Excellent Bowls Witnessed
KOWLOON DOCK WORTHY WINNERS. AGAINST C.S.C.C.
HUNG HOM MATCH DESCRIBED IN DETAIL
CIVIL SERVICE JUNIORS IN
DIRE STRAITS
(By. "SKIP")
"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY
An Abundance Of Umpires
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to
took place, beginning with a very good five, McKelvie's four went into a lead of shots which had increased to 10 by the twentieth head. Joe Fraser put up two lovely woods at the 11th end, both counting, whilst after draw- ing the first on the next end, Sim- well. monds robbed him by trailing Lying two when the third man went
That England has been able to bowl on the last head, Fraser tried appoint soven umpires to act in the twice to block, whilst Simmonds after first four Tests shows how well off the failing to save with his first, asked Old Country is in the number of to be allowed to burn the head with first-class highly-experienced umpires. what would be his "last wood in the These are mainly drawn from former First Division"!
first-class professional cricketers.
Chester In the first Test Frank (Worcestershire) and Emmett Robin- son (Yorkshire), acted. In the Lord's (Warwick- match were E. J. Smith
(Northamp- shire) and F. Walden
At Sheffield, A. 'Dolphin Drawing steadily, the Dock team tonshire.
(Essex) up five, McKelvie putting (Yorkshire) and W. Reeves couple of these in himself in an effort and at Leeds were Frank Chester and Frank Chester, of Worcestershire, in front of the kitty. Randle failed to block the short wood about a foot "Tiger" Smith. to save with his first one, but with is an established umpire of interna- his last, sent up, as he said, more in tional standing, 42 years of age, and a The modern Bob Thoms a spirit of desperation than of optim- personality. ism, he broke up the whole head to in efficiency, without the little per- carry the jack to five of his own sonal idiosyncrasies of Thoms.
Randle acquiescing, he came up on to with a couple of pounds spring the jack over the string! And what a head the replayed one was!
Although the Lawn Bowls League season is drawing to a close, we are still being provided with a number of surprises, the chief one of which last Saturday was the defeat of the Craigen- gowers second team at the hands of Football Club "A". The result places the former out of the race for promotion or for the runners- up position and places the victors in a fairly safe position as re-piled gards relegation.
Although tipped the Electricians to beat Kowloon Football Club, I did not expect the margin to be so great, nor did it seem like
That he ly that W. V. Field would lose his 100 per cent. record. should do so at the hands of W. H. B. Muskett merely shows the uncertainties of the game.
A "possible" was scored by J. S. Howell co-runner-up in the Open Pairs, his assistants being D. W. Phillips, A. W. Hodges and J. Russell. The opposition which allowed them to secure the John Haig Whisky comprised S. Leon- ard, E. Zimmern, W. Ward and W. K. Way, but the latter's team subsequently won by a few shots.
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"SKIP'S" FORECAST FOR SATURDAY.
Police Recreation Club
Craigengower C.C.
*Football Club “A”
Police Recreation Club
Taikoo Recreation Club
.(85)
(--)
FIRST DIVISION
(36)
v. Kowloon Dock R.C.
SECOND DIVISION
(-) v †Civil Service C.C.
. (~)
.(35)
V
Club de Recreio
THIRD DIVISION
Craigengower C.C.
(58)
V
R.H.K. Yacht Club
(61)
at
* Denotes promoted team. + Denotes relegated team.
Figures in brackets denote scores in corresponding match last year.
The Civil Service C.C., as a result of their defeat at the hands of Kowloon Dock, will-be win relegated, whilst only against the Craigengower team on the latter's green will save their second team from secur- ing the unenviable "second-leg of the double.”
TENSE ATMOSPHERE
their favour.
SENSATIONAL.
no
be
TRANSFORMATION
The first head in the game tween Sam Randle and Jock McKelvie was a sensational one, as the visiting skip saved a six-count by resting on well. the Kitty with his very, last wood, which looked as it was going to be narrow. A
Fraser put in a good, shot for Me- couple of heads and chalked Kelvic on the next, head, but Randle brace of twos to secure a lead of saved again; McKelvie with his last three shots. Then the transformation wood drove the jack which rebound- in which Joe Fraser had a big part;
W
(79)
home go
It was Thoms who puzzled George Aus- Giffen as a colt, with the 1882 tralian Eleven, George appealed for a catch at the wickets and the reply in a sharp piping voice was "Get on 'with the game."
To a leg-before-wicket appeal, "Not out within a furlong." was piped creakily.
The older hands in the Australian team notably Billy Murdoch, the cap- tain, were highly amused by George's confusion..Eventually Thoms ejaculat- ed with a chuckle "Neck and Neck and crop!" when the middle peg would have been hit but for part obstruction.
стор
Frank Chester has one arm, legacy from the war. Like his col- cricket. league he played first-class
has the And, like Bob Thoms, he absolute confidence of the Australians. Emmett Robinson became a first- He class umpire only last season. played twelve years for Yorkshire, and was one of the humorists of the eleven.
on He secured close
900 wickets for the country in first-class cricket. Robinson is 58 years of age. Notts was his first big match as um- pire.....
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Question Of Golf "Seeding"
A tense atmosphere prevailed Hung Hom when the Civil Servants commenced their and Kowloon Dock vital struggle and with the scoring being both close and low, one could al- of all the most sense the anxiety
ed to give the visitors three instead, woods at the back! Ten shots differ- five heads, players. All square at
A GREAT HEAD then again round about eight ends, of the singleton they were counting; ence with one drive! McKelvie levelled the scores with a Fred Cullen was there were prospects at that stage of an unjust reward for a good shot.
always leading |
in which a close finish, but the Dock team had
four on the next head, taking the Jack Hollidge in a game
although different ideas and by piling. up
A question of international signi- less than 17 shots in the next two Jack through nicely, but Randle was the skips were prominent,
in the best of the eight players, was ficance debated rather often since again a little later prominent heads, virtually clinched the match in drawing the shot with the Dock lying. Alec Calman, leading for the
the British amateur championship
Should took place is:
competitors In the next, a patchy head all the side. His new woods seemed to
for this four front men were short, but Glen just where he wanted them to, and from abroad be "seeded" Cooper placed one in the draw which with very few exceptions he had Warr event as they are in say, the Vim- lawn tennis championships? turned out to be the eventual counter, well beaten. Sherriff sent up a very bledon
draw both Fraser and McKelvie blocking fine shot on the third head when the You may remember that the
homesters were counting three and
was decidedly unkind to the Ameri- followed this up by blocking well on cans this year.. For.no fewer than Randle's men did, better in the next the next ́end, only to ace Cullen put five found themselves all bunched to--
up a wonderful wood for a shot which
gether in one quarter. A coinci- was faced with equal aidill by Jack dence which certainly looked *
as if Hollidge, who counted a singleton. A it minimised America's prospects of great hond!
maintaining the tradition of recent The sixth head was not so good as years that, whenever a U. S. Walker far as the early men were concerned, Cup team is in Britain, a member but Cullen drew a nice shot, as he did of it wins the British amateur cham- on the subsequent head to lay three pionship. Jess Sweetsor set that before Hollidge came up to save a tradition agoing in 1920. couple. Alec Calman had two touch- been carried on, uninterruptedly since ers on this particular head, but Warr then by Bobby Jones, Lawson Little laid the shot when Deakin drew aand Charlie Yates, second, only for. Houston, who had After all, the United States Golf not been good up to then, to beat him Association" "seeds" foreign partici to it. Deakin followed by bumping pants in American tournaments, and Warr in for shot, and Colemant did it is rather hard to see any very "good likewise with Houston's wood. Cullen reason why this considerate treatment with a pound on, removed Warr's should not be reciprocated by the wood and the fourth shot to count championship committee of the Royal four, Hollidge saving half these as I and Ancient Club. have noted.
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What with the acquisition of the Sherriff had a couple of good shots Walker Cup at long last and the dis- a head or two later, both counting at covery of a new and most convincing the finish, whilst he carried the jack boy wonder" in the person of James at the 17th end a lucky wick) to Bruen, this has proved to be a lay 8 shots, which Cullen obligingly in singularly satisfactory season for creased by bumping up another wood. British amateur golfers. Bruen The home skip retrieved himself at studied closely throughout his singles the next end, however, when with the match with Yates, in the Walker Cup Civil Servants counting at least four, competition cannot accurately be des ho drew the first shot. ::
IN GREAT STYLE
cribed as a pretty golfer; but he is a most affective one. And a seething J. C. Brown, pitted against J. crowd bustling all around him, in McGowan, began in great style by eagerness to see shots from close trailing the jack on the first head to range does not worry him in the aligh-
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