1934-12-31 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,

DECEMBER -31, 1934.-

TO-MORROW'S BIG HOLIDAY FOOTBALL ATTRACTION

AS I SEE IT.

BY "VERITAS”

KOWLOON C.C. AND

BADMINTON

GAME MAY

SCHEME

BE RESURRECTED IS REASONABLE

ON HARD

TENNIS COURT

AND PRACTICABLE

THE Christmas and New Year complete the senson's programise.

been done in this (direction, IF Auch an appronek league badminton, but another week will find teams re-starting were made, and the Recreio agreed, it would be a sporting gesture their campaigns. Although pro-highly appreciated by all badminton grammes in the three divisions enthusiasts.

have put a temporary stop to anything has

have gone forward fairly well up.

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to the present, a number of cir- A PROPOS of badminton at the cumstances necessitated post-

the

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Chris, Pile's clevernets at intercepting is amply illustrated here, where he is shown rushing in to clear dangerous situation during the Police match against the Athletic yesterday. (Photo: Mee Cheung).

Saints' New Players Give Convincing Displays

RAIN DOES TRICK

CHINESE TEAMS 'ALL AT SEA

K.C.C., I hear that a serious poned or delayed matches. Eliot suggestion has been made to con- Hall for instance, who are firm vert, the hard tennis court join. favourites to win the "A" Divi-ing the bowling green in front of badminton the chilihouse inic sion of the men's doubles, found court. The idea, presumably, is to examinations prevent them from erect a matshed and possibly to lay making a start until the middle down matting or a wood covering

Ам! of December. The Y.M.C.A.. over the concrete tennis court.

matter of fact concrete hind. chiefly because of the many season, a

are not unknown, al activities, and also because their minton courts

no chance of serious at they are even used in Hong-i teams had

kong at the Jockey Club. There But yet played practice, have game in either the men's doubles is nothing against such a surface, or mixed doubles. This has entail except that it is somewhat trying alto the feet. Anyway this idea at disorganisation, which though not 'serious, in rather the K.C.C., sounds quite reasonable regrettable. Finally there come and practicable, especially in view an of the possible developments which extremely unfortunate nouncement by the Kowloon Cricket may be made in the near future Chib that no further adminton on this part of the club's property, would be possible at the clubhouse. Naturally the financial aspert wil need very careful consideration. Despite all this, however, there. no reason to think that the first and even if the scheme is necepted lenge badminton in in principle, it may be that a per- senson of Hongkong will be otherwise than sonal financial appeal will have to be munde to the club's badminton highly successful.

jenthusiasts. Qulte apart from the

there is

the i mitted that there has never question of proper lighting and been a unanimous feeling in favour indette facilities for spectators. af bathminton at the K.C.C., it-is believe it is quite on the cards equally true that the committee's that the seh me will b

explored tecision to stop it was made with although it may not be possible to In the New Year, and and great reluet-

effect anything this season, suf- To any who have played feient support may be found to en- the game in England, the announce. ment that the game was doing courage the club to go ahead with material damage to the spring floor the iden during 1936. Ever since probably canie as a surprise, for badminton caught the imagination there are hundreds of sprung flours of the local publie the Kowloon being used for badminton in Eng Cricket Clubs has been prominently

identified with the game, land, and my own experience there was that normally such a flooring ryone will hope that if it

humanly possible to resurrect it. should not suffer from the game the club will strive to do its utmost This, of course, is not to suggest that the R.C.C. have been

to this end. informed on the matter, but it is quite likely that our peculiar almo spheric conditions have contributed OPENING FIXTURE vagaries of the playing pitch, while

ALTHOUGH it is generally ad-matshed covering.

sincere regrets ashice.

miR-

towards this damage, and further- more that. it is not necessarily

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Carefully

JA

badminton alone which in respon- M.C.C. Cricketers On.

sible,

WHATEVER the cause, the effect

is that, although the club basi

not yet done so omeially, it will

West Indies Tour

almost certainly have to withdraw HOSTS BAT ALL DAY from the men's doubles and mixed! doubles divisions: I hear that in!

FEATURES OF WEEK-END SOCCER

{By "Veritas").

snowstorms which IT was

brought about the rout of Napoleon's army after his series of spectacular victories against Russia in 1812, and it

· វ៉ rainstorms which leave heavy grounds, which will in- variably bring about the down- fall of our Chinese football!

teams.

JEAVY underfnat conditions play!! HEA Sunth China "I's collapse against ed the lending part yesterday in

the Lineups. This combination of hght-weighted youngsters found them- selves unable to combat the tricky the-Lineolux, with weight ndvantage aid experience of rain sodden grounds, were able to turn the conditions. their favour.

to

THE effect of this result is merely

more clearly to define the posi-f tion of South Chine "A" against the rest of the first division. With two games is hand over their second

string and the Police, wh rumalo

nearest rivals, the Caroline 200 seniors enjoy a lead of four paints,į and they can afToit a couple of re- verses and still remain very strongly

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Barbados, Dec. 20: an effort to preserve the worthi- The touring M. C. C. erkeketers ness of the ladies doubles division, opened their West Indies programme the K.C.C. may approach the Club to-day with a match here against a pinced. de Recreio suggesting that their local side. match with the Recreio "A," which should have been played at the K.C.C.. bo contested on the Recreio court. This then, would enable the Cricket Club Indies to meet St. Andrew's on,the latter's court ac cording to schedule, and thus

It. E. S. Wyatt. the Warwickshire IT IN rather a pity to be able to and Enginnd captain, won the tou

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TEAM TREMENDOUSLY IMPROVED

Club Fight Hard And Save The Game

(By "Veritas)

ALTHOUGH it was St. Joseph's who did most of the attacking, and were always more lively and co-ordinated, it was the Club who went nearest to winning an interesting, if not highly skilful game at Happy Valley on Saturday, Two grand opportunities of taking the lead were missed in the second half, and although the gods were in a forgiving mood and the Club were able to force a draw, the result was not quite fair to the Saints.

Team building half way through a season is a somewhat unusual procedure, but seeing that St. Joseph's, who are carrying out this experiment, have nothing to lose, and quite a lot to gain, there is every justification for the wholesale changes which have been made in the team during the past fortnight.

MAINLAND ATTACK V. ISLAND DEFENCE

PLENTY OF THRILLS & GOOD

FOOTBALL INDICATED

COMPARISON OF TEAMS AND

PROSPECTS.

(By "Veritas)

All roads lead to the Hongkong Football Club to-morrow where the Hongkong Football As- sociation's annual effort on behalf of the Children's Playground Fund, which this year takes the form of a match between teams re- presenting the Island and Mainland, is bound to attract a large attendance.

dia-

and if Morrison doesn't

repeat his In passing it might be men- tioned that these roads would lapse of Saturday, and Ash plays an did for England in the well as ho have led elsewhere, but for

Sunday Herald Cup, there should be last minute meeting of the very little wrong with sho defence. Powers That Be, who

Boyes in goal is an excellent selection. covered there was something On the whole therefore, the teams, in those words "Gang aft as picked, are remarkably well match- agloy". But that is another ed, and I think the result will be de story

which won't find its way tormined by whether the Inland de into the archives of the FA, fence can withstand the skill of the

Mainland attack. let alone the columns of

UNDERFOOT CONDITIONS MAY newspaper.

AFFECT GAME

APN

The teams to oppose each other

It in mallsfactory to note that in to-morrow are undeniably strong and

reserves have attractive. In fact but for a few both cases, adequate alterations, I can A reasonable been selected. The chief trouble with Interport team in the Island com- these holiday fixtures is that so often is too une Ands only a part of the advertised bination. On form, which well known to require repetition. the teams making an appearance, but even Island side has no weakness. Dur-If this happens to-morrow, both sides ham is one of the most spectacular can call on excellent reserves, whose Jocul football presence would guarantee a first rate custodians playing in

ούς encounter, to-day. Admittedly Lau Mau is

The Island team may be up against big disadvantage. They have

a subsequent

of position it right back, but he has done the same jobs before now, and one done it well. Syd Strange always included five Chinese. If last night's puts up a good shows. The defence rain continuen, with gives the Impression of being water-heavy going, they may find the condi- tlens too difficult to give of their tight.

best. A muddy ground would cer- ninly give the all-round heavy Main. land team decided assistance, difficult

Happily the result means nothing. Gorane-A rousing game and bumper "gate"

Here's

WILL PARDOE HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR?

the To Pardoe will fall duty of holding the A. V.

hoping

Higgins-Ridley combination in check, are the only necessities connected with

the A. pivot is one of the to-morrow's match. supported as he is hy two such men

best workers in

local soccer, and that both materiallae.

ns Leung In-chan and Elms, I have feeling that the Mainland attack,

brilliant in possibilities as it in. willi

have all its work cut out to fool such

of St.

Golf Feats

Deep

tri With the exception of Ward

Joseph's, the Island forward At en composed of Chinese. 1 imagine most of the danger to the Mainland rearguard will come from the Tao Kwai-shing-Ward wing, Ho Ka-keung in a clever, but not very

thrustful leader, and I would have preferred to see Howe in this, position. while it is surprising to find "Bunny" Bickford overlooked for the left wing

joh

Water Bay

SOME 1934 ACHIEVEMENTS.

Playing at Deep Water Bay dur-

The following fents are entered

W. E. Hunt.-2nd hole in one. Mrs. L. H. C. Calthrop-8th

hole in one.

K. K. Roundist hole in

one.

A. D. Coppin. 3rd hole ́in

one.

G. II. Elliott. 7th hole in one.

Nevertheless 15 this team turns out as advertised it should be one tag the week-end, D. M. Bigger of the most workmanlike combina had the good luck to do the 9th If the work of Herridge, matter, Sousa ng well, was likely

tions seen for a long lay in reprehole (310 yards) in two strokes. sentative football.

Quite a good drive was followed Beatty, Dellar and Addis, the to faller was when Albert Howe

THE MAINLAND ATTACK up by fortunate mashie stroke, Saints' recruits from the got on the run,

Whereas the real strength of the to find the hole. Addis is a definite improvement Island team appears to be in its rear- Queen's Regiment, was in-

to the intermediate line, and with guard, the opposite applies to the dicative of their ordinary form, Leonard in the centre, and Elms Mainland, who last a wonderful-look in the Deep Water Bay record the old collegians have every on the other flank, presented is attack, led by Higgins the Inde book for the year now ending: reason to pat themselves on fairly solid opposition to the Club fatigable, and supported by A.. V. the back. They play charac-attack. In midfield exchanges, the Conano un Ridley an his immediate teristic Army type of football Saints halves invariably came off right and left and by B. Gozano on dashing, hard working, and best, but one noticed a lack of the right wing and Wearmouth of with more than a modicum of confidence when they were forced the Navy on the left. puint with confidence to the pro

skill and efficiency.

If the lslund halves and backs to drop back to assist the defend- succeed in breaking down this forma but sent Barbados in to bat. At the bable champions with the season only| end of the day's play Barbados had half way advanced, but it really is

ers. It was a mistake by Elme tion. I think the Victoria men will Herridge, at inside right, is and Dellar which led to the Club's win. On the other hand the Kowloon scored 304 runs for the loss of seven difficult to imagine South China wickets. Towards this total B. L. G. being deposed from their lofty post another Higgins, only boasting second goal.

side is a fine symbolism of Lion Rock Hload made 69 and B. Sealey 60 not|tion. It would require an utter cal. better ball control and more i

Taken by and large, St. Joseph's both fore and aft, Woods, McGuire out.-Reuter,

lapst on their part to effect any al-cleverness in ball manipulation. showed 100 per cent, improvement and Robson, the intermediates aro teration in opinion on this multer,

On Saturday his back passes an their pre-Christmas form, players of well and truly tried virtue, THE Police had another of their un- with the heel of his boot were

yesterday.. Beaten the Athletic hands ed to find the player for whom should have

They very neatly done and rarely fail down. They should today be ruthey were intended. ning second to South China in the lengue table. But they left their

Beatty is another forager, but shooting boots (probably carefully with not quite the same quickness locked up until the New Year) around in seizing openings in front of the various police stations, and the goal. But his left wing partner Athletic got nway with a proniless

ship with Costa revealed a smooth i draw.

working plan of inter-passing, which was only broken up by the superb tenacity of Tavlin,

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INCIDENTALLY a bouquet to Chris Pile, whose football is decidedly better tlun his luck with the paste- boarda!

CHINESE outfits took the count in the Junior Shield ties yesterday, Royal Engineers and the Navy s ed on, the former after a keen tussle, and the intter by searing four. goals without reply in a poor game.

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DELLAR PROVES HIMSELF

The excellent reports heard about Dellar, the left back, were fully substantiated by a quiet, but efficient display of tackling, good length kicking. and Intelligent covering work. The only oceni sions one felt Dellar, or for that|

Leonard showed up very well at centre-half, belog especially suc cessful in thwarting Ernest) Strange. Ward is a better inside right than he is centre-forward, but even in this new position he fully justified himself by scoring a couple of goals, and now and again initiating a raid with a delightful sweeping pass to either wing.

ONE SHORTCOMING So for as methods of attack were concerned, the only real fault one could find with the Saints was a tendency by the three inside- forwards to crowd one another, with the result that they were oft times left without any shooting space; Over. eagerness on the part of Her- ridge and Bently also deprived them of making use of good openings,

The display served up by the Club was a strange mixture of in- effectual efforts to combine, good

A. B. Stewart.-4th hole In

two.

J. E. Richardson.-4th hole In

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