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TUESDAY, APRIL
Sport Columns
SOCCER NOTES.
ITEMS IN THE HOLIDAY PROGRAMME.
INTERPORTS AND FINALS,
[By "Rover."]
HUDDERSFIELD WINS SHEFFIELD UNITED OUT OF CUP FIGHT.
TO MEET BLACKBURN,
London, Yesterday.
LAWN TENNIS.
THE CHINA MAIL,
PHILIPPINES CHAMPION
HERE.
PLAYS AT RO.C.
ST. STEPHEN'S.
ANNUAL ATHLETIC
SPORTS.
PRIZES DISTRIBUTED,
An interesting exhibition singles. The annual athletic sports meet- tennis match was witnessed on the ing of St. Stephen's School was hard court of the Kowloon Cricket hold on the University recreation Club yesterday, when Francisco ground at Pokfulam yesterday in Aragon, singles champion of the the presence of a large gathering of Interested spectators, including Philippines who has to his credit the Right Rev. C. R. Duppuy, two victories over Vincent
Bishop of Viatoria, who afterwards Richards, was matched against distributed the prizes to the suc- In the Association Cup semi-H. D. Rumjahn who is joint doubles cessful competitors. Great interest was taken in the final replay, Huddersfield beat champion of the Colony with his The events were very keenly con- Chinese Interport soccer on San-Sheffield United by one cousin, B. A. Rumjahn.
tested and there were several. day when the Malayan team made goal to nil on Manchester City's Although the ground was slip-close finishes, The senior indivi their first appearance in Hong ground.
pery and free movement was impos- dual championship was won by Kong on the Club ground before' a Jackson, the Scottish interna-alble, Aragon gave a good exhibi-Thong Lor with 30 points, the run- large crowd.
tional right winger, scored tion and convinced the spectators ner-up being Leung Kwok-cheung The game was a good one and Huddersfield's goal eight min- that he is really a very fine player. with 16 points. Lo Tal-sing. won was greatly enjoyed by the crowd, utes after the interval-Reuter Only two sets were played. Rum- the junior individual championship the football being fast and very [Huddersfield now meet Black- attractive. The Hong Kong side burn Rovers in the final at Wem-jahn took the first at 6-3. Aragon scoring 20 points, Li Lock being
took the second at 8-6.
runner-up with 16 points. The appeared to settle down quicker bley.Reuter.]
To-day the visitor will take part Form Championship went to the Scottish League, than their opponents and their
in a doubles match at the K.C.C. 6th Form whose athletes scored a Scottish League, match carly lead undoubtedly gave them
To-day's H.K.C.C. Matches. total of 99 points. The runnera- the victory, for the visitors rallied Raith drew with the Rangers,
Weather permitting, the follow-up were the boys of the 5th Form very spiritedly in the second half
ing fixtures are down for to-day who collected 82 points. and showed fine football,
in, the annual tournament of the}
Junior Results. rule by which the captain is allow-
H.K.C.C.:— ed to change a player in the match after any particular player shows signs of weakness seems very ex- traordinary and Malaya took ad- vantage of it by changing two of their players and Hong Kong one. This is one of the rules of the Chi- nese interport but it is certainly subject to adverse criticism.
possess some very
The
Impressions Formed from the game were that the Malaya side good players and in their later matches this week there will be closely watched. Yong Liang is a good centre- forward and the right wing, Yoong and Chan Hee, played well to gether. The left wing was not so prominent and Д long way below the Chinese left wing, Suen Kam-shun und Chan Kwong-iu, who gave a sparkling display.
Boon Lay at centre-half paa sesses a fine knowledge of the game and the two full backs, Cheok Wah and Chiang Seng, although on the small side, kicked clearly.
In &
0-0.-Reuter.
RUGGER WORLD.
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ARTHUR YOUNG'S CAREER OF
USEFULNESS.
Following are the results in the Open Singles: S. A. Rumjahn|junfør events: v, Yew Man-kit,
Open Doubles T. Fujieda
100 yds, championship.-1, LI and Lock; 2, Li Khan-lan; S, Lo Tai-
Y. Hachiuma v.5. de Souza and sing.
Small boys 100 yds.-1, Lea Pee- A. V. Remedios; K. T. San and Chong Tuck-wing v. E. C. Fincher luang; 2, Cheng Yam-yue; 8, Poon
Puen-kee.
and E. F. Fincher.
High Jump.-Chin Po-hang; 2, LI Leck and Wong Man-kwan tied. Height 4 ft. 11 ins.
CONSPICUOUS ELUSİVENESS.
Not every country has England's soooner had "K" luck. No erled:-"Enough," than
Club Championship Singles: there ready to hand was one out of the G. W. Sowell v. E. D. Lawrence. top drawer to take his place at
Handicap Singles "B"-J. Bar scrum-half; and that, too, without row (owe 15) v. Lt. R. P. Lonsdale
(owe 15). a "Dave" pair of hands and
Handicap for an opening. behind him, says |
Small boys maths race-1, Au "Internatter" in the "Times of Parker and Q. J. Shannon. (rec.
6/6) v. A. B. Raworth and J. Dick gang; 2, Au Kwai-aang; &, Coyton."
Cheng Yam-yue. "Translated, the foregoing means Humphreys (owe 5/6).
directly Lieut.-Commander
that
nose
C. A. Kershaw, R.N., retired 'from
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220 yds. championship-1, LI Lock; 2, Lo Tal-sing; 3. Wong
Doubles H. v. Man-kwan
and
Long Jurap. 1, Wong Man- kwan; 2, Woo Tin-kit; S, Koh Peck-po. Distance 16 ft. 61% Ins. 440 yds, championship.-1, Lo Talsing: 2, Wong Man-kwan; 9, Au Yee-soon.
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Three mile race, run on March 23-1. Thong Lor (form five): 2, Lee Hua-kla (form six); 3, Lo Tai- sing (form four); ·
Staff race-1, Mr. E. W. L. Martin; 2, Mr. E. K. Quick; 3, Tam Cheung-hue.
Old Boys' race.-1, Slu Kin-cho; 2, Chiu Ying-po; 3, Kwok Wing-
kong.
national Rugger the English selec- Michau fell flat as a flounder on the tors had a ready-made successor In vory hard ground, having made Ligut. A. T. Young, (Tonbridge, the blunder of trying to tackle Cambridge. Blackheath, and Tanks) Young when he "had" got the ball!
Egg and spoon.-Tsang Wah-- Visitors 440 yds. (Hong Kong to take his place. Young could You have to visualise Michau, a never hope to be so good as "" miner standing aix feet three, with shing; 2. Lo Kwang-tong: 3. Lee schoole)-1, Chan King-cho (St.
huge body A
Paul's); 2, Lawrence (St. Joseph's): and weak. legs, Pee-chim. was because the N.O. had great
Three-legged race-1, fifteen stone,
Poon 8, Guterrez (St. Joseph's). pace, sufficient for a wing three-weighing over
Open mile handicap-1, Ling six and Poon-kee and Teang Wah-sing: 2, quarter in a good year, and was Young about five feet physically stronger and good weighing something under eleven Au Yick-sang and Au Kwai-aang; Shung-kul; 2, Li Hua-ngak; 8, Li stone and half heavier than the stone, to see the pictures, in their 3, Kwok Hing-chung and Kwok Hua-shing.
Hing-fong.
Open putting the shot-1, Lo Puck from Tonbridge about whom entirety,
Kindergarten race; 50 yda-1,Kwang-ting: 2, Wong Mani-kwan; Hong Kong appeared generally we are chatting. But Young com- . Early Fortune.
Young was fortunate in his Dereck Stu-on;. 2. Ma Hin-fong; 3, 5, Lee Khan-fan. Distance 26 ft. to be more dangerous, but any pensated a good deal for such
21⁄2 Ina.. thing might have happened if the shortcomings by having no small earliest years in the higher football, Ng Talk-to.
Hurdle Race championship.-1, Night schools boys' race 100 yds.. first goal scored by Malaya had not measure af agility and a most, Having been in the same house and
with Kwok Peck-po: 2, Li Lock; 3, Lo1, Teang Chan-hung; 2 Yip been disallowed, as Hong Kong got conspicuous elusiveness at his of course fifteen, at school "Tim" Franels it was &
Sam-cheung; 3, Hut Hung-nin. Tai-sing, great over this shock and scored rapidly command.
Senior Results.:
Form flag race-1, Form six; 2, advantage to him--and no handi through Fung King-cheung and
Your Pet Torrier.
The results of senior events Form five: 3, Form four. Suen Kam-shun. The honours fell You thought he was there but cap to the South African, Francis
Tug-of-war was won by form six to Hong Kong this year but allow you wore quite wrong, he wasn't. to share with him the same rooms
100 yds. championship.-1, Thong who defeated form four In the Ing for the fact that.. the visitors I have seen numbers of his op- at "Pemmer," and to be in the same Lor 2, Leung Kwok-cheung; 3, Lo anal.
"Varsity and England sides to- took the held so soon after landing, ponents look like that.
I forget the name of the Kwang-ting, t they made a very good show and when you are playing ball with gether.
Their your pet terrier, and, for a moment two midgets lived and, had their played good class football. matches with the local sides of the Royal Navy and the Army will be watched with interest.
The visitors have B big pro- gramme and the following matches will be played this week:-
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To-day, kick-off 4.80 p.m. Malaya Chinese XI. v. The Army, Hong Kong F.C. ground.
Wednesday, April 4, kick-off 4.80 p.m.:-Malaya Chinese XI, v. Royal Navy, Hong Kong F.C. ground. ·
The above matches are additional to a very attractive holiday pro- gramme starting on Good Friday, April 6, ns on this date the Army play China in the semi-final of the Lai Wah Cup, a match of very great interest locally. The holiday pro- gramme includes the following big
You know
were:
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RIFLE SCORES,
100 yds, open-1, Lo Kwang- or two he loses sight, and smell, being, but, egad!, they knew the ting; 2, Yeung Sze-keang; 8, Li
address of a purveyor of the best, Hun-kia, of the whereabouts of the ball.,
Probably Phil May High jump.--1, Lo Kwang-ting: You are familiar with the sort of steak ever.
Arthur 2, Leung Kwok-cheung; 3, Thong vacant,:-"Where, the ell the knows the spot, too.
Scores in the Hong Kong Volun- "blinking thing?" look the wire! Young more or less carried "Tim" Lor. Height 5 ft. 0% ins.
Corps inter-platoon 220 yda. championship.-1, Thong teer Defence That Into the England side with him in hair wears for a brief space.
The familiarity with each or; 2, Lo Kwang-ting; 3, Li Hua-rifle shouting competition held at is exactly the expression of Arthur 26.
Stonecutters on. Sunday for the kia. Young's opposite numbers on those 'other's play of these two was a
Long jump-1, Leung Kwok. Dyer Cup: days udpn which he is particularly great asset to Cambridge and to! "on the job," and especially was it England, at a time when the dearth cheung; 2, Thong Lor; 3, Chan Yew-seung. Distance 16 ft. 5 Ins. so upon two occasions that I recall. in centres was beginning to be felt.
440 yds. championship, Thong Lor; 2, LI Hua-kia; S, Yaung Sze- The one was during the last twenty
keung. minutes of England vs. Ireland at Twickenham last season when the Irishmen got in such a tangle they were tackling each other in trying to stop Young.
Ramshackle Pack.
Adverse Critics,
No. 6 (Kowloon) Platoon, 1st, 802 points: Sgt. Cuthill 118, Sgt. Goodman 113, 2nd Lt. Duncan 104, Pte. Cameron 108, Pte. Goodman 102, Pte. Keith 99, L/Cpl. Lindsay No. 7 (City) Platoon, 2nd, 709 points:-Pte. Grieve 105, Cpl. Lyon
Yet, despite his many excellencies Young has never been without Half mile.1, Thong Lor; 2, Lo 87, Pte. Logan 81. adverse critics in the Press.
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Taising; 1 Chua Tek kong, man with an axe to grind is some Hurdle race championship-1 times very dense. Thus, on the Leung Kwok-cheang 2, Leung famous occasion of a Rugby Union Kwok-ying; 3.- Thong Lor, The other was almost in the Trial at Bath when Young behind Other events resulted as fol
Pitted a well beaten pack, in which Wakers low: shadow of Table Mountain. against Cove-Smith's aide at Cape and Voyce and a copule of other Town were the reputed South England certs were slacking as only African pair, Truter (scrum) and they know how when there's no Osler; a ramshackle pack, a moder real need, made rings round his ate line of threes whose chief Idon vis-a-vis, the Soccer men who write Good Friday, April 6-Lai Wah of the game was to hoof the ball in- Rugger at home simply fell, base Cup semi-final. Hong Kong F.C. to touch, and a this-kind that-kind over apex into it. Young was dead ground, The Army v. China, kick-sort of full back. Never before or "finished," So and So was a
since have seen a pair of half-anip for England etc. etc., the same off 4.15 p.m.
But, since that backs in such a hopeless mess as old stupid story. Osler and Truter were in that game. Bath Trial Mr. So and So has never Theoretically a stand-off (Oaler in played for England and Young has this case) has little or nowt to do been chosen in every match, except with the opposing scrum-half.
events <-
Saturday, April 7: Hong Kong Shield final: Police v. Kowloon F.C., Hong Kong F.C. ground.22. Easter Sunday, April 8-Port guese Interport Match, Hong Kong v. Shanghai, Hong F.C. ground.
But Wales last season when he was not In that game Osler, if he'd been in the best of health. Of auch spoon fed on that, rubbishy theory, are the "Experts," whom class al must have mentally cursed his ways has ignored and always will mentor. For, time and time ignore, again, he found himself on the "
The coming week provides
One of the Very Best. matches of great interest and im
on Easter Monday wrong foot, going where he thought Arthur Young did not go direct portance and the final for the Lai Wah Cup be the vialting stand-off ought to be to "Femmer" from Tonbridge. He tween the Civilians and the win making for, and Young with the put in a season or two playing for ners of The Army v. China semi-ball doddling along through the Blackheath looking very small final will be played on the Club hole he, Osler, had just left in the behind some of the Club forwards. South Africa did'nt So small that he escaped the notice ground. Details of players select defence.
of the Press box. From the Net Result
moment he started doddling about They couldn't even check it by the Varsity ground at Cambridge, the "coaching" from the touch line up there past Clare and Selwyn, in which goes on in some of their that inconsequent sort of limping matches, a detestable and thorough galt kind of way of his, he has unsporting practice. i never looked back. He gave the The net result of this showing New Zealanders of 1928 something up of the pair who South Africa to think about when they just tensely interesting locally and pro-were depending on more than any scrambled home by a goal to all vide splendid: holday fare. Com
thing else for the Teets, was that against the Cambridge side be ment on all the principal matches almost with one consent the Press captained. But the story of that during the holidays will appear in adversely, criticised Young!! He affair will be told in my forthcoming
ed and oficials, etc., will be given like it a bit. in later issues, but it will be seen that Hong Kong footballers are in for an extremely strenuous Easter and many players will take part on several days running.
The matches on Good Friday and Saturday next, as above, are.
these notes.
was too small", "no defence, s
wild pazserwould never be able,Wel
Mr Thomas Vile, ain and referee for the
to cope with our forwards and all publication of which All Ceylon Is that sort of tosh, which is so hope-walti Reminderannual eting of Hong Kong Ba ssociationlessly out of place when you are scrum-half, the righ in the U.S. Consulate General at writing about a class player
5.80 p.m. to-morrow..
The Tank forward was never born Young, would funk.
OSAKARYARANMA 6'3'! Miner,
post
The Army yacht races, in con- A Michau discovered at Jo'burg, scrum
nection with the Roy
Kong Yacht Club, are
to-morrow when
will be competed for
So he picked up Young, who hadn't got the ball and-flung hin
Cup: Bhoulder "n 7the Transvaal
minutes later
size for a
the right
thro
98, Pte. Alexander 90, Pie. Alltree
Pte.
88, Cpl. Saunderson 84, Stopani Thompson 84, Piper Brown 82, Sgt. Brown 78.
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