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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1946.,

SPORTS FEATURES.. MEMORIAL CUP MATCHES

THIS WEEK END

CIVILIAN SIDE BUILT AROUND A GOOD

PIVOT

(By See Tec)

MEMORIAL CUP

MATCHES ARE THE CHIEF FEATURES

THIS OF

WEEK- END'S LOCAL FOOTBALL. THESE GAMES PROVIDE A PLEASING CHANGE FROM THE ROUTINE LEAGUE MATCHES WHICH, SO FAR, HAVE BEEN BROKEN, ONLY BY THE AND OF THE SENIOR FIRST ROUNDS JUNIOR

KNOCK-OUT COMPETI- TIONS. MEMORIAL CUP MATCHES ARE OF NINETY MINUTES DURATION EXTRA TIME WHEN NECESSARY.

SHIELD

WITH

Kicking off at 3.30 p.m. to-day, a Non-Chinese Civilian side meets the Army; this game is to be played on the Navy's ground at Causeway Bay. It is long while since an Army team took the field as such. Like the Civilian side, it includes several Second Division players.

It is well I like the look of the Civilians' team.

The built up around a good pivot, Forrow, of the. Club. attack has a nice mixture of dash and skill in it which may make things hum. McDougall, Leck and Colegate have the makings of a pretty sound defence.

To-morrow's Rame. at

Hill between

Caroline Chinese teams. There was a striking

no

WEEK-END. SPORTS

p.m.

TO-DAY

SOCCER

MEMORIAL CUP

SECOND DIVISION Bookunpoo: IIQ Land Forces v II Signal Coy 4 pm.

Chatham Road: 44 Cdo v Kwong Wah, 4 p.m.

TO-MORROW

NEW GIRL DARTS

SNOOKER Jim Pike Shows

WONDER

By Archic Quick

By

While I was in Nottingham, I

How Easy It Is

(By Archie Quick)

FIM PIKE England's champion

JIM

was told of a sixteen-year-old. dart player is bewildering. Navy: Non-Chinese v Army, 3.30 girl snooker wonder. She is Up and down the country they Aileen Bowmer, who competes have been telling me all about on level terms with men in the the tricks this man from

Amateur Institute's Notta

Lambeth Walk can do with an Snooker League.

Only woman playing in the com-row, but frankly I did not petition, she has won all her matches believe some of the stories- Ro far. Top break thirty, consisting until the other night,

I went along to see him give an of five blues.

She works behind the counter in exhibition frankly sceptical, but I local stores, and has been playing stayed to be convinced. What Jim can make a feathered barb do is since fourteen, years old,

Recently, she played an exhibition trick business by hilling out five

nobody's business. He started โป with...J. Kingsley, Notts champion.matches stuck in a man's fingernails He gave her forly start and drew at nine feet distance. Then from the level, but Miss Bowmer won on the

same throw he took black.

to the pinned a man's mouth and cigarette out of nomin nominated

ed double eleven. The five matches required seven darts. The cigarette one dart. The two men one standing at double six and the Those of you who read my columns other at double eleven-with a plece will not be surprised to learn that of string stretched between them in. Clark Maconachy, New Zealand their teeth had pierced first dart, snooker star, is in England ready to the arrow

going into nominated lend added interest to this year's twenty-five. This sort of wizardry Davisless World's Snooker Cham went on until finally the board was plonship. I told you so three months wholly covered with a newspaper

MEMORIAL CUT

SOCCER

Caroline 11 Chinese

Navy, 3.30 p.m.

V

Royal

2.30j

SECOND DIVISION Club: Sing Tao v Kit Chee, p.m.

Club: Club v Chinese Cadre, 4 pm. 'Causeway Bay: CASC V RASC, 4.30 p.m.

Causeway Bay: South Wireless Centre, 4. p.m.

CRICKET

China

KCC: Land Forces, H.K. v Land Forces, Kowloon, 11 am.

King's Fark: Craigenpower v Navy,

noon.

FASTBALL

Recrelo: Baseballers v Recreio Hotshots v St Joseph's 10.30 a.m.

She has hnd offers to turn profes- sional, but hopes to enter the Women's National Amateur Championship and win it first.

ngo.

I was also the first to reveal that Wally Barnes, Arsenal's Welsh Inter- national full back, retired from the game because of injury and now, a regular soldier,

was coming back. Barnes, who has in charge of Army teams this senson, played his first League gamo for Arsenal at Presion recently.

one sees

often that It isn't Chinese forward line, so frequently penalised for offside as were South

and in five darts he got nominated double two with three darts in. AB

stood a foot or so from the board and a sideline he took cut the feathers, went round the full circle in doubles in nineteen seconds, Slow he called it compared with his record of eleven

seconds.

And here are you and I spending haif the evening and holding up everybody in the taproom trying to finish on double one.

At the same darts show we had Hotspur and Tottenham.

t

GRAHAM

'Of course, down here playing conditions are vastly

different."

FASTBALL CORNER

DIRECTION SECONDARY ··

CONSIDERATION IN LAST WEEK'S SLUGFESTS

·

(By "Spectator")

HARD hitting was the order of the day in last Sabbath's two League games in which all the teams on view generally indulged in slugfests with direction only a secondary consideration.

The Giants who have a strong all-round side, how- ever, played loose ball, but managed to defeat a much Improved Hotshot squad seven runs to four. Prexy Doc Molthen's Baschall Club fared none too well, going down to the tune of 15 runs to nil to a gang of speedy, swiping Rovers. Outhit five to four, better ball the

of Figuerei-

Starting off the galore of errors with wild game or errors. do's rought-riding Glants in a That was probably the reason for shakily when they committed a throws few of the silliest blunders-for awkward, unused

.who comprise Baschollers,

them. amongst players

dynamic

Recreio: Rovers v Glants;. Cona- China last Sunday. From my ex-footballers in opposition and they sense served in good atend in were not at the game for years and

the offside rule than most Europeans. round hundred and he was followed that the Chinese are more alive to thrower Leslie Comptor put up a Many very well worked half back in the same round by Ted Dutchburri manoeuvres

were thrown away by 81, Henley 102, Chisholm 85, Mac one or other of the South China pherson 55, Burgtas 80. forwards lying level with or beyond the backs.

a very well-knit almilarity in the games in which the

team and Combined Chinese

the Navy lost to Sing Tan and the NAF is another excellent to South China. During the first Royal Navy fixture. The Navy are making only half of each game the Servicemen

in

Arsenal uncertain small changes from the team which held their own

After

interval the lart fashion.

it fell to Sing Tao ro heavily Saturday.

dians v Chung Hwa, 2 p.m. notice that the Sing Tao seemed that they could not stand the half-back line will be facing the pace.

Navy conceded six The

goals sallors again, with Hau is right back in the second half of their gun

tactics to keep in touch. It is a pleasure to in theirs, the RAF conceded four,

were amply justifled and Hut football is an oda same during the latter parts of the games me to see Yu Kai-yao of C.A.S.C. chosen as goal-keeper. I have often During the first twenty minutes of they gave a very pleasing demon

Navy-Sing Tao match, the sailors remarked on his capable keeping.

For Monday's match a very strong missed several good scoring chances.stration of classy close passing and

Inst-minute change of neat footwork. Combined Chinese team has been Perhaps a chosen to play Teing Pak, the centre-forwards had something to do Shanghul club. In many ways this with it; anyway, an early goal for game promises to be the tit-bit of the Navy might well have changed the visitors tour. It is to be hoped the whole course of the game.

the

ท

T. Joseph's ran up against the only exception to the last THE RAF started off in pleasing

fashion against South China, week-end's eclipse of Service teams Fox, who played a clever game at-45 Commando. The Commandos

Jack

Solomons

Very similar tactles wire used by Inside-left, looked like being a real are one of the fastest yet heaviest Does It Again

game,

and

occasions

are

that

that their unfortunate injuries may

the Chinese tcams. They menace to the Chinese. He was able sides in the league. Their speed on be heated for we have yet to see both

ball and

staying power Tsing Pak at full strength and started to try to play their usunt to beat one or two men and part the

pity a great there

to advantage; I notice magnificent. It is with the ball were although balance.

used the long slanting pass they too are having their regular often he when their opponents

- to his

outside-right. If "Junior" team disturbed by changes of per- AST week-end was not a good looked like bustling them into con- LAS

one for the Services. In First fusion they maintained steady form Beech had been there it is possible zonnel in the unit. Teams like 1/5 been and 45 Commandos have done much

(Continued on Page 12) Division games, the Nuvy, Royal Air--they kept on trying to play their that better use might have Force and 44 Commando all fell to particular style of football. Their made of Fox's good work,

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By Archic Quick

ACK Solomons has done it

again,

Having introduced us to the Tandbergs, Martins and Renets, he now produces out of the bag -after a trip to. Czecho- Slovakia, mark you-a gentle- man named Signor Bertolo Julio Spagnolo, who, he tells us, is twenty-four years old, weighs nearly fourteen stones-very important this-that he has defeated one Louis Musina, about which I could not care less.

The Halian with, a name like one of Billy Merman's gondolier zongs is, we are told, a fit and proper opponent for our Bruce Woodcock at Harrin- gay on December 17. Maybe, but he not suitable when good English money has

to be paid for thic spectacle of another un-Roman holl-

day.

know only too well that Bruce

must get ring experience, and that

he is in lonely Isolation here so far

have found the sands...

to

such. however,

Also, they pitch An it

which some of their more re- players individually,

bo readily teen that pitcher

plate:

liable players were responsible

Charlie Rittenhouse could hurl them they allowed the devil-may- with speed and with an easy, motion; care Hotshots to hold them to that Big Chief Jack Drager knows three, all for the initial five his stuff behind the hote

that Ernie Henrther has plenty of innings.

what it tales to play ball; and Things looked glum for the Glants forth.

Rovers' easy triumph, on the other until Figuereido himself burst into the scoring column in the first of hand, could not be belittled in the the sixth frame. By a near-hit he least. They played snappy ball and Then in a determined hit hard and often and did not miss. got to first.

If they pay more attention. effert he dived on all fours to beat much.

things like different plays the throw, robbing the keystone to

::

The Canadian Chinese fastball team which recently defeated: St

Joseph's in their League encounter-Ming Yuen."

for

as good opposition is concerned, but station, where he was advanced to different occasions it is not going to.

docs the matching of him third on a sacrifice. A well placed be easy to hold these bay's whom

with these various Latin and clutch drive for a double by power soever they are pitched against, Nordic nonentities help hilm onful mace-mauler Ackbar Bakar sent his way to 2 world title fight? him home for the leading run.. That

The outstanding incident In this

when Jack Drager's.

The Martin Nasco was a case tly meant the turn of the tide for encounter was the triple killing of in point. What did Woodcock's three the Giants, who thereafter returned the Clubmon rounds, totalling seven minules in an inkling of the Bery and tricky hit, which shot low and swift, was the ring, teach him? When Wood-ball playing that this combination found too hot to handle by Jock cock meets Spaghetti or whatever are capable of. They went on to Brown at short stop but he showed his name to .cte should be a tip- score another three runs against great agility in deflecting the ball, held it. Clubmen on first and second puying public to compensel the which, the Hotshots replied with to second baseman Eddio Silva who stations had dashed off their basca We are ceriously told in the

and were nabbed one after the other by Silva's throw for the force outs.

top second

Spagnolo build-up that he defeated Musina, who defeated Tandberg And do you remember whet

only one.

weary, pulled off the shelf-Eddie THE honour of the day were This was the first triple play in the

claimed by Acker Bakar, who League," Phillips-did to Tandberg Brith! registered a Grandsinm homer and

Much more to my icing is Solo- a two-bagger, which were the long-. His per- mon's idea of putting on a heavy-est hits of the game.

weight novices competition at the formance was followed creditably full programme in which all the Royal Albert Hall on December by Hotshot Jerry Roza-Pereira, Ha A eight teams competing in the

2, have seen some wonderful punches slashed out two hits out of three League will be on view, has been thrown in rough and tumbles fri the times at bot. Giant Charlie Quinn arranged for this Sunday. Starting Hongkong Baseball at 10.30 am. repro

neat single and n duced in the ring? Somewhere there tallies with

not appear to be able to upret the must be at least one embryo sacrifice. None of the Hotshot runn Woodcock.

Solomona supulates that were brought in but were the result steady Rambling Recs. Following immediately, St Joseph's cross bala of errors made by the winners. entries must be 18-24 years of age,

with the Hotshots. This may losing, Although

Youthful over six feet tall and minimum 18

2 b.m. stones in weight. At the moment he Hotshots put up a rollicking good easy picking for the Saints, Rovers

v. Glants in the afternoon at

p.m. has three entrica glant from Shoe- showing. They are on inexperienceduld be the best fare for tho

however, but showed that buryness, an ex-Marine from Derby team, how material. They should. week-end in that the Rovers, after and a Buckinghamshire farmer's son.

Army. Why can't they be pro did well to have brought in two Club meet Club de Recreio and do

I should think there are 10 hopefuls do better if about somewhere.

Remarkable thing

the

pa

a more experienced Elving such a sound display last player were to take them into his week, are sure to extend, It' not about these fold to show them the bag of tricks, temple, the Glants, who did not play as confidently as they used to. A competitions and "Hulls ran many

fast game le anticipated with the between the wars they have never

noc, however, being given to tho.

the cap will sco

ow much นา

Bi

produced an outstanding performer. A merry-go-round was the fracas

between the Rovers and

better all-round Glants. The

exception, a man has won, shone for a while and then disap- Hongkong Baseball Club with the Canadian Chinese tangle with peared into the mists. Let us hope former on the right side of the Wah.. The Canucks should bring this home in view of their that this latest effort will provide a merriment. Fifteen runu. scored gamo break from the rule and that for with nary a return-is definitely championship form in downing the once we shall have a heavyweight nothing to write home about, ut mighty St. Joseph's in their first who will train. one--

!ukainat this, it was not unlikely that Langue tilt,

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