TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1928.
Sport Columns
PHIL SCOTT
HIS CHANCES FOR WORLD.
TITLE
HOME FOOTBALL
POMPEY FALL TO MANCHESTER
A WORLD-BEATER
SEARCH FOR 'BOXING CHAMPION
RICKARD'S PROBLEMS
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THE CHINA MAIL,
for a platter (of ham and - eggs. Some of these early fights of Dempsey's that the old timers in Nevada have told me about would be worth a million dollars of any promoter's money. If he could duplicate them now. That's tough thought for Tex Rickard-young [By Robert Edgren]
Dempsey wasting stuff Tex would Just what kind of a heavy-weight give millions for, and doing it just challenger to develop next is the for amusement.
Tex most worrying problem
There Rickard Owns. Tex makes a knocked business of developing challengers and mi and matching them against the future : champions to his great profit.
He made a mistake in develop the idea he is the logical conten-mouth two goals to one in a first der for Tunney's title beats me," Division match and in the Scottishing Mr. Tunney, who turned out to title that the public didn't under- said Heeney in an interview to League Raith beat Ayr by four be so cultured after winning the
goals to two.-Reuter
stand him at all, and loaped to the conclusion that Gene was wearing the high hat.
HEENEY CRITICISES
London, Sept. 10.
Auckland."Whore Scott got
day.
"When Scott beat me at South- ampton I fought at 24 hours' notice and the majority of the newspapers said I won."
Heeney then proceeded to enumerate Scott's
record in
America not forgetting his defeat
in the first round by Hansen.
ARMY SOCCER
H.K. GARRISON LEAGUE RESULTS
D. Co., 1st Queen's 2; C. Co., 2nd
K.O.S.B., 6.
LEAGUE TABLES.
London, Yesterday. Manchester City defeated Ports:
Division I. P. W. D. L.
Burnley
9 5 2 2 25
Derby Blackburn ...
8 6 1 2 17
9 5 13 19
Goals. F. A. Pts.
21 12 9 11 15 11
4 2 2 17
12 10
4 2 1 20
10 10
2 3 21
18 10
18 10
Manchester C.
15 10
Everton
Cardiff
10 8
Huddersfold
Birmingham Leeds West Ham
Wednesday
Liverpool
C. Co., 1st Queen's, 2; A. Co. Newcastle
2nd K.O.S.B., G.
B. Co.,, la Queen's, 1; 31st
Heavy Battery, R.A., 4.
Matches For This Week To-day--R.A.M.C. v. B. Co., 1st
Queens. Referee: Pte. Hart, 2nd K.O.S.B. Thursday: C. Co., 1st Queen's V. Bist Heavy Battery, R.A.
Referee: Pte. Crafts, Queen's.
Table (Up Oct. 1).
19 17 7
8 1 2 5 7 17 4
EXCHANGE.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
2/-44 2/8/16
On London Bank, Wire Bank On demand Bank, 30 days' sight. Bank, 4 months' aight 2/- was one tough bird who
empsey down nine times Credits, 4 months'
Bight
21-4 have spolled a lot of history, enly Dempsey Documentary 4 months' kept gat ng up and knocking the
sight
2-14 other guy down, finally "winning the decision because the referee
teen for Jack. counted nine for Johnny and four On demand
There was enough fighting In that bout to bring customers to Rickard shows for six years
Credits, 4
sight
On Paris-
months'
1247,4
*1822
On Berlin
On New York-
On demand
48%
None of the fighters named It might have been much better from a business standpoint if Tex above knew what It felt like to On demand .... had taken Harry Wills down to have money in the bank and figure Credits, 60'days' sight 50%
On Bombay-- Philadelphia a couple of years ago. on staying in bed after six o'clock
the morning. They worked Wire Wills had slipped much more than in
They never On demand Dempsey, and would have been 'and they liked it. knocked out in two or three rounds. had time to grow apft...
When they began fighting they Wire. Then Tex would have been able
.139
.1331⁄2
On Calcutta-.
139/2
.199
He 'Singapore-- /
.86
.984
.77%
to get along a couple of years didn't have to be coached and On demand with Dempsey as champion, match- rained and rubbed down and kapt ing Jack carefully against the, on a diet and sent through tourna- On demand.
On Mantia-w Gollaths developed in the big beef, ments with a lot of other. get-rich- tournament and keeping him as quick, artists. Any one of the On demand
On Shanghai-- . lot would have wrecked any tourna- a drawing card.
On demand ment Rickard ever started
30 day'e sight (private
paper)
Portsmouth Leicester...
Manchester U.
2 18 '11
Sunderland Arsenal
15
16 16
2 4 B 12
Aston Villa
8
14
Sheffield U.
12 21 6
2 2 G11 240
Bury
0 5 8 16
4
Fighting other than Tunney Dempsey might have gone along
Bolton
Goala,
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts.
new
Chelses Hull Notta, County 8 8 11 16 Preston N.E. Southampton Notts. Forest Stoke
8 7 10 10
2 15
9 5 4 0 13
14
ballyhoo about.
5 13
Grimsby
1st Middlesbro'
Bradford ... West Brom Clapton ...
P. W. L. D. F. A. P. Tottenham
Wolves
Barnsley Port Vale Millwall
Blackpool Swansen
A. Co., 2nd
KO.S.B. 2 2.0
0.7
3
H. Q. Wing,
1st. Queen's 2 2
0
0 7.4
4 Bristol C.
M. G. Co..
1st Queen's 2 1 0
B. Co., 1st
Queen's
2 1
1 1
0 04
.
31st. H: Bty...
R. A.
H. Q. Wing,
2nd K.O.S.B. 1
C. Co., 2nd
1 18 3 Oldham Reading
1 0 15 4 2
Division II.
8 0 1 1 22 10 13
5 21 55
2155 R 12 8 4 2 2 17 16 10 96 4 13-16
3. 2.2 14 9 8
2 3 18
10 B
0 4 15 14 8
4 0 4 16
16
8
3 2 3 7 14 8
3 13 14 7
1 4 10 17
04 12 11
3 0.5 12 17
2 A 10 15 G
1 3 4 10 15 5
1 2 5 11 19 4 5 14 25 4
7 12
in spectacular style until some ments, as long as the customers young follow knocked him out. respond to the ballyhoo. That would have given Rickard a next real heavy-weight fighter will
Marvel" "Knock-out
Tex will go on running tourna
But the
On Yokoham On demand,
106/
to drop in from somewhere in the Gold Loaf, 100
sticks, horny-handed and, ready to
Але
(per tael)
(Bank's
.9.60
In boxing the knocker-out is go. Then we'll have a real cham-Sovereigns always king. The crowd will pay plon. anything to see a champion who is likely to flatten his opponent. In a single round. There's a kick in that.
Gene was a ten-rounda decision fighter and a decision doesn't make ninety thousand people jump up and stand on the chairs begging
for a murder.
:
Spoilt By Luxury What Rickard needs next is a combination of Jeffries, Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Dempsey, Firpo and an army mule. He won't develop anything like this in his tourna ment. He gives the boys too much money and they grow soft before they get anywhere.
Plenty of Action
buying rats)
.26 5/8 Silver (per oz.) Bar Silver in Heug
3% % Kong Chinese Copper Cash nom. Chinesa Copper Ceate 6% prem Rate of Native In-
terest
7.D.A 20%
Some of this year's fight critics are fond of saying that the old time long-distance fighters just walked around and stalled through the first ten or fifteen rounds and that there never was any guch real Chinese Sub. Coin .... action in the twenty, twenty-five or Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par, forty-five round, or finish fights, as
LONDON EXCHANGES. we see to-day in the six to ten or The six- fifteen-round, gallops. round fights, they say, developed a new style of fast, hard fighting.
10 7 8 17 2 8 0 1 5 22.1
Seems to me that I remember Division III (South).
Goals,
plenty of action in long fights, and P. W. D. L. F. A. Pla.
not many years back at that. 2 Luton
8 6 2 0 10 9 14
Terry McGovern was absolutely the fighter 8 Queen's P.R.. 4 4 0 11
fastest and most furious 8 4 8 1 12 7 11 0 0 4 1 2 Brentford....
There was Jack Sharkey as a
ever seen among the little fel- B 4 2 2 14 10 10
They might give Terrible terrible example. Sharkey came lows. B-4 2 3 14 11 10 9 4 2 3 15 14 10 blustoring down from Boston and Terry twenty rounds to work in,
3 3 2 159 9
talked and punched his way into but if he could cut it to a round 74 1 2 13 11 9
as or two it suited him. He never as good a reputation almost 2 12. 13 9
never wasted: a, second, 3 23 14.8 Dempsey's. But he grew fat on stalled,
money fought for a knock-out from the the luxuries- Rickard's bought him, both liquid and solid. moment he put up his hands-just| He put money in the bank and as Jack Dempsey did when he was knew he wouldn't have to keep is a youngster fighting his way to health so that he could hold a job the championship. driving a truck in his old age.
1 0 1 3.9 1 Newport
0 3 4
Bty., R. A. 2 0 2 0 2 5 D. Co.,
1st. Queen's 2 0 2 0 8 7 0 20th H.
C. Co., Ist
Queen's
2
1
Crystal Pal Plymouth 10 7 6 2 Swindon
Coventry
.K.O.S.B.
2 1 1 0 7 2 Charlton
M. G. Co., 2nd
K.O.S.B. RA.M.C... 1
Southend Fulham
8 3 3
8. 3-
0
12
0 1
0 Northampton..
3 10
Bournemouth
12th H.
J
Torquay.
Bristol R.
Walsall
Watford
Exeter
Norwich
Bty, R. A. 1
0 1
0 0
R. E. & R.
Signals
0 1 0 1
0 14
80 Merthyr
Brington Gillingham
Goala
2nd K.O.S.B. 0
0
0.0 0.0 0 Wrexham
HOCKEY
R. A. O..C... 1 0 1 0.0 15,0 B. Co.,
The Y.M.C.A. meet the Club de Recreio to-day at 5.15 p.m., at King's Park, Kowloon.
Division III (North)
Stockport Carliste.... Bradford C. Lincoln Wigan Nelson Doncaster Halifax Club de Reorelo:-H. A. Barros, Darlington R. Robarts, A. A. Remedios, C. Basto, J. E. Noronha (captain), Southport A. A. R. Botelho, D. P. Xavier, C. Tranmere F. Remedios, C. R. Pereira, C. Ashington d'Almada e Castro, and D. F. Hartlepools Chesterfield Lopes.
Crowe Rochdale
TREVESSA TROPHY
The tenth bi-annual race for ships' lifeboats is advertised to be salled on Wednesday, October 31, starting nt 4 p.m.
The course starts from Channel Rocks, thence to Kowloon Rock (P) Mark off Yacht Club (S). Cust Rock Gas Buoy (P), finish at the Yacht Club across the line west
Rotherham
Sth.
Shields
New Brighton Barrow Aceringion
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts,
8 5 3 0 20 12 18
B
5 1 2 25 11 11
4 32 22 10 11
4
22 24 11 10
1 3 10
1 3 14 15 9
2 14 11 B
2 10. 11
24 16 17
23 12 19 8
14 10 7
7
14 7
9
10
13.22 7
4 17 17 6 12 6
12
10 18 6 11 13 0 13 · 10
Paris New York Brussels Geneva
London, Yesterday.
124.05.
4.84 31/32: 84.90
25.19
Amsterdam Milan Berlin
12.09%
92.89
20.34
Stockholm Copenhagen
18.18
18.19
Oslo Vienna
18.19
84.44%
Prague
1634
Helsingfors
1921
29.57%
874
797
5 29/32
47 11/82
1/8
2/7
Hong Kong
2
Yokohama
1/10 21/32
all
Silver Spot
26%
Young Corbett was a crashing wasting time. So He finally lost his rough foghorn fighter, never
was Jimmy Britt. and so were voice and began to talk like a perfect gant, and he was all shot hundred others, like Lavigne, Gana, Walcott, Bat Nelson,
A championship possibility. Dixon,
He was rough with Dempsey for Wolgast, Ryan, Mysterious Billy two rounds and then figured that Smith, Matty Matthews, and
he already had both Dempsey and that great old bunch of long- Tunney beaten, and began to look distance mitt elingers.
around to catch a few admiring
ages from the ringside, and Dempsey knocked him for a loop.
You can't pick a world's cham plon out of the lap of luxury. If lan't done. Look at them.
Those old fights "slow" !
RACING
Sullivan drove a cab and licked 13 TRAINERS, AND 14 JOCKEYS
anybody who disputed the fare.
Corbett used to fight London Prize Ring battles in the, sand
hills back of San Francisco, and
Jim could fight in those days, be fore he became civilised and began
10 17 6 contests.
15 9
18
Scottish League.
Goals. P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. Aberdeen 9.7 0 2 - 21 14, 14
7·0 1 0 23 Rangers
7 13. Thied Lanark 5. 21 23 12 12 Motherwell... 8 5 2 1 14. 19 12 7 5 1 1 12 7 11 Celtic
4 2 2 22 12 10 Hearts Hibernians
42.2 14 10 10: to east. Compting boats are St. Mirren,. asked to be in position at the start- Hamilton ink line by 8.30 p.m. Further in- Partick
14147 Kilmarnock ... 0. formation may be had from " the
St. Johnstone 8 3 .4 13 18 7 Hon. Secretary, Royal Hong Kong Oneen's Park
7-8 04:14 10 6 Clyde Yacht Club.
8 2 2 4 7 11 6 Ayr Falkirk Airdrie Dundee New York-Jack Sharkey in-Cowdenbeath jured his left knee during his Raith R final work-out for the match with "Big Boy" Peterson, the Scandi- navian, and the match has been November, and his matches with cancelled.
Pierre Charles, the Belgian, and It is believed that Sharkey will Roberto Robert! the Italian, are be unable to fight again before off-British United Prees.
JACK SHARKEY INJURED
8 2 1 5 10 20
REPRIMANDED ́ ́ SEQUEL TO PETITION (
Bombay, Sept. 8, The W.I.T.C. have taken a some-
to take prizes in jab-and-side-step what severe attitude against the Fitzsimmons, was a horseshoer jockeys and trainers who jointly and fought finish fights back of the blacksmith shop.
Jeffries was a boilermaker and used to drive rivets in with his thumb and bite them off with his teeth.'"
submitted a petition to the Stipan diary Stewards, asking: for recon- sideration of the order cancelling the riding licence of Morris.
A notice was, published on the Poona Racecourse this morning to the following effect.
Madrid Lisbon Athens
Bucharest
Rio... Buenos Aires
Bombay Shanghal
107%4
Silver Forward ... 26 11/16 -British Wireless Service.
Rankin, Harding, Burn and H McQuade,
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