1941-04-04 — Page 14

ARMY SPORTLIGHT

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 4, 1941,

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FINAL SERVICES BOXING COMPETITION NEXT WEEK

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Royals Out To Retain Trophy

By "Squaddy”

N Tuesday and Wednesday the last of the Com- mand boxing competitions will be held at Mur- ray Barracks, commencing at 8.30 p.m. each ́even- ing. It will be the Inter-Unit team boxing cham- pionship, between Royal Artillery, Royal Scots and Middlesex Regt.

The draw for this competition now level on points and games. is as follows:-

To-moirow both have easy games Royal Artillery V Royal Scots to play but anything is liable to happen. Signals play 35th Bty., (Tuesday). Winners of the above v Middle... ¡H.A. and Ale Force play Shell.

sex Regt. (Wednesday). There has been one change in Winners of this competition last the Army team for their match year were Royal Scots; it will be with South China to-morrow at remembered that they Won on Causeway Bay, Coomer, Middle- the last light of the evening, be-sex, coining in at outside-right in tween Sgt. Elliot and Drum-Major | place of Sgt. Owens, Royal Artil- Holdford, the knal standing being lery, who is unable to play. Royal Scots 23 and the Middlesex

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This was Sgt. Elliot's last fight| SWIMMING

For his battalion, and he is

now trainer of the Scots' team.

representatives

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He is counting on them retain-│▲ MEETING of Ung swimming was held on ing the trophy for another year.j Both Royal Scots and Middlesex, Tuesday at Scandal Point Ball, Regiment have lost some of theirjand the following points were Prominent boxers but a good show brought to notice. is expected all the same

The Command Swimining sports. The Governor's trophy, which would be held in September in was presented last year for the the Army baths. The public will major boxing event in the Colony, be invited to attend.

Water-polo and swimming this will also be presented to the win-

season will be held as two separ- ner of the competition. This trophy was presented by H.F. Si ate events, the final of the water- Geoffrey Northcote, K.C.M.G., and, Polo being held on the final day

of the swimming meeting.

if in the future, there is a contes.¡ senior to that held, by the Services, it will be presented to the win- ners of that competition.

night

It was not dec'ded as to the ho'ding of the one-inile and half mile races, which were cancelled last year owing to cholera, units were asked whether"

they were in agreement with holding these races if the Medical authori-

and

The teams for. Tuesday will not be known until after the weigh-in on Tuesday morning.

Combined Small Units tried hard to raise a team but could only find 12 men suitable for the contest and had to withdraw theirming sports will close in August.

entry.

Last year's results were as fol lows:-

Bantamweight:-Bailey

(Royal

Scots) K.O. Hope (Middicsex).

ties gave the necessary permission.

Entries for the Command Sw'm-

ANSWER TO

CORRESPONDENT

EASTERN

RETURNING

Eastern Athletic As- sociation, whose re- maining matches in Manila have been cancelled as the re- sult of a decision of the P.A.A.F. follow- ing a fight among spectators during the Eastern

Y.C.O.

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match, are returning to the Colony during the week-end.

were

Great Effort By T.A. Pearce

R.A 9.C. First Innings

· great|Logan, c Pearce, b Claguet game Young, run out

Although 2/Lieut. T; A. Pearce= "made a effort to pull the round, 5th. A. A. ment, R. A, were

| French, b'T. A. Pearce Regi Hamlet, st. McCadden, b T. A. badly Benford, o Barsby

Pearce

Dobbinson

beaten by 7 wickets by Howell, c T. A. Pearce, b Royal Army Service Corps Dewar, e Passmore, b T. A in the final of the Army Pearce Small Units Knock-Out Competition.

and

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8

4

5

8

8

4

Martin,

c Barker, b T. A. Pearce Govier, c Dobbinson, b T. A.

Pearce Glen, not out

24

16

2

0

10

Total

187

Bowling Analysis

0. M.

R. W.

3 0

17 0

Mason, c Passmore, b T. A.

Pearce Extras (B9, LB1)

When stumps were drawn on Wednesday, Service Corps, thanks to fine bowling by Martin ori-

Young and big innings by Lugan, were 91 runs on with three wickets in hand, Martin being undefeated with 10 and Govier with six, Resuming yesterday morning the total was carried to Passmore 187, Martin going on to make 24 T. A. Pearce and Govier 16.

Eastern ginally to play five games in Monila but only played one against the Combined St. Thomas and Letran Universities.

SPORTS CLUB MEETING

16.5 1 49 6

.12

0 79

5

0 35

3

0

7 1

Seconds Innings

Clague Led by 121 runs on the first Barsby innings, the Ack Ack Gunners, Dobbinson with the exception of T. A. Pearce, again failed with the bat and Logan, b Clague were all out for 144, of which Young, b T. A. Pearce Pearce claimed no fewer than French, not out 94. In which were 15 fours, Hamien, st., b Clague

R. A. S. C. knocked off

Extras (B1) necessary 24 rung for the of 3 wickets.

5TH A.A. First innings

Second Innings

the loss

1-

13

25

Total (for 3 wkts.) Benford, Howell, Dewar, Mar-

66 tin. Govier, Glen and Mason did

not bat.

The question of the abolition of Barker, e Mason, b Young temporary voting members and T. A. Pearce, c Dewar, b Howell 94 the right of every member to Barsby, b Young enjoy "full privileges was raised J. L. C. Pearce, b Dewar

meeting of the Dobbinson, st Hamlen, b Martin 6 Sports Club yesterday. Mr. M. H. J. Clague, run out.... Lo presided.

P. A: Passmore, 1.b.w., b Martin Martin, b Young

at the annual

New General Committee

Morgan, e Young, b French.. McCadden, c Govier, b Martin Sidders, not out

Extras (W2, B18, NB2)

Total

2

Bowling Analysis

Clague

10 T. A. Pearce

0. M. R. W. 3.5 0 15 2 3 0

9 1

1

0

2

HULSE IN

1

0

FINE FORM

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In a friendly cricket match at 144 King's Park yesterday, Diocesan Boys' School beat H.M.S. Tamar R. W. by 94 runs.

The following were elected to M. the general committee.-M. Watson, U. Sz-wing, Lam Ming- fan, Major C. M. Manners, Wong Sik-chung, M. H. Lo, Horace Lo, F. W. Shaftain, H. C. Macnamara, Ezra Abraham, W. T. Stanton, Dewar "Sal" Aromin - You are under Kenneth Chan,

Young The tourna- Messrs. M. K. Lo, R. Lasala, Martin ment in question was being ar-Fook S. Ko, Tang Shiu-kin, J. K.French (Middle- ranged by the Army and we had Ross, R. E. Raschle were elected Howell sex) beat Barker (Royal Scots); nothing to do with the organisa-members of the ballotting com- Martin and French each bowled |A: J. Hulse 6 for 24, A. Ebrahim

- Featherweight:--Corrigan (Royal

Noble (Middlesex);

Phillips (Middlesex) beat Brown a misapprehension.

Scots) beat

(Royal Scots).

| Lightweight-Gilroy

beat Wise- tion, Sports Ed.

Gribble (Middlesex)

man (Royal Scots): Cavanagh (Royal Scots) beat Geist (Middle- sex).

Welterweight:-McGready (Roy- al Scots) bent Williams (Middle- 'sex); Eaton (Middlesex) beat Cal- -Jagan (Royal Scots): Ritchie (Royal Scots) beat Wilson (Mid- dlesex); Elliot (Royal Scots) beat Holdford (Middlesex).

Middleweight:-Emerson (Royal Scots) lost to McGrady (Midd'e; sex); More (Royal Scots) K.O. Roberts (Middlesex): Cooper Royal Scots) beat Bridle (Mid- dlesex).

Lightweight-Marshall lost to Fox (Middlesex).

2. Heavyweight: Moran (Middle- sex) beat Alexander. ·

ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL

ROYAL SCOTS added another

win to their list on Wednes day by defeating the Shield' final- 1sts, the Navy, by 3-1. This is the third game the Scots have won In succession and they have scor ed eight goals against one:

Royal Engineers made sure of. he Second Division at Sookunpoo. Wednesday by defeating Sing ao by 3-1, this being the fourth Tophy that they have won this eason. Their successes so fer ave been the Small Units, Rugby Competition, Large Units Rugby Competition, Large Units cricket and the H.K.F.A.. League Division and they have a fine chance of winning the Army Boven-a-sidé Rugby tournament, which is start" ing on Tuesday,

Royal Army Service Corps lost their chance of getting on too by only drawing with South China Tuesday, but they are now oncentrating on winning the Hiortshidifi, thwhich they have:

good chance //5// Third Division honours are like

hals and Air, Force, who are

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mittee.

Bowling Analysis

0.

M.

B

1

23

1

9

1

60

10

1 22

9 0 17

1:4 0 10

ia no ball.

D.B;8.-148 (A. J. Hulse 58, G. 3A. Goodban 32; Douglas 2 for 18, 3 Hogan 2 for 33 and Barton 2 for 143).

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H.M.S. Tamar:-54 (Hogan 13;

14 for 22),

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