1937-07-30 — Page 57

THE CHINA MATE, JULY 30, 1937.

BOWLS LEAGUE RACE NARROWS DOWN

+

CRAIGENGOWER AND

CLUB DE RECREIO

VIEING FOR HONOURS

BRADBURY'S FINE GAME

FOR CHAMPIONS

MANY UPSETS FEATURED

(By "SKIP”)

R-F. Luz, above, who, by his younger brother was defeated by U. M. Umar in the foal of Open Pairs Championship, about to deliver a wood.

of the hom Goodwin's rink ran

Hyde-Lay to begin with an for the most part Kempton as the pressure to secur

quite

scratch he was usually effort and np against it and had to play into deficit by sco fa veritable barrage of woods, many of which Hosking had put in his

in order to consolidate the posi

on the

for

from

· up:

of 28 which

belated the four

THE race for the First Division Lawn Bowls League championship has virtually narrowed down to two teams, Craigengower Cricket Club and Club de Recreio as a result of last Saturday's luck would have it, also had an off to 6 by the 17th head, aft matches in which Kowloon Docks, in losing at home day and although McKelvie was not the Footballers to the Kowloon Bowling Green Club have placed themselves out of the running for the time being.

GOODWIN SHINES TO-MORROW'S MATCH BETWEEN THE CHAMPIONS AND

None of the visitors seemed quite THE DOCK TEAM MAY REVIVE THE LATTER'S HOPE OF

happy with the green, but the home OVERHAULING THE LEADERS, BUT I DO NOT THINK THAT Gill was prominent amongst the players, especially Craig, found it THERE WILL BE ANY CHANGE IN THE POSITIONS ON SUN-visitors and he found the woods right from the beginning. Frank DAY MORNING.

running kindly for him, whilst it is Goodwin was agam in fine form and perhaps a left-handed compliment, what little was left for him he did In the Second Division the Indians scored another good win after what I have written, to say with a quiet, but deadly confidence. against the K.B.G.C. and in doing so practically assured themselves that Bright and Lines always-had of the championship. Club de Recreio, whom they meet at Soothe better of their opposite zum kumpoo to-morrow, are their chief danger. The Portuguese Clubbers. have flattered to deceive in the Third Division, and as the result of two consecutive defeats, have dropped a long way behind the

·Civil Servants in the race for promotion.

ccc.

Craigengower did not have it all their own way against the Civil Servants last Saturday by any means. On the contrary, they had to fight an uphill bat- tle, as after the first 10 heads had been played they were a dozen or so to the bad. But by K.CC. the time another five heads had been reeled off, they were in the HKF.C. lead and, continuing to play

#KB.G.C steady bowls on all rinks, finish- ed up with a five shot margin.

LITTITESISIU

tion

After being 12 all at the 16th head, Alec Macfarlane scored only one more shot to Fincher's seven! GOOD STANDARD

Overy played a useful game as Num- A good standard of bowls was ber Three to “Teddy” but the best reached on Cooper and Guy's rink, man in the rink was Bebbington, mamma the latter scoring six in the last some of his shots ang remarkable.

couple of heads to win by that num-Jack Rodger ber. Walker started off brilliantly going to swa as lead for the visitors, and although who deserve

SKIP'S FORECAST

FIRST DIVISION:

he weakened for a few heads just ing on tenaci

if he was Jack's rink,

for Hold to tie the

as Mitchell struck form, he finished game. The thirds of the way (55) up as strongly as he began and through they were as much as 13 easily had the honours. The star shots in arrears, but scored in all (44)

turn, however, was M Fergu-the last seven heads to make a tie

who rarely wasted a wood, of it. whilst Guy, the visitor's skip was

(73) KDR C

(46), CSC.C

C. de R.

(73) PRC

(56)

(† To be played at the Police Club).

SECOND DIVISION

Omar was again in good trim and it was his rink (Gomes, Atienza and *A.M.") which captured the points

T.R.C. with a six shot win over Macgowan, who never recovered from the 9-1 c.c.c. lead which his opponent secured in

IRC. the first four ends.

WELL-BALANCED

P.R.C.

•

H.K.F.C.

(—) HKFC.

-) C. de R.

(46) K.B.G.C.

THIRD DIVISION

(-) KFC.

(60) REKY.C, (60)

()

(57)

The visiting rink was evenly balanced, every man pulling his weight, but the home four. were patchy, only Collyer maintaining ä -high standard throughout. Eccle-

shall was right off his game with *CS.C.C. Grimmitt and Macgowan good

C. de R. occasion only, the latter's heavy ones doing a good deal of damage. *HKER.C.

(----) ETR.C.

(57) |G.C.C.

second-division last year)

in brackets denote the -- the com

game. Inst.

In the tied match between Brad- bury and Randle the former was the outstanding man in the rink and he valiantly carried the large amount of work which was thrust on him by the weakness of the men in front of him, of whom Cavanagh was the best. LCR Souza could get little Dock team sustained at the satisfaction from the green, whilst of the Kowloon Bowling Green

of Playing at Hung, Hom, they Coates bad patch continued. the home four, Gellatly was easily expected to win but failed on the best, whilst Jack Deakin show-rinks and were only one shot

on the other one. A surprise within ed more of his old form after

vas McKelvie's defeat, couple of poor matches. There was

king being the first skip between Holidge and

two

up

the former scraping home by to lower his colours this season and rfter a ding-dong battle he did it well. The home four were individuals all played outplayed on this occasi

nothing like the

then to win

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