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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 23, 1941

K.C.C. BEAT ST. JOHN'S

K.C.C. King's

“B” DIVISION: LEAGUE-TABLE

St. John'#

Recrolo

St. Andrew's

St. John's will not now Chung Wah be promoted from "B" Kowloon Tong Division to "A" Division of V.B.C. the Badminton League. Police

Last night, with Eardley, they went down to. E.C.C, by the odd game, despite a great effort by Smith and Wilson who won all three games.

J.R.C.

Games

P. L. W. F. A. Pts.

4. 0.4 23 13

8

3 0 3 21 #

4 1 3 25

11

0

3 1 2

19

B

4

3 1 2

17

10

4

4 2 2

18

18

4

3 2 1

8

19

2

4

3 1

17

19

2

4 4 0

7 20

4

4 0

7

20

0

beat Dingsdale and

rier

In other matches St. Andrew's beat Police and V.R.C. beat Jew-bent Siu and Shepherd ish Recreation Club.

M. M. Davies and B. (St, Andrew's).

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BET WINNINGS WAITING FOR UNTRACED SOLDIER-BACKERS

HERE'S A STRANGE war echo. In the office

of a leading firm of London bookmakers there are many cheques for winning bets made by soldier- customers waiting collection, writes a Home corres- pondent.

I have no doubt other big start- had ing-price bookmakers have 15 21 the same experience. Fer-

For-

21

21-5 Gillesple

duly sent out They were

on last settling days during racing winter and spring, but came back marked "address not known."

Following were the scores; -

St John's lost to Kowloon Cric-lost to Gilies and ket Club by 3 games to 4.

Gor-

don

•

D. Kwok and E. Kennard (St. beat Dingsdale and John's).

lost to A. L. Fisher and

rior beat Siu and Shepherd

Wynter-Blyth

11

21

bent J. L. Anderson and ti

S Jones

21

18

lost to A. E. P. Guest and

E Zimmern

15

N. L. Smith and P. Wilson John's).

beat Fisher and Wynter-

Blyth.

218 21

5

Match Postponed

The probable explanation Is the movements of B.E.F. troops prior to Dunkirk.

Most of the untraced winners may now be prisoners of war in Germany. Some, alas! may never

pier to hand it over than the book-~ maker.

There Are Others

The reverse side of the picture is the man who left for other spheres of action without having the chance of paying his bookie.

It is to the credit of the much-

abused layers that they never dream of bringing actions against

soldier-debtors.

The civilian defaulter is in A The match between King's Col-return. 21lege and Club de Recreio was What is certain is that when-different category, and I gather is

the untraced soldiers come increasing in numbers. postponed, owing to fact T. Lam ever (Stand T H Lo of King's were in- back they will find their money One Tattersall's rails man who

attend the waiting for them and no one hap- did not

Nottingham jured during a recent gam

21--13 beat Anderson and Jones. 21 19 beat Guest and Zimmern 21 16

R. Maynard and G. S. Ladd (St. John's).

lost to Fisher and Wynter-

Blyth

12-21

lost to Anderson and Jones 6 21 lost to Guest and Zimmern 9-21

J.R.C. v. V.R.C.

At Robinson Road, Jewish Re- creation Club lost to Victoria Re- creation Club by 5 games to 4.

meeting said to me: "First of all I have to win on the day and then I have to collect tho cash. I can easily win, money on the book, but lose on the day."

SWIMMING EXHIBITION

Uni-

Members of the Rikkyo versity swimming team, who re- gently competed with great success in the Philippines championships, will give

the an exhibition in European Y.M.C.A. pool to-day at A charge of $1 will be made, 50 per cent, of which will. be donated to charity.

2 p.m.,

Three reasons for

BURLEIGH popularity:

J. Odell and M. Talan (J.R.C.). lost to D. N. Xavier and S.

A. Rumjahn

21 -23

beat A. A. Remedios and F.

Castro

21

10

beat A. Basto and M. M. de

V. Soares

A. R. Pollak and L. Landau *(J.R.C.).

lost to Xavier and Rum-

.21 12

jahn

.10 21

lost to Remedios and Cas-

tro

.21--23 7-21

lost to Basto and Soares

S. Ramler and 9. Godkin

(J.R.C.).

lost to Xavier and Rum-

jahn

8--21

beat Remedios and Cas-

tro

21-7 21-14

Burleigh

beat Basto and Soares

St. Andrew's v. Police

Playing at home, St. Andrew's

beat Police by 3 games to 1.

E. F. Fincher and H. Kew (St. Andrew's).

'beat W. Gillies and L. Gor-

don

beat H. Dingsdale and J.

Ferrier

beat C. Y. Siu and J. She-

pherd

.21--18!

21 5

.21 2

A. E. Brown and S. A. Gray (St. Andrew's).

beat Gillies and Gordon ..21- 9

SERVICE

OTHER RANKS NOT ALLOWED TO TRAVEL

By "Adrem"

this

not be

I was officially informed morning that Service personnel, other than officers, will available for the trip to Macao for the annual Hockey Interport with the Portuguese port,

:

* Several changes have according- ly been made in the trial teams for. Saturday which will now be as follows

Colours: V. M. Benwell (Club); V.Bond (Club) and R. G. K. Thompson (Club); M. H. Hassan (Khalsa), W. A. Reed (Club) and N. B. M. Whitley (Club);- Tejja Singh (Police), T. S. D. Whitley (Club), Jesbir Singh (Police), J. Fonseca (Recreio) and W. Brown

(Police), AN

Whiter-U. B. Souza (Khalsa); Man Singh (Police) and A. M. Xavier (Nomads); D. McLellan (Club), Capt. Woods (Rajputs) and T. Alves (Recreio); Lt. J. Ross (Punjabs), M, Akram (Punjabs), Gurbachan Singh (Khalsa), E Fowler (CBA) and Narwant Singh (Police)

Following are requested to at- tend DTE Smith":(CBA), R. zad iques. (Reareto), B. 1. Blek-

F(Club), 3. Gonsalves (Ro

RJRead (Nomada), ankes Kampta Parsad (Punjabs)

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