THE CHINA MAIL- THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1935
Sporting PageTM
BOUSSUS SPELL-BOUND FOR TWO SETS AGAINST DON BUDGE
CARDINALS
TWO BEHIND
THE GIANTS Exciting Race For Pennant
U.S. BASEBALL RESULTS
New York. To-day. St. Louis Cardinals faltered in their "comeback" attempt: yesterday when they lost to New York Giants by a 4 to 2 margin. The 1934 world cham- pions are now being led by two games in an exciting race for the National Baseball League pennant and representation in the 1935 World Series.
in a night' game in the National to League Boston lost at home Cincinnatti by a 5 to 4 margin.
Results, as cabled by Reuter.!
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia
& H
E
6
13
13
The opportunity to become beavyweight:boxing champion of the world was grasped with both hands by Jimmy Braddock in his New York title battle with Max' Baer.
GERMANY BEATEN
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Henkel was extremely nervous in the first set and Allison reeled off point monotonously Paul Waner and Jensen hit bamersafter point to secure an early ad- vantage at 61 after only 15 minutes' play.
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
୫
Watkins hit a homes.
Pittsburgh
4 10
Jensen hit a homers
2
Brooklyn
Chicago
3. 12 2
11 ··
Chuck Klein hit a homer.
Brooklyn
11.
14
Danny Taylor hit a homer Chicago
Odea and Herman hit homers
Game went to 11 innings.
« New York
St. Logis
NIGHT GAME
2 5.
Boston Cincinnati
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Vosmik and, Hale hit homers.
Cleveland
Allison gave a lethargic display at the opening of the second set. and Henkel, who took
and occasionally served
до
risks
an are.
stormed
QUADRANGULAR
SWIMMING GALA-
·AT EUROPEAN “Y” |
AugustTM Selected As Date
TWO EVENTS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN
At a meeting held by the Swim- ming Committee of the European †Y.M.CA... on Monday it was pro- posed to hold a quadrangular swimming gala between the East Lancs, Lincolns, Royal Artillery, and Y.M.CA. on Wednesday. Ang- ust 7 at 9.35 pm.
The invitation programme will be the same as that of the trian- rular gain between the E. Lane Lincoins, and YMCA. last month which proved to be such a suc cess, with the exception of the It was proposed 220 Yards race. that ither a 440 Yards or an $80 Yards race be substituted:
The water polo match at the concinsien of the meeting will be! and the between the ELCA Royal Artillery-
Two events are being arrang- ed for the children of the Centrai British School. -
.
The programme will include the tallowing events: Men's 50 Yards Free Style
(Invitation)
led 3-1 and 5-2 Allison, how-Ladies 50 Yards Aggregate 'cap.
the Men's 220 Yards Invitation Relay lever, recovered and
Men's 50 Yards Aggregate Heap. anet whenever possible following Men's 25 Yards (Two classes. Novices
and. “A** Class). deep driving. Despite brilliant
the by
American, Invitation Diving volleyizg Henkel held set point in the tenth 440 Yards or 580 Yards) Invitation
Fact saved the game. but Allison
Mixed Relay or Mixed Follow the "kill" situation with a great
Leader (top diving board debarredƆ 50 Yards Mixed Arithmetic Race 1from mid-court-
(Teams of two, man will swim 25 Jards with paper bearing a sum in an envelope, lady will work zum out and swim the remaining 25 Sards. The secret of szecess will be keeping the paper dry sa working must be done with an indelible pencil)
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ALLISON ALMOST EXHAUSTED
The German occasionally made several fine passing shots, but the play was not up to Tuesday's standard. Allison appearing al- most exhausted before the end of the second set, which went to 12 2jgames.
50 Yards Handicap For boys of the
CRS) A
25 Yards Handicap (For girls of the
CBS)
Early Entries Requested Still showing signs of tired-
be
unable to produce the strength to
10-
14
Washington
& 8
Cleveland
13
19
Trosky hit a homer.
+)
Washington
13
1
0 Dess, Allison. with the "match
within his grasp, seemed to
St. Louis
10.
10
Boston
3.
8
Detroit
11
New York
0
D
White hit a homer.
Alvin Crowder pitched
1 to 0.
Tables To Date
finish off his opponent in the third set. His volleying
WAS
Nothing to fear from good-natured Primo Carnera, despite his giant size, smiles little My Levy as she rabe good-lock grease on his gloves at the Auburn, New York, training camp, where Da Preem prepared for his unsuccessful bout with Joe Logis.
LEFT-HANDER BOWS TO AMERICAN YOUNGSTER WITH BLEND OF McLOUGHLIN & VINES MAKO BEATEN BY VON CRAMM AT WIMBLEDON
TWO
(By A. Wallis Myers)
London, June 29. seeded players fell at Wimbledon yes- terday before they had run their allotted Christian Boussus, France's No. 1, in the men's singles, and Miss M. C. Scriven, Eng- land's No. 2, in the women's singles.
course
In both cases the execution was surprisingly swift; the vic tims were pinioned by strong and merciless hands; they could never shake themselves free.
Donald Budge, the first to reach the last eight, was the un doing of Boussas This 19-year-old lad from the Far West. with red hair and a reticent tougue, is a blend of McLoughlin and Vines, both natives of his State, both ex-champions of America
Budge has McLoughlin's hair and fresh complexion.
and
treads with the same softness, TO-DAY'S BOWLS leaving no imprint on the turf. smooth His strokes have the fluency of Vines" without.
CRICKET FIELD STORIES yet, all their fiery pace.
GRAVE AND GAY
WHY JOHNNY DOUGLAS HID HIS FACE
(By Laurie Eastman, the Essex All-Rounder). FURST-CLASS cricket is a strenuous affair and often grim Playing six days a week, and travelling the length and breadth of the country is not all honey, but even when things are at their worst we manage to get a lot of fun out of the game or out of our travels. Here are just a few personal recol lections which prove the point.
I played first of all as an ama- teur along with the late J. W. H. T. Douglas, one of the finest meet.
Entry forms will be posted up sportsmen I shall ever
in the YMCA Men's and Ladies the late Charlie McGahey, and Sections and intending entrants Mr. Percy Perrin, the present are requested to sign their names Test selector. before next Thursday, as time
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Three Encounters In
Open Tourney
BRADBURY TO CLASH WITH C. G. SILVA
in the
service The ball is struck in
etsy with the same and smash faction and perfect timing, there are no "preliminaries," the stroke has been bequeathed by Nature;
Three more. games it is clean, appealing tennis
Fourth Round of the Colony Boussus Spell-Bound
Lawn Bowls Singles Champion- Boussus. the first of four left-ship will be played this afternoon, banders to appear consecutively two in Hong Kong and one on the Jon the centre court, seemed spell-mainland, weather permitting.
The clash between B. W. Brad- bound in the first two sets.
Badge shot through all his debary of Craigengower, and C. G. rences, served aces with his ser Silva, of the Recreio, should pro- at if he were practisingvide the feature of to-day's games. vice
be hand winners so that when matched, but if there is a balance against a marker, piled-up back-Bradbury and Silva are well swung to make them the eye of either way it is probably with the
latter. the spectator travelled instine- tively to the twinkling light on the score-board.
B. Duncan, who played so well.
This kind of tomahawking earlier in the week in a pairs against a player of the French-game, will have to reproduce that man's class could scarcely last.form if he is to get the better of
My old captain, Mr. Douglas, I know he'll miss it moaned Nor did it. The blows rained by A. Macfarlane, for the Football suffering as a result, and it pale will take place during Mix was not only a great player, but the captain. In due course came Budze began to weaken in their Club player is one of long ex- 0peared as if Henkel, who led Shed Bathing on Friday night at there was never a keener eric-the umpire's reply: "It's all right force and finality.
of rain-all.
Fenkel then
led 5-3
6.30 pa
keter and at times
frantic.
incident
perience and some skill..
JC. Brown meets a very much ! Frenchman Ralfes his en-sir, he has.” as the result of careful base line
One of the best stories of Joha
Boussus started to get forcing younger opponent in W Way of Craigengower, although WAY was amusing. I well play, would level the scores for It was also proposed at the thusiasm
shots off the service to initiate:
Germany.
meeting to have the YMCA remember one match in the West Douglas relates to En Allison, however, made a des- Championships divided into two Country when nothing had gone which occurred at Colchester. On his own coups, in short, to look has learned enough during the two the Bowling Green skip a good The game between Chicago and
A break-through - the Cali
game Philadelphia WIS called off in the perate rally and pulled up to 3 days for the September and Octo-right for us in the field. Catch this particular occasion, against more like the great player he is years he has been playing to give second incing on account
ber trials, but the suggestion was after catch had been dropped, and Lancashire, we were doing badly
almost to Ted MacDonald's fast bowlingfornian service seemed to refresh The White Sox were then leading only to fail to stave off Allison's carried forward to the next meet-the
skipper became .
The captain came in, and was de his soul, and when he got an- To-day's programme is as determined challenge
Having ing
termined that MacDonald would other two games later and the setlows:- come on level terms at 5-a, A1-1
He Guessed Right
not frighten him out. He refused was his at 6-3, "Toto" Brugnan lison lost two successive match
Finally Mr. Douglas, who was to move from the one end, and gave him a wave of encourage- points when leading 7-6 before went down at 6-3 for the match.
bowling, got the batsman to mis-with the ball flying all over the ment from the stand Alas for R. Dancer. & A. Macfarlane (Recreio) The went out at 97 after an ex--Reuter
bit a ball, to cover-point-the place he had a pretty painful Christian's hopes, his effort had RW. Bradbury C. G. Siiwa (Taikoo)
W. K Way J. V. Brown: EARLIER RESULTS
merely applied the touchstone to Donald Edge (US) beat Heinrich easiest of catches really. As the time.
One That Jumped
Budge's reserves. Henkel (Germany) 751-ball came down towards the
The American took the fourth 5--1
(Germany) hands of the Selder John dare not
Eventually MacDonald got an Gottfried on
beat Wilmar Allison (US) 86, look, but hid his face in the un extra fast one to jump up and it set in fourteen minutes, hitting
hit the skipper on the side of the winners all round the court, and BOXER CATCHES pire's coat. W. Allison and John Van Bỳn (U.S.) beat G. von Gramm and Lund (Ger- man) 3-6, 6-3, 5-7, 3———7, 85
SECOND CHALLENGE
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York
St. Louis Chicago
Philadelphia Pittsburgh Brooklyn Cincinnatti Boston
New York
Detroit
Chicago
Cleveland Boston
Washington Philadelphia St. Louis
P W.
36 54 32.627,tremely plucky display.
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LISTLESS VON CRAMM
39 49 40 550 Donald Budge, apparently play- 23 42 47 471 85 40 45 470 ing to retain his place in the
2265 261 challenging team next Saturday, CAN LEAGUE
gave a brilliant all-round display
P. W. Aze
83 49 34 -5902gainst von Cramm, despite the
89 52 37 384 fact that little or no importance
79 44 25-556 was attached to the match.
418
63.6
ChrAzring
For the second year în succes- sion America will meet Grest
85 45 49 529 Badge lost the first set to love Britsin, holders of the famous 517 (during which the German display-trophy for the past two years, in 487ed the fast and accurate driving the Challenge Round at Wimble 400 which took him to the Wimbledon don next Saturday. Monday, and
Final) as the result of being lur-Tuesday,
CHINESE BOXER
BEATEN
Long Sing-que Loses In New York
SLOW CRICKET
Sir Stanley Jackson Speaks Out
"BATTING IN BUILT UP AREA”
head The ball incidentally flew by his display confirming the very off to cover point, and was caught high impression formed of his by Harry Makepeace.
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lardine's Former Skipper
Bound For New Zealand
Singles
(Civil Service
FATAL CHILL
JOHNNY QUILL PASSES
Johnny Quill, the 24-year-old London boxer, of Stepney, died in St George's Hospital early last month from pleurisy.
Quill, who was a promising In 1920 F W. Gilligan captain-boxer and a contender for the wel
ed into errors at the net and in! It will be America's fifth chal- his positioning.
lenge in the past, seven years. The new lbw rale, slow cricket
F. W. Gilligan, who is to take hunting. Settling down, however, Budge Last year Frank Shields and Sid-and the dificulties of Test Selec- revealed superb control and ney Wood both lost to Fred Perry tion Committees were commented Up a post as headmaster of a Launched a hot counter-attack in and Bumy Austin, while George upon by Sir Stanley Jackson in a school in New Zealand, is the ed one of the best Oxford teams ter-weight championship of Great speech at Manchester on June 27. eldest of the three brothers that have ever gone to Lord's. It Britain, went to Brighten seven his the second set.. Von Cramm was Lott and Lester Stoeffen secured non-plissed at this recovery and deas only match by beating spectate te slow batoman to W. AER, A. EH. He was included D. R. Jardine, G. T. Sweeks previously to train
still one of the best amateur Stevens, and that grand Austraight with Charlie Baxter in the a motorist Some of the players)
lian leg-break bowler and hitter eliminating bout for the South- lost his former accuracy to drop Harold Lee and Pat Hughes in
I have watched," said Sir Stanley, wicket-keepers since the war- the set at S-7:
straight sets.
This year Fred Perry, despite become obsessed with the signs In 1919 he did that rare thing Dr H Bett bis recent lapse against the Aut they see when they are motoring played against his own brother, Von Cramm jumped into a 5-2tralian team in a friendly match at and when they are batting they A ER in the Varsity cricket stumper, Sing-que, the American-born lead in the third set, but Budge Eastbourne, is expected to win suddenly get obsessed with the match. Chinese fighter, in a bout which rallied splendidly and hit winners both lasted only four rounds here to almost at will, von Cramm, with again night
New York, July 15/0
Bernie Friedken, New York
bantam-weight, outpointed Long
BUDGE'S FINE RALLY
nothing to lose, refusing to re-
Both boxers entered the ring spond to the terrific pace his Aur over the laks: "weight
American rival had set
Friedken tipping the scales at then levelled 1
121% and Long at 123
and took a 2-1 lead in sets at are not Friedken's victory came by do 26
his
cision when the Chinese was un- The German did not trouble to beat them
ble to come
Afth stem Bodge's rush of gre
round play in the fourth set and
imbledon
matches idea that they are batting in
and built-up arES-
Both brothers distin- bridge
a guished themselves, F. W. making a most valuable 70 Inteish in the Oxford inning A E E. bowling Emost of Oxford out in the second innings, so giving his side a good chance of victory. They could do it Frank Naurzarm not quit
for Oxford winning the mat £45
We have no speed limit in
but I feel that the fas who play must realise that
and who go to matches
hat is more, pay
cricke
Kern Area welter-weight cham-
pionship.
Baxter was taken ill and was. unable to attend on the night of the the fight at Clapton Stadium. Pat in Butler, the welter-weight chan- to pion, was su ituted, but Quill
Tor
Ital
Himself
Quill