WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1928.
Sport Columns
TENNIS IN FRANCE
FEDERATION'S DEMANDS TO BE AIRED
POLITICIAN'S PROMISE
Paris, Yesterday. M. Henry Pate, vice-president of the Chamber and President of the Parliamentary Sports Group has declared he will bring the de- mands of the Lawn Tennis Federa-
tion before the Chamber-Reuter.
The situation is explained by the following cubles, published on Mon- day last from Paris:-
IN THE RING WHEN MOODY WAS K.O. BY
ERNIE RICE
[By Eugene Corri.]
London, Sept. 15. A couple of interesting matches are to take place next Monday. One is a light-weight fight be Lween Ernie Rice and Sam Steward, the other is between Frank Moody and Alee Ireland.
The first-mentioned contest; to be staged at The Ring, London, is, I understand, a light-weight championship affair, although ob- A serious setback to Franch ton-viously the winner must meet Kid nis is predicted to follow the action of the Treasury in deciding, in face of considerable aporting opposition, to levy a heavy entertainment tax on the receipts of national and international
tennis tournaments.
The big winter tournaments are expected to disappear from the pro- gramme and the Lawn Tennis federation has not only prohibited all Inter-club tournaments but has decided to relinquish, the right to hold the Davis Cup final in France and seek a venue abroad, probably Brussels.
Berg as soon as the latter returns from America to give him the chance to prove what I certainly believe him to be-the best light- weight we have to-day.
It is strange to see Rice pro- duced from retirement for a championship affair, for it is near- by three years since he last fought, | so far as I remember, and was no tender chicken then. 'And how many years it is since Rice was the champion? I make it to be over seven years.
Although you will not, perhaps, Federation's Decision find it in any book of records, 1 The French Lawn Tennis Federa- remember, towards the end of the 'tion in a Communique regarding its war, I think, that this same protest against the Entertainment Ernie Rice also met the same Tax, says that all open tennis Frank Moody who is boxing at tournaments will be cancelled for Edinburgh on Monday night-and the winter 1928-20. The covered knocked him out in an early courts. championship of France round.
alone will be played but the public, Always one with a knock-out
'will be admitted.
ments
Seaman, Hall.
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and a great strategist, even though somewhat given to thea- trical effect, fought a run-away fight, and was never caught pro- perly took a number of counts on one knee, got up, and poked out his left, and retreated again; stung Rice to madness by his taunting style; and managed to get the decision.
Rice swore he would never rest until he met Mason again.
They met again, and within a round Maaon was, for all his skill and un- deniable pluck, virtually beaten. It was written plainly. `And Rice, a shade impetuous in his desire for revenge, shot his left somewhat low, in the opinion of the referee, and lost again.
Ireland's Stamina
I think Rice has not boxed since.
He is not old-a few months under $2, and, I imagine, still strong and well-conditioned. He has natural strength and rug-|
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use his skill. He will not be caught so simply as was Milligan, whose foolhardiness in lack of de- fence was ever his undoing.
ON THE ROCKS
HARBOUR RACE OFFICIALS STRANDED
CHINESE LADY-WINS
A somewhat disconcerting incl.
I think the Welshman will win, because Ireland does not appear to me to have the speed and stamina he once had. But if he is anything like at his best he will dent occurred yesterday afternoon hold Moody off for quite a while. They tell me, those who have been when the annual harbour race for to see him training recently, that ladies was held under the auspices Ireland is actually in fine fettle. of the Victoria Recreation Club. I hope he is, for then the specta-The ateam launch containing the tors will assuredly get value for Judges and Club officials which had drawn up against the praya wall their money.
at Kowloon for the start of the Outlook for Phil Scott. So they have 'formed a "Phil race, was stranded on the rocks.
Fully twenty minutes were' oc- Scott Syndicate" with a capital of £5,000 for the purpose of chal cupled in attempting to
get the lenging the world. This is, at any launch off, but when even an at- rate, enterprising but I am tempt at towing it off by a police afraid that the old, old argument launch failed, those on board were that because Scott bent Heeney, transferred by sampan to the police Scott is the next man to Tunney launch and arrived opposite the fails to be convincing nowadays.
V.R.C., just in time for the judges Scott is, without a shadow of to "clock" the swimmers, the leader doubt, our best heavy-weight; having about another 100 yards to but when we look beyond our go to reach the seawall outside the own coast-line, let us take a Club.
broad, sane view of things Scott The competitors; five in number, has been beaten, Haform in lined up on the side of the Club America did not suggest that he launch against the praya wall at was anything like in line for a Kowloon, between the Star ferry match with Tunney, and a capital wharf and the new police pier, and
of £5,000 will not wipe out past the race was started by Mr. C.. J. defeats nor make him more for-Cooke from a small yacht in which midable than he is.
he afterwards followed the swim-
Do not listen too seriously tomers. The course was marked by such talk, Scott, I take it, will sampans flying red flags, whilst go to America again for the com- other native craft were engaged to ing season, since there appears to keep behind the swimmers, ready! be little opposition on this side, to take them out of the water in and small chance. of inducing case they got into difficulty. the public to pay sufficient to bring a really big man here to meet him. He will be put up against men good enough to test him, and if his form warrants it, he will go forward.
Fine Start
Those who faced the starter were
the Misses Kwok Chol-ming, M. and D. Hunt. George, P. Hunt, Chan Yeuk-fai,
They all dived in together at 5.17 p.m. From a good start, Phyllis Hunt, who won the event in 1926 and 1927, went in front followed by her sister, Doris, Kwok Chol-
People may criticise America as they choose, but my experierce is that there is such a craze there scarcity of supply to meet the de- and Maud George. progress of a good heavy-weight first amongst the ladies mand, that nothing can bar the ming, the Chinese girl who was from anywhere, once he puts his Chinese harbour race awam imme- foot in New York-"Sports Des-diately behind the leaders, with Chan Teuk-fai slightly in the rear. patch."
punch was the swarthy hard-as- If the present situation is not leather Rice from Hounslow, a modified by March 1, 1929 all the man whom nothing seemed to redness, and an economy of
The one for heavy-weights, and such.a hurt, who had the crudest style, effort in his style. epring, summer and autumn tourna- who just crept steadily on like danger is that his senge of timing will be taken to approach the for- ruthlessly, and sooner or later his absence from boxing for over will be cancelled and steps the first of the tanks, slowly but is likely to have been impaired by eign nations with a view to the dealt a terrific short-arm hook two years. Davis Cup matches, at present play-which crippled his opponent, Sam. Steward, of Peckham, able in France, being played in one
whom he meets, is an honest box- of their countries.
er of qualities solid rather than brilliant. He has fought with fine consistency for the last two or three years, and has earned the right to fight for a title. He is the sort who will never let us down, and I shall be surprised if he does not acquire a title next Monday at the expense of the man from Hounslow,
Hope of Compromise.
The recent failure of the leading Paris inwn tennis clubs' legal action against the payment of the Enter- tainment Tax seems to have decid- ed the Lawn Tennis Federation to take action, but there is plenty of time for mattore to be arranged before the Davis Cup contest and a different interpretation of, the law would doubtless result. In the stag- ing of the final rounds in France. All hope has evidently not been abandoned as the wooden stands in the State Roland Garros are being replaced by a cement exection.
HOCKEY
Very few-not one in ten-of his contests went the distance. I remember that he knocked out Ben Callicott when winning the British title from him at the National Sporting Club, a result which surprised most of us; and followed it within a month by winning the European title from Georges Papin in the same ring,
And then he met Seaman Hall at Liverpool. Do you remember that strange, almost romantic figure, momentarily on the stage, "Nobby" Hall, who left the Royal Navy to seek a fortune in boxing? ll could box, no doubt of that, He kept clear of that wicked hook all through the fight except once, when he was hit upon the forehead and knocked flat on his
AUSTRALIAN TEST
TEAMS FOR FIRST TRIAL MATCH
WOODFULL AS CAPTAIN
Sydney, Oct. 5.
Frank Moody, the Welshman who holds the Lonsdale Belt for
The following are the teame for cruiser-weight, is tackling no the Test trial beginning at Mel- light proposition in Alex. Ireland. bourne on October 19 Ireland-a Scot-holds the mid- Australia dle-weight championship by a Woodfull technicality, for Milligan, lost it!
to him by a foul committed when Grimmett he had all but beaten Ireland. Ponsford Moody, having defeated Milli- Hendry gan almost by a single punch re- Hyder
Players selected to represent the back, only to get up and wincently, would seem to have his Oldfield Club de Recreio are:-
Recrelo vs. H.K.S.R.A, Marina Ground. Thurday, Oct. 25, 1928 5.15 p.m.-F. Barros, P. N. da Silva, R.. Robarts, A. A. R. Botelho, J. E. Noronha, Basto, D. P. Xavier, H. A. Alves, R. C. Reed, C. D'Almada e Castro, D. F. Lopes.
Hockey Club "A" va. Recreio II. Į King's Park, Friday, October 26, 5.15 p.m., A. P. Eca da Silva, D. C. Alves, A. A. Remedios, A. H. Xavier, F. V. Ribeiro, G. A, Pinna, M. A. V. Soares, H. J. Noronha, C. Roza Pereira, L.' F. Xavier, J. M. M. Alves.
GOLF
In the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, Adamson Cup October quali fying competition, H. Hampton, with 93-23-70 qualifies. Other scores were:-E. Moore, 86-16- 71; J. Stewart, 89-16-74; F. E. Booker 87-10-17.
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cleverly.
Hall lost the title to Mason, and Mason was the plague of Ernie Rice-the man he could not beat. Mason, a cunning boxer
(Capt.)
present contest, which takes place Kippax at Edinburgh next Monday, al-Gregory ready won. But that is not the Andrews case. Ireland is a skilful defen-R. Oxenham sive boxer when he chooses to Blackie.
FORMER HONG KONG RIDERS.-Fanling Steeplechase enthusiasts ought to be able to recognise some of the people in the upper photo, taken, at, the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club's gymkhana, held at Hanjao. The "key" is in the transfer of the 2nd Batt. Scota Guards from Hong Kong to Shanghai. Lower picture shows the start of a race.--- (Ah Fong).
The Rest ***
Víctor Richárdzon
*(Capt.) Kelloway Taylor Bradman Jackson
Nicholls
O'Connor Harris
Scott
A. Beckett Ironmonger Thompson is twelfth man.
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in the
Soon after the start, Maud George took the lead and swam an easterly course.. The Hunt sisters kept close to Miss George, slightly to her right, with the two Chinese girls about five yards behind. The order was maintained for the greater part of the race, and Mias George, who was swimming strong- ly to the east, looked like a good winner.
A Close Finish
Then Miss Kwok was caught by the flow tide and carried slightly out of the course. För a while it looked as if she would be out of the race, altogether, but she had the good fortune to catch the ebb tide, and this gave her such a good advantage over the others that she reached the steps of the V.R.C. fully fifty yards in front of Miss George.
Miss George put up a hard struggle to overhaul the leader but the distance between Miss Kwok and the seawall was so short that the latter had no difficulty in remaining in front to win by a bare five seconds. With such a big handicap, Miss George did well to finish so close to the winner.. The positions and times of the The following have been select-ave competitors were;
Min. Sec.
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XI. in a League match against Miss Kwok Chol-ming. 35 47.2/5
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