The Archive · 1922

Hankow—E. Owen (skip)

Bull, E. Clough and H. Gray — Shanghai—G. McMurdo (skip), J — C. Macdongall, G. B. Stormes and F. Ferrier — Hongkong v. Junior Golf Club

The Hongkong intervert players visited Hongkong Park on Monday and played a rink of the Junior Golf Club. They proved themselves easy winners and scored the record total of 39 points to 13. The team opposed to them was considered quite a strong one but somehow they did not usa to the occasion. The visitors were in interport form, and had they played together in the Shanghai versus Hongkong match as well as they did yesterday, the|* interport match would indeed have' been a struggle Rain slightly interfered with the start, but after a while the sun came out which made the green bit sticky.

Hongkong i three fours and a three in the first seven ends, the Junior Golf C. only securing a brace and a single, At the 10th Hongkong score* a. six and another three, the score at the 13th reading 27/8. The visitors still kept piling up the score with a three, a four, two twos, and a single, whilst the Golf Club could only get one three, a couple and three singles. The result was that Hongkong ran out winners by the huge score of 39 to The teams were:—

Hongkong—R. Lapsley (skip), W. terrard, J. Russell and R. Wallace, 39.

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