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'Pilgrim's

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

April 24, 1941.

Hockey Comes

Notes To

Its

Close

At

1940-41 Season

Six-a-side Tourney King's Park On Sunday

Only 14 Entries To Date

THE 1940-41 SEASON comes to a close next Sunday when the second annual Six-a-side Tourna- ment will be played at King's Park, commencing at 2 p.m. sharp.

Only fourteen teams have submitted their entries so far, but more may be expected before Saturday. Should less than twenty teams participate, four grounds will be required these will be the Navy, the Y.M.C.A., the C.B.A. and Recreio grounds.

To-day's Tennis

To-day's semi-final match in the Colony Open Singles Tennis Championship will be:

Trul Wit v. (Bland Court),

S. A. Rumjahu |

These were the finalists last year. when Rumjahn played a remarkable- game to take the title in five sets. the belief that he will regain his

Taul has shown tile to ineline one to

crown, though he will doubtless be most eager,

Major Baseball

N. Y. Giants Nose Out

The final will be played on the "Y" pitch.

Entries LO date are RS follows:

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Royal Signals (two teams), C.B.A. (three teams), Middlesex Regiment (two teams), Destroyers (ane icam). Khula (two teams). Nomads (oue' team), and 5th A.A. "A" (three teams).

The Police, runners-up to Recreio

in the HK.H.A. Tournament, are un-

Badminton Championship Ties To-night

P. H. Wong v. M. P. Yoong

FURTHER SEMI-FINAL

able to feid a side as they will be matches in the Open Badmin. visiting Macao, while the champions ton Championship will be play- are unable to turn out owing to in-ed this evening at Kowloon The programme

Jurles to several of their players,

Cricker Lium.

Some interesting games should be will be as follows: seen during the course of the after-

Roon.

Rules

FOR the benefit of Umpires and

players, the rules of the com- petition are as appended below:

The game shall be played in ne- cordance with the usunt rules of Hockey, with the following excep-

Boston Bravestions-

(a) The teams shall consist of six

NEW YORK, Apr. 23 (UP).

players each, the formation of the goalkeeper, two backs and three for- wards, or a kicking back, two halves or three forwards, or any other ar- rangement desired.

8.30 p.m.-P. K. Hool and Miss U. Khos v. M. A. Oliveira and Miss M. Silva (Mixed Doubles).

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p.m.-T. 8. Young and K. Fung v C. C. Pereira and A. E. Xavier' (Junlar Doubles).

9.30 p.m.-P. II. Wong and M, P. Yoong.

All three matches should be very close, though main interest will no doubt be centred on the last match of the evening. Odds will be in Wong's favour, though he has not been show-

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New York Glants to-day nosed out team being entirely optional, e-Kling up very well this year. Yoong the Boston Braves 5-4 In the National League. Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4-2.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Lornian, Danaing. Battery: Howman, L 10 Dallery:

Garnett. Javery, Strinovich, Johnson, Berrez, Mass. Philadelpita

New York

Borlan

St Louis

Battery: Graham. W, Cooper,

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Boston

Battery: Wagner, Pytink.

New York

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too inclined to the spectacular to be reliable.

P. K. Hool and Miss Khoo have t stiff hurdle in the Recreio pair, but (b) The duration of the game should manage to win, while in the shall be two periods of six minutes Junior Doubles odds will be in favour each with no interval, not more than of Young and Fung, for though one minute being allowed for goal-Pereira has shown excellent form to eeners to change ends. The final date, Xavier has hardly been up to shall be two periods of ten minutes form. cuch with three minutes interval,

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Note: The timekeeper will blow? o his whistle one minute before the

time of starting each

Any game. team not on the pitch ready for the game at the time indicated in the programme will be disqualified.

Battery: Pearson. Podgajmy.

slots.

Brooklyn

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Battery: Wyatt and Owen.

Cincinnati

Chiengo

Ballery: Walter Coinbaril.

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lintery: Erickson, Obsen, McCullough. Pilamurith

Battery: Butcher, Dietz. Lopez, Davis.

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Battery. Eanily.

Chase. Zuber,

Philadelphia

Battery Polter, A. Johnson, Ferrick, Hayes. Chleara

Battery: Hallett, Grave; Humphries, | Tox Detroli

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St Louis

Battery:___Niggeling.

Cleveland

Baitery: Gomez, Dickey.

Battery: Newhouser, Telipeits.

· Monterief. Grube.

Battery: Felter. Hemsley.

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(c) Pennity bullies will not be awarded under any circumstances.

(d) The usual off-side rules shall apply with the substitution of TWO

ponents for THREE.

(e)

The winners shall be the Carrasquel, teain storing the greater number of

soals, or if these are equal,

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BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS ASSN SPORTS MEETING

THE ANNUAL SPORTS meeling of the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Asso- clation will be held at the South China A.A, stadium, Caroline H{11, on Saturday, April 26. His Excel- tency the Governor will attend, and. Lady MacGregor wül distribute the Drizes,

The activities of this Association are for the betterment of social con- ditions in Hongkong. It was formed five years ago, and now boasts of 20 Clubs, at which a total of 595 girls and 548 boys attend.

H.K. Boy Does Well In Victoria

Schools Aquatic Meet

D. ANDREWS, young son of Inspector A. Andrews of the Peak Tramway Company and former C.B.S. boy, did well in the Victoria State Schools annual swimming

Macao Lyceum and the Hongkong University hockey teams that met in a friendly game at Pokfulam last week, when the visiting team won 1-0.

Requirements Of An Ideal Hockey Captain

THE IDEAL CAPTAIN is born, though one may attain a near equivalent through long experience with the management of a team, and the importance of selecting a leader who has the power to command and instruct cannot be over-estimated.

One often sees a captain go- ing through a gume without any remark or suggestion to his side, though he has possibly seen several instances of faulty pass- ing, poor tactics and even cases of extreme selfishness.

Players who have not the inborn Intuition to lead should not accept

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

the position, and the polley of Macao Soccer Comment

making one's best player the cap-| lain is a blunder the first magnitude.

Sir-In your sports section of Saturday's issue, a sport commenta- tor writing under the veiled name of The good "skipper" should not be "Scrambler" on the annual Hongkong- the bullying autocrat, he should Macao Interport Football meet very insti Into his side a spirit of esprit politely, but not justly, classed the de corps. Through strength of chor- standard of football as played in acter he can prevent incidents on the Macao to be below that of Hongkong. feld by the exercise of firmness and and predicted a certain victory for. tact. In all this passive captain the home tears. falls, for he must lead or fail.

The writer whose experience and

it is when things are going against knowledge of the strength of Macao's his side that his initiative and know-Interport composition very naturally Icdige shoukl be shown. A hint here considered the statement to be too and there, a change of position of premature, but preferred to wait for plan, encouragement to this or that the eventual result before taking up player and an ability to appreciate his pen in defence of same. the respective temperaments of his ten men are big assets. On, and off the Bett he should be leader.

Team Spirit

As the result of the match is now well known, and the formidable Hongkong Interport team was benten by Macao, whose standard of play as the sport critic puts it, is below advise Mr "SCRAM-bler" to take an paid, either by the captain or by (1) the team having the greatest: Swimmers from all Australian his team, to the way in which the object lesson of this Interport, and in future refrain from advancing un- number of short corners awarded Schools in Victoria took part i

in this

best can be brought out of the side savoury comparison which may tend them, or if these are equal.

Too often a team is merely a collecto under-rate the reputation meet, and D. Andrews took first

tion of eleven individuals, aut for friendly neighbourly team, as such an afternoon's exercise and enjoy was clearly the ease. ment, who do not consider as much as they might the best way to get the utmost out of the side, not only with a view to winning but to giv as good a display of the game as possible.

meet which was held on March 2 QUFFICIENT attention is seldom that of Hongkang. I should like to

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(1) the team having the greatest place in the diving event for boys number of long corners awarded between the ages of 13 and 16.

hem, or if these are equal,, them,

He also come third in the Under (i) the result shall be decided 15 Boys 100 metres Championship, by the position of the ball at "full and though he qualified for the 100 time" whistle, the team in whose metres_free-style race for boys be- half of the field the ball is situated tween 14 and 15, he did not take part being the losers.

in the race as he was absent when

Note:-A goal scored as a result of the names were called. a corner, automatically washes out! that corner.

fulfilling une of the greatest needs of

1h2 Coleny.

“Y” Athletics

A meeting of European YMCA. Funds, in the main, are depen-members interested in Athletics (track dent on the generosity of Colony and feld) will be held in the West residents, and though last year Lounge of the YM.C.A, to-morrow at showed a grailtying increase in 6 p.m. to form a committee and make these, expenditure, too, has shown plans for this new section.

Increase not only in the growth of new clubs, but through the widening of their spheres of activity.

Appeal is made for the continued | generosity of those already contribut- ing, and to others to whom the move- ment has not yet made itself) sufficiently known. It is u most de serving cause.

Donations may be made to Mr The children are from the poorest Kwok Chan, the Banque de l'Indo families in the Colony, and in cater Chine, who is Hon. Treasurer, and ing to their education, moral, physi- who will gladly acknowledge such cal and general,-the 'Assoclation is receipts.

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Victory is not the sole aim of the game. What is necessary is that the team should play well und hard, taking good luck and bad withi equanimity. If victory comes, 50

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SPORTS ADVT.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

And a captain can do much to-

The. FOURTH EXTRA RACE wards preserving or encouraging the MEETING will be held, weather spirit of playing together,

!permitting On SATURDAY. 20th April, 1941, commencing at 2.00 p.m. The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 D.1.

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