THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 9, 1989.
E. Zimmern, E. L. |.. Gosano Head Senior
Cricket Averages FOURTH
CRICKET
Capt. Carless And A.V.TEST
Gosano Lead Juniors
*(By "ADREM")
Chief feature of the Senior cricket averages appended, is the very small number of batsmen who have qualified.
outs.
Only 16 have averages of 20 or figures have been bolstered by not ENZimmern heads the batsmen followed by H. Owen Hughes, who had a big innings against Navy, and A. H. Madar.
MATCH
"REVIEWER'S" SPORTS COMMENTARY
Donald Budge's Good Intentions
J. Donald Budge ran a hand through his bright pink hair and said that he would defend the honour of profes-
Nine of S. Africa's Side sional tennis to the best of his ability.
Officially Chosen
The honour of professional tennis is not exactly at stake, but now and then during the last few years you may have heard it said that the best of the
over and many of these DAVIES AND WADE pros principally H. Ellsworth Vines
Second Division
BATTING
(Qualification—Three innings," aver- age of 20 or over.)
Not
EXCLUDED
(By AIR MAIL)
Johannesburg. South Africa has officially chosen the following nine players for-the fourth Test match against Inns. H.S. Out Aggr. Ay, England, beginning here on Feb-
ruary 18:
(Recreio's position in the League table is reflected in the bowling figures of E. L. Gosano and H. L. Ozorio. Only in their last game Capt. Carless ...3 against LR.Ç. did skipper Rodrigues find it necessary to call J. L. Stephens...3 100* upon any bowlers in addition to these two.
A. Bakar
Special mention must be made H. P. Lim of A. H. Madar's figures. Essen- tially a change bowler up to a couple of seasons ago, he has
the most B. D. Lay now developed into consistent bowler in the IR.C. side.
G. N. Gosano, who left school only J. Barrow ......4
a couple of months ago.
This fine all-rounder is also H. J. Armstrong 4 well up in the bowling, although Ldg. Tel. Wood 3 his brother "A. V.,” who has been remarkably consistent, heads the L/S. Smith list...
63 63.00
A. Melville (Transvaal), captain, B. Mitchell (Transvani), A. D. Nourse (Natal), K. Viljoen (Transvaal),
E. A. Kowan (Transvaal),
P. G. M. Van Der Byr (Western
Province),
E. L. Dalton (Natal),
A. B. C, Langton (Transvaal), and N. Gordon (Transvaal).
The remaining two members will 50.00 be probably chosen after the M.C.C.'s next match against the 48.00 Combaned Transvaal XI. which be-
gins here on Friday.
ABSENTEES
and F. J. Perry did not always do their hardest to win on alternate Tuesdays and Thursdays when there was more paper than money in the house and Vines had a stomach ache or Perry had the hives.
On their first tour, these two Rover boys finished pretty nearly even in a long series of matches, one winning one day, the other the next. It didn't seem to the public as though any two
tennis players in the world could be as closely matched as all that, with so long a time at their disposal to settle the matter one way or the other.
The public was right. Vines proved it the following year, on the second
TO-DAY'S TENNIS
AT K.C.C.
The visiting Shanghai Chinese Student Tennis players will be en- tertained by Kowloon Cricket Club this afternoon, at 4 p.m. when they will be opposed by E. C. Fincher, A. E. P. Guest, A. Craw- ford, S. A. Gray and G. C. Burnett.
44.00
All the selected ninė played in 41.00
the last Test.. Notable absentees 40.10
compared with the last Test side
He whipped Perry pretty much 35.33 are E. Q. Davies, the fast bowler,
at will. This time young Ellsworth and W. W. Wade, the wicketkeeper. had an objective the rich privilege of 30.00
They will not have a chance of meeting Budge in 1939 and he didn't 27.00 | rehabilitating themselves-neither mean to be baulked. He wasn't, Perry
tour.
0 103 25.75 showed his best form in the last has all the vanity and personal pride
Test-because they are not
of the average big league tennis star, in-
but he admits now that Vines has his 72 24.00 cluded in the Combined Transvaal number, and that is something he 72 24.00| XI, which will be:-A. Melville, B.
G. N. Gosano....4 59*
.8 37
3 71*
.4 111*
E. J. R. Mitchell 3
25*
57* 2
1 115 57.50
1 159 53.00
1 105
1 102
1 151
2 50
52.50
51.00
50.33
As is only to be expected, J. L. C. W. E. Bishop 4 81 Stephens, and B. .D. Lay,
1 144
the
two League centurians, are J. Fong ........4 47
1 132
prominent in the Junior batting
averages. Finest figures, however, Spr. Ratcliffe have been returned by youthful Cpl Webb
4 75*
2 82
.4 67
0 164
33`
77
1 106
0 120
First Division
BATTING
Not
12*
...4 44
..3 50
.3 46
.4 35
.4 35*
G. Hong Choy ..4 41 Inns. H.S. Out Aggr. Av. K. Y. Tam......4 46 0 89. E. Zimmern ....3 46* 2 70 70.00
F. A. Curreem...8 20* 2 22 H. Owen Hughes 3. 64*
1 109 54.50
2 27
B. C. Fay
H. T. Barma
N. P. Fox
0
0 94
I 68
22.25
22.00
BOWLING
C. Pope
.37.2.6. 102
8
J. L. C. Pearce ..2
T. A. Pearce ;.....3 Major Murray ..2 31 G. Guterres
.2 27*
G. C. Burnett ...3 32
A. H. Madar ....3 48" Capt. Whitmarsh 2 · 50*
S. V. Gittins ....2 27
L. G. Gosano ...3 51*
39
1 103 51.50
1 50 50.00
1
45 45.00
1 75 37.50
75 37.50
37*
60 30,00
75 25.00
*
0 75
(Qualification Three matches, aver- Capt. Carless ..29 7 95 age of 20 or under).
R. Baldwin ...22 O. M. R. W. Av. A. V. Gosano.. 35.5 13 60 10 6.00 D. S. Robb....35 3 144 R. Soares 37.4 6 92 14 6.57 G. E. Taylor...21 5 87 A. M. Omar...44 17 88 13 6.77 W. K. Way....14 4 59 1 73 36.50 G. N. Gosano..23.5 5` 62 9 6.89 R. A. J. Simpson 29 3
119 Ldg. Sto. Wood 56,5 17 124 14 8.86 P. S. M. 1 27 27.00 W. S. Gegg ...40
12 90 10 9.00
B. G. Baker...21
7
i 69
5
10
6
4
Patterson...43
5 138
9
89.38
71 23.67
G. Hong Choy..22.3 5
76
2 23 23.00
B. C. Fay ....25.4 9
67
8 9.50
6 11.17
66 22.00
Lt. Comdr.
1 43 21.50 61 20.39
M. R. Abbas...36 4 125
C. H. Teoh....26,1 4 98
L. Bucklo .39 3. 119 K. L. Ng .92 5 92 Finnie..... .27 3 117 10 11.70 W. Stoker ..42.2 9 154
8.
(Qualification-Two innings, average W. Mulcahy of 20 or over.)
E. L. Gosano ...3 41 N. D. Lloyd .....3 16 D. J. N. Anderson 3 41 A. K. Ismail ....3 23* R. T. Broadbridge 3 29
HARGA BOWLING
· : (Qualification--Two matches, aver-
age of 15 or under.)
0. M. R. W. Av.
E. L... Gosáno. 81;1 12 49 138.71
A. H. Madar.......31 8 68 13 5.23 N. Whitley 4.2 Q :18 $6.00
G. P. Longfield 21.5 2
H. L. Ozorio 32:4:10
64 10 2014
6,40
6.43
D. JN.
16.71
Anderson
BE Lee
354 14 82-12 683 J. L. C, Pearce 14057 A.-K. Imall...26 2. 1988, 0.9.22 A. ES Perry.33,5 798 10 · 9.80 A: R. Minu?:,.49,5 12 “120 11 10,91 Pte. Hatfield ..42 9 100 10 · 11.00-
23.50
22.67
wouldn't admit under five relays · of Mitchell, S. M. Curnow, E. A. Ro-rubber hose if he thought otherwise. wan, K. Viljoen, A. W. Briscoe, L Brown, S. Newson, J. Wickham, S.
J. Donald Budge says he means to avoid all possibility of misunderstand- ing in his own tour with Vines, which
0 90 22,50F. Viljoen, and R. Grieveson, has already started.
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"The lights won't bother me, or the indoor surface. My game is about right. I'm in "training, and I'll stay that way. I haven't got anything to beat but Vines this time. Vines is just the best there is, that's all.”
T. C. LO'S ALL-ROUND |FEAT ·
At Indian Recreation Club yes- terday, Queen's College beat Ellis |Kadoorie Indian School by 6 runs.
T. C. Ho, of Queen's, was 08- sociated with N. Singh in a last- wicket stand of 48 and then went on to take 7 wickets for 20 runs. Queen's:-95 (T. C. Lo 22, N. Singh 87 not out; Arculli 4 for 28, S. K. Khan 4 for '40).
Ellis Kadoorie:—–90 (K. Bachoo 21, 8.
Khan 17; T. O. Lo 7 for 20).
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