1937-05-15 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 15, 1937.

CORONATION GALA FOR TO-NIGHT

J.R. Johnstone To Make Reappearance

GOOD BOWLS PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY

CAN K.B.G.C. BEAT CHAMPIONS?

SWIMMING WILL BE

FINEST OFFERED

MEDLEY RELAY DUEL:

PORTUGAL V. CHINA

WATER-POLO CLASSIC-

THE

(By "CRAWL")

HE one and only International sporting event to commemorate the Coronation of their

MANY INTERESTING Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

JUNIOR GAMES

Several

To

A•A、 da ROZA A. A. da Roza, above, one of the V.R.C.'s fastest sprinters, will be seen for Portugal to-night in the Coronation Swimming gala.

also made

up of Interporters

A. A. da Roza.

China also have.

in

cham

will take place in the Victoria Recreation Club swimming pool to-night, when Great Britain, Por- interesting bowls matches, in the three divisions of tugal and China will vie for honours in a very the League, are down for deci- interesting programme of individual and team Soares in goal, while the attack is sion this afternoon, the outstand- ing being the First Division aquatic events, and providing that all competitors W. Lawrence, L. Roza-Pereira and encounter between Craigengower, are fit, new records are not unlikely. Cricket Club, the present_cham- THE REAPPEARANCE OF AN OLD FAVOURITE IN THE fence, but their attack is not as a powerful de- pions, and the Kowloon Bowling | PERSON OF J. R. ("JIMMY") JOHNSTONE IN THE GREAT good as it could have Green Club, at the Valley and BRITAIN TEAM, IS CERTAIN TO LEND AN ADDED INTEREST Norman Lee

been, with though the home team won con- TO THE GALA, WHILE THE APPEARANCE OF NORMAN LEE Kam-pui, of the Mak Ngah Asso- an absentee; Shek vincingly last season, the game AND L. OLIVEIRA, IN THE 100 YARDS FREE STYLE INDIVI-ciation, and a former Chinese. Na- to-day promises to be more DUAL EVENT, WILL PROBABLY DRAW A BIG GATHERING tional champion, stages a comeback evenly contested.

IN ANTICIPATION OF A THRILLING DUEL. Recreio, who are favoured in Wilfred Lawrence, the Colony 100 yards, champion, who just to be watched.

on China's left-wing, and will have many quarters for the champion-managed to beat Lee last season will not be seen in the individual

EXHIBITION DIVING ship this season, encounter the event, but has been reserved for the back-stroke, in the medley The Diving will be of an exhibi- Kowloon Cricket Club at Cox's event, and the free style relay. A duel between Lawrence, Norman tion nature only and some fine per- Road, and in view of the suc- Lee and Johnstone would be the biggest attraction the Colony could formances should be witnessed. This cesses of the Portuguese side to possibly offer swimming enthusiasts, and it is to be regretted that event heralds the return of Ed. da date, they will start firm favour- they will not clash to-night.

Roza, the Colony's former ites, but they cannot afford to take things easily as the Kow- China as is well known, now Pereira is now a firm favourite loon Cricket Club are quite that their team has already been for the individual event. capable of upsetting them. published, caused several minor The 100 Yards Breast-stroke in- As their own green is still un-eruptions" by dropping Lau Po-dividual event is also likely to pro- playable, the Police Recreation Club hei from the 100 Yards Back duce a thrilling race and the ad- are meeting the Civil Service on stroke individual event and re-vent of Gt. Britain offering a seri- the latter's green, and should annex serving him for the Medley ous threat for pride of place both the points though they will be Relay. Lau is actually the China through Oliphant, a newcomer and without the services of G. Moss, National, Interport and Colony powerful swimmer, must be grati- one of their skips, whose place will back-stroke champion, and hisfying to Great Britain's supporters. be filled by F. E. E. Booker.

omission is likely to have serious

ONE OF THE BEST repercussions. Lionel Roza- Oliphant should be able to clock in the region of 67 or 68 seconds, while Marques, the Colony cham- pion, will start favourite, but will be seriously extended all the way. Ng Kam-to, China's representative, is a newcomer to me, but I hear that as Wong The is every bit as good of

Iu-man, who was beaten into sec- ond place last year in the Colony championship by Marques. This should provide one

of the most thrilling races of the evening.

The Civil Servants have made several remarkable changes their rinks. S. Randle, who

in is

the Electric

playing for the third club, in as unbeaten, will meet many weeks, will skip one of the Club, but the latter may fully ex- rinks with Hollidge and R. P. Phil-tend the Club. lips the other skips. A. W. Grim- The Kowloon Football Club, mitt and J. Deakin erstwhile skips, strengthened by the inclusion will be playing as No. 3's to them.

⠀⠀ REMARKABLY WELL Should Kowloon Docks be able to field' their regular team, they should fully extend the Football Club who have done remarkable well so far in the League.

A game which may have a bear- ing on the final destination of the Second Division Championship isi that in which the Kowloon Bowling Green Club entertain the Craigen gower Cricket Club. With the advant- age of playing at home with only one change in their team this week, the Bowling Green Club should win.

several

old players from other clubs, are expected to register their first win against Kowloon as they will have in their among others, J. Lindsay, Dr. Smal- ley and J. Watson.

C.C.C.

K.C.C.

P.B.C.

H.K.F.C.

H.K.F.C.

TAIKOO

K.F.C.

R.H.K.Y.C.

H.K.E.R.C.

SKIP'S FORECAST

FIRST DIVISION

(90) K.B.G.C.

(68) Recreio

(54) C.S.C.C.

K.D.R.C.

SECOND DIVISION

(52) C.C.C.

(93) K.C.C.

I.R.C.

POLICE

THIRD DIVISION

K.T.R.C.

(51). C.C.C.

RECREIO

H.K.F.C.

Another good game should be seen when the Indian Recreation K.B.G.C, Club, who are making every endea¬ vour to return to the First Divi-] RECREIO sión, encounter the Hong Kong Football Club at the Valley. Dr. Selby who will be one of the skips in place of F. H. W. Haynes, who returns to the game this week, but with the Senior team.

THIRD DIVISION CLASH The Yacht Club who are now lead- *C.S.C.C. ing the Third Division will be given

a severe test by Recreio. The form-

er will be without the services of

P. S. Cassidy, who has left the Colony on leave.

Tong, team

pion, who was prevented from com- peting in the Colony championship last year owing to nose trouble,

The broken up with events open to mem-

Coronation Gala will bers of the V.R.C. in order to give International competitors an oppor- tunity for resting between races.

The Gala will later be followed by a dance. A

The following are the teams:- 100 Yards Free Style-Individual:- Rfm. E. Hamilton (Gt Britain). L. Oliveira (Portugal). Norman Lee (China).2. 100 Yards Back-stroke-Individual:- Lieut. J. M. Calvert (Gt. Britain). L. Roza-Pereira (Portugal). Ng Lim (China).

100 Yards Breast-stroke-Individual: R. G. L... Oliphant (Gt. Britain). E. M. Marques (Portugal). Ng Kam-to (China).

300 Yards Medley Relay

Back-stroke: H. Millington (Gt. Bri tain), W. Lawrence (Portugal) Lau Po- hei (China)..

Breast-stroke: A. B. Cooper (Gt. Bri- It is difficult to forecast a win intain), E. M. Marques (Portugal). E. the Medley Relay, although China Chan (China),

Free-style: J. R. Johnston (Gt. Bri- will offer a very strong challenge tain), A. A. da Roza (Portugal) N. as they have always maintained the Lee (China). finest Medley team in South China. 300 Yards Free-style Relay (Teams (36) Two seasons ago the Chinese Med- of 6)

ley team of Lau Po-hei, Kwok Chan- Johnston, R. B. Wood, Lt. Cardew, R. Gt. Britain: Rfm. E. Hamilton, J. R. (45)

hang and Chan Chan-hing carried M. Keown, F. J. Anglow or R. Gold- (50) off the Interport event for the Col-man.

ony, and to-night they will be re- Portugal: To be chosen from-W presented by just as strong a trio HL Ozorio, L. Roza-Pereira, LM. Lawrence, L. Oliveira, A. A. da Roza, in Lau Po-hei, Enrique Chan and Remedios and C. N. da Silva. Norman Lee, while Portugal, China-Chung Tze ting, Ng Lin, Ng (45)

China's strongest rivals, will have Chun-man, Ip. Hon-chuen, Kwok Hon-

ming and Robert Chan. (29) W. Lawrence, E. M. Marques and

Diving:- A. A. da Roza. Great Britain's team is not yet finally decided, but will not be able to compete against the other two, who are several sec- onds better.

Gt. Britain: Pte. Nicholls and Bfm. Owens,

Portugal: Ed. da Roza and L. Rozą- Pereira.

China: Wong Sik-hon, Wong Kwok- kit, Wong Woon-ki, Ip Hon-chuen and Stanley Lee. Water-Polo

WATER POLO CLASH The water polo match between a (58) combined. Great Britain-Portugal Gt. Britain-Portugal-M. M. de. V. team and China, is likely to pro- M. Calvert; W. Lawrence, L. Roza- Soares; W. E. Kerr and N. Delgado; J. duce a thrilling struggle with the Pereira and A. A. da Roza. odds on the former.

China: Chan Sik-pul; Lau Yam- The Combined team have a pow-chung and Enrique Chan; Fung Kwok- Jerful defence in Kerr and Delgado, wa Ng Lin, Robert Chan and Shek

Kam-pui. both Interporters, and M. M. de V.

(* In Second Division last year) (Figures in brackets, denote result of The Football Club, who are still corresponding games last season.)

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