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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 12, 1940.
"R. Abbit's Cricket Comments
INTEREST HAS APPARENTLY WANED
Slight Enthusiasm At Sookunpoo: Hongkong C.C. Trounce F. A. To Hold
Craigengower
C.C. Wartime Cup
Competition
LONDON, Mar, 12 (Reuter).—The English Football League Management
wartime Cup compeition to bealn
Committee have decided to hold
THE fact that the K.C.C. were already sure of the Shield seems to have taken a lot of intorest out of their game with the I.R.C. at Sookunpoo though it should not have done as a good stoutwith a preliminary round of matches game between two evenly matched sides should be enough for anyone. As it was I am told that there was a lot of slovenly fielding and several catches woro put down.
K.C.C. batted first and opened with F. J. Lay and D. Hung. The latter did not stay long but Lay put together 27 before he grew impatient and lifted one from Minu to A. M. Rumjahn in the country.
ROUND WORLD CYCLIST IN HONGKONG
He Found The World Still Uncivilised
com-
on April 13. Thereafter, the first two away basis, the scorers of the most goals being the winners. The tourn ament will then resolve itself fato a
rounds will be played on a home and
knock-out competition.
The first round will be played on
¡April 20 and 27; the second on May 14 and 11; the third on May 18; the fourth on May 25; the semi-finals on June 1 and the frint on June .
The draw for the preliminary round Is as follows:
Tournament Tennis
O. UMETANI DEFEATS HUSSAIN 9-7, 6-2, Neat Display Of Stroke Precision
(By "Tinker")
O. UMETANI, the only Japanese entrant in the Colony Open tennis tournament, entered the second round of the singles yesterday when he beat S. A. Hussain 9-7, 6-2. Much interest was evinced in the match, and, the Japanese, who is a ranking hard courts player in Japan, was not disappointing.
drop alota,
PLEASING ACCURACY
The ground was extremely particularly successful with short slippery, and neither player was at full tase in his endeavours South "A".----Southend Queen's for angled cross-court shots. BOTH were -showing a pleasing P. R: Brighton v. Clapton 0: Northampton v. Watford; Mansfield Umetani, of much lighter build accuracy, and one of the mont noticeable features of the game was v Notts C.
than his Indian opponent, had an the number of points won by outright Then came a long stand be
South "B"Bristol R. v. Alder- tween E. F. Fincher and T. A.
shot: Cardiff v. Reading; Bourne- advantage in his light agility.winters, rather than on mistakes,
On a dry firm court, Umetan! Madar and Minu found himself
mouth Bristol C.; Portvale v. His greatest advantage, how should be a player well worth watch- A CYCLIST who has just
Walsall; Swindon v. Torquay,
Even on in difficulty as his two change pleted a tour around the world and
yesterday's ground, ever, was in his stroke producing North "A"-Southport v. Oldham;
whille sliding around, Lyfa stroke bowlers were crocked so for 48 says, unlike others, he met with no New Brighton v. Crewe; Rochdale v.
tion.
execution was crisp and firm, and adventure, has arrived in the Colony. Accrington; Barrow V. Carlisle;
there was never anything indecisive bowling went, A. M. Rumjahn He is Mr. Ram Nail Biswas, a Hindu Wrexham v. Stockport.
His neat and precise forehand and about his volleying. In the second having a damaged finger and Arculli and he is on his way back to Singa-
backhand shots North ""-York v. Bradford Cmiration, and despite the score of the let up.
gained much ad-set, he took firm command, and never strained nee. He tried Kitchell, pore, from where he started on his Hartlepools v. Hailfax: Darlington first set it is not wrong to state that Nazarin, Bakar and M. P. Madar tour on a push-blke in July, 1931, Gateshead; Hull v. Lincola; Doncaster he was a far better player than when he and A. 11. Madar had gone
Mr. Biswas covered practically v. Rotherham.
Hussain. The latter, however, has
OPEN SINGLES off; and Baker (3 for 33) was easily every country in his travels, and said the most successful. T. A. Madar that the only experience he gained
shown an enormous improvement in
beat . Umetoni play, and in-the first set was leading
S. A. Hussain got 53 but he was dropped more than was that he found the world still
uct. Anderson made 38 and Robble uncivilised.
5-0. The Japanese opened out with 9-7, 6-2.
Marsland Ma beat A. R. Kitchell and ex- Len 20. Teddy Fincher put himself clown loat and declared with the
cellent passing drives down the side 11-9, 0-3. lines, and fought his way to lovel score at 189 for D wickets.
terma. Ils early lapse was probably due to nervousness.
A FAIR DRAW
Badminton Match Postponed
Third Round Draw For hashing cross-court shots,
Scottish Cup
LONDON, Mar. 12 (Reuter).
I has been suggested that the LR.C. Owing to the Indisposition of K.The third round of the Scottish nearly won the match but when IL. Yong, the men's doubles badmin- Cup will be played on March 23, discussed the point with a memberton championship match between of the Indians aldo ho sald quite Yong and H. F. Chow and H. Mand the draw is as follows: definitely that he never thought they | Lau and S. C. Chung, scheduled for Airdrie v. Hearts; Morton or Hadi ⇓ chance for it as at the close to-night, has been postponed until, Motherwell v. Clyde; St. Mirren v. Lavy allll wanted thirty runs with Friday. The match will be played Falkirk or Glasgow Rangers; Dundee four wickets to go. Kowloon were at Taikos at 9 p.m.
U. v. Kilmarnock, Father up against it as Lloyd was
hot playing and Robble Lee had an
off day. A. H. Rumjahn inade 47. Kitchell 33, Y, el Arcul 2, M. P.
Madar 22 not out and S. 4. Imali Rugby Football
24. not out. Anderson bowled Ave
vers for ve runs and one wicket and perhaps might have been used ♫ Hittle more..
The Club Win
THE HE.C.C. were at home to Craigengower and turned tut a pratty strong aldo with three C.S.C.C. men and two from The Army. Holmes, a slow-left- hand bowler who flights the ball bit, did very well at the start and. Hulse (28), A. K. Ismail (19) and Billimoris 17 not out! ione did anything. McLellan going Ur late had three for six in three overs and John Pearce took two for seventeen.
very fortunate as the Foresters bat-
Yesterday's scores were:
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
I. S. Theobald beat V. R. Gordon
3-6, 0-3.
Umetani, if anything in the open-11-9. ing set was inclined to be indecisive, and dropped his shots mid-couri nearly every Ume. Hussain varied
HANDICAP DOUBLES
his length and pace with very fine heat C. C. Stark and C. M. Stark 6-4, W. G. Harvey and A. H. Barwell control, and on more than one 0-1. occasion had his opponent running A. Lade and G. W. Sewell beat M. from one side of the court to the Pagh and E. Zulauf 8-0, 6-3, other. At this stage, too, he was
SEVEN-A-SIDE TOURNAMENT Holders Fortunate To
Beat Small Units: Bank Wins Easily
(By "Fly-half")
ARMY SEVENS FINAL
Royal Engineers Defeat Royal Scots 9-3
THE R. ENGINEERS, brought in Waite and Artingstall, both absent
for their side's victory. With Birrell,
HANDICAP SINGLES
L. M. Lloyd beat H. D. Bidwell B-6, 9-7,
To-day's Matches
Matches for to-day are:
OPEN SINGLES
J. L. C. Pearce v. Peter U.
OPEN DOUBLES
Wong Hok-nang and Lee Chi-man v. T. C. Monaghan and T. J. Gould. J. Gonçalves and A. V. Remedios v.--Paul-Kong and Blck-Szeto.-
CLUB HANDICAP SINGLES
D. M. MacDougall v. P. W. Blyth. G. W. Sewell v. A. T. Dow.
CLUB HANDICAP DOUBLES
N. D. Lloyd and W. R. Lambert v. J. R. M. Smith and D. J. S. Crozier. HANDICAP MIXED DOUBLES
A LARGE CROWD, a record for Monday night from the previous rounds, and these sevens, witnessed interesting games on the Club ground two strong players laid the foundation When the Club came to bat Grom yesterday when the first matches in the Blarney Stone Walle and Aringstall, all Arms 1st showed once more that he has come Seven-a-side Rugby Tournament were played. A sum of XV three-quarters, among the backs, back to form and hit up 69. It is roughly, $60 was taken, and Wednesday will probably attack for the Army 1st XV forwards, v. ting wanis uiiffening for the Easter bring out a larger crowd as the strong Club and R. E. Cuthbertson Match against the Club, Richardson, Sevens will be on view. an he was not playing for the C.S., promptly hit 42a partnership of us for the first wicket and Perry-sama ide had 25 runs. The Club won cxmily.
Second Division
THERE was no other Senior
The results were:
Polloe "A" 5th AA.
Civil Service Police "B"
II.K. Bank
<
# Combo, Small Units
6 Royal Scots "B"
@ Club "p"
G Talkoo
19 Tamar and 8/Ships “B”
Both
R. C. Beavan and Miss J. Smalley
H. J. Armstrong and
Royal Engineers proved too fast in
and Pinkerton, who Andrewes. played for Royal Scots,
Golf
In defence, the Engineers were
0 comfortably safe. Royal Scots had a 0 slight advantage up forward, especial- Oly in the lincouts, with Millar ex- 5 colling.
0
Birrell opened the scoring, follow- ing a long run, but Walio falled 10 substitutes convert
from an casy posillon.
Police "A" did not impress in respectively. Cricket but in the second their game with Small Units, and gave a good account division various things happen-have to thank Taylor for his selves. Club "B" ed. The R.A.F., a very keen penalty kick which gave them Hopkin and Carey for Leigh and one loose, following Walte's tackle side, crushed C.C.C. second victory. Although getting the P. B. Wilson. coven's hopes by putting them ball in the scrums and lineouts,
Flaying against the sun in the first
ADAMSON CUP COMPETITION
Mrs.
First Round Matches
The following is the draw for the first round of the Adamson Cap Com peillion:
ut for eighty seven and then the Police backs did little with it. late, the service conter led to Scots only points, an unconverted Hugh Smithy (8): Davies (10) V. making 123. They rely very Fay and Wilson were too easily through Taylor. Charter falled to convert the first, and Redman thei Jargely on Nancarrow whp monde 42 suppressed or forced to kick to over
of them-Birrell scored Sappers' second try substituted when he picked up a ball which had of Cuthbertson, and brushed past two
Bye, S. T. Butlin (12): G. E. Willerton players to score well out.
(12) v. E. Ebbage (18): T. J. Price (0) Millar then dived over to score the v.. Buckle (12); A. J. MacFayden (1) v. G. W. Reeve (13); D. Humphreys (7) Forbes (0) D. S. Edwarda (3) v. E. Engineers went further ahead when Tuck (11) bye. W. W. C. Bhewan (7).
The first round fù, to be played on or Foles dived over with Gibson in at-refure March 21: the second round, April
2. Players Aro naked not to tendance. The Scot injured his knee semi-final. April 2 and final, April matches till the last available date. The and had to be assisted off the field.
Royal Engineers L/Cpt. Birzelf: Col.first in each bracket is the challenger, Walte, Spr. Aringstall; L/Cpl. Feley: Sgt. end the winner should enter the result. Brinkley, Cpl. Apperity, Spr. Sheldrako. T J. Price qualified for the competition
ton. Lt. Cuthbertson; Gracio; LI. Ford, Cpl. Sutherland, L1, Miller.
so took three wickets for 17 runs. touch. Wall was an active In the second period, Lavalle was Gillespie's figures of 11-5-21-5 were scrum-half. Cullinan and Innes overhauled by Geo, Fowler when all excellent. Cook helped with 20 put- did well in the forward play.
set for a try. Charter figured well in ling on 50' runs with Nancarrow,
Coombes was nippy for the Small defence for the Service, Units, and gave MacDonald oppor-
MacLeod's Century
1
tunities to show his speed. Craw- H.K. Police "B" 6 Taikoo 5 Royal Scot A-21, Gibson; Lt. Pinker with a score of 14-0-66.
ford was a foraging forward, with
THE Civil Service had some Morgan doing well at the base of the
difficulty in raising a team rerums.
and the Army second were very 5th A.A. 6.R. Scots “B”.
SPORT ADVTS.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Police "B" provided the sur- Iprise of the afternoon, when they
ousted from the tournament Aitkenhead and Day applying They what appeared on paper to be the finishing touches. rough with a weak bowling side. MacLeod had a not out The 6th A.A. came away with superior team. Police delighted have three well-balanced for- century but the score of 206 was rush near the end to score two their supporters by scoring the wards in Thompson, Dunnett and A. M. Kennedy. Butcher made suite unnecessary and they falltries by Banner and Giblin. first try through Reynolds. ed to get the C.S. out, thanka This aoven, which are expected Police team to
Draft Programmes and. Entry Then Hutchison dashed past the an effective link between the:
score between the forwards and the outsides, and Forms for the Second Extra Race largely to Stono, Crawley and to do well, was not at their best. posts. Castleton converted, Play they were definitely the most Mooting to be hold on Saturday, The spirited play of the Beols, for swung from end to end with Police impressive team on view yester- 23rd and Monday, 25th March, whom Ridsdale, Patterson and Fairley dropping chances through over-
1940, (weather permitting) may be were prominent, kept the 5th A.A. eagerness. Following a period when day. out, and, indeed, might have scored Talkoo were hard-pressed on thelt Bowden and Sub-Li, Kennedy obtained at the Secretary's Office, If they had passed more instead of own line, Leallo broke away at mid-were the only S/Ships' players to Exchange Building; the Club brought down in possesalon,
unconverted try. The kick was dis-Day or Aitkenhead at fly-half de-
MacGowan.
Shield
NEITHER of the probable each man going out until ho was fold, and went on his own to score an keep to their positions. Bank played Houso, Happy Valley; the Hong
Shield winners was ong- aged, while K.C.C. Hécond con An Injury to Cody's head was allowed, presumably because Rey-pending on whether the play was on Kong Club; the Sports Club; and cluded a surprisingly disappoint attended to on the field, and he was nolds had twice placed the ball.
big soaton by getting beaten by
able to carry on.
the Police who have a surprising Civil Service 6 Club “B” 0
knack of coming out strong on occd-
Alons. Pope got 49 and Loughlin 20" The Civil Service brought Geo. while S. Gray was unfortunately run out when he was one short of h Fowler and C. G. Trossider in half contury, for Kowloon
|
Bank 19 Tamar And S/Ships "B" 0
Hongkong Bank team gave
place of Hynes and Burford grand display of team-work with
the left or the right side of the the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.
for the alternate scoring which Day.
¡pitch, and this somewhat accounted Entries clano at 12 o'clock and Aitkenhead shared between NOON on Thursday, 14th March,
1940.
them.
Day and Aitkenhead scored two |tries each, and Kennedy one; Aliken- head converting the first and fourth 'tries.
By Order,
C. IL BROWN,
Secretary."
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