1936-09-18 — Page 11

KOWLOON CRICKET

CLUB

SUCCESSFUL CRICKET SEASON REPORTED

Prize Winners Announced

The annual report of the Kowloon Cricket Club issued yes- terday discloses an expenditure over income amounting to 5218.72. In the previous year it was over $1.300.

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The first

On the sporting side. N.A.E. Mackay is top eleven batting averages while Frank Goodwin, the Interporter, heads the bowling. In the second

both batting and bowling Fanbury go to George Lee.

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The annual general meeting of members will be held in the Club House on Friday. September 25, at 5.30 pm...

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The Committee's

report and completed but the remaining fix- statement of accounts for the year tures should not take long now. ended July 31, 1934, is as follows:

After charging the Income and Expenditure Account with Depre- ciation on the Club House Flx- tures and Fittings, Billiard Tables, and Gear, amounting to $5.622.32 the account shows an excess of Expenditure over Income amount ing to $218 72. In the previous year the excess of Expenditure over Income was $1.360.61.

The Entrance Fees, for the year ended July 31, 1935, were $330.00 as compared with: $1.150.00 for the current year.

MEMBERSHIP Since August 1, 1935, 45 new Members and 24 Lady Subscribers have joined the Club, 10 old Mem- bers have rejoined and 65 have resigned or been struck off tor other reasons. The present Mom- bership is 277.

The Committee ".record with deep regret the death, in Bombay, of Mr. F. P. ShrofT.

ENTERTAINMENT

Several Dances were held dur- ing the year. On the whole they were fairly well attended. but your Committee think that they should have received stronger support

hom the members.

The New Year Eve Fancy Dress Ball attracted a large number of members and their friends and proved, to be a great success. No doubt this annual event will be- come a standing feature of the Club's social activities,

League Tennis. Considerable enthusiasm was shown this year by the members to play in League matches for the Club and a re- cord entry was the result, Seven teams being, entered in the Lea- gue. One team in each of the "A." "B" and "D" Divisions and two teams in each of the "C" and Mixed Divis'ens.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18; 1936.

AMATEUR GOLF HOME FOOTBALL

IN U.S.

Langley And McLean In Fourth Round

Garden City, Long Is, Sept. 16. John Langley and J. McLean, two British Walker Cup players won third und fourth round matches in the United States open amateur golf champion to-day.

Leeds Defeated By

Portsmouth

The following were the results of League matches played to-day:-

The other three Britishi сот- petitors C. Ewing. Alec Hill and Notts F. A Lucas were ousted in the third round.

FIRST DIVISION

U.S. BASEBALL

Chicago Beat Boston In Double Header

New York, Sept. 16 The following were the results UT the major League Baseball matches played to-day:-

NATIONAL LEAGUE

R. H. E.

3 7 1

2 7

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THAT MADE

Chelsea

2 Liverpool Manchester C. 1 Birmingham 1, Portsmouth 3 Leeds

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SECOND DIVISION

Chicago Boston

Bristol R.

1 Southampton 1 | Chicago THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)

1 Newport 1 Exeter

Boston

1

Cincinnatti

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0

Brooklyn

2. Northampton 0

7 Herman homered for Cincinnati.

30 2

THE

5 Aldershot 1 2 Luton

DRY GEN

2 Cincinnatti

2. 8 O

Brooklyn

10

18 2

5 Tranmere

2

Pittsburgh

1

5: 1

0 Halifax

New York

2 5 1

1

1 Wrexham

0

P. Waner homered for

Pitts-

burgh.

Pittsburgh

Lucas had a grand match with Campbell. the American" Walker | Reading Cup exponent, finally losing 2 and Southend

Swindon 1: Ewing lost to Neville Heath by one hole... while Hill became 11

Torquay victim of Frank Strafact by 2 and 1.

Langley won comfortably by 3 and 1 in the third round and the fourth beat John Leman by two up after returning a round or 74

to

which is the best in the nament to date.

clean had narrow victories in both the third and fourth rounds. In the third he only beat Levi Yoder by one hole and in the fourth he was taken to the 20th by Ernest Pleper.

The standard of tennis being good. the Club is already assured of good positions Inmost of the

Langley now meets Johnny Divisions. Unfortunately, owing to Goodman in the arth round wille. the high cost of tennis balls the McLean plays Neville Heath, who Committee will have to carefully

1 the first part of the day consider the advisablilty of enter-

Ewing eliminated

the Britis.. ing so many teains in future unplayer and later overcame George less playing members are prepared to bear part of the cost of tennis balls.

LAWN BOWLS Many of our younger players have taken part in League mat- ches this season, both in the first and second Divisions: Those who have been promoted. have proved themselves worthy of their selec- tion which augur well for the future welfare of this The various competitions are well advanced and should be completed by the end of September

section.

Our thanks are due to Mr. S. J Houghton for this valuable work as green ranger. The green is in. excellent condition,

BILLIARDS

This section of the Club has en- Joyed a very successful year.

Several Whist Drives were held

Our Tables have been re-cover- but unfortunately did not attracted and are in a good condition. as many of our members as your Both Tables have been well pa- Committee had hoped.

tronized.

GROUND

Both grounds have received careful attention during the year and arc in. excellent condition. The Lawn Bowls green is men tloned In our Bowls Convener's Réport."

CLUB HOUSE:

The Sub-Committee report that the Club building has been kept

The results of our last tourna- ments are as follows.

Senior Championship Win- ner, M. N. Rakusen; runner-up. R. P. Phillips.

Junior Championship Win- ner. F. E. Lawrence; runner-up. M. Pagh.

Handicap Tournament--- WLD- ner. C. E. Watson; runner-up, Major E. J. Bonavia. Your Sub-Committee

report

Com-

a good state of repair through- out the year. The hoof of the that the practice of smoking over premises has again been examin- the tables whilst playing is still ed and notwithstanding. the re prevalent. Your General cent heavy rains, has held water-mittee take this opportunity of tight. Slight damage by ants has been discovered but i frain from this bad habit.

white requesting offending players to re- mediate remedial steps were taken. and we hope that this pest has now been eliminated from the

of reviving the Club premist The question cf game of Badminton in the Club was considered by the Committee. Various suggestions were put for- ward but owing to the present an-

colour washing and painting the whole Club premises will however have to be considered soon as the

and

BADMINTON

The question

Dunlap.

Results were as follows!

THIRD ROUND

J. McLear (Britain) beat"Levi Yoder one up.

J. Langley (Britain) beat Alex "Bonazek 3 and 1.

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)

Chester Crewe N. Brighton Reuter.

OXHEY TOURNEY

Padgham And Cotton Defeated

New York ......

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10 3

3 8 2

Terry homered for New York.

St. Louis

3 ཉ 2

Philadelphia ................. 7 12 2

St Louis Fhiladelpfa

5 13 0

2 11 2

AMERICAN LEAGUE

2 9 0

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3 2 1

13 14 0

"Oxhey, Sept. 18. Surprise piled on surprise here | Philadelphia to-day in the "News of the World" £1,250 golf competition which has attracted the cream of British pro-

fessional golf,

Firstly Afred Padgham the open champion was beaten 2 and 1 by Charles Whitcombe. and later Henry Cotton lost to the Cheshire artisan. Sutton, by two holes.

Another upset was the elimina- tion of Ezar the American trick Frank Strafac beat A. Hill golfer by Taylor of Potter's Bar. the Englishman winning hand- (Britain) 2 and 1.

Neville Heath beat C. Ewing | somely by 5 and 4. (Britain) one up.

Ernest Whitcombe met his A. Campbell beat A. Lucas brother Reginald in the third Britain) 2 and 1.

round and wor by a single hole. Laurence Lloyd beat F. Oulmet There will be two of the Whit- 4 and 3.

combe brothers In the fourth B. Levins beat Roger Kelly 3 round. and 2.

J. Goodman beit Rodney Col tatr 4 and 2,

Max Marston beat Kowal at the 20th.

Fischer beat Chick" Evans 3 .And. 2.

Volggt beat Dave Connel! and 6.

G. Dunlap beat John McGuire 7 and 5.

FOURTH ROUND

J. Langley (Britain) beat John Leman two UP.

McLean (Britain) beat Ernest Pieper at 20th.

3. Goodman beat B. Lev.ns 6 and 4.

Fischer beat William Berault .3 and 2.

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Volgt beat Wilfrid Crossley one up, "Campbell beat Joe Lynch one

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up....

Neville Heath beat G. Dunlap

3 and 2, Reuter

Keuler.

.Detroit

Boston Cleveland

Trosky homered for Cleveland. Reuter,

RUNNING RECORD

Stockholm, Sept. 16. Hoeckert of Finland to-day set a new world record mark for the 3.000 metres, covering the distance in 8 minutes 14 8/10 seconds to beat the previous recognised record of 8 minutes 18 4/10 seconds estab- lished by Nielson of Denmark in 1934.-

Reuter.

ANISTILLERY.

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1936

EDITION

NOW

TITLE FIGHT

ON SALE

walls cellings are showing ancial condition, the Committee FLYWEIGHT

signs of wear,

CRICKET

was unable to support any of the schemes as the same would invol-. ve a capital outlay which the Club The Club enjoyed a very suc is not at present in a position to cessful season.

sanction, The most practical The 1st XI won the Senlor scheme plated before the Com- League Championship and the 2nd mittee was to utilise the spare XI. although they did not head ground now used as a vegetable the Junior Division, proved to be garden for the game but unless a very keen team and one that francial support is forthcoming was hard to beat; out of 15 trom members interested, the Matches played they were only Committee is faced with the same defeated once, and of the 8 Mat- difficulty as indicated above. ches left drawn, time only several

On

occasions prevented 17

CHILDREN'S SPORTS This Event was held on 1st Jan- outright win in their favour. uary. 1936, with its usual success.

George Lee, who is now ap- proaching the veteran stage, is to be heartily congratulated on head ing both the Batting and Bowling averages in the 2nd XI,

Several familiar faces will be missing during the coming season, but both teams should be quite strong, and it is hoped that the formation of the Junior Section of the Club will induce young Cricketers who have just left school to join up and so help to build up the teams.

LAWN TENNIS

The thanks of the Committee are again tendered to the many gen- ladies and gentlemen who so kind erous subscribers, and to the

ly assisted.

PRIZES

The Committee thank the nu merous donors of Prizes for vari ous sports competitions.

LAWN BOWLS RESULTS 1935" President's Cup-Winner: 3. Overy and Runner-up: J. Fraser.

Vice-President's Cup:--Winner: R, P. Philips and Runner-up: H Gittins,

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Lynch Knocks Out His Challenger

Glasgow, Sept. 16.* Benny Lynch of Scotland, de fending the World's European and British flyweight champion- ships, knocked out Pat Palmer of Battersea in the eight round of a scheduled fifteen round fight here to-night.

before a crowd of 40,000, which was The then met in the open air

treated to a display of fast and furious exchanges.

Lynch had the heavier punch. was more accurate and more fleet of foot, and he gained command of the situation as carly as the third round, after delivering a de- vastating right to the jaw. "Palmer was most aggressive and despite the punishment he re- every opportunity.

The Tennis section of the Club Club Bingles Handicap:-Win-ceived, attacked Lynch's body at had a very active year. The keen-ner: R. P. Phillips and Runner-up: ness shown by the membera who L. Jack supported the Various

He went down in the seventh for

a count of six, and was saved by the bell

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tourna Norton Cup:-Winner: Geo, Lee ments has greatly added to the and Runner-up: R. G. Craig. popularity of this section..

Doubles Handicap: Winners: American Tournaments. A W. J. Geall and H. Gittins and The end came when Lynch land- number of American Tournaments Runners-up: F. G. Herridge and Led a smashing right to the jaw were held during the year

were well supported.

and A. E. Bilkatone,

Novices Competition: Winner: Annual Tournament The An- F. A. Broadbridge and Runner-up: nual Tournament has still to be S. J. Houghton,

and followed up with a swinging left to the solar plexus,

Palmer went down in a heap- Reiter

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