1941-07-10 — Page 22

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

BOWLS NOTES

July 10, 1941.

Jel. 28151.

Craigengower Should Regain League Title "COOL and FULL of PEP"

Recreio "A" Beaten By Surprising Margin: Set-Back For Indian R.C.

HOME TEAMS had a field day in the Lawn Bowls League last week. Without exception, visiting teams were on the losing side, the most notable result being the 5-0 victory scored by Craigongowor C.C. over the champions, Recroio "A".

Longue Tennis.

C.R.C. Defeat University 5-4 In "C" Division

THREE of the five league tennis matches in the "C" Division, were played yesterday, the K. Indians Kowloon C.C. and Craigengower- Rerrelo games being postponed.

Chinese Recreation Club scored another victory, narrowly beating the University,by 6-4, whille South China

also forged ahead with a 51-312 win

over the Army.

Biggest Defeat In Years

Though I had expected the Valley team to win, I did not think that they would do it with a margin of 27 shots or that they would be up on all three rinks. It was the biggest thrashing Recreio “A” had had in many years.

tion for his great consistency. U. M. Omar conceded a

seven

With this victory, Cruigen- gowcer C.C. ure set for the championship which they last anst "Spurgy" Silva when lend- Ing 28-11, but the Valley players en in 1936. Already they are were in no danger of defeat then, one point ahead of Recreio "A" Still, it was the first time in many, with two matches in hand-a|many years that the champion had given sway such a count in à League inutch. very strong position indeed..

The start of, this match gave no

ness, R. F. Luz, drawn against

was

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Indication of its eventual one-sided-ON the adjoining green, the Police continued their win- T. C. Lo and P. Lut were the only Rosselet, ran away with u lead of

very ning streak with a fine victory University pair that gained any meanine shots and as there

two rink over the Indians. True, Jack unbeaten likely.

rink bowed to A. R. Dallah's ILC. winning two of their matchesmes, a fairly even tussle seemed Shepherd's hitherto and drawing the other.

Though C. E. Marques (bowling) is in the same rink, Laure of success against the Chinese little in it in the other C. R. Sousa (C.C.C.), J. W. Leonard (C.C.C.), J. A. Luz (Recreio "A") and J. F. V. Ribeiro (Recreio) seem to find greater interest in the happenings on the rink next door.

Ming Yuen.

Annual F. A. Meeting Approves New Rules

Maximum Admission Charges

EXCEPT FOR ALTERATION to the period of time to be allowed returned touring teams before filing a statement of accounts, the important proposals of the F. A. Council, which were submitted to the annual general meeting of menibers last night, were passed without opposition.

It was also decided that future maximum admission charges to any match would be $2.

Hon. Mr N. L. Smith, Presi- dent, was in the chair, support- ed by Hon, Mr. M. K. Lo, Cmdr Millet and Mr W. Pryde (Vice-) Presidents).

Reviewing the year, the President

said:

The net profit of $4,431.59 is highly satisfactory.

It was a matter of regret that owing to the polliical situation Shanghai was unable to come for the annual Inter- port.

The financial results of charity matches have been fully set out in the report ond I feel we have every reason to proud

Programme For Inter-Departmental

Gala To-morrow

The Government Inter-Depart- mental Swimming Gala, which was postponed from last Monday, will be held to-morrow night in the European Y.M.C.A. Swimming pool, with post entries, commen-

Commotiore (Captains A. c. collin Fon, RN, will be the Referee and other distinguished Ruests who kro expected to be present are H. E. Major- General A. E. Gruselt, Sir Atholl Mac- Gregor and Lady MacGregor and the

- the fact that through the (natrumencing at 9 p..

inity of acht matchre, 20,274.48 Jue been donated to charities,

New Officers

The following officers were elected. -President. Hon. Mr N. L. Sinit: Commissioner of Prisona. Vice-President (Clem). Mr W. The total receipts are in aid of the Pryde: Vice-President (Chinese), Hon. South China Morning Post Bomber

(Ser. Vice-President Mr M. K. Lo: vices), Col. L. A. Newnham; Chairman Fund and admission is by ticket only,

of Council, Mr Wong Ka-isun: Nepre- Fentative of Second and Third Divi- klons, Mr C. Guingom.

Touring Finances

nt $1.50 each.

Programme

The following is the programme: Plain Diving bu yards free-style: 50 yards free-style tur Government women; 100 yards medley relay teams of four, back, brennt, side and free); Veterans (40 Referring to the rule which required and over) do yards free-style: 50 yards that clubs making tours, must submit back-stroke: Hospital Sisters 100 yards a financial statement within 14 days of free-style relay teams of four, yorda their return, Mr W. E. Hollands sugach, open to Queen Mary Hospital. Kow

Joon Hospital, VA.D.'A and Blanley gested that the period be extended to VAD.0; 50 yards breast stroke; Water two months. He said a team on tour poto (European YM.C.A. v. Government); generally left the day after the last 20 yards free-style Invitation Relay match and consequently it was. im-Combined Government, Combined Ser possible to fie a fluancial statement vices "A". Combined Services "", Co- bined Hogs and European Y.M.C.A.J; 25

within 14 days as it had to await the yards Talpana' race: 50 yards Docters returns of that game.

race: Novelly (Nightshirt and candle Mr Mok log supported Mr Hol-race,; Inter-Deparemmental ide yards free- lands, saying a team night have to style relay (teams of six). wait even more than two months.

Mr Lo suggested that the period be extended to 28 days, subject to exten- sion by the Council. This was, ap- proved.

Team Strength

Gala Postponed

K. I. Chan and 1. N. Wong con- tributed largely to South China's win over the Army, winning as they did all three of their games.

Scores were:

I.R.C. 3, K. Tong 6

Indians lost to Kowloon Tong 3-6.

Ilut a complete metamorphesis by nine shots, but Wally Mair came over the game when losse- and Jock Fender saw the side let's rink scored 24 shots without through by benting A. K. Minu renly from Luz and turned a 9-9 and M. R. Abbas respectively. Shepherd's men were always up

deficit into a 24-9 lend.

U. M. Omar also ran away from against it against Dallah's four, who "Spuggy" Silva, thanks to stendy were playing at the top of their form. play by his front men, of whom the the good at ten time but a dve and The Indian rink were three shots to two younger Omars were especially six on two heads gave them

A. Rahmin and I, Kitchen lost to D.good. Chen and A. 1. Basta 2-0; lost to L. Chen nol E. Puns 4-6; best D. Kwok an II, 1. Huang 6-3.

H.K.U. 4, C.R.C. 5

University lost to C.R.C. 4-5,

An Even Fight

N there was

sub-

stantial lead which they maintained to the end,

anally Mair was always ahead of

while Fender, after

M. P. Matar and A. J. Suffiad lost to Chen and Basto 1-8: beat Chen and Punni 7-5: Jant to Kwok and Huang 3-0.

Massan and A. R. IL Femail last to Chen and Basto 3-6; beat Chen and Punnbury and Carlos Silva. The latter ran away in the last few heads to

-; lost to Kwok and Huang B-7.

returned to the team specially for win by six shots, this all-important game and despleen Shepherd and Dallah-the In- In the last head of the day-be- his lack of practice, he revealed flashes of his old form although he dians were one shot down, Harris was not altogether at his best. The drew a lovely wood and Dall scaled final score on this rink was 24-10, the Indians fate by drawing two but it might have been much closer. more.

A. H. Rumjahn, Dallah's No. When the last head was played, Bradbury was leading 20-10. Joe who had been playing splendidly Luz sent down two beautiful woods throughout the afternoon, failed to and C. E. Marques added another, alter the position, and Dallah, Waa

On the third ritus, 1 W. Brod 16-10 on the 17th end with Abing

G. K. Hool and K. Y. Tam lost to 11.

C. K. Lee 6-3.

N. Chau and T. F. 14 2-0 lost to C. Wel and H. Chung B-7: beat ML. C. Tung and

T. C. Le and P. Idu beat Chat and Lo 6-2 beat Wel and Chung 5-4; led

Lee with Van and C. Loka lost to Chau

and Lo 2-6: lost to Wel and Chung 2-0. tied with Tung and Lee 6-0,

S.C.A.A. 61, Army 3}

South China bent Army Bṭ6-34. K. I. Chan and H. N. Wong beat Ember; son and Duffield 0-1: bent Webbs and Denyer G-0; beat Merson and Murray 2-3. J. Isu and K., C. Wan lost to Ember= sah and Duffield 4-8; drew will Webb and Denyer 6-0; beni Megson, and Mür- ray 0-1,

1. C. Kwok and K. Sung lost to Ember- son and Duffield 4-6; beat Webb and Denyer 7-5: lost to Megzon and Murray 3-0.

3,

But A. E. Coates, Bradbury's No. 3, twice narrow, leaving the Police rested on the bunch for the shot. with three shots on this hend and

Johnny Ribeiro and Carlos Silva victory by four shots in all, both had bad tre

tuck in their attempts to take this out, and in the end they had to concede jour shots on this head as the result of

out three taking out second shots one after another!

Chief eredi in Craigengewer's victory must go to Rosscle's rink After for their splendid recovery.

a shaky start, all four played well to a man. L. Gaddi, promoted for this match, deserves special men-

Efforts To

Revive

British Lawn Tennis

Exhibitions And Tours

LONDON (UP).—Efforts are being made to put some life

in British lawn tennis, which has been badly affected by the

war.

QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT

SCORES FOR P.G.A.

The return of J. Forrest, J. Orem and J. C. Fender to the team has strengthened the Police consider- ably. All three were fairly steady on Saturday, and a file. practice will probably weld them into a formidable rink as They have E. G. Póst playing No. 1.

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more

THE new Kowloon C.C. com-

binations are working well, They followed up their victory over the Indians the week be- Fore by trouncing the Civil Ser- vants on Saturday by two rinks. to one, Tommy Madar's being "the"only"one"to" lose.

"Teddy," Fincher, after breaking his "duck" the previous week, scored another win, this time at the ex- pense of E. W. Simmonds, and N. J. Bebbington continued his good work as skip by beating J. J. MacGowan. M. N. Rakusen, the singles cham- pion, was given adequate support by his men and had a seven-shot win.

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AS to be expected, Kowloon B.G.C. "A" had no difficulty Plans have been made to sendagainst Kowloon Docks and a team of professionals round picked up live valuable points. the country to entertain troops,

which The "B" team,

visited instruct in schools and revive Recreio "B", however, were beaten the clubs during the summer.

by two rinks to one.

The scheme. like the similor scheme adopted by the smatcurs to tour the country with exhibitions, LOS ANGELES, July 9 (Reuter), was evolved by the sports committor -Tie qualifying round for the of the British Red Cross, and not by first round of the Professional the governing body of the game. Golf Association's match play tournament was played at Denver,

Colorado, to-day,

L.TA. Contribution

TT is understood, however, that the The first six of the 01 qualifers are: Lawn Tennis Association, which The swimming gain scheduled for the i Sum Snead 60, 69, 130; E. J. Harrison is the governing body, will contrl- Chinese Bathing Club last night to: 681 71, 130; Ben Itogon 71, 00, 140; Jim bute toward the expenses. select a team to meet Victorin Recea Demaret 72, 88, 140; Henry Hanson 71, llon Club was postponed to July 13 nt 60, 140; George Fazlo. 70, 70, 140.

Another gala will be held on July

Concerning the rule which required clubs to play their full strength. Mr3 p.m. J. McKelvie observed that the matter was entirely up to the clubs and h nothing to do with the Association. Mir 10 nt 7 p.m.

Mok expressed the view that as only amateur football was played it was upl

to the players to appear. Mr Wong rulsed to $2., He sald a cheaper price Kn-isun said the rule was followed by tunateur clubs in England.

Mr J. Sklaner pointed out that although players were amateurs, Rate receipts were taken and there. fore it was only fair to the public that a club should be at Foll strength.

Mr Le suggested that the wording be changed in order to give the Coun ell the right to call upon any club for

an explanation as to why the full team

whs not played. The rule, as it stood.

would attract too big a crowd with re- sultant damage to the standa.

Cycle Time Trial Arranged

Stanley Rous, Football Associa tion secretary, who has done su much for other sports as honorary secretary of the Red Cross coin- milies

maklag ils attempt to revive interest in tennis,

F. A. Peckham, skipping a`rink in the First Division for the first time, did well against C. M. Silva, who was also plicting a rink for the first time. The K.B.0.C. men wen by 22-11, thus giving his side one point.

TN the Second Division. Craigen-

gower C.C. lost valuable ground In the race for championship hon- ours as Ute result of their 3-0 de-. feat by Prison Officers' Club at Stanley. It was a bad day for them as even Tommy Lock, who has been doing so well of late, also lost.

Kowloon Tong made amends for their previous week's lanse by taking A regular visitor to Wimbledon in four points Irom Kowloon C.C. and peace-time, he always occupied a are in a sound position.

reserved reat in the comniltec box

for distinguished visitors on the big

By Chinese "y" days of championship meetings, IN the Third Division, the lend-

| keli

the Wimbledon coach, who bas

The suggestion was opposed by Capt, R.E. Guest, who sald the public should not. bo exploited.

ing team won." but while At the moment, there was no fixed ntaximum and any club could A bicycle time-trial, open to the to visit a school at Weston- Kowloon B.G.C. scored a clean against Craigengower, charge whatever it liked for a good Colony and under the auspices of super-Mare, near Bristol, the team of sweep match. This was hardly. fair to the Chinese Y.M.C.A., was held at professionals will go anywhere-pro- the Indians only managed to win

pubile in general and service- Taun Wan yesterday,

viding they receive a donation for the on one rink and tio in another, men in particular.

Thirty-seven competitors were sent Red Cross Sports Fund.

and were somewhat fortunate Lieut-Cmdr G. S Hugh-Jones ob-jaway at intervals of one minute and it

to win the aggregate points by Berved that the question of Kate was over an hour before the last

one shot.

he anld, placed rather too big a burden money was entirely a matter of busi- cyclist left.

Exhibition Matches XHIBITION matches by Wimble-

on clubs, Mr Pryde pointed out that ness for the clubs concerned. They Miss Hung Siu-chu, the first com- dun players, Including Kay Men of the Indians from the same mum- the Council would call for an explana- were the best judges for the happy petifor to be sent nway, at 0.34 a.m. tion only if they had very good ren-medium.

Mr W. Glover proposed that the rule,

son.

The K.B.G.C, are 2 points ahead was the second to complete the course. zien, Jean Fleell, Peggy Vivian, ber of matches played, and the return Capt. Guest proposed that the maxi-Her time was 2 hrs 18 mins 55 sec, Billie Yorke, Margot Lamb, Joan In-nine between the two aldes Will go n but this time is subject to a final check. gram, Freda Hammersley and Gem long way towards deciding the cham- an it stood, be put to the vote. This mum charge be fixed at $2 and servico-

men $1.

A. J. S. Sandberg, of La Salle ftonhing. have been arranged as part plonship in this division, Mr Skinner said it would be better college, who was second off the list. Cmdr Millet pointed out the position to Ive the question charging all art to return and he took 1 of the plan. of the Navy, "anying it was sometimes servicemen to the clubs because they hr 30 mins 21 seen to cover the 25 Country secretaries have been in- very diflcult for them to play a full had always given them a fair deal. team and that under the rule they After Me Pryde had spoken in similar

was ngtreed to.

miles corro.

Results

the

would have to give an explanation. vein, Capt. Great withdrew his proposal, He was assured by the President that and the rule was passed with no explanation would be called for in maximum charge fixed at 2 instead of 01.

The rule relating to the maximum The rat 15 compelitarn to finish, with their case...

charge for adm'ssion to Shield mat-their starting and Aniling times given

in krackels, were:

Maximum Admission Fee

In connection, with the rule fixing the maximum charge for admision st #1, Mr Skinner suggested that this be

vited to organise junior champion-RAIN has been the bug-bear of the Open Championships to date. rhips, the winners to play in

Last Sunday's matches in the Rinks Junior Tournament at a centre to

were of course washed oul, and the be arranged later.

Pairs, which are still in the first- round stage, have made very little │...: PrograKs,

"Those who have yet to play off their matches thould avail them-.: selves of the first dry day to have them played.

che was also Amended to $2 instead Mas_Hung Blu-chu (034/11.5265);_ A. | (0.47/11,41,411;_ _Chan Bin-yau

(4/11 lof $1.

J. S. Bandverg (9.30/11.17.21)↑ Pun Blu-¦35,6911 Chan Kam-chung (99.50/11.23.23): Mr Mekalute raized the question of hung: (834/1129.30); Kwong Chak-chuan | Kwan Fook chron (9.61/11.40.36)1

Стип the use of grounds and appealed to (983/11,45.16); Leung Kal-tu (947/11.45.143; | Fook-rang (854/113244)| Lau Kamenk

top bargaining for terme taxam Kwan-san... (0.44/1181.49)1 Yeung | ro,88/11.58.4411 Loung Yuk-tong ___ (0.87%- their wre,

Chung Jam 49,45/113284); Led Iling-ṭnü] 11.47,0); ip Wing-kig (60.02/11.47,17).

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