NOTICE
THE HONG KONG FOOTBALL,
ASSOCIATION,
Hendon-Hongkong-Series- Saturday, 12th May, 1951, Hendon V. All Hongkong Club Ground, kick 01
5.30 p.m.
Sunday, 13th May, 1951, Hendon v. Hengkong Selection Club ground, kick on
5,30 p.m.
Tuesday, 15th May, 1051, Hendon v. Combined Chintse Club ground, kick. of
,0.00 pm.
PRICES OF ADMISSION $0.00 to No. 2 stand Ends, $3.50 to No. 3 stand,
Ticketholtiers are warned that (They | they must be seated at least when half an hour before the kick
oft.
Finally, for my dunces;- DON'T bet in every race. If your wife or girl-friend asks you to back hony, ferge to place the bet. urally win al 100-1, you do forgel).
never
When you do back n winner spend the money on something Tickels are not valid after solt. You may never back the ten are closed... another.
my
DON'T double прод naps if I strike an unlucky
Children without tickets will not be admitted. All children,
It is much better, in the long eh. Well, that's all. Class respective of age, must pay.
run. to form your own opinion
and stick to it
some-
BEST BET of all is thing to nothing. The gambler's failure is only a matter of time.
REMEMBER that you the worst of the odds it you bet ench way in mees numbering more than 12 starters,
STUDY RULES
get
And now for the new- cumçrs:-
MAKE SURE that you know
dismiss-and the best of luck.
**London Express Service)
K. M. Omar,
Secretary.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
WHITSUN RACE MEETING
Saturday 12th & Monday 14th May, 1951
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.. and the fast race your bookmaker's rules. What will be run at 1.00 p.in, on the 1st Day, On the 2nd Day the First the point of coupling out-Dell will be ring at 11.30 am, and the first race will be run at siders in doubles or trebles, ir 12.00 Noon. The Tila Interval is after the fourth race (1.30 p.m.) the bookmaker has, say, a 100-1 on the 2nd Day. limit?
There are
10 races on the 1st Day and 12 races on the 2nd Day (22 in all).
DON'T spend all your
time between bars and bookmakers. Through Tickets at $44.00 each may be obtained at the Com- When you go racing watch the pradore Office of the Treasurers, 1st floor, Telephone House, also horses. If possible walk down tickets at $2.00 each for the Special Cash Sweep on the "Hong
race
scheduled to be run on Saturday, 12th May. Kong Derby" from "below the distance," that
Through Tickets reserved for this Meeting but not paid for is mere, than 240 yards from by 10.00 a.m. on Friday, 11th May, will be sold and the reservation - the winning-post. Before the cancelled for future meetings.
course and see the
of the great Ormonde. He has The portation from Feneesired many fast horses, notably of Bois Roussel, a few weeks Delirium, who as a two-year- Although the playing season is over, to a true ball fan Softball before he won the 1938 Derby old ran : dead-heat # Ascot revived a Britain the ninte line with the sequent St Leger
never stops and any time two or more fans get together over
the a soda of the unbeaten St Stuson, wioner Savalan and who has during the ensuing torrid months the topic will invariably be concerned
the distinction of being all ti
Lizon white stock the few British
with past activities on the diamond. horses 4X- parted recently to France for i stud duties,
If
all
one of
of the watest racehorses and sires of won 16 classies, including
The recent 66-game Inter-Hong series, which was concluded in a short space Bye
1500
of six weeks, was a remarkable achievement on the part of the Management Com. Bois Roussel's offspring run-1
Britain walay are as a ning
itt
A final note must be made of Įmittee assisted by the fullest co-operation of the teams. whole
Adiniral savers, though a few are
Drake and Boreulis, temperamental. His sous Tehran Admiral Drake, bred in France
Ridge Work won
the Stand alf-brother of Bols Leger. and Migoli who was Roussel. is by Craig an Eran who
the 2,000 Guineas Felipe Stakery and the Eclipse Skikes and was beaten Eclipse carried the war Into the French camp and re-by a neck in the Derby. He turnert with the Prix de l'Are himself won the Grand Prix de de Triomphe.
Paris, but als line is in danger Vatout who
who sired Bois Rousself exlinetion, although his son won the French 2.000 Guineas Amour Drake was and established another flourish-tucky not to have beaten Nimbus ing line through his son Vatelor in the Derby. who got Pearl Diver
won
very
Jardine's won the tournament, which necessitated a playoff against China Light just a few hours before the Annual Dance at the Peninsula Hotel, to cul minate a contest which has been full of surprises and, it is this more than any. thing else that has been responsible for the unqualified success of the series.
Of the 12 teams that lined up the deadline was reached Jár; longest tussle being between at the
two were ines was knoked with China Gibbs starting pdst
and Lowe Bingham's uepble to complete their dixtures Light for the tale.
which lasted the better part of unforeseen circum- Gibbs, Lowe Bingham's and four un-owing to
hours in 1 12-inning which stances made it impossible Union Insurance were only one affair, and on one occasion the for them to turn out for games game behind with NHB. Callex, Kame had to be called off on on werkdays and quite sensibly Socony and Shell close on their account of darkness when the withdrew, their entries early in heels only one game apart, while teams were deadlocked after the tournament. Among the re- Rediffusion in their first year the maining
regulation number of the failed in contestants margin separating the top ond
their last game and innings. finished at the tall-end bottom team is only to
games behind Jardlocs. be a
It must be said that Inter- more three games.
Hong rivalry far exceeded that of the most keenly contested fonier inogue Reinca imi every game in the schedule was played off irrespective of standing and never Was there 2 hint of throwing in the towel.
and My Cinig an Eran also got the Love, winners of the Derby in Denby winner April 1947 and 1948.
the Fifth, who apart
from a few good steeplechasers, has achieved no St Simon's blood was also im-dirtinetion at stud. ported into Britain with Micusre.
a son of Massine, winner of the Ascot Cold Cup. Mieuxce won the French
Prix in 1936, but has not
and
an outstanding sire in Britain Massine also got Maravedis, sire of Souverain who beat
the Derby winner Aitharne won the Ascot Gold Cup.
Prince Chevaller arsel Le Pacha, some of whose offspring are racing in Britain, have as- sisteri, too, the attempts to revive St Simon's blood. Prince Chevalier won the French Derby
and is by Prince Ruse, grandstre of the ill-fated Prince Simon.
ten
and half-brother
Borealis, a grandson of Teddy was serond in the St Leger in!
of Alyciden,
So clost was the competition His list crop of three-that "the League leadership year-olds last year gave promise changed hands with almos:
a good line of stayers.
every game and during the six In the final article in this week period, every team had n series I shall try to explain with one time or the other held the particular reference' to breeding top spot. some of the causes for the failure
of
of British horses in the Derby and the long distance events.
Surrey County Cricket
Le Pachia won the French Derby Teaches
and St Loger. the Grand Prix
and Prix'de l'Arc de Triomphe.
GREAT STAYERS
To Schoolgirls
Son in Law's descendants
Surrey schoolgirls will were the outstanding slayers in soon be learning to bowl
Britain between the two world off-breaks and googlies in-
won
six
the Ascot Gold Cup
times and in the six and netball. They are to years in which the Ascot Stakes be taught cricket. was contested from 1936-47 they were unbeaten. The Cesare- witch, the Doncaster and Good- wood Cups also fell to them, ye: today the line is in danger
i
possession. Then Shell took over First Caltex held undisputed for a short spelt only to hand it F over to Union Insurance as a result of a last inning fumble.
FAVOURITES CAUGHT UP
The favourites soon caught up
three
The playoffs found both Jar- dines on fbing Lighs timed but weary-armed Kelly Silva-Netto, pitching to Junior Remedios for Ewo, still had a few strikes left in the soup-bone and held down the Electricians, while his mates junned on Frankie Gonsales for 19-4 triumph which decided the Champions for 1951.
The series also provided the olier hands with a
chance lo niny the game once again for no matter how old you are en- MANY EXTRA INNINGS thusiasm for softball never dies. During the serious, extra-. Among the elars of yester Inning games were plenty, the year who turned out regularly were Hank Barros of Caltex and C. F. Passos of Socony.
towards the closing stages of the Egyptian_Cricket
race and Gibbs were almost
dead certainties until they lost Team a heart-breaker to Lowe Bing- ham's in a 12-inning marathon contest and Jardines took over the lead.
The
very
prise win.
next
morning,
During the week, the Senior Champion Braves took on a con- To Touringent from the USS A
England
Twenty three
and upheld the esteem of their fans by overwhelming the gobs 11-2, during which timo every Warrior necounted for a cricket hit. Chappie, Remedios was on
chucked a two-hitter.
I
wars. From 1927 to 1935 they stead of practising lacrosse China Light edged out Jardines matches are to be played the mound for the champs and
frem that position with a sur-by the Egyptian touring cricket team-the first ever In
the final week of the to play in England. Surrey County Council has tournament competition really agreed to form, with:
other became local and sporting authorities, a junior cricket committee to
having to play almost every day of the work ta catch up rncourage cricket among boys with postponed games and when Son-in-Law himself won the and girls between 11 and 18. Careweh in record time, the Goodwood Cup and the Jockey
of fading away in Britain.
Jaw,
won
Bosworth and
the
Foxlaw
Ascot Gold
The lessons will probably be given by Surrey County cric-
masters
Club Cup twice. His sons Fox-keters and will be mainly for Trimdon boys, but girls can also icarn Foxhunter and if they wish. Games
Cup gol Tiberius, both winners of the will also be allowed to brush Gold Cup. Foxhunter sired up on the duties and training Fox Cub who was second to Dlue of umpires and groundsmen. Peter in the Derby, but he was
A Survey Council official exported to South America be said that the idea was bom fore his influence could be felt ufter an MCC conference, when in Britain.
county authorities were asked Bosworth
to do something for the cause of cricket.
coll Baswell
beat
the
got the Amerlean who won the St Leger and Eclipse. Stakes, Trim- I-think-this-ly-a-fori--of- don
treas the sire of Trimbush, long-term plan to past-war winner of the Doncas- Australians," he said. ter Cup, and of Marsyos II who The Women's Cricket Asso- won the Goodwood and Don-clatien, the London and Sur- caster Cups.
rey cricket associations and
Epigram by Son-in-Law also local authorities will be repre- won these two races, and at stud rented on the new county crie- get useful if not brilliant horses. ket committee.
POP
ced
hot with
teams
Entries to the Summer League are being reecived and up to date five teams have signified their intention c taking part. Their captain is Fares Bey Sarofeem, a warm upholder of Entries are U. S Navy. South
(2 teams) China Anglo-Egyptian friendship and and Pandas. one of the founders of the El Alamein Club in Cairo during the, war.
THE GAMBOLS
The
which sjde, chiefly. Egyptian will
some
BUT
Henry App GEORGE. ITS NONE OF POKAZ BUSINESS IF HE / KICKING THE BALL ALL WRONG
Englishmen living
though
include
In
not
meet
Cairo and Alexandria, [5 counted strong enough
first-class opposition.
There
Raggmopps,
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG
JOCKET CLUB
THE MAY HALF-YEAKLY GENERAL MEETING of
are matches against VOTING MEMBERS will de
MCC, various Service
elevens
and Oxford and Cambridge held at the Club House,
colleges, beginnlrig at
Cam Happy Valley, on Wednesday, bridge on June 6 against Trini- 30th May, 1951, at 5.30 p.m.
ALL MEMBERS are cor-
ty.
The Egyptians have a gamordially invited to attend and too, against the Lords and
Commons (June 18), and end participate in any dlacussion
which may enatis.">
On July. 11 by pinying the Nore Cominand. Two of the matches last two days, so that In Ave weeks they will have 25 days cricket.. Quite enough,
-(London, Expren Servico)
Last straw
PEOPLE WHO.
SAY IT'S
IMPOSSIBLE
TO GET, STUNG
- IN THE SAME PLACE
TWICE -- HAVE NEVER STAYED
TWO SEASONS - „RUNNING: ATA OUR BOARDING
HOUSE
By Order of the Stewards,
S. A. SLEAP,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 12th May, 1951.
SAVE YOUR EYES
In all cards of bye troubl
...your eyes khould be thorough
Ty tested to decide if your case'1'öne which chlla for the
· son of glamour de not
CHINESE OPTICAL CO.
.11, QUEENERDAR CENTRAL HÖVER MÖNCH.”
race memorise the .various colours of the Jockeys' capa.
NEVER tear up your bet- ting tickets until at least 15 minutes after the race. (I re- member an Instance at New- bury when
horsc which
last
was awarded Arst place on an ob- Jection).
With a bank of £50 It is
win fairly easy to
15. You
with £5. have to be lucky to win £50
Forget anything you think you know about "the law of averages."
fhrushed nearly
GET-OUT STAKES
To avoid congestion at the Club's Offices at Telephone House, | non-members are
to purchase their sweep Hckets at the requested Club's Branch Offices at:-
5. D'Aguilar Street, Hong Kong
or
382, Nathan Road, Kowloon, MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE
MEMBERS ARE INFORMED THE 1051 SETS OF, MEMBERS AND LADIES' BADGES NOW SUPERSEDE THE PREVIOUS ISSUE.
Members and guests.ore reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.
THE
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO
MEMBERS ENCLOSURE.
Badges admitting ladies not in possession of Brooches de Season tickets and gentlemen, non-members of the Club, to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including NEVER. NEVER, NEVER tax, for ladies or gentlemen are obtainable through the Secretary “ chase your losses. You may
on the written or personal introduction of a member, such member succced once or twice in "gel-to be responsible for all visitors introduced by alm, and for pay- ting out, but your
ment of all chits etc. eventual fate is certain.
Badges at the RACE CO
"The_Treasurers' Compradore Office will close at 11.00 a.m. the 1st Day and at 10.00 am.. on the 2nd Day. The Secretary's Office will close at 11.45 aan. the 1st Day and at 10.00 a.m. on the 2nd Day. Both offices at 1st floor, Telephone House,
NOTICE
THE
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB
THE HONGKONG DERBY 1961 The Sale of Cash-Sweep Tickets on the above will close at:
:
THE BRANCH OFFICES: 382 Nathan Road, Kowloon, at 4.00 p.m. on 11th May, 1951,¦ D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong,
at.5.00 p.m. on 11th May, 1961. THE TREASURERS* OFFICE: Telephone House, at 5.30 p.m. on 11th May, 1961.
The Draw will be held in the Public Betting Hall, at the Race Course, at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday, 12th May, 1951.
• By Order, PEAT, MARWICK, MITCHELL & CO. Treasurers.
to Members' Enclosure will NOT be on sale
A limited number cl tiffins will be obtainable at the Clubs House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tol. 27818),
-NO CHILDREN WILL DE-ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PRE-
MISES DURING THE MEETING.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $3.00 per day including tax for all persons including ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
BOOKMAKERS, TIC TAC MEN ETC., WILL NOT BE PER- MITTED TO OPERATE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB DURING THE RACE MEETING.
MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE OBTAINABLE IN THE RESTAURANT IN THE PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
SERVANTS' 'PASSES
Servants' passes will be issued to private box holders only, who are requested to distribute them with discrimination and to endorse their names on the passes, Holders of such passes are not permitted in the Members' Enclosure except for passing through on their duties and must remain in their employers
stands..
Owing to the present congestion in the Members' Betting Hail, Box-holders and Members are requested to ensure that their servants make use only of the Publio Betting Hall. Military Police will be posted at various entrances to the Members Hall to ensure that this regulation is adhered to.
BY: ORDER.
8. A. BLEAP.
Secretary,
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