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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1948.
..SPORTS FEATURES..
2nd DIV. NEEDLE
MATCH TODAY
Navy "B" And Eastern
HONGKONG'S INTERPORT XI
ANALYSED
(BY "SEE TEE")
A week-end of routine league matches precedes next week's big Interport games with Shanghai. Today the Navy Ground at Causeway Bay is the venue of two most interesting league matches. The two top clubs of the Second Division, Navy "B" and Eastern, meet in a needle match which commences at 2.30 p.m.
It is followed by the meeting of the sailors' senior eleven with Sing Tao. The Sing Tao team may include five of Hongkong's team to meet Shanghai on Tuesday.
the Interport match with Shanghai, which is to be played on the Chil ground on Tuesday next, Chinese New Year's Day.
13.
Most nitraefive of tomorrow's Ax- Turts is at Caroline Hill where St Joseph's do battle with South Chinn, The Navy's second eleven battle with their chief mrvais, Eastern's Tam Kwan-lion (Eastern); Im
(5in The) and serund string, who, inculentally are Young-sang the only teams to lower their colours | Gosano (St Joseph's) Cuplain; Lauı this season, in one of the highlights | Ching-sang. (Sing Tao), Forrow
Eastern | (Club) und Chang Kam-hol (Sing! of today's frient football. Lomakk
Ho. Ying-fun, (Slog Tao). away Navy "%" undefeated | Tha); Freed when they beat them 5-3 on Chau Mun-chƐ (1.M.11.), Tang Yee- November 1st. Although Fastern's | kit (R.M.B.), Kiernan (Inniskillings) Junior eleven has been wenkened and Lee Shel-yau (K.MIX), Little by players being promoted to the first team (in what old cornerz blows the winds of transfers!) they are at a very lively combination. The Navy will have to go all the way to venge their previous defeat
Kether as a team,
Berth
LOP-SIDED DEFENCE
The Club de Reercio and Kowloon Cricket Club mixed doubles badminton teams which met recently in a lengue match, the Recreio winning easily. — Ming Yuen.
By "Spectator"
Softball Chatter
International Series As New Year Attraction
The initial games in the International series are to be played on February 10 and 11. Britain, under Stan Leonard, meets United States, re- presented almost entirely by gobs of the U.S. Navy here, at 11 am, on the first day, and next morning Philippines clash with China. The Filipinos are led by Fred Diesta and C. B. Wong is at the he ad of the China squad. This game starts at 11a.m. also, Whether these International games are to be played on the CBA ground or Recreio cricket ground has not been yet decided. India and Portugal drew byes,
Prospects For This Afternoon's Race Meeting
(BY "THE TURF")
The Hongkong Jockey Club will hold its First Extra Race Meeting this afternoon at the Valley, and the first Saddling Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the first race will start at 2 o'clock. :
There are nine events in all; six are for the Subscrip- tion Ponies (non-winners) and the remaining three are confined to old ponies.
Mirs Bay Stakes (First Section) | Fontaine, Happy Event, Harvard and
The race opens with a mile event crole Lassie ure also capable for Australian Subscription pontes wiming.
of 1948, and none of the entries)
of
has turned in any good performan- Mirs Bay Stakes - (Third Section)' ces to date. Possibility (147 16%) came in second on the fourth day of fought out between Ding How and A neck and neck race will be the Annual Race Carnival in a half a mile race, being five length be- hind the first. It has also been fourth in a mile event, and should
have a good chance of winning this race. The other best ponies are: Justice of Peace. Merry Thoughts and Shangrila
Hunghom Bay Handicap
"B" Class!
In this male Handicap of "13" Class old pontes, Kim {150 lus) and Lily (155 lbs) both bring de- moter from the "A" Class are sure
Meteorologist for this mile event. Melcorologist which put up an ex-
cellent performance on the last day of the Annual Meeting and came second to Desert Knight should have How, which has shown quite well in the edge over Ding low. Ding all its outings, should give a good account of itself over this distance. Taiwan Bay Handicap ("D" Class)
There is a good mumber of entries for this mile Handicap for "D"
Belty
to be among the finishing group Class ponies. They are:-Al Fresco Kim with 144 h. (Newman up), at
(149 hs) Argus (145 lbs) the Sixth Extra Race Meeting covered the mile distance in excel-Lo (135 lbs). Blue Peter (151 Rus),
Enstern Diamond (150 lbs) tent time of 1.48.1/5 and in spile teror's Gate (135 s), Flying Wheel. of being top weight may repeat this (150 lbs) Honeybelle (140 lbs), ibs)
bem quite up to form recently but
135
Em-
success. Lily (155 (bs) has not Jackal (148 lbs), Jinx can be expected to give a good ac- Kookaburra (130 lbs) Loln Sapola
(135
lbs) Midnight Express (159 count of itself and should not be
ibs) National ས་་་
Here ignore by punters. Strong Oppo-bud (144 1hs) and Ruby Star (135 ROBCE (130 lbs) sition is sure to come from Hur- ricane (145 lbs) Royal Commissionibu). Blue. Peter (151 165) has it winning; very good opportunity (151 lbs), Speedaway (135 lbs) and it has been placed on several oc- Wodonga (140 lbs).
Casons. This pony at the 12th Ex-
In 1947 was third Ira Meeting in Airfield and Souvenir carrying 159 1bs, whereas
now it has only 151
Cin Drinkers Bay Stakes [First Section)
ot
to
ibs-un advantage of 8 tbs less. Rosebud (144 lbs) which was made
the
Taken Individually, each player is Int the lent, picce in worth a taken as a whole there are two im-
Flying Jib should win this event portent far:atts in this Hongkong
of one mile for it has already put This junior division battle is fof-
teath. The defeurs is Top-sideri and
up quite a good performance, run a hot favourite on the Third day of lowed by maxt interveling #rst | the attack lacks height, weight and
ning second to Beckenham on the the Annual Carnival and ran un- division fixture-The Navy v.
Sing bulle.
last day of the Annual Meeting and placed should do better this time Tao. In recent weeks, the sail
Josin There is no comparing the right
only by length. Strath-en
und can be
to find a placa expected have been able to keep their eleven defensive pole, Ha Yung-gang
nanaran Fluke Shot should fill
position. Al Fresco which was more upchanged than at any time (right full tack) and Lair Chung-
the minor positions. Trade Wind is placed in two of its outing at the sensem, Throughout
not to be limored and a worth five Annual There are ang fright half back), both of Sing
far Meeting will not be no more than a couple of changes Tan and hash of whom have bren
alfars each way.
from
the leaders and might even from the site which did go well
playing together for a lon time:
cause an upsel. Great Britain, holders of the bolster the average attacking power, that is, if there was any Interference Bias Bay Handicap' ("C" Class) against South China a fortnight aro. with the left pair, Gra artsd
Hopekong and Shorthai Hotels The Langue rivalry for the Doe at all. 11 is unfortunate, though, that the
There are only This is the weak Shield, the "surprise packet" of Jast F., Molthen Shield has entered a The General Committer heard the
eight probable Mirs Bay Stakes (Fourth Section) Navy eleven
gets title or no plan and core thught should have year, gets strength from the Leonard most interesting
starters of "C" Class old ponies for stage. Un record, ease of the Madcap Bees' claim for portunity to train and practise Ter
this mile een elves to the left half back brothers and Harold Wintlee at the St Joseph's lead the way with only a walk-over from the Wildcats. The peet the winner to be either Light-strong favourite for the Derby, had
event, and
and punters can ex- Pleasant Valley, A ong-timo heles and should do well enough, loss, followed by Madcaps with latter did not, in fact, turn out wind alak. Jeep Hing or Shanghai Beauty, the misfortune Chang Kam-lusi
brillant but
Inmo being POWERFUL SING TAO
Recording are not
to retain the two defeats. Canalons and Recreio a full team, and strictly who hastle. Inteller,
expected
Of the three. Lightning is the most throughout the Annual Meeting, but Little is
kuown of the com- have a "pennant-peeping" chance to rulen, the Bees are entitled to a
logien bet. This is Aghting At played many pond games fals season:
Ens now being fully recovered, and pony for 975 | bination
the US, but the Both
thrice Between walk-over, have jost
and Coach Sing Too on the other hand should
at the moment and spite of being if it starts in this event should win several of these, however, have been American boys are logically expect these four strongest contenders, the Hollands be able to feld a strong, well trains
accordingly claimed it.
too weight its chances of winning in a canter. King of Peace will ed to be the kind Sing The players showings as a wint hall have shown
to know ed team. Five have been choketa in
stuff and give a Item -
good account of |_ represent
with is lightly treated, and Shanghai of defensive play.
the only ones in the League capable] little. If any, resistance themselves. kon: on Chinese New Year's Day His feet teh to be up with the for-
the Beauty, after winning the Phalion lion with, Amigo and City of
bourne fighting out for the some Handicap at A strong China enters the field, of giving a fight and upset them. Wildeat
camp. There Was
the Annual Meeting minor post. The other entries are | Madeups will yet have to quintet will be in action thir after-' Chaog will have to work strindly to and his peppery
match sort
insistence was not indicated 10. Sing Tho' have sufferent,
come out at only 152 lbs, which gives of Pence, Firemaster, Gentleman teammates in Dr Den orders of his Captain on Tues- 47.
the Saints and the next game that G. Lee, Lake Bunn and Herbie
popular Wildcats, who good reserves to rest nearly all of
Mday. There must be no excursions. them. This is the first meeting of
QUBE at he is it again after an counts in the running is between the championship aspirants, will have to the pony a sporting opportunity of Jim, Golden Eagle, Grey Lady, Jeep Into Tan's territory; he is more than injury
Beauty, Nevertire, Prosperity, and the two clubs this season, Tradic
pay for, not turning out in full force winning. The other starters are:- a finger). Right behind
Consle (135 lbs). There is
Esmeralda (135
Seafire. tions
them
because of a mere drizzle. are that Sing Tao will win, capable of looking after it.
will be the
or C. pick C. D.;
STRONGEST RIVALS no love lost in
(135 lbs), Miami bos), Fat Choy with!
the ball game, you but the Navy, despite crippling a
Wong's South
China boys
know! The Committee's decision
Beauty (135 lbs) and Richard I (159 Juries to three of their best players,
"showboat" Yeung Kar-shing head-
As it is now, in the fighting amongst has not been made yet, but all in- s). managed to hold South China tu m
Popular Fred Diesta these Big Four, the Saints are on top chestion
10 believe that' draw a fortalght age,
#
as a forward, und bis more tecent
m impatient
yet to
Buster
of
meet Madcaps Coach Hollands adhered to his claim Their Saints hives, both of whom are before the Committee and there was
* are very bright. Jeep Hing (140 lbs) minst probably all the second
from
witt
posk→
Mel-
other
but it is not certain that alt of this wards and to be able to ream freely, and by Big Bill Won, Canadian chiclresugth with Canadians, apart from though, appeal for sportsmanship,rrying top weight of 150 the will! Bootsie, Charming Witness, Empress
season.
turn
at
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SHORT MEMORIES
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China Inds.
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Canucks and Recreio.
will be win the
The
Fixtures
lead one
TOMORROW.
arc
Mirs Bay Stakes (Second Section)
and
Recrein football ground-9.30 am, South China. Rovers V. VRC; 11.15 m.). Police v
Recreio Softball lamond-9.30 aan. Baseball Club v. Recreio.
INTERNATIONAL SERIES Tuesday, Feb. 10 King's Park—!! a.m. Britnin
Wednesday, Feb, 11
China.
In this second bunch of new Aus- tralian Subscription ponies, Constant Star, Pacille and Mabuhay are the Constant Star was third to pich. Lovely Lady and Deckenham at the third day of the Annual Meeting over a distance of 1 mile 171 yards, and in a shorter event should win. Kwong Ming is a good outside in- vestment.
Gin Drinkers Bay Stakes (Second Section)
This rare is likely to be a close fair as the runners are more or fers of the same standard. They are:-Amazon, Belic Fontaine, Hap
Lassie v.py Event, Harvard, Heroic
and Priority. Of these half dozen Priority appears to be the best, though the pony is not much of a starter. In three of its outings it was badly left at the post but then ran very well deed--Arnazon,
King's Tark-11 am. Philippines
India and Portugal received byes,
What woul Sewell do between two
calibre of the of Chan Man-chi art Klerman? in the way.
of the Philippines does If you bring fu mine the
swing-1 e
-players to select from but They can well afford to drop one the Madcap claim will hold.. centres for which both mang
**show," should
- turn
it i useful Other first divisions matches today wingmen, 16 and Le, are notabit though not expected to extend the Windcaps are in effect the strongest; the Chinese New Year holdidays are
side me and still be in the
for the week-end are Kwong Wal V. the Club
it becomes more and more perplex- Boundary-street, and RAF
rivals to the Josephians. They are Ing that the Colony's Eastern of Sookunpoo.
fastest and
morg So now that they are strongly The Club | ***
most trustful evntre forward should
strong contenders reinforced by the inclusion of Date beat Kwong Woh 3-2 in their varty | RUSKIN
the and Portugal who receive
Men's "A" Division not even bo numbered among the season league meeting. RAF
While little is seen of former muin- Cramer, noted by a majority at least Feserves, Eastern have not met before this faster in a hundred than any other Sewell is five or six yards
CRA, groundl --9,30 nm. Filipinos stays, India has yet a formidable to be the best pitcher now in netlon
the local diamond. His above v. Canadians; 11.15 am. St Joseph": local centre forward; ho
rray to rely on in Kaha Nazarin, 15 also
the-average Jinino Hussain, A. H. Bakar, Junior all sense, beaty and fast playinn was
speed. plus excellent. VRC. Caroline Hill promises to be the tremendourly quick off the mark,
Markur, A. II. Ismail, Sherry Hamet scene of a rousing match tomorrow can only be assumed that his dour
Recreio at Madcap hands last week. afternoon. The oceation is the rework, in a recently weakened RAE and Sherry Bucks who have not large ensure for the defeat of St forward line, has been mistaken for any of the sting which helped Two bits in three trips by Madcap lengte match between
Julia to two International Series star Sabu Samy pace the way for the Joseph's and South Chlum. South a falling off of form.
victories in pre-war
days.
allack China won the last
which was Yantic,
few of the promising Hoxes of also plaved al Caroline 11, on
the current Junior League commpeli-
On the appeal the Itees have filed October 15. Both the Saints and South China
Bow short are memories! Playing tion may be of help, while the two have very sprightly
concerning their defeat by St Joseph's with a fairly lively H.A.F. forward most promising youngsters in the hinges the team's hopes for champion- forward lines, whleb should make
present Sentor League teams ship honours. It line against the Colony's best pivot Joseph's starry third sacker Benny seen that if they
readily U.S.A. this a fast end to end game.
Sewell scored a hat-trick in twelve
appeal. SOOKUNPOO MATCH
minutes on the Club ground. That Onay and Mastraps are backstop there is the possibility of their de he tant leding Hongtong's attack per Satu Samy should walk into the festing the conquerors in the replay The Sookumpoo meeting of 25th on Tuesday is a mystery to me, and em. Two tried out managers are sunt so come back to the flag-chasing... RA and the Police is auther football as closely and regularly as of
others who follow focal leading the site in K. Nazurin and
The ruling that a protest should A. R. Markar, who have seen fruits be made on the spot was ignored
victories
same capachy in the
the General. Committee in consider- before. Not seen in action this year, 1-1 draw. When Kowloon Motor In the absence of Sewell, the at- Buses and the Inniskilling's last met, tack must look to its inside men to veteran catcher Skelly Razack maying the Ree appeal. Paratiuxically.
passed a ruling to that effect im
So Recreio's mediately afterwards. ["protest" was heard. To give
Indication that the Rees menut he centre forward. It is to Tong Yee-
business, their representative at once kit's advantage that he has, as fel-
PORTUGAL STRONG
told the Committee, "with due respect his club-mates:| low forwards, two
that it was unfit to hear the Chau, at inile right and Lee, on
Portugal, under the able leadership:
protest. He thought the Committest the leftwing. In the KMD team
usual strong had too many interested in the nut- Chinese Athletic and Kitcher, who Chat and Ler are a left wing pair. y Alves, is as
Assured that any one of it are to play at the Club ground tu- Little fault may
be found with the International Series has evaded
these Portuguese boys so far (npart directly involved hud no say, the morrow afternoon, last
14 selection of the remainder of the from an unofficial Series) but they proceedings mel ak
continued. A vole Boundary-street before an almost fongkong team. Tam is as good a will be powerfully challenging for decided that the appeal should be record crowd for a foral mid-week coallieeper as Leck: there
coveted honours. Since the
the! league natch. Kitchee won 5-1 but better full backs, than Hau and retirement" from the rume of the and not "nut to be enter on that occasion (October 16) their Gosanot Forrow's height goes a
true; that a protest should be made on the eleven included three of next week's long way to making him the mon Gosang brothers-the Doctor. Berted at all." Ignorance of the rule
and Lino-the Portugal lads have! spol was noted upon. representative players, Hau Yung suitable centre half; while both Ho been found lacking in batting power. satu. Lai Shuul-wing and Ho Ying-and Lee, the two outside men, are and again they will be missed in this fun. These three stars are now on almost automatic choices. There is Series. Much will depend on the Sing Tao'y playing strength, and to no better local inside forward them hats of Charlie Quinn, Gerry Gosanu, It will be recalled that the question morrow's
match suffers in interest | Kierno (insirle fett); indeed there| Wilfred Lawrence, Leo Vietch 'Con the in connection with the Ree appeal accordingly. Lai Shit-wing scored ere few nearly as good. I would "sick" list for a while) and Billy was a decision on "interference." three of K{che's five goals. rather see Chau Man-chi's sterling Soares. However, only Gerry looks and the claim is for an additional Kitchee will miss him tomorrow, qualities in use as wing half back: like the slugger; the others belug base, as a result of which a run would Here again 18 the eleven that is his pince in any Hongkong useful place batters. If Tony Bayot have been scored, and since St chosen to represent Hongkong!. in leam.
Inda a place, he certainly will Joseph's won by one run, that decision
#match tomorrow, In their iniel. October match the final score was a
to inany
1 do.
the soldiers won a roaring game by work harder than ever and to give return to the India force and Miskin six goals to five. The Inniskillings he utmost support to the
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By Reg. Wootton
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What do the rules say? In effect, they say that he was entitied to the buse he was making and that would be third, not home. However, In another part of the rules, he was eniltled to more than base, where specified. 50. It appears it should be
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