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TEST CRICKET

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 25, 1989.

GRIM

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RUNS AT MANCHESTER Hardstaff Saves England With Brilliant Innings

WEST INDIES' STRONG REPLY

London, To-day.-Alternating rainfall and sunshine at Old Trafford yesterday contributed to extremely difficult conditions for batsmen who were always struggling against spin bowling.

W. R. Hammond, England's skipper, in an effort to force a win and to give his spin attack a chance against West Indies' batsmen before close of play, declared Eng- land's first innings closed with the score at 164 for 7.

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West Indies made a good start| and the 50 was hoisted in only 35 minutes. but later, Goddard's spin- started to do their deadly

ners work

and at close of play the Gloucestershire bowler had, taken the wickets of both Grant and Stollmeyer, George Headley, how- ever, who made a century in each innings of the Lord's Test, and Ben Sealey were still in possession and the score had reached 85 for 3.

The match concludes to-day with hon- ours, at the moment, fairly even.

Play only started yesterday at 12.15 after two inspections by the umpires. A crowd of 7,000 saw Hutton and Fagg resume England's innings. At 12.31, however, with the total at 19, bad light and slight rain caused a stoppage for half an hour.

On the resumption, only two runs had been added when Fagg, when fac- ing Hylton, played a ball onto his wicket after he had scored 7 runs (1 for. 21).

Paynter stayed with Hutton until the lunch adjournment, when Hutton was 13 and Paynter 9.

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With another 9 runs on the board, W. R. Hammond, who had been batting by Sealey off Clarke for 22 (62 for 5). aggressively, was brilliantly stumped

Then followed a stand between Hard- staff and Wood. The former was in his most aggressive mood and reached his 50 in 38 many minutes after hit- ting one six and 7 fours. When Hard- staff had taken his score to 64, Wood was caught and bowled by Constantine for 26 (150 for 6) after a partnership of 88 valuable runs.

With Hardstaff 64 and Wright 0 and the total 151 for 6 tea was taken.

A crowd of 10,000, of which 6,039 had paid for admission, saw Hardstaff anu Wright resume England's

TEST SCORE BOARD

ENGLAND-1ST INNS. Hutton, c Martindale, b Grant Fagg, b Hylton

Paynter, c Sealey, b Clarke W. R. Hammond, st. Sealey,

Clarke

Compton, hit wkt., & Clarke Hardstaff, c Williams, b Grant Wood, c and b Constantine Wright, not out

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ARMY- SPORTLIGHT

(By "SQUADDY")

4 EFFORTS have been made in the past to hold Interport games in 26 most branches of sport, but one which I think is quite new to the Colony, 6 may possibly take place at the end

of the year.

164

Total (for 7 wkts, dec.) Bowes, Copson and Goddard did not bat.

Fall of wickets:--1 for 21 (Fagg); 2 for 34 (Paynter); 3 for 34 (Hutton); 4 for 53 (Compton); 5 for 62 (Ham- mond); 6 for 150 (Wood); 7 for 164 (Hardstaff).

Martindale Hylton Clarke Grant Cameron Constantine

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8 2 10 11 3 15 13 1. 59 .13.2 4 16 3 0 22 7 2 36 WEST INDIES—18T INNS. R. S. Grant, e Fagg, b Goddard J. Stollmeyer, c and b Goddard G. Hendley, not out

A. Gomez, e Wood, b Bowes J. E. D. Sealey, not out

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Total (for 3 wkts.)

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Hong Kong Cycling Club, which is mainly composed of Army riders, is trying to conclude arrangements for a track meeting to be held about the 11th or 12th November. Riders from Singapore and Shanghai will be in- vited to the meeting, and I presume points won will count towards the in- terport title. Tentative arrangements W. are also being made for a race twice oround the Kowloon 50 mile circuit on 1 the 12th November.

3 Local riders should be well in form 2 by the dates suggested for the meet- 0 ing as they have their own local meet- 1ing in August and it will just be a case of keeping in training for a few 47 more weeks.

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KEATES and McDowell, two of the leading local cyclists, are both Army men and must be proud of the records they have set up since they ar¬ rived in the Colony. Keates has beaten almost every record there is to beat, but menace to his leader and I expect to McDowell is fast becoming a serious

J. H. Cameron, L. N. Constantine, innings. A. Williams, E. A. Martindale, L. G

Hylton and C. B. Clarke to bat.

Fall of wickets:-1 for 36 (Stollmey-see a keen tussle between these two in (Gomez). er); 2 for 56 (Grant); 3 for 56 more than one event at Caroline Hill

when the former had reached 76 he was caught by Williams off Grant (164 for 7). His batting had England from utter failure. He was saved at the wicket for 100 minutes, hit one six and found the fence on eight oc- PE[19]{U514}} casions. He scored his 76 out of 111.

Hammond then declared.

spin

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EXTRA TIME IN INTERPORTS

next month.

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AIN unfortunately caused the can- cellation of the cricket match which was to have taken place on Sun- day at Shamshuipo where the Mid- dlesex Corporals were to have enter- tained the Service Corps.

Grant and Clarke, the two the latter's 3 wickets proved

However, the best was made of a bowlers, met with most success. Whilst expensive, Grant was almost unplay-written to, requesting that 20 minutes

A decision that Shanghai again be doors where billiards, darts and snook- bad job and play was transferred in-

jable, only conceding 16 runs in 13 extra time be played in all Interport ed cricket match will probably take er matches were played. The postpon- overs for, two wickets.

games in the event of a draw, instead place in about a fortnight's time. An- of the suggested half an hour,

Was other football match arrived at when the Interport rules rivals is also in the air!

discussed at the first Council meeting of Association held yesterday.

Hong Kong Football

were

After lunch the wicket was very res- ponsive to spin and the batsmen were

GRANT AGGRESSIVE forced on the defensive. With the to- tal at 34, Paynter snicked one

West Indies started their innings Clarke, who was spinning the ball vi-confidently and with Grant in his most ciously, and was well taken by Sealey aggressive mood, runs came. freely, behind the sticks (84 for 2).

In accordance with the recommenda- Stollmeyer, however, after a patient tion of the late Council to send a team innings, was c and b Goddard with his personal contribution & out of total of 35 (35 for 1).

EASY CATCH

In the next over Hutton attempted to hook a ball from Grant and Mar- tindale, at short-leg, took an easy catch (34 for 3).

The 50 was hoisted after the innings had been in progress 105 minutes.

to Shanghai in November, a sub-com- themittee was elected to investigate the possibility, in view of the fact that doubtful. the Chinese and Service players were

The 50 was hoisted in only 85 min- utes but then Grant's fine innings came to a close when, in attempting a big hit off Goddard, he was held at long on by Fagg for 47 (56 for 2).

Gomez failed badly, being caught Two runs later, there was a short behind the sticks off Bowes. before he break owing to rain and then Comp-had opened his account, but George ton, who was shaping confidently, trod Headley and Ben Sealey played out on his wicket when attempting to hook time with their scores 16 and 13 res- Clarke (53 for 4).

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The following sub-committees were elected:-

Hon. Secretary: Mr. C. Goldenberg with Mr. L. 'Sonza as his assistant. Seth and Fleming.

Treasurers: Messrs. Percy Smith,]

the three Vice-Presidents of the Asso- Appeals Board: The President and ciation (Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. J. Ralston and Capt. S. Burn).

Referees' Sub-committee: Mr. A. Kir- by, Mr. Wong Ka-tsun and Mr. E. Strange.

Emergency Sub-committee: Mr. Lee Wai-tong, Mr. W. E. Hollands and Cd.- Gunner Cooper.

Grounds Sub-committee: Mr. Guimgam (Chairman), Mr. Walter Chen and Capt. H. H. Fantham.

Interport Sub-committee: Mr. Chen, Lt. Man, Capt. Fantham Cd.-Gunner Cooper.

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between these

at A.M.C. easily defeated Signals at

R.A.M.C.

week on Thursday when they ran out winners by six points to one, the ag gregates being 830 and 651. The only defeat on the Medicals side during the game was that of Sgt. Terran who went down rather heavily to Signal- man Morgan 150 to 80, Morgan includ- ing a break of 26 in his score.

The best breaks of the evening, however, were recorded by Sgt. Doyle of the Medicals who ran up a 88 and a 48. This latter break I think is the

commendable runs during the largest so far this season. Other were Cpl. Harvey's 28 and 20, Whybro's 29, and Cpl. Blount's 30. Blount only scored 81 in all.

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THE Signals are now sure of the De-

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partmental Corps Water Polo League championship. They have scor- ed two big victories during the past Cweek, defeating the Medicals by 11 clear goals and the Service Corps by nine goals to one..

I see a contemporary has called the

'Army

Champions." Signals team Whilst I cannot quite agree with this there is no doubt that they have a very useful side. This was brought home when they played a strong. Vic- toria Recreation Club side in the week and were defeated by only four goals to two. This was a particularly fine performance, and I am waiting for the commencement of the Large T the Medicale' swimming gala next Unita' Langue to see how they get on Saturday it will be interesting in it, as I understand, they are enter note the form displayed by Nicholls

team." They should also do and MacDonald, their two divers. Both well" in the Inter unit Swimming Nicholls I believe was championships this Boson, as, includ- place

Colony, Championships sed in the water polo alde, are some

rop and MacDonald is

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exceptionally fast swimmers, while several promising newcomers. are gradually-making their presence

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