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FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1933.

THE CHINA MAIL.

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BRADBURY LEADS SKIPS IN PREMIER LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE

R. LAPSLEY

(Kowloon Docks).

Bowls Personalities No. 7,

HINTS FOR THE BOWLS NOVICE:

When

THE

To Use The Trailer And The Drive

ACCURACY BEFORE

SPEED

By H. P. WEBBER

THE skittle, or drive, while a altogether, or it may be carried most useful shot. should only too far, allowing the opponents to be employed in wise moderation. score, or again it may be "flicked" The beginner is apt to exaggerate to right or left. leaving an unfor tunate "lip" among the opposing

R. Lapsley

Founds K.C.C.

And K.B.G.C. its importance.

Promoter Of Esplain Cup Series.

FOUR TIMES INTERPORTER AND OPEN CHAMPION ONCE

(By Referee.)

Those who play this shot with woods. jout due restraint are sure to be! My diagram shows a typical

put off their length for the delicate trailing shot. -Whites" are lying;

two shots, and the

chances are against "Blacks” saving with A -drawing shot.

draw. and

since the

skittle

shot is, as

2 rule, a

destructive

rather

thana

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€

Selected to represent Hong Kong con struc against Shanghai on four occasions.t winner of the Colony Champion Policy,

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ship once, and one of the original game a Wood Tilted Outwards. founders of both the Kowloon will be Bowling Green Club and the Kow loon Cricket Club. R. Lapsley has been playing bowls since 1900.

Possessed by the desire to emulate others in what appeared to be a simple game Lapsley has

į. “Blacka" are splendidly placed, Band a clean trail will give them four or five shots and a position which only a rather fucky shot on the part of "Whites" would dis- ,turb.

Herein lies the great advant- age of a successful trailer-the jack is carried to a position of security at the back of the head.

A Typical Trailing Shot.

Meeting Of

League Leaders To-morrow

HOLLAND AND NISH DISPLACED

PHILLIPS FOURTH

CHAMPIONS

MAY RUN THREE

LEAGUE TEAMS Hampton Playing Again To-morrow.

ECCLESHALL'S MISSED CHANCES

➜ W. BRADBURY, holder of the Colony record of 134 shots up in a season (14 games) and leading skip for two years in his long career in local bowls, now heads the premier league skips re- U, covered from a brief illness,

(By SHORT HEAD.J

OMAR, who has just re-

cords with eight wins in eleven games, Adam is indefatiguable in his efforts to Holland and H. Nish, the Bowling Green players, the champions. His latest move is encourage bowls in the home of are second and third in the list..

The following are the full skip's records date:

FIRST DIVISION.

B. W. Bradbury (CCC) A Holland (KB.G.C.)

H. Nish (K.B.G.C.)

R. P. Phillips (C.S.C.C.) G. C. Moss (Police)

R. F. Luz (Recreio)

R. Lapsley (K.D.R.C.)

Should a wood-trail the jack in Craigengower & Bowling U. M. Omar (C.C.C.)

lost than won by such tactics.

Make the "draw" the founda-tion is, of course, unbeatable. tion stone of your game, and drive only when there is no other alternative.

to the ditch and sit on it, the posi

Do not attempt driving until you had a career which many of the have thoroughly mastered all the leading players of to-day will fall other shots.

to emulate.

The fastest shot is not always the most successful;

Не

four accuracy must never be sacrificed of was are

the

for the sake of speed. ders of the Bowling Green;" Club (the only living member! among the others is David Gow). and it was one of the most mémor- ! able days in his celebrated career when Sir Matthew Nathan, then

A firm shot, played with a foot of green and welt under control. will often prove more effective than a real "whizzer."

Seldom will the "port" be 40 Governor of Hong Kong, opened one" is essential

narrow that the really "straight

Whyte Gives Taikoo Win

Dramatic Finish In Game Against Recreio.

LUZ AGAIN BRILLIANT

(By SHORT HEAD)

Green Should Win,

KOWLOON DOCKS FAVOURED

TO BEAT TAIKOO

(By SHORT HEAD.)

W. Mair (Police)

R. Wallace (TDRC)

L. Guy (EBG.C.)

to introduce a novices rink com-

to petition at Craigengower, and he

bas succeeded in securing five en- tries. The contest, which will give the beginners an opportunity to secure a finer knowledge of rink play and which should greatly im prove promising skipa, is to be run on the American tournament sys- Atem.

The following are the five rinks: D. K. Kharas, E. Cordeiro, W. K. Way, and E. McNay (skip).

W. Phelphs, E. Bagley, Van der Lely and A. Marchent (skin).

E. Reading, S. Ismail, J. R. Soares and J. Dominy (akip).

E. Turner, B. A. Trotter, J. Driscell

and Dr V. N. Atfeiss (skip).

ASKED whether there was a pos-

Complete Skips' Records To Date.

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J. Denkin (C&C.C.) R. Basa (CCC)

Craigengower will meet the w. E. Hollanda (Police), Civil Service for the first time A. Hyde Lay (KCC.) this season to-morrow, and all. Fraser (K.CC.)

indications point to a win for the J. C. Chalmers (T.D.R.C.)

champions on their own green.

A. E. Silkstone (K.C.C.) The visitors have made two, Drummond (T.D.R.C.). changes in the team which beat F. X. M. Silva (Recreio) the Police last Saturday, S. 1. C. Brown (K.D.R.C.) Eccleshall and R. R. Wood, twa W. Headley (K.D.R.C.) junior skips, being brought into

C. G. Sliva (Recreio) T. Young (T.D.R.C.)

the new Kowloon Club in 1905, the year following the opening of the is better to "make the end" by a

When you possess back shots it}

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T Taikos the home team won a J. W. Deakin's rink at Nos. 1 and F. V. Ribeiro (Recreio) Kowloon Cricket Club, another of Arm wood than to "break" it by a Recreio by the narrow margin of 2 will skip in the junior team, and

very close game against the 2 in place of H. E. Strange, who H. Overy (KCC.) his many achievements in the in-skittle.

shots. The result was in doubt S. E. Alderman. terests of sport in the Colony.

In any case, never drive unless until the last wood had been sent! All eyes will be on the Bowling F. J. Jones (C.S.C.C.) Lapsley played for the Bowling you are well placed behind the down, and the Recreio almost won Green, who are at present mak/ W. Weir (T.D.R.C.) Green, except in 1919 when he jack, and bear in mind the possi-as the result of a splendid effort, ing a bold bid for the premler W. Macfarlane (K.B.G.C.) played for the K.C.C., til 1922 bilities when the Kowloon Docks entered a team in the League. "In 1924 the League was reconstructed and the Docks were placed in the Second Division. In that year they won the junior title and Lapsley was again

in the senior league.

деся

Three years later the Row- Joon Docks won the premier league, establishing

an un.

precedented record of going

through

defeat.

test.

1 Beason

without

in

of removing 4 lonely second shot of your own to leave your opponents with a big count.

On the last head Taikoo were leading by 9 shots, but a four by R. F. Luz, and another by F. V. Ribeiro placed a very different aspect on the game. "Wally" Wotherspoon, bow- ever, managed to record a one on the last head against C. E Marques to make certain the game.

Drive, if you can choose, on the backhand, as unless you are very experienced, you will risk "pulling" the wood narrow on The forehand. Many players make slight variation in their usual grip for ja driving shat. Some place their

thumb on top of the wood, others. C. Chalmers, winning by will filt the wood slightly out-shots. wards so that the running surface

A

of

R. F. Luz was much too good for

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The Recreio skip was in

championship they last won in 1922. To-morrow they entertain| the Police and should win to maintain their position at the head of the table. Meeting ear- lier in the season, with both

SECOND DIVISION. Complete Skips' Records To Date.

teams claiming 100 per cent, rew. V. Field (C,C.C.) cords, the Bowling Green won hy w. s. Drake (KBG.C.) 39 shots at the Valley,

The Police have made but one change in their team. J. Shep- heard displacing L. Jones at No. 3 in W. Mair's rink.

The meeting of the Docks

F. Rapley (K.B.G.C.) R. R. Wood (CS.C.C.)

W. H. B. Muskett (E.K.E.R.C.) A. Razack (CC.C.)

A. W. E. Davidson (K.B.G.C.) S. Eccleshall, (C.S.£.C.)

of the wood lies across the hand great forms and his shots, when the teams will cause considerable in- R. Marks (Police)

Kowloon

sibility of Craigengower run- ning three teams in the League next year, Omar smiled and said that there might be, a chance, but from what I could gather from the twinkle in his eye it seemed as it this was more than likely.

Three former winners of the Spey Royal Cup are the survivors of the 1933 contest.

On Wednesday the Club de

44 Becrelo, the holders, and the Kowloon Docks, winners in 1930,

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with meet on the K.C.C. green at

(4.40 p.m. to decide who will meet Crafgengower, holders in 1926 and 1931, in the Final Round.

The Recreio have selected their team as follows: E. L. Barros, F. X. M. da Silva, C. G. Silva, and R. F. Luz (skip).

It should be a very even game with the odds slightly favouring the Docks team who will pro- bably field J. V. Ramsey, W. A. Greig, R. Lapsley and F. Cullen

(skip).

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L de Rome (HKERC)

Lapsley again - #gured

road to the jack was well blocked, terest, though the result will have A. H. Basto (Recreio) (see photos); others again com- triumphant combination when he bine both methods,

were perfect.

On the 16th end little bearing on the champion- skipped the Docks riak to victory Personally, I prefer to use my

Taikoo took a point, D. Peoples ship. in the 1930 Spey Royal Cup

(Continued on Page 11. con-customary grip, giving very little sending down a nice shot and {drawing dend to the jack. Luz, who land and trusting to speed to keep was playing on top of bis form. This year he is No. 3 in the the bias down.

The following is the forecasted Docks team to meet the Recreio in}

had an easy drive, but he was very gramme for to-morrow:- One of the most valuable shots the Semi-Final.

occasions in bowls, if successfully accom- wide--one of the few plished, is the trailer. It is a when the Recreio skip failed to at-

First Division,

Talkoo very difficult shot, yet it is altain his objective. The 17th end

Docks (62) ▼ ways worth while risiding when saw the jack surrounded with Tai-Craigengower (62) v Civil Service (84) H. F. Rosario (Recreio) the position is at all favourable. koo lying, threa, but two splendid Bowling Green (65) Police (67) A. M. Wahab (LRC.) ly enough he has never been on the

The weight must be judged to a shots by Luz came to rest within Kowloon C.C (51) v Reccelo (69) J. M. Jack (K.C.C.)

Second Division. winning side. In 1920 he skipped fraction, so that the fack will be an inch of the fuck to reverse the Recreio

(67) v Electric

Sir Thomas. Southorn (R.H.K.Y.C.) - (58) the Colony four (P. T. Farrell, A. carried unerringly to the desired situation. Chalmers did not have Police

Kowloon CC.-C. Lopes (Recreio) G. Pile and J. Muirhead), but lesta ituation.

H. Westlake (CS.CC) Green (80) M. Currie (H.KERC) Cower (89) A. Chapman (R.H.K.Y.C.)

J. P. Robinson (K.C.C.) LEAGUE TABLES TO DATE

K. M. Omar (LRC)..

Lapsley has visited Shanghai with a Colony side on three occa- sion, and has played in an Inter- port once in Hong Kong. Curious-

by 19-18; in 1922 he played No. 2 The land

in R. Wallace's rink and lost 24-8; required

in 1926 he was No. 3 in will be a Wally "Wotherspoon's four and s ha da was beaten 19-17; and in 1931 befesa then played No. 3 in A. E. Silkstone's that for a Tink end was on the losing side by dead draw. 25-14.

If: how-

In 1927 Lapsley won the Open by beating J. C. Brown, / a Club-mate, in the Final. This was the third year in succes- sion that a Kowloon Docks player had won the title, F

Calleh and A. Gourlay being

e var. weight and land Are not

exact, the Jack may

be missed Thumb on Top of Wood

a good day at all, though his own¦ Civil Service (18) v Bowling efforts were at times brilliant Yacht Club (57) v_Craigeni On the 18th, when badly placed, the Taikoo skip placed two woods almost dead to the lack to snatch

a two.

Wotherspoon's rink had another good win, beating Marques' four by 19 shots..

Marques only scored on

First Division.

Slota

Blinta

F. W. L. F. A. Up D. Pu. | Dowling Green (6) 11.8 4 70 127 81-0 14 | Cesiperigowse -(1) -13 1,4,646 500 66. 8-14 six Civil Service (8) 11 2.4 ME DO

| Police R.C, (T) 75 70 700 18

of the 21 ends, and the Bec- Rowinon Deka (5) 11686 075 relo skip was forced time and time Club de Recreio (2)...11 5: 3.076 WAS

Hosinon CC. (4) 41 4 2 2 again to send down his last wood Taikoo Docks, (C) 394, 8 in a futile endeavour to scatter the

Second Division.

Craigower (1) & 2 BUS

Talkoo woods. This shot, however, Bowling Orio (6)1.30 DCS 143

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E. M. Remedios" (Recreio):

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8. Deacon (H.KERC)

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HL Alves (Recreio),

A. V. Barros (Recreio)

A. O. Brawn (C.S.C.C)

H. V. Pearse (GCC)... E. Kern (KCC).

J. J. Basto (Becreto) J. F. Lundy (HLEEC) J. Bentley (R.H.KY.C.) 204B. A. Hyder (LRC.).

Yok Club C BONTBALO Indian 3.0, (→) 12. 2 13 · 008 305

Figuren in Kinckata denote posliini hald, by {tka "respassive, olishi at, the conclusion of fast nesson, Thy Policy and todiam E.-C. an. Daw• versary to the juster diržaian in the almenDE, DË the Talsos mccond", wring

the first two..

did not prove very successful, civil service (8) mail1 3 5 30 50 105

Glub de Beercio (4) 2013 (6.8 THE 451878 11 In addition to winning this title. In that year he played for Rama- On the 13th end. Talkoo were ly: Tolles BG-11 10 20 31 Lapsley has won the K. C. C. Cham-gate in the Kent League, besides ing three, but Marques managed to IL Elo-18 £150. 25:10 plenship, the Bowling Green title winning the Berry Challenge Cup crash among them to reduce the Kolors G on three occasions, and been cham-and being renner-up in the lay pion of Kowloon Docks for two Ramsgate Open Championship... years.

Lapsley has been a very versatile While on leave in 1929. Lapsley all-rounder in his day. In 1893 he promoted the annual match for the played right back for the Kowloon Esplain Cup and in the first match Football Club. In 1899 he was| to be played in this series he almost selected to represent Hong Kong at skipped W. W. Hirst, J. M. Jack and rife shooting, thus commencing an C. Tacchi to victory over a much unparalleled record of nine succes superior rink.

sive Interports.

The last head maánt victory for, either team, and T. Stair- ton started well by trailing the Jack A. S. Gomes made-a- great, shot for Recreto, but J, Whyte pushed his wood out for Taikoo to take a much need- ed one

(Continued on Page 11).

L de Rome (RAKY.C.)

CF. Alexander (Police). JW. C. Bonnar (R.H.K.Y.C.) B. Basto (Recreio) |_L_Jadi (CSCC). WWW.Hirst (K.C.C.)'

Results of Club Tournament Matches will be found on.