TENNIS NOTES.
"LEAGUE PROSPECTS
REVIEWED.
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The ball was set rolling in the Annual Lawn Tennis League on Saturday when matches were played in all three divisions. The new clubs provided an added interest and it is expected that rivalry will
MACAO RACES.
RECORD OF SIXTY-EIGHT
ENTRIES.
CRACK PONIES FROM HONG KONG COMPETING.
[HY EARLY BIRD.]
Despite the fact that some nine
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 10th, 1928.
SHANGHAI SPRING MEETING.
CHAMPION'S DAY.
Yesterday was Champion's Day at the Shanghai Race Club's Spring Meeting, the big race being won by Wheatcroft, ridden by Heard, with Rosemary (Encarnaco) and Alliga
GOLF
OPEN
LEADERS.
JURADO'S FINE ROUND.
NO GREAT SURPRISES.
The list of leading qualifers for tor (Haimovitch) second and third the Open Championship at Sand- respectively. According to a Reuter wich is not likely to cause very cable eight ran. It will be remem-
U.S. GOLF CHALLENGE.
SMITH AND SARAZEN. THE
WORLD.
$10,000 BACKING BY CLUB,
{REUTER'S AMERICAS. LERVICE]
LABOUR IN MALAYA.
NO WIDE-SPREAD OR SERIOUS
UNEMPLOYMENT.
BRITISH FARMER'S
CREDITS.
GOVERNMENT AND THE
BANKS,
The Government will shortly In- troduce ita Bill to give extended credit facilities to farmors, says Home"paper.
be as keen as ever, an important ponies are. lame or not in form and, bered that Alligator and Mr. H. much surprise. Jurado, whore play MacDonald Smith and Archis labour, with the result that im banks. One of the chief banks it
mevitch won the Shanghai Derby is pretty well known by this time, secured a first, two seconds starred 69, equalling the course record, to the previous day. Mr. Haimovitch played a very fine second round of thirds, and Mr. Pote-Hunt
ever, Jurado, is not Mr. Jones, and is not very likely to keep up this
co-operate.
Mr. P. T. Allen, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, F.M.S., in his re- port for the past year, states:--
Early in the year it seemed like ly that even the record figures for immigration of the previous year. New York, May 8th.
would be largely exceeded; but suc The Bill has been delayed greatly cessive restrictions of rubber ex- owing to difficulty experienced by Having provisionally arranged a porta combined with the falling the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. challenge match for 83,000 between price of tin and decreased trading Walter Guinness, and the Treasury activity lessened the demand for in reaching agreement with the Compton, following the latter's migration slackened, the number of still unable to woo its way to Breakneck Long Island, where migrants over smigrants for the rage, the Lakeville Grit Walter immigrants returning to China in- Hagen, the Golf Club, creased and the balance of im
announces that it is prepared to have been slightly less than it had back Smith and Gone Sarazen been in 1928. Labour became abun against any pair in the world.
dant and wages tell, but though anything up to 810,000 for the many districts they were absorbed The Club is prepared to offer labourers were freely discharged in
event, and if the challenge is nç into other occupations, and there cepted proposes a foursomes match was no widespread or sarioni ua- over 79 holes, the first 36 to be employment. played no Lakeville, and the re- mainder at any club selected by the challengers.
The Government has decided.
League is a great boon to tennis record. There is a list of 69 on his. earlier triumphs with three head the list by 3 clear shots How- MacDonald Smith is professions. whole year proved at the end to scheme, and Ministers, it is under-
developments are taking place. The in consequence, have not been enter progress of the leading Clubs will, ed, the entry for the next meetires therefore, be worth following. The of the Macao Race Club constitutes players and provides excellent ponies on the programme to be süb. chances for improvement and gain-mitted next Sunday, May 13th. ⠀.`
A number of good class ponies ing experience. In each match a pinyer meet; no less than six op. have been entered locally. Included ponents whose styles and tactics are amongst these are San Diego, Kom most probably different from one Tong Hall, Caesar, Suaning, Man another.
aj Far, Nowyli, Benhur and Haviare. Should the Arst pony wake the trip to Macao he is pretty certain to score as he is without doubt a fine performer and is con-
As champions for the last two seasots in all three divisions, the Chinese Recreation Club hu à re- putation to keep up and obviously they are all out to maintain it.sidered to be one of the best in At the present time they are his class in the Colony. Mavourities for all three shields, but some changes are impending in
As I mentioned in my laat Hong their teams. Yew Man Kit, a mem. Kong notes the ponies, acquired by ber of their "A" tonm is leaving Mr. K. H. Chun in Shanghai have for Stianghai next week and hãi place will have to be filled. Then acquited themselves very creditably there is the talk of an Interport on their arst appearance and doubt; with Shanghai and if that materi-less they will improve on their next alia Ng Se Kwong, the C.R.C. leading light, will in all probability showing. One Third is crackerjack teave for Shanghai before the end and can be depended upon to do of the month.
great things at ali meetings be tween this and the close of the scanon. I do not expect him to be opposed to a Kau Sine in the Aggregate Stakes at Macao. I however, the owners do decide, to send him to the post in this event he is certain to win, for although
That would leave only two mem- bers of last year's team, as Yew Man Taus has unfortunately joined the great majority and Ng Sze Cheung is indisposed Ho Ka Lau, who was about last year, filla a place strongly and C. Choa and Horace Lo who did very well last year in the "B" will probably go up the "A," but still there is an- other vacancy. The result of the shift would naturally appear to weaken their strength compared with their last year's teams, but as
none of the other clubs appear to be particular strong, the Chinese are still fancied for the Shields.
In the "A" Division, Craigen gover who has entered for the first time, made a good start by beating Kowloon. Their success was not unexpected as the team includes several new men from other "clubs including H. D. Rumjaha and J. A. Cassumbloy from the Indian Re creation Club, Four Indians are in the team, the two others boing Dr. SA M Sepher and O. Ismail. T: Lay, who at first played for the Chines Recreation Club and after wards for Kowloon, turns cut. for Graigengower and partners Leonard who is the sixth member of the team. Together they make a for midable team and on their day will prove hard to beat. The margia of 17 games over Kowloon was creditable and they won six of the
nine veta.
a Kau Siac has won his race on nearly every occasion his time for each distance do not indicate that
he is a champion. Therefore, I am firmly convinced he will get a lick- ing the first time he is up against a class performer, Aristophanes, Fifty Fifty, Fuchany and Glory did nothing to speak of at the last meeting, but it is a little early to expect it, as they are far from being suficiently trained as yet. With a little judicious handling I am of the opinion that they will bear in-. spection the next time they faés the starter. Fuchang's belt from the blue in the opening event was | most regrettable as it would have been very interesting to see how be would have fared with the winner of this particular race.
The visiting atring returned to Macro last Sunday and although they were on the track on Wednes day morning nothing out of the ordinary in the way of gallops has been done to date. A number of interested spectators lined the rails from an early hour on Wednesday morning and I am sure the next "senson will see a larger number of
Macao owners than at present.
The trainers in the neighbouring Colony are a "nifty" bunch I'll say! Consequently I had a very busy half hour endeavouring to collect some training times which I trust-will-be of some value to those of my followers who intend to make the trip next Sunday, My Selec
The Chinese Recreation Club beat the University in the same division by a comfortable margin. Univer- sily put up a very feebla perform anoe and failed to win a sot. The Chinese pairs scared-"more than twenty games each The Hong tions for Banday will appear in Kong Cricket Olub match againsi] the Daily Previ on Saturday morn the Indian Recreation Club was] ing:— postponed last were. The latter who wore runners-up to the Chinese have a very much weaker side this, season and their team is expected to be composed of 8. A. Rumjahn, A H.. Rumjaha, S. H. Ismail, S. D. Ismail, J. B. A. Curism and I. M. A. Razack They will be playing the MBK this week and it will be a test match for them.
Nothing extraordinary took place in the B Division. Club de Recreio had a very comfortable win over Craigeagower, but the match is no criterion of their strength as the latter is not a good team. Sil the Portuguese who lost the shield last year to the Chinese by one solitary game in the Final need a lot of watching. The Nippon Club won by a margin of seven games over the University.
They are quite useful side and their chances for the shield are consider- ed good.
Glory, 1 mile;-37; -1.11; 1.43." Last
quarter 32.
Fir Der, mile: 40; 1.17; 1.48.4.
Last quarter 324.
Ma Kau Siae, 1 mile ::37; 1.193;
1.47.3; 3.29.3. Last quarter 31..) -"Wild" Fellow, I milé:38; 1,123;
1.47.3; 9.19.1. Last" quarter 31.3.
Branco, 1 mile: 37.3; 1.149; 1.49
2.91. Last quarter 32, Chow Tate Lan, 1 mile : 35; 1.10; 1.47.2; 2.21.2 Last quarter 34.
Warlordship, "1′ mile: 30; 1.16.3;;
1.53; 224.3. Last quarter 31.9.
• Glenmerin, 4 mile: 36.9; 1.05.4.
Last quarter 31.2.
Gold Mine,mile: 32; 1.04. Last J quarter 3. •
One-Third, 1 milo: 32.2; 1.05.2; 2.39.4 $10.2 Last quarter
30.2.
Fifty Fifty, 1 miles 37 1.08.2
1.40. Last quarter 31.2. Velur,1 mile 41; 1.19 1.51; 2.3.a. Last quarter 32.3.
Valor, 4 Mile: 37.4; 1.12; 1.44. - Last quarter 32/
Lucky Star,mile: 32; 1.05, Last
quarter 33
Aristophanes, 1 mile: 33; 1.07
*1.42; 2.13.1. Last quarter
31.1. Little Sit Tang, 3 mile 31,3;.
30.1.
Arete, a second and two thirds.
Champions Sweepstake.
In the B sweepstake over 20,000 tickets were sold, and the winning numbers were as follows:
A SWEET,
18t 2nd
3rd
21333 20560 49411
A. SWIXP.
19t 2nd
3rd
42438 13836 1020
THE RESULTS.
Race I: The Yangtara Cup, For China Ponies (Y Class).
Mile.
1. Fet (Bowling).
*15
2 Morning Light (Hill),
3. Wedding Eve (Pote-Hunt).. Time: 2 min. 03.1,secs.
Race 2: The Klangsu Cup.
For China Fonies (Y Clase), 2nd class penies allowed 3lbs., 3rd and 4th class 8 lbs"Two miles. 1. Old Bill (Maitland).
:
2. Larch Tree (Welle-Henderson). 3. Bubbly. Jock (Encarnaco). Time: 4 min. 21 secs.
Race 3: The Racing Stakse. For 2nd, 3rd and 4th class China
Ponies (Claes). 1 mile..
1. Kilmory (Haimovitch). 9. The Dizke (Pote-Hunt). 3. Profitable (G. A Pollock). Time: 2 min. '04 secs.
-Race 4: The Rubicon Plata.
For China Ponies (Y Class), Griffins
of this meeting. 1 miles.
1. Election Eva (Pote-Hunt), 2. Toots (Haimovitch). 3 Busy Bee (Maitland). Time: 2 min 30.1 secs.
The 5: The Great Northern
* Handicap.
Jorm.
the liste has abown in the Irish This good to see Duncan well up
Championship that he can, when the mood is on him, still play golf | which is absolutely unbeatable, and he always carries many eager hopes, Compston and talitchell have both worked themselves into confortable positions with extremely steady rounds while, as usual, the Ameri- can big guns are well up the List.
"
GERMAN SWIMMER'S
TRIUMPH.
Relations between employers and labour were generally satisfactory
In Perak, however, unlawful or ganisations among the fitters caused some trouble and there was a strike during August and September which lasted three weeks befors em
to drift back to work. ployees began In Selangor, too, among fitters and akilled artizans there were five
Melhorn's 82, following 72 in the first round looks rather ominous, and Jack Smith has a similar re- cord. Smith, though he has by now WORLD'S 400 METRE RECORD.strikes of minor importance, which
1had a pretty extensive experience of
For 1st class China Ponica cross- breda (Z Class) and Z class Griffus of the year that have won one or more flat races. 1 miles.
1. Canadian (Maitland). 2. Spearmint (Haimovitch). 3. Boanie Scotland
(A. N. Dallas). Time: 2 min. 37.4 secs. Race 6: The Chefoo Handicap. "A" Class.
For Shanghai Race Club 1928 sub- scription Gritins. 1 miles.
1. White Lodge
(Wells-Hendereon).
2. Shell Fire (Bowling). 3. Jimmy, Winter (Maitland). Time: 3 min. 20.1 secs.
**B"- Ollas,
1. Fortissimo (Encarnaco). 2. Big Ching (Hill).
3. Doa Basuto (Haimovitch), Time: 3 min. 22 secs.
Race 8: The Mingpo Cup.
3rd and 4th class (Y Class) China
Ponice. 1 miles.
1. Double Zero (Maitland).
2. Adelphi (Wells-Henderson),. 3. Desert Fox (Bauid). Times 2 min. 39.2 secs. Race 9: The "Shaforce" Challange
(Presented by Officers of the British Defence Forces, 1997) and the Champion Oweepstakes. For China Ponies (Y Úlasa), win
ners of at least Eve Eat races. 11 miles. *...
1. Wheatcroft' (Heard).
2. White Rosemary (Encarnaco). 3. Alligator (Haimovitch). Time: 2 min. 37.1 secs. “
Race 10: The Jockey Cup.. For 2nd, 3rd and 4 class (Y Class) China Ponies (non-winners at this meeting), 12 miles.
1. Mad Hatter (Herlofson)..
Sahara (Botelho).
2
3. White, Barnia (Stangland).
Time: 8 min. 41.1 sect.“
Race 11: The Newchwang Cup,
†
big competitive golf, both as an artisan and a professional, is still
* good deal. more at home, in match. play that with card and pencil.
Everyone will be glad to see that
He more than anyone else on earth,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
-MAGDEBURG, May 9th. Hilds Schrader, of Magdeburg. Mr. Roger Wethered. bus qualified. to-day swam 400 metres with the deserves a second chance for the breast stroke in 6 minutes: 46 4/5 Championship and any bit of luck seconds. This is a world's record. that is going, a
Amateur Champion Out.
All the prominent players quali- fied, the most striking failure be- ing that of Dr. Tweddell, winner last year of the British Amateur Championship
The best score by an amaten, it will be seen, was that of T. Tor- rance of Sandy Lodge, who after 74 on Monday went round St. George's in 79.
The
Three of the American visitors failed to qualify, Mr. Nabholz, Newton and Joshua Crave, last named had the worst aggregate with the exception of one. He totalled 154 for the 38 holes.
Seven American, seven Erench, two Spaniards, one Argentine (tho icader) one German, and ons Aps-. lian were the foreign challengers: who qualified.
The Qualliats. The principal qualifiers are ap pended:
1st 2nd zd rd. Jose Jurado (Arg.) ***... 89-144 H. Jolly (Foxglove) 74 73-147 Hodson (Newport) ...... 77 71-149 G. Duncan
73.77-150 W. Davies (Prenton) .....78-131 J. Barnes (U.S.A.) ...... 74-78-152 G. Sarazen (U.S.A.) .....77 78-139 Stewart (Australia) 77 73-132 W. Hagen (U.S.A.)
Mr. T. A. Torrance A. Compston
W. Melhorn (U.S.A.)..... "Abe" Mitchell J. Braid
Jack Smith
T. Cotton water
T: Armour (U.S.A-)
Arthur Havers George Gadd
76 77-153 74 79-153 77 76-103
72 69-154 7777--154
104
73 82-155 135
77 19:136
77 79–156 81 78-157
Alex. Herd 79 78–137 Mr. J. McHugh (U.S.A.) 77 80-157 Mr. Hoger Wethered..... 61 78-139 B. Stupple (U.S.A.) ......81 80-181 Len Holland, Reg. Whitcombe, E. Whitcombe, were also among the 112 who qualified for the Champion. ship Proper.
"COUNTY CRICKET.
MANY BIG SCORES,
-A
At the Oval Surrey batted first and scored 450. Hampshire in ze ply could only put together 224, but, following on, scored 454 for d wickets, of which total Newman contributed 116.
The Cambridge University match, played at Cambridge against Leicestershire was left drawn.
Cambridge: 381 (Morgan 11 Longfield 120) and 73 for 8.
Leicestershire: 109 (Blundell for 9) and 394.
Lancashire's Huge Total.
At Manchester Lancashire besi Northants by an innings and 18 ruas The home county put to
For Chins Ponies (Class), Grif-gether the huge score of 628 fur 4.
fios of the meeting 1 mile.
1. Tom Pear Tree (Heard)..
2. The Chosen Bird
(Wells-Henderson)
wickete, innings declared closed The chief scorers worn Watson 22, Hallows 10, and E. Tyldesley 140 not out. Northants scored and Tyldesley had the fine bowling. figures of 8 for 0%
1.01.4 Last quarter 2014 Engagement calendarion). 228. In the art sings. I
Last quarter. 30,2,
The following new clubs made their appearance in the C Division: The Recreio
"B" Chinese R.C. **B," Filipino,, Ken-, nedy Road Married Quarters, Kow loon Indian Tennis Club, R.A.M.C Todian R.O., Y.M.C.A. and Civil Service Cricket Club. Of these four each other. Kennedy Road Married Quarters and R. A.M.C. beat the Kowloon Indians and Y.M.O.A. respectively Recreio "B" and "Chinese
secured wins, while the Indian R.C., Filipinos and Civil Service were
namely H.D Rumjaha's perform *ances in the Open Doubles H.D. defeated. It is too early to judge has entered the Final for no less the strength of the sides The Chinese "B" seems to be strongest than six years. In 1993, with his of the new teams, but it is a well cousin Omar who is now in known fact that they all the Tientsin, he entered for the first recruits have entered for the love time, but had to scratch owing to an injury in the leg. The next of the game, which is the main con
year the two on the Champion- sideration:
ship. Since then he and Rumjaha have won the Open Doubles In many queriers be is regarded as the foremost double exponent in the Colony, being safa in all departments of the game and especially effective in volleying.
The history of the recent Open Championships has already be
ritten at length. One player re cord; however, is worth mentioning, (Continued at foot of next column)
A
3.
Time: 2 mín. 4.2 sec
The 11: The Dalny Handicap. and claes Chins Pony crossbreds **(Z Class); non-winning griffins
of this year. 11⁄2 milen
1. Moonlit Eve (Pote-Hunt).
Orange William (Encarnaco). Obramas Chimes (Heard). Time: 2 min, 35 secs. But Race 18.
For China Ponies (Y Class), non-
o winners of this SEASON.
miles,
1. Chilly Eve (Pote-Hunt).
13
More Heavy, Ecoring.-. Sussex beat Notts st Nottingham by an innings and 9 rang, Sussex. like Lancashire topped the 500, Booring 518 for before declaring Bowley got 144, J. Parks 102 and Langridge 114. Notch scores were 229 and 278. Tate took 8 for 69 in the first innings.
2. Poppy, Land (A., N. (Dallas)................. :a. Tyne (Sajuldah);
Time: 1 min. 40 secs.
West Indies Tour,
The West Indies just managed to win by 8 wickets a low (searing match against Derbyshire at Derby. Dorby: 159 and 17. my da West Indies: 155 (Slátor 8.for 941 | and 193 for 6 wickets.
were settled without any very serious difficulty.
There is little doubt that at the beginning of the year this class of inbour possessed a high scarcity value, was fully aware of the situa tion and prepared to exploit it, and very unwillingly recognised changing conditons as the year ad- vanced.
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