NANCY
BOY!-- SOME SNOW STORM LAST NIGHT!
OH, AUNT FRITZI- I'M GOING OUT AND SHOVEL
A PATH!
Monday,
GOODNESS!--- YOU CERTAINLY, MUST FEEL AMBITIOUS!
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
By
WELL---
I FEEL LIKE
GETTIN'
SOME EXERCISE!
January 23,
1939.
Ernie Bushmiller
THERE!--- NOW THE LI'L BIRDS CAN WALK
IN AND OUT!
Dese, 1020 by Kisited Voyimi zandvala
Eight-Ball Over Recommended For Colony
Greater Chances Of A Definite Conclusion
(By "R. Abbit")
Talking over the results of matches in the evening of Saturday last I came across a strenuous adherent of the eight ball over and I must confess he has got me thor- oughly talked over. As a girlish enthusiast said to me the other day, I hate draws, and in at least two games on Saturday last, at K.C.C., and at the Civil Service ground, the eight ball over must have brought about a definite conclusion.
The time
question
cannot
be: here where we
take our cricket
SATURDAY'S GAMES
The Army met with an almost in- credible disaster at the hands of Rerelo though I know they were
worked out definitely as it depends rather dubustled. on whether your bowler takes a long or short run, and on the rate and method of the batsmen's scoring. But it is 71 mathematical fact that six overs of eight balls equal eight overs of six balls in the number of balls sent down. The two extra balls will take very little time, cont paratively speaking, and so you kan all but two overs in eight of the old six ball over, The number of overs of their real first side and they stuck under our present rule has been stated to be twenty per hour though, their policy-the only one possi- as I said before, it depends on other be under present conditions of not non-constant factors. That
eighly calling
in
Lip 10 full strength. These things happen, but it must be admit test that the Recreio bowlers brought oft a very fine piece of work. The My hat only Firth and Kennedy
und
their second upon
eleven
but filling sm as best they might. They finir hour game, excluding in- tervals. The gain then in the B-lxall the satisfaction of knowing that over scheine would be twenty overs the second beat the .R.C. comfort- less the total time it took to bowl bly, thanks to a day out by Carless whose Agures were 0-3-25--6. all the estra balls, which I will Smith and Clayton got most of the rims but the former must learn to įjodge a run beller.
call X.
X,
CONTRARY MINDED, IF ANY?
เ
AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT
Norman
Mackay had broken
his
I was indeed sorry to hear that Actually the serious objection has nose when mis-hitting a high full always been that the eight-ball over loss. He had scored 22 at the time
These Lovies Go Sleuthing
Supporting Barbara Stanwyck and fleury Vonda in "The Mad Miss Manton," these seven brauties ald In solving a perlo-ceinte murder mys. tory. They are! (Lauer tow¡ Lada Torry, Frances Moreer, Viski Lester; (Second row) Ann Evers, Catherine O'Qatus, Eleanor Hansen; (Top) Whitney Bournu,
Craigengower Seconds Hold Kowloon C. C. In An Exciting Finish
FIRST ROUND OF JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
The following are the first-round results in the Junior Championship of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club: II. N. Williamson beat J. W. May- hew at the 10th.
N. K. Littlejohn beat R. M. Hen- derson 3 and 2.
J. Forbes bent J. Harrop 4 und 3, C. H. Barton beat T. J. Price 5 and 3.
J. L. C. Pearce beat L. 1. Wylie
at the 20th.
W.
. W. C. Shewan beat C. M. Stark
7 and 5.
T. F. R. Waters bent E. Paggiano one up.
J. 5. Dunnelt beat C. D. N. Walker
4 and 3.
BOGEY POOL
The Bogey (Par) Pool, played on the Old Course at Fanting over the week-end, resulted in a win for T. R. Rowell (18) with score of one up.
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INDIANS' BATTING COLLAPSES
Wood And Carless
Much Too
Good
"The Baroness and the Butler" (King's Theatre, to-day).-Films of this sort were very popular a few The Indian RC. seconds, who per- years ago, when Hollywood was more formed SO creditably against the influenced by the German film-
Hongkong CC. the week before, makers than it is to-day. Here are came a terrific cropper when they the adventures of a butler who looks met the Navy seconds, champions of at a baroness. The story, trite in the Junior Cricket League, at Soo- itself, is made entertaining by the kunpoo on Saturday and were beaten good work of William Powell, An- by 50 runs. nabella, Henry Stephenson, Joseph Schildkraut and Helen Westley.
T
is going to put too much of a strain and it is hard luck to pick a bit of from the opposite end, and was quite Mulcahy who hit up a merry 35 not! some of her deb chums decide to team did anything of note with the
CN
to be
more
Sn
ADDI
STAND UP AND CHEER FOR FUN..
FEMMES...AND
FOOTBALL!
TOUCHDOWN
ARMY
HOLD THAT KISSI
A Paramount Picture with
JOHN HOWARD MARY CARLISLE Robert Cummings, William Frawley Benny Baker' Directed by KURT NEUMAKN
TO-MORROW.
COMING TO BRASS TACKS
SECOND LEAGUE Now turning to our figures for lost : Saturday, Seventy one evers In all, In other games the Civil Service were bowled in the Club vs Civil hung on to draw with the Club, but Service and the extra bowling overs they were lucky to do so. The Club would have been just on eighteen total seems unnecessarily large but little doubt deduce that a lot of them were overs minus X There that one more over (and more of made quickly at the end as they that anon!) would have done bowled 48 overs as against the Civil
the
The most important factors which enabled Craigengower to
The home players did very well to trick. Now for the K.C.C. geconds Servants 341 The Police beat Army avoid defeat against the K.C.C., in a junior division cricket match at
second, B. C. Fay, n
dismiss the Navy batsmen for only BOW Police es Craigenower in the proposed Carlet geiting afty, and the Com- King's Park on Saturday were the bowling of George Winch, which
105 in spite of the fact that the were sent down, and in the proposesioner of Police, who
"Disacy's Features" (Queen's sailors were one man short. But scheme the saying would have bren
must be was so accurate that he kept the K.C.C. scoring well behind the Theatre, to-day)Ten Walt Disney's when they thenkelves went in to 4 shade over seventeen evers minus doyen of all playing cricketers in the clock during the first hour, and so prevented an earlier declaration, features are put together in the bat, they found the bowling of Wood
Colony now, hit up thirty. Recreio drew with the Varsity
and the stout-hearted batting of H. P. Lim, who for an hour defied same programme for the first time.end Carless much too good for them
this innovation will For puristy let me say I use the much of individual performances is all attempts to dislodge him.
prove and were all out for 47. popular with the film public
At one stage the game, the word over both as equal to "ix G. N. Gusano (58), R. Suares (20)
there balls" and to "the thine taken to bowl and A. R. Marques (21) made most)
is very little doubt. Disney's art is Navy did not look as if they would Without these two players Craigen- Lim made a splendid contribution refreshing, and here we have some see the 100 mark. They had lost six s| butis." Agnin In the
Club of the runs for Recreio, while K. Y. gower would have been in a sorry to this end, remaining, in while seven of his most brilliant ideas congregas wickets for less than 50 runs, but A. second game vs Civil Service no less Tam (46) and J. Gong (23) held the plight. As it was they managed to other batsmen came and went, and ed to provide 100 minutes of fun noi B. Smith and F.A. Clayton stayed than eighty-two overs were-bersied, fort for the Varsity. Gegg got 5 hold out in an exciting finish, the batting faultlessly for his 30 runs, only for children but for adults
together for half an hour, by the where there would have been a savi (for 32 from them.
ninth wicket falling in the last but Afterwards, Irance proved a tower of well.
end of which period the Navy stock Ing of just over twenty overs
jane over with the home side enjoying strength in defending, and, very
had risen considerably. Smith gave minus X.
lead of 82.
properly refusing to run, played out "The Mad Miss Manion" (Alhambra a hard return catch to Abbas early Winch's Boal figures, 2 for 55, by the last over with the K.C.C. fielders Theatre, no means represented his fine bowl- literally crouching over his bat.
to-day) Mystery farce in his innings but it was not ac-
ut which clips and quips along acepted, and lie went on to make a during the early phases of the Consistent batting allowed the smart pace and keeps you guessing painstaking 24. Apart from him and Navy ne le conceded most of the runs K.C.C, te amass 154 for 8 tectared, most of the time. Miss Munton Cluyton, nobody else in the in a second spell, when he bowled but it was the forcefulness
bal. solve a double murder, putting to the bowlers and especially on bad luck like that on one of the few obviously tired. But his first 10 out, and the stability of McKenzie, shame not only the Police but a
Normally 105 on the IR.C. ground to the fast bowlers. Well, I don't occasions on which he has been able evers had the home batsmen strictly who obtained 20 in good style which young reperter. This is the best
would have been un easy task for see any serious bowler here going to turn out. Kowloon were sold in on the defensive. Bowing wide out enabled the home side to obtain such mystery we have had. for same time. the Indians: but those who had
worried
by sending down two their batting and had the better if from round the wicket, he swerved balls per over in the space of C.C.C., though Ernie Zimmern (40) disconcertingly with the shiny bull.
a safe position.
Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, thought so on Saturday had reckoned ume that anyone bowls for in Satur- and A. K. Ismail (23) saved the side, and always struck a good length.
The Craigongower attack was very Sam Levene, Stanley Ridges and without Wood and Carlesu.
· ALL AT SEA day afternoon
cricket. The other I am glad to see Frank Goodwin is quiet did he keep the balenin Rood at the start, Winch being ably others help the action along.
the objection is that it is changing the back and playing cricket again,
Wood bowling fortish loft-arm by Omar, but when the first 50 runs tools
hat supported by an hour to former was brought back for a "Everybody Sing" (Oriental Thea-round the wicket and Carless, turn- rules of cricket. Well, the rules of
make, and although the rate of scor- second
spell
treated intre, to-day).Fair entertainment, ing from the leg, had the Indians in cricket have been
Was ANOTHER ACCIDENT before changed now, and this change is peculiarly
ing increased when he was taken off, cavalier fashion by Mulcahy, while with good music and a comical por difficulties from the start. The Arst Alee Pearce was unlucky in the the clock.
the K.C.C., could never catch up with Way was punished by McKenzie and trayal by Fannie Brice, which is the wicket fell at 15, the second at 25, casy. The first third at least of
Civil Service v Club game to split |
Others in the the third at 35 and the fourth at the Baldwin. Craigengower fielding was best part of the show. Beenuse W.G's Cricket was played with a
Cralgengower Dre in and not so long afterwards the ward hit and the seam of the ball claration could not be made until 150 and these mistakes proved expensive. four ball over. Then five balls came finger. I gather he took a very putedly strong in batting. re- much below par, more than one com-cast are Reginald Owen, Allan Jones sure score. Thereafter little pro-
the deparatively easy catch being dropped, and Judy Garland.
gress was made by the Indians while took him exactly where he had pre-runs were on the board,
their batsmen staged a little proces- "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" slon to and from the pavilion. Nine split
and this Kitchell and Broadbridge were two the skin opened it was not until ten minutes past four.
down for 41, up badly. He
and Tennis were other (Majestle Theatre, to-day) David wickets were later back came
offenders, and there to play a
a very good innings in spite of
OFFERED SPORTING CHANCE
opportunities which more enterprising Selznick scores again with a techni-though A. R. Markar and Y. T. Bar- 1 to not think it possible for the his damaged hand. The Civil Ser-
Aviding might have turned to useful League Committee to maite the
The book's outstanding for the last-wicket partnership, they vice perhaps
boy story, Club rather
Even so, the visitors were offered necourt. Have the
Incidents have change this season, as League mat- a short time to bat but it must be sporting chance of making the runs,
been retained. and added only six runs. BRILLIANT CATCHES
whether or not Tom Kelly turns out The Indians made the mistake of to my mind it should certainly come and put them in. Their innings was come the way of the K.C.C., which strongly. ches have already been played. But remembered the Club won the toss undoubtedly these would have been
attempted had not
to be the Tom of your imagination he playing back to Carless who was carly Successes K.C.C. felding contrasted into force next season. I do not say marked by
is at least a captivating youngster.
keeping a good length and spinning between
Brokenshire and White
them from the leg. Four batsmen that it should be used in Triangular Richardson and bicLellan and be thrust Craigengower back strictly on took splendid catches, and little was
got bowled in this manner, being Tournament games, though I think it tween Perry and
who
given away the ground. It was
benten by the spin.,
Berlin, Jan. 22. might well come in there too.
The German covered court better than
this keen support which enabled the.
Wood also was giving a good ne-
tennis the whole I think it should become he fielded) and will make a very the defensive. After three-quarters | bowlers to return much good figures.
count of himself at the other end. championship was won by the Sudeten the general rule here.
good player with perseverance and of an hour it was clear that the issue Simpson bowled much better than
He kept a good length most of the German, Roderich Menzel, who beat experience. Perry played a splendid would be whether the visitors could usual and merited his four wickele
time, but his speed prevented the Henner Henkel to-day by 6-4, 7-5, captain's Innings. Unlike others keep in long enough
of
to stave
Indians on for 24 runs, and Baldwin always had
from taking libcrtles with 0-4. When talking with my very en- the side he is always at his best Laurence took a good catch in the Taylor, brought on at the last minute ed to represent the 1st XI of the
defeat.
the batsmen playing off the baclc foot.
him even when he sent down loose The women's championship thusiastic friend be raised another for the
won by the American, Mias WOD point, as to the amount of me curious incident in McLellan's in-stips to send back Ride. Longfield, had the encouraging figures of two Hongkong Hackey Club In the
It was a miserable display by the Wheeler, who beat the Hungarian, wasted whenever the bowling was nings which I heard from the
who had previously taken 0 for 27 overs, two maidens, no runs, and two Triangular Tournament against the
Indians, who had only themselves to Miss Somogyi, 0-4, 0-41 Royal Navy on Wednesday, January blame for this wretched batting ex- In the women's changed. The captain went into a leg umpire who gave him not out and done the hat-trick, failed but wickets. long yarn with the bowler and then The bateman played one to square/Haymes and Secones looked like getting was concerned, only Lim shaped) Park. Bully Of 4.45 p.m.:
doubles, Miss So far as the Craigengower bat- 25, on the Club ground at King's
hibition,
and the German, Fraulein people were
Capt. Carless at moved about. Now leg and after he had started for ting the runs when stumps were
one stage had Hamel, beat the Hungarians, Mise manner suggesting runs. He hear there was some dis-in hitchort
V. M. Benwell; W. G. Schnabel, taken six wickets for 10 runs and Somogyi and Mise Kovac, by 0-4, 6-3 bowlers about their field
as to this and someone point J. D. finally finished up with six for 25. when put-
and in the men's doubles, Roderich ting them on, but my friend's point satisfied that McLellan had complet
Menzel and Metaxa beat Goeppert was that each captain knows pretty ed his stroke, and that he knocked that the Jockey Club clock sul magt eerty counow, but he was Fowler, T. D. Wiltley, A. II. Pontius,
and Beutner 8-6, 6-4, 6-0, 13-15, 6-4, well not only what bowlers he will off the ball when stepping back to Well, what the Jockey Club clock quite well, had the mortification of
pointed to two minuica to
magnificently caught off a big hit to B. I. Bickford and V. C. Band. six: long leg, while Kitchell, shaping
In the mixed doubles, the Ger use but also what foldsmen he will get his balance to start for the run
Umpires by the Army.
mans, Hamel and Beutner, beat Miss have at his disposal, In League Mat perhaps I should say to get a set evidence. The um being brilliantly taken by White at
Wheeler and Metaxa 7-5, 6-3-- "A" TEAM ches anyway, of which alone i speak, kick off for his start. Given the by the umpires' watches which backward point, the ball travelling
Trans-Occast. The Iden if that before the match, facts as stated the decision was per- should be synchronised before the of plans of the field should be worked fectly right.
present arrangement came in.
THE CHANGE
CHANGING THE BOWLING
viously
And
two
stands,
On batted very well-me
CS.C.C. There
run it was seen that
ü
Equare
ball had
drawn
I
Д
he
very
QUEEN'S
colour treatment of Mark Twain's ma stuck in for nearly 20 minutes HENKEL LOSES
TO MENZEL IN STRAIGHT SETS
Hockey Club Teams. For The Week
The following team has been select-
hviously a coplała must consult | fallen. The umpire, however, wased out as the teams were going in nobody to stay with him. Winch W. A. Reed, N. D. Whitley; S. Bi
for
all the bowlers likely to be used and then circulated to the
ones.
Navy Beaten In
Lai Wah Cup
(Continued from Page 8.)
Was
G.
The following team will represent innings. If there is only one per- KC.C. may, perhaps, count them- the "A" XI of the Hongkong Hockey
Yung-song. Lo Wal-kuen; 'Chaing manent umpire the match must be pelves a trifle unlucky to have been Club against the Royal Corps of "THE LAST OVER"
Chung-won, Lee Wing-chlu, Hiu terminated by his watch. The one denied three points, yet credit must Signals on the Club ground on Friday, game is that for too many petty in- King-shing; Chan Ping-to, Cheuk fielders as well as the bowlers. It
curious Owen Hurther (39), John Pearce should be able to read the time on manner in which they held out.
thing
to me is that anyone be given to the visitors for the January 27. Bully Off 5 p.m.: Iringements were allowed to pass Shek-kam, Lee Wal-long, Chow may sound a lot but it really should (36) and Alee Pearce (24) were the Jockey Club clock at six o'clock
W. Brown; J. E. Potter, F. H. unpunished. As a result dangerous Man-chi and Hau Ching-to, take very little time once a begin-chlef acorers for the Club. I hear on a January evening when on the OUR SPELLING BEE (see page 7) Starbuck, A. M. J. Wright; W. Spen-
Stakes; G. E. R. Divett (Capt), L.play crept into the game, especially Navy. Hazard: Bollis, Stu: ning had been made. But I fear it the running of the Pearce brothers C.S.C.C. ground! Usually you can't
in the second half,
Honeywell, Dixon, Fisher; Armstrong, In thing that will never be done between the wickets was masterly, see the Jockey Club eveni
nchottische scintilla-floriculture eer, R. A. Bates, K. A. Bidmead, E.
Teams:
Spiller, Hendy, Thorburn und. Hunt. F. A. Morgan and I. P. Tamworth. Chinone,Tam
ollude-retrievable--allure
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