THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 18,, .1938.
Local Week-End Cricket Matches Reviewed By "R. Abbit"
On the whole, the wickets on Saturday last in the Colony were rather on the "jam-pot" side, some of them possibly being too slow to be really difficult, others being quite unpleasant. I only managed to see the Club and Civil Service match myself, and having read a very, very brief critic of that in a local paper I feel once more how hopeless it is to try and criticize a match on the score sheet! More of this anon. I can only say that I will do my best to guess the probabilities and I shall have to continue doing so until someone explains to me how I can see four or five matches at the same time.
Th_K.C.C. balted Orst against a singularly "stranger" Army side and did very comfortably. None of the Army bowling had very much claim to be considered dangerous in any cate, and Donald Anderson and R. T. Broadbridge did very much as they Alked with it. Things, of course, are
regular
D. Crury and Sargent all got runs. Incldenally, I rather think it is time that the D.B.S. stopped playing masters. It would teach the eleven to rely more on their own efforts. This remark appiles to the CBS. as well, The University got 86 for 5 and seemed much the same side, with a possible exception of Gegg, us they were inst year.
FLATTERING FICURES
nt present completely disorganised and one annat expect u Army alle. They did well enough to drow, Sergeant Baker making 38
Godby not out.
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1 was glad to see that Man was able to play
his ogain after
nasty seeldent in the Interport trial. For some reason or other, however, he was only down ‚lost man, I rather gather cricket is
a bit dimeuil for the Middlesex Regi-core-alects.
ment at the moment
Leo and Lloyd did most of the bowling for the K.C.C., who, I notice had Captain Whimarch playing for Chem. He has not yet got into form with the bat.
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I.R.C. TROUNCED Playing over at King's Park the I.R.C. got a bad beating from Recreio. The wicket apparently suited A. P. Pereira, who must have bowled very much better than he had been doing in the Interport trials. His Beures read 15.4-5-21-7 which must be ac- counted an excellent performance, Tho Indian batting completely collapsed with the exception of A. II. Mador and A. R. Kitchell who both got double figures. They were all out for 62 runs and of those, extras clamed no less than 101
The Recrelo did not do very much botter, but with E. L. Gosano making 10, L. G. Gosano 25, and A. P. Pereira 14 they got up to 82. Minu had for 45.
The same thing happened in the Junior match between these Clubs, for Recrets made 100 and the IRC. could do no better than 80. K. M. Rumjahn and A. Baker did best for the I.It.C. and they were I think, pretty well worth their places In the Brat eleven. A. J. M. Prata was top scorer for rerelo with 25. THE DIE-HARDS
Tho Civil Service second eleven managed to get into three figures, thanks to A. Warr and I. P. Tamworth but no one else could do very much bealdes. The Cricket Club bad little difficulty in hitting off the runs. Incidentally I begin to feel terribly elderly, as I find I used to play cricket with Tamworth's father. In North Devon. There are signs, by the way, that the Civil Service second eleven may buck up quite a bit this season,
There remains the match that I did see, and, as I said earlier in this article, it just shows you how you can buy it if you have to judge by Longfield, us I cx- pected, is sold 10 have bowled brianly. I have no doubt that he con do no with a wicket to help length; him, when he is found but apart from a magnificent ball which bowled Daniela, and two quile useful ones later, ne was all over the place. His first ball nearly pitched on is toe and, had not the wicket been gummy enough to hold it so that Arthur Lay broadcasted on entirely the wrong wave-length, it would undoubtedly have gone out of the ground. He isu got Parrow olf Untsmita would have sent a short rib-roaster which a taller to the decided to pitch up bowled as well pavilion rats. Actually Beck, who
us anyone except erhaps Leckie who varied his pace everly. He seems to be unlucky in that he can never get the extra bit en that takes the wicket.
HOPE AHEAD
Badly as the Civil Service batted they have hope ahead. They have Dicky Richardson, Baker, Griffiths, Hawkins and Tubby Wood to come In either now or shortly; and they have a couple of useful recruits in Holidge and Ainslie. It is of great importance that these two youngsters should slop in the first with a view- the second you can write them off. to the future. If they go down to
Both have the idea of the game, feld well and can send down a length ball besides playing with a straight bat. Whiley also bowled very well and it is a great pity he is not more consistent. The Club baiting was
to useful, with little extend .1. Incidentally McLellan is much more offective if used often in small doses rather than if he is put on and kept on, even if he does prefer the latter treatment.
The Club, of course could hardly be judged by the game. They have Alec Pearce to come in, and will be a useful all round elde, especially It Acel Bowker sticks to the game and they can turn out a pretty regular eleven. This chopping and changing The D.B.S. made 141 for D declared is what they have been suffering against the University. F. J. Lay, | from for the past two or three years.
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Watching Skip's Wood
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Players watching anxiously as WV. V. Field rolled his wood in the game between the Shanghal Interport Bowls teams and a Kowloon F. C. rink. The visitors won by the close margin of one alot, the final scores being 21-20. Seen in the picture are (left to right), J. M. C. Lopez, K. L. Swarizell, T. Fergusson, I. Hall and V Chittenden,Staff Photographer.
HENRY
COTTON Offer Made To Budge
DETHRONES THE GOLF QUEENS
(By A Correspondent)
London, Oct. 7.
This goes to show how unpredictable golf form is. About eleven o'clock yesterday morning at Maylands golf course, near Romford, the betting was evens on the match in which Henry Cotton was to play the "best ball" of Lady Heathcoat-Amory (Joyce Wethered), Miss Enid Wilson and Mme. Simone Lacoste.
The argument was
that Cotton
might outdrive his three opponents
by a long, long way (which he did), INTERNATIONAL
that they in the end to catch him up with their approaching and putting-
But it was Cotton who did the approachimendous
and putting. To ex- drives he added pected unexpected enormous pults. Indeed, he putted the women right out of the match to win by four holes up with three to play.
had
SOCCER TEAMS FOR MATCHES
To Turn "Pro"
Chicago, Oct. 17.
The well-known sports pro- moter. Mr. Jack Harris, an- nounced to-day that he has offered Donald Budge $75,000 with an option of "liberal per- centage" to turn professional and to go on tour in 1939,
Mr. Harris said that Budge had requested $100,000, - United Press,
NO COMMITMENTS
Oakland, Cal, Oct. 17. Donald Budge stated here. "I have made no commitments in reply to Mr. Harris's offer of $75,000. I have been think- ing it over and may accept- $100,000". United Press.
COTTON
DOES NOT. LIKE 14. COCLUB RULE
(Arsenal), (Huddersfield),
London, Oct. 17. The English soccer team to meet There was on unwieldy gallery of 2,000 people, who galloped over Wales in the International match at bunkers and tore through greens. Cardiff on October 22 will be: Everybody relaxed, even Cotton.
Woodley (Chelsen); Sproston Once, all ready to play a shot, he (Tottenham),
Hapgood to walt for his caddie, lost in captain; Willinghem
(Huddersfield), the cr
crowd. Plaintively he called Young "Come out," as if he were coaxing Arsenal); Matthews (Stoke), Robin-
rabbit out of a a hole.
(Shefield Wednesday), Lawton Another time he showed the gel-(Everton), Goulden (West llam), lery how to make n circle round and Boyes (Everton). him. It was
quite a new Collon. Out in 33 and four under 4's for the fifteen holes played, Collon re-ham), Hughes (Birmingham); Green quired only one pult on six greens.
A rock-ilke, wide-apart stance, a full follow-through with a slight dip of the left shoulder towards the hole was the secret so far as I could
sey.
BIB
The Welsh team will be as follows: John (Swansea); Whatley (Totten.
(Charlton), T. G. Jones (Everton), Richards (Birmingham); Hopkins (Brentford). Leslie Jones (Arsenal), Astley (Derby), Bryn Jones
(Arsenal), Cumner (Arsenal).
TO MEET CONTINENT Of the women, only Mme. Lacoste (hall her; frailest of the three, only The England team to meet the she won a hole from Henry) looked Continent at Highbury on October 20 like sinking putts. She holds the will be the same as the one against club with her right forefinger point- Wales. Any alterations will be an- Ing down the shaft. Try it your-nounced after Saturday's match.-- sci.
Reuter.
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"Interfering With Players' Liberty"
London, Oct. 3.
Miss Chance Of
Forcing A Tie
Beaten By Single Shot By Shanghai Interporters
By "Abo"
The Kowloon Football Club, champions of the Third Division in the Hongkong Lawn Bowls League during the 1038 season,'enter- tained the Shanghai Interport team on their green yesterday, and the home representatives d'd very well indeed to hold the visitors to a one-shot margin. The final scores were 21-20 n favour of the Shanghai rink.
Call-Over For Cesarewitch Announced
London, Oct. 17. The following is the latest call-over for the Cesarewitch:
100/0 Black Speck (0), 13/1 (1)
and wanted.
13/1
Dubonnet (1 and o) 100/7 Salonase (u), 19/1 (t)
15/1
Snipewood (t and o)
17/1 Snake Lightning (t and o} 17/1 Contiev.u (2 and 0) 17/1 Fet (o), 18/1 (t) 22/1 Lovelegent tt and of 22/1 Olympus (0), 25/1 (1) 22/1 Earth Stopper (a), 25/1 (t) 25/1 Stainless Stephen (0), 20/1
(D)
25/1
Guren Shilling (0), 20/1 (0) 25/1 Nettlewood (0) 28/1 Harewood (and o) 28/1
33/1
Muborak (0), 33/1 (t) Fox Star (0) 3371 Colibate II (0) 40/1 Ranfeld (t and o) 50/1 Cpype ( and o) 50/1 Near Relation (0) 00/1 Hointchase (t and o) 85/1
Respondent (0) Valerian (t and o) JUN/I 100/1 Str Calidore (t and o).
-Reuter.
Miss Scriven Retains Her Tennis Title
London, Oct. 17.
In the Queen's Club women's ten- nis final, played to-day, Miss Mar- garet. Scriven, halder, defeated Miss McKelvie by 6-3, 4-0, 0-1.-Reuter,
Baron Von Cramm In Good Health
Berlin, Oct. 17. Relatives of Baron Gottfried von The R. and A. has, as is well Cramm, the German tennis ace who known, decided that after the next was released from prison on Sunday, spring meeting at St. Andrews, the said he was in good health before
his release.
They declined to discuss details of 14 club rule will be enforced. In addition it is suggested that a change hils plans for the future. Untied in the ball may come to keep down Prens. big hitting.
Cotton does not like it, and this is
what he says: "Firstly, I consider
the 14 club law unnecessary. It
It is Just another to add to a list of rules) already more numerous than those of any other sport. Besides, I feel i
one almed merely t 11 few players, I
I can think of less than a hundred golfers who carry more than 14 clubs. I do not know of al first-class player to-day who carries 30 many clubs as to be conspicucus -the average is from 14 to 18. The extra ones now dermed to be too many would be only the spares or clubs with which to play odd shota and to take risks when lying near a tree or from a bad llc. My own act comprises 19, although cocasion- ally I carry a jigger and heavy club for digging out of the tough spots. Here is my bagful:-
Woods:-Driver, brassic, Броол and lofted spoon, being numbers 1, 2, 3, 4.
Irons Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 012, 7, 7%, 0, sand Iron and putter.
"That does not make a gargantuan bag, and yet I would be beyond the pale. So one of the first weaknesses of the new rule is that the R. and A. arc interfering with .a player's liberty. And this restriction right even lead to the point
Bet! when the of 14 clubs would have to be of given specification. Then we would see who can play the game. Clubs could almost be made to some im-
possible
Blandard. I do
do not think
the new move will ruin the profes- sionals Anancially, but it certainly will stop the keen amateur from buying those extra clubs to put in his bag.
"For the other side, it is argued tbal 14 clubs are too many-seven or eleven should be the Umit. But. as I believe that making fourteen is) already an interference, you can guess what I think of that."— Our Own Correspondent,
A sa matter of fact, the K.F.C. quartetto had a great opportunity of making o tie of the encounter on the Inst hand. Shanghal were leading by three shots, but the K.FC.
were having two when W. V. Field, their skip, had his last wood to go. Had he been able to make it into a coun- been ter, the scores would have levelled at 21-21, but he was a trilo loo heavy and went through.
Though he falled with his lost wood, it was Field who gave the K.F.C. opportunity of possibly squaring the match. The visitors were tying three when the skips went down to roll on the last head, but with his frat wood, Field broke up the lay and the Jack sprang oldeways to give the K.F.C. two,
the
LATE EFFORT
Wallace and W. J. Mac- Hugh Dermott stand out from the Shanghai rink, the visitors being represented by K. L. Swartzell, A. M. Gutierrez, J. M. C. Lopes and W. J. Brierley (skip). The Kowloon F.C. were re
by R. Hall, V. Chittenden, resented by
T. Fergusson, and W. V. Field (skip). Because Shanghai had established an carly lead und also because there were many loose heads, the match was not really Interesting until the few ends
mado when the K.F.C. their effort to snatch the game out of the fre. With a ve, followed with a two, the Shanghal men were al- after the ready seven shots ahead Arst two ends. At the end of the atth, they led 0-1 and at the end of he 11th by 15-7. The K.F.C. scored six shots in four heads from the 12th to the 15th. but a four on the 16th nist the visitors further in the lead by 19-13. On the next three ends, however, the local men scored two, one and two in that order to take themselves only one shot away from their oponents' score. Shanghai re gistered a bence on the 20th and though the K.F.C. niso had a two on the Inst head, they were still end shot in arrears.
Scores:
Shanghai Kowloon F.C.
6
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