INTERPORT HOCKEY TEAM AT PRACTICE
Meet Portuguese XI
To-day
(By STICKS")
Weather permitting, the 15 players selected to make the trip to Macau for the Interport Hockey match will be seen in a practice match this afternoon on probably the Club ground, although a change may be made in the venue.
I understand that U. B. Souza. a selected member of the Interport team will play in opposition to the Colony side in order that he will receive the utmost practise.“
The Colony forwards, about whom, doubts have been express- ed, will be thoroughly tried out against an excellent defence con- sisting of Souza, in goal, R. Xavier and A. M. Rodrigues, at back, and R. Marques, M. H. Hassan and T. Alves, in the intermediate-line.
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WELSH HOCKEY TRIAL
AT SHAMSHUIPO
Final Appeal To
All Players
We are asked to state by Capt. LL Gwydyr-Jones, (RWF) the Welsh representative, that there. will be a hockey trial to select the Welsh team for the coming local International Tournament, at Shamshuipo, next Sunday morning, commencing at 10.30 am. Will all Welsh players who are eligible to : play be good enough to turn up.
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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 4 1937,
MYTHICAL
'ASHES WON AND LOST
WINNING OF TOSS DOES COUNT
TIME-LIMIT MUST BE ENFORCED
(By “ÅDREM”)
The mythical "Ashes" have been won and lost England, After raising the hopes of her Lt. N. L. H. Stileman (Navy). supporters by convincingly win- (Full-back) ning the first two matches, must Spr. Brown (RE) (Wing-half) return home without accom- WA. Reed (Club) (Half-back)
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NO TENNIS YESTERDAY
Owing to bad weather no matches were pla Open Tennis Championshi Hong Kong G..G...
Weather permitting, the gramme will be resumed this afternoon when several interesting ties are down for decision.
GALAXY OF TENNIS STARS ON VIEW TO-DAY
Two Interesting Doubles Ties
FINCHER v. HUNG FEATURED
J. Gonsalves (Recreio) (Half-back)plishing what they had intended. M. H. Hassan (Radio) (Wing-half) Every credit must go to Aus- S. Fowler (Club) (Right-winger) tralia, and Bradman, the captain, Lt. S. W. Wright (Navy) (Forward) in particular, for refusing to be
(By "ADREM”) Pyara Singh (KITC.) (Forward)
tennis A perfect galaxy of dismayed by the magnitude of Nerain Singh (Kumaon R.)
at one time con- "stars" will be seen in action at the (Inside-left) the task that Partab (Kumaon R) (Left-winger) fronted them, and finally achiev-H.K.C.C., this afternoon, among G. H. Fowler (CBA) (Inside-left)ing a feat that has never been them being Tsui Wai-pui, §. A. J. Wall (Police) (Left-winger). :^||
If they can make any impres-
A. M. Xavier's XI:U. Bous; R. equalled in the history of the and H. D. Rumjahn, G. Bodiker, J. sion on that line-up, the most pes-Xavier, and Dr. A. M. Rodrigues; R Series, namely, winning the rub-W: Leonard, E. C. Fincher and W.
C. Hung. simistic of Hong Kong's suppor Marques, M. H. Hassan and T. Alves; ber after losing the first two ters, will have no cause for fur- D. Noronha, J. M. Pinto, B. Gosano, matches. ther worry concerning their abil-A N. Other and A. N. Other.
ity.
As I stated in these columns yes- ARMY CHAMPION FOR terday, as far as I can see, the pro-
THE COLONY ́
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The finest singles encounter to date should be the tie-between W. The chief feature of an alto-C. Hung and his doubles partner, gether remarkable series, has Teddy Fincher. The former has been the victory that invariably not made quite such a reputation followed the winning of the toss. for himself as a single player as bable team to meet Macau will be Arriving in the Colony-in-Aprit I have heard it argued that this Fincher, but has quite a good re- U. B. Souza: AEP. Guest and Es L/Cpl. W. A. Land, of the Royal was by no means the deciding cord behind him. Unless Fincher L. Gosano, Spr. Brown, W. A. Reed and J. Gonsalves; S. A. Fowler, Lt. Engineers, who holds the British factor in the first two games as strikes one of his unaccountably Army records for Throwing the the weather merely happened to bad days, he should win, although Wright, Pyara Singh, Neraîn Singh
Discus, and the High Jump. He favour the team batting first. the issue will probably take three and Partab.
threw the Discus 138 feet Th This may, or may not have been sets to decide.
follows:-
U. B. Souza (Argonautas)
The 15 selected players are as inches in 1935, and in the High the case, but my contention is that G. Bodiker, the Canton "star" Jump, cleared 6 feet 24 inches in in a match with no time limit, the will be opposed to Frank Kwok, a. (Goalkeeper) 11932, whilst still an Enlisted Boy.disadvantage of having to make very determined left-hander, from use of a fourth innings wicket in the CRC. The Chinese player can a match that has probably lasted be expected to give a good account the best part of a week, is so great of himself, but I expect the force- that the odds are greatly against ful and accurate ground-strokes of a win being registered under these his opponent to be too much for conditions.
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DOUBLES MATCHES
In the last game, for instance, Two strongly-fancied combina- assuming the thunder storm had tions for the doubles title will arrived a little earlier than it did make their bow. Tsui Wai-pui, and caught the Australians in the who holds the title with his young- middle of their innings, was it er brother, has teamed up with likely that the wicket would have Paul Kong, ex-Davis Cup player,. improved to "such an extent that
and will meet lu Tak-lam and Luk England could have forced a win? Chun-cheong, whom they should
They collapsed very badly, as it have little difficulty in beating happened, in the third innings of the match and it was quite certain that they would have fared even worse if the Australians had used that wicket for their second in nings.
The net result of my arguments is the fact that Tests without a time-limit, are no longer "tests" but mere farces.
After all, cricketers have always held that the greatest fascination of the game is its glorious uncer- tainty, if the winning of the toss is going to play such a vital part in future games, obviously this un- certainty no longer exists and the chief charm of the game is lost.
their title last year after holding it The Bumjahn cousins, who lost
for over a decade, should have quite a good game against J. W. Leonard and G. Choa. Leonard is a good singles player, but is not forceful enough in his stroking for the speedier doubles game, while his partner, a comparative - net comer to tennis, while being stylish, is rather inexperienced.
TO-DAY
Open Singles G. Bodiker 7. F. E Kwok; Fincher v. W. C. Hung
- Open Doublés W.N. Chung and M C Hung T F. R. Zimmern and D. J. N. Anderson, W. M. Barton and A. C. L. Bowker v... Y. C. Lau and H. N. Lee; S. A. and HD. Rumjahn v. J.-W. Leonard and G. Choa; In Tak-lam and Luk Chun- cheung Tsui Wai-pin and Paul Kong Club Championship B. 0. M. Deane v. F. A Redmond. Club Handicap Singles
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I am very much afraid that un- less the Australian authorities re- vise their rules a great deal, the pubic is going to become thorough- ly tired of the long-d out af fairs that the present have devolved int
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