THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 16, 1988.
Mediocre Bowls Card To-day
Kowloon Dock Are Likely To Repeat Earlier Success
INTERESTING RACE IN SECOND DIVISION
(By "SKIP")...
OME weeks the Lawn bowls League is crammed with interest and we have a number of "needle" matches down for de- cision. To-day's list is what I would call one of the "off" days, especially in the First Division, where it should be easy to select the winners in three matches.
True; Civil Service usually give Craigengower a pretty stiff fight, as they did when playing away earlier in the season, but even with the advantage of home surroundings, I cannot see them securing the better of their visitors.
A. M. Omar has regained his form, and will go back as third man to his brother, Tony Gomes reverting to his former position as lead, otherwise the team re- mains unchanged.
The Civil Servants were deprived by the weather last week of an oppor- tunity to try out a new formation, which it is thought by some is stronger than any they have had out this sea- son. They could not have had a bet- ter chance of testing this theory than in to-day's match."
K.C.C. FAVOURED
The second match is that between Kowloon C.C.., and Indian Recreation Club, at Cox's Road. The Kowloon team just beat the Indians, at Sookun-
earlier in the season; and should have no dificulty in tropling the last margin of four shots.
Club de Recreio are at home to the Police, who will be represented by a much-changed team. The Portu-
guese are Bound all through their rinks this season, and I am sure that their visitors will not be able to put a stop to their triumphant run.
There only remains the match be- tween Kowloon Dock and Kowloon Bowling Green Club, in which honours were level when they last met May 28. Though a similar result is very unlikely, I do not think that there
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will be much in it, and the fact that the they are at home may make all difference to the Dock team, who should win narrowly.
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SECOND DIVISION RACE With Kowloon Bowling Green Club hot on the heels of Club de Recreio in
"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY
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The 1940 Olympic
Games
the second Division, chief interest centres in the two matches in which these two clubs are featured. The
J. Bingham's resignation from the Portuguese team visit aikoo and, ale JUST what the final effect of William though one can never be certain when Executive Committee of the American visiting this very fine green, it looks a Olympic Committee and his reasons good thing for Recreio. They have for taking such a step as expressed in their usual strong team on duty, but a rather informal speech at the Boston Taikoo do not appear to be quite up, to Y. M. C. A. recently, is difficult to normal strength,
discern at the present time; but that The Kowloon Bowling Green Club it will be of world-wide importance is
hardly to be questioned..
"SKIP'S" FORECAST. FOR TO-DAY
FIRST DIVISION
(66)
(43) (85)
Civil Service C.C.
Kowloon Cricket Club
Club de Recreio
Kowloon Dock R.C.
(61) vs Craigengower C.C.
*Indian R.C.
(75)
Police R.C.
(50)
Kowloon B.G.C.
SECOND
DIVISION.
Kowloon B.G.C.
Football Club “B”
Craigengower C.C.
Taikoo R.C..
(-)
†Football Club
(---)
(74)
(199
(−) v "Civil Service C.C.
(--).
Police R.C.
(57)
Club de Recreio
(58)
THIRD
DIVISION
Kowloon Football Club
H.K. Electric R.C. Craigengower C.C..........
Football Club “C”
*Denotes promoted team.
(57) v Yacht Club
(54)
()
(80)owloon Cricket Club
(55)
Kowloon Tong G.C.A.
(78)
Club de Recreio
† Denotes relegated team. Figures in brackets denote scores in corresponding match last year.
BRITISH MALT,
BRITISH HOPS,
THERE'S NO FAULT
IN
ALLSOPP'S
Sole Agents:
(98)
will be entertaining the Football Club "A" and buoyed up by a narrow win over this team at Happy Valley som weeks ago, they will begin full of con fidence... They will need to be at their best to retain the points, but I think they can do it...
Craigengower who are also laying handy in the League table, entertain the Police Club, for whom Hollands is turning out as Skip.
In his remarks Mr. Bingham gave out as his reason for withdrawing from, active participation the fact that he did not favour the holding of the games in Japan, and also the fact that the Games had been averted from their original intent-to serve as international sports events for the athletes themselves-not to gerve` as sporting spectacles used for the purpose of spreading international propaganda as well as for military and political purposes. And there are thousands of followers of sports the world over. who will be entirely in sympathy with these views and who will no doubt. play a prominent part in determining the future of the games. What Japan is doing in China is becoming more and more repugnant to the civilised world, and it is difficult to believe that a set of Olympic Games could be held on her soll in 1840 with any degrés of success. True it is that the Gov ernment of Japan has nothing to do. with the running of the Games, and simply · furnishes the site; but, even granting that the current undeclared war is over before 1940, there is practically no chance of that spirit of comradeship which should be a big part of the Olympics being shared by the athletes of the world if the games are held in Tokyo.
be.
Coming to Mr. Bingham's stand that "We are dissipating an ideal in letting the Olympics get into the con- trol, not of athletes, but of those who would use youth for their own pur- poses," there can be no question but that steps must sooner or later taken to curb such a trend and get the Games back to their purpose as conceived by their founder, the late Baron Pierre de Coubertin, From a very simple and satisfactory set of games in Athens in 1896, when the renewal of the ancient games took. place, those countries which have staged the affair since have added to
Kowloon Football Club meet the Yacht Club, at Chatham Hoad, and do not appear to have much to worry about as their full team is available the vastness of the undertaking, ench
PAUL RUNYAN
TO MEET SAM SNEAD
Shawnee on Delaware, To-day; Paul Runyan and Sam Snead, both American Ryder Cup players, will contest the United States fessional Golf Association Cha pionship final as a result of. day's semi-final round matches.
Runyan beat Henry Picard 4 and 3, while Sam Snead, one
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year, until 1886 found Germany, lavish ing great sums of money in the con- struction of buildings and fields never. before equalled, and even surpassing, in every way, the efforts of the United States, at Los Angeles; in 1932,
With-world conditions as they are to-day, it is a very difficult proposi tion trying to look ahead a couple of years to the time when the next Games are due to be held.
Mr. Bingham has simply at- tached a live fuse to a bomb which 18 sure to play a big part in putting the Olympic Games in their place in world affairs:
CURIOUSLY ENOUGH MR BING- HAM'S ACTION IS FOLLOWED BY JAPAN'S DECISION NOT TO HOLD
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VINCENT RICHARDS
BEATS PERRY
At Brisbane, in 1988 D. B. Jardine batted 88 minutes without scoring, which reminded, one of H. L. Collina effort, at Manchester, in 1921-40 runs in 856 minuten) This was the match in which the Hon. L.-H. Tennyson declar Vincent Richards, the American pro-ed the England second innings, closed esional, boat Fred Perry by 6-1, 4-6, illegally, and then W Armstrong exhibition match at Asbury erroneously bowled two overu în auc-
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