THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1941.
VARIED
PROGRAMME OF
ARMY SPORTING EVENTS Hockey, Rugby And Boxing Finals This Week
Army To Meet Police In Charity Soccer Game
By "Squaddy”
THE FINAL of the Inter-Unit team boxing com- petition will take place at Murray Barracks to-mor- row night between Royal Scots and Middlesex.
Royal Artillery, who were pre-'win for the Army for them to see- viously drawn against Royal ure the trophy. They were leading Scuts, have withdrawn from the until the last minute of the matchi competition owing to the lack of when the Chinese drew level, numbers as a full team is 15 men They were in no way disgraced The General Ofteer Command-by the result and played up to ing. Major-General AE Grisett, Lexpectations The Army may have CB, DSO, M C, is attending the one more game before the close | boxing and will most probably of the season, and that against present the prizes af the conclu Hong Kong Police in ald of sion of the competition.
Charity The date will be nothied !
The weighing in for this eventi later. will take place at Murray Bar- racks Jo-inorrow
am mad.
teams woll then be
koown.
HOCKEY
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It is notified for information that the prices for admission to football grounds, controlled by the Football Association, will, for Service personnel only be 60
cents, to all covered stands and 40 cents to uncovered stands. This does not apply to the Army
THE Army Six-A-Side hockey ground at Sookunpoo where the
tournamen will Comtratie to-morrow at Sookupoo with the preliminary and First Rounds; the second rounds will be played on Thursday at Sookunpoo,
The following is the draw for tu-morrow's ganes
2/14
2 p.m. Royal Signa is Punjab Regt. 'A'; 2.20 p.m. 5th A.A. Regt, R.A. 'A' v. RA.0.€*%; 2.40 p.m. HK.SIA 'B' v. 2/14
prices will remain the same.
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ROYAL Army Sørvice Corps,
who are favoured to win the Junior Shield on Saturday against South China, have been in strict training and have been working the ut some new moves for
dis- match which they will not close to anyone.
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Punjab Regt. 'B'; 3 p.m. HRS.RA ATHLETICS
V Middlesex Regt. 'A'; 3.20 p.m.
5th A.A. Regt. R‚Å‚ 'B* v. RA.S.C.
4 pm. 5th A.A. Regt. RA. 'C' v¡TO-MORROW, Middlesex Regi-
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COMMAND SPORTING EVENTS FOR WEEK
TO-DAY
RUGBY — Army Seven-a-Side
Tournament (First Round) (Sookunpoo, at 3.00 p.m.}.
TO.MORROW
BOXING-Inter-Unit Team Box -
ing competition (Final): Middle-
A JUDGE OF CHAMPIONS
HORSEFLESH
EXTENDED
H. D. and S. A. Rum- I have given Mr. jahn, holders of the Open Charles S. Howard $5.35 Doubles Tennis Title, re- and asked him to please ceived their first real op.. buy me a horse, writes position this season when Henry McLemore from they were extended by A.
sex v Royal Scots (Murray Bar- Los Angeles. If he agrees V. Remedios and G. Choa racks. at 8.30 p.m.). HOCKEY Six-a-Side
to do it, my future is guar-in Hockey Tournament (Preliminary and anteed. A horse that First Round): 2.00 pm. Royal Howard buys, particular- Signals v 2/14th Punjab Regt. "A: 2.20 p.m., 5th A.A. Reg. ly a bargain one, is a bet- stand court of H.K.C.C.
HA. "A" RAO.C; 2.40 p.m.
the current Open Doubles Tennis Competi- tion
yesterday on
6-2.
the
won by 6-3, 5-7 and
H.K.S.RA "B" v2/14th Pun-1 ter way to wealth than a and jab Regt. "B" 3.00 pm. HKS rich aunt "with a heart RA. "A" y Middlesex A: 3.20 flutter or a doting uncle pm, 5th A.A. Regt. RA. “A”| v R.A.SC: 340 pm. 5th A.A with a counterfeit ma- medios were unsteady but im- Regt. RA *(*** ཝ
Combined chine." Millary Hos: 400 p.m VRE. "C": 4.20 pm VH.A M. C 4.40 o 13. sex Regt. "H" v R.E "A".
SATURDAY
RUGBY--Seven-a-Side
RE "B" RAF Midd -
(Finals):
(Sookumpoo, at 3.00 p.m.). FOOTBALL-Senior and Junior Shield Finals: Senior Shield— South China い Royal Navy (Causeway Bay, at 430 p.m.);
Junior Shield-South China 1 R.A.S.C. (Causeway Bay, at 3.00 p.in.).
MR. PETER WEI UNSEATED
A rather unusual acci- dent occurred this morn- This is to enable them to selecting at the Valley in which their team for the Command Ath- etic Meeting which takes place an Mr. Peter Wei was in- April 22, 23 and 24.
volved.
C. M. Hospital; 3.40 p.m. R‚E,_ *1* v. ment will meet Hong Kong Uni.
RE. T 4.20
R.A.F. v. versity at Shamshuipo in a feld R.A.M.C;
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Middlesex and Truck athletic meeting. 1.877. Regt. 'H' v. R.E. 'A'.
5th A A. Regt, R.A. and Mid- htter both have
strong teams and I think that one of these should pull off this competition.
FOOTBALL
THE football
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seuson is nearly i finished and Middlesex and Royal Sents have one more match each to play in the Senior Divi- sion,
In the first set Choa and Re-
proved greatly in the second set Choa played a good
and game Basing my figures on what his featured h's play with hard drives own bargain basement steeds have and good placing. Remedios made brought in the way of prize several errors. His volleying was money, Mr. Howard's $5.35 pur-at times brilliant but his overhead chase should enable me to buy, work was weak. that little vine-covered trailer I've In the first set the champions always wanted, and to make at
won easily but in the second set bid for the world's free-style -
the losers improved considerably settin's and a-rockin' champion- and were leading at one stage by shlo.
4 games to 1. The Rumjahns won the next four games in
a row tu lead by 5-4.
Chep and Remedios Won the next game on the latter's service.
They won the next two games though deuce was called several. times in both games,
For $5.36, Mr. Howard is almost a certainty to get me a nag that will win a stake or two. Look at what his bought-for-a song crea- tures have done, Seabiscuit, who, was bought for $7.500 or there- abouts, made so much all he need- ed was a paying teller and an iron
In the last set Rumjahng won grill to become a First National the first two games but Choa and Bank, Kayak II, a marked-down, Remedios were only being led by job, could easily start a loan so- ciety of his stall with thousand | dollar bills and he's only three off the next three games in suc
The Rumjahos, however, reeled
years old.
Money Making Horse
the Saratoga sales by Mr. Howard Porter's Cap was picked up at
for $1,300. Porter's Cap is mak- ing money faster than a show-off Engraver at the mint, his latest haul being the $50,000 Santa Anita
Middlesex Regt. have also been asked to produce a team to com- pete against the Chinese at Caro-ards Cup winner, Starlight, which ¦ derby. He's a greedy little cuss, line Hill on Sunday, May 4.
WAR CUP SEMI-FINALS
He took out Mr. Care's Slew-
has been entered for the first see- tion of the Calliope Handicap to be run on Saturday, for its morn ing exercise.
too. He wants it all, and already is entered in a batch of later rich stakes, including the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap, the Ken- On reaching the seven furlongs tucky Derby, and the Belmont. post, the pony was seen to stum- By his victory in the Derby Port- ble as a result of which Mr. We
er's Cap became the first eligible was unseated, He fell clear of
for the Pimlico Special at Balti- the puny, however, and
more. was not injured. He got got up, remount- The draw for the semi-finals ofed, and completed the yal Signals have to play off for the War Cup to be played on Sa-cise, evidently none the the title before the Champ.ons V. turday is.-Preston V Sheffield for his experience. the Rest game at Caroline Hill. United or Newcastle. This game should be worth watch- › Trottenham Hotspurs or Arsen- ing with both sides keen to secure the honours.
Royal Engineers have won the Second Division with the R.A.S.C. runners' up, and in the Third Division Royal Air Force and Ro-
The Army team were unlucky last Saturday not to win the Kote- wall Cup.
al v Leicester.
The matches will be played on the ground of the first named club unless a mutual arrangement is made,
The final will be played on "May
The game, between South China and the Army, had to result in a ¦ 10.—Reuter,
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EXHIBITION SOCCER
The following have been select- ed to represent the Rest against South China, Champions of the First Division of the Football League, at Caroline Hill on Mon- uay next at 4 p.m.
Stagehand is the only horse ever to win Santa Anita's two most prized stakes--the Derby and the Handicap-but he may be joined by Porter's Cap before long. He won the Derby like a good one. H had speed enough to stay up with the early leaders after the break and when he made his run he ran over horses getting to the front. And he finished the mile and an
eighth full of run and ¦ sound as two dollars. He can go on any kind of track, too. He likes' a fast one and loves a slow one.
Can't Be Just Luck
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3-2 at one time.
cession.
TENNIS RESULTS:
OPEN DOUBLES
H. D. and S. A. Rumjahn beat Choa and A. V. Remedios 6-3; 5-7; 6--2.
CLUB HANDICAP. SINGLES T. J. Gould beat T. C. Monaghan 6-1, 0—6. 0—1.
CLUB HANDICAP, DOUBLES C. H. R. Oxlade and A. H. Bar- well beat F. W. Carter and E, N. Thu.day 7-5, 6-4.
CLUB SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP M. Pagh beat H. J. Armstrong 6-2, 7-5,
TO-DAY'S TENNIS
Following is to-day's Tennis Championship programme.
OPEN DOUBLES Paul Kong and Fung Yee-pui v W. C. Hung and E. C. Fincher (Stand Court).
CLUB HANDICAP BINGLES C. H. R. Oxlade (-15.2) v R. E. Guest (15.1) (7).
CLUB HANDICAP DOUBLES R. H. Blake and H. C. D. Knight (-3/6) v E. R. Childe and S. L. Maughan (2/0) (3).
C.S.C.C. CRICKET XI
The following will represent
Bankier (Royal Scots); Rough- Eventually, racing folk are go- ley (Navy), Blackburn (Police); ing to quit referring to "Howard Freshwater (Middlesex). Hsu luck." It cannot be luck for the King-shing (Eastern). Thomas simple reason there isn't that much (Middlesex); Fowler Club), Fung King-cheon (Sing Tao), Hendy is the secret power that enables Civil Service C.C. In a Junior Cric- (Navy), Barber (Navy), Hau Ching-to (Eastern).
Reserves: Lapsley and Max- well (Kowloon), Fraser (Royal Scots), Bright (Middlesex), Soong Ling-sing (Sing, Tao), Lee Page Navy), Howlett and Ferrier (Po- lice) and Hiertsen (Club).
TO-DAY'S
BADMINTON
in the world. But what is it? What
the pleasant automobile tycoon toket League match against Police look at a horse and know that he on Saturday. has the makings of a champion? H. E. Strange (Capt.), G., Ain- There must be thousands of per-slie, V. C. Bona, P. D. Crawley, G. sons who
actually know more Davidson, F. E. Lawrence, T. about conformation and blood Lockhart, J. F, MacGowan... T. lines than Howard.does, but they -Mitchell, N. L. Smith and A. Wat- go on dealing with platers while son. he saddles the winners,
The Time Is Coming
GOLF RESULTS:
Results of the Captain's Cup, of There's a time coming, though, the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club when he is going to need luck. held during the week-end were: He is going to need it to dodge the Old Course, J. Linaker 08--15- Following is to-day's Badmin-rocks his rival owners are going 73 (21 entries); New Courge, R, M.
to throw at him when they final-Wood 87-16—71 (19 entries). ly can't stand the sight of him standing in the winner's circle
ton Championship' programme:~~
AT KOWLOON C.C.
Junior Singles
N. Smith v. T. S. Young (7.45 with a silver cup or plate in his
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p.m.).
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Junior Doubles
C. C. Pereira and A. E. Xavier v. P. C. Leung and K. F. Chiu (0.15 p.m.).
Benior Coubles
M. A. Oliveira and L. A. Car- valho v. K. W. Choy and K. B. Low (8.45 p.m.); H: C. · Eardley and N. Smith v. P. Wong and C Au (0.30 p.m.),
BOWLS MEETING:
hand, Either this is going to hap- The annual general, meeting of pen, or some track. Is going to the Hong Kong Lawn Bowls As- make itself popular with the other sociation will be held at the Board owners by running a rich race for Room of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- all horses except Howard-owned | son and Co., to-day at 5.30 p.m.
ones.
I wonder what kind of a horse chooses to spend my money for. Mr. Howard'll get me for $5,357 | He could buy me a goat and the I'm hankering for a chestnut colt | chances are it would be a stake with blue eyes and a blazed face, winner before the year? la outere
ut I'll settle for anything he United Press,
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