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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1939.
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M.C.C. FIXTURES FOR INDIA TOUR 1939-40
Bombay To Guarantee
Rs. 29,000
The sub-committee appointed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India to draw up the Itinerary of the M.C.C. team in India in 1939-44, and other matters pertaining to the tour, sat recently for nearly three hours with the Hon. Dr. P. Subbaroyan, President of the Board, in the chair.
A provisionally arranged the M.C C. team will arrive in India on October 12, and remain in India up to February 10, 1940, dur- ing which period they will play 25 matches in all-three Tests at Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, 20 matches
FAST HOCKEY GAME AT
MACAO
MACAO, Jan. 15-But for. a single goal scored against the visitors in the early part of the rame, the Macao Hockey Club would have conceded a draw with the Hongkong when the two tears met in a fast-moving. rame at Tapseac
Police
this afternoon. Both teams played fast throughout and at- no moment did either side slacken the pace.
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NOVA RATED HIGH
Chief Challenger To Joe Louis
"HUSH-HUSH” YACHT
DEFIES WAVES
A "hush-hush" yacht with, a new hull design creating practically no, bow wave, which, it is belleved, will Lou Nova, Joe Louis and Henry revolutionise the speed of ocean- Armstrong were prominently men going craft, has been built in à tioned in the well-known boxing north county shipyard to magazine. the "Ring," recently. specification of Mr. F. Gordon In its annual rankings of boxers, Pratt, a London naval architect. the "Ring" rites Nova as the No. 1 Sixty-knot 189 m.p.h.) destroy- heavyweight challenger because of Jers and
Sporting Fixtures
TO-DAY
| BADMINTON.-B Division,
Wan-
Badminton, in the West Lounge, 8.30 p.m.
derers v. Sailors' Home; St. An-BRIDGE-YMCA Women's Sec- tion Bridge Class and Practice drew's A v. t. John's; Recrela v St. Andrew's ; VR/C. “'v.
Play, 10 am.. Kowloon Tong
| HOCKEY-Club seconds v. Y.M.C.A. Mi
mnon Rides second, Badminton, Women's Section:
5 p.m.
in the West Lounge, all day. ·
Ku- (Club),
Associa-
FOOTBALL-Third Division, (B); MEETING-Badminton the
tion Counch (3. C. M; Post Beard Room). 5.30 p.m.
24th R.A v. University (St. Joseph's1, 4.15 p.m. HOCKEY.-Club v. Middlesex
(Club), 5 p.m.
40-knot 148.06 m.p.h.) HUNTING Fanling, Meet, Ta, Ku ADVERTISEMENT
Ling. 2.45 p.m. RUGBY -Club À v, Army (Club),
4.45 p.m. SHOOTING.-Spoon and Practice Shoot (Kowloon City Ranges), 2 D.IIL
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20
his impressive victories over Gun-liners are regarded as possibilities. nar Barlund, the Finnish cham of this new and revolutionary form Outstanding for Macao were R. plon, and more recently, over of hull, designed to reduce friction Rosario and Alex Airosa in the Tommy Farr of Wales.
and the amount of water displace- The youthful Californian dec-ment when the vessel is under way. Angelo and F. defence, while P. against provincial
Present-day destroyers can travel Nolasco were the principals among sively beat Farr almost knocking associations, one match each against the Combined Universities.
the local forwards. For the visi-the tough Welsh miner out in the up to 38 knots. the Maharajan of Patiala's XI and the Cricket Club of India.
tors. Brown. Parker and Jackson fourteenth round when he drop-
rett, about 100ft, long and equip-BADMINTON-Mixed double di
The fist Test match is arranged 1000, which has to be raised by proved solid in the half-line and.red Farr to the canvas following a to take place at Bombay on De-guarantees from the various pro- although they had their hands fullterrifle barrage of heavy blows.
He apparently shot his boll crinber 16, 17, 18 and 19, the second vincial associations. Bombay, Cal-feeding their own forwards, the
at Calcutta, on December 27: 28 29.cutta and Madras, where the Test trio worked admirably well to- and 30, and the third at Madras on matches
February 2, 3, 4 and 5, 1940.
Ceylon has not been included
in the itinerary.
There will be
will be played, will gether in spoiling many of Macao's have to guarantee Rs. 25.000. Rs.
rushes.
20,000 and Rs. 12,000 respectively. The match between the Cricket
D.
In this round for he couldn't deliver the fatal blows neces- sary for a knockout victory in the Bfteenth and final rougd.
This mystery yacht called Tar
vision, Recreio v. Talkoo: Uni- versity v. St. John's.; Y.M.C.A.
CUP REPLAY ..
DECISIONS
Jan. 16 (Reuter Replay matches in the third round of the F.A. Cup, played to-day, re- suited as follows:
ped with two 1000 h.p. Diesel en- gines, has been bullt by Messrs Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, of Wallsend, and al-. ready has had preliminary trials. The teams were as follows:-
It is still in the experimental HONGKONG" POLICE: Jessop;
Louis, the negro world heavy-state, and there will be several more
LONDON, trials before she is passed as satis- Bingh: only 76. days' Club of India and the M.C.C. will Man Singh, Mehar
weight champion. was described
factory. cricket, plenty of rest being afford-be the last match of the tour. Brown, S. Parker, J. Jackson: Seja lus the "boxer of the year." His feat ed Travelling has also been cut which will be played at Bombay on Singh, Rattan Singh, S. Jasber, J.
of knocking out Max Schmeling of February 7 and 8, for which Bom-Wall. Narwan Singh. down to the minimum.
further
MACAO R.C.: Almada R. Ro-Germany in the first round was The Combined Universitles matchbay will be asked for a
sario. L. Costa; J. Nolasco, Alex considered more notable by many as well as the lightweight inc against the tourists has been pro-guarantee of Rs. 3,000.
Alrosa, Santos Ferreira; F, Nolasco, than Armstrong's record of becem-welterweight titles.
He retired from the feather- visionally ixed to be played at
PROVISJONAL ITINERARY
Alb. Alrosa, P. Angelo, H. Rosario.g the first triple champion in
weight division because he found Ahmedabad under the auspices of
boxing history. The sub-committee adopted the
A. Angelo. the Gujerat Cricket Association.
Before he relinouished his tea- it difficult to make the necessary The sub-committee has, however, following provisional itinerary for
therweight title. the little negro weight limit to be able to fight in recommended that the match may the M.C.C tour -
held the 127-pound championship that category. October 12--Arrival in Bombay. be played at Aligarh, centre of
October 15-Arrival in Karachi, University cricket in India, provid- ed the authorities can give a sult- October 17, 18 and 19-vs. Sind
Cricket Association at Karachi,
October 23 and 24-vs. North- West Frontier Province at Pesha-
able guarantee.
The cost of the whole tour is provisionally estimated at Rs. 125,
war.
!
October 27, 28 and 29-vs. North- ern India Cricket Association at
RIFLE SHOOTING Lahore
October 31. November 1 and 2-
COTTON SAYS
"NO TRIP TO AMERICA"
"Without Guarantee”
Unless Henry Cotton is given a guarantee of $2000 free of ex-
vs. Southern Punjab Cricket Asso-penses and tax he will not under-
Week-end Shooting elation at Amritsar.
At Stonecutters
scores
sequence.
were
The following are the results: 5.ft. (b)
take the proposed five weeks' tour 7-VS of the, United States early this
year.
November 5.
and 6 Maharajah of Patiala's XI Patiala.
at
"I have had a letter assuring me November 11 and 12-ys. Delhi that the amount I want will be Perfect conditions prevalled at
casy to obtain in gate-money." Stonecutters on Saturday for the and Districts of Delhi
November 14: 15 and 16-vs. Raj- Cotton said. "That is not good week-end shooting, and some good;
ut Association in con-putana 'Cricket returned
enough. If the people who are so Ajmer.
enxious for me to go to America November 18 and 19-rs. Guferat are so certain about the money Cricket Association at Ahmedabad they should not find it difficult to November 21, 22 and 23-vs give me a guarantee.. If the guar- Western India States Cricket A550 antee is not torthcoming the trip riation at Rajkot.
November 21, 28 and 29-5. Jamnagar XI at Jamnagar.
December 2, 3 and 4-vs. Com bined Universities at Ahmedabad or Aligarh.
H'cap 200 500 600 Til E.R.A. L. Kellier scr. 34 34 31 99
C.E.R.A.
R. Atkinson 2 32 32 33 97: Mr. T. J. Boulton 1 33 31 31 95 EA. W. J. Gilpin 3 30 29 32 94 E.R.A.
J. R. Thorpe scr. 33-32 29 94 Mr. W. Austin... 28 33 32 93 Mr. HJ.S. Blake 2 30 32 28 90 Mr. H.L. Langley 2 28 32 20 89 Mr. S. 3. Winch 4.19 27 21 67
A.B. E. G. F.
S.R. (a)
.
Flood 7 27 30 30 87* S.P.Q. H. A.
Yewen 10 25 30 30 85: E.R.A. J. Chick.. 10. 28 20 28 85 F.O. J. C. Swan 3 29 28 23 80 L/Sto.
T. C. McG11 12 27 31 19 77 E.R.A.
L. R. Barham 12. 24 24 28.74
E.R.A.
J
J. D. M. Coc 12 21 25 27 73 Sto. L. C.
Harding 14 24 25 19 68
Johnson 14 23 22 22 B7
E.R.A. E. A.
E.R.A. J. E
December 6 and 7-rs. Baroda Cricket Association at Baroda.
December 9 and 10-vs Mäharash- tra XI at Poona,
.
14 vs.
is off."
Cotton has an engagement in Glasgow for the week beginning January 30 for the stage show which ran for a fortnight in Lon- don recently.
RUGBY FOOTBALL
December 12, 13 and
There will be "a game of Rugby Bombay Cricket Association at Footbali on the Club ground at: Happy Valley to-day at 4.45 p.m., Bombay:
December 18. 17, 18 and 19 vs. when the Club "A" XV will play ání Army side. The Club side has been All-India XI at Bombay.
December 22, 23 and 24-vs. Ben-selected as follows:-
gal and Assam at Calcutta.
H. F. Hopkins, K. A. Munro, M. December 27, 28, 29 and 30-vs. G. Carruthers. D. Hynes, E. M. All-India XI at Calcutta
Watts, J. T. Brown, J. Redman, G. January 1 and 2 vs. Bihar J. P. Carey, J. S. Dunnett (Capt.). Cricket Association at Jamshedpur. J. C. Merhinick, G. M. Marrs, W. January 6, 7 and 8-vs. U.P. Crië- E. Peers, R. G. L. Ollghant. W. A.
Johnson and W. Stoker. ct Association at Lucknow.
January 12, 13 and 14-vs. Cen- tral India Cricket Association at Indore.
COLONY, AND CLUB SIDES With the approach of the visit of the Malayan Rugby Union side;
has been found necessary to make some alterations in the rug- 21-VS. ger fixture list previously publish- Associa-ed in order that the Colony and Club sides to oppose the visitors Mysore may be selected.
January 16 and 17-ys, C. P. and it Berar at Nagpur.
January 19, 20 and Sherlock 9 24 22 20 66 Mr. C. A. Hyett nii. 21 23 21 65Hyderabad State Cricket -Denotes winner of the "Nett tion at Secunderabad.
January 23 and 24-vs. Spoon.
The fixtures for Wednesday. -Denotes winner of the "Han- Bangalore.
January 26, 27 and 28 V8. January 25 and Wednesday. dicap" Spoon.
February 1 have therefore been N.B.-Winner of spoon has his Madras at Madras.
February 2, 3, 4 and 5-vs. All-altered and on the first date a handicap reduced by one
India XI Madras:
Possibles v. Probables match will point.
February 7 and 8-vs. Cricket be played, after which the Colony Club of India at Bombay.
February 10 Ball for England.
H.K.C.C. TEAMS FOR SATURDAY LEAGUE CRICKET
The following will represent the
ENGLISH ATHLETIC
TEAM
side will be chosen. The latter vill play together once before the |Malayan game on the second date. and will be opposed by the Rest of the Colony.
The selectors are a committee of three, who are no longer on the active rugger list, one each from
H.K.C.C. 1st XI in a League cricket
A team of British athletes will the Army, Navy and Club, and are match against the Civil Service C.C. on Saturday at Happy Valley: cave for America immediately Capt. Proes, Lt.-Comdr.
Helbert
H. Oven Hughes (Capt.), F. after the A.A.A. championships on and Dr. Selby. The selectors will watch next Saturday's Inter- Stokes, M. F. L. Haymes, L. T. Ride, July 7 and this year.
America has sent a team to Eng- national games and will then no- T. A, Pearce, J. L. C. Pearce, G. P. Longfield, J. L. Isley, L. D. Kilbee, land for the past two years and minate the men whom they wish P. H. Bcoones, D. 8. Blake and Athis year's visit is to be in the to appear in the Possibles v. Prob.
nature of a return fixture. C. Beck (12th man).
on ables match
the following On the Club ground, on Batur- It is not yet been decided how Wednesday.
Volunteer match v. The day, the HK.C.C. 2nd XI will meet many will constitute the team, nor, The the CB.C.C. 2nd XI in a League when and where they will be com- Army on Saturday, January 28 has match and will be represented by peting. It is believed that the been postponed until the end of the following:~
American authorities have" already the season on March 4 and instead
./
C. W. E Bishop (Capt.), A. Karranged the meeting for July 15-the Club Interport alde, in which there will be' some 'changes, from Mackenzie, J. E Potter, N. P. Fox, 16. DJ. S. Robb, H. J. Armstrong, R. M. They would like to see 8. C. the team which was defeated by M. King, H. J. D. Lowe, V. G. Bond, Wooderson, A. G. K. Brown and D. the Navy In the last game of the W. Stoker, 8. J. Cooke and D. 0.10. Finlay, and these three are ex-Triangular Tournament, will play Parsons (12th man).
pected to be included in the team. (against the Rest.
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