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K.C.C.

Rifle Shooting.

SUNDAY'S MEET

ATTRACTS

RECORD ENTRIES

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELE GRAPH:

February 27, 1940.

"R. Abbit's" Cricket Comments

SHOULD BE

TO CRAIGENGOWER C.C. FOR BEATING RECREIO

On Saturday last Craigengower served up the surprise of the day when they beat the Recreio. The K.C.C. should be very grateful to them this Itongkong Rifle Association's spoon season as they earlier hold the I.R.C. to a draw,

and practice shoot at Kowloon

GRATEFUL

The Australian Ponies Champlons last Saturday produced ono of the closest finishes seen during the Annual Race Meeting, Lan's Far View (I.

Bay, which was ridden by H. J. A. Hearne.—Mice Cheung.

Cincidentally very nearly beating them, K.C.C. C. Fili up? Just managing to beat by a short head Mir. L. Dunbar's Baffin

on Sunday, the last before the an-

nual Bisier Moeting which takes are now practically sure of the Shield,

place from March 27 to April 1, in-

""Ranes,

the

clusive, attracted the record Bi- I cannot imagine that when Craigengower were all tendance of 150 competitors.

out for 86 anyone thought they had much chance. Ernie Unfortunately, owing to the fact Zimmern alone got over twenty, while the only other that the "A" Range was not avail- able, comlderable congestion was double figures were scored by A. R. H. Esmail, Hulse and caused with

only eight targets on the A. K. Ismail. Ozorio (2/30) met with less than his usual

consequently original programme 01 200, 800 and success and E.. L. Gosano's 3/34 was less than his usual 600 yards had to be curtalled to the

But L. G. Gosano took three for 11 and A. P. first two ranges only.

Keen interest was diaployed in the Pereira 2 for four. So far so good. (By the way some of programme, which was arranged by these Recreio lads are going to turn in remarkable bowling

12 silver Regimental figures at the end of the season!)

the 2nd Battalion the Royal Scots, who provided 12 spoons for competition. There were presented by Mrs. 6. E. II. E. White, who was given three hearty chcers.

grace.

BUT the opening Recreio bats NON-LEAGUE GAMES The Royal Naval Itange Staff won collapsed completely usually the Open Sights team match with 230 jone of the first four comes off- points, and were followed by

the and the only resistance really of HK.C.C. against Kowloon who

LLOYD played for a very A team

were not at full strength but were less to prices than the Club. They ran up 100 for 7 declared with I Nancarrow not out 6d. I have not seen him bat but fancy he used to play for the Air Force a little while ago. B. D. Lay got 5 for 33 and put This shows what a miserable fallure the Chub out for the poor score of

Hongkong Volunteers Defence Corps "E" team, who were runners-up with offered was when G. N. Gosano 223 points.

jand Reed (as in the Civil Service The Dockyard Rifle Club won the match) pulled things together in Aperture Sights team event with a seventh wicket stand of forty 267.3 points, while Royal Scots were jodd. runners-up with 257.18 points.

140.

REVOLVER SHOOT

CLUB SECONDS WIN

in this

IT is becoming a custom

The pairs competition was won by the rest were for the total was only 81. C/Sgt. P. Hole and Cpl. R. Langford,

seventy. Ziminern switched his of the Middlesex Regiment, who ob- bowlers about,. (five of them collec- tained 123 points out of n ponsible tively sent down 26 overs), and uil

but Hulse succeeded. F. R. Zimmern very troubled season to borrow 2 for 20, Winch 1 for ten, Billi- school-boys-or boys who have Just All a side, (which morinnow back in form-4 for 17 left school-to Ismail one for ninc. in B Bovers, and very nice too! and side it matters

when there is shortage of members from Camp In way It reminded me of the or other reasons, It is, ihink, au Recreio and Navy match at the end excellent

Mr. W. A. Tansley again. took the nelt spoon in the revolver shoot at 15 and 20 yards with 50 out of 60, while Lt. G. Dawson, of the Middlesex Regt., won the handicap spoon with 45.

Set

had

Idea ILS

of fast season when the Navy got youngsters experience

gives the of blager

A suectssful morning was spent in her out pretty cheap only to fail cricket-that is, cricket outside school

with the bat. 11 is n tight fit Ins

games and will probably help the

a

'cap.

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200 500

AS USUAL

RACE WEEK GAMES

United States Win

Hypothetical Olympiad

NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (Reuter)—WIth the Olympic Games for 1040 cancelled, the Amateur Atletle Union of the United States has worked out the results of a hypothetical meeting. Their conclusions are based on last year's performances. Adopting the usual polais system of 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, for the first six places, they make the United States winners with 280.3 points. Finland come second with 108 points and Germany, third, with 74.2.

Tsui Yun-Pui To Marry

.

Taul Yun-pul, the well-known tennis player and joint-holder of the Colony' Doubles Champion- ship with his brother, Teul Wal- nul, is shortly to marry Miss Ip Yun-hing, of 10 On Wo Lane. Notice to this effect was given at Court, the Registry, Supreme yesterday.

p.m.)

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Great Britain shure sixth place with Norway with 14 points coch Sweden and Japan coming before them. After that come Italy, Aus- tralia. Belgium, Estonia, Poland, Peru and the Netherlands.

There is some departure from a strict Olymple programme and the Insertion of a mile race gives the only British winner, S. C. Wooder- son, the World record holder. There are

two

additions to other

the Olympic programme, 100 yards and two miles.

The A.A.U. award the events of the various countries as follows:---

UNITED STATES

100 metres:---Jeffrey and Ellerbec, 10.2 seconds.

200 metres:—Jeffrey, 20.7 sec.

110 metres hurdles:-Wolcott. 14.1 BCG.

High Jump:—Steers, 6 ft. 81⁄2 Los. Polo Vault:-Meadows, 14 ft. 1034

Discus-Fox, 175 ft. 6% ins Weight-pultHackney, 53 fi. T

ins.

100 yards-Wilbur Greer, Mack Robinson and Brian Dann (Austra

FINLAND

2 miles:-Macki, 8 min. 53.2 sec. 5,000 metres:-Macki, 14 min. 8.8

Clay Pigeon shooting, two com-M

think Recreio are more dangerous try-Colony's cricket in two or three years. petitions being fired, Lt. Bateman ing to get their opponents out than On Saturday the Club second in a and Surg. Lt. Macdonald, of the going themselves for runs. It was non-Latukus pine borrowed A BADMINTON CHANGES Hongkong Naval Volunteer Force, the collapse I

have been expect-Weller, who made 91 incidentally. who have been unable to attend resing. But seeing they kept me walting] Odell and N. L. Smith, Weller's inn- cently, made

The Colony Badminton champion- re-appearance, the for about two seasons they need hard-ings was an excellent one. N. ship matches scheduled for Tuesday, lotter Aignalising his return by win-ly reproach themselves, save that it Smith bowled very well and took March 5, on which date a Colony tns. ning both competitions, hur secure will prevent their game with K.C.C. five wickets cheaply.

Black-out will take place, have been ing two spoons.

being qulle the necûle affair it might| In the Single Rise event of 25 birds, have been otherwise,

postponed a week to Tuesday, March 12, at the same venues und times. Macdonald got 10, while he secured eight in, the Doublo Rise event.

The matches concerned are AS usual those who do not care follows: Lending Ecores on Sunday follows:

THE IR.C. were too much for the over much for the Social Function of Men's Doubles Championship OPEN SIGHTS

C.S.C.C. but the Inter have and the the big Race Meeting got together Remedios and L. A. Carvalho v. 11. Eardley lla).

atid N. L. Smith King's College and worst of luck. Again McLellan and and played cricket. On Monday the C. K. Cheah and T. T. Chin v. ydi. yds, Total Fortescue were unable to turn out Club took on in Volunteers, Mit-D. Kwok (King's College 0.13 p.m.): C 316(N) and they cannot bring in brilliant chell captained them, and had three Au and P. H Wong v. K. L. Lui V. F. 1150 (H) substitutes like N. Cassa who got 71. men obliged to call off on Monday Ksh and C. Y. Yung (Talkoo, 8.30 pan.).

(N.B. This is what Artimus Ward morning but he managed to collect WIN FOR CHINESE "y" used to call a 'goak' and the French Stark, Finnic and Denyer. The a 'tire-Jambe. I have a pretty good Volunteers ran up 178 for 8 declared Chinese "" defeated University idea who he is. Of course I may be and had a pretty useful side, but "B" by six sets to three in the.

But wrong.

'nuff said). Another Capt. Grose and Denyer made a dead"A" Division

night, Secres: Inst trouble of the C.S.C.C. is that Ferry set at Ozorio whose three wickets H. M. Lau and S. C. Chung (is hopelessly overworked-I doubt if cost him 74 in 7 overs. Curiously (Chinese "") beat C. K. Cheak and

any man has played so many innings enough, Grose and Richardson (13) K. B. Low 23-20; beat C. K. Lee nu or bowled so many over here this put up 43 for the first wicket before T.-B.-Teow-21-13;-lost to S.-L. Yong season. Whitley has a patch and the latter had to take a ball front and T. T. Chiu

Chiu 10-21. accordingly the C. S. bowling-was Ozorio, One was enough, for he P. II. Wong and F. Koh (Chinese (B) not!

The 1.ILC. ran up 180 for four touched it into the slips. Grose went "Y") beat Cheats and Low 21-0; beni (sec. declared, el Arcuill (25) A. H. on to get 94 and the Club totalled 198 Lee and Teow 21-13; lost to Yong Mudar 51 not out,

for 5 wickets-376 runs in the tiny's und Chiu 15-21. erickell

VOLUNTEERS V. K.C.C.

Cpl. J. C. Bemedios 10

L/Cpl. A. D'Aquino 4 1/8gt, (R) N. Pan & Cpl. J. Berry ..... LA.C. W. J. Gash

Mne. S. Craft Ser.

L/Sgt. J. D. Remedios

Bgt. T. Baker Scr.

Pio. V. A. Da Cruz

Sequeira 0

L/Sgt. W. n. Nun

Mr. I. Tynemouth 7

Sgt. M.-F. Rushman.

Col. M. Neave Nil

Pié. R. Hullen 3

Cpl Naranjan Singh B 11. M. Medhurst 10 Cpl. V. M. Hammond Cpl. IL Langford Ser. Mr. C. A, Hlyett 7 Sgt. (R) C. Wong 11 Major S. White 5 Ple. G. A. Ribeiro Pie. J. C. Fonseca 8 Cpl. F. Coin &

/Sgt. (R) O. Leong &

Pie. L.A. Rosario 10 Cpl. A. T. Ferreira D Mr. H. B. Jones 6

P. C. (R) S. T. Young 13

L/SRL, F. W. Ewens 12 5.1. (R) M. O. TO 7

A.C. W. H. Golder 11 Sgt. . . Clarke Nil Bine. R. J. Jeffrey 12

Pie. D. M. 31m 7

2/LA, J. M. Alves & L/Cpl. C. M. Azęda 8 Spr. F. W. Alce &

Xavier 11 Plov, tubeiro o

Cpl. n. choock 13

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Ber......

Rub. Lt, C. J. P. Carey Ser

Sgt. W. Gowars

LI. V. Cooper Ser.

P. 8. Chanchal Singh 2..

Mr. A. F. Evans 3......

ALP. (M) D. Lole Scr.

Air, W. Trenouth 1 ...... Cpl. 9. G. Brighty Ser,... Mr. A. L. Warburton 3..

Mr. W. K. Gliiman 3 SIP. W. F. Thompson .

Lt. C. E. Otway Scr.

Capt. F. P. Sequeira Scr

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Br. 11. G. Foreman 2....

Sub. Li. F. I. L. NII.

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GRIFFITHS RETURNS

IT was good to see Grimths back THE next day Volunteers weht

in the side and in form-he hung on over to K.C.C. and, finding the home gallantly for 50 not out. But Richardson, Perry and Hollldge all side short of bowling, ran up 203 for all nine declared. With one exception falled again. Colledge (18) shows ()signs of returning to form but every one got into double figures.

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They then got their opponents out in the last over. Parsons brought off a

Hawkins, Barrow and Lawrence nll had ducks and Whitley only hit out splendid catch off a cover slash by and got 37., Griffiths and he added

Anderson which would probably

07 for the eighth wicket. If the C.S. have killed him if he had not his can get a few more people to come hands to it. On this day 356 runs off at once they will do better.

Minu were scored. 12.1-2-40-8 was in excellent form. But I hear the catching on both sides was shocking,

ARMY WIN

VOLUNTEERS OFFICERS AND

OTHER RANKS

C. Au and H. Koh (Chinese "Y") last to Cheah and Low 15-21; best Lee and Teow 21-16: beat Yong and Chiu 21-14.

Why Tommy Farr Left

Sec.

sec.

10,000 metres:-Macki, 20 min. 52.3

Javelin: Järvinen, 250 feet. Hammer:-Belrita, 182 ft. O ́ins,

Rec.

GERMANY

100 metres-Harbig, 46 sec, 800 metres:Harbig, 1 mln. 40.0

400 metres hardies:-Hoclling, 51.6

GREAT BRITAIN

Mile:-S. . Wooderson, 4 min. 7.4

SWEDEN

1,500 metres-Anderson, 3 min. 48.8 sec.

BEC.

JAPAN

Long Jump:-Gengon Kin, 20 ft.

NORWAY

Hop, step and fump:-IIcare Storm,

52 11.

The R.A.F. COTTAGE CLUB

PAPER HUNT

(11) geant Webb (congratulations on his made a poor start with three down from militar, had been released members of the Cottage Club on

Several days ago. Bir Kingsley This game on Wednesday does not Wood, the Air Minister, announced THE Army had little trouble with appear to have obtained much notice in the House of Commons amidst that Tommy Farr, the

A paper hunt will be held for It was laughter the University at Sopkcunpoo. Ser chiefly, I imagine, because

such a filthy afternoon. The officers famous

duty because he was Saturday. Riders will gather at the an 23

merely n "scorer" one) again come off and has for 50 but Anderson got 72 and Mit found on medical examination to be Club House at 3 pm, where Club

ponies will be drawn for. (i) run into form. He knocked

chell 65, not out. Gittins 35 not out, below the required standard, 88 CA

According to the latest newspapers

promotion unless it is

six

(1) Winner at Ifandicap spoon;” (N) Agures of 7-3-10-6,

of

Winner of Nett spoon; (- Winner Possible Button; (ft) Winner of Range spoon; winner of (N) or (1) will have his Handicap reduced by one point.

SPORTS ADVTS.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY: CLUB.

that riders

HONGKONG C. C. 2ND XI

not out. Major Harvey had a cheer-playing his first game of the conson from Home, Farr was actually dis The hunt will start at 3.30 p.m. (R) ful 22 and extras 211 Declaring at made a rather shaky start. Declara charged from the R.A.F., which he and the location will be announced

177 for 9 the Army had the game in tin was made at 197 for 4 wickets joined on the day following the de- inter so

of privately- hand. Matthews (20), K. S. Oh (15) but the weather was beastly. Owen shared of wa Lowards the end of owned panies can send their mounts and T. S. Chan (14) alone got double thes bowled well for his side and December. Farr, who was reported to the meet figures. Young good left-hander took all nine wickeln that fell: In to be very disappointed over the if he is the man I saw bowling about fact many thought that Walker

weeks ago had the excellent caught Divett off him just at the end at then made the following

at both batsman

statement: and umpire dla- Agreed! The total score was 163 for "I went in as a second class air- SECOND DIVISION 9 wickets. R. D. Walker (more craftman and I came out with the usually referred to as "Raliway" some rank. I wanted to be an nir

The following will represent the CRAIGENGOWER second eleventhe first time in nineteen years!

kept very well considering it was gunner or an observer. Naturally 1 Hongkong C.C. 2nd XI against the were much too good for the Varsity

had to go through a further medical University 2nd XI. on Saturday: E. Recond at the Valley. Their prin- SUNDAY CRICKET

examination. My left cor and right J. R. Mitchell (Capt.), H. J. Arm- eye have been giving me trouble for strong, C. W. E.. Bishop, G. E. R. cipal scorers were T. Lock (50 not: out), A. M. Omar (34) and W. K. match on Sunday had

I hear the Volunteers-University quite a long time.

Divelt, to be can-

Surg. "I don't think it is very serious or Finnie, Capt. J. F.: Lawrence, H. J. Way 28. Declaring at 173 for eight

Lt.-Comdr. W. G. celled, but apparently the Army they skittled the Varsity out for 70, Second took on and beat the Royal very miserable about it all, because D. Lowe, Brig. T. Macleod, D. O.

that It will affect my boxing. I feel of which R. M. Soares got no less Air Force pretty comfortably. The I was really getting back to normal. Parsons, R. S. W. Paterson, D. S. than 45 not out, going in eccond Army only totalled 137-Swyer 33 Draft Programmes and Eatry wicket down. A good performance. and Gardner 20-but the Air Force with food and conditions in

"I was quite happy and contented Robb. Forms for the First Extra Raco

the Meeting, to bo hold on Saturday,

The first division match against the could manage no more than 57. RAF, and, believe me, I am terribly Indian R.C. on 9th March, 1940 (weather por Police ground, the I.R.C.

Saturday has been IN a low scoring game

must say, however, that I was sur sorry to leave the force. I still want оп theprised to see Hatfield, a regular open- to do my bit, but will inits a few postponed owing to the rugger gomo mitting) may be obtained at the Police out for 88 of which Pope (45) for the second eloven. His figures the Army or whatever course will and Shanghal Bank taking away peting bowler for the first, go on to start days to decide whether I shall join etween the Club and the Hongkong Bedrotary's Office, Exchange Build-and Loughton (24) scored 801 There were 04-3-10-0 Nancarrow ing the Club House Happy (10.5-3-32-7) did most of the damage.

extras.

more than half their players. (21) serve the country best. Abbasolone met with any success. Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the But Pope and Danbrowski bowled

"Anyway, I will be ready when- ever I am wanted. Sports Club; and the Stables, well and minds the 1.1.C. 50 cl the FANLING BOGEY POOL to the front and give exhibitions to Shan Kwong Road,

Entries close at 12 o'clock they were all out for 98 runs. Dan- browsky, who might have been put

R. J. Kr Walker won the Boggy Par famous fighters with me: NOON on Thursday, 29th Febru-on earlier, had 2-0-10-4. This senda Pool over the New Course at Fan-"On the other hand, I may go back #ry, 1940,

the I.R.C. top of the Second Division ling during the week and when he to the land and take an active in- By Order,

Lable with 12 points in 5 games. returned a card of six down. There terest in the farm-which Job Chur- |K.C.C. liavo a similar number of wore 11 entries. One of the cards chill," my old friend, run. But J points but have played more (ano down) was marked by a lady haven't yet got over the shock of

and was therefore, disqualified. leaving the RAF”

were no

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