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KOWLOON DOCK'S FEAT.
New Bowling Green On The Peak.
[By "Short Head."} Pride of place to-day must na- turally be given to the Interport match, with Shanghai, although it will be quite a month before it la played. Still, the first trial game has been played and many have been the impressions formed of the display on Sunday afternoon the Craigengower Cricket Club's
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From the beginning the big ma- jority of the spectators concentrat ed their attention on the rinks skipped by Wallace and Pendered, and they were well rewarded by aj
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SKIPS RECORDS.
First Division.
Wallace, TR.C.
Pendered, C.S.C.C.
THE CHINA MAIL.
GEHRIG AND "BABE" TENNIS CHAMPIONS.
PITCHERS AFRAID OF LOU PITCH TO RUTH.
MISS EILEEN BENNETT AMONG BEST.
At different times and in many; One of the youngest and most different places Babe Ruth has The best records among the skips been asked: "Do you think you'll attractive girl players in the
ever better your home run record tennis world is Miss are as under:—
Eilean of 19217 (That's the year, not Bennett of England, says Miss W. D. L. the number of homers). His re- Helen Wills. I met her first in ply is always the same: "If they the south of France two winters pitch to me, I will."
Unfortunately, the Babe ago and was much impressed both couldn't figure out a way of mak- by her charming personality and ing pitchers pitch to him, and if
her excellent tennis. all the bases on balls he has re-
She was ceived in the last five years were then about seventeen, and I re- 4 laid end to end he could take a member in playing against her 4 non-atop walk from here to China. that her game was unusually
He has, offered to bat right hand-
Mair, P.R.C.
W. Macfarlane, K.B.G.C.
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Lapaley, K.D.R.C......
Holland, K.B.G.C.
Brown, K.D.R.C.
Morrison, T.R.C.
Rumjahn, C.C.C. Gray, K.D.R.C..
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Second Division.
W. D.
McTavish, E.P.R.C. Maclachlan, K.B.G.C...11 Lammert, K.C.C. Lee, EP.R.C.
Matthews. T.R.C. Warren, K.B.G.C. Herridge, K.C.C. Suuza, de Rec.
Ribeiro, de Réc. Massey, C.S.C.C. Dinnen,
S. Alderman, C.S.C.C. F. Knott, C.C.C.
Led. He has offered to bat with sound for one so young..
2 one hand. None of these induce- This year at Wimbledon we met 2 ments hus ever awerved a pitcher again, and I found that her game 4from his intention of passing him. is much improved. Although her 3 There didn't seem to be any way
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of making pitchers pitch to Ruth. tennis has always been more or Then along came Lou and the less steady, it has become even problem was solved.
more so.
Lou, that is Gehrig, solved
Along with steadiness, the out-
Ruth's problem for him quite un- intentionally by stepping out this standing features of her game are 8year and pounding out more hits her fleetness of foot, her ability to 8 than any one else on the team for anticipate and her grace in stroke a batting average close to the production. To this is added an .400 mark. He also exhibited an ability to knock the ball out of the unusually good forehand drive, park on occasion. These things and a well-placed, though not so have helped Ruth, and strange as fast, backhand stroke,
There are no outstanding faults
At the Interport bowls dinner a
couple of years ago reference made to the idea of forming a "Talpans' Club," but many thought
that the last had been heard of it. it may seem, the harder Lou
It is now gratifying to find that a continues to hit, the better in Eileen's game, and one is safe howling green has been formed at chance Ruth has of breaking his in predicting that she will be in the Peak Club, which
is to be record of fifty-nine home runs this formally opened this afternoon. year.
a season or two one of the highest After the heavy rain last night and
One explanation of that para-ranking players, as she is, indeed through the night the green should doxical statement is that Ruth very close to the topmost rank be on the heavy side, but provided| there is no further showers the will have more incentive to hit. now. opening function should be a suc- But that explanation is weak be This season she will be seen on
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TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
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Besides playing an interesting MONEY & SHARES. game of tennis Miss Bennett le an interesting figure both off and on the court. She is tall, slender and very pretty, with brown hair and large brown eyes, and softly
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sight..... Her play here will be followed with interest. The only regret is that she has not planned to spend more time and take part in more of our tennis.
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sterling display on the part of the Taikoo veteran, Against such an exhibition any skip would have been embarrassed, to say the least of it, particularly when he did not get that degree of support he ought to have got from his confreres, especi- ally his No. 3, who also hailed from Taikoo. It ін safe to say that Wallace did not waste single wood. Pendered did, unfortunate-
KOREAN PRINCE AS GOLFER. ly, and this made a great difference irt the faal Score. Moreover,
When a Pressman called Wallace WOM better served by CURR The scheme originated, I cause Ruth always wants to hit, American courts for the first time. Prince Ri, head of the family which Cullen at No. 3 than was Pendered believe, through Mr. R. Sutherland, and it does not overcome the She and her very attractive ruled the former Korean Empire, with Morrison in the same posi. President of the Lawn Bowls Asso- drawbacks imposed tion-another factor to the detri- clation, and bowlers generally will pitchers,
by the mother are coming over at the who is in London with his consort.. same time as the French Davis Princess Masako, they were both ment of Pendered. Of the No. 2's welcome t new Club to the many, A better answer is that Lou cup team, and will remain until out playing a round of golfer near I find opinion round the Clubs is now affil: ed to the Association. Gehrig has made it inadvisable after the National mixed doubles London. rather divided, some seeming to A League Latch up the Peak would for a pitcher to with Ruth. There at Longwood. Eileen is planning
"Golf is a most popular game favour Smith and others Basu. be a refreshing change during the Referring to, my note book I find season, and it is to be hoped, there is no percentage in walking Ruth to take part in the New York among the upper classes in Japan that, without in any way disparag- fore, that all the Peak residents when Gehrig, the next man up, is State tournament at Rye, and in and Korea," said a member of their ing Smith's play, Buss oftener will rally round the organisers and hitting fifty points or so better the national ladies' singles and suite. The Emperor of Japan has drew in to the jack and oftener did make of the ngi Club a permanent than he is, and is just as likely doubles at Forest Hills which his palace, and Prince Ri and the a private course in the grounds of exactly A directed in other success.
to place the ball in the stands. come the week following. respects. Both players were
princess are both ardent players," Many pitchers would rather plauded for good shots-but spec-
Game in America.
Prince Ri, who is aged thirty, has pitch to Ruth than pitch to tators never applaud when a player
planned his time-table to allow him is told to put one in front or one a
Gehrig. That works out great for Although she is not a member also the fullest opportunities of the Babe. And whut a break it of the English Wightman cup studying famous golfer courses at yard behind and does it! Specta- tors, like many players, cannot
is for Colonel Ruppert, the pro- team, it can be said that she is first hand. He will play at Glen- keep their eyes off the jack--where-
prietor of the Yankee outfit. So quite capable of defeating several eagles and Troon, and on other in they are different from the
with Gehrig in back of him as a of the team members, and has celebrated courses, the fame of skips, who are intent on building up.
warning to pitchers not to walk done so on several occasions in which has reached Korea. Princess A rugby match has been ar-him, Ruth has the best chance he England. #good head. Of the No. I's ranged to take place on the Happy had in years of setting a new
Masako, who is twenty-six years old thought Atkinson was the better of Valley Football Ground on Thurs-
Whether or not she will exhibit and a member of the Japanese royal the two, but there was not really day between the Club and Waseda World's home run record. He is her best tennis here is rather family, is equally enthusiastic much between
him and Laing University who are returning to keeping pace with this much of hard to say at this time. If her
about the game. She and the Both were palpably off colour. Both Japan after a successful tour in his 1921 record. If he avoids in-game takes well to our courts, and prince also play tennis.
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have been known to do much better than on Sunday. It would be too much to expect the whole rink to be right at the top of their form in. one afternoon.
LOCAL RUGBY,
CLUB V. WASEDA TO-MORROW.
New South Wales. 6.30 p.m.
Kick off at
The following will turn out: Club: H. J. Armstrong, A. E. Only a handful of spectators Pritchard. R. F. Wright, A. C. I. thought the game between the rinks Bowker, G. P. Lammert, C. D. skipped by Lapsley and W. Mac- Wales, Lieut. Mattingley, T. L. farlane worth watching. Of the Foster, Lieut. Hankey, Lieut.
H. two Lapsley seemed the cooler, but Welch,
F. Akehurst, W. even he at times was perturbed by Beveridge, R. W. Lee, Serj. Bruno, his confreres being unable to get and Serj. Stewart.
Referee: Lieut. Kinmont, Scots
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juries, and if nothing happens to summer climate, then we shall ex- Gehrig, he ought to give his own pect to see her play some excellent home run record a terrible tussle. tennis. From past experience, I
ATHLETE'S HEART..
(By F. A. M. Webster.I
A doctor, giving evidence in n
This mysterlous complaint has been the bugbear of generations of parents, who have forbidden their children to take up athletics lest they should contract this affliction. Many people believe that such exer- cises as running, jumping, and rowing will increase the size of the heart to such an extent that in time the athlete's life will become endangered..
up This was the commonest Waseda University: - Kobune motor accident case recently, stated offence of the whole game, and it Nakajina, Pakigawa, Baba, Suna- that his patient had an athlete's was by no means a heavy green. bori, Maruyama, Honryo, Atsumi, heart. Tricky it may have been, but, that Kimura, Ohta, Yanashita, Shimid- was all. Lapsley held the whip zu, Sukegawa, Sakakara, and hand right down to the third tast Kaneko. head, even although Macfarlane was ever so much better served by Guards. Brown at No. 3 than was Lapsley with Grimmill at No. 3. Neither. Reid nor McLeod ahone. They played much below interport trial forni. Of course, each got in a good 'un now and again, but even novice can do that. The same remarks apply to the No. 1'a- Oswick and Omar. Only occasional glimpses were given of No. 1 form and ability, but on the whole the heads were poor and a bad example to the rest of the rink.
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First League Complete. The First Division of the League has been completed, and the Kow. loon Dock Recreation Club are în the proud position of being unde- feated. They were up on all three rinks and beat the Taikoo Recrea- tion Club by 16 ahota. I have no details of the match before me, but, the score speaks for itself. Brown accounted for Wotherspoon, by 21-15, Gray got the better of Wallace by five, and Lapaley was five ahead of Morrison. These, of course, are not formidable margins by any means fuat sufficient to keep intact Kowloon's unbroken re- cord this season. Taikoo had pre viously congratulated Kowloon Dock on winning the championship,
HOME CRICKET.
NEW ZEALAND'S LAST MATCH.
The danger is grossly exaggerat- London, Yesterday. ed. Constant exercise undoubtedly Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI enlarges the heart, but that enlarge- drew with New Zealand in a two ment is gradual and in proportion daya' match at Scarborough, to the development of the rest of
The tourists scored 447 (Mills the body. A large, strong heart 152, Blunt 131); and 109 for three. beats slowly, but if a heart with Mr. Gower's team made 316, a pulse-beat of sixty to the minute Reuter
does the same amount of work and pumps the same amount of blood through the arteries as docs an- other heart with a pulse-beat of seventy-two, why should one be concerned?
LOCAL BASEBALL.
DRAGONS GET W.O. FROM PORTUGUESE.
The doctor drew a diagram of a famous walker's heart on the man's
In America some years ago an interesting series of experiments was conducted by a famous athletic The South China "Dragons" re- coach in consultation with a first- celved a walk-over from the Club class physician. de Recreio yesterday, the latter fail- Ing to put in an appearance. Filipinos at 5.15 p.m. at the Happy ed a mile in seven minutes, an To-day the Dragons will play the chest. After the athlete had walk- Valley diamond.
examination showed that his heart had 'expanded three-eighths of an inch. A man who was not in train-
and they embraced the opportunity LOCAL WATER POLO, ing then walked half mile in six
of Saturday's meeting to do so per-
onally.
Second Division.
In the only match played in the
*CONCLUDING GAMES
Second Division the Kowloon Bow- V.R.C.
TO-DAY.
minutes barely half the speed of the trained man. It was found that the untrained man's heart bad ex- panded an inch and a half. Simi ling Green Club defeated the Yacht K.B.S.F.P.A. "A" team at water with trained and untrained middle- "A" team meet the lar experimenta were conducted Club on the latter's ground by 45 polo at the V.R.C. at 5.80 p.m. to distance runners. Then a man shots. Edwards was opposed to day, following which the KOS.B. who had been in training for two Warren as akip and scored in ten team will play the K.B.S.F.P.A. "E" seasons sprinted a faat 150 yards heads, although losing by 24-12, team,
thanks to a joven for Warren's
rink at the eleventh head.. A
search for the eighth wood reveal-
ed it lying almost at the tape!
Davies Was pitted against
LOCAL SOCCER.
without his heart being affected at all, whereas the untrained 'man, who ran the same distance at no more than three-fourths of the speed of his predecessor, became
Maclachlan, who led at the sixth A fine football encounter took exhausted, demand head by 7-4. He then scored on the S.C.A.A. 'drew with the K.O.B.B. and did not train properly suffered place at Sookumpoo yesterday when Athletes who smoked cigarettes the next seven heads, which settled the issue, although Davies got two elever, 1-1. Li Wal-tong and Mic- the greatest degree of distress: on the 18th, one on the 19th, and Clinchy were the scorers. A Chi The consensus of opinion of three on the 20th head. The score nese player was sent off the field athletes, coaches, and physiciens, at the finish was 29-13 in for kicking a soldier player,
Maclachlan's favour. The game
between rinks skipped by Shields
and Chapman gave promise of be
ing close, the score at the seventh 199
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from the standpoint of medicine and applied athletics, is that the ath- lete who trains 'properly and doan not smoke cigarettes or drink has no reason to fear any bad effects
head being 7-6 in Chapman's The annual general meeting of from the so-called athlete's heart. favour. Then, however, he got a members of the Kowloon Cricket A sane system of athletic exercise Ave and scoring in the next four Club will be held in the Club House strengthens the heart and renders heads, increased his lead to 186 on Friday, September 28, at 5.30 it less liable to injuries.from a sud- Eventually he won by 28-11.
- den strain or shock.
know that the first few games abroad for a young player are rather bewildering and know, too, that the first efforts should not be regarded as a sample of the usual game.
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