THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1987.
BASEBALL FANS GOOD
WEEK-END
Filipinos And
Japanese Meet To-day
TO-MORROW'S BIG
ATTRACTION
Followers of baseball will be well catered for this week-end, for beside the usual League games there will be a friendly encounter between Ling, Nam and the Hong Kong Chinese which will be for the unofficial championship of Kwang Tung.
encounter
EXCITING TENNIS AT SOOKUNPOO
South China And Army Tie
RECREIO AGAIN IN BRILLIANT FORM
An
(By "ADREM") extraordinarily
interesting
FOUR GOOD BOWLS GAMES FOR TO-DAY
Visiting Teams Favoured
There is an interesting program- THIRD ROUND
me in the First Division of the
Lawn Bowls League to-day, all four OF OPEN PAIRS
away team's being favoured to win,
although the Kowloon Bowling DRAWN FOR
Green's chances at the Valley are not considered very bright in view of the Footballers showing against Recreio.
Police Pair Given Win In Postponed Encounter
.
to The. Police will be at home Kowloon Docks, their green being. used for the first time this season The draw for the Third Round of to-day, and on current form the the Open Pairs Lawn Bowls cham-
To-day, the Filipinos
Mainland team should win.
pionship. was made at a meeting of The only match in the Second the sub-committee of the Lawn the Nippon Club in the only League match was played yesterday between
a Bowls Association yesterday in the encounter, and though it is general-Army and South China at Sookun-Division which should provide ly expected that the Japanese will poo, in the "D" Division of the ten-struggle is that between the junior offices of the "South China Morn have little difficulty in winning, the nis League. Three sets all at the champions and the Hong Kong Foot-ing Post."
end of the second round, these two ball Club. The latter are fairly The committee reluctantly award- Filipinos have made great strides
teams eventually finished the game strong, while the Bowling Greened the unplayed game in the Second during the past month and should
with scores level and this result was have not been playing as well this Round between N. B. Fraser and J. do better than they have done in
a very fair indication of the play. season as last year.
S. Riddle and P. E. Knight and J. the past.
Outstanding pair of the afternoon The following is to-day's pro-Hollidge to the Police pair
(the The Filipinos have been streng-were undoubtedly C. McAlinder and gramme:-
former), as the match was not thened by Hamid, at first base, who A. Moore, who played as third
FIRST DIVISION
played without the stipulated time has recently returned from Swatow. string for the Army and were suc-
(67)
as decided at the last meeting, ow- His inclusion in the team will percessful in all their sets... Moore C.S.C.C. mit N. Leonard to move right-field, served
(62)ing to the illness of J. Hollidge. very well and for
The following is the draw for the in which position he played for the
the most part bore the brunt H.K.F.C.
Third Round. Volunteers.
of their opponents' attack but his wanting M. el Arculli and O. el Arculli
partner was not found when the occasion arose. will do the pitching and catching,
Full marks must be given to L. C.C.C. respectively, but the fielding of the Worsfield and G. Brammer, who lost Filipino team, especially the infield, their first two sets and were play-
K.B.G.C. leaves more to be desired. Their ing their third, when the other two players can pick up a ball well, but pairs concluded. The score was then they get flurried with men on bases four all and all depended on this *IR.C. and make needless errors.
BROTHERS
REGULAR SIDE
vital set. Raising the standard of
K.C.C.
(58) _C.C.C.
(59). C. de R.
.
MONDAY B. Parks and M. Fergusson Randle and W. L. Walker.
v. S.
C. Strange and T. Armstrong v T. (-) Coleman and G. N. Mitchell.
P.R.C..
(-) K.B.G.C.
(61) K.D.R.C.
SECOND DIVISION
(-) K.C.C.
(64)
(62) C. de R.
(49)
H.K.F.C.
(67) T.R.C.
(48)
(47)
P.R.C.
(* In First Division last year) THIRD DIVISION
K.T.R.C.
C. de R
In the outfield, the Filipinos can their game considerably, the Army hold their own with most of the players led the redoubtably Ip K.F.C. teams in the League. Nazarin, brothers at 6-5 and were unfortun- Kitchell and Abbas, the Indian ate not to have clinched this set and | *C.C.C. Recreation Club cricketers, are safe the match, which was left as a tie. with "high flies," and are safe with
INSPIRED GAME grounders.
Recreio revealed a high standard to dispose of I.R.C. by 8-1. What The Japanese are fielding their was most
the impressive about regular side, starting with Amasaki King's Park team, was their bril- pitching, to be relieved by either liant work overhead. They never Koga or Mikuni. The Japanese are at any time, whatever the state of not a hard hitting team, and with the game, indulged
defensive the exception of Takeda and Naka-methods in this department and mura, depend on short hits to make went for "kills" from all parts of 8 sets to 1. their bases.
IMPORTANT GAME
the court.
in
On their showing, yesterday, To-morrow the Japanese will Recreio are bound to provide very meet the Hong Kong Chinese and serious opposition to the C.R.C. the game is of the greatest impor-who, I understand, are making every tance to both sides as they have effort to capture the little in this both lost two games, and a defeat division of the League. for either side will ruin any hopes M. U. Razack and A. R. Suffiad, for the Championship.
the losers third string, are to be highly commended for their effort in capturing the only set against Pereira and Gonsalves.
BRILLIANT 'OVERKEAD
E. M. Hanlon and J. C. Gill v W. (56) Howard and E. Zimmern.
(At the Club de Recreio) R. Craig and E. C. Fincher v F. V. V. Ribeiro and C. G. Silva.
W. F. Stoneham and C. B. Hosking v J. E. Noronha and F. X. M: da Silva. (At the Kowloon Docks) TUESDAY
A. Hyde Lay and W: Macfarlane v Howells and A. Brooksbank.
J.
M.
V
N. B.
J. S. Logan and J. G. Meyer v (57)
(-) __C.S.C.C.
(-)
(70) R.H.K.Y.C.
(—) H.K.E.R.C
H.K.F.C.
Omar and U. M. Omar.
(---)
(* In Second Division last year) Figures in brackets denote the result of the corresponding game last year. beat Wong and Kwan
7-5
RECREIO BEAT I.R.C. At Sookunpoo, Recreio beat I.R.C. by
M. Hassan and S. A. R. Bux (I.R.C.) lost to V. Yvanovich and M.
Guterres
lost to A. E. Xavier and A. E.
Ribeiro
lost to C. C. Pereira and H.
Gonsalves
W. Gill and G. Duncan Fraser and J. S. Riddell.
(At the Civil Service) WEDNESDAY
J. Luz and R. F. Luz v G. Perkins and F. Cullen.
J. Gibson and T. Ferguson Mulcahy and J. W. Brown.
A. E. Silkstone and F. Goodwin v J. Revie and J. C. Brown.
(At the Kowloon Bowling Green Club) J. V. Ramsey and J. McKelvie v M. A. R. Souza and C. S. Rosselet.
(At the Club de Recreio) A
THURSDAY
3-6
E. W. Lines and W. Russell v M. 3-6 Purvis and W. Hillyer.
L. A. Gutteriez and B. Basto v E. 4-6 Tuck and L. Whant:
T. Nolan and W. McLeod v S. Eccle- 0-6 hall and A. W. Grimmitt. 2-6 R. O. Read and G. H. Sherriff v W. 1-6 Simmonds and J. Deakin.
A. M. Rumjahn and T. Ali (ER.C.) lost to Yvanovich and Guterres lost to Xavier and Ribeiro... lost to Pereira and Gonsalves.
A. R. Suffiad and M. U. Razack (LR.C.) 3-6 lost to Ivanovich and Guterres lost to Xavier and Ribeiro.....
4-6 beat Pereira and Gonsalves. 63 POLICE WIN AGAIN At the Valley, Police Recreation Club
gower Cricket Club put up a very to 34.
VOLUNTEER
At Causeway Bay the Craigen-beat Kowloon Cricket Club by 5% sets ANNUAL plucky fight against the Chinese A. R. Major and L. A. Calthrop
(P.R.C.)
Recreation Club, who proved too lost to L. E. Kirby and A. L strong a combination for the visi- Fisher tors, winning by 8 sets to 1.
beat J. Smith and L. Jack.
4-6 6-2
4-6
The Chinese are fielding a very strong side which will probably in- clude several Ling Nam University players who have recently been re- gistered, while the Japanese will depend on the same team, though Mikuni will do the pitching.
A friendly game will be played after this between Ling Nam and the Hong Kong Chinese. The form-
A. Hung and O. Sadick, of Crai-lost to C. Needham and H. Crabb er are the champions of Canton,
S. Smith and C. Pile (P.R.C.) gengower, played an inspiring beat Kirby and Fisher while the local team will be streng-
Pe- drew with Smith and Jack. game against Wei Chung and thened by the inclusion of several
ter Kwok who were extented be-lost to Needham and Crabb. players from other teams including fore winning the set at 7-5.
B. Baker and G. Carruthers (P.R.C.) Wing Lee and D. Leonard.
beat Kirby and Fisher The Police. Recreation Club con- beat Smith and Jack tinued in the winning vein at the beat Needham and Crabb Valley, where they defeated the
C.C.C. LOSE PLUCKILY At Causeway Bay Craigengower Kowloon Cricket Club by 5% sets Cricket Club lost to Chinese Recrea- to 3%.
tion Club by 8 sets to 1. ARMY TIE WITH S.C.A.A.
Wei Chung and Peter Kwok At Sookunpoo, Army tied with Southbeat A. Zimmern and W. L.
Rapley
SWEDE'S NEW 10.000 METRES WALK RECORD
Stockholm, To-day.
John Mikaelsson, of Sweden, yes- terday broke the world's record for the 10,000 metres walk with a time of 44 minutes 9 6/10 seconds.
The record was previously held by Pope, of Great Britain, with 44 minutes 42 4/10 seconds. Reuter.
China,
T. P. O'Connor and W. Wilson (Army) beat A. Hung and 0. Sadick lost to Y. Ip and L. Ip
4-6 beat N. P. Karanjia and C. W. 62 Lam beat Y. H. Leung and P. Sze... lost to K. C. Wong and Y. Kwan
S. T. Yu and S. F. Cheung L. Worsfold and G. Brammer (Army) beat Zimmern and Rapley tied with Ip and Ip
lost to Leung and Sze lost to Wong and Kwan
C. McAlinder and A. Moore beat Ip and Ip Ibeat Leung and Sze
16
6 -2
AQUATIC MEET
For July 24 At V.R.C. Pool
66 The annual aquatic sports of the
Volunteer 4-6 Hong Kong
Defence Coups will be held in the Victoria 6-2
Recreation Club swimming pool on 7-5 62 Saturday July 24, commencing at 9.30 p.m. and will be followed by a dance.
The following is the programme of events:
300 yards Team Race (teams of 6 men).
50 yards Ladies' Invitation Handicap Race Open.
Volunteers 50 yards Handicap Race. High diving~(teams of 3 men). | Blindfold Race.
(C.R.C.)
6-1
7-5
62
(C.R.C.).
60]
66 beat Hung and Sadick
64
3-6 beat Karanjia and Lam 4-6 M. K. Lau and T. Y. Tse (C.R.C.) (Army) lost to Zimmern and Rapley.
6—2]
2-6
75 beat Hung and Sadick 6-1 beat Karanjia and Lam
6-2
tachment Championship.
Inter-Unit Water Polo.
100 yards Medley Team Race (Teams of 4 men-Back stroke, Fres Style, Breast Stroke, Free Style).
H.K.V.D.C.. 50 yards Nursing
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