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PAIRS & RINKS LAWN BOWLS CHAMPIONS STILL UNDEFEATED

FURTHER PROGRESS WAS MADE IN THÊ COLONY LAWN BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIPS WHEN THREE MATCHES WERE PLAYED YESTERDAY, RESULTING IN WINS FOR THE RINKS CHAMPIONS, UNDER C. S. RÖSSELET, ́AND FOR H. A. ALVES AND F. V. V. RIBEIRO, PAIRS CHAMPIONS FOR THE LAST TWO SEA- SONS.

INTRA-CLUB BOWLS COMPETITIONS

Following are the latost intra-club lawn bowls competition results:

Craigengower C.C.

Senior Club Singles First Round:-W, Ward beat M Medina, C. W. La beat S 21-15.

Leonard,

K

Junlar Club Singles First Round: W. Lam beat J Pavri, Second Round:4; S Ladd beat

W. E S. Leonard;

Broadbridge bear

Li Sul-wing.

Hong Kong F.C.

Club Singles

First Round: -A W Hireuck beat J Hempsey.

Pairs

First Round:-A. B. Coleman and J A. H Selby beat F. P Anslow and it. C Wallington; K. Forrow and K. S Robertson beat J. Hempsey and H. P. Shaw

Kowloon C.C.

G. E. F. Thompson and E. V. Searle garrowly defeated H. Git- tins and W. J. Howard by two shots in the second round of the Open Pairs competition.

The game between H. A. Alves and F. V. V. Ribeiro and J. R. Re- medios and L. A. Gutierrez was a Third Round match, which should have been played to-day, but the game was brought forward as the competitors will be engaged Volunteer duties this afternoon.

on

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 7, 1941:

The umpire calle Moore, U.8,8. Mindanao, site with Chung Hwa hindsnatcher Bill Chang looking back to see if any useful zecond. purpose would be éörved by réláving the ball to Mindanas won Saturday's tilt by a 14 to 1 tally,

KOWLOON GOLF CLUB'S

CADDY REPORT SYSTEM

PROVES GREAT SUCCESS

At Club de Recreio, G. E. F. Kowloon Golf Club's annual general meeting Thompson and E. V. Searle beat has been fixed for August 27, and it is expected that

H. Gittins and W. J. Howard in

Second Round of the Open Pairs the chairman will have championship by 17-15,

At the sixth Gittins and floward were to place before members.

leading 5-2 but the Bowling Green Club pair had 2 2 1 2 to lead 9-5 at the 10th. Gitting and Howard then scored tour singles at the next five heads to be led uy only 10-8

Searle Thompson and with 3 2 0 2 then took the lead to 17-10 at the 19th A four at the 20th gave the Kowloon Tong pair 20 chance but they culd only get a single at the last head to lose by two shots after scoring at 1 ends

E.V.S.: 100 100 2 2 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 3

20 200

W.J.H.: 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0

0 1 0 4 1

H.

Champions Win

CLUB RUGBY OFFICIALS NOMINATED

At a meeting of Rugby Section of Hong Kong Football Club last night the following were nominat v, ved for election at to-morrow's an-

nual general ineeting:

A. Alves and F. Ribeiro, Open Pairs champlons for

Captain: A. M. Kennedy. the past two seasons, advanced

Vice-captain: J. C. Charter. another stage in the competition

Committee:-A. M. Kennedy, J. when, at Club de Recreio, they C. Charter, J. Redman (hon, seer:- beat their club mates J. R R. S Meadows at T A Broadbadge. Remedios and L. A. Gutierrez bytary) and J. A. R. Selby.

Club Championship Third Round:-N, A, E, Muckey beat L. Jack: F C. Fincher beat S A Gray W. W Parsons beat A

TA

Madar.

Selection

M J. Red-

Selby and C. P.

Committee: --A. Madar beat A W. Bamsey

27 20 in the Third Round. Handicap Singles

Two hours at the 6th and 7th ends Kennedy, J. C. Charter. Second Round: --A W Ramsey NCLE followed by a two gave the champions man, J. A. R. beat 1. Jack iset ti W. M Gattios 14 at 13-2 lead at the 8th With the aid Needham. received a wall, over from 11 îroken of a six at the 13th, Alves and Ribeiro shire 81, NA E Mackay Cheated 21-9 At 1 20th they led 27-14

J. W Burman

Handicap Doubles

Second Round: -R S Capell and N

D Ljovd beat A Bone and 1

Third Round: -R Leigh

Baker

Meadows beat 1 Hung and H Overg

bul Remedios and Gutierrez scored a I six at the last to lose by seven shuts Alves and Ribeiro scored at 11 ends.

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TO-DAY'S LEAGUE

ANSARI HOPES Champion Rink Win TENNIS

TO GET IN MORE CRICKET

At Kowloon Bowling Green Club, C. S. Rosselel's

Following is to-day's Fourth champion Division Tennis League

the

ink (R. Basa, A. E. Coates and J. S. Landolt) qualified for

Finals of the Quarter

Colony Lawn Bowls Rink championship when they beat the Strange bro- thers by 22-15.

pro- gramme and some of the teams

C.C.C.

K.I.T.C. V P.O.R.C. (1) J.R.C.

C.B.A.

V

5.C.A.A.

V

F.C.

V

P.0.A.C. (2) I.R.C.

C.R.C. J.R.CA-B Godkin and S. Ramler; Starting with a burst of 114110 Lieut. M. A. Ansari, 5/7 Rajput the champions led 143 at the 8th.A. R. Pollak and M. Talan: E. Whilgob Regiment, who kept wicket for By the 11th the losers had reduced the and A. Odell.

Filipino Club:-K. K. Ip and B. Poon: Army "B" in a few League cricket lead to 14-7 and at the 20th were only matches last year, has decided 19-15 in arrears but they failed to score T. S. Hsu and. T. Koo; P. Poon and that, duties permitting, he will at the last two ends to lose by seven L. Souza.

c.c.C.-K. M. Au and J. Wong: Y. shots. Rosselet scored at 13 ends.

C. Mok and Y, H. Leung: N. Leonard and T. C. Yu.

1.A.C.-U. A. Rumfahn and A. J.

E. L. Strange S. H. Strange C. Strange

play much more cricket this year R. Baak than he had done for a long time. A. E. Contes Prior to joining Royal Military J. S. Landolt Academy in India, Lieut. Ansari C.S. Rossclet (s) 22 H.E. Strange (9) 15 Sumad; G. Singh and M. H. Hassan:

played a great deal of cricket for Osmania University, Hyderabad, and was while there, in 1934- 35, that he received coaching trom "Bill" Hitch, former England and Surre cricketer.

Ansari's trouble for the last six years had been the fact that he could get little or no "nets" dur-

ing all that time, but he is hope-

TO-DAY'S BOWLS

Following are the Colony Lawn

ful of overcoming that obstacle Bowls Pairs Championship. Third this. Winter.

Round games to be played to-day,

His other game is hockey, but though it is like'y that some games here, too, the exigencies of the will be postponed, owing to Service left him with very little Volunteer duties: time for practice.

At Kowloon C.C. C. M. da Silva and F. X. Soares v. Two matches in, the basketball league H. R. Pinna and B. Basto.

Chinese

At Club de Recrolo were played at Kowloon

TA. Måder and A E. P. Guest V. Ping Ching: 30-31 and National Uni-A. Easthian and WC. Simpson, versity bonf>Yu Leang 30-312)

Y.M.C.A. Ist night. South:China.boat

The British. Wightman Cup...girls Valerie Scot and Nina Brown, lost the opening round of the Women's Invita tion Telinis Tournament at Eastlamp- ton on July 29, Shirley Fatton of Call-

At Police F.C.

D. A. Rozario, and J...5. Landolt V. W. McNeill and PA Peckham,

A. M. Omar and U M. Ontar v. J. McCutcheon and G. Gowland,

At Kowloon - B.G.C.. J.V. Ramsay lind R. Morrison (v.

E. G. Post and W. Cameron v. C. R. Pereira, and F. X. M. da Silvacy

At Kowloon, F.0.0

fornia defeated Mins Scott 60. 02. F. Vas and J. C. Remedios while: Hope, Kiowles of;: Philadelphia won 6-2 against Miss Brown, Router.

M. Hussain and M. 1. Razack.

S.C.A.A.:-Y, K. Ng and K. T, Chap:

K. C. Slet and C. M. Tsang; P. Y. Kwok and S. L. Chung.

and Y. J. Khan: K. Singh and J. Singh: J. Dad and S. Ratchand.

K.I.T.C.-K. S. Mehal

ARMY TENNIS

RESULTS

a very satisfactory report

'

It is interesting to note that the "Caddy Report System," institut ed early this year, has proved

successful, highly

and one especially gratifying feature in this connection is that the caddies themselves favour the system immensely.

BOWLS LEAGUE CHANGES

HONG KONG. FOOTBALL CLUB ARE MAKING A FEW CHANGES IN THEIR SECOND DIVISION TEAM FOR THEIR MATCH AGAINST KOWLOON TONG ON. THE LATTER'S GREEN ON SATURDAY. --

Gill will have Bickford and Gratton as his first two men in place of A; B. Coleman and J. D. Thomson, the latter going No. 3 to Macfarlane in place of Needham, Robertson's four remain un- changed.

Only one of their Third División rinks remains the same as last week for their match against Police this Saturday, In Man- sel's four, Pearce, No. 1 last week, will be No. 2 this time, and Cole- man, lead to Gill in Second Divi- sion last Saturday, is coming into the rink as lead.

Anslow replaces Forrow as lead to Graver, as the latter moves to No. 3 position in the same rink. Ralston's four is not changed.

Electric Reshuffle

are

Hong Kong Electric R.C. making a number of changes for their match this Saturday against Kowloon Bowling Green Club, not one of the rinks that played last week remaining, intact, while one of the skips playing then will play in one of the No. 3 positions, with the other not playing this time.

Lunny, who skipped Baker, . Crawford and Owens last week

a rihk comprising will have Stoker, Gahagan and Butler this time. The last named had a rink (Stonehouse, Roscoe and Barron) of his own last week. His place as skip will be taken by. Paul, who will have Owens, Groome and Macfarlane as his front men.

Gardner, who led a rink com- Groome and Gregory, prising

does not Macfarlane last week, figure in the team this Saturday, and the third rink will be Barron, Gregory, Deacon and Sloan.

Selected Teams

Following are the teams: have

Members playing on the course submit reports about their particular caddies at the end of each game. These reporta are checked weekly, those caddles gaining the requisite good marks, 30 of them, coming in for a bonus at the end of the wook. Caddies who have been found unsatis-

selected -

factory are given three chartees, but if after the third warning they are still found wanting, the extreme mbašurc of dismissal is adopted.

Members. and their friends found the improvements to the club-HONG KONG FOOTBALL CLUB house most welcome, and the long bar that has taken the place of the old one has proved a great boon on week-ends and holidays, facilitating as it does the work of the "buys" consequent upon the relief of congestion,

FOOTBALL REFEREES! CLASSES

Second Diviolon (v Kowloon Töllo, away)-B. I. Bickford, A. G. Gratton, J. A. R. Selby and W. Gill (skip); A. Watson, J. H. Gelling, 3. D. Thomson and W. Macfarlane (skip): R. P. Shaw. C. B. Robertson, A. Brooksbank and K. S. Robertson (skip). Reserves: C. Carr and A MacAlpine.

Third Division (v Police R.C.. home):-A, B. Coleman, T. H. Pearce. G. E. Stephana and B. A, Mansell (skip): F. P. Anslow, J. M. Thomson. K. W. Forrow and G. S. Graver (skip); A. Bailey, J. Russell, S. Strange and J. Ralston (skip).

ELECTRIC R.C.

Third Division (v Kowloon B.G.C., away):-R. A. Owens, E. L. Croume. W. E. Macfarlane. A. F. Paul (skip): J. F. Barron, R. F. Gregory, S. Deacon,

A combined meeting of the com- J. K. Sloan (skip): W. Stoker, C. E. mittces of Army Football Re-Gahagan, R. C. Butler, J. F. Lunny

(skip). ferees' Association

and Hong

Kong Football Referees' Associa- Sgt. M. Minihan, R.A.S.C. Arst class tion will be held this evening at Army football referee. who did not

officiate last season, is now

referees'

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in

tho

7 p.m. at Hotel Cecil.

Arrangements for a combined straits Settlements and will be referco-

class and the drawinging again. up of a series of lectures are on

Freddle Cochrane won the world's the agenda.

Following will attend:-Messrs. welterweight championship from Frit- zie Zivic on a points decision. on July H. Beard, D. Kossick and J. F.

20 at Newark, NJ. Although the fif- Silva (H. K. Referees' Associa~ teen-round bout was extremely close. tion) and Lieut. L. G. Crossby, the referee awarded the decision to S/Sgt. W. H. Foster and R.S.M. E. Cochrane, resulting in tumultuous ap-

plause from the 10,000 spectators. C. Ford (Army).

NEW CRICKET

TALENT

By "Indog"}

BUT FOR THE FACT THAT THEIR^IRRE- Royal Scots scored another victory in GULAR HOURS OF DUTIES WILL MAKE IT DIF- "B" Division of "Athly Tennis League when they beat Royal Engineers by FICULT FOR THEM TO TURN OUT WITH ANY three points to All at Sockupon youter SORT OF REGULARITY FOR SPORT, ROBERT day. Following Wore scoreog

Alsey and Glasgow (R.S.) beat Kehör BURN AND LIAL COLBERT, TWO NEW MEM- Downing, and Ross (R.S.) bent SpenBERS OF ROYAL NAVAL DOCKYARD POLICE, 'cor and Tropp. 6-4, 3-0, 7-5.

Octon and Gilroy (R.S.) beat Birrell SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE NAMES FOR THEM- and Smith, 6-1, 6-2,

SELVES IN HONG KONG CRICKET.

and Hawkins, 6-2, 63

Standings To Date

"B" DIVISIONA

Royal Scdta}; AMA:O.C 12th.“Battery

A. M. Holtbhd and R. C. Hamilton v.

Coates and B. W. Bradbury 24th. Battery '(Šebond 'Round)*v*

36th, Battery 5th, A.AT Royal Signals

Six "Big Ten players, two from the sputh, two from the eust and one from. the far west, led Tuesday collego all- star, football Team While on the "finat day of balloting for the College all-star A. G, Gardner, H.K, Electric skip, Royal Engineers football team which will play the pro who played for Eléctric in Thirit Divi-Middlonox fessional champlon Chicago Bears, inalon of the Football League. In the R.A.S.C, -//A” a charity game in Chicago on August 1939-40 season as centre-forward, has, R.A.M.C. "B". 28. Hall-Back Tommy Harmon nt signed forms for Hong Kong Football R.A.M.C. "A" Michigan topped: the field with 089,114 Club this season. Gardner is a useful, 985th;; Battery: Votes and Augie Lio, Georgetown guard, outaldo-right and may, secure a pince R.A.P.C.

R.A.SC. "A" in Club's senior eleven.. was second-with-854,202,..

O. SEIN WAL, PITA

21 2018gy. 121, 104070 12 120 12 24 12 12 12 1010 10

17

Both are from Sydney, Australia, and both have had considerable experience in club cricket in their respective homes Burn was one of the leading batsmen of the Belmore Technical School team, and though he does not lay claims to any three-figure 15 8.78 scores, he has done consistently well with the bat.

Burn says he will try and get a few games here, but doubts very much whether he will be able to play every week owing to the nature of his duties, Colbert, it is reported, is a very useful bowler of the spin variety.

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