Monday
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 3, 1940..
RECREIO 'A' EXTENDED BASKETBALL LEAGUE
BY CIVIL SERVANTS Craigengower C.C. Score Again
First Round Matches In Open Pairs Tourney.
RECREIO “A," champions of the First Divi- sion of the Lawn Bowls League, were fully ex-
Tant Mieux
Wins Derby
tended, and, in fact, were near defeat when they Trial Plate
met the Civil Service Cricket Club on Saturday. Going down on two rinks, only C. G. Silva's four, who beat J. F. McGowan's four by 33-18, saved Craigongower C.C., two the Portuguese Club. points behind Recreio “A," kept pace with their rivals in their challenge and scored another two points beating the Police by 6747.
LONDON June 1
Rifle Shooting
Results Of Overseas
Matches
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LONDON, June t (Router) Jamales, with an aggregate of 1,088, points, won the Duke of Gloucester's Challenge Cup in the Overseas .303 Full Range Postal rifle shooting (Reuter),
by Tantaa Just been announced.
The Straits Settlements were third with on aggregate of 1,067, while Hongkong was eighth with COLONY FIFTH
The Derby Trial Plate, held at Hurst match of 1030, the result of which
lux, with Ilippius second
won Park to-day, was
Turkhan third.
and
Tant Meus won by three lengths,1,011,
and third
while two lengths separated second In the Empire Day Cup, Hongkong,
Was:
There were twelve starters.
Tant Mieux plus 3/1; Turkhan 100/7.
Two first round matches in the Open Pairs Champion-belling ship were played yesterday, the Omar brothers, U. M. and A. M., best P. M. N. da Silva-and-F.-A.-Xavier 24-14, and T. Lock and W. K. Way beat J. W. Leonard and M. J. Medina 29-14..
Recreio "A's" first and third : rinks went down by live shots) to the Civil Servants, H. A. Alves losing to F.-J. Jones 14-16, and F. X. M. Silva losing to H. E. Strange 16-18, and had to rely on C. G. Silva's four to pull them out of the ruck. This he did, scoring 5, 2, 2-4, 3, 2, 4-and 3, 2 to eventually win by 15 shots, and thereby gave the champions a ten shots' win.
THE OPEN PAIRS Craigengower Teams
Win First Games
CRAIGENGOWER pairs were nuc-
At Kowloon, the Omar brothers took the teal from the start and never
cessful in the first matches in the Open Fairs Championship played yesterday. U. M. Omar and A. M. Omar beat F. M. N. da Silva and F. Craigengower scored on two of their A. Xavier 24-14 at the Kowloon The IG.C.. and at Oralgengower, T. rinks, and tied on the other.
Way beat their wide margin of their victory was due Lock and W. K. to C. S. Rosselet's overwhelming win Clubmantes, J. W. Leonard and M. J. over A. E. Carey. Carey lead 4-1 at Medina, 20-14. the end of, the second head, but thereafter was always in arrears. Rosselet went on to scores 5, 3, 1, 5,
to lead 10-4, and finished-his-lost looked back. They opened with five heads with 1, 2, 1, 6, 3 and won three 2's and conceding five shots on the 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th heads, led 33-15.
7-5 at the beginning of the 9th. The Indian R. C. scored their Brst 3, 1, 1, put them into a 12-5 lend, success at the expense of the Hong-which with a later burst of 2,3,4,1 kong Football Club. A K. Minu saw them ahead by 22-0 on the 17th. beat N. J. Bebbington 21-11, A. R. The Recreio pair scored 3' or the Dallah beat K. S. Robertson 22-9, and 18th and 20th heads to complete their the only win for the Footballers was scoring. that of W. Gill against M. R. Abbas and that was by one shot only-10-15.
The scores were:
FIRST DIVISION
Recreio "A" 02
Civil Service
·C.C.
Cralgengower 67 Police Kowloon B.G.C. 68 Recreio "B" Indian R.C. 58. Hongkong
F.C.
SECOND_DIVISION Graigongower62 Police
Talkoo
48 Recreio Hongkong C.C. 50 Kowloon
Civil Service-
Kowloon F.C. 52
C.C.
B.G.C.
C.C.C. MATCH
But
Though at one time they led 10-2, Leonard and Medina had no reply to Way when he found his touch.
The latter was the most consistent of the four, and in good combination with his partner went ahead by leaps 47 and bounds.
52
43
!
It can be deduced from the scores,
30 that the winners scored 27 shois
43
47
70
47 Kowloon Tong 60
Kowloon C.C. 631
THIRD DIVISION
Hongkong C.C. 64 Indian R.C. Prison Oncers~72-Kowloon
-B,G.CF
while their opponents added but janather four 10 their score..
with an aggregate of 035, finished The Afth. The winner was Trinidad, with 11/8; 977, and the Straits Settlements,
with 014, came third.
SAFE-ALMOST
HE'S OUT, An II. B. batter oul by a split second in their Leaguo Baseball match against the Royal Engineers yesterday at the Navy ground. The II.B. team won∙14-2--Ming Yuen.
Water Polo
Home Rugby Results S/Ships Beat Y.M.C.A.
London, June 1.
Following were the results of the i Rugby League matches played to- day:
43
Yorkshire Cup (first round) Bradford
45 Feathersione 19, Halifax 2.
2-0 In Return Game
Small Ships secured, a deserving 2-0 victory over Leeds-a-Castleford 17, Hunslet 10-European YMCA at water-polo in the dockyard pool Friendlies Oidhant 16, understeld 20: yesterday. There was a scoreless first half and poor Kowloon F.C. 57 Craigengower 50 wigan 18, Swinton 4-Neuter.
marking by the visitors and opportunism by the home team provided the outstanding features.
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There was no doubt that the Navy were the better team. [Y.M.C.A. were without G. T. May and this, to a large extent, ruined any chance they might hav, had in attack, as their forwards were very poor and
Home Football
Rangers
with the exception of a back- Win Scottish
hand shot by Hunt, which Black, Navy goalkeeper,
brilliantly
saved in the first half, YMCA Championship
rarely got within effective shoot. ing range.
..
LONDON, June 1
(Reuter),
Nnyy had A splendid defence in Wellington won the Welsh Cup final which Browne, centre-half, and liaif- to-day by defeating Swansea, 4-0, at yard, felt-back, were outstanding · InĮ Slirewsbury.
attack they made tho bent of their In the semi-final of the Regional opportunities and scored their open- ing goal in the first minutes of the Cup,, Blackborn beat Newcastle, 1-0, second half when YM.C.A. had only and Fulham lost to West Ham, 3-4, six men in the water, Benn having Rangers' won the Scottish Leaguo been ordered out for moving a few Championship. beating "Falkirk by minutes before the end of the fra 2-1.
half.
Results of other matches played
Y.M.CA. began to feel the pace in the second half when ragged marklag were:
resulted in Halyard swimming through Charlton 4. Portsmouth 2.
South Arsenal 15, Southampton. 0;
THE SCORES Wednesday
Sing Tho
FIRST DIVISION
37 Kwong · Tal 30
SECOND DIVISION
Nam Seong Kwok Mun
43 Yau Wul
45 Ching Mo
Saturday.
SECOND DIVISION
+4
Ngan Luen
St. Paul
Baseball
Chinese.
07 Press
24
40
A
Potential Champions
4
Stave Off Defeat In Second Half Rally
(By "GUARD"!)
Kwong Tai, dubbed the giant-killers since they tilted Chung Sing in their cage league on- Pak 45 Chinese 38 counter week before last, almost repeated their splendid performance against Sing Tao, potential champions, at the Chinese Y.M.CA, last Wednes- day, ultimately losing 30-37...
Flashing a high-powered attack, Kwong Tai swept all before them, in spite of the fact that Sing Tao were play- ing a five men, man-to-man defence. Sing Tao's Chan Sze-bun was in sorry plight, and was incapable of stopping irrepressible Lo Tung and Ng Siu-chin, who worked their will to pile up a substantial score for Kwong Tai.
Chicago Blank Out Red Sox
Thoy sank baskets from farment of the second-half, and, al- and near with such precision though coming very near at times, falied to assume their superiority by NEW YORK, June 2 (UP)—and regularity that the imper- bad shooting, and an unhinged.com. -Featuro of to-day's baseball schedule turbable Sing
Taons
were bination: Cheng Ka-ming (14), Tam was the defeat of the Boston Red Sox, shaken, and they hastily called in Chok-chun (8) and Coo Seung-ching American League leaders, by Chicago White Sox. The Red Sox Lee Pui-chick, their star turn (6) were top scorers for Kwok, Mun. Chiat Ping-kwong for Ching Mo was were held scoreless by Lyons, while right-centre, and Lo Chun-kuen best seen in passing movements while. The Wilte Sox tallied six runs. and Tai Fook-sing. The inclu-Fong Chiebung (18) was a clever
"AMERICAN-LEAGUE-
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the
Chicago ...
Battery: Lyons, Tresh. Boston
0 0. 2 Battery: Buting, Heving, Desautels. (Lyons pitched for the White Sox, and McNair homered),
St. Loulk
sion of these players had the centro to watch. required moral effect on the
Sing Taons, and play became "Y" Fail Miserably slightly more oven, but Lo and ONLY two second division - Ng remained unstoppable, in matches were decided on scoring, and the first half show- Saturday, that of Chinese "Y" ed Kwong Tai leading five points, the score then being 20-Fress vorsts St. Paul's.
versus Ngan Luen Pake, and
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16.
4 Battery: Harris, Coffman, Mills, Suscc.
.... 13 14 0
AND GAME
The "y" opened up shaky, but KWONG TAI LOSE LEAD Armed up as the game progressed and gained the lend at 10-18 which half, Sing To they soon lost. second IN the
The lead changed Battery: Russo, Dickey.
changed tactles. Lee Pui-chlek honds -severni tienes before the (DiMaggio and Selkirk homered and Weng Chan-ming formed pincer Paktinns finally established them- attacks with centre Lo Chun-kuen selves. Y men's passings throughout pivetting excellently to fre passes to the game were toù obylous and were Ece and Wock, for the latter to notch easily Intercepted by the Palclans, valuable points for their side, hum- who snagged them to turn into self contributing sono nice under-paints for themselves. Y-men often (Trocky and Boudreau homered for turn to wilt under this rapid fire at their guards fired passes down the basket goals. It was Kwong Tains caught the Paklans napping, when tack, Leung
0 +
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New York
for the Yankees).
Cleveland
Battery: Feller, Hemsley. Philadelphin
2 &
Battery: Potter. Hayes.
the Indians).
Chicago-
120
Battery:
Rigney,
Lee,
Smith, Turner.
Boston
Kwong-keung and
Chil-loo, guards, being
court for a forward to sink under-
• Left basket gomi
Brown, helpless as babes, Lee and Lo kept up
5
1
In the second half, they fought 10 12 0 their prolife scoring with the splen back "vehemently", and at one stage Battery: Gaichouse; Wilson, Dick-did backing of Poon Yuen-kwan, Tai held the Pakians on equal terms.
Fook-sing man, Bagby, Desautels, Peacock.
Leung nad
Kwok-tak, They cracked up, however, and the St. Louis
with the result that, before the Paklans began sinking baskets al- Battery: Kennedy, Lawson, Swift. second half were many minutes older most at wil, running out victors by Clan Yuen-kel (20) and New York
11 12 Q Sing Tao the ascendency for the first 45-38.
time, 25-24. few more baskets Wong Hon-ming (14) were
top Battery: Bretier, Dickey, Detroit
added to the confusion of the Kwong scorers for Ngan Luen Pak, while and Wong Tains, and Sing Tao ran out victors Cheung Stu-long (20) of a now thoroughly demoralised Yui-on (5) did good service for "y" Kwong Túi team 37-30,
ถ 0 Battery: Trout, Benton, Tibbetts. Washington
...... 0 Battery: Hudson, Haynes.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
1 New York .........
5 Battery: Schumacher, ' Brown, Dunning,
12
2
Joiner.
Pittsburgh
2 0
1
A
Ching Mo Surprised
St. Paul On Rampage
IN the opening second division ST. Paul were clearly the better team, and are potential cham- game, Nam Seong easily dis- pions in the junior. division, posed of a weak You Wul according to form display up to quintette 48-24, in a colourless date. Yu Kin-fan play in- Battery: Kinger, Lanahan, Mac-match. Yim Chi-kong (12) and defatigably at centre for St. -fayden,- Davis, Berres.....
-Brooklyn-
-370
Tsg Hung-chai-(4)-for-Yau-Wui Paul to turn in a splendid 16- were-the-only two who were goals, while his satellites Battery: Wyatt, Kimliall, Doyle, seen to good advantage, while Chan Wahi-kuen (12) and Yan Siu- Phelps.
Kong Pei-tak (10), Fong Yok-fat (8) backed him strongly to play chow (8) and Yuen Pui (6) have with a weak Press defence. For the Fress Siu. Tim-lim tried his indulged in some practise
hardest to bring his team together, shooting for Nam Seong, who himself,doing valiant work sinking de-12 goals for his side. He was suc- besides, possessed the better
Chicago...
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Battery: Lee, Hartnett,
Philadelphia
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Battery: Beck, Atwood. St. Louis........... 2
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Battery: Lanier, Davis, Warneke, fence which easily coped with the cesssful on occasions, which account- Padgett...
Boston
Avery, Andres.
Pieghota,
weak attack of Yau Wul
ed for the fact that Tam Chan-kuen The night 'capper second division nnnnned 9 goals. 15}
Cheng Parkat appeared to have mnich-between-Kwok Mun and Ching Starevich, Mo provided spectators with nome discovered the art of off-setting the amusing and exciting moments, Ching "roof" of the "Y" court, and sank Mo might be said to have been some lovely baskets from the coffin visited with a piece of bad joss las corners.
1
Battery:
Cincinnati
11 14 Battery; Walters, Lombardi.
New York
10 i Battery: Melton, Gumber, Danning. Pittsburgh
3 11. 0 Battery: Brown, Heitzelman, Lana- han, Sewell, Laning, Berress.
(Called in the eighth according to the Sunday law)...
Brooklyn
2
Battery: Hamlin, Mancuso.
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Chicago
Battery: Olsen, Todd.
Boston
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ing 40-45, as they were definitely In the second half, St. Paul slowed the superior team. They lost their down visibly to allow Press to creep one point first-half lead (18-17), up, then mashed their way through &cme minutes after the commence- ngain to a 67-52 points victory.
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JOHN JAMESON
IRISH WHISKEY
2 4 0 Battery: Erickson, Lopez. Cincinnati
3 2 Battery: Turner, Beggs, Hersh- benger.
2 Philadelphia
7 0- Battery: Smoll, Warren, St. Louis
B 10 0 Battery: Bowman, Owen.
CHUNG HWA TROUNCE
to, acare. Soon after Navy consolidated South D.-Aldershot 3, Crystal Paleo 3: SOUTH CHINA
when Paul scored from close, tanyej Brighton 2. Watford Norwich poor marking by YM.C.A. defence Southend Queen's Park Rangers 6.
again being responsible.
Small ShipsLdg. Tel Black; Tel. Yates, A. Halyard; Lt. Comdr. Browne; P. O. Hankinson, A. B. Ratter, Tel. Paul,
Y.M.CA-II. Eardley; L. 1. Chater,
·F. Willis L. A. Benn; À, R. Hunt, R, H Jordan, R. Goldman.
NEW BATHING PAVILION AT NORTH POINT
Bournemouth 0.
Western. Crewe 3, Chester 1: Man- chester United 0, Everlon 3; New Brigh ton 0. Liverpool a
· Northwestern-Barrow 1. Preston Burnley 7. Accrington 0; Carlisle Blackpool
Bouiliwestern Bristol
*
3: Newport 11. Torquay Rovers 3. Cardiff North easter-Itartlepool 2. Hudders feld 21 Leeds 3, stun 1; Middlesbrough d, York 1,
MidlandCoventry 8, Luton 1; Leicester 0, Waltall 0; Wolves 1, Northampton_4.
East-midland-Barnsley 2,- Sheffield United 11 Grimsby 1. Doncaster 4)-Notts County 3. Lincoln 0.
**LEAGUE BASEBALL' matches played yesterday on the Navy ground, resulted ・・・ according to schedule. · Chung・・ Hwa trounced South China 18-3, which was a big- zer margin than was expected, while the I.D. oulții “overcame the Royal Engineers 14-2, 12, dan
i
There was an exhibition game in the afternoon, and the Hongkong All- Stars beat the US.S. Asheville by
Triendile Clapton Orient 2 Millwall 3:10-3.
Hearts 2, Hibernian 8: BL. Mirren 0. Clyde
usual firing of are crackers for good luck, and the band of the Chung Sing, EASTERN Athletto Amsociation's Benevolent Society was in attend- new bathing pavillon at North Polal anco, goof
A was opened yesterday by Dr Khu B-A-gala in the form of exhibitions Kai-changs. Fresident, before sa, bir | by. Eastern, and visiting swimmara gatheringtone jongsteken d was held and was greatly appreciated
The opening was attended by die by the spectators.
On Saturday, the U.S.S. Mindanao suffered a set-back when they went down by 2-6, tothe Hongkong Dase- ball Club 28
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