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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 1, 1939

K.C.C. Make Badminton League SPORTS

Debut At Home This Evening

Mixed Doubles Match With Recreio 'B'

QUITE A USEFUL TEAM IN THE MAKING

(By "ADREM”)

"B" DIVISION of the local League Badminton season hav- ing started on Wednesday, this evening will see Mixed Doubles Division get under way. Only one match is down for decision, newcomers Kowloon Cricket Club, and Recreio "B" meeting at K.C.C.

Up to quite recently I failed to see how K.C.C. would be able to field a side in this division as Mrs. Kevan was the only lady with any experience of the game in their midst.

Watching them at serious practice she is not likely to be as effective as the other night however, I could not Mrs. Carvalho and Miss Remedios, but be struck by their potentialities. who have been well schooled at Re- It is natural that their tennis players creio in this type of game. should be the ones to have made most progress but it was the extent of that progress that surprised me.

Miss Stokes, who only arrived here at the beginning of the tennis season, will be one of the players; the other is Miss Betty Harker, of Interport hockey and League tennis fame.

Whereas the former may have play- ed the game occasionally in the United Kingdom, the latter is a complete be- ginner and about a month ago had absolutely no knowledge of court- craft or the rudimentary principles of the game.

IMPROVING RAPIDLY Both are now more than useful and with the patient and intelligent coach- ing which they are receiving from A. L. Fisher and P. Wynter-Blyth, it can be expected that it will not be long before K. C. C. are winning their League games.

Recreio "B" have no newcomers to their side with the exception of Miss Maggic Xavier, formerly of Kowloon Tong. Other ladies are Miss S. Reme- dios and Mrs. A. C. Carvalho, nee Remedios.

Individually Miss Xavier is probably the best of the three but unless she has improved her mixed game quite considerably since I last saw her play,

EXPERIENCED MEN

The men need no introduction. Nick Beltrao is a natural-games player who took to badminton as adeptly as he took to hockey and cricket, while C. C. Pereira and H. S. Gonsalves are play- ers with a wealth of experience.

EXCITING FINISH

An interesting cricket match was witnessed at Sookunpoo yesterday, when Royal Air Force beat Royal Ar- tillery, 30th Battery, by three runs.

R.A.F.

P/O New, b Ward

P/O Nancarrow, b Ward J. Waddington, lbw b Dilnot

A, R. Paling, b Dinot c. M. King, b Ward

F. Harrison, b Hodgson P. Gillespie, b Hodgson

T. Lillie, b Pidgeon w. Rix. c and b Dobbinson

T. Hawkins, b Dilnot

T. Lewis, not out Extras (B5, W1)

Total

Barsby Ward Dilnot

Pidgeon Hodgson

Dobbinson

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PARADE

GIVEN comparatively little publicity

in the English press here, the Hong Kong Chinese Girls' basketball team is to be heartily congratulated on its successful showing in Manila. The team returned here on Tuesday.

The visit was the first of its kind to be undertaken by a local basket- ball organisation, although similar teams from Shanghai and other Chin- ese towns have previously paid fre- quent visits to the capital of the Philippines.

Hong Kong, unofficially, was fully 1 represented by the team, members of which were selected from some of the

15 strongest teams in the Colony; a stronger representative combination

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victories the girls

scored over five of the best Filipino, Chinese, and Anglo-Chinese girls' This brilliant feat

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will, undoubtedly, go down in the W sporting history of Hong Kong.

Bowling Analysis

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Lt. Ingram, b Gillesple Q.M.S. Flinter. b Gillespie Sgt. Chaplin, b Waddington Sgt. Dinot, b New

Bdr. Downs, b New Gnr. Barsby, e and b New

Their most optimistic supporters cannot expect K. C. C. to win to-night against as formidable a side as Recreio but the match experience they will gain should prove invaluable to themL/Bdr. Ward, b New in subsequent League games.

Teams:-

K.C.C.-Mr. and Mrs. Kevan; A. L. Fisher and Miss Betty Harker; P. Wynter-Blyth and Miss M. Stokes.

RECREIO "B"-N, A. Beltrao and Miss S. Remedios; C. C. Pereira and Miss M. Xavier; H. S. Gonsalves and Mrs. A. C.

Carvalho,

L/Bdr. Hodgson, b Waddington Gar. Jordan, c Harrison, b New Bdr. Pidgeon, b Nancarrow Gnr. Dobbinson, not out

Exiros (B), LBI, NB1)

Total

(Continued at foot of next Col.)

THUMB PLACEMENT IN

PUTTING

By BEST BALL

Starting with the power shots such as the drive, one hears no end of advice about the part the fingers should play in the grip. Even at this stage of the game,

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the grasp should be essentially in the fingers instead of in the palms. As the player approaches the green, a larger premium. is payed on control and the touch sensitivity of the fingers figures even more prominently. On the putting green, this factor is no- ticeable even to casual observer.

The are all kinds of putting stances and putting strokes hut in the majority of instances, the skillful putter will have the tip or ball of his right thumb pressed onto the leather and pointed straight down the shaft. Appar- ently this part of the thumb' is the guardian of both length and direction. It aids in keeping the clubhead aligned at right angles to the ball and line of flight; keeps the clubhead, travelling straight along the proper line and gauges the impact to the proper velocity. The three golfers illus- 'trated above have used this sys- tem for years. If you still doubt the efficacy of the method Just take a glance at their records. Such a popular method must be deserved.. Monday:-Narrow

The Stance

The Manila sports reporters acclaim- ed the display of the Hong Kong team as the "best women's play seen here for many years."

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PLAYING almost every alternate day

it was not surprising that the team suffered defeat in the latter part of the programme. Although exhausted they gallantly kept to schedule and did not omit a single match on the pro- 2 gramme. Two of the three defeats, suf- 4 fered were by the narrowest of mar- 14 gins.

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Mr. Aw Hoe, son of the well-known Singapore millionaire and philan- thropist, is also to be congratulated for the fine manner in which he man- aged the team, while credit is also due to Coach Chung Chi-keung, who play- ed a prominent part in the Hong Kong team's successes.

The players themselves maintained enthusiasm right through, and Miss Diana Chen and Miss Lau Sau-kwong, the two highest scorers of points, hopelessly outclassed Manila's best exponents.

The following were the results of matches played in Manila:

Nov. 1-beat St. Stephen's Girls, 59 to 14;

Nov. 7-beat Las Fieras, 25 to 17; Nov. 9-beat Central Chinese team, 25 to 14;

Nov. 11---beat Manila Rangers, 25 to 16;

Nov. 13-beat Chinese Y.W.C.A., 18 to 17:

Nov. 16-lost to Anglo-Chinese, 27 to 29.

Nov. 18-lost to All Chinese, 9 to 10; and

Nov. 21-lost to Manila Representa- tive Team, 19 to 24.

Hong Kong won by 5 matches to 3.. The players from Hong Kong were Miss Dina Chen, Miss Mo Tak-fong, Miss Lau Sau-kwong, Miss Lee Hen- yue, Miss Chan Chi-chun, Miss Ng Sui-sun, Mrs. Aw Hoe, Miss Ng Sui- sum, Miss Ngan Sau-yung, Miss Tang Hin-ho, Miss Chan Wai-hing, Miss Lam Sau-ping and Miss Suen Yuk- ming..

ARMY CRICKET XI

The following have been selected to represent Army against Hong Kong Cricket Club on the latter's ground'on Saturday.

Capt. C. E. Godby (H.K.S.R.A.) (Captain), Major J. E. Swyer (R. A. M. C.) Capt. J. F. Lawrence (R. I. A. S. C.) Capt. D. C. E. Grose (R.E.), Capt. A. B. Whatman (R. Signals), Q.M.S. Patterson (R.A.M.Č.), Sgt. Denyer (R. E.), Cpl. Webb (R.A.M.C.), Cpl. Murphy (R. Sigrials), Spr. Ratcliffe (RE.) and Gnr. Bartby (5th A:-A. Regt: R.A.).

Waddington bowled a no ball.

Howling „Analysis,

Gillespie Nancarrow Nework Waddington

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