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JAPANESE AND CHINESE TO CLASH
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At Baseball
LACK OF UMPIRES
DEPLORED
(BY BLEACHER")
The local baseball season which promises to he one of the most successful run in " recent years, opens officially on Sunday when one game is down for decision on the Caroline Hill ground. Jud- ging from the enthusiasmi displayed last Sunday when battled in
four
teams
friendly combat, baseball attraction should
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make healthy headway and get a greater following than has been the case in the past.
This season's league fixtures teams promise to have seven Lattiing tor
honours. major our sides are new, which in itself is a fair indication of the popularity this game should en- The full Joy" in Hong Kong complement
HONG
KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936.
In the World of Sports
RAIN MARS BASEBALL
PIRATES LOST
New York, May 13. The following were the results of tite League baseball matches play- ed yesterday!----
NAZIONAL LEAGUE
Pitrsburg a
Boo...
R. H. E.
3 9 4 9 1 Lopez hit a home run. Ten in- ngs were played."
Cincinnati
Hand.ey and
7
1 14 Lombardi hit
Philadelphia
9 141
Gilde hit à homer.
homers.
The games between. St. Louis aad Brooklyn, and Chicago and New York were postponed on ac- count of rain.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE New York St. Louis..
1
Boston Werber hil homer. Detroit....
+ 11 0
1
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2
3
9
4
A I
0
The game between Washington and Chicago, ahd Fhiladelphia and Cleveland were postponed on an count of rain.
FOOTBALL LEAGUE REFUSES £500,000
Pols To Continue
of teams are as follows: American (hola-
London, Apr. 23. ers), Japanese, Canadians, U.S. Navy, all of which participated
All offers for the purchase of the last season, and the new sides
Football League Axtures which from Eastern, H.K. Volunteers,
were recently the subject of con- Overseas Chinese. and
troversy in connection with the Ching College, Canton,
Football pools, have been rejected. The Overseas Chinese can hard-This was made known officially ly be called a new side to the league after a meeting lasting three hours of the Football League clubs in London last night."
Pui
as las seasor they entered as the China outfit, redoubtable South more famous for finishing up at the head of the Championship than ekewhere. Mutty Chang I under- rand will again lead the side and great things are expected of them.
One of the offers under consi- deration was for a payment of £50,000 for each year of a period It was stated later of 10 years. that no further offers for the pur- chase of Axtures will be entertain-
EASTERN SHOULD DO WELL The Eastern so I have been - ped. formed. played together as a side last season when they were known
GIRL POCKET WONDER OF LAWN TENNIS
HOW PEGGY SCRIVEN FELL TO LIZANA "MAGIC"
Bournemouth. Apr. 30.
BERG LOSES HIS BOXING TITLE·
Referee Stops Bout Against Walsh
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Liverpool, April 22. Jack ("Kid") Berg lost his Bri- tish light-weight title at the Liverpool Stadium here to-night to Jimmy Walsh (Chester) In the
ninth round of a fight which had several sensational morients and a remarkable Anish.
BOY GOLF WIZARD
MAKES HISTORY AT 18
Deal, Apr. 21- While two members of the Walk- er Cup Selection Committee looked on, John Langley, the boy cham- pion, to-day won his way into the
last eight in the English Amateur Golf Championship over the Roval Cinque Ports course here..
At eighteen-he celebrated birthday only last week-he is the
his
If anyone wants a clump under the jaw to-morrow morning. what about dropping in on Miss Peggy Scriven. our fourth rank tennis player, at Bournemouth and ask- ing her what she thinks about the bell, he suddenly staggered youngest player ever to reach this drep shots?
baen Miss Scriven has just "dropped" out of the women's singles in the British hard courts championships here. Senorita Anita Lizana, pocket wonder from Chille has just "dropped" into the semi-final-7-5. 2-6. 53.
It is about the best thing in ten- ris seen at Bournemouth this werk. The cunning little shots which kept, fluttering from the Chian girl's racket a foot or so over the net had Miss Scriven in a state of com- plete complexity in the first set and bordering on exhaustion from the vah efforts of chasing them.
When she got to them she was in a hopeless position for the next shot and easily passed.
The trouble was that it was of- ten impossible to tell until the last second whether it was going to be drop shot or a Big Bertha drive of which the little senorita also carried a heavy battery.
BEATING THE DROP SHOT." Miss Scriven had only a forehand
drive of withering power-and courage. That was immense.
This Yorkshire-born giri, who has twice won the French cham- p.onship-played. like this one, on every rubble surface-fought
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point.
The errors she made were induced by the tremendous amount of running about she
was called on to do and by the strain of never knowing what the little wizard on the other side of the net was going to do next. Miss Scriven saved one set point in the tenth game of the first sec. Two games later she was a set down. The flutterers from the as. well as senorita's backhand, forehand, became more baffling and more devilishly accurate than. ever.
At the end of the eighth round. as Berg went to his corner after
fell and
into the
His ropes. seconds lifted him into his chair. He was apparently quite uncons- clous.
Restoratives were bastily applied and water poured over his head and body, and at the end of the minute's Interval he got to his feet and staggered towards Walsh, limping painfully. After receiving a blow, which was more a push than a punch, he again collapsed against the ropes.
Mr. Moss Deyong, the referee, lifted Berg up and carried him to his corner, thus indicating that he had stopped the fight in favour of Walsh.
terrific
-Berg had received punishment during the fight and had taken no fewer than four long counts. In the eighth round, how ever, he had been fighting gamely and aggressively, and his collapse,
the circumstances. in
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startling that the crowd of 5,000
booed him.
One could only assume that it was in falling that his ankle was twisted. His face showed his pain as his boot was removed. and it must have been a bitter moment an who had fought so many glorious battles to hear the boos and yells of deriston un all sides as he was carried on the shoulders of a second towards his dressing roOUL
for a
WALSH ERRATIC Walsh tought brilliantly
LAWN TENNIS
British Hard Court Championships
London, May 1. Yesterday's programme of mat- Great ches at Bournemouth for the Hard Court Championships of
the Ways Britain was in many most eventful of the week brought another meeting to-mor row of F. J. Perry and H W. Austin In the final round of the singles, With him in the last eight are the defeat of Miss D. E. Round, which this time was not to be Charles Stowe, the golang miner from Dudley, and such accepted staved off against the fighting Ciants as Cyril Tolley and Lister forehand of Mrs. M. R. King, a Hartley, who created to-day's big-demure Chilean victory over Miss
happenings in the doubles events. gest surprise by beating Leonard M. C. Scriven, and all sorts of queer Crawley,
stage.
In the fourth and fifth rounds to-day Langley played golf worthy of a Ryder Cup player. He went out against a stiff wind in 37 to beat C. Pretzlik by Dve and three, and was just one over fours for seventeen holes against J. S. L. Lyon, the Cambridge captain.
For a boy only just eighteen his finish was magnificent the per- sonication of coolness." Lyon got bim back from three up to one up with three to play. Then Langley stepped in with shattering goli.
PERFECT "KILL”...........
he did to the others. It is not so much that he has all his swift economy of energy and apprecia- strokes, but he uses them with an tion of values that are truly re- It markable, even though they would appear to take something from the fun of the game. Stedman had. the attacking volley that can make him a formidable adversary, but, like Almayer's House, he could not use it. His strength lay in his forehand drive. and Perry played on the comparative, weakness on the backhand side too intently for there to be any doubt about it. Changes rung upon drives across The sun was shining again at the court were the fabric of Perry's the West Hants Club when the tactics, and he always had his appointed players came out for well-placed volleys' with which to
settle any their morning exercise, but not
argument. Stedman many people were in the "centre" played well and had his winners court to watch Miss Round. "As in in the backhand corner without the adventures of Lady de Winter. attempting the volleying attack Miss Round has had her escapes we had expected; too often for his since the season opened, and her well-being the better his strokes defeat, without wishing to liken the better were Perry's. Mrs. King to the executioner, of was not really surprising. Latte, That does not mean that Miss Bound will not be among the for the Wimbledon favourites Championship this year; but there has been a deal of indecision about her strokes in the critical moments
He hit a crashing brassle shot tour yards from the pin at the long sixteenth for a win, and play of a match lately, and Mrs. King. ed a perfect mashie Biblick ap- proach ever a high hummock to make his kili at the seventeenth.
Even Tolley, firm favourite after. to-day's eclipse of Leonard Craw- ley, was hardly more impressive than young Langley.
Yet Tolley has seldom played better. Against A. G. S. Penman, one of the best Kent golfers, he had a score of two under fours His play round the green was bril- llant. At both the long notes go- anding out-the-third and fifth-he had fours, deadly putting support- ing his perfect pitones.
MAJESTIC TOLLEY
not unused to the sweets of victory over Miss Round in the past, was the very player of sturdy resolu- tion to take advantage of it.
In some respects the meeting of
match of the tournament when It Austin and Lee brought the best
Score is looked at through the sheet Lee had his short, whipped fore-hand to hit winners so well that he won the second set after
Austin had led by five games to three, but it was his unfailing re- covery of Austin's good shots and the strategy of changes of pace and bound that were more, re- markable. Much of the chase was made possible by
Austin's in- different length and a lack of power in his smashing, although
Cochet a fright and cut short the one remembers that Lee once gave return to the game of R. Lacoste. On a slow court he can be the most stout-hearted of them all, and at times Austin had to make the most of those full long drives and crisp low volleys. Lee, on the defensive, was not an easy man to drive past. A doubt fault, served at the He tried all his strokes, even if in opening of the next game, was the the end they were bound to fall first disturbing sign of the loose- against truer and firmer drives,
MISS ROUND'S DEFEAT Two sets were the extent of the story. Fortune was kind to Miss Round, as with sweeping drives well controlled she went serenely into a lead of three games to one in the first set, although it was significant that Mrs. King's de- fence in the backhand corner could be beaten only by an excep- tional shot.
the forehand,
as the Young Indians. They made present at any rate, football pools circumvent the drop shot. It is to shortly afterwards took a further further progress was made easier returns on the backhand, and once
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an impressive debut and only bad lack prevented them from giving the Volunteers a closer run for "their money last Sunday.
runs were hit by the "soldiers" in the firs; inntags after they had jost two men. Leonard went up to bat and struck a hard drive which appeared to be a "foul hit." How- ever the umpire ruled otherwise, with the result that Leonard scored a home run, and brought in three men who were on bases! The Eastern never qu'te recovered from the shock and went down gamely by nine runs to four.
The Canadians have much the same side as last year, with the exception that they have the assis- tance of G. E. R. Civett, a former member of the original side of Hong Kong Volunteers, cumposed in the main of cricketers-interport- to the that!-who took ers at American game like ducks to water. Divett has a powerful hit as amply demonstrated last Sunday when he hit the pill into the Radio Sports Ground adjourning the baseball feld. The whole alde badly needs one thing-and that is fielding Sunday's exhibition of pracuce. Belding errors was deplorable, and when opposed to players of the local Japanese outfit, the score in itself (22 to four) is a fair indica- tion of what happened!
JAPANESE FORMIDABLE The Japanese gave one the impression that they will be Just as dificult to oust from the leadership position in the league table as they were last year, and they are going to.. prove hard opponents to better. The whole side is smart and
The decisions of the meeting. it is understood, mean that, for the continue to will be allowed operate without interference from the League,
to
It was also decided that Mr. C. E. Sutcliffe, acting-president of the League, will carry on compling the fixtures in the same way for a period of 10 years. He will receive £2 per year from each club.
The Management Committee of the Football League will meet this morning. It is understood that the question of a successor to the late Mr. John McKenna, as prest dent, may be discussed. Mr. C. E. Sutclifte has been acting as presi- dent since Mr. McKenna died.
hit, Poncesses men that can
ning "a good arm” and feld intelligently.
From what I have heard round the rival camps, the Americans wil be just as formidable this year as they were when they got the pen- nant. Thompson was assisting the Canadians in their practice game last Sunday, and played back stop credibly, One enthusiast of the American camp was emphatic that this year's outfit will do even bet- tef than last year, so if reposta are correct some grand games wil be seen,
A Chinese Government cablegram was received on Sunday by Mr. Muir, president of the local base ball association, which was at first refused by the latter. The messen- ger boy was told to go to the Bouth China Football Club, but with the assistance of someone who could read Chinese characters, it was found that the cable related to baseball matteral According to the message received Piu, Ching College, of Canton have expressed desire of entering league, which it confirmed will see two Chinese outhta in the league.
UMPIRES
One thing must definitely be settled and the sooner the bet- four tér.
Umpires: Cannot
There is only one real way to drop them short yourself. Mas
with great success. Scriven tried it in the next set
The "surprise" of the meeting was the defeat of Miss Dorothy Round this morning by Mrs. M, R. King by 6-4, 6-2 but such has of It-this week that those in the been Miss Round's forin-or lack know were prepared for it.
OUT OF TOUCH. "M.35 Round was completely out of touch. All i was necessary for Mrs. King to do was to keep the ball in play. Miss Round provided her with the points by her ms- Senorita 15 King Mrs. takes. Lizana's semi-final opponent to- morrow afternoon.
The other semi-final is between the holder. Miss Kay Stammers who beat Miss Susan Noel, 6-2, who and Mme. Henrotin, 6-3, outmastered Betty Nuthal to w.n 6-2, 2-8, 7-5.
The Perry-Austin final in the men's singles duly materialised. Perry was to-day the real Perry -brillant and
sustained. A Stedman, the New Zealand Davis Cup player, who played him in the semi-final was about fifteen above normal from.
Austin, apart from a lapse in the second set in which he led by three. tennis polished suave played against H. G. N. Lee, and won 6-1, 5–7, 6–2, 6–1
official umpires be appointed- throughout the season, to work alternatively one Sunday, on and one off? I heard a numb- "ber of suggestions put forward last Sunday, and I understand that Mr. Muir is endeavouring ta get in touch with a number
of local ex-baseball players with a view to their taking an interest in the rame in an executive position. Come for- ward ye ex-players und let this season be the best seen in Hong Kong!
GREAT GOLF BY PADGHAM
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the excitements of the
few more games, if many points, came his way.
A CHALLENGE FROM ABROAD
badly in turns. He started with a smashing attack in the first round, driving his way through Berg's guard as though his target were
When 2 down Penman boled the the gymnasium sack, and after a series heavy punches to the jaw eighth in two, but Tolley salled he
the majestically un. a long left to swung
Stowe, who played for Englandness in Miss Round's strokes that and there was a suggestion that was to come. She could never his best had already been given stomach which nearly ended the
Anish the ball in the rallies in" when fast year, is making good use of bout there and then.
Berg rolled over in agony, but his week's holiday from the pit- quite the same way; Mrs. King was second set were over. At any rate
He was level fours while
driving lustily on the blow was fair Berg got to head his feet in the tenth second and beating Raymond Quilter, and his keeping a fine length with lofted count of 7, when a left book by an injury to Chittenden,
Mrs. King had caught up and won During the lunch interval the first set Miss Round was in no
Miss K. E. Stammers, the holder him over. In the third
worked, desperately knocked
mood for such stubbornness. Even
of the Women's Singles Champion- Berg was down again, and this masseur
her lobs hespoke their timidity. ship, drove much too hard and ac- time he was fortunate, for the Chittenden's strathed side, but ne-
vertheless he played in consider she could not win another game curately for the defensive returns round ended at the count of five:
In those three rounds Berg hadable pain, and Stowe romped home cntll Mrs: King had won five, and of Miss 8. Noel to exist, clever as this time there was to be no way they sometimes were. It does not been little more than a chopping by 6 and 5.
out.
look too well for the Wightman
to come quickly. His magnificent
The matches of Perry and Aus-Cup prospects, however, to find block and the end seemed likely
two players from abroad. Mme. S. tin brought a study in contrasts fighting spirit, however, saved him,
for, the crowded stands in the Henrotin and Senorita A. Lizana, Walsh, with an old eyebrow wound
afternoon. Each in his way has In the semi-final round, although re-opened, began to look puzzled
that contest will be played on and gradually the Londoner took
London, Apr. 20: atrokes that are the best in the the offensivė.
Another brillant display of golf world with the utmost difference grass.
Miss B. Nuthall made was given by Alfred Padgham at in their accomplishment. Perry's
are concentrated with fight against the wily tactics of sundridge Park yesterday. when methods
Little flourish and rely upon the Mme. Henrotin before her fortunes ne beat Henry Cotton by 7 and 8
early ball for his speed. While, felt foul of the drop shot at the in a thirty-six holes match.
long third set. Hard Fresh from his one-stroke vic-like most masters of games, heend of a tory over the ex-champion in the makes everything look absurdly drives brought her the second set £1,000" tournament. Padgham was simple, his strokes do not betray handsomely. They continued to serve her well in a match of de- always confident in familiar sur-their secrets. Austin's strokes, on roundings, and for the thirty holes the other hand, come from the fensive back-hands until she lost of the match he was five under orthodox school, with the long her service, and Mme. Henrotin led smooth swing that is such a joy to by five games to three in the third fours,
set A lead like that is sometimes watch, and they win the points as it were by logic.
not a winning position, and Miss- Ferry certainly made shorter Nuthall was level before a double match fault brought Mme. Henrotin to work yesterday of": his against A. C. Stedman, from New match point. That was saved, and Zealand, than Austin of his against another, with a rousing recovery H. G. N. Lee, not merely because from a drop-shot, was altogether he won in straight sets where too much and there was a winning Austin took four, but because Perry smash to come.. needed less than half the number of strokes to finish the rallies.
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By the sixth round Berg ap peared to have recovered his speed and strength; and then came the incident which probably settled the Aght. Walsh drove long left hook to the body-a similar punch to the one which had put Berg down in the first round-definitely lower this time, and to the right of the stomach.
CLAIMS FOR A FOUL Berg rolled across the ring, and there were loud claims from his camer for a foul. Mr. Deyong had a difficult decision to thake. He decided to allow the count to procees, but when Berg crawled to his feet at the call of nine the referee point out to Walsh
the blow, was somewhat low.
that
As he was doing so Berg collaps- ed again on the floor of the ring. but on being told to fight on he got up and ended the round ap parently without difficulty,"
I thought this blow lower than it should have been, but if the re- feree has any discertion in such a case, this was one, to my mind, Berg when it should be used. fought back well afterwards, but the damage had been done in the early round, and his defeat in any case was fairly certain
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After being
the fourth, Padgham had an inspired patch with only eight putta for the next six holes, five of which he won to be up at the tenth. He finished the round up with a score of 87 against 76.
Cotton pushed out his drive and was bunkered at the second during the second round to be 8 down
Padgham, taking three putis at the fourth and being bunkered at the sixth, lost both holes, but Cotton could make no more pro-
gress.
› CAPABLANCA'S
COMPLAINT ·
London. "April 22. Senior Capablanca feels that he
that grievance in
Perry lost no more games to stedman, the strongest player he had met in the tournament, than
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brave
A greater variety of strokes also. brought about the downfall of the one-stroke vigour of Miss Scriven.
Senorita Lizana's driving was rather too well balanced, und In her hands the drop shot off a hard drive may well become a proprie- portant match-no one car saytary stroke in its wisdom of the Many of Miss Scriven's not a legitimate game. that he 18
matches are won by sheer deter- challenger.
But it is notoriously difficult to mination and the power of her spin arrange World Championship mat drive on the forehand, and so it ches. Capablanca waited ten years was with the second set. But that for his match in 1921 against unrelenting control of the long and If Walsh fights always as he did has In the first two rounds to-night he cannot play Dr. Edwe for the World Lasker, who had held the title 27hort shots broke up Miss Scriven's driving; if she tried to volley she will be a great champion. His Chess Championship until Euwe years.
Euwe is committed to his return was passed, and if she stayed back next opponent is likely to be Harry has played a return match with
match with Alekhine-next year. there were always the unreach- Alekhine. Mizier, the former champion,
Although Capablanca no longer Capablanca must hold a position of able drop shots to come. Senorita shows himself the genius that he at best third in the deld until the Lizano led by five games to one in was in his early days from 1914 to victor can arrange to meet another the third set, and Miss Scriven had
to give up solving the problem. 1924 he was undefeated in any im-challenge.
As for Berg, I am afraid he is finished in first-class boxing He afleeting never showed even glimpse of his óld effectiveness,
he
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