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Blind Men

Men In Scotland Show Increasing Skill At

At Lawn Bowls

By “ALL-ROUNDER”

A man needs a pretty sharp eye for a game of bowls, but there are two Glasgow parks groups of blind men who show increasing skill at the game they "play by ear".

They have a man standing beside the "jack" who claps his hands repeatedly so that the-blind bowler can judge its location before trundling the wood. Some of these players were bowlers before they became blind and this has helped them tremendously.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22,- 1953.

FIRST DIVISION LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP MAY BE DECIDED THIS AFTERNOON

By "TOUCHER"

One more League title may be decided this afternoon as the Colony Lawn Bowls League matches continue in all divisions after a rather cur- talled programme last week.

Having already won the Second Division Championship, Club de Recreio will play what is likely to be the deciding First Division match this afternoon when they clash with Cralgengower at Happy Valley.

A win for them by any mar-

second League ille for the SCORON, as of their three rc maining opponents, KBGC, Tal koo and KDC, only KBGC are expected to put up sistance.

There are altogether 24 bünd | sérvices this acáson of their muller' round his neck in spite | gin will make cerlain their bowlers divided equally between veteran all-rounder Tommy the greens of Alexandra and Smith, who has decided to retire from the game after serving Queen's Parks, where they are charged only 3d each and id for them for 30 years, overshoes. They have accepted challenges for fixtures from two blind men's teams in Edinburgh,

Although his recognised posi- tion, was at the base of the scrum, this veteran bas figured in almost every position since he

Blind welfare officials believe that eventually à rink in every | joined South Wigston In 1923. Corporation green in both cities will be needed to satisfy growing demands of players.

the

blind

NO STEAKS OR STUNTS;

Steaks and stunt-training will not be part of world sprint stor E. McDonald Bailey's aims to turn Into Rugby League winger for the Leigh Club.

He plans to retsin his present weight of 1st 7lbs. during his playing career

and to train on orthodox lines. "Naturally," he

"I will have to says,

take exercises for

strengthen- ing the muscles and toughen myself up for a game which I am told is rough and lough, and I want to get on with the job us quickly as possible,

He is eager to get down to learning the game and realises that it will entail a lot of hard work.

He topped the club's points scoring for many years, and also skippered the side, on a number of occasions. For 13 yours, Sirith was n member of the tem which was considered one of the most formidable in His eluss in the county, but since the war he has been one of the gallent few who have struggled to keep the club going. He retired with the knowledge that South Wigston are on a much firmer footing, and are on the way to regaining former glory.

NEVER MORE COLOURFUL

Keighley Feast week usually provides stay-at-hoane Yorkshire holidaymakers with an attract- ive local cricket fixture from a team of well-known players, but no tourists have been as colour- ful as the Australian aboriginals who delighted the local cricket fans

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with their Bailey, however, does not boomerang throwing, spear

will make the exercises and colourful attire. doubt that he grade. He hopes to confound those critics who say: “He is too

wore white The aboriginals old to learn, and anyway we've trousers, blue caps and scarlet

men before who could shirts, each having seen

a different catch pigeons on the track but coloured stripe over the right couldn't do anything Uke it on shoulder for identification. the Rugby field."

Among them were Redcap, Bullocky, Tiger, Twopenny, Dick

a - Dick, Charley and Mosquito. In reply to Keigh- ley's 118, the visitors scored 101, Mullagh batting with ភាព thick

a

VETERAN RETIRES

South Wigston rugby football club, Leicester, will not have the

of the summer's warmth,

Keighley's second innings yielded 140 and on the second day the match was drawn with the tourists 142 for eight. Each day the aboriginals brought out their spears for exercises and their boomerangs for that deadly throwing which was reflected in their fielding.

GOLF BALL DIMPLES

So those dimples on golf balls are not there for mere effect! It would appear that they

really do help the ball to go farther and straighter. A golf ball weighs 14 oz., which that it cannot be given a great deal of momentum; on the other hand, it is small in diameter and thus offers little wind sistance...

means

JC-

A smooth, spherical bail has a larger wake than a dimpled one. The dimples alter the air-flow around the flying ball and plo- crease the frictional drag of the atmosphere. Thus it more stable in light and its runge is increased.

becomes

century,

Back in the 17th when golf was so popular that it interfered with archery, golt balls canslated of a bundle of feathers with a leather cover. Only comparatively recently has the golf ball become a herd core surrounded by many yards of tape wound on under tension, all costed by a tough outer skin of gutta percha or synthetic resin."

central

any

Division League, which bas al-. ready boen won by Rocrolo "A", to its penultimate stage.

A good game should be seen

Recrolo between

"B" and Filipino Club. The FC bowlers scored ro-

magnificent 4-1 win over Recroia "A" last week and although they cannot do better citer than finish thied in the League, they will end their BC0.30m gloriously they can repeat their last week's proformance against Recreio "B" this after- noon.

It the closeness of the first round encounter between these two clubs is any criterion of what is in store in their re turn match today, then some good bowling and a close and hrliling finish should be the order of the day.

Recrélo won the first Inntch by 34-1. but only by the skin of their teeth by virtue of the excellent recovery on all rinks on the last two heads of the mateli,

THIRD DIVISION

The Third Division matchow continue, this afternoon with IRC enjoying the comunanding advantage of having two matches in hand although they are 1 points behind Craigen

gower.

this afternoN will depend on the draw and the form of Jou Xavier's rink.

Recreio, who are 3 points behind Cralgengower with one game in hand, should bo able to

keep their neck-and- neck position with Craigen- gower by claiming at least four, points from Prison Officers.

OPEN RINKS

The Colony Open Rinks semi- Anals will provide Nome in- teresting speculation Dy to whether the 1952 Champions, A.R.A. Rahman, K.M.

Rust- Jahn, M.B. Hassan and U.A. Rumjahn, will succeed in being the first rink to ever win the title two years ruining.

Championship twice, in

The Omar brothers won the 1940 and 1951. Of the other 12.semi- With a number of bowlers

.F.V. Ribeiro from both teams sull

With IKERC as their op- finallats only the

they

lius ever been in a champlon Colony Championships in differ-ponents this afternoon,

should easily maintain that ad- | rink. ent events, all the six rinks are in tip-top shape and much will vantage it not further increase

it by taking depend on the form of the day. points.

The result can be anything from 5-0 to 3-2 either way willi only win of a few shots оп the aggregate, but is more like- ly to be 4-1 in Craigengewer's favour this time.

may

Both IRC and KBGC should CORIC out with at least four

cach points

in their gameH against HKFC and Talkoo, but Kowloon Cricket Club meet with strong resistance from Kowloon Docks whom they just managed to edge out by 3-2 in their first meeting,

Three

more postponed matches to be played off this afternoon will bring the Second

SKIPS TABLES

FIRST DIVISION

1 290.184

J. F. V. Ribeiro (Rec) 12 10

2 283 222

281 228

3 200 195

207 134

280 208 4-236-221

4 211 172

the maximum

Cralgengower will be at home to Kowloon Cricket Club whom they overwhelmed by 5-0 in the first "round. Whether they can repeat that margin of

victory

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On paper the rinks of Johnny Ribeiro and U.A. Humjahn are the cholees for the final this year, but on current form their their chances are nol very much above 50-50.

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Lancashire and Yorkshire will meet under floodlights at Leigh for their Rugby League · Cham- pionship game on October 14. This match is to be televised by the BBC.

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Reg Perks, Worcester bowler who first appeared for County in 1930, early this month took his 2,000th wicket in first class cricket. The feat has been performed by 20 other cricketers, but only once

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TODAY'S GAMES -

First Division Taikoo v. KBGC CCC v. Reerelo KCC v. KDC IRC v. HKFC

Second Division. KCC v. IRC Rec. "B" v. FC. KDC v. KBGC

Third Divialon FC v. HKFC [CCC° v, KCC

HKERC USRC v. PRC POC v. Recrelo,

IRC

TOMORROW

Colony Open Minks Semi-finals

A HKFC, starting at 4 p.m.:

Roza-Pereira and J.F.V. Riberiro

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1⁄2 the fight between Peter Keenan and Johnny Kelly for the British Bantamweight Cham- pionship.

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Ter Sagar, Everton and former England goalkeeper, was recently presented with cheque for £1,000 by the club in recognition of his fine service during 24 years อย a player.

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