1959-06-01 — Page 7

THE CHÍNÁ MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1959.

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HKCC Head Week's Lawn COOL PETER PUTTS AND PITCHES HIMSELF INTO STARDOM

Bowls Upset Victories

FOUR TEAMS SUFFER FIRST. DEFEATS OF THE SEASON

rocords in Satur- were featured day's lawn bowls league matches, which by no fewer than four major upsets. Only five teams, threa' in the first division and one each in the and third divisions still romain unbeaten' at the end weeks' play.

Four more teams lost their undefeated

the

To Zongkong Cricket Club's second division team went honour of scoring the most com- mendable win of the weekend. Last in the league standings, they broke their "duck" for the season with a brilliant 4-1 vic- tory over second-placed Police Recreation Club "A", who had hitherto wen all their three pre- vious matches.

A.

Largely responsible for the

triumph Cricket Club's

were thels four of 11. Gowing, Pinnell, W. Edwards and L. C. Kew, who paved the way with their 29-11 win over S. C. Mills, J. J. Kelleher, T. H. Walker and W. H. Coton. At the end of the 13th head, they were actually leading by 24-3.

Almost Full Points

TC-

N. Faby, J Canning, N. aleaton and F. Marshall well on the way lo emulating the feat of their clubmates when they led . A. Fisher, D. Max- well, H. G. Laurel and G. Arliss by 13-3 at the end of the 7th head, but met with strong sistance from thet onwards. After being challenged to 13-10, they came back with a spell of eight shots in five heads to lead by 21-10 and finally complete the victory for their side with a score of 22-15.

League Standings

IRC "A" KDC

First Division

P W L PLB

4 0 18

40 17

4 0 17

4 3 1 12

3 2 11

КОС

second of four

Recreio "A" c

KBGC

Recrelo "B

FC

TC

LRC "B"

a

Second Division

3

14

"A"

13

4 2

4 2 2

By ROBERT TAY straight while others took

Hongkong Football Club third division team, who after having won their two previous games, were surprisingly beaten by lawly placed Cralgengower Cricket Club.

In addition to PRC "A", and HKFC, Filipino HERC Club's second division side also met with their first defeat when Cricket they lost to Kowloon Club at Cox Rond by 4-1. Both being well up In the trains, league table, the match was as expected a close one throughout the cricketers emerging with

four shots narrow winners by on the aggregate.

сусп when HKFC tremedous wing being given the same green and

PRC KCC weight,

With skips J. Hoopen And ooc A. K. Minu playing exception PRC ally well, the opposing KBGC C feurs skipped by P. Hughes HKPSA and T. Kavanagh were

HKCC USRC able to make any headway un the tricky green, being led all the way from start to finish.

Only Fight

sever

Third Division

KDC HERC

3 3

SC

4 3

HKFC inc KBGC

3 2 I

4 2 2 10

Occ

The only KEGC four to put up a fight were A. D. Duffy, S. Eleneno, A. Pastman and "M. E Purvis. With front men Duity TC

Bicheno drawing well in HKCC and the first half, the KBCC four were having sightly the better of the IRC four of R. Omar, The first division matches of A. R. Kitchell and M. B. Hassan until the 6th head when they the week went more or leca ne-

10 fot.

up ptice leading 6-3, "A", cracked IRC cording Kowloon Duck Club and Re Six successive singlen and one creto "A" ull maintaining their fuur put the Indus into a 13-0 end and despite a good re- unbeaten records.

covery by the Kuwloonites up to 14-16, the last head saw the four clinch the match heig with a two,

The

Tricky Groen

ony surprise was the of 5-0 overwhelming margin victory chalked up by the In- dians over the Kowloon Bowling Green twelve, which

enabled

ORA

At Hunghome,, Kowloon Docit for full value Club were

win over Craigen- their 4-1

Cricket Club. The Kower Valley Club, were actually. hucky to get away with point from this match against each produced opponents who steady and consistent howls.

5. Telford, H. Against Lapsley, A. M. Banks, and A the CCC four of G. Skeoch, P. R. Rag, F. Lee, Gr Hong and S. Leonard жето Choy

on the 10th trailing by 10-17 head when a brilliant shot by skip Leonard gave his four a slx! With a le of two in his

favour, Leonard made a per- feet two-foot trall of the jack for the count. Encouraged by this success, the Valley bowlers came back with a three and a two on the last two heads to edge out their opponents by give Cralgengower 21 18 and their only point.

Peter Butler and the Swallow-Penfold trophy.

'A Great Worker-That's Butler'

LD Bill Button, at 68 as,

Ogolf-wise a professional as you will find anywhere, smiled happily as he holated Recreio "A" were given his club's flag for the ump quite a scare by IRC "E" be-teenth time in his 25 years |fore emerging winners by

at Harborne recently. 4-1 margin and by only seven

For the tag was flying for shots on the aggregate. The his partner, Peles Butler, and

had the Indians. however,

his £1,000 Swallow and Penfold chilsfacon of seuring a seven | triumph.

their reputed against

op-

the former to wrest the read in division lengue table the first from Kowloon Dork Club. The Cricket Club nearly suc-

The Indians were full value ceeded in even taking full points

ponents. wins on two rinks, from this game, Piited against for their

but were a shade lucky to col- the Palict team's strongest four

lect their third rak point as of R. Yu, C. Willeux, R. L. Rus- the

IRC well. sell and F. W. Hollands,

extremely green, rendered of D. W. HKCC combination Leach, R. Bone, N. Craig and A. tricky by a morning rain, the Grahn fought back from a 7-14 | KBGC twelve were deficit at the end of the ith throughout the whole game, and head to score a total of 12 ahotsnt the end of the match were still on the next live heads and lead Buring why some woods went .by 20-14.

The Pellee, however, relali- sted by roring 1 shots on the next five subversive

win by 25-20.

heads to

Grand Victory

was

Another grand vielory that of Police Recreation Club "B" over the reputed Hongkong Police Sports Association twelve. S. 1. Morvin, J. O'Connor, A. McArthur and J. Bennett set the pace by taking a 7-0 lead over 3.

J. J. Dempsey,

Stevens, Duffy und J. 11. Goodman and could not be stopped after that, leading all the way to a Anal 21-12 scorc.

H. MacLennan, T. H. Sobey, G. R. Dunning and E. Lonsdale also played no tle part in their side's triumph. They kept up sli the way up to the 15th head against H. Finney, W. Gilles, R. McKenzie and . B. Dewar to lead by only one shot at 13-12. Some spectacular bowling by them on the next three heads gave them a one, a two and a tive and a lead al 21-12 which they eventually took to 22-17.

to

and

The KPSA four of G. Wall, J. Boxall, T. Payton and Ken Bodic made a brave effort carry-their- alde-through were only thwarted in the hist Ave heads of their game. Lead- Ing by 20-4 at the end of the 30thead; they were forced to i concede six shota on three of the remaining five heads to win by only 22-11, which wat in- sufficient to cover the 23-shot defcit on their other two rinks.

Third Upset

The third upset of the week- end sow the third division Hongkong Electric Recreation go down to Stanley Club al. Stanley by à 4-1 margin in their fer defeat. By falling to take more than one point from this game, HERC missed the opportunity of overtaking the Ide Kowloon Dock Club twelve, who have so far won all their three matches, at the head of the league table.

Key men of Stonley Club's success

were J. Burns, A Balman, B. Singh and F. Ains worth. After being held to 5-7 on the first 10 heads by J. F. Barron, R. Deftime,. W. Mc- Farlane and W. Stoker, they made spectacular, comeback in the second half. Two fives, two threes and five singles on nine, or the remalalag five heads by them not only gavo them a 20-11 riak victory, but also put the Stanley sidy well on the way to their win

HERCI McKelvie, E. Poul- son, J. K. Mundy and A. G. Gardner put up some creditably efforts in the last eight heads of the game to pull their legni through, but despite scoring 11: ahots on seven, of the beads, they ended up with a 25-14- margin which was good enough for only one point,

Featured in the fourth and

· Inst upest of the week were the

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FOUR D. JONES

AHOY THERE! WE'RE COMING ALONGSIDE...

DON'T GO AWAY

BOSH CAPTAIN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

PASAR

FERDINAND

NANCY

ONE -- TWO--

THREE---

GO

BRICK BRADFORD

WERE SKIMMING ABOVE, THEY CLOUD BANKO,DR RASTLAND!

CUT BACK ON YOUR SPEED, BRICK) LET THE GRAVITY OF THE PLANET PULL US:

DOWN SENTLY?

"This was in the 20th head of the match between S. M. Rum- john's and J. E. Noronha's fours, The IRC No. 3 Bunny Abbas took the jack into the dilch for a count of tour and skip S. M. Rumjahn added three more shots, one being a pro- moted wood.

DO? IM GONNA SET; ME SOME PAS VENEERS. LEMON, JONES

WE'RE ENTERING

THE CLOUD }}ASS! WHAT ARE THOSE CLOUDS PR.BASTLANDY

playing.

'Nonsense'

The old Mr B. does the shop work. Young Mr B. does the local Snid Button, full of

that are mying pride: "They young Peter is new to winning "That's nonsense. He won tournaments. the Midland Open title twice in

BUDDENLY-ONG OF THE NOTEL FOLK FLING OPEN A WINDOWY (WHATE ALL THE SHOUTING ABOUT? WANT SOME ....... BUL-P/WERE ALL AT SEA.

FORMATIONS OF PUST PARTICLES I THINK THEY CERTAINLY AREN'T" LIKE CUR

ROBIN, YOU DIDN'T TELL ME WE WERE GOING ON

A SEA CRUISE FOR OUR,

HONEYMOON.....

by MADDOCKS

OH NE HOT ROBIN HOOD AN MARRIONI THOUGHT I'D GOT RID OF THEM

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

OH, BOY---I'LL BE ABLE TO SLEEP 3 MINUTES LONGER WHEN THIS

IS BUILT

KEEP YOUR BYD ON THE RADAR SCREEN,

FUTURE SITE OF NEW GRADE WI

SCHOOL

By Paul Norris

·SENT

IN THE

WANT

By JOHN ROSS

the past three years. been Warwickshire

"Young Peter will take four or five dozen balls out on the couree and, work and work at his game. At Umes I have to tell him to stop lest he overḍa it."

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He Can Go Higher Still, If..

By FRANK PENNINK

rare and refreshing

thing it is, to ind a young British face at the top of the Swallow and Penfold scorca Hai. 'In recent years. this feat has only been- achieved by Peter Allies, Bernard Hunt and the late John Pritchett,

Peter Butler, aged' 20,' dark and tall, with a fir method- he is a little fast and fast with a good deal of sway-kept cool control of his nerves and his faculties once his putter and accurate pitching had put him into a winning position.

Butter, professional at Hor- borne, Birmingham, won the £1,000 prizo at Barnion, Edin- burgh, in yol another tenso Gnish.

A brilliant final round of 00, the lowest of the event, gave him 72-holo dggregaty of 280 and a lead of anc stroke over Harry Weetman

and two oper Dol Rees.

Formidable

Not until the 18th leo did Weetman and Rees realise how Even now young Peler, asks formidable was Butler's chal- he had lahed He has his old master to check him lengo, though Assistant faulla,

20 minutes earlier.

champion five times, Midlands Assistant champion and War- wickshire Open champion.""

After getting that off his proud chest, professional Button, who can kill shrink Harborne to 72 strokes, told me of the day that golf's latest mun-of-gold came into the business,

"He joined me straight from school," sald Mr Button. "Didn't hardly know one end of the club from the other, but how he worked.

SHEAFFER'S

SNORKEL

Skrio

PENS

Skrip

WRITING FIBO

His Strength

His streng "Long play,"

said Mr Button,

His temperament?. "He is one of the most unassuming lads

who has ever worked for, mo and I've had a few,"

There was nothing but a flay blackboard to give the scurus so no more than ano per cent of the crowd knew the position either,

Some 6,000 spectators watch- ed Weetman and Rees fall at

Weet- His future? "We at Harborne this last,' 252-yard hole.

to tlo and this man needed a three have been waiting for break-through for three or four Rees a two. Both missed the years. Now that it has come, green and their putis -- for

fours. anything can happen,"

Sports Diary

TODAY

Bowls Cakey Open Singles: Preliminary Frund matches at KDC, KFC, KBCC, PRC.

บ

Tents

Mott's PA Divator: SCAA

CCRC (2) CC (1), Brban (1) Ladies' "A" Division LRC CRC, Recreto v KCC.

Galf

Final Round of Barry Shek-Q

A score of seven under fours with five to play would have frightened most young men, but Butler reeled off the figures, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, and dropped only one shot to par. Not good en- ough, perhaps, to win outright, but Rees and Westman and to a lesser extent Norman Brow, who played with Butler, all Anal made slips over stretch.

He must be infinitely encour- vaged by this win over the mariers of the game, and I Cup, would like to see what he can

do with the help of some greit. teacher to chip the rough edges loft his technique,"

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