Thursday,
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June
19, 1941.
"WICK'S" BOWLS NOTES
Recreio ""A?? Suffer Second Defeat
Incidents That Involved Knowledge Of Rules
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Important Game This Week-end
FOR THE INDIANS, their victory over Recreio "A" in the First Division of the League last Saturday was historic, During their four seasons among the seniors, they have beaten, at ono time or another, every other team except Recreio "A" who have always proved too good for them. And their succoss last week was all the more creditable in that it was scored at King's Park.
This was the champions' second defeat this season -a fact which may jeopardise their prospects of retain- ing the championship.
Certainly the race for League honours in the First Division is Now very open with at least three teams running neck to
neck,
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remaining heads by his rink were
deducted.
If C. G. Silva had dropped out in the last five or six heads, and this procedure adopted by his rink, the
chances are thất his rink would have won. This is not meant to be a reflection on Silva's play; we know what a fine bowler he is. But no nan can play properly with a kidney trouble attack.
•
Once before in 1939-the Indian nearly beat Recreio "A", but the brilliance of Carlos Silva on the last head of the day-in fact with the last wood dashed their hopes, In those days the issue was decided on uggregate scores, and when two
THERE was another incident in rinin had finished and A. R. Dallah and Silva
last were playing their
the match which goes to show On hend, the teams were on level terms. how few people know the rules.
Dallah's rink Inid the shot when one of the heads, F. F. Luz dropped Silva was about to send down his his wood und it rolled less than half, last wood. He acemed to he well way down the green. It finished up and truly blocked on the only hand past the first flag but not up to the that was open to him, but he rolled second.
beauty which rested on the Jack- for the winning shot.
o return to last week's game. To
was Dallah's rink which laid the foundation for the Indians' victory. Playing well to a man, they easily outplayed the rink skipped by R. F Luz and won by no fewer than 21 shots.
Actually the Angs had nothing to do with it, but somebody said the wood Was
dead because it was not past the second Bag; and an- other said the wood was
"alive" teenuse it was past the first flag.
Adam Holland's rink in action against E. C. Fincher's in the K.C.C.-K.B.G.C. "A" Bowls match on Saturday. G. Deacon (No. 1) bowling with L. Jack, W. Mulcahy, A. E. Perry and W. L. Walker looking on.—Ming Yuen,
25-1
Outsider Wins
Louis' Most Formidable Opponent
Conn Bids For Title
krom
Owen
Wartime Derby
Tudor Easily Beats Morogoro
Packed Trains To Newmarket Heath
NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuter).
will -To-night Joe Louis
have what is expected to be his hardest
LONDON, June 18 (Reuter). -England's second world tilo The rule
which says: "Any bow!
fight since he won comes to rest within 18 yards from
title heavyweight boxing
wartime Derby, run to-day at Newmarket instead of the front of the fat shall be counted
James J. Braddock by a mock-out traditional Epsom Downs, resulted in a win for Owen dead and removed to the bank.
on June 22, U. M. Omar, the veteran
In the eighth round Inter-
been Tudor, 25-1 outsider, who finished a length and a half 1937. Since Uhen he has was watching the port skip, who motel, drew attention to this rule.
challenged 17 times and has won in front of Morogoro, 11-2. generally well inside the distance. To-night, his 10th challenger Is Billy decisively defeating all-comers in the Conn, the Irish-American who, after
light-heavyweight
All the way Dallah's four were covering the delett of the other
The distance between the wood- two Indian rinks. A. K. Minu and the mat was duly measured, and was in a bad way and was lucky the wood was subsequently declared to lose by only ten shots to F. X. "dend." M. da Silva, while M. I. Abbas was all the time five or six down to Carlos Silva until the last two
heads.
FIRST round in the Open Rinkes
runounced,
class, that crown last month to tackle Louis. It is expected Conn will give Louis at least 20-lb. Those who maintain Championship was chiefly not that a mediocre big 'un will beat a able for the victory of U. M. Omar's good little 'un expect Louis to retain rink over "Spuggy" Silva's. Al-the title, but many will not be sur though the margin of victory at the prised if the negro in dethroned. and was five shots, the match was very close one, especially in the closing stages when either side might
to
Conn Concedes Weight Later-Conn weighed in at 12
Places were: Owen Tudor (Nevett) Morogoro (Harry Wragg) Firoze Din (Stephenson), Betting: 25-1 Owen Tudor, 11-2 Morogoro, 100-1 Firoze Din. Won by a length and a half; twe englis
Time: 2.35.
Royal Academy
perdown
Prince
Lambert
Probables And
Jockeys For New Oaks
Excitement ran high towards the end as
it could be seen that the aggregate result was still very much in doubt. But on the 20th head
Others: Single Court (CHA Richards). Abbas scored a six to the his score
(Getin), Cuerdley with Carlos Sliva, and then finished
stone 0 pounds, which is much below
Devonivit
LONDON, June 18 (Reuter), have won.
expectations, white Louls welghed 11 (Jones), Mazarin (Bartlom),
(Perryman). Selim Hassan (Beary),
Probables and Jockeys for the New up with
for his winning | #three
After the 10th, the scores were 17-stone 13 pounds 2 ounces.
Valdavian (Herbert), Starwort Joe Tay-
Oaks are: On the 20th, 10 Omar's favour. These two heads swung the scales in the sing the shot when the both men were in excellent condition. Wings Chat leakies Orthodox (Denis (Richardson),
Dr William Walker stated that lor. Aunatom (Arthur Throughfare (Som
Firle (Lowrey), Hill Chateau Rose Bridgeland).
Hampton Indians,
Faience (Arthur heavily in favour of the and with Daliah scoring a brace on skips went down. Had he been able He said that Conn showed the least Smith). Ptolemy (Ephraim Smith), Cam-Wingg), Precocity (Beary), Commo-
(Lowrey). keep this, a different tale might signs of nerves in his bloodpressure
Simnel tion (Harry Wragg), Dancing Time the last head, the visitors won by have been told. But Omar rested and pulse than any fighter he hid (ott), Junny Island (Carey) and Fairy
(Perryman), Sunny Dear (CIA 14 aliots-the biggest of three de-
Richards). Following was the final call-over;
Sanatuga (Bridgland), feats the champions have sustained out the wood to give his side two ever examined.
and on the last hend "Spuggy" had The weather forecast Is "clear, Lambert Simpel tot and of Sun Beausite (Taylor), Turkana (Evansi, in 52 matches.
to gel four to win. He conceded moderate temperature."
Castle 1 to 1 and o; Morogoro 8 to 1 1}Mercy (Ephraim Smith), Chelan and o: Devonian 10 to 1, 21 to 3 (Beasley), Romun Chateau La Rose 300 to 9 0. 100 10 8 tjockey).
Empress (no Orthodox 100 to 9 o, 15 to 1 ti Starwort 100 too Thoroughfare 100 to 0 ot Ptolemy 10 to 1 o: Fairy Prince 20 to 1 o; Anyatem 22 to 1 t_and_o; Camperdown 23 10 1 . Cuerdley 2 to 1 and os Owers. Tudor 25 to 1 o; 33 to 1 t nnd o; Matarin 33 to it and o; Sunny Island 33 to 1 o; Royal Academy 40 to 1 t and o; Fettes 1 to 1 o; Valdavian 50 to 1-o: Selim Hresan 50 to 10: Single Court 64 to 1 o: Feroze Din 100 to 0.
Interesting point cropped up
who suffers from kidney trouble, had one of his periodle attacks fa- wards the latter stages of his game.j Could he drop out?
two.
One peculiar match was played Billiards & Snooker
at Kowloon Docks where Adam Holland's rink defeated Eddie Sousa's by 25-22 after concedlug five and an eight!
Although there were several close
The rules say: "In the absence of finishes, the other matches provided
the
a single pinyer... the game... W little of interest Inasmuch as the proceed
number of bowls
Recreio-Beat- European "Y"
shall be made up by the playing of majority of the rinks are not expect-In Return Match
the odd bowls by the first and seconded to go far.
players, each playing one bowl each end, but one fourth of the total Khois
acored by any rink playing three men THIS week's programine of matches shall be deducted from its score at Ti ve First Division includes the end of the game."
interesting
encounter, That is clear enough. But, if one
on the crest player, after playing ten heads, for Indians, now example, is taken ill, what is the wave, will entertain procedure?
It has been suggested that he drop
the
The of the Craigengower
CLUB DE RECREIO were hosts to the European Y.M.C.A. In a friendly billards and snooker re- turn
match yesterday, winning caslly by five matchies to oke, Highest billards break of the
at Sookunpoo, where the home team evening was A. J. Osmund's 00 in his are always dificult to beat. It will match against C. Terrans. E.
be a good match to watch, but I um Soures, who beat C, T. Eager
not forecasting the result.
M.
by
three points, was, second, highest with 53. Another good game will be that
funci
Owen Tudor is owned by Mrs Mac- donald Buchannn, daughter and heiress of Lord Woulavington. His much bet- ter fancied stable companion Morogoro was soundly beaten.
He is the seventh Derby winner trained by Fred Darling, who has thus equalled the record held by the late John Porter:
Packed Trains
Mrs Buchanan is the third woman to own a Derby winner. out at that stage and a fourth, of the
The successful jockey, W. Nevett, total shots scored by his rink in the
obtained special leave from his army remaining heads deducted at
"L. Sykes scored the highest. breakduties. It was his first Derby success. between Kowloon B.C.C. "A" and end of the game.
Apparently there is a precedent Police. The latter have two good at snooker with 10 points.
If only they
Scores were: could for this. Many years ago, Buchrinks,
strengthen their third, they would anan, (who was a Pelson Warder),
be a formidable side.
Y.M.C.A. playing lead for Craigengower,
F. ML. Soures (53) 155 C. T. Fager Perhaps the return of J. C. S. J. F. Luz
150 W. II. Ingleby was summoned back to the prisons owing to a riot having broken out. Fender and J. Orem to the Colony A. J. Osmund (60) 208 C. Terrank (55) 70 There seemed greater interest than lasi The game went on and a fourth of the total shots scored on the
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Early morning trains which left Lon dors were packed with people bound 147 for the Heath to witness the Derby.
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Ex
Les Steers Clears 6ft 11ins Record High Jump
LOS ANGELES, June 18 (Neu- ter)-Two world athletic records were broken to-day. Les Sicers cleared 6 ft 11 ta in the high jump and a four-man team from the University of California covered the mile in 3.9 2-5. Steers has been in magnificent form lately. His record effort was the third time in a few weeks that he had im- proved on the high jump Agures, which vre fast renching 7 ft.
The reiny team was opposed to a team from the University of Southern California, which Anished a few inches behind. The previous record was 3.10 7-10 by a British team.
was shown by the wide betting range town but all were up bright and early among the 20 runners, nearly all of looking for tips.
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Rinks Championship game at Craigengower on Sunday, ON VIEW J. S. Landolt watching a wood just sent down by his skip, C. S.
Rosiolet, with R. Basa (behind) and J. H. Xavier (W. Ward's rink) noting its prograss-Ming Yuen.
The recent clothes ralloning appear.
A lato wire from the course sug-ed not to worry the women and few gested Annatom as a sound each-way were seen without stockings. The proposition, though there was suit most notable omission was the familiar money for the shorter priced runners, topper of the menfolk.
Many uniformed people were among Race cards, sold in ald of the fed the visitors, officers and men on leave Cross, brought double the usual price. taking the opportunity to see the race. People continued to pour Into the One party was of Czecho-Slovakian stands even after early arrivals had officers.
seen the King's herve, run only ofth in the opening race.
Desplie wartime conditions and the fact that it was a substitute race, it was generally considered the field was jot good standard and from a breeder's viewpoint the race was worth winning despite the reduced value, the winner | taking £4,473, compared for instance with £10,025 which was Bhựe. Peter's share in 1930.
King's Horse Fails
Hopes of a royal, victory in the opening race were disappointed when the King's Merry Wanderer, starling favourite, failed to reach the first three in the Royston Handleap. The win- ner was Lord Glanelly's The Pellean which won a thrilling, race by a head frog Lord. Portal's Longriggan.
Record Crowd
Despite the difficulties of travel iliere was no transport between The town and course a police Inspector expressed the opinion that the crowd was a record for Newmarket.
Racing enthusiasts amllingly trudg- ed the three miles from the station, many arriving long before racing started to plenie on the Heath where they could watch the services main» talning vigilance with acroplanes zooming above and tanks manotuvṛ- ¡ing on the ground.
Many people slept on the Iteath | | owing to lack of accommodation in the '
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