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Australians Want Larwood

Ever since the selection of the Australian test tourists. much comment has been forthcoming from England on the chosen play- ers. prospects of both sides, etc.

The following article, by a news- paper correspondent in Melbourne. presents the local view of things.

FEW FIREWORKS

that he

has

a

SPORT

SPORTING NEWS AND

FRIDAY,

NOTES

LAWN BOWLS RUMJAHN PLAYS GREAT GAME BOWLED OUT BY

SEASON

K.B.G.C. And Recreio]

Teams

The Kowloon Bowling Green Club will meet the Club de Recreio in a friendly, lawn bowls match tomorrow.cn the former's, green. The following are the teams:

ON STAND COURT

BUT WILLIE HUNG ALSO

SCORES HEAVILY

THREE SETS OF EXCELLENT

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TENNIS

By F. Mela

Kowloon Bowling Green Club:-- John Watson, S. M. White, E. W. Lies, R. Duncan (Skip); E V. Searle, G. C. Norman, K. C. Hamil- Bradman. There 15 teelington and J. McKelvie (Skip); R P. reached his "top." Phillips. A. Macfarlane, A. Hyde Fellow players..say that while no Lay and C. B. Hosking (Skip); F.

Three sets of first class tennis, each one packed with thrills. doubt he will get two thousand A. Cheesman, F. Whitehead, J. were provided the hundreds of spectators who gathered 'round the runs in England, fireworks from Pretice, and W. 9. Drake (Skip): Stand Court at the Hong Kong Cricket Club last evening to see' of the him will not be so frequent. Be A. J. "Hall, D. W. Waterton. T.-H. D. Rumjahn, holder of the singles title, pull off one has slowed down, they believe. Armstrong and L. Quy (Skip); G. greatest recoveries seen locally for many a long day.

There is a suspicion that his N. Mitchell, A. L. Woolley, J. 8. Rumjahn was playing against W. C. Hung who won the first eyes are not quite so quick as Logan and C. E. F. Thompson set. dropped the second and led 5-1 in the final set. With the they were and, that being so, his (skip)...

score at 5-3 in his favour, Hung was five times within match point sightly cross-bat batting may be

Club de Recreio:-C. C. Pereira, but Rumjahn was not to be dented and he plodced steadily along found cut.

E Sousa. Dr. A. P. Guterres and to clinch the issue at 7-5. Alves (SKID); F§ 3. Marques, A. V.

There was one incident in the Barros. L. F. Xavier and M. X. Mmatch which evoked quite a great silva skip); D. C. Alves, C. M. (deal of discussion amongst the Alves. E. M. Remedios and C. G. spectators. Leading 5-3, Hung was Silva (Skip); F. A. Machado. C. A bolding the 'vantage when a drive Lopes, J. E. Noronha and F. V. Vfrom Rumjahn was given as right Ribeiro (Skip); J C. Remedios, Jby the baseline umpire. Hung M. S. Rosario. C. H. Basto and Rave the impression that he took F. Luz (Skip): J.Luz, H. Barros it for granted it was out and Botelho.

J. F. Ribeiro and L. A. from where I was sitting it did Gutierrez (Skip).

look very much like an outside.

TURNING POINT That, to my mind, was

the turning point of the game.

Like

"Jack Hobbs lasted as long as he did because his batting wa fundamentally right-he always played in line with the ball" was how one of Australia's last team

put it.

THE KEY MAN

is

O'Reilly General opintor that he may be the key man of the team. The recently cabled re- mark by Walter Robins. "If Eng- land can master O'Reilly we will do well" meets with much agree- ment with players who should

know.

There is 1 fear that O'Reilly

Be overworked.

POLICE TEAM

The fellowing will represent the

Police R.C. inta lawn bowls match against the Hong Kong FC. morrow on the Police green:-

to-

W. Glendinning, W. S. McHardy. may and Tallon, J. H. E. Edwards (Skip): F. Nolan, F. H. J 'Kelly. S. Farlow, L Glendinning (Skip); Campbell,

may himself turned into the stock

Dowler of the team. Practising F. E: E. Booker, Brown, McKay

cricketers are inclined to

think

(Sp); W. E, Hollands, W. Matr, that O'Reilly may be more imc. Dowman. E . Post (Skip); A. portant to Australia than even E. Carey. J. Orem, J. C: S. Fender,

Bradman this coming tour.

"The omission of Grimmett. This W. McLeod (Bkip); G. C. Moss, J. Shepherd, A. Wright, Cameron is very widely looked upon as a

(Skip). big mistake. The O'Reilly-Grim- mett combination was much the

best one Australia has had since [SCOTTISH CUP DRAW

the Gregory-Macdonald combina-

tion, and Grimmett is very far from Anished yet.

There is no great faith in Ward, who goes to England in place of him, McCormick, or Walte.

Replay Will Be Necessary

London, April 6. Another replay will be hecessary

In the semi-final tle between East Opinion to that McCormick is apt Fife and St. Bernards in the Scot-

to bowl "all over the shop" and that he will need a lot of English roast beef and beer to last out the tour, and that Waite is very lucky to be in the side.

BLOWN UN

tish Cup.

YOUNGEST MAN

OF PARTY

the true sportsman that he is. Hung did not let himself de anduly perturbed by this but at the same time it must be stated that he played more cautiously from this stage onwards. Had he carried the game like he did in the Arsi sel I doubt very much whether Ramjahn would have won.

DOES CONJURING TRICKS AS A HOBBY

BENJAMIN H. BARNETT (Vic- Soria)-Born May 23, 1908. Has reddish hair, bats left-handed, and does conjuring tricks as a hobby: He was No. 2 wicketkeeper of the 1934 team in England.

Gets in this time partly because he is accustomed to "keep" to Fleetwood-Smith. Has never ap- "Willle" played laspired tennis peared in a Test match. to take the Arst set at 6-4 and when he led 2-0 in the second it looked as thơigh Rumjahn would find it too much to catch up. The champion played his usual

He is a powerful batsman, and has already scored more than 1,200 runs for his state with a highest score of 94.

"

On his last English visit he

LIGHTNING

Fourteen Cricketers

mare

Dazed

APRIL 8, 1938.

ADVERTISEMENTS.

HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB.

TENNIS TOURNAMENT 1938.

Weather permitting the tollow." ing matches will be played of Ken-next week on the Stand Court:-

MONDAY, APRIL 11th

A cricket match on the

Oval at Goulburn, New South Wales, came to a tional finish when all the players

were either knocked down of dazed by lightning

Open Doubles--Semi-Final (Lower Half)

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Play had just begun in a match(Tsui Wai Pai & Tsui Yan Pui between the Goulburn Veterans

Til

and the Kenmore Veterana. |J. W. Leonard & George Chon)

Buddenly there was a blinding

ting crash of thunder.

flash of lightning and ear-split- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13th

Open Singles Semi-Final (Lower Half)

Arthur Walker. at Goulburn, making # run between the wickets, was sent sprawling. Two other players were knocked down and 10 others dazed.

The umpire, Mr. Elijah Weatherby, was stunned and did not regain consciousDESS for several minutes.

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The Greball left four holes, each about half an inch across and a inches deep, in the couple of cricket ground.

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FAME

Mr. Henry Cotton was motoring to Woodcote "Park golf course at Coulsdon recently to play in an exhibition match.

He missed the way and stopped to ask a pedestrian, ..

You can't miss the course," he directions. was told with the

cool game and though he was not made 573 runs in twenty-three in- "There's a big crowd: Henry Cat-

as spectacular as Hung, he gather-nings, average 33.70.

ed his points quietly to take the

set at 6-4.

BEST TENNIS

The best tennis of the after- noon came in the third set. "Haag won his service game only to sée Rumjahn level matters. From the next game onwards, only Hung was in the picture. He won rally after rally, em- ploying an angle smash-volley to such good effect that he led 5-2 and then 5-3, being within match point; five times. In- cidentally dence Was called seven times in this game! Rumjahn played very cooly to make the score 5-5, broke through Hung's service to lead 6-5 and then won his own, the set and STONEY BARNES (New South match at 7-5. It was indeed a fine finish to a fine game with honours even.

The teams met for the second time today and though extra time was played the secres were dead-Wales)-Born June 5, 1987. The youngest man in the party. Sprung ocked at 1-1

up as a potential Test match bats- man in the present Australian sea.

ENGLISH LEAGUE

The following were the resulta or matches played in the English League today:

Ross Gregory is considered very unlucky to be out of it. I believe that this young cricketer would

FIRST DIVISION more or less, have picked himself Liverpool 9 Birmingham

Charlton after the showing he put up in Manchester C. 5 two Tests against G. O. Allen's

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH) team but for the fact that he was

Crewe

1 Chester "blown up in a bathroom gas ex-

-(Reuter). plosion.

I am told by fellow-players of his that this experience seems to have affected his eyes a little.

Ponsford. Players say that he is still the third best batsman B and Australia (after Bradman McCabe, and that he is going to be one of the most missed of the 1934 side.

picked for the "Ponny" was semi-official Test trial at Adelaide

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вол.

...

Number of good judges think he has a great future. He is a short, little chap, remarkably busy in his

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LADIES GOLF The following are the results of the Ladies' golf matches played at Fanling on Tuesday:-

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#Shanghai Foursomes (New Course) Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Brent- Smith, 99-32-67.

Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Lieseman.

the Vic Richardson-Griminett (97-29-58. testimonial match-but he asked

Mrs. Skeet and Mrs. Razavet.

to stand down for a younger 104-36-68 player.

He has an average of about 160 for the Melbourne this season club, still goes into the nets after an innings that has not quite satisfied him, but he tells me that his feet and legs have "left" him.

Mrs. Overy and Miss Glover, 92-23-89.

Captain's Cup (New Course) Mr. Collis, 00-25-71.

Can compete with Don Bradman and Walter Robins ini run-

Hung played a great game and Rumjahn also pulled up in great style and to both players con- gratulations for serving the Hong. Kong public with the finest dis- play so far in the tournament.

oning between wickets. His offside HOCKEY GAMES

play is most attractive.

He is also a useful slow bowler and a brilliant fieldsman. Runs a moter hie business with his brother in Sydney,

Sporting

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Fixtures

TODAY

Pandora Beats Proteus

A friendly hockey match was played, at the Naval Recreation ground yesterday between the M. Submarines Pandora and Pro- teus, and resulted in a win for the former team. by four goals to three.

The losers lead at half-time 1-0, BADMINTON-YM.C.A. Badmin-

ton, in the Weat Lounge, 8.30 In the second half the Pandora p.m. Cathedral Hall Badmin- took up the offensive and scored *tori 8

Doubles four goals to their opponents p.m.; Men's Championship Final, and Mixed three. Doubles

Final Championship (Recreio), 8, p.m.

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Lt. Donald and Varlow (2 each) scored for the Pandora and t

PS | BRIDGE-Checro Club Contract Turner, Pack and Whittle for the

"unavailable" when it comes

"I couldn't stand the Belding ontmatches against Australia.

an England tour."

ALLEN V ROBINS

to

Nearly every one who has played against Larwood regrets this greatly. Present and past players say that that he is one of the Hammond. Robins, is quoted as most, bevatiful bowlers in cricket.

cricketers saging that. English

One of the queerest things I would be happy to "play under the know about cricket is that every Test captaincy of such a great Australian batsman I ever talk to player as Hammond, but Austral-about Larwood has the highest fans are sceptical about him be-regard and admiration for him. ing made England's skipper. "The

M.C.C. won't do it" is, the general VOCE'S EXAMPLE

opinion here. Bellet is that if

What a pity it is that "Lol" "Gubby" Allen can make a good, come-back he will get the cap-caunot see his way to follow the tafricy, and, falling him, that Ro- example of his friend Bill Voce. let bygones be rissoles as Dan bins will be the man.'

Australian cricketers say that Leno used to say) and come back like Bradman, has to bowl for England. Just a few Hammond, probably passed his peak years lines from him would put him In big cricket which is but a little oddly-they rank him back As one of the three best-bowlers where he ought to be. England has. They say that ho can be so very fast off the pitch.

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THEY LIKE LOL'

Larwood. Views are that the Australian team will not meet him. They think that he may be

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Hockey (Club

Bridge 8 p.m. HOCKEY.-Hong Kong

Club "v. HMS. Suffolk groun), 5 pm SHOOTING; Bisley Meeting. (Kow-

loon Ranges), .. TENNIS.-Colony Championshilpa

(Hong Kong CC).

SUNDAY, APRIL 20 CRICKET All Day Cricket Match. Press v. Middlesex, Sookunpoo. FOOTBALL-International Foot-

ball Final, England

China,

Club Ground. GYMKHANA-Equine Sports Club Annual Gymkhana, at. Shatin,

2.45 p.m.

TUESDAY, APRIL 12 BADMINTON-Y.M.C.A. Badmin-

ton, in the West Lounge. SWIMMING-Mixed Swimming.

in YM.C.A. Bathing Fool. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 ATHLETICS-Hong Kong Univer- sity Athletic ground, Pokfulam Road, 1.30 p.m.

It would be tremendously popu- lar. And it really is rather im- portant that England should put TABLE TENNIS.-Y.M.CA Table up a good show this time and get back those Ashes. We have a dis- tinct chance this time.

We should have a better chance with Larwood to open fire for us.

Tennis.

4.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16. RACING.Hong Kong Jockey Club Third Extra Race Meeting, at Happy Valley, 1; p.m.

Proteus.

The teams were:---

HMS. Pandora: Lesch; Stoor, Fallan; Ham, Lt. Cave, McGrooves. Varlow, Lt. Donald. Lt St. John,, and Hudson.

H.M.S. Proteus; A. V. Smith; Lt. Gallaway, Aincough; Pack, Denni- son, Lt Turner: Greany, Whittle, Sub.-L. Smith, and A. B. Parker,

WIN FOR WESTCOTT HMS, Westcott defeated HMS. Orpheus by the odd goal in five. The latter netted two goals in the first half. After the interval, how- ever, the Westcott scored three. goals to gain a narrow victory.

Clarke, Lt. Cottman and Kankor netted for the Westcott and Sub- Lt. Barlow and Grant for the Orpheus.

The teams were:--

ELM.S. Westcott: Phillips; Den- nis, Bishop; Lt. Hawkins, Garrett Donally Clarke, Harland. Lt. Cott man, Kankok, and It: Whitworth, HMA. Orpheus- W. Finn: A Miller, C. Kennedy: McGrair, N. Dowlar Scarlett, Bray Grant. Sub-Lt. Barlow, W. Chapman and

A. · Waterworth,

13 ton is playing."

HIR

HAVE AN H.B. AND THEN TRY"

Tsui Yun Pul or Paul Kong

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|H, D. Rumjaha or W. C. Hung THURSDAY, APRIL 14th Open Singles-Semi-Final" (Top Half) Tsui Wai Pul

VI.

S. A. Rumjahn Booking for the above matches now open at Montries', Entrance to Stand-$1.00 (Incinding Tax).

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