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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 19, 1939.
"STRAGGLERS OF ASIA" DINNER IN LONDON
THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE STRAGGLERS OF CRICKET CLUB TOOK PLACE ASIA ON JUNE 23RD AT THE HOTEL VICTORIA, LONDON,
MAJOR A. ST. G. COLDWELL PRESIDED AND GENERAL SIR CHARLES HARINGTON WAS THE GUEST OF THE EVENING. Messages were sent to His Majesty the King, His Excellency the Viceroy and Stragglers East of Suez and these, together with the replies, were read by the Presi- dent.
and
The following Members Guests were among those pre- sent:-
Mr. Gerald Aste, Mr. Arthur Birch, Mr. G. S. Blake, Major R. S. St. L Blakeney, Lieut.-Col. W. G. A. Cold- well, Mr. J. R. Coulthard,~Mr. G. G. Cradock-Watson. Mr. V. F. Ealand; Paymaster-Comdr. J. Ellerton R.N., Mr. G. C. Fletcher, Mr. J. B. Fletcher, Mr. R. H. Griffiths, Lieut.-Comdr. R. C. Lewis R.N., Mr. V. Lindermere, Lieut.- Col. O. L. Mathias, Mr. H. A. V. May- nard, Mr. G. N. R. Morgan, Mr. Mur- ray Robertson, Mr. A. F. Senior, Mr. F. E. Waite, Captain G. M. Warren, Mr. A. P. Webster.
The Toast of "The Club and Strag- glers East of Suez" was proposed by the President and replied to by Murray Robertson and "The Guests" Mr. was proposed by Lieut.-Col. O. L. Ma- thias and replied to by General Charles Harington.
ATHLETICS
FINNISH CRACKS
FOR SCOTLAND
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Miss Betty Slade, who last year won the English women's spring. board and European women's springboard championship, is now training for the various summer events, including the defence of her English title. The only honours that Miss Slade can now add to her in laurels are Olympic successes, and next year she stands a good chance of doing so. She now has a new trainer, Johnny Rasch, well-known Highgate Diving_club_coach. Miss Slade is here seen carrying out a remarkable backdive from the springboard during training at Wood Green baths. (Copyright, Fox).
MOVE THAT SHOULD BENEFIT BOXING
THE arc-lights shine down on pro-
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main promoters have to give to the moters only these days. The fisti- game, Messrs cuffing fraternity are out of the ring, Harding are all in their forties, Gen- Elvin, Hulls, and shadow-boxing and That ill-titled and
ghost-chasing. ofal Critchley is just turned 50, ill-fated Harvey- that they M'Avoy bout for the "world's cruiser- method on boxing for many years to stamp business-like weight championship"--which must become. followed by a contest with the U.S. resources of the Greyhound Racing
General Critchley has all "world champion" before
the there
the immense Football Stadium and agreement as to the world's_title-hold- nections in America, Mr. Elvin has is Association behind him and good con- the wonderful indoor Empire Pool that flair which has given us most of stage big fights. Sydney Hulls has three years, and he also has a parti- the big fights for the past two cular care witness the case of Boon
London, June 30.-Two of Fin-ers has at last come off. Farr could Land' most distinguished distance runners, Taisto Maki and V. Iso Hollo, will, it is understood, com- pete at Rangers F. C. sports at Ibrox on August 5,
It is probable that a special three miles handicap will be put on the programme for Maki and a two miles steepechase handicap for Iso- Hollo.
to
or
not (praise Je) fix a fight with veteran to meet Doyle. Over money, too, he Braddock, and would not accept terms London, so that both renain idle. Peter hesitates to accommodate hefty Jack Kane is preoccupied with Cupid, and Danahara middle-weight now with conscription. Henry Armstrong's Harding, of the N.S.C., with his week- to dig out.British white hopes. John right hand being in a plaster cast. ly promotions, has done more than BOXING and also ponders & South African trip fight game; he also has the new N.S.C. Boon issues a challenge to Roderick, anybody for the lesser lights of the to meet Laurie Stevens. Meanwhile he stadium at Monte Carlo, which should lets his official challenger, Dave Crow-lead to British boxers getting a
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share of European title fights in the full future: furthermore, he has the most the
these
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SCHMELING'S WHIRLWIND "COME-BACK"
Maki is the successor to the ori- ginal Flying Finn, Paavo Nurmi, whose records he has been mowing down. Over the 5000 metres a fort- night ago he beat Nurmi's record ley, cool his heels. by 20 secs, and Lauri Lehtinen's current world record by 8.2 seconds.IT is this sort of inaction and dith fertile brain of them all, and is Iso-Hollo is probably the world's past caused public enthusiasm to wane, These men can turn boxing into
ering which has so often in the prime mover behind televising fights. greatest steeplechaser. He competed made a boom die young, and thus pre-smooth-running, as healthy, for Finland against Great Britain vented pugilism from ever struggling profitable an affair as a modern fac at Hampden in 1935,
free of its parlous financial plight. tory. They have begun to bury the Happily, there is at last a get-togeth-hatchet. It is to be hoped that they to bring business-like order into the fullness, for it will pay them and bene first appearance in the ring since er move by promoters which promises will carry that policy to its logical Stuttgart, July 1.... game. General Critchley, of the White At Aghters and be a boon to the long- he was defeated and badly hurt by Making his City and Harringay, and Mr. Elvin, suffering public. of Wembley, have formed an "axis." ing Club, and independent Sydney INCIDENTALLY John Harding, of the National Sport-
Joe Louis a year ago, Max Schmel Hulls have been in friendly co-opera- tion since the
promoters ing, former world heavy-weight Boon-Danahar
the bout. public, yet their life stories Other London promoters have joined com book called "Romances European heavy-weight champion- should champion, won the German and association which owing to the inter- in 1924, so took a job as a kiosk at- ships by knocking out Adolf Heuser, in discussions for forming a general of the Ring Mr. Elvin was broke ests of those same men outside London, fondant at the Wembley Exhibition the holder, in the first round to will spread, it is hopca, throughout Realising that the buildings and land the country. There will not be a rigid Miss Jean Nicoll's victories last week they believe in independent enterprise. promotorial block. As business men were not only the reward of a cool But there will be. a friendly inter young brain, allied to sound strokes change of ideas, consultations on mat and mobility; they vindicated once ters of policy which affect them all, again the supreme value of smoothly that will smooth out the running of produced strokes in which the eye, the the game to everybody's benefit. Their feet and the arm all work in harmony. non co-operation in the past has in- Miss Nicoll's racket for her forehand volved boxing in many troubles. There than swung at it. This process insures have been monopolies on boxera Ber- Sydney Hulls is són and grandson of few right fabs. A spell of in-fighting drive is awung through the ball rather has been Jealousy and distrust. There ed him into another Czar of sporting opened the real proceedings with s
If, as is generally expected, S. C. Wooderson and one or two of his rivals in the recent American mile
race, also compete, the 1989 Ran- gers meeting will be one of the most outstanding the Ibrox club has ever staged,
maximum control and, because of its fluency, conserves energy-A writer in the Daily Telegraph.
SPORTS PARADE
(Continued from Page 24)
And yet look at the team for Satur-| day. The younger element is presented by Hutton- Fagg, Compton Hardstaff and Wright, whlist Copson who is 29, Can, I suppose, gạc nh placed in this category.
Against these players wo hayo W.
Hammond (86), Paynter) (88), Wood
(41), Bowes (81) and Goddard (89); 1,
are nothing but names: to
German boxing public, surprised the
Schmeling, always an idol with 75,000 spectators who crammed the Hermann Goering Hall by his whirl- wind victory, gained in exactly 71 see-
would be derelict afterwards, he got day. buildings, and with the profit partly a contract for demolition work on the paid for the Stadium ground, and turned it in a few years into the world's biggest sports centre. General Critchley was in business, saw a crude sort of greyhound racing in the States, and, despite ridicule, took a chance on putting it over here: this gamble turn
vices. There has been an inadequate boxing promoters, but wanted as a search for new talent and too twisty youth to go abroad. His father inter a path up for promising lads, especial-cepted the letter offering hini a job, |ly provincials,
so he stayed - home, and the boat he would have sailed on was lost without * survivour. He tried to join the RUINOUS purses have been paid to Army at 14 in the war. Again his which has father intervened, and once more sav and unem-ed his life, because almost the whole era. Some regiment was wiped out. So Sydney have been gave his father best and followed him
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After an uneventful start, in whien both men sparred cautiously, Schme-
followed, and then the "fireworks started. Schmeling launched a vicious attack, and after severely punishing Heuser, he finished off his effort. with stinging blow which sent Houser crashing to the canvas.
eltement as Heuser, who rolled over on The huge crowd went wild with ex- his face and gallantly tried
counted out, and Schmeli tich
once more.