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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 21, 1988.

LAST SATURDAY'S MANY UPSETS

CIVIL SERVICE AND TAIKOO WERE MAINLY RESPONSIBLE

RECREIO ALMOST CERTAIN OF SENIOR TITLE

(By “SKIP")

The honours in last Saturday's Bowls League-programme went to the Civil Service Cricket Club for their great, if narrow, win against Craigenġower. In a game which was in many ways similiar to their match earlier in the season, in which Craigengower pulled up nearly two dozen shots to snatch a close victory, the Civil Ser- vants playing at home this time were able to hold on and won out by a single shot.

Their visitors were actually 17 to the bad on the 10th head, and strove valiantly to make up the deficit. It was left to Taikoo to provide the next biggest, surprise in the Second Division, as they were able to overcome the strong Club de Recreio team at Quarry Bay. The Civil Servants also upset things a little by beating the Football Club "B" team, away, whilst Kowloon Cricket Club juniors achieved a smart performance in securing the better of the Elec- tricians at Ming Yuen.

The defeat of Craigengower] meant much to Club de Recreio who, with only three more mat- ches to play, are 4 points ahead of their nearest rivals, the Kow- loon Cricket Club, surprise team of the year.

Although it is perhaps just a shade too early to acclaim Recreio as Cham- pions again, nothing but a miracle

"SKIP'S" FORECAST FOR SATURDAY

Craigengower C.C.

Kowloon Cricket Club ......(58) · v

*Indian R.C.

Kowloon B.G.C.

Taikoo R.C.

Craigengower C.C.

(-) Club do Recreio

V

FIRST DIVISION ..(53) v Kowloon Dock R.C.

Civil Servicò C.C.

(66)

(48)

(72) v Police R.C.

(54)

SECOND DIVISION

.(—) ▼ *Civil Service C.C.

.(80)

v Football Club “B”

.(47)

V

Club de Recreio:

..(64)

V

Kowloon B.G.C.

(55)

THIRD

.(54)

+Football Club “A” ...................(---)

Police R.C.

DIVISION

(70) V Kowloon Football Club

H.K. Football Club

+Kowloon Cricket Club

(-) V

Yacht Clo

Club de Recreio

(68)

v Kowloon Tong G.C.A.

.(57)

H.K. Electric R.C.

(68)

4

v · Craigengower C.C.

.(49)

* Denotes promoted team.

† Denotes relegated team. Figures in brackets denote scores in corresponding match last year.

Jimmy Hyde had the biggest win in this match against the Indians and a six early in the game chiefly account- ed for his 8 shots victory.

turn

With Hughie Nish unable to out, a substitute în Jones was played did can rob then of the honour, for it Kowloon Bowling Green Club never and he pulled his weight well as must be remembered that they will had anything to worry about in their Bob Craig. Hyde was also in pretty continue their interrupted match match against Kowloon Docks.

good form whilst Bakar and Dallah against the Kowloon Bowling Green Joe Meyer had the biggest win in proved the best of the losing rink. Club with a lead of nearly a dozen opposition to Johnny Brown; none of Ernie Kern, for whom Mulcahy was shots!

whose rink members were up

to quite outstanding, had some anxious standard. Norman and Hosking did moments before he emerged the win- well for the visitors before tea, but ner by the lowest margin against fell off later, but Hall was good all A.K. Minu. Leading by 16-4 at the through and positively brilliant half-way stage he was able to score occasion.

only 4 more shois whilst his adversary came along strongly to score 15 in the same period.

on

INTENSE EXCITEMENT The excitement was intense towards the finish of the Civil ServiceCral gengower match and the final thrills came in the game between Bradbury and Randle: With Basa all square Bob Duncan and "Jock" McKelvie with McGowan, and Hollidge one up had a peculiar game as after running on U.M. Omar, Craigengower had an into a lead of 11 shots to 1, the visi- advantage of one shot when there tor was over-taken momentarily, but were. 2 heads to go in the game I came back with a rush to score on all have mentioned, Bradbury being 2 up remaining six ends, on his opponent.

Macfar-

REVELLED IN IT The home skip was lying two when Frank Cheesman laid the foundation Bradbury came up and rested the for Ernie Lines' narrow win over Fred shot: Randle with deadly accuracy Cullen as he played a great game as faced out this wood out from the lead against Victor Ramsay. back hand to square the scores. lane and Guy were also rolling up On the next head Simmonds, the some good woods with the result that third man, drew a beautiful shot al-the position was usually very much most into the jack: Coates, who had against Cullen when his turn to bowl beon deadly all the afternoon just came. missed it whilst Randle did his best to

And he just revelled in the situation, block.

Although not quite successful, saving big counts on several occasions he did enough to make Bradbury migs and doing all that could be expected of the objective by the barest margin him. Tom Coleman gave him most with his two woods, both of which support, but was not up to his best looked winners. McGowan after great start went off a little towards.

a game,

PRESERVED HIS RECORD

shots.

AGAIN THE STAR TURN - Winning on two rinks, Club de Re- creio secured a nice victory over the Police, at King's Park, F. X. Silva's rink of whom C: G. Silva was in great form, again proved the star four as they won by over a dozen Joe Carey's men had the smallest lead after half a dozen ends, but then his opponents chalked up no less than 20 without reply to make victory a cer tainty, although the visitors had the better of the remaining heads.

and

re-

OPEN SINGLES LAWN BOWLS RESULTS

The following were the results of games played yesterday in the First Round of the Open Singles Lawn Bowls Championship:--

LF: Xavier beat T. Armstrong 12-6 on the 20th head A. Spary beat A. K. Minu 21-10 on the 20th head. F. X. Silva beat J. Smith 21-18 on the 24th head. C. Dowman beat §. Randle 21-15 on the 26th head.

LAWN BOWLS TEAMS FOR SATURDAY

K.D.R.C.

A. M. Calman, M. Ferguson, J. V. Ramsay and J. C. Brown (Skip).

T. Mason, J. Revie, H. G. Cooper and J. McKelvie (Skip).

J. Kempton, R. Lapsley, T. Coleman and F. Cullen (Skip).

·

K.F.C.

This win was enough to carry the A. Eastman, V. Petherick, C. Cham-. match as Dick Alves went down to pelovier and T. Fergusson (Skip). George Moss and Luz only just had

T. Lapsley, J. Smalley, V. Chittenden the better of Post-The-Portuguese and J. Gibson (Skip). player was in his best form and played T. White, R. Hall, C. Turney and W. some really masterly woods to make Field (Skip). his win possible. Wally Mair was the hero of the Alves-Moss game the finish and Basa was able to count Although in arrears at the 16th never delivered a bad wood, doing as

heads. a dozen shots in the final six heads to head. on which M.R. Abbas-scored a

he was asked with astounding

May also had an easy passage make victory a possibility.

in overcoming Bill Hollands. Marcus nice four, Teddy Fincher came along gularity. Hollidge and Ómar had a very close with a great spurt to preserve his un-

KEOWN'S RINK DID IT

Sousa and Teddy Booker had a more game with the former emerging vic-| heaten record. Willie Hyde proved a Taikoo did a useful thing in beating evenly contested game with Randall tor by that valuable single shot. It worthy substitute for Silkstone, and Club de Recreio by a couple of shots being the most prominent player on is noticeable that the home team scored was usually having the better of D.M. and so upened up the Second Division the winning side. on only eight heads,, but that they had Khan, whilst Tommy Madar, as, se-

a little.. They had Dick Keown to The Civil Servants Burprised by a couple of nap hands amongst them, cond man, outshone his namesake, thank for the victory as his was the putting it across the Football Club which is pretty good "fishing.". Minu was very useful to Abbas and only rink to win, their 7 shots margin"B" team in no uncertain,

whilst the latters "A" team went down HAD NO WORRY

frequently improved matters, but un-being enough to carry the day. Twenty five shots to the good after til the last few heads Fincher, had one match and his one object in life seemed by a bare half dozen shots, to place Gillies was in devasting mood in this to the Kowloon Howling Green Club only six heads had been played, the of his very infrequent "off"

days.

to be to remove Machado's many fine the victors at the head of affairs for woods from the proximity of the kitty:

the time being. B in this he succeeded admirably, Keown, himself was also good, with his oppo- site man possibly the best of the home rink...

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SAVED BIG TALLY

B. Basto had a margin of 4 shots against D. Munro but in his anxiety to secure a big count on the last head, he gave Munro an opportunity to bump up for shot, a wood which should have been guarded. Basto was actually counting a nap hand when the Taikoo player saved the big tally.

"FIND" OF SEASON

F. X. Soares had to fight hard for his points against Tom Stainton and just succeeded in scraping home by a singleton. Both his lead and third man were off their game, but Charlie Silva was brilliant as Number Two.

manner,

“SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS” In the Third Division, Kowloon Foot- ball Club continued to "slaughter the innocents" and just failed to equal their record of a 50 shot victory against the Yacht Club, which they achieved against this team earlier in the season. Joe Gibson, ably assisted by Vic Chit- tonden, had the major position of the win, his margin being 24 shots, pr

The Kowloon Cricket Club were not expected to have much chance against the Electricians but they achieved a good performance in bringing" away the spoils, although there was only one in it. Jack Hirst, was skipping again and I hear gave a very good account of himself, whilst his first men were always doing something useful.

Bert Muskett secured a count of six This young player is the "ind of against Jimmy Jack near the end of the season" and the way he went the game, but could not save the about his task of eliminating U. M. match. Club de Recreio beat the Omar from the Open Singles on Craigengower third team on all three Tuesday, was simply astounding. rinks, Charlie Roza Pereira, with

A BIG DEFEAT-S

eight shots to the good, having the The Police collapsed badly against best result. Although Walker was seconds and went down able to tie with Kowloon Tong's-lea. Cavanagh" claiming | ding skip, Spary, the other two Foot- opposition to Me ball rinks fared badly, on their own on only five of the ground.

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