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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1936
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SOUTH CHINA "B" SELECT
Lau Mau. above, the South China "A" team full-back, will be assisting the "B" team on their coaring Siamese tour.
KOWLOON PAIR * ARE BEATEN AT
HAPPY VALLEY
Greig And Mair Cause Upset
GAMES FINISHED IN DARKNESS
Yesterday's lawn bowls gramme was featured by the feat of N. J. Bebbington and
FRANK WYKOFF'S COMEBACK
SEEKING PLACE IN U.S. RELAY TEAM
100 METRES IN 10.5 SECS.
Whittier, Calif., May 20. PRANK WYKOFF'S comeback campaign placed the sandy-
Faired printer to-day among the powerful contenders for a
berth on the American Olympic squad.
In the 100 Metres event at the Whittier track, and field festival last night, he was timed at 10.5s, three-tenths of a second slower than the world mark. He inished a yard ahead of Foy Draper, University of California star.
TENNIS WIN FOR
KOWLOON
Watson And Capell Prominent
POSTPONED "C" FIXTURE
Six years ago the former Trojan ace set a world's record
of 9.4 in the 100 Yards, and it
still stands. He gave up run- ning after the 1932 Olympic Games, and only this spring!
is third Olympiad and a place decided to try a comeback for
his
Still, another
in the sprints," he said, "but I would like to get in on the relay team."
comeback" ven- Kowloon Cricket Club played off their postponed "C" Division Lawniture proved successful last night|
fixture against when William (Bill) Graber, who Tennis League- Craigengower Cricket Club yester-set a worid's pole vault record of pro-day at King's Park and won by 6 14ft. 4%in leapt 14ft. 3im. to cap de-sets to 3, thanks mainly to the ef-ture the event.-Associated Press, Alforts of CE. Watson and R. S.
Hyde-Lay, the ECC pair, by W. Capell, who won all their matches. US. POLO ACES
the courts
Greig and W. Mair of the Police The rain that fell earlier in the Recreation Club, and due to the afternoon rendered fact that the rain that fell short- rather slippery and this did not by ly after 6p.m. held up the games any means improve the standard for some time, two or three mat- of play though some close rallies ches were not finished until al-were seen, especially when Broad- most complete darkness had set bridge and Smith were taken toj
twelve games before they
in.
won
and R. S. Capell
NOT EXCITED
BY OLYMPIAD
On the Recreio green R. Dun-from Choa and Hung. The scores were:- can and S. Randle were leading J.
C E. Watson Kamsay and J. McKelvie 18-16 on the 19th end when the latter drew (K.CC)
beat L. Choa and A. Hung...... 6-1 three shots. With his last wood, beat N. P. Karanjia and 0. Sadick 6-4 however. Randle carried the jack beat D. Hung and S. A. Cassumb- to lay six shots and thus make certain of victory.
On Chances Depend
Change Of View THREAT TO ARGENTINE
Chicago, June 2 The American Olympic Commit- tee cannot get its star polo players 6-2 excited about the Berlin Olympic E. A. White and W. Gittins (C.C.C)}Games. who beat Karanjia and Sadick ... 6-0 6-2 eat Choa and Hung
The Recreio
quartette
hoy
The committee's one chance for
played on the KB.G.C. green figur-t to Hung and Cassumbhoy.. 4-6 polo representation hinges on the ed in a very close fight, Noronha
F. A. Broadbridge and J. S. Smith rivalry cropping up this summer
and Silva finally beating Gutier-(K.C.C.)
rez and Remedios by 3 shots.
Results of yesterday's games
are as follows:-
Open Singles
A. E. Carey 21, J. S. Riddell 13
(18 heads) at LR.C.
Open Pairs
J. E. Noronha and F. X. Silva 26,1 LJ. Gutierrez and A. A. dos Reme dios 23, at K.B.G.C.
(Continued on Page 9).
beat Karania and Sadick
lost to Hurig and Cassumbhoy
st to Choa and Hung
in the international. tournament at 器 few 6-3 Hurlingham,
0.6
England,
weeks before the Olympic matches.
The United States has two teams'
"C" Division League entered at Hurlingham. If either
TABLE TO DATE
Sets PWLD F Recreio.. 3 3 0 0 21 KCC "A" 3 3 0 0 20 ELT.C 2 2 0 0 14 SCAA 2 2 0 12
A
6
jor both fours catch the Olympic
spirit at this tournament, the (United States has an excellent
17 PLAYERS TO VISIT
VISIT BANGKOK Several Matches Arranged
Arranged For Return Trip C" Division Champions For 1936 ? TEAM LEAVING ON
The Kowloon Cricket Club "A" team in the "C" Division of the Lawn Tennis League, above; are conceded an excellent chance of win- ning the title. From left to right are J. S. Smith, G. A. White, W. M. Gittima, R. S. Capell, F. & Broadbridge and C. E. Watson. Mail" photo),
("China
IN
JULY 5
TWO PRACTICE GAMES THIS WEEK
S.C.A A. TAKING NO CHANCES REGARDING RETIREMENT
OF OLYMPIC ACES
(By REFEREE")
ORDER TO GIVE THEIR "B" TEAM FOOTBALLERS MORE EXPERIENCE IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY BE ABLE TO FILL ANY VACANCIES CAUSED BY MEMBERS OF THE “A” TEAM AT PRESENT EN KOUTE TO THE BER- LIN GAMES, GIVING UP THE GAME ON THEIR KETURN, THE SOUTH CHINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION HAVE | ACCEPTED THE INVITATION OF THE OVERSEAS CHINESE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF BANGKOK TO SEND A-TEAM
ANOTHER HALF-CENTURY HERE AND PLAY A SERIES OF SIX GAMES.
FOR FRANK WOOLLEY
D'ARTAGNAN OF CRICKET
London, May 27.
The team will be composed of all the "B" team players at present in the Colony, together with several of the more pro- mising of the junior players, and will be under the management . of Mr. Ki Man-cheong, one of the football secretaries of the South China Athletic Association. Mr. Chow Yuen-ling will also accompany the team in the capacity of coach and trainer.
The team is due to leave on July 5 and will proceed straight After that the team will play games in Saigon, Penang, Ipoh, Singapore and the deathless immortals of our great summer. game, RANK WOOLLEY, epitome of cricketing grace and one of to Bangkok, where six games will be played. approaches yet another half-century to-day a half-century, Kuala Lumpur, while attempts are being made to play the same teams there which played against the Chinese Olympic team this time, in years.
Kent's master stylist is celebrating his 49th birthday and recently.
The team expects to return to the Colony in the last week thus enters upon his fiftieth year.
What can one say of this of August or in early September, well in time for the commence- lion-heart of the sun-lit field? ment of the League season.
PROMISING SWIMMER
A⚫A. da RÖZA
-this master in whose hands
To-morrow South China isp
the willow flows with such easy meeting Lyeman at Caroline JAPANESE AT
race?
Nothing that does not add Hill, while another game has been arranged with a naval | lustre to his name.
These team for next Friday.
Woolley is the d'Artagnan of
cricket-the Gay Cavalier of hat and ball
Cricket's Greatest Treat Those who have not seen Woolley
will be the only practice games
prior to the Chinese team's departure.
The players chosen to make the
A
HENLEY
Olympic Team For
Regatta
(By POLARIS)
London, May 27. Tsang (goalkeepers);} We look on Henley Regatta as Lan Mau. Leung one of the most English of Eng- . Chung Falam,
at his best, with runs dowing from trip are:-Wong Wab-kai and the bat, have missed the greatest Sammy treat cricket has to give.
It would be idle to recapitulate In-chan (backs); Lan Hing-choi,lish sporting occasions but this the colourful pages that Frank has Lam Tak-po, Henry Young, Ya year there's going to be a touch Wah-hing. Lau Ting-sang (hal- of the Orient about our riverside added to the book of cricket.
ves); ip Kuen-po, Lai Shai-wing. 'gala.
But let me bring back two vivid pictures.
Two Memories
Woolley at the wicket
Ho Kar-keung, Chan Tak-fai, Li Seems that T'I have to polish up Shek-yau Wong King-cheong, and my Japanese, for the Olympic eight from the land of Nippon are
Dover, 1934-Northants in the Lee Wing-on (forwards). field...
Several of the above mentioned due to make their bow in the
Grand Challenge Cup. driv-have figured prominently
A Special Boat games, representatives ing, cutting, booking ball after local
Overseas challenge comes from among whom are Leung In-chan,
and various lands. Lam Tak-pe, Ho Kar-keung Li Shek-yau.
Pts chance to unseat the Argentine as A Hong Kong in 1915 and was
A. DA ROZA, was born in ball to the boundary.
One hundred and four smashing 6 Olympic champions, the committee 6 contend. NAN
educated at St. Joseph's College, runs in 63 breathless minutes!... where he immediately came into the fastest century of the year!
4
6
SEVEN-A-SIDE RUGBY RECORD AT.C... 2 1 0-161⁄2 101⁄2
K.CC. "B" 3 2 1 0 15 3 1 2 0 12 C.C.C. Over £1.700 has been distribut-K.U.T.C. 2 1 1 97 2 0 2 0 3 ed to hospital charities as the re-LR.C.
the Middlesex, County K.T.G.CA. 3 0 3 0 11 sult of
3 0 3 0 9 3 0 3 0 R.F.U. seven-a-side competition.C.R.C. the finals of which were played
at Twickenham on April 25.
Pioneer Project
"Polo was omitted from the 1923 the athletic limelight, excelling in land 1932 games," a committee the 220 and 460 Yards events in spokesman said. "Consequently its addition to winning the College's revival this year is somewhat of Junior Championship.
15
16
18
o a pioneer project and interest has & been running behind schedule.”
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F.A. SUSPENSION UPHELD KOWLOON CHINESE GRANTED AFFILIATION
N earnest appeal by Mr. T. A. Mitchell, Civilian Vice-president
·He took a very keen interest in swimming and in 1931 was the
He joined the Victoria Recred-
· re-
Lord's, 1921-England wickets tumbling like ninepins before the
Macdonald .".. devastating might of Gregory and
In The Hero's Role
"Leung's Bad Luck
Leang In-chan, who has played for several years in the senior not team, was very unfortunate to be selected for the All-China
Kent School, American winners of Thames Challenge Cup in 1933, specially-constructed bost.
(Continued on Page 5.)
CHINESE SOCCER TEAM INVADES EUROPE
in the APPREHENSION IN
LONDON
and
Giant blonde figure of Woolley team he was ill during the trials, America's leading contenders in Inter-School champion, covering grimly defending-alone of Enwhile Lam Tak-po is regarded by the International matches will the 100 Yards Free Style in 68 land batsman to withstand Aus-many as the most promising of
tralian expresses. probably be led by Eric Pedley, 2-5 secs.
he played last season Ninety-five of England's 187 in the Chinese pivots in the Colony with Ceel Smith, Robert Bullock and another player yet to be named tion Club in May, 1932 and won the first innings 93 in second Governor's Cap competition
in the Final of the Sunday Herald for the Charles B. Wightman four, the Junior Championship. His Woolley in the hero's role.
Many, many happy returns of
(By POLARIS) · International Charity Cup
London, May 27. Winston Guest's Templeton four, first major success was recorded
in 1934, when he came second to the day, Frank Woolley. Long winner of the national open, also Wilfred Lawrence in
Mention of the Japs reminds me the
100 may your figure grace the cricket petition against Portugal
the former Flo Kar-keung, will make the trip. This team may Tards Free Style, his time being field.--POLARIS.
Athletic leader, did not do much that among soccer competitors at include Winston and Raymond
in local football last season owing the Olympic Games there will be Guest, Michael Phipps and James60 seconds. He secured his first
Interport, in 1983, when he P. Mills, or Stewart Iglebart. -
he improved Johnnie Chinaman takes his the season, The United States finished sec- Shanghai Foreign "y" in the
greatly in the closing stages of football seriously these days. the season, while Lee, Shek-yau When Hong Kong played Carton has just returned from Shanghai, recently the crowd was 90,000 1 where he played for the Tung representing a "gate" that makes even Arsenal crowds seem ordin- Wah team on the left wing.
ary. South Ching Last year
My Chinese correspondent, now New York, June 15.
in captivity, tears himself away Mrs. Amy Hollisen is to compete again selected last year against
Three beer bottles were hurled (made a similar tour in the King's Cup air race, to be the Shanghai visitors but held on July 10 and 11, for the taken ill at the last moment and into the ring in Madison Square management of Mr. Ho Yeung-from his chop-suey to tell me that Garden in the third round of a re-kwong, winning 12 of the 16 games Ted Drake has nothing on centre-
battle between played first time. She has chosen the was so unable to participate.
soccer for St. cent 10-round played machine which Col. Lindbergh
but presented the Colony against the BOTTLES FLY IN to knee trouble sustained early in the Chinese.
A of the Hong Kong Football Association, for the remission lond in the 1924 Olympic matches Relay. The following year also
of the remaining period of the suspension of Mui Sui-ki, of the Chinese Police Football team, who, on February 22, was suspend- ed by the Emergency Committee for nine months for striking an opponent, met with no response at the meeting of the Council held last night at the Sports Club under the chairmanship of Colonel H. C. Harrison.
how
the
the
a senior
-United Press.
MRS. MOLLISON IN KING'S CUP RACE
saw him in the Colony team bound
GARDEN
for Shanghai, where he secured Latin Blood Rises At third place in the half-male besider,
Boxing Bout playing water-polo for the vic- torious Colony side. He
He
1008
2003
"B" ander the
forward Lee Wai-tong.
Austria Belgium.
and now Chipa! Ab, well-we once beat Bohemia by 4-01
BEN CHAMPION TRADED BY N. 7. YANKEES.
Others present were Messrs. T. Mr. T. G. Stokes, related A. Mitchell, vice-president, W: the Police, dissatisfied with Alexander, T. G. Stokes, C. C. heavy sentence inflicted on Cheung, H. K. Lee, C. M. Alves, player, had lodged an appeal, but tried out recently at Hanworth Joseph's College in his younger Pedro Montanez, of Puerto Rico, A three-seater cabin plane with a days in the inter-school League and and Leonard del Genio of New S. Strange, C. Guimgam, Lieut. Chad been advised to withdraw it
BRITAIN DEFEATS FRANCE décision. Chaplin, Lieut. J. Wood, B A for certain reasons, but how they retractable undercarriage, it has was also prominent on the cricket York, which Pedro won handily by It was the Latin's fifteenth con-
"AT AMATEUR GOLF. Captain Kimm A.E.C., acting Hon. had been assured by
LAnother personality will appear a top speed of 150 mothe
secutive victory since he came to Secretary, and S. Snaith, assistant member of the Council that, the cruising speed of 130 mph and field in the inter-school matches.
to-morrow.] case would be sympathetically re-
this country, and to-day he is Hon. Secretary.
considered at the end of the season.out any amendments and Mr. T.
London, June 13-England de- BASEBALL GAME TO-DAY
awaiting Tony Canzoneri'z sígnɛ-
New York, June 15-In a sur- YACHTING RESULTS -
The Connell discussed the mat-A. Mitchell, proposing its adoption,
¡ture on a contract for a world's feated. France in an international ter at length but the appeal was said that, considering the short.
The Overseas Chinese are meet-lightweight title bout with the men's amateur golf contest at Deal prise deal today, the New York to-day by 5 matches to 2, with Yankees traded Ben Chapman, Colleen, sailed by Capt. N. Syd-not supported.
time Captain Kimm had been
the Washington dall, won the Mixed Class yacht The application of the Kowloon secretary, he had not seen a more ing U.S.S. Taise in a return base champion. race, which was decided over 5.75 Chinese Football Club for affilia-concise report of the year's work-ball encounter at Causeway Bay Latin blood in the gallery rose two halved. In the foursomes the outfielder, to
this afternoon at 3.30 p.m. 7-Thefin the third round when the re-two teams shared the honours, Senators for Jake Powell, who miles yesterday. Ariel (Mr. N. Dtion to the Association was grant-ing.
The Annual Meeting of the As-feations best the Chinese by 4 runs feree, Artie McGovern, warned each winning one and halving one, generally plays, centre-field. " "No Lloyd) was second and Painted ed
land halved one of the six singles action United Press. (Continued on Page 5) Tady (Major F. C. Bootyy third in The draft report for the year sociation will be held in the Sports to 3 on Sunday and this game Pedro about holding and hitting but the British golfers won four cash was involved in the trans should provide some good sport. was presented and accepted with-Club on Tuesday, July 14. a feld of nine starters.......