From Here And There
C. H. Esmail, Crtigengower Eridy' After being one of the maine C. Pope, the Police cricketer Xi left-handed slow bowler, has stays of the R.E. cricket eleven and football player, is suffering shown marked improvement this for some scasons, Ratcliffe, refer- from an injured knee, |reasou. He s it has a tendency ired, to by the Sappers as the to try to bowl too fast, but if he hurricane hitter, will not be can get over this fault, which playing much cricket this season. has affected his length, he should He is making a return to football, secure a trial m the first eleven at which game he has represent before the season is out> --
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team at, centre-half.:
A few Recreio stalwarts Mic planning a football-hockey vish
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Some years ago rowing formed an important part of the pro- gramme of activities at V. R. C. Now a few members are trying to stage a revival of rowing ab this club and a few crews ata; already in training. There is also in the case of the bench man- The batter should be permitted to Macao over the Xinas holamongst the Indian boys.in
An effort is being made some talk about an inter-Club ager, a coach transmits offensive to pick his own ball until the days. There is also some talk of different schools in Hong Kong to back-a V. R. C.
the regatta with the Yacht Club later
In the season. A couple of yearsTM signs to the players concerned., count is, say, 3 and 1. Then taking a cricket eleven in Players usually look to the third the manager, faking into
1nise a Combined Schools'
four rowed to (In: to introduce the game base coach, but on some
Mucao, and this is also being clubs sideration the pitcher, setup and the Portuguese colony.
dian). hockey team. There are a comtemplated by
the some of right-hand, batters get signs from stage of the game, may order
number of promising youngsters stalwarts. the first base coach This does the bad ball hitter to take the
playing hockey these day and away with the right-hand batter pitch, while the good ball hitter! George Swinburn and "Paddy" quite a formidable team shouldi having to turn around to get the may be allowed to hit.
Tomb, two of the leading all be the result. sign.
1 The hit and run is automatic round sportsmen attached to Royal There are "take" and "hit"
on some clubs when there is a Engineers, have decided to take a The annual tennis tournament signs. There are signs for the man on first and the count on rest for the remainder. of the at Kowloon Tong will be held bunt, hit and run, and the steal, the batter is 3 and 1, but Connie year and "retire" from all com- shortly, and entries will close on double steal, delayed steal and Mack and other able managers petitive sport, Swinburn, how Sunday for championship sin- the squeeze. A sign pulls the in- let the hitter call it
ever, will be playing as much gles, Handicap singles, champion- feld in or places it back. Pit- Signs between the batter and "friendly" badminton as duties. ship doubles and handicap dou- chers get signs telling them what base runner are checked.
bles events.
kind of a ball to throw in cer- tain situations. The shortstop and second baseman have their own signs in connection with who is to cover second base
Switch Signs
There are switch signs from bunting to hitting, etc. A few players can't seem to get switch signs.
John McGraw and Rogers Hornsby called every pitch and gave the batter a sign on every pitch, but this system upsets bat- ters.
BOTH SIDES WERE UNFORTUNATE
By "SCRUM-HALF”
Army were extremely unfortun. ate to be without Douglass
and Marsh on Saturday for their Qua- drangular Rugby Tournament match against Club, and the slight reshuffle of the back division as a recult was sufficient to place them with their backs to the wall.
Their attack always came from the centre-the wing threequar- ters never received a
pass-and
this factor, coupled with a disap- ..po.nting display from their pack,
cost them the game.
Club, on the other hand, were unlucky not to win instead of drawing 13-all. They were very well supported by their pack, who had not played better this season, and always looked the more dan- gerous side.
Players to stand out in the game were Thompson, Stewart, Charter, Thomson, Heasman, Burford and Taylor of Club, and Hook, Ri- chards, Wedderburn, Ford, Duke - and Gillan for, Army.
The return. game will take place on January 4, by which time it is hoped Army will be at full strength, while Club will pro- bably have A. F. Walkden back in their pack.
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Player's Please for Christmas
Player's
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Merry Christmas
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Craigongower have lost two "openers" this season. Fran- cis Zimmern, who opened the bowling for them last season, threw in his lot with Kowloon- C. C. and now A. R. -H.- Esmail, their opening bat for many a season, has "re-migrated to Indian R. C.
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