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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1937.

BRILLIANT BADMINTON TRIUMPH FOR

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

THRILLING NINTH GAME DECIDES

ST. John's Cathedral I was apparent, however, that the

Varsity had little in hand,

was exceptionally fast and some keen

ratlles provoked considerable sp-

plause.

scored a great tri-thought they could not afford to take umph in the badmintonungs too lightly. Some of the play league last evening when 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 evenly matched, were the teams, that when the last game was started they were on leyel terms four-all.

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Then in a spectacular and exciting finish, Norman Smith and Peter Wil- son of the Cathedral beat 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 tools H. T. Woo and II. N. Chung to 21-24 before losing, and it therefore deep surprise when J. came as Bennitt and D. Kwok beat this first pair as easily as 21-7.

St. John's victory, though magnifi- cent, has come too late to affect the second dvilslon championship which assurod for King's College. 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 agd 1. M. Cheung 21-9: beat T. Lam and K II. Lo 21-9.

E. F. Fincher and H. Kew (St. Andrew's "A") lost to T. C.. Lee and K. L. Yong 13-21: lost to P. K. Hul and D. E. Tan 17-21: beat C. H. Soon

and K. S. Liew 21-14.

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S, A. Gray and F. A. Broadbridge (St. Andrew's "A") lost to Lee and Yong 14-21: lost to itul and Ton 15-21: lost to Soon and Liew 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 (Continued on Page 9.)

Colony Badminton

ST.

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

world.

on Friday of this wook. It is estimated that 120,000 people wilt daily seek and secure admission to this, the biggest cricket ground in the

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

VARSITY PAIR ELIMINATED

C. H. Soon and P. E. Tan, a Uni-` versity pair, made their exit from the Colony badminton cliampionship dur ing the week-end, when they lost a second round match to F. Koh and

N. Smith and P. Wilson (St) John's) lost to Woo and Chung 1-21; J. J. Ong of Chinese Y.M.C.A. lost to Chan and Cheung 1-31; bent Lam and Le 21-19.

The encounter was staged at the Chinese "Y", the home couple win-

J. Bennit and D. Kwok (St. John's) beat Woo and Chung. 21-7:in with surprising case in straight lost to Chan and Cheung 0-21; beat Lam and Lo 21-10,

KOWLOON TONG "A" WINS

Kowloon Tong "A" easily beat their junior side at Kowloon Tong Club last evening, winning seven of the nine games.

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

"A" DIVISION Saints' Improved Display

games, the scores being 15-5, 15-5.

The winners meet E1. A, Oliveira and J. J. Remedios, one of the "secded" pairs in the quarter-finals.

ADDITIONAL RESULTS

Further results in the champion- ships are to hand.

Playing the men's doubles, P. II. Wong and C. E. Ching, a favoured combination for the title, easily de- feated Rev. A. J. Bennitt and David Kwok of St. John's

Cathedral in straight

of 15-5. games

K. S. Liew of the University and S. W. Llang (C.R.C.) engaged in a very tease struggle in the men's singles before Liew won 17-14, 17-15.

The

match was

played on Sunday

Though St. Andrew's "A" lost by eight games to one against the Uni-t versity "A" Last evening, the counter was by no means so one- sided as this score suggests.

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

Fincher and Kew played cleverly to beat C. H. Soon and K. S. Liew, and should have won against P. K Hul and P. E. Tan, but went to pieces after leading 17-14.

King's

a College, and Liang gave an exceedingly. against a player who was expected good account of himself

to win fairly easily.

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. Hul and Miss U. Khoo of the University, who are expected to win the event, have received a walk-over from S. W. Liang and Miss W. Cheung and thus enter the semi-danl;

A TYPICAL STORY!

"When I arrived Home on leave I bought

a second-hand car. It looked fine, but after 6 weeks 1 became, so "fed up" with all the trouble and expense I was having with it, I sold it and bought

a 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. IT SIMPLY MEANS YOU WILL RECEIVE PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT.

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Largest Cricket Ground Holiday Cricket In Hongkong

(By Bruce Harris)

Melbourne.

In Australia the initials "M.C./C." stand more frequently for Mcl- bourne than for Marylebone Cricket Club. Both M.C.C.'s enshrine the history of cricket.

the

Melbourne already holds world record for a cricket crowd— 78,000 in the New Year Test match of the present series. That is not enough. Preparations have gone ahend for accommodating 120,000 in the nth Tost of the present season. As it is a rubber match there will Le 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

anchester or Glasgow.

SWEEPING CHANGES

at Highbury, so in Melbourne. As at they do not things by halves. when improvements are afoot. A clean sweep has been made of small stands along one side and the ond of the ground, and an enormous grey two-decker, now almost com- plete, is going up instead.

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

of something doing. Now and then a workman perched sparrow-size on crane would look down a roof rogrefully at the game; then turn again to his job of malting B10 ground fit for any Test crowd that cricket enthusiasm may bring there.)

Police Footballer Is Censured

Brought before the Emergency Committee yesterday to- answer a charge of alleged ungentleman- Ir behaviour towards the re- feree in a match between Chi- nese Police and the Club Juniors on January 16, Gough, who is trainer of the Pollre team wan severely censured.

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

The King's Second Victory

when Coventry

London, Feb. 22. Ills Majesty the King scored his second horse-race victory

since his accession to the throne at Birmingham to-day. Marconi won the Handicap.

Marconi, which also scored a clever win over the slicks re- cently, finished four lengtlıs ahead of Tattenhall, which Din- ton Lad was third.

Marconi paid odds of 11-to 2,- United Presa.

ARSENAL

UNLUCKY IN

CUP DRAW

THREE LONDON TEAMS IN LAST EIGHT

SOUZA'S FINE CENTURY

AGAINST K.C.C.

VOLUNTEERS MAKE A HEARTY RECOVERY AND WIN COMFORTABLY

(By "Veritas")

JOHN'S

HISTORY OF FOOTBALL

Sgt. Isley's Address

TO LOCAL REFEREES

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Sergt. Ister. one of Hongkong's leading football refereca gaVO Į fascinating and instructive address to the Referees Association last oven- Ing. his subject being "The History of Football". In the course of his paper he traced the advance of the game from the time it was a sort of war between two parishes, to its present state of exact science. The address, in full, follows.

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

am to talk about, that is, Association Football.

now it become a

Now, there is no real origin of Footbull. No one can tell us when it actually started. It is a game which has just grown out of a ball so to speak. History tells us that the early Romans had a game of handball, but there are no details. At Derby in the year A.D. 217 the Englishmen so TC- your sented certain actions of their Roman conquerors that they banded together and drove them from the town and celebrated the occasion with a foot- ball match in which everybody join- ed. This celebration was then held on Shrove Tuesday, but a sort of a political "fight" between the two parishes of St. Feters and All Saints, the points at stake 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 leather costing three. shillings and fourpence or more, al the Cross Roads of Chester: in the presence of the Mayor of that town, every Shrove Tuesday, and the bali was kicked from the Cross Roads to the Common Hall by as many people who liked to join the fray.

Here was football in a very crude form,

You

can imagine the number At the Kowloon Cricket Club or two good balls, while Simpson was of injuries both minor and severe yesterday, the Volunteers beat the little luckless, though it must also that many and you can imagine of the participants must K.C.C., in a half-day cricket match be noted that he was erratle.

Lee have suffered, by 82 runa.

hind only one spell the early part of too, the damage done to When Robin Lee secured too much off the wicket to be very indeed, it became so severe, that King was fair, though he bowled along the route of the hectic property 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 bowled two successive maiden Food In his second spell.

K.C.C. COLLAPSE overs, the red light seemed to

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

numbers of players, teers were concerned in yestered for 112 after the first two wickets was nobody's business but his own,

How a man got the ball- day's holiday cricket match had put together 60 runs. against the K.C.C.

J. R. Way had an effective spell of and the whole thing was terribly

crude and

and rough and, in some degree, wickets for five runs in 2.1 overs, Inter the score board read 199 Previously Souza had secured two

many people of note were for 3, with G. Souza boasting an wlekets-both caught and bowled. unfinished knock of 103.

while Owen-Hughes and Dunnett, volcing their objection to the violence of the crowds at these skirmishes. contributed to the general downfall und the historian Stubbs of the Ell- with a couple of wickets apiece, had

One was Sir Thomas Elyot (1631) of the home side.

period described

the occur- zabethan Beyond Kenneth Baxter, who made rences as nothing but friendly fights. some excellent strokes for his 33, and Manchester prohibited football in 1608 F.A. Broadbridge, who was unlucky and the practice of kicking a

ball enough to be run out just when he about almost died out during the was settling down, none of the bats Commonwealth period. But after the men shaped with any confidence. Restoration period It showed signs of An Interesting point about the revival, and it is known that the King

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which

scramble.

But there were many law

looked

breat

dulged

in

in the

for the Commoners still in-

sport of kicking a and no

Yet something like two hours bowling towards the end, taking three row now, things were becoming so

for

was one

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 Unlucky Arsenal!

Furthermore it

of the London, Feb. 22,

K.C.C.'s easiest-paced wickets and Once again the illustrious London

ft r a lot of runs team has been drawn

from Just away home in the English Cup, this being

DID STROKE SPLENDID the third time in the four rounds in

The achievement of the day was which they have competed, that they Souza's century, compiled practically have had travel,

without blemish, and made notable by the batsman's display of

all- Furthermore they have drawn one round-the-wicket strokes. His pet of the strongest teams in the com-shot-and his prettiest was a smack petition-West Bromwich, and it through the covers, generally between

ver. It they survive they can be regarded a square point and cover. was 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 over Everton in the fifth round replay the back foot) was 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, team, Millwall enjoys a home draw, getting beautifully on top of the ball. Manchester City being their op- ponents.

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

Even maro remarkable than the Agure 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

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

fewer fred facks and legs-surely Milllwall

v.

Arsenal

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

a contribution to the barracking pro- Tottenham blem, for which a man is weary-un- These games will be played der an Australian sun he may be March 0.

excused a cortain peevishness.

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WINS

Souza reached his half-century as

a result of an over-throw boundary which gave him five runs, and after he had been at the wickets for 63 minutes.

With Griffiths, he was concerned In a second wicket partnership of 98. Griffiths batted with splendid thoroughness and mosi judiciously for his 44. In the early stages he was inclined to be ultra-cautious. but later he opened out and baited freely, with the result that he col- lected seven boundarien, Owen-Hughes joined Souza, who pursued his way blithely, never being THE REPLAY ไร the alightest difficulty until he Joffered Lay a hard chance at mid-off from Sargent's half-volley. He was League Points For

then in the seventies', but the incident Millwall

did not upset the batsman's equili brium, and be carried on to reach three figures in London, Feb. 22,

and 25 Tottenham delighted their suppor- minutes. The Melbourne ground cannot be

Owen-Hughes left before Souza had called beautiful by any stretch afters at White Hart Lane lo-day by

this but the toti the imagination, Beauty and the con-winning their fifth round FA Cup accomplished crete stands of the football type do replay against Everton after an Cricket Club all-rounder had scored not go together. Adelaide remains oxclung match by four goals to three, a

This new stand is costing the club TOTTENHAM £75,000. In addition the players' dressing-rooms have been remodel- led, though even now the players do not have a fine observation bal- cony of their own, as an adjunct of their room, as at Adelaide, the place where cricketers con dress and watch with the last word in luxury. BIG-NOT. BEAUTIFUL

an hour

the protest of the major cricket and thus qualify to receive Preston Owen.

Zached was especially hard on |

grounds of the world-major in ac- comnimodating 80,000 or more,

in the sixth round.

30 before his dismissal, Sargent, who bowled too short and In a third divilon (southern sec- allowed Owen-Hughes to pull him to

the leg boundary. The Melbourne Club, at its pre- tion) league match at New Cross Big

defeated Bristol sent full strength, has 0,200 mem- City by three goals to one.--Reuter. Souza get his century and then the

to-day, Millwall

Ford

here, at an entrance fee of seven quiness, and an annual subscription of. 23 5, which includes unre-

Murray stayed long enough to see closure was applied at 100 for three. Souza had a five and 17 4's in a very

Towards the end of the innings

acevod souts for the Test matches to ls. Od, daily; the trustees of the brilliant piece of baiting The general pubile ure admitted to ground forbid any increase in the Baxter had a bowl and sent down one the Tests at prices varying freen 5e.top prices.

THIS

bad, that

IS

BURGUNDY

WEATHER

WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND OUR

FINE SELECTION OF

VINTAGE BURGUNDIES

THE QUALITY AND EXCELLENCE OF THESE WINES BEING UNSURPASSED

IN HONGKONG.

CALDBECK'S