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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 7,1940

CRICKET NOTES

LAY JUST MISSES CENTURY FOR K.C.C.

(By "ADREM")

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I'm afraid the standard of cricket never reached a very high level Cox's Road, where Kowloon Cricket Club made further progress in their bid for the championship by beating

a very poor University team with the

greatest of ease.

Both teams were seriously depleted owing to Volunteer Camp but whereas the second team of Kowloon Cricket

Champions' Finest Batting Display

Anderson Leading

All-Rounder

N. Beltrao, Recreio stumper, .is

heading the batting averages of First Division of the Cricket League by virtue of two undefeated innings, but he does not steal the thunder of Don- ald Anderson's fine average of 131.00

as the result of scores of 75 not out

against Craigengower and 56 against Army. E. F. Fincher, another K.C.C.

MINU AND MADAR ARE

MASTERED

(By "ADREM")

The improvement in the Recreio senior eleven was de- monstrated on Saturday in their match against Indian Recreation Club but, despite a batting display which must rank as their finest since their return to Senior Division, they were held to a draw.

Club were without a fixture and were thus in a position to provide a number of useful men, the University junior side was engaged in a League match player, is third with 53.50, made up they did, as I did not expect their

by scores of 28 against Craigengower, 22 against Army and 57 not out

and consequently replacements were difficult to secure.

Under the circumstances it was exagainst University. tremely sporting of University to turn out a team at all.

There were all sorts of delays in the first bour during which I don't suppose there

was more than 15 minutes play.

The non-arrival of the University gear caused the first delay and eventually the team was forced to take the field in ordin- ary shoes. Setting of the field was on in.

the ordinately lengthy process and

game was just getting under way when the errant the missing University boy arrived with

gear, which caused another adjournment team of the fielding while six members rushed in to change into their boots, includ ing the wicket-keeper.

MULCAHY RETIRES

Only six bowlers have qualified for Inclusion and Anderson heads this list with very impressive figures. Notable absentees are Hatfield of Army, Eddie Gosano of Recreio and Robbie Lee of K.C.C.

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FIRST I.R.C. WIN

I cannot say that I was greatly sur- that fell for only 38 runs. prised at this result. I expected, it backed by a keen field. anything, that Recreio would have far rougher time of it than batsmen, improvement notwithstand ing, to take such complete command of the bowling of A. R. Minu and A. H. Madar.

The latter falled for once with the ball but played a typical innings which really put paid to the champions' chances of forcing an outright win.

Batting difficulty.

first, Recreio were never in Left-handed L. G. Gosano and

Following are the averages to date: his youngest brother, J. M. Gosano, put on

First Division

BATTING

(Qualification-2inna, av, of 15 and over.)

N.

1. O. R. H.S. Avge.

33 2 2

20*

N. Beltrao (Rec.) D. J. N.

Anderson

(K.C.C.)

L. G. Gosano (Rec.)

75 131.00 1 131

67. 53.50 1 107 E. F. Fincher (K.C.C.) 3

H. A.

Madar

38.00 (I.R.C.) 2 38 30* Cpl. Webb (Army)

36.50 38.50 2 0 56 54 28.00 27.00 22.00 20.50 20.50 20.00

2

1

*

D 73 59

2 0 73 72

54 7 0

47

44 44

2 0 41 41

1 41 23*

B 60 26

E. L. Gosano (Rec.)

More setting of fiejds Out again and on. And then Mulcahy was struck on the jaw by a ball from Mahmood which got up sharply and had to leave the field for attention. After further delay Fincher went to the wicket and cricket settled down for keepal

During all these little interruptions, Lay K. Nazarin (I.R.C.) had been going along steadily, taking no chances but scoring off the loose ones. Now. R. Zimmern (C.C.C.) 2 0 he started to open up. He had more of the Sgt. Denyer (Army)

Y. bowling than Fincher and made good use of it. I omitted to mention that he was dropped behind the wicket off Lo before he had scored and he gave chances regularly after that, one being before the score was 20.

Nevertheless the cricket he served up was valuable. He hit a long-hop from Mahmood out of the ground on to Gun Club Hill and kept up the good work.

BOWLERS TIRING

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Lo and Mahmood were obviously tiring but were given no respite. Result was series of short balls which nearly always went for fours. Lay was playing some rank bad shots among some really good ones, but nothing that went to hand was held and no fewer than 100 runs were added in the space of only 22 minutes.

Lay's force innings came to a close when Fenton took a niče catch" off-k off Tam'a real skier in the country bowling. He had batted, less interrup- tions, for about 60 minutes and looked hle first a safe bet for a century in senior League match. For all that he and Fincher added 109 for the second wicket.

Arcutti

(LR.C.) 3 A. R. Kitchell (I.R.C.) 3

J. Gosano (Rec.) ..... 20 39 20 19.50 E. Zimmern (C.C.C.) 2 0 38 37 19.00 M. el Arculli

1

18.50 (L.R.C.) 3 37 19* 17 13* H. L. Ozorio (Rec.) ... 2 1

17.00

... 2 0 30 18 E. A. Lee (C.C.C.)

15.00 .. 2 0 30 23 15.00 Lt. Skipwith (Army)

BOWLING (Qualification-two matches; five wickets; average 15 or under.)

O. M. R. W. Avge.

D. J. N. Anderson

(K.C.C.)

H. L. Ozorio (Rec.)

G. Winch (C.C.C.)

10

27

1 36 7 5.14 6 66 8 8.25 10 2 69 7 9.85 36.4 10 148 14 10.35 34.6 3 147 12 12.25 A. H. Madar (1.R.C.) .. 30 8 117 13,00

A. B. Minu (I.R.C.)

N. D. Lloyd (K.C.C.)

Second Division

BATTING

Lt. Fargus (Army)

N.

I O. R. H.S. Avge.

Fincher went along more sedately and his Major Swyers (Army) .. 2 2 40 27* ---* innings was chanceless. His most profitable scoring shot, apart from the hook, which the bowlers catered for persistently, was an off-drive which went through the covers like a bullet.

Fincher played same better shots on Saturday than he has done since his re- turn from leave.

who was In the later stages, Burnett. making his first appearance for K.C.C. this season, hit recklessly for 17 not out, and Mulcahy declared just before o'clock with 178 on the board,

H. A. Barros (Rec.)

2 1 66 56 66.00

3 1 108 55* 54.00

2 0 77 64 38.50

Lt. Man (Army) Capt. Whatman (Army) 2 0 73 50 36.50

1 H. M. Xavier (Rec.)... 3 71 58* 35.50 1 36 24* 35.00 G. A. Guterres (Rec.).. 2

30.33 91 63 Q.M.S. Patterson (Army) 3 0 G. Ainslie (C.S.C.C.) ... 30 91 66 28.66 W. L. Clarke (Police) ... 2 0 53 35 28.50 26.00 G. Hong Choy (Univ.) .. 2 0 52 49 M. R. Abbas (I.R.C.) 2 1 26 25 26.00 KEEN FIELDER

| A. J. Wright (C.S.C.C.) .. 2 1 25 13 25.00 well Mahmood and Lo both bowled

in F. J. Lay (K.C.C.) .... 4 0 87 44 21.75

1 R. Baldwin (K.C.C.) .... 3 patches, while K. Y. Tam gave a keen dis-

42 23* 21.00 play of fielding at cover-point,

R. T. Broadbridge (K.C.C.) 3 0 58 26 19.33 The University innings was

little more. T. Chin (Univ.)...... 3

0 57 44 19.00 Curtis bowled fastish. Locke (C.C.C.) - 2 1 than a procession.

19 19 19.00 medium from the Bowling Green Club end, and Lloyd revealed all his cunning at the Capt. Lawrence (Army) 3 0 58 29 12.88

G. Stone (C.8.C.C.) pavillon end on a wicket just to his liking.

K. Y. Tam, a left-hander who opened with C. N. Matthews, looked fairly promising. A. Hung (K.C.C.) watching the ball right on to his bat, but E. Curtis (K.C.C.)

W. Mulcahy (K.C.C.)

3 0 55 33 18.33

4 0 73 41 18.25

2 0 36 25 18.00

4 2 35 24 17.50

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he played too soon at Lloyd's slower ball, F. A. Curreem (1.R.C.) 2 0 35 22 17.50 which got up, and was easily taken by Mulcahy at silly mid-off. Matthews looked. M. Baxter (K.C.C.).. 30 52 23 17.33

C. Pope (Pollos)

2 0 34 27 17.00 very confident and his defensive strokes were very nicely made. Lloyd, however, H. Danbrowsky (Police) 2 0 34 34 17.00 caught and bowled him just as he was be N. Broadbridge (C.C.C.) 2 1 17 18 17.00 ginning to show signs of becoming dan-|A. V. Gosano (Rec.) .... 2 0 33 17 18.50 gerous.

R. M. Soares (Univ.). 20 31 25 15.30 Apart from a promising innings by Ken-v, C. Bond (C.S.C.C.) ... 8 0 45 24 15.00 neth Lo, a well-made youth with a good eye,

BOWLING there was little of interest in the remainder of the innings, although Chim Theam-tsiew livened up the last 10 minutes with some daring "cow-shots" which prevented Lloyd's J. E. Noronha (Rec.)... 14.3 2 49 9 5.44 -final figures from being even more impres- | G. A. Guterres (Roc.)

.. 16 -.sive.

Lt. Peal (Army) ................... N. Singh (Univ.) Q. E. Taylor (K.C.C.) E. Curtis' (K.C.C.) R. Baldwin (10.0.0.)

3 WICKETS FOR 2 RUNS Lloyd took his first three wickets in three Lovers for only two runs' and his last three şin 4.6, overs for 17.-

Curtis was exceedingly steady after he had warmed' up and I would like to - sao him in action against stronger op. position.” He looks to be promising, material for the first team in the near...... vfuture."

ACC. accepted all the chances

B. R. France (C.C.C.)

O. M. R. W. Avge. 12 1 29 64.95

2 69 7.38 B 1 64 7 7.74 21.5 0 123 12 10.29 25.6 2 107 10 10.70 28.2 4 99 8 12.38 20 2 82-8 13.50

Curtis took a hot a and b, while Burnett brought off one of the most spectacular catches seen on the ground for a long time when he took a hard left-handed ́ ́ chatice low "down-off Byed Mahmood, at short leg.

60 for the first wicket, of which L. G. claim- ed almost 40, and thereafter Funs came da Silva steadily, with Soares, P. M. N. and H. L. Ozorio all reaching double-figures, 45 RUNS IN FIVE OVERS Minu bowled steadily, conceding only 11 runs in his first five overs, but not until the opposition started to go for the runs did he take wickets. He Anished up with 3 for 56, his last five overa conceding 45 runs.

A. M. Rumjahn did not permit many liberties to be taken with his bowling. His analysis was the best of the innings, his three wickets costing only 10 runs apiece. I.R.C. ran up against trouble almost im- mediately. With only 12 runs on the board, Bob Arculli, who opened the innings for the first time this season, was caught by G. N. Gosano off Ozerio and although A. H. Rum- Jahn and A. R. Kitchell offered some mea-

I.R.C. secured their first win in Junior Division when they beat University, who

found it difficult to raise a side after the first eleven had made exhaustive claims on their juniors, R. M. Soares top-scored for the undergraduates with 23 and the' side totalled 80, Y. T. Barma securing 4 for 15. II. T. Barma, 24 run out, and M. I. Razack

(25) put 1.R.C. well on the way to victory had 3 for 41 in a total of 83 for 6. and the visitors won by 6 wickets. N. Bingh

V. Mendonca secured 4 for 29 and scored 44 for combined St. Joseph's and La Salle, but Craigengower just scrambled home by

7 runa.

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latter fell to the wiles of the same bowler with the score at 35, +

Romjahn did not long survive and after M. el Arculli and A. H. Madar had carried the score to 56 before the dismissal of the former, A. M. Rumjahn was dismissed with the addition of only two runs. HOPES DASHED

At this stage the score-board read 38 for 3 and whatever hopes I.R.C. might have had of forcing a win had evaporated.

Madar, however, was still there and after two more wickets had fallen to Ozorlo, he was joined by his brother, with whom he successfully held the fort until stumps were drawn.

Ozorio maintained his reputation for con- sistency by taking six of the seven wickets

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