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GOLF CLUBS
BY
SPALDING
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936
It is easier to perfect one
swing than six. The great-
est aid to better golf initiated and developed by Spalding has been the crea-
tion of exact relation of lie
to lie, pitch to pitch, weight to weight and balance to balance. When you purchase
a set of Spalding clubs, you obtain these essential points.
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ARE ARRIVING BY EVERY
BOAT TO MEET THE UNPRECEDENTED DEMANDS
Connoisseurs cannot distinguish ST. GEORGE'S GIN from higher priced GINS on the market. Yet, it sells
for less.
TRY IT!
Stocks are now available at
All Leading Hotels, Stores & Compradores
or by Phoning 25913.
MAISON, F. MATHIEU, Ste. Ame. Local Agents.
Wills's
(Left). The winners of the Women's 100 Metres at the Olympic Games-Stella Walsh (Poland), Silver Medalist, Helen Stephens (U.S.) Gold Medalist, and Miss Kaethe Krams (Germany), Bronze Medalist (Right) The winners of the Men's 100 Metres-Geft to right) Ralph Metcalfe (UZS), Silver Medalist, Jesse Owens (U.S.), Gold Medalist, and Osendarp (Holland), Bronze Medalist.
BIG TENNIS
PROBLEM
WOMEN JUST
HALF AS GOOD
AS MAN STARS
"Bunny" Austin And Miss Round Meet
CHAMPION WHO DONNED A SKIRT
(By "LEIGHTON")
London, July 12: Bunny Austin and Dorothy Round played a singles match at Newcastle last week.
The idea was to see how near the game of a front Tank woman compared to that of a front rank man.
Was
US. BASEBALL RESULTS
GIANTS JUST BEAT DODGERS
TIGERS OVERWHELMED
New York, To-day The results of the League base ball matches played yesterday
were as follows:—
National League
саме
Brooklyn New York
Pte. Taylor, above, second in the Hong Kong Area Inter-Unit Half mile swimming championship this morning.
1:
game and yet win a love set.
R. F. Doherty used to give and owe 30 to Mrs. Lambert Chambers, them the best woman player in the country, and also agreed not to The conditions were Austin volley. These odds were never be owed thirty; Dorothy received yond his power. fifteen. Austin had to gain six
Won His Bet points to win a game: Dorothy Another ex-champion, Ernest had to win three.
Renshaw, when told in earlier days The result
one set all that a woman's skirt must neces- Dorothy won the first at 7--5 and sarily restrict her activities agreed Austin the second at 8ent
Ito don a skirt, and then wagered Conclusion-First-class woman that he could give a first-class is just half as good as first-class woman player just the same handi-
(cap. He won his bet. Reason-Woman's play is less. Miss Ryan was one of the most forceful, less speedy, weaker in successful women players against service, less sure on the valley. the second-class man; on more In fact, in tennis, as in cricket, than one occasion she won Lord football, running, swimming, box-Charles Hope's cup for a mixed (ing, women must yield to men.
singles competition under handi- Tilden vs. Suzanne
cap at Cannes.
In the only set they ever played. Many of her male opponents Tiden beat Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen could not handle her heavy chợp. 6-0. Her father was gratified They even preferred Mlle. Leng- because every game went to dence. len's more orthodox strokes, though This was Tilden's ruse for prov-the French player never lost more jing that he could concede Suzanne, than four games to Miss Ryan in supreme in ber own realm. as any match they ever played on the Imuch as three points in every Riviera
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R. HE 2 5 1 3. 7 0
SWIMMING AT "Y"
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SUCCESSFUL
AQUATIC GALA
Fine Chinese
HELD BY RA.O.C.A.|| All-Rounder
Keen Competition Featured
GOOD ORGANISATION FEATURED
A very pleasant function took: place in the European YMCA Swimming Pool yesterday eve- |ning, when the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and Old Com- rades Association held their annual swimming gala open present and past members, the aquatic programmẹ being a great
success.
to
Although the standard of swim-
ming was not very good, the racesįŢUNG KWOK-WA, who is one were keenly contested and, what of the fatest track, and field was more important, the parti-stars produced in South China. at cipants enjoyed themselves and one time held every known title in
Hong Kong,
swam for the sake of the sport.
A notable feature of the gala A fine all-rounder, he is also was the clock-like precision with known on the turf as a novice which the programme was carried ipckey, although at present he is through, competitors for the next in charge of the Chinese Bathing event being ready to take their Club's Swimming Section. places at the start as soon as the
Born in Hong Kong in 1910, he previous event had concluded. was educated at the Wah Yan Còl- jlege, where he won their indivi- Following the gala, tea and coffee and cakes were served in for three years in succession He dual track and field championskip the West Lounge where Mrs. represented Hong Kong in the
Melvin Ott and E. Ripp homering, wife of Colonel J. F. King. China National Games in Nanking Commanding the Ordnance Corps in 1958, and was placed first 100, 200; 200 and |800 Metres events, a feat which is without parallel. Fung, however, Ladies' 50 Yards Championship:equalled this performance
Chicago Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Men's 25 Yards Breast-Stroke:
at
the Kwangtang Provincial Meeting held in Canton in 1928.
in
the Colony, presented the in
the
4 7
o Prizes.
5 12
0
Results were:
1.
Miss Bowstead
7 4 1 Chuck Klein hit a home run. Boston
9 11 Lopez and Berger hit homers.
2 Mrs. Wykes
1. V. Sanders
0
2. G. Hopkinson
Men's 50 Yards Medley:
1. J. Mayrock
Boston
No other games were scheduled.
American League
4 12
3.
Pte. Lawlor'
1.
Mrs. Wykes
0
2 Miss Bowstend
Werber homered. Philadelphia
5
9 0
Bob Johnson and Hayes hit home runs. Thirteen innings were played.
Boston Philadelphia
Detroit
Owen homered. St. Louis
2 11
1
-7 11
✔
Mermaids 25 Yards Free Style:-
He won the Open Half-Mile championship at the Hong Kong University sports in 1926, 1928 and 1929.
As a swimmer his prowess is well-known
Although he never took up speed swimming seriously,
Men's 100 Yards Free Style Cham- he is undoubtedly one of the leading
pionship:-
LL/Cpl Price
2. S/Sergt. Grant
Men's 25 Yards Cruiser Race.
1.
Master J. Clewer
2 S/Serg Hopkinson
75 Yards Mixed Face:
1. V. Maycock
2. Mrs. Wykes
3. S/Sergt. Wykes
100 Yards Medley Team Race-
Chinese pivots at waterpolo.
He first played for the Chinese Bathing Club in 1925, then the |Chinese Athletic Association, and |later transferred his affections to the Young, Companions' Associa tion, which flourished for a season or two before disbanding.
Fung Kmakina 2008 also 720 J.mean exponent at basketball, re- presenting the Chinese F.M.CA 2 S/Sergt Grant Bowstead, in several winning League teams.
1 V. Maycock, S. Maycock, Maycock and V. Sanders.
Solters and Bottomley homered. $/Sergt. Wykes and S/Sergt. Cooper Be played soccer for the Athletic
8 15
13 15
1
Go Get 'Em Race:-
Won by Lient. Gillam
7.12
0
Diving for Platies:-
Dimmaggio homered. Washington
Stone homered.
4
8.
New York
1 L/Cpl. Drake
2 S/Sergt. Cooper
Men's 50 Yards Championship
1 Pte Lawlor
-Reuter. (Continued at foot of Next Col)
"AS GOOD AS GOLD!
£0-130
in the Second Division ce a for- mard, but gave the game up after (two seasons in order to devote his time to water-polo, which he found more exciting and strenuous.
DIAMOND GOSSIP
· (Continued from Page 2) local baseballers should remember that an umpire's decision must be final as in all other sports
Earlier in the season. I stressed the necessity for the framing, of rales by which means the League would be properly controlled, but nothing has been done.
Only one rule was brought in-- the registration of players, but this role has served no really useful purpose:".
Rades Necessary
While it is most desirable that
the League should be governed more by the spirit of the game than by the rules, the latter are absolutely necessary for the smooth running of any competi- tion as they enable clubs. to know exactly what they are permitted to do.
It is to be hoped that the lessons learned this year will re- sult in the League, being organised on a better footing next season. The matshed at Causeway Bay, (which was destroyed by last Mon- Iday's typhoon, is not to be re- erected as there is only a fortnight before the end of the season. Next Saturday: the Volunteers will play' the Japanese in their return en- counter, and this game will be fol- lowed by an encounter between the Americans and Eastern
On Sunday an excellent game should be witnessed when the Volunteers play the Americans-
2. J. Maycock
50 Yards Family Race.
1.
S/Serg and Miss Boustead 2.8/Sergt. sind Mrs. Vykkes Men's 25 Yards: Blindfold Race:
Won by V. Sanders
100 Tards Free Style Relay:--
1. V. Maycock, S. Maycock, J.
Maycock and V. Sanders.
2. Pie, Pitt, L/Opl, Frisby, L/Cpl.
Price and Pte. Lawlor
Balloon Races
1. Master Clewer
2. Zient. Stevens.