1940-01-03 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 3, 1940

CRICKET NOTES

HIGH STANDARD IN THE MATCH BETWEEN FREE FORESTERS, CLUB C.S.C.C. Stars' Absence Spoiled Game At Valley

TERRIBLE FIELDING

OF C.C.C. SENIORS

(By "ADREM")

THERE WAS AN extremely full cricket programme over the week-end, chief centre of interest being Chater Road, where Hong Kong Cricket Club entertained Free Foresters in the first local appearance of the latter club in the Colony.

Having regard to the strength of the Free Foresters, on paper, and the fact that Club's bowling could hardly be described as powerful, it is not really surprising that Free Foresters won.

ard mentioned above, their absence from

between that Club and K.C.C. more enjoy-

EFFORT BEING MADE TO

CARRY ON CRICKET

LEAGUE

Most of the cricket clubs, in reply to the recent circular, having re- plied in favour of carrying on the League, there is now every likelihood that it will not be cancelled as was at one time thought probable. The following statement was issued by Mr. A. H. Madar, Hon. Se- cretary of the League, this morning:

"With regard to the Cricket League fixtures, an effort is being made to change those fixtures which clash with Camp dates and a possible solution appears likely.

"Becond Division arrangements for Saturday will be considered as

League games until a final decision is reached.”

Snicks were allowed to go for four; other only 12 runs, by which time of course, it shots that should have been fielded, went was much too late.

the same way. Zimmern appeared to be come discouraged and went to pieces. to stop the rot. He played a typical innings,

Rodrigues was the first Recreio bateman

going along quietly and scoring off anything | loose on the leg alde. At the close he was undefeated with 61.

marks must also be given to veteran

siderably with his coolness and the

strokes.

HIGH SCORING

There was some fairly high scoring at Kowloon Cricket Club, where the second elevens of K,C.C. and H.K.C.C. were featur ed in a draw.

K.C.C., batting first, made 168 for 6 dec., G. E. Taylor, B. A. Gray and R. Baldwin all making useful scores, Club attack how- ever, was not impressive, only Stoker bow-

Special mention must be made of the two youngest members of the Club team, N. D. Booker and T. M. Bulter, who pave outstanding fielding displays.

There was complete domination of match contributed a good deal to the stand-Jackie Noronha, who batted really well for the Free Foresters' batting over Club Civil Service helped little to make the fixture 21, and A. E. Noronha impressed me con-ling at all well. bowling throughout and had not the formers' captain issued instructions able. K.C.C., except for Lloyd, were at full efficient manner in which he played all his for his later batsmen to hit and get -out in order that his bowlers could have a stab at Club's batsmen in the last 20 minutes, they might have run up quite a mammoth score.

As it was they totaled 279. Grose and Perry, for Free Foresters, put up 51 for the first wicket and Skipworth and Godby rubbed it in to such good purpose that the 140 was hoisted for the loss of only two wickets. With fur- ther useful scores by Teversham and McLellan a total of 279 was made by 5 p.m.

Club lost the wicket of Fortescue in the 20 minutes remaining before stumps were drawn but Alec Pearce, who succceded him, was very confident and scored 19 before the closure,

MONDAY'S PLAY

Pearce

Resuming on Monday morning, and Richardson carried the score to 97 be- fore the former was c and b Perry. There after Free Foresters assumed command_of_] the gaine, as, apart from a useful innings of 33 by N. D. Lloyd, who, with F. M. L. Haymes added 36 for the ninth wicket, no- body else got many.

Harvey and McLellan bowled very steadily as did Perry and they were never easy to get away.

With a lead of over 100, Free Foresters were entitled to enforce the follow-on but, deciding against this, they carried on to make 132 in their second innings, Grose and Perry adding 44 for the first wicket and most of the others getting double-figures.

Club fared badly against the varied Free Foresters' attack and were all out fos 113. The two Pearces, getting into the thirties, being the only batsmen to offer any real

resistance.

Standard of cricket reached was fairly good and it is to be hoped that Free Foresters will again be seen in action in the not too distant future. While

the presence of D. McLellan, A. E. Perry, T. V. N. Fortescue. J. E. Richardson and N. D. Lloyd in this

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HONG KONG. BOWLING ALLEYS

the performances of these lads at all, it was strength, and, without wishing to deprecate hardly paying the visitors a compliment to turn out a team of schoolboys against them.

Had not Teddy Fincher decided to make

In the absence of Eddie Gosano, A. P. Ozorio and these two proved Pereira opened the Recreio bowling with equal to the occasion.

Most of Club's runs were scored by ever- more than | green E. J. R. Mitchell, who played a cap- tain's innings of 45 not out, and Booker, who batted very nicely indeed for 44.

Ernie Zimmern made 16 and Lim 19 but a game of it and taken Robbie Lee of when none of the earlier batsmen ever looked like. he was bowling very well, it la more than staying. Had not A. T. Lee made 27, bat possible that C.S.C.C. would not have reaching at No. 9, their core would have looked ed 50.

ANDERSON'S FEAT

Chief feature of the match was the re

markable feat of Donald Anderson in hit

ting Victor Bond for eight boundaries in one

over. This has been described as a, local

record and I have little doubt that it is in view of the short length of time that eight.] ball overs have bɛen in operation.

It was unfortunate for Bond, who at beat A change bowler, that he should have had to shoulder the responsi- bility of opening. Hin Arst bali, real beauty, beat Anderson all ends but missed the wicket, and, although he bowled a couple of long-hops and a full toss which Hung tennis-smashed to the boundary, his first two overs gave no indication what was to follow.

——Anderson --hit—everything – beautifully. Anything that could be reached Was driven hard and straight, there was a hook and a couple of aquare-cuts in as spectacular a piece of batting as ) have

ever seen.

up

of

It was not surprising that this effort not only demoralised Bond but also Hung, bat- the first ball of the next over. Up to this ting the other end, and he was bowled off

time the bowling had been very mediocre as, apart from Bond's inconsistency, Whitley was unable to find a length and had proved fairly expensive.

When Norman Smith, of C.B.S. was put on, however, rate of scoring slowed up per- his bowling, which pitches for the most part ceptibly. This lad puts plenty of vim into

on the leg stump and turns in just a frac- tion. His chief asset, however, is his pace of the wicket.

He bowled Anderson when the latter tried to hit him out of the ground and had Mackay in all sorts of trouble before having him caught off a full-toss after being dropped a couple of balls previous. He finished up an excellent performance with 6 for 61. A most promising display. against a good batting" aide.

With Lee bowling aggressively and K.C.C. holding all catches, Civil Service wickets began to topple like nine-pins. Four wickets were down with 8 on the board; five were down with for 20 and then Teddy Fincher took Lee off and brought on some of his seldom-used change-bowlers, who were more optimistic than skilful!

SMITH BATS WELL

Norman Smith settled down off this sort of stuff and after playing:one or two effec- tive cow-shots, batted really well, driving and hooking with great power.

He participated in useful stands with Tamworth, Band and Whitley, and when he was well caught in the country-by Rapley with his score at 58, Civil Servics was pretty. safe ay Whitley by this time was seeing the ball quite drell. The last-named" and Hol- lidge managed to play out time, 2122"

* Hollidge's Inningas was particularly

damag::

plucky as he was batting wit

ed finger, injured early^^ff.A innings in going for a low catch at cover.

bad.

themselves

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even sicker! It was a good effort on the part of Lee who has not played an innings for several months.

Gray, tried late, met with unusual success

with the ball for K.C.C., taking 2 wickets for 3 runs!

From what I saw of the Police-Civil Ser- vice match there was more enthusiasm than skill. Cow-shotting, was the order of the day from the pavilion, again took most wickets, wickets. Carey hit very hard for his 58 out Ozorio, who never looks very difficult and straight yorkers nearly always took

did not bowl as well as his 3 for 19 would double figure scores, Police could only man- finishing up with 7 for 33 in 10 overs. Pereira | of 76, but there only being three other

suggest.

age 138.

I had great hopes for Craigengower but unless they improve their fielding consider ably they are not going to meet with the success in the. League that at one time seemed fairly certain.

This, however, proved more than sufficient and the varied Police attack consisting on Saturday of Lewis, Hunter, Danbrowsky and Forrest split up the wickets among them- selves.

MIGHT HAVE MADE DIFFERENCE

University Juniors, who appear likely to Had G. Hong Choy been tried a bit earlier

be in for a rough time if they play in the against Indian R.C., there might have been

Junior League, were beaten rather easily by University, dis-I.R.C. Juniors, who cannot be described as a different story to tell. missed for M. of which Matthews and Hong powerful by any means. · Choy made the bulk, were unable to cope with I.R.C/s-opening batsmen-A-H.-Rum- jahn and K. Nazarin and I.R.C. had 89 on the board with only two wickets down when Hong Choy was given the ball.

the thirties for I.R.C., while J. Fenton and All, Rahmin and M. I. Razack all reached

O. V. Cheung were the only University bate- men to make any runs against steady bow-

In a sensational spell of a little more thanling by J. M. A. Rumjahi, who took 4 for an over and a half, he took 4 wickets for

21 in 7 overs.

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