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TOPICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS
ON LOCAL SPORTS.
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THE HONG KONG
Last week was pertainly a crowd startling times "clocked" so far, ed week for swimmers. The most and I believe the watchful eye of important of all the fixtures was the handicapper is in some measure the dual in the water quis league, responsible for this. The six fur which went to the V... after a longs handicap is sub-ifivided into stratuous duel with Kowloon Swin four classes, and quite apart from The bone team had the weights, the elassification will ming Club. much the better of exchanges dur-be interesting, and I do not envy ing the end of the gume, but Kow-the handicapper's task.. loon held high hopes for their sup-
As I have said before, quite n porters during the first half, when they kept out the V... forwards number of ponics have returned successfully. Kowloon's forwards from Shanghai both in the old mads soveral costly errors during a ponica and the sub class. Sula are eritical stage of the game, sad but for this the contest might have been even more interesting, nut to say thrilling.
The veteran Cooke has been con
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LAWN TENNIS. »
GORDON LUM BEATEN.
VICTORY FOR EX-LOCAL PLAYER,
It is learned that A, L. Rumjaho,. champion of Tientsin, beat Gordon Lum, the Far Eastern Olympic star, at Tientsin, by three straight sets, 6-3, 6-1, 6-4, in the Interport be tween the above mentioned port and Shanghai now going on,
Gordon Lum has been acknow.
ledged to be one of the leading in it from Australia where he had players in China since his arrival an exceptionally good reputation as a first class player, and, so far ne known, he had not previously suffered a reverse in China
A Hong Kong Boy.
The winner hails from Hong Kong, and will be remembered as the youngest member of the Indian Recreation Club victorious "B"
team of 1923, when they won the League. He left Hong Kong for the northern port in 1991, and sinec then he has steadily improved, first winning the Tientsin Championship in 1926 at the age of 19.
THE MIXED DOUBLES COMPETITION,
the
SHANGHAI BOWLERS AT THE CRICKET
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ARRIVE.
FIRST TEST AT KOWLOON PROSPECTS OF THE C.R.C.
DOCK R.C.
ELEVEN.
. EIGHTEEN HEAD GAME.
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The Shanghai lawn, bowlers, Mesars. A. A. Malcolm (captain) C.
Phillips, Glover, R. P. Jessiman, Dorrance and Korley arrived yesterday by the 3.5.
late hour of about 3 pm, when Empress of Russia. Owing to the
the ship herthed, the team to their rooms
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wont the Peninsula
Hotel and left immediately after for the Kowloon Dock Recreation Club to play their arst match of the visit. However, as the game could not be commenced before 4.13 pm., it was declared to be an un- official one, and 15 heads played.
were
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Ng Sze Kwong, one of the "old created a very good impression, guard" of the Chinese Recreation beaten by two shots, but they considering that they came direct Club, and on his day a useful bat
right-hand 3) to the green after a two days' ship and slow-to-medium
Lowler, appears keener this year un than he has been for the past few T.161 journey and played on
ศ.10 C. Ching, familiar ground. Jessiman, No. 3, seasons, and with H.
Choa, 3. L. Youngsaye, W. P. T.14 Entries for the Open Mixed was the outstanding player, hardly Tsui, H. C. Hung and H. Hung
Championship of
He in the team, they ought to give 21/- Doubles
the fb. draws, particularly on the fore-selves. T. Colony closed yesterday, and the wasting any of his woods.
Varsity player, доз following are those who will take seemed to be very accurate in his quite a good account of them Mrs. Sayer and E. C. Fincher, hand. Glover, a left-hand "player from his recent illness and is put part in the competition:- Mrs. McCaw and T. Lay, Mrs. Miles played a fair game, as did Kerley, ting in a lot of work at the nets 8141
He will also be playing for the $4.70 and L. Goldman, Misa G. Lo and
Chinese this season. I hear that H. W. Lo, Miss E. Lo and 3. K. but the latter appeared to be send- his woods too rapidly L, Mrs. Taylor and J. S. McEach. ran, Mrs. Tottenham and Major Lucas, Mrs, Gull and H. D. Rum Dorrance, the skip, often sent down inho, Misa C. Botelho and S. A. some good woods either to draw Rumjahn, Mrs, Chiu Tson Chiu and Ho Ka Lau, Mrs. Adams and A, H. Crook, Mr and Mrs. Hambly, Miss Heeney and G. W. Sewell, Hum phreys and partner
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nowadays getting more attention then before, and quite a few the were sent to Shanghai over the summer interval. In years gone by this luxury was extended to Johnstone, I notice, failed to re only a few good-class animals, but peat his 53.4-3 secs, in the 100 yards apparently a good sub is a valu a Saturday. No one, I am sure,able proposition and is powadays is more disappointed than John receiving the attention it deserves. stone himself, who is at the top of his form and from whem much was
While everything in the garden is " However, Johnstone is expected. going to try and lower the bath reay for the ponies, punters will A block of atunds record at V.R.G. set by the Japan have to put up with a little incon- ese Olympic swimmer, Taknishi, atverience, I fear. V.I.C. a few years back. On that have been completed, but they are stables and paddock. I am sure deession, Takaishi, covered the 100 quite good distance from the yards in 56.1-5 seconds, and to cap the arrangements for betting and this performance, I understand, Johnstone is arranging to get four announcements, etc., will be looked of the best swimmers in the V.I.Cafter properly and after the debris to page hit a length each. Here's which now lies between the finish cleared up somewhat, perhaps the wishing him lack in his difficult td stands and the paddock has been inconvenience will not be felt. tilsk!
After all punters want good sport spicuously absent this year from attractive returns, and if the accommodation is not absolutely competitive swimming, and
Al, that is the least important very much missed in the Long factor. Plunge championship on Saturday, Coute was the titleholder, and had
A very interesting game was pro- in entered would probably have vided on the K.C.C. greens on retained his title. The new cham Saturday, when Craigongower and pion's plunge of feet 9 inches is Kowloon Dock met to decide the quite good, but is not up to cham-senior championship of the League pionship standard, when at least. These Clubs had finished with the
feet is expected.
same number of points, bence a de eiding match became necessary, After all the Valley Club succeed- ed in winning the flag for the se
and year in succession, having" been also champions in the 1923 sea- sun, Kowloon Dock were expected to win, seeing that they had defeat- ed the champions on their own dis ground recently, and it was appointing to their supporters that they lost the honours on only two shota-a margin which means anybody's game. The credit of
In the singles serfinals, Miss bringing a new flag to the Valley Club really belongs to Skip Omar Betty Nuthall beat Miss Edith and his team, particularly the No, Cross 7-5, 6-0 and 3TS, L. A. (E. el Arculli), whose brilliant Harper heat Mrs. Shepherd Barron play was responsible for the down-7-5, 2-4, 7-5. fall of Skip Gray's rink. Omais
In the anal Miss Betty rink started by giving away four shots, which somehow proved a bad beat Mra. Harper 8-0, 7-5. umen for the opposing rink, as after making the scores 0-0, the six and three Valley Lean scored in succession which left them in the end with a majority of 13 shots. Opposed to the strongest rink, Bala's team won by one shot. Bradbury's rink, opposed to Skip
Four Shota for the Dock. Punched, fell by the wayside after
was The sixteenth head leading 10-3, as 13 shots were sured against them while they marked ing will be selected to play againat time. When the other rinks had the 2nd King's Own Scottish shortest, just a foot away from the inished, there were two heads to Borderers on the Kowloon Ground flag, and on this the Dock made go on Bradbury's rink, while Crai-to-day,
p.m. their beaviest score the only four gengower had a majority of 11 Nicholls, Angus, Campbell, Gillot, in the match. The first, was jack shots all round. Skip Puncheon Pile, Bliss, Downman, Easterbrook, scored a four and a five to increase McKelvit. Eastman, Hedley. Pil, high, two others lay in front, and
were
The swimming at the South China bathing beach on Sunday was not productive of any startling results and although two records lowered the times were not couvine ing, particularly in the 50 metres am glad, however free style. that the Club's records are being lowered, and if this is carried of from year to year the time wil eventually come when the standard compares favourably with the best talent in the Colony. -
The South China Harbour race revealed how many competitors rely on the breaststroke in that Club. and the winner employed it most I had occasion pre of the way. viously to comment on the breast stroke and do not wish to start another controversy, but I sincerely hope that the time is not far die tant when some among the Chinese breast-stroke swimmers will find free themselves far behind in
At present the re- style races. verse is the case, as evidence the I saw the receat Harbour race. same fault at a recent school sports, when breast-strokes was used is free-style events and used success- fully! it relects Dit the standard of the other competitors.
All swimming will be brought to close by the end of October, understand that the Harbour Race will take place on or about Octo ber 20. Without appearing invidu ous, I predict the Harbour race as A good thing for young nozi l'ereira. He has the makings of a
MISS BETTY NUTHALL SUCCESSFUL.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]" Los ANGELES, Sept. 29. In the Pacific Southwest Coast championships doubles final, mes. Covell and Shepherd Barron beat Mrs. Watson and Miss Betty Nut hall 64, 1-6, 6-2
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TO-DAY'S GAME,
A 1st XI. teain from the follow.
kick-off 3.15
his win to 14 shots, which fell short Gallaher, Simpson and Miles of the total by two shots. It is al
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Progress of the Game. Kowloon Dock made a wonderful recovery, as in the first six heads they were left with only a single scored in the third while the visitors had eight shots, including three two's In the seventh head Skip Gray carried the jack with his his last word to give three side, and a further three singles and a two made the score 0-9.teresting. From then on the local players took the lead, scoring one and two on successive heads. Shanghai were then one shot down (11-12) in the fifteenth head.
Two heads, the tenth and twelfth, the former, almost all the six woods provided some very good play. In et the Dock were in the count round about the jack when their No. 3 finished... Jissiman drew a seemingly impossible shot, but Skip Gray repeated the same feat, Loth players receiving much ap- plause. Again, in the twelfth head, the locals were lying five shots, when Skip Dorrance came in to save three and to make the score even (9-0).
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A 2nd XI, tean from the follow-jack, but narrowly missed, and had most certain that bad there beening will be selected to play against a number of woods a yard behind.
Athletic од
The visitors were now five shots another head to play the result the Ewo Chinese
Wednesday
the Kowloon down, but they reduced the defeat
single and.. The following will represent 818- to two shots by taking Ground, kick-off
"Club A against the Recreio would have been reversed.
Dunnett, Springett. Taikoo received many congratu- | Guest,
a two in the last two heads.
On the Dock side, McKelvie, at 'King's Park. great stayer," and ghould blations for their victory over the Hannan, Spary, Hast, Seddon, rewarded this year with 4 Bowling Green Club in the junior Campbell, Mess, Coates, Bickford, No. 3, played an accurate game,
knock-out mitch. The
while their skip on the whole was Moore, Hawke, having had to be satisfied with section
in good form. second place on former occasiona Kowloon outfit had been beaten
twice
this Beason by their Johnstone is another likely candi-
Way they date I have in mind, and should rivals, but the Cooke eater, the race will be even
counted for six scame one after in winning a big match, Luz will Shanghai, I understand the other subsequently brought still be able to wrest the champion-Glover mure interesting. the Chinese "crack," Leung Shiu
them into prominence as the like ship from his older and more ex-Kerley Mad, is training hard for this ly winners in the contest. Taiksa perienced rival. event and might spring a surprise. won by eight shota, chiefly owing In the ladies race last year's win hern Chinese girl, is favoured in sone quarters, and personally I think she will be hard to beat un- less some of the girls swimming in shorter races at the night fetes take things seriously and train for the
race."
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In baseball circles, the feeling is that South China AA, will romp home with the shield this year. I like the term and the manner in which they settle down to business an the held. On Saturday they had a close run, and were hard put to it to obtain the points from Kiaoras. The latter side has plenty of keenness, and have de- monstrated this time after time, The Filipinos have disappointed their supporters, and are practic- ally out of the running for leader ship. The Japanese are the only ones within measurable distance of the Chinese, and if they should win their replay with the Chisces, look interesting again, things will to one is practically over bar shouting.
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There are again a good number of owners and friends at Happy their stuff" in preparation for the Valley to watch the poules "ine meeting fixed for the fourteenth of this month There have been no
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A roll-up for the Shanghai In
It is possible that owing to their
to Munro's team winning 25-15 against Bell's rink and the other terport visitors was arranged for two rinks holding their ground. yesterday at the Kowloon Dock The deciding match next Saturday R. C. ground, but unfortunately is between Taikoo and Civil Ser the vessel on which they were to vice, the latter standing out bye in arrive was announced in the morn- the draw. In the season's matches ing to pass Lyeemun at 2.30 p.m. Taikoo lost on their visit to Civil Service, but were successful at home. After their latest success, Taikoo will be strongly favoured to reach the top. It memory ser ves me right, these two Clubs, were very keen rivala for the junior Shield last season which was won by the Club de Recreio.
Bine I wrote last the finals in the Open Singles Championship have been decided, J. Ferguson of Taikoo getting the better of U. M. 'Omar, contrary to my expectations. It was a well-deserved victory on the display given by the winner. Omar, on the other hand, played much better in the last match, but it was just a case of a player being in good form one day and all out the next; He did his best, but his opponent was admittedly the better of the two on the day's play. was glad to sco Luz, the Recreio player, enter the final as I hoped
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Korison Dock. Atkinson Cooper McKelvie "
Dorrance (5.) 14 Gray (S.)...... 10 Later in the evening the visitors were the guests of the Kowloon Dock Recreation Club, at Peninsula Hote), ~~~
the
To-day's Match at 3.0.0... This afternoon the visitors will late arrival Kowloon Dock would play a representative team from have been deprived of a test in the Kowloon C.O. This will be in which the abilities of the visiting the nature of a trial on the Kow- players could have been judged to loon ground where the Interport some extent. The visitors will be will be played on Saturday, and & this afternoon GA the good game may be anticipated.
C.C.
in Other matches in the series have representatives of beeg already announced, and it is Kowloon match with that Club, and the experience understood that the team will re gained on these greens will be use- main bere long mough to play all ful, as it is on this ground that the their fixtures. big match will be played on Satur-
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