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CRICKET. NOTES:

on

LAWN BOWLS.

EVENING.

BASEBALL

RECREIO ». JAPANESE ÑÜATOH.

GOLF INTERPORT:

THE HONGKÔNG TEAM FOR SHANGHAI SELECTED.

In connection with the Club do

The team to represent the Hongkong Recreio . Japanese Baseball Club' match on Sunday afternoon, which resulted in Golf Club in the golf interport at Shang- draw, after the seventh inning had hai early next month at Shanghai, and who will also participate in the amateur been played, we have foceived munication from the Chairman of the championship of China which follows, has Baseball League It is

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Schedules Committee of the Hongkong been selected,

The team is as follows:-Mr. N. L

copy of letter

forwarded to Mr. E. Alves, Captain of Smith (captain), Mr. A. F. Ferguson, Mr. the Chili da Recreio Baseball team, and W. Shewan, Mr. T. D. E. Pendered, to Mr. S. Hachiuma, Secretary of the Mr. L. R. Andrewes and Capt. E. W Japanese Baseball Club, and reads as Morris. Ta addition, it is understood that Mr. D. G. Bruce is also visiting follows:-

As the majority of the Committee Shanghai at the time of the interport and embere of the Association meet will be available as a substitute should

ha be required. agreeable to the mutual arrangement; The team is likely to sail from Hong- arrived by you whereby the winning team, kong on September 28th, and the dates on your regular Sunday league game

On the 15th of September, that is, MEETING OF ASSOCIATION THIS to-morrow, net practice is ta, start the Hongkong Cricket Chib ground, and

It has been previously mentioned that there will be a good deal of excitement" among cricket enthusiasts as to those play-off has become necessary between who will be asked to practice at the the East Point Recreation Club and the Interport Neta. The list is usually long Kowloon Cricket Club in order that the and wisely so for no stone should be left championship of the Second Division of unturned in the endeavour to discover the local Lawn Bowls League may be promising talent. The numbers, how decided. Beth the clubs referred to, are ever, should be cut down armly by the level on points, and neither have any middle of October to prevent overcrowd. more fixtures to play off, the Second ing. For one thing, owing to the early- Division programme having been already Each Club has 99 points, failing light, it is difficult for all the completed.

have played 14 games each and have each batsmen to get a proper knock. There is also the difficulty as regards wickets. It on eleven and lost three.

will take two points, please note that of axtures in Shanghai are Wednesday, The choice of ground for the play-off your drawn game of yesterday must be October 8th. singles against Shanghai: Thursday, October 7th, foursomes against daily for a couple of months on end with. I was left ter the two clubs concerned to played on Friday, September 17th, 1950, Shanghai; Saturday and Sunday, Octo out doing a good deal of harm to the out-arrange between themselves, but as each field. Nor can really decent pitches bo failed to, come to an agreement as to

the renue of the game, each club nominat ing a ground not agreeable to the other, the question has now been referred to the Association.

is uncommonly hard to pitch fire nats!

secured.

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This question of practice wickets" has been troublesome for years, and while the ground, with the exception of the In view of this a meeting of the Hong- match wicket square in the centre, never kong Lawn Bowls Association is being gets a rest at all, it is not surprising. held this evening at 3.30 in the Hong- At the same, bad wickets do not make wong General Chamber of Commerce for good practies as the knowledge that Room for the purpose of deciding on at any time a ball may kick up and hit which ground this important match shall one on the head is rather apt to lead to be played off on. that cardinal fault of pulling away from them. Of course, hard knocks are all in ļ the game and if a match one is prepared to take all risks. It is not, however, so easy to stick it out at practice, and there

! one forms habits which cannot be shaken of four pairs from the Hongkong and Shanghai "Bank in a lawn tennis match, and won comfortably by as games to 33.

4:

TENNIS.

On the Kowloon Cricket Club gräund. on Sunday, the K.C.C. defeated a team

off in matches. I remember one very useful young cricketer some years ago who should easily have got into the side. He developed a marked objection to bat have to think pretty hard. Holdman, 1 ting at the nets, and consequently never suppose, will get a trial behind the sticks came off in the practice matches and but I still think S. A. Ismail, will be pur failed to get his place.

probable candidate, barring the arrival There is another, matter in connection of any new hand. It is a thousand pities with nets which seems to me to be à'L. J. Davies is not fit enough to turn serious need. That is the question of out again. I hear the usual tales of the control. At all schools, I suppose, the wonderful new cricketers who have come matter is arranged by having tabulated to the Colony, and I shall believe exactly lists of pets and appointing for each a as much as I usually do:-What I see. captain who arranges the length of the These swans seem always to be hatched batsmen's knocks, and so forth. Such an out of ducks' eggs. I make these few arrangement is obviously impossible here, remarks for the benefit of those expert but I should have thought that it would and enthusiatic people who have entered have been easy enough for the four or for a competition which is being pro five players .constituting a not to arrange moted by this paper. that one of their number should regulate

Turning to League cricket. I see that it and see that everyone got his share.

twenty-one teams have entered, and so This reminds me of a habit, which is the two Divisions seem pretty healthy, rather too general here. It is usually though, of course, for the next two understood that if you bat at a net, Fon months League will be overshadowed by should bowl at it until all those who have; Interport games. The novel feature this bowled to you have had their knock. year is that the system of promotion and But here, only too frequently you see relegation has been adopted. My own the unselfish man who has gone in last view is that, while there are several teams left with one bowler and one coolie. Itin need of relegation, it is doubtful f should not be done. There are very few many Second League teams are up to men who cannot chuck down some sort promotion standard However it is of a ball, and if a player is so fragile step in the right direction. that his stamina will not allow him to!

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bat for ten or fifteen minutes and bowl. There is one question which with three or four others to help him out for less than an hour, then all I can say is that he is not robust enough for two day cricket.. Of course, towards the end of the practicing period the regular bowl- ers for the side should ease up.

Nor do iny remarks apply to those who ean. coach or to the Selection Committee who must watch everyone. But I may say at once that it is not always the people

who need the most exercise who take it.

wants

ventilating a little, and that is the Now, as I know to my cost, a whole lot migration of players from Club to Club.

of incorrect balderdash is talked about devoying" players from one club to' another. Of

it would be a most COU750, ünsporting and unpardonable thing to try and persuade á man to leave a Club where he is quite contented. But on the other hand, it is up, to's player to select which Club he wishes to represent. For instance I understand that E. C. Fincher The question of coaching hardly re-intends to play for Kowloon this year. ceives as much attention as it might do I believe he lives in Kowloon and I can Though there are few who are qualified, see no earthly reason why he should not, and it would throw a lot of work on although some people are said to be a R. H. B. Hancock and Col. Robertson, little disgruntled. As a matter of fact But I'am convinced that they could do the only reason he ever represented Civil a lot with the younger batzzen. I do Barvice was that his father had been for many years a member of that Club, not believe in coaching for bowlers out wherein he was the official scorer for the here. A bataman may be made but good fat Eleven, and Teddy Fincher, as the bowlers come from Heaven. I do not son of a member, was entitled to play for his father's Club. This was all very well say that you cannot do a good deal with while he was not qualified to play else. a youngster up to seventeen. But after where, but now that he is, he should be that you are as likely to spoil him as to at liberty to suit himself. help him. I am convinced that Owen I am sorry to see that, owing. I fear, Hughes is a case in point. When he came to some "end of the season" feeling, a out his bowling style was unorthodox and, ruling was not obtained, so far as I know, From the League Commitec on the ques he was given perfectly sound advice which tion of the tied game between Civil Ser- be tried to take. The result was that he vice and (I think) the Gunners. Certain practically lost his bowling. He is now, down in the League table as a draw, and compilers unofficial I think wrote it 1 believe, trying to get back to his old scored one point to each Club. This must methods, but that is just the trouble; be wrong. The match was finished, No usually between the old and the new one lost and no one won; therefore I style, nothing is left. It is better to do maintain that each side should score 11

points. It does not matter much the right thing in the wrong way than the wrong thing in the right way.

It is, of course, far too early to enter into a long discussion on personalities as regards the Interport. C.Q.M.8. Stripp is due to leave here about three weeks before the projected date of the match; while Pearce only returns on November lat. Unless the latter has been playing a lot of cricket at home and is in hard training, the Selection Committee will (Continued on next Column).

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ber 9 and 10th, the Amateur Champion" ship of China.

Note: The Japanese are scheduled in the revised fixture list to meet the Club de Recreio team for a second time next Sunday afternoon in the ordinary course of events, and it appears that the two match next Sunday should take the teams concerned had arisaged between points for the game played on this Sun- Lhemselves that the team that wins this day (September 12th) as well as for next

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