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Dreadful light and dull depres- sing weather did not make for sparkling cricket last Saturday but there were some bright spots.

At the Valley, Craigengower and Civil Service managed some high scoring, and it was sufficiently close at the end to make matters fairly

interesting.

Congratulations to A. R. H. Esmail on his century-the first he has ever made to my recollection. I hear it was quite a good effort. Esmail completely dominated the scoring, next highest contributor being Rapley with 19. Taking full advantage of bowling described as

RECRUIT FOR H.K.C.C.

A new recruit to H.K.C.C., due to arrive in the Colony shortly, is Peter Camterpher a fast-medium right-hand bowler who swings the ball well.

Camterpher is said to be well up to Interport standard.

mediocre, Esmail was very severe on anything short of a length-and there was quite a bit of it. His most profitable scoring stroke was fierce hook which netted him any

amount of runs.

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ESMAIL'S

L. T. RIDE another useful inning.

Played

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later than is his wont, was not out stand and then taking 7 wickets for with 13.

44. Only R. Ho and H. G. Asome managed double-figures for the schoolboys.

Miserable Match

It was miserable over at K.C.C.

the

following his return from leave and made 60 over which my informant was most enthusiastic. Feature of and this probably accounted for the his innings was his uncanny ability miserable manner in which to place the ball through the small-match fizzled out.

Kowloon batted first on a very est gaps with the greatest of ease and while he rarely had fair wicket and once again failed. a really good beat at the ball Ernie Fincher made a nice 27 but his perfect timing netted him nine he apart, there was very little in the boundaries.

innings to recall K.C.C.'s reputation for powerful batting.

Wicket-keeper Warr did very well towards the latter end of the bat- ting order and his 31 not out was an extremely useful contribution.

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At King's Park Club de Recreio made a valiant effort to get the 118 runs set them by H, K. C. C. Juniors and only fell short by 5 runs.

Feature of this match was the brilliant wicket-keeping of G. S. Lovett who had three stumpings and did not concede an extra.

For H.K.C.C., S. J. Cooke and C. W. E. Bishop both got twenties, E. A. R. Alves, taking four of their wickets for 37 runs.

Thanks to useful innings by A. E. Noronha, A, V. Gosano, F. H. Car- valho and M. Mendonca, Recreio got go-close but not quite close enough and H.K.C.C. emerged deserving win- ners.

Special mention must be made,.. however, of G. A: White, who, on one of his rare appearances, went in No. 10, made a more than use- At Chater Road, Recreio per- ful 11 not out, and later, took a formed very creditably against

well-judged catch in the deep. A. R. Minu was well-nigh H.K.C.C. Almost without exception, Recreio's acknowledged bats came playable and he kept one end off and a declaration was made, ing throughout while bowling 21 when the very comfortable total of overs, seven of which were maidens, 168 for 8 had been compiled. To to take seven wickets for 43 runs. this score, Eddie Gosano, and E. M. L. Soares made 49 and 38 respec- tively after Doc. Rodrigues and

good start. Willie Reed had given the side a

In bad light with a thick haze and accurate bowling by Robbie Lee and Lloyd, I.R.C. never looked like getting the runs but 52 for 6, handicaps notwithstanding, is not the type of score one expects from a team which has been joint cham- pions for two years having regard to the amount of time they had to

bat.

Bond, with his left-handers, got some wickets for H.K.C.C. at last, while L. A. R. Duncan, who has not played very much in recent years, having been in Foochow, took 2 for 1.

Police Unlucky

Owen Hughes, as is quite usual these days, was the only bowler who

Police R. C. were unfortunate in could do anything with the ball

not being able to force a definite de- the result was 4 for 32 in 11 overs.

cision against C.S.C.C., Carey and Beck was erratic as was Longfield

Stephens were both in fine form Only perceptible chance he gave the other speed merchant.

Lloyd bowled better than I have with the bat and a declaration was was, strangely enough, when he was Eddie Gosano was

seen him bowl this season. again to the

He made at 187 for 5. He tien eturned afore when Cricket Club batted.

kept pegging them down about fierce drive to bowler, Perry which | Bowling magnificently he returned

a foot short of a length and as he the latter just failed to freeze on the very fine analysis of

made the ball lift off the pitch to.

90.

Fine Innings

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L. T. Ride and Alec Pearce both For Civil Service, "Dicky" Ric-got twenties and Owen Hughes 16 hardson really got down to things not out, while Kilbee, batting much

THIS IS

BURGUNDY WEATHER

WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND

OUR FINE SELECTION OF

VINTAGE BURGUNDIES

THE QUALITY AND EXCELLENCE

OF THESE WINES-BEING

UNSURPASSED IN HONG KONG.

CALDBECK'S

"BY ADREM"

with some speed, he was most dif- cult to get away.

Only I.R.C. batsman who made any effort to use his feet was A. H. Madar and it was fortunate for K.C.C. that he was dismissed before he had an opportunity to settle down.

Promising Youth

This total was far too good for the Civil Servants and had not veteran P. D. Crawley and R. Paige been associated in a fine stand near the end, there is little doubt Police would have won.

I am told that Pope, in tak- ing 6 for 25, bowled magni- ficiently and was almost un- playable.

Central British School put up a fine show against Navy 2nd. XI and it was not the fault of young Pryde that they did not win. Navy batted first and L/S Smith contributed 62 runs to the total of 149 for 7 which they put together.

Pryde then batted pluckily for School and carried his bat for a dour 58 out of the total of 125 for 5 which was as far as the school- boys had got when stumps were

I was impressed by the batting of K. M. Rumjahn a youth just out drawn. of school. He went in first and though his scoring strokes were limited, he showed a defence that

CLUB-MIDDLESEX HOCKEY GAME CANCELLED

The

is going to take some penetrating as he gains more experience.

friendly hockey game ar- K.C.C. juniors had a sorry time at ranged for to-day between the Sookunpoo and were severely beaten

Hong Kong Hockey Club and Mid- by I.R.C. Juniors. The Kowloon

dlesex has been cancelled. side's batting failed miserably against the guilful although ap- parently innocuous deliveries of Y. T. Barma, and only R. Baldwin made anything like a decent score' al- though two. other men reached double-figures.

KOWLOON BEAT Y.M.C.A. AT FOOTBALL

soccer.

Kowloon Football Club beat Euro- pean Y.M.C.A. in a friendly game yesterday by the odd goal in five, in an interesting and evenly con- tested game..

Faced with 77 runs, I.R.C. made light of their task and knocked these off for the loss of four wickets. A.Y.M.C.A., but Riertsen, reduced

Curtis scored two good goals for R. Sumad and M. R. Abbas were arrears just before the interval.. top-scorers.

It is apparent that St. Joseph's College has not reached the heights attained by other leading schools in the Colony and they were com- pletely outplayed by University at Pokfulum.

the

On the resumption of play Kowloon dominated and Reirtsen and T. Jorge scored for Kowloon.

AUSTRALIAN MATCH DRAW

Melbourne, To-day.

The match between Australia and

C. H. Teoh had a most successful afternoon being associated with F the Rest was drawn. Australia, 426: Lingam in a profitable first-wicket The Rest 215 and 324-8,-Reuter.

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