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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
TWELFTH RACE MEETING
Saturday 8th & Saturday 15th December, 1951. (Held under the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club).
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m. and the First Race whl be run at 2:00 pm. each day.
There are 5 races on the 1st Day and 8 rates on the 2nd Day (10 in all).
Through Tickets to the 2nd Day (at $18.00 each; may be obtained at the Compradore Othe of the Treasurers, 1st Floo Telephone House, also tickets for the Cash Sweep on the last race of the Meeting as well as the Special Cash Sweep em the "Pearce Memorial Cup" 1952.
To avoid congestion at the Club's Offer at Telephone Mouse, non-merabers are requested to purchase their sweep tickets at the Club's Branch Offices et:-
5 D'Aguilar Street Hong Kong
or
302 Nathan Road, Kowloon. TOTALISATOR
The attention of Totalisator Investors is drawn to the following rules-
Dividends will be paid on the winning and placed ponies su declared by the Stewards when the "All Clear" is given. The "All Clear" signat will be indicated by a white light and/or while sphere at the Totalisator Tower. BACKERS ARE ADVISED NOT TO DESTROY OR THROW AWAY THEIR TICKETS UNTIL AFTER THE "ALL CLEAR" SIGNAL HAS BEEN EXHIBITED.
Totalisator Tickets should be examined and checked before leaving
the Selling Counters as mistakes of any description cannot be rectified later.
Cash received in respect of Dividends should be checked before leaving the Pay-Out Counters as no claim for short payment of the value of tickets presented can be entertained unce Investors have left the Counters.
All winning tickets and tickets for refunds must be pre- sented for payment at the Race Course on the day to which they refer, but none will be paid later than one hour after the time for which the last race of the day has been scheduled to be run.
In no circumstances will any Dividends be paid or refunds made unless a ticket is produced. Payment will NOT be made on torn ur disfigured tickets.
MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE
Members and guests are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges prominently displayed throughout the Meeting.
NO ONE WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE.
Badges admitting ladies not in possession of Broaches or Season tickels and gentlemen, non-members of the Club, to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including tax, for ladies or gentlemen are obtainable through the Secretary at Telephone House, on the written or personal introduction of a Member, such member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, e
and for payment of all chits, etc. Only Umited number of badges
Members' admitting to Enclosure will be on sale at the Race Course.
The Branch Offices and the Treasurers' Compradore Office will close 11.00 a.m. on both days. The Secretary's Office will close at 11.45 a.m, each day. The Treasurers' Compradore Office and the Secretary's Office are situated at 1st Floor, Telephone House.
A limited number of tins will be obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 1. Boy (Tol. 27818).
NO CHILDREN WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CLUB'S PRE- MISES DURING THE MEETING.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
The price of admission to the Public Enclosure is $3.00 each day including tax for all persons including ladies, and is payable at the Gate.
***BOOKMAKENS, TIC TAC MEN ETC., WILL NOT BE PER- MITTED TO OPERATE WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
PRE MEALS AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE OBTAINABLE IN THE RESTAURANT IN THE PUBLIC ENCLOSURE - REVISTA MI SERVANTS' PASSES
to
Servants” passco, will be issued, to private bost holders Only, who are requested to distribute them with discrimination and endoren
their names on the passed. Holders of such passes aro not permitted in the Members Enclosure except for passing through on their duties and must remain in their employers' stands. Owing to the congestion in the Merabers' Betting Hall and at Booths adjacent to Boxes in the Coffee Room, Box-holders and Members are requested to ensure that their servants make tiap only ibe Public Bolling Hall, Military Police will be posted at various points, in the enclosure to ensure that this regulation le adhered toge antwolna ver
By Order,
RESUME THIS AFTERNOON
By "SPIV"
The local Soccer League games resume again this afternoon after a lapse of a couple of weeks taken up by the matches against the visiting Indian team and the Challenge Shield Competition,
With only an average of three more matches per club to be played before the first round concludes, the First Division League will mainly see the leading teams, South China. Army, Kowloon Motor Bus, Kitchee and Sing Tao trying to maintain their positions against the lower ranking Clubs before the second round begins. Short of upsets being produced, the League standings should remain the same.
The netponement of the RAF Surly chalenged by versus Ainy moteb, orginalis ixed Tra this afternoon.
Di accoun
mal euvres. has taken out the main match; for this afternoon, joving only two First Division
that Ka between Kwong Wah and Club, and thu! between St. Joseph's and Navy
sarah among Eastern team.
eatly strengthened by the in- ath of Kwok Ying-ker.
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TODAY'S GAMES Flos Division League Chul v Kwong Wan (Club, 4 pm)
St. Joseph's v. Navy (Caroline BB. 4 pmi
The match between RAF and Army has been postponed.
Seton; Division League
Club }
Taikou (Club
Club did extremely well last week, when they held Army to
ore-mil il
score Tra 1 Claudente Sludi maten 300 El Fa attijaovement shown are expected to give the intre
Wah & Tavoured Kwing
to store a RAF Trontway, (Navy CB win fina scuson, but it will prob- 230 pin) sily be too much to expret of then to get their first point at the expense of St. Joseph's,
Navy have
SUNDAY'S MATCHES
Jade
A WH i
2:30 pm
St Joseph's v. PCA (Caroline
H., 2:30 pr.)
Third Division:
Third Division
V
Wayfoong
Lane Crawford Navy. H.P., 2.30 p.m.)
FACE U.S.
By Lance Tingay Lawn-tennis "giants" of Wimbledon have gathered "Down under." At Mel- bourne in mid-December Sweden plays the United Stales in the inter-zone final of the Davis Cup. Winners go immediately after Christmas to the White City Stadium, Syd- ney, to challenge Australia for the Cup.
Who holds the key to the 1951 Davis Cup?
! The
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U.S. PROBLEM
Americans d. по kaw where they Stand Frank X Shields, the captain. has the task of deploy- ing more strength but less genius than usual.
In winning the American Zone.
the US. experimented with six different singles players and three different doubles pairs- and skill did not find what they were seeking.
Shields has to and a Challenge-
I round side Irom W.mbie-
don champion Dick Savit, terrific then zul not so good eisewhere; Immaculate Vic Scixas, who was crushed by Australia's Frank Sedgman at Forest Hills; the up-and-coming but inexperienced Tony Trabert, and Ted Schroeder, Wimbledon champion of 1949. Schroeder appeared in Australia "out of the blue, keen to make up for his failure in 1950.
Australia seek support for burly Sedginan in the singles.
Segmen
and
powerful-yet- McGregor are a puzzling
doubles The must for the world has not seen so strong a partnership for years. Ther Gymnastic 育 Dairy Farm 1951 record, comprising the
of (Navy, H.P., 4 p.m.)
championships
Australia. France, Wimbledon and U.S., is unique.
and
The matches between 367 SU Jaguars and RAMC and Eastern have been postponed
-(London Express Service)
Sutcliffe Tells Some Stories
Herbert Sutcliffe, famous England and Yorkshire
RNEE N. Aces (Navy CB, batsman, told some good cricket stories at the recent an-
nual dinner of the Sheffield Cricket League.
43.1
TOMORROW First Division
They included one about the al night, Larwood asked what crowd meant when they & W. Test match at Sydney during the
The answer post-the Australia 1931-32 tour when shouted "Yucur'.
'Well, there's Hobbs, the English team was captained was, by D. R. Jurdine.
Sutcliffe, and Jardine, and then Larwood's leg-theory bowling you come."" came in for inuch barracking. The barracking went on all day and every day but 1 got used to it," said Sutcliffe,
amore interesting Rediffusion V CMB (Navy. ; Suray's matches, #3, 4 pan.) particularly the games between The match between C, Kowloon Motor Bus and and University has been Police
Boundary Street, poned. and between Sing Teo And Eastern al Club ground
Police,
after
the winning Stanley Shield, have not done anything notable as yet, but at their best any yet be capable of an upsel should the busmen take any chances
Sing Tao gave a magrußerut. display last Saturday when they climinated the holders of the Challenge Shield. South Chino, in the first round, and being at their peak form at the moment are not expected to be
KMB v Police (Boundary S., 4 p.m.)
Sing Tao v Eastern (Club. 4 p.m.)
K.ichey ', CAA {Caroline Hall, 4 pum)
tuken
Sutcliffe recalled a Yorkshire- Sussex match at Shefteld in June, 1924, in which he scored a century against tre bowling "At the Sydney Test there a Maurice Tale. During the
something like 30,000 innings a telegram was
the famous (1)
Hill. people
out in Sutcliffe. Second Division
Larwood look a very long run, A wit in the crowd cried, "Is Solicitors v Police (Boundary and the spectators marked every it a boy or a girl?" St., 2.30 p.m.)
stride with shouts of "one, two, Sing Tao v Dockyard (Club,; three, four" and so ou.
Then, as Larwood was in the 2.30 p.m.)
(Caroline actual act of delivery, they hundred and his wife gave birth
yelled "Yucum'.
At the hotel to a son.
Kitchee V CAA Hill, 2.30 p.m.)
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