MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1932.
THE
CHINA MAIL.
EVERTON LOSE TO WEST BROMWICH IN OPENING MATCH
ARSENAL AND ASTON VILLA
VILLA REGISTER POINTS
SHANGHAI BOWLERS
SELECTED
OMAR v SEQUEIRA MATCH MAY ADD INTEREST
SIX GAMES
ARRANGED
COLONY REPRESENTATIVES TO STAY
AT PALACE HOTEL
1 Birmingham
IN AWAY MATCHES
0 Arschul
2 Newcastle.
2: Blackburn-
0 Derby
ENGLISH LEAGUE
Third Division (South), Aldershot Bournemouth Bristol R
1 Southend 5'Swindoni
Third Division” (North).
2 Accrington
ENGLISH SOCCER SEASON OPENS WITH SURPRISES
ENGLISH LEAGUE.
Second Division. -
~~ First Division.
1 Chesterfield
2 Fulham
0 Bolton
1 Notta F..
1 Chelsea..
D Stoke C.
Z Leeds
1 Lincoln C.
1 Liverpool
1 Middlesbro”
O Portsmouth
3 Wednesday
Sunderland
Burnley Bradford C Grimsby Manchester U. Millwall Notts C.
Oldham Port Vale Preston
The suggestion that U. M. Omar, last year's Open Bowls singles champion, should play C. M. Sequira, the Shanghai cham- plon, during the Interport visit next month will prove of interest Swansea to bowlers. In neither port has the current championship been de. Tottenham cided yet but in both ports the holder has already been eliminated
3 Southampton 0 Leicester ·
3 Plymouth
1 Bury
2. Bradford
E, West Ham 4 Charlton
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
First Division
2 Aizdrie
2 Ayr U.
1 Sheffield U.
1 Celtic
5 Wolves
1 Cowdenbeath
0 Aston Villa
2 Dundee
1 Huddersfield 0 East Stirling
4 Blackpool
3 Mter City
1|West Bromwich 3 Everton
1 Motherwell
2 Partick
from the competition. There is every likelihood, that the Shanghai Why Britain is Behind Foreign
authorities will arrange the match, which will, no doubt, be between the two champions of last year.
The first interport match has been arranged to be played on Saturday, September 17 on the Junior Golf Club green at Hong- kéw Park while the second will take place the following day at Wayside Park. The final contest will be played at the Racecourse the following Thursday,
:
Countries in Finding Young
Tennis Talent
(By BRUCE HARRIS.)
St. Mirren Third Lanark
1 Rangers
3 Aberdeen
7 Morton...
4 Kilmarnock
1 Newport
1 Luton T.
@ St. Johnstone 0Exeter C
2 Crystal P.
0 Clapton O
Crewe b Gateshead Mansfield
2 Rochdale
2 Northampton 1 Rotherham
4 Halifax
1 York
4 Doncaster
1 Chester
0 Carlisle
T New Brighton Q
2 Bristol C.
0 Southport
3. Barrow
1 Watford
2 Tranmere
3 Hartlepools
0 Queen's P. R.
3 Brentford-
3 Stockport
2 Reading
4 Cantiur
2 Walsall
1 Queen's Park 1 | Norwich
1 Clyde
1 Hamilton
0 Hearts
4 Falkirk
LEAGUE-TABLE TO DATE
Goals "W. L ̈D, KA Pts Cowdenbeath. 4 3 0 1 12 7 Hamilton Celtic Rangers Ayt Hearts
St. Mirren Motherwell
St. Johnstone
Where are Britain's "coming" unofficially-in international match Queen's Park
play. Quite likely she would have Morton
It has been arranged that the Interport Dinner be held at the men lawn-tennis players? Shanghai Club on Saturday, September 24 at 8 pm.
in Paris, and in my present mood would have learned, even as a dozen Aberdeen
The full programme of matches with the selected teams and venues
BRITISH ATHLETES
HOME AGAIN.
are as follow:-
First Interport.
To be played on Saturday, Sep- Hampson's Fine
tember 17, at Hongkew Park on
the Junior Golf Club grech:- A. J. Hall (skip), N. Harrison, C.
Sequeira, and A. McGregor, Re- serve G. M. P. Remedios.
Second Interport.
Recalled.
They are certainly not over. here lost in an early round, but she Kilmarnock
Clyde
48 01 11 3
5 3 11 16 6 5 8 11 11 7
4 8 10 12 10
8
4.3 1 0
4-8 10
20 2 8
1 0 a
1 I 2.
22
13
1:2 1 11 14 198
of pessimism I take leave to doubt or more boys and girls from all Third Lanark 6 1 1 1 9-15 whether they exist in England. over Europe are learning, on Airdrieonians 4 1 30 7 10
Partick Falkirk
1 Torquay
4 1 2 1 8 11
2
4.0 3 1 6. 12
1
6 121
4 0 3 1 1 · 10
"Coming," I mean, in the sense Auteuil courts. that those two French lads Andre Not until at all our public and East Stirling 4.0.3 1 Merlin and Marcel Bernard, both secondary schools and our elemen- Dundee Feater-olda, are looming up as fary ones, too-lawn tennis is re-
great players of the near future.garded as of equal importance as VALLEY FOURSOMES Have the English tournaments re-cricket, will the present trickle of vealed such young talent?
FULL LIST OF SUCCESSES.
London, Saturday.
it has escaped me.
If so, young talent increase to a flood. The L.TA. deserves commendation
presidency of Sir Samuel Hoare.
FINALISTS.
When a year ago we reached and for efforts in that difficult direc- Robertson And Dawkes only just lost the challenge round tion; no doubt they will be continu-To Play Robb & Coppin. To be played on Sunday, Sep-i The British Olympic Games team, of the Davis Cup, we believed that ed and increased under the new. tember 18, at Wayside Park on the which secured eighth place at the fall was for the best in the best Yangtsze poo green: G. Dunlop Tenth Olympiad at Los Angeles, of all possible worlds. Were not (akip), A. Railt, G. B. Stormes, and landed at Southampton to-day.
III. W. Austin and F. J. Perry two C. W. Glover, Beserve: G. · V. Though placed eighth, Great players to be proud of? Jensen.
Britain's aggregate total added to They were, and still are, but the those of other parts of the Empire next best are sadly behind them. form. I believe it would develop only needs a knée
!
Third Interport,
Zone Matches.
All the Successes.
K. 8. Robertson and Capt. H. W. Dawkes (25) will meet D. S. Robb and A. G. Coppin (26) in' the. Final Round of the Happy Valley Foursomes Com- petition.
In the semi-inäl round: Robert- son and Dawkes beat C. S.. Robert- son and R. S. Edward (26) by 7. At Wimbledon Perry will part and 6, while Robb and Coppin triumphed over R. K. Valentine
ner Hughes and Collins and
Gregory will resume their old as- now Hes between these two pairs. sociation. Our Cup doubles team
By way of postcript let me refer to the Paris doubles. The Hughes, Collins partnership has not been a success because Collins was out of To be played at the Racecourse placed the British Empire second It
orjiato a match-winning combination, on the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club in the official list with 368 points---|-akle injury to either of but there is no time now for fur green on Thursday: September 22:427 behind America-Reuter. em, or failure by Austin to find ther experiment. -T. Main (skip), W. Brierley, C.
form after his filness, and we be- Richards, and V. Lanning. Re- The outstanding performancecome a second-class lawn tennis serve: C. W. Porter.
credited to, the British team was power again. A tennis team, like the magnificent running of Tan Army or a football side, needs West, on Wednesday, September Hampson, who broke the 800-first-class reserves, and we do not 14 on the Recreation Club green Metres world record with a time of possess them. at the Racecourse-A. A. Malcolm 1 min. 49.4/5 secs. Thomas” Green, It is not sufficiently realised, I If Perry and Hughes play together (skip), W. Turnbull; A. J. Brown, won the 50,000-Metres Walk. and G.
fear, tit America is so strong that at Wimbledon as well as they have Jensen. Reserve:
T. F. Cornes secured second place she can afford to leave Wimbledon partners, then they will be the performed in Paris with other in the 1.500 Metres, being narrow champion, Sidney Wood, out of her choice, reluctant as one is to see North, Tuesday, September 20, at ly beaten by Beccall of Italy. Sam Davis Cup team; that France has in the singles and doubles burden plac Hongkew Park on the Police Club Ferries and Duncan McLeod Wright Merlin and Bernard players who ed on Perry. green-R.. Condult (skip), J. took second and fourth places, in will soon be thoroughly qualified tó A'quiño, C. Bull, and G. M. P. Re- the Marathon and D. O. Finlay and step into the shoes of Cochet and medios Reserve: F. Silva. Lord Burghley secured fourth and Borotra And now Rene Lacoste is
East, Saturday, September 24, at fifth places in the 110-Metres coming back! .. Wayside Park, on the Yangtszepool Hurdles. Lord Burghley again
Blaming The L.TA. green J. M. Smith (skip), R.secured a place when he came Austin and Perry may win the Dorrance. . Drysdale, and C fourth in the 400-Metrës Hurdles. Davis Cup for us in July. Pleasant- Clements. Reserve: J Wother-T. Everson (second) and G. Bailey ly assuming that they do, can they spoon.
(fifth), were placed in the 3,000-without support hold on to it next Other matches (unofficial) will] Metres steeplechase. - -
year and the year after? A dozen be arranged if they are desired by The British team (Stoneley, contingencies might happen to pre- the Hong Kong team on their ar-Hampson, Burghley and Rampling) vent it. rival in the northern port
were placed second in the 1,600 Metres Relay.
Madar.
The Hong Kong team are due to sail for the North on September 11 by the Empress of Asia and will) Bleave Shanghai on September 26) by the Empress of Russia. The team will be accommodated at the 'Palace Hotel.
“Y.M.C.A. LADIES HOCKEY SEASON.
Miss Mason To Lead
New Side.
Miss Marjorie Mason will captain the YMCA, Ladies": Hockey team in their first season in competitive hockey. 'She will be supported by Miss "Anne Fowler, who has taken over the · post of CD Hon Secretary,
TOURIST TROPHY
RACE.
Whiteroft Wins In A Riley
To blame the Lawn Tennis Asso- elation is a fashionable exercise. But that authority,-judged
· some of its actions
may
be, has concerned itself quita energetically in the last few years with the development of talent. Once Perry was commended to the ruling body as a player with a future he was given his chance- and he took it eagerly. My impres sion is that our best players might do more for the young material. available. I should like, for instance, to see one of the first ten take young C.. M. Jones, of Syden- ham, in hand-play with him doubles, give him practice.. singles, Cochet, we are told. 1 spent uncounted hours in bringing
London, August: 20. On Ärds Circuit, Belfast, to- day, 500,000 people saw C Whitcroft, driving i Riley car, win the International Tourist Trophy. Whitcroft took 4 hr. 58 min.: 4 sec. for the 410-mile 'conise, which was divided into thirty laps. His average speed was 74.23 miles an hour, George Eyston, in another Riley, on Merlin.
HELEN JACOBS WINS
THE TITLE,
Beats Miss Babcock. At Forest Hills.
EASY VICTORY.
Forest Hills, N.J., Aug. 21.
Miss Helen Jacobs, ranking No. 2 American lady player, won the American National Championship here to-day by easily defeating Mias Carolin Babcock by 6-2, 62.
- Miss: Babcock 1 15 California player with no pre- vious experience in eastern tournaments, offered little op": position and seemed to give up. the battle soon after the watch' had started.—United Press. Miss Jacobs has thus followed up her success in the Sea Bright, in- vitation tournament, when she best Josephine Cruikshank in the Final, by winning the National champion- |ship for which she has struggled hard in recent years. The absence
came in gecond, taking. 4 hr. 59 I would, however, urge on the min. 27 sec., travelling at -an LTA a change of policy in mak of Helen Wills-Hoody takes the average speed of. 72.90 miles an ing up the teams for these foreign glass of her victory, bat her suc Most of the members of this new hour. Hall E Hall, who took 5 championships. Four players may cass has long been deserved. team were formerly members of br. 7 min. 58 sec. to complete the be nominated for the singles. They the Central British Association course, was third, in an MG. ought not necessarily to be the four ladies' team, but there are Heveral Midget, at an average speed. best available in order of ranking; newcomers to Kowloon hockey 69.98 miles an hour.
wwhich-augura well for the success
of the team.
the services of Me
Lellan an
44
Two Alfa-Romeos took for
and fifth places, driven
ly by Earl Howe, and
Birkin The latter.
| record four times,
being: 88.06
Inclu
and two young
the
1227 British Defeatures
rest Hills, NY; Aug. 20, feat. Britain bowed before Call-
and A. E. Charman (20) by 2 up.
3 Coventry C
China Mail Sports Diary.
TO-DAY.
FENCING H.K. Fencing Club Meeting at 5.15 p.m.
FOOTBALL H.K. Football As- sociation Council Meeting at 5.30
P.03.
TO-MORROW.
"BOWLS- Open Championship. Final-L. A. Gutierrez v. E. Nish on K.C.C. green at 5 p.m.
WEDNESDAY.
HOCKEY-Trial matches on Club ground at 5
P.M.
SATURDAY. SWIMMING —V.R.C. Night
Fete,
LAWN BOWLS-Senior Divi- sion-Talkoo RC. v. Kowloom Docks R.C., Civil Service C.C.- v..
Craigengewer CC Police R.G... v. Kowloon G.C.; Junior Division Kowloon B.G.C., Club de Recreio
-H.K. Electric R.C. v, Club de
3 Wrexham
5. Darlington
1 Hull
3 Barnsley
YORKSHIRE SCORE 195 FOR 62-
Surrey's Sound Position In London Derby.
INDIANS OUT OF 152
London, Saturday, The following were the ten in terval scores in the first class cric ket matches to-day-
| Middlesex v. Surrey at Lord'a.
Surrey 268 for 5.
Easex v. Kent at Leyton.
Kent 270 for 4.
Sussex v. Yorkshire at Hove. Yorkshire 195 for 6.
Gloucester v. Hanta at Gloucester."
Hants 198 for 5:2
Somerset Warwick at Taunton.
Somerset 231 for
Zouch.
Recreio, Kowloon C.O. v. TalkooLeicester v Derby at Ashby-de-la- E.C., Kowloon B.G.C. v. Civil Ser vice G.C., Craigengower: C.C)". *Yacht Club, ››
SHOOTING Hong Kong Rifa Club's: All Comers Competition (Kowloon Tong), 2.80 p.m.
IN SUNDAY. SHOOTING Hong Kong Rife Club's All Comers Competition (Kowloon Tong), 10 a.m.
Pleasing
leasing
to the taste and also to the throat!
Derby 167 for 6.
Lancashire v Notts at Manchester.
Lanes 166 for 5.
St. Julien Cahn's XI v. All-India'
at-Trent Bridge.
Indians 152
Sir Caha's XI 83 for 2
Reuter.
PACKED IMG:
07-20
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