HONG DAILY PRESS WIMBLEDON
WINNERS
WOMEN'S SINGLES
& MEN'S DOUBLES
PAM BARTON
WEEPS
WINNING TITLE BRINGS STRAIN
LONDON, June 17-Pam Barton,
'WIMBLEDON, June 28 (Reuter) | twenty-two years old, playing in -The Women's Singles at Wim- her first big tournament after two bledon attracted a great deal of years of illness, won the 'British Women's 'Open' golf championship attention yesterday.
Then she The sixteen-year-old Jean Niceil, at Portrush yesterday, who was seeded on her first ap-collapsed and wept with nervous
Wimbledon, at pearance beaten by Miss Vera Huntbach, the Cheshire player, 6-8, 6-4, 6-2.
nervous and
Miss Nicoll was weak in her backhand.
Miss
was
strain.
..
Winner of the title in 1936, this.. time she beat Mrs. J. Marks 2 and 1 in a final that twice found her 4 up, yet finished on the 35th
Raven-haired Mrs Jean Marks
Helen Jacobs "(United | green. - States)-had-no-difficulty-in-beat-
and fifteen years her opponent's senior, came near to the title than any other Irishwoman for twenty- eight years.
Ing. Mrs. Haylock (Britain) 6-0, 6-2, wife of a Belfast linen, merchant, while Miss Alice Marble (U.S.) beat Mrs. Kirk (Britain) 6-3, 8-2.
Miss Scriven (Britain) beat Fraulein Ullstein (Germany) 6-3, 6-3.
Miss Rosemary
Pam's longer hitting wrecked Miss Mary Hardwick (Britain) Ireland's hopes. Only once: at the Thomas second hole, was the English girl beat
6-4, and Miss down. After that it was grand golf (Britain) 10-8, Katherine Stammers (Britain) for twelve holes. She was 3 up at beat Miss Middleton (Britain) 6-0. the sixteenth, took four to the eighteenth green, and finished the round 2 up. 79-81.
6.
A SURPRISE
H
Mrs. Lizana Ellis (Britain) beat Mrs. Marks fought gallantly, all Mrs. Kelvie 9-7, 6-2, and Mrs. Bur- the way, but excursions into the Yorkshire rough left her four down at the the rows-Sergeant, County player, surprisingly beat twenty-eighth. She won the next Miss Mary Whitmarsh Britain two, Pam missed a four-foot putt 4-6-7-5.8-6.
at the thirty-third, and was only Miss Rita Jarvis beat Mrs. Pitt-one up with three to play." man 6-1, 7-5, and Miss Gracyn. A perfect four gave the English Wheeler (America) beat' Miss Betty girl the next-and an easy half Nuthall (Britain) 7-5, 2-6, 6-2, and won the match. Miss Lumb, (Britain) beat Mile, Florien (Yugoslavia) 6-2, 6-2.
MEN'S DOUBLES
In the Men's Doubles, Cooke and Riggs (America) beat Filby and Shaff (Britain) 6-3, 6-3, 6-2; Cejnar
and Drobny (Bohemia)
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SGT. COTTRILL
WINS ARMY BILLIARDS
MISS PAM BARTON, who beat Mrs. Marks in the final of the British women's golf cham- pionship at Portrush, N. Ire- land, seen driving off in her
semi-final match.
HOME CRICKET
SPORTS
US. BASEBALL RESULTS
NEW YORK, June 28 (Rauter) The following are the results of matches played: yesterday. In the Major League:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago
St. Louis
R. H. E.
2 7 0
5 10 0
Hack and Gleeson homered for the Cubs and Slaughter and 'Gut teridge for the Cardinals.
of
US. ANXIETY
TO KEEP OUT
OF WAR
Neutrality Bill Amendment
WASHINGTON, June
28
(Reuter) -The Government introduced Ita Neutrality Amendment Bill in the House which Representatives, Battery: Warneke and Owen. is faced with the prospect Brooklyn .............. 2 18 2 of an all-night sitting on #t. Boston
2.30 3
Introducing the measure, Mr. Game was called at the end of Bloom said that the administra- the 23rd innings owing to dark- tion did not intend to enforce
ness...
any-cast-iron-principles-and-the-
felt
THURSDAY JUNE 29, 1939. -PAGE 11
PUBLIC AUCTION. LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
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PUBLIC » AUCTION
FRIDAY, the 30th JUNE, 1939
Commencing at 5.15' p.m.
At their Sales Room No. 2, Connaught Road Central (Room No. 205, 2nd Floor)
POSTAGE STAMPS
It was the third longest game in a was open to any reasonable A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF Major League history, the longest amendments and those who being in 1920 of 26 innings by the that it fell short of an ideal were Dodgers against the Bees. ·
invited to suggest improvements. Warlike Measure
Both sides used four pitchers yesterday and the catchers were Philps and Lopez, respectively.
Philadelphia.......... 5 13 1 New York ...... 13 12 1 Mueller homered for the Phillies and Ott, Bonura and Ripple for the Glants.
Battery: Schumacher and Dan- ning.
ด 4 ก 8 10 0 McCormick hovered for
Pittsburgh. Cincinnati
Mr.
Hamilton Fish, declared that the Bill was a warlike mea- sure, which, in effect, allled the United States with Britain' at a critical period.
"You cannot sell arms and ammunition to nations with- out ultimately" getting into war." be declared.
On VIEW from THURSDAY, the 29th JUNE, 1939.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
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FRIDAY, 'the 30th JUNE, 1939
Commencing-at-2.30-p.m.-
At their Bales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road Central
For Account of the Concerned
100 Pieces Steel "T" Beams 2′5 1/4′′
-11 7/87 × 36 ft.
X
10 Pieces Steel Plate 20 ft. x 10′′
x 1/2".
Stored at North Point Open Yard of the China Provident, Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd..
Mr. Bloom retorted by read- the ing Washington's Neutrality Pro- clamation of 1793. adding that the present Bill was founded on WEATHER REPORT ed any day between 9 am, and 5
LONDON, June, 28 (Reuter-Reds. Surrey beat Lancashire at Man- Battery: Derringer and Lom-
chester, by 14, runs.
bardi..
for
·AMERICAN LEAGUE
4:
and 905 (Oldfied
- St. Louis Chicago
R. H. "E 2 4 1 11 15 0
Surrey 278 (Phillipson 61) and 240 for 9, declared (Po Jard 5 for 83)
Lancs: 199 131).
Somerset defeated Leicester "by nine wickets at Bath,
News have been received in the beat Deloford and C. M. Jones Colony that Sgt. Cottrill, Royal (Britain) 8-6, 6-3, 9-7; Edwards Engineers, who was stationed in 48 and Morton (Britain) beat Ho and Hongkong about six years ago, has Bayley. 6-3, 6-2, 2-6, 7-5.
น
可
Somerset: 223 and 89 for I. Leicester: 199 (Wellard 5" for
and 182.
#
Notts beat Kent by 13 runs at won the Army Billiards champion-Tunbridge Wells, Ho was agile and good at inter-ship at Home for the sixth time.
cepting at the net with strong smashes, while Bayley was unim pressive, apart from his strong service.
Kho Sin-kie, the Chinese player who is suffering from an injury to his back muscles.. has scratched from the doubles. Mitic and Puncec (Yugoslavia) beat. Betts and Mulliken (Britain) 6-1, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3, while Collins and Tinkler (Britain) beat Caralulis and Schmidt "Rumania) 14-12, 8-2, 3-6, 6-4.
In the final played in London. he beat his opponent by 1,800 to 1,800, scoring a highest break of
150.
HOME RACING LONDON, June 28 (Reuter)The following is the result of the July Stakes, run yesterday....
1
2
... 3
Rose of England (2 to 9) Claudius (5 to 1) Prize Foem (20 to 1) Five ran. Won by five lengths, with the same distarice separating second from third.
Notts: 222 (Watt 5 for 50) and 207 (Watt 5 for 67)
Kent: 178 and 240 90. Butler 5 for 87)
(Valentine
Oxford defeated Sussex Eastbourne by 56 runs..
Kuhel homered for the White Sox.
Battery, Lyons and Tresh. Boston Washington
Battery: Auker and Peacock, Detroit
Washington's principles and that the administration shared - Wash- ington's anxiety to keep out of
War.
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE
Month.
at Newport by an innings and 25 Thur 29
runs.
Bong
Kong Standard Time,
Height
Height,
HONGKONG. · BOTAL OBSERVATORY
10 a.m., June 28... Barometer (at sea level), 29.70 ins. Temperature, 85 F.
Humidity, 75 per cent. Wind Direction, S.W.
Wind Force (Beaufort), 3.. :
| Temperature; maximum yesterday,
89 F. Temperature; minimum last night,
81. F.
Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th
to-day, all."
Total rainfall since January 1st,
49.88 ins.
8. 11 0
From 99 June to 8 July 1839
0 8 1
HIGH WATER.
«Low Water.
0 1 2
Hong
Cleveland
5 10. 1
Kong
Battery: Feller and Hemsley,
Standard
Time
b. m.
b. m.
f.in.
07 25 167
00 18
3 2
Against an average of, 37.01 ins.
195
42
1435
13
Fri
30
.807
7 0
1 12
32
Sunset to-night, 7.11 p.m.
and Middlesex 261 (Edrich 118)
(Smith Hampshire: 93 (23) and 143.
Worcester defeated
9212
4
15 15
Sunrise to-morrow, 5.41. a.m.
Ө for Sale
08 45
71
01 58
3 3
4 p.m., June 28.
99 50
42
15 49
107
2
09 24
7.2
237
3
29 30
43
10 25
10 8
Temperature, 86 F.
Mon 3
09 50
710318-
3 6
17.00
02
Wind · Direction, BW.
declared
Thom. 4
r007
43
03 57
Worcester 286 (King 106, Ob- bons 104) and 70 for 5 (Lam- Hampshire at bert 5 for 48)
10 20
70
17 30
Wod,.,5
00 38
13.4
04.38.
10 50
8
18 10
110
Rainfall, nil.
3
Oxford: 178 (Cox 4 for 6) 324 (Wood 8 for 773
Sussex: 168 and 277, "Warwick scored a first innings
Glouces- San.. victory over Northants at Bir-ter by 5 wickets at Worcester.
Gloucester: 236 and 226 (Mar- mingham.
tin 5 for 60)
Warwick: 390 for 9. (Dollery 117) and 138 for 3.
Northants: 378." Middlesex beat
-
Barometer (at sea level), 29.62 ins,
Humidity, 75 per cent.
33 Wind Force (Beaufort),
07 Maximum temperature. 89 F.
134 Minimum temperature, 81 F
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