SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1933.
JAPANESE
THE CHINA MAIL.
CESporting Page 2
SWIMMER'S
NEW RECORD
Makino Swims 1,000 Metres In 12.51.6. OLYMPIC STARS TO SHATTER
WORLD MARKS
Tokyo, Aug. 12.
OFFICIAL PARTY SEE
SURFBOARDING
LG.P.'S VISIT TO V.R.C
YESTERDAY
Safety Demonstrations Performed Well.
COMPETITORS' LAST WORK-OUT|
200 METRES
MIXED RELAY
AT C.A.A. GALA
V.R.C. Enter Strong Team For To-night.
Shoze Makino, one of the Ja- FOR REGATTA TO-MORROW SQUADRON-COMMANDER TANG panese swimming stars at the 1932
Olympic Games, broke another
(By G. L)
An official party, including the world record here to-day when he swam 1,000 meters freestyle at the laspector General of Police, the
YUET MING TO BE PRESENT
(By CRAWL).
The third monthly swimming Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Mr. E. I. gala of the Chinese Athletic Asso- opening of the national champion Wynne-Jones, Police Magistrate, ciation takes place to-night at their ships in 12 minutes 51.6 seconds. Mr. .T. H. King, Deputy Inspector North Point Bathing shed, com-
Making was the outstanding General of Police and Chief Inspec-||
star of the trials, opening the tor Marks, visited the Victoria Remencing at 8 p.m.
three-day meet at which other creation Club yesterday evening A wide and varied programme for the purpose of watching the has been arranged and the gala
records are expected to fall.
He made his record time for the 1,000 meters in the trials for the 1,500 meters event, which he finished in 19 minutes 20.4 seconds. Pre- viously he won a heat of the
in 400-meter freestyle minutes 47.6 seconds.
Other
outstanding
4
per-
"SPIDER" PLADNER WINS CHINA TITLE
Hashimoto Knocked Out In Seventh Round
Shanghal, August 13. - Flooring Hashimoto with a short right to the jaw for a count of eight in the eighth- canto, Emile "Spider" Pladner, former world's nyweight cham- pion, last night annexed the featherweight championship of the Orient at the Canidrome when be finished off the Japanese contender 10 seconds Later with a volley from both hands to the head and jaw.
The knock out came as a surprise, as Hashimoto had had fought pluckily up to the seventh round, and had given Pladner just as much as he received himself.
local surfboard aspirants at prac-will be specially honoured by the SWIMMING
fice.
Was also
RUBBER BUFFERS ON SURFBOARDS
"
attendance of Squadron Comman-
da Roza
the Victoria
HINTS
Water Romps That Serve A Purpose
Helsingfors, Aug. 10. -
It is understood that Pazvo Nurmi (above) Intends to run as a professional and that he will challenge the French long- distance runner, Jules Ladou- megue, In September-Trans- Ocean Kuo Min.
NANKING STADIUM'S DEDICATION Athletic Meeting On National Day.
annals.
GERMANY FLIES ALONE
IN AIR RACE
Home Engines To Be Used
Berlin, Aug. 11.
The organising committee of the all-round Germany air race, in which 150 aeroplanes will take part has acceded to the wishes expressed by many Germans that only mechines equipped with German motors
CARNERA
WILL CALL
THE TUNE
World Championship In Rome.
AMERICANS MUST WAIT
New York, Aug. 12. Primo Camera will defend the
shall be allowed to participate.heavyweight boxing championship
Machines with foreign mo- tors and which already have been entered accordingly have been struck off the list of etarters Trans-Ocean Kuo Mia
CRICKET PEACE SOUGHT
The Personal Touch Required.
JARDINE'S IDEAL SKIPPER FOR AUSTRALIA
London, July 26.
A strong plea that the MC.C. the responsible cricket
recent
of the world, for the first time. against Paolino Uzcudun, at Rome,
in October, according to his mana-
ger, Louis Sories-Reuter.
Urendan Or McCorkindale
New York, Earlier. Rome and not New York will be the world's boxing capital while Primo Camera holds the heavy- weight title, it was announced here to-night on behalf of the champion, and the first title bout will be with the British boxer, Don McCorkin- dale, or Paolino Uzcudun, of Spain. With the heavyweight title in
He also declared” that-there was no reason why American second-rate boxers should have the first chance at the title and he believed that--the British and Spanish conten- ders have a chance.
It is understood that the Inspec- tor-General of Police expressed der Tang Yuet-ming, who has kindly his approval of the sport, and com. mented on the skill of the surfers, donated the prizes for the events. The feature of to-night's pro- Mr. Wynne-Jones, very enthusiastic regarding surf-gramme will be the 200 Metres | boarding riding.
Mixed Relay which has so far
Considerable interest has been and aroused by the elaborate prepara-authorities of Australia should be italy, bigger gates can be assured- formances were by Kusuo Safety Demonstration drawn a number of entries from By Sid. G. Hedges
tions being made by the Govern-allowed to settle without inter-than New York can offer, Mr. Kitamura and Masanori Yusa.
including A demonstration by Messrs. Butt Clubs
· It is not necessary that all the ment for the opening of the Na-ference the controversy which has Louis Soresi, Carnera's manager,
Teat said. over the only 16 years and Tanner was carried out before Recreation Club, who have a strong The former, now old, did the 400-meter freestyle the official party to
prove the
team in Mrs. P. McMahon, Miss time of your bathes shall be taken tional Stadium in Nanking on arisen
October 10, the National Day of matches was made in London on iu 5:59.6 while Yusa swam the safety of the surfboards while
|Wednesday by Mr. Stanley Bruce, Doris Hunt, W. Lawrence and E. Bup with serious swimming and div-China. 100 meters freestyle in 58 min-travelling at full speed. Both utes flat and the 200 meters free-
ing study. Bathing would lose The inaugural meeting, delayed the Resident Minister for Austra- He was speaking at a by political unrest during the last is here. style in 2 minutes 13.6 seconds.
Another featured event will be the 200 Metres Club Championship half its delights if it were so solemn two years, promises to be one of complimentary dinner given by the Only trials were staged tonight.
which is expected to draw a large a business. When you have a few the chief events in China's sports MCC to Mr. D. R. Jardine and
the M.C.C. Australasian team, Sunday the semi-finals are sched
It was no friends with you, there are plenty According to the tentative plans
use pretending that uled and Monday the finals. The
the matter was an unimportant meet in being held in the famous
af gaines and romps which you of the committee making prepars- biy Meiji Shrine pool before crowds.
can enjoy, which are not only goodtions, the meeting will last ten one, said Mr. Bruce, because great daya, during which China's repre-feeling had undoubtedly been en- fun in themselves, but which will sentatives at the forthcoming Far gendered, not by irresponsible per-sured the boxer who rises above. Eastern Olympiad will be selected. eons, or by barrackers, but deep-the level of mediocrity in the A water-polo game between Mar-
thinking, serious people with ■ United States. Americans will The stadium was built about ried and Single members of the definitely improve your waterman-
great regard for cricket. "What have their chance later. Chinese Athletic Club will conclude ship and general swimming ability. two years ago, and its renova..
ever has to be done to restore the gala. Mrs. Tang Yuet-ming. Try the following:--
tion is expected to be complet
cricket, whatever is necessary, to Carnera proposes to have his ed by the middle of September. Four or six players should take
According to the estimates of the straighten out the trouble, do it by first title bout on October 22, in part in this. They tread the water committee, the expenses for the personal contact for God's sake; Rome, and he will make his choice The following is the full pro- one behind the other, or better still, ten days will amount to $50,000, not by exchanging notes, but by between McCorkindale and Uzcu-
The estimated admission receipts coming face to face."
Jardine, in a brief speech, de-dun very shortly-United Press. are $27,000.
plored that anything had occurred
Paolino's Chance. in the Test Matches which set the wrong tempo, but added, slyly, that
Kitamura's and Yusa's per formances threatened but did not exceed existing records. World marks bettered in Japan recently. prior to the nationa!! meet, are:
200-meter breastroke, in which Reizo Koike clipped four-tenths of j
It is understood that the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe C.M.G., bas mentioned that thick rubber buffers should be placed over the sharp end of the surfboards when in use at the beaches. He will, however, permit these to be discarded, during the Re- gatta to-morrow.
a second off Walter Spence's old riders approached the boathouse record of 2 minutes 44.6 seconds. granite wall at full speed from a
800-metre freestyle, in which Makino, a veteran though only 19 years old, did the distance in 10
minutes 8.6 seconds to slice acven
seconds off the record held by Jean
Taris of France.
distance of over 100 yards and when within about one yard of the all they sat upright, causing the surfboard to stop within a foot of the granite wall.
entry.
In the exhibition diving, Ed. da Roza, the Colony and V.R.C. Champion will be participat-
ing.
wife of the Squadron Commander will start the water-polo game by throwing the ball in.
gramme:-
support themselves vertically by 200 Metres Mixed Invitation Team sculling their legs being spread wide apart. Then the last person
Race.
Ladies' 100 Metres Free Style Men's 200 Metres Free Style Cham-plunges down and swims along
pionship
Ladies' 75 Metres Three Styles Children (Under 12) 50 Metres
Free Style
Approaching Swimmers 400-metre freestyle, in, which Another demonstration was Kitamura achieved a mark of 4 made with the assistance of Mr. S. minutes 46.6 seconds, shaving four- MacNider who acted as a swimmer Men's 100 Metres Breast Stroke
Men's Inter-Department Relay tenths of a second off another of unaware of an approaching surf- Taris' marks.
board. Two riders, Messrs. Butt Men's 50 Metree Blindfold Race Men's 50 Metres Obstacle Race These three were all members and Tanner, hurled themselves of the Los Angeles Olympic dele-straight at the swimmer and when Men's 50 Metres Back Stroke
*
gation. This year Kitamura has within a yard, repeated their cap- been concentrating on the shorter abilities by pulling-up within distance, leaving the long race foot of their objective.
of 1,500 metres to Makino who has beon threatening both Kitamura's Olympic record and Arne Borg's Bix-year-old world figure 19:07.2-Associated Press.
Three More Records. Shattered.
of
Aokyo, Aug. 14. Three more swimming recorda were established yesterday by members of the Japanese team who went to the Olympic Games at Los | Angeles.
In the semi-final of the 200 metres free style, Seiken Yusa, a member of the relay team,' estab
Last Work-Out
Exhibition Fancy Diving
through the tunnel of legs; rising to the surface and taking his place at the head of the line. And so the game goes on.
then
Tag In The Water Few games are better known on land toan "Tag," but it is even more fun in the water. "It" chases The following will represent the his fellows until he succeeds in V.R.C. in the Mixed Team Race:-touching one of them, who Mrs. P. McMahon, Miss Doris become “It.” Hunt, W. Lawrence and E. B. da
Here is another land game which The competitors for to-morrow's Roza Regatta also
put in their last,
Chinese Athletic:- Miss Chan goes very well in the water. A before work-out
the race-day. Yuk-fai, Miss Lau Kwai-cheun, Lau good, imaginative leader can take Megare. Butt and L. A. Soares did Po-hay and Kwok Fung-san. his followers through deep and two long trips over a half a mile, Water Polo:-.
shallow, performing all sorts of and returned to practice starting
Married: Kwok King-tong; stunts as he goes. Dives auid jumpa for the 100 yards race. A number of lady competitors were also seen Chan Seck-pui and Lal Sze-chiu; from the bank can vary the water in action, getting-in the last bit of Ng Wab-chau; Yeung Man-kit, Lo work. practice.
"Y" Trip Cancelled.
The visit of the Y M. C. A. swimming team
to Canton this week-end has been postponed owing to unforeseen circumstances
liehed a new world record of 2 Canton.
min. 13.4 sec. Although slightly be hind the world record of 19 min. 72 sec. held by Arne Borge of
Sweden, K. Kitamura, of the Kochí Higher Commercial School, and 8 Makino, of the Waseda Univer
Scottish Football To-day
Airdrie t. Aberdeen. Ayr United v. Hearts. Celtic v. Falkirk. Cowdenbeath v. Queens' Park. Dundee v. Clyde, · Hibernian v. Rangers. Motherwell v. St. Johnstone. Partick Thistle v. Kilmarnock. St. Mirren v. Hamilton Academicals. Third Lanark v. Queen of the South
He said financial success is as,
-If Paulino gets the assignment
a prescription for the perfect cap he can work off part of his cry tain of England in Australia would about not getting a fair break in read something like this:
"A man so various that ke seemed to be not one but all mankind's epitome, stiff in opinions, always in the.
wrong."
the United States.
After
a thoroughly unsuc cessful season in the United States in 1932, in which he Lost to King Levinsky, Mickey Walker and the late Ernie Schaaf, the Big Basque went home and said he didn't get a fair break⠀
It fell to his lot, he concluded; to reply for seventeen of the best fellows with whom he had ever been associated, and, in spite of losing the toss four times out of He showed he could still win Ave, he regarded himself as the when he won from Salvador Rug- luckiest captain who had ever girello In" "Madrid February 8, taken a side out to Australia.
Programme for Sixth Extra
}1933:
McCorkindale was considered
even
a less threatening opponent than Uzendua.-United Press.
Race Meeting in Macao MISS ENGLAND II'S
Troop Scramble. Winner
G. Hin and Chun Kam-cheung
"Leapfrog" can also be played in
The full programme for the 14-(Unofficial) The Machine Bingle:-Mui · Chi-cheung; Ng the water.. Two or more are needed Kam-cheun "and Sit Siu-cheong; for this, and it can be played either Sixth Extra Meeting of the Macao Gun Kwok Fung-san; Chu Cheok-yau, in deep or shallow. In the shallow Jockey Club, on September 17, the $100. Second $75. Third $50. A Cup will be presented to the Win Lam Yue and Ho Kwok-ching. it is played exactly as on land. But first, after the summer off season. ning Rider. For China Ponies
in the deep, those in front have to
is given below:
approved by the O.C, M.G.T; as tread water to "maks their backs";v
(Unofficial) The Machine Gun "B" Class Troop Popies. Catch To be ridden by Weights 160 lb. the rear player then makes his leng by putting his hands on the other's Troop Handicap-Winner $100. Members of the Troop, Entrance shoulders and thrusting downwards Second $75. Third $50. A Cup will and backwards.
be presented to the Winning Rider. 5. Half a Mile. For China. Ponies approved by the
in
On fast acaalde greens in England, Welter Hagen has a touch like a cat whisker-Bobby Jones.
THE GAME CORBALLO
6 The Arela Preta Handicap
CHALLENGE
Pilot And Mechanics Sail For America.
RACE NEXT MONTH
London, Aug. 12. The seven mechanics whe have been employed in the construction of his new, motor- The Mong Ha Handicap Hind The Shark
bost, Miss England III, accom panied Mr. Hubert Scott-Paine This is good fun across a swim-0.C. MGT. "A" Class Troop Winner $250. Second $125. Third
when he sailed for the United". ming, bath. One player stands and Ponies. To be ridden by Members $75 For China Ponies classified treads water in the middle he is of the Troop. Entrance $5. Once by The Hong Kong Jockey Club as "D" Class Entrance $5,- - Once
States; to-day, in an endeavour Round.
Bound
to capture the Hacmsworth in- ity, broke the previous Japanese A
new ball game, which has al- the other, and, if it falls to the the shark The others Ine the
ternational motor-boat trophy,:: ready swept across the Con- ground the player who has failed bank. When the word is given, all 2-The Ma Kau Siac Plate
Miss England III will be opposed record for the 1,500 metres free
to catch it loses a point. The court of them must jump or dive in and Winner 3200. Second $100. Third
to Commander Gar Wood's Miss style event by covering the dia- tinent on a wave of enthusiasm, has can vary in length from 18yd to try to get to the other side without 150. For China Ponies, Subscrip- Winner $200. Second $100. Third tance in 19 min. 8 sec. and 19 mln. now made its appearance in Eng- 26yd., according to the number of being touched by the “shark." tion
Weight for inches as per tion Ponics of this Club of any held on the St. Clair river, Detroit, 22.8 sec., respectively. The pair land, and it is believed that it will players. If a court is not avail- Under-water swimming is of con
Winners of one race this Section. Entrance $5.-Six Fur Michigan, on September 2, 4, and event, Kitamura covered 1,000 name of it is Corballo, and the tained by throwing the ball against player who is caught stays in the year, 7 lb. penalty, of two or more | longs..... metres in 12 min. 42-6 sec, while j players use a basket-like object to a wall or strong board. te
middle and helps catch the test races barred Jockey allowance, 7(Unoficial) The Ladies - Mr. Scoli-Paine stated, just; be- Makino swam in 12 min 46 sec" catch and throw the ball.
This game will find favour with Alternatively, the one caught takes Entrance, $5. Five Furlongs Handicap-Winner $200. Second fare he left, that he intended to Both are new world records, hav-
3-The Praia Grande Handicap $100. Third $50. A Cup will be attack the world speed record on ing broken the former record of 12 extremely elastic, for it may be book of instructions states very
Rules for playing Corballo are the energetically-inclined, for the the place of the original shark. - *
Seal Hunting
Winner $225. Second $100. Third presented to the Winning Rider Southampton water next springą, United Press, held by Kitamura played either as singles, or as a emphatically that the game should In this game, one, person is the $50 For China Ponies classided For Ching Pooles classifed by The Miss England III which cost team game with two, three, four, or be played as fast as possible." One seal and as is allowed to swim ar by The Hong Kong Jockey Club as Hong Kong Jockey Club as "E £22,000, is made of steel and resem five people on each side. It is rule which has to be observed als he likes. All the hunters, however, ME Class To be ridden by Class. To be ridden by Ladies bles the fuselage of Schneider Personally I think there is a serious played on a court divided across that the ball may not be touched aave ach to use one arm only, the Jockeys who, have not won ten No Whips or Spurs allowed. En- Trophy seaplane rather than a motor-boatThe driver and Lack of staminx, determination, and the centre by a rope suspended 6ft by hand during play, and, if it falls utter being held behind the back races anywhere at any time. No trance $5, Six Furlongs Bar come-back spirit about way from the ground. The ball is to the ground, it must bescoped up When one of the hunters catches Whips or Spurs allowed, Entrance Entries close at noon on Wednes-mechanic alt in a small cockpet Bir young lawn, tennis; players-Red-
the seal the two chang
MES $5 BK Furlonga, rute Nair, member of the IT Cos thrown across it from one player to with the basket-kera
were first and, second in the same. meet with equal success. The able, then good practice may be obsiderable use in dodging. Each one off this Club of any 450. For China Pontes, Subscrip America X. The contest will be
day, September 6,
Reuter,