TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1927.
SPORTS SECTION
ON THE LINKS.
OPENING DAY OF AMATEUR
CHAMPIONSHIP.
FIVE AMERICANS LOSE.
Crane entered the second round.
R. H. Wethered and C. J. H. Tolley won. The former is
favourite.
The most notable defeats were; those of Darwin and Robert Harris (champion in 1925). Reuter.
Jolly for America.
BASEBALL.
FIXTURES FOR NEW SEASON.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CRICKET:
NEW ZEALANDERS” VISIT.
A GOOD BATSMAN,
LAWN TENNIS.
INDIA'S WIN IN DAVIS CUP.
Zagreb, May 23, In the Davis Cup competition, In view of the fact that the India has beaton Jugo-Slavia by first New Zealand team ever to winning three out of five matches, visit England will be starting on-Reuter |their journey to-morrow, via San As already reported the first base- Francisco, writes "The Gentleman ball game of the season will be play-in Black" in the "Athletic News" ed at, the Happy Valley diamond on of March 28, it may be of interest Juna 11, when the H.K. Baseball to recall that as many as severi Club meet the Japanese,
The Japanese will have some in the Dominion.
aldes from England have played changes in the personnel this sea-
A07).
· EXHIBITION MATCH.
Now Fixed For To-morrow Afternoon.
time.
LADIES' TOURNAMENT.
Recreation Club Win.
LAWN BOWLS.
SEX WAR ON THE GREEN.
One day we hope not there may be something like this in the newspapers:
THE RING.
CHAMPIONS: BRIEF REIGN.
SPORTS CABLES.
LATEST, DERBY BETTING.
CALL BOY FAVOURED.
London, May 14.
Are our boxers overpaid? This is a question I can answer straight away with an emphatic The Hottentot Bowling Club, negative, says "John Fearless" in the last stronghold of the anti- the "Athletic News," A boxer te The latest call-over for the feminista, was invaded yester-always worth what he will draw. Derby, which will be run on June day by 200 women, who cut the at the box-office. Jimmy Wilde 1, is as follows: Call Boy 4 to 1, barbed wire entanglements and earned every penny that was pald Sickle 11 to 2, Adam's Apple 13 stormed the trenches round the him. Had he been an American to 2, Hot Night 100 to 9, Sled- -greens.
pugilist there is little doubt that mere, Fourth Hand, Money Maker Members of the club who he would have quadrupled his and Apple Cross 100 to 6, Kincar- offered resistance were bom-aggregate earnings. -
dine 20 to 1, Lone Knight and barded with their own woods, Wilde is almost the one notable Shianmor 25 to 1, Hossan 40 to and beat a hasty retreat, leav- exception, Most of our cham-1, ing three of their number on plong who have been popular ::: the field.
Favourites have never benefited
TENNIS IN GERMANY.
The bodies having been re-to any appreciable financial ex- moved, tea was taken. A tent. They have undoubtedly meeting to celebrate the victory been paid what appears to be
London, May 14. followed, and a North vs. South high remuneration for their ser- Tilden, the American lawn, ten- match ended a thoroughly en-vices. But their reign is in- nis player, who has lately been joyable day.
variably brief, and, naturally, playing in Germany, has given it That may be looking into a very they have to live between the as kls opinion that that country distant future, but it is a fact time when there are no matches. is the coming great tennis factor that the sex war in bowls has How many of the past champions in the world. begun.
have sufficient money to-day to live in comfort? -
7
Never!
It is not politic to mention The English Bowls Association
namos, but the, sécretary of the has frowned severely on the ap Boxers' Benevolent Fund could plication of a women's club to be throw a lurid light on famous affiliated to the Sussex Bowling fighters who are compelled to
WOMEN'S GOLF INTER-
·NATIONAL
London, May 14. After holding the championship
London, May 23. At Hoylake the opening day of the Amateur Golf Championship confirmed the opinion of the Cup
George Parr's team was the in the absence of an organised is now with the Tokobama Species one would naturally expect, Yokose, the former short-stop pioneer side in this respect, and, overseas challenge to return to Bank at Canton and his position they found the standard of play
The postponed exhibition Britain.
will be taken by a new-comer, who
match, Messrs. Ng Sze-kwong and Five out of eight Americans is reputed to have played for of a very low order. were defeated, namely, Lawrence several years in Dal Nippon. Two E. M. Grace, who wrote a long T. Honda v. S. A. and H. D. Rum- (of Oakmont), W. Platt, (White-other new-comera will make their description of the tour which has john, will take place at the Hong marsh Hunt (River Oaks), debut in Hong Kong, and the never been published, recorded: Kong Cricket Club grounds to- Azbill (Essex County), and Japanese players are confident that "The Dunedin Cricket Club is on morrow at 4.30 p.m. Richard (Engineera), but Brower the Dragons and the Tigers will a deep swamp. A foot of heavy
If the weather does not permit on that date the match will take Junior, Brook Liners, and Newton have to extend themselves if they clay was placed upon the swampy place on either of the following
want to top the score card.
surface, and the turf was placed Managers,
upon the clay, and, considering days at the same locality and The managers of the contending that it has only been made three teama ure na follows:-
months, it is very good.. The Messrs-Hin Wong,_S.C.A.A.; ground is level, but, owing to the R. Shim (Captain), S.C.A.A.; S.spongy swamp beneath, it literally Hachiuma (Secretary), Japanese trembles at every step." Baseball Team; S. Muccio, Mana- Despite the primitive con- ger, Hong Kong Baseball Club; H.ditions, however, there was much Alves. Captain, Club de Recreio enthusiasm, and the visit of thej
It does not, and will not, give make application for monetary since 1911 England lost the Herbert Jolly, the Foxgrove Manager, the Filipino Club B. B. gion of holding a "Grand Cricket Tournament between the Ladies' bowlers.
Baseball Team, L. R. Ildefonso, Englishmen was made the ocea-
assistance. The boxing star of Women's Golf international. to In the Ladies Inter-Club official recognition to women
yesteryear is mostly without Scotland at Newcastle, by five Club professional, replaces Abe
Team.
livelihood security in the autumn matches to four. Mitchell (who is suffering from
Tourney," in which Otago, Can- Recreation Club, the Peak Club The Fixtures.
Everywhere bowls clubs are "indigestion) in
or winter of his life. Big money the golf team
terbury, and Southland all took and the United Services Recrea- following the lead of their ruling if you can correctly: describe it The schedule of games leaving for America to-morrow-played is as under:-
part.
tion Club played yesterday on the authority and firmly refusing as such, is only paid to the few. Reuter.
Considering all the circum courts of the first named Club,admission to women. Club de Recreia:Tigers, Satur-stances, the promoter of the last year's holders, was again vic-
There are thousands of the small- June 26; Dragona, Sunday, July 10; hotel-keeper, must have been the Ladies' Challenge Shield. day, June 18; Filipinos Saturday, scheme, one Shadrach Jones, an torious. The tournament was for the meeting of the Wells Bowling rank and whose wages are much
Did not Alderman Reakes, at
er fry who never reach front
U.K.B.C., Saturday, July 30. Japanese, Saturday, July
Club; Bay bluntly that women less than paid to ordinary 16; venturesome man, but it is plea-
were a nuisance on the green, labourers, Dragons: Filipinos,
sant to know that, although the
and, moreover, that bowls was an Sunday, June 21; H.K.B.C., Sunday, June 19; expenses were quite £3,000, he
immodest game for them? Club de Recreio, Sunday, July 10, was not a penny out of pocket.
It is, of course, impossible to. Tigers, Sunday, July 17; Japanese, | Saturday, July 23,
say whether New Zealand will, Filipinos: Dragons, Sunday, or will not, ever be able to play June 12; Club de Recreio, Saturday. Test matches against England June 25; Japanese, Saturday, July and Australia with a prospect of 2; H.K.B.C., Saturday, July 9; success. There would seem to be Tigers, Sunday, July 24.
no reason` why the country'
London, May 23.
"Royal and Ancient" Meeting.
St. Andrews, May 4 R. Hutchinson and A. Thornton, with rounds of 78 and 79, won the Silver Cross and the Bombay Medal, respectively.-"Times of Ceylon."
correspondent
Bad Shots Criticised, "The
Times" writes:
At the last week-end I saw played some of the very worst shots that I have ever seen in the course of an ill-spent life- shots of the kind which count not merely two but a good many more on a division; shots which might turn the fate of empires.
to be
Hong Kong Baseball Club-standard of play should not be Japanese, Saturday, June 11: Dra-come sufficiently high for such a ons. Sunday, June 19. Tigers, series of games to be in- day, July 9; Club de Recrelo, keenness nowadays for the game Sunday, July 3; Filipinos, Satur-augurated, for there is wonderful Saturday, July 30.
there.
Japanese Baseball Club:-HK. B.C.. Saturday, June 11: Tigers,
This season's tour in England Sunday, 26 Filipinos, Saturday, should result in still further im- July 2; Club de Recreio, Saturday, provement, especially as the July 16; Dragons, Saturday, July team is essentially a young one, 23..
the average age being about 26.
Each club was represented by two pairs who met the pairs of the rival clubs in sets of eleven games each. The final scores were:
Ladies'. Recreation Club. Peak Club United Services R.C. The detailed- scores follows:-
57
39 37
were as
Mrs.
L.R.C.: Total 57. : Tottenham and James:-
beat Mrs. Hunt, and Mrs. Miles (U.S.R.C.). ... beat Mrs. Lynch and Mrs. Lambert (U.S.R.C.) beat Mrs. Grimble and Mra. Lindsell (Peak Club)
Mrs.
9-
2:
Association.
"Rubbish!" Says a Woman, "That is absolute rubbish,' said a woman member of the Key (Priory Park) B.C.
"I expect the truth is the men are getting jealous of the skill of
These boys keep on battling away in the hope that one day they will figure among the big purves. Many arealled but American fight finance is of auch very, very few reach the top.
gigantic proportions that U.S.A. is the Mecca of every ambitious
boxer.
such women bowlers as Mrs. Smurthwaite, who plays in club
The Other Side. tournaments simply because she Still, British promoters pay is so good that the men dare not attractive cheques to the magnets. keep her out. But the E.B.A. Over here Bombardier Billy. won't let her play in champion-Wells, Joe Beckett, Ted (Kid) ship matches!-
Lewis, Johnny. Basham, Jim
F. A. CUP ENTRIES.
The Football Association has
London, May 14. received 542 entries for the Eng- lish Competition for 1927-8.
ATHLETICS
Achilles A. C., winning nine
..London, May 14. events to nil, beat a combined team from Woodwich, Sandhurst and Cranwell..
Sandhurst easily beat Wood- wich in the Lafferty Cup.
CRICKET.
London, May 14.
Or perhaps it is just sheer Sullivan, Pat O'Keefe, Jack selfishness. So long as we make Bloomfield, and others had no rea 2 the tea for them on summer son to complain of the remunera- turies for the beginning of a sea- A phenomenal number of cen- afternoons and decorate the edge tion they received for various son have been scored up to date. of the green with our frocks matches. And I happen to know The best of the younger bowlers that's all they seem to want of that in several instances the who have hitherto shown up are
promoter lost heavily over the Larwood, Sibbles and Iddon business. The National Sporting "Singapore Free Press." Club know by bitter experience
74 beat Mrs. Hall. and Miss
Butcher (Peak Club) 9- 2 Stark and Mrs. Cook:- lost to Mrs. Hunt and Mrs
Miles
beat Mrs. Lynch and Mrs.
Lambert
I do not wish to be in any way unfair. I made some of those shots myself, but I was very far from making all of them. There were sixteen of us indulging in a little private contest by foursomes spread over two jovial daya. Tigers-Club de Recrelo. Satur- Blunt has repeatedly proved Some of us had been supposed at day, June 18; Japanese, Sunday,himself an ideal man to go in one time to be able to play golf: June 26; H.K.B.C.. Sunday, July 3; first. Many will remember his all of us had played something. Dragons, Sunday, July 17; Filipinos, innings of 174 for Canterbury | Mrs. Yet the most extraordinary Sunday, July 24.
against M.C.C. four years ago, things occurred.
Other dates up to and including when he and Worker made 203 be- With my own
are reserved for fore a wicket fell. eyes I saw a gallant colonel and September 18,
the second round a good golfer, with his ball lying playing off well, a mashie in his hand and the serios. tiniest bunker in front of his nose," lift up his eye and his club simul- taneously and drive the ball straight into the yielding slush. Quick hooks alternating with sacketted mashic shots from a de- servedly respected international player were matters of common form. As for balls topped straight along the ground by eminent cricketers for n dozen yards or so, they ceased to arouse even a smile.
What was the cause of his de- plorable state of things? I heard many suggested explanations of
WATER POLO.
He is probably New Zealand's greatest present-day batsman, and it is evident that he has been enjoying a most successful season during the last few months. In succession for his club he scored]
A meeting of the Water Polo 175, 102, and 157; he had an
lost to Mrs. Grimble and.
Mrs. Lindsell
5 -6
92
3-8
beat Mrs. Hall and Miss
Butcher
6- 5
Peak Club: Total 39.
us!"
EXCHANGE,
To The Last Green, No matter. The men will not that the big matches they have yield, even if they have to throw staged at Holland Park Hall have into a fighting fund the gold never been financial success. For alberts that are such a feature of the reason they have paid guar- the landscape on summer even-antees which have never justified ings on the greens. Here are the themse' res at the box-office.
Hong Kong, May": grave words to-day of Mr. George Strictly speaking the only On London R. Hill, hon. Secretary of the business method is to pay boxers Bank Wire E. B..A.:
on a percentage. If they do not Eank On demand "There is undeniable reluctance prove of sufficient attraction then Bank 30 day's sight..
women to the greens. We have a sums which they themselves be Credits, four months' membership of over 100,000 lieve they are entitled to.
Section of the K.B.S.F.P.A. will be analysis of seven for 96 in a total rs. Grimble and Mrs. Lindsell: on the part of bowlers to admit they cannot expect to be paid Bank 4 months sight 2-14 to-morrow at 6 pm. held at the Central British School of 448 for Otago v. Wellington, will be entered in the League this innings of 187 at the expense of Two teams and a few days ago he played an year providing sufficient support is given.
The Captain and Vice Captain of both teams will be elected at this meeting.
the Melbourne bowlors.
English cricketers have per- formed well in the Dominion, for of 70 matches played they have won 53 and lost only, 2-both by the M.C.C. in 1906-7, when Can- terbury got home by seven
beat Mrs. Stark and Mrs.
Cook
lost to Mrs. James and Mrs. Tottenham". lost to Mrs. Hunt and Mrs.
Miles...... lost to Mrs. Lynch and
Mrs. Lambert
which decidedly the most origin-all; for there was one of our wickets at Christchurch and New Mrs. Hall and Miss Butcher: al was that of my own partner. number, no younger than the rest Zealand by 56 runs at Wellington. It is all over now and we won the and greyer and balder than some Lord Hawke's team, in 1902-3, match, and he was a very good who can still drive the ball vast actually took part in 18 games, ali and staunch partner (much better, distances, and as to whom I still of which were won.
SMALLER CRICKET BALL
Use Sanctioned by
M.C.C.
Bight
8
3 bowlers, covering scores of clubs, The cold truth is that we have Documentary 4 months
and I should say there is an al-not the money for boxing in sight 4-7 most unanimous opinion that Great Britain to compensate the On Paris.
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21 3/16
5-6
5-6
C:
women should not be admitted. purse money demanded by some On demand .....
"We are continually receiving of the top-notchers. applications on this point; but we
Credits 4 months' sight 1815-5. There are several outstanding consistently turn down any pro-boxers who are popular draws On demand. pasal which would lead to women Tommy Milligan made money for encroaching on the lawns."
1240
On Berlin-
дот
the promoter in both his fights On New York—” with Ted Moore, but when he On demand ... fought Bruno Frattini at Hol- Credits, 60 days' sight 50% land Park Hall the National On Bombay- Sporting Club lost money. A Wire
48%
lost to Mrs. Stark and Mrs.
Cook ...
5. 6 lost to Mrs. James and
Mrs. Tottenham ... 2.9 lost to Mrs. Hunt and Mrs.
Miles
5- 6 lost to Mrs. Lynch and Mrs. Lambert
5-6
U.S.R.C.: Total 37...
Mrs. Miles and Mrs. Hunt:——
beat Mrs. Stark and Mrs.
Cook.
lost to Mrs. Tottenham
and Mrs. James
beat Mrs. Lindsell and bent Mrs. Hall and Miss Mrs. Grimble ..
Butcher
Mrs. Lynch and Mrs. Lammert
RACING.
GOOD ENTRIES FOR MAÇAO.
different story would now be told On demand
if Milligan was starred at the On Calcuttamis same building....
Wire
Frankly, we have a long way on demand to go before it can be truthfully
184
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86/
98
The second extra meeting of said that our leading glove the Macao Race Club will take artists are overpuid. We know On demand place over next week end and it that it is a common phrase to say On Manila
6- 5 is expected that two good days that some of our heavyweights On demand.................
of racing will result. For the receive more money for a round On Shanghai- 29 convenience of Hong Kong or two than a Cabinet Minister On demand
-jost to Mrs. Stark and r
Mrs. Cookw
lost to Mrs. Tottenham
* and Mrs. James beat Mrs. Grimble and M÷Mrs. Lindsell: 2-
29
9
6-8
patrons there will be specialis paid for a year's salary. But 66 sailings from Hong Kong, the how often do they receive these hours being such as to enable sums? Strictly speaking, such 65 Hong Kong visitors to attend all assertions are illogical. It might
the races and return from Macao just as well be declared that Gold Leaf, 100 fine
On demand in plenty of time.
music-hall stars are paid ex- The "Sui An" will leave orbitant salaries. A public en- Sovereigns
(per tael) Hong Kong at 9 am on Satur-tertainer is paid in proportion to buying rate) day and sail for Macao at 3 what he draws to the house in Silver (per oz.)
Silver. p.m. and on Sunday, it will sail which he performs. And the from Hong Kong at 9 a.m. and same must be said of leading Bar Silver In Hong return from Macao at 6.30 p.m. professional boxers. Besides the return boat from
nom
day's sight (private pager)
On Yokohama
104
(Bank's
39,65
26%
Hong Kong, May 23.
→par.
Macao on Sunday: evening, the
Sul Tai" will leave Macao at
I know, than I was); so I may tell think, being loyal to the beliefs of These facts, however, must not what happened. Going to the my youth, that to see him settle lead anyone to imagine that the 17th hole we were formy two; down to that ball and hit it is the counties will have an easy task in out adversaries were still some noblest spectacle that golf has to beating our visitors this summer. way from the green in two; we offer. He lost none of his matches had to play the. like with a fair though it must be added that his and open tract of country before partner's handicap, though off- us. Taking his spoon, with his cially 14, worked out in some habitual air of drowsy placidity, mysterious manner at two and my partner hit the ball on the twenty. extreme heel of the club, so that I talked of springy shafts with it scurried vehemently to the left the rest, but not with any real
London, May 4. and wedged itself against a tree faith. Indeed the sad part of the trunk surrounded by heather. business seemed to me not that
The annual meeting of the Afterwards he explained that he we were short but that, we were M.C.C, was chiefly occupied with thought he must have done it crooked, and that, although we formal business. owing to over-confidence.
It was unanimously agreed to were all by our own account, and Other solutions hazarded were by training and tradition, excel-authorise the use of the smaller that we had played the first round lent foursome players, we lacked ball and a resolution was also in a downpour of rain and that the one real essential of foursome adopted in Committee, legalişing this had depressed us, that owing play, in that we did not hit the the use of both sizes of balls dur- to the Daylight Saving Bill we ball, even gently, in the middle of ing the coming season, first-class had not gone to bed early enough. the club. It may or may not have matches having the prefer- that we ought to have waited till been due to over-confidence, but ence in securing the smaller ball, late in the year when there would, there it was, and 'superficially it Lord Leconfield was appointed have been more run in the is beyond doubt a discouraging new President. ground. Only towards the end of circumstance; but from another The Marylebone Club published the second day, there arose one point of view it is almost encour a letter from the Maharaja of bolder than the rest, like the little aging. We may never again be Patiala expressing deep apprecia-gret that in an interview given Kong at 9.80 p.m. to Macao on be stiff, but is expected to re- boy in Hans. Andersen's story who able to hit the ball hard-if we tion of the services rendered to to the Fress on my return, from Sunday night at 9.80 p.m. sume work for the third extra declared that the Emperor had ever could but hang it all if we Indian cricket by Gilligan's XI, India Lattributed knobbishness to Fifty-three ponies have enter meeting after a rest no clothes on at all. His explana- try hard we ought to be able to and eulogising Gilligan and his certain clubs in India,
ed for the 19 events set out on tion was frank and simple; he said hit it straight. No one is too taain.
"It has been pointed out that a the two-days programme 14 of we were all getting too old. We feeble that he need hit the ball The letter states in conclusion Club has rules by which its Com which have never faced the passed it off with gay laughter on the socket, and the eye need that the tour had proved a rare mittoe must abide, and I realise starter at Macao at official but when the match was over, all not be sparkling in order to be link in the chain of Imperial that the expression was inappro- meeting. Five the players were to be seen privily kept on the ball. That being ad unity--Times of Ceylon."" waggling wooden clubs, and it was mitted, there is really no need to clear what was in the mind of be unhappy, and it was amere ac each. He was wondering whether cident that we all happend to play some rejuvenating gland or fall- so ill at once. Next spring we will ing that a piece of lead could not all play well; there will be no be let into the head, whereby the need for apologies, if only the sun shaft should feel springler and will bake the ground for us in ad- more helpful, the cub do more vance we may ever think we have of the work and demand less of grown longer since last year. the man behind it... I said that we "Avay with melincholly, as the wr all went a waggling in search of little boy said ven-hit school obliged thia elixir, but that was not quite faisais died,
SNOBBISHNESS.
LAST
Reply 10 Indian
May
* Criticism,
opportu
beat Mrs. Hall and Miss
Butcher
5 p.m. and return - from Hong||ror
priate and might appear to Hong Kong have
Mrs. R. J. Paterson qualify the gratitude of the team for the splendid welcome hos gent and Scooter, pitality and courtesy shown to us Paterson's Au generally,
Roza's The Sar iper was speaking under a senseH C. Macni of great resentment unanimously Sponge (late the team at a quita un Macao, por
faimed
a steady tr
very best Hanko afrat basa promise.
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