1941-01-22 — Page 14

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 22, 1941.

Around The Courses

Wildcats'

Sixth Inning Rally

Playing Conditions Improved Defeats Recreio Ramblerettes

Why Blame The Lie?

Return Match Between Kowloon and Country Club

(By "Birdie")

THE BREAK in the weather at Fanling and Shoungshui on Sunday was welcome to golfors, and several of the competitions there were able to get under way. The benefit of the fall was found on the greens, which, even the sand ones at the Country Club, were very playablo.

First round matches of the Captain's Cup and the Men's Foursomes, and the final of the Women's Cham- pionship were played at the Country Club, while the first round matches of the Junior Championship were settled at the R.H.K.G.C.

The Kowloon Golf Club course | is one that takes more favoura- bly to rain, by which of course, I don't mean the stuff that fell last year. New bunkers going up around the short 2nd, forcing a player to pitch on the green to avoid trouble.

Are

Bunkers around greens are the only mens of teaching people to play approuch shots correctly, and at Kowloon there is very little danger ot over-running once one lands on them.

Pinying on this course on Saturday last, one of the members found his bali "pluted" lie complained and then lifted-though · I don't think

there is a penalty and continued.

Kotowall Cup Match To-day Postponed

The Kotewall Cup football and match between Navy Army, which was to have been played at Caroline Hill this afternoon at 4 p.m., has been postponed as Navy are unable to field a side.

WAS

i: England. He Sequeira.

This reminds me of a story I heard previously in the Ladies Cup final, also won Ly Miss of Joe Kirkwood during one of his which exhibition

Mrs. A. J. Kew, last year's cham- that counted but the method of play-pion, was not defending her title.

games

was showing that it was not the le

Ing.

Home Soccer

Fixtures

Hal.

Catcher C. Motta, of the Wildcats, swinging round on a low one. M. Campos, receiving for the Rees,

Winglee calling behind the plate.-Ming Yuen.

Engineers "B" Army Small Rugby League

For Saturday Royal

Win Army Units

LONDON, Jan. 21 (Reuter),The following are the football fixtures for i Saturday, January 25:

LONDON cup

Chelsea v Brentford; Crystal Pal v. Fulham; Queen's P. R. v. Alder- shot; Clapton O. v. Reading; Totten-

ham v. Millwall; Westham v. Arsenal.

LEAGUE SOUTHI

Portsmouth V. Bournemouth; Southend v. Brighton; Watford v. Southampton.

MIDLAND cur

Luton v. Northampton; Mans@eld Leicester; Kowloon and the Country Walsall v. West Brom..

ball late the soft tur, amps THE return match between y. Lincoln; Notts F. V.

To demonstrate, he stamped his

the tip was showing, and then with his brassie ploughed through that turf, lifting a sizeable divot, and March 30. It is unfortunate knocked the ball quite some dis that the morning of that date is].

taken up with firing on the Kowloon and, therefore, singles matches will not be included.

Club has been fixed for Sunday, COMBINED COUNTIES CUP

tance:

Tunges,

Semi-final

Leeds v. Huddersfield,

DESERVEDLY, through better all-round team work, Royal Engineers "B" captured top honours in the Army Small Units Rugby League yesterday when they beat Royal Scots "B" 9 points (three tries) to nil, after leading 3-0 at the interval. ›

It was a great day for Birrell, ! who scored all three trics for The former Army Sappers. players and left wing three was in brilliant form despite the handicap of the ground.

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The backs, too, were in the lime- light with excellent handling of a slippery and heavy ball.

First blood was following a fine bout of passing among the backs, the LANCASHME CUP

ball passing down the line from right to left where Birrell obtained eventual Blackpool V Manchester Cpossession and touched down to the Burnley v. Everton; Manchester U. left of the posts. The try was not and a real enjoyable v. Bolton; New Brighton v. Chester-convertec.

Lunch at the Kowloon Club and

In further elaboration of this that the player is at fault and not the lle-Dick Metz in a tournament in America last year played what was called "the shot of the year" when four-balls the afternoon is the his ball had become deeply Imbedded | programne,

ban's behind one of the greens, time is anticipated. He took out a niblick and liter- ally spaded through that bank to

in

two feet of the pin.

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lift out his ball and place it within STARTING times, which had hitherto been found unneces. These are, of course, isolated shots,sary in the comparative small- but they do show that several balls that are generally deemed "unplay-ness of the Country Club, were inaugurated last Sunday, and as able" are really playable.

a solution to congestion they

OWING to the rain that pre-were' admirable. One or two

NORTH REGIONAL

Near Effort

Barnsley v. Bradford C.; Chester-

Shortly before the interval, how- field v. Middlesbro; Doncaster v.ever, Scots seemed about to level the the lead, Rotherham; Liverpool v Newcastle v. Sheffield Wed: Rochdale when Hunter took the ball to within

Oldham; scores, and possibly tally

He was, Crewe; Stockport v. Southport; five years of, Sappers' line. York v, Hull.

however, tackled safely and Foley

and kicked to touch. gathered SOUTHI REGIONAL

Second try WB

after was 12 minutes

of the the commencement

second Cardlit v. Swansea; Stoke v. Notis half. Birrell gathered from Martin,

OTHER MATCH

side-stepped two Scots just inside the aideline,

and scare vorled.

wide of the posts. Scottish F. A. v. Army XI.

The try was

Then came the final try by Birrell following a long dribble.

vented the playing of the minor difficulties cropped up, but Captain's Cup and the Men's they were dealt with satisfac-C -Foursomes-first-round-matches torily.

at the Country Club on the

There was the question of what scheduled date, the annual Pre-should be done to a match player sident v. Captain's match which who turns up late. On strict letter- was to have been held this Sun- the opponent is entitled to claim Hockey

day had been postponed until later in the year.

have

a

walk-over, but when the difference is only a few minutes it is not con- sidered-but their starting time has The second round matches of these been lost. Where do they fit in?

For the competitions, which should

purposes of matches, it been played last Sunday, will be is ruled that provided other players not pushed back, the match played this week-end.

the Arst Miss A. Sequeira established de-players may take over Golte superiority over Mrs. F. E. A. avaliable space in the list. Normal- Remedios when she won the women's ly, of course, the defaulting players championship of the Country Club by would have to take their turn at the 3 and 1 last Sunday. They met end of the 1st.

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Trials To Select Team To Meet Macao

select Hongkong's team to meet An interport hockey trial to

Macao in Macao in February will be held on the Club ground, King's Park, on Satur- day at 3.30 p.m. Following are the teams:

Colour V. M. Benwell (Y.MCA.); V. Dond (Club), Crosson (Engineers); M. 1. Hassan (Khalan), W. A. Reed (Ċlub), N. D. Whitley (Club); Telja Singh (Police), T. S. D. Whities (Club), Opi Hitchcock Royal Scots), J. Fonseca

Recreiol, W. Brown (Police).

Whitea. . Souza (Khalan); A BI. Xavier (Nomads), Man Singh (Police): I. Alves (Recreio), Lellan (Club); Woods (Raj- Narwant Singh (Polloe). L/Cpl Shaw (Engineers). Gurbachan Singh (Khalsa), M. Akram (Punjab), laut J. Под (Punjabs)

putana Rines). D.

The following are also requested lo attend.-E. Fowler (C.D.A.), Jesbir Singh (Felice), R. Marques tecreio). Sgt Waldron (Middlesex), B. I. Bickford (Club), J, Gonsalves (Recreio), R. J. Reed (Nomads). Capt Kampla Parmad (Punjabs).

Selection"

Following the trial. 15 players will be selected and the Colony's team will be chosen on the date of the match from these. Several practice matches for these 15 players will be arranged The Erst will take place on Tuesday on the Club ground at 2.30 p.m. against a team yet to be nominated,

The Selection Committee have not yet been informed by the Army Sports Board whether Army players will be able to make the trip but the Com mittee have every reason to belleve hat the Sports Board will make known Ila decision before Saturday,

Members of the Selection Committee are Lieut, J. P. Gunnar (Royal Navy), Capt. Cartwright-Taylor (Royal En gineers), K. Hussain (Civilians), V. AL Benwell (Hon. Secretary).

Snooker Match

A friendly. Snooker match will be held between Kowloon Police and Royal Army Medical Corps, the Army team Billards Champions, at, the Water Police Station at 6 pm on Bunday, Palice will be represented by Sub-Insp. Bradsell and Bergeants Pilo, Pope, Matches, Johnston and Haynes.

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Japanese Swimming Exhibition To-morrow

- Members of the Rikkyo Uni- versity. swimming team, who recently won the All-Philippine Swimming Championships, wil! give an exhibition in the European Y.M.C.A. pool to- morrow at 2 p.m.

Army Champion In Exhibition Snooker Match

Was

Wahoos White-wash Las Florinhas To Stay

In Pennant Race

(By "Ball Fan")

Games, scheduled in the men's section of the local softball leagues were curtailed considerably. for the second successive week-end as Hong- kong's winter liquid sunshine put in its drizzly appearance over the Kowloon ball park.

Three tilts were played in the Ladies League before the avalanche of raindrops came down, with Doc Mol- then's Red Bird Cardinals cking out a 14-13 win over Baby Panthers in a spotlighted rip-roaring battle for an upper mid-section berth.

Daddy Sousa's Liga ball-12 chasers went down fighting after ten innings to the strong R.A.F. skyriders 8-7, while Re- creio Bees hung the old "sting" sign on Royal Engineers 11-6. Canadian Chinese lassies held V. Marques' Standard Oil stars to ja 7 all draw in a tough exhibi-

tion game.

Nip Lum's star-studded Wildcats. scenting the Ladies Major cham- plonship in the near diatont, over- whelmed a weakened Recreio nine 21-6 behind the steady hurling of Thelma Collaco.

For five innings

Recreio the battled the all-star felines femmeu run-for-run, but wenkened terribly in the sixth when tho Wildent power brigade broke loose with a Thirteen run surge, desperate

doubt. clinching the issue

The the four Mur sisters from El Paso, who made eight of the winners twelve hits, featured this struggle which sent. "Michaelmus" Mendonca's cuties to the clanners with their eighth loss of the year.

powerful wiliatu lubbing of

Sunday's Stars

ILY Mar and Irene Pereira, Videals-Former led the at-

tack with a homer, double and single, while Infter made a sensa- tional stab of M. Figuerledo's short fly in the 5

Terry Noronha and S. Castro. Wahoos Terry's effective pitching shut out the flower girls with one hit; alter drove in three runs on Iwo ilimely hits with the willow. wand.

Effle Babida and Belly Fitz- gerald. Cardinals-Former hurled stellar ball in spite of a painful leg Injury: Belly's four clouts in. five trips gave winners the neces- sary clutela finish,

Mary Nr. Canuckettes and No Marques, Standard Offers Former struck out eight Ollers is a stellar mound performance while latter played heady ball in their tie game with the Maple Leaf lassies,

came through in the clutch to stave off the rally.

Shut-out Victory

Betty Fitzgerald, slugging short- ONTROL ball" Terry Noronha stop, paced the winner with four ndded the word perfect to her bingles, while Grandma Hutchison, offerings out at the ball park on astute third baseman brought in two Sunday morning, when she led her runs with heavy willow-banging. Wahoo rangers to a 10-0 shut-out Junior Section victory over Las Florinhas toltering daisies, to stay within striking dis-PLAYING with only seven ball- tance of the league leaders.

chasers, Daddy Sousa's Liga

The

greenshirted Owls merely breezed home, behind their steady gang crumbled before the dive- slab finger, in chalking up their bombing hits of the R.A.F. line- ninth win. Rookle second baseman up in a ten inning Junior loop S. Castro played bang-up ball for

the winners with Jackie Anderson, game. Recreio Bees retained stellar backstop ball-collector also their hold on fourth place with an 11-0 win over the subway-dwelling sharing the starry role.

Royal Engineers.

Noted Out

OC Molthen's fighting Cardinal) -

headed closer to the selected

Doc

Exhibition

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division in the girls loop when they IN an exhibition, game at Marino, the Maple Leaf Canuckeltes tied alammed through to a Merriwell win CPL 3, 1. HARVEY, Army bll-over Xavier's Baby Panthers 14-13. V. Marques Socony Ollers in llards and snooker champion, opposed to A. P. Pereira, Hongkong Volunteers, in an exhibition snooker match at the Y.3LC.A, last night, and though successful in the best of three frames, lost on aggregato by 140-182.

The scores were (Harvey Arst) 15-' 96. 63-38, 62-28.

Emo Babida, Red Bird mound "dingho" contest. The Oliers found. ace, playing with a painful leg in- trouble in connecting with Mary Jury, weakened in the last two Ng's offerings, while Mavis Chang, frames, to watch elght Panther petito fielder, covered the left side tallies Cross-the-old-platter, but cow-pastures-In-DiMaggio_style.......

Col. Simpson presented the winners

Pereira took the first frame by such 25252 and losers with medals,

Major Curran (RAM.C.) refereed, and in outstanding margin that it seemed

the terms were

Royal Engineers "B"-Taylor; Costen, most likely he would be the winner, Reese. Mariln and Birrell: Jones and but in the second and third frames,

Cunningham Foley: Wilcox,

Killeen; when Harvey had settled down, there Davis, Sheldrake, G. Taylor and was a different tale to tell. Brinkley,

The closeness of the scores in the Royal Scots "B"-Stevenson; " OBrien, Bateman, Hanson and Marshall: Millips second frame tells its own story. It and Gracie: Livingstone, Mackenzie, an Drie; Dickson, Nellan: 2/Lieu Huster, was an even and exciting game. This continued in the final frame, the score Blms and Loughlin. TO-DAY'S MATCH CANCELLED running to 20-all, but thereafter The Club A rugger game on the Pereira was unable to score another Club ground this afternoon has point, and Harvey ran out winner by been cancelled.

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