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THE
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INTERNATIONAL CONTEST IN
LONDON.
AMERICA WINS.
London, Yesterday. Nearly 200 hands were played
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NIGHT GAMES.
SPORT BY ELECTRIC LIGHT IN NEW ZEALAND.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1930.
Sport Columns
SPECTACULAR - GOLF
IN U.S.A.
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Bobby Jones Defeats Canadian Opponents. SPECTATOR STRUCK.
5 and 1.
Ardmores. Penn.,
Yesterday.
ENGLISH LEAGUE ONLY DRAW.
Irish Again Doomed to Failure. SHEFFIELD UNITED LOSE. At Belfast yesterday the Eng lish and Irish Leagues met in the
RUGBY FOOTBALL.
A READER'S PLEA FOR NEW CLUB.
QUESTION OF GROUND.
To the Editor of "China Mail"} Sir, Its rather surprising to find that In a Colony of this sizo that there is only one rugger club. The season is made up a series of matches played between the Services and the llong Kong Foot- ball Club Rugby Section): This I contend, is verging on the ridi-' culous side as there are many young fellows in the. Colony who would welcome the slightest op
and revised tables are as under:haps some of your numerous read-
New Zealanders and Australians are passionately devoted to sports and games of all kinds, and a big- ger proportion of the population neually plays or otherwise parti- seasonal cipates actively athletics then perhaps anywhere else in the world. For instance, in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, with. its hundred and odd thousand residents of all ages, there are about three
The thirty two playera incind-annual contest, the result being sportunity for a game.
ThaHong Kong Football Club thousand of the youth and man-
Of the 32 games played, the has too large a roll of members hood playing Rugby football every ing the solitary British represen- [draw of two goals each. Saturday, two thousand soccer, and tative, T. Perkins, who succeeded
opened English Langue have won 28, the te guarantee the enthusiast what remaining four being drawn. The he has joined for. He is thus left algut a thousand hockey. In ad-in the qualifying rounds
several harrier the match play stages to-day,
Irish League have yet to record out in the cold, and his keenness dition, there are
21 Bobby Jones, followed by
Goals-Eng dies a reluctant death.. I feel clubs who have their weekly cross- country runs,, besides a number of huge gallery, was in his usuni de- their first victory.
vastating form. He was out Inlish League, 144; Irish League that something should be done about this. Is it not possible for rond-racing cyclists.
In the First Division Sheffield another Club to be formed? The It is the same with the other 33 and was 4 up on Somerville. 31.
Christ-the Canadian Champlon at the
United, playing at home, went question of a greand immediate- large centres, Auckland, church, and Dunedin, and to a ninth.
Bobby Jones beat Somerville down to Leicester by a couple of ly crops up, but surely an attempt coals, completely reversing last at an affiliation with some Asso- fasser degree with the provincial towns. A familiar feature of the
Lehman beat Ferkins 3 and 1. season's game which Sheffield wonciation football club might pro-
duce the desired results. newspapers, every Friday is the
Von Elm beat Hunter 6 and 6. by 7-1.
Interest in the game is by no page wholly given up to football
Two games were played in the Sweetser bent Finlay 2 and 1. set fixtures
teams,
out and
Little beat Willing at the 20th. Southern section of the Third means lagging, but it would cer- in.
In the smallest type.
Kocsis beat Ouimet 3 and 2.Division, and both ended in draws.tainly be strengthened by the ad- Per- Results, ns cabled by Reuter, vent of a new opposition. sumer almost-but not quite
Ardmore, Penn., Later. paid to -equal attention is
A crowd of 10,000 following and cricket, tennis, swimming,
Jones to-day gave the athletics; it takes an international Bobby
marshals, marines and visit like that of the M.C.C. crie-course keters last season to rouse public State Police plenty of work to keep interest in summer games to the the course clear, to enable Bobby's pitch it reaches on any old foot- opponent to play his shots.
Jones teed off against another ball occasion. The information
Canadian and though Bobby did may, be conveyed as discreetly possible that the Turf occupies not play his best golf he turned about twice the space daily in the three up. after Hoblitzel had pick- newspapers that even football getsed up his ball at the second and weekly, but that is a little weak-eventh hole. thereby presenting Arsenal.... 7 § 1 0 2
Aston Villa. 7 6 1 0 21 ness of the Antipodeans that they the Atlantan with two holes.
The Canadian often out-drove Derby Co. do not like to be too loudly noised
Bobby, but was unable to contendHuddersfield
Lefeester abroad.
with the accuracy of Jones's 4 Wednesday Το accommodate nli these
At the twelfth Newcastle players, if their matches were to proach shots. take place simultaneously, would Hoblitze! drove his ball into the Birmingham be quite impossible in any of our crowd, hitting a spectator.
match ended at the fourteenth, Middlesbro' cities, even though some, like Wel-where the Canadian was down in West Ham lington, have spent tens of thou four, Jones missing a twelve-foot Sheffield U. sands of pounds in making parks and recreation grounds. Thus it is customary to play the junior! games first, starting at 1.80 p.m., and follow, with the senior matches at 2.45 or three o'clock. All school games have to be played on Fri days. Even with all this double banking of. grounds there is still a. deficiency of accommodation, and the cities are faced with a
McCarthy beat Von Elm one up- further expenditure for more play--Reuter's American Service..
Division I.
0 Leicester. Shefeld U.
Division III-Southern,
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ers may be able to forward somo useful suggestions.Yours, etc.
Brentford Torquay
2 Notta County 3 Bristol R
..TABLES UP TO DATE.
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Touch Down.
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Hong Kong, September 25,
Division I.
AQUATIC SPORTS.
Goals.
P. W. D. L.
F.
A. PI
013
8.13
4 3 0, 16
7.11
HONG KONG OBTAINS CHAMPIONSHIP CUP.
21 9 10
1 11 11 10
1 10
7 18 12
The Portsmouth
Leeds Un.
Blackburn Bolton
putt for a three, but winning the Chelson match by 5 and 4.
Other results were as follows:-Liverpool Lehman beat Rechner & and 5. Blackpool
Grimsby Homans beat Little 4 and 2. McPhail beat Kocsia 6 and 4. Seaver bent Voigt 2 and 1. Coleman beat McHugh 8 and 2. Sweetser beat A. Hearn at the
19th.
6 2 1
7
12 14
16 21
16 26
7 1 1 6 7 12 'chester C. 7 1 1 5 10 20 Sunderland 70 34 10 21 M'chester U. 7 0 0 7 11 31
Division III-Southern.
Ing-fields. The position was noti nearly so acute some years before the introduction of the BROOKLANDS RACES 1 1 2 21 18
age,
universal Saturday half-holiday, for there were Wednesday and Thursday matches then, according to the local custom.
Night Events
HIGH SPEEDS ACHIEVED BY MOTOR CYCLISTS.
Rugby, Yesterday.
3 2 2 18 9
4.0 3 16 15
3 2 2 12 12
EXHAUSTED COMPETITORS.
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Canton, Yesterday. The third and last day of the 3rd Kwangtang Provincial. Aquatic Sporta was held yesterday at the Chin Woo Athletic Association's Tungahan.
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1,000 Metres..
Ten motor boats were employed to convey the 60 contestants for the 31.000 metres event, which started 3 from the Chung Law Tai Chu, an Ủ island off Tungshan. Swimmers had to swim against the tide while the heavy wind also caused the waves to run high, with the result. that after swimming some 250
Goals.. P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts Notts C... 5 2 0 20 7 1 Northampton 7 5 2 0 12 1 12 Brentford 8 3 4 1 15 10 10 metres more than ten had to give Torquay
22 16 6 10 up and were taken up by the life- boat of the Bureau of Public Safe- Crystal Pal
ty. More enterprising contestants Swindon ford
continued to swim the remaining
Walsall
7700 metres, but only 20 got back, Southend
7 the rest were much too exhausted Gilfingham
to brave the tide. Chan Chun-hing Coventry
of the Fukten Athletica, Hong Kong, came in first, making the whole distance in 27 mins. 83 4/5 seconds. Phang Yu-kwong was second, while the third was Wong Tack-ruong, all members of the Fu- kien Athletics.
It was perhaps with this conges-
An average speed of 97.26 miles Fulham in the British and American tion of grounds on the only after per hour was achieved at Brook Bristol R; Bridge tournament to-day.
noon available as a constant fae- lands to-day by A. Denley, who on Brighton
Exeter America won by 4,845 points.tor in the problem of popular in an A. J. S. machine, won the 200
Bournemouth Another match, starts at Crock-dulgence in the manly games that miles motor cycle race in the 500 Clapton 0. ford's Club in a few days some genius conceived the idea of miles C.C..class. Reuter.
working the more central playing- The winner in the 1,000 miles Thames Norwich ¶¶¶¶¶elds overtime by flooding them.C. class-was A. Dunn, riding &
Newport with high-power electric lights in Horaman's Triumph.
His speed the evening and opening them to was 94.32 miles per hour.--British athletica and games. The success Wireless Service.
Our Sports Diary
LOCAL Hockey To-day Ladies' Hockey Club annual meeting; Lane Crawford's, 5.15 p.m.; Indian R.C. v. University, Marina Ground. 5.16 p.m.
Ping Pong-To-day-Men's Singles Championship, Fukien A.A.
To-morrow Men's Singles championship, Chinese Catho- lic Club.
Aquatics Saturday-V.R.C. Night Fete.
Sunday Men's
Singles championship, South China A.A.
Racing-Saturday-Seventh Extra Race Meeting.
October 2-Entries close for Eighth Extra Race Meeting,
noon.
October 10 and 11-Eighth, Extra Race Meeting.
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V.
Football Saturday-Chin
Athletic
Rest of League; K.F.C. v. Argylls (senlor and junior games), 8.15 and 4.45 p.m.
Tuesday K.F.C. meeting 6 p.m.
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annual
Cricket Saturday - Uni- versity v. IR.C. (first and second teams), 1.R.C. and Pok- fulam, 2 p.m.:
Sunday Volunteers K.C.C. Navy Ground, 11 am,
Sports, Saturday-Cheung Chau School Sports.
Baseball Saturday- Fil- pinos v. Japanese.
Sunday South China v. Kínozes.
Lawn Bowls Saturday Dockyard Inter-Departmental Final, C.S.C.C. Green.
Fencing Monday-- Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, 5.15
Polo Monday-Finals of K.O.YLI Cup 445 pm.
Tennis October 4-Entries close for LRC Tournament.
October 26-First Rounds. of L.R.C. Tournament close.Y
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October 29 Cambridgeshire Stades Newmarket
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LOCAL GAME.
POLICE BEATEN IN A "FRIENDLY.”
Exhibition.
The next event which at- tracted the greatest Interest Was the exhibition plunge in which seven of Hong Kong's best
swimmers took part. Among those taking part were two
Water Polo.
scale at Newton Park, Wellington, the parks under the floodlights. a good many years ago had shown So, in a sense, the artificial light- what could be done by floodlights has contributed to the form of the
The Pollee played the Somersets lads both under 13 years whose at night, and an attendance of teams who have met the British some thirty thousand on the slopes Rugby tourists with definite auc- in a friendly match yesterday, daring feats drew great applause
and were fairly comfortably from the spectators. of a natural amphitheatre must ceas.
beaten by 4 goals to nil. They have stirred the spirit of showman-
Much to the disappointment of ship, by no means deficient in the For some saasona past athletic started with only nine men, but
the public, the two beat polo teams Antipodes. At all events, the idea meetings have been conducted in the side was completed later: was progressively taken up in Wel- Wellington at least on many even- The Somersets became two goals of Hong Kong, namely South China in the game, and Chinese Athletics did not meet lington and elsewhere until evenings daring the summer under the to the good early ing athletic and sporting events floodlight, and attendances were Troth and Baker being the scor during the three days of their stay A match between under the beams of suitably placed most satisfactory. until the more era. Clarke, in the Polica goal, in Centon: high-candle-power lamps have be- sensational broadsiding started as was in good form, and defended Chinese Athletic versus Rest was played yesterday afternoon with the come a regular thing.
a definite commercial venture. The stoutly.
Chinese Athletic coming out last, being beated by the Rest with 3 goals to 1.
Of course there are difficulties dirt track now quite holds the field Troth and Bull added two more with games like football, though as the most popular form of even-in the second half, and the Somer they play soccer regularly in Aucking sport for the enthusiast, and sets ran out easy winners. land under the floodlight, and only in Wellington at the Kilbirnie a week or two ago there was quite Stadium the average
attendances
A.A.
PING PONG LEAGUE.
Results in Senior Division.
Championships. The championship for the best. team was awarded to the South China Athletic Association of Hong Kong whose boys' as well as girls' teams obtained the highest points in the various events throughout the three-days sport.
The individual male championship was taken by Chan Chun-hing, of the Fuklen Athletic Association, also of Hong Kong.
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a stir when two teams refused to for the past two seasons, two meet play at night...They were tramway ings a week, have been about teams and playing at that time 10,000. Auckland has two dirt affected their work. On the whole tracks, and there is one at Christ- even by the admission of Auck-church, and now one at Dunedin, landers, it cannot be described running with equal success. Or- after two seasons' trial as a brilganized as purely commercial vea- liant success. The attendance tures, these are very much botter a thousand. run than the amateur athletic averages only about
Further matches in the Senior While in the genial weather of the meetings, and the illumination Antindean summer outdoor games from central, lamps, overhead is Division of the Ping Pong League
The Missca-Yeung Sow-khing and have been played, resulting as are pleasant to watch in the much superior,
follows:-
Wong Shuk-hing of the South China eveninga as of an afternoon, it is Floodlight tennis has been in
Eastern A.A. beat Hip Keung and the Chinese Athletics drew for not so in the winter. Even Auck-vogue in all parts of New Zealand
the ladies' championship, both land-feels the chill at this time of for several years past and has
paints to their Hip Keung AA beat Eastern having 92 credit As the year.
beon a definite success. No cham-
scen..from this, AA. by 19 to 16 games. AB for Rugby, no method plonship meetings of sby Conse-
took Chinese A.A. beat Salwan Col Hong Kong lighting has yet been devised that quence have been conducted at lege by 22 to 18 games,
prizes evenly distributing each would enable the game to be play-night as yet, but there are South China AA.. belt Eastern event between the three Clubs, ex- ed in proper style with high punts hundreds of public and even A.A. by 26 to 9 games,
cepting the South China who obtain. for a follow-up, line-finders, or private floodlight courts.in. the
Safwan College beat Hip Keung ed besides the ladies champion- place kicks. Floodlights are plac main centres of population. AA, by 23 to 12 games.
ship, the team cup. Med ed on high posts at different polfits Swimming carnivals have also round the playing area, and do been held at night in open-air effectively flood the field with baths, but the climate of New light, but the upper air is still Zealand is not that, of Australia, darkness, and in any case, the light and the temperature of the water can never be quite ever, so that and the general conditions there A further list of matches has 20 points; Fuklen Athletics the game is subject to shadows, militate against the ilkelihood of been drawn up as follows: points; Wah Yan 11 points.
These remarks refer to actual these events ever becoming games. For practice, however, popular. floodlights, have been in use for at There are no restrictions on the Sul-ching at the Chinese Catholic points; Chinese Athletics 13% Chan Chun-hing least eight years past in all the use of electricity for these night Club Wong Chiu-kwal v. Mok points; Wah Yan 3 points.
Hing-woon at the Chinese Catho- Individuali three codes Rugby League games and sports. As most of the lis Club
Fuklen Athletics) 12 päintä: (Northern Union), and Associa-current "ased in New Zealand la tion. Some clubs use floodlight generated by a few Inge hydro- October 1-Chan Chu-yut v. Lal Yeung Sow-khing (South China) training as an adjunct to add electric stations, there is no par Pul-lum at the Chinese Catholle and Wong Shuk-bing (Chinese) work, but others have completely ticular call for economy and the Club; Chan Yust-fat v Chang Athletics) shared the championship Sum-chuen at the Chinese Catho for te lagles section. both scoring replaced the stuffy dusty zym-authorities encourage the colic Club
0% points-Canton Gazette. maalum by work out of doors onsumption for these purposes
*Chinese A.A beat Hip Keung A.A by 28 to 7 games.
South China AA. beat Saiwan College by 29 to 6 games.
Men's Singles Championship.
September 29-E.. 8. Ho v. Stu!
The following are the results of the three days' events, showing the score of each club, and fa dividuals
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Club: Male Section South China!
Ladles Section: South China 171⁄2
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