P. V. Simpson was the outstanding batsman of the day, although his score of 31 runs, can hardly be considered big." He his innings cautiously, going in the unaccustomed position of eighth man down; he has always been an opening bat. Once he got his eye set, he hit out and scored several boundaries, R, Booth got 25, in a bright innings, having a life at 2 when he was missed by Games at deep mid-off, while Archie Sinclair had a very shaky innings to get his 23, being missed twice at 6 and being gven another life when P. Mr failed to accept a chance at 10.
For the Recs, Pat Madar played a steady innings to carry his bat when stumps were drawn for 16 runs, and C. J. Smith, his colleague in the opening partnership was well caught by Marshall in slips after he had scored 14. Actually, Smith gave a chance at 1, an identical one to that which he was caught out with, and Marshall was the delinquent in the first instance, the folder making no mistake on the second occasion, When stumps were drawn, the light was fading rapidly, and P. Madar and Alec White played cautiously, to keep their wickets intact, and the two will resume this morning.
The Bowling Laurels m. J. Divecha returned the good Sham average of 3 wickets for 15 runs in six overs. His slow off breaks from the Recreation Club end, were difü- cult to play safely and were going 6%; away rapidly, with the result that the batsmen could not settle down to score off this type of bowling.
T. W. B. Wilson went one better and in his 12 overs took 5 wickets for 24 runs. He bowled from the far. end and with the wind against him earlier on was swinging out well, apart from varying his type of bowling considerably. A fast one from him dismissed Leach, the Club skipper playing the ball under his bat. Lawrence, the Recs wicket keeper, did well to accept the catch.
"Peanut" Marshall hit the highest shot of the match—off Wilson's bowl ing—and was accepted by Smith at deep mid-on and the Recs' skipper climaxed his performance by accepting a grand left-handed catch—going very hard—when he was bowling to H. H. Morris, Pat Madars wily bowling wes responsible for two wickets, both by catches, and Shroff and White, who were tried as change bowlers were not as successful.
The tussle that took 26 games to decide the victor was the one played between Krenov and Shafter, the former winning by 8-6, 7-5. Krenóv served first and he won the initial game, Butin the ensuing games be dropped five in a row and while he was practically in a hopeless situa-Yon his opponent fell off just on the verge of winning the first set, allowing Krenov to tie the count at S-all. Then, after losing the next game, Krenov chalked up three more to finish the set.
The elusive French player, Se~ galen, created a mild upset in eliminating Maxcy Smith who was supposed to be anyway better than his opponent. The Frenchman won the first set at 6-3 and captured the next one after having reached the sixteenth game, The tussle was very tiring as both played the same type of defensive game, winning on the opponent's errors.
Y. Cheng, another young Chinese player, also had a bitter fight with Boyer who hails from the US, Marine team, Cheng emerged on top by two 6-4 setts,
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