SATURDAY'S LEAGUE CRICKET.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1948.
By "RECORDER"
Stokes Hits Out At KCC Attack For First Century Of Season
L. F. Stokes's terrific hitting for 110 against Kowloon Cricket Club at Chater Road on Saturday featured the afternoon's Cricket League 'matches and included 16 boundaries and two sixes'in just over an hour.
This exhibition of batting, not always polished, that included a stand of 94 with D. II. Leuch for the second wicket and a further stand of 60 in 24 minutes with II. Owen-Hughes for the third, gave the Scorpions, fielding their strongest team in three matches, their first victory of the season.
Though KCC had amassed respectable 141 in first lease of the wicket, the Scorpions' victory camo with a fair margin of time in hand and with only two wickets lost. They went na to drawing.of stumps to amass 104 for four wickets down, the top keure of the League Beason so far.
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With Howarth far off his best and with Clague #tarting as the other opening bowler, the KCC batting
'settle down to was umble opening niinck that did not carry any particular sling and was with fiva wickets down with 30-on; the board.
A stand' by 'Archie Zimmern and another by Franels Zimmern, helped by wagging tail, brought the score to 141 off 35 overs with Howarth bowling unchangod.-
Against Stokes, Leach and Owen- Hughes alone, reven KCC bowlers gave dway 194 runs in 31 overs, an unspectacular performance strong bowling side.
IRC COLLAPSE
fur ta
Respectable bowlers of the cluss nf Frank Howarth, A. P. Pereira, Dr E, L Gesano, H. Owen-Hughes, F R. Zimmern and Robbie Lee well behind.
ARMY.V. NAVY
fre
Though Slepio wasn't in particu- larly devastating form at Sookunpoo, seille the Navy batting could not
town and was all out for 70, after Workman and Habershon has been run out early on, 03 runs short of victory.
With neither Stepto nor Jones in wicket-cuting mood, it was a sur- prisingly poor performance for batting side that had mocked 132 for 9 wickets agalost the timists bowling last week,
ODD FACTS
The only other team with three completed matches nt which "qunck" could have been said with reason less often is the Optimists, who have recorded three.
Scorpions and Cralgengower hold the record with nine aplece.
Howarth and Stepto, as per cus- tom, lend the wicket-takers with 13 apiece. T. P. Mahon of Optimists. who has taken 10, is the only other League bowler to have renched two figures in this department,
Dr A. M. Rodrigues has caught out the most wickets-four in two
games.
HOW THEY STAND
R up Op-
•
Army RAF Recreló
W D L Pts.
3 0 0
12
2 1 0 20
0
Optimists
University
Scorpions KCC IRC
G. N. Gosano of Negrelo leads the batting average so far with 77.00 on the basis of knocks of 55 not vut and 22,
Cratgengower
Royal Navy .... 0
TEAM AVERAGES PER WICKET
H. Owen-Hughes of the Scorpions. twice not out at 20 plus a knock of The afternoon brought yet another 13, has the second best average of surprise as a strong IRC side, play-09.00 L. F. Stokes, with 18 and 110 ing at home, was skittled out for 28 has figures of 64.00. Li Stepto, twice runs by the HKCC Optimista who,nol gut, has dgures of $4.00.
batting averages Other leading with opening still experimenting
nre: G, T. Rowe. Optimists. 47.50; bowlers, picked this time on A
with Dr E. L. Gosano, Recreio, 41.50; N. Perry and A. L. Snaith who,
A/C Recreio Optimists, 39.50; onlyR. Oliver, T. P. Mahon bowling as the change of the afternoon, dismissed Bierne. RAF 37.60; Major Murray-Optimists the Indians for a meagre 20 runs in Brown, Army, 35.66; P M. N. da HAP
Kilbee. Army Silva, Recreio, 35.00; L.. `D. one ball short of 20 overs.
A. Vanar. Scorpions Optimists 33.50; S.
the
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Optimists fried G. T. Rowe, Cree matches, there
promoted last week from No. 7 lo No. 4 and now moved further up. and T. F. Mahon, promoted from No. 10.
Being then in a position to ex-University, 33.00; F. Howarth, Scor-KCC periment as well with opening bats, plans, 31.00; and G. Hong Choy. Craigengower
30.33.
IRC Artes
are Royal Navy only three individual batting aggre- University gates in three figures. L. F. Stokes Jus reached 128 from two innlags;
fram three an A/C, Bilerne 133
107 from Major Murray-Brown
Army three.
There have so far been one con- RAF
Optimista tury and eight half-centuries knock-
Recreio ed up,
though Scorpions
matchUniversity
Rowe hit 12 boundaries against respectable IRC bowling in rugged torin to carry his bat for 50 and Mahon hit up 25 before being clean bowled by Ismall, renetting the boundary five times.
With the rest of the Optimists' fai following, the scoring slowed down and the scoreboard Bnally showed 11 for four wickets at the end of a long afternoon.
- FANCY FIGURES
Craigengower fanted to turn
up
Indian
Batting
Tolal Wkis. Average Runs Lost Per Wkt.
300
17.41
15.8.1
15.G8
207 13 20.53 3&4 18
20.21
505 20
376
385 28
14.10
330
12.07
203 25
10.52
263
20
9.06
102 20
8.10
Bowling
Runs Wkis. Average
Given Taken Per Wkt.
239
30
7.90
45
9.07
150
28
0.25
217 20
10.85
347
11.50
235
13.82
497 total of four ducks Craigengower in three matches, only one in the Royal Navy first two gomes,
380
21
23
486
| KCC
18.38 10.00 20:20 23.00
Recreation Club, out for the lowest League innings of the season on Saturday, IRC has recorded
any surprise package against the FRIENDLY CRICKET
Royal Air Force at Kai Tak and the RAF scored their second victory of the League season by an easy mar- gin of 80 runs.
The Air Force bowlers, still to come up against one of the League's better leams, again put in some fine ani baloneedl bowling, dismissing Cruigengower, a batting side
with
nelther
nor tail, in 00 runs in the course of fust under 20 overs.
RAE bowling analysis figures for the the first three matches are fanciest the Lengue. They show:
Cpl. Hodgson 30.5-5-35-9 for an average of 3.88: A/C. Graham 22-0- .51-9 for an average of 6.00 and
F/O. Gambrill 24-7-6-7 average of 7.28.
for. an
RECREIO TURNS UP SOME
PROMISING JUNIORS
some
In their friendly match against the KCC on Satur day, Recreio second eleven revealed they possess promising youngsters, and the team must be regarded as challengers for the league championship.
D. A. Remedios gave the impression of having re- ceived some careful and valuable coaching and he batted extremely well.
THE BOSS
William & Mary College's star centre, Tommy Thomp- son, is an All-America candidate whose coach has nothing to worry about. He has another coach to see him through his daily training routine, Mrs Thompson, who watches his blocking in this snap with a critical eye.
RUSH TO EARN THE WINTER Corn
851 HORSES ENTERED FOR
CARD OF 12 RACES
By VERNON MORGAN
London, Nov. 7.-Only two weeks remain of Britain's 1948 at racing season, which ends on Saturday, Novem- ber 20, with the Manchester November Handicap, run over one and a half miles.
With flat racers due for an enforced absence of nearly four months, they are being run hard to try and earn for their owners their winter corn. Fields are assum- ing tremendous proportions. For instance, the entries for Wolverhampton's two-day meeting on November 15 and 16 ure 851 horses for the 12 races-an average of over 70 for each race.
Although the form of each runner should be fully exposed, backing. horses at this time of the year is rather foolish as has been proved by the number of "turn ups" these last few weeks.
The battle between buckers and layers to earn their winter's keep usually ends very much in favour of the layers.
There now Beans Httle doubt that the Aga Khan will be the winning
Murless the owner, Noel
winning trainer and Gordon Richards the champion jockey.
Nearco looks like being the win- ning sire, Metteer the winning 0}}- prentice and Miss Dorothy Paget the owner to win the most races,
Noel Murless vins made a wander-
Let off behind the wicket before fumbling and elders falling to get ful start in his first year at Beck- he had scored, Remedios refused to behind the ball. be rumed and settled down to an nuings embroidered with strong defensive strokes and powerful leg
Only T. P. Mahon of the Optimists witli 26.5-10-03-10 for an average of, 0.30, J. C. Koh of University with 13.2-2-47-7 for an average of 0.71 and Army's wicket-devouring Stepto with 31.2-10-48-13 for an
average hits.
of 3.09 have turned in comparable League performances to date.
Best Performances les pegs and turned
In Saturday's League Cricket
LIF. Stokes
BATTING
Scorpions v. KCC),
110
RT. Rowe (Optimista v, IRC) (58° Dgwa (Army.v, Navy)
.....
40
F/O, Marshall (RAF v/ CCC); 39
Ga Hồng, Choy (CCC v. RAY)
DH. Leach-
(Scorpions v. KCC)
F. R. Zimmern
(KCC v. Scorpions)
A/C Beirne (RAF V, CCC)
A. Zimmern
KCC v. Scorpions)
H. Owen-Hughes
Scorpions v. KCC)
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BOWLING
Optrists' vIRC).....
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Squash Rackets
Television Seeks A Corner In Boxing
London, Nov. 7.The time is not far distant' when
all big championship fights in the United States will be fought in a small room with only a few hundred. specta tors present, according to a prominent official of a no- tional television company.
Large television circuits would be $200,000 pursú in return for the the only promoters of big boxing advertising rights and a large tele-
company" Wad bouts in the country, sald the official, vision
ready 10 night Into various who besed his opinion on plans now "pump" the being formulated by leatting tele- theatres.--Rouier. vision chains to "Jump" their ple- tiren of Aghts into theatres, hotels, bars, restaurants and halls that would pay well for the privilege of ex- bibiting the television of fights to their patrons.
THE WEEK-END SCOREBOARD
· FOOTBALL
FIRST DIVISION.
The latest move in this direction was the purchase by the Columbin Broadcasting System of a control- ling interest in "the Tournament of) Champlons"-a boxing promoting body formed some months back Chinese Aa ̧ which now rivals Mike Jacob's g, China "A" Twentieth Century Sporting Club..
HAF
It is understood the Columbia Broadcasting System believe they can
Eastern
Citib
Palice
·
2
3 Navy
1 Army
38. China "R"
* Si Josephis'
◊ KMB
Interest large potional advertisers in **Abandoned six minutes from footing the bill for the actual ex-time when St Josephts' were leading penses of the bouts, including the 1.0. Loxern' purses,
SECOND DIVISION
The company's profits would come from theatres and other halls taking KMB the television service. Some experts Army (HK) prediet profit from such a venture Folice would run into "gigantic", figures South China once coast-to-coast television comes established,
be- club
According Lo опе report, the
2 YCitches 4 POA
i Army (Kla)",
2 Chinese Ath,
2 Solicitors
Royal Navy Dockyard
s TramwayS
8 W. D. Chinese
.3 University
HOW THEY STAND
victory of Freddie Mills Gver that Josephs' world cruiserweight champion, Gus] Lesnevich, in London last July wiped out plans that had been made here for the first ever bout to be fought exclusively for television.
This report added that all ar- Langements bad
for been made Lesnevich to box Joe Walcott In New Jersey before only a specially invited audience of 600 people.
A sponsor is said to have been found who was willing to put up a
BRITISH TENNIS
Cambridge Blue Ranked Higher
First Division
G
P W D L F A Pt. Chinese AA
1. 27 14 11 S. China A 5 0 0 18 G 10 si Joseph's ... 4 1 1 18 9 D Army
74 12.10.109
1 15 8 63-21
Eastern
KM Bus Chub
Kitchee S, China Police Navy
RAF
8 4 0 2 17 10
3 0
? 1
Kwong Wah 0 0.
Second Division
8
10
P W D L F A Pts. Chinese AA 10 0 1 65 8-18 South China 10 P 0 1 34 0 18
1 0.41 KM Bus Richsee Navy London, Nov.
(K'n) 6 7. Unlike Army
Army (HK) most other lawn tennis nations,
St Joseph's Britain does not issue official Teamways rankings lists at the end of WD Chinese ench season, but those compiled Police by Captain A. K. Trower, the Talkoo famous Wimbledon` ́champion- | Dockyard
PCA
Club
huve taken in attending und en- trance money paid.
NEW SYSTEM LIKELY
However, a system of overnight declaration of runners is thought
to be made in the near ships' referee have become ne- lilcely future. Hitherto, a trainer could cepted AS a yardstick for University declare a rummer 45 minutes before measuring the merit of each an event,
Solicitors
In his list for 1948, published in Navy
The suggested rule, which player.
would operates in Eire and India, necessitate a trainer declaring # horse the night before racing. He the current issue of "Lawn Tennis Khalsa
Trower Army would be granted the right to with- and Badminton," Ceplain draw a horse the next day by ask- gives well deserved recognition Ing special permission of the Ste-the Cambridge Blue, Tim Lewis. wards but would not be allowed to
Lewis did not figure in Captain
run
to Dockyard
YMCA University
a candidate undeclared the Trower's list for the Arst 10 last previous night
Controversy has been raging over
year, but as a result of several fine
a 1 Ð 2 8 2
HOCKEY
HOW
this point for years. but the rules tournament performances he won
Is now Recreio hampton in succession to Fred
have not been changed chiefly six during a season-h
in Khalsa. Darling, and he is likely to be with
because owners who keep racing Britain's sixth-ranking player in a measurable distance of Darling's going have objected strongly to their Trower's estimation and is placed Army
It is above such players as the former Civil Service best effort, which was to win stakes
rights being interfered with. to the value of over £60,000 in 1931. now believed that they may give Royal Air Force champion, Howard Navy
Wallon, and the Davis Cup trialists, University To date, Murless has won over way to popular clamour.
Royal Carter and Hedley Baxter. Dutch HC
RAF He has been lucky to have $85.000.
A talked-of point in turf circles at two such brilliant juvenile colts in
Lewis is now down from Cam- Police present is how far. judges should the undefeated Albernant
of both
make use of cameras at their disposal bridge and if he gets sufficient hard Dockyard which
YMCA match play he will do Royal Forest. Lieutenant Colonel MacDonald in placing horses at the finish of o restore some of Britain's lost pres Cable & Wire-
race, 10 Buchanan has the good fortune
less own.
23123
This arose out of a judge's decision -call for #photograph before announcing the winner of the Midland Cambridgeshire at Birming ham this week, when It seemed to be clear to all that Wisley had won comfortably.
Anything overpitched or short of
The following are the results to a length he hit with strength and
date of the first round of the sureness, and it required one Bond's better
fighted deliveries Squash Rackets open championship: Licut G, Weston, R.N. beat Lt. which pitched on the middle and
Group Comdr Hair, RN;
Capt a fraction lo
Jefferson beat F/Lt Compton; Leut talented dismiss a confident and
(S) LI R. Mirelioase, RN beat young batsman
Recreio's handsome score of 101 Tower, RN: E. F. Gower beat A. S. was mainly attained through Re-Erson; A. E. G. Halg beat F/Lt W.
RECORD FOR MISS PAGET medios (68) and A. E. R. Alves Bastin; E. Boycott beat Capt M. L
Miss Dorothy Paget has already (47). Both collared the KCC at- Stevens; E. B. Oliver beat 2/Lt
broken one record, this season by Carr, the
breeding horses to win 50 races in Lack after Luke (bowling for first time this season) had
one season. The previous record two wickets in the opening over
stood to the credit of the Aga Khan, for no runs.
who was responsible for breeding 51 Appearances were that Luke, who
(S) winners to 1037.
ay Paget has won 57 races Miss was getting a lot of pace from the wicket, would go through the home J, H. Glover; Gp/Capt Jefferson v. an owner and is not far short of
Glover Col Hazelton v.
record of Lord site, but after the second over he
Capt R. M. the 50-year-old Maj. Murray Brown; lost his direction and was accord- Carr v. Inst. Comdr. E. F. Byng: Williere Beresford, who won 69 in Ingly hit.
bee: bent that figure, Alves, while not quite so polished Lt McClement, RN v. W. H. Lydoll: 1899, although she is unlikely to Major Bokenhamn V. L. D. Kilbee;
sentar as his younger partner, batted, with Lt Mirehouse, RN. v. Squ
Lar
Although- among the refreshing, freedom, even forcing
N. P. Downte v. Capt Jockeys Gordon Richards is ut
will be a great away good length deliveries.
I W. his own, there A. E. G. Halg. v. Wilson E. Boycott v. T. A. Pearce: E. B. Oliver v. Lt-Col Vickers..
In the second round, starting on November 8 the following pinyers will mcef:~~~ Li Weston Harrison RN;
RN V.
Comdr
The photo indeed showed that he had won by a length. There are should those who think Judges make more use of the camera and dispense with naked eye decisions except in cases where more than a length separates the horses,
They cite the case of some grey- hound racing tracks where automa- tically, the camera is called for it less than half a length separates the
Seymour bowled steadily for the man; E. F. Gower Vingbattle among the youngsters to take, dogs. On the other hond, It might
KCC and was more dangerous from
28 the northern and from where he managed to gain some whip from the turf,
I. DISAPPOINTING
The KCC batting on a plumb 4-10 wicket was disappointing Tric-
CFO White (Navy, v. Army), 4—24 Banton (Army V."Navy)
250
Comdr Fariton: F. E. Hutson v. J. the apprentice's champ up the unduly costly when it is clear which
į be sold to be a waste of time and Dennis Buckle, who
Benson, has a slender lead horse has triumphed. list last s but "Manny Mercer, who is riding
· POSITIVE PROOF In rare form just how, may well prevail in 'n tight. Inish
Regarding this huestion of photo- Jimmy Walker, and. Frank Barlow graphs, it was interesting at New-
CAL/Hddgson (RAP v. CCC 424 correctly he was beaten by a man play and Gray, showed con-
the accurate boons Poppy Fund Match each have a sporting chance of being market recently when four horses fidence, b but. 32
Guterres which splendid ball from -51 | bruke sharply from, the off, potet
As in other matches this season, 1-57
too many KCC batsmen showed the tendency to deat with the 65 same
bowling nervously, thereby flatter- ing it.
Y. RAP)
TCrabtree (CCO V. NAF)
Howarth
Scorpions y “KCC), ALE Perry
(IRC)
310
Coming Events In The Sports World
The Combined Services meet the Rest of the Colony In a grand Chailly match in aid of the Poppy Day fund at Sookunpoo at 3.45 p.m. today,
ilge on the court.-Reuler.
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1 Civil Service
Dutch HC 1 Police
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SUNDAY HOCKEY
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ger, AMI Easton.
Judge has gone against them. -
Soong Ling-sing (SCAA) and A, Santos But there are definitely, two sides Only recently, one leading jockey (St Joseph's); Ho Ying-tun BCAA), to this question and punters should thought, he had won by half a length Chow Man-chi (Bus), Fung King-cheong ISCAA) Capt, lerna (Club and Les not necessarily assume that a trainer when the judge had given a short and head verdlet ägainst film. On this is trying to pull off a coup and occasion: no camera was installed Tal-fal (Bur),
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