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RUMJAHN COUSINS FAIL TO REACH A A DECISION Share Four Sets In Entertaining Match "S.A." ATTACKED BY CRAMP WHEN TWO SETS TO THE GOOD

(By “ADREM”)

BOWLING ALLEY

JOTTINGS

By "STRIKE"

Forty-seven entries have been re- ceived for the Second Handicap Sin- gles Competition.

A copy of the draw with handicaps and it is trusted that all entrants will get in touch with the manager of the Bowling Alleys to facilitate the speedy

will be sent to each individual entrant,

THROWING ALL HIS PHYSICAL reserves into an effort to win the match in straight sets, Sirdar Rumjahn yester- day won the first two sets against his cousin H. D. Rumjahn on Stand Court of Hong Kong Cricket Club in the semi-running of this Competition; on this final of the Colony singles championship, and then faded out of the picture.

Four sets were shared before the match was abandoned owing to failing light, the scores being, S.A.'s given first, ~8-6, 6-3, 0-6, 2-6.

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and 4-1. H. D. drew up to 4-3 but could get no further, S. A. winning the set at 6-3.

H. D. was easily the better man in the last two sets and appeared fairly fresh after the match.

score I am led to believe that the first Tournament was so successful that there will be no difficulty in this res- pect.

The same rules in the First Tournament are applied to the Second Tournament.

In the preliminary games, three games shall constitute a match; in the semi-finals and final, five games shall match, the highest aggregate score deter- mining the winner.

constitute

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The winner shall have his name engraved on a silver-encased Ten Pin Ball (on view In the Alleys) and shall also receive a sliver encased replica of same; the runner up shall receive one carton of Schlitz canned beer very kindly presented by L. Rondon and Company, Hong Kong.....

was an entertaining match to watch as both men stroked beautiful- ́ ́ly. ́ ́S.A.'s success in the first two sets can be attributed to his fine powers of retrieving and the fact that H.D. could not produce a winning shot off the ground. Sirdar, on the other hand, Had matters proceeded normally I made good use of an accurate fore-think H. D. would have won but it hand drive and a well-disguised drop- | would have been purely on stamina-Barney, of U.S.S. Tulsa, of 139 made on shot which he used to advantage at both men were exceptionally well opportune moments.

In the early stages H. D. was wont to take the net on deep drives. He was soon discouraged from pursuing this form of attack, however, as Sirdar produced passing shots at will which left him standing.

H. D. always-gave the Impression that he was.conserving himself. Un- Teas he was reasonably sure of turn- ing. It to his own advantage, he rarely went for shots for which no would have had to run hard. Ho played a cool, collected game, with the Idea apparently, always at the back of his mind that the man who could last would be the man who would win.

It became apparent even in the se- cond set that his tactics would meet with success. Although he lost second set, he started a fine recovery when being led 1-4 and, although Sirdar staved off the challenge, he looked much the more exhausted.

H.D. ATTACKS

In the third set H. D. started

to

matched.

CLUB FINAL ·

Final of the Club championship, which should have been played yes- terday on No. 8 court, was postponed and will be played next week on the Stand Court..

TO-DAY'S MATCH

Only one match is down for decision to-day, E. C. Fincher and W. C. Hung meeting T. A. Pearce and B. C. Fay on the Stand Court.

POLICE TO

VISIT MACAO

a.m.

B739; B611, Blackbourne; Leslie, B803, Brown; B799, Wall, B293, Park- er, B431,

Last Friday, R. F. Pirard registered a very creditable score at Duck Pins - he made 141-just beating the score of W. L.

April 6.

Pirard's effort was as follows:-Starting off with a spare, he then made an 8. 10. 8. 5. 9, 10, then a strike on his 8th, 9th and 10th frames to finish up with 8 and a-9 with his two extra balls.

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ROYAL SIGNALS

97 82 111 94 95 479 Corp. J. H. Watts ... Cpl. H. Blount

88 92 80 99 82 450 Sgr. G. Birkett .... 03 82 01 85 78 431

L/Sgt. G. Somerville 88 77 84 85 82 416

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There is no doubt that the Mindanao boys

played good steady Duck Pins, for, as the scores show, they bagged no fewer than a scores of over 100 pins, the highest for a ns I have single game being registered. mentioned above, by D. M. Keplinger, who made 147 on his fifth game. The second highest score for a game was made by J. T. Sheehan, his effort being 11 on his second game.

The highest total for all five games was made by D, M. Keplinger, he made 550 or an average of 110 pins per game! If This probably' constitutes a record for these Al- leys. He was followed very closely by J. T. Sheehan, with 510 to his bag, or an average of 102 pin per game. Actually, the total

pinage for the five games for the four play-

ers, 1.982, makes the average 98 pins per man per game. There are very few teams that can equal this performance.

.... NOT TOO BAD It must not be thought that the Royal

On Signals played poorly. the contrary. although they only registered one score of over 100 for a game-this was made by Corp. Watts on his third game-actually they played quite good Duck Pins, below their usual efforts but nevertheless the over- age score per player per game worked out at 89, pins.

However, there is to be a return match bowler to register three strikes in succes-p.m. This should be a very keenly-contested It is a very rare thing for a Duck Pin which has been booked for Wednesday, at 8 sion, I believe it has only been done about game and all Duck Pin fans should turn out three or four times in these Alleys; had in full force to watch it. Pirard registered - a spare or two between his 2nd and 7th frames he would undoubt- edly have beaten the record for the Alleys made by Mrs. Soong in March, last year- her score being 188. Better fuck next time.

PIRARD BEATEN Pirard's score, however, was not allowed to remain long as top score for the month for, on March 16, Coro. Blount, of Roval Signals, beat it by 4 pins, his score being 145, equalling Mr. J. Chiyoff's record score for the month of March-145 pins also. To make a score of 145 at Duck Pins is really a fair Ten Pin score. As a matter of fact to get this score Blount had to make six spares and a strike.

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SINGLES HANDICAP

DRAW

Following is the draw for the Second Han- dicap Singles competition at Hong Kong Bowling Alleys:-

Byes Into Second Round:~J. R. Fawcett (23), S. H. Neate (50), F. D. Angus (40), A. W. Muenger (26), G. North (26), c. I. Sipitaky (50), W. Gardner (36), F. J. Mol. then (20), M. F. L. Haymes (23), E. Hear ther (10), D. M. Keplinger, (23), L. Weill (40), A. Loughlin (38), D. Venezia (17), J. R. Tidd (20), H. Blount (23), C, G. Altkenhead (50).

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The following will represent H.K.

Again on April 17 Blount registered a 135

First Round:-D, Hall (33) v C. E. Shipp at Duck Pins, his effort in this case being the Police senior hockey eleven in their six spares but no strike and his lowest score (36); J. S. Landolt (20) v E. G. Toulding

annual game with the Macao XI on for any frame was six (shame!).

(50); J. Gracle (26) v G. Hanley (40); J. H. Sunday at Macao. The team will sail Corp. Blount is not only one of the best (50) v Mr. Holland (50); L. Gaddi (23) v C. As I have mentioned in previous. Jattings, Watts (20) v A. H. Potts (50); M. el Arculli by the s.s. "Tai Shan" at 8.00 a.m. on Duck Pin players in the Alleys but he is Miller (23); G. Somerville (26) v F. P. Hollis Sunday, returning by the 3.00

one of the best Ten Pin players. As a mat- (2); A. H. Odell (23) v M. Talan (23); R. boat on Monday.

ter of fact up to the time of writing these

E Skiver (30) v F. W. Barton (50); S. Golden (28) v E. Hewer (50); P. Godkin Jottings he holds the highest score for the month with 229 in his bag. This is not his (26) v J. Odell (26); V. F. Taylor (30) v best effort at. Ten Fins for in February of F. M. Thompson (40); D. Walker (40) V J. this year he held the record until almost the C. Thomas (30): A. W. Devonshire (36) end of the month, with 255, but was beaten S. A. Ismail (26); M. Welll (20) v Birkett by one of his own Unit, Corp. Watts, with (43), the record score, made in these Alleys, 278. However, Corp. Blount's 135 for Duck Pins was taken from the record board the same day, D. M. Keplinger of the Mindanao in a Duck Pin match against the Royal Signals, putting up the highest score of the month, 147. His effort was made up ag follows:-a spare on his first, second and fourth frames, and a spare on his seventh,

What a pity he did not connect up with a

adopt the initiative, once more going in to the net. He regled off four games in a row and was well on the way to the fifth when Sirdar attacked by cramp.

Reserves:-B816, B560; Referee:- was Sgt. Rothwell.

After some delay he was able to carry on but by this time it was ob- vious that a definite, decision would not be reached. H. D. won that third set to love, took the fourth at 6-2

H.K.F.C. LAWN BOWLS PRACTICE

Following rinks will participate in a lawn bowls practice game at Hong

and, with the light falling fast, the Kong Football Club on Saturday: eighth, ninth and tenth frames,

match was abandoned..

A. Watson, G. E. Stephens, L. E.

Sirdar was easily the more aggres-Lammert and N. J. Bebbington (skip).strike or two. If he had done so he would

J. H. Gelling, J. Watson, K. S. Ro-have surpassed the Alley record. bertson and A. Brooksbank (skip).

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sive of the two men yesterday and his stroking was somewhat more re- liable. His forehand drive has already been mentioned; his backhand, heav- lly sliced was very difficult to pick up with any accuracy and his lobbing was also very good.

H. D. had the better ser- vice and was very accurate on the backhand but his forehand yes- terday was strangely weak and he never appeared sure of himself on this wing.

NEW "200" MEMBERS

We have two new members for the 200 can and J. Evans (skip).

J. S. Howell, A. W. Hodges, G. Dun-Club. On April 13. Sapper A. Body finally

Mansell and H. G. Wallington (skip),

F. P. Anslow, C. G. Sollis, B. A. J. I. Barnes, H. H. Beddow, H. H. Pegg and T. Rowell (skip).

A, B, Didsbury, G. S. Graver, G. S. Rodger and F. Flippance (skip).

A. Bailey, R. Stapleton-Cotton, L. D. Skinner and J. G. Batley (skip). Barnett and S. W. Cressey (skip).

K. J. Attwell, E. Morrison, . H.

HOCKEY SIX-A-SIDE

POSTPONED

gained this honour by making 207; his effort being strike, spare, spare. strike, strike, spare, then three strikes in a row to finish

up with an eight on his last frame.

The other new member was Signaller S. H. Neate, Roval Corps Signals, who made 202 on April 17, his bag being strike, spare,

· strike, spare, three strikes in a row, a spare, an eight on his 9th frame, a spare on his 10th to make a seven with the extra ball,

Congratulations are extended to these two

latest members of the Club from his fellow- members.

Surprise of surprisest ! ! In a five-game Duck Pin match against the formidable

the | Royal Signals on April 17,

Mindanao

| boys won very comfortably by 185 pins, the

individual scores being as follows:

U.S.S. MINDANAO

Sirdar took an early lead of 3-1 in the first set but H., D. rallied and went to 5-3. The scores were once again levelled at 5-all but then H. D. had a grand opportunity for set when he had several set points. In the 12th. game when leading 6-5. S. A to postpone the annual six-a-side D. M. Keplinger however, levelled and eventually went | tournament from April 21 to 28 as sc- |J. T. Sheehan, out at 8-6.

veral clubs had received no notifica-F. Lemerson

J. W. Davis

At a meeting of the Hockey Associa- tion Council yesterday it was decided

S. A. dominated the early part oftion of the tournament. Entries close the second set and led 2-0, 2—1, 9—1 1 at 6 p.m. on April 25.”

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th a. a. a. a. a. Tti.

D4 110 102 07 147.550

83 113 100 05 208 510

85 94 100 03 82' 454

BI

93 108 70 87 448

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Figures in brackets are the handicaps.

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