F. X. SILVA TO PLAY NO. 1 IN RECREIO'S REORGANISED TEAM
Change in
same
Holland and Duncan rinks and the unly Hall's four is that Sherriff, who was skipping one of the "B" rinka last week, will replace Peckham No. 3, Peckhamn taking over one of the
With the majority of their Cricket Club. players available
for retain the against Jawn bowls this Saturday. Club de Recreio have wrung a great many changes in their teams for this week-end. Their "A" team will be playing against their "B" and not one of the rinks that re- presented them against Police last week remain intact.
Two of the skips who played last Saturday have been replaced---Carios Silva and F. X, Silva-and their places will be taken by J F V Ribeiro and H A.
Ribeira's Alves respectively. front men will be J. Luz, Marques and Xavier. Last
Carlos Silva had week D. C. Alves, Marques and J J Basto, the last named going back to "B" this week. Carlos Silva is not available
"B" fours.
In their "B" team. Gill comes into Meyer's rink as No. 3 to replace Drew,
Peckham will have while
Bodder. Dixon and Sykes playing for him. Sher- riff's rink of last week comprised Hod- der, Dixon and Lockhart, the last named this week going No 3 to Guy instead of Bower. who will be playing Third Division,
in
As in the case of their "A" team in First Division, there is only one change la Third Division, this being in Jordan's rink, where Bower replaces Burst as lead.
Brown Back As Skip
Hong Kong Cricket Club have made a few changes in their Second Division team this week
Alves, who takes over FX Silva's place, will have in his rink Silva hin- - welf as lend. WRB C M. Silva and Noronha as the middle men મ ř. Luiz will retain Soares os lead but will have Roza-Pereira and F V V. Ribeiro as Nos 2 and 3 respectively inatend of Costello kreps the same four, and in Noronha and Guterres, who go buck to | Goodwin's Tink their
only one the "B" team.
change. Aitkenhead coming into the team as No 1 in place of Shields, who
Third Division, eturns to
Davis, who skippest a rank last week, will be No. 1 this time to Brown, with
Ľ
"J. J." Returns
N1
A Lopes, who skipped Osmund, Pereira and H Basto last week'sospes retaining his position as No 2
"B" team, w di not be play big this time J Basto returns to the side as skip and will have Alves, Remedios attel (1 11 Basto in his four,
one
Returning to his normal position as
of the skis in "8" team, A I' Guterres wall be leading Vas. A M Xavier and Rodrigues. The riak last wock comprised Machado, 4' M Alves. Carvalho and € ( Pereira.
E Souza, who led J 0 Hemedios, A M. Xavier and J A Remedios Jast week, will have a
rank this time Muchado. Noronha and
Remedios
De
Many Changes
J
O
Adwards, third man to Davis' rink ląst
and his place will be taken by Nissim week, witt not be playing this time.
McKellar Division
takes third rink, with Monaghan,
Third
In
over the
Sewell and Lacon as his front men. In their last game, on July 1. Nissim was skip with Valentine. Doughty and McKellar playing for
hini.
W. J. Butler, winner, and photo. Hugh Bmith, right, graphed on Sunday, when the Final of Royal, Hong Kong Section Golf Club's Junior Championship was played at the Valley. Buller won by 2 up over 36 holes.
POLICE PAIR
SCORE A 7
TO WIN 24-14
Due to Volunteer and A.R.P.
exercises in connection with the black-out, the lawn bowls pro- gramme was again curtailed yes- Shields comes down from Secondterday, only four Second Round whose matches being played in the rink is otherwise unchanged Valentine Colony Pairs Championship.
Division as lead to Abraha
go over
Honours of the day went to the Police
and Doughty
to Hamilton's four as the rat two men in the places. of Monaghan and Sewell respectively.in beating J.
No Police Change
Police Recreation Club find them
ing able to fleld the same teams both Second and Third Divisions.
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Recreio were not engaged to Second selves In the fortunate position of be Division last week, their match with Prison Officers' Clubs being called off owing to Volunteer duties They last played on July 12 when they Jost to Kowloon Tong and the team this week ts considerably clanged from that one.
Carvalho retains a rink but
two of his front med are changed The last time he Pad Sequeira, Husat.. Gutierrez, and this Saturday his team will be Bartos, Rosato
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R
Peretia letands Cunda as fead but M Xavier, who was has No 3 for the fast!
of 11 M J A
fol 200911
'The last
Xavier To
make Remedios at No. 3 named was skip on July 12
The third rink will comprise Osmund, A V Barrus, C Alves and J Soares, as compared with Prata. J Remedios, E. L. Barros and J A Kenedios for their match with Kowloon Tonk
Complete Reshuffle
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Selected Teams
Following are the selected teaus: CLUB DE RECREIO First Division "A" (v Recreio "8", home):- X Suva, C M Silva, J♫ Noronha, N. A
Joe Luz, Alves (skip). CE Marques, 1. P Xavi, J Ribeiro (ship? P
Hozo- X Soares, 4) Pereira, F. V V
F Ribeiro, R
Luz (skip).
Alves.
J
V
"B" Team:-D Remedios, (
Basto. J
Basto (skip); F A. Machado, A Noronha. JC Remedios, Eddie Souza (skip). CF. Vas. A M
M. Xavier, A. Rodrigues, A. P. Guterres (skipt
Second Division (v M.K.F.C.. home): --A. J. Osmund, A. V. Barros, ('. M. S. Alves, J R. Soares (skip: E. L Bar- rus, L. A. Rosario, H. R. Piana, M, A. Carvalho (skip): E Cunha. Fred A. Xavier, J. A. Remedios, C. C. Pereira (skip).
Third
Division tv C.C.C., away):-
Their Third Diviston team has also been considerably changed about. The G. A. Piuna, Arthur Ribeiro. E. A. R. only alteration in Yvanovich's rink is Alves, P. Yvanovich (skip): M. A. that A. Ribeiro comes in as No. 2 in Guterres. Jock Remedios, M. Mendon- place of A. M. Silva, but the second | ca. A. p Pereira (skip); F. P. rink has been completely reshumlled. Sequeira, H. M. Xavier, A. A. da Roza. comprising M. Guterres, J. Remedios. M. P. Pinna (skip).
Mendonça and A. P. Pereira as against Alarcon, H. M. Xavier, A. A. do Roza | and H. R. Pinna last week,
K.B.G.C.
pair W. Cameron and E. G. Post who.
W. Leonard and W. K. Way of Cralgengower, chalked up a 7 al the oth when they were already holding A confortable lead of 6-2 They finally won by 24-14, the match being played at the Civil Service Cricket Club.
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 23, 1941.
History of U.S. Open Golf Championship
AT WHAT AGE DOES A GOLFER HAVE TO ADMIT THAT HIS YEARS LESSEN NIS CHANCES OF WINNING THE AMERICA OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP?
Wood at 39-going on 40 knew he could win the 1941 Open tournament at Colonial Club, Port Worth,
+
.a
Age, Wood says, doesn't nean anything. In his opinion all golfer needs to keep winning tournaments is distance and in- centive. And big, blonde Craig says he has both of them, plus the valuable asset of experience.
But records show Wood's age was against him.
Winner At 43
Only one player of more than 39 has won the title-Edward Ray of England was 43 when he came home first in 1920 Ray and Wille MacFarlane, whồ was 36 when he beat Bob Jones in the 1923 playoff, are the only winners be- yond 35.
10
Actually, there have been only winners in the 44 tournaments who were over 30. These were Joe Lloyd, 1807; Lawrence Auchterionie. 1002: Alex Barnes. Smith, 1010; Ray, 1820: Jim 1021; Cyril Walker, 1924: MacFarlane. 1929: Tommy Aringur. 1927: Oth Dutra, 1934. and Tony Manero, 1936 Gene Saruzen Wha 38 when he tied Lawson Little and lost in jast year's
playoff
Terrific Strain
Wood believed his age would be of value in one respect, his years of com- coming panicky under the terrific strain petition would prevent him from bo-
of the final day's play.
Many players with good early scores blow up in the drive down the stretch Craig says he doesn't worry about those shead of him, he just plays his best and walls for them to crack. But sume young fellows acquired nerves and won't Johnny MeDermont probably
haven't
crack. didn't
Pos! scored at 14 ends and it was due mainly to their better combination knew what nerves were when he won that the Police pair forged ahead the crown in 1911 at 19. the youngest slowly but surely, until they had gainedchamp. He repeated it the next year. a 24-12 lead by the penultimate head
Francis Quimel was barely 20 when he Scores
became the first ainateur to win in 1913. E.G.P.: 2100 21 11 7 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 benting Harry Vardon and Ray. two
1 1 1 40
were:-
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Stranges Lose
E.
C. E. Marques and J. Noronha beat the Strange brothers, E. and H.. by 31 shots 14 after scoring at 12 ends.
to
I was quite ovident from the early stages that the Portuguese pair were too good for the brothers who, never- theless, put up as good a fight as they could under the circumstances,
In
U.S.
OPEN
FACTS
YOUNGEST CHAMPION~Johnny McDermott was 19 when he won in 1911.
OLDEST CHAMPION — Edward Ray was 43 when he won in 1920.
LOWEST SCORE - Ralph Qui. dahl's 281 in 1937.
HIGHEST SCORE-Wille Ander- aon's 331 in 1901,
FIRST WINNER BELOW 300- Alex Smith, 296 in 1906,
FIRST WINNER BELOW 200- Charlos Evans, 285 in 1918.
MOST CHAMPIONSHIPS—W{{llo Anderson and Bob Jones, 4.
MOST SUCCESSIVE CHAMPION. SHIPS-Anderson, three (1903-04-05).
LAST FOREIGN WINNER Edward Ray of England in 1920 (Tommy Armour, living in U.S. but born in Scotland, 1927).
FOREIGN-BORN PLAYOFF Armour and Harry Cooper, born in England, 1927. AMATEUR
WINNERS Francis Oulmet (1913), Jerome Travers (1915), Charles Evans (1918), Bob Jonea (1923.26.29.30) and Johnny Goodman (1933).
TO-DAY'S LEAGUE TENNIS
British challengers, in a playoff. Sara- zen was 20 when he won in 1922. Jones.
A full programme and Waller Hagen, in 1923,
1914.
of League were 22 when they
their first Tennis matches is scheduled to be championships. The average
age of decided this afternoon, as follows: Oren champions is 11t the middle
C.R.C. (2) University twenties.
WON
At His Best
Wood has played perhaps the best golf of his carcer In the past two years. He shot an all-ume low for a 12-hole medal play tournament over a cham- plonship length course in 1940, when
he
Last
V. Recreio
V.
Army T.C.
Craigengower
V.
South China
W.
Indian R.C.
V.
Kowloon Tong Kawicon C.C. C.R.C. (2)
Some of the probable teams are:- Recreio: II. A, and G. A. Noronha:
F. J. and J. J. Remedios. H. F. Gonsalves and A. E, Noronha:
Kowloon Tong: L. Chen and D. Kwo: A. H Basle and K. M. Lee; S. Hsu and D. Chen.
Noronha and his pariter had two 5'x. won the Metropolitan Open with two 4's and two 3's included in their 264, and he recently won the Augusta
Indian R.C.; M. P. Mador and A. R. score, while the biggest count notched Masters.
H. Esmail; M. Abdul-Wahab and M. Wood tied for the 1939 Open and lost Hassan; A. Rahmin and I. Kitchell. a J up by the Strange brothers was which came at the 5th end to trail 4-5. in a playoff with Byron Nelson Thereafter, however, the Portuguese year he was fourth. He has tied for asserted themselves and by the 17th first-and lost in the playoff-for two brought their total to double that of, other malor championships, the Pro- fessional Golfers' and the British Open. their opponents. Scores were:-
J.ESN: 130 10 10 3 4 1 0 0 0 2 0 5 1
0450
H.E.S.: 0 0 1 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 0
2 0 0 1
Interesting Game
Two changes, for the middle posi- First Division HAV (V C.S.C.C.. tions, are noted in M, F. Pinna's rink, away) :-W. L. Walker, G. W. Deacon, H. M. Xavier and A. A, da Roza re-A, Hyde-Lay, A. M. Holland (skip); P. placing P. d'Almeida and Mendonca Holloway, H. White, G. H. Sherriff, A. at Nos. 2 and 3 respectively.
J. Hall (skip); R. P. Phillips. Ë. Levett, J. McKelvie, R. Duncan (skip). and G. E. Stephens beat M. Fergusson
First Division "B" (v I.R.C., away) --
and W. D. MacMaster by 21.18. W. C. Hodder, V, C. Dixon, L. Sykes,
Scoring at 11 ends, the winners had
Promotion For Sherriff. Kowloon Bowling Green Club "A" matics is de mand Charter this week with Civil Service
WOMEN WHO WANT
TO STAY, SLIM.
At Club de Recreio B. A. Mansell
TO-DAY'S BOWLS FIXTURE
As far as can be ascertained up to the time of writing, there is
A., Peckham (skip): H. Bicknell, E. a 5 at the 7th, and this rather con- only one Colony Lawn Bowls Pairs Atkins, J. C. Gill, J. G. Meyer (skip): solidated their position, for they were, Championship match arranged for C. W. Elphick, K. C. Hamilton, H. L. up till then, only leading 6-4. MacMas. this afternoon, this being the game Lockhart, L. Guy (skip),
tor, however, fought back doggedly and between U. A. and A. H. Rumjahn, Third Division (v t.R.C., Home):-, nd reduced the arrears to 15-10 by the of Indian R.C. and H. A. Alves A. Fraser, Sir A. MacGregor, E. V.16th with 112130-2, but a
run of and F. V. V. Ribeiro, of Club de Searle, H. Nish (skip): W. M. Wilson, 1.21 0.1 clinched the inaue for the J. S. Dinnen, G. Thompson. C. Wallis Hong Kong Football Club, pair. Scores Recreio and holders of the title (skip); A, Bower, S. C. Walker, C. E. Langley, L. A. Jordan (skip).
HONG KONG G.C.
were:
G.E.S.; 210.12.05 02:0·0.0003 0
1 2 1 0 1
0 0 0 1 0
\
South. China: J. Hsu and H. C. Kwok: x. H. Ip and S. Y. LA; K. I. Chan and
N Wong.
Kowloon Indians: 6. A. and S. S. Hussain; Mahan Singh and S. A. M. Sepher; M. Ramzan and K. S. Metal, Craigendower: J. W, Leonard and W. K. Lee, W. J. Howard and K, L. WOO;.. A. Kitchell and A., N, Other
C.R.C. (2) Iu Tak-cheuk and, Wong. Shiu-wing: Ng Kam-chuṁn and P. F. Chay: L. F. Hon and Lam Yuk-ying.. C.R.C. (1): S. 3. Wong and. C.-C. Luk: K. C. Ng and B. F, Choy; C. Y. Lam and C. N. Trang.
INTERPORT FOOTBALL
since 1939, on the Civil Service C.C. ground.
Though Shanghai and Manila were unable to It is learned from
send football Mr. R. P teams to Hong Kong last year for W.MCM.1.0.0 80 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2.1.3.0 z Phillips, Hon. Secretary. Hong Interport game, provision will be Kong Lawn Bowls Association, made by Hong Kong Football that the other postponed matches Association for such games in the in this competition will be played Spring, Certain dates during the to-morrow and on Friday, though Chinese, New Year holidays, for he has had no notification regard. Interport-games have already been Jing the
new dates for these reserved.
Simpson's Good Run
Sqcond Division (Prison Officera Club, Home);~S. L. Lloyd, J. G. Haigb, H. G. Wallington and. G. E. Costello (Skip); G., G. Altkenhead. T. R. Rowell,
At Kowloon Bgwling Green Club A. 1. A. R. Duncan and F. Goodwin Eastman and W. C. Simpson beat
(Skip); R. R. Davies. E. Hospes, A. McCarrach, and T. Piła-by 25-11. Nisalm, and A. W. Brown (Skip). "The winners scored at 14 ends. And games.
Third Djulalon (v. Police Recreation, were playing the better brand of howls Club, Away)-H. F. Shields, L. E.. Nright through. Their biggest count was Major Frank Hogg, popular voterin Ryan, P. S. Cassidy and E. S. Abra-a, 4 at the 4th.but they had a good ar surgeon of Mong-Kong Jockey Club ham (Skip) D7 Valentine, E. S run of 1 30.21.2 12. to lead 18-0 at has gone to Australia on a short holl Doughty, A. S. Mitchell and P. J. A. the 15th, and then they gave away a day. He will be back in the Colony in Hamilton (Skip); TC. Monaghan, G. brace only to come back with 3:1 to about two months' time, W. Sewoll. BJ. Laron and A. Mckel finish off, the game. Scores were far (Skip).
w.c.c.: 019$1.001.30 213120
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POLICE- R.C.
T. First Division (v CralgengowerGria, ket, Club.; Away):-Wo McLeod, W. Harris, W S. Dall' and. J. Shepherd (Skip); CI, Gough, C.- Pie, O.; Per
蠱
The annual Interport game with Macao is held during Easter week.
FOOTBALL CLUB WITHOUT DAVIS
Many well-known tennis players, arq taking part in the Bath Invitation tourn. Hong Kong Football Club will ament at Seabright, New Jersey be without the services of Davis, First Round winnors Included Haen Tlonitsin, soccer: Interporter, who Jacoba, who beat Mrs. Coloman 61, played-a number of games, for can do so by learning: ta
60, and Bobby Rigga, who beat them last season. Davis is leaving :. bowl. Bowling furnishes Just
Moorhead 6-1, 6-2. Arthur Marx, son short'y on transfer. enough exercise for office, workerskins and W; Mair (Skip); E G. Post, Club Third Division League tennis also among the winners.--Reuter.
*Georgo... Lai, Cralgengower: Cricket' of Groucho Marx, film comedian, was and home-makers. And it's cast M. Forrest, J. Orem and. J. C. S player is a patient in Queen Mary to learn! We'll give you all tho
The soccer section of Hong Kong. Fenton (Skip).. Instruction you need. Try Third Division (v Hong Kong Cricket, an operation, Lal has, had some bad negro, who has been boxing profession, meeting on August 30,
Hospital, where ho recently underwent Bay Robinson, young - Philadelphia: Football Club are holding their annual to-day.
Club) Hame);-L. · Cu Pennellin An: Je] Juole, with flindes this season. It will ally for a year, remains unbeaten fol- Johnson, T. C. Channing and A.. E. be recalled that earlier, on a sprained lowing a decision in a 10-round - bout...-Pul Ngal Recreation Club, who were | Carey, (Skip); A. Soutar. W. M. Smith welst prcoluded hils, participation. in. against Sammy Angott, world light"| admitted to Third Division of Football
HONG KONG
BOWLING ALLEYS Mann (prie and just as he had recovered walent champion according to the League, was founded by employees of
Lookhart Rde
E. Hayward, J. S, Riddell, J. R. Mac, sumciently to play tennis ngain - ho National Boxing Association, The illic the cotton goods factories In Kowloon. Walter and J. Altken (Skip), Reserves! | developed, abdominal, troublo", which | une nok at stake, but Robinaan floor. To date they have done well'in basket- Tel. 21800 Cameron Go Willerton, J. necusaitated the operation, ifrom, which ed Angolt twice in the second round ball, volleyball, and, in the miniaturo
Hendridug, G, Davis and H. B. Dewar. He le now, malding good recovery, tai Įtal citary, won sovan rounds-Reuter,| football League.
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