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An Alarming Fall.
By ROVER
Shall You Notice?
▶EGINNING on January 1 next,
TS the Cup losing its lure? The Bthe lava tennis ball will, by
attendances at the two semi-) J finals showed an Increase from the unanimous decision of the Inter-j 87,086 to 89,897 compared with last;national Federation, be some season, but the receipts fell from decimal points harder than at pre- £10,012 to £3,596. There was not.vent. This agreement has been of course, such a productive "gate" reached after three years of opposi- as that of Arsenal v Manchester tion chiefly from Continental coun- City at Villa. Park, which yielded tries, to the hardening of the ball more than £6,000.
Australia and the United States
Since the big League clubs enter-joined the British delegates in ed the competition in the third urging the change. round there has been, at the five In the days when each country stages of the Cup, an aggregate pleased itself over the quality of attendance of 1,806,091 spectators, the ball, Britain used one that was who have paid £127,476. These harder than that of any other coun- figures fall alarmingly short of try, and the new arrangement will}, those of 1931-2, when there were probably please. British players on 2,439,208 onlookers and takings of the Continent, compensating to | £156,841 ——— a decline of 632,117 some extent for other changes in spectators and £29,165. And there conditions." I am told that "the have been only four fewer ties this rabbits"-which means about 99 season-10 replays, compared with per cent. of players--will probably not perceive the difference in next year'a ball. But it will be noticed) by those in the top class.
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Vardon's Latest.
HARRY VARDON'S, new book. As the Men Do.
Life," has just
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PING PONG ON SKATES-Ping pony enthusiasts enjoy their game while skating on an ice-sheathed moun- tain lake near Sky- top, Pa.
been published by Hutchinson, at M TORE and more business women Boxing In Japan.
12s. 6d. Harry says that when J. are taking to squash rackets, TAPAN seems to be developing H. Taylor first competed in the golf and several of those playing in the port at a rapid pace. championship at Prestwick his playfchampionship at Queen's Club have
Was
shaft in his irons.
one
The
so accurate "that his chief had practice only in the evenings Prowess of her swimmers was amply hazards were the guide flags, and In thair luncheon hours demonstrated at the last Olympic Vardon uses steel for his driver and There is more exercise in Games, and I have already referred brassic, but still prefers the wood game of squash than in a whole to her progress at Rugby. He says: afternoon of lawn tennis," said a
Now an Impetus is to be given to "There la no such thing as a competitor after a particularly hard boxing. I hear that Emile Pladner, straight left arm at the position game.
the French fyweight, is planning a where so many golfers have been in-
Miss Susan Noel, the champion, boxers, and each will engage in five trip to Japan with two other French formed there is."
fresh from winning the American
fights. title, plays her angle shots with
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I understand that Pladner
HE important and interesting that dexterous flick which denotes nection with
is threatened with action in con- The and strength ter we fick
promotion and relegation in the men players manage to get it. Football League, which was fore- Miss Anne Lytton Milbanke, shadowed same while ago, has now whom Miss Noel met in the final Inst taken definite form. fr. Bendle, year-they may meet again this Moore, of Derby County, intends to time-can pick a ball up when it is give notice
almost on the ground. She has to the League of a proposition that four clubs in the flexible wrist and swings her racket First Division be relegated at the with perfect freedom and timing. close of each season and four from
the Second Division must be pro-Italian Athletes.
moted.
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NEW athletic meeting of]
The scheme has a broader basis especial interest in the coming
for he suggests that four descend
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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1933.
New Racing Cutter To Compete Against The Britannia
an alleged previous THE new first-class racing cutter These stories we read that Mr. contract, but he declared that he is: which Mr. W. L. Stephenson is complete novelty" in shape. "some. Stephenson's new yacht will be a determined to go to Japan.
having built at Camper and Nichol- thing altogether different from any Pladner la 27 years old. He won son's yard at Gosport will be named design, hitherto acen," or that. Nichol- Frankie Genaro in Paris four years in the world's fly-weight title from Velsheds. She is now well advanced he will produce and surprise every- on has something up his sleeve that her construction, and will be body, are ridiculous. Nicholson cannot ago, but Genaro regained it when lounched at the end they met six weeks later.
of this month. depart widely from what the Ameri- The Velsheda is of the Shamrock-En-Paine did with Enterprise, Weetamos,, Burgess, Clinton Crane, and terprise class or "" class, that is to and Yaukee in 1930, nor even extra- say, nearly as large as the King's old vagantly from what he himself did catter, Britannia, against which Mr, with Shamrock. V. in that year, Stephenson'a yacht will race.
I have been
it reported that the SCIENCE compels him to make only new vessel will be a complete novelty, vions designs. I am told, and I think small modifications upon these pre- that she will be altogether different it is very likely true, that the lines from anything that has gone before, of the new steel yacht actually ap and the fact that she will be built pear "below water, as Watson said of steel is even mentioned as being the Enterprise farm than the Sham- of Vanduara in 1880, to be more like something quite remarkable and new. rock V. form. But modern yachts, un- It is true that Mr. Stephenson's yacht ike the yachts of olden times, now Is being built of steel, but there is water" body as they heel over to the Immerse a great length of "above nothing surprising or novel in that breeze.
China - Mail Sports Diary.
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of steel.
water" lines-not greatly but slightly and As long ago as 1848, C. I. Mare, Nicholson may succeed in giving Mr. scientifically-perhaps of the Thaines Ironworks, built a rac Stephenson's yacht a little more speed ing cutter called Mosquito of iron the utmost for which
than any craft hitherto built. That is steel was not used for the plating of Even that is a great achievement if be can hope. ships as long ago as that-and I think it can be done.
The naval architect to-day when de-
Many racing yachts have been built above in extending the now vessel'
the Mosquito was the rat iron rac-tracing yacht has no oppor
ing yacht of any fame.
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from the Second Division to the season will be held by the Italian
TO-DAY Third, and two from each of the Sporting Club at the White City]
Water Polo Y.M.C.A. v. Navy Southern and Northern sections of Stadium on Saturday, May 27.
("Y" Bath, 6 pm.), the Third Division fill their places. Eight of the dueat Italian athletes
SATURDAY Lawn Bowis-Becond Division The Greatest Good.
will be invited, among them Beccali, Civil Service, v Kowloon GC. the man who surprised overyone by Club de Recreio v Police
Kowloon B.G.C. v Yacht Club winning the 1,500 metres at Los Indian R.C. Y Hong Kong Electric TN my opinion such a change Angeles last year from J. F. Cornes.
Racing would raise the general stan. The meeting will consist of a series Fifth Extra Race dard of play. And the financial of scratch events, and if J. E.
Meeting
(Happy Valley. position of the majority of the Lovelock turns out in the one mile, Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club's
Yachting League clubs in these troublous as he hopes to do if he is fit, we times calls for a
Boys' Race. wider and more shall surely see a magnificent race sympathetk plan.
between him and the Olympic chain- The higher groups of the League pion, and possibly a yet further
3 BASEBALL PLAYERS are run on virtually the same plan reduction of Lovelock's own British as away back in the 'nineties.. The record for the distance of 4min.
SUSPENDED union of twelve clubs has expanded 12aec. to 88, and the membership has been and rival, Facelli, also will be com-
Lord Burghley's old friend (Continued From Page 1.)
to make wild shots at the Threo doubled since the war, but the "two-ing, but whether the two will have yesterday-the National encounter THE cutter Mosquito, built for Lord is supremely scientific, and
games were abandoned
bull's-eye with complete novelties. trusting to luck for success. His taak up and two-down" scheme has been another of their famous duels between Chicago Cubs like the unchanging laws of the depends on the form Lord Burghley Pittsburgh Pirates being cancelled owned by Lord Landesborough, was a
and Alfred Paget and afterwards provement in speed can only be effect
Ang im- Medes and Persians, The First and finds.
ed by carefully-thought-out and amall Second Division clubs, who possess he does
I was delighted to hear that owing to the cold weather, and the great success and beat the famous accessful vessels,
alteration to the lines of preceding not intend to give up American League games between schooner America in a race round the the greatest good of the greatest time rumoured, but means to go into the Senators and Boston because although some yachtsmen in those been built
DECENT English racing yachts have number, and the general welfare of training tentatively. If he goes well of rain. the game, there are glaring it would not be surprising to
days attributed the success of the Three circuit hits were register-Mosquito to her being built of iron, built of steel frame plated with Bhamrock V. is so examples of the variable fortunes of see him out again in the A.A.A.ed in the five games, Berger hit that had little or nothing to do with bronze.
bullt. Recent American yachts were clubs.
championships.
ting his second in two days for Mosquito won her races because bronze, and I have a piece of her
Enterprise Boston. A spectacular four-bag parted from the conventional English it is of substantial nature; being
was plated with T. Waterman her designer, had de-skin plating on my desk as I write.. Fer by Bisonette, however, - gave typ
ype of acht
of earlier times, ARMES the Dodgers victory by a 5 to 1ly the "cod's head and mackerel tail quarter of an inch in
thickness. margin.
shape of hull and given Mosquito or no difference betweer
There is supposed to be very little Hayes made a good, but puavall-
hollow bow, a forma
which wa
the almost unknown In England in 1848.
Was of the three constructions, steel frame weight ing, effort to give the White Sơx a
4 and wood plank, steel frame and. team were nosed out by a 6 to 4 America, and in 1851 when the schoon. But the salon to maintain
was favoured in prefer bronze, which
more cote er America created such excitement margin after eleven innings had at Cowes by winning the cup the tom in the warmer American waters, been played.
Mosquito in the south and the
where weed grows quickly. Hildebrand received pitching on the Clyde were the only British
In the 1980 races for the America's honours when he blanked the vessels which did not have short blurprise had lightly superior lines to
Cup, although it is
it is true that Enter-- Browns to give the Indians a:2-0
bows triumph. It was their seventh win in twelve games.
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the power, should, I feel, think of athletics altogether, as was at one the Yankees and the Athletics, and Isle of Wight on July 22, 1852. Bu been bullt of steel frame plank-
Successful First Athletic
NIDE
Meet of Wah Tai
College triumph over the Tigers, but his Mesquite in 1848
The hollow bow" introduced into bronze skin, and all steel. Americans
The following were the results 8.000 sign ongle Race
of the Wah Tai College's first
1. Ngan Ying-kit
Chang Yat-bang
・
athletic meeting, very successfully 200 Metres (Senior) held at Caroline Hill yesterday:--|
100 Metres (Senior) pe
1. Leung Wan-ming
2 Chung Bal-cheung
Kwoks Woot-churn
1100 Metres,
2 Yeung Wing chu
118
8
100
1.1.
Boya)
Leung Wan-ming Hang Hok-sang
Long Jump (Senior) ----
1. Chang Bal-cheong 2. Kwok Woot-chum Long Jump (Junior) zina:
L&Chan
Tatting
Chan Bhang-to
Bhoć 1440
By Bizentzi
Kwok Woot
L Leung
High Jump
Leung
Leung Wan-ming High Jump (Junior)
1. Au Chang-to
₤1300
2.
(Open)
1. Channg Chang-sing
2.
James Dharmanana
110 Metres Committee Race
1 Lam Yig
2. Zimmern
Obstacle
1. Chung & chung
2. Le Lon-chung a
110 Metres
[200
Sal-choung Ewok Woot-chuen Metres Relay Buce pumppu (Open to Schools) 21 St. Joseph' | Collega,
Wah Yan: College i
er Class Relay, Ramos
At the conclusion,
the Hon. Mr. 8. W
the trophies,
Treser
TABLES TO DATE.
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New York
Cincinnati Brooklyn Philadelphia
(St., Louls
Boston
Chicago
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Tiara
Shamrock, the success of the Ameri
TN 1880 George Watson, the designing Vessel was chiefly due to hav or of Britannia, designed the Van After that race the Americaes came enormonaly lighter weight of mast duars for Mr. John Clark, of Paisley to
She was first-class racing entter to standardino ting Agreement with as built entirely of rateel, and the Past Should there be weight of masts
a new challenge for cutter of her year beating fest Per.Event and Khremhilda, - but the pup, one yacht will, not obtain
"888] dušra did mot
53.625
500
500
MOD
235
an advantage over the by
By using
she was bunt in her races because a much lister matte oth
Mosquits won beca
I do not think the next race will be SEMARANG won because wood-steal, bronzator atsel is used in the construction of wald George Watson, either competitor. On the contrary,
more « beautiful - below
because she is more than ever is it likely that the above, and perhaps theater than Cup will be won by superior design
lathe and seamanship... of her opponenta. 893 Well that was more, then hal, ond-84
800
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400
and
tury ago, but what was true then There is one thing about Petersen true to-day,, And If Mr. W. L. Stephen that places him in front of some of our son's new yacht wins many races next past champion beavyweights, and that
per
hopes
She has the rest fighting spirit, and comes back fall of Bght-resentful of being hurt but that quality a
"alone will paragraf weight world, we when delivering p
him supreme in the heavy
and the sooner he daarna
gay how to set;
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