P&O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1935
SUPERIORITY ON THE TRACK
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- JACKIE BROWN'S
IRISH OPPONENT
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There is not a little speculation whether Lynch will be worsened JC Stothard and J. V. Powell that he trotted for the long by having been inactive since his duly accounted for the half-mile jump, and we the ht these efforts defeat of Tom Pardoe, by which after some gallant opposition by would have weakened him for his he established an incontèstable R. Soulier, who made two rather main event. When K. S. Duncan right to fight Brown for his king- lazy runners race a lot harder led at the end of the second round dom. My than they expected to. However, we were sure it had. it was a splendid sight to see their activity when, Soulier be came a menace.
Thrills In The Mile.
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My experience, which goes back Then the wholly defant Pauliany years, is that no boxer became beside himself with so should indulge in a long holiday- much running, and leapt 24ft Sin I should have thought that one to gain his fourth consecutive 30 young as Lynch would have We had some uncomfortable win and a new record. His second been kept at least judiciously em- moments in the last lap of the string, C. Heim, finished less than ployed.
My study of the Scot, however, mile. Try as he might ́ ́S Cjaninch behind him. Grand jump- Wooderson could not throw off H.ing this, for Duncan's 2ft in tells me that he is not the type to strides were constantly coming up beaten before in these meetings. take it that, although he has not level with Wooderson's smaller Unaccountably our high jum-been engaged in serious warfare It was not till 50 pers., failed. Everything went since last April, he has applied speedier ones. yards from the tape that Nor-with a swing until 6ft was reach himself to regular and helpful: Straits Java, Burma. Ceylon. Africa, Queensland Ports, and
mand found he could not keep upfed. Only E. Purfourcat could training in the interval India. Persian Gulf. West Indies. Red Sea, Egypt, Constantinople,
I should have), clear this height. S. B. West None the less, Mauritius East and
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Wooderson's time. 4min 19sec showed his true form in the jump-been the more impressed by the KOBE and RETURN
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was not fast in modern terms off for second place. He got over chances of the Scot, if he had more fighting since he accounted DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS but I think he could have produc6ft well and truly-but too late.
Since these matches began in for the former amateur flyweight YOKOHAMA and RETURN ed that same tenacious last lap if
via Shanghai-Kobe-N the first three had been run 101921 we have won 11 out of 3 champion. Still, Lynch is in the seconds faster and to-day we field events. Of the 89 track, best hands; and whether he suc PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS have to ask "Where would Jack hurdle or steeplechase contests ceeds or not, we may depend upon the French claim only 19. weit that he will fight to his last But the really startling race have won the relay nine times asp
Leicester Disappointed was the 3 miles: J. Wattian set out of eleven These figures tell what little pace there was for the their own tale. first two miles, except when Bea-
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He opened up a 30 yard lead] within a furlong before A. V. Reeve seemed to realise that this was no spasmodie spurt to tempt him
but the sustained challenge
of an imperious runner.
CULLEN TO ENTER
SEMI-FINALS
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I can only take a gress at Leicester's reaction to last Satur day's "Black championship of the world between Gains and. Obie Walker. It is that the great majority of the people who look- ed on were, to put it mildly, dis- satisfied with what they saw. I ат not prejudiced against the negro fighter I have found Gains a desirable and accomplish- ed pugilist, and, as he
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Alves jumped into an early lead, against Carnera, a notable heavy- weight, but to have it supposed Reeve was then only able to which he maintained throughout, &prevent the gap widening. Mean-to win the game on the 22nd head that a contest with Walker was to decide who was the greatest while the seemingly innocent by 23 shots to 12.
in the bat very shrewd Bearers, know Although Callen. the 1925 tit. coloured heavyweight ing that Rochard had gone beyond ist, was beaten by such a large world was as preposterous as it was an. affront to the deeper- recall. placidly followed Reeve margin, he was by no means, dis- home to score a point for third graced for during the game he thinking boxing public. place.
played some of the finest shots Walker we saw against George. Energetic Frenchman that have been seen in the com- Cook, and if his fighting did not But the most energetic French-petition. Alves won as the result then expose him as a half-com- plete boxer, then I do not know a man of all was R Paul. He al- playing brilliantly at the star boxer when I see one. What sur- most beat 1 C. Young for second and securing a big lead. Callen place in the 100 and then turned took some time to become familia, prised me was that Gaïns did not, there and then, reduce Walker to with the somewhat peculiar out for a vigorous 220. After
green conditions, and did not find the level of the probationer that his length properly until the game jhe is: was well under way.
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meaning in the affair between Gains and Walker, it was-so-ob-|
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THRILLING LADIES' RACE -
EXPECTED
RECORDS BROKEN
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Throwing the Water Foto Ball An upset occurred in the
event which was won by E F.J. Chame, an independent swimmer, who threw the ball out of the bath! His throw of 72 ft. 6`ins. |was about five feet short of the Colony record which has stood at 78 feet for over 10 years
(VMC) and Miss J. Lepard place
qualified, to-day's
seen in the
-Ladies 100 Yards
-Ladies 100 Yards championship The unfortunate absence of the of the Colony, Miss Yeung San-
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(Continued from Page 4) Chan Shek-pui, of the Athletic, about 370 miles in length. Froms
and W. F. Kerr. of the YMCA, I have been expecting a cable
Following yesterday's thrilling both found it difficult to throw from Mr. Sydney Hulis, who is in through Yuanling, Shenchi, Chi-
America engaged in a round-up heats when Miss Yeung San-king, the ball in their respective styles, kiang. Huanghsien and terminates Constantinople and he had to proof notabilities on behalf of Wem- the China National champion, and Allison, of the Lincolns, was at Nienyupa, on the western bor-ceed to that port to join her as an bley. At the time of writing no Yeang Sau-chan, Miss R. Thirwell end of the bath, to take second Miss Doris Hunt (VRC.). Miss the first competitor to reach the engineer, this was in the early news has reached me, which I Sydney der of Kweichow.
No less than $2,000,000 has part of 1919. From then until the take is good news. beer expended on the construction end of that year the Hunan wast I have little doubt that Wem- of the highway. Of this amount, engaged in evacuating the base at bley's next promotion will be the classic is expected to produce the Two heats were held in the the Central Government contribut-Saloniks and transferring the most important and interesting finest ladies' race ed $300,000 while the remainder material to Constantinople and yet launched. It is possible that Colony this season. was raised by the Hunan Provin- then taking guns from the Cromier, the American feather- cial Government. Central News latter port to Port Said weight, rated to be on air with holder of the title, Mrs. L. Meading the China National cham- Agency.
On the completion of that work Freddie Miller, will be introduced has robbed the event of most of Dion, covering the distance in the 45 seconds, the Hunan returned to Hong Kong at Wembley. It depends upon its glamour, as she would have second heat in 69 and Meleed remained with the whether a suitable opponent can given Miss Yeung Sau-king an ex-which is 11-5 seconds outside company for two and half years, be found for him. Why not Tar cellent race when he joined what is now the leton?
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VENZKE BEATEN IN 800 METRES
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