1939-06-23 — Page 25

BIG COUNTS BUT SCORING

GENERALLY LOW

Fine Effort Of Police Against Craigengower

CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT OF C.S.C.O.

(By "SKIP")

Although an eight and two sevens were scored the previous Saturday, the scoring of no less than half-a- dozen sevens in one afternoon must be unique in the history of lawn bowls in Hong Kong. Yet scoring last Saturday was not very high on the whole and in one match only 100 shots were scored against a normal average of about 115 or so,

and

gave the

Police put up a good show in First Division in running Craigengower to a couple of shots, whilst the Indiana did well to overcome the Dock team at Hung Hom. The Civil Servants im- proved considerably Champions many anxious moments be- fore the latter emerged vicitors by nine shots, the highest win in this Division.

team sur- Craigengower's second mounted a big obstacle in beating Tai- koo at the Valley and in so doing, won The other games on all three rinks. finished up as anticipaed but in Third Division, Yacht Club achieved one of the best results of the afternoon when they went to the Valley and beat the Footballers by nearly a dozen shots.

Craigengower owed their win largely to B: W. Bradbury, who, with a typi- shot second cal effort, drew the with this fast

Leading wood.

by Orem he beat half a dozen, whilst U. M. Omar's vic

was one less, tory over J. C. Fender Joe Carey did well to beat Dick Basa,

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as many leads will be, whilst Grim- mitt's tendency to be short put his skip off badly. Although, as I have mentioned, Harry Strange made splendid debut as skip, it was M. E. Purvis who laid the foundation for his rinks big win, for he was in, splen- as second did form, as was Burling man in that rink. Twelve in four heads is good going against F. X. M. Silva and it was this good run towards the end of the game which gave Strange his ten-shot win.

Leading Skip

The Indians won on two rinks to beat Kowloon Dock by four shots, Ab- bas overcoming Johnny Kempton by seven and A. K. Minu, who remains at the top of the skip's table, having a dozen in hand against Morrison: Coo- Dallah's per's rink did well to beat four by 15.

"Wally" Mair.

THIRD DIVISION

YACHT CLUB

CLUB UPSET

APPLECART

Yacht Club upset the applecart by beating the Hong Kong Foot- Kowloon Cricket Club and their neighbours, Kowloon Bowling Green ballers on the Valley Green, A. W. Club, had as close a game as I anti- cipated, the former getting home by a Brown giving V. Walker a severe couple of shots. A. J. Hall made a suc- trouncing, and Bert Maughan just cessful local debut as skip

Willie Mac-retaining his 100% record by means Teddy Fincher, whilst farlane's rink, despite a bad patch in which they lost ten in four heads just of a three at the last head.

against

before tea, had the better of Kern by

five. But these two wins were not enough, Bob Duncan fell to Frank Goodwin by nine.

Of Hall's rink, Willie Walker played well as lead and the skip played some deadly woods, his opposite number be ing the best of the K. C. C. quartette. George Lee was bowling well for Ernie

SECOND DIVISION

CRAIGENGOWER WELL ON THE WAY TO PROMOTION

(By "SKIP") Craigengower had a clean-cut vic- tory over Taikoo, their nearest- rivals, and, although it is yet early, to write of such things, they seem well on their way to the First Divi- sion again.

J. C. Chalmers lost his first game of the season, succumbing to Jack Cavanagh by five shots, and Mar- cus Souza pulled up well after trailing 4-15, to get the better of Tom Stainton by over half a dozen: he actually scored 22 to his oppon- ent's 4 in the later stages of the game. Donald Munro and Bill Way had a close tussle, with the latter receiving good support to win nar- rowly.

Civil

Servants beat Kowloon on two rinks Bowling Green Club but their small margins were not enough to counter-balance Hillyer's big deficit at the hands of Joe

The star man of the whole game Meyer who was in good form. though, was Frank Haynes, who

bowled only two bad woods throughout the whole game and lost a seven at the last head for his only lapses. The big count made Logan's score look rather better than it deserved to be. Dan Crawley played a good good game as second man to Haynes, a remark which applies with equal force to Johnny Purvis, who was leading well for O. P. Remedios just managed to Eccleshall. The latter scored five in

Just when George Costello appeared to have the game in his hands, H.H. Pegg came along with a three and a four on the last two ends to beat him by a brace.. Walker was always in arrears aginst Brown but a five at the last head made his score look more healthy: although he finished a dozen

down.

a four at the last head making a win Kern and was better than Phillips bu get the better of Bert Muskett, a the last three heads to get the bet-"

for his club a distinct possibility.

exciting and each of the Civil Service The game at King's Park was very rinks was, I am told, in a position to win the game at the very last head.

Let me elaborate! There were only four shots in Club de Recreio's favour at this stage. Deakin's rink bowled a few woods ahead of the others and B possible four when were laying Jackie Noronha came through with a "pile-driver" to carry the jack for a count of five.

On Jack Hollidge's rink there was a count of at least five and possibly six when Dick Alves drove narrowly to bump up an outsider for second place, so to speak. And Harry Strange who played a wonderful game throughout to beat Spuggy Silva, was in a similar position when his opponent drew first shot.

Sam White was outstanding and al- ways lay Handy. despite good support from his third was also in good trim but Ernie Kern, man, did not settle down to his game.

Willie Macfarlane peculiar feature of their game being|ter of Ted Thompson by a small

to help to retain the points for Club de record.

Eddie Souza beat Paul by nine shots that the last head was a dead one.

Frank Goodwni's four obtained six, followed by a four, a two and singleton, before Bob Duncan's rink scored, and although the latter made up a little leeway, they never looked like winning.

TO-DAY'S MATCHES

The following are the last matches in the Second Round of the Open Pairs Lawn Bowls Championship which will be played this afternoon.

AT KOWLOON C.C.

J. C. Remedios v. C. C. Pereira

S. M. White VA. J. Hall

L. F. Xavier was again in good form W. MacCarthy. and met with stern opposition from P. Morgan Dai Davies, whilst Jack Deakin may J. M. Macdonald

to only tie H. Brown account himself unlucky with Carlos Silva after holding a lead J. V. Ramsey of five with only that last end to go:R. Lapsley

Jack Hollidge's four had an off day and were swamped. by Dick Alves, J. S. Riddell Simmonds was outclassed by Joe Luz, J. G.. Aitkena

W. E. Hollands G. C. Moss AT CRAIGENGOWER C.C.

J. Hoosen vA. R. Minu

YOU'LL SING TOD; 'WHEN YOU 'USE MENNEŃ BRUSHLESS

IT'S A CREAM

NOT A GREASE

NO GREASE — NO MESS- NO RAZOR CLÓG :

skin

SAPBEI

Recreio. as Louis de Rome, the other Electric skip had a useful win over Charlie Alves. Kowloon Cricket Cl beat. Prison Officers as I expected. Tommy Carr doing well to beat Good- ing.

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Kowloon Bowling Green Club, at home, won on all rinks against Crai gengower but the total in favour of the home team was only a dozen shots.

BOWLS TEAMS FOR TO-MORROW

K.D.R.C. ↓

R. Lapsley, R. H. A. Lapsley, S. Gray and H. G. Cooper (skip).

F. Cullen, M. Ferguson, J. Kempton and J. Brown (skip).

V. Ramsay, P. B. Parks, A. Calman and R. Morrison (skip).

K.B.G.C.

W. L. Walker, T. E. Robson, J. C. Gill and A. J. Hall (skip).

R. P. Phillips, L. A. R. Duncan, R. Duncan and A. M. Holland (skip).

A. S. Russell, S. M. White, W. S. Drake and W. Macfarlane (skip).

T.D.R.C.

T. Hillar, J. Wald, J. Watson and R. Wallace (skip)...,\-

margin and so retain his unbeaten

Useful Combination

Kowloon Football Club seem to have settled down into a useful combination and they had a good win over Kowloon Tohg, Tommy Fergusson securing his fourth con- secutive win to go to top of the skips' table. He is in great form just now whilst his front men give him useful help.

Although Harry Gittins gave him a good fight for two-thirds of the game, there was only one team in it afterwards and the home, skip rubbed in it by securing one of the sevens to which I have referred. Spary got the better of Field-by a. couple of shots, whilst Vic Chitten- den scored singles at the last three ends to tie with Tommy Basto who led all through.

Hong Kong Football Club return- ed to form with a win over Police. and had Jake Selby to thank chiefly for the favourable result as

W. Melrose, W. C. Bovaird T. Fhe had a big win against McHardy. Stainton-and J. C. Chalmers'. (skip).

R. Main, H. O. Gilles, W. Seath and D. Munro (skip).

K.B.G.C.

H. E. Drew. E. V. Searle, F. Chees man and G. E. F. Thompson (skip).

A. Bower, V. C. Dixon, D. W. Water- ton and J. S. Logan (skip).

Armstrong, K. C. Hamilton, White and J. G. Meyer (akip);

Kowloon Tong

C. Mose, J. Tang, J. L. Stephens and A. Spary (skip);

E. Castro, W. J. Howard, A. Kew and A. H. Basto: (skip);-)

Ny Wong, T. K. Lim, and H. Gitting (skip).

The latter's rink had scored on only three heads when they secured nap hand to double their score at the 18th., and they then chalked up a four on the penultimate head,

Brooksbank just pipped Alexan- der by one shot, despite a good lead early on, whilst Jock Riddell was in good form and led Norman Beb- bington a merry dance nutil late in the game when the visitor chalk- fed up a couple of fours to lose even-

tually by