THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1934
Sporting Page.
LEN HARVEY CAUSES BRITISH BOXING TITLE BOUT DEADLOCK
MAMAK HOCKEY WIN
FOR POLICE
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Beat H.M.S. Keppel By 4 Goals To 1
PERKINS SCORES FOUR TIMES
FOR POLICE
Dominating, the play throughout. the Police defeated H.M.S. Keppel) by 1 goals to 1 in a-Mamuk Hockov Tournament match played on the Police Training School ground | yesterday.
The Police led at half time by
C. F. WALTERS NOT GOING TO WEST
Strained Thigh Responsible
C. F. Walters, the Worcester- shire captain, will not go to the West Indies with the M.C.C. team this winter. Capt. Morgans, maŋ- ager of the Worcestershire club, states that Waltors has been medi- cally advised to take rest during the winter, as the strained thigh muscle received in the Kent match at Hastings Inte in the season is still troubling him.
1-0 through Perkins. Perkins HORSE RACING IN
acored a "hat-trick" in the second half, Muir obtaining the sailors solitary goal.
MAMAK LEAGUE TABLE -TO-DATE
St. Andrew's
P. W. 1. D. F. A. Pts 4 3 1 0 11 7 6.
R. C. of Signals 6 2 2 2 12 13 6
Police
R. E.
Laiversity United K.I.T.C. Whitehall
Whitshed
Keppell
12th Ballery
3 2 0 1 7 1 5
21 0 1 1 9 3. 2 1 0 1 2 3 21 D 1 3 2 3.
1 1 0 0 4 3 2
30 1 2 68 2
1 0 1 0 1 2 6
AMERICA
Tendency To Breed Solely For Speed
BIG PURSES OFFERED FOR
·SPRINT RACES · ·
London, Oct. 21. There is a tendency in America
to breed and train horses almost solely for speed, neglecting sta- minn, according to the Irish Turf
£450 PURSE OFFER
DECLINED
FINAL STATEMENT ON MANCHESTER BOUT
(By Geoffrey Simpson)
London, October 4. LEN HARVEY, a champion boxer in one weight or another for the past five years and one of the most brilliant ring performers of his time, is in danger of being struck off the list of British title holders.
That is the effect of an unfortunate situation which has arisen in the light-heavy-weight division, of which Harvey is the champion, and it rests with the Board of Control whether he remains in office or is relegated to the rank and file.
The matter will be brought to a head to-day, when Harvey will be invited to give the stewards of the board his reasons for declining to defend his 'championship against Eddie Phillips, of Bow, at Belle Vue, Manchester,in November.
WELL, HERE THEY ARE HARVEY TOLD THEM TO ME YESTERDAY.
"The best bid received by the board when purse offers closed
3.0 3 0 5 120 writer, Mr. Thomas Patrick Brophy. PETERSEN'S MATCH was one of £750 by the Belle Vue
..3 0 3 0 1 50
H.M.S. Eagle Officers Beaten In Macao
:
-Officers of H.M.S. Eagle paid a visit to Macao over the week-end.
Mr. Brophy, who with his father. the late William Brophy, bred the mares Christabelle, Luodamia, and) Phitomel, who made racing history in the nineties, is one of the best known authorities on breeding in America.
He points out that the distances
and were defeated in a hockey of races in America and England match against the Macan Club by are very different, In England
7 goals to 6. Next Sunday a visit events of a mile and a half or over
WITH COOK
To Meet In London
In December
OPPONENT NEARLY 40
promoters," Harvey told me yes- terday. "Of that, my share as champion would be $450.
"Deduct from that my training costs and travelling and 'hotel ex- penaes in .connection with the fight, and I would be less than £300 in pocket.
"It is common
knowledge that in my last contest I shared with Jack Petersen a purse of £10,000. In all my recent engagements in commanding four-figure payments and now I am expected to slide
is to be made by the Royal Corps offare common whereas in America title of British heavy-weight cham-the heavy-weight class I have been
Signals.
horses are rarely tested over a mile Macao drew with the Radio jand a quarter. Sports Club in their first match) this season, sharing 2 goals,
Regimental Hockey
Sprint Racing
London, October 5. Jack Petersen is to defend his pion against George Cook, the veterau Australian. The match will As a result, American horses are take place in London, either at the bred for speed alone, especially as Albert Hall on Dec. 13, or at Olym- "The drop is far too sudden, and there are such big purses for sprint pia on Dec. 17.
shall ask the stewards to look at Mr. Brophy deprecates the fact match for Petersen.
I regard it as
the case in that light. I shall also a retrograde
that It takes point out to them
is a promoter in London who has
races.
Headquarter Wing won the final
of. the inter-Company
I
to the bottom of the ladder.
"TOO SUDDEN DROP"
there
Frankle Frlach (left), who used to be a Glant himself; mausger of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Bill Terry, manager of the New York Giants, shaking hands before their "Garrison finishes" decided the National League pennant-winner. The Cardinals won a sensa tional triumph over the 1933 champions and later won the world title from Detroit Tigers.
BUDDY BAER AGAIN
WINS ON K.O.
TEST TEAM'S REQUEST HEAVY LOSS ON EXCHANGE
£600 WORTH $480
London, October 4. An unusual question has arizen» in connection with the payment of the Australian Test cricketers now on their way home in the Orient liner Orontes, which left Toulon yesterday.
The 16 players are making & joint representation to the Aus- tralian Board of Control that the £600 due to each of them shall be paid in sterling and not in Australian currency,
They contend that as the rate, of exchange makes the Austra- Han £ equal only to 18. sterling, their agreed earnings would be reduced to the equivalent of £480 unless they are paid in sterling. They argua, tob, that the profits of the tour-believed to be £20,000, as in 1930-when remitted to Aus- tralia for distribution between the cricket associations entitled share in them will automatically appreciate by 25 per cent.
Delicate Position
an
The position is one of some de- licacy, and the Australian Board of Control have not yet had opportunity of considering it...
Each member of the Australian team was given 100 Australian pounds on leaving Australia, and this amount shrank immediately
IMPRESSIVE PUNCH DEMONSTRATED to about £80 in sterling value.
Oakland. October 24.
While the team were in Britain all travelling and hotel expenses were puid/and the players received an Healthily-built 219-pound Buddy Baer, brother of Maxie, "incidentals allowance" all the to-night showed that all the fighting ability in the family was not time between leaving and arriving confined to Maxle when he knocked out Jack Patrick in the fifth back in Australia. Of the agreed round.
payment a further £350 could be Outweighing his husky opponent by but 12 pounds, Buddy drawn during the tour.
.
hockey that there are so few distance races him no farther in his career and since made me a much bigger offer pounded Patrick into submission in short order. The youngster, Many of the players were astute league of the East Langushire in America, apart from its ef-Idoes nothing tangible for the for the fight. But for that I should bigger and heavier-built than his champion brother, has been in enough to draw more than they Regiment which was concluded re-feet on the stamina of the thor-future of British boxing, to have taken the Manchester offer the professional ranks for only a short while, but has demons-needed while in Britain and trans-
cently. "A" Company were second.oughbreds.
which Petersen means
nearly
To-day's Hockey Match
He says that in sprints the race everything.
Jinadequate though it is.
is nearly over before the racegoers Petersen met and defeated Cook can turn his head, whereas in at Cardiff in June last year.
Continued on Page 5)
He
trated an impressive punch.
mit the balance to Australia to get the benefit of the exchange.
But each man will have a mini- mum balance of $160 due to him,
before leaving Australia they will demand an increase to cover the exchange difference.
St. Andrew's Club will meet the distance races the horse lover can can hardly fail to beat him again. ULTIMATUM BY and defeated-Primo Carnera of SECRETS WOODFULL and for this and the £100 drawn
Hong Kong Hockey Club senior see so much more of the horses This match, however, is one more eloven in a friendly encounter to-in action--
unhappy example of the lack of day at King's Park, represented by He adds that racing is much elasticity in the methods of the the following:
more attractive in England than in British Boxing Board of Control.
R. H. Wong; F, A. Broadbridge and America.
E. HP. White; J. T. K. Glichrist,
A. E. P. Gucat and A. B. Hameon;,
A. S. Bllas, N. A. E. Mackay, E. F.
Fincher, W. II. College and R. Baldwin. AMATEUR STATUS
IN TENNIS
FLOODLIGHT SOCCER Ban On Those In Sports
AT SOOKUNPOO
Wind Up To Tattoo
Business
London, Oct. 24. The annual general meeting of} the Lawn Tennis Association. In
It is proposed to hold a food-London, in December, will be called
American Rivals
Good contests have been suggest.
ed for Petersen. Among opponents who could have been brought to
(Continued on Page 5.)
FATHER RESPONSIBLE FOR
PETERSEN'S SUCCESS
Petersen, senior, naturally
-BOARD
MUST FIGHT OR LOSE TITLE
London, October 5. The stewards of the British Box-
Buddy was one of Maxie's seconds when the latter met-
Italy for the world's_heavy- weight championship.
It was Buddy whom Maxie sparred with to get used to| Carnera's height and weight.
RUGGER BUILDS UP CHARACTER
Not A Game For Nursemaids
COULD TELL Australian Test Captain To Write A Book .
HOW MANY PROTESTS WERE
MADE?
London, Sept. 23.
ROBINS TO SKIPPER MIDDLESEX
Haig's Successor Also A Soccer Blue
England to meet him in the early ing Board of Control yesterday winter are Steve Hamas and after a two-hours meetings, decid- Tommy Loughran, both Americans. ed to give Len Harvey, the British light-heavy-weight champion, seven days in which to withdraw his re-
Wm. Woodfull, the Australian R. W. V. Robins, the England fusal to defend his title in Novem
Test team captain, is to write a Test player, has been appointed ber against Eddie Phillips, of Bow,
book on the recent cricket tour in captain of Middlesex for 1935 in at Belle Vue Manchester,
succession to Nigel Haig, who England. Half the attraction of Rugby If he does not comply with the come from strenuous physical en-
Doubtless. Woodfull will make an [recently retired. con-ultimatum, the board will deprive deavour. There is a brain in it, interesting contribution to the re-
Twenty-eight years of age, light football match on the Soo-upon to discuss and vote upon a siders that he knows as much him of the title.
but there must also be musele and.
Robins is one of the best amateur kumpoo football ground, on the proposal that, if carried, will have about the game as the next man. Harvey attended the meeting high courage to meet
But will he throw light on some all-rounders produced by Middle- area to be used for the Tattoo, on important results among many He certainly understands the and had a long conference with the danger. An-an
a spie of
captained Highgate November 5 at 7 p.m., between the amateur players,
champion, and is solely responsible stewards. Afterwards he said.”
old international of the things the cricketing public sex. He
wish to know about? For ex-School, and, going up to Cambridge South China A. A. and a combined It is that no amateur player who for his son's remakable success.-
once wrote "A game that teaches (Continued on Page 5)
in 1925, got his Blue as a Fresh ample a boy to enjoy having his face team from the South Wales Bor- le connected with the sale or manu- Jimmy Wilde.
trodden on must built up charac
How many times did the Austra-man. He was also awarded a Blue GULLANE IS GOLF, ter, and breed a fine scorn for life's lians make a protest, in one form for Association football, being cap- or another, against our fast bowl-tain in one year, and has played ing?
some fine games for the Corin- thians. We know already of three in-
derers and Lincolns.
facture of sports requisites shall
APPEAL TO JACK PETERSEN
A similar match was played In be permitted to take part in
set-backs; and I shall always re- 1928 at Sookugpoo at the conclu-amateur open events or play for sion of the Tattoo of that year. hla, or her, country..
Gullane for golf is more than a member the ring in the late Sir The following are the selected A number of prominent lawn
merely alliterative slogan. Gul- Rowland Hill's voice when he said, The Welsh branch of the Box-lane Is golf, as can be proved by Rugby football has never been tennis players of both sexes have ing Board of Control are going to a glimpse of the main street, game for nursemaids. You give
team's.
Army Team:-Higgins (Lincolns),
Morrison (S.W.B.), Mullane (S.W.B.),
Dudley (Lincolns), Podmore (S.W.B.), Jones (S.W.D.), Mathias (S.W.B.),
cords.
stances: during the Lord's Test---- He has played for England against Bowes: the Oval Test-against South Africa and Austra
interests in sports good businesses. ask. Jack Petersen to rallaquish his where every second person carries hard knocks-and you, take 'em against Clark; and at Trent Bridge lia in Test matches.
Fortey (S.W.B.), Malpas (Lincolns), KING OF SWEDEN'S
Ridley (Lincolns), Baldry (Lincolns)..
Seath China: Wong Wah Ke, Leungi In Chan, Lau Mau, Leung Wing Chul, Wong Mei Shun, Lee Kwok Wal, To Kwai Shing, L Shui Wing, Tam Kong Pak, Cheuk Sek Kam, Li Shek Yau.
PETERSEN'S BACK-HAND
TENNIS WIN
76-Year-Old Secures "Old Boys" Title
performances". are preventing a club as naturally as a city man Henley? youtha from showing themselves! his umbrella. Sam M'Kinlay.
Dorothy Round Sets Off On
Second World Tennis Tour
A FOOTBALL DILEMMA
It is often said that funny things happen in football, and it IB very true. How often do we
-against Voce.
On the other hand :- How many times did the Eng- land Selection Committee protest in their turn?
A Bradman Lie
FINNISH SUCCESSOR TO PAAVO NURMI
Young Runner Close
World Times
Not against any occurrence on find that a player just "good" in the field of play, but because of the Scottish game turns out a star the outrageous suggestions pub-
London, Oct. 23. Finland is hoping that she may when he goes to England, and how lished in the Australian news- often do we find just the reverse papers, while the Tests were pro-have found a successor to Paavo happening 1-Jimmy Brownlle. ceeding..
Nurmi, the "Flying Finn," In G. Hoeckert, a young middle distance (Continued on Page 6.) runner
Miss Dorothy Round, accompani- for about six months. This is ed by Miền N. M. Lyle, Miss E. M. Mías Round's second trip round the a lawn tennis title. Partnered by London on October 4 en route for China and Japan:
King Gustav of Sweden has won Dearman, and G. P. Hughes, left world in two year. She had return
·PUNCHES
ed from America last year via F. Snederstrom, he won the Stock- holm "old boys' tournament for Australla.
In Australia Perry will defend The Petersen-Gains, fight seems players over 45,
Th party, whose main objective his title in the Australian cham long ago now. But it is high time: Soederstrom said that the King is the centenary celebration tourna-pionship, which they hold.sk that someone told the Welshman was in excellent form and played ment at Melbourne, are travelling W. T. Tilden was returning to about his back-hand punches. He remarkably well. Although, he vin New York and California, where America by the same boat. He ex- delivered three in his fight with added, the King in 70, while neither they will be joined by F. Porry. Pects-to-be back-in-England, ac Harvey. Yes, the sooner he realises he nor either of their opponents The British team is to break its companied by Ellsworth Vines, for jam still a dghting force and then it the better. Americans won't was over 46, he was the best player journey at New Zealand, and ex-the professional tournament stand for it. Charles Graves.
be ask young Jack Petersen to give [of the four.
pects to be absent from England ginning at Wembley on Nov. 19. me another fight."Lerry Gaina,
LARRY GAINS NOT
DISHEARTENED
TRO Out And prove that I
RANGERS IDEAL FOOTBALL
Rangers play football that ideal to player and spectator alike, -James M'Mullan,
is
This youngster recently ran 1,600 metres In 8 min. 62.8 sec., which, although 81⁄2 sec, outside the world record, represents a mile in not much over 4 min, 10 sec.
At the same meeting, Huths broke the Finnish record for 500 metres in min. 6.4 sec.