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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1938.
Optimists Out For Fourth Straight THE BEST GOAL
Cricket Victory
FAVOURED AGAINST CCC IN MATCH OF AFTERNOON AT HAPPY VALLEY
By ROBERT TAY
Will Craigengavor Cricket Club be able to stop the winning
streak of the Hongkong Cricket Club "Optimists"? That's the question asked by most cricket enthusiasts as the Colony cricket league enters its fourth week this afternoon with a curtailed programme of four first division and five second division matchas.
Recreio have called off both their senior and junior games on account of the club's annual trip to Macao for a series of sports, fixtures there.
calling off of Whether the
Against the Imited Craigen- | bright and happy-go-lucky
Optimists" | type of crickpi these matches fair to their gower bowling, the
The Scorpions had a nerTOW oppements who are left without batting looks good for a sub.
game this week-end, is stantial total this afternoon, and shave last week when they de master of opinion. As far as the only possibility of Craigen- | feated Navy and Declcyard by Recreio Club is concerned this rower making a game of it will only 17 runs after being them- is an annual affair for them lie in their ability of capturing selves all out for 87. Consider- the first couple of wickets- ing the polleemen's more than which takes top priority.
performance last However, for the antisfaction especially those of Rowe, Prit-creditable
Kowloon of ill concerned it would have chard or Leigh-Bennett-before Saturday against
Crket Club, the Cahier Road good idea if they start to settle down. A very
cricketers will do well not to Reerelo had arranged their trip
under-rate their opponents, to Mineno last Sunday and Monday, the litter day being a holiday.
bren
Top Match
Tap match this afternoon will andoubtedly
the be
clash Optimists ther
and Between Craigencower Cricket Club at the Valley, und en present from it looks is if the Optimists are all set for their fourth straight win.
11 19 true they will this after. noun be without Laurie Kilbee, who knocked a weful 31 for them last week, and H is true also that the Optimists' tall did not was too strongly last weck, shen their last seven batsmen
22 runs put up only
ammeng them. However, it must bu
all that
these remembered hotamen came in when ordy quick runs and 1101 muttered.
NOTICE
THE HONG KOÒNG JOCKEY CLUB
Extremely Lucky
Count them!
OF THE SEASON
One, two, three, four, five, six Chelsea defenders between him and g al, But it was beating obstacles like this that made Nat Lofthouse Britain's most menacing centre-forward. And the magic is still there-- Icaping Lofthouse (extreme right) proves it as he somehow carves through this wary wall the only goal of the match. for Bolton at Stamford Bridge.
ROBERT MORLEY.....presenting a Beginner's Guide on How to Choose a Racehorse
You Can Tell
By Her
Ears
who are a much more improved WHEN I went to Newmarket to buy a racehorse recently I got there
Club Craigengewer Cricket
team than they were last year. were extremely lucky, I think, in the last first division rame in snatching their six-run win
of the afternoon, Army "South" over Royal Air Force last Satur- are expected to have the mea- sure of Royal Navy and Dock- day. They should have been
for a Tuch lower total yard, although the fatter are fast cui
than the 124 which they ull-getting into their stride mately reached.
Only Dhabher stood up to the bowling after Paul Cross had been howlod by Birity, and during his innings of 57 not out, Dhabher narrowly escaped being bowled on no fewer than five occadons, the ball missing the stumps each time by a fraction of an inch.
ps
evidenced by the fight they put up against the "Scorplone" inst But they still lack the week. ability to knock up the runs, in which the soldiers are slightly
better served.
Second Division
Of the second division games, that between Indian Recreation Club and RAF at Sookunpoo
Despite being strengthened this afternoon by the inclusion of P. Rag, and doubt very much if they can measure up to their opponents both in bowling and batting. Brightest Cricketers enjoy
in record, time-mainly because both the level-crossing keepers were away on their annual holidays.
For those of you who don't go racing at Newmarket, I should perhaps explain about the two level-crossings,
good deal Į miles from the seemed to me One is six racecourse; the other 12 moller and less tively. 4,000.
The secretag is so often the And on race days they are kept
case in Britkinis, of course, shut. Shut, that is, to cors and conches, if you were in a train in the breeding. But here you you might, I suppose, consider have to be an expert even to them open.
begin to grasp it.
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Three or four times in the morning on big-race days the gates are opened briefly for read trame, and the long queue of cars moves forward for a few ba halted
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appear from time to time, such a: "This colt is three parta brother to Fillet Steak"....or "This fly belongs to No. 8 Family.
Is
My Filly
while since a Indy won thejackey didn't understand him Derby.
....he dousn't like right-handed bends or a give in the groind ....he is never himself in September.
I cannot remember now. why I finally chose the horse I did. Possibly because she vas a grey, which makes her casy to re- cognise when we meet on the gallops,
If there is one thing a race- Lorsu teaches you it is nover That is why It is always embarrassing to to give up hope. have to ask your trainer which in a few years' Umo I look for mount is yours. And, although ward to reading in the salo This colt is three- I have been looking at horses for catalogue: more than 30 years, I sill find quarters brother in blood to Box," or "This filly It almost impossible to tell one Music
is bred
lines 25 same Music Box. from another."
on
Music Box and I will have retired by then-ll not on her winnings then on mine.
NOTICE
THE HONG KONG 'JOCKEY CLUB
3RD RACE MEETING
9th & 10th November, 1958
REAL REASON Perhaps I bought her because which seemed After a time, I got tired of of her cars,
larger than one would worrying over the catalogue and talher
and which strolled out into the sunshine. have expected
was once told by someone i ON THE LIST In fact, I was looking for some-
always the signoť a good mare. uns who knew about it all.
Perhaps it was because her The Arat person I met Each colt or filly is llated probably the greatest expert on
sire was American and won 17 the catalogue, together with the horse breeding alive today. We in his time and it may well be races worth about £25,000 grand- to T. Lewis, should be keenly contested onej minutes-sooh
names of its parents,
watched a number of animals parents, and great grand-
that a little American blood with the unbeaten airmen stort again by an implacable gate-
parents, Underneath are brier Parade in allence and finally I is accompanied, biographical keeper, ing us favourites,
who
details of various drew his attention to a chestnut will make all the difference as coll who seemed a good deal it has to so many of our best
The following conditions often than not, by a Army North" will probably more
slight edge 11
over policeman, to remind motorist members of the family.
larger and stronger than his familles. Perhaps it was simply When, as is often the case,
that I thought of a name for a for 1968 Ponies for the above "Phoenix Ashes" at Boundary not to attempt to charge the
nene of them seems to have companions.
Fighting Don artd race meeting, entries for The next most interesting Street, and Army "South" gates.
daughter of particularly distinguished itself
Silver Lute and-like every-which close at NOON un that should complete the double for
on a racecourse, dislant
thing I think of I was rather Tuesday, 28th October, are the Army teams in this division
Jatives are included in a brave
pleased with it. with a fairly decisive win over
attempt to make things seem a
But I suppose the real reason Royal Navy and Dockyard,
bit more hopeful for the Intend- "You like it....why?" he was that I hadn't bought The two school leums DB5 reserved for race days. Its puring buyer.
neked, obviously profoundly dis- Music Box when I did I might. and KGV will be involved in pose, I am convinced, is a desire
have had to leave without buy- two close games against theto discourage race-going and to
turbed by my choice.
"Bound to win n race," I ing anything. Centaurs and Police respective remind us that it's later than
asserted. We will ly and huve a very good chance we think and that of emerging victorious In each probably ralss the second ruce | of their games.
match will probably be between_Royal Air Force and indham Recreation Club. In all their matches to far, the airmen have built for themselves the reputation of being the brightest ericketers In the league-win or
lose.
Last week against Craigen- Programmes
Entry puwer, and
they displayed ugain Forms for the 3rd face that commendable attitude, even Meeting 1958/59 to be held on though the odds were against Saturday 8th and Monday them in the late stages of the
game. 10th November, 1958 (weather
They live a good bowling permitting) may be obtained and fielding side, but balling
at the Secretary's - Oflice, seems to be their main weak- Alexandra House; the Clubness. Unless they can get well House, Happy Valley; and among the run this afternoon, the Stables, Shan Road.
I am afraid the Indians with Kwong their all-round strength will be
thel shade too good for them.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON Tuesday,
on
28th October, 1358.
By Order of the Stewards, A. E. ARNOLD, Secretary.
Narrow Shave
At Chater Road, bright eric- ket should be the order of the "Scarpians" take day as th
The Police are on the Pollen.
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SPORTS QUIZ
1. Which athlete won the most
Olymple gold medals?
SO PUZZLING
But this is 口 ceremony
as well as the first.
world. the soles had beent half an hour. Heaven
going for alone
You wilt read, for instance, that the dam of Lot 70 ran iwice unplaced and that her nother was kicked in the stifle as a two-year-old and was unbroken.
You will learn too that mother
knows what bargains 1 had A FULL LIFE
missed,
Hurriedly, I bought a calalu- The great e and found Kuc
|
rather like that one," told him.
RATHER LIKE
"Ah, yes," he agreed. "3118 when and where?"
"Can't telt you that," I countered.
"If I had that animal," he
THE THRILL
tuli
I might, indeed, never have On the morning I decided to
owned another racehorse, nover buy my horse Music Box there)
have known the excitement of were no trains to be seen.
driving hatt across England to By the side of the road lead- had another daughter who won told me, "I should put it away ing to the paddocks were parket race at Birmingham and was for two years and then produce some obscure race track where the most beautiful cars in the promptly, sent to Australia, and it to win an amateur handicap one's horse is entered in a Uttoxeter....that is, selling race which it can't two sons, one of whom also want hurdle It was ten o'clock and
win unless all
the a small race and is still hoping supposing I had a bit of luck." possibly
I decided not to bid for the others are scratched or to win another,
chestnut which, in fact, fetched down or refuse to start. nearly 2,000 gulnens....there
And yet all the way there one must be inore money in the tells oneself that that is exactly grandmother.umping game than I suspecled. what may happen....that the What I was really searching trainer is much too pessimistic a seat in although she didn't race either, 2. With which sports do you covered stond facing the ros-had a very full life and had a for, of course, was the Derby that this is the day, pro-
horse when the associate (4) Eric Evans, (b)trum
tuccessful winner for 1900. Hard Ridder, bably, Norman O'Neill, (e) Richard
this year's winner, was bought surprise everyone by winning Because few people are children, several of whom won this sale two years ago for the feat of what will prove to Bergmann?
crazy enough to buy a race-races at the early age of two
One was once placed 700. And the 1960 conquer Le a series of dazzling victories. horse in cold blood, they are years.
was obviously there somewhere, nearly always sold by auction. second at Ascot.
If only I could spot it omong like ching dogs at the seaside.
the 200 or su culte,
Of course. to be absolutely certain of getting the winner one should buy them all and the it's a long fillies too, although
3. How many times did Vieter Barna with the world's men's singles table-tennis cham- ptonship?
1. Name the one-armed Tennis
player who
very number of
Naturally, all this was some I sat for some time watching years ago now, but it is nice to represented the bidding and trying to puzzie remember. Austria in the Dayle Cuput why one colt should fetch
Besides all these bewildering
from 1948 to 1935:
5. Which famous United States marshal refereed the heavyweight boxing mutch between Bob Fitzsimnions and Tom Sharkey?
4. Is a batsman out the cricket balli hits his ylist and is deflected into a fielder's hand?
7. Which British footboller has
recently been transferred from Sheffield Wednesday to Manchester United for the record fee of £45,0007
B. What sport is played with
stones weighing over 401b7
9. In a world heavyweight title
Puht Max Baer knocked down his opponent twelve tines in eleven rounds. Who was the vicim?
10. What's the Eume? "Or Levantine origin being play- ed in Greece in early 1880's used to be known as Biritch or Russian whist." (Answers On Page 19)
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Tho
announced:
CLASS B (lat | Day) DRAGON'S BACK PLATE. Winner $4,000. Second $2,260. Third $1,750. Woight 147 lbs. Winners 7 Iba, penalty. Fonies which won less than $2,250 in stakes Б lbs. allowance. Ponies which won less than $4,000 in stakes B'lbs, allow- ance. Entrance $5. FROM THE 11⁄2 MILE POST (About half a Mile 170 Yards),
CLASS C (1st Day) MIDDLE SPUR PLATE.---
Winner $4,000. Second $2,260. Third $1,750. Weight 147 lbs. Stakes winners 3 lbs, penalty. Entrance $5. FROM THE TWO MILE POST ONCE ROUND & IN (About One Mile 171 Yards),
By Order of the Stewards, A. E. ARNOLD, Secretary.
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