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PLAY AND PLAYERS.

SURREYS ON TOP FORM.

By Wanderer."

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY'S CRICKET.

LAST YEAR'S CHAMPIONS IN

ACTION.

The Civil Service C. C., just] season's champions, compiled 149] against the H.K.C.C. on Saturday, and the H.K. eleven was unbeaten

Interesting football with low fed, sparkled on the right wing. scoring not entirely consistent with He led the majority of the raids the run of the play featured-Satur- on the Kowloon gos! and his con- day's First Division matches. The tres were delightfully accurate. at the close of play, with 128 for 7. Surreys maintained their unbeaten Eaton acting as a semi-half-back The Champions started. well, but certificate, and the Club and the engineered many of the movements, developed a weak tail. For a time Club de Recreio played a drawn and had bad luck with one or two game, these three clubs being at excellent shots.

it seemed as if they could win, but the head of the table with seven

the HK.C.C. managed to draw hy points each. The Police usually do

virtue mainly of their fifth man's well against South China but they

prowess. could not break the spell, which apears to be upon them these days, and they went down to defeat for the sixth time. The Surreys Reserves had a runaway victory over the Drums, St. Joseph's regis- tered their first win, and Kowloon

Reserves won easily.

The full results follow:-

Division 1.

I

Surrey's

....2 Kowloon Club ...1 Recreio ....1 Police .....0 South China .I

Division II. "A.”

Surreye Res. 7 Drums......0 Club Res...0 St. Joseph's 2. Kowloon Res. 4 Recreio “A”. 0 Division II. "B." Kowloon "B" 0 St. Joseph's

Res....... University .8 St. Joseph's

Boarders

1 China "C" ..3 Moslem "B" 0 Moslem "A" 1 Drums Res. ..0

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The half-backs, 'MeGreavy, Mit- choll and Bristowe stood up to the Kowloon rushes yet were able to render fine assistance to their for wards, while Petter and Cooper were kicking very safely.

Going in when things were not very bright, II. Owen Hughes carried his bat for the H.K,

For

There was no real Kowloon side, with 69 to his credit. weakness unless it was at centre-the Champions, A. E. Wood knock- forward where McBride failed

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lamentably to take hold of some ed up 45 and G. R. Sayer 38. The INSTITUTIONS pretty passes. The line was never best bowler on the Champions side; together though Hayes and Muson was E. B. Reed, with an analysis both did good work on occasion. of 4 for 32 in 11 overs. For the Sims fully satisfied, and Turner opposition, A. C. Bowker took 4 worked gallantly against a very for 38.

elusive left wing. Wheeler was The K.C.C. were at home to thef the better of the rear division, East Surreys, whom they defeated] though Reed started off exceeding without much difficulty. The fy well. Duncan performed visitors scored 102, with only brilliantly and could have been average scoring, J. C. Lyal taking excused had he been beaten far 4 for 36. The Kowloon men com- more often.

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The Indian R. C. just managed to draw with the University, who had declared at 174 for 8, (Rev. E. K., Quick and S. Shahabudin 30 each).. The drawing of stumps found the

SECOND DIVISION.

THE CLUB DIVIDE POINTS.

Just as we had begun to accustom ourselves to the idea that the Club had discovered how to get goals, they proceeded to upset all cateu-Indians with 8 wickets down for 93, lations by treating a large crowd (O. Ismail 54). For the 1.R.O., of spectators to a display of A, el Arcul took 6 for 44. SURREYS SHINE AGAINST KOWLOON thorough ineptitude in shooting A remarkable exhibition of gon1- range and could do no better than keeping saved Kowloon from a divide two goals and two points The Navy second eleven managed; severe defeat for seldom have the with the Club de Recreio. Per-to play out time against the Surreys been seen in such brilliant haps it really was a little too much H.K.C.C, second string. The Club form. They made ground effective-to expect them to play well on con- declared at 179 for 9 (D. H. Sher- ly by rapid and open passing, and secutive Saturdays, but they had man 49), and the Navy were 84 but for the quickness and energy, five goals might easily have been A feature of the match was the so much of the game that four or for 8 at the close (Mid. Dickens 31),] sometimes tempered with a little

their portion. jous, of Duncan between the sticks,

Navy's disastrous start, with four Many were the chances allowed "ducks" out of the first five wickets, they would have won by an appre- to go astray before Forsyth whip H. S. Gordon taking 3 for 19 and ciably greater margin.

ped the ball past Fernandes in the H. Griffin 2 for 16. For the Navy, Kowloon were never given a real course of a melee round the Eng. Lieut. Bennett took 6 for 39. chance to settle down, and time and Recreio goal shortly before the in- time again the Surreys forwards terval. Forsyth was the principal at Sockunpoo, the Indian R. C. In their second division fixture swept through the defence only to offender, though. Howard and John-juniors succeeded in defeating the see Duncan perform wonderfully at ston both had good opportunities. University team, with 131 (1. the crucial moment, when, with the In the second half the Club at- Hassan 45, Y. A. Wahab 30) to 102] openings provided, he should not tacked for considerable spells but. (E. Zimmern 39). For the IR.C., have been conceded a chance. not one of the Club forwards M. Madar took 4 for 23, and for Thrills there were in plenty, pro- seemed able to seize on a shoot the University C. A. Peterson took vided mostly by the Surreys and ing position, and when Gosano, 4-for 46. Duncan, but further interest was taking advantage of a slip by Ste Imparted to the game by the initial wart, beat Bishop, Summers and appearance of Sims, the Army Mair in turn and then, shot fast centre-half, in the ranks of Kow-past Rodger, the final result was toon. He made a good impression, generally forecasted. though his constructive efforts The Recreio defended admirably were vastly superior to his work in under adverse conditions, for defence. He was good-humouredly Sousa, the right half, was off the barracked by the Surreys supporters field or was a passenger for the at the opening, and they had the greater portion of the game and laugh of him when he was twice obliged to leave.

near the end Fuertes also was Their defence beaten for possession of the ball

was not really ideal; they did not by Eaton, Subsequently he silenced them by some remarkably

bother their heads about where the good passing.

as

Tho. Surreys commenced though they were out for a big victory and the impression was enhanced when they scored within five minutes Charlesworth middling the ball which fell to the feet of Butler, unmarked, who gave Duncan no chance from five yards.

ball was going provided it was placed out of danger. In this respect there may be some excuse for the club forwards.

The Recreio forwards, handi-

FRIENDLY MATCHES.

A friendly match between Craigengower C. C. and the Royal Artillery resulted in a win for the gunners, who compiled 189 (Lt. Smith 44). Craigengower scored 130 (Reed 38, Bradbury 38), Sgt. Gifford taking 4 for 17.

Entertaining a Civil Service teami which was two men ehort, the Police) just managed to win, scoring 85 to the visitors' 82.

defeated by a Navy side.

The Chinese R. C. were easily The C.R.C. compiled 92, and the sailors scored 225 for 8 (Abelson 47, Coomber 48), Hunot took 5 C.R.C. wickets for 22. Chao was

capped by the loss of Sousa, rallied on occasion in fine style and were

the most successful Chinese bats-: often dangerous. Fernandes kept man, with 35 to his credit. a good goal, Ogley and Xavier kicked well, though the former was

The fast pace was never eased better than his partner, and the and Suen Kam-shun receiving but eventually Sims got Taylor brothers Remedios defended away and Jordan fumbling the stoutly. Gozano and Brown were scoring the only goal of the match. close in gave Clarke no chance, centre, McKelvie scored with a good the pick of the forwards. shot from fifteen yards.

On the Club side Watson was Little there was to chose between! Humberstone, in his most force- outstanding. He made several at the sides in the opening half but in ful mood, was hard to stop, and he tempts at goal himself which came the second moiety, the Police had co-operated with the good work of very near.

the upperhand. Lau Hing-cheung the wings, shooting capitally. A certain amount of feeling en-was many times tested but though Many times was Duncan hard puttered into the match and one can-Dr. Valentine tried hard nothing to it to get his shots away though not help thinking that had both tangible materialised and the Police his best chance, when he broke sides confined themselves to foot-had once again to rest content with: clean through and shot terrifically ball instead of occasionally lapsing the knowledge that they deserved. from twenty yards, was negatived into those things which lead to free more. by a badly shaken cross-bur.

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AGED CLERK CHARGED

WITH 176 THEFT.. kicks and other unpleasantries, the The Police defence was capital game would have been far more trim, Oram and Johnson both prov-charged at Marlborough-street When a clerk, aged 62, was life but half-way through the interesting-and the Club, mighting very successful in their new with stealing £176 from his property; therefore he is just as second half Charlesworth rounded have won. Caveille with assurance, and ran Inside to place the ball to the hend of Butler-a aplendid goal. McKelvie then changed the team,

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THE SECOND DIVISION.

taking centro-half and putting Sima] scoring chances might have given

at contre-forward. Sims almost the Police victory over South

£2 15s, a week..

He had had nine years' servico. "It is a scandalous thing," said the magistrate, Mr. Hay Halkott,

Ecored immediately by charging tha China, but as it was, they had once The junior matches provided little" that this man was paid such a ball out of Douglas's hands in the again to take the honours of the in the way of surprises though Mos- smali wago,' " danger zone, but Mitchell cleared. match with no say in the destina-lem "A" did well to defeat the The managing director roplied Again, he had a good chance had betion of the points, They plyed Drums Reserves, and it was not an- that when there was a questión. taken a pot shot but he passed to, with great determination, but fail- ticipated that the University would of reducing the staff some time Mason who put narrowly by, ed to find the tow weaknesses in gain such a runaway win over St. ago the clerk begged to be given

There was no question which the South China defence.

Joseph's Boarders. Linaker did the any odd job. side held the whip hand. The Little combination was display-hat-trick against St. Joseph's, Those arrangements are very Surreys played with understand- od by either side though the Guterres scored four for the Uni- ofton fatal because of insufficiency ing and combination; Kowloon, Chinese started off at a great pace versity and Jap three. Two players of wages," said the magistrate, though they had some excellent and would probably have scared were ordered off in the Drums who remanded the clerk in

custody for a fortnight individuals, failed to get together very quickly had not Wynne and Res--Moslem match.

The magistrate said that if thể at any time, though the quality of Oram been on their best behavi-] The Recreio "B" failed to put In their defence received advertise our and brought off some fuo an appearance against South China firm did not take him back into their employmont he would sond ment In the holding of their clearances. Then the Police took "B" at Sookanpoo, and if I under the clerk to prison. opponents to two goals.

-ún the running only to miss the atand correctly it is likely that they Both Cavoille and Reed were off few chances that came their way will withdraw from the "B" Baced that the clerk would be taken

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