rting Tomorrow FULL pus of three matches ushers in the local cricket ie championship this weekend, all six competing elevens ing down for action.
Two games will be played tomorrow tternoo with the remaining game set.for Sunday. the Shanghai Cricket the odds are against the visitors, they des have been will fight very hard before being defeated, Array of Stars allowing the withdrawal of Marines from the Softbal the Shanghai Softball At the same time on the S.CCground the Wanderers will entertain "C.|the Colt. The S.C.C. side is a powerful one including, as it does, such well known performers as Leach Duckitt, Dunkley, Elliot, Marshal Morris,' Stokes and Rawsthorne, all of whom are considered in the topflight of local cricket. Much, too. is expected from Reynolds who will be making his initial appearance in a league encounter in Shanghai, Against such a fine array of stars the Colts are able to field players of the type of Pat Madar, Parma, the greatly improved Buckley, Games, Leriou, a very able stumper, Smith, Symons and Quincey, Strong as the Colts are, the Wanderers, on paper, seem even stronger, but the wild Madar, well-versed in all the subtleties of the game as the result of years' experience, may be able to turn the trick, although if he does, it will be against all forecasts. Nevertheless. a fine game should be seen—about the best of the wi i—with the hosts likely to secure their first three points of the season:
Police Up Against It On Sunday afternoon the Police visit the S.C.. ground where they "wil engage the Stragglers in tthe) third and last league encounter of the week, Here again the home team has a powerful eleven, skippered by Sinclair, acknowledged by many to have no peers in Shanghai in the art of captaining a team, Assisting him he will have the services/of Dean, "Stoker" Jenkins of Navy fame, Orr, whose sensational 95 last Friday will long be remembered by all who saw the innings, Pearson, Pote-Hunt, Read, Simpson and the vastly improved Sluis, a combination which is good however one looks at the team. 4 In the only other game scheduled for the week-end the Race Club will continue their game against a Recs' XI on the latter's ground this evening at 5.15 p.m.
The Shanghai Recreation Club will have an opportunity to make some emends for their somewhat disastrous start in the first division of the lawn bowls league last Saturday, when they meet the Clube Lusitano "Greens" this Sunday.
A capacity programme of eight tussles will again be featured on the '|Sabath and what with the competitive bowling having started last Saturday with the opening of the leagues end five weeks of practice, players should by this time be well accustomed to their woods. Consequently, with the prospect of better deliver-1es. much closer competition should be seen. A The Recs, the defending champions, had their three-year reign as titleholders jeopardized last Saturday when their arch rivals, the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club "Blues," the only aggregation to defeat them last year, repeated their victory by a narrow margin of eight woods. If the Recs e to retain the title this year they will have to defeat their opponents on Sunday in order to keep within, striking- distance of the "Blues."
Meanwhile, another match of importance will be that between the SLB.C. "Blues" and the Hongkew Golf Club. On recent form there is every indication that the former should be able to garner their second straight win as the Hongkew Golfers do not appear to be at their finest fette. In their first encounter they were defeated by the Yangtszepoo Bowling Club by the count of 3-2. They have however, the reputation Gf being an unpredictable lot who are capable of producing championship form at the least expected moments, "N.C.D.N." Photo.
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