1929-08-05 — Page 8

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1929.

Local Sport

LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE.

CLOSE RACE IN THE SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP,

CRAIGENGOWER AND CIVIL SERVICE IN DEAD HEAT,

KOWLOON DOCK BEATEN.

Civil Service and Craigengewer won their lawn bowls matches on Saturday and stand together in the race for the senior cham- pionship. Kowloon Dock were beaten by the latter and dropped to fifth place, but they must still be reckoned with, as there are five aatches left. Kowloon Bowling Green and Recreio are two points behind the twa leaders with a match in hand.

Further progress was raade by Civil Service juniors, who are now fikely to finish on top. Their closest rivals are Craigengower, who have played a match less and are four points behind. RESULTS AT A GLANCE.

Division I.

DIVISION II.

Civil Service r. Olub de Recrsio, Playing at home, Civil Service

Craigengower theme) beat Kow-beat Club de Recreio by 17 shots,

loon Dock by 20 shots (73-11).

Civil Service (away) beat Taikod

by 10 shots (54-44). Bowling G.C. (home) beat Kow-

loon C. C. by 17 shots (60-43). Recreio (home) at Polier by IT

shots (64-49).

Division II.

80-32

Brcreio.

A. Rosario

J. Rosario

A. Barros

CS.C.C. Simmonds Holland Davies Haynes ($). 28 Ozorio (S.)

Jones, Bickford

E. Barros

P. Ribeiro Soares

HOME CRICKET.

NOTTS IN THE LEAD.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Aug. 2. Matches ending on Friday were at indecisive. Results were:-

Lancashire. Derby-no result on let innings.

Hampshire conceded 1st innings points to Kent.

result Surrey

Gloucester-ho

on let innings.

Worcester conceded 1st inaings polate to Middlesex.

Glamorgan led Essex on the 1st

indings.

Leading counties are:-

Games No. of Played. Points.

Notts

19

114

Lancashire Gloucester

1.

on

110 107

Kent

100

i

Yorkshire.

10

103

Sussex

92

Derby

40

91

Middlesex

19

Leicester

21.

BS

.... 14

Hampshire Surrey

£2

"S

Archibald (S.) 16 Basto (S.) ... 17

A. Gumes

Civil Service (home) beat Recreio Massey

by 17 ahots (69-52). Craigengower (away) beat Kow-Lockhart luon C.C. by 33 shots (8441). Luck Taikoo (away) beat Yacht Club | Whant

by 18 shots (82-44). Bowling GC. (away) bea: Blectric R.C. by six shots (38-52).

DIVISION 1. Craigengewer v. Kowloon Dock. Playing at home, Craigeagower beat Kowloon Dock by 3 shots,

70-41.

0.0.0.

Buchanan

O'Brien

Beer

Base (S.)

Tuck

Coates

Brightman

K.D.B.C.

Cooper Lindsay

McKelvia

Baptista

Rodrigues

Murphy

(S)

43

A. E Alves

(5)

Total

21

AMERICAN SCULLING..

TROPHY.

JOE WRIGHT BEATEN.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

NEW YORK. Aug. 3. Kenneth Myer, of Philadelphia, 52 today beat the Canadian, Joe Wright, in the Sculling Champion ship of the United States, at Springfield, by a length.

Total 68

Kowloon 0.0.. Cralgengower.. Playing at home, Kowloon C.C. lost to Craigengower by 33 shots," 151-84.

K.C.O.

Lasham

Lawrence Smith

Puncheon (8.) 10 Brace (S.)

..."3

Atkinson

Greig

"Hedley

4.

-Laithwaite

Orchard Blackburn

0.0.0.

Pearse Fenwick Abbas

21 Collins (S.)... 31

Kharas Langenstrass Fiegs

Omar (S.) is Brown (S.)... 14 Robinson (S.) 12 Rosselet (8.).. 28

Brown

Neves

Goodman

Webb

Razack

Ramsay

Purves

Sousa

Arculli (S.)... 93

Cullen Gray (S.)... 14

Total..... 73

Total

44

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Taikoo v. Civil Service, Playing at home. Taikoo lost to Civil Service by 10 shots, 44-54.

T.R.C.

0.5.0.0.

Booker

Field

Gill

7

Cavanagh Labram (S) 15 Wiltshire (S.) 25

Total

Total

J

51

3+

Yacht Club . Talkoo R.C. Playing at home, the Yacht Club fos: to Taikoo by 19 shots, 44-62

R.II.K.F.C. Sutton Hamilton

T. R.C.

Watson

F

Sloan Duncaa McKechnic

Chalmers.

Chapman

Alderman

Ramsay

Wotherspoon

Maughan

Morrison (5) 21

Brawn (S.) ... 14

Stalker

Randle

Warte Laing

Deakin Holidge

Shaw

(S.) Stevenson Clark Macfarlane

17 (S.)

Cameroa Stewart Keown

23

WORLD'S LIGHTWEIGHT

1

CHAMPION. MANDELL RETAINS TITLE. LexUTSK'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

CHICAGO, Aug, 2 Samay Mandell has retained the World's lightweight title by defeat. ing Tony Canzoneri in a 10-round

contest.

CITY CORPORATION INDICTED.

"SLUM PROPERTY WHICH IS "BADLY NEGLECTED."

"It is regrettable to find that property belonging to the Corpora tion of the City of London receives definite and repeated unfavourable writes Mrs. de Bunsen, comment,' chairman of the Westminster Survey Group. in a foreword to a report on housing conditions in Southwark.

The conclusion is plait that the Ministry should draw the attention of the corporation to the state of "So long its property," she adds.

Ferguson (S.) 13 Grimmitt (.) 18 Edwards (S.) 11 Munro (S.)... 20 as it is defective landlords in much

J

Hope

Polson Peoples

Reed: Laing Young

Carpenter Holdman Sloan

Fordain McLeod

Gregory. Matthews (S.) 10 Taylor (8.)... 22 Chapman (S) 16 Walinsley (S.) 15

Total

44

Total

5.4

Total

ro... 44

Total..... 62

Electric R.C. r. Bowling G.C. Playing at home, the Electric Playing at home, Kowloon Bowl-R.C. lost to Bowling Green Club

by six shots, 32-58. ing Green Club bear Kowloon C.C.

Kowloon B.G.C. v. Kowloon C.C.

by 17 shots, 00-13.

I.B.G.C.

Hall

Rose

Nish

Guy (S.)

Duncan

Hogbin

Farrell

6.0.0.

"

H.K.E.R.C.

K.B.C.C.

Paul

Hatt

Padgett

Hale

Burford

Deacon

Hyde-Lay

Rapley Davies (S.)... 21 Bell (6.)

Stoneham

Davidson

Humpton

23 Silkstone (5.) 7 Tarbuck

Gitting

Hatch

Petherick Akchurat Webster (S.)., 18 Whibley (S.)

Petheram Overy Russell (3.)....19 Gibsča (S.)... 20 Duckworth

Eccleshall

Roylance Muir

less aiment circumstances are un- likely to realise what their legal duties are.?

Infested with Mice.

The report referring to the Moss- alley and Zoar-street areas, says: The portion cwned by the City Corporation (by whom it was a quired eighteen years ago for the St. Paul's Bridge scheme) is badly costages should neglected. The have been demolished long before the war, and their condition now is not a credit to the corporation.

Typical examples of objection- able dwellings are given. In the case of one block of flats, "the

wag

TENNIS LEAGUE.

H.K.C.CS "B" RISKY PERFORMANCE.

SOUTH CHINA "C" PROGRESSING,

FINANCIER AS A POET.

GERARD LEE BEVAN'S SONG

OF EXILE.

There rarely appears to-day, such a collection of new and striking poems, many of them of narrative length and form, as will be publish ed next month under the title of "Russet and Asp. (Duckworth, 'Sa. matches). They are the work of a new port, who signs himself "G. L.

"After a pretty long break the Usual week-end tcunia were resumed en Saturday. There Bevan"

He is better known to the world an interesting programme af three matches. Two were in the as Gerard Lee Beran, the famous Division and in one the Hong financier and former head of one of the oldest established firms of Lon- Kong Cricket Club played the Kowdon stockbrokers, who was sentenci loon Cricket Club under very uned to seven years' penal servitude after the crash of the City ukual circumstances on their op-

Equitable. ponents courts. Only two of their three pairs turned up, and as they were in the running for the Shield, they took the risk of jeopardising their prospects by deciding to carry on. It was a most sporting deci

sion, for which they deserve con- gratulations, and net be the first occurrence of its kind in the his tory of the League. They swept all before them, their two pairs securing every ot, thus winning to 'three. the match by six sets They have, therefore, maintained thair unbeaten record this season and their position at the top of the Table.

In the other match M.B.K. and Royal Engineers and Signals met to decide who should occupy the third position in the Table. After an even struggle the Japanese gair ed the issue by six sets to three.

Mr. Bevan stands revealed as a

poet of vivid imagination and genuine feeling.

One of the most moving.. poems of all the eighty-three poems that appear in the book in

called

Exile," and brings back vividly to the mind the days through. which Mr. Bevan passed when the blow fell, and he fed abroad, to be pursued relentlessly by the law 1- from refuge to refuge. The two laat verses of this saga of a hunted | soul are as follow:

I'll never laugh with the green

fields again.

Walls are between us of appease-

less pain.

Misunderstandings madder than

typhoons.

Resentments rolling on like tired

simoons.

I go down to the beaches, watch

the sea;

A thousand leagues flow 'twixt

my fields and me.

Last night I heard spring call-

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Beyond the meadows to the alder

tree:

The daffodils are dead, but there's

a spot.

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LEAGUE TABLES,

"A" Division.

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The positions in the League, to min, and the chimneys are, so badly date, are:- constructed that there is great nuisance from smoke... The base- ment flats are unfit for habitation. 18 They are dark, damp, and dilapi- dated, and infested with mice and

Thompson Chittenden Normington Li de Rome.

Drake Muskett (8.).. 13. Warren (S.)... 45

Total

32

Total

Total...... 43

Fincher: Howe Lezindert Gow (S.)...... 18. Fraser (S.)... 16

Total

...... 60

Club de Recreio v. Police. Playing at home, Club de Recreio beat the Police by 17 shots, 66-49.

Recreio.

C. Vas

C. Marques

C. A. Lopes

A. Ribeiro

(8.)

F. X. Silva Gutierrez

Alves

Yvanovich

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L. Bouza

H. Alves

C. Bilva

P.R.C.

McSmith

Marks McLeod Mair

29~ (9.)

Henderson Nolan Field

West

21 (8.)

Fender Glendinning Hollands

Luz (8.)... 18 Moss (9)

Tots!

63

Total

LEAGUE TABLES...

Division 1.

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P. W. D. L Pts.

Kowloos B.G.C. a.

Club de Recreio B Kowloon D.R.C.

Taikoo B.C.♬

10 Kowloon C.C. ... 9.

Police R.C......✪

"Division II.

P. W. L Pts.

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7 4 3 4

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