THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
Indians Should Win The A KEEN FOLLOWER OF THE GAME ASKS
WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR LOCAL TENNIS? -OR WHAT'S RIGHT WITH IT?
Third Division Title This Afternoon
By "TOUCHER”.
Indian Recreation Club, who are practically assured of the Second Division Lawn Bowls League title, will have an excellent opportunity of bringing off the double when they clash with the Filipino Club in their final Third
Division match this afternoon.
A 4-1 victory over USRC by the Indians during the week has put them 1% points ahead of the Filipinos and with this lead they have only to atop their rivals from scoring a 4-1 win to annex the Third Division title,
bo
there to
two
Ladies' of the
Kowlton Cricket Club, who did Only
First Division excellent work in initiating this mutches are scheduled for this League, was reported. The KCC afternoon.
KDC-Police tainly deserved a pat on the match at Huyghom wũi ba
bruck. mainly a social affair
as the Dockmen are well stuck already In the nut of rolegation.
What's wrong with our local tennis? Or should the question be what's right with it?
..
During the last two weeks we have seen the entry lists for the Colony Ladies' Singles and Doubles and the Mixed Doubles fined down to the semi-finals in all cases and to the final pair in the Singles and the writer now proceeds to lay himself open to the risk of assault and battery by saying that it is doubtful if there is more than one player under the age of thirty left in the tournament,
tomorrow?
and be
is
being brought on properly what them on? And if they are not
in the HKLTA doing about it?
Can anybody imagine wild be the
what situation if the HKLTA aged one of these Exhibition matches which they The next season it is practical-
one of the various ly certain that there will be do when
world class players more than a sufficient mumber of oups of MORE INTERESTING
July-supporters to enable then through on their way from ane kaunament to another, and HKLBA to start romu sort of
the Ips, Tsal, and K.C. Dao Than other
between Ladies' open events. match
were not available? KBGC UKI Cridgengower at
will be Ausus Hotel
Perhaps a ladies' singles and interesting affair. Both Cluba paira event can be starled next year. and I am sure there will are putting up their best feans,
be many who wi vie for the will be and special Interest focussed on the KBGC rink of honour of becoming Hongkong
Orst lady champlon bowler
more
Awkward questions are at way well and anybody can ask them but what about a fow possible
to them? Would it not be possible for the HKLTA
or
Look
· 1954.
IT'S THE BIT OF IRISH IN THEM
Like many another great fighter, James |, Braddock was intensely proud of his Irish blood. Here, In the second- article of this series ALAN HOBY tells of the fight with Joe Louis that cost Braddock... the world title.
Battling Cinderella- Braddock Lost His Title To A Brown Fury
Fifty thousand people are packed into Comiskey Park, Chicago, Round the stadium more than 1,000 police stand on guard manning high pressure hoses, Hundreds more patrol the side streets.
hold abungo But Jamey J. Braddock was no ho was
to prove
A
someone from the KLTA had a very pollaw triumph to my fenderella man" to defend the morbid fancles and stuck it out)
now instead
ย
+
to
Braddock
was still fighting woll, but slowly and systerhalte- ally Louis Hagen to do a surgical operation on him. As the Nego outpunched Braddock, the crowd fell allont and uneasy,
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It's a solemn thought that Maureen Connolly captured all the leading singles titles in America and Europe when she was just over half that age and that she The Filipino wood-pushers | Ladies' League and the Inter-
was, even before her recent injury, considering retirement to rest on her laurela and are a fighting lot but nerves Hong Palts,
get married at the ripe old age of twenty, or is it nineteen?
For tonight--June 22, 1987—James J. Braddock, Idol of all Irish-Americans, may let them down ag the. Thapo hanD boon sorbonelve Indians ro more immuno to enthusiasm among the incon
le fighting Joo Lonia, a young Negro from Detroit, for the Heavyweight Champion- Hand and Rostwall of Aus- Sometna has got to teach the was no need to make elaborate this condition than their op- during the past Woolr ponents.
already quite a number of them burned out before they reached
and tralia have been described as youngster cane way of Andlag rules guarding against Club ship of the World...and the authorities fear race riots.
ù chink in the Wong prmour doing a fiddle and demoting one ore practising hard to cam the age of being allowed their and that toaching can only
Not only is Comiskey Haseball At the time the boxer was Although the Filipinos
be of its first team players to play WOD by 4-1 in the dnt match, it is emes lawn bowls contingenti
place in Hongkong's next Empire awn front door key
Hudson River by) done by very xperlonood in a lower team in a match they Fark in the centre of one of the awaging the extremely doubtful if they can
tween them they also have fu player, someone like the elder particularly wanted to win most thickly-populated coloured Go He was standing by the the post few years
districts of the States, but Louis rails looking down at the swirl old performance repeat that
captured Trul this
Canavarro nan The Hongkong Lawn Bowls
Admittedly this could be done is an overwhelming favourite, ing waters and it seemed to him afirrmon.
worth every lo A
himpelf.
so as to ensure that the second good crowd of Agrelation has taken the com- pigally
team won its particular league If he beats Braddock, the Chamr that they supporters from both clubs will mendable step of taking over
Similarly with the young
WIL be the first coloured proce pion, Ing
Another fusilade of. Ietta and the demotion but
meant that roo! for their the
Where, then, are our Cham- ladies, the HKLTA might have runnin
to hold the crown heavyweight ta teams, and whatever the result, League,
right to the head and Bend- Who
the first team
a bigger brat it was surprising ploma of
dock was reeling back, cayenng some of them in action, a fine close game is anticipated. / that no wore of thanks to the kooling after them and bringing spotters going round and, sec walloping than it might other since Jack Johnson
Into this explosive atmosphere ainst the lethar fists of Joe up, wincing with pain. might have been a good idea wise have done and it must þe
boxing'a Ipula. Не throw
hia off
SCIENTIFIC SLAUGHTER that your record strings have
the It arranged to
go and watch the pulled it off witle your top boys title which he won barely two —and suddenly he was in
pientific slaughter: King George V School team.
cold-hearted munching straight which so sportingly entered the and girls have made fools of years before from Mas Baer to headlines.
out of the the biggest fistic upart of the
encyclopedia of themselves. Ladies' "B" Division of the
desado
He went back to his old trade boxing League, playing all their
Ho was WEEK-END AFFAIRS
matched There is e sturing and rustling-fighting.
But one quality Louis could matches away as they have only
highly-touted boxer not Braddock, who is eight years with
quench tha Irish- two courts,
Admittedly such matches Louis's senör 31 ngahst 29 called Art Lesky at Madison American's fighting heart. In would have to be Promising ployers could have affairs as there would not be of the are lamps. At his square astonishment of
week-end stands under the searching stare Square Gardens and the the third round Braddock, et il been spotted at the right age time for them
critics, beat carrying the fight, had his lips in an evening, hown face
Irish and might by now have been but if the primary object
L caught by the his you
cut inside and the his young opponent.
out by Louis's morning Braddock murderous labs and hooks. of light, the ringriders, among them placed under the wing of some
is social, surely Lague tennis
ex-champions Jack
Dempsey opened the pápers tá find that In the fourth his legs were really experienced player Dit is better to have a leisurely
and Gene
Tunney-mine for-ho was famous. More incredible almost unhinged by a slodgn- players 50 that they could be
Dafternoon in which * et to
hammer brought on
ward to pruting the man who all, he was directly in line know people, with a match
Such beg lins one of the most fantastic a world title fight.
In the "fifth, Louis, took the having to
learn the hard and fore, and a match after, a plear careers in boxing
the quirks of fate; and such was champion's best punches with- wrong way by entering toùrna-
Ma-sant commummi tea party for
then nearly the path Braddock, ex-hoba and out filnching and of ping block for the current cham-namwthing else if you wish for
has been trod to the Heavy decapitated him with a right. plons until such time as the late a stronger drinks before enter
weight Championship of tho
Nevertheless, tho Ofth wis mired doubles
World
Braddock's
Irish hopes fer get to an age where they can battle) than to have to dt in no longer wield the axe.
three undecisive gots, in none
All his life, Braddock fought of which you get into your stride,
the poverty. As a boy he "rode the between leaving
rods" and fought in the streets. If our standard of tennis ls to office, where something has be maintained, let
and strong for his alone Im-Inevitably delayed you just when He was big proved, it must be fortified by you had it all lined up, at the age, and it was in theap ganger and over again.
"John L. Sullivan, Grille the proper training of young next social engagement to which brawls that he first discovered
power of
man Jim Corbett and players now because waiting for "I'm terribly sorry old boy 1.
He wan at his ensely proud! James J. Braddock. From corned head meir's shoes is a policy must dash off now, one, of these
his wish blood. Braddock, isish to a million dollaret which muat inevitably lead official cocktail parties you
who Whe born in the old "Hall's fantastic," downhill,
he added incredul Tha record books show that
quarter of Now York,
a fighting rally. The champion been onio Another idea that has it has
been customary
It was also true. is that of graded for our put forward
was indanod Some people have been my
gamble with champions to reign too long
It was this innate modesty, his favourite right uppercut had. be cared
by the various leading not Irish. Let them say is to my allled with his fighting qualities, tors were screaming like a bull to get somebody set up as champion and then
look clubs, the suggestion being that face and they will see.....
mado Braddock so popular. to
fight For
crowd at the sight
blood. of around Immediately for some examplo, Chib Z should run
And Louls? for Men's A Open Tournament Braddock's
· Before the fight: parents were
Louis, maying like a
a tiger, had body to knock the champion off singles and doubles,
the Club
Inconle Negro forecast he staggered Braddock with another American immigrante of Irish Q his perleatal at the earliest op Ladies A open event, Club X a stock. His father, Joseph Brad-would knock out Braddock, "in right. He opened up the 138/1 portunity.
Mixed A event and so on down dock, was a Manchester police- raund."
above Braddock's left eye. Then Perhaps the Lo brothers, the
the scale. Then when a player man, born at Mattram, Stock- It is also recorded that for his the Negro drove the wobbling Nurman and Donald, will rive got to the last four in a grade C port. His mother rejoiced in the last med before the most im-Inlah-Amerion, half-way awes local tennis a shot in the arm tournament he was and must enter, if at
content of his career the the ring smashing home right- Bomber had orange banders until Braddock was on juice, pmaries, liver, lamb chops, the verwo of collapse. and acme too. Then he slept.
F. Francis, F. Howarth, M E. Purvis and A Harvey who are already in the Anal of the Colony Open Hinks competition.
TIN hold be further Heightened if Harvey's rink is drawn against that of J. S. Lamoil who is well in the running for the top poallion in the League table.
Although
the official bowls season will be over very nood with the play-off of all the finals of the open events, there will probably be a good extended period
with year, welcome Introduction of
this
EXTRA PRESS RETENTION
the the
MAWLYB
to arrange sxme
schema
should the event be instituted
overall iching
next season.
TODAY'S GAMES
First Division
KDGC v. CCC. KDC v. PRC.
Second Division
KBGC v. IRO....
Third Division
IRC v. FRC. USRC v. HKFO.
Ready Now
at
FENWICK
2pc.
for
promising young players, not so much in stroke production, but in court craft.
cases
often
The strokes could and should be taught in the Clubs and, in many
are being taught now but, as we have so Born in the current Champton
hips it is the picking of the time to use trem that is faulty in_inty of our juniors There is no useful cerved by a youngster to outlast, for example, V.T. Wong in baseline rallies, he can do that until the home.
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For not so long before, James 3. Braddock, champion Jane world, was down and out....
his
FOUGHT POVERTY
Even after he had beaten play-blazed heaven-high as he landed boy Baer be cold scarcely credit three rights to the Negro's avad. that he way. In the money cha He also bloodied Louis's nose he was THE World Champion, with a stinging loft. The crowd
can't believe it, he exclaimed began to
shout and
sway s Braddock caught Louis again with two blasting rights one lo Louis's reddened nose and the other to his brown chin. "old man" had its
Old Ireland,” shouted a ringder. But, alas, it was only
ously.
now
and the polley should surely annual open tournaments spon- ing bahlad my back that I am this boyish onthusiasm which, falted--and suddenly the specia-
the
studies in England, certainly a tournament the next a grade Toole Speaking of his parents," I "Brown
Iu....and Ho of CRC This idea has many points to There is not one drop of any
་
Braddock raích:--
be refused
Braddock's stomach.
TRIED A BAYMAKER
Another terrifle jab rocked his
G
Ma
This was finish and the could, if properly groomed now commend it and we hope, think-blood but Irish le the veins of
sald of a fantastic ring career. "SODA WATER”. that next year or the year after) ing of one possible stag, that it either of
Braddock lasted try- Somehow them, come very near,
if not right to, would not be necessary to brand Why wat Braddock called the
other round In the eighth be Braddock before the fight gave was overwhelmed by the falling the top. The main thing is to any players so that torna conld "Cinderella
Because his reasons why HE would win brown fury. For 60 got something done at once. be no mistaking them for Grade after being broke he came back "They say that fighters never Louis fought with pure venom. Another feature of local "" when they were established to win the world heavyweight plan battle a advance-but Two whiplash leftsank into tennis Into which the HKTLA | Croda "A",
Sitio and the Amylows love a that's a lot of soda water. might poke an enquiring nose There is also the problem of
heard because esten, knowing *Fighters do figure opponents is the Eumes League. Is it how do we do the origin to quit and bath back to the or they're liable to get their brafas advance. In fact, they have to really good for tennis?
grading.
knocked
101 out.
lend with a raddock had already retired straight
Jett as Louis advances, head back.. Goaded and des One other criticism that has from the ring when he lost his keep it in his face, jab him. porate, the Irish-American drieki tennis standard purposes. Play been levelled at our tennis savings in the Wall Street crash, "Louls will start swinging and haymaker, nó to đi so he ed, as it, in the evenings, organisation is that our local To en " few bucks to be drops his left when he does dropped his card and Tamils there has to be some limit to Championships take too long prevent his family from story that He's wide open-und te arushed a right flush on the jaw.
Braddock went down the lengths to which games can because no players play more in Braddock became a truck it gront spot for p right cross."
His tape strotch out but those poeme to than
ong the per day. This driver, Janitor, begg He Yes, Braddock. p the stout mashed, the fallen champion lay bo in so much of our League should not really be necessary hauled railway sloopers to pick Irish heart was confident and unconscious as the referee, bolted tennis a feeling that one musin interest if they could be more dirty, ill-pads job going.
and I might help
to sur un up a dollar or two,. He did any fundraid. Right from the belf ten seconds. Joe Loula was the lose, rather than that one must concentrated.
We admit that the original aim and purpose of the Lengue was more for social than for
there is
TAKE TOO LANA
win
The result is that in the It might also bring us one of senior leagues
an two entries from abroad it the appallingly thin entry, last year events could be pressed through six for the men's “A", four for a bit more quickly. the Ladies' "A" and four for the Mixed "A".
We understand that, în
the
booked him and cutter him and
He
ho tried to all the Negro with new Hoovyweight Champion of But none of this occupations white men threw a *"honey" of
his right. That was he ace. The the World. brought him a living. One day,
An hour later, still dazed, his punch but Louis, like a big face a maze of adhesive tape, sick at heart, he aprilled for rolled. "They gave me £á à cat, aldentopped
the battered ex-champion want, month for my wife and three Moving in, Louis Jabbed Brady quietly off to his hotel where his children,
wite he recalled grimly look with his massive left. He was waiting.
He had fought his back, Malayan Mixed Doubles Chame years later. WINNING MATTERED · pionstilpe, won, focidentally, by Sa desperate did things be moved fast. But Braddock was had switched his stylo three times
Mrs Adi Tamworth
come in this time of the great full of fat. Suddenly he hung during time fight in vain. Now the last time I
That night all Harlem rioted saw of Hongkong,, who bui Neale depressior that Braddock's Rs right on Louis Jaw. was In colo
colebration of Louing victory. inter-club tennis (sounds like a Fraser her partner players Tamagor, Joe Gould, pawned his #
uppercut and In New York's Negy bel, might | song, doesn't it) the basis was were exported to, and did in watch for £7 to pay file fihter's Vicious
pechostrug half-hysterica and revelled coloured folk
cftiment, Club teams consisted some cases, play three moiches milk blis, Milk
and
a roar from the cold the
challenger in ute Clubs blazed with dight
f
food (most and Braddo9wul danced, shou
bo wa up without half-buy down and thousands mahaven Seahires puckered Into
corned beet hath) rent, gas light of twolve-a-side with six of per day At 10 am, ♬ pm, and all these had to be paid for, each Fox. The men played one mutch, per pair, the best of thred. If people can do that in But what, with Vantage sots.
Malayan heaturely it should Simultaneously
ladies bo possible in Hongkong where the battled and afterwards, they all we got a decent vlider How formed themselves into six about trying it out with the mixed couples and played un- Men's, Bingles and Double other best of three.
Championships. QUDE Jong The essence of those matches | week-end?
that it was winning that Well there are some ideas matterød, rather than not losing) | la anybody going to Do BHYT too-room dat,”
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and one other point. trị thi | thing about ity or are we going
„NEAR QUITTING. Hunger, they say champions but Braddock, the topic the patient, poker e almost decided good.
night
a
€ spaw), moved li for the kill in the street" to ask Braddock,
If you Louls tracked away, pawing
the
think I
the epimpa bo prized sir; but as that moment the bell erek, after it was all over come clangod, . pringing splint to the from his youthful conqueror when sortly-barassed: Nezroz
In the wond qult ig hadn't paid the rent of Myiriko Che
Irish-Amarionn
favour was that, as Clubs played to wait, sinifil, our prevent chase, was sick with worry. each other, first tour et home | plong have to be whenind to walking the streets, of New York (They did not second: toaITI away and vicow, the courts is a fost... 2 bath dog "bòfrs, trying to find a WAY NÉA vers on the same day, there chair?
out
POP
WHERB IS, THE MAN WHO: SWEPT
MY FEET
round Louis
Braddock was op of the addock, posld" | girmest men I ever fought
Flashbac
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