PRO. GOLFERS LEAGUE TOURNAMENT
Bert Gadd Leads With 7 Points
Sandy Lodge, To-day. The Third and Fourth Series of pro- fessional golf matches on League linda, were held yesterday and resulted follows:
THIRD SERIES
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Percy Alliss beat Henry Cotton 2 up. W. J. Brunch and A. J. Lacey halved. Alfred Padgham beat Bert Gadd 2 up and 1 to play.
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Reginald Whitcombe beat Abe Mit- chell 1 up.
Richard Burton beat P. J. Mahon 3 up and 2 to play.
FOURTH SERIES Bert Gadd beat Charles Whitcombe 5 up and 4 to play.
Reginald Whitcombe beat P. J. Ma-] hon 6 up and 5 to play.
Henry Cotton and W. J. Branch
halved.
OPEN PAIRS.
LAWN BOWLS
Two Close Games Witnessed
The following were the results of
BRAZILIANS
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BEAT CZECHS
AT FOOTBALL
Paris, To-day.
Brazil won a hard-fought football match from Czechoslovakia by 2 goals to 1 yesterday, in the World' |Championship tournament, at Bor-
ASCOT WEEK OPENS
GORDON RICHARDS RIDES GOLD VASE WINNER
deaux, and thus qualified with Italy, SCOTTISH UNION IN DERBY FORM
Hungary and Sweden for the semi finals.
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Brazil will now meet Italy, in Marseilles, and Hungary play Sweden, in Paris.-Trans-Ocean.
matches in the Open Pairs Lawn TO-DAY'S OPEN
AT POLICE RECREATION CLUB PAIRS BOWLS
Bowls competition played yesterday:-
O. P. Remedios and E. de Sousa beat' A. Stephen and J. A. R. Selby by 19-14.
A. J. Lacey beat Percy Alliss 3 up G. and 2 to play.
Alfred Padgham and S. L. King halved.
AT H. K. F. C.
J. Fraser and R. P. Phillips beat E. Post and A. E. Carey by 23-22.
AT KOWLOON B.G.C.
Richard Burton beat Abe Mitchell 3 L. C. R. Souza and R. Basa beat J. C.
up and 2 to play.
At the end of the fourth series, Bert Gadd led with 7 points.-Reuter.
Remedios and C. C. Pereira by 21-20. A. Bakar and A. K. Minu beat C. Turney, and W. V. Field by 28-14.
ENCOUNTERS
The following is to-day's programme in the Second Round of the Open Pairs Lawn Bowls Championship.
AT INDIAN RECREATION CLUB
J. Hyde and H. Overy v W. Gill and G. Duncan.
AT CRAIGENGOWER C.C. J. Hoosen and A. R. Minu v J. Jack and V. C. Labrum.
AT KOWLOON DOCKS W. Carr and W. Mulcahy v E. W. Lines and R. Duncan.
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London, To-dny. Ascot week opened yesterday en a grander scale than in former years, perfect weather prevailing | although it was slightly hotter
than anticipated.
Their Majesties the King and Queen drove over the traditional "Golden Mile" in, an open landau. The glorious sunshine provided an opportunity for the demonstration of the latest fashions.
Starting as 4 to 1 favourite and ridden by the champion jockey, Gordon Richards, Foxglove readily. won the Gold Vase, which is worth over £2,000, from a field of 20.
Backers were generally success- ful at the start, two other favour- ites in the first four races winning.
U.S. OWNER'S SUCCESS
Owned by an American, Mrs. Corrigan's undefeated two-year old colt Panorama easily won the Coventry Two-Year-Old Stakes, starting at 9 to 2 on. The other favourite was Mr. J. Westoll's Prawn, starting at 5 to 1, which beat 24 opponents 'comfortably to win the Ascot Stakes.
Lord Derby won the Queen Anne Stakes with St. Magnus, which started at 7 to 1.
Union,
James Rank's Scottish which came second to Bois Roussel in the Epsom Derby, showed that its Derby performance was no fluke in winning the St. James Palace Stakes by three lengths. It start- ed at 7 to 4 on. Sir Abe Bailey's Golden Sovereign, a 11 to 2 chance, was second.
A FRENCH WINNER
The first French successful chal- lenger was Princess Fauciny- Lucinge's Louragan, which, start- ing at 8 to 1, won the Prince of Wales Stakes in a short head finish. Frank Butters provided a first in Mr. Lant's Belle Travers, starting at 3 to 1, and a second in the Aga Khan's Yakimour, backed at 10 to 1, in the Queen Mary Stakes. Sir Abe Bailey's Streakaway, was third, backed at 8 to 1.-Reuter.
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HAVE AN H.B. AND THEN TRY'
"Y" Swim-Social
To-night
The European Y.M.C.A. will open their swimming season this evening at 8.45 p.m. when a swim-social, some- thing entirely new at local galas, will be featured.
The programme is as follows:-
Men's 50 Yards Free Style Han- dicap.
Women's .25 Yards Free-Style Scratch..
50 Yards Mixed Novelty Race. Life Saving Demonstration: Diving for Plates (Mixed).
It is also hoped that members and their friends will indulge in Mixed Bathing between; events.
SCOTTISH F.A. LOSE $4,368
A deficit of £4,868 on the year's working was reported at the annual meeting of Scottish Football ..., As- sociation in Glasgow,
A resolution was passed pro- viding for railway fares and other sums being paid, to clubs in the qualifying competition and firat two rounds of the Scottish Cuplu