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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1936
Sporting Page
ENGLAND LOSES GREAT EXPONENT OF RUGBY FORWARD PLAY
BRITISH TENNIS
RANKINGS
D.W. BUTLER CERTAIN
OF A PLACE
BETTY NUTHALL'S RETURN TO FORM
IF
(By "The Twelfth Man")
London, November 4.
Three brilliant hockey player, above, who will soon be lost to the Colony when their Regiment, the 1/8th Panjabis, leave the Colony for India Left to right are Dulia Singh, 46-year-old veteran Interport pivot, Alif Din, Interport left-half, and brilliant Lal. Singh, Interport left-winger, and one of the best men in this position ever seen in the Colong.
our lawn tennis "heads" follow the usual course we should soon know the official estim- ate of the performances of British players in the season which has recently closed. Everyone is wondering whether any of the young players who attracted attention by good performances at vari- CORONATION ous meetings in 1986 are to be given a place on these national ranking lists.
I do not think so, for the simple reason that the play of youngsters, such as Murray Deloford, Eric Filby and the rest has been too in-and-out to provide definite results the rankers' only guide on which places could be given on an official ladder.
I shall be very much surprised indeed if the 1936 lists differ much from those published at the end of last year. There will, of course, be the usual rise or fall of players who have improved} or fallen away.
KING'S PARRAMATTA BEATEN
FOR FIRST TIME
Australian Varsity Rugby Side Bow To Marlborough XV
London, November 1---Mari- borough College are the first of the public schools to defeat the touring ride from King's School Parramatta, Australia.
Marlborough were awarded a penalty in the first minute of the game, and J. I Dick kicked a goal For the rest of the first half the Australians bad the bet- ter of play, bat Marlborough fought back in the second half and narrowly missed scoring.
LADIES' TENNIS TITLES Semi-Final Stages Reached
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For instance. Miss Dorothy Round's records, despite one or two disappointments, is a bet-! ter
GOLF CLASSIC
WILL BE HELD
Amateurs Will Meet Professionals
MEMORAL MATCH OF 1911 KECALLE
(BY THE TWELFTH MAN") London, November 4. one than that of Miss Kay
Most sporting örganisations are some sort Stammers, and this should en-considering arranging įsure Miss Round having the No-of function to celebrate the Core- 1 place all to herself instead of nation, and I hear that golf does sharing it with Miss Stammers-not want to be left out. In all pro- Then Miss Nuthall, recovered bability a Coronation golf match from a troublesome injury, has will be held similar to the one played enough lawn, tennis. and which was played at Sandwich in good lawn tennis, this year, to re 1911 This match, in which Arnead tura to the list after a season's
Massey, who had won the Open at jabsence.
Hoylake in 1907, and Chick Evans, I hope Miss Mary Hardwick, now the famous American amateur,
a Wightman Cup player, will get took part, was one between ama- the necessary encouragement by a
teurs and professionals. well-earned move up the ladder of iame
The Men's Order
Local Rugby MANCHESTER
S.
Pioneer
H. Garrod, the Passenger Agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. and formerly Hon Secretary of the Rugby Set- tion of the Hong Kong Football Club, has a fine record as a sports-
most.
Next year we have the Ameri-
He has played Rugby for the can Ryder Cup team and a side from South Africa as our visitors. first fifteens of Yokohama, Kobe, The men's order does not seem These overseas players would con- Shanghai and Hong Kong as well difficult to anticipate. Last year sider it a great honour to be in-as for the Portsmouth Rugby Un the Davis Cup team, Perry, Aus-vited to play in a Coronation ion Football Club.
He was Hon. Secretary of the was held on a tia. Hughes and
were match, and if it
London given the first four places.
course, with the gate Rugby Section of the BBFC. I do not think Tuckey's corrent money going to charity, it would from 1933 till 1995, helping to lform in singles, on which the lists prove a great attraction.
are based, justifies a retention of
1911 Match
Tuckey.
NOVEMBER
DUNKLEY RETIRES FROM GAME
LED MEMORABLE PACK AGAINST N. ZEALAND STARTED CAREER IN SOCCER SCHOOL
P.
(By "The Twelfth Man")
London, October 31.
E. DUNKLEY, one of our best-known Rugby players, captain of the Harlequins for three seasons and leader of the England pack in the memorable game with the All Blacks at Twicken- ham last January, has decided to give up playing.
So ends a remarkable association with the game which has lasted since 1921 and during which Dunkley has won almost every honour the game has to bestow. Dunkley was a member of the British team which toured the Argentine during the summer.
HANDICAP Ever since the players returned, at the start of the English sea-
Penny Royal Still Favourite
RACE NEXT SATURDAY
London, To-day. The following is the call-over for the Manchester November Satur- Handicap to be run day :---
00
Pery Royal, 15 to 2 o, 8 to 1 t Night Cap. 109 to 9, t and a. Seabequest, 180 to 9, t and a Free Fare, 100 to 9 o, 108 to 8 t Thrapston, 100 to 8, t and o. Bellane, 100 to 8, 100 to 7t Bideford Bay, 29 to 3, t and o. Latoi, 20 to 1. t and
St. Botolph, 25 to 1.0, 28 to 1 t. Beater
son, followers have been wondering when he would be seen again in Harlequin colours.
He tells me that he first intended to play until Christmas; and then give up. His decision to retire a little earlier will be dis- appointing to his friends and to the Rugby public at large. Dunk- ley is to be married early in the new year to Miss Vivien Canning, a Torquay girl to whom he was engaged a few months before the Argentine tour.
BEAT CLUB
Among modern players there have been few who paid so much attention to the tactical PUNJABIS side of the game as Dunkley. To him it was more than a Sat-1 urday afternoon's amusement, for he was always considering some way of improving his game, and consequently that of the team for which he played.
Read The Rules!
He was a great apostle of phy-1 sical fitness, and always put in a number of evenings at training
SCRAPPY RUGGER each week. In addition he was a
MATCH
to
AT HOCKEY
Dulla Singh Still Prominent
COLONY HOCKEY WILL BE THE POORER SOON
.in.
(By 75 ICESTM)
A very fast hockey match was seen on the Marina ground, yester-
the fourth place, which might easi- In the 1911 match the profes- Colony in 1935, while he also took brilliance, was seen - on the Club EASY PASSAGE FOR HOLDER? (ly be given to Harry Lee, who, sior is had a very strong side-the Blarney-Stone Seven-A-Side | Club “A” beat the Army “A” by about his connection with Rugby doubtedly paved the way for their
teurs won only one match.
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great believer in a player under- standing the rules of the game.
heard him lecture I once members of Toc H on the value of day, when the 1/8th Punjab Regi- ment, who are shortly to leave the players carrying a book of rules Colony, defexted the Hong Kong JAMES WHITHAM AS FULL-BACK
with the and reading it in their Hockey Club by three clear goals. spare moments. They would, he
The Chub team found the sand declared, always find some new surface very diffent after their CLUB "A" BEAT ARMY “A”
grass pitch and the Regimental football point to help them scrappy Rugby
team held the advantage here, organize the Australian and New
Started At 17
while the brilliant combination Zealand Universities' visits to the match, with flashes of individmal
remarkable thing between halves and forwards, un- Perhaps the part in the Interport contests and ground, Happy Valley, when the
was that he did not start playing three goals. although not playing so much as it included James Braid, Harry
two tries (6 points) to nil..
One of the outstanding features tournament.
selector, Mr.Jaf- the game, was the excellent dis- The Ladies' Colony Tennis in past seasons, reached the semi-Vardon, who won the Open that
The Club were the better team it until he was seventeen. Lake a Prior to taking up Rugby, how- 2 year, Ted Ray, who was to win it Championships-Singles and Don-jinal at Bournemouth and had
ever, Garrod was a sery keen land, but for the fact that their famous England bles have now reached the semi-good Wimbledon.
the following year, Sandy Herd, swimmer and water-pola player, händling was poor, they would Harry Coverdale. „Dunkley was at play of Dulis Singh, veteran Co- Hare Back }
ris, at Bugby. The school now despite his 46 years, outpaced the final stages, and an extremely
sad J. H. Taylor-and the ama captaining the victorious Victoria have won by a bigger margin. Az a Soccer school, Laurence Sher-liny and Punjab centre-half, who, Charles Hare, like Miss Nuthall,
Recreation Club team in 1996, it was, they missed several opporplays Rugby, but it was not until fastest of the Club forwards for good game should be seen in the semi-final, in the lower bracket of out of action owing to injury in
while he also soon the Colony Longtunities of scoring due to the fact he left school and joined the old possession of the ball He receiv- the singles, when Mrs. Dowling 1935, must be restored to the rack-
Plunge championship in 1923 and that many passes went astray. boys that Dunkley played thejed fine support from his left-half, meet blrs. Enid Litton, a former ing lists, and I should like to see)
1952 Garrod was also a fairly Butcher and Grieve were out-handling game. The old boys had Alif Din, who would again make with Colony champion. Mrs. Nora Wil him in the first six along
useful hockey player, playing for standing for the Club, for whom turned over to Bagby after failing the Interport team if his Regi- ment was in the Colony at the son, the holder. should have no Frank Wilde, who very nearly beat
te make a success of Soccer. the Club in the Sim Shield Tourna- James Whitham made a very safej back. Henderson was off form and difficulty in qualifying for the Karl Schroder in the National
ment in 1926.
From that point Dundey did not time. missed no less than three kicks at look back. Within two seasons, Briffant Lal Singh Final at the expense of Miss A. Covered Courts meeting at Queen's
goal, though one of them was, ad- 1924, he had won his first
Last, but by no means least Lal mittedly, from a very awkward county cap for Warwickshire, and Singh was better than ever angle.
he now holds the record number the left-wing, where his reverse- of caps for them—how many it is stick centres, were a. -revelation. The Army players, were good he cannot remember. He has also Lieut. Walker, on the right-wing, individually, but they lacked team skippered them on numerous oc-and work and that was what let ther|casions. down Their forwards did rot ne at all, though Attive, and combine
in the back division throughout the game,
There was
Mackenzie.
Club.
of
"There is certain to be one new In the Doubles event, the far- ocrites, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. name on the men's list, that Dowling, will meet Miss R. Perry Donald Butler,
STEEL, COULSON'S BILLIARDS TWO BIG BREAKS -RECORDED
CATHOLIC UNION STILL IN THE LEAD
The Catholic Union Club
the Midlander, and Mrs. Chiu in one of the semi-whose progress continues in both finals and should win, while singles and doubles. If a change close game should be seen in the in the British Davis Cup team is other semi-final when Mrs. Holmes delayed until 1988 Butler may even still in the lead in the Steel, and Mrs. Whitham meet Mrs. Ash-be the man to be "capped," though Coulson's Billiards League, and be would have a close race with in their most recent game they ton and Mrs. Litton
Hare
beat the Chief and Petty Officers' If Frank Wilde really fancied Meme by 6 games himself -25 a singles player, he chalking up a 50 break.
In the match between the Gar- might beat both of them.
the The ranking lists as cabled by rison Sergeants' Mess and MReuter, were as follows:-
Royal Engineers Mess, Andrews;
The following shows how the tournament has progressed:
SINGLES
Miss A Mackenzie best Miss Ecza, 6-3, 7-5.
Mrs. W. H. Wilson beat Miss Grifiths, 6-2, 6-3.
Mrs. Dowling best Miss
Abraham, 6-2, 86,
Among other sports Garrod or casionally plays golf and squash.
He is at present proceeding to Canada on leaze with his wife and child and hopes to take part in the winter sports at Banf
EASY WIN FOR INDIANS
No Combination
Capped In 1931
on
England, in 1931, when he played are appearances for the Club at
Lieut. Gender, at sight-half were also in the limelight, while Khan Bahadur, in the full-back division, was very sate Dunkley won his first cap for
Jack Rodger made one of his. Petty Officers Rumjahn Shines With Davenport displayed good for
against Ireland and later against right-back and showed that he has Bat And Ball
no scoring in the Scotland, For some reason be lost none of his keenness, his neat was then passed over by the Ear-interceptions breaking up several At the Dicesan Boys School first half, when Henderson missed land selectors until last season, dangerous rida, ma Men-L. F. J. Perry, 2 H Wof the former team, recorded the Festerday, the Ellis Kadoozie. In-fa penalty kick, but after the teams hen, right at the top of his folm.] B. Anatia, & G. P. Hughes, 4. C. E. Har biggest break of the tournament dian School beat the home team by had changed over," "the Club for
H. G. N. Lee, 6. C. R. D. Tockey. 5. Sharpe, 10. F. H. D. Wilde
Mrs. Enid Latton beat Mrs. Ashton, 7. E. C. Peters, & L. Hutler, 9.
9 wickets
9. N. to date, a 62,
61 611A
The following are the detailed
Holmes, 6-1, 6-1+
DOUBLES
150
i
Mrs. Exid Latton beat Mrs. E E Ladies 1. E. Stammers, 2. Mrs. 20ores of the Istest matches:--
M. R. King, 3. F. James, 4. M. Hard-caFUL. Mes ▼ GUC wick, 5. S. Noel, 6.-J. Saunders, 1. E. Goodsell 127 Barros Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Dowling beat Nuthall, 8. M. Heeley, 9. P. Seriven, -Johnson A140 Xavier Miss Abraham and Mrs. Curtis, 6-1,
6-1.
Miss R. Ferry and Ms. Chin bat EMPIRE AMATEUR BILLIARDS Ston Miss M. Griffiths and Miss O. Dalziel,
6-1, 6-4
Mrs. Holines and Mrs.
received a walk-over from “Mi
back and Mrs. Pricč.
~~Mrs. -Ashton' and Mrs.
Miss Marsh and Min "Be
IN SEMI-FINAL ROULD
wards gave the Army defenders x |busy time and about 10 minutes
DBS: 22 (F Lan 8: J. Fenton 6; after the resumption Butcher sent EM... Eunjako 4 for 9, Soban a very next pass to Grieve, who Singh 3 for 9, Mohinder Sugh scored near the fing. The kick at 2 for 2). 150 E.FLS: 33 (K. M. Bunjahn 44; goal by Henderson failed.
Matthews 3 for 18, A Lapsley 2 After this the Club enjoyed the greater part of the play and towards the end. Butcher crown-
TOURNAMENT:
-150 91 Jordan
150 91. Bemedios
150 Grant-Pier 49 Pereira
Mest EE. Mesa.
for 19).
Johanne
ng: -To-day, The Greenway
ter Billiards Cham-
150 Fleming
120
150 Bodges
213
HK.C.C. SECOND XI FOR SATURDAY
150
LEAGUE
150 Grossmith 150 -- Chant TABLE TO DATE
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The third prize "went
For Rugland. The cuce
event
by Bobert Mar" | Smith Galing with Alan, Andrews „Africa, taking
P. W. LF.A. Pia
20814
The following will represent the Hong Kong Cricket Club in the Second Division of
the
Cricket
League next Saturday, when they
their
ided under the Les- Gart. Set's Mess. 5,5 3,24 16 18 meet the Police on -Bruter.
E. C. "Toddy" (incher and3 Miri Pescock beat Sullivanandinis "Changdonship yesterday by "Mr. WE B. Dowling" in the 6-2, 6-1; at the U.S.R.C., thus en-
Colony Mixed Doubles Lawn
turing, the semi-inal round
5 12-1966 ground -----
€ 472 13 12 3 AL Mackenzie (Captain
7.5 1.15-14 8
Agnew, T. C. Bend,
15102 2
Bathurst, C
PO
ed a beautiful solo effort with a
Sommer was injured during the
(Continued on Page 3)* game and was changed from right- half to right-wing, Wodehouse com- and this cably weakened the side, TORPEDOMEN WIN ing into the defence
AT HOCKEY. Lal Str
ing almost an undisturbed feldday during the
KEA Khan Interport Custodian In Limelight
HMS. Medway Torpedomen try, though no goal points weromreisesed H. M S Pandora by added, Henderson again missing three clear goals in The final whistle sounded, short
ly atter with play cougned to mid- hockey eneo
field
Clab-Whitham; Hopkins, Kiston, Grieve, Butcher, Eend own Glavica, Sharpe, Mazard,
Ders, Rossell, Stoker
opened the
tter
YACHING RESULTS