THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 27, 1940
CRICKET
ATMOSPHERE OF VILLAGE GREEN IS BEING REGAINED
RALLY TO CALL TO KEEP GAME GOING FOR WAR
************* CENTURY
ARMSTRONG RETURN. BOUT
JENKINS
Promoter Mike Ja- cobs announced in New York last week, .that. Lew Jenkins, world's lightweight champion, and Henry Armstrong, world's
CANADA WILL STAGE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP Welterweight
Unlike Australia and New
CLUB CRICKETERS are rallying to the call to Zealand, who both have abandon- keep the game going during the war, states a mess-ed their Open Golf Champion- The Club Cricket Conference ships this year because of the age from London. has a membership of about 1,400 clubs and so far war, Canada has decided to carry about 800 have answered the appeal to carry on as usual, despite the fact that many of them have very little resources on which to draw.
on, it was recently announced in Toronto.
The Royal Canadian Golf As- sociation announces that the 33rd Annual Canadian Open Golf Mr. E. A. C. Thompson, the members at the end of the sea- Conference secretary, is
readily agreed Championship will be held over very son, the players this reponse which to accept £1 each instead of the the course of the Scarboro Golf pleased with shows
the
club £2 minimum previously arrang- and Country Club, Teronto, from eagerness of cricketers to make up the lackjed.
August 15 to 17, and, as usual of initiative shown by
many of the country clubs.
pay rent and taxes.
Big Jim Smith, the Middlesex many famous Americans are ex- He said some fast bowler, had to pay 13/-out pected to compete. of the clubs have only paper
in debt and of his pound in fares and team assets; some are
It will be the fourth Canadian others have a great struggle to spirit was again to the fore when
Joe Hulme, the England player, Open to be staged at Toronto in This war-time cricket business went round with the hat and the the last five years.
The 1939 others put a shilling each. Sc is being carried out on the right Smith's fate cost him 3/- and Championship, which
village green at-
expenses Smith by the American, to save hotel mosphere, with batsmen always! out to knock, the cover off the slept on the dining room floor of Spaden. ball and matches played in the a friend's house!-Reuter, best sporting spirit, looks like coming into its own again.
lines. The
Famous Names
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There was abundant evidence of this when the touring London Counties side, which has the ser- vices of many famous names in cricket, visited-West Wickham and attracted a gate of £50.
In order to enable the team to wipe off urgent expenses, make its donation to a West Wickham charity and put a bit in the com- munal kitty for a share-out among the
team's professional
LIGHTWEIGHT
CHAMPION POUNDED
Twenty-four thousand fans last week watched, Henry Armstrong, the per- petual-motion battler from Los Angeles, score a technical knockout over Lew Jenkins of Texas at the end of the sixth round of a scheduled 12-round] non-title bout at the Polo Grounds:
Referee Arthur Donovan halted) the fight after the Negro welter- weight king pounded the light- weight champion into bloody helplessness.
Jenkins kissed the canvas six times in the course of the fight. At the end of the sixth round, Leo! was such a battered warrior he almost could not sit straight on his stuul., Donovan saw no sense in continuing the slaughter, and promptly raised Armstrong's arm In token of victory. United Press.
HOLDS UP PURSES OF FIGHTERS
The New York Boxing Com- mission has ordered Promoter Mike Jacobs of the Twentieth Century Sports Club to withhold the purses of Low Jenklus and' Henry Armstrong, who met
on
July 17 in a non-title bout at the Polo Grounds, which Armstrong won by technical knockout in the sixth round.
No immediate reason for its "'order was given by the commis-
slon,
which has ordered all per- sons connected with the fight to! appear.'
It was reported that prior to the fight' both fighters and their 'managers entered into a private agreement allowing "Armstrong, one-time triple champion, to wear more bandages than commission rules permitted.
was won!
Harold Mc-{ was held at St. John, New Brunswick.
See the........
New 1940
cham-
pion, would meet in a return 12-round non- title bout at Madison Square Garden on September 27. .
Jacobs, in making the announcement of the fight, offered no reference to the re- cent meeting of the New York State Athletic Commission at which all officials. connected with the first battle dered to, appear after purses had been held up.
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FOR 3.W.
POTE-HUNT
Several Shanghai crie-
over
keters who are well-known in Hong Kong were pro- minent in League matches in Shanghai
the week-end. Chief perform- ance was that of J. W. Jackie" Pote-Hunt, who, playing in his first game this summer, gave only one chance, behind the wicket at 28, in a glorious innings of 142 not out.
A good innings was played by G, S. Dunkley, for many years the Colony stumper. Hitting a six and two fours in a dashing innings for Shanghai Cricket Club Nomads, the team for which Pote-Hunt also |plays, Dunkley, who in Hong Kong used to go in last, took part in a useful first-wicket stand with "Peanut" Marshall, better-known in Hong Kong as a jockey.
Other members of the 'S. C. C. Nomads, who played in this match. were Donald Leach, H. E. Orr and G. B. Elliot, all of whom have either played in, or against Hong Kong on various occasions.
European Y.M.C.A. will hold a swimming gala against Hong Kong University at the home pool at 9.15 p.m. to-day, while Eastern Athletic Association will also hold a gala at North Point, commenc- ing at 7.30 p.m.
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