SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928,
Sport Columns
INTERPORT CRICKET.
HONG KONG AND UNITED SERVICES DRAW.
Shanghal, Yesterday. In dull overcast weather Hong Kong drew. with the United Ser. vices. In reply to Hong Kong's total of 205 the United Services made 369, a total which was help- ed by the fact that several catches were dropped. The chlef scorers were Captain Quin (70) and Lieut. Moffatt (58), while Quick took 3 for 88 and Thorpe 4 for 72.
Hong Kong in the second innings made 201 for wickets. Quick made 78, Musson 29, while Fresh- water took 3 for 21 and Quin 2 for
40,--Reuter.
MERRY-GO ROUND.
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SPORT FROM ALL ANGLES.
[By Edward Ward.] Cricket having fallen out of favour somewhat owing to the slow. ness of the game compared with football, I diffidently submit a few suggestions for brightening it up a little.
THE CHINA MAIL,
holds the world's record of 51 ft.
as passed by the International Federation. But will It survivo the Amatordam assault?..
Mere figures often fail to con- voy to the lay mind a full oppre- clation of their significance. An At an amateur boxing contest illustration may help to a realisa- at Geneva between Swiss and Gor- tion of Rose's record put of 51 ft. man representatives, several of the It means that delivering the shot Swiss were found to exceed their from the popping crease of a re- weights. The Germans only gulation cricket pitch he would agreed to box on condition that drop the 10 lb. of solid motal with- whatever the result the vardlet in. ft. of the further popping should be given to them.
ercase; near enough to enable a prominent racehorse batsman with a fairly long reach
(oh. to take it on the half-volley, if owners have written to me Yes, I know all the best people), to quote Sarah Gamp-he felt so stating that this is a very good "dispoged."
Several
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FANLING GOLF.
WHITSUNTIDE COMPETITION
RESULTS.
Results of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club's Whitsuntide competl tions at Fanling have been an-, nouneed.
Bogey Pool.
one of 16 lb.
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Co. column, weight-putting is a branch applied to horse racing.
A peep into other people's idea of sport that appeals to comparas. of sport, being an extract from a tively few of our native athletes.
a pity for local paper: "After they had put It is out the flames the firemen played on, Quite apart from any question of many reasona. the ruins all night."
nspiration to athletic fame there is
6. By purchasing As the old lady remarked: "They no finer exercise, or one that does "Sunday Herald.". ought to be ashamed of them more for physical development, selves-fullgrown men like that than putting the shot. It is with- having nothing better to do with in the reach of almost everyone, their time."-"Athletic News". and it can be continued with bene- Int years after ordinary athletic ac tivities have ceased. A "shot" costa but very fow shillings, and any rough bit of ground-even the "waste" end of a suburban garden
Driscoll was the most accom- will auffice for the purpose pro- vided the 7 ft. circle is fairly level. plished artist I have seen. Ad- If desired a 12 lb. shot could be mirers of Packy McFarland and. purchased instead of the regulation Pete Herman will probable dis
agree. "Peerless Jim" was a mas- Properly applied, practically ter boxer and a relentless fighter. every muscle is brought into ae- He combined both qualities to a tion. The reason so many fall is fine art. G. H. Bell (18) won the Bogey the unconquerable temptation to Had the Cardiff boxer lived д sure that the matter has only to Pool. He returned £ score of watch the flight and fall of the steady life he would' be brought to the notice of the nut square. Other scores were: missile after delivering It. It is suffered defeat. The poetry of};
never have
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lamp, without necessitating the game are that the batsmen get far
THE SHARE 'MARKET. and putting the shot without get- ing display.
The May number of Queen's extensive Installation of high- too little excitement and the spec
|ting any weight or body-swing be-
required for College's little magazine, "The tension current tator has nothing spectacular" Twenty entered for the Medal hind it.
Driscoll's classic contest with Yellow Dragon" has just been X-rays, provides a mechanism for Their action resembles. offered to him for his money. 1, Pool, in which the best acore was that of a batsman "pushing" a Abe Attell in New York is still ro- published, and from its sprightly the production of rays of great therefore, instead of having only made by G. H. Bell, 90—18—72, straight ball back to the bowler. membered in U.S.A., and the cri- contributions we cull the follow- therapeutic value, relates the TT on Lordón two hatsmen on the field at a time, but having won the Bogey Pool, he
"Morning Post." Whether putting with a view to ties who saw his amazing skill are ing paragraphs: four wickets were provided; with could not take the Medal prize, becoming a successful competitor, never tired of classing him as one We notice that there are two. two bowlers going t once, it which therefore went to Major or merely as a physical-culture of the greatest glove gladiators the or three expert musicians in Class would liven things up and give the D. W. Beamish, with a card of course, the shoulder and body ring developed._
I. Should they fail in Matricula- outfield men something to do. 88-1573. Other scores:-F. A. awing ahould more closely resemble,
tion it is rumoured that, suitably Merry 88-12-76; R. Young that of making a hit to leg, bring Kid Lewis was a daring fighting living as "Sing-Song Girls.". -
disguised, they will earn their 86-9-77.
ing the back, loins and hip muscles well into play. For many years I machine. The Jewish boxer pos- Best Ball Medal Round. The winning score in the Best rarely missed a day without hav- sessed extraordinary stamina and The Tennis Tournament is now sometimes and spoils their grip Ball medal round was made bring a few turns at the shot with natural fighting qualities. Lewie arranged and it is only the wea for holding pens to write their re- Colonel
one or two others. Merely for the was a smaller edition of Jack ther which is holding up
the Bostock and Major miniscences) should be provided Beamish with 76-1166. Other exercise. We had no aspirations, Dempsey, and had the faculty of matches.
although each of us became able in the will to win,
It would be quite easy to alter the laws as suggested, and I feel
Study the Flolders. The fielders, instead of trying to .catch the ball with their hands (a painful procedure which hurts
are some
There were 28 entries.
Medal Pool.
Moran and Summers,
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Pearce 83-11-72,
Even in the autumn of his career We congratulate Lo Tung-fan, shown that a selective influence E Fire Insurance ...$740 Overs, of course, are much too phreys and T. G. Well 86-13-73. seen. It can
A Dm-winning performances occasionally he fought with all the confidence an old boy of Queen's College, now can be exerted on microbes by nonglashing. short (as
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Like the majority of champions, pitch to give a demonstration of
champion, might easily discover
Our Headmaster is in a dilem-living body without at the same water-boats trick cycling.
Lewis earned big money and spent ma. Two football clubs have ask-time destroying the tissues.
Mining. This would
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The fluorescent substances have Benguets Sorry "Sport."
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'FOR TO-MORROW.
Starting Times on the Old Course.
It would also add to the cx citement if there was a deep trench half-way between the wickets, McEachran. which would prevent the bowlers from getting stale. The bate. men should be provided with long poles to help them clear the trench when making runs!
Cup Final Echoes.
Just one word about the Cup Final before it fades into the Littlejohn.
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Starting times have been drawn for the R.H.K.G.C. old course at Fanling to-morrow as follows-
Interest in the so-called great a year or so ago a benefit had to cannot very well be. President of especially sensitive to the action Langkats (Combined). T12.20
do. (Single) T5.90 race across America---seemed to be tendered him to ralleve finan- both; nor can he accept one of the of the rays, and it is regarded as Shanghel Explorations 12.80 9.24 a.m., Dr. Masquire, J. S. have petered out when it was re cial embarrassments.
Presidencies without offending a possible that this fact may lead to Shanghai Loans vived by the news that on reach-
Owen Moran' was another re-host of his admirers in the other the discovery of a means for dir- 9.28 .m., A. Leach, C. C. Stark, ing a Missouri town-roughly two-
lentless battler. The Midlander camp. These two teams are com-ectly attacking the tubercular 9.32 a.m., G. E. Ellams, S. T. thirds of the journey the advance
guard were pelted with eggs by the was fearless, and would have just posed of lads who reside in Q.C. bacillus in the human organism. Butlin..
9.36 a.m., C. Thwaites, G.. W. citizens of a town which had been as soon tackled Jack Johnson as he district, lads who being too proud, Sewell.
"outbidden" for the privilege of did Battling Nelson or Ad Wolgast, too independent, or too lazy to work have formed themselves into 9.40 am., A. E. Lissaman, N. K. being the nightly stopping place of Moran was another Britisher who two rival football clubs named kept the Union Jack floating above The Hollywood Hooligans" and the whole caravan.
No one Imagined that the con- the Stars and Stripes while in The Aberdeen Dribblers." Both limbo of forgotten glories. In 9.44 a.m., E. C. Frederick, A. D. test, with its big money prizes and U.S.A. He is still as physically fit intend using Q.C. lower play- one of the morning papers on the Humphreys.
heavy expenses, was being run these days as when he was tack-ground as their playing pitch, en- day of the great Battle of the 9.48 a.m., T. L Christie, H. A. from motives of philantrophy and ling the world's best bantams and trance being by way of the wall, Roses appeared the headlines in Lammert.
sport alone, but, this evidence that feather-weights. adjoining columns: "How Hud-
A. N. the needs of weary and footsore.
first come first served. Out of dersfield Might Win," and "Why Other.
Johnny Sommers possessed a consideration for Mr. Crook, who runners are entirely subservient to punish that made him a terror, but is extremely popular with these the outcome of haggling between the Canning Town boxer depended young Apaches, they have pro- advance agents and enterprising townsmen removes the race from more upon his hitting qualities mised not to use the playground the category of sporting events,
than any pretensions to skill. Also, in school hours. On this side the chief regret he was inclined to be impetuous, will be that so fine an athlete and which caused him to lose at least
From what inexhaustible reser-· voir does Mrs. Stubbings draw sportsman as Arthur Newton for one important fight.
hér energy? During the Summer fofted his amateur status for what Nowadays, Summers is employed. Session when the temperature has proved to be so sordid a at Buck's Club, a rendezvous for and humidity both try to reach the Corinthians of sport, and so fit ninety most of the teachers find is he that recently he wanted to themselves almost played out at make a "come back" attempt,
the end of the day-lethargic,
I Fancy Blackburn."
As the farmer complained, after
9.52 a.m., E. R. Hallifax,
1 day at the races: "I backed the TWO-EYED STANCE.
horse both ways, yet the bookmaker wouldn't pay up when it lost."
last GERMANY'S ASPIRATIONS FOR
The world's saddest mac week was the Blackburn enthusiast who set off from his home town to walk to Wembley and arrived just in time to sce the greyhound racing,
FIELD EVENTS.
[By Fred W. Parker.] Within three months the Amater-"atunt." dam Games will be in full awing. For Honourable Mention: The While our own recognised tests only London newspaper which did the Amateur Championships-are not refer to the match as "t yet a long way ahead, other nations Coop Final"
are taking time by the forclock.
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Evictors, from Shanghai, Golf club: A new golfer joins Insufficient to win the weight. Ona National Sporting Club during the Joe Bowker.
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Strategic Bowker.
Manila. Holes: Eighteen made by the the 16 lb. shot a distance of 16:39 Jim Driscoll was the greatest ever;
"K.W.L." and others have Each has his admirers, but ac- greensman and many more by the metres, thus besting the Olympic others handed the laurels to Jimmy cording to my judgment, which the several very interesting contribu
record of P. Macdonald made in Wilde; whilst Kid Lewis found late Mr. "Peggy Bettinson shared,zine is most creditable to all con- itions and allotment. The maga- 1912, although not quite so easily strong support.
Bowker was the Napoleon of the cerned. A bad lie: "I did it in two old as the cable announcing the result
Everybody's opinions are, en- strategic school. claimed. This gave the record of titled to respect. Valid reasons The Salford boxer is meeting Drive: A good one means a long the curly-headed American at walk.
can be advanced upholding the Johny Hill in an exhibition bout Stockholm as 14.995 metres, where claims of each of the tric. Jimmy at the N.S.C., and I fancy that the Green: What a professional looks as the official figures were 15.34 Wilde was undoubtedly a wonder. former world's bantam champion GERMS Ifke when he doesn't get there. metres.
Fore: A quack's "duck."
Imagine a frall-looking youngster will astonish the present, British Translated to English measure- Bogey: A romance not to music ments Hierachfeld's put was equall scaling less than 7st spread fly-weight titleholder. by a war-time colonel.
to 50 ft. 6 in.; 2 In. better than eagling first-class fly-weights, ban- Caddy: A dramatic critic. Macdonald. And Germany, rememtams, and feather-weightal Stymied: Husband whose wife ber, has not yet won an "athletic" It is said that in a gymnasium at says "Your golf has come be event at any Olympiad, although at Aldershot during the war the tween us.
Stockholm Braun in the 400m, and "Mighty Atom knocked out a Llesche In the high jump were well-known light-weight, and also Here are a few football terms beaten by the narrowest of mar-stopped cruiser-weight cham
to modern gine, et
plon. ideas
The first man to reach 50 ft.in] I was told the story by an eye- Referee A simaur generally out the weight was the burly Ralph witness, a famous R.S.M., and he of tune with the crowd when a Boss, of America. He did this chuckled with glee when recount
fairly enough in practice for the ing the story.
man.'
defined
A Guide to Football
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males is as good as a murder.
Linesman-A graduate in flag- London Games of 1905 a day or two Jim the Artist.
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Goal Strangely enough, it only
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