20
Sports News
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1930.
Tennis Topics.
LEAGUE TENNIS.
-REVIEW OF THE WEEK'S MATCHES.
GOLF NOTES.
HAGEN AND KIRKWOOD. CHINESE AND INDIANS WIN.
(BY WRYNECK")
to have been the main reason that no exhibition match took place in Hong Kong. !
Two league watches were decided
in the B division yesterday, and
Indian
IS TENNIS THE MOST DIFFICULT GAME ? "
[ey "SERVER"]
The tennis season is rapidly
Lawn Bowls.
AN AERODROME IN LONDON.
STRAND PALACE
HOTEL.
IMPORTANT GAMES IN
AIR MINISTRY AND LC.C. METAL, GLASS, AND TRIC LIGHT.
SUGGESTED THAMES
DROME-BRIDGE.
through a great opening of illu- minated glass, up; marble steps which have glowing walls of glass for balustrades, into revolving doors of stainless steel and glass. These modern features în design have lodg ELEC-outpaced our architectural vocabu
THE WORK OF OLIVER BERNARD.
lars, so we are at some loss how to describe them. The `ravolving. KOWLOON.
dours, and the screen that, contains them are like a tall enge of illu PROSPECTS FOR TO-MORROW.
minated glass in which the `steel leaves of the door fash round like Discussions have taken place, be
mirrors in a lighthouse. The ceiling [BY **BACK, WOOD."]
of the cage, also, is made up in a tween representatives of the Civil
In architecture we are approach pattern of mirrors, so that wher Aviaton Department and of the ing the age of metal, glass, and elec-one ventures through the doors the A misunderstanding concerning incidentally three of the strongest
Lawn bowlers will play to-morrow London County Council on the sub-tric illumination. In these three, event is multiplied by the company of at least a dozen people exactly the date of arrival in Manila seems sides, were seen in action. The getting into full swing and during their third series of League matches|ject of a site for an aerodrome near with a few others such as marble, like anesel †,"2"
The programme is a very interest
Within the entrance Hall, the Recreation Club. Souththe past week no less than 3 gamesing one, with three of the senior the centre of London. The great | enamel, and coloured compositions, China Athletic Association game at have been decided. Early though division games in Kowloon.. The test of utilising the roof of Water-wo have a new realm of decorative walls, stairs, and fooring are of marble the doors again, are of At the beginning of negotiation Sookunpoo drew a large crowd, and the season is, one is more or less fourth match is at the Valley, where loo Station £5,000,000 was men-art, says an architectural corres stainless steel and a beautiful wood, which one learna is an Australian the ideas of the professionals con the standard of play was very good. able to form an opinion on the Civil Servier receive their neigh-tioned in Committee on the Charpondent of The cerning a guarantee seemed very The home team won by six sets to chances of the various teams in the bours, the Police RC. It is posing Cross Bridge Bill-is regarded although we have seen this abroad timber-Silky Oak-a wood that is Ambitious, but when it appeared three, and by, so doing have en three divisions of the
more beautiful and no more costly as prohibitive, and the Air Minis(particularly in Germany, where than Austrian oak. One wonders "men'ssible that the Police will give & very probable that no match would
better account of themselves on this be arranged, these ideas were con- baced their chances for champion League." As regards the mixed occasion, though all their efforts are try view is that the solution of the electric illumination has become an why it is not used more. Here, siderably modified.
ship honours. They have, however, doubles, I cannot truthfully say not likely to prevent the Civil Ser difficulty may rather depend upon essential and, in many cases, a vital generally, we see the modern search- the Chinese Recreation Club to anything about any side, as I have vice adding another to
their improvements in flying machines part of design) we have wondered breakdown of that long and stupid ing for fitting materials and the reckon with, and the latter side yet to see them in action.
sequence, of successes.
enabling them to ascend from limit often enough what would become of prejudice against our Empire tim ed areas once again proved that they are a
Taking the matches across the
architecture in this country if we bers. We see here that the artist very formidable bunch by trouncing.
harbour, Kowloon Bowling Green
After a recent trial of the Au-entirely forsook the mouldings and granted; because accepted, practice does not take accepted practice for the M.B.K. team to the tune of
Club are hosts to Craigengower togiro, a type of dying machine enrichments of the classical styles is often no more than the powerful C.C. The last time the Bowling eight sets to one..
tradition of ignorance, in which one man passes on something,
In any case, it is very late in the season, and a Monday was not likely day to draw a crowd.
I hear that in order that the Pros might have a chance of visit- ing Fanling, Messrs. Fear and Gur guson offered to play them over 18 holes for a bail a corner, but the reputation of this famous pair had apparently permeated to Manila, and the visitors did not risk their! reputations by accepting the chal lenge!
American Golf Hopes. There is one crowning ambition that America hopes to achieve in the golf world. It is to win the three championships of Britain the women's, the amateur and the open-in one year.
Far be it to suggest that this hope is going to be realized this senson, as there are still plenty of accomplished defenders of the titles. But the attempt will not fail for want of sustained Endeavour.
Hitherto the women players have constituted the weak spot-in the American attack. But the recent women's international match has shown that they are a free to be reckoned with,
The whole of the American, team who will oppose Britain in the Walker Cup match has arranged to take part in the amateur champion- ship at St. Andrews a fortnight later. Thus they will have their ten best amateurs in the field with the exception of Jesse Sweester, who cannot make the journey. The fact that John Dawson, a semi- finalist last year, has not been in- cluded shows how strong, the team
Still, the Americans have yet to show themselves proficient at quick killing which is demanded in 18 hole matches where an indifferent etart may lose a match.
Bobby Jones,
Bobby Jones is playing at least as well as ever, to judge by his vic tories" over the pros in two of the most important 72 hole stroke. tournaments of the winter season, in the Southern States.
He confesses that, having won everything else worth winning, it This sole remaining desire to carry off the British amateur title at St. Andrew.
Horton Smith.
George Dancan apparently coa- siders that Florton Smith, the 20- year-old Missouri professional, will be the most formidable of the American competitors, now that he cp utilise steel shafts.
Last year he went over with a wonderful Erst season's record but was rather disappointing. He had to substitute hickory for steel." which were then not legal in Eng land, and the change evidently bothered him, although he finally played brilliantly to win the French Championship.
The Women's Championship. Miss Collett avenged her defeat the recent international match by beating Miss Molly Gourlay "od Wednesday at Formby,
Miss Helen Hicks also lived up
to her reputation, and it looks as
low:-
Playing at home, the Indians won by six sets to three.
The scores were:-
་
*
*
לן
Times. And
marked that it might be possible, and more revolutionary kind-we himself. "Cheerfulnasa."
For instance, we note here that
Taking the "A" division first. Only two games have been played thus far, and in these, the most fancied teams for championship Green succeeded in lowering the which ascends from a small aerod-Perhaps we have thought that a The details of the matches fol- hönaurs took part, namely the Chi colours of the champions was, I berome and can alight in a confined building would be too bare without has received from another, without nese and Indian Recreation Clubs.lieve, in the 1927. season, when they space, Sir Sefton Brancker re them; or we are of the younger inquiry or without trying it for The former started the season by gained a comfortable victory at L.R.C. V. S.C.A ̈À.
lowering the colours of the bolders home. Since, then the rivalry be of the shield-the Hong Kongween these two Clubs has been very Cricket Club-and in doing so, only keen and the Valley team, always gave away. two sets. It appears secured the points. I expect to see that the Ng Brothers are their weak the visitors auccessful again, with point, though I would not bank too
at least two rinks well up in the much on that score. If nothing victory. else, they have any amount of ex- perience behind them, and that alone ought to carry them pretty far. Besides, Ng Sze Kwong is playing just as good a game as the average "A" division mas, and if 81only his brother could give him enough support, they might be able to upset some calculations yet.
A. H. Rupjahn and O. Ismail
(LR.C.)
lost to O. E. Lam and S. W
Wong
beat C. S, Chen and Y; W.-
Lee
beat Chan So and Ng Shau
Kwan
A. Rumjabn and S. H... Ismail (LR.C.)
5-1
4
A.
beat O. K. Lam' and S. W.
Wong
6
beat.C. S. Chen and Y, W.
Lee
62
lost to Chan So and Ng
Shay Kwas
A. H. Madar and S. A. Ismail
(L.R.C.)
..
lost to O. K. Lam and S. W.
Wong beat CS. Chen and Y. W..
Lee
beat Chan 30 and Ng Shau
Kwan
C.R.C. M.B.K.
4-6
by developing this class of machine, to By from such a position as the Horse Guards' Parade to Croydon, whence the big air liners start.
The Air Ministry has not, in Kowloon Dock: do not appear to any case, contemplated giving up have started the season well for all Croydon Aerodrome, but at the the good players they have in their same time the great disadvantage ranks. They visit the Kowloon to the air lines, due to the forty CC. to-morrow, where the home five minutes' road journey to Croy- team will do their best to accom-don Aerodrome, is admitted. It is plish what they have failed to do handicap in the case of such
have said that it does no matter even if a building is bare, even it does not, as we were told, need ruthlessly bare, providing it is true mouldings or all the paraphernalis to its purpose and construction.of historic architecture to produco Few of us have realised that the cheerfulness, it does not even need very materials with which we build are becoming more beautiful, steel that is burnished like a mirror and is stainless, glass that may be pressed and built into any shape, lumination that will live within
I have heard, however, that both on the last three occasions these short routes as London-Paris and the structure and shine through it."
Paul Kong and Ho Ka Lau have gone to Shanghai, and if that is the case, it would weaken the Chi- nese tem a lot, as I reckon they are their strongest pair,
i.
teama met. Provided the afternoon is favoured with good weather, the visitors should aucceed this time in turning the corner.
*
*
The meeting of Club de Recreio
London-Brussels, but it does not count much to travellers by air to Egypt and India.
We may see all this in the new Strand Palace Hotel-the outside of which gives very little clue to There, the entrance hall and a shop the quality of the new interior.
|
such things as coloured reliefs or carvings; and to judge by the evident popularity of these decors.. tions, one wonders why such things have lasted so long on the plea that as plaster encrustations could ever
this is what the public wants. Oliver Bernard knew that this plen was no more than an excuse for laziness. He knew that what the public wants is imagination, or at least something fresh and vitalising. Vitality can only come when a man hopes to get out of it. Oliver Ber- nard is like this. He will strive the Put into his work as much as he
teresting out of any materials_in any situation. In the Wembley Ex- Bibition he worked with paints to make pictures on the outsides of the restaurants. In the Oxford: street Corner House he worked with obdurate marbles, reasoned with them and made scenery out of them for our delight. In the Strand Palace Hotel he has gone further, and has added to his palette such structural things as steel, and glass, and electric light.
Hot favourites for the "A" divi- and Taikoo at King's Park is in solved." Experiments with flyingping corridor behind the Strand whole time to make something in-
*
*
*
sion shield, the Indians started offteresting because when the teams their league season by trouncing met last year Recreio proved sup- South China Athletic Association to erior at home and also won on the 46 the tune of nine sets to nit. They Taikoo ground by the narrow mar- have, I reckon the two strongest gin of three shots Club de Recreio, pairs in the Colony in the Rum with the advantage of knowing jahn cousins and C.A.L. Rumjahr their own ground, are likely to and J. A. E. Cassambhoy, and these | carry off the honours again. pairs alone ought to pave the way to victory for them every time. Their third combination, I. M. A Razack and J. S. Abdul-Currcem, are a hard-hitting couple, and though they might not combine nearly as well as the other two pairs, they certainly do not give any quarters, as far as agility is concerned. Their meeting with the Chinese Recreation Club on the last day of the current month will be much looked forward to, and I, for one, am sure it will be a very well fought game,
At Canseway Bay, the home team won by eight sets to one.
The geofes
were :-
Chon Man Ping and Lo Man
Hin (C.R.C.)
beat G.Nakamura and T.
Ema
beat T. Fujimori and T. Edo lost to T. Imura and K.
Matsuo .....
Chu Fook Ki and Cheung
Wing. Kuen (CRC) beat G. Nakamura, and T.
Ema
63 6 3
6-3
beat T. Fujimori nad T. Edo bent. T. Imura and K.
Matsuo
6-1
Chui Chin Chui and Hung
Wai Chin (C.R.C.).
G
beat G. Nakamura and T.
Ema beat T. Fujimori and T. Edo-10-9 bent T. Imura and K.
Matsuo
1-7
INTERPORT RIFLE CONTEST.
HONG KONG TO FIRE ON MAY 31.
The strength of the other sides is pretty nearly the same, though perhape E.C.C. are a shade better, than the rest. In spite of their heavy defent at the hands of the Indians last week, South China will come in for a lot of attention is the season progresses. The Hong Kong Cricket Club, I fear, will not repeat their last season's success, though they, together with the Mr. B. K., should not have too lean a time.
There are two or three teams of about the same strength in the "B" division, and I hesitate to pick the likely winner. I would, however, venture the opinion that the Chi- nese Recreation Club will ultimate ly prove a shade better than the rest, although they will have to fight tooth and nail for every point. At the time of writing, a good and close game. B. C.-8. C. A. A.—is about to be played, and the result will, therefore, be found elsewhere in this issue. 1 will not say any thing about the game beyond the
if it will depend on Miss Enid SINGAPORE DECIDES TO WAIT fact that it ought to be a really.
Wilson whether the Championship
is retained in England or goes
Overseas
HOME
CRICKET.
LANCASHIRE AND THE AUSTRALIANS.
GRIMMETT IN GOOD FORM WITH THE BALL.
[THROUGH REUTELL’B. AGENCY.]
TILL AUTUMN
Mr. F Young, Secretary to the
Hong Kong Rifle League, informs
ظهار کرد
us, with regard to the Interport
If it were possible to use the Thames near central London as an aerodrome the problem would be
boats and amphibian aeroplanes have been made in the Thames, but shops, with the new restaurants, the fact that their operation has have already been rebuilt to the to be confined to certain states of designs of Captain Oliver Bernard. the tide shows they would be severe One says "rebuilt because the ly handicapped. Moreover, the word redecorated" does not des nearest stretch of water suitable cribe the functional. aspect of this for-regular-operation is some dis- modern work. Here we have a new tance up river, and the saving of decorative interest that is fresh and time therefore would be negligible. clean and ever so jolly.
The suggestion was made recent-
A Pattern of Mirrors. that it might be possible to con struct across the Thames in London One approaches the entrance great platform, or aerodrome under a canopy of amber glass bridge. This would be not less practicable than the floating is lands for the Atlantic, of which one is actually being built in America.
In the junior, matches, I do not much fancy the chances of Craigen-ly gower when they receive the Kow- foot Bowling Green seconds. The latter have some fine bowlers in their team who should do their bit in gaining the points. Civil Service are visiting the Yacht Club, and here again the visitors should assert their superiority. Taikoo and the Electric R.C. are at home to Olub de Recreio and Kowloon C.C. res pectively. I prediet victories for the home teams, with the match at close North Point providing a finish.
SOME OF THE TEAMS.
TAIKOO RC:
The width of the Thames is suffi- cient to form one side of an aerod- rome, and if the platform were about 800 yards long an aerodrome on which big machines could land would be formed.
Such a platform would be supe ported on piers, the waterway bo ing safeguarded and illuminated. The construction would not be nearly so complicated of costly as that of the floating, islands, and team the cost, it was stated by an engi- neer, would not be by any means alarming.
The Taikoo R.C. Grst against Club de Recreio at King's Park will be:
J. C. Summers, J. Polson, J. Rua sell, W. Wotherspoon (Skip).
JB. Chapman, T. Grimes, G. McLeod, N. Drummond (Skip).
J. Sloan (Senr.); A Stalker, J. Laing, R. Wallace (Skip).
home against Club de Recreio:
Taikoo 'second team playing at
C. H. Summers, T. Stainton, W Bell, R. K: Duncan (Skip).
W. Cunningham, W. Brown, S. Amery, J. J. Whyte (Skip),
J. Sloan (Juar.), T. Swan, G. H. Stewart, D, Walmsley (Skip).
KOWLOON C.C..
First team at home against Kow- loon Dock R.C.-
AC Burford, J. Howe, B. close one, and whoever wins, I ex- Petheram, A E. Silkstone (Skip). pect will do so by the odd set. One H. Gittina, C. J. Tacchi, A. Hyde point in favour of the Indians in Lay, J. Fraser (Skip). that they are playing at home, but
Goodwin, Overy, C
1 do not imagine that is going to Lyal, E. Lammert (Szip).
be a very fatal point. The winning.
Rifle Match that Shanghai is fring team, will, I reckon, go a long way in the battle for the first place. în
Second team playing against Electric R.C. at North Point
J. Smith, J. 8. Dinnen, T. Carr,
E. J. Blackburn (Skip),
W Borrowman, L. A. Jeeves, W
on the 18th inst., while Hong Kong this division.. will fre on the 31st inst. or, June 1.
The division is as open as W. "Hirst, V. C. Labrum (Skip), Singapore has decided to fire qË
the "B," but here again I rather. B. Raven, F. E. Lawrence, D. during the later period, viz., fancy the chances of the C.B.C. A. Purves, J. M. Jack (Skip). October 3 to November 30
crowd. I saw them in action on Appended are the latest results. I must say that I was very impress Wednesday against the Recreio and in the League, also League Table ed with the way they went about corrected to "date,
their business. The South China
ELECTRIC-R.C.-
The Electric R.C. representatives against Kowloon C.C. will be p S. J. Clarke, D. S. Hill,
F.
Revenue could be derived from the air lines and from rentals of buildings erected in association with the aerodrome bridge.
YOU CANT SEE THE END OF
LONDON, May 14.
At Stonecutters Range last Sun- let (last year's winners) is a crowd A start was made to-day at
to be reckoned with, too, and 1 Lunny, W. E. B. Muskets (Skip) INDIA TIRE Liverpool with the three-day match day (N. & M.) YMCA. 614 beat think it would be safe to predict between the Australian Test Team Hong Kong Police Reserve 542; 93rd that either one of these sides will and Lancashire. The County team (Argyll and Sutherlanda) 604 beat did not shine to any great extent
in their batting, but they were able Hong Kong Police Reserve 542,
to dismiss five of the Australian
betsmen for a mengre score. - §
Lancashire bafted first and closed
eventually come out on top.
And here I will drift from league tennis, While discussing the game"
League Table.
F W. I Pts. 990 0.7
in general with few other know. alls some evenings back, the ques
18
2
14,
100
their innings for 176 runs. P. T. Stonecutters Eckersler made a firm stand against 1st Somerset LL The Australian bowing, and a co
tributed es towards the total before (N& M.): he was dismissed.
NYM.CA8 Grimmell was again the most Dockyard Buccessful bowler He took six B.A.F. (Kai Tak) 8
93rd Begt. ............ The Australians did not make my H,K: Police brim stard at the wickets and when H.K Polico
wickets for 57 runn
stamps were drawn for the day they (Reservesy had font five wickets for 83 runs.
HLK.T/D.CWbə
V. Stoker, G. TË Padgett, F. F. Duckworth, H. Hatch (Skip).
A Tarbuck, E. Thompson, L. de Rome, A F Paul..
brings its new stars, and in cricket tion arose: Is lawn tennis the fresh names crop up frequently, yet most difficult of all games?" It in championship tennis, year after zahut khaj-prestigella fede the game performÁZA, ¿SENDY
the same few players have reached the stage. One would imagine that 3 10 the finals of both the open singles in a place like ours, with every ship 3446 and doubles locally for ever so bringing new arrivals, there would 356 many years. The Rumjahns, for in- be a good deal of competition in
4
mileage BECAUSE IT WOULD GO CLEAR AROUND THE WORLD AND COME UP AND HIT- YOU THE BACK
4stance, have won the latter six years a game like tennis--a game which WB. LOXLEY & CO. 2 running, and though they are both every one of us try to play. Yet young in years, they are old in ex- some how it is not the ease the 02perience. Every football season old stars still shine brightly in the
D(Continued at foot of next column). tonnig firmament.
TOEK BUILDING
Tel: 22285.
Haig
SCOTCH WHISK
JOHN HAIG & Co.Ltd. (Ownbig Maig & Haig, h68.3. MARKINCH, SCOTLAND.
Consumers are requested to see that every boille of John Haig Gold Label Whisky as supplied by us bears the foot label thus:dande Price & Co., Ltd., Sole Agents for Hong Kong..
AGENTE SOLE AGENTS:
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.
St. George's Building, Ice House Street, DIAL 20135.
HONG KONG
HONGAY SMOKELESS EGGS COAL
FOR
HOUSEHOLD USE.
KEEP THE HOUSE CLEAN AND NEATI
NOTE CHEAP PRICES –
Sh
In lots of not less than balf-ton; delivered to :---
Pix Tos,
Peak District (above Bowen Road) Bowen Road and Lower Levels Pokfulam Road
$23.00
$21.00
$23.00
Kowloon
$19.00
Orders should be sent in writing, not by Téléphone, - at least 24 hours before, the coal is required, and orders must be accom- panied by cash, cheque, or compradora order payable to SZE WAI & COL
Please apply for prices of other descriptions of coal for bunker factory, and other purposes,
TELEPHONE NO. 25009.
SZE WAI & CO.
, BONHAM STRAND WEST, HONG KONG. (CANTON BRANCH -SZE WAI & 00. Lot Tu Brit Bob, Canton
PRoss No. 12550)
Page 10Page 11