Friends of a man killed in a bike accident are urging international business leaders to start job placements for a special memorial scholarship fund.

Kenneth (Bitsy) Perinchief, of Lookout Lane, Devonshire, died in February last year when his bike hit the Causeway wall in Hamilton Parish in an early morning crash.

Now his friends and family have started a scholarship fund to help Bermudian students pay for foreign college courses.

The group of 18 formed a charity football team and took on the National Women's League Champions Rude Girls last Sunday.

The game was organised to encourage more donations to the fund, which now stands at more than $5,000.

Paul Dean, a lifelong friend of 25-year-old Kenneth, said: "We are now getting in touch with the international business community to try to set up a job placement programme in conjunction with the scholarship.

"Our aim is to provide a scholarship for students who are not able to pay for their own schooling.

"We all sat down one day, talking about old times and shooting the breeze.

And we decided we wanted to do something to remember Bitsy.

"He had graduated from the American International College in Springfield, Massachussets and carried on working for American Airlines in Bermuda, where he had his summer job.

"But he really wanted to build up experience to work in the international business sector and we want to help other people who return to Bermuda in a similar position -- people with good qualifications but not that much experience.

"That's where the job placement programme would really help.'' He said the Kenneth T. Perinchief Scholarship Foundation was now a registered charity.

A similar scholarship fund has already been set up to honour the memory of 17-year-old Ewan Sampson, from Warwick, who died when his bike crashed head-on with a bread van on Middle Road, Southampton, last month.

Anyone wishing to donate to the Perinchief fund should call 291-0429 for details or write to the Kenneth T. Perinchief Scholarship Foundation, PO Box DV 653, Devonshire DV BX, Bermuda.