1940-02-16 — Page 23

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1940

INDOOR BOWLING

Hong Kong Should Do Well In Telegraphic Interport

Hearther And Venezia Have The Best Records

BOWLING HIDDEN TALENT

ALLEY JOTTINGS

(By "STRIKE")

OWING to the Chinese New Year

holidays there has been a dearth

of matches played but in my next week's "Jottings" I will have some really good match to comment upon. The final of the Singles Cham- pionship between M. F. L. Haymes and J. H. Watts was played last night but I am afraid I will not be able to include it in this article.

There was quite a good Ten Pin

match played on Tuesday night be- tween our old friends, the Champs

and U.S.S. "Asheville," which result- ed in a decided win for the Champs by 438 pins.

The individual scores were:---

THE CHAMPS

"Dick" Venezia

"Ernie" Hearther

"Doc" Molthen

"Gene" Faggiano

893 808 768 703

Total

.3172

"ASHEVILLE"-

W. J. Balaski

L. S. Pawloski

C. G. Cunning

M. O. Gray

Total

IN THE COLONY?

(By “STRIKE”)

"HE management of Hong Kong Bowling Alleys, some time ago, seriously considered the possibilities of a ser-

DERBY SWEEP

The sale of ticket for the Derby are still mounting and this morning over 600,000 had already been sold.

First prize at present will be over $254.000.

BURFORD

THE ies of Interport Ten Pin matches, but, owing to the difficulty IS

of arranging teams to travel to Manila and Shanghai, due to the unsettled state of the Far East, it was thought im- practicable.

FIT

Rumours are rife as to whether Mr.

C. B Brown's Burford will go to the post in the Derby on Monday.

Interviewed this morning, Brown said that as far as he knew the

Mr.

pony was fit and would most certain-

Shanghai, however, has solved this problem by a pro- posed Telegraphic Interport Tournament between Shang-ly start. He would give no indication hai, Peiping, Manila, Cavite, Tientsin and Hong Kong.

As one who is in constant touch with the accomplishments of the vari- ous outstanding Ten Pin bowlers in Hong Kong, I have no hesitation in stating that I feel that the Colony team will give a good account of them- selves. I will even go further in stat- ing that I have full confidence in their ability to be somewhere near, if not at the top of the Tournament at its conclusion.

702

I have in mind various outstanding Ten 704 Pin Bowlers who are quite worthy of re- 628 presenting this Colony.

620

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the

I must candidly admit that standard of play all round was not up to expectations, this no doubt being due to the sudden rise in temperature; it certainly was a sultry evening!

There was only one score of 200 re- gistered, that being by Ernie Hearther in his second game, the nearest to this being 104 by Dick Venezia in his 4th game, followed by Balaski with 191 on his 2nd game.

Of course when all details of the Tour. nament are to hand, the Hong Kong public will be invited to participate- through the medium of the Press-for there may be some hidden talent that I am unaware of.

BEST RECORDS

of what he thought his chances of winning were, explaining that the pony had a deformed fetlock which Suffice for me to give the ten leading Ten might give trouble at any moment. Pin Bowlers of whom matches and Tournaments,

I have records in not forgetting

Burford covered the Derby distance that if their accomplishments in ordinary in 3.08.2 yesterday morning, clocking games were added the average pinnage the last mile would be higher.

in 2.06.0 and the Jast quarter in 0.29,0.

Satinlight, Mr. Moller's favourite, has even better times to its credit, however, having covered the mile in 2.01.0 with a last quarter of 0.27.1.

Ernie Hearther Dick Venezia J. S. Landolt Doc Molthen

J. H. Watts

M. F. L. Havmes

L. Gaddi

J. R. Fawcett

H. Blount

M. Talan

177 171

169

169

163

161

161

160

158

157

These are followed up hv such fine plavera

as G. Somerville, Chas. Miller, A. W. Muen- ger. Gene Faggiano, to say nothing of several other gond players.

It must be borne in mind, however, that the foregoing im average pinnage for The eligibility of Naval units to participate | matches played and not ordinary matches. will probably be a moot point on which a For instance I give as follows their record statement cannot be made until more defin- high scores in the Alles-E Heather 244. lie news is received from Shanghai.

WATTS WINS SINGLES H'CAP

234, 250, 250; R. H. Duddridge 252: J. R. The final of the singles handicap at It appears certain, however, that mem-Fawcett 264: L. Gaddi 234: A. Devons Lthe bowling alley yesterday resulted bers of the British China Squadron will not 234: J. S. Landolf 248, 24, 234: E. G. Fin a win for. J. H. Watts (plus 20) by be able to compete unless attached to someriano 243: R. Venezia 246: G. Somerville permanent establishment, such as "Tamar." 252: II. Bunt 255 (up to time of writing for because, as with other Interports, the arvu- this month).

ment has always held good that these Bri- So it can be seen that we have a consider. tish naval men are just as much Shanghaf | »ble array of known talent in Ten Pins in men as they are Hong Kong,

the Colony.

The case of men from U.S.S. Mindanao,

I expected a much better perform-however, seems to me to be rather differ- ance from Hearther, but I suppose" he has not got his "Land Legs" back yet -he has just returned from Home leave in the States.

Venczin was the star bowler of the match, his bag being 803 or an aver- age of 179 per game. Not bad, but Dick can do better than this.

Ernie Hearther was second top scorer with 808, or an average of 162; this is much below what I know he can do.

It is interesting to note the various averages during this match of each in- dividual player:-

CHAMPS: Dick Venezia 179; Ernie (Continued at Foot of Next Col.)

ent. I understand that the vessel is attach- ed to Hong Kong and, this being the case, I see no reason why some of their really excellent bowlers should not turn out for us. I have gone back through my match re- cords and made out a fair average of the principal Ten Pin Bowlers in the Allevs, in the matches and Tournaments, but I have found from past experience that many plav- ers play higher pinnage games in ordinary matches than they do in matches or tourna-

ments.

Hearther 162; Doc Molthen 154; Gene Faggland 141.

157:

ASHEVILLE-W.

J. Balaski

L. S. Pawlaski 141; C. G Cunning 128; M. O. Gray 124.

Joe Harvey, being on duty, was un- able to turn out, otherwise I am con- vinced that the Asheville team would have done much better than they did on this occasion.

BLOUNT MAKES NO MISTAKE Corp. H. Blount, of the Royal Signals, made no mistake about put- ting up the highest Ten Pin score for this month to date. This he made on Wednesday, his effort being as fol- lows:-

Starting off with 6 strikes in a row, a break on his 7th frame to make 8 with his first ball and a 9 with his second, followed by a spare, 3 strikes

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It was truly a great score and be well deserved it, there being no ele-· ment of "Joss" in the whole game.

In a previous article I mentioned that I expected great doings from this player.

The position of the monthly records up to time of writing this article stands as follows:

-TEN, PINS Ladies—Mrs. E. Stevenson 169: Men-Corp. H, Blount (R. B.) 255.

DUCK PINS

· Mon;—T, W;: Wright (R. S:) 183.

79 points, 816-737, over M. F. L. Hay- mes (plus 25).

151.

Watts scored 169, 190, 160, 148 and Haymes had 25 added to his scores of 127, 120, 174, 170 and 121.

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