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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1936
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TSUI WAI-PUI BEATS HOLDER IN STRAIGHT SETS TO ENTER FINAL
ARMY BOXERS GIVE
FINE DISPLAY
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS DECIDED
HIGH STANDARD MAINTAINED
THE Hong Kong Area Boxing Week was brought to a very successful conclusion at Murray Barracks last night when the finals of the Novices and Open championships were de- cided, and when the large number of boxing] enthusiasts who turned up to watch the fights were rewarded with boxing of a very high standard.
His Excellency the General Officer Commanding, Major- an interested spectator General A. W. Bartholomew, was throughout the entire programme, and at the conclusion of the contests, Col. H. C. Harrison, G.S.OI., made a short speech in the course of which he thanked everybody concerned for having made the meeting such a success, and congratulated the boxers on their fine display.
Dealing with the actual boxing itself, the best fight of the evening was undoubtedly that between Pte. Whitehouse (East) Lanes.) and L/Cpl. Powell (Fusiliers) in the lightweight division when Powell was given the verdict after three rounds of hard fighting.
VOLUNTEER SPORTS
Keen Competition This Afternoon
LCp).
The Chinese Olympic soccer team
which defeated the United
Services by four clear goals on Thursday last at Caroline Bill. Left Boon Lay. Lee Tin-sang, Darkie Chan. Front Row: K. L. Kit Suen Kam-shun Fung King cheong. Cheuk Shek-kam and Tay Quee-liang
to right (Back Row): S. D. Liang. Tsui Ah-fai, Pau Ka-ping. Chua
("China Mail" photo).
INTER-UNIT CRICKET
EAST LANCS. WIN COMPETITION
Whelan (Rifes). showed that he was a first class! boxer when he beat Fus. Owens in the featherweight final, the feature of thus bout being the
excellent footwork of the win-l ner, who also showed an almost COL KIRKE AND LT. WILLIAMS
IN GOOD FORM uncanny anticipation in counter- ing his opponent's punches.
Fast The ninth annual athletic meet ing of the Hong Kong Volunteer Lancs, the fight consequently be.
ating awarded to the latter. Defence Corps will be held Sookcumpoo this afternoon, Com- mencing at 2.30 p.m.
GOLF NOTES
torious
'T
INSPIRED DISPLAY
AT H.K.C.C.
SIRDAR RUMJAHN BADLY OUTCLASSED
WINNER'S PERFECT PLACEMENTS AND SUPERB COURT-CRAFT
(By Base-Line")
PLAYING inspired tennis, Tsui Wai-pui took a big stride towards regaining the Colony Lawn Tennis Singles title he won in 1934 when he beat Sirdar Rumjahn, the holder, by scores of yesterday when he was beaten 6-1, 6-1, 7-5 in the Semi-Final Round yesterday before a large crowd at the H.K.C.C.
Sirdar Rumjalin, above, lost his Colony Lawn Tennis Singles title
6-1, 6-1, 7-5-by Tai Wai-pui, the 1934 champion.
VIRTUALLY WIN
It is many years since Rumjahn suffered such an eclipse and it is a long time since he revealed as poor form as he dis- SOUTH CHINA “A” played yesterday. Be that as it may, it would have taken a much better player than any at present resident in the Colony to have beaten Tsui. Starting the match with full confidence, he swept the champion off his feet with perfect placements and superb court-craft, at times actually toying with an opponent who fought back gamely to the last stroke.
SENIOR TITLE
SHARE POINTS WITH RIFLES
VERY POOR GAME AT CAROLINE HILL
(By “REFEREE")
SOCCER "DERBY”
TO-DAY'S CLASSIC one point against a much inferior
Newcomer To Play For Club
ride
Play was listless throughout and the Chinese team made very few efforts to go ahead, with the ex- ception of Lee Wai-tong and Tio
Rumjahn made the mistake of attacking Tsui's backhand, which, curiously enough, won for Tsui quite 90 per cent. of his points. Heavily cut and of low trajectory, it was the match- winning shot--not once did Tsui bring off an aggressive forehand shot, merely being content to await an opening on his steadier (By NIBLICE”)
backhand. His forehand, like his backhand, however, was always under perfect.control and Romjahn was seldom success- TOOD Friday saw the Kowloon ful at the net. I, however, feel that had Rumjahn concentrated G
South China “A” virtually won Golf Club team emerge vic more on Tsui's forehand he would have done considerably better.
cham- from their
bi-annual Tsui, for his part, played for unusually long spells on his the First Division soccer
pionship yesterday when they shared two goals with the Rifes match with the Valleyites, "Twas opponent's forehand! la convivial day indeed, and an ad- ditional sparkle was added by the
On the day's play it is difficult
(which was devoid of interest and lin recounting (in the Scribe's inimit to draw comparisons as Tsui was CIVILIAN
a very poor football match The East Lancs, won the Inter-able style) of the sequel to the ad- obviously master of the situation
which made one wonder regarding In the Novices' heavyweight
the chances of an Olympic team R.A.M.C.. had Unit cricket competition yester ventures of A O. Brown's galasses from the very start, despite Rum-
which could unly manage to secure MILE EVENT OPEN TO COLONY final. Pte. Smart,
his day, when they beat the Royal En.(interpretation for the uninisted-jahn's late recovery, when he se the misfortune to dislocate
cured four games in a row for a left shoulder in the first round gineers in the final at the Kow-braces!)
The result of the match was un-154 lead and actually held a set against Pte. Harnsworth,
loon Cricket Club by 3 wickets.
Rumjahn, however, was expected as a totalling of handi-point
overhead, Tsai At the close of play on the first caps for either side pointed to a more convincing fights day (Thursday), the Sappers were close match with the odds slightly badly lacking aggressiveness -
S. CHINA “B” MEET POLICE Hian-gwan, who strove hard for 29 runs ahead with 7 wickets in 'favouring Kowloon by reason ofjin the final set he allowed Rum- The failure of the jahn to save five match points as
the winning goal in the closing hand. Resuming their innings yes-the
(By "ROVER")
minutes, only to come up against terday, they took their total to 188, Valley has been attributed (sotto the result of what seemed to me
There is an interesting League a brick wall in the Rifles' splendid thus setting the East Lancs. the voce) to the damp atmosphere pre-senseless cautiousness task of scoring 171 to win, sad, valent before reaching the first tee at entirely the wrong moment.
One of the main factors which Football programme this week-defence.
The Chinese backs were good, too impressive-be that as it may, it was a good- despite a none start, the latter managed to doly day and to quote the word of a contributed to Rumjahn's down-end the outstanding features of
fall was Tsui's clever drop shot, which are the Exhibition games Tam being very useful through- prominent Valleyite-hic!
the Chinese out although Lee Tin-sang was ob which forced the champion to the to-morrow between this with 3 wickets to spare.
net only to be sent back to the Olympic teams and teams from viously feeling the strain of play- in too many consecutive base-line as the result of a per- the Association, which take place ing fect Job. This tactic, which was at Caroline Hill commencing at 4 games. Lee Kwok-wai was the pick of the champions' intermediate bis 76 not out, and Lt. J. P. Wil-W. major end of the Easter more than anything else.
freely exploited, rattled Rumjahop.m.
This afternoon South China "B" line and time and again saved his Coastal Defence, Corps Signals
entertain the Police in the First charge from falling, his neat in- and Medical Section and Reserve Pte. Burns. (East Lancs.) beat Fus.liams, whose 67 included 10 boun-
Unavailing Net Attack Division and some exciting play terceptions and positioning play- havoc with the sol- good second with a quarter of a Rumjahn strove hard to secure is likely to be witnessed. Southing
dier' distribution. (Continued on Page 5) jan advantage at the net, but Taul's! 108 Point less.
ROVER'S FORECAST TO-DAY FIRST DIVISION
POLICE
Detailed results of the are given below:-
NOVICES CHAMPIONSHIP
Flyweight
Pte. Townsend (East Lanes.) Winner, Bantamweight
All the events will be held on a team basis, and keen competi- tron is assured for the Command- ant's Challenge Cup, for the pur- pose of which the Corps has been Fus. Taylor (Fusiliers) beat Pte.
Walsh (East Lancs.). follows:- Infantry, divided
Featherweight Static Machine Gun Company. Pte. Willams (East Lancs.) beat Fus. Mobile Machine Gun Company,
Company.
28
Last year the Infantry and the Mobile Machine Guns tied for
Raven (Fusiliers).
Lightweight
Ryan (Fusiliers).
Welterweight"
venue.
Features of yesterday's play {were the fine knocks by COL STABLEFORD
Kirke, who hit nine boundaries ini
dary hits.
Scores were as follows: Fus. Harrison (Fusiliers) beat L/C R. E. 1st Innings
Roberts (Fusiliers).
Middleweight
first place with 34 points each,| while the wert second with 19 points.
Static Machine Guns Fus. Edwards (Fusiliers) beat
At the conclusion of the sports the prizes will be distributed by Mrs. A. W. Bartholomew, wife of His Excellency the General Officer Commanding,
The following is the complete programme:-
*High Jump.
Putting The Shot.
*440 Yards Relay. ( Men). 11⁄2 Mile Relay. (4 Men).
Egg and Spoon Race (Nurses). Open Mile.
Long Jump.
*Half Mile Relay (team of 4).1 *Hurdles Relay (team of 4). Officers v. Sergeants.
Band Race. "Tug-of-war.
* These events to count towarde the Commandant's Challenge Cup.
The following events have al- ready been decided:—
High Jump
1. Corps Infantry (6 points).
Reid (Rifles).
Light Heavyweight Pte. Carroll (East Lancs.) beat
Martin (Artillery),
Heavyweight
East Lancs. 1st Innings
K. E. 2nd Innings Bin.S/Sergt. Collins, Herbert, b
Elvin Sergt. Danialls, b Whitehead
Q. 3. S. Moreton, ‹ Elvin, b Cox Car. Lt. Barron, run ont
Pie. Harmsworth (East Lanes.) beat
Pte. Smart (Medical). Fight stopped in the first Round.
OPEN. CHAMPIONSHIPS
Flyweight Rin. Grahame (Rifles) beat L/Cpl
Hall (Fusiliers).
:
Bantamweight Fus Fisher (Fusiliers) beat Pte.
Bennett (East Lancs.). Featherweight
L/Cpl Whelan (Rifes) beat Fus.
Owens (Fasiliers).
Middleweight
*Cox
Col. Kirke, not out L/Cpl. Shipp. b Cox Capt. Foley, e Dawson, b Elvin Cpl. Wateridge, st. Herbert, b Sergt. Eaton, e Batting, b Elvin Spr. Bradford, e Botting, b Cox Spr. Beale, b Elvin
Extras (B. 9, L.B. 1)
Total
90
២៨៦
Kershaw
received
the
of Pool with a Stableford score 3334 points. T. Henderson being a)
overhead
Kowloon
Rifles
Superiority Complex
Wong Mei-shun had very little in- terest in the game other than to barge his way through a crowd of.
An entry of 42 proved the popu-passing shots were in perfect or- larity of this competition which lader and he secured comparatively 40excellent considering that Good few points as the result of his
Friday was fully booked for the many voluntary assays to the net, South China "B" v Inter-Club match.
mostly as the result of lobbing by!
(Caroline Hill, 445 p.m.) players, while Leung Wing-chiu
CLUB
evidently did not think the en- Tsui which lacked depth.
(Kowloon, 445 pm)counter important enough to put The match was a much closer!
Y ATHLETIC
his heart and soul into the game. one than the score might suggest,
(Sookampoo, 4.45 p.m.)
Tso Kwai-shing worked hard on many games being won by Tsui Stone'ters (RA) v FUSILIERS after he had been 40-love down, j (Prince Edward Ed., 4.45 p.m.) the right-wing, but also did not ▾ EAST LANCS. produce his best form, while Tio (RA)
(Causeway Bay, 445 pm) Hian-guan, although working SECOND DIVISION Kowloon (Club, 3.15 pm)
VARIETY THE SPICE OF
LIFE
8
OGEY pools, eclectics and Rumjahn also made some magní-Lyemun 11 Stablefords enjoy à consider-ficent recoveries and never at any!
B
10 able amount of popularity in the time was the match uninteresting. RIFLES
(realm of competitive golf, but why In fact, it was the best seen in
has the one club competition been the 1936 series. squeezed out to the limbo of the !past?
188
Bowling Analysin
0.
Whitehend
3
Cox
.20
Elviz
219
Murphy
Baker Botting
East Lanca. Zad Innings L/Cpi. Goldsworthy, Eston, b.
Barron
C. S. M. J. Elvin, b Stipy.
Lt. J. P. Williams, b Eaton
*pp*
Club
Athletic
v. FUSILIERS
(Club, 4.45 p.m.) It is obviously not Sirdar's year
EASTERN be lost his proud doubles re-]
(Caroline Hill, 3.15 p.m.) cord, also to Tsui, and yesterday | SOUTH CHINA, Y Engineers The feats that Harry Vardon he lost his singles crown to the! could do with a mid iron, were re-same player after very nearly be- ordinary ing beaten by J. Tavares and Paul markable, and to the Diplayer to-day a one club match Kong in earlier rounds but he
would at any rate show how the went down gloriously, his cheer-Army 'old timers' managed without a ful smile never deserting him. orange of clubs from No. 1 to No. 110.
Lt. E. M. Dawson, Ibw, b Beale 45 Lt. K. W. B. Murphy, not out... Bdsn Coster. e Kirke, b Beale L/Cpl. Whitehead, c Desfells, b
Eaton
2. Static Machine Guns (4L/Cpl. Quinlan (Rifles) beat Cpl Bdsm Cox, e Collins, b Eaton
9
points)..
Coastal Defence (3 points).
Best Individual Jump: A. Hus- sain (Coastal Defence) 3 ft. 3 ins.
Putting The Shot:-
1. Static Machine
points).
Gans 5
2. Corps Infantry (4 points).
Weaver (Fusiliers).
Light Heavyweight
Cpl. Henderson (Eides) beat Bin
Gallagher (Rifles).
Lightweight. L/Cpl. Powell (Fusiliers) beat Pte.
Whitehouse (East Lanca.).
Welterweight Pte. Neilson (East Lancs.) best Fus.
Morgan (Fusiliera).
Bdan. Botting, not out
Extras (B. 5,. L. B. 5)
Total (for 7 wkts.)
not bat.
OVERHEARD AT THE NINETEENTH
if he played golf with 14 new laid eggs it would'nt cost him) 10 anything."
176"
that caddy would make Pte. Baker and Pre. Hebert, did an excellent golfer, he's lost three balls and not lifted his head once." ....... we've half a dozen real-
Bowling Analysis
3. Coast Defence (3 points).
..
Heavyweight
guson (S. M. GI), 34 ft. 31⁄2 ina. (Pte. Green (East Lancs.) winnet
Barron Shipp Bradford Wateridge Beale Eaton
Best Individual Put: J. J. Fer-
Fight stopped in the third round.
1
Rumjahn's Open Record
(Sookumpoo, 3.15 p.m.) TO-MORROW KOTEWALL CUP CHARITY COMPETITION—(Fizz])
Rest of
+
T NAVY (Kowloon, 4.15 p.m.) EXHIBITION GAMES
the Colony. "A" team CHINESE OLYMPIC TEAM
(Caroline Hill, 4.00 pm) [REST OF THE COLONY “B” TEAM
v Chinese Olympic team.
(Caroline Hill, 5.16 p.m.)|
1
hard for the winning goal in the closing minutes, gave a miserable display earlier on, ruining several promising movements through careless passing.
Fung was right off form in the leader's berth, while the sathe cau [be said of Ip: ' Pak-wa, AR the left-wing. Lee Wai-tong, how- ever, played a true captain's game and made use of every available opportunity, but his pretties! movement was spoiled by a clumsy effort by Pickering.
(Continued on Page 5;
FIRST DIVISION
1926 Etuner-up to T. Honda. 1927-Won from Ng Sz-kwong. 1928-Runner-up to T. Honda. 1929-Runner-up to M. W. Lo. 1932-Won from E. C. Fincher.strikes his length early in the 1933-Won from J. A. E. Casmatch "A. D." Is likely to be a Athletic
sumbhoy.
end S. China "B"
Police
Clab Fusiliers Navy
1935-Won from G. R. M. Rie-very tired player before the
3. China “A”.
of the match. ketta.
CLUB RESULTS 1925-35--Won the Doubles with
The following were yesterday's his emarin H. D. Emfah¤- results in the HKCC. tournaites On Monday next Tani Wai-pui ment
Recreio
will meet H. D. Rumjahn in the
Goals
PW L D F 218 5 2 24 13
22 10 4 8 21 11 4 6.
.20 12
.22 10
Club Handicap. Singles
St. Joseph's 0. M. R. W ly finished golfers and several
Final Round, and if he maintains H. J. Armstrong (-5/6) beat A. CL East Lancs. dozen in the rough."
Bowker (scr.) 6-2, 6-2: (Fourth Kowloon he doesn't need to know his present form he should win
Bound).
E.A. (Lyemun) Colonel Bogey he ought to be on comfortably in straight sets. "HS Grant (~152) beat W, P. R.A. (S'ter) ..2 intimate terms with Corporal D.” is considerably slower on the Lucy (3/6) 6-4, 6-3. (Semi-
Final). "Punishment.”
9 0
25
53
0 18
17
3
court than "S. A., and, if Tsvi
Totals
206 125 1.25 56 612 615 346