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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1936.

Clubhouse Chatter

By "Voritas'

Hongkong's Uphill Fight In Cricket Interport

OUR SELF-RESPECT RESTORED

BY E. F. FINCHER

SHANGHAI has been treated plece

to some grand cricket during the past three days, and the 1936 Interport will go down to pos-

CRUSHING DEFEAT

on the

of work, and unte which. clear by. the brief made crystal cables received here, was fully ap preciated by Shangbol. Yesterday it was E. F. Fincher who raised terity as one of the most fascin- aloft the Colony standard, helping Police Hockey Players ating matches in the history of himself to a brilliant century

And

Score Ten Goals unbeaten remaining

at the the series: Doughty deeds have Thanks

end. to him Hongkong came been performed with the bat, within 202 of Shanghai's first In- The Police "A" hockey eleven ad- and not all of the honours have nings score, when at one time "i ministered a crushing defeat to the gone to Shanghai. Yesterday it looked as though they would be a Union Hockey Club team

300 was Ernest Fincher who demon- Fincher was sound and steady, and cur goals to n

good behind. Messages BBY Y.M.C.A. ground yesterday afternoon, strated that the Colony, has from that it is fairly simple to esti The Police were not in exceptioart somebody who can take advan-mate the ne character of his in- trim, or the tally would have mount- tage of a good wicket and treat nings. It was made when Hongkong leves more than it did. the bowling sheerly on its merits. were definitely in a jam, and when Union team was not really orgutilzed, Thanks

some of the best wickets were and several members had filled to to him Hongkong one of

falling cheaply.

turn up. Actually only Cap- recovered something of its cric-tain Persse stayed

any length of ket self-respect, which at one time with him and it is significant time was at pretty low ebb. to note that Fincher stored 14 of the last slateen runi. We shall awok with Interest to learn the full story of that great innings.

Bowling Mystory

Shanghai Pile-It On

I came as no surprise to and A. J.

ns the

SPORT ADVTS.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

By Order,

THE match has undergone a com

plete transformation since I Just wrote anything about it. From a

The Eighth Extra Race Meeting perilous position. Shanghal re- covered to such an extent, that they Barson electing to bat a second will be held (weather permitting) closed their first innings practically time yesterday instead of enforcingat HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday,

follow-on. The immune front defeat. At least one ac-the

wickel

was 10th October, 1936, commencing at credited

in went

By clearly still west. record

a pretty good state 2.00 p.m. eould not afford to allow storing 470 they topped the previ-and he

The First Bell will be rung at ous best aggregate put up by Hong-Hongkong the advantage of batting kung in 1909. Not only that, there it possibly running up a useful 1.30 p.m.

score with Shanghet

consequently were ninth and tenth wicket

mart-score nerships of 90 and 78 respectively forced to bat Inst. It is not made which must be next door to records, clear whether the fairly cheap dis- if they do not in fact constitute missal of Shanghai's six batsimen it them, Parker's magnificent hitting the afternoon was due to the wicket, was only to be compared by Bar-their attempts to score quickly, or

knock son's varelui

during

Perhaps crisis just sheer good bowling. and Lecitie's enterprising innings three factors contributed. It is which turned the game completely difficult to believe that the wicket is in favour of the homesters. It is, not beginning to react to the 100 perhimps, fair to Shanghai to od runs which have been scored place emphasis on the fact that on it, and Hongkong to-day will neither Garthwalte

Gosare a task next door to the im

all,

nur

had one

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could do any bowling, at the same At the moment Shanghai enjoy a lend of 321. They can alford to bat time the fart deserves mention it only to mitigate the ineffectiveness for unother half an hour or so to

make it a

a comfortable 350, and then, of the Colony's attack. The bowling figures make not only melancholy. I fear, it is

Is just a case of how good but significant reading. We find ght the Colony can make of it. that Garthwaite did not bowl at if they score as many as they did

that Gosto

over, in the first innings it will be # Madar Ave and Persse 16. Thus out splendid achievement, and they will of the 175.2 overs sent down, three not be disgraced by the defcat. bowlers shared

Brec while 22, others were responsible for the rest. And of those fatter three, two were spin bawlers, working out their hearts on

on a peri

perfect batsman's wicket. Was there. any particular reason why Madur only bowied five overs? peculiar, particularly when you notice that those Ave included one maiden and that he conceded only eleven runs. Persse too was will be too long for her. The second not apparently over worked, seeing leg of the daily double is on this that he started his bowling on event and my Inney is Ranger on Monday. Sixteen overs in the account of his impressive win at the of a day and a half, in which last meeting: but, Centre Court 479 runs have been scored, does not should not be despised. muggest that he was overbowled.

course

This is not intended

ICACI

as criticism.

For one thing it is impossible to crilleise

from

this distance with nothles to go on but bire Rather am hinting that Pearce was confronted with something more than the problem of being unable to bowl Gosunu and Garthwaite, and that his position on Monday and Tuesday was anything but enviable. Fincher the Magnificent

R°

TO-MORROW'S RACE MEETING

(Continued from Page 8.).

WILL AMBERLEY WIN?

Has Opportunity To-Morrow

Ythan belonging to Mr. Grayburn has the same impost when he an- nexed the Island Bay Handicap, but, ODIN Lee is deserving of a bls Amberley, who was second, has been hundelap, for his figures were dropped by three pounds for the final Tribute the wonderfully coura- geous work he accomplished. For the Kiongsi handicap over a medium-fast bowler to send down the door for quite a long while, and mile. Amberley has been knocking

no less than 53 overs in a day and have a strong hunch that he will a half of cricket is, in amateur crickel, 11 magnificent physical achievement, and I doubt whether

Interporter has ever

any

tho pass

wire first to-morrow. Valorous gave a disappointing dis tered pay in his last outing and it is hoped heltered he will do better owing t

to the it. Furthermore Lee returned the fact that he has been granted an best average, his three wickets cost allowance of 10 lbs. High Honour is ing 107 runs as compared with pretty low

on the handicap while

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