1939-11-01 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 1, 1939.

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UNIVERSITY MIGHT HAVE BEATEN RECREIO WITH MORE FORTUNE D. Hung's Brilliant Innings Against Old Club

Civil Service Get Off To Good Start

(By “ADREM”)

BEST PERFORMANCE in last Saturday's cricket pro- gramme was that of University against last year's Senior Champions, Club de Recreio.

A little more fortune and the undergraduuates would have won.

As it was they shook up Recreio severely and only a fine.rearguard innings by H. L. Ozorio, and A. M. Rodrigues, who carried his bat right through the innings, enabled the necessary runs to be hit off after seven wickets had fallen.

Had Rodrigues been held in the first over had Lim, at short-leg, woken up slips in his, first ever, as he might in time! It was nevertheless a valuable one have been, I have little doubt that

which should lead to further runs as the -season progresses. University would have won. I am told that Rodrigues played some very nice strokes but was a trifle fortun- ate with several fast ones from Gegg which went safely through the slips, usually for four.

Gegg bowled well, but without luck, and both Hong Choy and R. Singh were full value for their wickets.

I mentioned at the start of the season that 1 expected Civil Service to do rather wall. They did very well on Saturday beat 1.R.C., practically at full strength, by 7 wickets.

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The Indians were without A. R. Minu but Civil Servants were also minus Baker, so one more or less evened out the other.

I.R.C. started badly on a none too easy pitch which McLellan took full advantage of to take three quick wickets. With judicious In the batting line, University were again bowling changes, the batsmen, with the ex unfortunate. K. Y. Tam, their best bat, be-ception of the inevitable A. H. Madar, were ing very unlucky to be run out through slip never able to settle down and 92 was about ping. Nevertheless there was definite tail all they were worth. to the batting, 1st which might prevent this very keen team from winning matches when the League gets under way.

ONLY ONE BAT

Kowloon Cricket Club won fairly easily against their old rivals Craigengower Cric- ket Club but a competent observer tells me that the only inan in the K.C.C. side who tooked like a batsman was Douglas Hung.

Hung, who is a strong candidate for the second team, played one of the inn. ings of his life. We have heard of Hung, the stolid opening batsman, but hitherto we had not heard of Hung, the aggres- sive tall-andart

Norman Whitley, with his in-swingers, did very well with the ball and supported Mc- Lellan adequately, while Perry bowled well but without luck.

RICHARDSON & COLLEDGE BAT WELL

Richardson, after a shaky start, played a good watchful innings and Colledge settled down at once to score rapidly. Both passed the half-century.

From what I have seen of the R.A.F. team this year there only appear to be two or three men in it! New has done most of the batting and quite a bit of bowling, while Nancarrow, with the bat, and Waddington, a bowler of some pace, have also done their stuff on various occasions."

On Saturday he played himself in and then proceeded to cart the C.C.C. slow bowlers

All these players came off on Saturday into the Police ground with monotonous regu against Club in addition to R. M. King and. Larity. Zimmern made the mistake of keep-Gillespie and the result was that quite a ing these slow bowlers on-on the assump-strong H.K.C.C. team were given a good tion that sooner or later Hung must mish!t. | game. Hung had other ideas and although bitting an average of about six fours out of every ance of Parsons in taking 6 for 36. Hither I must confess to surprise at the perform- eight balls, never gave a chance throughout. to I had always regarded him as a wicket- B. D. Lay further enhanced his chances keeper and was not even aware that he for a permanent place in the first team with bowled a really fine piece of bowling the merit of which is not reflected in his figures of 2 for

With the bat Potter, Mitchell and Extras made most of the runs and Club won by 4 wickets.

K.C.C. Juniors, the Second Division cham- plons, were not impressive against Craigen-

Lloyd was a bit erratic, bowling some very bad balls in series of perfect ones. For the most part be bowled with two leg slips and gower juniors, although they managed to A. Zimmern, behind the sticks, had à dif- | win. Hoult afternoon "keeping to him.

When Lloyd does really find a length, he is going to take some stopping as he defin- Itely-appears to have far more fire this sea- son than he did, last.

ANOTHER GOOD KNOCK

I very nearly omitted to mention the inn- ings of Archie Zimmer, who was associated with Hung in a very useful stand. His inn ings, I am told, was not nearly as good as Hung's and he might have been out in his

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DIFFERENT STORY

all If the Valley team had taken

the chances offered I think there might have been a different story.

The first part of the K.C.C. innings was bv chlefly notable for some fine hooking Mulcahy. Winch was bowling very well and lifting the ball a lot. Mulcahy, however. whenever the ball was a bit short, hooked him with great severity-not along ground, but bang onto the cindertrack.

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Goodban might have been out c and b had not Lam given the impression of rating dis- |cretion higher than valour but he played

some nice strokes with a 'straight bat.

Lam mixed his deliveries up nicely, his changes of pace being particularly subtle. His pace off the wicket, how- ever, gained him most of his wickets. Craigengower batsmen were deplorable, with a couple of exceptions. against some steady if not brilliant bowling from Mills, a newcomer. Norman Broadbridge played a really first-class innings, getting thern right in the centro of the bat and steering them to all parts of the field, while Archie Hung also shaped well and was unfortunate in only scoring 11.

Baldwin got his usual bag of wickets-this time four-at a cost of 3 runs.

J. A. SOARES HITS OUT

It was not a very skilful game at King's Park between Recreio juniors and Navy, Lt. Davis was the only bat to make any runs for the sailors against the keon Ro crelo bowling and fielding and Navy were' out for. 64

They made a good fight of it," however, and made the Portuguese lads work hard for their runa. H. M. Xavier played a fair Ly solid lignings, for '30" but most of the plaudita went to A. Soares for some plucky, hitang near the end, which brought Hi dil undefeated: 83. Y

Naval bowling, was not goodle** Bookunpoo, Civil Service second eleven unfortunate in not forcing an outright gainst,IR.C. as they had 9 of their down for 80 in reply to their 117 wher stumps were drawn. FÜHRET: Strangé, K. J. Attwell and R. G.

son scored the runs for

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MAIDEN'S FLOWING STROKE

GRAPHIC GOLE

HEAD ANCHORED

STEWART MAIDEN

IN ONE SPOT THROUGHOUT

BACKSTROKE.

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TO TARGET

CURVATURE OF BODY CONSTANT

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while A. H. Ismail. S. Yusef and F. A. Cur- reem got a few for I.R.C.

ball to take 7 for 40 for Civil Servine, while Robertson had a good afternoon with the

with Signals at Sockunpoo. L/Cpl. Williams Abbas bowled well for 1.R.C.

In the only other game, Middlesex drew made 33 for Middlesex, while L/Cpl. Bedford top-scored for Signals.

In the above illustration there is a definite interpretation of the flowing balance which Maiden: tries to incorporate in the play. of his students. The stroke itself is as grooved as a wheel trolley, head Immovable and body posi- tion unchanged throughout. There is no rigidity of the trunk, the body turning smoothly and easily with the arm action. The back- stroke shown here is simplicity itself, capable of being reproduced time after tline in the same path. Friday. Explosion Shots Most Popular

TO-DAY'S RUGBY

Club "A" have twice been heavily defeated by Navy this season and it is not surprising that to-day's Club team has been strengthened by the inclu- sion of Bidwell, Butcher and Cessford, but, nevertheless, Navy are expected to win by a comfortable margin.

The game starts on the Club ground at 5 p.m. and the Club team is as fol- lows:

H. F. Hopkins; L. Lammert, H. D. Bid well, R. M. Lavalle and H. van Leeuwen; A. H. R. Butcher (Captain) and F. Cess ford; R. E, Heasman, F. Burford, E. W. Stout; R. M. M. King, J. Moodle; R. G. Castleton, L. A. Benn and P. P. Wanklyn.

At Boundary Street, Police meet Royal Scots.

ARMY LEAGUE

The 8th Heavy Regiment R.A. beat the Fortress, Royal Engineers, in the first match of the Army Inter-League Rugby at Sookunpoo yesterday by 6 points to nil. Marsh kicked a penalty goal and Ricketts scored a try.

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