1938-05-19 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 19, 1938.

Craigengower

Defeat Recreio Quite Comfortably

Lawn Bowls "B" DIVISION TENNIS AT

(Continued from Page 18) individually too good for the op- position, for whom F. H. Glover at The Number Two, was the best. visiting Skip scored on only five heads.

Bebbington, the old K.C.C. player, took most of the limelight in the game between Nolan and Brooksbank, and that the latter won by as many as a dozen was largely due to his good play. Carey and Tuck peeled, as they call it in Scotland, at nineteen, and Joe Carey had to pull out his best to earn a skip's point. On the 20th head, he was lying three and in endeavouring to add to the count, moved the jack to give a couple away, but by sound play the rink pulled up by a similar score on the last end.

A COINCIDENCE

KING'S PARK ·

C.R.C. AND H.K.C.C. ALSO WIN

RAIGENGOWER Cricket Club gave evidence of their strength in

they defeated a strong Club de Recreio combination by 52 sets to 32, establishing a 2-1 lead in the first round and consolidating their advantage in the second round.

Craigengower have two fairly well-balanced pairings, Joe Leon- ard and G. Choa being the sheet-anchors, and winning their three sets without being fully extended.

FOUR MATCHES

IN "C" DIV. OF LEAGUE TO-DAY

C.R.C. Should Win Away Tie

Four matches will feature

day's

to-

Division Lawn Tennis

Chinese League programme, the

of the Recreation Club, holders title, being away to Craigengower, but should win all the same.

It is likely that the Hong Kong University's match against the Army Tennis Club will be post-

tions.

M. A. Oliveira and L. A. Carvalho poned owing to University examina- (Recreio),

The following are some of to- day's. teams:

0-6

3 6

TO-DAY'S TEAMS

K.C.C.

2-G G. A. White and W. M. Gittins. 3-6 R. S. Capell and B. Soltau.. 6-4

G. Choa has improved his service tremendously and often caught the

lost to J. W. Leonard and G. opposition napping with aces. He

Choa volleyed confidently and brought lost to W. J. Howard and A. Kit- off many glorious passing shots chell The Kowloon Bowling Green down the centre of the court. drew with. G. Lai and R. Choa 6-6 F. J. Remedios and J. J. Remedios Club enjoyed the better of Tai-Leonard was on his usual form,

(Recreio). koo, as I expected, winning on all imparting top-spin to his drives lost to Leonard and Choa rinks, though very narrowly on with much success.

lost to Howard and Kitchell Robert Choa and George Laibeat Lai and Choa one of them. By a coincidence, all the home rinks scored 22, were never quite at ease and shar- L. A. L. Silva and A. M. Rodrigues bridge.

(Recreio). both Drake and Logan against ed the spoils with Oliveira and lost to Leonard and Choa Munro and Stainton, respectively, Carvalho, Recreio's most incon- beat Howard and Kitchell winning by seven shots.

sistent pair, and conceded their beat Lai and Choa Jack Watson played R very good two other matches. Choa served game at second man to Drake, and had well, but failed to follow up his ad- a worthy opponent in McColgan, who was always handy. With the opposi- vantage, while Lai brought off an tion laying quite a few at the fifth occasional

winner at the net

VERY STEADY

head, Drake got in a lovely shot to flick with an angle volley. the jack sideways to a bunch of his own woods and count five. A good

effort.

He had not scored up to then, but the effort seemed to put more ambition

opposition

6-1 6-41

C.R.C. WIN AT HOME

In the "B" Division of the Tennis League yesterday, Chinese Recreation Club beat Civil Service C. C. by 8 sets- to 1.

Y. W. Lee and F. Kwok (C.R.C.). beat J. R. Pengelly and I. Aga-

furoff

Howard and A. Kitchell were

6--2 into his team and they never looked very steady throughout their three

beat J. Bendell and B. Aga- back, despite very fine work by Munro, matches, meeting with strongest furoff

6-4 who was always saving the situation.

from the Remedios beat W. Carver and F. Sloan 6--1 "Jock" Logan was always in the lead

-S. W. Liang and D. S., Sze (C.R.C.). against Tom Stainton, and it was as brothers, whom they beat after a

lost to Pengelly and Agafuroff 3—–6 well that his men were on form or they spirited encounter.

beat Bendell and Agafuroff. 6-0 would have been in queer street as both For Recreio, L. A. L. Silva and beat Carver and Sloan..

6-1 Pollock, at second man, and Stainton A. M. Rodrigues were the best P. F. Choy and K. C. Ng (C.R.C.). were playing excellently.

Keown and Meyer had a rare tussle pair. Silva, although playing well beat Pengelly and Agafuroff with the latter just emerging the vic-in patches, was very erratic at beat Bendell and B. Agafuroff

beat Carver and Sloan tory by the barest margin. After lead times, at the net, and was seen to ing for most of the way, the Taikoo best advantage at midcourt or at

man. took the lead at the, 19th head!

Then the home side to get a couple of the baseline Rodrigues is improv- singles to pull the game out of the fire. ing by leaps and bounds. He drove

IN WINNING VEIN-

The Kowloon Football Club continu-

H.K.C.C. WIN AWAY FROM HOME

+

D. J. N. Anderson and F. A. Broad-

K. TONG G.C.A.

K. H. Chan and W. Wu, O. L. Pang and F. Y. Mok. H. Ling and K. Lam.

C.R.C.

To be selected from Iu Tak-lam, Lau Fook-ki, Hon Lum-fung, La Siu- Tsang leung, Leung Ping-chiu and Cheung-nin.

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CRAIGENGOWER

W. Rapley and D. Hung. T. Lock and A. Kitchell.

A. R. H. Esmail and G. Winch.

TO-DAY'S TENNIS PROGRAMME

The following is to-day's pro gramme in the "C" Division of the Lawn Tennis League:

H.K.U.T.C. C.C.C.

V.

A.T.C. V. C.R.C.

64

I.R.C.

64

K.C.C.

V.

V.

6-3

well on both hands, but was-at-his At King's Park, Hong Kong Cricket ed in winning vein, in the Third Divi-best at the net, where he tucked Club beat Kowloon Indian Tennis Club sion, at King's Park, where they over away high and low balls for win-by b sets to 24. came Recreio by quite a useful margin, ners.

The

Remedios

I

brothers took

two of their rinks being up. Field Carvalho and Oliveira will have went into the lead in the Skip's table to improve considerably if they by means of a seven shot win over Charlie Roza-Pereira, and both he and hope to obtain any success in the was very Bob Hall, as second man, were playing League. The former a good game.

erratic and threw away many Joe Gibson was eight up on Rosario points by attempting volleys on and worth it, Young Lapsley doing use- ful leading work for him. The only balls which would have gone out the court, while the latter's home win was that of Eddie Souza, of who just had the better of a redoubt-backhand failed him miserably. able opponent in Adam Holland, who had Tommy Fergusson as his chief as- sistant. Quite an encouraging debut some time to find their form and then the majority of winners came from "J. J." who proved much the Kowloon Tong won on two rinks to more reliable of the two. beat Kowloon Cricket Club by ninel In another match at Causeway Bay of trim in securing the spoils against Chinese Recreatión Club had little Carr,

difficulty in taking both points off Harry Gittins had an erstwhile First the Civil Servants. Division player in Atienza, as his third man, and the old Craigengower player

for the "big fellah".

IN BEST OF TRIM

shots, Spary, I believe being in the best

lent valuable assistance, especially in fent in the first game of the season, the gaining of a couple of fives. The followed up their previous away win scoring was very changeable in the with a 10 shots victory, at home, over game, between Tony Basto and Bob Marks, for after scoring five in the first Craigengower juniors, who appeared two heads, the home team were blank-to have a strong team out.

14.

Trengove's men did most of the ed until their opponents had run up to damage as they were well up on Pau, although Joe Beach also helped with a narrow win, after a tight struggle with Alves

FORMIDABLE QUARTETTE Although the Electricians had the

biggest win in the Third Division; it H. H. Pegg, making his debut as was mostly a one-man show as de skip, was not so successful, but it was Rome had 16 of the 20 by which his a couple of threes on the last two sirle won. He had Paul, at Number heads that made Medina's lead one of Three, and this nair following un ac eight shots. ful work by McKay and Stopani Thom. son, formed a formidable combination. Muskett preserved his unbeaten record (with an entirely different. team from the two previous wasten).

“

H.K.F.C.

C. G. Sollis, R. Edwards, R. Fitches

by a narrow win over Brown, whilst and J. Pegg (skip). Sloan pulled Un remarkably wel!

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S. A. Mansell, A. Steven, S. Cres- after being 12 down, to pip Murdoch soy and V. Walker (skip). on the post.

A. M. Didsbury, A. Thomson, J. The Hong Kong Football Club, hav-Skinner and R. A. Trengove (skip).

First Reserve:--G. E. Smith. Ing fully recovered from their big de-

S. A. Hussain and S. S. Hussain (K.I.T.C.). beat A. C. I. Bowker and B. O'M.

Dean

beat J. J. Ferguson and F. E.

Storcy beat W. M. Barton and T. C. Mo-

naghan Firdos Khan and (K.I.T.C.).

M. A.

lost to Bowker and Dean drew with Ferguson and Storey lost to Barton and Monaghan

S. R. Salleh and Gurbachan

(K.I.T.C.).

lost to Bowker and Dean lost to Ferguson and Storey lost to Barton and Monaghan

6-1

S.C.A.A. K.T.G.C.A.

I.R.C. TROUNCED BY

S. CHINA

At. Sookunpoo, South China Athletic Association beat the Indian Recreation Club by 9 sets to nil.

S. A. Ismail and J. S. A. Cureem. (I.R.C.). 6-2 lost to H. T. Bee and H. Y. Kho 4-6 2-6 lost to J. Hsu and K. Ng 6-0 lost to K. H. Lee and N. K. Ma 2—6

A. Khan

R. Kitchell and A. Rahmin (I.R.C.). 3-6 lost to Bee and Kho 6-6lost to Hsu and Ng 3-6 lost to Lee and Ma

and S. A. R. Bux Singh'

(I.R.C.). 4-6 lost to Bee and Kho 06 lost to Hsu and Ng 2-6 lost to Lee and Ma

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