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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1936.

ELIOT HALL'S BADMINTON TEAM FOR SHANGHAI

TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP

LEONARD IS STILL IMPROVING

LEARNS VALUABLE

LESSONS

.......

. (By "Veritas")

is

A

J. W. Leonard tennis player who learns valu- ablo lessons from match play experienco and docs not hesitate to appropriate them, which is one reason why, he scored such a comfortable entry into the second round of the open singles championship yesterday at the expense of A. L. Sullivan, one-time a leading

game exponent of the Shanghai.

Leonard, naturally

容

Includes Five Senior Team Players

Our Daily Golf Hint

Golf teaches a mental poise that enables one to tako both the good and the bad without complaint; but cor.... rect thinking and acting can often turn bad into good. Jack Hoog.

Five-Year

In Plan For

meticulous player, has discovered that stendiness and the ability to keep, the ball in play will more likely bent the average player in Hongkong than spectacular! "reworks" lle employed these tac- tico against Sullivan with pronounced

BUCCCKS.

Not that the match was simply an exhibition of pat-bard-Sullivan the both players hit reasonably harder of the two-but Leonard's impregnable defence and

hin con-

sistently good return of the half lured Sullivan into errors and piled up points for the winner.

element

Sullivan tried hard to make effec- tive his variety of shots, but these with them the days they do not same

of

Beither are they so impeccable either in length direction. Leonard found little dimculty in anticipating them and covering the court to return them with interest.

carried

Both players

out Amarl

imanoeuvres and for the most part the

match was a battle of wits. It saYA: n.uch for the improvement made by Leonard that he deservedly carried off the honours.

Football

STARTLING IDEA SUGGESTED

(y W. Capel Klthy)

"Points ruin football! It would be a great game without them," remarked the director. who-matters of a famous club. He referred to it as "S OS football."

"What ro

you suggest $14

the

remedy?" I asked. "Calf a truce, and Institute a five-year plan," he replied.

In brief, his idea is to do away with the spoiling game by cutting out promotion and relegation for five

ACARONA.

What do you think of the ideß7) Do not forget, the danger of stagna- tion and smug complacency which a sense of security fosters.

SCOONES HARD PRESSED

There is one other way to stop this After Leonard had polished off Sullivan most of the spectators mured safety-first business, and that is to over to the No. 1 court to watch encourage the visiting team to play youthful Warwick Shute take P. II. more open football and keep the bull Scoones the full distance. Unhappily within the boundary lines.

AND THREE

FROM

THE "B"

Two Matches Scheduled

་

(By "Veritas").

Eliot Hall's badminton team to play against the Cercle Sportif Francais and a select ed Shanghai combination in Shanghai on April 4 and 5 will be composed of five players drawn from the "A" team and three from the "B". Arrangements for Eliot Hall's visit to the North have now been finalised, their badminton gramme being:-

BIG BADMINTON MATCH.

TEAMS AT FULL STRENGTH

ELIOT HALL "A"

V. RECREIO-

(B) "Veritas");

Both Eliot Hall "A" and Recrea

will, not

"A" hope to turn out fall strength teams for their eple badminton match at the University hostel this evening.

Although this match necessarily decido the men's doubles championship, it will provide an im- portant pointer. Ellot all naturally are favourites as they are playing on their own court which is so vastly pro-different to that of the Recrelo, that the visitors are bound to find them-

April 4 versus Cercle Sportif Francais at the French Club. All doubles, each game of 16 points up.

April 5-versus Shanghal repre

Hentative team, a series of games including singles and doubles.

The team, accompanied by about. ten other members of Eliot Hall, will leave Hongkong by the Taksang on March 29, and will re- turn on April 13.

THE PLAYERS

The following are the eight badminton players who will repre- sent the Hall in Shanghai:--

Lee Cheng-ong ("A" team) Lee Thean-chlu (“A” team) Chan Peng-kok ("A" team) Lee Kuan-yow ("A" team) Tan Pel-can ("B" team) the match started late and with the It is to award three points for an

Soon Cheng-hoe ("I" team) overcast sky and threatening rain, "away" win. Then, I suppose, the Liew Keng-slong ("A" team). conditions were far from deal. In home side would exploit the kicking- Tye Soo-chong ("B" team) fact the final net was played in light out and goal-packing tricks. No, Lee Chung-ong is going hs which was unfair to both players. perhaps the five-year-plan is the best, captain of the team, but the first:

Shute, bringing his

eing his energetic top after all.

string doubles will be Lee Thean- spin forehand drive into full force I know

who, when chiu and some team

Chan Peng-kok, ·Eliot walked away with the first set, his visiting, travel with definite instruc- Hall's leading players. The rest opponent being right out of touch. tions to play a spoiling game, "A" of the doubles combinations have During this period Shute played with point will suit us very nicely," they not yet been settled.

confidence and aggressiveness of sny. "veteran"

and looked match

player

In the singlea the visitors will) a surprise victory.

be represented by Lee Thean- But he tired rather rapidly during

chiu, Chan Peng-kok and Llew Keng-slong,

the

Д

good for a

the second set and Scoones, at last

Unfortunately, I have seen too many matches of that variety recently.

capturing control over his shots, pro- FANLING MEETING... ́ceeded to outdrive and out-volley the|-----

schoolboy,

It was an entertaining match though ons wished it could have been played better conditions under

Once

St. John Ambulance Cup Contest

wne

third

Scoones had invested his strokes with confidence the ult te result hardly in doubt. In the

́SHANGHAI TEAMS UNKNOWN

Neither the French Club team

selves somewhat handicapped.

Eliot Hall will probably win to- night, but to them it will be more lun portant to see how easy or how difficult in the accomplishment, for they have yet to visit Club de Recreio, From to-night's match they will be

able to form some opinion as to their prospects at King's Park,

The teams will probably be as fol- lows.

is:

Eliot Hall "A":---T. C. Lee and P. K. Chan; C. O. Lee and C. 8. Heng; K.,5. Llew and K. Y. Lee,,

Recreio "A":—M. A. Oliveira and J. J. Remedios, L. A. Carvalho and A. M. Bilya; IL. A. Alves and E. Souss.

The full programme for this evening

St. Andrew's "A" v. Eliot Hall "B" V.R.C.

v. St. John's Recreio "B" v. Kowloon Tong Eliot Hall "A" y. Recreiɑ "A"

MIXED DOUBLES .....

All

FIRE BRIGADE WIN EASILY

Nine Games From

St. Andrew's

SPRING IS HERE!, TRA-LA!-or ́so one would think by this study taken yesterday during the Police. Fualliers football match. A red hot attack an Police zaal produced this display of energy by

Gough and others. (Photo: Mes Cheung)..

OSMUND'S

·BREAK

Best Yet In Championship

A. J. Osmund, potential winner of the Hongkong Bil- liards Championship, scored nearly twice as fast as M.' M. ] da Silva, the Macao champion when they met last night in the semi-final of the senior cham- pionship of the Colony,

Osmund went to his pointa (750) when Silva stood at 418. The win- ner contented himself with consistent breaks and concentrated chiefly on his excellent break of 187, the highest to date in the tournament.

POLICE HELD TO A DRAW

AFFECTS TITLE HOPES

LEAGUE SOCCER YESTERDAY

REFEREES

RESENT INQUEST RIDER

Inquiry To Be Made

After a protracted inquest on

Although Police by vittur of their drawn match yesterday with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, retain the leadership of the Arat division of James Thorpe (22), the Sunder- the Hongkong Football League, they land goalkeeper, who died on greatly assisted the cause of South Feb. 5, a few days after the China "A" by falling to garner both match against Chelsea at Roker points.

Park in which he was injured, The result was well in accordance the jury found that: with the run of the play. Police were

W38 duc to Death

diabetes, accelerated by the rough usage he received in the game, and that

The referee was very lax in his control.

He was doridedly unlucky to lose on top in the rat half and positions the white ball at 10 but he proceed-were reversed after the interval. If

the soldiers were anything

triflo ed to score 33 off the red before Fire Brigado and St. Andrew's breaking down. Osmund also helped unlucky not to obtain the odd goal played off their postponed mixed himself to a couple of half century and the two points. Had they made doubles badminton match-last night breaks and quitos number in the the positional changes earlier thisThey added ng a_ridor: at Police Headquaters, when the home thirties. team won by the convincing margin Lo love.

St.

And now's

Silva, never quite in the same class,

might well have resulted,

"We urge the Board of Manage- The game, played at Kowloon,ment of the F.A. to instruct all re-

once Talbot had eliminate as far as possible any fur-, moved into the forward line the same ther accidents." can be said of the Fusiliers.

wore exported to give the Brigade a with 20's. fairly good form just recently and Otherwise he had to remain contented enterprising, and closer run for the points.

The detailed scores follow.

..

KITCHELL IN FINAL A. Kitchell reached the fihal of the juntor championship by beating E. A.

NORTH WITHOUT A PEER

North played a splendid game' at

nor the representative Shanghai of nino games offered rather die did play good billiards. at times, but/honsted patches of really bright foot-¦ ferees that they must exercise stricter' line-up is at appointing the present, but in view generous reports sent to Shanghai of the set, A reminder is issued that the St. by visitors from the northern port despite bad light, the winner ralded John Ambulance Cup will be contest-to Hongkong, it is quite likely the the net and young Warwick, chiefly ed at the meeting of the Fanling hosts will turn out strong teams. I think through physical tiredness, Hunt and Race Club on April 6,

FIRE BRIGADE ▾ St., ANDREW'S could not pull out a shot to pass his

Recently Gordon Lum, himself a Tickets Nos. 30301-30950, previous- opponent, who se

scortti consistently with ly reported as lost, have been found Shanghal player, said he considor- Shute and Mr. Shute (Fire Brigade). Remedios early yesterday evening right half for the Police and had no angled volleys and decisive "kills". and returned to the St.

beat H. Wont and Mr. Dawson 21-01 The remainder of the programme Ambulance

John led the Eliat Hall players ny good beat FF. Fincher and Mim M. Charn 25-11 by 400 points to 372. Kitchell, re-peer among the half backs, while Headquarters These as the average in Shanghai, though boat M. Well and Misa F. Wang 21-4. went according to general expecta-] tickets are now on sale and will be the did not think they would be able Drigade) beat Wong Dawon 21-2; boni Remedios. A nicoly-compiled break/Pressed somewhat more than did the)

taining an early lead managed to Keating was the ablest full back on (Continued on Pago 9.)

14. Anderson and Ms A. Grinthe (Fireward off a determined challenge by view. The Police intermediates im- included in the draw on April .

(Continued on Page 9.)

Fincher and Churn 21-10: bet Wolll And of 39 gave him a useful advantage foels of poor first half football by Tal-president of the Management Com

Fusiliers, who suffered from the ef Wong 21-11.

A. L. Pater mod Mr. Kirkwood (Fire over his opponent. Brigade) best Wong and Dawson 21-10; best Fincher and Churn 21-15; best Weill and 140h 21-0,

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The Glooming White

Racket.

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and

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LEAGUE TABLE

Fire Brigade... 13 11 293 24

C.R.C Recreio

"A" Recreio "B" St. John's

12 11 1 86:

9 8 1 60 12

11 4 5 GO 80

12 88 62 60

St. Andrew's

11 6 0 42 57 Kowloon Tong 14 3 11 40 81 8 Talkoo

8:21 00

4

S. and S. Home. 12 0 12 18 00 0

THE FINALS

The finalists in both tournaments are now known. This evening at 5.30 the first of the two matches will be

REFEREE'S RIGHT TO EXPLAIN League To Hold Full Inquiry

Mr. J. McKenna, Liverpool, the

bot. When Wanklyn moved over to mittee of the Football League, said the pivotal borth there was an im that he was greatly surprised the mediate improvement In the soldiers' referee was not asked to give middle line.

evidence..

Coakley, and later on Talbot were "The jury had not heard the P. W. L F A Pisplayed when A. Kitchell meets Y. T.livo wires in the Welch attack, while referee's explanation or side of the Yung. It is certain to be a vory Polles were cleverly led by Johnson. case," he went on. "Until the referee entertaining game, the players being Meliardy figured prominently in the has given his version. It is impossible very well matched.

Polica goal and had rather mare to to say anything. do than Rowlands, his opposite num- To-morrow the climax to a highlyber, who, however, showed smartnessing for an Inquiry into such a serious "I am not surprised at the jury ask. successful competition will be reached during the first half. at the Club Lusitano when A. J.

accident, and I can say that there will. Osmund and W. Hang Bling contest Police took the lend following a undoubtedly be a full liquiry at our the senior final. This encounter is fine movement initiated by North, who next meeting. In view of what was 2,000 points up spread over two transferred to Brooks. The left wing aid at Sonderland it would not be sessions of 500 points each. Those put the ball right across the field and fair to the referee for him to go on who have not yet booked their seats Tommy Pile (making a welcome re-to the field until there has been a full for this match should do so immediate appearance on the right wing) dashed inquiry and the whole circumstances ly, either at Messrs. Gando, Price & in to beat Rowlands with a shot from have been brought out." Co., Ltd., or as the Club Lusitano. If an acute anglo. Police held on to the Mr. Ernest H. Spiers, Bournville, What Is Minimum Number both contestonte play up to form this slight advantage until the interval, President of the Referees Association, match will provide the most spectacu- ten minutes after which Coakley expressed surprise at the jury's rider. "It is a very unexpected statement," Of Players In A Team?lar billards seen in the Colony for

REFEREES PUZZLED

The Referees' Committee has been

many years.

baked by the Sheffold and Halamshire BOWLING GREEN

F.A. to give a ruling upon the follow- ing subject, the Referees' Committee In turn appesking to the English F.A.| for a decision

"In a junior match one of the

icama was able to fald only five players. As the referee considered that the number against a full team would make the game farcical, ho ro- fused to allow the game be started What is the least, number of players. with which a referee would be justi- fied in starting a match?"

CLUB

NEW PRESIDENT

scored with a glorious drive. he said. "My observation has been

Police wont further ahead when that the referees' control this season Johnson netted in typical fashion, has been on the whole, good, particu but the lead was short-lived, a foul Jarly with reference to the care of the

to equalise with ease, g

in the penalty area permitting Talbot goalkeeper.

Rulings in connection with play in. the goalmouth are one of the most After this Police were strictly on difficult parts of refereeing.”

| the defensive and the goal sufferød a

series of narrow escape, the wood-

At the thirty-sixth annual meetbers of the Committee..

J. G. Meyer and M. Henderson, mem- work being struck more than once. ingof the Kowloon Bowling Green Club held at the Club House yester day evening, Mr. L. Guy was elected

ELECTION OF OFFICERS

President for the ensuing year. The election of offleura ́resulted as

LEAGUE TABLE

Gouls

P. W. D.-L. F.

27-1

The election was made on the pro- follows: President Mr. L. Gug: H.K. Pollec. 18 11 0 8 The Referees' 'Committee replied

posal of Mr. WE Hale, who bald Vice-President Mr. T. F. Bradford; S. China "A" that Mr. Guy had rendered yeoman Hon, Secretary-Mr. J. G. Moyer;} R.W. Fusillera that the referee should posipono a

Borvica › to the Club In many Hon. Treasurer Mr. R. P. Morris Chinese Ath, 157 match and report the facts to the

respects, and had previously oc- General Committee: Blessrs. G. E. 8. China “3” 14.0 secretary of the competition whon, in his op

cupied the peet. The proposal Thompson, R. Hall, J. B. Sturgeon, 1.K.F.C... 188 opinion, the game would lose its

was seconded by Mr. W. 8. Drake B. Wylle, G. HI. Sherriff, J. E. Hon- R.U. Rifles 18 6. proper character if contested by top

and enrriedwith acclamation.

ann, F. L. Rapley, with the President, St. Joseph's 19 8 2 03 a number of players.

D36-48 small a

arising out of this the Referees' Mr. Hals, President, was in the Hon. Treasurer of oficio.

Vice-President, Hon. Secretary and Royal Navy 14 10.7 38 84 14.

East Lancs. 14 4 2 628 Committee may raise the question as chair and was supported by Messra. Balloting Committoo:. Menara. Recreio to the minimum number of players D. W. Waterton Hon. Secretary), M. J. Henderson, H. F. Stoneham, Kowloon F.C. 10 4 1 11 who should be permitted to take part J. I Tetley (Hon. Treasurer), LK. C. Hamilton, J. c. Gill, S.. A.R.A. Lyemun 10 20 in a match

Guy, F. L. Rapley, E. W. Gardiner, Bright, and G. Hatt

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