THE HONGKONG ||~ TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1937.
ARMY KEEP TO THEIR FEET AND WIN THE CUP Clever Display Against Civilians Despite The Rain
Lai Shui-wing, South China "A" player tried hard to break through the Navy defancs at this point of Saturday's match at Caroline Hill, but found the two opponents in the picture too much for him. (Photo: by Mee Cheung).
Annual Colony Rifle Meeting To-day: Record Entries
GREAT INTEREST IS SHOWN
The second annual prize meet- ing of the Hongkong Rifle Asso. ciation opens to-day on the Kowloon Rifle Ranges with com- petitions among the Combined Services. Evidence of the grow- ing popularity of riflo-shooting among members of the regular fighting forces is shown by an in- crease of over thirty per, cent, in the entries, compared with last
year.
'The entries for die "Bisley" meet, however, reveal an even greater increase. The total number of en- tries for the squadded individual competitions has increased by over 100 per cent, and it is significant that in no single event is the increase in entries less than 20 per cent, The increase in the S.C.. (8) event is over 240 per cent.
These Agures are · naturally very gratifying "to the committee of the Rifle Association, and they viedicate the foresight of these gentlemen in extending each of the two meetings
probable
THREE SHANGHAI BADMINTON TITLES GO BY DEFAULT TO MEISE-
A. Melse has been awarded three Shanghai badminton championships on forfeli dus lo the inability of P. Spagnoletti, finalist in all three events to appear. The filles Melse won are the men's singles, men's Jaubles and the mixed doubles. Its partners in two of the events, who also became winners due to Spagnoletti's withdrawal are Berents and Mies. T. M. Burton.
The finals of the men's singles, doables and mixed doubles cham- pionships were scheduled to fave been held last WEEK, DIE AS SEagnoletti- became indisposed just on the day the contests were arranged to bo played, they were called off. Spagnoletti has since then had to leave Shanghai and in as much as he will not be back till the badminton season Is well over, the championships were declared forfeited to the other finalists.
Spagnoleti was in the finals of the men's singles championship, in which he was to appear against A. Melse. He was also in the play-off for the men's doubles and mixed daubles, his partners being A. H. Duff and Miss Decima Eardley and opponents being Meiso and Berents and Melse and Mrs. T. M. Burion respectively.
TALBOT SEEN AT CRICKET
HIS BEST
Civilians Fade Out
English Cricket Team May Tour India
New Delhi, Mar. 12. Lord. Tennyson, the Hamp-
NO DRIVING Shire cricketer, has been in-
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vited by the Cricket Club, of India, to bring a team to this country next December. Lord Tennyson's team has been specially asked for the open- ing of the new stadium of the
The Army...
(Talbot 2, Erin,, Knighti (D. Kube)
ICHLY deserved was
Club. 4 The Civilians 1
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this Lai Wah Cup final victory of the Army scored yesterday on the Kowloon Football Club
ground at the expense
of the Civilians. Cleverer:
control and manipulation of the ball,--and--vastly superior powers of adapta- bility enabled the winners to obtain complete ascen- dancy. Noteworthy was their second half display which revealed them bet-
Thirteen matches would be played, four of them being against India XI.s at Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Lahore.
WONG OUT FOR TITLE
HOCKEY
CHAMPIONS ENGLAND
ALL OUT
FOR 78
POPE'S CLEVER BOWLING
THEN RAIN STOPS FURTHER PLAY
WINS
International Tournament
FINE GAME
England
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.....4 Portugal
(darikienita #. Wright,
9. Fowler}"
England
were
2
(Finton, D. Gosana)
manifestly superior in the first half of yester- day's International Hockey Tourn ament final played on the U.S.R.C. ground that it came as a shock to their supporters to find Portugal had scored twice within ten minutes of the restart put themselves on level terms. It looked as though the Portuguess were going to obtain a winning grip on the game, but Eng- land
SECOND tumbled out in quick time und heavy"
In Badminton Championship
extra cover
of
falling
ost of the game was played in a reached a very cooking were standard,
within ten minutes
Soon afterwards
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ruined Rain utterly
the Champions V. Rest cricket match at the K.C.C. yesterday, the game being abandoned about 4 o'clock after the players had been driven back to the pavilion by a severe downpour. Play was possible at half past eleven but on a wicket like pudding Against an array of bowlers who kept fine length, the champions scored in tedious manner, the pre- tiffin ploy yielding 47 runs for the
recovered and by scoring twice, loss of three wickets.
ran out worthy winners, Afer a the rest of the team was Most of K.C.C.'s
total of the season-hockey rear of rain yet the poorest seventy eight-was recorded.
But for Kenneth Baxter, who show and those who risked a ed admirable defence against keen "warded for their enthusiasm.
England took command of the pro- 56wling, this score would have been cut in
in half. Baxter went through the cdings from the initial bully-off and deut, Wright innings (lasting 160 minutes
again actual play) and curried his bat for ad scored from S. Fowler's
Wright 37. He gave one chance late in the tested Sause
goal. Portuguese innings, Sloker
with a fierce drive which to hold a speed drive of Bakar's Keeper,
as was only partially saved and Lieut. bowling. Beyond this Baxter show-Garthwaite ran in to net from the ed ane mastery of the attack, though rebound. England
attacked
constantly scoring strokes were a little cessantly and Sousa was Imited. He
Inclined. was
called upon to save good shots. On little
much Patrick Wong, who gave such an pay u
one occasion he slipped and hit the pitched back of his head pect impressive showing in the final of
some balls well to
heavily on the on. the off stump playing | ground, but he quickly recovered and planship
gently back to mid-off when he continued to keep the enterprising last Friday secka his second championship title to-morrow But this does not detract from the Portugal had two breakaways, in night when be appears in the final value of his innings and all of his this half, and from one of them B. of the men's doubles.
runs were made well, some of his Gosano missed an open goal.
Chng v. M. A. Oliveira
Tho match-P. II. Wong and C. E. cuts being very wristy.
BENEFICIAL CHANGES and J. J. W. C. Hlung looked good for a Remedios is being cogerly antists Moreton on his face and the part to start the second half, A. P1 Sousa score, but he pulled a ball from
Portural made positional changes. pated by badminton enthusiasts throughout the Colony as Oliveira him. A little later he tried to pull taking over the centre-forward dulles and Remedios have hitherto been re- B ball from Bakar to the leg garded as the uncrowned champions boundary and was finely taken by his With Pinton restored to his usual of local men's doubles badminton.
cousin
M. C. who attached his position af inside left. The beneficial
Hung,
effect of this was immediately felt. right hand to the ball high up as Pinto scored within five minutes and They are going to have-a stiff was going away. Hung's 18 was a neal
B. task to-morrow in vindicating this contribution, though he missed lots high value of their prowess, for Wong of opportunities for scoring by mis and Chng in the semi-final of the timing long-hops outside the off championships did what few
other stump. pairs could succeed in doing: they beat P. K. Hut and T. C. Lee, Uni-
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his
100
ter able to stand the the men's singles badminton chamt have made a scoring drive. English forwards at bay,
pace under disconerting conditions.
A steady rain fell throughout the match, the ground being turned into a quagmire and making it a hazar dung" business for players to KiEP TO their feet. Indeed there were some spectacular tumbles and slides with the prize going to Sydney Strange who covered ten yards on his back while making a successful tackle. As a friend sitting next to me. said Every kick leaves a trail of sprawi- Ing players"
The natural effect was to detract from the standard of the play, yet under such conditions both teams deserve commendation for their per- formances. The Army found
MERCER BEASLEY EVOLVES NEW and means of countering the handl-versity's leading pinyers.
FOREHAND DRIVE FOR
FRANKIE PARKER
(By Henry McLemore). United Press Staff Correspondent
New York.
:
caps created by the elements and for the
most part played splendid foot L-It-s
the Gral-time pass and quick shot which paid and the Army were not slow in making capital out of this. Their direct methods brought reward because it whs not just a case of kick and rush.
he Their sweeping forward-line move- ments were carried out by means of accurate passes in which the half as the forwards.
for a day. It seems very two not the most profound thinker isn't another tennis player around backs Agured just as conspicuously i mont
in
18
VITAL DIFFERENCE
A
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in
Lime
Gosano beat Benwell shortly afterwards with a lovely angled shot. Thereafter England took control of the exchanges, and gave the Portuguese defence a harassing POPE EXCELS
Seven minutes from the end Garth- walte sent & Fowler In to score and Beyond Baxter and Hung rone of three minutes later Fowler completed In that match it seemed that Chng the K.C.C. players stayed long. Pope a brilliant right wing dash by centring would be unable to hold his own in bowled wonderfully well after timin, to Garthwaite who made no mistake,
il maintaining tantalising length, Portugal's last fling to save the such exalted company, but after a slow start he became one of the best making the ball swing a bit from the fame could make no Impression on and players on view and made an im-lex, and more than once catching his the now sold English defence,
victims with
shot England finished worthy winners. portant contribution
ball which to the result
Wright, Garthwaite and S. Fowler Oliveira's speed is expected to play through at a fast pace: His 5 for
20 was the outcome of some steady were conspicuous in the English a leading part in the outcome of the
attack, but
and Thornhill. though Wong has
de-bowling.
Bakar also did good work though failed to combine. Lieut. Davies scratching his right ear, whether it
monstrated that it can be Merger Beasley, the busiest, if itches or not. The fact that there
and concentration on fuccurate plaets Stoker, Moreton and Mitchell all with Parker an able supporter of lett countered by intelligent positioning he was not so difficult to play as Pope played inspired hockey at centre-half, other flank, that in 1938 tho duration of
who can temporarily converts
In return. The balance even-bowled reasonably well, concentrating half. Brown, on the
found the ground too slippery and did meetings will be at least ten days. tennis ever produced, has devised right arm into a pyhion and scratch
tually may be held by Remedios, on length which was good enough to
not reach his best form. Neither Another sign showing the interest
n new and novel forehand stroke his right car, guarantees that the
who, on form, has a stronger all peg down the batsmen. which has been
After such heavy overnight rain, was he fast enough to hold the Pinto- rifle.
court game than either Oliveira or shooting
the for Frankie Parker, the country's stroke won't be stolen. There is no the an- in Honoured
outfield was heavy, and it is L. G. Cosano doubt that Beasley thought of this Here one discovered a vital dif-| Chng. nouncement this week that the 006th No. 2 player and winner of the safety factor, because, as 1 said, his ference between the Army and the
significant that in the whole of the Guest and Green war
were a safe palt Individual full member has been recent national indoor singles mind is ever active.
tive of backs, though the Initer failed to innings, To add interest to
only Civilians, The Civilians' half backs
the evening's Champions
maintain his excellent first-halt form. cnrolled by the Association. This
.: though passable in defence, dis- entertainment, an exhibition singles boundaries were scored.
The rain started to fall as soon as Benwell was adequate in goal and has been accomplished in two years. championship.
Parker employed the shot fewer played little skull in constructive has been arranged in which T. J. A feature which has afforded the
This barely comes under the head-than five times in winning the indoor work. Neither Bliss nor Costa put Ong, the Chinese Y.M.C.A. player, the Innings was over, but the players could not be blamed for two goals Council and Committee considerable ing of news because Beasley, whose title. But when he did use it, he through a really decent pass. Carlos meets K. L. Yong, the clever Univer- took the Deld to start the Rest innings.
which Portugal scored. After
For Portugal, B. Gosano, A. P. satisfaction is the manner in which mind must be constantly volleying explained later, it gained him force- Remedios was better in this respect, sity exponent in a singles match.
Hung's first over the rain pelted the entries at the "Bisley meeting and half-vollering, so to speak, has ful and outright placements,
the mixed In addition but was less effective in his tackling.
doubles down, and with the sixth bail of the Sousa and Pinto formed a fast-mov- have come from the three classes of given his young protege Innumer-
M. C. ing trio in the attack, while behind The defences compared favourably. champions of the Colony, P. K. Hul second over McKenzle got past competitors. The only disappoint-able new and novel forehands in the sound much more emclent than ear Stevens, and both played magni-
This is good news, and makes it Strange was not a whit inferior to and Miss U. Khoo will take part in Hung's defence and spreadeagled the them Marques, E. L. Gosan and ment is the
stumps. The score was then six and Gonsalves worked with great endea- poort
entries
an exhibition match. for the Public Schools and Veterans match.
past five years.
lier Beasley forehands, because about fcently. Bowen was less secure and
These games will be played at the players scampered for the pavillon your. Xavier was the pick of the Considering the number of people who are eligible to compete, it
Club de Recreio, starting at 9.15 p.m.with no chance of any further play, two backs and Sousa in goal, though In fact, with the possible exception all they ever gained for Parker were too slow-thinking to subjugate the
(Continued on Page D.) beaten four times, played splendidly. of Ground Hog Day and March the unforceful and downright nets, outs, Erwin-Duffeld wing. Plekering gave, and admisulon will be fifty cents. something of a reproach to them that first, nothing has come along so re- and fuffs. Parker says he will em- Stevens much better support.
The Army half bucks were in fine
•period of about two hours in thegularly in the past few years as new ploy the new forehand this spring year is too much for them to devote
and Evans In forchand to a friendly match of this nature.
shots from Beasley to when he makes a bid for the Davis form, Williamson Parker.
It was belleved that Beas- cup team. If it works, Frankle will particular. Evans tackled so reso- Notes On Local League Football By the courtesy of Messra, Lane, ley had reached the ultimate in in- make the team; because he has had lutely that lie had Fowler completely Crawfords, the prizes to be won at genuity when he came along in 1935 all other shots necessary to inter- subdued, and it cannot be said that the meetings will be on view in their
with a stroke patterned after an national competition for many years. either Knox or Bickford made much windows as from to-morrow" after- Australian bushmun relcasing a
headway against Williamson. 'BEAUTIFUL BACKHAND
The finest forward on the
neld boomerang.
created perfect His backhand is one of the most was Talbot, who NEED TO BE DOUBLE-JOINTED beautiful shots in tennis. And he openings for Ferguson on the left
Time Talbot elswing. Every time kicked the But from all reports he has topped owes its potency to Beasley, buckets
ball he did Romething useful with it. that this year with a stroke modelled and small handkerchicts. It
Was Nelther Bliss.nor Remedios could after the motion used by shortstops Beasley who Arst thought up the idea when throwing to first base.
dotting a practice court with hand-begin to fathom his trickiness, and hand the beauty of it was that he never overdid it. That he scored two goals
a
noon.
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They Are Counting Your
Golf Clubs
(By F. J. O. Pignon)
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To make the shot more intriguing, practice until they could hit
it has certain variations which make with their backhand returns. Parker the
Jointed in his right shoulder. And handkerchlets, that Bensley sub
team.
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South China "A"
Championship Chances
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trenchlefs and making his in addition is sufficient indication
South China "A" nearly lost three points instead of two in the ; division the Fusiliers aro course of their week-end football league matches. As it is for the championship. To put it it unble by a player who is double- got so accurate and wore out so many value of Talbot to
they have jeopardised their championship aspirations. Though beyond doubt they have to win three points from their last three matches. Parker is, a fact which he delights situled small buckets of the size chil-ferguson responded walk was the leading the Brat division two points ahead of the Ulster Rifles, the As they ron-up a tally of 13 goals fo prove by wrapping his right arm dren play with on beaches. It was colleague's efforts and completely around his skull and not long before Parker was Alling most dangerous wing. Knight in the Irishmen have a couple of games in hand, and theoretically, at least, against RAS.C. on Saturdays
fairly certain they will become suc Golfers may, after all, be able to
the buckels, as fast as his teacher centre foraged so heartily that ho are better placed
cessors to the East Lancashires as was menace every time ball was use as many clubs as they "wish,
could empty them.
put into the middle..
The Duned!
Ulsters' big concern is whether they their engagement with the Rifles on champions of this division "I have it on good: authority that | The result is likely to be a true
combination also, rked crn Bnish their programme before Saturday, but South China played off Premier honours in this division the Rules of Golf Committen will indication of the number of clubs along with the other strokes and smoothly, and I am more and more Campbell, their centre-half, leaves the two games
But the forehand didn't develop Erwin
during the week-end. have fallen to military teams for the shortly receive figures which con- most members carry.
Parker has found himself sorely of the opinion that if Dumeld could
*stitute
the
'a' protest from the average So for the result has been sur handicapped, u forehand. being na/obtain regular 'first' division footbar Colony on April 18: They have five They sipped up badly against the last seven years. The last time" al player that they cannot dļāregard.· ['prlaing. I do not know what. per| niècessary to a ranking tennis player / experience he would become one of matches to play.within 12 days if this | Navy, losing by the only goal scored, Icivillan ‘club.won the title was 1927-1
Is busy taking a census of the clubs in the bags of all club members The result of this will almost, cér- tainly be communicated to the Royal. and Ancient club..
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team,
An official organisation-not one.
the best inalde forwards. In the of the county or national unions centage of returns has been made as horns are to a dilemma..
so far, but I do know that public If Parker does make the cup
Colony. opinion is definitely opposed to rea-a match I don't want to miss by the
Erwin was not so happy in the tricling the number of clubs per- ons in which he engages Young arst half and mickicked continually missible to 14.. :
Bromwich of Australia in the north but once the Army had proved their SINO TO. :
American zone finals. For the Brom- superiority he figured as prominently -If the final result shows an over- wich youngster, for a reason known in the enterprising attack as any of whelming majority in favour of 15 only to Mr. and Mrs. Bromwich Br, them. or more clubs the Rules of Golf perhaps, employs both hands when
POOR BY COMPARISON Committee cannot daunt public making a forehand. With Brom- opinion to the extent of restricting wich hitting a la Lou Gehrig, and The Civilians front line looked a clubs except in the case of cham- Farker a la Leo Durocher, quite a very poor thing, by comparison. pionships. 1-5
tim, ol' spectacle should result.
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SURPRISING RESULT;
Most golfers are not aware of this consiu. Clubs are counted either in the locker room, the caddie-master's room or the", "professional's shop.
1s to be accomplished and in none of and against Eastern yesterday they 20 when Chinese Athletic finished top. them can they expect: un cary time, scraped through to win, but were For two seasons after there was no Low well matched are the Ulster hardly value for the two points. competition but in 1930-81 R.A.O.C. rules and South China "A" can be Eastern F. C. suffered an unpleasant carried off the honours, Then the better appreciated when it is pointed week-end. The senior eleven los graved on the trophy and In 1934-35 Lincolnshires had their name" on- out that not only did they draw their twice-4-0 to Fusiliers and 1-0 to two leogus encounters; this season, South China "A" and the second and 1935-36 the East Lancashires but at the present have the following division outôt wore flayed 0-1 by the wore the winner.
Civilian clubs have had a comparative records. South Chinn: Fillers.
Fusiliers now require but two more say in the winging of the second P. 23 W 14 D. 8 L, 4 Goals for 87 Against 2a Points 23. Ulster Rifles: points in their... remaining three division championship yet since 1934– P.:21 W. 14 D. 3 LA Goals For 63 matches to ensure themselves 25, it is significant that either Army. Against 23 Points 31 out of runners-up position in the or Navy teams have won either out
Kowicon Chinese:cotld not "filni - pocond division.. In the third-of-elevezI SURDOILIE
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