ARMY SPORTLIGHT
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 3, 1941-
ROYAL SCOTS AND THEIR SPORTING ACTIVITIES Fine Boxing Record Of Pte. Scott
Analysis Of The Cricket Eleven
By "Squaddy”
IN the Garrison Billiards League 40th (F) Coy. Engineers de- feated Royal Corps Signals by 5 points to 2 on Tues-
THE boxing season is nearly upon us and boxers are getting it for the forthcoming competitions which will take place the next two Billiards day evening.
Boxing within
Novices The Enginerts
months. The
scored 881 und Signals 781.
Boxing competition wil be the Sgt. Brackenbury made the big-first competition to be held and is gest break of the evening with a due to take place on File 29, and L/Upl. Pitcher made 12 at Nanking Barracks.
"C" a break of 24 for the Signals.
Pte. Scott of
Company, Engineers had thire players all Royal Scots, is expected to win in making breaks of twenty or over, his weight in the Area Individual with L/Cal Thompson making! Opens He has an excellent Box-
and 24. 1/Sgling record which dates back
breaks [
Sheldhake a 22, and Spr Rateliff, 1935 #121.
Their bowling and fielding has by forming a Softball team, and always been good and steady, and
seem to be holding there is a large reserve of bowlers Softball their own against the who can be relied upon, although unfortunately they cannot all be given a chance to bowl in every match.
While on the subject of bowling, special mention is made of some very fine fielding by Bateman,
have to whom several bowlers thank for his assistance in taking He has made 7 catches wickets. in Battalion matches so far. BATTING AVERAGES (Qualification 4 Innings, Average 10)
Times
O M. R. W
2 Lieu. Fargus 43 5 6 149 21 Pte. Emmerson
February
2/Lleut, Fargus B Capt. Patterson 7 Capt. Duke
Inna. N 0. R. H.S. Avge. Pte: Bateman 7 1 116 70 19.67 Cpl. Atsey
5
19.00 17.85
1
76 33
1
125 47
2
TO
23
14.00
4
0
53 48
13.25
Major Godley 6 0 60 19
BOWLING AVERAGES (Qualification 4 wickets, Average 15
10.00
to
or under)
Here it is:
Avge.
1925
SIGNALS Sgt. Bracken busy
L Cpt.
ENGINEERS
Thomp
1st Battalion--Bantam Weight Belt Holder,
7.10
22 1
2
104
9.45
1936
Cal. Bount
1145
14
ចុងក
150
2nd Battalion Bantam Weight Belt Holder.
Cpl. Alsey
22.2
2
74
7
10.57
Capt, Duke
y
0
40
L Sgt. Sher
Brake
1917
2nd Battalion Banfain Weight
Beit Holder
Pte. Dateman
23
3
8.0
G
12 29 13.3J
150
L Cpl. Pitcher 150
Spr Ratcliffe 13!
1979
L Cpl. Murphy 127
Spr. Crittendon 150
2nd Battalion-Bantam Weight
Beit Holder,
*
*
1430
Sig. Liley
137
SIU. Allen
150
Spr. Monagham 150; Sut, Colnene 140!
2nd Battalion-Feather Weight Belt Holder.
781
Total
✡
Total
없어?
AT _Sookunpoo, on New Year's Eve 5th A.A. Regt., R.A beat 12th Hivy
Regt. RA by eight
points to Bil.
side scoring
1940
2nd Battalion- Banlam Weight Belt Holder.
At Moghulpura, India in 1937
Pte. Scott met the All-India Chapin and after putting an excellent show was just out- pointed.
In
some
of
*
OWING to the fine efforts of Q.M.SI. Pacey, Sgt. Whippey and assistants at the Mount Austin
Gymnasium Hoya
Bayonet Scots have been able to revive this sport Fencing
in the battalion,
The competition was fought outside the Gymna- sium on the Peak, with "B" Com~ pany being deserving winners, beating HQ. (2) by a margin of seven fights in the Final.
more *experienced teams in the Colony, They are now sixth in the Junior League to- gether with Ligu Portuguesa.
Following are the members of this sport which is hoped to be c flourishing branch of the Battalion sports. L/Cpls. Lane, Phillips Fdge, and Sharrock, Bds. Dibble, Emmerson, Cooper, Christe, Mar- shall. and Slaytor, Ptes. Manson Smith, and Cody.
PEGGY SCRIVEN MARRIED
Peggy Scriven, Eng- lish Wightman Cup tennis player, and Frank Harvey Vivian, a Royal Air Force of- ficer, were married re- cently.
H&K.C.C. XI
}
the
The following will represent Hong Kong Cricket Club against Cral- sengower C.C. in a friendly match to-
morrow on the Club ground :—
L. T. Ride (Capl.); N, D. Booker, A. J. Dewar, W. G. Finnie. T, V. N, For- tescue, R. H, Griffiths, M. F. L. Hay- mes. D. McLellan, D. O. Parsons, A. E. Perry and J. E. Richardson,
AN AMERICAN WRITES ON THE GAME OF
AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL
WITH JERSEY, socks, boots, and short knickers their only accoutrements, Australia's footballers look rather undressed, compared with the helmeted. armoured divisions of America's gridiron game, writes a correspondent in the "Christian Science Monitor."
For the principal code in four of the six States --a home-made mixture called Australian Rules the field is comparatively an uncharted region. The only markings are a line around the boundary, and a small ring in the centre, where the umpire bounces the ball to start play. tion were those between P.S M
The best fights of the competi-
Rugby 5th A.A, played a
better combining AFTER a lapse of several years Football game than their op-
Royal Scots Cricket Team has ponents and well once again come into being, and deserved their victory.
on the whole they Signals and Royal Army Service; Cricket have done well, Corps drew, each
their Smith and R.S.M, Goodfellow, and three points.
earlier matches the batting was Capt. Harland and Pte. Fowler. bad and disastrous collapses took Although P.S.M. Smith has done place against R.A. and R.Es., but a lot of this sport and is consider during the last two or three weeksed to be one of the best exponents they have improved with 157 runs of this art, he was almost always against Police, and 173 for 7 against Club.
Signals should have secured both points, but could not get the ball away from the serum-downs which cost them the match. Ser- vice Corps were the first to score. but failed to keep the lead owing to bad passing by the forwards.
Their best performance of the season was undoubtedly a second wicket stand of 96 by Cpl. Alsey and Pte. Bateman which won the natch against the Club. Bateman's 70 not out included one six and 11 fours.
The first half of the. League is still undecided with the Royal Scots having six points and the Middlesex Regt. five. This will be decided when Royal Scots and Middlesex meet some time in the next two weeks. Engineers won
The most successful bowler so their half of the League and will far has been 2/Lieut. B. A. Fargus meet either Scots or Middies in who has taken 21 wickets, Em- the Final game to be played at | merson being second with 11 Sookunpoo.
I wickets.
3 IS
GOOD
4 15
BETTER
beaten by the speed of R.S.M. Goodfellow's riposte and his su- perior footwork.
Capt. Harland's fight which took place in the Final Round was well worth watching. His low, wid: stance is disconcerting to any op- ponent, and his speed, riposte, eint and disengages was too much for Pie. Fowler on numerous oc- casions.
+
*
THIS year Royal Scots introduced a new sport into their midst.
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It is a prairie of a field, 200, South Wales, was 20. They were yards by 150 yards. On these beaten for the premiership by broad acres, the backs might well | New own, whose midget rover F. be called outbacks, but, as each Williams, 5ft 2in. and only 110 team has 18 players, most of the pounds, is the smallest player in vast open spaces are trodden first-grade Australian Rules. by human foot in the course of the four 25-minute quarters. Опе rule empowers the umpire, at the request of either team, to muster In the bad and count the players. old days, it was a necessary safe. guard on such far-flung territor, but no such audit has been quested for many years.
*No Offside
16 Six-Footers
But the Goliath touch is essen- tial. because Australian Rules -set no limit to the vigor of bumping with shoulder and hip. Sixteen re-players between 6ft. and 6ft 3in. were afteld in the Victorian semi- final between Melbourne and Es- sendon.
*Trophies Awarded
When outsize Jack Dyer, a po- The game is played at a tearing leeman known as the "Big Bad speed. With no offside rule, or Wolf" of the Victorian League, en- other impediment to forward kick-tered his team's dressing-room-be- ing and passing, the ball is swift-fore the final, his teammates hoot- ly relayed from end to end. More ed him with mock malignity. They than 40 goals were kicked by the explained that it was to accustom teams in one Victorian League Dyer to the sound-effects which match this year.
opposing fans would provide when More than 69,000 people paid he bowled men over on the field. approximately £5,000 (the equiv
Setting a cop to catch a cop, alent of $15,500) to see Melbourne Melbourne's coach instructed Con- beat Richmond in the final for the stable Jack O'Keefe that his part Victorian premiership. That was in the match was to shadow Dyer. on a wet day. The record attend-This "shadowing" consisted not of- ance is 96,834. The Melbourne keeping Dyer, under secret obser- ground, most capacious in Aus-vation but of meeting him shoulder tralia, can hold no more.
to shoulder whenever the ball The wonder of the Victorian sea-came near. The owners of both son was Jack Titus pale-faced, sets of shoulders showed ample slender Richmond forward, who give-and-take spirit. stopped the State goal list with j-190. ~ When: Titus entered big foot- ball 14 years ago, people predicted that he would not withstand one
On the umpires' votes, trophies season of the hurly-burly. Now are awarded to the best and fair- 31, Titus has played in 242 mat-jest Australian Rules footballer in ches for the Tigers-the last 152 each State. In Victoria, Herbert without a miss —and has scored Matthews, dashing South Mel- 793 goals..
bourne winger, tied with Des. Fothergill (Collingwood), aged 20, who has a managing director's" The slickest, will-o'-the-wisp | head on office-boy's shoulders. mover I have seen on any football Another 20-year-old, C. Barns- fleld in England or Australia ley, Sydney half-back, gained the George Moloney, scored 128, goals N. S. Wtrophy, although his club. in helping Claremont win their did not win a match. third consecutive Westeralian pre-Mel Brodie (Glenelg), South miership. His nickname is "Speck," Australia's best and fairest is a but their are no flies on Moloney seasoned warnor of 23, who enter- With his back to the goal, anded first-grade football nine years i.hout looking around, this hu- ago. Another who started senior man. corkscrew can punt-kick the for ball when 16. Doug Pittard. ball over his shoulder and And(Taringa), won the trophy in the target as accitrately as if he Queens and, where the Windsor had a periscope to show him where team, led by C. S'ream, flowed on the posts are. And he does it to their fifth consecutive premier- equally well with either foot.... 201 ship.
Famous Kicker
On a squally day, P.T. Morton, A high-leaping ruck-man, E. captain of Sturt, kicked six goals O'Keefe (West Perth), topped the to enable his team to beat South Westoralian poll. O'Keefd is so Austral un premiership. Morton's durable: that he has not missed a goal tally for the season 101. wps match for five years: L. Bennett- second. In his State to K. Farmer's (Longford) won the Tasman 123 for North Adelaide. B. H. Shields trophy in the island State, Leak. Sturt centre. let nothingTasmania, where stocky Jack through.
Metterell's resourceful forward The average aga tot Eastern play basisted Notih, Hobart to win Suburbs?, team; runner-up in New (their seven
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