1939-12-07 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 7, 1939

"B" DIVISION BADMINTON MATCHES DISAPPOINT St. Teresa's Lose To King's In Debut Game

St. Andrew's Well Beaten By K. Tong

ALTHOUGH AT LEAST two of the three "B" Division badminton fixtures down for decision last night looked at- tractive, play in both disappointed.

Much was expected of St. Teresa's, who made their de- but last night, but they failed against King's who showed great improvement over their display aganst St. Andrew's the previous week.

Mackay

promising

The latter team, which on paper,, cher and Mackay did not do at all should have won with something to badly. Feltcher's best strokes were

drive while spare against Kowloon Tong, proved his smash and to be sadly out of touch and were only served very accurately. able to win three games at the ex-

Lee Kam-ming gave a pense of Kowloon Tong's third string. display in partnership with A. E. H. As expected St. John's were never Castro, his smashing being good. Lack extended by Kowloon Cricket Club of experience, however, cost this pair and were only given serious opposi-three games, they being the only home tion by one pair.

combination to meet with reverse.

ST. ANDREW'S

FAIL

A. E. H. Castro and Lee Kam-ming (Kow- loon Tong).

lost to E. F. Fincher and H. Kew 8-21 lost to W. Gillies and A. E. P. Guest 6-21 lost to A. S. Bliss and A. E. Brown 14-21 R. E. Lee and F. S. Ko (Kowloon Tong). beat Fincher and Kew

There was only one game in which the rallies reached the high standard of which both teams are capable in the match last night between Kow-beat Gillies and Guest loon Tong and St. Andrew's.

Contrary to expectations Kowloon Tong won comfortably, the visiting players appearing to find great dif- ficulty in accustoming themselves to conditions.

Finest game of the evening, as men- tioned above, was that between R, E. Lee and F. S. Ko and E. F. Fincher and H. Kew, which the former pair won after a much more thrilling strug- gle than the score of 21-13 would suggest,

In this game the St. Andrew's play- ers more nearly approached their form of last season that at any other time during the evening but the speed and determined recovering of Lee and Ko, enabled them to establish their superiority and then go on win.

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Fincher Best Player Fincher was easily the best St. An- drew's player from a point of view of skill and consistency although at one stage in their first game, for sheer brilliance, the performance of W. Gi- lies could not have been bettered. Kew 'was difficult to recognise the same player as last season. True he played several of those very effec- tive cross-drops at which he is adept but towards the end of the even- ing when obviously tiring rapidly, he was unable to get sufficient power into his clearing shots, especially on the back-hand.

beat Bliss and Brown

21-13 21-14 21-10

N. A. E. Mackay and P. B. C. Fletcher (Kowloon Tong). beat Fincher and Kew beat Gillies and Guest beat Bliss and Brown -

24--22 217 21-10

K.C.C. OUTCLASSED Splitting up the fine partnership of David and Frank Kwok in order to | distribute their strength more evenly, St. John's dropped three games to

Kowloon Cricket Club at Cox's Road.

P. Wynter-Blyth, who has appeared in a good class of badminton at Home, played effectively with that experien- ced player A. L. Fisher, and this pair did very well indeed to win all the games in which they were engaged.

Other two K.C.C. pairs were hope- lessly outclassed and never looked like winning a game.

P. Wynter-Blyth and A. L. Fisher, (K.C.C.).

beat F. H. Kwok and R. C. Beavan 23--21 beat D. Kwok and R. Maynard .... 21-13 beat P. Wilson and N. L. Smith

A. Kevan and Merritt (K.C.C.), lost to Kwok and Beavan lost to Kwok and Maynard

21-16

4-21 8-21

12-21

lost to Wilson and Smith

as

E. Curtis and R. T. Broadbridge (K.C.C.).

lost to Kwok and Beavan

lost to Kwok and Maynard lost to Wilson and Smith

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Bertie Guest had a bad evening and was unable to settle down. Early in the proceedings the home players dis- covered a weakness on his backhand and a barrage of shots on that wing soon wrecked what little confidence "was still left to him.

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There was little understanding his partnership with Gillies and was difficult to believe that this was the pair who had played so well the previous week against King's,

Brown and Bliss both showed up well individually on occasions but :they too could not combine and were

only able to win one game.

Ko's Clearing Shots

Of the home players Richard Lee was in splendid form, his short game ¡being quite as effective as his smash- ing. F. S. Ko, his partner, however, .contributed greatly to the success of this pairing. His best stroke was an extremely accurate backhand clearing shot into the oppositions' backhand

This corner.

brought numerous points.

KING'S SUCCESS

2-21 5-21 2-21

There were occasions when a high stan- dard was set in the match between King's and St. Teresa's.

Most exciting game of the evening saw

GRAPHIC GOLF CLUB “A”

BOBBY JONES

LONG IRON

SHOT

TO GREEN

BALL TEED

WELL FORWARD

EMPLOYS FULL SWING

LONG IRONS

By BEST BALL

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a

Some golfers

seem to have natural penchant for hitting long iron shots; others will go to any length to escape taking a heavy iron out of the bag. They pre- fer to use the wood, even though the iron is the more logical, more certain club to employ. On the other hand Jerry Travers never had any abiding faith in his woc clubs and preferred his heavy, black driving iron even on the long tee shots. Bobby Jones was an all round expert with all clubs and his iron shots in his heyday, a pattern for any golfer, no mat- ter how good he might be.

As with the long wooden tee shots, Jones used a full swing, keeping the clubhead aligned to the ball at right angles to the line. His grooved swing was so accur- ate that there was little difference in the flight of a dozen of prac- tice balls hit by the Atlantan.

In the above illustration the ball is forward, well off the left foot to-give the ball maximum dis- tance in its arc. For the shorter, more sharply ascending shots the ball is nearer the left foot, on a graduated scale. Professional golfers, nowadays, generally tee the ball for an iron shot to a short hole, and if maximum distance is desired the ball is placed quite far forward, Every shot counts in the money tourna- ments and the average pro cannot afford to-overlook chances of cut- ting strokes off his score. The teed ball gives a cleaner contact.

Friday-Club Head Velocity Through Swing.

John Chen and Francis Tsang draw away COLONY LADIES' TENNIS

from K. L. Lui and H. T. Woo after a ding- dong struggle.

There were long rallies in which the St. Teresa's pair concentrated on the

short game In order to nullify the powerful amashing of Lul.

Some idea of the tenseness of the strug- gle will be appreciated from the score at various stages. It was all, 11-all, 13-all, and the Church pair finally went out at 21-15.

Two matches, in the Ladies' Doubles tennis championship of the Colony were played yesterday at

U.S.R.C.

Following were the results:-

Mrs. O. Burnett and Miss V. Brad- bury beat Mrs. F. C. Tracey and Mrs. Webb 8–6, 6–4.

Miss Griffiths and Mrs. Chiu beat Tsang was at his best in this game. For the Misses Dodwell and Pritchard the remainder of the evening he gave evi- dence of being sorely in need of practice.

6--0, 6-0.

Joe Tsang and Peter Lo, who should have done better than to take only one game, games. They were shaken up by Ho and were disconcerted by the deep lobbing of | Ulrich, however, who led them 9-3, 11–8, the opposition. Tsang's fine smash was 13-9, and 15-11 but thereafter faded out

LOSE TO ENGINEERS

(By "SCRUM-HALF”)

Being led 6-5 at the interval, Royal Engineers recovered well to beat a strong Club "A" team by two goals and a try (13 points) to two tries (8 points) in their Rugby match at the Valley yesterday.

Main feature of the game was Thomson's debut at fly-half. He play- ed well in that position, using the short punt ahead to advantage, but he was not seen at his best due to the very indifferent passes he had to take from Bidwell. He is a little light for this key position, and Club would be advised to retain him only at scrum- half.

Godfrey was injured în a loose scrum, but recovered quickly to finish the game in his usual rousing manner. Bidwell had a rough five minutes, and Waite was on his back for a brief period, but none of the three are any the worse for their maulings.

LAVALLE PROBLEM Lavalle, except for his deadly head- on tackling, is wasted as a centre threequarter, due to his indecision in attack, and it would be better if he were played on the wing. He hág speed and a fair pair of hands.

Salter hooked well, and Bidwell did not waste any time getting the ball out, though his service was by Do means perfect. The latter had bad luck with an excellent attempt at a dropped goal.

Gratton, a newcomer to the game, gave a promising display. He at least knows how to run straight.

Waite was the livewire in the En- gineers' side, and he held his team to- gether in a very creditable manner. Picton will be playing on the Army wing before long and Sheldrake and Pike are coming forwards.

THE SCORING

Picton soon made his presence felt with a fine run which would have taken him over the line, but he was adjudged to have taken a forward pass. Almost immediately after, how- ever, he swerved past two opponents' to score a good try which Pike con- verted. Before half time, however, Needham went over following loose play and Richardson failed to convert. In the second half Thomson gave Club the lead when he cut through and scored after a nice run. Bidwell did not add the goal points and Club led 6-5. Pike sent Engineers ahead when he touched down following а forward rush, and he converted his own effort. Cuthbertson completed the scoring in the closing minutes, Pike failing to kick a goal.

Club "A"-Walkden; Gratton, La- valle, Day and Richardson; Thomson and Bidwell; Godfrey. Salter, Stoker; Benn, Needham; Burford, Roscoe and Heasman.

Engineers Otway; Artingstall, Jones, Martin and Picton; Waite and Foley; Apperly, Pike, Esuzan; Brink- ley, Davis; Sheldrake, Howarth and

Cuthbertson.

C.C.C. TEAMS

The following have been selected to re-

Saturday, commencing at 3.00 p.m.

not effectective under the circumstances. of the picture.

Austin Ho gave a promising display fea- K. L. Lul and H. T. Woo (King's Cat-present Cralgengower Cricket Club tured by powerful smashing. He was very | lege). rough on any attempts at drops which were beat Peter Lo and J. Tsang,

lost to John Chen and F. Tsang beat Austin Ho and A. Ulrich

the slightest bit inaccurate.

Ulrich's service was very poor and many scoring opportunities were lost in conse=;} quence...

Ho and Uirlch, with but a little more fortune, might have won two games, it was only understanding that they lack. ed. They should do better with mòre practice together..

K. H. Lo and T. Lum (King's lost to Lo and Tsang

21--12 16-21

on

1st XI (v. C.S.C.C. (Away}):-E, Zimmern (Capt.), P. J. Billimoria, A. R. H. Esmall, 21-18 A. B. Hamson, A. J. Hulse, A. K. Ismall, College). E. A. Loe, H. P. Lim, W. Hong Ming, J. L. 7--21 Young Saye and F. R. Zimmern. Scorer- ̧18–21 | H. W. Randall; Umpire-G. Ladd.

a1-18 2nd XI. (v. C.S.C.C. (Home));-B. R. 8. P. Chan and W. C. Chung (King's Col- Irance (Capt.), N. Broadbridge, A. H. Er- lege). beat Lo and. Tsang

lost to Chen and Tsang boat Ho and Ulrich

Considering it was the first time For King's S. P. Chan and W. C. Chung I beat Chen and Tsang they have ever played together, Flet- [ were easily the best pair and won all three boat Ho and Urich

mail, U. H. Esmail, U. H. Esmail, A. Hung, 11–10 | C, W, Lam, G.-A. Lee, J. W. Leonard, T. 21–4] Lock, A. M. Omar and G. Winch. Scorer-- 21-4 W. Broadbridge.