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Easter Monday" Fixtures
Another full programme
of
league matches were played off on Easter Monday when some good football were:-
BEEN was
The
FIRST DIVISION Birmingham. 3 Leeds. U. Derby C.
Leicester
Middlesbro'
0 Arsenal
resurta
4. Everton
2 Grimsby
Portsmouth
4 Manchester C.
Preston N.E.
1 Sunderland
Stoke C.
Liverpool
West Brom 1 Shemeld W.
6 Chelsen
SECOND DIVISION.
Wolves
Barnsley
Bradford
Hull
Notts C. Oldham Plymouth Sheffeld U. Southampton Swansea West Ham
2 Bradford C.
2 Brentford
1
Norwich.
3
Port Vale
1. Burnley
5 Notta E.
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SPORTS
Cambridge Win A Close Match
(Special Air Mail Service)
„London, April 3.
Cambridge won the Univëmity sports at the White City Stadium
1 yesterday by 7 "avents to 4, al- 1 though Oxford put up a great fight. With only three events to go the score was four all, and with a little more luck in the mile and putting the weight Oxford might have sprung a complete surprise and won -
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1935.
ENTHUSIASM SHOWN
BY POLO PLAYERS
Forthcoming Season Shows Good Promise
(BY XEPT OUT")
Shanghat, April 17..........¡ mediately on his recovery put his What a wonderful place Shang- | shoulder to the wheel in a different hai is, when you really come to sphere and steered the club suc- think of it. Where else in the cessfully through very stormy world can the impecunious office waters. assistant hunt in the winter, play polo in the summer, and race in the spring and autumn, and find an
A. G. . Brown broke D. Macaudience for his horsey talk all the millan's twenty-three years old 440 yds. record of 19 2-5 seo, and
Nowhere, I vow, so, who year? in the pole vault F. R. Webster wants to be anywhere else?
3 broke L. T. Bond's English native Anyhow the "polo season is com-
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-ing-round again, and on Monday
record of 12 ft. 6 in. by night the Shanghai Polo Club held 2 Double victories were gained by.
2 K. S. Duncan, the Oxford pre-its annual meeting in the guests"
2 tident, in the 100 yds. and the titin room at the race clash. If
2 long jump, his hon, secretary, A. anything there were more than the 1 Manchester U. 00. Pilbrow, in the high and the usual number of members present,
1 low hurdles, and by
Ca strong contingent from the Royal,
1 Fulham
2 Bolton
2 Blackpool
THIRD DIVISION. (SOUTH) ⠀ Bournemouth 1 Bristol C.
Bristol R.
3 Cardiff
Charlton
4 Aldersbat
Exeter
1 Watford
Gillingham
.1 .. Clapton
Luton
Northampton
1 Newport"
Millwall
Southend 3 Brighton
Swindon
Torquay
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)
1
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0
مجی
1 Stothard, the Cambridge pre-Inniskilling Fusiliers swelling the sident, in the mile and the half, throng, and giving promise of an- which resulted in a dead heat. other successful season like the
past one. Numbers alone. how eyer, could not fill the gap caused by the absence of "Jackle" Hayes and only those who have played with and against this grand young
But for the continuous down. pour, records would probably have been set up in the half mile and in the weight. As it was, the rain marely made the field events men 1 and officials miserable, for every
perfordsace, except in the high son without him will be, ter his
veteran can know what a polo sea-
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· Original Members A. W. Burkill is in his happiest frame of mind when presiding at the meeting of any sporting club, and if his suggestion that he was playing polo before. 80 per cent of
LOCAL TENNIS
The Cousins To Meet
With the end of the local tennis championships," organised by the Hong Kong Cricket Club drawing
to. #
close, tennis enthusiastists will have the opportunity of see- ing. In the course of the next ten days, the leading local lights in action.
To-day, the Rumjahn cousins who as a team have won the. Doubles for the past ten years, will settle accounts between them- selves, for the right of meeting G. R. M. Ricketts in the final of the Singles Championship Friday, while on Wednesday. May
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1, the cousins will meet Ho Ku Lau and W. C. Hung in the final of the Doubleš,
The following is the programme:
To-day Singles Semi-final-S. A. Rum- Jahn `v. H. D. Rumjahu.
the members were born made a for a minute or two, the truth of few of us feel a good deal younger
what he said drew attention to the fact that there are few originai members of the Shanghai Palo
Friday, April 26 remind us of the time when they
Singles Final.-G. R. M. Ricketts still shot snipe on the race, course,
V. Winner of above match, and polo was little more
Monday, April 29 mounted hockey. His election as
Club Championship Final-E L president for the forthcoming sea- son was more of a riot than an | E. Shute y. G. R..M. Ricketts,
than
election, and proved the apprecia- on, of members for all that he has done for the club. Mr. Burkill re ferred to the successful season last year, and on behalf of the club
2 jump and possibly, the long jump extraordinary, kecness at all times thanked the honorary secretary for
of
speak have endeared him to all. whilst his fame as an umpire and Authority on the rules of the gal- koping game have spread far fur- ther afield than the confines of this fair city..
1 and muile, approached the high and his wit when he has time to O standard forecast. For this the organisers deserve a good deal of credit. Not until the last ovent, the quarter, was there 8 those pauses common to so many athletic meetings, and that was only due to the events getting ahead of schedule and the arrange- ments of the B.B.C.
1 Crystal P.
Queen's F.R.
Accrington
2 Darlington
1
Barrow
1 Lincoln
Crewe
1. Chester
1
Hartlepools
4 Southport
I
Rotherham
1. Doncaster
3
Rochdale
3 Carlisle
I
Stockport
1 New Brighton 1
Tranmere
3 Mansfield
Wällsall Wrexham York
4 Halifax
อ 1
2 Chesterfield
3 Gateshead
SCOTTISH DIVISION
Queen's Park
3 Partick
the" Chairman.
Harold
all he had done, and also J. B. Manley for kindly acting again as honorary auditor. Whilst the bal- lot for the committee was taking place, Robinson, answered various ques- tions, which were asked, and set.. tled minor complaints by giving the grousers the opportunity of im proving the service which had not met with their approval in the past.
The Erst business before the meting was the passing of the ac- AN INSPIRING START counts for 1934, and in referring to Duncan zave his side an inspir-the satisfactory state of the finan 1ing lead by winning the first elal affairs of the club prominence o event, the 100 yards. Considering was given to the great part played During the course of the meet- that Oxford had not won this race by Jack Greig who has literally ing reference was made to the fall- for nine years and that C: J. E.
worked wonders, and succeeded fing off in the numbers both of Betty
considered in the putting the club on a really sound playing and non-playing members, highest Cambridge sprinting tradi- financial footing. Many of and those interested in watching
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U. S. BASEBALL tions, the excitement in the Oxford there remember the days, recent polo during the summer are re-
Phillies Trounced By Giants
New York, Apr. 22.
changing rooms call be imagined. f days, too, when Greig was theminded that for a very modest sub- Nervous tension produced three Number One, and the greatest scription they may be non-playing breaks, but once the starter had tribüte that can be paid to him is members, and make use of the got the quartette 40 fairly, that when a serious accident pre-stand. and enjoy the ordinary Duncan shot ahead. At 50 yards vented him from playing, he im- privileges of membership. he was three yards up, and al- though Betty put in his famous finish. Dracan never looked like joking and breasted, the tape 10 inches to the good.
Only four games were played in the major Base bell leagues to-
R. S. O Stevens (Oxford) en- day. In the National pennant sured that the half should be fast. championship New York Chants
by cutting out a good pace over beat the Philadelphia Phillies
the first quarter. Then Stothard while in the American League, Cleveland Indians won from De- Sullivan drew away and made
trol; Tigers, Boston Red Box from Washington Senators
und Louis Browns from Chicago White
80x.
National League
New York Philadelphia
a tera all-Cambridge race of it until the last 10 yards when they Sseemed instinctively to deride that the game was not worth the candle considering that, Stothard still had
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8 15 0
1 4 4
Melvin Oct scored a home for. the Giants and:
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Cambli for the Phillies.
"American League
Cleveland
5 12 0 Detroit
0 3 1 Wills Hudlin pitched for the Indians while Joe Vosmik scored a home run for the elde,
Boston
Washington
Chicago
St. Louis erstatters
Another of those
ARMY ASSOCIATION
CUP FINAL
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London. April 22. In A high-scoring match at Aldershot to-day, the 4th Battalion Royal Tark Corps won for the first time in the history of the competition the Army Association Cup.
AUTOMOBILE RACE AT MONTE CARLO.
:.
Winner Beats Record [Special to the Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).}
Monte Carlo, April 22.
won
A brilliant victory was here on Monday at the inter-
Luigi Faggioli on a Mercedez
They defeated the 2nd Battalion | national Eutomobile race, the to win the mile. Consequently Royal Uisters in the final by six Grand Prix de Monaco the result W43
when sentimental goals to three. This was also the dead-bents. The time of i min. first time the Royal Uisters have 689-50, has only been beaten appeared in, the final-
apparently rather
in the sports by K. Cornwallis Reuter,
whose record N. P. Hallowell
reduced by 3-5 sec. last year to I
min. 54 1-3 880. Yesterday's time Green hail plenty pace. Thus the was a great one for Sullivan, who has been ill and very reasonably
earns him a full blue.
acora
bridge.
an
were far behind the winner.-
Alfa Romeo, both of whom
Transocean Kuo Hin.
Benz completed the 100 circuits around the casino in 3 hours, 23. minutes and 49.8 seconds, thus beating the record "established in 1933 by the Italian, Achille Varzi ona Bugatti of an average speed of... 91.801 kilometres per hour now stood at 4-3 to Cam-
while Faggilol on Monday aver- Without J. C. Horstali, Camaged 93,607. The keenly anticipated duel be bridge were virtually bound to The second place was won by tween Piltrow and A. J. Fitzgerald lose the long jump to Duncan, who Dreyfus on ar Alfa Romeo and in the 12 yards hurdles worked duly repeated his out rather tamely, Pilbrow having with a good 22 ft. 9 in.,to lovel
1932 victory the third by Brivio likewise on the advantage in length of leg, the score again. Last year, Hors pace, and style, and winning con-fall won at 1 in. further, but since vincingly by three yards in 15 3-5 then Duncan has done 23 ft. 7 in., so that Oxford probably would On the other hand, nobody in have won this year, oven Eugland can show F. R. Webster Horsfall in opposition. points in polevaulting. W. H. Elkins, Oxford American winner off the very open three-miles' race, If only Oxford could have pulled last year, was beaten after clear they might have won the match. ing 11 ft., but Webster went on to With L. R. MacIntyre refusing at the second attempt. He failed to reach 0. Sutermeister's 12 ft. between the one and a half and more than a few yards at a time 7 in sporta record once, and then two and three-quarter mile stages, stapped, conditions being too dis-Oxford hopes ran high; but in the couraging. It will be surprisinghual quarter MacIntyre's effort of however, if Webster does not beat making almost two strides to on Wednesday.
411 1
2
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5. 7
Q
800.
6 10
1
Bonura scored two home
runs for the Browns.-- Reuter.
with
HOMING PIGEONS lower the "English native record to let P. D. Ward head him for
"In Fast Race
by
Shanghai, April 17. Fifty-seven birds owned members of the Shanghai Homing Pigeon Club were released from Nanking at 8.30 am. on Monday, the winning bird covering the
FOOTBALL "INTERNA-
TIONAL"
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Apr. 3."
The first foreigner ever to re- feree an all-British Soccer inter- Wales-Ireland match at Wrexham national wili oraciate in the
it in a year or two, and also be- Ward's one, told, and the Cam-He is Dr. P. Bauwens. ncine the first Englishmán . to elenz 13 it..
The score was now 2-2. Mean- while Irfan and F. A, 5. Gentry
were renewing their
bridge cross-country captain went Away to win.
The mile nearly proved a catas- trophe to Cambridge. Stothard,
distance of 170 miles at a speed weight-putting duel of last year, relying on his famous finish, which
the full result of the race,
1-Dr. L Mei-ling's Bird No.
Velocity 1428.6 yards
of 48.50 m.p.h. The following is Gentry, the American, laiting by a bare 6 in. to turn the tables on the Cambridge Turk, who got within in of W. W. Coe's 100% record of 43 ft. 10 in-great putting by both men from such a wet circle. a PILBROW AT HIS BEST
2086, minute.
2-Dr. L Mei-ling's Bird No. 2222 Velocity 1419,1 yards minute.
B
3.-Jackson & Son's Bird. No 1314 Velocity 1420.6 yards minute.
The following are the velocities of the first birds to home in other toits:
Yangtazepoo, velocity 1402,4; Western, velocity" 1327.8.
The above record results were recélved with great satisfaction by members of "the club in view
of the fact that shortly for the frit time in the history of the Club they will race from Tientsin
Dr. Bauwens played for Get- many against the first Erglish touring side. That was in pre- War days.
Dr. Bauwens is a doctor of ar
was too much aven for W. Bon-chitecture. He belongs to one o thron in the summer, found in the
the oldest Arms of bridge and straight that he had met in W. T. sport stadhan buliders in Cologne. Bonthron. From certain angles France internationals, the latest Squires a faster finisher than He arrangea the Germany- tie looked the right result, but the of which was played last Sunday. judges know
best, and inches He was not present on Sunday as was certainly the right verdict, he was refereeing the Czechoslo- RK. I Kennedy, who normally Any likelihood of the record might have beaten the high jump falling had, of course, vanished
vakia-Bwitzerland match at Pra- record, won at o ft. 8 in, the by the unnecessarily fast 880 yards lowest winning effort since the race. With the score now war. There was some point, there Cambridge had won the match, fore, in Pilbrow's attempting to From the gun in the quarter emulate Stanwood by winning there was never any doubt that a three events in one day, for he has record time would result, A. G. done 5 ft. 8 in, but in the cold K. Brown has filled out so much rain could manage only 5 ft. 6 in. since bis triumphant public
6-4
gue.
He speaks fluent English and French.
for such a large man, but there was never any straining and In the law hurdles Filbrow was school sports days, that, & record-
only a suspicion of puling at the end. He was the most impressive really at his best, so that the op-breaking "term has not, taken any
runner of the day, and must sure. position just looked clumer, al-apparent tell of his physique, Hely have a big influence, not only though actually C. R. Borland; ran one pace throughout, with on University, but international bis nominal ärst string, and C. Prother surprisingly short strides athletics for several
Wednesday, May. 1 Doublés Final-S. A. and H. D.
Rumjahn v. W. C. Hung and Ho Ka Lau.
HOME RUGGER RESULTS
London, April 22. The following were the results af rugby football matches played to-day:-
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Bath 12. Old Merchant. Taylors
8.
Bridgend 12, "Coventry 6, Bristol 18, Blackheath 3 Cardiff 3, Harlequins 13. Gloucester, 17, Sale 6.
Lately 21, Devonport Services
8.
26.
Manchester 9, North of Ireland
Newport 8, Londen Welsh 10, Penarth 1, Blackheath "A" 7. Plymouth Albion 3, Leicester 3. Pontypool 6. Northampton 9, Swansea 3, Barbarians 18. Waterloo 12, Birkenhead Park
20.
Aberavon 11. Maesteg 0. Abertillery 9; Cross Keys 9. Neath 16. Middlesex Hospital 10 -Reuter.
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