THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, MARCH'
15, 1937.
66
S. CHINA "A" NOW HEADING FOR CHAMPIONSHIP
Beat Fusiliers Decisively: Lee Wai-Tong Hat-Trick
LOSERS MISS A PENALTY
Alters Whole Trend Of Game
TAYLOR'S INJURY
Fusiliers
\> "Veritas")
0 S. China "A" 3
thar Waldong 11
THREE majestic goals by Lec Wai-tong were the high apota of the important, but disappoint- ing league soccer match at Soo- kunpoo yesterday, when South Chinn "A" materially improved their challenge for the leadership
TAY QUA-LIANG
by beating Royal Welch Fusiliers To-day's Tennis
three-nit.
Beyond this the game offered little over which to enthuse. In fact had
it been played in complete silence, it would just about have reflected the excitement and interest Bimount of
exchanges were
which the
worth.
RUMJAHN IS ON VIEW
EXTRAORDINARY CRICKET AT K. C. C.: 9 CATCHES DROPPED
BADMINTON
& TENNIS CONTEST ·
MACAO SENDING
TEAMS
RECREIO
TO PLAY RE
I.R.C. A BEATEN TEAM
ΒΥ
WERE ALLOWED TO SAVE THE GAME ·
(By "Veritas")
Y three o'clock on Saturday afternoon the senior cricket championship of the Colony had been vir- tually decided. It was a gold mine to a pippin that the shield would once again become lodged in the Hongkong Cricket Club. The Club were already on the way to victory against Craigengower, and Indian Recreation Club had lost five wickets for 25 runs against K.C.C. In response to an invitation by the Club de Recrelo, representa-
Even the LR.C. had well night 17 and thereafter the score book dve tennis and badminton frans of Macae will visit Hongkong on become reconciled to the hope-read 18-2, 1-3, 23—4, 26-5, 67-5. Saturday, March 27. The forth-lessness of the position.
(By Our Own Correspondent)
Macao, March 14.
coming sports meeting is a return match to the contest which was held in Macao on October 10 of last year.
Much interest in vested in the occasion in local sports circles and notwithstanding the fact that prac thee matches are played here on hard courts, it is expected that Macao will give a good account of itself in tennis on the turf courts of the Recrelo.
The players selected for Macao's "A" tennis team are Messrs. J. Senna Fernandes (cupt.), A. H. Mello, Alex Alberto Jorge.
rge. Each of these players record. can look back upon a
the Senna Fernandes, Mello and
But the cupaelly crowd, appreciating AN EASY WIN Is Boral, Jose Boyol, Alfredo Silva and
that the result had a vital bearing on the championship, worked itself into a pitch of exciting unticipation, and its vivid reactions to the slightest muvement by either side crenter on atmosphere belled by the football it- self,
South China were decisive winners, and any other result would have been
Fusiliers were unfortunate to lose
INDICATED
NG SZE-KWONG RETURNS
2009.
(By "Veritas")
ot
Boyol brothers hove been the
Yet at 6.15 p.m. the cham- The pionship was still open. Indians, taking full advantage of an amazing run of good for tunc, managed to force a draw, and thus lived to fight another day.
Should
ever
future
105-7, 129, 153-8, 156 nil out.
The Indians' innings did not close until just on 4.30, and the homesters started off in their endeavour to score 167 with something like an hour and 35 minutes at their disposal. task, though fairly formidable, was by no means impossible.
UNENTERPRISING
The
historians of the bother to describe the match between the K.C.C. and 1.H.C. which gave the Indians the opportunity of figuring in a play-off for the 1930-37 championship, that story will revolve It was impossible for them to lose, around the nine dropped catches which featured the LR.C."Innings,
I can't recall a single cricket match in this type of cricket in which Colony's champions In past years batsmen enjoyed so many "lives".
Alfredo Silva while
held has
Actually had Ernest Fincher dis- played a bit more enterprise, K.C.C. would have pulled it off. They made should themselves sufe by 5.45, and every- thing demanded that they have a dip and a splash for the runs. and they could afford to lose six or seven wickets in the attempt to get But the clock beat them, quick runs. and at drawing of stumps they were Il runs behind with six wickets in Jend.
of had been "sold"
F. M. EL ARCULLI ,walked hand in hand with fortune,
PLAY-OFF FOR TITLE
K.C.C.'s epidemic of "butter-fingers" in a frantic, thoughs by NECESSARY
the Championship of the Macan started When F. A. Broadbridge
Lyceum for
for two successive years,
one time
cham-
nt mid-off.
el Arculli
Wag
It is unfortunate that his brother dropped A. R. Abbas
JUICE | After that F. M. Carlos Silva, pion of the Calmbra University, will missed four times, Nazarin twice and be unable to play owing to indispost-A. A. Rumjahm once or twice.
And it was these four players who made possible the Indians' respecta tion, but Macao is fortunate to have a promising player in Alberto Jorge ble total of 150. to take his place.
out of keeping with the game. H. D. Kumjalin will come
luto Taylor, who fell heavily after jump-action to-day in the Colony tennis ing to head the ball and dislocated his championship. Ik postponed first left shoulder, but even if they hnd round engagement with Luk Chun- remained at full strength all the time, cheung is scheduled for this after-
Morao's "B" team will consist of an array together with they would have lost..
ather interesting games.
the following: H. Bradley; L. Mello, THREW AWAY CHANCE Rumjam is bound to win, and it Y. C. Yuen, E. Silva, A. Pereira and Luiz Gomes. Playing for Macao in is ver unlikely that he will be ex-
the Mixed Doubles tournaments will Fusiliers threw away the match entled beyond two sets. when Sullivan Iailed to convert a
be the following pairs: Miss Helena Crawford, the
the considerable pro
K.C.C. ex- Ribeiro, Mr. A. Mello; Mrs. H. penalty carly in the Arst half after South Chinn hind taken a goal lend, mint, who shows.
singles player, meets his Bradley, Jose Boyol; Miss Vera Senna Up to that point there had been spirit club-mate Gordon Burnett and will Fernandes, Mr. J. Senna Fernandes.
ns a
in their work and come sort of co-win, probably In straight sets. HOCKEY TEAM AS WELL? ordinated plan was visible in their Burnett is out of practice, while movements. But after allowing this Crawford is playing good tennis these Macao's badminton selection has Golden opportunity to allp by, the days. soldiers became disintegrated and The re-appearance of Ng Size never looked like saving a point.
which found the bottom corner of
with Hon Lilly against H. Tin
I do not know the form of the
but it would not
high
COURAGEOUS ARCULLI Arcull, who walked hand in hand with the goddess of fortune in his brief innings of less than half an hour, scored a courageous 57. He was missed at 25, 30, 47 and 52.
effort to score runs.
VENUE MAY BE THE K.C.C.
(By "Veritas")
Ramsey started off in the correct manner and helped himself to rapid 19 before he mis-timed ont from Minu which went away and Anderson was smartly slumped, continued to bat strongly, though he was on the cautious side. Neverthe- less, he was in command of the bowl- Ing and rarely looked to be in dificulties. Minu got past him with Jast a few which brake away, and it was senior cricket championship is neces- the left hand bowler who eventually cary as a result of the Club's victory got him stumped.
against Craigengewer and the IRC. draw with KCC.
As was predicted in the Telegraphi
Saturday, a play-off for
the
But Anderson was generally keep Ing time with the clock and certain-
Both Teams have completed their Abbas, a model of correct battingly scored at a fair pace-after-he-had-
17 points league programme with was allowed to live after offering a
reached the 30 mark.
from seven matches. Neither tears simple catch early on and proceeded
Ernie Flucher, on the other hand, had suffered a defent: both have to contribute 24. Nazarin helped him-
though helping to carry the total drawn twice. self to 20 and should have been out dozen. Rumahn scoring a offered a couple of chances befor Getting his 22.
to 100, was laborious to the ex-:
treme. Neither dl he make his The match, it is expected, will be shuts notably well; with the excep played on a neutral ground. The tion of an occasional square cut K.C.C. is a possible venue, though He was never at his best, and his¦
Clubhouse Chatter By "Veritas"
Control Of Soccer Crowds Is Essential
THOUGH the riot which broke
out at the Chatham Road |football ground after the match between the Ulster Rilles, and Recreio on Saturday was by no means as sensational as the rum- ours which were flying about the Colony a few hours later, it was sufficiently serious to demons- trate the unwiseness of arrang- ing such important matches on in exposed ground like that at Chatham Road. It is quite pos- sible for anything up to 2,000 eople to line the banks' adjoin- ng this ground and the control jof such a vast muititudė is ex- tremely difficult. It is, in fact. the biggest "cumshaw" football ground in the Colony, being com- fortably accessible to the hun- dreds of Chinese who swarm over from Yaumati and Kowloon City. What is more, unless squads of Police are on duty, they cannot be re- gulated. Thus it would seem that the safest way to ensure that there shall be no repetition of Saturday's disgusting scenes, is for the H.K.F.A. to bar the
Chatham Road ground as a venue for first division games.“ Serious Aspect
It
no
THAT is one aspect of the affair. Another, and If anything it is more disturbing, is the fact that
had speclat 1, most of whom direct interest in the result of the match, should become ao partlann as to finish up by nghting with stones and threatening life
and property. This Incident, together with others his
scason not
not wholly dissimilar in character, suggest that Association football in Hongkong is no longer played for the sake of the game. It appears to have developed toc many ramfications. Properly con- ducted
is understand.. able: if anything
partisanship
is desirable. But when it is carried to extremes then-it-is-time Investigations were carried out to discover precisely why here is all this hard feeling. The 41 were made as though it had some difficulty may be experienced in
most r
remarkable feature about Sat- hitting in a date, as the ground is been a very real burden.
way's disturbance is that its cause rather fully booked up for the next
could not be traced back to the be- few weeks.
haviour of After Anderson's. dismissal, Sar-!
players: The
same was To Arculli and the other later
Some suggestion (quite unofficial at ontested in the best of spirits, the structions. He endeavoured to carry the moment) has been made that the players conducting themselves im- performances. Arculli literally took
them out on the first ball, and was
peccably. It would seem then that everything. But their fine back-to-remony. But to the K.C.C. may be that the ants, though this courage, into both hands and hit at caught by A. H. Madar in piny-off time should be extended t
t was a properly organised affair among a certain irresponsible the-wall efforts cannot mitigate the
matter. Goodwin
of the onlookers, who went to
Who we section appalling blunders
committed by the followed and also tried to clout the has not been discussed by the teams
match with the sole intention of mak- KC.C. in the field.
bowling, and bad a big
ing things unpleasant for the Ulster go", rather The present positions in the league Rifles. And it should be made quite more successfully, but by this time table are as follows.
clear that this particular crowd was the Indians knew their only hope
not composed of Club de Recreio to in saving the fours and they lay
supporters, It was, according plastered the outfleld with men. It
af checked the rate of scoring which for a short period looked dangerous.C.C. and thus saved the game
Thus, incredible though it may seem, the Indians were able to ad- vance their total from 25 for 5 to 150 all out:
been decided upon. Mr. after nol yet Edwardo Slive, captain of the team kwong, whose association with the stated that the players will include Once again it was Lee Wai-tong's championships is longer than any several of the younger enthusiasts match.. Ife was the most interesting other competitor, will evince interest. who, despite lack of experience, have player on view. All three goals were He is playing in the open doubles fine strokes and versatility and will
a few years develop a brilliant efforts. The first was per-
standard of play. fectly scheme and his Onni shot Bee and H. Y,
possible that the Magao hockey Hongkong. A match will be played perience of tournament play may be in die gal beches tour does not Hongkong, stated Lieut. F. O'Costa, The full programme for this after-happen to visit Macao at this time. noon is as follows.
Owing to Recreion league fixtures Macao will not send a football team. At first it was hoped that a soccer match would be possible.
altogether
the net the logical result of a moverse it Ne and on advance to team will be included in the visit to batsmen goes full credit for gallant gent was sent in with express jin-1
nent which started somewhere near the halfway line.
the second round. Their vast Ex-
a vital factor.
His second point, scored early in the second half, was a masterly solo effort which culminated in Lee beat ing three opponents although grassed and then shooting high into the net past the astonished Rowlands, The third goal, which followed shortly afterwards was even more typical, Lee being presented with about a yard of the goal in which to shoot,cheung. and of course his found the mark
shot
unerringly
OPEN SINGLES.
A. Crawford v. G. C. Burnett. Capt. Coppinger v. 8. S. Chiu. H. D. Rumjahın Luk
Y.
OPEN DOUBLES
Chun-
The Macao Lyceum teams will also be present in Hongkong and will engage clubs in badminton and ping- peng.
Ng Sze-kwong and L. F. Hon v.
These three goals truly reflected H. T. Bee and H. Y. Hsu. the superiority of South Chinn as a 'team.
There was no vital weakness
in the cleven. The defence was perfectly steadfast, and it was in- teresting to see how well tile Tay Qua-ilang shaped at left back. He
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
B. O'M. Deane v. F. A. Redmond.
CLUB MIXED DOUBLES
was full measure for the Fusiliers' A. S. Read and Miss J. Armstrong right wing, and worked together in v. F. V. Harrison and Miss D. Dod- spiendid harmony with Lee Tin-sang. well,
TRUSTED TO THE GODS
The admirable spoiling work of Lee Kwok-wat and Leung Wing-chul the Chinese wing halves materially lightened the work of the full backs, must be acknowledged that while the Fusiliers attack lacked any, sort of sting. Hughes minck Sullivan were In very poor form, while Talbot, though admittedly the cleverest of the quintette, adopted wrong tactics in keeping the ball to clese. His work so often led to nowhere, and more often than not provided the Chinese with easy counter-attacks.
But
nor
Evans and, unul he was injured, Taylor, offered stubborn resistance to the lively Chinese attack, and at least had the wingers' fairly subdued.
Wanklyn, Wheeler neither Keating could work out the right way to hold Lee Wal-tong in check. They wore led a merry dance by the Chinese inside-trio and were continu- ally left spread eagleda
CLUB HANDICAP SINGLES
R. M. M. King v. J. Thomson.
.A. K. Mackenzie v. R. K. Valentine. A. C. I. Bowker v. T. C. Moneyhan,
Leicestershire County Cricket Club Saved
Leicestershire
Ibis did
nol
by
1,30 and finish at 6.30,
The home attack was always rea-1 Minu. Then lay it held concerned.
mo
first
sonably good. Robbie Lee actually had These figures during his spell:
0 10
M R
6 12
W 4
It is expected that the school and he Onished up with will meet the Central British School sis of 4 for 27 in 14 overs. in a friendly encounter in soccer if satisfactory arrangements are made.
"Interport" Fixed For April 11
first
annnaly
EXCELLENT FIELDING
FIRST DIVISION
LR.C....
5 0 2
5 0 2
P. W L D Pis
17 17
K.C.C.
C.C.C. Navy
3 1 3 12 2 4 1
30
the
the.
reports, a rowdy element Chinese spectators, who, apparently appre clating that the Ulster Rifles are among the chief
division
contenders for the
first
championship, went along to do their utmost to stop the soldiers from winning. It was + mean and
despicable, and it is to bo hoped that responsible Chinese foot- ball officials will take the first oppor tunity of repudiating such behaviour. The Lesson
THE lesson to be learnt is that spectators, sometimes even more than players, need to be regulated controlled, even if it entails drastic measures. Such an incident would not
be Lolerated In England. and there is no reason why H.K.F.A. should sit back and take no notice. Spectators
must
be taught
ANDERSON VICTIMISED
The Indians were excellent in the CS.C.C. Anderson also bowled finely in his
three, overs and should have deld. They saved boundaries in University obtained three wickets for about ten splendid manner and only one catch Army runs. But he was victimised by very late in the game when the rank bad ftelding. Arculli was light began to get bad—was dropped. The bowling was at least accurate, missed by Lee in the slips off Ander-
PROFESSIONAL TENNIS son's fourth ball and again two overs though rather guileless. I thought it Inter by Bertram Lay in the "deep" was inclined to be flattered. On the
other hand it must vital runs
be confessed that These "lves" cost many
New York, Mar. 13. did not play very truly, the pitch evered the
In the thirtieth encounter of their Lay,
and lot. he was turning que bail often coming up at unexpected professional tennis tour, Ellsworth with too He
angles and paces. he couldn't get the appreciably, but ball to go through quickly enough and it was easy to watch him right on to the bat. What's more his flight through the air was too slow and allowed the quick-moving. Arculli 10 Mr. F. F. da Silva, who has been jump out and take him half-volley.
Goodwin bowled very badly, and working tirelessly in connection with
By the fixture, stated that final steps will never struck a real length. be reached by the Interport Com-bowling short of a length he made the mitice at a meeting to be held early ball pop up very smartly, but he was this week and the match will be play usually well off the wicket, and bats-
men could either leave them alon ed here on Sunday, April 11th.
with impunity or have a crack at them with perfect safety.
Arrangements are about to be con- cluded for the interport football nintch between a Second Division Hongkong team and Macao.
Practice matches are taking place every Wednesday. Players for Macao will be drawn from the Macao Fire Brigade and Municipal Police, and the Cricket Argonauto and the Tenebroso Clubs.
It is learned that Mr. D. Kossick, Secretary of the Hongkong Referees At an emergency meeting of the Association, will umpire the match.
County Club has been rescued from the financial difcuttles which cently threatened its future.
re-
club on January 29 a resolution was proposed on behalf of the committee
The best ball of the match was delivered by Anderson when lie broke Abbas's stumps with a per- feet back-break. The best stroke of the match was a last split- second cut by Nazariu off. Lay for which the batsmen ran four.
The botting of the earlier 1R.C. Wheeler and Kehting were great that as the club had no funds it mitice had withdrawn its resolution men was very shaky and uninspiring. Later Arculll demonstrated that, the workers, but they did not inspire coll should close down. Mr. W. Lindsay that the club be wound up, fidence, and, mostly they had to make Everard, M.P., the president, said
bowling could be hit. A couple of hurried kicks which found the oppost-£6,000 was needed to ensure con-
and Three successive At the annual meeting it would be sixes off Lay tion's feet. vt to date, db4 Unuance for three years. Promises suggested that an executive com- boundaries off Anderson made the board twirl. Altogether The Chinem were always thought-were then made of £3,000, and the mitteo be appointed, consisting of five ful and did everything deliberately meeting adjourned to see if the rest or six members, who would be re Arculli bit nine boundaries in pro anonsible for running the club in the bably the most useful innings he has The Fusiliers lacking a cohesive of the money could be raised. plan, just kicked hard and offen Last month, when the meeting was same way as the directors of a foot ever played for LR.C. as possible, and trusted the gods to resumed, Mr. Everard announced that ball club. A deputation would wait The smart recovery which the In- dlans "made is better revealed by promised
given on officials of the M.C.C. with a view these figures. The first wicket fell look favourably upon them. The contributions gods didn't..
amounted to £6,000 and the com-to re-arranging Axtures.
or
to-day.
If K.C.C. had had a batsman of the Vines defeated Fred Perry by 6-3, 6-4 courage of Arculll they would have
The honours are now even, each won the match hands down. But the real fault lay in their atrocious field- having won 15 matches-Reuter,
WODEHOUSE & NEVE MAKE
CLUB VICTORY POSSIBLE
THE match on the Club ground was not without its excitement. Though Club finally won' with comfort by six wickets, they were twice in danger of being fully extended.
Craigengower started off in splendid fashion and scored 50 runs for the first wicket. Then followed one of those unbelievable collapses. Three wickets were down for 70 and the whole side dismissed for 90. .
Considerable credit for this goes to Wodehouse, who went on after Esmail and F. R. Zimmern had made the Club attack look simple and pro- ceeded to capture five wickets for 26 runs in nine overs.
that they too owe responsibility
the
the game which they are watching. They have no heaven-gent right
do
cause disturbances; And if they
hasume such a privilege, they must be taught otherwise. Association football has been horribly besmirch- ed thie
scason by "scenes" and " cidents", and it cannot afford to tolerate much longer repetition of such affairs. Every effort must be made to eliminate the undesirable elements which have been for so Jong apparent. One way 18 avold staging important matches exposed grounds." "Another (if it necessary) to
high the present of the various football grounds that it will be impossible
prices to sections section
to ОП
charge "popular";
par
tisans to attend the matches. It is protest-
no good clubs and, the FA spon-
He got rid of Esmail, Zimmern and Souza, the three batsmen to make any runs, and then In conjunction with Holden, walked through the rest of the team,
for these gangs of irresponsible after an Insusplelous start, finished with the good figures of Holden, afl 4.for 20.1 13.5 overs.
Club made anything but a happy start to their innings. Two wickets were down for ten runs, and four had been lost for 40.
Then Neve, who had shown clever defence in the earlier stages, began. to play the attack and to bat in his finest style. Harward joined him and the pair knocked off the required runs without being parted, Eventually they realised an undefeated partnership of 02.
Nevo's 60, was a brilliant plece of batting-probably his best this season." Elsyward was more stolid, but his contribution at that critical stage of the match was invaluable.
ing they are powerless. sibility for conducting football in an theirs. It cannot orderly manner
be allrked unless football itself is to disappear. They must explore every avenue, and take steps, no matter how drastic to rid the game of these wretched influences.
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