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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1936.
HAS NEW WORLD
HEAVYWEIGHTER
BEEN FOUND ?
AMERICA HAILS “WHITE HOPE”
CAREER
OF PHIL BRUBAKER
FROM PULPIT
Phil Brubaker was born to fight
to beat the devil.
TO PUNCHES
In boyhood and early youth, the PROBLEM
21-year-old heavyweight, who looms as a leading white hope after his knockout of Fred Lenhart and victory over Kingfish Levinsky, g ured his fight was along theological lines. He planned to study for the
ministry.
"'
A few months ago, he turned his thoughts seriously to boxing--and from being just "one of the hicks from the sticks" he has risen to where San Francisco ring fans see a world champiori in the dominle- turned-boxer.
With four world champions from California, all developed.. in San Francisco rings, tans hereabouts know something about spotting a lad with what it takes.
E
OF GROUND
SOLVED
St. Andrew's To Share With C.B.A.
NEW CLUBHOUSE PROPOSED
According to a new arrangement made recently, the Central British Association and St. Andrew's Club will share the use of the C.B.A.
Steadily and coolly, Brubaker hns come along in his various starts. He wasn't kept on a "push-ground at King's Park. It is stated
over" diet Fred Lenhart, Tacoma veteran who rates with Charley Retslaf, was brought in to see what Brubaker could do against cagey competition. Four punches sent Lenhart out by the count for the first time in fils career, just 68 ser- monds after the opening bell.
His latest opponent was King Levinsky, certainly not a dish to eet before a peagreen--unless the Elis peagreen has what it takes. 10-round decision over the King- Ash. with Levinsky on the foor twice. and both fighting all the way, has moved Brubaker to the top fight, and deflaltely to be con- sidered an opponent for Braddock. the game though he's so new that his name doesn't append in the record book.
Fighting is just a means toward on end with Brubaker-to make devote title, then money win a nimself to Y. M. C. A. work. ar assist in religious work while beina a' business man.
Born on a Dinuba, Calif., ranch. Phil'a ambition was to follow two ulder brothers as football stars a Dinuba high school. An injury blocked this, so, for an outlet, the lad turned to track and basketball. He did a little amateur boxing, but | his basketball prowess, plus his in terest in theology, won him a tui- tion scholarship in College of the Pacific at Stockton.
that a new Clubhouse is planned.
It is understood that the C.B.A. will have the use of the ground, Which in the past has been shared by the Central British School, on Monday. Wednesday and Friday with St. Andrew's and C.B.A. hav- ing priority of alternate Saturdays.
This will mean that St. Andrew's have solved their ground problem which so acute last season. They were only able to fulfil four games In the Mamak Hockey League last year, and to withdraw from the tournament for the first time in the Club's history.
Last season. the Central British
INTERPORT
BASEBALL
Colony Meet Filipinos On Thursday
(BY
BLEACHER "*
Although two post-season base- ball games were scheduled to be played this week, local fans will be disappointed to learn that there will only be one match between Hong Kong and the Filipino visitors.
H.K. REFEREES NAVY AND AIR PERIL
MEET
Chairman Appeals Flag Officer's Experience
For Co-operation
COMING SEASON DISCUSSED
In The War
Full co-operation and the whole- Small Ships Mean
hearted support "at members to the association were stressed by Mr. T. G. Stokes, chairmar. of the Hong Kong Referees' Association in this pres.ding at a meeting of body he.d yesterday in the room of the Hong Kong Football Asso- ciation, when he welcomed new members.
Mr. Stokes expressed the opinion that if this co-operation was forthcoming this season, it would see the Reierees' Association be- come one of the nest organisa- tions of its description in the whole of the Far East. This was the abject that they had to strive for.
Supporting Mr. Stokes in the chair, was Mr. D. Kossick (Hon. Secretary) and there was a good attendance present.
It was intimated by the chair man that most of the clubs in the league had written stating their willingness to co-operate with the Referees' Association regarding the question of allowing members of this body In without charge. to witness matches, whether in an oficial capacity or not. was required was an
All that
affiliation
card to be shown by the referees In question at the gate.
Mr. Stokes said that the Football Association
to
was attempting.
tighten up matters between the two Associations with regard to the carly return of official result cards
from referees. In future no pay- ment would be made to those officiating at matches until the
that the play- Owing to the fact
cards were returned, and specially ers of Pul Ching Academy, Canton, must remain in school during mid-printed forms had teen made for
this purpose. week It is impossible for them to
Captains of teams will have come to Hong Kong to play.
However, a strong team selected
Small Targets
In considering the matter of naval strategy and tacties it is accessary to bear in mind the purpose for which navles exísi. The sole purpose of flects is to preserve one's Own communications
and to destroy, or render inadequate, those of the enemy. The sen is the only medium that can convoy stores and troops in suf- ficient quantities to be of use between countries, separated from each other by water.
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EXPERIMENTS SINCE THE WAR.
It takes the place of railways in making only one hit, although and motor transport on land, and, we were steaming at a speed of an- although the air is extremely valu-ly six knots an hour. able in other ways, it can never supplant ships as carriers of large quantities of goods and people across the oceans of the world. The great weight of fuel that must be carried in the thin medium of the air reduces the load of goods and people to such an "extent that the radius of action is brought down to an unpractical limit.
There is an important point which influences the naval strategy of, and types of men-of-war re- quired by different countries, (1) Some nations are self-supporting with regard to food and most raw materials. (2) Other countries can have their extra wants 'supplied by land services without having to rely on sea transport. (3) A few, like ourselves. have to rely al- together on ships for their exist-
ence.
Take the case of the first type of country. In the event of war breaking out, they can tell their merchant ships to remain in neutral harbours until an escort
Experiments have been carried out on both sides of the Atlantic to find out the effect that bombs would have against the battleship, and the results have shown' that the damage was slight compared with what it used to be. In the United States the battle- ship Washington was used as a target for 2.000lb, air bombs and 400lb.
CORONATION EMBLEMS
KING APPROVES
CROWN IN DECORATIONS
The King naa approved a re- commendation of the Home Searu- tary, Sir John Simon that the Crown alone or with other em- blems, and the Royal Cypher, may be used in Coronation decorations. Emblems with which the Crown may be used are;
The united red and white roses. The thistle,
The shamrock. The harp.
The red Dragon on mount, and
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The united rose, thistle and shamrock.
The only stipulation is that the Crown and Royal Cypher must not be associated with advertising. w
by bombs or torpedoes, yet dam- age to a ship will reduce her speed modern considerably, and, if she is accom- others will probably panied by necessitate the reduction of speed of the whole squadron. The late war showed us that after the sub- marine, the air and the torpedo had come into their own. One day il the Adriatic two Austrian super-Dreadnoughts, with several destroyers to protect them, rashly went to sea.
torpedoes. Three of the former, and two of the letter ex- ploded under water near the ship's bottom. The result produced was a slight ist of five degrees, and, al- though no pumps were used to get rid of the water which had pene- trated her, she remained - afloat.. and four days later was sunk by gundre.
This daring deed was reported by wireless to Italy, and Capt. Rizzo and Mid.
Aonzo with two motor boats carrying torpedoes put
to sea, attacked from ahead at full speed, and twice torpedoed the
The attacking of surface vessels, leading battleship, Szent István. with the exception of aircraft car-which shortly afterwards sank, riers, is best carried out by very low flying planes, carrying the largest size torpedo to be fired from behind a smoke screen dropped by
to fill in specially prepared forms comes to bring them home. This high-flying machines
be formed of a escort need not
and these must be handed to the
from among the best players Dreferees before the commencement large number of men-of-war, but
local Clubs, will meet the Calamba Sugar Estate team on Thursday at 5.15 p.m.
(Japanese); Bowen
of games, such as was the practice last season. Referees had to en- deavour to ascertain goal scorers, The Colony side, which will be but this point was not imperative. captained by Hearther, will be
The goal scorers were not re- selected from the following play-quired for any official purpose, but
(Mindanao), Mikuni ers:-Jones
since a great number of referees in (Volunteers) the past season had gone out of Yasuda (Japanese). Allen (Ameri- their way to affix the goal scorers cans), Moore (Mindanao), Arcullin a match, a specially printeri form was available for this pur- (Eastern), Bacca (Mindanao). Kor- ton (Mindanao), Takeda (Japan-pase. ese), Barros (Americans), Stopan
Objections were raised on this (Mindanao), White
(Mindanao).point and it was pointed out that. Muir (Canadians),
Smedley it would be difficult for
# few
minutes ahead of them.
This system was tried in man- it does require that the escorting œuvres about fifteen years ago, warships shall be of the strongest when a squadron of 'planes, carry- type of cruiser with the longesting torpedoes with dummy heads. range gun allowed for them," so as to prevent raiders coming in range of the convey of ships that are being protected.
with-
The second class can exist with out men-of-war. If they have no
overseas possessius.
SUFFICIENT LIGHT CRUISERS VITAL
Since the plane, the torpedo, the battleship, instead of becoming the most-feared vessel on the sea, has become the one' that needs the most protection, and blockade by vessels of this
coming of the aero- submarine, and the
type is now impossible.
SMALL SHIPS MEAN SMALL TARGETS.
A
attacked a battle fleet in this man- ner, and, although the ships of the These instances show that it Beet steered in different directions would be a great advance in naval as soon as the smoke screen, was strategy if the size of the largest dropped, and the planes were or ships and guns were greatly' 're- dered to fire their torpedoes be-duced all over the world, Small fore passing through the smoke war vessels would be more numer- screen. 41 per cent. of hits were re-cus and more difficult targets for the gistered, and the planes kept Just bombs and torpedoes, and bigh enough to be able to take bearings of the mast head of their target, and from these bearings
Association annexed the "B" Divi- (Americans), and David Leonard English referee to find out the sufficient light cruisers to protect they estimated her
sion of the Mamak Hockey Cham- pionship.
The ground at King's Park this year will therefore not only be the venue of home games of the men's hockey teams of St. Andrew's and also the home the, C.B.A.. but ground for the women's. section, both of which will compete in the Caer Clark Cup Competition.
INTERPORT BOWLS
Shanghai, Sept. 14. "In the third and last game of the Interport series. Hong Kong gained No matter how much, he
maya victory over Shanghal by 20 shots hunger for knowledge, yet greater to 13. was his hunger for fighting.
The Hong Kong team comprised Ender the guidance of Manager P. E. Knight. F. V. V. Ribeiro, A. Billy Hunnefeld, Brubaker battled Hyde-Lay and H. A. Alves (skip).
in the smaller rings, developing a kayo punch and ability to handle himself. Broken hands bothered him, but surgical skill seems have cleared up this one point in his equipment. The class of boys he met was getting better:
$
Reuter,
13.
to
weak
SWIMMING HEATS
►
(Volunteers).
GERMAN VICTORY IN MOTOR RACE
Monza, Sept. 13. The last of Europe's "Grand Prix" motor races proved yet another Fictory for Germany and another leaf in the laurels of the extraor dinary successful young race driver Rosemeyer, who drives an Auto Union. On the 503 kilometres len course of Monzu be drove his car in an exciting race in 3 hrs. 43 mins and 25 secs for the whole stretch,
The well-known Italian driver Nuvolari passed the winning post
on an Alfa Romeo 2 mins 5.6 eca
later, while the third place was taken by another German driver, young Ernst von Delius...
Transocean News Service."
WORLD SERIES
Course
VULNERABLE AIRCRAFT
For the last class of country, to an which we belong, it is vital to have
of scorers in a names
game their merchant vessels from ral-speed, between two Chinese elevens. ders in the open seas, and air- It was revealed by the Hon.craft destroyers and other small Secretary that there were 43 mem- craft to shield them from sub- bers of the Referees' Association marine attack when reaching focal last year, which represented 83 per points on their routes and when cent, of ail affillated referees. The nearing or leaving their ports of Welch Association had now joined call. the Referees' Association in Lon- don, so that there was a alight change in the official badge, a stock of which had been received in Hong Kong.
Twenty-five affiliation cards from the Referees' Association at home had been received which entitled the possessor, to facilities in any part of the globe in which the
association was affiliated to the
home association. A further supply would be obtained later.
the
So the strategy of each Class must be formed for their different requirements.
We will next consider the ques- tion of the protection of men-of- war from air attack, which is very sent time, Some people exagger- much before the publie at the pre-
ate the danger and their opponenta minimize it. It is between the
opinions of these extremists, that the truth Hes."
If aircraft can be prevented from The question of new quarters for
Referees' Association was attacking from a low height, the brought up by a member who chances of hitting are very much stated that 26 candidates had been reduced, as anyone who has seen successful in passing the Army objects dropped from an aircraft Referee. Board. If this amount over the earth can realize the dif- Joined the local association, the Dculty of making direct hits. As there is no way of finding out present space would be inadequate. It was suggested that a letter bewhat cross currents there are bé- New York, Sept. 13. written to Capt. Kimm, of the low the bombing 'plane this creates It was announced to-day that Army Educational Board, for per- an insuperable dimculty whitch the World's Series games for the mission to use the Army School has accounted for the very few rue of the baseball roost for 1838 Room, attuated in Queen's Road; bombs that reached their targets will start at, 1.30 p.m. on Septem-where ample accommodation was per 30 on the ground of which- | available.
team wins the National
League pennant."
it required more training. So study In connection with the annual for the ministry was suspended swimming Championships of the while the fight game was taken Colony which start to-day, heats. for the 200 yards free style open more seriously. He became a "star."
ever relay were held at the V.R.G, bath "COBRA-LIKE” "He possesses freedom of move- yesterday evening. nient is a result, with amazing speed of arms and legs, and ability to hit out, cobra-like," says an Pereira, L. A Remedios, and A. A American writer in the Manila da Roza) with the South China Bulletin."
A:A. (Wong Chi Hong, Kwok Hon Ming, Yip Hon Chun and Norman
"Both fists are effective weapons, his short right being lethal. And the lad has gotten off the canvas after taking a hard wallop, to fight his way to a triumph.
His coolness is remarkable in an inexperienced aghter. His defense will carry him a long way, but he's coming-in battler, rather than a dunce-away. The Brubaker brain is completely equipped with all the uppurtenances for swift. lucid
The first heat was won by Roza V.R.C. (W. Lawrence, L
Lee) second.
The second, sixth and seventh games will also be played on that ground and the third, fourth and afth on the Yankee Stadium, the Yankees having already won the American League championship.
The present National League In the second beat the Univer-standings, before to-day's games sity team (H. LOzorio, EL were completed, gave New York Gosano. Lau Po-hei and Chung the lead with 601, and St. Lou's Wing Ngot) came first. The Army Lt. A. J. Lewis, Lt. R. A. Barton, Cpl. R. McCarthy and Rfm. Ham ton) were second.
in the last war.
ANTI-AIRCRAFT MEASURES Mr. Stokes said that the question would have to be gone into Since that time, however new thoroughly before, a decision was types of anti-aircraft gun and arrived at one way or the other. other weapons (which, naturally, the necessity arose for larger have to be kept secret) have comp he. personally into being. which will oblige air- accommodation thought that the Sports Club could craft to ay much higher than of be approached for another room. old over ships and other objectives Club secretaries were invited to which they mean to attack; and communicate with Mr. Kossick re- this, combined with the varying garding friendly fixtures arranged horizontal currents, will reduce for the week-end or week days. the number of hits registered
A hearty vote of thanks was ex-bombe explode before they penë- tended to the Hon. Secretary for trate, and the damage done with the work he had put in during the consequently be slight off season,
was a weakening second with $76. It was stated that the Referees' against ships by bombs to a amail Chicago had 564 and very little Association would be only to and perhaps negligible quantity. chance of catching up the leaders. pleased to arrange for a member added to which the armoured The Giants are hot favourites to officiate at these friendlies" decks of the larger type of ships that are struck will make the If the Glanta win the pennant, without charge. it will bring two New York teams to the World Series and the reven games will be played on consecu- tire days, otherwise there will be Ok to a conclusion" of his ringu day's interval between each wars according to Timothy (good change of venue. Brubaker's ring code doesn't infighting name, too): 4:7, which clude turning the other cheek says: "I have fought the good fight. when someone amiter him. His I have finished my course, I have coordination indicate his left and kept the faith."
his
thinking, and fighters type, foo,"
RING-TEXT
right hands aren't keeping their doings secret from each other, heart is a But in planning his future, he
The broadcasting rights have again been purchased by the Ford Motor Company for $100,000 Reuter
The meeting closed after a dis- cussion of certain rules and amendments which had been cir- culated by the Hong Kong Foot ball Association for the coming season,
The dimculties of successful bombing were brought home to me when my temporary flagship in the Adriatic, a monitor, was, bombed for over half an hour by seaplanes flying at a height of less than 1,000ft, and which succeeded-
and
CARRIERS.
have Aircraft carriers. which enormous flying-of! decks, which cannot be covered with armour on account of the huge additional weight, and have very large bulges on and below the water line, are much less vulnerable to torpedo attack below water than to a bomb penetrating the unarmoured deck, which will destroy the dying-off deck, set fire to the petrol, destroy ably set the whole ship on fire. the 'planes on board, and prób
statistics of the last war showed that the greatest damage to our commerce was done by small crui→ sers, merchant ship raiders, and submarines; whereas the large ships in our feet were reduced by 25 per cent., torpedo boat destroy- ers' by 100 percent., and other small craft in even greater num- ters.
During the whole war not a single merchant ship escorted by flying boats, seaplanes, or aero- plafies was sunk. The submarine dreads aircraft, pecause only air- craft can see the V-shaped track. caused by the periscope directly it appears on the surface, and the aeroplane or seaplane can reach the submarine a few seconds later and drop its depth bombs beside Although it is practically impos-her--Admiral Mark Kerr in "The sible to sink a well-armoured ship Naval and Military Record.”
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