The Bermuda Recorder

              page five wednesday november 28 1956 the bermuda recoiirle letter to the sports editor ia s p o r t 6 st george's cricket club inc annual general meeting of the above named club friday november 30th 1956 at 9 pjff agexda yearly reports election of officers all members are urgently requested to be present by order of the president lioxel bascombe secty v wellington st george bermuda 25th xov 1956 football league america doing well in olympic games mcc doing well in south africa only b division the sports editor the recorder december 2 games in bfl hamilton bermuda schedule tomorrow dear sir please allow me a little space in your paper i ken e just wit nessed a game of football be tween tlie west end rovers anel the southampton rangers my deepest sympathy goes out to the rovers for their loss though it was evident they never played the brand of ball which at one time car ried them to the top of the league they were robbed of practically every opportunity by bad running of the line and a most disgusting display of refereeing that i have ever seen winning gold medals mays big innings every day a division the bermuda football league have listed only three games for tomorrow after noon there are two at the bermuda sports arena and one at white hill where the southampton rangers b play dock hill rangerst at 3.15 young men's social club meets the phc at the sports aretaa at 1.30 and at 3.15 the wolves will meet the avest end rove'rs the touring mcc cricketers are doing well against south african teams xo serious trouble was anticipated from any of the union teams except in the test matches two summers ago the south afri cans gave england a run for her money in the tests and other games and some officials on both sides of the ocean were expecting the africans to do a better job at home than they did abroad dec . 2 west end rivers vs somerset eagles at somer set — 3:15 southampton rangers vs young men's s.c at white hill 3:15 pembroke hamitlon club vs pembroke juniors at devonshire — 3 15 ; wellington rovers vs devon shire lions at st c4corge's — 3 15 the united states are doing well in the 16th olympic games now being run at mel bourne australia they have won eleven gold medals so far and silver and bronze ones their great high jumper came through with a six foot eleven and a quarter jump to beat off a russian and an australian the americans made sure of the 100 metres 400 meter hurdles the ham mer throw and the long jump last week the crowd of over 100,000 cheered mightily when the american hammer thrower ousted his russian rival from the race best by today s standards b division stalin in russia could not have been worse than mr hart-y bridges on that field today for every time the rovers got goal hunpry he took the bread out of their mouths at one time the lines man most definitely f.agged io'r a goal kick but mr bridges wouldn't have none of that he had to have a corner kick which resulted in a goal for the rangers dec 2 — avest end rovers vs somerset eagles at somer set — 1:30 paget bombardiers vs dock hill rangers at white hill 1:30 wolves vs young men's s-c at devon shire — 1:30 wellington rovers vs devonshire lions at st george's 1.30 peter may captain of the mcc eleven scored a double century last week against one of the provincial teams these games conclude the xovember schedule for ibbth divisions the a's completed their games a week ago today's high standards of quality maturity strength and puritv for demerara rum the u s baskethall team is expected to run off with the basketball title as well the are completely typified by knockout shield competition russians were expected to frith's dec 6 — young men's s.c give them a lot of pressure b vs pembroke hamilton but france stopped them a at sport arena — 1:30 this was a surprise to the pembroke juniors b vs other nations who had not in wellington rovers a at « eluded france as one of the sports arena — 3:15 wolves threatening nations in this vs somerset eagles b at event the decathlon and devonshire — 1:30 paget bom penthalon is in doubt the bardiers vs somerset eagles aussies and americans are a at devonshire — 3 15 ; favoured to win but two other wellington r b vs south nations will challenge them anipton rangeis b at st they are finland and russia another time the linesman flagged for a hand-ball against the rangers and mr bvidges just wagged his head like a puppy as if to say no it's the wrong side this same lines man said in front of wit nesses this man isn't paying any attention to me and he was right too i wouldn't like to suffer under the assumption that mr bridges has anything against the somerset club if so he shouldn't b"rin his per sonalities on the playing field old demerara rum black seal a blend of fully matured choicest demerara rums george's 3:30 the middleweight weightlift blended and bottled bv dec 9 younrr men's s.c a vs dock hill rangers at sports arena — 1:30 pembroke juniors a vs west end rovers b at sport arena — 1:30 pembroke juniors a vs west end rovers b at sports arena 1 — 3.15 west end rovers a vs southampton ing eonte?t went to russia without any serious trouble from competitors faith's liquors ltd oh if this was only the olden days i would have him choose his weapdrts for we would meet at dawn then to top off 83 minutes of ball refereed by a schizoid he short times the game by about 7 minutes this came from a player gettinir hurt they spent three and half minutes on the field treating him after the boy i off the field mr bridges decides to go off and see what happen ing as nonchalant a _ ever he goes and comes resulting in another 4 minutes being wasted the rovers lost this game the score was t 3 with wine and spirit merchants rangers a at somerset — 3:15 devonshire lions a vs devonshire lions b at devonshire — 3 15 st george's hamilton somerset forgot dusting off the sports his • roberts is obviously & false stall im bum r ii mwolj^ta w f m lwmma m m runners and su.rter — and so unneces b^-»**ii jary all thit is needed here is a m {» || dottle of r0l3rts syrup if m .'*&■} you ara threatened with a cough or a w^msawm cold . et a running start on it and if ttfc-f f fight back wub canada's leading l cough remedy | 2_^?ljl_____a suggestions by stabilizer seven minutes left to play some nice games were played in the b.f.a competition last sunday the biggest goal scoring spree was turned in by the fast moving and hatd shooting dock hill rangers their fourteen goals against the luckless anchor club was a complete walk over for these youngsters and the onesided scoring became monotonous after a while it was quite a beating when you think of it and the anchor club were not in the game any more than they wei-e in the scoring another high scorer was somerset eagles who rammed in eight goals against the prospect team the soldiers were run off their feet by the eagles and they did well to scol-e three times against the winners who were mighty goal for there isn't much you can do with a ref like that but i christmas gifts for men have few suggestions thanking you for your space i am in all fairness men's plaid housecoats _ - 41/6 45 " flannel housecoats 47 6 " gabardine housecoats _. 65 ellsworth ratteray p.s i am only sorry that mr lea smith was unable to make it as was origiually scheduled flannelette pajamas - 25 - & 32/6 flannel shirts - 18/6 & 25 happy white shirts ... 17 6&21 -, 25 27/6 tor quick p.h.c played arounel with paget bombardiers in getting six goals into the net they were without some of their star playrt-s regulars like froggie simmons russell and white antl a couple of other players were not there sanely's boat club proveel too much for y.m.s c in get ting over them four to nothing xobody thought that the xationals would beat the pembroke juniors bnt we ex pected the xationals to put up a bette_r performance for your health long sleeves sport shirts ...... 17/6 up pullover sweaters all colours 42 6 55 for your pleasure j you'll be surprised w how quickly and easily # dr j d kellogg's at asthma remedy brings m relief to sufferers from m asthma or hay fever it w effectively overcom as irrita i tion and permits you to i escape from the i rror of h sleepless restless n ghts it h relieves the worst cases m try it and be convinced mtnufattmrad bj nobthkop * ltman co mmltai m m m twmut c___m_h button down front sweaters 50 52/6 all was not so well in one or two of the other games west end rovers suffered a surprise defeat at the hands of the southampton rangers aviio also heat in their first knock-oat game last year some highly incensed reports have reaehetl us about the refereeing in the two games at white hill one correspondent goes so far as to say that the worst referees were sent to white hill to be in charge of the matches there they say that the refereeing in the game between the west end rovers and southampton rangers was particularly bad biassed and poot it is be lieveel that he was definitely anti-west end he was so blatant in his anti rulings that even some of the hard core southampton supporters wondered what he was thinking about was another version of the affaifr coronation wine comb & brush sets _. 9 6 32 6 dress itata size 28 to 42 price 39/6 up lightweight jackets price 30 - up a deughtful wine padded jackets price 3 10 0 3 12 6 sweat shirts grey & white 12 6 up top coats 7 10 0 & 8 10 0 5/6 bottle vest 4/6 men's underpants 5/6 6 6 men's socks — - 3 9 up pay us a visit it must have been pretty bad because everybody we have discussed the matter with has not had a good word to say about it they claim it is the worst bit of officiating by a referee and linesman both anti somerset it is believed b.f.l referees ntte said to be far better on the whole than most of them who referee in the b.f.c gosling bros ltd lines bros hamilton formerly deeb saad 2141 phone 2958 reid street st george s somerset we close for lunch from 12 to 1 advertise in the bermuda recorder pays