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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1989

Congratulations To Recreio

Sporting Team Which Thoroughly Deserved Success

E.L. GOSANO AND H.L. OZORIO.FINEST PAIR

YESTERDAY'S SOFTBALL

RESULTS AT A GLANCE

Men's International

9. India Women's League

OF OPENING BOWLERS Portugal A IN LEAGUE HISTORY?

(By "ADREM")

RECREIO have done it!

They have had some extremely narrow sqeaks but if ever a team deserved success, it was the sporting Portuguese side.

I am certain that all local cricketers will join me in offering to A. M. Rodrigues and his merry men the heartiest congratulations on their fine achievement.

Their match on Saturday tion was Moores and to a lesser extent against Navy was not without its Walters. Moores took three catches in anxious moments and served to them was the snappiest bit of work

the general direction of gully. One of illustrate yet once again, the have ever seen. large part played by E. L. Gosano and H. L. Ozorio in winning the League.

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13 Cardinals

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Other matches were postponed owing to rain.

To-day's Tennis Programme

Weather permitting an excel- lent match should be witnessed pionships on the H.K.C.C. Courts in the Colony lawn tennis cham- to-day."

for Navy since he has been here, looked Against Gosano and his ring of slip as if he was going to make a lot more on Saturday. He took no chances. fielders, he left everything on the off and G. C. Burnett, K. C. C. first In the Open Doubles; S. A. Gray severely alone that could not be safely Division League pairing, will meet

square-cut.

He, also, got out unexpectedly, sud- the strong Recreio partnership of denly and for no apparent reason, lash- A. V. Gosano and J. J. Remedios, ing out at Gosano and being well

caught by Soares at deep mid-off. That who caused a first round upset by catch really decided matters because eliminating E. C. Fincher and W. C. with Walters there with Whitmarsh, Hung. anything might have happened.

The following it to-day's pro-

A Procession

was beaten all ends up by a perfect Lees hit two lusty fours before he

ball from Gosano but the remainder of the innings was just a procession and Ozorio finished it off in quick time to give Recreio the championship at their third attempt.

Rodrigues smicked a fastish leg-break from Christison; the wicket-keeper shot out his hand and pushed it away The batting can only be describ-a flash to take it inches above

towards slips. Moores was on it like ed as terrible!

the Left-hander L. G. ground. His ground-flelding was also standard one had learned

The fielding had not been up to the Gosano was the only man who ever good and his keenness under all cir-from Recreio, and quite a number of to expect appeared fairly sure of what he cumstances, should have been an ob-runs were given away, but I did like was doing. At any

rate he was team.

ject-lesson to the remainder of the the way the field was placed. There the only batsman who ever got on

were very few holes with reference to the bowlers. top of the bowling.

Of the others, Willie Reed's innings was invaluable if not classic. He has a happy knack of introducing some of his hockey strokes into his cricket and Willie in his back play reminds one very strongly of Willie stopping awkward one at centre-half! The effect is certainly the same-the ball does not get past!

an

Chapman Shaped Well

14, it really looked at one time as if Although Navy's highest score was they might do it. Padre Chapman, who mind a square-cut in Gosano's first opened, shaped beautifully. I call to over which went past cover like a flash. against Gosano but played Ozorio very

In defence, he was

a little shaky Of the 99 runs scored by Recreio, when he completely mistimed the worst confidently. It came as quite a shock should say 25 resulted from bad field-ball that Ozorio bowled all afternoon ing-I have never seen worse--and there were 22 extras.

and was bowled by a full-toss. That leaves about 60 runs that were really deserved

Walters, who has made a lot of runs and of these L. G. Gosano was respon sible for 24!

Not Batting Side

The foregoing is not meant as a de- precation of Recreio's accomplishment. It is generally acknowledged-they themselves are the first to admit it that batting is not their forte. They seized what the Gods had to offer with grateful thanks and with 99

on the board after being 36 for 5, their wor- ries were practically over.

Navy had only three bowlers upon whom they could call and it was unfor- tunate, from their point of view, that the man who should have done the most damage was woefully off-colour. I have seen Moores bowl fairly frequent- ly since the beginning of the season but never have I seen him to so inef- fective as he was on Saturday.

He did manage to turn them a bit occasionally but he served up an extra- ordinary number of full-tosses for the most part were let off..

which

Whitmarsh's Effort Whitmarsh really did try. He made excellent use of the new ball and swung away abnormally-so abnormally in fact that the batsmen were able to leave him alone with the utmost safety! Later, when the shine had gone off the ball and he had to resort to spin, he was a good deal more effective. He studied the man he was up against and adapted his bowling to suit the indivi dual. He bowled Prata, for instance, when that batsman gave every indica- tion of settling down, with a beautiful- ly flighted ball at which Prata played much too soon.

Against sphinx-like Reed who could not be budged by ordinary means, he bowled slow viciously-spun leg-breaks. Unfortunately his field let him downl

Christison, however, Was the surprise-packet. Nobody had heard 'much of him as a bowler. I rate him, as a left-hander, about 25 per cent, better than his predecessor, Paxton and we all know Paxton was good...

I think he would have been even more dangerous on a fast wicket. I

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Special mention must also be made of Willie Reed's catch to dis- miss Collins. A fast very short ball from Gosano was square-cut very hard but the batsman did not quite get over it and Reed, made a lot of ground at third-man to pouch it.

creio and special commendation to E, L. Again, hearty congratulations to Re-

formances this year have made them Gosano and H. L. Ozorio, whose per- the most spectacular pair of opening bowlers ever to have played in local League.

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gramme:

Open Singles

Lai Kwong-cheun v. Ho Ka-lau (6), W. J. Howard v. J. M. Tom- linson (7).

Open Doubles

S. A. Gray and G. C. Burnett v. A. V. Gosaño' and J. J. Remedios (8).

Club Handicap Singles

J. C. Pool (+1.6) v. A. T. Dow (~2.0) (1).

Club Handicap Doubles

R. K. Valentine and L. M. S. Lloyd (ser.) v. Maj. Nottingham and Capt. R. B. Lecky (4.8) or B. O'M. Deane and H. Van Leeu- wen (3.6) (2); A. F. Walkden and J. Hackney (+3.6) v. E. A. R. Newton and W. Wooding (+1.0) (9).

Club Championship W. Sander v. J. J. Ferguson (4).

Lawn Bowls League

27 Teams Entered

Twenty-seven teams, represent- ing 15 clubs, will participate in the Lawn Bowls League this season, according to the entries received on Saturday, the closing date, by Mr. R. P. Phillips, Hon. Secretary of the Association. The League will start at the end of this month. Four clubs have put in three teams, four two each and the rest one each. The following are the entries:

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Club de Recreio (8), Kowloon Bowling Green Club (3). Craigengower C.C. (8).

Hong Kong Football Club (3). Kowloon Football Club (2). Civil Service C.C. (2). Police R.C. (2). Kowloon C.C. (2). Kowloon Docks (1). Yacht Club (1). Taikoo (1).

Hong Kong Electric (1). Indian R.C. (1).

Stanley (1).

Kowloon Tong (1).

K.C.C. BEAT P.R.C. AT THE VALLEY

All Day Cricket Despite 'Rain

Despite a heavy shower which fell shortly before 1 pm, the whole day cricket match between Police Recreation Club and Kowloon Cric- ket Club, at the Valley, was played to a finish and resulted in a win for the vlaltors by 27 runs.

KC.C. only felded 10 players while Police had eight.

Scores we

C. 186 ( · L. McKenzie 40, R. E

phens 191.

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