1949-03-28 — Page 3

Badminton Season Reaches Final Stage

The Colony shuttle season reaches its penultimate stage this week with the play-off of the 16 semi-final games of the various evonts of the Colony Championships.

A review of the draw-sheets, brings back to mind a number of hard-fought games which have high-lighted the earlier rounds. There have been upsets in practically every event, result- ing in the elimination of no fewer than five seeded names.

In the Senior Open Singles (hand-hitting Pibeiro and Rodri- Championship, W. P. Foo was FAIDS,

an pemeible for the only upset ¦ As thrilling on the Final will be When Jac replaced veteran the Ladies' Singles clash between Xavier and Marie Patrick Wong in the freth Margaret

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Tonight's Games

At Kowloon Cricket Club 2,30 pan, (lies Doubles): Mias

1. Soares and Miss Y. Fronco

y Mrs. L.F. Stokes und Mrs. A. Tamworth,

#40 pan. (Junior Men's Singles):

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JA. Suures v M.T. Yeow.

830 pm (lates Doubles): Miss

A Shen and Miss Margaret Xavier y Miss M. Leong and Mas A. Heal,

9.00 pan. (Senior Men's Singles):

K. Tay v B. Funk,

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1949.

Another Setback Craigengower CC XI

For University

(By KIMBERLEY) ·

Hong Kong University met anothor severe set back at Pokfulam yesterday, winning easily the badminton, tournamant but giving way twice to a superior Lingnam University in the tennis and basketball gamos.

Hong Kong comes into the final stretch in the inter-varsity sports meet with Lingnam today -the track and field events-30 points in arrears for championship honours, with a total of 10 points in two days' activities as against the visitors' substantial 40.

Prata, Local Cricketer's Success Story

1.

ALBERT PRATA

Odds, as far as I can see. are overwhelmingly in favour of Lingnam, not that we know of anything partenfor abou! Lingnam's track art tle-fre but becsur of the UK's not too encouraging tinues and distances recorded in their recent athletic day, which, to 11 certain extent. falls even to compare With Joval school boys achieve- ment:.

Nevertheless, today's Youis promise tolving about a fuft-day of thrills in The Beld of sports with me particular feature in a Langua gul-student who IP: canroomed with a 5 feet 4 inch- perfomance in the huge Jump,

Hong Kong Unver ity started the day excellently with then unchallenged victory in bac

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Not a single Lingam boy ever save in pubits in a total of in Cames played, two of which were singles.

Superior Skill

Beat RAF By 8 Runs OH BOY,

Craigongower Cricket Club completed the "hat

trick" in First League' cricket yesterday when they followed up their two recent successes with a narrow sight-run win over RAF at Happy Valley.

Once again it was Billimoria who carried Craiger- gower to victory by dismissing eight of the RAF batsmen for a mere 33 runs. The. Inter-Hong cricket The Dunk had fest lease of the match at Chater Road between wicket and were all out for 89 the Hong Kong and Shanghai ring. D.H. Lench was top-scores Bank (Wayfoong) and Dad-with 20 to his credit. Arily was well's resulted in a win for the took seven wickets for 43 ruine

in fue fun with the ball and Bank by 36 runs.

CCC-RAF

Craigongower Cricket Club beat RAF First Lessere eric- ket match at Happy Valley by eight 14,

Dodwell fard worse than the Bank when it came to Batting and against the dolly bowling of Haynes, who took fivi. wiekets for six rting, were skittled out for

52 rung. Arty Kollowed up his splendid bowling per-

Batting first. Cralgengowerformance by hitting up 21 runs compiled 02 runs, to which A. 11. for his side, the highest score re- fan contributed 20.

corded by any of the Dodwell batsmen.

Hodgson was the most succes- ful RAF bowler, capturing six wickets for 28 runs.

HK & SHANGHAI BANK C.D.H. Walker, e McKay,

Arthy

G.A. Stewart, Arthy D.. beach, b Arthy.... R.E.H. Nelson, Ihy Arthy N.W. Turner, e re, Arthy

When it come to their turn to Jad, the RAF balsun were soon intetics against the bowling of Billimoria nnd were all nut when

the swore w Just eight runa shar! of the CCC total.

M. n. Gall gave the RAF R.S. Cull, Arthy, Pertern good start by scoring 25, but the A.T. Snaith, & Arthy remaining batsmen with the ex-C.G. Meredith, & Periera ception of E. N. Gambrill (17) WH. Lytail, not out

W. Follett (10), failed G.N.B. Haynes, e Perisa, mherably.

Arthy LT. Sim, h Periora Exima

K CO P... Billimorin, e

Garnbrill A.II. Ismail, b Hodgson K.M. Rumlabu, b Hodgson 5. Banchond, b Gambrill S. Keshan, low fodgson G.A. Souza, e Ghu, b Gam-

brill

R.O. Baker, Gatabrill

14

Gall, b

2 26

Total

Bowling Analysis

0

M R W

Peripra Arthy

201

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Morris, 1

Crellin, ta

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Flong Kong's Low Keat San way the first to discontinge the Lingrum badminton team with his highly superior skiji at fe gaine. After taking the first game. temail, ↳ Hodgson with considerable ease from C.S

D Readman, C Foong (Lingoan, mesed

Hodgson

1),

Albert Prata, captain of the Senior Cricket Champions for 1948-40, is another of tier

the seceral en letauk when Fong many locally couched cricket-retired at the score of 8 " h ers who has "made good“.

The doubles goutes were equai- ly a simple cuffier of superiority He had his Arst lesson in the for Hong Kong who Warded game as far back as 1998 when, through in eight straight sets to as a youngster, he was admitted chalk up the badminton Beurer

the Blocesun Boys School at in in our favour. and came under the wing of del What can really his described as L. Youngsaye, former University on upset yesterday was Hong left-handed bowler

Kong's going down to the visitors then

in teunfs.

The three Lo boys with T.T. Lim for Hong Kong

dismissed Liugnam in the first two doubles

to

(who

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was Crickel Muster

the D.11.5.). He made such rapit progress that the following year. when he was hardly taller than

a full-sized erleket hat, he found ganies with the case with which a place in the school XI. Prata | their Undminton team accounted played regularly for his school for themselves, from then to 1931 when he left.

com~

T. Crabtree, not out T. Ramchand, b Hodgson

Extras

Total

Gambrill

Hodgson

Maishali

Bowling Analysle

J[7

DODWELL'S',

Arthy, run not

Hill, b Cult

Tindal, played on Cull

Franklin, Havnes

Perleva b Smuth

2McKay not out

22 Ure, e Stewart, b Haynes

Devesni. Haynes

82 Cook, b Haynes

Champ, b Haynes

03

Wheeler, b Shaith

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W

Extras

13 3 31

4

13

7

28

1 Total

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Bowling Analysis

25

O 药春

R W

Cull

a 25

0 Snaith

2 22

Haynes

3 0 8

7

RAF

Clarke, D.M. Gall, b Billimorla

e T. Ramchand, b Billimoria

J. Crellin, b Billimoria

4. Morris, run out

M.P. Marshall, b Billimoria F.N. Gambrill, b Bilimoria 17 W. Follett, e A.H. Ismail, b

Billimoria

Kirtic

с

Crabtree.

Billimoria

10

0

Winters, Rumjahn, b Crab-

free

0

e Crabtree, b

10

Hong Kong had only to win one in the next three singles games Cricket was not only Prata's to net another 10 precious pats. interest for he took a conspicuous But, as it turned out, Hong Kong part in the school's tennis, he took things much too easily,

Association football key,

attl athletics teams. He also took Redeems Himself

Inter-House part in the

Tommy Lo. favoured to win petitions, playing for Green easily from Leung Kau-slu. Iest House. His last year in school, the first set 5-7, redeemed bhu 1031, was most successful for he self in the second 6-4, and was was not only made Sentor Pre- tending 5-3 in the third and last

Cricket fect, but also

Captain act when he slackened. The re- and House Cuplak.

sult, Leung took the game and

8-G. Previous to this, Hon vel nt Kong's C.. Ip gave way to Les Vik-sin, in a disappointing upset | P.J. Billimoria by 2-6, 6-4 and 4-6.

Prata proudly admits that he learned al he

about knows cricket from Youngsaye and he considers the late Donald Ander-

Concentrates On Cricket

After winning the first set 6-2

son, former Colony. University T.T. Lim of HKU, came into a and Kowloon Cricket Club all-favourable position in the second rounder, the finest opening but with a lead of 5-3. His opponent and all-rounder the Colony has took this set 10-8 and went on ever produced,

to claim the lost and winning one with 0-2.

Linguam University fully de- served 10 points in the basket- Upon leaving school, young ball encounter.

They displayed Prata found that the cares of ner technique in their strategy business life did not leave him and morc accurate shootin' time to continue all the sports power than Hong Kong players which made his school days so who were as patrld in their com- pleasant. Not unnaturally, there-ination as they were in attempts fore, he concentrated on cricket.

ret. before the basket. The

wisdom of his choice is The ladies take the field today. borne out by the fact that he Hong Kong has great hopes' În was chosen for the fast Colony medical student Inge Rennes who Interport XI against Shanghai. Is taking the track and field in Albert joined Club be Recreio | Ave of the six women's events, in 1912 and has since bined re- Other girls in the HKU line up gularly for his club. He captain- are Muric Braga, H. Abdullali, ed the 2nd XI on three different and F. Anderson who make up seasons and was a member of the backbone of the sein. the team which won the First Division Cricket League cham- pionship in 1838-39; and of course, this season, he has the honour of being captain of the League champions. Prata also played

Yesterday's results; Badminton: HKU 5 Lingham. 0. Tennis: HKU 2 Lingnam 3. Basketball: HKU 24 Lingnam 40

Softball for his club during the cares of captaincy, he also has the summer of 1837-38 and 1938-39 job of taking the point out of the when Recreio were Colony Soft-attack for his later balanen. ball Champions,

Amusing Stories

R.C.A. Morris, not put A.. Hodgson,

Billimoria Extras

INTER-PACK SOCCER GAME

The Inter-Pack Football Com- petition between Cubs of the Hong Kong Boy Scouts' Associn-

tion was won by the 1st Hong Kong Troop over the week-end, when they best 19th Kowloon by two clear goals.

The trophy in connection with 74 the Competition was donated by

The

Reverend Brother John, Headmaster of St. Joseph's Col- lege.

Total

Bowling Analysla

O

W M A 12.11 33 12 2 31 1

T. Crabtree

KCC Lawrence. XI

The Kowloon Cricket Club beat F.E. Lawrence's XI by 46 runs in a friendly cricket match at Cox's Road yesterday.

U.S. BASEBALL

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New York, March 26, Today's exhibition baseball scores were St. Louis Cardinals a, Philadelphia Phillies Cat KCC batting first were all dis

Clearwater); Boston Broves 5. missed for 211 runs W.W. David New

York Yankees 3 fat St. son, KCC's opening bat scored 60

Petersburg); Washington Sena ri Brunton and Bond knocked tors D. Brooklyn Dodgers 4 (at up 35 and 32 runs

Vero respectively.

Reach); Boston Red Sox L.F. Stokes opening for F.E. 10. Cincinnati Reds 7 (at Tumpa). Lawrence's X1, hit, out brightly Pittsburgh Pirates 11, St. Louis for 75 runs. With the exception Browns 4 (nt Burbank); Cleve- of G.N. Gosano (27) and F. Ho-land Indians 147 Oakland Oaks wurth (25) none of the other PCL 4 (at Oakland); New York; batsmen fared wall with the bat Glants 8; Chicago Cubs 0 (at Los

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Angeles).-United Press,

W.M. Davkisoni, e Howarth, b.

Slepio R.E. Lee, b-G.N. Gogano.... G.E. Taylor, G.N. Gosano W.HI. Cowie, b Gee

ibw b Banten V.C.

Rond. b Stokes J. Barrow, b B... Goano A.M. Prata, not aut .W.D.M. Webb, Did not bat W. Buiterworth, a Howarth b

Stokes

T.A. Brother, not out

Extras

Totat

Bowling Analysis

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F. E. LAWRENCE'S XI

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ILF. Stokes, e Prats, ́b. Lee * 78

EL. Godano

During tho 1047-48 Reason, Prata has a number of amusing Prata acted as captain of Recreio stories to tell in regard to his ex- on a number of occasions in the periences on the cricket field, but Cricket League, and he tells me remembers one most vividly when that thanks to the wonderful team

he was wicket-keeper for the 2nd spirit and enthusiasm of his merry

XI some seasons ago. meu his job us. skipper this sen.

The batsman), reachips for casy, word to play a stroko, missed the gon was made extremely Ho is especially grateful to his ball and lost his Balance.. opening bowlers, A.P. Pereira and trying to regain it, he lifted his Eddie Gosano whose stout-hearted | foot-all this time the ball re- bowling laid the foundation for posing safely in Prata's hand. As 4.P. Weir, b Lev houquets in the direction of G. N. ped off the balls and promptly L.D. Kilber, e Barrow, b Leo 1 their success, and also throws the crucial ment, Prata whip-d.N. Gosano. c. Prata, b. Los 27

E.F. Oce, e Davidson, blce Gosano, for his consistently ane appealed for a "slump," but the EL. Gosano, e-Butterworth, b

asting, and his vice-captain, P. umpire shouted a very prompt,

Leo

F. "Howarth, e Les b Barrow 25

N. M: da Silva, who as team socrt- and "no-inistaking-about-" NOT. FE. Lawrence; b Banton tary, has done so much of the OUT "spade work” In whipping : the

When the game was being play Alan Stepto, not out team into shape, attending to fx- ed all over again, in the compara-JA. Tibble, run not,

fures etc.

19

0

Toint

185

Bowling Abalysis

tive comfort of the bar Prais arked the umpire what led bkn to :Prata himself is no méon per- that decision, and the latter's ro- former with both and ball, while ply was, "there was no doubt hola also an extremely keen and about the man poing' out of the sale folder, Always keen crosse, BUT the ball had been in CE Tarlor student, of the game, he is a your hands so long that it was W.M. Davidson: 15 shrewd, observer and manages his dead, and so as I could not given Harrow bowling cleverly. Of late he has run out of a 'doad ball, that was Banton had to went glasses and this has that uffin batting lightly Prata hor done a good job as Abouchcha 1:still one of the most captain of the League Champions. "obriälttent beleman "in the side. He is one of the mosk" sporting Chalket that he visually opens the cricketory playids in the Colony me, or gods in frst Wicket today and I am sure all coin setda. arvikes his job- all the more with the game will agree that it for almamöditiort to the is an hongur, he richly deservas...

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