THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 8, 1940
BADMINTON NOTES
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UNIVERSITY SHOULD
WIN
PLAY-OFF
Return Of Yong Will Mean Three Strong Pairs
WEAKNESS IN THIRD STRING OF Y.M.C.A.
(By “ADREM”)
BIG BADMINTON result of this week, of course, was the defeat of Chinese "Y" by University "A", which makes a play-off for the senior title a virtual certainty.
GOLF STARTING TIMES
This match was covered fairly fully in Tuesday's issues and I do not pro- pose to devote a great deal more space to it. A few reflections, however, may not be out of place.
It
It is true that University were forced all the way in securing their win, whereas most followers of badminton thought that they would win easily on their own court. must be borne in mind, however, that Uni- versity were without K. L. Yong, who must rank only second, to P. K..Hui in their team. This necessitated changes in their line-up that might have been fatal, and left them with a completely, inexperienced player to make up-numbers and, in consequence, A third string unable-to-win a single game.
Against a well-balanced team like Chinese "Y" this might have, weighed the balance but fortunately for University, Hul and Chew combined like veterans and their three games proved the deciding factor.
On a neutral court, and with Yong back in the team, I feel fairly certain in my own
Following are Royal Hong Kong Golf Club mind that University will win any play-off Starting Times for the week-end:-
TO-MORROW
Old Course
2.04 p.m. A. V. Greaves, J. B. Mackie,
A. B. Purves, K, S. Morrison. R. B. Mace, R. M. M. King. R. Young, A. N. Other.
-2.08
2.12
||
2.16
4.
50.
2.20 --2.24
"
R. Sanger, J. W. Mayhew.
N. K. Littlejohn. A. McKellar.
-2,28 £2.40)
"
Capt. Giles, Lt. Cdr. Melrose.
th
SUNDAY
Old Courto
that is necessary as they will have three tried combinations, all capable of winning
at least two, if not three games.
LEE'S FINE DISPLAY
This line-up is likely to be: P. K. Hul and KL.Yong (last sekson's doubles cham plons); M. S. Lee and P. S. Bun. (last year's runners-up); and C. K. Lee and H. F. Chew.
Lee played so well on Monday that there
LEAGUE TABLES
"A" DIVISION
Games
P. W. L. F. A. Pts.
1 24 11 10
3.17 28 4
Chinese "y" 8 7 1 54 18 14 University "A" 6 5 Recreio
5 2 University.:"B" 6 1 6 15 29 2 Chung Wah .. 5 0 5 6 30
"B" DIVISION
St. John's King's College Recreio
St. Teresa's St. Andrew'# Kowloon Tong V.R.C. K.C.C.
MIXED
Recreio “A” St. John's University 'Recreio "B"
Talkoo K.C.C.
Games
0
P. W. L. F. À. Pts. 8 7 1 54 18 14 8 6 2 49 23 12 6 5 1 32 22 10 7 & 2 38 25 10 8 4 4 38 33 8 9 2.7 30 50 •
7 1 6 14 49
2
9 1 8 23 68 DOUBLES DIVISION
. Games
2
P. W. L. F. A. Pts. 5 5 0 38 7 10 7 5 2: 42 21 10 3 3 0 21 6.6 6 2 4 29 25 4 5 1 4 10 35 2 6 0 0 5 49
BLYTH AND
T.C. KEVAN
PLAY WELL
(By “ADREM”) Only interesting feature of
J. A. D. Morrison, D. H. Blake. Is little doubt that had he been playing with the "B" Division League bad
CHAMPIONSHIP
EASY WINS FOR AU AND WONG
(By "ADREM!)
The mixed doubles fixture between L. A. Carvalho and Miss M. Ribeiro, and K. L. Yong and Miss U. Khoo in the Open Mixed Doubles badminton championship having been postponed, only two senior singles games were played last night, both of them not occupying an hour.
First game was extremely brief. In it Patrick H. Wong, former title-holder, prov- ed far too good for C. K. Cheah and won practically as he liked, the score being 15-2, 15-ő,
Other match was
far more interesting id although David Kwok was not in the same class as C.' Au, his plucky efforts and gallant retrieving of impossible situations, made for some speedy rallies.
In the first game Kwok was unable to clear deeply enough with the result that Au was able to dictate terms. The Chinese “Y** player, whose pace and direction,, dé-. layed until the last possible moment, had his opponent on the wrong foot for most of the time, made, very few mistakes`· and went out easily, at 15-4
CHANGE OF TACTICS
Changing over for the second game,
ed a succession of drops on his opponent's
somewhat erratic. These methods paid and
forehand, on which wing he appeared to be Kwok changed his tactics and concentrat
and he should have beaten C. Au and H.minton matches played onKwok, with his opponent making several 9.16 a.m. A. C. I. Bowker, I. M. S. Lloyd. Koh, and they put up an extremely good Wednesday was the unex-errors, drew up to 9-all. The effort had
A. H. Penn, J. R. Collis,
Chew, his usual partner, he would have carried all before him. As it was Cheah
show against the hard-hitting and speedy S. C. Chung and, H. M. Lau.
Chinese "Y" have two pairs who could
pectedly fine performances
not be improved upon a great deal, although of two teams expected to be
M. G. Carruthers, R. C. Garld-Chung and Lau-with future successes for Swamped by sides in the run-
--9,20,
.-9.24 9.28
·9.32
*
T. E. Pearce, E. T. McMullen.
**
D. Humphreys, G. C. Worrall.
"
J. A. D. and K. S. Morrison.
-0.36
nor.
*9.40
A. Sommerfelt, B. D. Evans.
·9.44
9.48
1
9.52
9.50
10.00
-10.04
10.08 12
10.12
10.10
W. W, C. Shewan, A. B. Purves. G. Thomerson, J. Linaker,
J. L. G. Pearce, D. 1. Bosanqueti
H. F. Sommers, D. D. Forbes.
certain in front of them--are at the moment
afflicted with the impetuousity of youth, aning for the championship.
factor refreshing and entertaining to watch ¡but one that will never make for success in |League-badminton.
Having regard to the fine record of C. Au and H. Koh, I must confess to consider A. N. and Q. A. A. Macfadyen.able surprise at the poor standard revealed D. Lyon, H. Piercy.
by the latter on Monday. Au did all that was possible for any one man to do, and quite exhausted himself in the process, but Au was
amazingly slow and revealed a
A. V. Greaves, G. V. Griffiths.
Thanks to the fine form displayed by P. Wynter-Blyth and T. Kevan, Kowloon Cricket Club did very well to take three games from the power ful King's team, who were practically at full strength.
taken too much out of him, however, and he thereupon faded out of the picture.
... Au, provided he can laat the distance "against players. better equipped than Kwok, will take a lot of beating. Hie courtcraft is uncanny and he is the master of every stroke in the book, shots, was easy meat for Wong, who made
Cheah, unable to deal with deep clearing -- the University player run all over the court, while never appearing to do much running himself. Deep clearing and beautifully con- trolled angle drops were the features
...
of
J. M. Pearson, J. W. Mayhew.complete absence of anything approaching also won a game and the issue might tes did well to beat J. Tsang of St, Teresa's
C. C. Black, E. G. Price.
H. W. Dulley, E. Davidson.
L. R. Andrewes, Comdr. Hole.
J. Redman, M., S. Banner.
R. J. K. Walker, E. C. Norris.
10.20 "
A. Mabb, L., Goldman.
-10.24
•
R. P. Morris, W. J. Richards,
10.28
"
10.32
自愿
*10.30
10.40
10.44
50
10.40
"
10.52
11
10.50
•
P. E. Annis, W. J. Kelly.
11.00
"
12.04
Col.
**
11.08
18
J. B. Harrison, S. L. Lloyd.
J. B. Mackle, F. A. Redmond.
H. J. D. Lowe, H. A. Mills.
J. W. Clague, H. M. Rowland.
Perkins.
Simpson, W/Cdr. Steele
Major Mackenzie. J. C.. Taylor. 11.12. E. W. J. Wedlock, A, G. James, New Course
0.24 a.m. Miss Cuthbertson, J. G. Jenson.
9,32
*
Lt. Carter, Capt. Thursby.
10.00
**
Brig. MacLeod, S. H. Dodwell.
10.04
Mrs. Lyon, Mrs. Piercy.
10.12
10,20 *11.12
T. A. Pearce, F. D. Hunter.
a smash or a titive in his repertoire of
strokes.
With a stronger partner for Au, I would not care to forecast a result in a play-off but with the Chinese "y" team as it now stands, I have little hesitation in forecasting a win for University, -
ST. JOHN'S JUST SCRAPE HOME
(By “ADREM”)
In a match thus far given little publicity, St. John's scored the nar-1. rowest possible victory over Recreio
A. L. Fisher and J. L. Anderson Wong's game.
In the only junfor match played, W. GII- well have been carried to the vantage in straight games after a protracted oper game had T. A. Mađar Jones been successful
and H., S.
ing game. in their game against K. H. Lo and T. Lam, who just beat them, after "setting," "by two aces.
HOME TEAM OFF FORM At St. Teresa's, Kowloon Tong found the home team in anything but their best form and, had Ko Fook sing been playing, an upset was not outside the bounds of possibility.
Austin Ho and Joseph Lum played well for the Saints but Peter Lo and Joseph Tsang, although winning two games, had an off night"
Only other game saw St. Andrew's beat Victoria Recreation Club for the
Surg, Car. Cleave, Surg. Cdr."B" in Mixed Doubles Division of the loss of 'only one game. Nicholson.
Mrs. Wedlock, Mrs. James.
"
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Badminton League on Friday.
,
It was fortunate for the Cathedral team HOCKEY.
that H. Eardley and his sister Decima were
in such excellent form;" it was their three
games which enabled St. John's to scrape PROBABLE COLONY
through.
In none of their encounters were they ex-. tended in the slightest; not one of the oppos-
TEAM ON VIEW
have
ing pairs succeeding in reaching 'double- The following players, who figures.
For Recreio, Henry. Gonsalves and Miss been nominated as the Colony's pro- Maggio Xavier won two games, although bable Interport hockey team, will be they were given a great struggle by David on view on the Navy ground this Kwok and Mrs. Wilson, but Beltrao and afternoon at 5.15 p.m. against Rajpu- Miss S. Remediós, and C. C. Pereira and
Mrs. Rodrigues could only; manage one tana. Rifles.
aplece.
Norman Smith and Mrs. Nance Strange were unimpressive as a combination, the Latter being somewhat slow, and were un able to secure a single game.
.
Goal:V, M, Benwell (Club) 'and T. Lock- hart (C.H.A.).
Backs: V. C. Bond (C,B.A.) and Datta Ram (Rajputana Rifles). St. John's still remain in the running for (Club), and N. B. Whitley (C.BA)
-Halveat—G.”" W. Hook (R.A.), W. A, Roed the championship but they are unlikely to meet with very much success against either Forwardel—8; A. Fowler (Club). Pritam Recreio "A"! or University, between whom | Nath" (Raja,), Sgt. Homburg (RK.), Narain the title appears to lie.
Singh and Partaub1⁄4 (Kumaons)..
SCORES
Senior
P. H. Wong, beat C. K. Cheah 16–2, 15–6. C. "Au beat David Kwok 154, 15-9,
Junior
W. Gillies beat J. Teang 17-16.
ONE MATCH TO-NIGHT
The match between -Recreio · “A” and Kowloon Cricket Club in Mixed Doubles Division of the Badminton: League has been postponed until March 22.
Kowloon Tong, however, will 'enter-⠀ tain King's College in a postponed "B" Division game.
HOME FOOTBALL
London, To-day, Norwich, playing at home in a South "A" match yesterday, lost to Millwall by 3 goals to Reuter,
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