in Shanghai 'Phe Hongkong Interport lawn 'Dowls team—Messrs, A. M. Holland, 3.'C. Brown, A. Chapman, J. Laing, W. Mair, and A.W. Grim-mitt—arrived in' Shanghai on Sept.
They were welcomed by. a number of leading local bowlers and given some mild introductory enter fainment, but wasted little time in getting down to the serious business, of winning matches, In the after-hoon they were the guests of the Shanghai Municipal Police and, as later, when con they certainly "put the wind up" Shanghai's prospective team. The Scots Guards can muster several bowlers of high Standard and it was only the day before that one of them declared that the Police team could beat the world! Yet Hongkong beat the Police from the start, finishing with he big difference of 36-7.
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Mackintosh, Conduit cly, Wheeler After the game, Capt. Barrett presented the Hongkong team with souvenir spoons, and Hongkong. gave other spoons to the Police team, with the interchange of cheery speeches, When Capt. Bar-ott had recovered from the sur-
Priae of being asked to accept one of the Hongkong spoons, he said it was the most easily: won trophy he possessed, for he was the worst bowls player in Shanghai, and in any case he had not done anything.
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