1938-01-20 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 20, 1938.

LAST NIGHT'S AMAZING BADMINTON

ST. JOHN'S COME UP FROM BEHIND TO SCORE SPECTACULAR VICTORY

DOWN 1-4 THEY WIN 5-4

(By "ADREM")

WITH the match within their grasp and the championship virtually theirs, Kowloon Tong fell before a determined assault by St. John's, who won the last four games in a row to score one of the most spectacular victories, not only of this season but during the whole of the brief history of local badminton.

BADMINTON FOR THIRD EDITION

A full commentary on the St. John's 'v Kowloon Tong badmin-

ton match played last night, which resulted in a win for the former team by 5 games to 4, will appear in our third edition.

HOCKEY

(Continued from Page 18)

fine constructive work giving the Club backs many anxious' mo- ments.

Wall and Partab formed an ef- fective left-wing for the United, the former putting in some very neat little touches, while the left-winger (11:121|INF............174494331311 (93|ELICOIL again made his presence felt with some dazzling runs down the left- wing and solo efforts to score.

erful smash and fine

retrieving

powers, he has added an excellent short game which has increased his

effectiveness considerably..

AT SIXES-AND-SEVENS The Club attack were at sixes- and-sevens and very rarely, if ever, WILSON AND SMITH EXCEL combined effectively as a whole. Di- St. John's third pair, Norman vett worked very hard in the lead. Smith and Peter Wilson, who have er's berth, but was never supported

met with scant success during an to the fullest extent by Whitley and association that has lasted over two Bickford, who were rarely position.

seasons, are now coming into their ed for a pass, when near the circle. own. Smith probably played the fin- Bickford, playing a lone hand at WHEN THE LAST GAME OF THE SECOND ROUND BE- TWEEN R. E. LEE AND F. S. KO AND G. A. SMITH AND A. he was deadly and his coverage of twice just failed to secure an equal- lest game of the evening. Overhead times, was very dangerous and KEOWN COMMENCED, THE VISITORS HELD A LEAD OF 4 GAMES TO 1 AND, WHEN LEE AND KO CROSSED OVER, THE Court and anticipation left nothing ising goal. SCORE WAS 11-4 AND, TO ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, to be desired. Wilson, for the most THE MATCH AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP WHICH HINGED ON THIS ENCOUNTER, WAS WON AND LOST.

The first goal was a lucky one for part, sat on the net, and was ex- the United, the ball glancing off E. ceptionally severe on anything the|V. Reed's stick from a shot by Ma- slightest bit loose..

lik. In the second half Pyara Singh placed the United further in the (St-lead, but Divett 'reduced the ar-

The following were the score:- G. A. Smith and A. Keown John's)-

Chan

rears.

The following teams have been 15-21

selected: 21----17 United: Chan Kam-fui (Police); beat R. E. Lee and F. S. Ko.. 21-14 Stickley (Middlesex), Grogan (Middle- F.. H. Kwok and A. J. Bennitt (St.sex); M. H. Hassan (Radio), Brown John's).

The home pair then staged a mistakes. G. A. Smith was not as recovery from

I have this losing posi-convincing last night as tion, which was typical of the re-seen him, but his shrewd badmin-lost to N. A. E. Mackay and A. mainder of the games, and, al-ton brain was always scheming

beat John Chen and Francis though Kowloon Tong contested openings and was quick to size up

Tsang each point with grim determina- the weaknesses of the visiting com- tion, they were completely out-binations. played. Smith provided the I stated earlier in the season that brains. He continually worked his Keown, while having all the natur opponents out of position for al attributes of a fine player, was Keown to smash devastating lacking in experience and that his

game was still immature. Since John's). Lee and Ko became more and then he has improved tremendous-lost to Chen and Tsang more anxious and, towards the end,ly and in addition to his very pow-lost to Lee and Ko their futile efforts were quite apathetic and they only managed a further three points to lose 21-14. ST. JOHN'S HEARTENED

winners.

to

A complete change now came over both sides. St. John's were obviously greatly heartened by. this unexpected victory over their op- ponents' number one pair and con- versely Kowloon Tong began worry a bit. The next game was between Mackay and Chan and Pe ter Wilson and Norman Smith. So far as I can recollect, the latter pair have never emerged successfully against this Kowloon Tong combina- tion in at least half a dozen encoun- ters and have never looked like do- ing so.

Apparently this worried them not at all. They crossed over on the right end of an 11-8 score and Peter Wilson then went away with a service run which netted them se- ven points and took their tally to 18- They eventually went out without their opponents picking up another ace. Score-4 games to 3.

G. A. Smith and Keown then bat- tled through another nerve-wrack- ing game with J. Chen and F. Tsang, who had already won two games, and once more the Cathedral pair were successful after a fierce uphill battle and the match was then level. GAME IN THE BAG

To

all intents and pur- poses, St. John's now had the game in the bag, as it appeared most unlikely that Lee and Ко would beat Kwok and Bennitt after their poor showing in the previous game. They fought gallantly, however, but never recovered from a long lead that was quickly piled up against them and eventually lost to 17

SMITH'S SCHEMING Kwok and Bennitt, for St. John's, played their usual game. They recovered everything and waited for their opponents to make all the

lost to Chen and Tsang beat Mackay and Chan beat Lee and Ko

P. Wilson and Norman

beat Mackay and Chan

(Police); Malik (K.LT.C.); G. Singh 21-15 (Radio), A. E. P. Guest (Radio), Pyara 18-21 Singh (K.I.T.C.), Wall (Police) and 21-17 Partab. (Kumaon Rifles).

Smith (St. Club:-V. M. Benwell; R. L. Wallace, E. V. Reed; R. A. Bates, W. A. Reed, 218 J. E. Potter; S. Fowler, T. Whitley, G. 19-21 E. R. Divett (Capt.), B. I. Bickford, V. 17-21 Bond.

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