THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 8, 1941.
CRAIGENGOWER IN PRECARIOUS
POSITION UNTIL THE RAIN CAME
By "Skip"
LAWN BOWLERS WERE ABLE TO BENE- FIT LAST SATURDAY BY THE INCREASED DAYLIGHT WE NOW ENJOY, AS A HEAVY STORM CAUSED A DELAY OF SOME CON- SIDERABLE TIME WITH THE RESULT THAT SEVERAL GAMES DID NOT FINISH UNTIL 7.30 OR SO.
Admittedly it was just possible on rare OC- casions to play to that time under the old con- ditions, but the uncertainty of a finish would have been too great and all games, instead of only two, would have been abandoned.
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the last hend.
THE game between Club de 8 o'clock. The scores were very close Recreio "B" and Craigengow- until the visiting skip, four down at the 10th, scored 11 in four heads to win by er at King's Park very nearly ended in a sensational win for the Suusa securing a good count of 3 at Portuguese team, and there some justification for the thought that the rain saved the Valley team, who dupted themselves more readily to the sodden green. Kowloon Bowling Green Club "A" made a
very poor showing against the Portuguese "A" team
on the adjoining rinks, only Hall's rink winning.
Kowloon Bowling Green Club "B" managed to vacate the bottom place in the League in favour of Civil Servants, their victims, whilst Kowloon Cricket Club rather surprisingly defeated Police at Cox's Road and Kow-
Indians.
K.B.G.C. Out-Bowled
By Champions
ON the other half of the green, the
Austin Road team were putting up
FL very pour show against the home- sters, whom they narrowly beat in the first encounter. Dick Alves had a big win against Ad...m Holland. who ean rarely have played so badly. True, his front men were giving him inadequate support, but that gave opportunity to shine. Neither he nor Alec Hyde-Lay did. Spuggy Silva was
him
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