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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 12, 1938.
ONLY THREE BOWLS TEAMS HAVE 100 PER CENT..
Recreio Defeat By K.C.C. Was Main Feature
EXCITING TUSSLES LAST
SATURDAY
(By "SKIP'')
"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY
Alterations To Hockey Rules
The ding-dong struggle carried on: McKelvic went into a six-shot lead, Arculli caught him up at the |18th only for the visitors to score a two and a singleton, with the home
I am told that there is a distinct skip providing the climax by secur-possibility that there will be one or two
THE results of lawn bowls matches played during three on the last head.
A great finish to a game in which
alterations to the rules of the English Hockey Association next season.
Towards the latter part of the sea- son just concluded, clubs at Home, with fixtures still outstanding, were request- Revie showed improved form to led to try the following experiments:--
ing the first fortnight of the season seem to patchy form was shown. Tom Cole- indicate that not only is there likely to be a close man was beating Khan at lead, and race for League honours, but also by means of hold his opposite number, but M. R. the promotion and relegation system, teams are Abbas was usually having the bet- beginning to find their own level.
ter of Johnny Kempton, who has form and was not yet found his
skip's em- short, to his AT THE MOMENT THERE ARE ONLY THREE UNBEATEN, often TEAMS, CRAIGENGOWER AND INDIAN RECREATION CLUB, barrassment. The two skip's were. IN THE PREMIER DIVISION, AND KOWLOON FOOTBALL|about equal, both gaining brilliant THE SECOND DIVISION shots at times and often altering CLUB, IN THE THIRD DIVISION. TABLE PRESENTS À PECULIAR APPEARANCE BECAUSE OF the lay. THE FACT THAT EACH CLUB HAS LOST ONE MATCH AND WON ONE, ALL CLUBS BEING LEVEL WITH A COUPLE OF POINTS EACH, AND THE H.K.F.C. “A” HAVING PRIDE OF PLACE BY REASON OF THEIR "SHOTS UP" AGGREGATE.
A remarkable feature of last Saturday's play was the scoring of two more “possibles", following so closely on J. C. Brown's effort, Both of these were gained in the Third Divi- of the week before.
sion, and the name of the players must be recorded in full as the feat, though, more frequent here than at home (I don't know why) is a remarkable-one and well worthy of the souvenir bottle of John Haig Whisky, which Messrs. Gande Price & Co., Ltd., so sportingly offer.
R. A. Trengove, of the H.K.F. Club, was.skipping a rink com- posed of A. Didsbury, A. Thom- son and J. Skinner when they scored their big count against R. C. Butler, G. G. S. Thomson, G. T. Padgett and A. F. Paul, of the H.K.E.R.C. whilst Charlie Roza- Pereira's men were J. A. Reme- dios, F. Marques and O. P. Reme- dios; their victims being P. S. H. Cassidy, W. J. Hansen, R. Wild and A. Murdoch (Skip).
By far the biggest surprise of last Saturday's games was the de- feat of the champions, Club de Re- creio, at the hands of the K.C.C. The home team was up on two of the rinks so it was a worthy win, but I was surprised to see Dick Alves-and-his-men-so-severely trounced, Jimmy Hyde's four doing the trick with a 22-shot victory over his visitor.
(1) No interference with the stick. (2) No intentional stopping with
the foot, and (3) No intentional stopping with the hand unless the ball is above waist-high. Alterations (2) and (3) will not apply to a goal-keeper nor to stop. ping the ball with the hand from a corner hit.
Presumably, if the above experi- J. C. Brown, who seems to have ments prove successful, they will be incorporated in the rules for next sea- formed a very powerful rink, was son. In which event, as Hong Kong ahead of Dallah all the way, but hockey is controlled by the local Hoc was not able to secure more than a key Association, which is affiliated to the Home body, they will, of necessity, be played to in the Colony next season. seven shot majority.
BRADBURY'S FOUR CARRY
As matters now stand, games other. TEAM
are continually wise fast and clean, being interrupted by minor infringe- This ments such as knocking on. would be almost entirely eliminated as players, naturally, will not endeavour to stop the ball either with the hand or the foot-always a difficult perform- ance to do without knocking-on.
As expected, Craigengower had the better. of Kowloon Bowling Green Club, but had to fight hard for the points, which were eventually secured through the efforts of Brad-
Interference with the stick, I ima- gine, will merely apply to the "knock- ing-up" of a person's stick when the
SKIP'S FORECAST FOR SATURDAY latter is about to shoot or pass the
c. c. c.
FIRST
DIVISION
(82)
P. R. C.
(42)
K. C. C.
(55)
K. B. G. C.
(70)
K. D. R. C.
(43)
C. de R.
(75)
C. S. C. C.
(--)
*I. R. C.
(~~)
SECOND
DIVISION
+H. K. F. C. “A”
C. C. C.
K. B. G. C.
()
*C. S. C. C.
(---)
(71)
C. de R.
(61)
(67)
T. R. C.
(54)
(53)
H. K. F. Ċ. “B”
(71)
THIRD
DIVISION
(64)
K. F. C.
(41)
P. R. C.
C. de R.
-K. T.-R.-C.-
H. K. F. G.
H. K. E. R. C.
* Denotes a promoted team.
+ Denotes a relegated team.
(71)
C. C. C.
(73)
R. H. K. Y. C.
(-)
(52)
(57)
ball. It is a dangerous manoeuvre at best, and one that will be well rid of.
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Strange Rival of Thunderbolt.
THE strangest piece of machinery
ever constructed. for human speed at Brooklands recently, was on show
when its owner, Mr. John Cobb, the racing motorist, explained its novel points.
many
In this new car-designed by Mr. Reid Railton and named after him- Cobb hopes to capture the world's land speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, in August.
as
The Railton weighs less than half Thunderbolt, much, as the 7-ton -with-which-Capt.-G. E. T. Eyston_set up the present record of 311.42 m.p.h. It suggests the appearance of whale or some sightless monster prehistoric ages. It has a detachable skin of aluminium with no break in its smooth contours except the covered
a
of
(Figures in brackets denote the scores in the corresponding games last cockpit just above its nose; and four
DUE TO TWO CHANGES? What happened to the latter it is hard to imagine, unless it was due to one or two changes in his rink. A. A. Remedios, his regular No. 3, was un-year). able to turn out, and the rink seemed to go to pieces. The score of 81-9 is an indication of how play went.
Hyde led from the start being 12 shots to the good by tea, and finish- ing up "full of running" with a four and five towards the end of the game.
He had a useful player in his son, at No. 1, and he had much the better of the battle with Joe Luz, who does not appear to have main- tained the great progress which he made during last season.
FINCHER SHINES
one, including a nap hand, in the last four heads.
MERITORIOUS FEAT
bury's rink, and especially Bradbury, who was nine shots up on Hosking.
low humps covering the tops of the four tyres.
There is no radiator and no fin. The wheels are completely enclosed.
On each side of the chassis is a 2- cylinder, 1,250 h.p, Napier aero en- gine. On the right are the petrol The home team were playing and oil tanks; on the left is a tank better to a man, with the possible holding 75 gallons of iced water for exception of Rosselet, who was not cooling.
Each engine has its own clutch, quite as good as Hyde-Lay, at No. 3,
throttle, gear-box and transmission but both Bill Way and Luigi Souza
brake, but a secret device' enables the had the edge over their opposites, driver to control them by means of a with Bradbury putting the finish-single throttle pedal, gear-lever ing touches time and again. The foot brake.. latter is playing better than ever this year.
and
Normally, the whole skin of the car will be lifted off to enable Cobb to reach his seat, and it will be de- tached again when the wheels have to be changed or the tanks filled.
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The Indians achieved an al- most equally meritorious feat in overcoming the Kowloon Dock team, and A. R. Minu was the hero of the match as he beat the redoubtable Cullen by no less than 12 shots to wipe out A. R. Dallah's deficit of seven, against Johnny Brown. Jock McKelvie and E. Arculli Teddy Fincher had a very even shared the spoils, on their rink.
U. M. Omar and L. Guy had a Fred. Cullen and his men, apart tense struggle with the former game with C. G. Silva for, after
reason of a acoring six in the first two ends, from never fully recovering from emerging winner by (usually a good start), he trailed a bad start, found the green very four count on the last head. Two from the sixth to the 19th head, difficult and were never confident, behind at that stage, he was lying where a three followed by a two whilst the home players all per-a couple when he went down to formed well up to standard. Of the gave him a four-shot victory.
It was Fincher himself who was visitors, Alec Calman, although out mainly responsible for the win, as of position (he usually leads) was he was continually saving or add-the most consistent.
DING DONG STRUGGLE ing to the score, Jack Nórónha was
Jock McKelvie and his men..ap always useful as No. 8 to "C. G.”, who was in good trim and should peared to have it "in the bag" when gemain as skip, having returned to they ran into a lead of 11 shots form.
before Arculli's men worried their Ernie Kern, who had such a fine win scorer, but then the latter "blank- against Kowloon Docks the previous ed" the visitors over six heads to shots. Tony Gomes was almost un-Glasgow some time in the summer. He week, was the only loser. for the K.C.C., F. X. Silva getting nine shots to his reach striking distance.
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bowl.;
Mr. Conrad Cherry, president of the victorious Oxford crew in this year's boat-race, has been elected captain of Leander Club. He rowed in the last two Leander, crews, being beaten by Zurich in the final of the Grand in 1986 and by London R.C. în 1987.
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He could either sit tight for a drawn game or go out for a win by drawing another shot. With all the confidence in the world he decided on the latter The B.B.B.C. will recognise 'a' ward for a rather risky shot, when he trailed the kitty a matter of four or five inches to secure his four-count!
Guy was also in very fine form, but he had to fight hard for his
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champion, and Sixto Escobar, of América, as for the world bantam- weight title. Escobar is the holder of the title, and Mr.. Dingley, the Glasgow promoter, hopes to stage the fight in is still in negotiation with the Ameri-
[course and received more than his re- between Benny Lynch,' world for light
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