The intermittent rain yesterday had" the effect of producing a heavy green which was to the liking of the Hongkong players as the pace was almost similar to that which they encountered on the Colony greens.
Omar was once again in the lime~ ight for the visitors, and though his usually unerring drives did not weale as much havoc as on former occasions, still turned in some rare performances and on no less than three occa~ sions he won the head single-handed. Excellent support was rendered by Bradbury who displayed his best form yesterday out of the four matches that he has played locally, Leading off for Hongkong, Duncan gave the Shanghai players a great amount of trouble as he placed his shots right on the Jack almost invariably.
'Sequeira' was the backbone of Shanghai's side, his splendid work as skip taking his team out of many: awkward situation, 'Time after time When the Ile of the woods was against him, he would take out a wood to lic one' or two, or else he would draw Fight on the jack.
Steady play marked Wilkinson, No. 2 for the local four, as one of the out= standing players of the afternoon. He worked hand in glove with his skip and even in the most dimeult situa Wons he was able to carry out The 20th end produced some extremely exciting play with the advantage changing hands with almost each delivery. Duncan grouped. both his woods within inches the jack in the opening sallies but Wilkinson carried the jack to lie one for Shanghai. In his turn, Bradbury ousted the Shanghai wood by pushing in one of Duncan's efforts, Willinson was still" deter-nuned to fight and ran his first wood on to the jack. Omar ended the fray by scoring a single for the visitors with a beautiful forehand drive. This reduced Shanghat's ead to only 17-16.
The 2ist head, which ended dis estrously for Shanghai, did not begin too promisingly with Hongkong lying three when the skips went {0 the "footer." All looked right again for Shanghai as Se~ quelra cut out two of the Colony's woods with his first draw. This left Hongkong lying first, Sequeira's shot second and another Hongkong wood third, and several tempting Shanghai backwoods.
'Sequelta took a sporting chance to send the jack to his woods behind in order' to score a victory for the Tocal team. Unfortunately, his delivery struck out his own shot to Teave Hongkong lying two, just enough for a triumph.
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Shots Total Shots Ende Ends 8
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Remarkable Play Even though the conditions were in favour of the visitors, it did not deter the local tourn from' taking the lead by 4-3 on the fifth end, Some remark= "A" Company 8.V.C. able playing on the sixth head by Omar netted a double for the south-
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