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E. HUNT SECURES TREBLE
Brown House Triumphs
ROWN HOUSE, for whom E.
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Banker and E. Hunt did re- [markably well, won the Inter- House Athletic Championship at the Diocesan Boys" School Sports Meeting on Friday. ·
THE CHINA
Brown House aggregated 67 points, while Yellow (49), Green (45) and Blue (6) followed in that order.
Results were as follow:--
SENIOR.
|||100 Yurdu:--
1. Ong Cheng-ou (Yellow) 2. Fung Sing-chen (Brown) 3. Chiu Kai-cho (Brown)
440 Yards:
1. Fung Sing-chée (Brown)
2. F. Vinyard (Yellow)
3. J. Winyard (Green).
[One Milé
1. J. Prettijohn (Brown)
2. J. Wingard (Green)
3. F. Winyard (Yellow)
|High Jump:-
1. Ong Cheng-su (Yellow)
2. E. Banker (Brown)
3. S. II. Wong (Green).
Height: 5 ft. 3 ins...
Long Jump:--
1. S. H. Wong (Green)
2. Ong Cheng-su (Yellow)
3. E. Banker (Brown)
Throwing the Cricket Bali -
1. S. Jantt (Yellow)
2. K. Maruyama (Green)
3. E. Banker (Brown)
Distance; 74 yds. 2 ft.
Tug of War:
1. Yellow House
2. Blue House
Relay :-
1. Brown House 2. Green House
3. Yellow Heuse
JUNIOR.
100 Yards:-
1. E. Hunt (Brown)
2. F. Smith (Green)
3. G. Willis (Green)
1. E. Hunt (Brown)
220 Yards:-
2. H. Mugford (Yellow)
3. J. Fenton (Brown)
Hal Mile:
1. F. Smith (Green)
2, E. Hunt (Brown) 3. G. Willis (Green)
High Jump:
I. E. Hunt (Brown)
2, F. Smith (Green) (Tie) G. Willis (Green) (Tie)
Long Jump:
F. Smith (Green) 2 E. Hunt (Brown) 3. G. Willis (Green)
Tug of War:-
1. Yellow-House
2, Brown House.
Relay-
1. Brawn House
Green House Yellow House
SCOTTISH
LEAGUE
TABLE. TO DATE..
(Results on Page 1)
Rangers Motherwell Heurta Celtic Hamilton
PW. L. D.
34 23 2 34 24 6 35 20 T 35 18 9 8 34 '18
115 Third Lanark, 36. 13
17 St. Johnstone 35 10 10 Aberdeen Partick
Queen's Park St Mirren Falkirk Glyde
Kilmarnock
Dundes Ayr
34 17 134 34-17 14
·84-10 18.
35 14
33 14
| Cowdenbeath 184
Airdrieonians
Morton
East Stirling,
TEMPLE BEATEN,
MOST EXCITING TEST
MEMORABLE GAME AT MANCHESTER
AUSTRALIA'S DRAMATIC
I'
WIN BY 3 RUNS
BOBBY ABEL'S LAST TEST
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(By Bobby Abel)
Impish.
He went in fourth wicket down
apparently without much difficulty
by the luncheon interval without being separated the crowd began to smile broadly.
But we older players knew the wicket was trying sticky, and won» dered
name.
APRIL
THIRD EXTRA
RACE MEETING
AT MACAO
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Seven Events On The Card,
ONE LADIES RACE.
THE following is the programme for the Third Extra Raco
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Leys who have not won race this
The wicket definitely became a glucpot of the worst kind. With S Meeting of the Macao Jockey Club runs added Palairet was out on Sunday, April 23: Tyldesley left at B8 and McLaren,1-(Unofficial). The Sir Gala- who played grandly, for more than had Handicap--A Cup will be pre- an hour, left at 72.
sented to the Winning Rider. Win I had been to lunch, but the tenner $200. Second $100. Third $60. sion was too great for me to eat. For China Ponies classifed by The As I went to bat I could not dis-Hong Kong Jockey Club as tinguish. a single person. All I Class at date of entry. To be ridden. could see. was a mass of blurred by LADIES. No Whips or Spurs Mr. Jackson was not done with faces. I joined "Ranji Trumble allowed. Entrance 35.
Once The most dramatic Test match in
history was that between Eng-| He went on to play the greatest sent him a couple of balls, then ap- Round
2-The Dragon Handicap--Win- land and Australia at Manches-inning of his life, turning a col- Pealed for l.b.w.
"Not out," said the umpire. We ner $300. Second $150. Third ter in 1902.
lapse into a decent recovery, as we breathed again. A shower stopped $75. For China Ponies, non-win- Australia won by 'three runs. finished 37 runs behind with a total
play for a short time. In the ning Griffins of The Hong Kong Bobby Abel, "The Guvnor" now of 262.
pavilion no one said a word.
Jockey Club of this Season. En- He did not secure much support We went out again. Trumble was trance $5. One Mile. living within a stone's throw of the Oval, who has played for when Braund left, but he contrived bowling to "Rani" again.
3—The Sir Francis Drake England in Australia, South to have most of the bowling, hitting
Once more he appealed for Ibw Stakes-Winner $200. Second $100. Africa, and at home, took part with great power and skill in and this time the umpire's finger Third $50 For China Panles, in it. Here in his story:- knock of 128, which those who saw went up, and the wonderful Indian Subscription Ponies of this Club of
it will never forget.
cricketer left wlihout a run to his any Season that have not won a CAN see that Test match in my
race this year. Weight for Inches mind's eye almost as plainly as
I was "positive "Ranji" was not as per scale. To be ridden by Joc- when I played in it thirty years ago, with the score at 30 and was last out that second time.
If one of us could have kept his man out, having batted four and a When "Rani" left the board read year. Weight for inches as per head on the third day when the half hours against great odds on a 92 for four, and the newspapers re-scale. To be ridden by Jockeys drama was at its height we would wicket that was becoming impish minded us that with six wickets in who have not won ten races shy- have won. The only one man out of and was eventually to turn devilish Hand and only 32 runs needed, we where at any time. No Whips or the twenty-two who seemed to keep as we knew to our cost on the third still had a chance.
Spura" allowed. Entrance $5. Six cool was an Australian--and he won and last day,
Never in my twenty years' experi- [Furlongs, g them the match.
Just after four o'clock on the ence of first-class cricket before this
4.–The King Alfred. Handicap. It was the fourth game of the Friday (second day) Australia en game had I felt so nervous.. I could Winner 3300. Second $150. Third scrles.
tered on her second innings amid not keep atili at the crease the short $75. For China Ponies classified: Australia had won one Test, and plenty of excitement.
while I was there, and when I saw Ly The Hong Kong Jockey Club as the other two had been drawn. Word of the great innings of Mr. the crowd swaying at every move-"D" Class at date of entry.
Skippered by Joe Darling, they Jackson had gone round, and people ment of a balsman I positively trance $5. One Mile. had one of the strongest batting poured into the Old Trafford ground, trembled.
6-The St. George Plate-In- sides that had ever visited this What an afternoon it was! I
I dug my nails into my bat to tryner A plece of Plate and $200... country. We had some good bats-thought the crowd would become to get a grip of myself. It was Second $100. Third $50. A Handi-
hoarse with shouting,
useless, so I took the long handle cap for China Ponies being Sub- Most of our visitors were new to Bill Lockwood had performed and gripped it like one possessed, scription Panies of thie Club of
Once Test cricket. Warwick Armstrong great deeds previously, but never, a determined to lash out and try to any Season, Entrance $5. was only twenty-three, and Victor he told me afterwards, had he enjoy get runs somehow.
Round. Trumper but twenty-five. I had met ed an afternoon's bowling such as Mr. Hornby told me afterwards 6.The: Windsor. Castle Handi- several of them before in Australia, this. He never bowled better in ble that if others had copied my ex cap Winner $250. Second $150. and knew their worth, despite their life.
|ample we might have won-but he Third $75. For China Ponies youth.
Anyhow, judge for yourself. Bill never knew under what duress
classified by The Hong Kong Joc- Tate's Father.
took the wickets of Australia's batted.
key Club as, "E" Class, at date of Mr. McLaren was our captain, and greatest batsmen-Trumper, Duff,
Trumble was the only man, I be-entry. Entrance $5. Blx Furlongs.-- a great one. There was keen dis-and Hill-for 10 runs
lieve, who knew what he was doing The Tintagal Handicap cussion about the composition of the Duff and Hill were clean bowled, on the field, and the only one to winner $200. Second $100, Third teams, and the selection committee but Trumper, true to his tradition, keep his head when all the others $60 For China Ponies, Subscrip- dropped C. B. Fry and G. L. Jessop was out having a "go." He did not seemed to have lost theirs. One tion Ponies of this Club of any Sea- to bring in L. C. H. Palairet and quite get hold of the ball and was cool head on our side at this junc-son., Entrance 85. One Mile. "Chubby" Tate, the father of caught in the slips by Len Braund, ture would have won the match. I
Extries, close at 4 pm on Wed- Maurice Tate, the fine Sussex player at the second attempt..
was to blame as much as any onenesday, April 12.. The crowd's enthusiasm had else for losing my head. now in Australia.
Tate had been doing remarkably spread to the field, and we players Big hitting was not my game, yet well with the ball, and I fancy were on our toes excited as school-I hit Trumble for four fours--it "Ranji" had something to do with boys-maybe too much 80.
may have been five. I made 21 in Then his selection.
came the catastrophe, about ten minutes, and once or twice Australia won the toss, a great although we did not realise it at the hit the ball over the heads of the ndvantage as it turned out. The time.
long field, and wondered how I had wicket was soft and our bowlers With the total at 16 Darling hit the strength to do it. had no assistance from it at the one of Braund's, deliveries round to I lashed out again at Trumble; start. The visitors made full, use square leg, where Tate was fielding.
The ball bounced out of his hands. of their opportunity.
Poor "Chubby"1
men too.
Trumper, the quickest opening batsman in the world, with Duff put on 135 for the first wicket in 100 minutes.
Clem Hill went in, and without further loss the score was 173 at Junch a grand start.
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He burst out crying in the dress- ing room later, but he was fielding in, à position foreign to him.
Reproach.
trying to hit him out of the ground
-and was clean bowlodi
My Last Test,
Lockwood bowled.
En-
The eighth wicket fell at 109, Rhodes and Tate were the last pair when rain stopped play again for three-quarters of an hour..
We wanted eight" to win.".
Play resumed. Tate snicked his first ball for four.
Could he do it again? We held our breath.
We were at the breaking point of endurance, an
Back in the pavilion there was an eerie silence. Every one seemed tongue-tied or afraid to speak as we The only sounds were of Saunders watched this dramatic game draw feet as he ran to the wicket, a to its close.
squelch as the ball hit the turf, then "crack" as it hit Tate's wicket.
The match was over, blm P Australia had won by three runs! That was the last and greatest Test of my career,
Not even a look of reproach was sent in his direction nor the incident
Mr. Jackson returned next, caught Trumpers hitting was superb ever mentioned in the dressing off a full pitch at mid-off, a ball át He never pottered about playing room.
jany other time he would have`sent, himself in, but tried to score off the Darling went on to make 37-not to the boundary. first ball that was hittable.
a wonderful score, but a vital one Braund was stumped.
He topped the Australians' bat-it proved to be. Only Darling and; ting this trip with the remarkable Gregory did anything for Australia total of 2,500 runs, which was large-in their second innings. They
ly due to his quick starting as well stayed together an hour, adding 54 Lord Howe Island The
runs. Tato himself broke up the
as his skill.
After lunch Wilt. Rhodes sent partnership by sending Gregory: back Trumper, Noble, and Gregory back. At 74 Darling left
in quick time, but Darling and Hill. Then Lockwood, who had been took heavy toll of Rhodes and made given a rest, came on again, and the fun-wicket stand so devastating was his bowling that
Sportsman's Paradise In Pacific
Sydney, March 16. ¡cricketers “to go round,"
So they
One expects to find cricket played co-opf the children.~ Friday is al- With only five men out, 250 on no other batsman made more than in any large British community, It ways set apart for cricket, and two the board, and our bowlers tamed. 4.
fa part of the scheme of things. One elevens are always available.・・ A Australia looked good for one of When stumps were drawn that looks for it in outback towns. Even Judicious mixing of children and Fta, those heart-breaking first innings night Australia's score stood at. 85 on ocean liners they play it. But adulta makes for even games,
55 totals.
for eight. wyer who would expect a tiny Pacific The teams having been chosen, a
52
46
41
37 Australians all out for 299. ̧ ̧
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As the turf was so soft it had We had not counted on the Man-island, seven miles long by about one rubber of three matches is played... 44 been useless to put on Billy Lock-chester weather. It rained "cats mile wide, to produce a full-sized Then there is a re-shuffle, fresh wood early on, and he was not tried and dogs' all night, and the pitch cricket team (with reserves) and teams are chosen, and a new rub-
ber commenced. V B1 late. Then the wicket began to was so sodden next morning that it sand it on a tour?
This is the first time a team has.. 42dry quickly, and Billy had the was Impossible to play till after That is what Lord Howe Island visited Gydney, though several
{twelver
has done. A team from the Island test matches" have been played Australia's last two men only played against internationals at the against Norfolk Island-mere Our turn, came, and the drying added a single, and the side was out Sydney Cricket Ground, recently. 480 miles on the other side of pitch so suited Trumble and Baun-for 86, leaving us wanting 124 to What would any yomg cricketer in Lord Howe, Sydney and Norfolk ders, the Australian bowlers, that in win. It looked a modest task, but the suburbs of Sydney have given to Island are the nearest neighbours the forty-Ave minutes we had to bat we knew that everything depended play on the Cricket Ground, to face of Lord Howe. It is the proud before the drawing of alimmps half on the wicket
the bowling of Tommy Andrews, of boast on the Lord Howe Islanders our alde was out, for 44,
That wicket became one of the to have bowled against Fingleton T Our earlier: Joy, at getting the stickiest I have over knows, but our To do these things one must, be
only 180, and that of Norfolk I visitors out, for just under 800 gave worries did not and there, for the something of a champion, Or live land about 1,000 they have won: way to gloom. F. S. Jackson and human element crept in, and in on Lord. Howe Island Len Braand stayed together, the last most tragic form. twenty odd minutes and had taken Thousands of people had arrived
before we players ngland's winning
In the opening intercollegiate match the score to 70 at the close of play, at the ground Clamouring for ad- of the season for both teams, the BE Next day, our hopes were raised John's College fencera of Brooklyn der again, thanks to Mr. Jackson and Teated the Temple University team, Braund. They carried the score Des 11-6, in Philadelphia, St. John's had the batter of the Owls in falls and apes, along to 185 before they were part- while Temple won the aabre compati- ed.
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