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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 11, 1940.

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BADMINTON LEAGUE OPENING Four "B" Division Matches Down For Decision

RUGBY

K'loon Tong's ARMY Form Will Be Watched With CHANGES Great Interest

By “Adrem”

THE ONLY “A” DIVISION MATCH DOWN FOR DECISION ON MONDAY HAVING BEEN POSTPONED ON THE INSTIGATION OF RE CREIO, WHO HAD MOST OF THEIR PLAYERS AT CAMP; THE BADMINTON LEAGUE SEASON OF

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RUGBY

SAPPERS' EASY WIN

IN ARMY LEAGUE

ROYAL ENGINEERS WON the sectional cham- Following will represent Army pionship of the Army Small Units Rugby League against Navy in the Quadrangular when at Sookunpoo yesterday they beat Medicals by Rugby Tournament on the Navy ground, Causeway Bay, on Satur-two goals and three tries (19 points) to two tries (6 day next at 4 p.m.-L/C. Picton, points) after leading at the interval By 5–0.

The standard: of Rugby was RE's Sgt Richards, R.A., Capt. Douglass, R.S., Capt. Hook, R.A.

not high and Sappers had the (Capt.) and Pte. McDonald, R.A. better forwards, while in the de- M.C.; Lt. Coombes, R.A.M.C, and 2/Lt. Wedderburn, R.A.; Cpl. Su- fence Birrel, Martin and Foley were outstanding. Jones at back therland, R.S., 2/Lt. Ford, R.S., kicked well. and was sure in his

handling 2/Lt. Bompas, R.A.; Lt. Millar, R.S., 2/Lt. Heath, RA; 2/Lt, Pin- Engineers opened the scoring Cpl. Gillam, 1/Mx.

ARMY BILLIARDS,

1940/1 STARTS OFFICIALLY TO-DAY WITH A kerton, R.S., Capt. Duke, R.SI. and late, in the first half when Foley SNOOKER

PROGRAMME OF TWO MATCHES IN EITHER SECTION OF “B” DIVISION.

I cannot see any fixture providing fare likely to be very inspiring except for Recreio's match with Chung Wah, which should be very interesting.

Berry, 1/Mx.

pers were

scored a try which Birrell con- Reserves: Capt. Barclay, R.A.

verted. M.C., L/c. Foley, R.E.'s, and Pte.

Sappers went further ahead a The following are the last flf- few minutes after the re-start teen and seventeen in the Indivi.. There will be a training practice when Birrell broke through to dual Billiards and Snooker Cham-: for all the above at Happy Val-register another try and had no pionships respectively ley at 5 pm, on Thursday.

dificulty in converting.

Billiards Championship: Cpl. There are several interesting Sheldrake, Foley, and Birrell Harvey, R.A.M.C., Sgt. Braken I have the Recreio line-up and as the Chan brothers. There is a changes: Barclay has been displac-scored the other tries and Sap-bury, R. Sigs., S/S. Carden, H I must say it does not look nearly possibility that they are the newed by Picton, who has been re-

leading by 16-nil P.C., Pte. Gordon, 2/R. Scots, as impressive as I expected it to comers from Malaya. I have heard placed by Richards, Douglass 15 before Medicals reduced the lead Sgt. Hamlin, R.A.SC., Sgt. Wyre, be. E. AR. Alves, who was in so much about recently or again back in the centre and will have through Scriven. and again, R.A.M.C., Bsm. Rawlings, 12th H Swatow last year, is back again they may be Francis Tsang, and Hook alongside him-Coombes is through Coombes, Both tries were Bty., R.A., Sgt. Whitton C. M. Pow and with P. A, Yvanovich, inr., John Chen, who also played for now fly-half-and McDonald: re not converted.

lice, Sqms, Wood, RAS.C., Pte whom. I believe, has improved St. Teresa's last year.

tains his place on the wing in the Royal Engineers:-Ottaway: Birrell, Haig, R.A.S.C., Tsm, Mills, 36th:

Rees St. Andrew's will sadly miss absence of Marsh. Heath is again Martin.

and Moore; quite a lot, will probably consti-

Jones! H. Bty, RA, L/C.. Wills,, CE, M.. tute the Portuguese first string Gillies, whose absence will split in the second row of the pack in and Foley: Davis, Taylor, Sheldrake, Police, L/C. Fowler, 2/R. Scots, Veteran A, E, Xavier will be up what was fast becoming the place of the injured Cuthbertson. Ellesley, Cunningham, Appleby, Wilcox Pte. Whybro R.A.M.C., Sgt. Mur- partnered by jockey Paul Botelho, strongest combination in the club It is a very strong team in com- and Killen. whom I have not seen in action his partnership

Medicals:-Morgan: Whybro, Pratt.phy R.AS.C. with Brown.parison with last Saturday's side Bartley and Coombes; MacDonald and Bye into 4th Round. I understand that although he is They will again have to rely upon which beat Police, but, I do not scriven; Milne, Wrigglesworth, Chand- Snooker Championship: - Bsm. very fast he is not very experl- the old firm of Fincher and Kew much like the fly-half experiment, er. Fernell, Collins, Mohan, Edge and Scragg, 7th H.A.A. Bty. R.A. Pte. enced. R. M. Soares and A E and I am confident that this pair Picton has at long last, received J. van Mulingan:

Whybro, RAM.C. Cpl Duncan, Noronha should do fairly well al- will not fall for want of trying, his opportunity at full-back, and

12/R. Scots, Lt. Dixon, RAM:C. though until they have been seen

V.R.C. had not decided on their I don't think he will fail.

The draws for the Shield and Sqms. Wood, R.A.S.C., Pte. Whe but in match-play their current form line-up yesterday afternoon

International Charity Cup com-¡lan, 2/R. Scots, Pte. Jenkins, 2/R. will be hard to estimate.

whoever they produce I still can-

Navy Team

petitions will be made at the Scots, L/C. Willis, C: M.. Police, not see them beating King's Col-

monthly meeting of Hong Kong L/C. Thompson, R.E., Pte. Gordon, Following in the Navy team:- Football Association this afternoon 2/R. Scots, Cpl. Harvey, RAMC), Lieut. Morahan; S/Lieut: Meat 5.30 p.m. Gill, Tel. Honeywill, A/Ldg. Tel. Correspondence from the Shang- Paul, A/Ldg. Tel. Bowden; Mid, hai, Macao, and Burma Foot O'Riordan, Lt. Rutherford; L. S. A. ball Associations in respect of In- Palmer, Lt. Watson (Capt); Ser- terports, will also be dealt with.. geant Manfeld, C.P.O. Wtr. King, F/Lt. Taylor, A. B. Longmuir, stand him in good stead later on. [S/Lt. Beattie, S/Lt. Poole,

Programme And Teams

W. C. Choy Not Playing lege, who have all their old play-

ers with the addition of K. J. Chung Wah will not after all Attwell, the Civil Service cricket- have the services of W. C. Choy,er, who is on the staff at the former St. Andrew's.. player, and. College... Attwell tells me he has on his day one of the best in the not played for some time but the Colony, It appears that Choy, experience, which he should gain like so many others, has acquired in these opening matches should a taste for roller-skating which has claimed him for a victim-he

has strained his back and will not

Following is the programme and some of the teams:

"A" SECTION:

be able to turn out for some time. I have not been able to secure the line-up of the team but from the players selected a pretty v. A. CI. formidable combination should be got together.

This match will be played at Recreio, as Chung Wah have not a court of their own, and will start at 6.30.

v. King's College Chung Wah .... .v... Recrelo.,

V.

"B" SECTION K: C. C.

Police Kowloon Tong v. St. Andrew's

Rocrelos-E; A. R. Alves and P: A. Yvanovich Jnr.; A: E. Xavier and P.

Rotelho; R. M. Soares and A. E

Noronha.

St. Andrew's:-E. Fincher and. II. Kew: A. E. Brown and M. M, Davies; A. S. Bliss and V. R. J. Merrett.

Kwok . Kowloon Tong:-Frank

E. Zimmern For K.C.C.

The K.C.C. team, as originally selected, looked fairly useful but Camp has affected them in that Richard Lee; Peter Lo and Joe Tsang: and Ernie Zimmern, who, although not Chan Brothers. very well known to League bad- Police:-A. R. S. Major and W. Gil- minton, is a player of some ex-les; J. MacDonald and J. Gordon; H. perlence. He was due to partner Duusdale, and C. Y. Siu.

J. L. Anderson and should do well Chung Waht-From W. H. Choy, P, C. Leung, C, F. Chiu, S. F. Lee, S. C. In subsequent matches.

A. L. Fisher, the K.C.C. captain, Liang and K. F. Chiu.

K.C,C-A, L. Fisher and P: Wynter-

had not found a substitute yester-Blyth: J. L. Anderson and S. O. Else; day morning as Zulauf, another A. E. P. Guest and F. J. Jones. possible player, is suffering from King's College:-S. P. Chan and K. tennis elbow and there is not much, Lui; W. C. Chung and K. J. Attwell; talent available, these players ex-K. H. Lo and P. Lam. cepting.

The first K.G.C. pair will be A. L. Fisher and P. Wynter- Blyth, who met with some suc- cess last season and should now be ripe to reap the benefit of the experience then gained.

Third pair will be A. E. P.

SAPPERS'

INJURIES

Reserves:-S/Lleut. Kennedy, Cdt: Lamble, S/Lt. Winter, Lt. (E) Brown, L. A C. Stockham,

The back division is unchanged, but: Manfield-is in the front row in place of Longmuir, who has gone to wing-forward in place of the Brown, Beattie has gone to middle of the back row, and King and Taylor now. form the second row,

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Winter deserved a game on his

form last Saturday, but there is still time for him to earn his place as this Saturday's game, concludes only the First Round of the Tournament.

SAPPERS' RUGBY XV

FOR TO-DAY

Picton, who was unable to turn out for Engineers yesterday in the Army Small Units Rugby League as he was barred, having played for Army, will be playing this afternoon against. Club. He will probably take the place of Jones, Following is Engineer team:- Ottaway: Picton Martin, Recs and Moore; Picton or Jones and Foley: Davis, Taylor, Sheldrake, Ellesley, Cunningham, Appleby, Wilcox and

Guest, another former St. An- Royal Engineers, who Killen. drew's player, and H. S. Jones, found it necessary to who was coming along nicely to

wards the end of last season... make several changes last Unless Police have some dark week in their game horses they should not beat the

better balanced K.C.C team, not-against-Navy owing to in withstanding the fact that W. Gil-juries, are still uncertain Hles, the Colony junior champion, of their team against

will be playing.

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Ssm. Spiers, R.APC., Pip. Milne, 2/R- Scots, Pte. Myles, 2/R. Scots, L/C Saunders, R.A.0.C., Gpl Copsey, R. Signals, or: Pte. Corch- rant, Z/R. Scots.

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SOCCER

Service Corps meet Ordnance at Kowloon on Saturday: Sookunpoo this afternoon, at 4: Prospective Champions Palmer, their right back, and p.m. in Second Division of Hong

Chan Kum-poy, Inside right, ara Kong Football League. Kowloon Tong'o appearance still on the injured list and it is In, their first meeting last week, against 'St. Andrew's will be probable that they will not be Service Corps won by 5 clear goals watched with interest as they available on Saturday. T. Jones in a game which was featured by are expected to have a big say will then play in place the; brilliant goal-keeping of Rey- In the current championship. of Palmer and N. Jones nolds of Ordnance, d Frank Kwok, formerly of St will take up the centre-forward The Royal Navy will meet South John's, will pair off with Richard berth, with Fox, their regular China in a friendly football game. Lee and the latter's. aggression, lender, at inside right, "F

at Causeway Bay at 4.30 p.m. tör combined with: Kwok's powers of In spite of any changes, Soppors day. The following will represent recovery and vast experience should have little difficulty against the Navy

Britt; Robinson; Roughly, should make this combination an Kowloon. NDAN exceedingly difficult one to beat Following have been chosen to ro Honeywell, Croft, Hawking; Phip- The old, St. Teresa's partnership present Royal Engineers against Kow-pen, Lo Page, Hendy, Birch, Bur of Peter Lo and Joseph Taang will loon on, Kowloon around on Saturday: ber

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