SWIMMING.
SUNDAY CRICKET.
WORLD RECORD-IN RELAY FAMOUS PLAYERS "NOT IN
RACE.
CHICAGO MAKES NEW SWIMMING MARK.
Four seconds were trimmed from
the world's record for the 400-yard reing when the Chicago Athletic Association quartet won the title in the event at the annual men's renior indoor swimming champion- ships of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States at Chicago last month, Swimming in the 75 yard pool of the Lako Shore Athletic Club, the Cherry Circle paddlers Look 3m. 30.29, for the distance.
· FAVOUR.
HOBBS" DEAD AGAINST
THE PROPOSAL.
The plea for Sunday cricket, rc- cently made by Mr. D. Hon the Gloucester captain, at the club dinner at Bristol has been freely discussed in circket circles at home County ericketers in particular were
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, " MAY 16, 1930.
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Japanese proponents of engenics introduced a measure at the fast session of the Imperial Diet pro- hibiting the marriage of all persons suffering from heriditary diseases.
A lawsuit, has been instituted · by- the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hanta Ryutaro, Kawaguchi-che, Banking Corporation against Mr.
Nishiku, Osaka, for the recovery of All the traditions of the old build-Y.300,983, current overdraft. very much interested in the pro-ing in Covent Garden are to be posal--and not too pleased about preserved in the new club in Hert- ford-street, and, in addition, plans it.
have been drawn up that will ensure
"Why should we not play first class cricket on Sundays?" Mr Lyon had asked. "Let us go to
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For the purpose of protecting Tokyo's water supply in time of war, the Army authorities have sub- circle of anti-aircraft emplacements mitted plans for the building of a around the main Murayama reser- voir.
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the supremacy of the N.S.C. among the sporting clubs of the world.
At a cost of £470,000 the club house the sportsman desires, including a will provide all the amenities which
For centuries pilgrims to the eentests), a skittle alley, a fencing courts and swimming and Turkish base of Kegon Falls, one of the school, shooting gallery, squash toiled up a long slope to reach the baths.
beauty spots of Japan. Now they Club rooms, a ladies' lounge, a
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Thomas Blankenburg of the Hollywood Athletic Club won the yard breastroke championship, which was left undefended by church in the morning and acknow Walter Spence of the New York ledge the Sabbath. In the after-gymnasium (convertible for boxing Athletic Club, and Harold Smith of the Los Angeles A.C. captured the noon let us play the clean, honest, lowboard diving, title from last wholesome game and give pleasure year's winner, M. R. Galitzen of to thousands of enthusiasts who at University of Southern California.
When the Chicago A.A. improved present and themselves unable to the 400-yard relay record by a good see a first-class match except once margin it Gnished nearly half a tank in a blue moon." ahead of the New York A.C. de- fending the title. Coach Harry Hazelhurst sent Merton Wilcox into the water firat, followed by A. T. Highland, P. M. Carbett and R. T. Breyer. The Hollywood team, with A. W. Kimball at anchor, finished third Walter Laufer, swimming last on the trailing Lake Shore team, was credited with swimming his 100 yards in 51s, which would tie the world's record held by John Weissmuller of the Illinois A.C., if it were official.
Blankenburg was not extended to win the breaststroke title. His time was fair, 9m, 52.6s., good enough to
Some opinions on Mr. Lyon's pro- Fosal, obtained are:-
Jack Hobba: "I am dead against Sunday cricket myself. I have never played on Sundays, but then I was brought up in a different school, and that does perhaps make
Boxing Promotion..
believe to be a world's record was What Japanese aviation circles established recently at, Yokaichi, when Flight- Shiga Prefecture, Lieutenant Okabe, of the Third Air Regiment, dying at a speed of 190 miles an hour maneuvered his plane little more than three feet from the across the regimental fiying field at
The necessity for reconstructing the club," said Mr. L. F. Bettinaon, cheon at the Savoy Hotel recently, the managing director, at Tun- difference. But I am not barrow- minded about it. I have no objec.is based on the fact that the reground. tion at all to cricket being played ationship between the club and on Sundays by those who have little boxing promotion has been entirely chance of playing it the rest of the reversed during the past few years
week.
A Day Off Appreciated. "County cricketers, however, cer-
Time was then the club depend- ed on what its, boxing promotion brought to it...
Nowadays the opposite is the case. Boxing used to keep the club
the club has to keep boxing
To revive popular interest in Geisha dances the Shimbashi Geisha, an organization in Tokyo famous throughout Japan, recently decided to admit the public to one. performance a month free of charge, Police sanctioned the free perform ances after they had decided that mental to public morals."
detri
lead A. H. Horn of the Lake Shore tainly do not want it. Six days are we believe that the club should the dances were in no way
and Leonard Spence of the New York 4.C., brother of the former champion,
Miss Mary L Quinn of the Illinois Women's Athletic Club. won a 100-yard freestyle exhibition race for women in I'm, 6.68.
TENNIS.
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE'
WORLD.
quite enough. Like other people, they appreciate a day off. Perbe, and can be, one of the first sonally, three days a week is enough
social, sporting and recreational
for me, but, then, I am not a young clubs of the world, and, at the same man.
tion.
"We propose to make our club the social and recreational rendez ous of the young, sport-loving athletic type of member.
end of the present London season to "We hope and expect before the put before the members of the club and the public our plans promoting not aply professional boxing on the best and largest scale possible in London, but to combine with it the promotion of other sports-ice hockey, for example.".
An iron tank at the Osaka Mili
workmen and one official and injury to three others. The cause of the. disaster is believed to be over-beat- ing of the tank. The authorities of the Arsenal refuse to disclosu admitted that some persons were details of the damage, done. "They injured but deny that the incident was no severe as was reported.
that the county players look for-tion in the field of boxing promo-week resulting in the death of two But you may take it from me time, regain its pre-eminent positary Arsenal suddenly exploded last ward to their one day off in a week. And there is another point of view Mr. Lyon appears to have lost sight of: That is the work involved in conveying and attending on the crowd. Think of the extra trams, buses, and trains that would have to be run. Also, groundsmen and attendants would have to work. Of course, to say that I am against Sunday cricket is not business. I A match for the tennis Cham-am in the sports trade, and Sunday pionship of the World, to be play cricket would mean more trade. ed at Prince's Club, Knightsbridge, But i am against Sunday cricket." has been arranged between Pierre Etchebaster (holder, Paris) and Walter Kinaella (New York, USA. The match, which is for £500 n side, is the best of 13 sets, and will be played on May 26, 38, 3. Four sets will be played on each of the first two days and
Mr. F. W. Gilligan: People who play cricket all the rest of the week do not want to play on Sundays as well. Many clubs, of course, play on Sundays now,
A Cricketer's Wife.
five sets, it necessary; on the third from the responsibility of putting Mrs. J. W. H. T. Douglas shrank day. The match, of course, is the view of the cricketer's wife, but finished as soon as either player has made the confession: 1. am not won seven seta.
frightfully keen on cricket. I have Kinsella challenged and played 0. F. Covey, the holler, for the Tennis sech a lot of it," she explained. Championship of the World in 1999 Mr. A. Jeacocks: I think six days and again in 1923. Kinsella relied is plenty. First-class cricket is chiefly on his tremendously fast pretty hard work, and cricketers, American servire, his "wonderful re- feel, would not welcome a seven- turn, and his hard hitting, parti: day week. For club cricketers who cularly to the dedans, to beat can only manage to play occasional Covey against a really great player ly Sunday cricket may be a good of tennis, as Covey was, these assets thing.
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The son of a butcher and the daughter of a charcoal-dealer have. been adjudged the healthies. school children in Japan. The Asahi," a leading Tokyo newspaper, recently completed a survey among 950,000 school children and announced that physicians had found that chigeteru Mochizuki, 13-year old son of a Kobe ment-dealer, was the healthiest boy and Kazuko Takitani Takiya, 13, daughter of the owner of a the healthiest girl.. charcoal-shop in Nara Prefecture,
Charges of oppression and high- handed tactics are made against the
"Q" BATTERY.
FAMOUS GUNNERS AT DINNER.
British Arany beld their ninth The most famous Battery in the annual dinner at the Victoria Man- sions Restaurant, London, last month. This was "Q" Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery, who won
Soviet authorities in Vladivostock distinction at Sanna Post, the scene by Japanese returning from the One woman, Mrs. of an engagement near Bloemion. Siberian city. tein the South African War, 1000. Kame Seki, owner of a department
With such conspicuous valour did
store and public bath in Vladive-. they emerge therefrom that four steek, and a resident of that city inen were decorated with the V.C., for 30 years, accused the authorities these being a gunner, a driver, a of confiscating her property and non-commissioned offcer, and one turning it into a police-station. officer. But only one of them sur-Negotiations for the return of her. vived to attend the gathering. That building proved fruitless, she add-
Brigadier-General
ed. E.
Several other arrivals said they had left Vladivostock because
top table was the silver statuette
In the place of honour on the of unjust measures taken by the Soviet police. One man, who had presented to "Q" Battery by Lord been carrying on a fishing business Roberts after the Sanna Post battle. Russian waters, complained that It is inscribed Armed Science," he was fined 1,600 roubles on the and on gach side are two real V.C. Brounds that he had failed to pro- medals the only trophy to be so
vide adequate.. sanitary equipment adorned. Beside it lay the silver on his vessels. whistle which Major H. M. Robert. at the dinner, blew to bring the son, the present O:C. and chairman
guns into their strategic position.
Others present were Brigadier- | BOMBER FLIES OFF WITHOUT
Was
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of Kinsella, which are strong enough Mr. Jack Durston; Sunday cricket to beat any but the true tennis is all right for club players, but players, were not sufficient to win. not in first-class cricket. In the first match Covey won quite
Lord Hawke: First-class cricket comfortably by seven sets to three.
on Sundays is impossible. Next you Covey won three sets to one the would have League football on Sun. first day, three sets to one on the days. No, no, no! Never heard second day, and won the second of such a thingi. First-class cricket set on the third day's play for the ers play six days a week, and are match. Kinsella thought that ne tired now. To have seven would be had found the tactics to baat Covey farcical. They want a rest no one in a second match, and came over to try them a year after his first day in seven. I hope this will never What future defeat. The result of the match come in my time. was the same, a win for Corey by but I've never heard of such a thing generations will do, I don't know, seven sets to three, but the second in my life. It would mean extra meeting was a very different one work for all sorts of people. Let to the first. In it Kinsella, led by the club cricketers play on Sunday General Sir Richard Bannatine- three sets to one at the end of the afternoons if they wish, but we Allason, Brigadier General Sir Jas. first day's play. In getting so far don't want Sunday play in first- however, 'Kinsella had taken for more out of himself than could be class cricket. It would be asolutely
put right by the rest of only one
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wrong.
Brunker, Brigadier-General E. B. Ashmore, Brigadier-General H M Campbell, and Lieut.-Colonel R. H.
day. Covey won all four sets on The Lord's Day Observance 80. | Johnson. the second day, Kinsella playing ciety has issued a protest against like a tired and stiff man, and the the proposal,
first two sets on the third day, Kin- sella was afterwards beaten for the Tennis Championship of America by Jock Soutar. He then set himself to learn the real tennis
GOLF FOR THE AGED?
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RUNAWAY 'PLANE.
PILOT.
At the military aerodrome of Ciampino, near Home recently heavy Caproni biplane bomber started off without pilot or passen- Gunner Kent was also there, agers on a flight which was to prove tragic: figure wearing dark specta- cles, who was led carefully to his disastrous to itself.
The plane had just been tuned sent by a brother gunner. Kent lost up by a mechanic and the engines his sight during the defence of left ticking over as he climbed out Amicas in the last war.
to notify, the pilot in the sheds The dinner arrangements were that all was ready for the flight would seem, the mechanic must have carried out by Mr. H. G. Barrett In climbing out of the plane, it
stroke, and improving his play con- IF 80, THEY MUST BE OLD and Mr. W. J. Bartley, both old
siderably, he turned the tables on Soutar and won. back his native championship. So well did he play,
YET VIGOROUS.
so highly was his improvement rated Is golf an old man's game?————— that the present match was made.In an attempt to answer the Etchebaster first played Covey for question a match was played on the Championship of the World in the West Hill course, Brookwood, 1927 Covey, after some brilliant
Surrey, recently. tenhis, won three sets to ore on
ench of the first two days' play. The players were Major C. O. There was some doubt as to whe Bezlet, Mra, Hezlet, Mits Mally ther Covey would stand the strain Gourlay, the English golf cham of this very hard match, and Etcherion, and Mr. A. P. Garland, the baster won the first two sets on author. All wore pedometers. the third day. Then Covey made The conclusions were:--- his great effort and won the
If old men, must play the game," oleventh set and the match. In the then they must be experta... 'second match, which was played in A scratch gulfer walks something 1928 the play went almost exactly like ten miles in two rounds. the other way Etcheba ter obfidz plays the game three sets to one on each of the he must be fit enough to walk about" first two days, and, after losing the 12 miles and sustain the exertion' ninth set, won the tenth for the necessary, to play about 200 strokes. championship. Covey then retired, during two rounds of golf, and since then Etchebaster has been considered just one class better than any other tennis player "in the world.
Major Hezlet went round in 75, two undor bogey, and walked ap proximately 42-3 miles, while his opponent walked 54 miles.
"Q" Battery men, and the ninety pushed against the petrol tap, so odd guests were regaled with music hy the Royal Artillery Band
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