1940-11-29 — Page 15

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UNDERSTAND that the Mid- dlesex have a few entries for the 10,000 metres flat race at the Annual Meeting" of the South

The second game resulted in an AT Sookunpoo on Wednesday | Ching Athletic Association which overwhelming victory for the. Me- dicals, who beat the 12th Hvy. wickets.

R.A.O.C. bent R.A.F. by six is being held on December 22,

1940 and January 1, 1941. Regt, R.A. by 20 points to 6 points Boocock did the damage with This is good training for Units: after a 12-point lead at the inter- his bowling by taking five wic-getting their teams rendy for the

morrow.

Billiards

Racing

"H.Q." Coy. Middlesex v "H.Q.", Coy. Royal Scots on 4th December, kick off 4 p.m., and "D" Coy, Roy- al Scots v 24th Hvy. Bty, R.A. on 12th December, kick off 4 pm,

In the 3rd Round "H.Q." Coy Sing Tao lost two Middlesex beat 36th R.A, by two valuable points in their goals to one. "H.Q. Coy, Royal

Scots beat 22nd (F) R.E.'s by four val.

kets for 27 runs and Pinder and Area Athletic meeting, which will quest for First Division goals to two; "D" Coy, Royal Scots Pie, Macdonald played a great Barnes each made 44 runs.

beat R.A.F. by four goals to one, game at back and will fill the

be taking place about the end of Championship honours and 24th R.A. beat "C" Coy. Roy- place of L/Sgt. Marsh at right- with a fine 32, and "Sinith took 4

Abbas did well for the Airmen | April next year. when they were beaten by al Scots by five goals to four. wing threequarter on Saturday in for 19. three clear goals by Police

the Quadrangular Tournament, The Command Headquarters Army v Club at Sookunpoo to- cricket team are having a return being outplayed through- Small Units Rugby

game with Royal Air Force at out the game. 1 There Two more games have been

the Central British School ground (Continued from Page 14) on December 7, and this time are RACE NO. 8-COPSHAWHOLM, can be no excuse for Sing played in the Small Units' Rugby

hoping to win. They have two HANDICAP (SECOND; Tao's defeat for Police | In the first game between Mid-

excellent bowlers in Capt. Dewar,

SECTION): 11⁄4 MILES produced a standard of dlesex "B" and 8th Hvy. Regt.

and Cpl. Ingelby and they also

The day's programme will con- R.A, both sides scored three points

have a good pair of batsman.clude with a race for second sec- football better than they each.

This time Headquarters will tion "C" Class China ponies. Rose The Middies should have have done for many sea-

150 strengthen their side by bringing Fiana (Mr. P. P. Botelho) is car- easily but they threw away:

in Cpl. Blount, Cpl. Dixon, and rying top-weight of 163 lb. and on that chances, Moggeridge, having the L/Cpl. Wills sons past, and

Murphy who have all represented as it was third in the Norfolk form would have beaten Gunners' line at his mercy on two Sgt. Whitton 150

the Army in some game at one Handicap (Second Section) over occasions fumbling the ball and

time or another. Fany team.

the mile, ridden by Mr. Coppin, missing two good opportunities of L/Cpl. Thomson 150

This week the Army - Elevenit certainly stands a good chance giving his side the victory, and on L/Cpl. Taggerty 145

will play Hong Kong Cricket of winning. Most dangerous con- another occasion when Capt, Wee-.

Club, the first eleven at Sookun-tender, however, is Galveston Bay don was brought down with a fine

889 poo and the Royal Scots at Chater (Mr. Needa), which came in third full length tackle by Cooke from

Tonight the R.A.S.C, will play the Read against the Club second to Victoria in the Yunnan Handi-· behind.

Signals.

team..

* Police played that style of soccer fwliich the Chinese do not relish. Moss, in the centre, upset them with his bustling methods, while Ferrier played a good game as a roving forward, while keeping his forwards supplied with passes.

The Police victory makes the League more interesting, with the result that Eastern and South China are now only one point be- hind Sing Tao.

League,

won

Jones of the Middlesex played

N Wednesday, in the Garrison -Billards Tournment, the Mi- litary Police lost to the Signals by 4 games to 2 (five points to two),

Military Police

Signals. Capt. Hyde 90. Cpl, Blount L/Cpl. Martin 114. Sgt. Bräcken-

bury Sig. Morgan Sig. Binning-

sley

141 L/Cpl. Pitcher, 148 5.Q.M.S.:

Total

an outstanding game at Scrum- Hockey

half and marked his opposing

scrum-half well throughout the game Capt. Hewitt, Sgt. Bayly, and Cpl. Gilham were the pick of the forwards.

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cap (Second Section). This pony has been well tuned up for this

race.

Celtic Star (Mr. Hearne) and AT Sookunpoo on Wednesday the

Eve of Hunting (Mr. Davis); Officers Mess of the Royal En-THE Service Corps combined should not be disregarded for gineers drew with the other ranks first and second teams played places, although I cannot see them of the Engineers each side scoring Lane and Crawford's football challenging the above two ponies The Gunners were the first to one goal each.

team at Sookunpoo on Wednesday for first place. Blue Field . (Mr. score with Hicks carrying the ball Lieut. Homburg scored for the and were lucky to win by the odd Black) is looking remarkably fit. over the line with, his feet. The Officers and Shaw for the other goal in nine, with Lane and at the moment, and an upset from....7 St. Joseph's narrow, but deserv- Middlesex drew level with Sgt. ranks. Lieut. Holliday was the Crawford's leading by four goals this quarter is quite possible. ed victory, against Kwong Wah Bayly scoring from a penalty kick, best player on the Officers side, to two, ten minutes from the end, My nomination is Rose Flana. has given their followers much Capt. Skipwith played a fine and Sgt. Denyer played a brilliant Glen was the best Service Corps to win with, Galveston Bay second." satisfaction for it had been the game at back for the Gunners game at inside-right for the other forward on the field and Cpl. and third place between Celtio match they wanted to win. |and MacDermott, Cooke, and Capt, ranks,

Weir played well although he was 'Star and Eve of Hunting.

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Gomes, inside left, gave his best display and was the source of con- stant trouble to Kwong Wah; 'and' the main schemer of the Saints' attack. Bowen, who came into the side in place of A. Leonard, who was engaged with Camp, gave a rousing display with his hard kicking and tackling.

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There was a large number of penalties during the week-end in all divisions of the League and by coincidence just after the nouncement of the local interpre- tation of the "Charging" rule but in fact few of the penalties given were for infringement of this law,

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Air Force were given a fright by 20th Royal Artillery and it was only late in the game that a goal by Bartlett gave them both points. Air Force are well on their way for the championship but they still have a long way to go and will have to maintain their form very much longer if they hope to suc- ceed.

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Wong Mei-shun, the all China and former South China pivot, was in the limelight when hc scored the only goal for Kitchec against Navy to give them an un- expected win. Wong Yee, in the Kitchee goal, dealt with some hot shots from the Navy forwards and did well to save a penalty from Croft.

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ath Battery, Royal Artillery, Third Division champions, are now playing on top form and thanks to Owens, who scored three goals, were able to beat 35th Battery by the odd goal, in Ave.

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On the first occasion for a long time, the Combined Chinese did not have a runaway win in re- presentative game against the Rest of the Colony when they were fully extended and were only able to win by one goal in the Governor's Cup competition on Sunday.

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Association had a strong fence but their forward line did not work well together and show- ed, as was only natural, little com- bination.

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On Wednesday, Lane, Craw- Fford lost to Service Corps by the odd goal in nine. It is under- stood that the firm will be compet- ing in the League · next season, In fact they applied to take East- ern's place in Second Division when the latter withdrew but Navy had preference,

Saints' Soccer Team Following have been chosen to represent St. Joseph's "in their First Division football ... match against Eastern on Sunday:

.S. Tann; A. 1. Husanln and A 3 Leonard; A, A, Humjalin, G, Fernandes and Lau Wing-kong; R. M. Cruz, C. Santos, C. MacDonald, J. Gomes and A. R. Leonard.

Abserves T. All, J. Bowen and W.

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