1937-11-24 — Page 18

CHINA MAIS

RECREIO'S ASTONISHING FAILURES

BAD WICKET WRECKING

BATSMEN'S CONFIDENCE ABBAS BOWLS WELL FOR INDIAN R.C.

SATURDAY'S CRICKET REVIEWED

(By "ADREM")

DESPITE the calls of Volunteer Camps, with the resultant depletion in teams, an interesting programme of friendly cricket games was played ⚫over the week-end.

A member of the last Shanghai cricket team to visit Hong Kong, JB E Leckie is now in the Co- lony and turned out for the HKCC last Saturday.

LEADING MIDDLESEX REGIMENT BATSMEN CONTINUE TO SHOW EXCELLENT FORM WITH THE BAT, LT. WEEDEN AND SGT. PARTRIDGE AGAIN MAKING RUNS, THIS TIME AT THE K.CC. WHERE THE BAT WAS IN COMPLETE DOMINnings and Baxter went in shortly ENCE OVER THE BALL, ONLY EIGHT WICKETS FALLING IN before four with instructions to THE COURSE OF THE AFTERNOON, FOR OVER 300 RUNS.

INTER SOCHTY GOLF MATCH

Official Correction

The RH.KG.G. notify that it ap pears that the correct score in the Inter Societies Golf match last Sunday leaves a margin in favour of St. Andrews of 271⁄2 points.

W. Park and C. W. Jeffries drop- ped out by mutual arrangement, and the single point credited to the former for a walk over in the singles, and two points credited to him and his partner for a walk Lover, in the fourball, have been

cancelled.

In the last Adamson Cup Com- petition the score of H. N. Moran 86-24-62 was overlooked, this is the winning score for November

GOLF CORRECTION = In Monday's detailed report of the Inter Society Golf match held play the unfamiliar role of hitter at Fanling on Sunday, we regret When stumps were drawn with the the error in the heading reading ecure 15% score at 152, these two were still "Englishmen Only together and had scored, respec- Points This shoul

251⁄2 points tively, 38 and 29.

I

ARMY BOWLING GOOD

told that the Army bowling was extraordinarily accurate and

Recreio senior eleven took the "Should not the visiting team have spotlight in unenviable circum-even more difficulty in scoring stances by being dismissed for runs?" the lowest total of the day, name- "IGNORANCE IS BLISS"

On the face of it they should, ly, 32 against the Indians. Fluc-] tuation in their form, from one but again that matter of confidence that Hatfield, Godby and Partridge. week to another, has proved to I know I shall not be very popular bowled very well indeed. Partridge be one of the big puzzles of the with Recreio batsmen when I say. present season and to forecast that half of them are scared out appears to be quite a useful all-

Trounder, while Hatfield bowls the result of any of their games before they are actually in, where

fastish feg-break and is extremely is about as easy as spotting the as in the case of visitors, there is

awkward to play winning number in the Irish a sporting chance of making quite few runs before realising Sweep

how really dangerous the wicket is. BATTING WEAKNESS Their fielding and attack appear In other words "Ignorance is to be solid enough and they did bliss!"

Sports E

read

LADIES LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Miss Rose Perry Beats Miss Tylor

The following are the results:

Chief interest in the C. S. C. C

KGC game at the Valley, was The appearance of J. B. H Leckie,

With the exception of one the Shanghai Interporter. He did in the Singles not met with very much success, the first round ties in this and very well to dismiss the much- I was pleased to see E. M. Lhowever, scoring only 6 runs and Doubles tournament for the improved I. B. C. batsmen for only Soares come off with the ball. He taking no wickets. Scoring was dies' Tennis Championships of the 107 runs-about 50 less than any is still very young with every pros-very low and very slow. Club Colony have been completed other team this season, so far aspect of steady improvement, espe were all dismissed for 128, Mc- I can recollect-it's their batting cially as he has been well ground Lellan 5 for 47 and Barrow 2 for 7, He bowls slow left-hand spin- and Civil Service, at close of play, that almost invariably lets them ed.

ners and when he has learned to had scored only 78 with four wic- down.

True, they did very well against control his length, should take a kets down. Holden, who is short-beat Miss J. Smalley and the Army at Sookunpoo, because, heap more wickets. A. M. Prata ly to leave for home, captured

bowled very steadily for three of these for only 21. I think, Rodrigues came off, but also thereafter have failed badly on Recreio, while for the L. R. C., Min

Craigengower were very fortun- every occasion. Being fortunate and Abbas bowled unchanged to ate to draw with the Navy at enough to watch most of their capture 4 for 10 and 6 for 21 res- King's Park Navy, thanks to use innings last Saturday and quite pectively, a goodly portion the previous week,

65

OPEN DOUBLES

First Round - Mrs. Rice-Evans and Miss Griffith

ham 6-1, 6-1

OPEN SINGLES First Round

0. Oliver beat Mrs

Mrs. K. D. Holmes beats Shirley 6-1, 6—1 gelly 6-1, 6-4 ful contributions by A. B. Smith, Mrs. Marmont beat Miss ABBASIS PROMISE

Skelton, Carless and Robinson, de We all know Minu's capabilities clared at 181 with four wickets in a finger on the as a bowler but Abbas proved hand and, when stamps were just about lays main cause of the failure of their quite an eye-opener. He bowls a drawn, C. C. C. with only three wie fast medium, right-handed delivery kets intact, were still over 80 runs in best batsmen.

I formed an opinion which I think,

Their wicket is absolutely atroci-which comes through very fast and, - ous. Whatever the type of bowler, on Saturday anyway

ama medium, be he fast, slow o

don whether he

in apin or ch is hable t

Been succesz

shoot again chest high and turn

at right-angles, and, the bowler had as little

arrears

kept an

gly fine length. assisted by the wick ertheless of developing

need so

Pereira 18

Honger in th

Miss M Griffiths.

97, 45, 6–0. Wagstaff 6-0, 6-1

Mrs. S. Mills received from Miss V Prince

Miss P. Perry beat Miss Tylor

EAGLES RUGBY VICTORY

In a frien

game at

SECOND DIVISION the Second Division, ner eleven sily beat L

Bloomfield and Hebden

eme dis

rday, HMS ng the aus for the poo

atry (11 score of 70 and Lt. Ingram and Lt.

points), Eliot, the former Hook then set about the bowling in stand-on-half, being în Colony.

Bowlers had a sorry time at no uncertain manner and carried initiating several splendid Cox's Road, where the Kowloon the score to over the 100 mark, in addition to scoring a try Cricket Club met the Army. The when they both retired. Ingram converted and kicking a per- home team, owing to the calls of hit 13 boundaries in his 62, while other try, while Sharman Volunteer Camp, were sadly deplet Hook found the ropes on eight occa-the Tazar. No one can make runs under ed in strength but yet managed to sions in compiling 37. those conditions. Batting devolves maintain their reputation as a bat- into an pation, main task of ting side. which, is to keep oneself from being

appen

eer

and cer

what was going did the batsman. SAFETY FIRST!

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LAY AND MCKENZIE

Gronin scored the Aircraft

The

rephed for

The junior teams of the Navy and Craigengower played an interesting

on the latter s

SCHOOL SOCCER

Fielding

to hospital I have Their two most dependable bats, Thanks to a strongly-wagging tail, than one player, meet Ernie Fincher and GF O'Bryen. Navy totalled 182 despite fine bowl defea

School failed badly

the complexion of

do batted very nicely

andrean ascertain

are chance. I gather

game

Bray

percen

thefact

that sort Arthur Lay and W. L. McKenzie to by of thin not conducive to batting add 84 runs and change, somewhat, and as lar

down by the boo Unless the Recreio au

it their wicket somethin do it quickly, certain to go from bad and these co ruin a side

heap of

tion

Lay the D. B. S

worse that he only found the boundary on oing to 10 occasions in a score of 61, that fery has every ap he was more than usually painstak-, man of making a ing, although his six into the University

Children's Playground was typical feat

subject, the ques-of

rally

of two seasons

played

Jef

from Classes 3 and

friendly

Chunnett

La Salle College

Flis Kadoori

one

words for

BOSTOCK ENOCKS OUT

FIQUET

Becreio

were

tock

in a drawn game

ich scoring on both