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THE CHINA MAHL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1936
Sporting Page!
CLUB MEET RIFLES IN FEATURE MATCH OF TO-DAY'S SOCCER
SHANGHAI TENNIS
PLAYERS
VISITORS AND ISLAND TO CLASH
COLONY TEAMS NOT SETTLED
THE
(By “REFERÊE”)
outstanding sports feature of the week- end and of next week is the visit of the Shanghai tennis and badminton players, who arrived in the Colony this morning by the RMS. Empress of Japan, and, weather permitting, they will commence their programme with a series of Mixed Doubles matches against a Selected Hong Kong combination at the Chinese Recreation Club to-day.
Members of the Shanghai Country Club team are J. G. Forbes (Shanghai Cricket Club), J. H. du Pac de Massonliés (French Club), A. G. Meise (French Club), T. G. Figgis (Country Club), A. Spagnoletti (French Club), Mrs. B. Krenov (French Club), Mrs. Dvorjetz (Russian Ladies' Club), Mrs. Burton (Country Club) and Miss P. Massey (Country Club).
Owing to the very short notice given the various 'Club officials have been unable to nominate their various players for the matches and those given below are pending confirmation. Lee Wai-tong, who was invited to play, is unable to do so as be has to play soccer to-morrow and does not wish to tire himself, while Tennie Kwok, one of the most improved of the Chinese Recreation Club players, is away from the Colony.
MAMAK TOURNEY
DIVIDED INTO
TWO DIVISIONS
Tsui Wai-pui, the Colony singles champion, is only able, to play to-day as he is not able to get away from his office in time to participate during the week-day matches.
In spite of all these handicaps,]. however, I feel sure that both the
Hong Kong Island and Kowloon
Twenty-Two Teams To Bainland teams will acquit them-
Compete
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ELECTED
(By "STICKS"}
At a meeting of the Mamak Hoc key Tournament, held at St. An-! drew's Church, Haft last evening Mr. G. Clark, the Kowloon Cricket Club tennis player, was unanim- easly elected Hon. Secretary in the place of ME. L. Tyler, who was elected to that post at the annual meeting but who has since resign
ed. Vi
salves very favourably in the eyes of the visitors.
Complete Programme
The full programme is as follows:
To-day
On Busman's Holiday
Kay Stammers, left, Britain's greatest threat, and Caroline Babcock, California tennis star, content themselves with watching the opening games at Forest Hills, New York. Later they both failed in the battle for the women's national championship, which Miss Alice Marble-won from Miss Helen Jacobs.
TRAGEDY AVERTED IN
V.R.C. POOL
Country Club Hong Kong Island STAND COLLAPSES AT INTER-SCHOOL/
(Men's and Ladies' Doubles matches at CRC. 3. p.m.).
To-morrow Country Club v. Kowloon (Mixed Doubles at RC.C. 3 p.m.).
Monday
SWIMMING SPORTS
THE quick action of several spectators, judges and competitors The quick act on of sight
tragedy at the Country Club. Kowloon (Men's Victoria Recreation Club yesterday afternoon, when the bamboo and Ladies Doubles," KCC walk bordering the main stand, on the fringe of the bath, col- lapsed under the strain of several hundred children, who were eagerly watching the 200 Yards Relay and who were thas thrown into the water, happily with no casualties, although several kiddies were on the point of drowning.
3.30 p.m.).
Tuesday Country Club v Hong Kong Island (Mixed Doubles, CRC courts, 3.30 [p.m.).
SELECTED 'TEAMS The following are the selected local termic
Hong Kons Mrs. E. E Litten and
Capt. GW. P. Kimm presided, and was supported by Messrs. A. E. P. Guest and A. Austen, assia- tant How Secretaries, N. A. E. Mackay Hoa Treasurer, and re-Miss R. Ramjahn, Mix K. Ferry and
presentatives of all the clubs tak-] ing part in the tournament.
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WRESTLING MATCHES AT ALHAMBRA THEATRE
Two excellent wrestling matches are anticipated at the Alhambra to-morrow Theatre at 11 am.
Ladies:
¡Mrs. C. C. Chia-
Men's: H. D. and S. A. Eumjahu. Lee Wai-tong and in Tak-chak..
Rapier's
Selections
Mixed: Tsui Wai-pri and Miss R Rumjahn, H. D. Rumjahn and MissⱭRACE NO.L R. Perry, S. A. Ramjahn and Mr
G. G. Chiu, Iu Tak-chenk and Mrs.
Litton
"
Kowbon Ladies: Mrs. N. Wilson. and Mrs.
SOLDIER OF BRITAIN
OAK BAY
DIANA BAY Outsider. King's Warden
BRIGHT VIEW
W. A. B. Dowling, Miss M. Griffiths|RACE NO. 2—
and Miss A. Mackenzie.
H
Men's: E. C. Fischer, and W. C.
M. C. Ma and W. H. Ho. Mixed: W. C. Hung and Miss M]
A. E. P. Guest and Miss A. Mac- kenzie.
A. L. Sullivan and Kr«. N. Wilson.Į Capt. Milne and Mrs. W. A B Dowling.
PONTIAC BAT RIBBLE
Outsider - King's Bounty
¡RACE NO. Sym
ELECTRON BAG TOR VIXEN TOR Outsider Bobniak Star
ROSE EVELYN
Subject to confrmation, a. din ĮRACE NO-.4—— when Jagat Singh, one of the bestner, followed by a dance, will be known exponents of the American held in honour of the visitors at all-in. sport, will meet Young the Kowloon Cricket Club on Mon Aguinaldo; the Filipino Typhoon, day night.
in four 10-minute rounds, while in
a preliminary bout Harban Singh
will meet Arjan Singh over a simi-
TENNIS TITLE FOR CLARK -
THE GORILLA WILD CAT
Outsider - Stopwatch RACE NO.3
NIGHT VIEW GOLD COIN FACING BOY Outsider -- Pride Of Tsingta
lar number of rounds. Advance G. Clark, the Kowloon Cricket] bookings can be made at the "A" Division tennis player, won Queen's and ́Alhambra Theatres, the Army Singles Tennis Cham- PACA NOG — the prices being $220, $1,10 and pionship: last evening, when he 55 cts. (including tax).
Dixon:
and
Riberia, Ru
beat Sergt. King, RAPC, In the final by three set, the SCOTES | being 6-2, 6-2, 6-1. The match was ed from Colsunn 5)-
Bathurst played on the Hong Kong Area Handy, Coster and ground at Scokupoo.
reya, Czesaley,
EL Souza, C. „Oblong and H. Santon.
and DRUGBY UNION TEST
Dunedin, N.Z, September, New Zealand best Australia in the second Rugby Union Test match): | by 38-points, to 18-to-day--New Zealand andke won the first Tast last week by 11 points to 4.
BEAR CLAW MISTAKE BAY
KING'S FANCY Outsider - Cyclamen" Bay RACE NOT
RANGER
PERFECT DAY:
VIOLET QUEEN Outsider — Snowy River RACE NO-2.j
YTHAN AMBERLEY®
WA HIGH HONOUR.
Outsider New Blac DAILY DOUBLE VIEW AND RANGER
THRILLING GAME IS Hard Climb
ANTICIPATED
RECREIO & EAST LANCS.’
MATCH POSTPONED
KOWLOON EXPECTED TO BEAT KOWLOON CHINESE
To Top
(By "ROVER") THRILLING soccer should be the order of the day at the Valley this afternoon when the Hong Kong Football Club and the Rifles, hither- to unbeaten teams, clash in the First Division of the League, and the winners will probably furnish an indication as to who will be South TREDERIC JAMES ELMS, the St. Joseph's left-half, was born in Hong Kong and received China "A's" strongest challengers for the title.
Both teams will remain unchanged from last week and as his early education at St. Joseph's In 191 ke went to
a result the Club, who are in a deadly mood at the present College moment, having scored 12 goals without reply, are expected to Tientsin to continue his studies win, although by only a small margin. The Club have at last and while there played for his found their almost perfect front line of attack, and, with their school in the Second Division at present formidable intermediate line, should hold the soldiers' centre-half and on the left-wing.
Returning to Hong Kong in
attack.
Ferguson and Hartigan, of the Rifles, will need plenty of 1928, he was given a trial with watching and in this direction Hill and Drown, the Club right St. Joseph's, but could not earn a full-back and half-back respectively, will have their hands full place in the team and did not play Forrow, the Cub pivot, is in splendid fettle at the moment and for several seasons. He returned will probably prove more than a match for Ferguson, the opposto the field in 1931, when he was ing leader.
The senior match between the East Lanes and the Recreio 1 scheduled for Sookunpoo has, been postponed as many of the Portuguese players have left)
This the Colony for Macau. match will probably take place during mid-week in the near future.
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UNINTERESTING JUNIOR CARD TO-DAY
Service Teams Should Win All-Round
NAVY STILL FORMIDABLE COMBINATION
(By "ROVER") There is no gaine in the Second Division of the Football League
Ernie Fincher, above, the Kowloon Cricket Club- all-round- er, scored 127 not out in Hong Kong's first innings against Shanghai, but was out for a "duck in the Colony's second knock..
Chan Shek-pui, the well to-day which gives promise of any [known Chinese Athletic goal- interest and the Service teams ince
keeper, water-polo player and all cases are expected to have no badminton player, who was the difficulty in overcoming their op-| starter, dived fully-clothed over ponents.
instrumental in raising the Radio Sports Club football team and entering them in the Third Divi- |sion, playing for them first at centre-half and later at centre- forward. He remained with them till the middle of the 1935 season. when he
St. transferred to Joseph's, for whom he was tried | on the right-wing, where he failed. Given another chance, at left-half. Elms came into his own and has retained this position ever since.
Handicapped by lack of weight and height and the ability to clear strongly, Elms', chief assets are įkis speed, în tackling and his clever
distribution.
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Playing in front of A. V. Gosano ||{now" with · Recreio), Eims was | prominent as a left-half in his first year of senior football and receiv ed recognition when he was chosen as left-half in the Governor's Cup
and competition
the "Sunday Herald" Charity Cup competition, {when he played for Portugal.
He was given his first Interport trial in 1935, but lost his place to C. Parker of the Police, sohile he was also given a trial the follow
"ROVER'S" ng year. He has picyed in most FORECASTsion against the All-Chine soccer
representative pamer in Hong
and represented the Associa
team prior to their departure for
the bamboo remains to the Following their great perform-] rescue of a small child who was ance against the Navy last week.
The following is "Bover's" forecast Berlin about to give up all hope in the the Rifles are now conceded a good for the week-end fixtures, giving the mad scramble for safety, when chance of winning this divister if favoured teams in pronounced black WEEK-END CRICKET he was grasped under the arm-they continue to show the same letters: pits and hauled to safety.
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form.
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League Football Teams
For This Week-End
MATCHES
(Club, 436 pm) All-Day Game At The
To-day
FIRST DIVISION
CLUB
Athletic
KOWLOON
T
Bißes
Cinb
FUSILIERS (Caroline Eill, 4.30 p.m.)
→ Kowloon Chinese
HK.C.C.
(Kowloon, 4.30 pm)| POLICE Y PRESS ON SUNDAY
SECOND DIVISION
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RIFLES
An all-day cricket match will (Club, 2.00 pm) be played on the Hong Kong Cric. PUSILIERS
(Caroline Hill, 2.00 pm.) ket Club ground to-day between * South China teams drawn from members of the (Causeway Bay, 4.30 pm) Club, this being in the nature of
V Eastern
Kowloon Chinese Bon
(Sookumpoo, 3.00 pm) the second trial game of the sea- (Kowloon, 3.00 pm) In the first trial last week, very THIRD DIVISION --
promising form was shown by EAST LANCS, v Becreta
(Chatham Boad, 3.00 pm) that in the all-day match to-day; some of the players and it is hoped Wors-Kwong Wak Y LIGA PTGUESA
Hughes, Harrison, Sullivan, Bunster Athletic FIRST DIVISION Police: cardy; Blackbourn and and Davies,
East Lanes-Williams; Harwood NAVY Pope; Parker, Gough and North; Manning, Green, Johnston, Morrison and Ball; Cox, Carroll and Power:
Swain, Badgife, Harmsworth, MENGINEERS and Mass.
Funkers:-Bowlands; Kesting and ther and Tuley.
Rifies:Bramwell; Coyle and Wi- Kowloon Wheeler; Wanklyn, Cresty and Tay- lor, Parry, Dennis, Evans, Talbot son; McCanley, Kinney and Murdock, and Roberts.
Farrell, Wilson, Godney, Boyd and Clab Rodgers, Strange and Hill; Kaye.
Engineers: Selleck; Coleman and Drown Forrow and E. Strange; Fow- ler, Flemming Elliot, Wilson and Bevill; Woods, Boyling and. Bickford.
foid; Creagh, Hurst, Darby, Howlett St. Joseph's: E Marquès; Coats and Callard. and Souza'; Castro," Eussain, xid Elms; Castilho, Delgado, Leonard, Ting-coy and Cheung Zp-wing; Chung Ordnance Corps → MEDICALS Ward and Fernandes.
Hung-wal, Lak Fook-wah and Lee
Eestera: Ting. Tat-ming;
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(Prince Edward Rd., 2.00 pm) with the Extra time at their dis Air Force ▼ FUSILIFES posal, a more thorough trial: will (Prince Edward Ed., 4.30 p.m.) be given to some of the younger
players.
(Navy Ground, HV, 4:30 pm)
Tział matches will also be play-“ JOSEPH'S European Police
St Joseph's, 3.00.p.m.)|ed at the Kowloon Cricket Club --To-morrow,
and the Indian Recreation Club. Tomorrow, the Indians "will" en- EXHURITION GÀMR. Recreio. Anvier, D. Demmee ALL CHINA Rest of the
age the East Lanca, in a friend-
South China Wong: Wah Ching Chan Ping-tz, Lee Wai-im, ST. kad; Chung: Ral-lum and Leang-In-Tam Cho-tat, S. Hamet and Han v chan; Yau Wab-hing, Lam: Tak-po] Ching-to, m and Benry Young Lee Wing-on. Chaz Tak-fai, Ng Po Km, Lai Skná- wing and Lee Shek-you
THIRD DIVISION
He and M. Gaan; R. Manwell, C. Figueir- Kowloon Chinese:-Wong Cheung Chan Hong-kwong and Mak Shade and X. Garcia, A. D. Beis, A. Go- son; He Chor-gin, Lad Kwok-chui and terres, L Rocha, J. Pereirs and A. Wang Wing-hon; Tam Kwong-sum, Young Kam-po, An Ping Ming, Chow Man-chee and Wa Tin-po
and
·and
Rides Como Pickering Stevens, McGonigal, Moore Millar, Erwin, Stevens, Ferguson, Kulen-and-Banthermal
NIGHT SECOND, DIVISION
Pusiliers:---Saunders; - Slack and Gaisley; Elle Grinder and Jopes;
Police
- Chinese 17, while the Police R. C. will be at (Caroline. 2011, 4.30pm) home to the Hong Kong Press, FIEST DIVISION SUMMAR
ST. JOSEPH'S. (Kowloon 420
SECOND DIVISION
Legend o
LADIES HOCKEY MEETING
St. Joseph's Bur: Vietor and Ar- calli; Wilkinson, Rumials and Baker or Castro Hessen, A. L. Omar, AC POLICE 10. Optar, J. Tavazen and W. Sprinkle.
E Police: Wheder: Balter and EAST Greis: Territ, Brittain and Campbell; Ware, Hutchison, Hemerton, Green,
THIRD DIVISION Gloscenter Hotel next Friday, All land Bentley)-5. KARAR ENGINEERE Serice Corps members are specially requested.
The annual general meeting of My (Kowloon 3.00 pm)]the Hong Kong Ladies" - Hockey, LANCE... Stonecutters
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| Association" will be held at the (Chatham Eoad, 2.00 TL)
(Sooktapod, 4.30 p.m.)(to be present