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GOOD LUCK TO OLYMPIC TEAM
Association's Message
ter
KEEP UP THE GOOD NAME
The following is a copy of a let-
addressed to
the
General
Manager of the All-China Olympic Football Team signed by Col. H. C. Harrison, the President of the Hong Kong Football Association wishing the seam luck and success in their forthcoming games in Europe!
Dear Sir,-On the occasion of the departure for Europe of the All- China Olympic Football Team, the President, Counell, and amilated teams of the Hong Kong Football Association write in wishing suc- cess and enjoyment to the first re- presentative Chinese team to visit Europe.
The Hong Kong Football Asso- ciation is proud that so many of their colleagues, who have learned the game on the football fields of this Colony, have been honoured by selection.
GEM HOAHING'S FIGHT
TAKES 10 GAMES FROM
MISS ROUND
(From "BRUCE HARRIS").
London, Apri.' 17.
After an astonishing match. Miss Dorothy Round, Wimbledon cham plon of 1934, bent, this afternoon Miss Gem Hoahing. at 15 years not old enough for Wimbledon, by as narrow a margin as 6-4, 8—8;
Their struggle was in the semi- final round of the Melbury Club Lawn Tennis Tournament at Ken- stngton.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936.
Last Minute Goal For R.A
THE ARMY CUP SHANGHAI
RACE
MEETING
THIRD DAY'S RESULTS
Shanghai, May 6. The following are the results of to-day's meeting:--
Race 1
(V. V. Needa)
RAIN SPOILS BASEBALL
Two Close Games
New York, May 4. The following were the results of the League baseball matches played yesterday:--
London, April 14. There was a stirring finish at Aldershot yesterday to the Army Cup Gual match, in which the 10th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery1. White Wine
(H. J. Hearne) beat the 5th Royal Inniskilling 2, Merry Pilot (G. R. Botelho) | New York
3. Sooty Light ....... one goal to Dragoon Guards by
Race 2 none. As neither side hul. scored at the end of 10 minutes extra time was played, and with the very last kick of the game Bombardier P.H.
So eager were people to see it | Agev scored the goal which de tha: H. W. Austin's match with
prived the Inniskillings of the C. Peters on an adjoining court drew a mere fraction of the num-honour of being the árat cavalry regiment to win the Army Cup. At the end of the game the cụp was presented to the winners by Lady Isobel Lathorne Hardy, wife of the G.O.C.-in-C, Aldershot Com wand.
ber around that occupied by the two girls.
People opened their eyes when the match opened with a spate of games to the Chinese girl
She opened the match with a double fault; but after that there were no signs of nerves whatever on her side of the net, though her op ponent at important points in the game showed evident signs of perturbation.
now nor
I express the feelings of every footballer in the Colony when I add that we are confident that the All-
Four games went in quick suc- China Olympic Team will display cession to Miss Hoahing after that great technical skill on the foot-double fault. She had tumbled ball fields of Europe. We feel sure into her game straight away, and later in the that they will beneft by playing neither against fresh teams in new coun- match was she missing anything tries, and we sincerely trust that within her reach they will display on all occasions those marked qualities of sports- nianship and good feeling which constitute "the only possible stand- ard worthy of a great game with great traditions
ม
Yours sincerely.
(Sgd.) H. C. HARRISON,
Colonel, President, H.K. Football Association.
The General Manager,
All-China Olympic Football Team. Hong Kong, April 29, 1936.
HEAVY-WEIGHT BOXER MARRIED
"Entering Round For Life,"
Hundreds
Says Parson
London, April 14.
of Women admirers
mobbed Reggie Meen, former Bri-
UNLUCKY TO LOSE
(H. Maitland)
1. Batkal..... 2 Frosty Light.....(H. J. Hearne) 3. Sober Mori ...... (J. Pote-Hunt)
1. Wyn Garth
Race 3.
(G. R. Botelho) 2. Camouflage ......... (H. Maitland) 3, May Bekan...(C. Encarnacao)
Race 4
(H. W. Keep) 1 Sammy 2 Navy Ribbon,.. (C. Encarnacao) 3. White Major
NATIONAL LEAGUE
0 B
R. -H. E. I
Stone pitched. Cincinnatt!
1
4
Baston
7 12
1
ŏ
12
2
St. Louis
Davis hit a homer.
The game between Brooklyn and Pittsburgh was postponed on account of the cold, weather, while Phila- the
between encounter
delphia and Chicago was postpon- ed owing to rain,
AMERICAN LEAGUE
(A. A. White).
Race 5
Ceveland
Sullivan hit, a homer. Washington
6 12
(Dead Heat) Race?
3 10 1 The following games. were post- of rain:-Sc. poned on account Louis
York, Detroit v New and Boston.
Chicago V Phlia-
delphiz.-
Beuter,
Race 10
1. Invicta ............ P, B. Pfordten) The laniskillings, who attacked 2 Short Change ...... (L. H. Wade) (H. J. Hearne) lor rather more than three-quarters 3 Summer Light
Race & of the game, were certainly unlucky. to lose, but, as so often happens in eup-tie football, the side with the 1. Skip It.......... (H. R. Holgate) best defence won, and the 10th 2. Farndon Ferry...(Q. R. Botelho) Brodick Bay....... (V. V. Needa) Field Hrigade undoubtedly passea sed one of the strongest defences which has ever represented a unit ten in Army football. It would
(L. H. Wade t invidious to single out any 1. Evesham
(H. Maitland) mender for particular praise but 2. Kangar
3. Autumn Light.... H. J. Hearne) it is only fair to state that Lance Bombaner A. E. Hankey's dis
Race 8 play in goal was faultless, while
(V. V. Necda) Bennett's. Army Ribbon Lance-Sergeant C. W.
(G. R. Botelho) sense of anticipating the varied 2. Ballyhoo directions of the Inniskilling at-3. Stormy Light.....(H. J. Heame)
Race 9 tacks was remarkable. Both these players represented the Army in pulling her forehand drive down the Inter-Services Championship 3 Rothampton (A. F. Clark) 3. Wonder Light
and thus exercised a very strong a Blue Peter........(C. Encarnacao) influence over the whole of their site.
TURN OF THE TIDE Miss Round made her opponent's way easy in these opening games by making a succession of errors while she was finding her
she In particular. runge.
limply into
the
Was
net. In MOUS
opening success of Miss Hoaring
she won 16 points to seven to Miss Round
·
Then came the turn of the tide: a game won by Miss Round to 30. Her strokes gained pace, sting, and control from that moment onward, and two games fell to her o love. Then she won the next three for the set at 6-4 the eighth to 30, the ninth to 15. Centh to 30.
and the
most
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The strength of the Inaiskillings lay in their attack, and Lance- Corporal G. Thompson was the constructive accomplished" player on the field, but the strength of the Inniskilling attack only went further to emphasize the ex- cellence of the 10th Field Brigade's defence,
MISSED CHANCES
won only Miss Hoahing had
There was at first a certain air seven points making 5-1. Every- of unsteadiness about the defensive one assumed that the match was as good as over.
By no means Miss Hoshirg it for another 20
tish heavy-weight boxing champion, prolonged
and his bride. Miss Winifred Adam'nules during which it seemed Littlewood, when they left Oadby that she might win the set and
Church, near Leicester, square the match...
Parish
after their marriage yesterday.
The Rev. B. R. Cooper, who "per- formed the ceremony, appealed to the congregation not to encroach on the churchyard.
In his address, Mr. Cooper sald: "You are entering into a contest which is not going to last for just two minutes. It is a round for life. In this contest there is no such thing as a 'parting.
"I hope the days will go along 30 smoothly that there will be no need to count." "
The bridge has no objection to Meen continuing in the ring. "1 shall always go and see him fight," *she said.
XRISH RUGBY INTERNATIONAL
MARRIED
THREE MATCH FOINTS The tiny Chinese girl, taking advantage of a recurrence of error
play of the Inuiskillings, and it raid seemi that if the RA. had finished their attacks with a little more determination they might well have won the match in the frie few imites of the game. As it was, the RA, gave the Inniskill ings just sufficient time to find their feet, and it was not long be fore Trooper G. Long pushed the ball forward for Trooper T. Stubb to send in the first really dangerous shot. Actually the ball went just by her adversary, won the nex
over the R.A. crossbar, but the four games for five-all although Inniskillings immediately settled in the last of these, Miss Round,
down to play with confidence. leading at 5-4 lost three match The half-back ling between their points. One of these was put by defence and attack was quickly Miss Round into the net the established, and it was only Lance- second driven over the sideline, Bombardier P. Kendrick's close. marking of Long, coupled with and the third netted again.
The imperturbability of the some steady covering play by smal chalenger was
more Bennett and Lance-Sergeant, G. C. Evans, that prevented the In
from niskillings
consolidating remarkable than her lawn tennis. Not once did she turn a hair of
their advantage, her neatly bobbed head.
even
and twice in quick
There were occasions on which Miss Round led at 6-5 300 the RA, forwards seized on clear- missed another match point Missing kicks to open up an attack, 'Hoahing made it 8-all and carne
succession Dr. Denis John Cussen, the Irish twice within a point of 76. Lance-Sergeant Lawrence and Gan- ner Shaw went very close to Boor" Rugby international, of Domus, Miss Round, however, managed to Chiltern Drive, Surbiton, was mar-seize that advantage for herself, ing with shots taken from some ried at St. Raphael Roman Catho- and went out to victory after distance out, but seldom did they Hle Church, Kingston-on-Thames, missing still another match point approach the Inniskilling goal in The Inniskillings, on the other yesterday to Misa Lallan Pickford, the fourteenth and last game any definite attacking formation. of Christian Malford, Chippenham of the match.
The cheers which followed were hand, kept their outside forwards (Wilts). The ceremony was per-
more for the plucky chit than on the attack, while the inside to finish off forwards Advanced
for fortunate
Tolworth.
ing spent. 4
&
against Wales, and four against France-between 1921 and 1927.
..
the R.A that
Hankey's judgment in coming out of his goal to clear the final centres. was never at fault
“ LUCKÝ GOAL.
formed by Father E. J. Redding, of for our No. 1 player, who had been these movements, and it was indeed.
The bride, who wore a travelling occupied about three-quarters of costume, left with the bridegroom an hour doing what was expected Immediately after the ceremony for of her. She added her own con- Paris, where the honeymoon is be- gratulations to those of the crowd. Of the match as a whole it can be said that, despite Miss Hoa- Dr Cussen (Dubin University); hing's steadiness, there was only
Immediately after half-time the wing three-quarter, played
one player in it during Misa R.A. made their Arst organized fifteen times for Ireland in Rugby Round's bursts of top form play, attack, and Ager,
who, after Internationals-five against Eng- land, three against Scotland, thres The child in these moments was pushing the ball out to his left kept on the run beyond the reach wing, made a good deal of ground of her short legs. Her games were to enable him to get to Lawrence's centre, rather unluckily drove won at times when Miss Round's
the ball up against one of the In- grip on the proceedings relaxed,
niskilling back. Bennett then sent as it did for quite long periods...
a high, dropping pass into the In. niskilling goalmouth, and although Ager got his head to the ball S.Q.M.B. H. Rushton just managed to tip it round the goalpost. This brought the 4.'s period of at- tacking to an end, but once again. their defence rose magnificently to the ocasion. Trooper Stubbs did once throw away an excellent chance by delaying his shot a little too long, but Hankey made the best save of the match when, a moment later, Stubbs, at point- blank range, sent in a shot, which would have beaten most goal- keepers,
H.K. JOCKEY CLUR
Classification List Change's
The following are alterations and additions to classification Lists, dated 17th March, 1936.
Australian Ponies
Tinsmith
to B Class China Ponies
King's Bounty
New-Star Pontise Bay Daightial
to C Class
to C Class
to C. Class Chance to D Class
to D Claas.. to D Class
Humber King's Famde Merry Jester Mersey Zero
Old Bar
to D Class to D Class
to D Class to E. Class
DERBY BETTING
London, May 4.
流
The folowing is the call over for the Derby which will be run at Epsom Downs on Wednesday, May
27:
Pay Up, 100 to 18, t and o. Rhodes Scholar, 9 to I t and u. Balahissar, 100 to 9.0 Noble King, 13 to 1 t and o. Mahmoud; 16 to 1. t and o. Thankerton, 18 to 1 o, 20 to 1 t Magnet, 25 to 1 o. 28 to 1 t Abjer, 25 to 1 o, 33 to 1 t
hum. 28 to 1 o; 33 to 1∙t. His Grace, 33 to 1 o, 40 to 1t, Tajakbar, 50 to 1 t and o Reuter.
The play during extra time wAS almost a repetition of all that had gone before, but there was the all-. important exception of the KA" goal, which Ager scored from Lawrence's contre at a time when' the game seemed certain to be drawn.
1. Volcanic Morn..
(F. Marshall)
T
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
Increase Of Loads
Fact is stranger than Action: some of
the details of Imperial Airways, empirewide network of alr
INCREASE IN LOADS
The loads of air mali tetters
space for air mail and passengers is such that another increase in the frequency of Empire atr ser
rices has now
routes cannot help but convey to being carried on the Empire routes the man in the street, who knows } swiftly increases month by month; little of the great British air com- pany other than in terms of the letters he puts in the post-box with a blue "By Air Mail" label, how vnst the organization of the British National Company really is. Here are some amazing details of Imperial Airways.
become necessary.
This time it involves the duplica- tion of the Singapore-Brisbane
Its aircraft have now flown over
route which is operated by Imperial 20,000,000 miles-equivalent to fly- | Airways' Associated Company, Qan- ing around the Equator 800 times. | tas Empire Airways. Thus, there It serves 30 countries in four con- will now be two services weekly tinents. It employs over 1,800 over the 19,000-mile route between people. The staff is spread over 53 London and Australia, a remark- stations. It has dealings in mate
able achievement of organisation. than 25 currencies. Salaries and The twice weekly service
from wages bull
exceeds £350.000 per London to the East has been run- ANNUAL Its aircraft used overning as far as Singapere for some 2,500,000 gallons of petrol last year. time now, with a weekly, service It carried over 24,000.000 letters last through to Brisbane. As from 16th year.
May the Empire service will leave Brisbane for Singapore and Lon- don on Wednesdays and Saturdays, whilst the eastbound mail from will leave Singapore for London Brisbane, as from 15th May, Mondays and Fridays.
امر
A VISIT TO THE WORKS A party of Members of the Par- liamentary Air Committee was re- cently conducted round the Ro- chester Works of Short Brothers to witness the progress in erection of Imperial Airways new fleet of 29 Amongst Empire flying ships. other outstanding exhibits of com- ponents under assembly were two petrol tanks, for the first Empire flying ship, each with a capacity of 800 gallons: whilst the tank for use in the upper component of the Race 12
Mayo Composite aircraft, which is to be used for Trans-Atlantic ser- ..... (H. Maitland) (A. A. White)
vice, has a capacity of 1,200 ...(F. Noodt) | gallons-sufficient to last the pri-
vate car owner for 3 or 4 years,
1 Equity.............(A. N. Dallas) 2. Jubilee Morn......(C, Encarnacao) | 3 Danvil
(A. M. Jenssen) Race 11 1. Smoky Light...... (H. J. Hearne) 2. Sheringham..........(A. F. Clark) .. Noodt) 3 Clunie House...
1. Gideon
2 Don Pedro
Router:
on
This urgent necessity for duplica- tion, a response to public demand. is a sign of the increasingly air- world of to-day as to conscious the integral part air transport plays in the binding together of the British Empire, a year bence the greater pubile will require still frequency of air services: the need for which has been anticipated confidently by Imperial Airways, whose feet replacement policy for 1937 is well under way.
WATCH YOUR STEP!
Don't say
"have
a amoke"
say
"HAVE A BURLEIGH," the cigarette
that never leaves the spotlight of public favor. They're better-that's why, and
they cost less.
BURLEIGH
THE BETTER BLEND!
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