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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1937.

BRILLIANT BADMINTON TRIUMPH FOR ST. JOHN'S

Beat King's College And Lower 100 Per Cent. Record

THRILLING NINTH GAME DECIDES

It was apparent, however, that the

ST. John's Cathedral Varsity players had Hitto in hand,

scored a great tri-thought they could not afford to take things too lightly. Some of the play umph in the badminton

was exceptionally fast and some keen considerabic ap- league last evening when rallies provoked

plause. they beat the hitherto un- defeated King's College by the odd game in nine after one of the most thrilling matches imaginable.

The encounter was staged at the Cathedral Hall, and so ovenly matched were the teams, that when the last game was started. they were on level terms at four-all.

Then in a spectacular and exciting Anish, Norman Smith and Peter Wil- Ron of the Cathedral bent T, Lam and K. H. Lo 21-19.

All of the games were finely con tested In the opening match of the evening Roland Koh and G. A. Smith took II. T. Woo and H. N. Chung to 21-24 before losing, and it therefore came as deep surprise when J. Bennilt and D. Kwok beat this nest pair as easily as 21-7.

St. John's victory, though magni0- cent, has come too late to affect the second dviision championship which is

College. for King's assured Nevertheless great credit is due to the Saints for their achievement.

R. Koh and G. A. Smith (St. John's) lost to H. T. Woo and H. N. Chung 21-24; beat S. P. Chan and W. M. Cheung 21-9; beat T. Lam and K. H. Lo 21-0.

N. Smith and P. Wilson (St.) John's) lost to Woo and Chung 1-21; lost to Chan and Cheung 1-23; beat Lom and Lo 21-19.

J. Bennitt and D. Kwok (St Jolin's) beat Woo and Chung 21-7; lost to Chan and Cheung 8-21; beat Lam and Lo 21-10.

KOWLOON TONG "A" WINS Kowloon Tong "A" easily beat their juntor side at Kowloon Tong Club last evening, winning seven of the nluc games.

The "A" Division match between Chinese Y.M.C.A., and the Chinese Recreation Club was postponed.

"A" DIVISION Saints' Improved Display

Though St. Andrew's "A" lost by eight games to one against the Uni- versity "A" last evening, the en- counter was by no means co one- sided as this score suggests,

With the exception of one game, St. Andrew's reached double figures and generally led at the halfway stogo.

Fincher and Kew played cleverly

E. F. Fincher und II. Kow (St Andrew's "A") lost to T. C. Leo and

K. L. Yong 13-21: lost to P. K. Hui and 11. E. Tan 17-21: beat C. IL Soon

and K. S. Liew 21-14.

S. A. Gray and F. A. Broadbridge (St. Andrew's "A") lost to Lee and Yong 14-21: lost to Hul and Tan 15-21; lost to Soon und Llew 9-21.

A. E. P. Guest and F. V. Wong (St. Andrew's "A") lost to Lee and Yong 17-21 lost to Hul and Tan

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Colony Badminton

Championship

VARSITY PAIR ELIMINATED

C. H. Soon and P. E. Tan, a Uni- versity pair, made their exit from the Colony badminton championship dur- ing the week-end, when they lost a second round match to F. Koh and J. J. Ong of Chinese Y.M.C.A.

The encounter was staged at the Chinese "Y", the home couple win- ning with surprising ease in straight games, the scores being 15-5, 15-5.

The winners meet M A. Oliveira and J. J. Remedios, оле of the "speded" pairs In the quarter-finals.

ADDITIONAL RESULTS'. Further results in the champion- ships are to hand.

Playing the men's doubles, P. H. a favoured Wong and C. E. Chng, combination for the title, casily de- feated Rev. A. J. Bennitt and David Kwok of St. John's Cathedral in straight games of 15-5, 15-7.

K. S. Liew of the University and 5. W. Liang (C.R.C.) engaged in a very tense struggle In the men's singles before Liew

Liew won 17-14, 17-15. The match was played on Sunday at King's College, and Liang gave an exceedingly

account of himself against

who was expected

to win fairly

Actually Llang should have won the second game, but he committed errors at a vital stage.

The first result in the mixed doubles has been reported, P. K. Hui and Miss U. Khoo of the University,

to beat C. H. Seon and K. S. Llew, who are expected to win the event, and should have won against F. K. | hove received a walk-over from S. Hul and P. E. Tan, but went to pieces | W. Linng and Miss W. Cheung and after leading 17-14.

thus enter the semi-final,

A TYPICAL STORY!

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a second-hand car. It looked fine, but after 6 weeks I became so "fed up" with all the trouble and expense I was having with it, I sold it and bought

3 NEW FORD and brought it back with me. Never had the least trouble with the new car and the rest of my leave was the most enjoyable I've ever had.”

THIS STORY IS NOT ONLY TYPICAL IT'S TRUE. WE COULD GIVE THE NAMES OF MANY PEOPLE IN THE COLONY WHO HAVE HAD JUST SUCH AN EXPERIENCE.

LET US PROVIDE YOU WITH A LETTER TO THE FORD MOTOR CO. OF ENGLAND, LTD, WHEN YOU GO ON LEAVE IN CASE YOU BECOME INTERESTED IN A CAR WHILE AT HOME. IT DOES NOT OBLIGATE YOU IN ANY WAY. SIMPLY MEANS YOU WILL RECEIVE PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT.

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Bird's-eye view of the famous cricket ground at Melbourne which will be the scene of the fifth and deciding Test which starts

world.

on Friday of this week. It is estimated that 129,900 people will daily seek and secure admission to this, the biggest crickat ground in the

Melbourne--Scene of Fifth Test, and World's

Largest Cricket Ground Holiday Cricket In Hongkong

(By Bruce Harris)

Melbourne.

In Australia the initials "M.CC. stand

more frequently for Mel- bourne than for Marylebone Cricket Club. Both M.C.C.'s enshrine history of cricket.

the

Melbourne already holds the world record for a cricket crowd- 78,000 in the New Year Test match of the present series. That is not

harve

gone enough. Preparations ahend for accommodating 120,000 in the fifth Tost of the present season. As it is a rubber match there will be 120,000 men and women seeking accommodation.

IN MELBOURNE TESTS TO DATE

Australia have won 16, England 12, and two matches have

been drawn.

And Melbourne is comparable in population, not to London, but to Manchester or Glasgow.

SWEEPING CHANGES

As at Highbury, so in Melbourne, they do not do things by halves) when improvements are afoot. A

The King's Second Victory

London, Feb. 22. His Majesty the King scored his second horse-race victory since his accession to the throne at Birmingham to-day, when Marconi won the Coventry Handicap.

Marconi, which also scored a clever win over the sticks re- erntly, falsited four lengths ahead of Tattenhall, which Din- ton Lad was third.

Marconi pald odds of 11 to 2.-- United Press.

ARSENAL

clean sweep has been made of small UNLUCKY IN

stands along one side and the end of the ground, and an enormous grey two-decker, naw almost com- plete, is going up instead.

When the (English) M.C.C, played the State of Victoria recently crie- ket was accompanied by the clatter

CUP DRAW

of something doing. Now and then Three LONDON a workman perohed sparrow-size on

a roof or crane would look down regretfully at the game; then turn again to his job of inakding the ground for any Test crowd that cricket enthusiasm may bring there.

Police Footballer is Censured

Brought before the Emergency Commiites yesterday to answer a charge of alleged ungentleman- ly behaviour towards the re- fereo in a match between Chi- nese Felice and the Club Juntors January 10, Gough, who is trainer of the Police team severely censured.

on

Was

It was stated that Gough made a remark to the referee, Mr. Mc- Cormac, to which the official took exception.

TEAMS IN LAST EIGHT

Unlucky Arsenal!

London, Feb. 22, Once again the illustrious London

fron team has been drawn away home in the English Cup, this being the third time in the four rounds in which they have competed, that they have had to travel.

Furthermore they have drawn one

SOUZA'S FINE CENTURY AGAINST K.C.C.

VOLUNTEERS MAKE A HEARTY RECOVERY AND WIN COMFORTABLY

by 82 runs.

(By "Veritas")

K.C.C. COLLAPSE

HISTORY OF FOOTBALL

Sgt. Isley's Address

TO LOCAL REFEREES

A

Serg Isley. ono of Hongkong's leading football referees Favo fascinating and instructive address to the Referees' Association last even- ing, his subject being "The History of Football". In the course of his paper le traced the advance of the game from the time it was a sort of war between two parishes, to lis present state of exact science. The address, in full, follows,

History is, as a rale, to the majority of us, a very distressing subject, so I will make my talk as brief and as comprehensive as possible. I am oided, of course, by the fact that all of us here are very interested in the history I am to talk about, that is, Association Football.

Now, there is no real origin of Football. No one can tell us when it actually started. It is a game which has just grown out of a ball co to carly speak. History tells us that the Romans had

had a game of handball, but there are no detalls. At Derby in the

year A.D. 217 the Englishmen so re- sented certain actions of their Roman sent

conquerors that they banded together and drove them from the town and celebrated the oceaalon with a foot- ball match in which everybody join- then held

ed. This celebration was

annually, on Shrove Tuesday, but eventually it became a sort of a Lwo political "fight" between the parishes of St. Peters and All Saints, the points

stake at

being the

boundaries between those parishes. It is recorded that it was the custom

of the Shoemakers to deliver to the Drapers a ball of

of leather costing

three shillings and fourpence or more, at the Cross Roads of Chester, in the

of the

of that town, every Shrove Tuesday, and the ball was kicked from the Cross Roads to the Communion

Hall by

presence of

by as many people who liked to join the fray.

Here was football in a very crude

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form. You can imagine the number the Kowloon Cricket Club for two good balls, while Simpson was of injuries both minor and severe yesterday, the Volunteers beat the a little luckless, though it must also that many of the participants raust K.C.C. in a half-day cricket match be noted that he was erratic. Lee have suffered, and you can imagine. had only one spell the early part of too, the damage done to property which was fair, though he bowled along the route of the hectle scramble. When Robin Lee secured too much off the wicket to be very Indeed, it became so severe, that King A. K. Mackenzie's wicket with dangerous. Lay rarely pitched a Edward II forbade the practice ab- his third delivery and then good length, but Anderson looked solutely. But there were many law-

Commoners breakers, for the

still in- bowled two successive maiden goed in his second spell,

dulged in the sport of kicking overs, the red light seemed to

K.C.C. batting suffered a shocking leather ball about. There were un- be hoisted so far as the Volun- collapse, the whole side being dismiss

limited numbers of players, and no teers were concerned in yester-ed for 112 after the first two wickets restrictions. How a man got the ball was nobody's business but his own, day's holiday cricket match had put together 60 mins.

thing was terribly and the whole against the K.C.C. Yet something like two hours

crude and rough and, in some degree, revolung. later the score board read 199

Anyhow, things were becoming so for 3, with G. Souza boasting an unfinished knock of 103.

Thus was the Kowloon Cricket Club attack, which to start with looked very lively, reduced to impotency.

After that disheartening start, the Volunteers made their runs excep- tionally well, though it must be con- fessed that beyond Anderson and Lee, the attack was not very brilliant. Furthermore t was

one of the K.C.C.'s castcst-paced wickets and Just fit for a lot of runs.

ot

The STROKE

the day was Souza's century, compiled practically without blemish, and made notable by the batsman's display of all- round-the-wicket strokes. His pel smäck between

of the strongest teams in the com- shot--and his presa!

the covers,

petition-West Bromwich, and it through they survive they can be regarded a square point and cover. It wIB as almost certain winners of the Cup. wristy and perfectly timed, and be- A brilliant victory by Tottenham hind the stroke (very often made off aver Everton in the fifth round replay the back foot) war the whole weight yesterday leaves the Spurs at home of his body. He used it to good pur- to Preston, while another London pose on Lay's going-away deliveries, tram, Millwall enjoys a home draw, getting beautifully on top of the ball. Manchester City being their op- Souza reached his half-century as ponents.

Thus London has three represen- tatives in the quarter-finals.

Even more remarkable than the figuro 120,000 is the fact that about three-fifths of the number will be first. able to watch the "backed" seats of Grimsby or Wolves v. Sunderland the garden type. There will be W. Bromwich fewer tired backs and legs surely Millwall

The draw, as cabled by Reuter, follows, with home teams mentioned

a contribution to the barracking pro- | Tottenham

V.

Arsenal

V. Manchester C. v. Preston N. E.,[

blem, for nvhlch a man is weary un- These games will be played on

TOTTENHAM

dor an Australian sun he may be March 8. excused

certain peevishness, This new stand is casting the club £75,000. In addition the players' dressing-rooms have been remodel- led, though even now the players do not have a fine dbservation bat- cony of their own, as an adjunct of their room, as at Adelalde, the place where cricketers сап

can dress

und watch with tre last word in luxury. BIG-NOT BEAUTIFUL

WINS

a result of an over-throw boundary which gave him five runs, and after he had been at the wickets for 03 minutes.

With Griffiths, he was concerned In a second wicket partnership of 98. Grimthe batted with splendid thoroughness and most judiciously for his 44. In the early stages he wils inclined to be ultra-cautious, but

Inter he opened out and I afted freely, with the result that he col- lected seven boundaries. Owen-Hughes joined Souza, who pursued his way blithely, never being THE REPLAY in the slightest difficulty until he offered Lay a hard chance at mid-off from Sargent's half-volley. He was League Points For

then in the seventies', but the incident did not upset the batsman's equili Millwall

brium, and he carried on to reach three figures in an hour

and 25 London, Feb. 22.

minutes. Tattenham delighted their suppor- The Melbourne ground cannot be ters at White Hart Lane 10-day by

Owen-Hughes left before Souza had called beautiful by any stretch of

the tall the imagination. Beauty and the con- winning their fifth round F.A, Cup accomplished thin but

after on Cricket Club all-rounder had scared crete stands of the football type do replay against Everton not go together. Adelaide remains exciting match by four goals to three, a vigorous 30 before his dismissal. the prettiest of the major cricket and thus quality to receive Preston Owen-Hughes was especially hard on

Jn the sixth round. grounds of the world-major in ac-

П In commodating 50,000 or more.

third division (southern sec- | tion)

Cross the league match at New The Melbourne Club, at its pre- to-day, Millwal!

defeated Bristol

Sport, who bowled too short and

Owen-Hughes to pull him to boundary,

sent full strength, has 0,200 men City by three goals to one-Reuter, surray stayed long enough to see i

bere,

at an entrance fee of seven guineas, and an annual subscription cit 43 6, which includes unre-

get his century and then the closure was applied at 109 for three. Souza had a five and 17 4's in a very

Towards the

servod seats for the Test matches to 1s. d. daily; the trustees of the brilliant plece of batting. The general public are admitted to ground could any increase in the Baxter had a bowl and sent down orle end of tho innings the Tests nt prices varying from 5p. top prices.

of the home side.

had secured two

J. R. Way had an effective spell of bowling towards the end, taking three wickets for ove runs in 2.1 overs. Previously Souza wickets--both caught and bowled bad, that many people of note were while Owen-Hughes and Dunnell, voicing their objection to the violence with a couple of wickets apiece, had of the crowds at these skirmishes.

Sir Thomas contributed to the general downfall One was

and the historian Stubbs of the Ell--

mas Elyot (1031) zabethan perlod described the occur- rences as-nothing but friendly fights. Manchester prohibited football in 1608 and the practice

of kicking a

ball about almost dled out during the Commonwealth period. But after the Restoration period It showed signs of revival, and it is known that the King (Continued on Page 9.)

Beyond Kenneth Baxter, who made some excellent strokes for his 33, and F.4. Broadbridge, who was unlucky enough to be run out jus when he was settling down, none of the bats men shaped with any confidence.

An Interesting point about the

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WE

THIS IS

BURGUNDY

WEATHER

STRONGLY RECOMMEND OUR

FINE SELECTION OF

VINTAGE BURGUNDIES

THE QUALITY AND EXCELLENCE OF THESE WINES BEING UNSURPASSED

IN HONGKONG,

CALDBECK'S

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