Tuesday.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
October 24, 1999,
WEEK-END CRICKET REVIEWED
Club Bachelors Quell Married: Recreio Show Batting Weakness
(By "R. Abbit"}
FROM the list of Volunteer training weeks which I saw the other day it is quite clear that there will be no regular sides turning out before Christmas, but this is inevitable and the whole arrangement sooms to be an excellent one as the training will got done adequately and thereafter presumably the drills and any evolutions will omit Saturdays! The decision not to play League Matches until the Now Year was a very fortunato
onc.
CANNOT say the batting of the Married was anything but! thoroughly bad. It is true that' Fay bowled very well and that John Pearce sent down several good ones, but two of the latter's wickets were obtained with full torses, and I am not sure that Lowe did not full to a similar bali. He was out just before I arrived. Armstrong alone did anything and he was unlucky to be bowled off his toe. Of the ubers? Bishop only shaped well. Potter, for the single men, kept wicket excellent- ly, his stumping of Eric Mitchell being beautiful piece of work-I was
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watching it through field glasses, and doubted if Mitchell was out, but
Hongkong Golf Record
Since
writing yesterday, "Bledle" has discovered that le record for the Hongkong amateur Golf Championship fa 140, scored by ML. W. Undd (75 and 1) in 1932.
3. T. Smith's 147 on Sunday, therefore, does not better the record.
when he came in he told me he lifted G. N. Gosano was the only batsmali
his foot and il was at this particular moment that Potter took the balls off.
PLENTY OF runs
to do anything.
in
K. C. C. Beat M'sex
THE Kowloon Cricket Club, play- without Teddie Flacher and R.
E. Lee, ran up 178 runs against the
THEN the Bachelors went in, all but the bowllag of the Married side three or four new men, so far as my was very weak indeed, and it was recollection goes. It was noticeable knocked about all over the place. that the three newcomers, 1. L. After they had won by nine wickets Rapley, D. Hung and A. Zimmern they went on to compile 287, a con- (all of Craigengower last season) alderable score in a half-day match, all got runs. I understand, however, that in the corresponding match next year both Foller and Kilkee wil turns over to the other side!
RECREIO WIN
Innings saved them! Incidentally,
The best innings, I am informed, was that of Rapley who came in after three qulcic wickets had fallen and completely knocked off the slow
bowler, Peal, who had taken them.
Hatfield, I see, is still in the Colony, THE win of the Recrelo over the but he did not enjoy his usual suc
tess. The fielding, however, is sald Civil Service was not quite so easy as it looked on paper to have been very bad indeed, a lot mittedly the wretched score of 89 of catches being put down. For the was not likely to win a match, but I Middlesex, the top score was 27 by gather that the first three Recreio Mun, but no-one else gave much as- wickets fell for 12 runs, and my in-sistance and they were all out for 95. Kowloon prospects depend very formant told me that G. N. Gosand's largely on whether they can manage he added that the six to leg actually to turn out a satisfactory number of cleared the wire-netting and dropped bowlers, I understand on the tennis courts, a very big hit who has taken violently to golf, la returning to the fold this coming which won the game.
week, and that he and Lloyd will The Civil Service got their usunt have to do most of the work, B. D. bad start as Colledge played first Lay seems to be developing into a ball to square leg and started down useful change bowler but they de the pitch and was easily out. Next finitely want another good one. over Richardson was plumb 1.b.w. to
Ozorio off a ball which he made no Second Division
attempt to play! Perry was lucky to be dropped, but, later on, unlucky to be bowled off his pada.
THE Recreio seconds were far too strong for the Civil Service at Hap Valley, and won very much as they
Barrow defended for some time itked: and made a couple of nice squaro cuts while Valentine brought off two They had however two or three good hooks and was bowled in trying players, who, I think, at times have to repeat the stroke off a ball which figured in the First Eleven, and Civil kept low. The ground hnd been Service could not hope to hold them well watered (I gather it had been successfully.
very low.
ADVENTURERS IN HONGKONG.-Round-the-world cyclists who lefi Bombay in 1933, and to date have travelled 50,000 miles through Europe, Africa, North and South America and Japan. Graduates of the University of Bombay: (right to left) R. Shroff, 31, electrical engineer; R. Ghandi, 32, electrical engineer: K. Kharas, 36, commercial student,
WORLD
CYCLISTS IN H.K.
Cairo To Cape Town In
18
Days: Realization
Of Schoolboy Dream
(By "Tinker")
AROUND the world on cycles!
Indoor Bowling
H.M.S. Kent P.O's.
In
Beat Gunroom
friendly game of bowling at
the Hongkung Bowling Alleys Tast night, the HMS. Kent Petty Officers beat the Gunroom by 152 ping. The
scores were?
PETTY OFFICERS
W, Hambrook ... W. Bird
W. Godden
This is what three athletic Parses graduates of the Flint Bombay University, Karkee Khoras, 36-year old commer. C. Denny cial student, Rustam Ghandi, 32, and Ruttan Shroff, 31, R. H. Holness electrical engineers, have almost completed.
Total 130 150 200 137 91 228
110 112 non
121 100 221
112 00 200
88 19 177
1,345
GUNROOM
130
09
150 67.154 221 00
280
180
76 100
A. Carew-Hun!
They set out from Bombay in April, 1933, and after touring Asia Minor, Europe, the British Isles, Africa, G. c. Clarabut South and North America, Canada and Japan, have arrived P. M. Milligan in Hongkong, having covered some 40,000 miles, and have c. C. Dunlop... only a mere "jaunt" around the Philippines, Australia and C. D. Brownrigg the Straits Settlements to complete before returning back R. M. Yorke home.
They hope to be in Bombay again by 1943, having travelled over some 75,000 miles.
This is their realisation of a schoolboy dream, and the adven- tures and experiences of their journey would thrill the_no- madic blood in any of us. They have wined, dined and resided with the King of Afghanistan. They have slept in a humble little tent on the Equator In darkest Africa. They have been snow-bound by icy storms on the have plains of Persin, and
S.C.A.A. Annual
Athletic Meet
The South China Athletic Association will hold their annual athletic meet on Satur- day and Sunday, November 11 and 12, at Caroline Hill,
Five events are open to the Colony. (1) Girl's 400 metres relay, (21 men's 400 motres relay. (3) men's 1,600 metres relay, (4) men's 10,000 metres, and (5) boys' (under five feet) relay.
Entries should be sent in before Novembar 1.
182 63 100 103 74 84 158
1,103
customs of Africa, which, I suspect, will form the "ment" for their second- book, Their first, "Peddling Through The Afghan Wilds," has already been published in Bombay.
FAMOUS AUTOGRAPHS
HEIR hobby is the collection of TULE
autographs, and they have those of Ramsay MacDonald, M. Laval, de Voleca, and the Presidents of the
Cuba USA, Mexico,
and other places visited.
very cry the week before) and it The University, with 63 not out by was noticeable that ball came off at C. M. Matthews, made 110 for 5 de very different heights-two or three clared, and got rid of a very weak travelled for three days without popping up and then one keeping Navy eide for 36, Gegg, taking 5 or food or water across the deserts
6 for 19 and R. Singh 5 for 18. Iof Afghanistan. rather fancy that the University have They are on a goodwill tour; they A. P. Pereira bowled very well the benefit of several newcomers are wanderers spreading the doctrine after he had changed ends, but he from the schools this year, and it will of goodwill throughout the elvilized had one or two easy vletime.
be interesting to see hew they get world. It is not personal publicly On the whole, poor as the score 9,
they seek, but the publicity of their Judging from what I have seen the object was, the Civil Service are not without tndion Recreation Club have not To this end they have lectured in some hope for the future. I absolutely settled down yet, and all the countries they have visited. change their opening combination lon't imagine that they will do very defraying the cost of their Journey and put Colledge in somewhere about much more than the rest of the teams with the proceeds and to date it has number five, they will do beiter ntil Christmas, that is, play friend-cost them $50,000. They hope In fancy, R. H. Crimths in due backtes with a view to looking round for Hongkong for the opportunity of were released and were greeted by Seas circuil. fairly soon. He has made at least
their the Minister of Education, who offer- one century in good Clubs cricket at new talent. I notice Minu has not speaking to the public on
travels. Their subject is one of high ed them the hospitality of all the home, and if he starts getting runs yet turned out this year.
about Cralgengower, though the loss mand of eleven languages.
So far no one seems to know much educational value. They have com-boarding schools and colleges there.
three. players who have joined Kowloon must be a severe blow to them. As far as I know, no one hos THE Recreio are still going to have any fixture cards out yet, but if Club their usual good bowling and cricket Secretaries have time to let delding side, but their batting is very me have any information about their shaky Rodriguce was not playing ture games I shall be much obliged en Saturday, but, na has been said, to them.
out here it will pull the side together
n tot.
RECREIO'S FORM
Local Football Player Suspended
Till 1940
Their itinerary to date has been Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Jugoslovia, Hungary, Austria, Czecho slovakio, Germany, Belghum, the British Isles, France, Spain, Switzer- land, Italy, Egypt, Sudan, British East Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Rhodesia, Cape Town and the Union of South Africa, Buenos Aires, Brazil, Mexico, across the United States and back through Canada to Vancouver, Japan (where they cycled from Yokohama to Kobe) and Shanghrd.
They plan a two weeks' stay in Hongkong before moving on to Aus tralin and the last part of their South
The Parices, some 1,300 years ago, migrated to India from Persia. They are followers of the Zoroastrian reli- glon, the basic principles of which are Good Thoughts, Good Words and ¡Good Deeds. 40-MILE HILL"
There are about 100,000 Zorona- On Hongkong who have and were in Germany when Hiller trians in the world, 80,000 of whom cycled know the "Joys" of push-
are in India and the remaining 20,000 pg up hills. Shed a mental drop of was made Chancellor of the Relch. in Ferala, The Church does not be
three hardy Later, they akirted Abyssinia during fieve in converts. perspiration for these travellers, who, in the Himainyas, had the Italian invasion. Politics are not to push up hill" 40 miles long their regard, nor will they discuss They estimate that they have walked ten per cent of their journey.
Each carries 120 lbs, of gear on his
FTER touring the British Isles zycle: They have worn out eight
and Ireland, their. next fourney sets of tyres and two cycles each.
In Londen Was across Africa. This was a feat Their first change was
of endurance in itself, and occupied after 14.000 miles, and they were there given special British machines some 18 months. They encountered which have done them service until more wild animals than ever seen la ****any 200, and on two occasions were to-day; another 20.000 miles.
NO POLITICS THROUGH Europe, they were in Austrin when Dolfuss was killed,
them.
ACROSS AFRICA
SPORT ADVTS
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Draft Programmes and Entry Their average has been 100 miles temporarily put out by their presence: LAI TAK-CHOY, Kit Chee player, was suspended in day on good roads, but they have At one railway station, the sole occu- Forms for the Tenth Extra Raco League football until the end of the year at a meeting of dropped as low as 5 miles a day on pants were several lions, and Uie Meeting to be hold on Saturday, the Hongkong Football Association Emergency Council the hilly passes of Asia Minor, bold yesterday, the
FIRST ADVENTURES
cycling party had to walt for the
(Weather arrival of the train before they dis 4th November, 1939, persed. Their second adventure was permitting) may be obtained at the when they were literally treed by a Secretary's Office, Exchange Bulld- wore in herd of wild elephants browsing. ing; The Club House, Happy
conquered the continent, dangerous tackling,
one day when they awoke to find however, and have the honour at bo Valley; The Hong Kong Club; THESE decisions arose out of referee, for deliberately kicking an themselves snow-bound, they spent in the only people to have ever done The Sports Club; and the Stables,
Shan Kwang Road.""
WAN WAN-HING, another Kit Chen player, was cautioned for THEIR Arst adventures following They
1.
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Afghanistan, where,
incident athe Second opponent, and the incident was re several daya traversing a blistering so on ordinary cycles.
parted. Kli Chen lost the match by desert, three of which days werd Their greatest Impressions have División League match between the odd goal in five.
without food or water. They are the been in regard to hospitality. They Kit Choe and the Eastern-on Laf was unable to appear before arat people to cross this country on have found that the more backward on
the Council in person," and sent d' cycles.
the people, the more advanced their October 15,
representative to plead guilty. The In Turkey they were arrested Ad hospitality appr
They are possessed "ofán · Inex- Board decided to suspend him until supected British ples, but after
enquiries, insting several days, they haustible fund of stories of the tribal December: 81, 1989,
Lai was ordered on the held in the second half by Mr. B, M. Omar, the
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON Thursday, 26th October, 1939,
By Order,!
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