1950-02-22 — Page 20

BUREN

THE PERFECT

́SWISS WATCH

CHINA MAIL

The visiting Salgon Rugby Football XV and the Hong Kong Combined XV who played the Interport Rugby game at Happy Valley yesterday,

Kong by these pointa (one try) to nil

The game ended in a win for Hong

HONG KONG TEAM SAIGON

RUGGER

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BEAT SQUAD

After an exciting tussle the Combined Hong Kong Rugby XV defeated the visiting Saigon team by three points (one try) to nil in their Rugby Interport played on the Club ground yesterday.

Foreign challenge for Britain's golf titles

London, February 20. Golfers from Egypt, Italy, Belgium, Australia and South Africa will be challenging for some of the big golf titles in Britain this year.

Two new and colourful per- sonalities expected are the young Egyptians, Hassan Hassanein, of Cairo, and Khattos Hassan, of Alexandria, who surprised sever- -al leading. British players, in- cluding Alfred Padgham and Max Faulkner, by inishing frst and second in thoir national upen championship.

The try was scored by Harrison late in the second half who went over near the corner flag. Henderson failed to convert from the difficult ongle.

The Saigon pack appeared horter and lighter than their opponents but more than made up for it by their speed and Arst-time tackling. They were very unlucky to lose as they had more than their share of sions they were in the clear the game, On several occa- but each time the whistle went for some minor infringement.

Lailague, the visitors' fullback, shone with his steady play and his clever positioning which al- lowed him to catch the opposi tion's punts from any angle. 01 all the players on the field he had the surest pair of hands.

McDermott, however was in clined to be hurried in his passes which resulted in losing the ball.

Good dribbling

Stovell

Of the forward time caught the eye with his dribbling and his toughness when he car-

ried the ball. It took at least two of the opposing players to bring him to his inees.

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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1950.

Shuttle favourites win at Recreio

(By "ARGONAUT") .

Favourites had a field night at last night's Colony Badminton Championships at Club de Recreio. All of them sailed into the next round with comfortable. wins.

In the Schoolboys Singles, A. A. dos Remedios played like a champion to eliminate a hard- trying Ng Sul-Joo.

The fichoolboys Doubles game was postponed and will be played-

of tomorrow.

The youthful speed of Benzin Saw enabled him to overrun W. B. Brown in the first set of the Junior Singles match, Brown, how- ever, came back with some grand strokes in the second set, and took a lead of 11-7. At this stage the young schoolboy's powerful smashes began to take their toll. Although Brown managed even the score at 12-12, Saw soon piled up three points in a row to win the sat and match.

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Results Schoniboys Singles: A.A. Dos Remedios beat Ng Sui-jon, 15-3, 10-2,

Schoolboys Doubles: R.H Blackstone and R. Shaw v. F.

Folts and D. Lambooy (postponed) Junior Men's Singles: Sax beat W.B. Brown, 15-2, 15-12.

Junior Men's Doubles: P. Wour

and J. Kos beat D.H. Hazell and E. Ribeiro, w.o.

Sports Pause

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Colony's soccer XI held to I-1 draw by Manila

P.I. University team beaten 9-1 by S. Vietnam XI

Manila, February 20... The visiting South Vietnam football XI outclassed toom

composed of selected University players to win by a lopsided score of 9-1 in their first appearance

here last night at Rizal Memorial Stadium.

The visitors, who arrived yes- terday afternoon aboard the French jinor, Champollion, routed the local boys in a display from Hong Kong, completely of speed and power seldom seen Phon Van My, contre-forward, scored four of Vietnam's nine

here,

gouts.

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The Manila socceritos exceeded all expectations. yesterday when they held a strong Combinad Chinose XI' to a 1-1 draw at Boundary Street, Highlight of the game was the brilliant defensive

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play of the Manila lads, whose first time tackling and robust methods completely upset the nippy Chinese forwards. There was not a dull moment throughout and were it not for a. wrong decision by the re- feree, which resulted in the Combined Chinese obtaining the equaliser, Manila might well have come out victorious.

The Maalia defence rece to the and occasion In grand style thwarted every attempt of the Chinese to score.

Penalty awarded

During one of these raids, the Chinese were awarded a penal- ty for "hands" but Kwok Yings | kee made sp. aarious effort to acore and his weak tap towards goml was easily paved by Javellanm

A special word, of praise must Captain of the Combined Chinese be given to Kwak Ying-kee, the XI, for his fine sporting gesture side the lead in the first half and about five minutes batore in sacrificing a chance to give his when the Chinese were awarded the interval, Manila oponed the Fast end to end play followed

Tonight the visitors will make a penalty for "hands."

scoring when E. Bosch robbed Lui their last appearance in a game Kwok, who took the apst kick Shu-ping of the ball and bast with the Manila Football League topped the ball lightly to Javal-Teang Kai-wing with a fast ground selection composed of players lana, who had no dimeulty in shot to the lower right hand not selected for the Hong Kong clearing.

corner of the net. The interport matches.

one weak link in the The visiting team is headed by Manila team was the forward

which Seafor Men's Singles W.F. Foo Nauyen Phuoc Vong, President line,

of the Saigon Football League effectively. United Press.

Ladies' Singicx: Misy H. KwOOR beat Miss J. Greenhalgh, 11-0 11-2.

Junior Mixed Doubles; Mr. and MIL W.C. Chung beat K.S. Mrs. Benjamin, Thong und

The Ladies Singles match bo- tween Helen Kwong and J. Greenhalgh revealed a much Im-15-5, 15-4, proved Helen Kwong. A good sense of courtcraft gave her a brat S. Saul, 15-2, 15-3. commanding advantage over her, opponent.

Mixed The Junio-

Doubly found K. S. Thong and Mrs. Liza Benjamin in one of their off-

nights, and Mr. and Mrs. W.C..

Chung in one of their brillant

forms,

In the main feature of th night, the Senior Men's Single: Balgon kicked off against the between W.F. Foo and S. Saul sur and Stovell attempted a

the Chinese player proved to run back with the ball. He was good for Saul. Foo's excellent tackled and after a scrimmage coverage of the court and post. Henderson started his forward tional play had Saul on the run line going with a fine-pass for most of the time, With However, the ball fell fose dus Saul's

lacking theli

smashco

Tonight's games

7.00 Schoolboys' Singles: A. Sales

v Tai Hon-lee, 7.30 Schoolboys" Doubles: M.

Noulsco and G. Pomeroy v .S. Samy and A. Remedios. 8.00 Schoolboys' Doubles R. H. “Blackstone and R. Shaw y

F. Folts and D. Lambooy. 8.30 Junior Men's Singles: C. M. Quinn v A. E. Elliott. 9.00 Junior Mixed Doubles B.

Chow and Mrs. M. Chow v A. D. Brown and Mrs. M. Rozario.

9.30 Junior Men's Doubles: Eċ Hsl and T. Hai v Rt. Pomeroy and J. Pomeroy, Jr.

Senior Mixed Doubles: M. A. Oliveira and Mrs. II. F. -Gonsalves Bill Funk and

Miss O. Loy.

to over-eagerness and the Bal-usual sting and his returns fall.00 gon players used thele feet to ing far off their mark, the end an advantage and brought the became a matter of time, with ball within 16 yards of the goat Foo the winner by 15-2 and 15-3. line when McDarmatt dived on the oval and managed to clear. Soon afterwards Stovell nt- tempted a penalty gaol but the ball fell short.

He was well supported in the backfeld by Franchi and Triniz but the forwards lacked weight Hassanein won a title Khattan

and height and lost out to the had held for two years and prov-

Hong Kong team in the line-outs ed that it was no fluke by win- and serumus eight times out of 10. ning the Italian open champion-

For Hong Kong, Fowke at full ship.

back was steady when under Neither golfer has

played in Britain before, and their presence and McDermott did their share of pressure while Mackie, Wharfe In big events will add consider- tackling and carrying the ball. J. able attraction.

Dobby Locke, South Africa's feeding bia

Henderson played a grand game than а

line with the ball winner of the British open title, from the has promised

and line-outs | the time and again. spand whole of the season in Britain, i From Australia, Ossle Fick- worth will be making his frat appearance here, and Norman Von Nida, Australia, will pay a visit later in the year after playing in the United States.

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Borums

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missed penally tries for goal--the Then twice succession Parles ball missing the uprights by legs

yard

each time. The Hong Kong pack was heel-

well

and hud the advantage over their opponents in all the departments except broken feld running.

Ink

leading personality in British goli.

The visitors' tackling also sp. Cotton has said that he will com-peared to be more effective. Their pete in more events than he did speed and dash when carrying

ball made last year, but he cannot be per- the

them hard to One of the leading Italian pro- suaded to say whether

tackle and several of them could he will fessionals is planning a visit, and take part in the open.

and did change directions on a Belgian will again he represent-11 presence may well be need-dline and Hong Kong would have ed by flory Van Donch

ed if the strong challenge from had a hard time holding them had it not been for Saigon's poor paaS- ing and receiving.

Several times the Saigon team alinust scored but Fowke, Mackle and Wharfe rose to the occasion and stopped all ball-carrying players on the opposing team be- Iore they could get near the goal

A lot of interest at home cen- oversens is to be repelled.—Reu-

tres around Henry Cotton, the ter

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Bettor of exchanges

Spence

beats Lo

in straight sets

Lieutenant Colonel Spence, who participated in the Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Tennis Champion- ship, was soon in action at the Hong Kong Cricket Club yesterday when he beat youth- ful. Donald Lo in the first round of the Colony Singles championship in straight sets. There was no doubt that Spence was the better player of the two and would win, but many conceded Lo a good chance of springing a surprise.

Although he lost. Lo, put u a very clever and creditable who was playing a very good brand of tennis.

Griqualand W. draw with Australian

Kimberley, February 20. The match between the Aus- tralians and Griqualand West ended in a draw today.

The Australians scored 355 for nine declared and 252 for one declared.

Griqualand West made 202 in their first innings and were 89 for six in their second innings at the close of play-Reuter,

Harvey's two records

Kimberley, February 20. Nell Harvey, 21-year-old Auto- trailan. Jeft-hander, „today sot up two record for an Australian cricket tourist in South Africa."

against Griqualand West, Har- vey scored 100 not out to bring his total centuries to seven and, at the Kamie time. established record aggregate of 1,265 runs,

failed to combin

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E Beach was undoubtedly the moet outstanding player in the Maalla attack and his goal for the vistiors was the result of a plece of opportunism.

The other forwards tried hard, but their individunt efforts proved of no avail against the Chinese defence.

Excellent savas

the sticks

*Javellana gave another sparkling performance between

and brought off number of excellent Envas. The Manila full-backs and half- backs worked like trojans from start to finish and the fact that they were ablo to prevent the Chlaese forwards from plling on azals speaks

volumes for their display

The Chinese defence was not ar one could expect and strong as was somewhat shaky when under Kwok Ying-ken," whe

pressure.

was playing in the pivotal posl tion. was the only defender who remained calm and collected.

The interval came with Manila still holding their 1-0 lead.

The Chinese attacked desperata- ly on resumption and for a long period the Manila defence was Hiven a gruelling time as the Chinese forwards, assisted by their own defence, practically awarned

defondere

around the Manlip goals!

The Manila

their goal and offered atout reall tance to the Chinese attackers, who were gradually forced back.

Manila had several fins chances to increase their lead,, but til the occasions that the ball was sent across the Chinese goalmouth, there was no inside forward to take advantage of the situation."--| Chinese score

In the 23rd minute of the second period, a free kick was awarded in favour of the Chinese, although it was obvious that tile decision should have bien, £ie other way round, e

From the resultant, free kick, the ball was placed in the Manila woalmouth and during, a melee, XYu Chouk-yin netted to give the Chinese the equaliser.

Heartened by this success, the Chinese went all out to obtain the winning goal but they found themselves up against a stout hearted defence which refused to give ground.

The Anal whistio come with the Chinese still hammering away for the goal which never came.

The Chinese forwards, although showing One understanding, were The previous records were deciderlly erratic in their shootin held by Jack Gingiston, who and frittered away many scoring scored six centuries and had chances Kwok Ying-kee, who an aggregate of 1,192 rünə on

came up into the attack niter the the 1935-38 tour,

breathe WIS niso Off. the mark The highest number of centur-on several

occasions. 'ca; made by any tourist in South The Chinese

tork ub gregate is 1,781, both made by ng from the link-off and the Yog-kit, Au Chi-yin-and Los Tal-

Maasta escapes in the opening aleges,

A breakaway by the Manila for ward almost resulted in their drawing first blood, a fast gras

hot

Africa is eight and the best ag- the MCC Denis Compton with team last year-Reuter,

UNOFFICIAL TEST REACHES INTERESTING STAGE

Madras, February 20. The fifth and final unofficial Test, which may decide the

International display against an opponent "rubber" between India and

tennis stars during to play here

Saigon seemed to have had the better of the exchanges

the initial half, and their punting

to touch was accurate and long,

Displaying a variety of strokes that made him a good tonnis player, Spence had plenty of power behind his strokes.

Spence had a terrific volley and services and through thess da. partments he scored many win

In the opening minutes after Three international tennis the Interval McDermott kicked stars who took part in the well ahead but Harrian just fali-Philippine championships re ed to reached the ball before it cently in Manila, arrived inners went into touch behind the goal. Lallague missed a fine oppor

the Colony yesterday by the Nover at any time during the tunity to score when he was in Philippine Air Lines. They match did young Lo show any the clear about 15 yards from were Pedro Masip, the Spanish signs of being nervous, in fact he long Kong's goal but dropped the champion, and Mr. and Mrs. After winning the first set t

played like a veteran. pass by Carrere in his eagerness Harold Weiss of the Argentine. 6-1, Space lost the first game in to get under way.

The vialtors will be taking part the second set. He won the second

to Sunday beginning this after

Salgon forced the pace and in a number of exhibitions here however. La then, by some clever follow-up of a kick ahead forced pitted against Hong Kong's best placements and volleys, trok the Ilenderson to touch down for The games will be played through third safely.

game to lend 2-1. Spence From the resultant serum on the goal line Franchi obtained Club.

noon at the Hong Kong Cricketowever hung on grimly and

after

a great strugale - won the the ball and attempted a drop goal but it was wide.

Included in the four-day pronext game to level the score

Thereafter, Spence won test gramme of exhibition will be

-row..to annexe games in

through the Hong Kong players school, boys and girls.

Theo

the

the Commonwealth tourists, had reached an interesting stage by the close of play on the fourth day.

With one day remaining, India needs 209 rung with nine wickets standing to win:

The Commonwealth, who made 324 In their first innings, werd dismissed a second time for 247. By the close of play, Indín, 515, had scored 50 for one, wicket 10 their second innings.

decide the series, each having Victory for either aide will

won one of the previous" four "Tests", with two games drawn. -Reuter.

VICTORIA CLUB CALLOVER

son London, February 20. Burpham, for whom there has been considerable backing

duced from his last callover

Then Parles wanded his way special arsalon for the benefit' *o Koon-hong, a former price of 100 to 7 to 10 to 1 at

courts in Kowloon,

plan, easily accounted for

The results Choy Ting-wah beat Norman

at 6-4 after a great strusele, in the last few days, was re- In mid-field before passing to games will be played on the USRC, cad Maigret who was in the clear, However the whaille went for The Hong Kong Lawn Tennis Ping-fan, and CheyTing-wab the callover on the Lincolnshire an infringement and Saigon lost Association has a number of an beat Norman Lo in straight sets, at the Victoria Club here to- yot. another opportunity to tertainment Items lined up for Doyle beat, Wemer after being | night," ", stAR

the visitors. These will begin with a game in two sets.

Dramatic remained the favour- Five minutes from time Harri-attendance at the Minased Banda

Life at 9 to 1 Fair Judgment was, son gathered up a loose ball near concert at Bookunpoo this even-

priced at 100 to 75 with his itable the right side lines and bulled his ing. The visitors will be, tha

male, Bobo, at 5100: 'to: 6. Most way over the line for the only guests of honour at a dinner to-

money was for Transatlantic, uni try of the game. Henderson fall-morrow.

quoted last week and now on the ed to couvert

Due to

to an arm alature EN LO 6-1, 6-8.

Mrs. Au Kam-moon bent

20 to 1. mark Undaunted, the Salzon

Won" XV Couper, who was originally select Chung-fal 6-8, 0-4 ka

**** Zhe prica of the Grand Natioh- launched attack after attack but ed to reprosent the Colony in the Col, Spence beat Donald L1 favourite, Treebooter, who was the Hong Kong backs held out Mixed Doubles cames, will be g-1, 6-3, 150

quoted at 100 to 8 Jasi" Monday, Harrison almost went over for unable to play. Her place will be Roch Liang beat J.B. Hawthorn his impressive win at Doncaster. was cut to 9:55 FZTrumit:of another try just before the taken by Mrs Litton 6-2, 0-2.99 whistle but he falled to pick up Tickets will be on tale of the ip Kon-hong beat Trol Ping the ball cleanly when in the clear Hong Kong. Cricket Club grounds fan 6-1, 6-0. and a defender arrived

A.J, Doyle beal, C. F. E.. and. She Tickets for Servicemen-1, 6-0.

Warmer will be as

to boot the ball into found today at a pim. Chargés...aro $10

Just on time Stovell collided with a Saigon player and suffered, a gash over there: 1A perum

was called just as the Anal white went for "no akde,

1 Balgon: Lailague,

Glenou, Touler, Fede Blechetic,

Hong

The programme is as follows: Today, starting 5.30 p.m.1.1

1 Ladles Binsies Mrs. Wel

Mr3p Koon-hung.

25 Men's Bingius: Mr.

lightly to 100 to 6 and Monaveen Just-wook, Cromwells/went out.

to 18 to Reuter, LES GATHIRD LANARK LOSE" ARISTO CELTICS

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had

Combined Chinese: Teang Kal- wing, Lee. Ping-nom, Lu! Shu- nine, Tong Sum, Kwok, Ying-kes (Captain), Fung Kwan-sing. Ho Ying-fun, Yu Chouk-rir, Tang AutoW | fal, '

un the run-

Koveral narTOW

by Manzano being deflected in the nick of time for a corner From the resultant earner kick Arrastie camo near with a power- ful heador, the ball just skimming the crossbar.

The Chinese Again, asserted themselves and launched a series of attacks on the Manila goal.

Tillman.-Esteva, R. Nieto (Cap

Manila: Javellana, Hornandis, ain) Mangane V. Arrastia, Prieto and. E. Becch.

The

will be leaving for Macko today Manila · soccer team, which for a series of games in tho Portuguese port will be taking part in an exhibition-basketball game "scainst South China., the Hong Kong: Champions, at Caro line Hill on Friday 24, at 8 pm

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