DON BRADMAN'S NEW RECORD
Hill's 32 Years' Total Eclipsed In 10 Years
S. AUSTRALIA COLLAPSE
MELBOURNE, JANUARY 1.
DON BRADMAN, BY SCOR- ING 54 FOR SOUTH AUSTRATM LIA AGAINST VICTORIA TO. DAY CARRIED HIS AGGRE- GATE IN SHEFFIELD SHIELD CRICKET TO. 6,280. THIS BEATS CLEM HILL'S RECORD OF 6,274, THE RECORDS OF THE TWO GREAT SOUTH AUSTRALIANS ARE:
Inna. N.O. Highest Runs. Aver. Bradman 69 11 452* -6,280 108.20 Hill
126 6 365* 6.274 52.28
*Not out.
BOROTRA'S SKI-ING
MISHAP
Right Leg Injury
St. Moritz, December 29..
Jean Borotra, the French lawn tennis player, tore some ligaments in his right leg while ski-ing down the Suvretta slope on Sunday.
He stated to-day: "It was my own fault. I was going much faster than my ski-ing knowledge justified. Suddenly,
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1938.
SCOTS BOYS RUGBY WIN OVER ENGLAND
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HALVES IN LIMELIGHT BEHIND VERY STRONG PACK
(By PETER LAWLESS)
London, January 1.-- English P.S.
13 pts. Scottish P.S.
14 pts. the annual match at the Richmond Athletic Ground, yesterday, Scottish Schoolboys beat English Schoolboys by a goal, a pen- alty goal and two tries to two goals and a try.
The Scottish forwards, well-grounded in the elements of scrum- maging, bound tight and packed low, to the discomfiture of the En- the skis ran away with me, andglish pack, whose ill-assorted front row were hump-backed and un- I turned a somersault.” Borotra will have to stay in bed for at least a week. It is expected that he will be "all right" in d month. His doctor hopes that the accident will not affect his tennis."
Whereas Hill made his runs over. CURTIS CUP
a period of 32 years, Bradman did not make his appearance in the Sheffield Shield until 1927. Since then he has missed one season (1934-35), when he was recovering from an appendicitis operation.
able to benefit by the power behind them. In the checks, too, the Scottish forwards came from mobility to solidity with praiseworthy lack of delay, so that the outsides saw far more of the ball than the opposition.
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The Scottish halves,
Wilcox
and Cosh, with the ball coming DON BUDGE'S
lout cleanly, were the undoubted masters of the English pair, and their capital combination enabled the three-quarter line, in which McNeil gave a most promising display, to test the good English
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GATFORD HANDICAPPED
GOLF MATCH defence to the utmost. DATES
New York, December 31. The match which began to-day
The Curtis Cup match between was important for the selectors, for at least thirteen players are either women golfers of Great Britain probables or possibles for the team and the United States has been [arranged for Sept. 7 and 8 at the to tour England.
Essex County Club, Manchester (Mass.).
slow
The troubled times forward, with the inevitable slow heeling, gave Gatford, the English scrum-half, the briefest of time to get his partner, Rhodes, on the move. With the game running, as luck
FUTURE
Family Urging Him
To Turn Professional
Oakland (CaL), December 23. "Neither Don nor we are any too well off," stated Mrs. Budge, we saw mother of the Wimbledon and American champion, speaking for tryer, his family, who are urging him to join the ranks of the professional players.
would have it, away from the Schools' sprint champion, Lockwood, some spirited running by Pearce on the
a great right wing. Hollis, emerged as the best of the threequar ters, Walshe, after some early bursts, failing to hold his passes.
INCREASED REPUTATIONS Two of them increased their re-
The American open champion- Of the full-backs Corker fielded well putations, C. L. Badcock batted in
at Cherry and kicked accurately. Harper was not fine style for 50 in 72 minutes, in-ship will be played
so severely tested, but did what he had cluding six 4's, and L. O'B. Fleet Hills Club, Englewood, Colorado, to do with competence, and kicked a wood-Smith, the left-handed
on June 9, 10 and 11, the amateur truly great penalty goal from 30 yards bowler, has so far taken 8 wickets championship at Oakmont Coun-out and near the touch-line.
try Club, Pennsylvania, on Sept, for 123 runs.
12 to 17, and the women's amat Sheffield Shield, failed to maintain eur championship at Westmore- the fine start given them by Bad-land Country Club, Wilmette, cock, Bradman and R. S. Whiting-Illinois, on September 19 to 24. ton, and when stumps were drawn they were 287 for 9.
South Australia, holders of the
AUSTRALIANS LEAVE
London, December
NEXT SEASON'S INTERNATIONAL
29.-The TRIAL MATCHES
London, January 1.
The decision as to whether or not he will turn professional will be up to Don when he returns from his tour of Australia, Mrg. Budge added.
GENUINE WORKERS
Budge has indicated that he Newton, Macdonald and Alexander were the Scottish forwards who chiefly would like to defend the Davis Cup, took my fancy in a level lot, while Mas won from Great Britain last year, ters and Morison struck me as genuine at least once. It is estimated that all-round-workers for the losers.
Cosh scored a try with a run from he would be capable of earning. his own 25, pursued to the last by £20,000 in two seasons as a profes-: Hollis, and kicked the goal. Rhodes Bional.-Reuter. dribbled on to score after a run by Pearce, who beat the full-back, but was grandly tackled by Newton. Hollis went over from a perfect inside pass shot at him by Rhodes, who had broken through cleverly. Masters converted.
SCORES LEVELLED
(St. Edward's), E. H. Walshe (Bed ford), J. F. Lockwood (Queen Eliza- Australian Rugby League tourists
beth's, Barnet); B. W. Rhodes (Oundle) left Leeds for London yesterday en
Just before half time Wilcox made (capt.), H. J. H. Gatford (Oundle); J. route for France, where they will International trial matches for the scores level, gathering from the A. Leybourne (Sedbergh), P. M. Mas- play ten matches, the first on next season were allotted yesterday feet of an English forward and beating ters (Haileybury), P. J. Roe (Dover), Saturday. The tour will last until by the Rugby Union Committee, at a bunch of defenders. Harper, a right- F. D. Morison (Rugby), D. J. P. John- footed kick, failed with the conversion ston (Epsom), L. E. Grose (Brighton), the end of January, when, the tour- their meeting in London, to Lan and also the decapitation of Wilcox, A. U M. Campbell (Radley), F. Hilton ists will return to their likely head-cashire, on December 3 and to who had strangely prostrated himself (Rossall).
on the left to place the ball.
Scottish P.S.-W. M. Harper (Mer- quarters for 10 or 12 days before Somerset on December 17.
In the second half a kick ahead by chiston); D. J. F. Watson (Sedbergh), leaving for home. They hope to play. It was announced that matches
McNeill gave Strathie the opportunity D. M. Strathie (Rugby), G. D. McNeill a match with Wales at Pontypridd during the Australian tour in Eng- to dribble on and score. Then Harper (Loretto) (capt.), D. J. H. Vass on February 5.
1939-40 season have kicked as fine a goal as one could see (Glenalmond); S. H. Cosh (Edinburgh H. Á. R. Wilcox (Edinburgh been allotted as follows: North 3 from Murrayfield to Twickenham from Acad.), H. B. Young won both scratch and games, Midlands 2 games, South-30 yards out and nearing the touchline. Acad.); J. M. Weir (Merchiston), R. C. No-side followed a try by Morison, who Stein (Glenalmond), * A. B. Jeffery handicap events in the Cambridge Har- West 2 games and South-East Bran with speed and power. Boa con- (Watson's), K. Alexander (Edinburg Tiers Annual Christmas Day race. Ho
Acad.), A. A. S. Stewart (Fettes), R. time for the 8 miles in Charlton Park games, with an international match verted.
English P.S.-P. Corker (Tonbridge); D. Macdonald (Fettes), B. A. H. New- _was 15min. 34seg
against England at Twickenham.
• Pearce (Uppingham), G. Höllis ton (Loretto),
), J. Williamson (Dollar).
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