1941-02-20 — Page 15

"NEEDLE"

CRICKET

MATCH

A match which will probably decide the Senior Cricket cham- pionship will be played on Satur- It will be day at Cox's Road.

Kowloon between the holders, Carcket Club, and Club de Re - creio and the following tearas have been selected:—

Kowloon C,C. E. C. Fincher, N. D. Lloyd, D. J. N. Anderson, E. F: Fincher, N. A. E. Mackay, F. R. D. Hung, A. Zimmern, Zimmern, R. E. Lee, F. J. Lay Scorer 13-21 and R. T. Broadbridge.

T. W. Carr; Umpire J. R. Robis-

E. L. Gosano, W. A. Rodrigues, A. M.

16-21son.

21-12 Reed. A M.

Recreio.

beat A. E. Xavier and E.

M. Alarcon J. Odell and M. Talan (J.R.C.). Pdata, H. L. Ozorio, L. G. Gosano, beat Pereira and Alves 21-16 J. M. Gosano, G. N. Gosano, E. M. N. A. Beltrau und L. Soares. lost to Lawrence and No-

13-21 P M. N. da Silva, jr. ronha

beat Xavier and Alurcon

Pollak A. R.

21 11 In a match on the fixture-list

and L. Landau Behind the serum Club are ex-|(Army), Paul (Navy) and Birrell

which was played attack. (Army), Carter (Navy) and Ru for yesterday ceptionally

131 strong

(Navy): Sutherland last week, Club de Recreio beat (J.R.C.). though their defence is problema-therford

Recreation Club by lost to Pereirn and Alves 19-21 tical. "Granny" Hidwell made a (Army) Watson (Navy), Bombas Jewish

lost to Lawrence and No- (Navy), Millar 6--3.

3-21 welcome

ronha return and he struck (Army), King

Following were 'he scores:-- form in his first game in months. (Army), Pinkerton (Army), Ber-

Ramler and

Godkin lost to Xavier and Alarcon

Van Leeuwen, Thomson. Ste-y (Army) and Poole (Navy).

(Bidwell

converted)

wart Bidwell scored Club's 14 p's.

and

Middlesex "A" were swept, off their feet by the open play of their that opponents, with the result

Van Leeuwen was not tested but I still think Club can improve their seven by the introduction 01 Davies, normally a wing-forward, or Lavalle, A vastly improved player. Both are faster than van Leeuwen and their tackling is sounder.

whe

Police "B" almost eliminated three Haf their Civil Service. heavy forwards been able to last the fast pace they themselves set they would have won by an un- converted try scored by Rose ear- ly in the first half As it was the elusive Morgan, key man in the Civil Servants' line-up and was not a closely watched as he might have been, levelled the scores with a snap try in the clos- ing minute, and in the third half had of extra time Furrow, who previously thrown away two glor- he at- TOUS opportunities. once templed a dropped goal from 40 yards instead of making a dush for The corner flag went over for the Wining try after knocking on a goud pass from Morgan, who gave him a clear passage to the line.

Too Much Kicking

Police were all over their op- ponents in the fist half, but once their forwards eased up they lost their grip on the game. Fay and Dingsdale refused to make any at- tempt to open up the game, pre- ferring to find touch.

Combined Small Units "B" up- set my forecast when they beat a try 12th Heavy Regt. "A" by scored from the kick-off for extra was time by Wigglesworth, who always prominent. The kick was attempted, though it was not ne- ressary as the side which scores first during extra time wins.

in

Small Units were cleaner their handling of the slippery ball and their tackling was always

deadly.

Eddison,

ole

who made really good dribble that gained 30 yards and almost produced a score, and Pratt were others to shine for them,

Bumpas and Keeble did well for Gunners, who never settled down to the heavy conditions.

show

Royal Engineers did not their best form against 8th Heavy Davies Regt. "B" and a try by

8.

8.

Match Postponed

Kowloon

The match between 7-21 Tung and Police was postponed.

Offered and Taken

that was converted by Birrell with a grand kick was their only score,

were

though, individually, they

mach superior to their opponents.

Results were as follows:

*

R.E.

C.S.U. "B".

C. Service

Club "A"

5 8th H.R. "B" 0

3 12th H.R. "A" O

6 Police "8"

3

14 Middlesex "A" 0

SERVICES SIDE FOR SATURDAY

Following have been invited to represent Combined Services against Combined Club and Police on Saturday on the Club ground at 4.15 p.m.-Honywill (Navy);' Richards. (Army), Douglass

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