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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1955.
BOWLS
RECREIO "BLUES" CAN
MAKE SURE OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP TODAY
By "TOUCHER”
Famous Sports Stars
I Have Met
Cliff Bastin
By ARCHIE QUICK Down in the little Devon- shire fishing village of Topsham which nestles on the east banki of the River Exe midway be- tween Exeter and Exmouth they are divided in their loyal- tics as to two was the greatest footballer the district has pro- duced.
As they mend their nets or elder in the inns they look across reflectively to- warda
Starcross and Dawlish the water and debate over whether it was Dick Fym or
Club de Recreio, who have won the Colony First Division Lawn Bowls League title for the last three years, have an excellent chance of as- suring themselves of the title for yet another year this afternoon and thus emulating the feat of Taikoo. Recreation Club, the only four-time Cham-drink their pions in the 45 years' history of the League.
With only four more matches to go, the champion Recreio “Blues" team take on one of their strongest remaining rivals, Indian Recreation Club' "Blues", at Sookumpoo today in what may be the deciding match of the League.
And
The Championships have As a result of Wednesday's
bowlers mutches when the "Blues" fur- benefted the Talkoo ther consolidated their position greatly, and most of them, ex
Willy with a crushing 6-0 defeat over pecially Bob Marshall,
Brown, J. Baxter, Brian Doug Indian Recreation Club "Gold"
Kowloon Bowling Green Insa and J. Kinnbrugh have Club Itnocked Craigengower been playing Д tremendously practically out of the running improved game. with a 4-1 score, only Kowloon Cricket Club now remain any where within striking distance of the Champlons.
zeuson
could
I doubt if the Cricket Club could
reproduce their glant- killing form against the steady and consistent play of their op- ponents. I should think they be lucky to get away would with one point from this game.
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPs
and the League will after all be completed in time for the Lawn Bowls Annual Bail which understand, is going to be held at the Peninsula Hotel,
TODAY'S GAMES
First Division IRC "Blues" "Blues".
CCC v. IRC "Gold", PRC v. FC.
"
Recreio
Recreio "Whites" v, KCC: Second Division KCC v. HKFC. TC v. HKCC. CCC v. PRC: KDC v. USRC. FC (bye)
Third Division HKFC v. KCC. USRC v. HKERC. PRC v. KDC, FC v. KBGC. POC (bye)
A decisive 5-0 win for the "Blues" w, however, malte the gup almost unbridgable despite the fact that the Blues' remain- ing
will be games
against CCC and PRC,
Cricket Club are already eight points behind the "Blues" with one game in hand, Their possible inaximum is 63 points, while the Blues possible Aggregate this reach 06.
The Cricket Club's remaining opponents are, in addition to the Recreio "Whites this after- neon, Filipino Club, KBGC, IRC "Geld" and CCC.
Recrelo "B" The
cau conservative but this was by no "Blues"
сес ly put their target as four points major upset as actually there in KCC
between KBGC in every match to bring their very little to choose total for the season to 12 points, thent. A. K. Minu was in bril-C "Blue" which will be more than enough fiant drawing form in this match. TRC "G Top lo win the League.
honours, however, in FC
SOME RESHUFFLING
At the time of writing six out
of the eight scheduled Colony Open Singles matches have been played. The top three favourites, Anoul Luz, W. Hong Sling and M. B. Hassan, got
R$ through expected Raoul only narrowly and Hong Sling and
Hossan by comfortable margins.
failed to UJ. A. Aturajahn make it against A. K. Minu,
means
群
PRC
HOW THEY STAND-
First Division
this round go to Farley Recreio "Whites" Kerman whose win over Em-
pirc Games representative Joe TC Luz was undoubtedly the best c of the round.
Farley is capable of classy Is in the mood bowls when he aric can go very tar if his tem- bo peremental nature does not get rinks the better of him.
The IRC "Blues" are playing much better bowls now and expret them to put up « much better fight than they did in the first encounter when they went down by five points, to nil.
understand there may some reshuffling of the
Open with
Colony potential Rides Champions Jeff Hoogen, K. Minu, Ismail Ali and A. M. A. K. Omar forming one rink,
the
match other key in Kowloon
Club Cricket
will obably worry not so much about winning as collecting the maximam ve points against Reercio "Whites.
five
Playing on their own green
I don't think the "Whites" will
be easy meat. They, too, have
a significant part to play in
bringing home the title to their
PWD
L Pis 12 9 0 3 46 12 0 0 2 4015
11 5 0 3 34
0 0 3116
241
70 0 0 23
12 3 0 9 10
3 0 0 13
10 00 12
Second Division
10
0 2 4015
40
05 15
CCC
FC
HKFC XXCC KCC
SRC Pre
1 1 27
à 10 101
0 9 12
Third Division
Tomorrow the third round of KDE
HKERC the Triples will be played off. Poc The Pairs event has aheady KBGC reached the last sixteen stage, FC and the Rinks the quarter-finals. PRC It looks us if the Champlonshipa USRC
W
KCC
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SKIPS' TABLES
FIRST DIVISION
club and will undoubtedly go R. F. Luz (Rec. "B").
A. E. Coates (CCC) fall out for a 3-2 upset.
Failure of one of their rinks J. F. V. Ribeiro Rec. "B" to carry the side through will C. E. Passos (Rec. 3') probably leave KCC the winners, W. Bradbury (CCC)
W. Hong Sling (KCC) a 4-1 margin.
J. M. McKelvie (KBGC) In the Second
Division in- terest will be centred on the A. M. Omar (IRC "B")
T. E. Baker (KCC) match between Talkoo and Hongkong Cricket Club at Tal- A. Harvey (KBGC),
D. Philips
(KCC) Koo. The Cricket Club bow A. A., Lopes (Rec. "W") lars have already to thele
A. H. Saemin (IRC 'G') credit such
wins major these over Fouthall Club, CCCK. Bodle (PRC) and Kowloon Dock and are as H. B. Dewar (PRC) likely to upset League-leading
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Taikeo's appiccart us they did Kowloon Dock's.
1 peanuts
the faw more pennies you pay for the lots
more comfort you get when you wear...
Jockey
Brand
SHORTS
Coopria
Made anly by
Insist on the GENUINE
Jockey
Brand
P WI
A-
Shots
L E A
261 175
3 238 200
3' 226 205
100
190 127
3 248
220 225 229 212 210 210
Shots
CHF Bastin.
Both these England men start. fed with the local City up at St.
James's Park, and thin their ways divided. Pym, the goal- keeper, went to Lancashire and starred with Bolton Wanderers thirty years and won "caps" ago.
Burly Dick Pym always look- ci a typical fisherman. Now he is a publican. His hair was al❤ way dishevelled and he walked with a roll, Bustin' hair was always
Immaculately parted down the centre, but they both talk with the same West Coun- try burr.
Whereas Pym travelled North for his living, Cliff took a traf to London Town and threw h his lot with Arsenal ko their hey- day to the extent of winning International honours twenty- one dimes a decade or more after Pym had mado his three appeur- onces.
OF EQUAL CALIBRE There were many goalkeepers as Dick, but of equal calibre few outside lofts to compare with "Boy Bastin who played League football when he was sixteco and for his country be fore he was eighteen. He was of the direct, sharp attack which fitted
with To well Arsenal's scheme of thing Hulme doing the same call the other wing and Jantes, Jack, Bowden, Buchan scheming of inside forward.
1
the
All his playing career, how-
WED ever, Bastin
badly han dicapped by deatness, and it is remarkable thing that he could triumph over it to the extent that he did. "Saved me a lot of trouble really", he once told me. "Could not hear what the crowd were saying about me or what my pals on the field
what telling me
they wero thought I should do."
A
cul
I
careful Devon man” is darts once played him
at the Dyke Golf Club, Brigh-
ton, when Arsenal were train- ing there under Mr Herbert UD Pts. Chapman's managership for
94 Cup Final.
B
8
12
7
210 210
225. 165
295 165
541 100
241 100
220 198
224 198
6
107 147
5
4 193 197
6 294 220
5 191-18244
5 100 209
SECOND DIVISION
E.
Greenwood (HKFC) 12 9
N. Gourlay' (KDC)
11
W. B. Brown (TC)
12
J. B. Baxter (TC)
Ꮧ.
J. H. Kinniburgh (TC)
257 201
F. D. Angus
(HKCC)
13
13
£
$ 259
214
248 108
165
A. E.
E. Ellott (KDC)
D.
Arnow (USRC)
W M McCall (KDC)
WJ. Howard (KCC)
Leonard (CCC)
B. I. Bickford (HKFC)
D. Trall (HKCC)
R. Tay (CCC)
F. Forrow (HKFC)
P. K. Lau (CCC)
R. Hetherington (USRC)
A. Sequeira (FC)
3 301 172 120
240 104 200 215
256 197
214 215
229 200
287 248
200 200
0 228 229
147 100
1 5 218. 219
1 4
198 212
THIRD DIVISION
R. Lapsley (KDC) .....
J. McKittrick (KDC)
L.
At all fine stores
A. Ribeiro (FC) ......
J. K. Sloan (HKERC)
B. Mackenzie (PRC)
12 10 1 1 298 101 12 @ 1
11
SHI MUHI
and was a tentotailer Cur non-emakter, oo tho agreed stake was a bar of chocolate. "Pisin, though. no milk, nuts and frul!” the famous winger insisted. It was only later I dis-
1
6 covered the plain bars were
penny cheaper. Needless 10 Clif is now comfortably say. situated
SPORTS QUIZ
1. What do the following have in common: Andy Ducat, C.B. Fry, and Willie Watson?
2. Who are, or were, (a) The Boston Tor Baby Wizard of Dribble (c) The Em peror of Pot?
(b)
The
3. What sports would you ser
S.E.A. BOXING
Hongkong
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Is In No
No Danger
Of Being Let Down By
Our
11 Boxers To Singapore
Says OUR BOXING REPORTER
The Selection Committee of the Hongkong Amateur Boxing As- sociation is to be congratulated on the all-round strength of the eleven-man team picked to represent the Colony in the forthcoming South-East Asian Championships at Singapore.
".
The team is a most capable one judged by any standards, and there is a healthy ration of vital virility and infectious enthusiasm among the boxers. It is of course quite impossible to try to forecast the prospects of our representatives for the strength of the opposition is more or less completely unknown here in Hongkong.
Be that as it may however, parlance can dish it out and His there is one forecast that can when necessary, take it. be made with absolute con-display against FARELF Cham- fidenco That to say that pion Jones on Tuesday was in Hongkong is in no danger of eye-opener. being let down by boxers who are not fit or who are wanting: in the will to win.
Fighting
knows only one policy ... attack Atinek .Attack . and ho follows it relentlessly from the moment the bout starte until it stops.
and brilliantly,
Ho punches hard and often, balancing brain and brawn in a and varice his blows to excellent most judicious way, he left no purpose, His short rasping up- It was adequately demon- strated at the Missions to Sea-doubt that however close his porcut which crashes out and up Colony Championship victory during a spell of indghting, is men on Tuesday evening that
might have been HE was the capable of wrecking even the our fightersS are superbly At:
men to fill the Lightweight spot | closest defence, that the trying distance thrte three-minute rounds is in this team. He may well odd
to his current Colony title. well within their capabilities: and and that they are ready
Light Wetter.-Cpl. willing to go in ̈and fight until { (AMKY).. they drop.
સ
甜
FIGHTING FTT
of
Carey
Light Heavy weight. - Cần, Travers (Army)
Light
Heavyweight — Cpl. (Army) (Reserve). There will be no qualms among the team offelals if it is neces-
Another all-action all-attack- ing fighter who is a crowd- Imbued with all the traditional pleaser from the first bell, Mas Arc of his race Paddy Carey is an attractive ‘No retreat attitudo the sort of boxer the crowds roll to the game and it will take a The physical fitness of the
CPO up to 500. Has the same oc- good tough fighter to keep him A great tribula to Herrett and Sgi. Tye who have casioral weakness as Fong Ki away from the new titles. spored neither themselves nor kong in that his long upward the fighters in the search for mveiling right hand tends to the kind of fitness that probably land with the wrong part of the Bowen.
trained boxer glove on the target, only a finely knows... th
Aliness that
Hits hard and aflen. His selec-sury to call on this hard fight- inspire the will to attack at top tion over Leggerton must have ing cruiser from the 1st. Bo.
that provides spection to fight back afteT
the been a very narrow one indeed North Staffordshire Regiment. ....but apart from being the Bowen is as tough as they come punishment
that reigning Champion he is prob- and will not let us down against heavy sparks the mysterious courage ably the fillest man in the team the strongest opposition. that picks a tired aching body
at the moment. up off the canvas after a punch
Wellerweight-LAO to a vital spot.
P
The kind of finesa that carries a winning boxer along.
for
The only sad note in whele matter of selecting the Colony team is that some really worthy boxers have had to be left out:
There would be places
Jones, Like Hudson, Leggerton and Finch in representative teams of the day kut in seeing & colleague being selected I am certain that they to offer were among the first their congratulations.
13.
(RAF).
His selection
18
Heavyweight. Gnr. Postle. Baker (Army). Postle is to be con- gratulated in making the team for there were many who felt The only airman in the team that the slashing punishment he fighter received from AB Sodd 'might on a strange surge of success to but a strong forceful ultimate victory. If you have who is worthy representative have turned him against the never lived through the heights of his Service. Has the ability game altogether. and depths of these emotions to treat each fight on ito merit
shows that then it is improbable that you and those who remember his have ever known what the term meeting with Rawlinson will his ability is sill not far re *fighting-nt really means. know just how well he adapts moved from the novice stage, his and his keenness for the himself to the occasion.
Tough heart as they come and with the boxing are already well along spirit to fight back when hit, the path to ripe experience. Baker will be a popular fighter
WELL TRAINED at Singapore.
That they are the men: ' Light MiddleCfn. Allier whom the Colony is placing its (Army). The most stylish boxer faith in this first postwar In the team. A youngster who pedition into International has had plenty of experience of 1stle
competition. The team the big decasion to give him the has been
wel trained, and confidence to come out on top
chosen, and in the South East Asian Cham-
responsible officials are due commendation for their wateli in action "but a tough awerving adherence to their accurate punching opponent
stated principles in making their for the man in the opposite anal selections. corner. This popular London boxer could very well emerge On behalf of the Colony's Flyweight.—Kan Chong-waius, the man-of-the-moment in boxing community, I wish the
Singapore.
boxers, their trainers, and their officials, a successful trip to A clever youngster who
Middleweight, Cin. Dinning. capable of giving the Colony (Army). Whoever meets this Singapore, and I assure them that we shall look forward good start in the Champlon- | tough-as-teak Scot the eagerly to their return. May wo ships provided he does not Championships will not havesce a fair collection of the South- allow himself to be overawed long to wait before he realises East Asian Championship : dftles
importance of the that the battle is on. Dinning collected in Hongkong's name.
mas!
And now word or two about the men who have been selected,'
(ABC).
Ly
the
occasion.
Bantamweight - Fong
kong (ABC).
is
Fong is second only to Henry Wong in popularity with the Chinese fans. Ho is a at- Argetive hard hitting. Bantam
who will give any opponent plenty to think about in the ring.
His main weakness is that in his engerness to fight he does I not
land with the always knucklo part of the glove and although his apparently herty wallops give the crowd some- thing to shout about they do not always Impress the judges bub
at (a) Cowes (b) St. Moritz,in quite the same way...
Cardiff Arms. Park?
4. Did Joe Louis
3/2
(c)
Prime Carnera?
5
Singa whoever meets Fong at pare will know he has been ii.
ever meet
La fight.
5. Sydney Wooderson's Last remaining British record, the Half-Mile, was broken,
** Featherweight, Sgt. Hilton, Pound for pound (Army). Ha
10% held three other British records.
they wore
6. How many countries
202 210
91 What
1
252 190
84
247 210
won the Divia Cup?
247 212 195. 160.
714
20
04 feather?
218 235
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POP
MY WIFÉ, VUKKITS ME. TO HAVE MY NOSE
ALTERED
CERTAINLY DIT
WILL COST YOU
FIFTY
GUINEAS.
A. G. Gardner (HKERC)
W. C. Higgs (POC)
V. A. V. Ribeiro (FC)
A. Hutton (KBGC)
J. Revie )
R. Rosen
E. CcTavish (KCGC)
(POC)
W. A. J. Bayne (KDC)
M. N. Rakusen (HKFC) 116
L. Cosgrove (KBGC) ..
173 110
218 234
218 234
218 235
291 181 118 OD a 238.202 105 142 4. 197 177
AB 3
10 4 2 4 300 180
4172 190
11 4.2 5. 203 243
SURELY THERES A
-WAY I CAN GET IT
DONE, UNDE(2.. "TRUE" HEART-4 .....
SCHEME
FREE
Proboscis prognosis
COURSE!
H. Shields (HKFC)
9
7. When does, a ly
have
become a
+
8. Recently
the, English Channel was Bwum by Canadian, the youngest over to achieve the feat, Who was it?
9. (a) Who won the 1855. Tour de France, cycle race? (b) has ho won the event before?
10. Who is the Olympic 100, Metres Champion?"
(Answers neo' Pago-17)
Valentine's
and
inch for frah, 'Hilton the most powerful and the most accurate punaher in the
Colony today. His string of knockout victories' and his long list of Chanipionship, sukechres speak for themselves.
Lightweigti. 'Henry Wong (ABC). The darling of, tho Chinesofght' fans.
Artic perienced boxer who in
Another Cricket
Poser
Has a player over scored off three consecutive deliveries in a fust-class County Champion- ahip match without hitting the sanka Bar: two? That' now one for cricketers to pon?. der, and it is true..
6
It happenet last week Hove, and what is more Bob Broadbent of Worcestershine - sobbed....15. off those three ballé
from the Sumex captain, Rob IC# Martar.
pionships. A delightful man to the "tfully
in
HALF-MILE RECORD
uh-
Derek Johnson (Woodford Green AC) winning the 880 yards in 1 min. 48.7 ged, for Great Britain during the international athletics match against Germany at the White City Stadium, London during the Bank Holiday:
V His time broke the British All-Comery, and The first was a mix into a record of 1 min 49.2 soca, ant by Bydney Wood
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