WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1931,
THE
CHINA
MAIL.
a fine Springbok side being virtual.
KAYE DON OFFERED WAR LORD DONATES WARNING ISSUED TO spectators saw the pathetic sight of NEW MISS ENGLAND II.
America's Generous
Gesture.
Toronto. Oct. 3.
CHARITY CUP.
Million Dollar Sweep.
Shanghai, Oct. 4..
SOUTH AFRICANS.
$
Oxford Captain on British Rugby.
1
MUD MAY BE UPSETTING.
Johannesburg, Sept. 18. ndent over the results of the South A warning against being too con- African Rugby visit to Britain is
tained Oxford University against African Rhodes scholar who cap- Cambridge laat year.
A silver cop has been donated An alionymous Detroit 'sports- by President Chiang Kai-shek for man has most generously offered the winner of the National Cham- Kaye Dan £20,000 for the purpose plonship Sweepstakes to be run on of building a new speed boat for
October 25 at the Ying Ziang the 1982 Harmsworth trophy. This aporting offer has been made slang course in aid of flood ro- uttered by Holmeyr, the South in the event of Lord Wakefield delier along the Yangtze, according ciding not to enter another bout to an announcement made by the it is understood. however, that officials of the Chinese Jockey Club Kaye Don will not have to avall yesterday. himself of this muniticent gift, na Lord Wakefield has every inten- tion of building a bont for nest year's contest.-Reuter.
next year.
was
ly disgraced by a team they had boaton twice before merely because they only knew of one set of tactles and that particular afternoon did not happen to be.the right after- noon for those tactics.
"Drop this superiority complex," urges Hofmeyr, or the Springboke may again enter the field with the 4 repetition at Twickenham of the wrong weapons, and we might have Newlands debacle."
has
SOUTH AFRICAN
TOURISTS.
Sixteen Players for Australia.
CAMERON CAPTAIN.
AGA KHAN'S RACING DISAGREEMENT.
Startles the Turf.
London, Sept. 28.
A suddon diaagrcoment between the Aga Khan and his trainer, R.
world.
SOMERSET CRICKET LOSSES.
$2,000 Deficit due to Bad Weather.
Having lost £2,000 in past season, Somerset County
the
The following constituted the Dawson, haa startled the racing Cricket Club are, making two
South African team which sailed The tiff began with a discussion for Australia on October 2
as to which jockey should ride H. B. Camoron (Western. Pro- Khorsheed in the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket on Thursday vince) (captain),
The upshot of the difference is that the Aga Khan is removing all fhla horack from Dawson, his
B. Mitchell (Transvaal), J. A. J. Christy (Transvaal), H. W, Taylor (Transvaal), E. L. Dalton (Natal), S. L. Steyn (Border), A. J. Bell (Western Province), Q. MeMillan (Transvaal), E. A. Vander Merwe (Transvaal), D. Morkel (Wastern Province), E. L. Brown (Transvaal), K. Viljoen (Griqualand West), X. Balnakas (Griqualand West), 5. Curnow (Transvaal), C. L. Vincent (Transvaal), and with the Aga Khan's Blenheim, the N. Quinn (Griqualand West).
Cesarewitch, Ellipse Stakes and The following is the programme Pasha for the same owner, in ad- Champion Stakes with Rustom
trainer for the past decade, to John Beary, at Tilshead, Wiltshire. key, Michael Beary, the first jockey Beary is the brother of the jos
of Dawson's stable.
-British Rugby, he says, few years, and there has been but steadily gone down during the lost. few signs of the rot bolag stopped. Writing in the Johannesburg All the sides in Britain, with per "Star," Hofmeyr says the first haps the exception of Wales, Táck thing that struck him on coming inspiring leadership. They each Air. T. V. Soong, Minister of back to Britain Finance, has donated a cup for the supreme
the air of need a strong man who can convert second pony while Mayor Chang players and public alike, in dis- players Into a
confidence, shared by a mixture of Afteen ordinary Chun has also consented to give cussing the prospects of the Spring- tioun side.
first-rate interna- aeup for the third pony to finish bok team which arrives in England, moment is sadly disjointed and un- British play at the CROMB STICKS BY HIS These trophies will be presented on Monday. Players seemed to be enterprising, and the players are to the winning ponies together champing at the bit and longing to Inclined to be rather easily rattled TEAM.
with stakes of $5,000, $2,000 and get to grips with their British "vic- owing to the fact that they lack $1,000 respectively.
tims" in order to smash them com-leaders. The Sade on the sweep tickets
old-time English now in full swing, and it is expert-i
pletely.
Rugby player sighs when he thinks "From this it would appear as if of the English pack a few years ed by the club officials that before the British players are going to be ago and of the disjointed pack of matches for the tour: Scarborough, Sept. 11. the race is run, the whole of the the victims of a Ramon holiday," to-day. I had an interview, with Mr. J. C. 100,000 tickets
Then there was will be sold out he says. "Our, players, the fons nucleus Voyce, Blakiston, Cove- Cremby the New Zealand bowler, The first prize will be $449.000 itin the play, are meanwhile licking Smith, and Tucker, and the whole, and asked him whether it was cor is stated. Pour that he had been offered a
their chops as they wait for their led by Wakefield, was in ita own salary of £20 a week to play for
victims and grow! Impatiently at muddy element virtually invin- Nelson in Lancashire League
the delay. The inaccurate charac- cible. cricket.
Lancashire Offer.
Crumb, who was about to go on the held with the team against Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-tower's eleven, amlingly rolled: "I am not going] to stay in this country."
that
HUAN.
are
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the most successful trainer last After H S. Porse, Dawson was
year, in that his 18 winning horses represented £47,816 in stake money. His succèsacs included the Derby
to members and the other to the urgent appeals for assistance, one
general public.
In the latter appeal it is stated that two-thirds of the loss is due solely to bad weather, which pro- ventod hardly any of the county's
home matches from occupying the full three days.
Club have volunteered a cut of 5 The staff of the County Cricket
per cent. in their salaries.
BENNY LEONARD'S VICTORY.
Comeback Preliminaries
tralla at Perth.
October 22 (3 days) v. West Aus-dition to Two Thousand guineas and St. Leger winners in Diephon October 30 (4 days) v. South and Salmon Trout respectively. Australia at Adelaide.
November (4 days) v. Victoria WINDSOR LEWIS WINS second round of a scheduled ten-
at Melbourne.
South Wales at Sydney..
November 13 (4 days) v. New
November 20 (4 days) v. Queens- land at Brisbane.
THE MATCH.
Dropped Goal.
New York, Oct. 6. Making his first appearance in saven years, Bonny Leonard, for mer world's lightweight champion, knocked out Pal Silvers, of Brownsville, New Jersey, in the
round bout. Leonard weighed 152 and Silvera 157.
Under Jack Kearns' manage- mont, Leonard la attempting a comeback, with the middleweight crown as his objective.-Associated
ture to a Lancashire League club who, us I know from personal ex- cludes, "It is quite a different story ter in the picture is the victim,) "Fortunately for us," he con. track. Dumpster. however, turned a deaf ear to every proposal.j
perience, has not the meek and to-day. If our men play the cor ile, like most of his fellow New Kentle temperament of the martyrrect wet-weather game I feel that Zealanders, in an amateur
in the old."
their weight, fitness, and superior November 27 First Test at Bris- real sense of the term.
Onu disadvantage which might craft should swing the balance in bone. To him
A great dropped goal from mid-Press. cricket is just a game-not a busi-very well turn out to be a serious our faveur on every occasion. Ex- December 5 (3 days) v. Combin-field by Windsor Lewis, the Welsh
one, continues Hofmeyr, is that cept for Wales, who will cause I understand he will, as n
aed Country at Newcastle.
International half-back, gave Guy's Nuneaton 0; Newport 8, Cross Koys matter of fact, play very
the South Africans will have to lot of trouble in the mud, the in- little
December 11 (4 days) v. New Hospital their 9-6 victory over 3; 0.M.T.'s 13, St. Bart's Hospital cricket in the future and will not tions. The fact that they are pro- ed, but they must be respected."-
play under entirely different condi- ternational sides need not be fear-South Wales at Sydney.
Plymouth Albion on September 26.11; West of Scotland 15, Stewarts be able to make another tour to
December 18 Second Test at Other results were Somerset Dempster's Deaf Eur.
England.
12,7; Aberavon 12, Maesteg 6, Gala- Few cricketers have bably the world's best exponents of Press Association Foreign Special. Sydney.
Lancashire 18: Leicester The Daily Herald correspondent been as popular in Englund as dry weather football is no con-
26, shiels 14, Glasgow Acads 12. Arounces that he is able to state Dempster and he will be greatly clusive proof that they will there- that determined attempts have been missed the next time these great
Tore also triumph in the English made to get C. S. Dempster's signa- sportsmen visit England.
But is it correct to say you have had an offer?" I asked.
"Yes," he replied, "I have had an offer but I am going back with
the team."
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mud over sides which, although
they would definitely be very shaky indeed playing under South Afri cau conditions, are well skilled and experienced in their own particu- flar style of play. The tourists will have to play the English game, a game with which the home sides will all be thoroughly acquainted but which the Springboka have to learn from the beginning.
"The lust Test match at New lands against the "All Blacks' three years ago proved this only too conclusively. It proved that, although the South Africans could pass and kick beautifully with a dry-ball, they were all at sen on a wet ground with the ball muddy and the foothold insecure. The
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