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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1933.

MACAULEY 7 FOR 9 DISMISSES NORTHANTS FOR 27

NEEDLE MATCHES IN

BOWLS LEAGUE

'BOTH KOWLOON BOWLING GREEN AND

CRAIGENGOWER TEAMS TO MEET

INFLUENCE OF GREEN ADVANTAGE...

BOWLS INTERPORT.

TO DE DISCUSSED BY. ASSOCIATION.

An extraordinary general meet- ing of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association is to be held in the small back roon of Messrs, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant on

Friday, Juno 23, at 5.30 P.M.

The purpose of

ose of the meeting in -10 аррготе and pass the revised

rules of

Includ the association, ing those governing the Inter- national Shield, and also to con- sider Inviting Shanghai to send a team to Hongkong for the annual Interport match.

The first match of prime importance since the Kowloon Bowling Green, Craigengower and Recreio aligned themselves as chief contenders for the first division championship of the Lawn Bowls League will take place to-morrow, when the Bowling Green receive a visit from Craigen International

gower.

The result of the match is K.B.G.C. and Craigengower, who, bound to have a tremendous eff-in company with Civil Service, are ect on the championship as can at the head of the division with

be easily gathered from a glance identical records, elash

Valley.

at the existing league records of the throo teams mentioned. They are:

K.BG.C.

Recreio

c.c.g....

P W L Up Pts

G 4 1 63 8

5 4 1 49 8 6 4 1 12 8

A closer view of the porforman- cos of the Bowling Green and Craigongower reveals that the league leaders, have scored

829 shots in dive games as compared with, 266 registered against them. Craigongower on the other hand have scored only 279-60 shots loss and have had 267 against thom-one more, than the Bowling Green,

at the

This game suggests a much lega easy prophesy. Although in their five matches played the Bowling Groon have scored 40 more polats than the "Craig", the latter hve had 37 shots less notched against them.

Indications are that the nd- vantage of the green will play an important part in the result, although there is such a delicate difference between the teams that any dogmantic prognostica, tion is out of the question.

CHANCE FOR CIVIL SERVICE.

Like the Recreio among the sen- These figures, plus the fact that lors, the, Civil Service have the the Peninsula team are at home same opportunity of helping them- makes them favourites for to-solves in the championship race Torrow's great game.

CLEAN. HOME RECORD.

Bowls Shield Competitors

LIST OF RINKS

AND DRAW

Teams have been entered and the draw made for the Inter- national Lawn Bowls Shield, presented for competition for the first time this year by Mr. L. A. Gutierrez.

Australia, India, Ireland, Wales, England, Portugal, Scotland and the Philippines have entered rinks.

The first round will be played at the K.C.C. on July 9, at 3.80 p.m. and each match will be 21 heads up..

The teams taking part are;

THE TEAMS.

ANOTHER

AMAZING YORKSHIRE

VICTORY

CENTURY FOR SUTCLIFFE

NORTHANTS OUT

FOR 27-& 68

London, June 15. Yorkshire Again! ·

TO-DAY'S TENNIS.

All courts are still in a very wet condition, but it is possible that some of to-day's Mixed Doubles gapies will be played. The programme Is: *C.R.C. v U.SRC.

at Causeway Bay LRC_v_KEC

LR.C. v Rectelo

-at K.C.C.

-at Sookunpoo

Water Polo League

Another innings victory Debut and yet again the dismissal of their opponents for less than 100 runs in each innings!

Northants are the latest team In the county cricket champion- ship to be led forth as lambs to the slaughter, and to-day the champions administered the coup de prace by an innings and 206 rúna.

TENNIS LEAGUE MAKES SLOW PROGRESS

PROGRAMMES BEING CONTINUALLY HELD UP. BY RAIN

K.C.C.'S UNEXPECTED CHANGE-IN- MIXED DOUBLES TEAM.

(By "Veritas") :

THE weather this week has left tennis players alternating between satisfaction and disappoint-

ment.

Recognising the imperative need of rain to alleviate our water shortage, one could only welcome the down- pours which had visited us almost daily, but one also felt that its ruinous effect on the league tennis programmes was somewhat hard to bear.

anide

The upshot of it all has been the sister, Sybil, brought in her place. postponement of another block of The move is purely experimental "A" "B" and "C" matches and with and may prove or disprove nothing, GOOD START BY

A very definite indication of a similar On her best form Olive is the better THE NAVY fate awaiting to-day's Mixed Doubles player, but she has a penchant in

fixtures:

matches of losing touch after a There is no

no cause for any anxioly promising start. Against the C.R.G. Only one of the two matches concerning the non-fulfilment of fix last week she was guilty of this.. arranged in the Water Polotures. Not only have dates been set She played first rate tonnis against to meet such contingenclex M. K. Lo and Mrs. Litton, but col- League was played last oven-which are at present arising, but the lapsed in her subsequent sets. ing at the Y.M.C.A. bath, when league has the right to extend the Other than this, the K.C.C. alde to the Navy, after being well held season to permit of postponed games meet the L.R.C. this afternoon will

remain unaltered, until the interval, overwhelm. being played.

Fürthormore the committee might

U.S.R.C. TUSSLE. ed the University, finally to win well consider the advisability, if the There will probably be a big crowd by eight goals to two.

position arises, of taking over some at the U.S.R.C., where the champions, of the Friday vacant at the con- already victors of the Inillan Roeren- Enjoying the advantage of de- clusion of the Mixed Doubles arasan tien Club this season, entertain the fonding the shallow end, the for hold-up ties in the other sections Chineso. University easily held their own

of the league. It was Macauley, who, with the in the first half of a good game, astonishing figures of Boven and with a little stendier marka- wickets for nine runs dismissed manship might have crossed over Northants for 27 in their first in- four goals. nings. He shared the honours

Macauley, who has been dis- tinguishing himself since the first match of the 'season again. came into the limelight, recolving a mea- sure of support from Bowes.

¡ents for 68.

"

4

Australia:J. Way, J. Sully, F. V. at the expense of ofther the Bow-Whitta and E. C. Fincher (skip), with Bowes in Northants return As it was the Navy demonstrat- ling Green ΟΙ Craigongower. But that success does not appear E. el Arculli and A. Br. Omar (skip), figures for 4 for 20 and between attacking the

India:-D. Rumjahr, A. A. Razack, visit taking 4 for 25. Bowes had ed how to make the best use of deep ond and As yet the Bowling Green have quite so obvious. They have to

Ireland: II. Lockhart, D. Murphy, them they sent back their oppon-plied on goals with clockwork not conceded points before their visit the Yacht Club, and on their

J. Lunny, and J. Cavanagh (skip).

regularity. own supporters, and in the only own pastures last Saturday, the

Wales: J. Channing, R. R. Davis, the Yachtsmen proved very conclusive- match they have lost

The Navy showed themselves to Among other bowling achlave- Recreio to 18 ahots margin on the ly that they are a difficult team to D. W. Phillips and F. Jones (skip).

ments by Macauley this season be a well-balanced team without England:-II Hampton, B. Winro the following:

any particular weakness, but the Portugueso Green.

Bradbury, F. Cullen and A. W.

Varsity need strengthening in the rear line.

ran

beat.

Portugal:-L. A. Gutierrez, F. X.

· Against this Craigengower have Defeat for the Civil Service will Grimmitt (skip). home defeat, when they succum-give the winners of the Bowling bod to the Police in the first Green-Craigengewor encounter. a M. da Silva, A. S. Gomes and R. F. match of the season, but must be decided advantage in the champ-Luz (skip). recognised as having improved ionship Faco, very considerably since then,

7 for 28 and 3 for 21 v Lanca- shire; 6 for 25 and 6 for 22 y Leicester; 7 for 41 v M.C.C.

SUTCLIFFE 113.

bat, Herbert Sutcliffe dominated When Yorkshire's turn came to the play by hitting up a character- fatic century out of a total of 801. Ho reached 113 before dismissal.

V. W. C. Jupp bowled very clever ly and with a certain amount of The draw has been made and is as success, captured 6 wickets for 99 follows:

Scotland: A. Hyde-Lay, J. Chal. On Sunday, the second Spey mers, W. Mair, and J. C. Brown The Happy Valley team are Royal Cup match will be played, (skip), making one change from the when the Indian Recreation Club

Philippines: V. Atienza, V. Espina, side which inst week defeated oppose Kowloon Docks at Craigen- H. J. Medina and R. Bass (skip), K.CC. E. Tuck comes in for CS.Rower.

The IR.C. will turn out the Summons on Buchanan's rink, the latter finding a place in the following rink: second string.

Buchanan's quartetto last week lost 10-28 against Overy and his colleagues and Tuck's inclusion is evidently an effort to strengthen this rink.

The Kowloon Bowling Green re- main unchanged.

Whatever the outcome_of_the

II. Hartcam

A.M. Rumjahn

A.M. Wahyb

K.M. Omar (skip)

The full programme for to-mor-. row is:

DIVISION I

dare it should provide the Re- CIVIL SERVICE v Police creio with a great opportunity to KOWLOON C.C. v Kowloon enhance their own prospects, for

Ruccoss at the expense of Taikoo KOWLOON

whom they entertain seems to be theirs for the taking.

DIVISION 2 "DERBY",

Docks

RECREIO

BG.C. v Craigengower

v Talkoo

༈༙ ་ DIVISION Z.

Civil Service V RECREIO

It is only meet that the second YACHT CLUB

a similar Indian R.C. division should bonat

attraction to that of the seniors POLICE

on Saturday. The same

1

clubs CRAIGEN.

· 1ST ROUND DRAW..

runs.

V

Scotland v Australla; India

Northants first innings score of Wales; England v Portugal; Phillp-27 is the lowest of the season- pines, v Ireland.

Reuter,

S. CLEAVE WINS T.T. RACE

Goal-scorera

were. Navy:- Grovo (2), Slade (2), Lee (2). Walker and Middleton, and for

S. F. Chan, the University, H. L. Ozorio and

The Chinese Bathing Club v Young Companions fixture was postponed on account of one of the teams failing to turn up.

ROLLING UP BEFORE A MATCH

I.B.B. Seek to Enforce New Rule

KCC., BEST TEAM. The K.C.C. and Graduates rather

gallantly turned out for their "B" Division ma

match

on Tuesday. Ad- mittedly the conditiona were difficult

The C.R.C. constitute their most formidable rivals and the destinica of the Dunlop, Shield are almost certain to be decided on this en

counter.

In this match practically every- but not farcical as one local sports thing. so far as the U.S.R.G. aro writer suggested. The ground sur concerned, will depend on the way the face was comparatively hard despite ladles stand up against Ho Ka-lau's all the week-end rain, but it had left not work. Against the K.C.C. Inst the grass slippery and made quick week he was unplayable. Once there, movement a little dangerous.

Ho is a difficult player to

stder the ball past and it is up to the United Judging from the result, and Services players to work out a plan alded by the displays scen, one can to thwart his attack, which, if allowed reasonably judge that Tuesday's

most comers.

team is about the best the K.C.C. to develop is very demoralising and can field in the "D" Division this good enough to win the C.R.G. three

Bets. summer and one which should be

SAU REVOIR.".. capable of holding its own against

We bid au revoir to the Philippines The team work of Collins and representatives, Leonardo Gavia and Hambly was quite a feature of the Loodagarlo Polintan, to-day, after a gamo, but these two have been play visit unfortunatoly marred by stormy: ing together now for nearly two years weather. and have developed a rare under- standing.

What little Hongkong was able to see of them (and this under vory BADMINTON TECHNIQUE.

dimcult conditions) enabled us to ap- Collins in the prominent badminton

preciate the falents of the pair. That player and it is interesting to see the Philippines boast. of two such clover players whose ages are 18 and him bring the technique of this game 20 respectively indicates that tennis Into use at tennis. I am referring in the Islanda

· រឹត WELL to

up standard. Gavis may not, yet be the name

of course to his not work. As In

and

but

smashes. badminton, Collins rarely contents himself with clever angle wizard as Aaragon in his prime, when volleys which drop short over the not he visited Hongkong, but this present run away off the tramlines, tour, as well as another two years of Delicate and effective shots these.

experience will add an- tournament The K.C.C. have yet to solve the other 50 per cent. to the ability of | third pair problem in the senior team. the young plaver.

A STYLIST. Gordon Burnett and C. I. Stapleton,

...

He

showed us very conclusively. -that-he-la-one of the best stylists seen in Hongkong and that in stroke production is at the moment in the position' to teach our local. players a thing or two That those strokes are dependant on, hard fast courts in no way detracts anything from them.

GOWER v Kowloon BG,C. Some of the teams will be:

who first in the "C" and then_in_the 1ST, DIVISION.

"B" distinguished themselves, Werd solected for last Monday, but had not K.C.C.-H. Gittins, V.C.

their worth. Labrum, H. Hampton

Half dozen letters of Inquiry chance of

Proving Chad AVERAGE SPEED OFbout (and, a similar number of Burnett gained first division experi- Silkestone; E.C. Fincher, J. Chad-

ence last Bummer wick, J.A. Howo and A. Hyde-Lay

ner and as Stapleton protests against) the L.B.B.'s wish is a steadfast and reliable partner, 711⁄2 M.P.H. (akip); H. Overy, F. Goodwin, T.

to enforce the prevention of the cloak of Elijah, would scem to At Fergusson and J. Fraser (skip). Douglas, Isle of Man, June 14. playing over

nthem for the position. a green before The Lightweight Tourist Trophy lawn bowls

Polintan, although not developed to match takes place

A BOMBSHELL. Cralgengower:-J.

Incidentally the Kowloon Cricket the same extent as his compatriot, Cavanagh, race here was won by S. Glenve, who have been made to the Bowls cor- LE, Lammert, D. Rumjahn, and was riding an Excelsior, the course

Club have dropped a bombshell as gave one or two very good shows and a greater facility. In adapt- v H.K. Electric B.W. Bradbury (skip); G.L. Buch- of 204 miles being covered in & hra respondent of a London paper.

the conditions than anan. E. Tuck, H. Beer and R. 41 mins. 23 secs, at an average speed

Those readers who protest players for to-day. Basa (skip); W.T. Brightman, A. of 71.69 miles an hour. Dodson,

Miss Olive Dalziel, who for two Hongkong will wish them the best E. Coates, E. el Arcalli and U.M: New Imperial was second. in 3 hrs. against the law being put into

so. mainly years now has been Teddy Fincher's of luck on the remainder of their tour Omar (skip)

43 mins. 43 secs. at a speed of 70.85 general operation do miles per hour, while Manders riding from the viewpoint that it is partner in the Mixed Doubles League, and look forward to seeing them in Kowloon Bowling Green: R. Rudge Whitworth was third in 3 unfair that they should be taken has been given a rest to-day and her action on courts more to their liking. Hall, A. McIntrye, G. Roylance hrs. 40 mins. 8 secs. giving an average on to a green that may be full of and L. Guy (skip); R. Duncan, speed of 69.17 miles an hour.-Reuter tricks, that may be "dead," or

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·Recreio:—E. L. Barros, L. C. R. Souza, C. G. Silva, and R. F. Luz (skip); H.A. Alves, R.R. Robarts, A.S. Gomes and C.E. Morques (skip); F. Xavier, J.M.M. Alves, F.V. Ribeiro and F.X.M. Silva |(skip)

Taikoo:-W. Brown, J. Watson,

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HOME. RACING.

Fox Hunter Wins Gold Cup.

AN OUTSIDER.

London, June 16.

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J. Polson and S. Drummond The Ascot Gold Cup, run at Ascot (skip); R. Keown, J. Whyte, W. to-day resulted as follows: Wotherspoon and R. Wallace Fox Hunter ... (skip); D. Peoples, W. Cunuing- ham, W. Weir, and J. Chalmers, (skip).

DIVISION 2. Graigongower: D. K. Kharas, M. J. Medina, Y. Abbas ́ and A.A. Razack (skip); C.S. Summons, H. Milton, W. Ward and W.V. Flold (skip); G. Duncan, F.K. Modi, H. V. Pearso and W. Gill (skip), Ro- serves, J. Johnston and J.S. Lan- dolt

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Orpen .. Nilslchin

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The betting: 25/1 Fox Hunter; 7/2 Orpan; 16/2 Nitaichin.

Ten horses ran. The winner was home by a length, five lengths separating second and third horses Reuter's Special.

FAVOURITE WINS,

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Others ask: Does the enforce- mont apply to club compétitions and to Leaguo games; particularly where there are home and away matches, and what will happen if a member of a club which has four, five or six greens, goes on to one of.the others and enjoys a roll-up on his own account before entering into match-play on the green aolocted for a representative game?

As yet, in the matter of - club now competitions, this law is Interpreted as being a domestic one and for the club itself to docido; but if the club's rulos éinto that their games are played uador E.B.A. or I.B.B. laws, then it is in order for a player to raise objection if his opponent plays on the green prior to the tle on the samo day.

In the case of a club having two (or more) greens, it is por missible for a player to have a London, June 16,

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