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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 16, 1988.

YORKSHIRE'S BRILLIANT VICTORY

"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY

Burk's Amazing Sculling

Lancashire Routed By Verity

SPIN BOWLER TAKES FIVE WICKETS FOR TEN RUNS

(By AIR MAIL)

LONDON, AUGUST 3. 14TH CHAMPIONSHIP WIN OF THE SEASON

YORKSHIRFOLLOW VICTORY OVER LANCASHIRE, AT OLD

The following is the programme for the first week of Hong Kong Football League which begins Saturday,

on

September 24.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

First

South China Diving Wah

(Caroline Hill, 445 p.m.)

v Kowloon Royal Navy

(Causeway Bay, 4.45 p.m.)

v .Club

TRAFFORD YESTERDAY, BY AN INNINGS AND 200 RUNS.

Changed wicket conditions which were primarily responsible for a precipitous collapse did not absolve Lancashire from criticism Middlesex

a feeble performance.

for

Heavy rain during the night completely altered the nature Eastern of the pitch, and Verity was in his clement. He sent back five of the remaining batsmen for 10 runs in 15 overs.

Henley Regatta of 1938 will not be one of those regattas that will linger long in the memory of oarsmen or lovers of rowing, for there were very The few outstanding performances. three best, undoubtedly, were Radley's victory in the Ladies' Plate; the race between London and Jesus College in the semi-final of the Grand Challenge for they began requiring 251

Lancashire faced a hard task,

Cup, and J. W. Burk's amazing form runs to avert defeat by an in- FIRST WEEK'S

in

the Diamond Sculls.

Burk's performance may cause anings. Apart from Paynter, who

wholesale.

revision of our

sculling scored 58 out of a total of 120, FOOTBALL ideas. His style was a complete none of the batsmen was able to

revelation to British scullers, who are surmount the handicap of the PROGRAMME

awkward turf. Paynter, except DRAWN UP

taught to swing and scull with a long Burk, however, sweeping stroke. was rigged so far forward that his for five minutes, defied Yorkshire body never went beyond the perpendi- for the whole time the innings cular, so that he had practically no swing, and he propelled his boat along lasted-two hours and forty min- dozen by

short utes, and he hit half means of very quick and strokes. His finish was a powerful boundaries. one, and it kept his boat running all the time.

a

THIRD DIVISION SECTIONS

(Sookunpoo, 4.45 p.m.)

·

v Police (Club, 4.45 p.m.) Second Division

V Eastern

(Sookunpoo, 3.15 p.m.)

v Club

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Middlesex

Kowloon

Engineers

Ordnance

Altogether the nine wickets The meeting of football secretar- There was no "fading out" with

51 runs

in ies was held in the offices of Messrs. Burk this year, for the American yesterday fell for went off the mark, sculling at the ninety minutes, Paynter getting Lo and Lo yesterday and was pre- remarkable rate of forty-four strokes 30. He was dismissed by a ris-sided over by Mr. Wong Ka-tsun, in the first minute, and in the final

Chairman of the Management Com- against Habbitts he never let his rate ing ball from Bowes.

mittee. fall below 40. Such an average has never before been recorded in a scull- Ing race in this country, and naturally Burk won all of his races with greatest of ease, He established a new record for the course of 8 min. 2 sec., and those figures are likely to stand for years to come, unless Burk returns next year and has ideal con- ditions again. What he would do if he was pressed can only be surmised, for when he broke the record ho actually passed the winning post 51

sec. ahead of Habbitts.

the

Verity turned the ball ap- preciably from a tantalising length, and proved practical- ly unplayable. His figures for the match were seven wic- kets for 66.

Police

(Kowloon, 4.45 p.m.)

v Kwong Wah

(Club, 3.15 p.m.)

V

South China (Caroline Hill, 3.15 p.m.)

V St. Joseph's (St. Joseph's, 4.45 p.m.) Third Division "A" Section

v Electric

Kitchee

Stanley

University

(Navy, 3.15 p.m.)

y Royal Scots (Military, 3.15 p.m.)

v 30th Royal Artillery (St. Joseph's, 8.15 p.m.) Engineers (C.). v P. W. D.

Navy, Happy Valley, 4.45 p.m.) |Service Corps v South China

Bye: 5th A.A. Bde. R.A.

(Military, 4.45 p.m.) Third Division "B" Section

V Stonecutters

Wireless Stn. (Chatham Road, 3.15 p.m.) Kumaon Rifles v Air Force

20th. R.A.

(Chatham Road,.4.45 p.m.) Amateur Sporting

Association

Twenty-one teams had entered for the Third Division and in order to accommodate the clubs as far as Signals possible in saving travelling penses, the seven teams with head-24th R.A quarters in Kowloon were drafted

.

ex-

V

Powhatten (Kowloon, 3.15 p.m.) v Medicals (Prince Edward Road, 3.15 p.m.) v Engineers (E.) (Prince Edward Road, 4:45 p.m.) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

.4 First Division

South China "A" (Sookunpoo, 4.45′ p.m.)

It was the first occasion since into one section, while a draw was 1909 that either side

V had suc-made from the other teams to com-Royal Scots ceeded in defeating the other plete this section, and resulted in St. Joseph's drew a bye. twice in a season. This summer the Medicals, Powhatten and En- Yorkshire won at Bradford by gineers playing in this section. Royal Scots v 5th A.A. Bde. R.A. eight wickets,

The following teams are in the

the vision:-

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It is difficult to recall a more po pular victory at the regatta than that gained by. Radley College in the Ladies' Plate. When Radley passed the post over a length ahead of Pem- broke College there was a remark Corpus Christi and Pembroke in able demonstration..

last two hundred-yards of the course Radley had been competing in thea great feat for schoolboys. Ladies Plate ever since 1861, but this It is perhaps just as well that chee, Electric, Royal Scots, Stan-

Second Division

(Sookunpoo, 3.15 p.m.)

different sections of the Third Di-TWO SINGLES

"A" Section (Hong Kong), Kit- BOWLS GAMES

was the first occasion they had won | Radley have such a fine crew this ley, Engineers (C), 30th Battery POSTPONED the coveted trophy. They had only year, for they are leaving for Ameri- R.A., P.W.D., Service Corps, South been in the final on five previous ca, in the very near future to repay

occasions, in 1866, 1867, 1882, 1884, the visits of Kent School, and they China University and 5th A.A. Bdeberio, the lawn bowls games between Owing to the death of Mr. J. S. Ri-

C. M. Silva and L. F. Xavier, and H.

and 1893, and on the first four occa- will meet the American school in the R.A.

sions there were never more than United States. The meeting of the "B" Section (Kowloon), 20th A. Alves and J. Luz which were sche- four crews in the event. This year winners of the Ladies Plate and the Battery R.A., Stonecutters Wireless duled for to-day, will be played to- there were twenty-five, 80 that Thames Cup should be worth going

morrow on the Kowloon Bowling Green Radley's triumph was, something they many miles to see. In addition to Station, Kumaon Rifles, Air Force, Club. might well be proud of. The crew racing with Kent School, Radley will Amateur Sporting Association,] The only games to-day are between rowed magnificently throughout their compete in other school races, so that Signals, Medicals, races, and their final spurt along the Americans will have the opportunity R.A. Powhatten and

24th Battery J. V. Ramsey and E. C. Fincher, at Enclosure was simply devastating. of seeing the leading British rowing

Engineers Kowloon Football Club, and T. Cole- They gained over a length on both school of the year.

(Chinese).

man against A. Hyde-Lay, at Club de Recreio

**

irday, August