1937-03-10 — Page 18

TO-NIGHT'S BADMINTON MATCHES

SINGLES TITLE AT STAKE

P. K. HUI SHOULD REACH FINAL

(By "ADREM”)

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 10, 1937.

ENGLAND ELIMINATE IRELAND

SCOTLAND

BRILLIANT DISPLAY BY HOWLETT IN GOAL INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY CLASH

(By “STICKS”)

HOLD WALES IN DRAWN GAME

Local International

Encou

Worse conditions than those un- der which the Wales Ireland In- ternational hockey tie was played could not be imagined. Held on the H.KSRA. ground, at Chatham Road, and next to the sea, a cold driving wind swept a steady driz- zle across the pitch and made the

tenable.

DOM

OMINATING the exchanges throughout the position for spectators quite un- This evening at King's Col- lege, all Quarter-Final matches

encounter, England yesterday eliminated Despite the miserable condi- in the Open Singles Badminton Scotland from the local International Hockey tions, the play was quite good and Championship of the Colony, held under the auspices of the Hong Tournament by two goals scored in the second the keenness on both sides made up for the handicap of the slip- Kong Badminton Association, half of the game by Lt. Wright and S. A. Fowler. pery ground. The Irish team did should be witnessed and badmin- Miserable conditions were a feature of the game.

will be played. Some fine games

ton enthusiasts will have one of their first opportunities of seeing the pick of local singles perts in action.

Rain fell throughout while gusts of wind blowing diagonally ex-across the field of play, made conditions most uncomfortable for the 22 players. The one redeeming feature of the game, however, was the few falls in spite of the slippery surface.

very well to hold the highly-fan- cied Welch team to a goalless draw.

Outstanding for the Irish team were Capt. Ryland Lt. L. C. Harris

and Rfm. Nolan, in the forward- line, and Lt. Wilson at right-back Wales were best served by Fus. Wheeler and Sig. Cox.

Ireland: Cpl. Boyd (RUR:); Lt. (R.U.R.) and "L/Cpl. Ray wilson

R.); Bugl Stevens (RUR), Rím Nolan (RUR), Capt. Ryland (RU.

The most even tie appears to be that between P. H. Wong and K. S. Liew. The former is con- The standard of hockey was fairly good and Scotland did sidered by many to be the finest exceptionally well to hold the powerful England team to no-score all-round player in the Colony, up to the interval, although the latter should have netted on several and is one of the favourites for occasions. Garthwaite and Wright were outstanding in the Eng-(RE); L/Cpl Moore (BUR), R the title. His opponent, how-land attack, while S. Fowler came into the picture late in the game. Boston (RUR), Sgt. Hayden (RU. ever, is not to be taken lightly, and should give a good account of himself, although it very un- likely that he will be able to win. C. E. Chng, who together with P. H. Wong, form a very power- ful doubles combination is down to meet P. K. Hui and can hardly be conceded much chance of beating such a fast and powerful performer.

Hui is almost certain to meet Wong TSUI WAI-PUI

in the semi-Final Round.

FORTUNATE

INVITED TO

A. L. Fisher was rather favour- PLAY FOR CHINA

:

last

May Accept Davis

Cup Honour -

G. H. Fowler, at inside-right, and Pennell, on the left-wing, were the weak links in the Eng- land attack, the former holding on to the ball too long, while the later displayed the same fault.

R., Lt. I. C. Harris (R.U.B.) and Wall (Police).

Wales:-Fus. Reid; L/Corpl. Palmer and Fus. Wheeler; Fus. Jones, Corpl. Sharpe, Fos. Tucker; Sergt. Dandy (RWF), Sign Cox (R.CS.), Fus. Vaughan, Captain Gwyder-Jones, and The England intermediate-line Fus. Roberts (P.W.F.). Reserves: were splendid and were mainly res- Sergt. Morgan (E.C.S.) and Fas. Con- ponsible for initiating the majority nor (BWF). ·

of England's attacking movements.

Lt. Davies, out of a sick-bed, gave a VARSITY LADIES

fine display at centre-half, and was

well supported on the flanks by IN HOCKEY GAME Brown and Parker, the latter reach-

ing great heights during the latter WITH C. B. SCHOOL

Keen Encounter

stages, when he completely bottled up the Scots' right-wing.

Guest played a rousing game at right-back ably, supported by It. Stileman, while Benwell, in goal, was rarely called upon to save his charge.

BRILLIANT CUSTODIAN

Last Monday

ed in the draw and is a trifie for- tumate to have reached the eight. He is hard-working and covers the court well, but has had very little experience of singles. Lee should win as he likes.

An interesting hockey encounter Oliveira, until the current season,

took place last Monday evening. singles was considered the finest

I was informed this morning by

when the University Ladies' Hoc player in the Colony. He has met Mr. Lee Wai-tong, the well known

key Club, a newly organised com- bination, entertained the Central with several unexpected reverses in Chinese football and tennis player, that the China National Amateur recent months and has proved

British Schoolgirls' "B" team and Athletic Federation had approach- One of the outstanding perform lost by the only goal of the match. very shaky starter.

stout ed him and Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan, ances in the game was given by

Spr.

The teams were very evenly ba Speed, hard-hitting and a heart, carried him through in his a member of China's Football De Howlett, in the Scotland goal Helanced, the Schoolgirls having the first game, much against the run legation to the Olympic Games, with was nothing short of marvellous and edge over their opponents in speed, of the play, and the same qualities a view to issuing an invitation to brought off miraculous saves time but failed to break through the will probably serve him again to-Tsui Wai-pui, the Colony lawn ten- and again, only to give away a varsity Ladies' sturdy defence un- night. Nevertheless there seems to nis singles champion, to participate "gift" goal when he attempted to til late in the game. be more prospect of an upset in in the Davis Cup competition with stop a long hit by Davies, which Miss B. Smalley was outstand- this match than any of the others.

glanced off his pads for S. Fowler, ing in the home team's centre-half who was following up, to net. berth, while Miss B. Lim and Miss Henderson was the pick of the J Anderson gave the Schoolgirls Scotland defence, his timely inter- defence many anxious moments.

GOOD PIVOT: ceptions often clearing his lines

The visitors were well-served by when the opposition seemed certain

their centre half and their left- to score.

Ritchie, in the centre-half berth, winger, who scored the winning worked energatically but was unable goal in the last minutes of the to keep to his feet, while both wing game when she cut in from the halves tried very hard, but were wing and flicked the ball past Miss no match for the opposition's in-L Oliveira: side-forwards. side-forwards.

The

gramme:

TO-NIGHT'S CARD following

is the

pro-

P. H. Wong

የ

K. S. Liew

C. E. Chng

V

P. K. Hui

T. C. Lee

▼

A. L. Fisher

1. J. Ông

T M. A. Oliveira

KOTEWALL CUP FINAL FIXED FOR GOOD FRIDAY

TENNIS AGAIN POSTPONED

The Hong Kong Cricket Club reports that there will be no ten- nis to-day as the courts are still unfit for play.

AUSTIN UNSUPPORTED

Kho Sin-kie China will meet New Zealand in the First Round at the Stade Roland Garros on April 30.

Should Tsui Wai-pui accept the invitation, which I understand has Austin was the pick of the attack The Final of the Kotewall Charity not yet been tendered him, he will and had he received better support, Cup soccer competition between the have to abandon his quest of the Scotland might have turned the Army and South China will be play- Colony Singles tennis championship tables on their opponents in the few ed on Good Friday, March 26, on and leave for Shanghai to play in breakways they had. the Navy ground, Causeway Bay, a series of exhibition matches with at-4 p.m.

The encounter was played at a fairly fast pace, a good standard being maintained throughout.

ated.

England Benwell (Club); A. E. P.

(Navy); Spr. Brown (B Engineers}, Guest (Radio) and L-Stileman LL. Davies (Navy) and C. Parker. (Police); S. A Fowler (Club), G. H Fowler (Club), Lt. Wright (Navy), Lt. Garthwaite (RA) and J. Pernell (Police)

Scotland Spr. Howlett (RE), R. Henderson ("Y") and Lt. Douglas;

Ritchie (Sea.) and Cpl Cunning- tain permission England will now meet India in ham (Sea.); L/Cpl. Aberdein (Sex), Sgt Dunn (Sea.), & MacNider (C.B. com studies in the Semi-Final Round next Thurs-A), Austin () and MacNider

Iday on a ground yet to be nomin-(St. 1).

After a goalless first half, Wright WC Choy, the Cambridge Blue, opened the scoring for England off Prices of admission will be as who played for China last year and a fine centre by S. Fowler, and the usual, but Servicemen, in uniform, who will in all probability be includ-latter added England's second goal a few minutes later-off a rebound, will be admitted at half-price to ed again this year.

able, long hit by Davies.

the covered stand and at 30 cents Guy Cheng, China's second string as Howlett attempted to stop a Sgt. Meeks (Sea.), Capt. S. S...

player last year, is no

to the uncovered stand.

In the event of a draw, the replay as he is unable to will be played either

Club to excuse hims

ground, or agan Causeway Bay the United St