. Leo and K. L. Yong 13-21: lost to P. K. HUI and P. E. Tan 17-21: beat C, H. Soon
and K. S. Liew 21-14.
S. A. Gray and F. A. Broadbridge (St. Andrew's "A") lost to Lee and Yong 14-21: lost to Hui and Tan 15-21; lost to Soon and Liew 9-21.
A. E. P. Guest and F. V. Wong (St. Andrew's "A") lost to Lee and Yong 17-21: lost to Hui and
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Colony Badminton
Tan
Bird's-eye view of the famous cricket ground at Melbourne which will be the scene of the fifth and deciding Test which starts
world.
on Friday of this week. It is estimated that 120,000 people will dally seek and secure admission to this, the biggest cricket ground in the
Championship Melbourne--Scene of Fifth Test, and World's
VARSITY PAIR ELIMINATED
R. Koh and G.. A. Smith (St.
C. II. Soon and P. E. Tan, a Uni- John's) lost to II. T. Woo and II, N. Chung 21-24; beat S. P. Chan and versity pair, made their exit from the W. M. Cheung 21-9; beat T. Lam and I Colony badminton championship dur- Ing the week-end, when they lost a IC. H. Lo 21-D.
(SL. second round match to F. Koh and P. Wilson N. Smith and John's) lost to Woo and Chung 1-21; J. J. Ong of Chinese Y.M.C.A. lost to Chan and Cheung 1-21; beat Lam and Lo 21-19.
The encounter was staged at the Chinese "Y", the home couple win-
J. Bennitt and. D. Kwok (5. John's) beat Woo and Chung 21-7;ning with surprising case in straight lost to Chan and Cheung 6-21; beat Lam and Lo 21-10.
KOWLOON TONG "A" WINS Kowloon Tong "A" easily beat their junior side nt Kowloon Tong Club last evening, winning seven of Ike nine games.
The "A" Division match between Chinese. Y.M.C.A., and the Chinese Herrention Club was postponed.
"A" DIVISION Saints' Improved
Display
imes, the scores being 15-5, 15-8.
The winners meet M. A. Oliveira and J. J. Remedios, one of the "eeded" pairs In the quarter-finals.
ADDITIONAL RESULTS Further results in the champion- ships are to hand.
Playing the men's doubles, P. H. and C. E. Chng, a favoured combination for the title, easily de- feated Rev. A. J.
J. Bennitt and David Kwok of St. John's Cathedral in straight games of 15-5, 16-7.
K. S. Liew of the University and. S. W. Liang (C.R.C.) engaged in a very tence struggle in the men's singles before Liow won 17-14, 17-15.
The mulch was
was played on Sunday Though St. Andrew's "A" lost by at King's College, and Liang gave an eight games to one-against-the-Uni-exceedingly good account of himself versity "A" last evening, the en- against a player who was expected counter was by no means no one- to win fairly easily.
sided as this score suggests.
With the exception of one game, St. Andrew's reached double figures and generally led at the halfway
sloge..
Fincher and Kew played cleverly to beat C. H. Soon and K. S. Llew, and should have won against P. K. Hul and P. E. Tan, but went to pieces after leading 17-14.
Actually Llang should have won the second game, but he committed curors at a vital stage.
The first result in the mixed doubles has been reported. P. K. Hui and Miss U. Khoo of the University, who are expected to win the event, have received a walk-over from S. W. Liang and Miss W. Cheung and thus enter the semi-final.
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(By Bruce Harris)
Melbourno.
In Australia the. Initials "M.C.C." stand more frequently for Mel- bourne than for Marylebone Cricket Club. Both M.C.C.'S enshrine history of cricket.
the
the:
Melbourne already holds world record for a cricket crowd- 78,000 in the New Year Test match of the present series. That is not have gone enough. Preparations ahead for accommodating 120,000 in the fifth Tost of the present season. As is a rubber match there will be 120,000 mon and women seeking accommodation.
IN MELBOURNE TESTS TO DATE
Australia have won 16, England bren 12, and two matches have drawn.
And Melbourne is comparable in population, not to London, but to Manchester or Glasgow.
As a
SWEEPING CHANGES
Highbury, so in Melbourne,
The King's Second Victory
Coventry
London, Feb. 22. His Majesty the King scored his second horse-race victory since his accession to the throne at Birmingham to-day, when Marconi won the Handicap,
Marconi, which also scored clever win over the silcks re-
Onished cently,
four lengths ahead of Tattenhall, which Din- ton Lad was third
Marconi paid odds of 11 to 2- United Press.
they do not do things by ARSENAL.
when improvements are afoot, A clean sweep has been made of small stands along one side and the and of. the ground, and on enormous; grey twe-docker, now almost com- piete, is going up Instead..
When the (English) M.C.C. played the State of Victoria recently, cric- ket was accompanied by the clatter of something doing. Now and then
a workman perched sparrow-size on a root or crane would look down rogretfully at the game; then turn
to his job. again
of making ground nt for any Test crowd that cricket enthusiasm may bring there.
Police Footballer Is Censured
Brought before the Emergency Committee yesterday to answer a charge of alleged ungentleman- ly behaviour towards the re- feres in a match between Chi- nese rollee and the Club Juniors on January 10, Gough, who is trainer of the Polles team WLE severely consured.
It was stated that Gough made a remark to the referee, Mr. Mc- Cormac, to which the official touk exception.
Be
UNLUCKY IN
CUP DRAW
THREE LONDON TEAMS IN LAST EIGHT
Unlucky Arsenal!
London, Feb. 22.
Once again the illustrious London team has been drawn away from home In the English Cup, this being the third time in the four rounds in which they have competed, that they have had to travel.
SOUZA'S FINE CENTURY AGAINST K.C.C.
VOLUNTEERS MAKE A HEARTY RECOVERY AND WIN COMFORTABLY
At
(By "Veritas")
HISTORY OF FOOTBALL
Sgt. Isley's Address
TO LOCAL REFEREES
Sergt. Isley, one of Hongkong's leading football referees CAVO * fascinating and instructive address to the Referees Association last even- ing, his subject belog "The History of Football". In the course of his paper le traced the advance of the game from the time it was a sort of war between two parishes, to its present stalo of exact science. The address, in full, follows.
History is, as a rule, to the majority of us
distressing,
Ing subject, so I
a very
will make my talk as brief and as comprehensive as possible. I am aided, of course, by the fact that all of us here are very interested in the history I am to talk about, that is, Association Football.
Now, there is no real origin of Football. No one can tell us when it actually started. It is a game which has just grown out of a ball so to
tells us that
us that the early speak. History Romans had a game of nang
of handball, but details. At Derby in the
there are no year A.D. 217 the Englishmen so re- sented certain nctions of their Roman that they banded together -conquerors
and drove them from the town and celebrated the occasion with a foot ball match in.
ed.
in which everybody
Join
This celebration was then held- anually.
on Shrove Tuesday, but
w
Watt, it became a sort of a
tho
*#faht" between the two parishes of St. Peters and All Saints,
at stake being the points boundaries between those parishes. It is recorded that it was the custom of the Shoemakers to deliver to the Drapers a ball of leather costing three shillings and fourpence or more, at the Cross Ronda Chester, in the presence of the Mayor of that town, every Shrove Tuesday, and the ball was, kicked from the Cross Roads to the Common Hall by as many people who liked to join the tray.
Here was football in a very crude form. You can imagine the number minor and severe the Kowloon Cricket Club or two good balls, white Simpson was of injuries both pesterday, the Volunteers beat the a little lucities, though it must also that many of the participants must K.C.C. in a half-day cricket match be noted that he was errotie. Lee have suffered, and you can imagine
had only one spell the early part of too, by 82 runs.
the damage done to
property which was fair, though he bowled along the route of the hectle scramble. When Robin Lee secured too much off the wicket to be very Indeed, it became so severe, that King A. K. Mackenzie's wicket with dangerous. Lay rarely pitched a Edward II. forbade the practice ab- his third delivery and then good length, but Anderson looked solutely. But there were many law- breakers, for the Commoners still in- bowled two successive maiden good in his second spell.
dulged in the sport of kicking KCC. COLLAPSE overs, the red light seemed to
about. There were un- be hoisted so far as the Volun collapse, the whole side being dismit restrictions. How a man got the ball K.C.C. batting suffered a shocking
numbers of players, and no
ball
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was nobody's business but his own, J. R. Way had an effective spell of and the whole thing was terribly bowling towards the end, taking three crude and rough and, in some degree,
revolting. wickets for Ave rues in 2.1 overs. Previously Souza had secured two wickets-both caught and bowled. - while Owen-Hughes and Dunnett, contributed to the general downfall
- teers-were-concerned in yester-ed for 112-after the first-two wickets
day's holiday cricket match had put together 00 runs, against the K:C.C. Yet something like two hours later the score board read 199 for-3, with G. Souza boasting an unfinished knock of 103.
Thus was the Kowloon Cricket Club to start with looked attack, which very lively, reduced to impotency..
After that disheartening start, the Heyond Kenneth Baxter, who made Volunteers made their runs excep-some excellent strokes for his 33, and tionally well, though it must be con- ssed that beyond Anderson and Lee, the attack not very
was
brilliant. Furthermore it Was one of the K.C.C.'s easiest-paced wickets just fit for a lot of runs.
and
SPLENDID STROKE The achievement the day was Souza's century, compiled practically without blemish, and made notable by the batsman's display of all-
His Furthermore they have drawn one round-the-wicket strokes. pet
shot-and his prettiest--was a of the strongest teams in the com-
smäck petition-West Bromwich, and If through the covers, generally between they survive they can be regarded a square point and cover. It was as almost certain winners of the Cup. wristy and perfectly timed, and be- A brilliant victory by Tottenham bind the stroke (very often made off over Everton in the fifth round replay the back foot) was the whole weight| yesterday leaves the Spurs at home of his body. He used it to good pur- to Preston, while another London pose on Lay's going-away deliveries, team, Millwall enjoys a home draw, getting beautifully on top of the ball. Manchester City being their op- ponents.
Thus London has three represen- tallves in the quarter-finals.
Even more remarkable than the figuro 120,000 is the fact that about three-fifths of the number will be first. able, to watch the booked" seals at Grimsby or Wolves v. Sunderland
garden type. There will be W. Bromwicht V. Arsenal fewer tired lacks and legs-surely | Mitwall
The draw, a cabled by Reuter, follows, with home teams mentioned
the
a contribution to the barracking pro- Tottenham
v. Manchester C. v. Preston N. E.
blem, for which a man is weary un These games will be played on der an Australian un he may be March 0. excus
ឆ certain
peevishingas.
THE REPLAY
This new stand is costing the club TOTTENHAM WINS £75,000. In addition the players' dressing-rooms have been remodel- led, though even now the players do not have a fine observation-bal- cony at their own, as an adjunct of their room, as at Adelaide, the place where cricketers can dreas watch with the last word in luxury. BIG NOT BEAUTIFUL
and
Souza reached his half-century as
a result of an over-throw boundary which gave him five runs, and after he had been at the wickets for 03 minutes.
With 'Grimths, he was concerned In a second wicket partnership'af 08. Grimths batted with splendid thoroughness and most judiciously for his 44. In the early stages he was inclined to be ultra-cautious, but later he opened out and baited freely, with the result that he col-
·lected seven boundaries.
Owen-Hughes joined Souza, who pursued his way blithely, never being in the slightest dimculty until her offered Lay a hard cliance at mid-off from Sargent's half-volley. He was League Points For
then in the seventies, but the incident Millwall
did not upset the bataman's equili brium, and he carried on to reach London, Feb. 22.
three figures in an hour and 26 minutes. Tottenham delighted their suppor, The Melbourne ground ennnat bel
Owen-Hughes left before Souza had enlied beautiful by any stretch ofters at White Hart Lane to-day by the imagination. Beauty and the con- winning their fifth round F.A. Cup accomplished this, but the tall after an Cricket Club all-rounder and scored creto stands of the football type do replay against Everton
30 before his dismissal. not go together. Adelaide remains exciting match by four goals to three, a vigorous the prettiest of the major cricket and thus quality to receive Preston Owen-Hughes was especially hard on
in the sixth round.
Sargent, who bowled too short and grounds of the, world-major in ac- In a third division (southern sec-allowed Owen-Hughes to pull him to
tion) league match at Now Cross the leg.boundary. The Melbourne Club, at its preto-day, Millwall defeated Bristol Murray stayed long enough to see sont fall strength, has 0,200 mem-City by three goals to one--Reuter, Souza get his century and then the berint a 'ntrance fed of neven
closure was
applied at 109 for three. guincas, and an annual subscription
Souza had a five and 17 4's in a very brilliant plece of batting.
commodating 60,000 or more,
of £3 09., which, includes unre
servod scale for the Test matches to 1s, d, daily; the trustees of the The general public are admitted to ground forbid any increase in the the Tests at prices varying from Bs. top prices.
Towards the end of the innings Baxter had a' bowl and sent down one
of the home side.
A. Broadbridge, who was unluety enough to be run out just when lie was settling down, none of the bats men shaped with any confidence.
An interesting point about the
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bad, that many people of note were Anyhow, things were becoming 50 voicing their objection to the violence of the crowds at. these skirmishes, One was Sir Thomas Elyot (1531) and the historian Stubbs of the zabethan period described the occur. rences as nothing but friendly fights. Manchester prohibited football in 1608 and the practice of kicking a ball about almost died out during the Commonwealth period. But after the Restoration period It showed signs of revival, and it is known that the King (Continued on Page 9.)
THIS IS
BURGUNDY
WEATHER
WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND OUR
FINE SELECTION OF
VINTAGE BURGUNDIES
THE QUALITY AND EXCELLENCE OF THESE WINES BEING UNSURPASSED
IN HONGKONG.
CALDBECK'S