THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1931.
KING'S THEATRE
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AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
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J. HAROLD MURRAY
After singing the
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vlage production of
"RIO RITA."
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CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP
CRUELTIES OF THE GOLF SPECTATOR.
'Oxford and Cambridge Reserves in Play.
DEPENDENT DINNERS.'
Superficially the golfing specta. lor is the most humane and the best behaved in the world, His football brother lets loose a crude yell of triumph when the enemy misses the goal, whereas he-the courteous gentleman must AN-
DENMARK LEADS RUMANIA.
Davis Cup Results from Copenhagen.
TWO SINGLES MATCHES.
Copenhagen, Yesterday.
NETHERLANDS DRAW WITH GERMANY.
140,000 Witness Match at Amsterdam.
BRILLIANT FORM DISPLAYED.
Amsterdam, April 26.
In the Davis Cup match here te- Before 40,000 spectators, includ day Ulrich (Denmark) beat Mishuing several thousand German vist- (Rumania) 6-4, 6-4, 9-7 and Hen- tors, the
beat (Denmark)
Bunca riksen (Rumania) 6-0, 6-2, 6-3-Reuter.
sume an air of silent and sanc- TEST PLAYERS SCORE
timonious regret when the other sido misses a putt. Nevertheless, this golfing spectator, whatever. his code of manners may make him pretend to he, Is really one
of the cruellest, hardest, most call-blooded brutes in the world, and I include myself wholeheart- edly in this indictment.
Ironical Cheers,
I am moved to make these re-
FREELY.
international football match between the Netherlands and Germany was played at the Olympic Stadium, and ended in a draw of one goat all.
The Dutch eleven scored their goal before half time, after which the German forwards made des- perate and eventually successful
Bradman Bats Well and attempts to even up matters.
Takes Wickets.
JACKSON'S INNINGS.
This is the fifth of twelve inter- national contests between the two countries ending in a draw, while of the remainder the Dutch have in won four. Both teams were brilliant form, though the Nether- land's technique Was alightly superior. This, however, Was team, Archie Jackson was top-compensated for by the staunch
German defence, ford and Cambridge. Here were scorer with 61. Solely caught and four young gentlemen who desery-bowled Bradman, winning the bat ed the tenderest sympathy which given by Turner Agencies, Ltd., to the human heart was capable of the bowler getting Bradman's WOMEN TO ACCEPT giving them. In the first place. wicket. Eacham had lost three they had just missed. after two wickets for 52 in the second inn- terms of hard work.
ings when rains ended play.
Queensland, April 2. Kippax's team scored. 210, and marks by the fact that I have just won by 81 runs on the first inn- been watching the match at Sandings against Encham Association wich between the reserves of Ox-
more
the honour
Bradman and Jackson gave hur-
LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE.
of a place in the team, and, in the second, they had on their should-ricane hitting displays in the ers the responsibility of trying to match played at Cairns during the
fortunate col- save their
week-end between Kippax's Eleven leagues from paying for their din- and a Cairns team. Jackson, who ner. Moreover, instead of, as of made 158 in the first innings, at
on the old. playing their match mame day as the match. when no- body would have eered twopence about them, they were hutchered! to make a holiday for both teams, who were resting before the battle. They had not sought the limelight which blaze: full upon them; yet when they missed the ball, as they occasionally did, everybody sniggered, and when at the last hole one of them produe- e a shot of which Bobby Jones could have dreamed. the laughter drawned the cheers. Here was surely exhibited a very base aspect ond of human nature.
Grinning Demons,
As in previous years the co- operation of Bowls Conveners is requested in forwarding lists of teams in time for pub- lication in our issue of Fri- days.
To-morrow "Short. Head" will discuss the prospects for Saturday's League matches.
CHALLENGE.
Gruelling Motor Race Against Men.
AUTOMOBILE CLASSIC.
Brookslands, May 7.
For the first time in the his- tory of the event, women drivers will start in the British double twelve-hour motor race which be- gins here to-morrow. The race is regarded as one of the classics of the British automobile speed track and three women have ac- cepted the challenge made recent- ly by a prominent racing driver at a meeting of the British Rac-
stage scored 50 in eighting Drivers' Club. They are Miss minutes. Bradman, who scored Victoria Worsley, who was the
It would be easy to multiply in. 90 and 103, also took the honours first British motor saleswoman and
tances. Only two days before, 1 may be pardoned an exotistical illustration, I had been playing in a Foursome match of Sunningdale. I arrived on the edge of the home green in a shattered condition to find myself confronted by a long putt and four grinning demons scated in a row and in a state of ostentatious decorum to, watch me
as a bowler. In the first innings he captured four wickets for 13 runs, and in the second six for 43, making his aggregate for the match 10 for 60. For the home team Horwood made a good show- ing in the first innings, compiling 70, while Lynam made 20 and 42. The visitors won by an innings and 13 runs, Scores: Cairns, first innings, 148; Kippax's Eleven,
is leading a team of Baby Aus. ting; the Hon. Mra. G. A. Chetwynd, the mother of a year- old infant, and who is to drive a Mrs. E. M. Wisdom, who will be supercharged M. G. Midget; and at the wheel of a Frazer-Nash.
All three are well known on the
racing track, but none has pre- viously attempted anything
on
play it. I was lamentably short. firet Innings, five wickets for 470 such a big scale as the 24 hours
(ceclared); Cairns,.second innings, 135; Kippax's Eleven, second tan- Ings, three wickets for 265.
the match was not wou, and then each of those four separately in formed me that this pult was a well-known booby trap and that
Queensland, April 9. they all waited and postponed
Kippax's team won on the first their tea merely for the pleasure innings in the match against of seeing me fall into it. Is there team representing the Innisfail imaginable a more horrid refine- | district. There Wasa large ment of cruelty?
One Bright Exception
crowd, the gate takinge amount ing to about £110. Anstey, was It is a pleasure to give, at any the most successful batsman for rate, one instance of a more Chris- the home side, scoring 42. Brad- tian spirit. Ages ago two players man secured four wickets for 49 went to the nineteenth hole at runs. Thirteen players batted for Hoylake in a championship and Innisfall. Rigg and Bill, batted put so many balls out of bounde excellently, Rigg compiling 92, into the Field that at last one of and Bill 86, Bradman made 25. them had to surrender from sheer Scores: Innisfall, 164: Kippax's lack of ammunition. The crowd Eleven, six wickets for 223. Rain turned laughing back to the club stopped play. when an American gentleman ad- North Queensland falled in the ministered a reproof. He quofed match against Kippax's Eleven at the words of a compatriot, the Townsville over the week-end, and American Admiral, when a Spanish the score at the drawing of stumps ahip went down. "Down cheer, on Monday were boys, they're dying."
"Dormy Two."
New South Wales First Inn- ings: 623 for 6 dec. (A. Jackson 171, A. Fairfax 73, G. Bradman 118, Waddy 105, Kippax 105).
North Queensland:-122 (Brad- man 4 for 85),.
of some of the finest racing men. race, which taxes the endurance, Their skill and endurance is to be pitted against that of numerous speed kings, including Earl Howe, Sir H. R. S. Birkin, Dudley Frey and Dr. J. D. Benjafield. Only in
A few international automobile events are women allowed to com- pete with men on equal terms.-- United Press.
That was nobly said, and when we laugh on such occasion-good- ness knows, it was almost justi- Aable we forget how terribly near to us are the victimą. The cricketer who in the far distance murdered me, any golfing jury misses in easy catch is by com- ought to have acquitted him. parison with the golfer, only a
Shameful Gloating. mechanical figure. He is not There is just this to be said even a human face; he is no more for us who watch golf, that we do than a cap with a peak like not enjoy the sight of a man miss- Cyrano's nose, and as to his having a short putt; not, that is to ing a heart or nerves or feelings, say, unless we are driven by sheer we scarcely give the possibility a hard necessity to want him to thought, The case of the golfer miss it,, because our motto is for is altogether different. We Can the moment,, "My country right not deny that he is human when or wrong." But we do gloat we can study at close quarters more shame to us-over a hole "each new and nevor-twitched halved in 7 which ought to have pase" and even hear what he says been won in 4; we do like to see under bls breath." And he can some poor wretch, go, as if mag- hear what we say, hear it with netically attracted, into the one ears made all the keener by his bunker on the course which can agony. This very day one of those prevent him from winging the strugglers to avoid a dinner, bill hole, we are not even wholly stood one up with three to play averse.. from seeing a pitch fluffed and played a beautiful shot close or topped; we revel in saying || to the hole at a one-shot hole. I "Head up"" há Halt were clover in may heaven forgive mel-turn- us to detect all too obvious & fact. ed to my neighbour and said, Inahört, we are pretty mean "That's done it-dormy two." It | beasts; and I am determined, never had done it, and I hope and be to do it again except whed Cam
love that he who had to play the bridge-and, even so I had not like did not hear me; but if he got to pay for the dinner-The had heard and had there and then Times.
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL
CHESS To-morrow Open Championship.
RACING-To-day-Entries. for Sixth Extra Race Meeting close at noon.
Saturday-Fifth Extra Meeting. LAWN BOWLS-Saturday- 'Division I-K.B.G.C. v. Civil Ser- viec, Craigengower v. Police, Re- crele v. Howloon Docks, Talkoo V K.C.C.; Division II-Civil Ser- vice v. Craigengower, H.K. Elec- trie. v. Talkoo, Yacht Club v. K.B.G.C., K.C.G. V. Recreio.
HOME.
CRICKET-To-day and Te-
morrow-
Hampshire v. New Zealand. Middlesex v. Gloucester. Surrey v. Somerset. Lancashire v., Essex. Notts v. Warcaster.
Cambridge U. v. Yorkshire. 'Oxford U. v. Lefreiter. Saturday, Monday and Tues-
day****
M.C.C. v. Now Zealand, Surrey
7. Hampshire. 1 Sussex v. Gloucester, Worcester v. Lancashire. Notts v. Northampton. Laleester v. Essex.
Yorkshire v. Warwick. Derbyshire v. Kent Cambridge U. v. Middlesex. * GOLF →→ To-day Professional Tournament at Bouthport (Con- tinued).
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~ ATHLETICA-Saturday-Uni- versities Athletic Union Cham plonships at Manchester, FLAWN TENNIS - Sunday? Franck-International Champion
ships; Davis Cup, Becond Board to be completed.
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