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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 13, 1939.

LAWN

BOWLS

Kempton's Great Victory Houston Lays Foundation For Win

JILLOT THWARTS

REMEDIOS IN

LAST GAME

BOWLING ALLEY JOTTINGS

By "STRIKE".

Local bowlers will be glad to learn, if they don't know it already, that U.S.S, Tulsa, a well-known bowling ship locally, is now in port and will stay long enough to enable fans to see her team in action.

Among her personnel are the crack "Pete" Peterson, F. Spenko, W. Michals and E. J. Moore, not to mention several, other excel- lent bowlers all capable of topping the 200 mark.

played his best game of the season and held Jeff Hoosen well, which is

With two U.S. warships in port. little time no mean accomplishment.

was wasted in Axing up a match between He laid the foundation for a splen- them. This was played on Wednesday, too late

ALTHOUGH it is drawing to a close, the 1939 bowls sea-dial count of six at the added two but rtunately, for the purposes of these notes

son refuses to pass away quietly and there were two up-shots. sets in last week-end's programme.

The outstanding one was the defeat of the Indians on their own green, at the hands of Kowloon Dock, who there by forced a play-off with Club de Recreio for the honour of remaining in the First Division next season.

The Dock men played with a fine determination and special credit goes to Johnny Kempton's rink which not only carried the day, but did so against A. K. Minu on the road-side rink which is supposed to be advantageous to the home team.

which Johnny Kempton I hope to have something in my notes

My notes repeatedly read "ext Thursday.

Complete entries have now been received "Houston drew a beauty" or a similar for the very popular "Ewn" League and a record. They are:-The phrase! Charlie Thom as second man they constitute

Black Dog. Bowlers, Mindanao, also gave a fine display. It was only Junters.

Strollers, his third League match of the season

Flickers. Aspirants, Pokfulum's Pride, The Champs, 5th. A.A., R.A.. Signals, 1. believe but he more than pulled his

les. B.A.T., P.W.D.. and Hong Kong and weight.

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A CLOSE BATTLE

M. Y: Adal and J. C. Brown had a

The Four Leonards, The Bears, Glamouret

Seven of these teams are newcomers to the League but from what I have seen of

give good accounts of themselves.

close battle for the honours with the some of them, I am convinced they will local player having a slight edge on the old Interporter, who had a ten- dency to be on the heavy side.

on

This was especially noticeable one of the early heads when, with his The Kowloon Cricket Club suffered | A. H. Rumjahn was beating Bob side lying four, he trailed the Kitty defeat at Stanley in spite of the return Lapsley for the most part although the and made the draw open for A. K. of two regular skips in Jimmy Jack latter made one or two perfect draws Minu who seized the opportunity to and Tom Carr, who at last, managed at a vital stage of the game. Abbas draw a perfect shot. The latter re- to obtain a free Saturday.

was steady, as he usually is, and can-peated this effort many times during not be blamed for the small loss.

the course of the game but Kempton even more brilliant and hardly was wasted a wood.

The battle of the Footballers ended in, a victory for Hong Kong whilst on Sunday afternoon the Prison Officers turned out again, but received a severe drubbing from the junior champions, although O. P. Remedios lost his un- beaten record to Arthur Jillott by adid. couple of shots.

DOCK'S. DETERMINED PLAY Down at Sookunpoo the Dock team played with great determination in an effort to force the play-off and though Kempton's rink deserves most of the praise, the other two were doing their stuff nobly to make the win possible.

RAMSEY'S BAD LUCK

A couple of southpaws were il source of trouble on the next rink. When Khan did not come off as third man, which was not often, A. R. Minu THIRD DIVISION

These two played a great game, al- though I thought that on the run of the play the rink was

trifle just a lucky to win.

Victor Ramsay had bad luck at the last head when he split his side's two perfect woods to give-a-couple away. And that made all the difference. Alec Glen Cooper, for instance, was up Calman was better than Wahab whilst against a stiff proposition in M. R. Malcolm Ferguson just had the edge to .Abbas and he did well to win narrow- on S. H. Rumjahn who is new ly a single and a brace at the last League Bowls, I believe. two heads doing the trick. Fred Cullen But as I have already indicated, it decided was really the star player in this rink was Kempton's rink which and he was always improving mat-the issue. The rink played a really

great game, Bill Houston, as

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HAMILTON'S USEFUL WIN AT VALLEY

about half a

Cralgengower had a strong team Kowloon. Bowling out against the Green Club in their Third Division game so the latter may be well satis lead, fied with a win by

dozen shots.

The game was of little importance as the visitors were already assured of third place in the League, but it caused the 'skips' an important change in table, Lockhart who was second to Remedios, having to give way to P. J. A. Hamilton also of the K.B.G.C.

The latter was largely instrumental in securing the side's win as he had a big victory over George Ladd. ginning with a lead of seven before the opposition scored, the visiting skip eventually won by 20 shots: Pope as lead was all over "Sky" Kerrison who could not get the green at all, whilst Hammond was more than a match for McNay.

Be-

Herbert Randall was the best of the home four but P. J. A. Hamiton was probably the best of the whole eight. His heavy shots especially were deadly early on but as the rink scored 17 in the last six heads it was not a ques- tion of only muscle counting.

Lockhart's rink could not get going at all against Doc. Karanjla who made a successful debut as skip. The latter was in great form and receiving ample backing all the way down, fully de served his 13-shot victory.

A couple of Johns, Pau and Dinnon of that ik were meantime having an epic struggle which justly ended with [honours even.'

GOODING RUNS RIOT

On Monday will be held an eagerly-await- ed event. All those players who have scor- éd 200 or over since the beginning of August have been summoned to attend in order to receive the silver membership badges for the 200 Club which entitles them to be dub- bed "Knights of the Maple Ways."

Before receiving the badge, however, they

must be able to prove their mettle to the

satisfaction of a committee selected for the purpose. They will be required to submit themselves for various tests and prove their prowess.

main ceremony a match has been arranged Monday will be a gala night for after the

between those old rivals "The Champs" and the "Tulsa.”

Before leaving the subject of the 200 Club. I might mention in passing that two ladies- Mrs. Horton (212) and Mrs. Ismail (204)- are entitled to membership.

High standard of bowling at the Alleys will be appreciated when it is learned that no fewer than 48 persons have notched up scores of 200 or over.

The first meeting of the 200 Club was held last Monday when officials were appointed for the initiation ceremony to be held on Monday,

To-morrow a "dress rehearsal" will see Joe officials Dick Venezia, Doc Molthen, Landolt and Gene Faggiano submit them- selves for initiation.

winning ways to assume the third position in the list, this, despite hav- ing missed two or three patches. Be and Tommy Pile were neck and neck for some time but a sudden burst of scoring towards the end left Pile with eleven to get, in two heads, to tle: he did well to secure five of them.

The Hong Kong Football Club were all over their Kowloon opposites for the first half of the game but the Mainlanders pulled up well to lose by only nine shots. Reid, of the home club's premier team, was skipping for the first time and lost to. Petherick, but the other two rinks won, Doc. Smal- ley going down by three to Jock Rus- sell and Peter Morgan finishing up eight shots behind Walker.

NEW GROUND BROKEN I believe that the Club de Recreio and the Prison Officers' Club broke League new ground by playing a match on Sunday, although the Inter- national Shield games as well as Open- Rink matches are usually played on that day.

The Stanley boys, who had had such a good win the previous day, found Club de Recreio a different proposition although it fell to Jillott to be the first to overcome O. P. Remedios'rink, The home four seemed to be suffering from over-anxiety,

Alarcon, who has been a steady in this his first year of bowls, was right off his gamo, whilst on the other hand, McCurrach was in great form.

But the man of the match was Jil- lott. Time and again he saved the At Stanley, Tommy Gooding ran situation, not with dramatic stuff, as I riot against Jimmy Jack who was able like to call heavy ones, but just by to the to chalk up only seven shots to the | honest-to-goodness bowling homesters' 34. All the home four kitty. I have rarely seen bowling like were in form, Gowland at number it other than in a First Division match three being especially outstanding. and that not frequently..

WON

Arthur Jillott ran away from Bob But I won't say muchi about the Meadows for two-thirds of the game other two rinks. Tommy Pilo but the visiting skip finished up quite outclassed by Yvanovich whilst strongly. to score. on the last seven of a Jovial pair on the other rink heads and lose by only four 'shota: Eddie Sousa got the better of Tommy

Tom Carr meanwhile continued his Gooding by a small margin.