Tuesday, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
"R. Abbit's
Abbit's" Cricket Comments
January 7, 1941.
POOR RESPONSE FROM CLUB PLAYERS
Sorry Display Against Craigengower: E. Zimmern And Griffiths Bat Well:
University Fail
Fail To Turn Out
THERE SEEMS to have been considerable disruption of cricket from Military and other reasons on Saturday last. When I looked into the "namos" book at the H.K.C.C. there were precisely eleven down; six of them were regular Club players and five the "professors" of the Civil Servico side-minus Baker--who had no game for their own Club. It was unfortunate that the opponents were Craigengower, who are, on present showing, the weakest side in the senior division by a long way.
It was lucky for the Club as Perry and McLellan took Loven of the ten Craigengower wickets and Griffiths made 74 out of 125 to give the Club a three wickets victory. though, playing on they actually scored only ten runs more than their opponents.
There is something very wrong with the Club cricket this your and I don't know what it is. Allowing for Military duties and all that, it seems amazing that, when only one side is being run, only six players should put down their names.
t looked on a bit and found quite
a fol down for the two day match
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Week-end
Home Soccer
Fixtures
LONDON, Jan. 6 (Reuter),—Foot- ball fixtures for the coming Saturday will be the same as for January 4 bui will the venues reversed.
Additional matches will be:
SHEFFIELD CHARITY CUP Semi-final
Rotherham
V. Barnsley
NORTH REGIONALS
Yvenne Godard, woman swimming ALGIERS, Dec. 20 (UP)-Mlle. at Chinn New Year, but it seems champion at the last Olymple cames Crewe
Ja Berlin and French record holder, Grimsby going it our pretty cricketers are only prepared to lap was Interned in an insane asylum Stockport v. Shemeld U. the cream and to refuse skim milk.liere it was disclosed yesterday.
poor
Verb, Sat.
Ernie Zimmern in Form
good
AS u matter of fact the game would have been a farce if Ernie Zimmern had not elected to play one of hi all too infrequent better knocks. He started, a usual very. shaklly. If he was not such a bad starter he would be one of the most useful bats in the Colony, but I is so seldom he really gets going.
Aa It was he went on to play an excellent innings. No one could stay with him for any length of time Huise and E. J. Mitchell alone achieved double figures-and when ho pulled an in-swinger from Perry on to his leg stick be had made do and was out Inst man but one. Even so the score was only 115 which was pretty poor.
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Bad Batting HAVING PAID my fee to the Bomber box I am entitled to say that anything more ghastly than the performance of the Club bala- men I have seldom seen.
V
v. Presion
Newcastle
·SOUTH REGIONALS
v. Cardiff
Police prevented her attempled Bristol C.
dive from a window and took her to the Mustapa hospital for the insane, cald reports.
account for their bad display, and they will have to pull themselves together if they are going to make a good showing against the fall
SLIDING HOME
A. P. Pereira (Recreio) sliding home in the softball match against H.K. Baseball Club at Kowloon F.C. on Sunday. He was out!-Ming Yuen.
League Badminton ·
University Trounce
Jel. 28151.
ARTIFICIAL
FLOWERS
FOR ALL OCCASIONS
FELT AND LEATHER BUTTONHOLES
FOR TAILORED SUITS
MIXED BUNCHES FOR AFTERNOON
DRESSES
LARGE SPRAYS AND TRAILS FOR
EVENING GOWNS
LADIES
SALON
LANE CRAWFORD'S 1525252
Equine Sports Club de Recreio 9-0 || The House of Quality & Service
In "A" Division
Club
Gymkhana
strength of the Club in the two-day Held At Shatin
match at China New Year,
I see from a report that the K.C.C.
fast bowlers" found dimiculty In A large number of members and getting any life out of the pitch. As friends attended the annual gymkhana KC.C. haven't got any fast bowlers of the Equine Sports Club on Sunday. um not surprised. Zimmern is a Mr T. H. G. Brayfield was the Judge, yard or two slower than Eddy Gosano wille Mr D. Waterton and Mr E. L. and he is nothing more thinn fast Starling acted as marshal and starter medium.
respectively,
UNDEFEATED as yet this season, University. "A" virtually proclaimed themselves winners of the "A" Division of the Badminton League last night when they beat the Club de Recreio 9-0 at King's Park.
Following were this results of the various events held:
The powerful combinations of Sword and rings-1. A. II. Dinnen, little to worry them in the
the Undergraduates' team found Golf Battath.. Potato rare.-1. C. C. Chan; A. Brit-opposition, though Recrelo are
tal
At present there are no fast bowlers in the Colony. Dewar gets as close to it as anyone. A sense of proportion should be maintained in ill-Wood. Pereira, Syme Thomsen these things. Havelock Davies, C. K. (in his first season), Dennis Donnelly and Padre Hastings were pretty fast. Huiso and Billimoria bowled a Shanghai. But there isn't anyone.
50 were Quayle and Allison of length but the collapso that occurred
dreadful. Was
within yards of them this season. Richardson was 1.b.w. trying to hook a ball into Garden road instead of
of taking a four, and the Second Division League reat processed.
Handy Junter
O'Connor: President's Cup) 2 t. Blues-lightly, and despite the over- Capl: 2 A. Brittain.
Tent pegging, A. H. Dinnen (Gary whelming scores, rallies were
Bluestone. Jumping competition.-1. M. O'Connor spirited enough to mako the (China Light and Power Co. Trophy): match interesting outside the
Obstacle race, E. Ilmsworth; 2, H. P. Lim.
competition M. not a team that can be taken Second Round
Aggregate cup.-M. O'Connor tled with A. H. Dinnes.
Gilbey cup for best dressed competitor. Six were down for 23 runa! Nude THE Second Division League Mr. P. Lim.
Ainfoos race-1, Yen Fat; 2, Yung Mow: held on and when Grimthy Joined got under way on Saturday and. An Lam. him the game took a turn. Ride was there were decisive results in the 1. Yung, wife of the President, presented At the conclusion of the meet. Mra 11. in while over sixty were added but three games played. Craigen the prizes. his shore was only one four and nine singles!
gower beat the Police decisively. Griffiths who suddenly seemed to The latter side seemed quite de-1
have found his true form played moralized this year and apart Army Team To
excellent forcing cricket. Even so from-a-brilliant-flash-or-two can -X-think Craigengower"might"Lavo"]
won had he been taken in the stips flo- nothing. They were all out Meet Navy For
off the first ball from Hutse bowling and C.C.C. ran up 155 for from the Law Courts end in his five wickets-with E. A. Lee: second
Dell,
As it was, with Perry in, the runs scoring 69 and C. W. Lam 23 were hit off for a three wickets vie- (retired).
LOTY
though just after Perry
Whe
un,
Lai Wah Cup
Referees Meeting
the
Score,
Matches For Stubbs Shield
K. W. Choy, one of the most recent additions to the Varsity side, part-
The second round results of the nered with C. K. Lee and carried all stubbs Shield competition of the before them in fine understanding Royal Hongkong Golf Club were: and courtcraft.
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Under-Hongkong and Shanghai Hank 4 and 3; graduates. They fully extended two Education Department received walk- of the opposing pairs, and almost ever from R.A.3.C 5th A.A. Regt, RA, beat Dairy Farm 4 and 2; Air Raid tock-n-set-off-the-third-It-way-this-worden bent D. Hutchison and Co- third pair—JI. F. Chew and P. K. Hul and 4: Butterfield and Swire beat Post who were the weakest of the three, Offies & and 4 Dodwell and Co. Deat Government Medical Department 3 and but in a team of the strength such as 15.
Head Office & Works 57032 that of the University this meant nothing for they still won all three of meeting at Fantint were cancelled Kowloon-Depot,
All competitions for the New Year | Gloucester Bldg., 2nd Fir., Tel. 28038 Hong Kong Depot, their matches.
Tel. 58545 Peak Depot, owing to lack of entries. Scores were:
Billiards
The folowing will represent C.S.C.C. Collapse most excellently caught by Hong
Army against Navy in the Lai Wah L. A. Carvalho and A. M. Silva lost to Sling running back from inid
THE Civil Service could not Cup football competition at Caroline KW, Choy and C. K. Lee 8-21: lost to while Grifiths cracked a hot one to blame their bowlers for losing Ill on January 22 at 4 pan.: H. Chew and P. K. Hul 12-21; lost to cover where Younguaye made
Bankier (Royal Scot); Naysmith (Royal i
P. S. Bun and M. S. Lim 13-21, *, no the match at the Valley. Stone Scot), Fraser (Royal Scots): Birrell (RE).to Cray and Lee 16-21; lost in Chew and J.J. Remedios and 11. F. Gonsalves lost mistake.
got 5 for 30 including a hat (diesel), Freshwater (biidules- 1f 10-21; lost to Bun and Lim 3-21. It was a queer match. Of the 240 trick, and the Recreio were all tha.d... Reserves, Reynolds Iul 3-25, lost to Bun and Liin 10-21
nax): Owena (R.A.). Hossack Royal runa scored two batsmen mado 143
Scols), Fox ()}_
M. A. Oliveira :d A. M. Rodrigues lost Weir (1.A.S.C). Jo Clay and Lee 10-21; lost to Chew and of themi
out for 66. But their batting Royal Scots). Lawton (R.A.), Pearson University Muddle could not even muster this Middlesex). Munro (Royal Scola), Pei-
hain (RE.). FORt the second time this season, miserable score, in spite of the I understand the Univerally let the fact that Hotlidge, who is a regular Army down, and it is high dine member of the first eleven, and their Secretary takes steps to put should not, to my mind, have been Association will hold their
The Hongkong Football Referees' his house in order. Both Army playing, was assisting them. The meeting at the Hotel Cecil at 8 p.m. monthly aldes were expecting to play them S. have been unlucky recently in that today, when, in addition to the usual the Army second at Pokfulam, several new recruits who gremised transaction of Association business and where
are definitely failing to deliver the discussion of knotty points, Mr rather several players turned up only to find a domestle the goods. They should try to size Walte: Inaming Chen, the Hon. Gen- Axtare being played,
thereselves up as other people who cral Secretary of South China A.A in view of the number of telephones now the game do and not as they will give a talk on local soccer and the in the Colony this accms absurd, I see themselves. gather the Army captain had to send someone out in a car just before tim
At Soohunpoo
to find out what was happening.
THE IR.C. batted first but We all know that utter impossibi- could do very little against the lity of establishing telephonie com-steady K.C.C. attack. munication through the University Sufflad (28) and M. R. Abbra A. R. exchange to anyone except perhaps (23) contributed chiefly to a the Registrar, or Deans of а Faculty, but this is all the more reason why total of 98 runs. Baldwin took the Secretary--who can get on to the five wickets for twenty-one runs. telephone at his end-chould check Baxter dominated the K.C.C. Inn-; up his Axtures on a Thursday!
He evidently has his card jumbledings and made 47 not out out of 105
Q
for 6 wickets, Incidentally, there is going to be some dificulty about this
of
iner paints of the game.
Council Meeting
Final Stages. Of Military Competitions
Following are the results of mafcber
Council will be held at the Association's ed on January 3:
A meeting of the lungkung Football in the Garrison Billlards League play- office at 5.30 p.m. to-morrow.
Services Membership
For Kowloon C.C. To Be Considered
Royal Boots beat Royal Engineers }6-1; Royal Signals beat R.A.O.C. 4-3. LEAGUE TABLE TO DATE
П.A.M.C.
Royal Scola
IRAS.C.
C.M. Polico
Royal Binals
II.E.
51h A.A. Regt, TX RAP.C
BLA.O.C.
W.
Pls.
0
2
73
53
09
30
In the semi-final of the Soldiers'
(R.A.M.C.)
Captain's Cup
During the week-end, A. J. Dennla the Captain's Cup over the Old Course with a score of 76-10-05 quailled for
with a score of and A. V. Greaves 84-15-09 qualified over the Now Course. There were 46 and 14 entries respectively.
Triple Tie
In addition to G. M. Park and G. Thomerson, who tied for the S. C. M. Post Bomber Fund competition 3 up. T. Megarry also lindo card of the same value handleap 11. The three- playera will now have to play off.
SPORTS ADVT.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1941
15th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 22nd February.
up completely at present, and as matter of courtesy should check up First and Second eleven business, the Kowloon Cricket Club will be held Club Tournament. ILA.M.C. lost to the as it is so difficult to establish com- Baxter for years has played for the at the Clubhouse on January 31, at Volunteers by 1211 points to 120
An extraordinary general meeting of 12th Hvy. Regt. RA..... B munication with him,
Entries for the above will close K.C.C. Crash
second by preference, but I should 630 pm, when a special resolution
thought
Tom Madar and W. L. that the following Article be inserted plonships are: Billiards.
The finalists in the individual chamat 3.00 p.m. on SATURDAY, 11th THERE was amazingly poor
Rapley were
fairly regular members after Article 55 will be proposed:
Cpl Harvey JANUARY, 1941, at the Secretary'ss batting in the K.C.C.-Recreio neither were pleked for the First between Great Britain and Germany, (R.A.M.C.) and Cpl Harvey (R.A.MC.), ]
the first
and S. Q. M. S. Wood eleven-thought admittedly "55A. For the diarntion of the war (R.AS.C.) Sneaker, Lieut. Dixon Offler, Exchange Buliding. match; and only 234 runs for 19 a wickets were scored. I begin to very difficult question.
By Order of the Stewards, understand the popularity of
C. B. BROWN, soft-ball-whatever that may
Secretary. Hongkong, 6th January, 1941.
Correspondence
►
rank of Sergeant, or the equivalent week commencing January 13. thereof, in the service of the regulor
Naval, Military and Air Force of the
I HAVE received an interest. British Government, stationed in Hong- kong and China, 'shnil be eligible to
bo. Recrelo managed to havojing letter from a correspondent become Subscribers of the Club on the three men run out and only A. suggesting I should incorporate same terms M. Rodrigues got over thirty, in these articles hints on how to appllenble to Commissioned Officers There were five double figure play crickot. scores under twenty.
All the points he mentions are dealt
and conditions or are
-and Warrant Officers,"
C.S.C.C. Cricket Teams
The following have been chosen to represent the Civil Service C.C, in friendly cricket matches on Saturday:
[is] XI v. Hongkong C.C. (flome) —J, ke. Refundson (Capt), K. Z. Attwell, E.
in I. Gleimtha, D. C. K. Hawkins, D.
Heilige. D. Michelan, It. Partoti, A. X.
2nd XI v. Army (Bockunpoo),-IT.' 1.
J. M. Gosano, I understand, is on with either in the laws of cricket or arrance to comply with my corres-finker, W. II. Colledge, H. N. Toriescae the injured list. They also had in the dozens of books on the subject, pondent's request. Ozorio nway but Eddy Gasano bowl and I should not presume to hold
Ave,
My moré erudite readers may Perry
ed well to taks five wickets for forty-forth had it not occurred to me that allow their attention to wander! It
I probably have a good many readers will inke a bit of thinking out first Strange (Capt), Barrow, G. Davidson, The K.C.C. batting order was to whom these sources of Information as in these days I'm rather thronged Lawrence Lockhart, 3. 7. M altered a little but this does not are not available, and I shall try to with business.
Gowan, J. Mileball, N. LABmith, Q. Htone, A. Watson, A. M. 3. Wright.
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