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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 little in hand,

rallies provoked

platise.

considerable

scored a great tri-though they could not afford to take umph in the badminton things too lightly. Some of the play was exceptionally fast and some keen league last evening when

ap- 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 level terms at four-all.

Then In a spectacular and exelting Anish, 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 overing Roland Koh and G. A. Smith took H. T. Woo and H. N. Chung to 21-24 before losing, and it therefore came us a deep surprise whea Bennitt and D. Iwok beat this Best pair as easily as 21-7.

St. John's victory, though magnifi- cent, has come too late to affect the second dvlision championship which is assured for King's College. Nevertheless great credit is due to the Saints for their achievement.

R. Kob andl G A. Smith (SL. Jolin's) lost to H. T. Woo and II, N. Chung 21-24; beat S. P. Clun and W. M. Cheung 21-9; beat T. Lam art

K. 11. Lo 21-9.

N. Smith and P. Wilson (St John's) lost to Woo and Chung 1-21; lost to Chan and Cheung 1-23; brat Lam and Lo 21-10.

J. Bennlit and D. Kwokt (St. John's) bent Woo and Chung 21-7; tost to Chan and Cheung 6-21; heat 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 malch between Chinese Y.M.C.A., and the Chinese Recreation Club was postponed.

"A" DIVISION Saints' Improved Display

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Andrew's "A") lost to T. C. Lee and E. F. Fincher und H. Kew (51. K. L. Your 13-21: lost to P. K. Hui and P. E. Tan 17-21: beat C. 11. Soon

and K. S. Liew 21-14.

(St. Andrew's "A") lost to Lee and S. A. Gray and F. A. Broadbridge Yong 14-21: lost to Rul and Tan 15-21: fost to Soon and Liew 9-21.

A. E. P. Guest and F. V. Wont (St. Andrew's "A") lost to Lee and Yong 17-21: lost io flu and Tan (Continued on Pape 9.)

Colony Badminton

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 120,000 people will 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. I. Soon and P. E. Tan, a Uni- versity pale, inade their exit from the Colony badminton championship dur- ing the week-end, when they lost a second fund mnich 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 scures being 15-5, 13-3.

The winners meet M. A. Oliveira and J. J. Remedios, one of the "seeded" pairs in the quarter-finala.

ADDITIONAL RESULTS

Further results in the champlon- ships are to bạnd.

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

and

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S. Liew of the University

S. W. Liang (C.R.C.) engaged in a very tense 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

King's College,

llege, and Liang gave da ul eight games to one against the Uni- versity "A" Last evening, the en-against a player who was expected exceedingly Food necount of himself "counter""way" by no means so one-

to win fairly easily. sided us this score suggests,

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

The first

in the mixed result doubles has been reported. P. K. Hui and Miss U. Khoo of the University, who are expected to win the event, juve received a walk-over from S. W. Linng and Miss W. Cheung and thus enter the semi-final,

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

Fincher und 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 lending 17-14.

A TYPICAL STORY!

"When I arrived Home on leave I bought

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 .Never

• NEW FORD and brought it back with me. 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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23, Nathan Road,

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Cricket Ground

Largest Cricket Ground Holiday Cricket In Hongkong

(By Bruce Harris),

Melbourne.

In Australia the initials "M.CC."| stand more frequently for Mel- bourne them for Marykbone Cricket Club. Both M.C.C,'% enshrine the history of cricket.

Melbourne already holds the world. record for a cricket crowd- 70,000 in the New Year Test match of the present series. That is not enough. Preparations bave Kone shend for accommodating 120,000 in the fifth Tast of the present season. As it is a rubber match there will be 120,000 men and women seelting accommodation.

IN MELBOURNE TESTS TO DATE

Australia have won 16, England 12, and two matches have becn drawn.

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

SWEEPING CHANGES

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

Marcon, which, also scored clever win over the sticks re- cently, finished four lengths ahead of Tattenhall, which Din- ton Lad was third,

Marconi palil odds of 11 to 2. United Press.

As at Highbury, so in Melbourne, ARSENAL

they

do not do things by halves

when improvemonta are afoot, "A clean sweep has been made of small

stands along one side and the ond UNLUCKY IN

of the ground, and an enormous grey two-docker, now almost com- plete, is going up instead.

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

CUP DRAW

of something doing. Now and then THREE LONDON

a workman perched sparrow-size, on roof or crane would look flown regretfully at the game; then turn again to his job of making ground fit for any Test crowd that cricket enthusiasm may bring there.

Police Footballer Is Censured

the

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

WAS

It was stated that Gough mado a remark to the referee, Mr. Mc- Cormae, to which the oflolal took exception.

TEAMS IN LAST EIGHT

Unlucky Arsenali

London, Feb. 22.

SOUZA'S FINE CENTURY

AGAINST K.C.C.

VOLUNTEERS MAKE A HEARTY RECOVERY AND WIN COMFORTABLY

(By "Verlias")

HISTORY OF FOOTBALL

Sgt. Isley's Address

TO LOCAL REFEREES

Bergt. Isley, one of Hongkong's

referees leading football

Kave fascinating and instructive address to the Referees Assoolation _Jast even- ing, his subject being "The History of Football". In the course of bis paper he traced the advance of the game from the time it was a nort of

10 war between two parishes, its present state of exact science. The address, in full, follows

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History is, as a rule, to the majority of us, a very distressing subject, so I will make my talk as brief and as compreliensive us possible, I alded, 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 was just grun

out of a ball so to

Bus

speak. History tells us that the early Romans had a game of handball, but thero

are no

no details. At Derby in the year A.D. 217 the Englishmen so re- sented certain actions of their

Roman conquerors that they banded together and drove them from the town and celebrated the occasion with a foot-

ed. This celebration then

ball match in which everybody

was the

on Shrove Tuesday,

but

372ally it became a sort of:

n

two

"fight" between the parishes of St. Peters and All Saints, the points at stake being e boundaries between those parishes. It 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, at 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 'to join the fray. Here was football in a very crude

You can imagine the number-

and severe minor Injuries both that many of the participants must

who

form.

and you can imagine

At the Kowloon Cricket Club for two good balls, while Simpson was of yesterday, the Volunteers beat the little luckless, though it must also K.C.C. in a half-day cricket match be noted that he was erratic. Lee have suffered,

had only one spell the early part of too, ile damage done to property by 82 runs.

which was fair, though he bowled along the route of the hectic 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 o Edward II forbade the

the practice ob his third delivery and then good lens, bond Andersen looked solutely. But there were many law-

breakers, for the Commoners still bowled two successive maiden good in his second spell.

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

K.C.C. batting suffered a shocking limited numbers of players, and no be hoisted so far as the Volun collapse, the whole side being dismissesiz

leather boll about. There were un-

KC.C. COLLAPSE

had put together 80 runs.

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teers were concerned in yester-ed for 112 after the first two wickets restrictions. How a man got the ball. day's holiday cricket match

was nobody's business but his own, against the K.C.C. Yet something like two hours later the score board read 199 for 3, with G. Souza boasting an unfinished knock of 103..

Thus was the Kowloon Cricket Club tack, which to start with looked

J. R. Way had an effective spell of and the whole thing was terribly bowling towards the end, taking three crude and rough and, in some degree, wickets for five runs in 2.1 overs.

revolting. Previously Souza had secured two

Anyhow, things were becoming so wickets--both caught and bowled bad, that many people of note were while Owen-Hughes and Dunnett, volcing their objection to the violence with a couple of wickets aplece, had of the crowds at these skirmishes, contributed to the general downfall One was Sir Thomas Elyet (1531) of the home side.

and

the historian Stubbs very lively, reduced to Impotency,

of the El- After lint disheartening start, the

zabethan period described the occur Beyond Kenneth Baxter, who made rences as nothing but friendly fights. Volunteers made their runs excep- some excellent strokes for his 33, and Manchester prohibited football in 1008 tionally well, though it must be con- F.A. Broadbridge, who was unlucky and the practice of kicking fessed that beyond Anderson and Lee, enough to be run out just when he about almost died out during the the attack

was not very brilliant. was settling down, none of the bats- Commonwealth period. But after the Furthermore It

of the men shaped with any confidence. was one

Restoration period it showed signs of just fit for a lot of runs. K.C.C.'s easiest-paced wickets and

An Interesting point about the revival, and it is known that the King

(Continued on Page 9.).

(Continued on Page 9.) STROKE SPLENDID

Once again the illustrious London team has been drawn away from home in the English Cup, this being 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 to travel,

without blemish, and made notable by the batsman's

His pel

Furthermore they have drawn one round-the-wicket strokes of all-

between

of the strongest teams in the com-shot-and his prettiest was a smnek pelition-West Bromwich, and If through the covers, generally they survive they can be regarded a squand perfectly timed, and be

pint

It as almost certain winners of the Cup, wristy

S

A brilliant victory by Tottenham hind the stroke (very often made off over Everton in the fifth round replay the bucks foot) was the whole weight yesterday leaves the Spurs at home of his body. He used it to good pur- to Presion, while another London Manchester City being their op team, Millwall enjoys a home draw, deliveries, on top of the ball. his half-century as ponents.

{beastsully.

Souza

a result of an over-throw boundary Thus London has three represen-which gave him five runs, and after tatives in the quarter-finals,

he had been at the wickets for 03 minutes.

Even more remarkable than the Agure 120,000 is the fact that about three-fiths of the number will be first.' able to watch the "backed" seats of Grimsby or Wolves v. Sunderland the garden ype. There will be W. Bromwich fewer fired backs and legs-surely Illwall

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.

played

blem, for whith a mun is weary zin- These gomes will be der an Australian sun he may be March 6. excusad 11 certain previdness.

on

This new stand is costing the club TOTTENHAM WINS

£75,000. In addition the players' dressing-rooms have been remodel- led, though even now the players do not have a fino observation bal- cony of their own, as an adjunct of their room, as at Adelaide, the place where bricketers can dress and Avatch with the last word in juxury, BIG-NOT Beautiful

THE REPLAY. League Points For Millwall

With Griffiths, he was concerned In a second wicket padnership of 98. Grimths batted with splendid thoroughness and most judiciously, . for his 14. In the early stages ho was inclined to be ultra-cautious, but later he opened out and batted freely, with the result that he col- icoled seven boundaries. Owen-Hughes joined Souza, who pursued his way blithely, never being In the slightest dimculty until he offered Lay hard chance at mid-off from Sargent's half-volley. He was then

in the seventies', but the incident dld

not upset the batsman's equill- brium, and he carried on to reach three figures in London, Feb. 22.

an hour and 25 minutes.. The Melbourne ground cannot bel Toltenham delighted their suppor-

Owen-Hughes left before Souza had called beautiful by any stretch of ters at White Hart Lane to-day by

this, but the tall the imagination. Beauty and the con- wigning their fifth round FA Cup accomplished

an Crickel Club all-rounder had scored crete stands of the football type do replay against Everton after 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 qualify to receive Preston Owen-Hugh was especially hard on grounds of the world-major in oc-

in the sixth round.

who bowled too short and Sargent, commodating 30,000 or more;

In a third division (southern see- allowed Owen-Hughes to pull him to The Melbourne Chab, at its pre- to-day, Millwall defeated

tion) league match at New Cross the leg boundary.

Bristol Мистау stayed long enough to see get full krength, has 0,200 mem- City by three goals to one.-Reuter. Souza get his century and then t

bors, at nontrance fee of soven

guirrens, and on ennual subscription

23 B., which includes unre-

served seats for the Test matches, to 16 d. daily; the trustees of the The general public are admitted to ground fould may increase in the to Tests at prices varying from Sa, top prices.

closure was applied at 199 for three. Sauza had a five and 17'4's in a very

brilliant plece of batting.

Towards the end of the innings Baxter had a bowl`and sent down one

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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