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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 30, 1933,
Local Sports Reviewed
LAWN. BOWLS
BY NOMAD
The results of the week-end lawn bowls matches have definite ly put Craigengower, Cricket Club out of running for honours in the Arst division. According to one player in that Club, no one is dis- satisfied with the defeat this sen- son, as they have not been play ing like a Champion Club. The Civil Service will meet the, Bowl-
aquatics. Offcially, it will be a contest between the V.R.C. and the Foreign Y.M.C.A. in Shang- hai, but I am given to under- stand that the visitors will include the best swimming talent of the Northern, port. In entertaining them and in matching them against the best swimmers in the Colony, the V.R.C. deserves the congratulations of the communi-
HOME FOOTBALL HYDE LAY BEATS
Leicester Still Winning
COATES
Bowls Semi-Final At Happy Valley
BRILLIANT EXHIBITION,
U.S. WOMEN'S GOLF TITLE
Miss Wilson Leads American Players
New York. Aug. 28. MISS Enid Wilson, Britain's fore- most lady golfer, who is mak- ing a further bid. to capture the American title. revealed splendid form in the qualifying round to day.
LEAGUE TENNIS
C.R.C. Win In “A” & "C" Divisions
The
Chinese Recreation Club advanced further in the "A" and "C"
Divisions yesterday when they easily beat Craigengower and the Police, respectively, at Cause- way Bay.
London, August 28. Quite a full programme of league matches in all three divisions were played off to-day, including four in the first division. After the defeat
The Valley team were no match they had from Leicester, Aston Villa found their stride and took. "A. Hyde Lay, playing in the
for them and could not take ä set, full points from Wednesday by the Open Singles Lawn Bowls cham
but J. W. Leonard and G. Lai gave odd goal in three. Leicester con-pionship yesterday entered the
a lot of trouble to M. W. Lo and Tsui Wai Pui and K. C. Ng and tinue in winning vien and scored final by defeating A. E. Coates in four times against Sheffield United the semi-final by 21 shots to 17. The championship is this year T. C. Chiu before they went under. without reply."
An unusual incident occurred in Hyde Lay played consistently being played over the Exmoor
for here is the prospect of a
Results of the other matches, as well throughout and had Coates in Country Club's course near High-the "C" Division match K. M. Freland Park. Dlinois, and a madal Wong and H. O. Tso were playing dunculty more than once.
Pile and Carruthers when Tso was ing Green this week-end and in swimming meeting that will be cabled through by Reuter's, arequently when he was lying the round of eighteen holes was played attacked by a fit of vomitting and view of the practice which the "worth going a "long way to see. given below:-
had to retire with the score 2-0 former have put in lately, there Frankly, I am glad the V.R.C. has
against his pair. is no telling which way the game succeeded in staging an inter- will end. If the Civil Service can port, as they have the best swim- win the league this year, they
mers in their club and are fully will be lucky, as they were almost able to give the visitors a run for out of running early on, and only repeated defeats of Craigengower and the Bowling Green gave them A look in towards the end of the
season.
INTERNATIONAL FINAL
uncanny accu-
their money.
THOSE CHAMPIONSHIPS
W
The local swimming champion- ships will be staged between Sep- tember 25 and 28 and there is sure to be some good racing. These
events
well championship calculated to bring Hong Kong's representative into their best form just about the time the interport
are
Leeds Leicester Wednesday
First Division,
shot, with the last wood to go, Hyde Lay took no chances and rather than risk promoting Coates he often Taikoo'd the last wood. There was a large gathering of Bowls enthusiasts to follow the match and there were many ex- octing moments in the game. Hyde Lay was a deserved winner on the day's play.
5
Middlesbro'
t
Shefeld U.
0
Tottenham 4
1 Aston Villa
Wolver-
hampton
Fulham Millwall Oldham
Second Division.
2
The score was as follows. Head Hyde Lay
1.Blackpool
0
Coates
2
Swansea
1
1
<0
0
2
2
1
Southampton 1
2
3
3
Port Vale Preston
4
Bury
1
3
1
4
3
Burnley
3
2
#
2
8
A
4
8
Third Division (Southern).
Cardiff Orient
2
Reading
0
8
3
Newport
อ
Chariton
1
10
7 Bristol City
2 11
Luton
Third Division (Northern),'
Mansfield Rotherham Stockport
0
Tranmere
G Barnsley 4 Doncaster
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10
11
6
12
6
12
12
9
9
14
10
15
10
15.
12
18
12
· 16°
2
114
19
'14'
19
2
16
· 19
1
17
And Yankees
Lose
1
20
25
2"
22
17
U.S. BASEBALL
What a dazzling display of bowl- ing was seen at the final of the International Lawn Bowls, match on Sunday. The two rinks show ed a high standard throughout and but for the five and six scor- due. There is sure to be keen ed in successive heads by Scof- rivalry between the competitors as land, a close game would have the championships will be more or been seen. Mair, the Police star less interport trials. The Hong Norwich player was in "remarkable form
Kong Amateur Swimming Associa- and it was thanks to him mainly
tion held their heats during the that Scotland won as handsomely
past week and although there was as they did. for Mair seemed to
plenty of keen competition," the be inspired "with racy all through Bradbury play-standard, was not very high. How
ever, the finals this week might ted a good game for the losers and
Chalmers, who was No. 2 for Scot-reveal something quite different. land at times sent along some of The ladles events suffered the 'most as the suspension of two Eu- the best woods seen in the match. The two skips were not as brilliantropean ladies coupled with the in- ag might have been expected, but disposition of the leading Chinese both Brown and Crimmittat tady swimmer has rendered the times brought off spectacular and
clever shots. The standard throughout was high and the in terport selectors should have learned a good many things by watching Sunday's game...
SINGLE AND SPEY ROYAL
The singles championship win et a stage nearer the end during this week, and, before long the Analists will be selected. With re- gard to the Spey Royal, Craigen- gower "may and some consolation this year by winning that instead of the first division shield. Both are coveted trophies, and by get
In the Division the Chinese ting one of them Craigengower R.C. B lost another game when would still find themselves among they went down to HKC.C. on
rather entries
limited. Kwok Chun Hung's exhibition in the 200 yards breast strokes was, the only event in which the time returned was encouraging.
TENNIS
With the completion of most of the fixtures in the "A" and "B" Divisions of the Tennis League the season is fast drawing to a close. Most of the unfinished matches are in "C" Division and these should be finished by the middle of September.
Thursday... They were easily the best bowling talent in the Co-beaten but this was chiefly due to lony. Incidentally Craigengower's
the Lo Brothers (Horace and representative might win the Sin- *gles champions and if the Civil M.H.) being badly off form. They Service can win the first division, could do nothing right and lost the Happy Valley Clubs will be doing well indeed. The Police anish fourth in the league altogether the Happy Valley Clubs are, for the moment, much better
off than the Kowloon Clubs.
JUNIOR GAMES
all their three sets. On Tuesday the losers met Craigengower (away 30 id they were lucky to draw. In the last set Leonard and Lai Craigengower) had the match well in hand and were at match point once but they let the game slip and could do no better than draw the set, making the whicle match a draw.
The Junior league leaders both sadered defeat during the week-
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end, but there is no change in the CIVIL SERVANTS BEATEN league" position and it still looks as 1 Craigengower will have plen
On Tuesday the Indian R.C. ty to say with regard to the final "g" ended their season with a win" standings of the junior teams at
over Civil Service by the odd set. the end of the season. The In-
The losers were a pair short and dians, it will be recalled, only won
had to concede three sets" but one match this year, and that against the Club de Recrelo, but the Indians only just-forced a win, their four men fought, hard and the Portuguese had their own back on Saturday when they trounced As the score indicates there is lit- tle doubt that if the "Servants"
Giants
The Play
Contes began promisingly by scoring a two but was erratic in the next head when Hyde Lay, New York, Aug. 28.
drawing his woods beautifully was BOTH the New York Giants and able to score 3. The first two Yankees were beaten in Major heads were full head, and in the League baseball matches to-day. third and fourth,, both players St. Louis totted up a dozen runs chose to play medium: heads, against the Giants and Detroit Coates-was lying two in the third helped themselves to six against head when Hyde Lay drew with the Yankees.
his last bowl beautifully to rob the head by a single. In the fourth Hyde Lay "was playing superbly and lying the shot when with his last wood he added one more. Coates was not up with his last wood. It became Coates turn to score in the fifth and sixth heads, Scores as supplied by Reuter when he added two singles. The fifth head was productive of some ry good-play, Arst one player, then the other lying the shot, and Coates, having the last wood, scor- ed. In the sixth Coates in thrów- ing up the jack did not pass the flag, but Hyde Lay in his turn also
Several matches were postponed owing to rain, these including Brooklyn v. Chicago in the Nation at League and St. Louis v. Boston and Cleveland v. Washington in the American League.
were:-
National League
Boston Cincinnati
R. H., E. D 2 Q 2.8 1
(Lucas pitched and blanked out wanted a short head. Coates very Boston).
Philadelphia Pittsburg
5 '13 3 9 16
2
(Davis homered for Philadelphia)
first shot was a toucher,, which ultimately proved to be "the scor- ing shat..
In the seventh head, a very short one, Hyde Lay scored a tou cher with his first" shot and then -drew up one more wood with a couple of inches to the jack. Coates was well up also here and Hyde Lay threw away his last shot (Lindstrom and Vaughan homer instead of trying to draw a third ed for Pittsburg)
Philadelphia Pittsburg
New York
St. Louis
ᅦ
I 8 0 9 14 0
0
1
(Odoul homered for New York
Collins
the Indians at King's Park to the had been at full strength the re-
and O'Farrell twice and extent of 48 shots, the biggest de- ficht being shown by Hyder's rink, The Universial "B" have been un-
ault would have been reversed. St. Louis). which went under to Rozario's rink by 26 shots. The Indian's successful this year and last week first year in local lawn bowls as they kept up their record of no matches won by losing to K.C.C.
proved disastrous, but if they per- on the latter's courts. They are. sist, they should make a name for themselves in the course of a few of course, at the bottom of the years when they get to under League table, with six games lost. stand the game better.
THE GYMKHANA
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The Peninsula Team stand about middle in the "B". table and this
is a fair Indication of their strength. They have good play-
American League 2.
Detroit New York
for
and risking the promotion of one
of Coates wood. In the eighth 12 head which was medium. Hyde 12 13
Lay was lying the shot, when Coa- tes carried the Jack with his last effort, to score a single. In the ninth head, Hyde Lay lay a shot. nd with his last wood added one more. drawing in beautifully be- tween two of Coates wood. Coates had luck all on his side when he scored a single with his last wood in the tenth head, Hyde Lay lying two shots at the time. The ele venth and twelfth heads were close contests, both players 'show- ing good judgment. Hyde Lay ob tained singles in both heads to
6 10 Q 5 10 2
5 10 2
Chicago Philadelphia
9 14
4
ers but they do not seem to be AMERICAN MEN'S lead by 12-6.
able to field a regular team and this makes a lot of difference. HK.CC. and the Civil Servants have only had rather lean seasons and they will probably tie for the runner-up position at the wrong end of the table.
TENNIS TITLE
Shields And Parker two points in the arteenth head
In Final
The thirteenth and fourteenth heads went to Coates, who scored a two and a single, the single de- ing snatched at the last moment from Hyde Lay who was lying two at the time. Hyde Lay jumped
when drawing beautifully with his second and third shots he scored two touchers in succession. Noth- ing daunted, Coafes gave a bril- Brookline. Aug. 29. ant exhibition in the next head with his last wood in spite of the FRANK X. SHIELDS and Frank when he drew up to lie the shot Parker, the youthial AmericKowloon player lying two shots a players, will meet Adrian, Quist and Don Turnbull, the Australian matter of inches away from the combination, in the Final Round Jack Hyde Lay took a single in of the American National Men's the seventeenth head by "s lucky Lawn Tennis Doubles Champion shot that bumped its way through to rob Coates of two shots. In the ship to-day.
eighteenth Contes scored two as a Yesterday Shields and Parker
The Gymkhana on Saturday was a thoroughly enjoyable affair. and although the programme was a very ambitious one for a first el fort, yet, as it happened, all who attended saw an excellent after noon's sport. Perhaps, le future heats might be held so that the number of starters in each event might not be quite so heavy. As RECREIO TROUNCED things were, it was sometimes dif- "ficult to follow the progress of the In the "C" division the C.R.C. competition because of the num "D"surmounted one of their great ber of participants. The tent peg obstacles in the fight for Cham when they ging was an interesting item, but pionship honoura competitors showed that they trounced Recrelo, their most ser- Jacked practice and in the entries lous rivals, by seven sets to two for the open event only one per on Saturday, The Portuguese team son managed to lift the peg all had been close upon the Chinese three times. The M.G.T. tent peg-for some time and the latter are ging was also interesting, but not to be congratulated on tackling a a single competitor managed to dangerous foe with such ease: The beat Ellsworth Vines and Keith result of judging the green beauti- get the peg more than twice? Recreto players seemed unduly Gledhill, National: champions, by fully with his third and fourth
conscious of the importance of the 1-6: 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2-Reuter, shota, match, and, with the exception 'or L, Xavier and L. F. Ribeiro, they The announcement made in yes- played below form. Xavier and terday's paper that Hong Kong is Ribeiro rose to the ocasion and to have an interport swimming got two sets, but, found w, C. Lau match with Shanghai After all and B. C. Liang too good for them. must, come as a very welcome sur By this victory the CRC. have prise to those who follow local (Continued, at foot of next columir,
AQUATICS
Hyde Lay scored a single in the nineteenth head to lead by 18-12,||||| The head was not well contested made themselves practically safe and the woods were badly placed for the "C" title, Kowloon are by both players but when he was the nearest to them now and it lying a single Hyde Lay was again is very doubtful if the Peninsula guilty of sacrificing his last shot team can beat them where Recreto rather than take a chance. ~ In have failed.
the twentieth head, Coates obtain-
to-day, the best sixty-four scores qualifying.
Miss Enid Wilson returned a card
of 75, two better than her nearest American rivals.
The leading American players were bunched in second place, Miss Orcutt, Miss van Wie and Miss Helen Hicks all returning cards of
78..
It will be recalled that after win- ning the British ladies' open cham- plonship once again, Miss Enid Wilson declared her intention of giving up competitive golf. She was, however, unable to resist the temptation of making one more at- tempt to win the American title.- Reuter
ad 2 Hyde Lay settled the issue almost when he took three ahots in the 21st head lead by 19-14. This head was short to medium and Coates was lying three with Tyde Lay having two"back' woods. The Kowloon player managed to carry the Jack to He two and with his fast shot drew a third.
Once again Coates came up to
W. K. Cheung and T. W. Lan dropped the Chinese other set, to Pile and Carruthers, who were in good form.
+
**A" DIVISION.
C.E.C. v. C.C.C.
At Causeway Bay the Chinese
sets to mil.
H-B
BEER
ON SALE
TODAY
At all leading
Stores & Compradores
R.C. beat Craigengower C.C. by COMING to the CENTRAL
"Scores:-
M. W. Lo and W. P, Tsul
*(C.R.C));/
beat J. W. Leonard and G.
7-5
· Kai ... beat R. Choa and A. V.
Gosano
... 8-2 beat W. Reed and Y. P. Tsul 6-4 M. C. Hung and T. C. Iu (C.R.0.):—
beat Leonard and Lal al. beat Choa and Gosano beat Reed and Tsui
6-2
6-2
8-4
8-4
8-1
8-3
with a Brillant cast including
K. C. Ng and T. C. Chiu (C.R.C.):
beat Leonard and Lai,... beat Choa and Gosano..... beat Reed and Taut
"C" DIVISION. C.R.CY. PR.C.
At Causeway Bay the Chinese R.C. beat the Folice by seven sets
Scores:
to two.
K. M. Wong and H. O. Tsp
(C.R.C):
lost to Pile and Carruthers
(by default)
0-2 beat Smith and Thompson..... 6-1 beat Thorpe and Loughlin... 6-2 W. K. Cheung and T. W. Lau
the scratch and in the very next head, he was lying three with Hyde Lay lying the fourth shot. In his attempt to score a four, Coates promoted Hyde Lay's shot slightly so that it was third shot. and. Instead of getting three (or possibly, four). Coates last wood enabled him to score only 2. He added one more in the 23rd head to make the score 19-17, but in the i twenty-fourth head, Hyde Lay, playing to a short head, was again. brilliant and Coates was lucky th one of his woods to secure second shot. In the last head, Costes was again lying two, when with his very last wood Hyde Lay carried the lack to lie two and Coates could not alter the adtaa-5 tion with his last bowl;
(C.R.C.)-
lost to Pile and Carruthers... 3-6 beat Smith and Thompson... 6-1 beat Thorpe and 'Loughlin... 8-0. M. C. Lau and T. Y. Llang (C.R.C.): beat File and Carruthers...... 6-4 beat Smith and Thompson... 6-1 beat Thorpe and Loughlin... 6-2
C. de, R. v. U.S.R.C. On their own courts the Club de Recreio lost to United Services by sets to 4 in a hard-fought game.
Hyde Lay thus enters the ad- les final for the first time. He Bradbury match to be played at will meet the winner of the Lus- the Bowling Green rinks this
afternoon.
(Continued on next enlumE). «.
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BIG FIRE IN KOBE
MESSRS. WINCKLER'S. GODOWN BURNT.
On the afternoon of August 19. there was a great hooting of fire. engines as they hurried to Hachi- man-deri, where Messrs. Winckler and Co.'s three-story red-brick godown was on fire, and blazing" fiercely,
By their prompt attendance the fre fire brigade prevented the from spreading to the adjacent buildings, and both the office and the cotton godown were saved,
Particulars are not available at the time of writing, but so far as could be seen on the spot, the fre began and remained in the top floor. That, however, was burnt out, the roof being destroyed very. rapidly. Whether the middle floor suffered anything but water dam- age could not be seen.
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