PAGE 2 HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1939.
In the World of Sports
TWO RECORDS BETTERED Another Win HOLDER DEFEATED IN
IN THIRD Sporting
AT COLONY AQUATIC
CHAMPIONSHIPS
» Two Colony swimming records were bettered at the Victoria Recreation Club yesterday evening when the first day's programme was completed in the Colony Swimming Championships for 1939.
Enrique F..J. Chaine led the field by more than three seconds in the 100 Yards Breast Stroke Cham- . pionship to win in 71 3/5 seconds, clipping two-fifths of a second off the mark established in 1934, by Kwok Chun-hang.
For S. China
In a match played at Batavia on Wednesday afternoon, the South China AA Football Team,` now making a tour of the South Asian Peninsula and the surrounding islands, beat a strong home team
by three goals to two, Chan Tak- fal was the main scorer "for the visitors, with two goals to his
ROUND BOWLS OPEN SINGLES
H.K. BOWLING U. M. Omar Narrowly
Beats Bradbury
ALLEYS
credit, and Yeung Shui-yiek netted Third Tourney Of
the third goal for his team.
Lee Shek-yao, who went to Malaya, but did not engage in any games, returned to Hongkong on the MM, mv. Ly
Summaries of yesterday's events wednesday
Aramis.
200
A second record fell when the Victoria Recreation Club follow-
Inter-school Free Yards team of D. Hutchison, W.
1. St. Joseph's Col- Lawrence, C. Silva-Netto and Style Relay: D. H. Taylor won the 200 lege (Fong Wah, Donald Young, Yards Free Style Relay in 1 Ronald Ho, and Kwok Hon-ming) | minute 44 3/5 seconds from:541; 2 La Salle College 1:58.4; Chung Shing Benevolent So-3. Wah Yan College 2:00.8; 4Cen-
tral British School; 5. King's Col-... "ciety
and the Chinese
lege. Y.M.C.A.
Lau Yuk-wing. of the Chinese YMCA finished ahead of Hut chinson on the Arst leg, but Wil- fred Lawrence proved too fast for
LO TAK KUEN CUP FIXTURES FOR SUNDAY
Junior 100 Yards Back-Stroke "The Lo Tak Kuen Cup League Championship of VRC.: 1. Cprogramme of matches for Sunday Nolasco de Silva 1:204; 2. C. Suva-is as follows:—
8.30 a.m.-Wing Fat Hak v. Sun Netto 1.20.8; 3. A, A. Guterres; 4. A.
(Guterres led for the Ching.
A. Azedo.
Wan
9.30 am-Tien Sing v. Sing...
10.30 am,Tai Chung v. Tsum Chà. .
Ewo League
The final of the Third Tourney of the Ewe League, between the "Champs" and the "Bowlers,” was played off on Wednesday, evening at the Hongkong Bowling Alleys |and resulted in a win for the former combination by 3,345 points
2.91.
A LARGE CROWD OF SPECTATORS was present at the Civil Service Cricket Club green yesterday afternoon to witness the third round match. "In the Open Singles of the Lawn Bowls Championship be- tween two Interporters, B. W. Bradbury, of the Crai- gengower Cricket Club and holder of the title, and U. M. Omar, his clubmate.. The match ended in a win |
Both Bradbury and Omar have for Omar by the narrow been selected to play for Hongkong margin of 21 shots to 19 on against Shanghai next month in the Northern part the former as Top scoring with 949 points, Dick the 28th head.
manager and, captain. Omar, who won Venezia, of the "Champs." con-
the singles tributed in, no small measure to championship in 1923, 1931 and his side's convincing win. Scoring 1937, and was runner-up in 1926, represented the Colony in previous honours for the opposition went led yesterday up to the 22nd head to A. W. Muenger with 801.
when Bradbury drew level at 16-16.
There was one change in the “Bowlers"" line-up. Sam Golden deputising for G. D. Woolgar, who 19 in hospital
Teams and Scores
The teams and game scores are as follows:-
Cheung Fong-yu and V.RC. rearst three lengths. gained the lead, Silva-Netta In-
Boys' 100-Yards Handicap: 1. L creasing slightly on it and Taylor viera; 2. P. Jorge; 3. F.. Noronha. swimming a very fast anchor to:
440 Yards Members' "Junior
3.30 p.m.--Hon Ying v. Ki Kung. put the issue beyond dispute. «
Chung Shing, who started poor-Championship of V.R.C.; i. L. Re-
4.30 p.m.-Tung Yee Hung v. ly, passed the Chinese YM.CA. on medios 6:39; J. Marques 7:36 2/5:
Sheung Mo.
The "Champs"; D. Venezia, Doc. the third leg when Ng Nir. swam 3. F. Souza, (Lulz Remedios easily
5.30 p.m.-Foo Lun V Hak Molthen, Gene Faggiano, C. Miller outswam the other competitors).
Keung
and P. Annis. 1st game, 649; 2nd Colony 100 Yards Breast Stroke
On Wednesday. Yuet Sing de-1752; 3rd 653; 4th 838; 5th :853. 1. Enrique F. Jfeated Kwok Man by one goal to Total 3345. Championship: Chaine 71, 3/5 seconds (a new co- all.
magnificently to make up on sever- al yards in arrears and lead Chan Kam-pui. On the anchor leg. Chan Kal-chung held the lead for Chung Shing to finish second.
LAWRENCE WINS EASILY There were only two.starters for the Colony 220 Yards Free Style Championship. Wilfred Lawrence winning easily, after. Chan Chun- .nam seemed in the early stages of the race to be ready for a keen struggle. Chan turned well and seemed to gain on Lawrence » in
this way. Lawrence finished in 2 minutes 31 3/5 seconds to win by 4 2/5 seconds.
Beside the club Junior cham- plonships and the inter-school re- lay. won easily by St. Joseph's College, there was a fine exhibi- tion of diving by the Colony cham- pion, L. Roza-Pereira, and a very amusing special event, an "ex- hibition" of "Deep Sea Fishing" by "Insane Gray."
U.S. BASEBALL
RESULTS
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-The following games in the Major Baseball League were played
yesterday:—
NATIONAL LEAGUE
..Philadelphia
R. 住 E.
2 6 0 Boston
'9 11 0 Majeski homered for the Braves, Battery. Posedel and.. Lopez, Philadelphia 3 10. 0 Boston
2 10 0
Battery-Mulcahy and Milliès,' St. Louis
8 3 3 a I Moore homered twice for the
Pittsburgh
lony record): 2. Fong Chung-yin
The League is organized by the 75 secs., 3. Lo Kut-sing. Ho Pun-China Amateur Miniature Football, and Kung Sau-shek also Federation (Hongkong Branch).
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swar
Ladies' 50 Yards Back-Stroke Championship: 1. Sal Wing-ying 35 seconds (a new Colony re- 38 seconds. 2. Elleen Grant 43 sec. cord); 2. Chung Shing Benevolent 3. Clara S. C. Young. 4. Vera Car-Society (So Tin-mc, Ng Chun-man. valho.
Ng Nin, and Chan Kat-chung); 3. Colony Open Free-style Relay: 1. Chinese YMCA, (Lau Yuk-wing, Victoria Recreation Club (D. Hut-Cheung Fong-yu, Chan Kam-pul, chinson, W Lawrence, C. Sliva and Chan Wing-kai): 4 Hongkong Netto. D. H. Taylor) 1 minute 44 University.
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Fine action photo of Miss Sangu an, Thailand tennis player, who, In partnership with Sanoh, beat Mrs. Andrewes and W. Sander 6-0, 6-3 in the mixed doubles match in the Interport encous-
ter on Tuesday.
New Japan Swim Record
"TWO-GEARED
HEART
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Fell Obata, of the Hamamatsu EXPERIMENTS ON
A.G.K. BROWN
Battery-Bowman and Padgett. first middle school, set a new na-
Cardinals.
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
..... 3 9
0 "3 Battery-McGee and Oven,
New York
Brooklyn
7 11 3 11 Costarart homered for Dodgers.
1tional record in the 400-metre
2 breast-stroke event by covering the A leading British runner has a course in six minutes, 125 seconds two-geared" heart. He is A. G. K.
0 during elimination races in the Brown, the Cambridge University 1 Eastern Japan middle school athlete.
the swimming contest at the Meill Experiments on Brown by Sir
Battery-Melton and Danning.
2.5
Chicago
Cincinnati
Shrine grounds.
The "Bowlers": A. W. Muenger,
Guttinger, S. Golden and R.
Tidd.
1st game, 588; 2nd 571; 3rd 563; 4th 571; 5th 598. Total 2891.
LAWN BOWLS
TEAM
The following players will re- present H.F.C. in their home ax- ture against Hongkong Football Club to-morrow:
Second Division v. HEF.C.-C. File, B. Thomson, J. Gibson, W. Field (skip).
W. Graves.
Younghusband.
(skip)..
A. Eastman, P.
T. Fergusson
B. Evans, W. Simpson, V. Atlen-
za, V. Chittenden (skip).
CEYLON CRICKETERS IN ENGLAND
At Addiscombe recently, R. V. Thornhill, son of the former C.C.C. and Pollee cricketer Hayman Thornhill playing for Right-han- ders vs. Left-handers scored 90. Thomhil is one of the best club cricketer in London and has played for young Surrey Amateurs and Surrey II. He was born in Ceylon;
D. E. Kennedy, the 'Up-country cricketer, who is on holiday in England turned out for the Stragglers of Asia against 171 RASC. team at Aldershot The latter won by 3 wickets scoiing 289 for against 285. Kennedy was out before he could store, but bowled well to take five of his op ponents' wickets.
G. R. de Soysa, playing again for the National Liberal Club against the Wanderers in a drawn game scored 20 runs and took two wickets one being that of Q. P. Parker who scored 105.
Adolphe Abrahams, Dean of West-
C. E Allen played for Sussex The previous record holder was minster Hospital Medical School, Club and ground against Ibis who Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, who covered and a brother of H. M. Abrahams, were on tour in Bussex and with J. 1 8 0 the course in six minutes, 24.4 the athlete, are described by him | Cornford 6 for 21 was instrumental Golden homered for the Cabs. seconds at the Tamagawa pool in in a paper published in "The Lan-in dismissing the tourists for only Battery-Passeque and Hart October, 1928.
·cet"
53, his bag being: 4 for 27.
nett.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R.
E.
0. 4
Q
BROAD JUMPER INJURED
Washington
New York......
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4 .8 2 DiMaggio and Rolfe homered for the Yankees,
Battery-Russo and Dickey. Cleveland
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As a rule, says Sir Adolphe, de- celeration of the heart's beat be- gins within 10 to 15 seconds of the cessation of exercise and continues regularly, with a return Holder of the Australian Broad to the resting rate within Jump record and one of Australla's, seconds,
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SAILING CONTEST
representatives at the last Olympic "But in a few outstanding: ex- The N. 8. W. 18-Footer Sailing Games, Basil Dickinson, is nursing amples, of whom the leading Bri-League and the Queensland 18 a bioken shin bone,
tish runner of the present day is Footer Club have endorsed the
the
Bt. Louis ✪
Heath homered for the Indians. Playing for St. George Rugby ope,” he adds, "the acceleration finding of the Australian Board of Battery-Harder and Hemaley.
Union Football Club reserves of heart action persists for ap- Control in awarding the world's Detroit
....... 6 11 6 Dickinson took the ball high in the proximately half a minute and 18-footer championship to Chicago
7 13 1 air but fell as he came down to suddenly yields to the resting rate. New Zealand Boát, Manzu. Twelve innings, York and Geaò- the ground, Hia leg twisted awk- "I seems as if the circulatory There was a dispute over the inger. homered for the Tigers. wardly, under him and he was system worka on two gears, so to result of the world championship
Battery-Erown and Tresh. taken to hospital where it was speak. There must be some click when it was recently salled Cleveland... 7 14 found that his shin bone was ing over of a nervous regulatory New Zealand, an St. Louis
1... 4 0 broken.
mechanism, but I cannot and a New Zealand will defend the Laabs homered for the Browns; Doctors, however, have advised, satisfactory physiological explang- title on Auckland Harbour during Battery, Milner and Hemsley. Dickinson that the break should, tion
the Centenary celebrations," early
not interfere with his athletic - Sydney Wooderon, the British 12 19407 It was decided at yesterday's carter, provided he takes things international runner, has Dever New South Wales and Queens- HK Hockey Association Council easily for the next three months. been tested in the same way "1 land expect to be represented In meeting that the annual general He still hopes to be chosen in have no idea how my heart works the three races It is probable that "he said to Bouth Afries "America and Eng- meeting of the Association will be next year's Australian Olympic at all after a race. held on Thursday, September 7.
a reporter
land also will hominate boats,
team.
On the next head. Bradbury gained a single and the scores, were again. level at 19-19 on the" 27th head, Omar then scored two to win the match after a very keen struggle.
Bradbury and Omar have both
Interport encounters.
Bradbury was runner-up to. R. Duncan in the Open Singles in 1935 and last year defeated J. A. Luz in the final.
GRIMMITT BEATEN
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Fixtures
TO-DAY
SWIMMING.-Colony
Champion-
ship, Boys' 100 yards free-style: men's 100 yards free-style;" wo- men's 200 yards open relay; 880 yards free-style; open 150 yards medley relay.
TO-MORROW
LAWN BOWLS.--First Division: Police v. Craigengewer; 'K.B G.C. 1: KC.G.; LR.C. Kow." loon Books: C.S.Č.E. V. Recreio *A*; Segond Division: CS.C.C.
V.
v. Taikoo Kowloon Tong Y Craigengower; Kowloon F.C. Y
K.BG.C.7. Hongkong. F.Q.; Police: Third Division; Yacht C. v. FK.F.C. HK. Electric v. K.B Recreio; Craigengower v. G.G.; Prison Officers v. K.C.C.
Lawn Bowls Open Singles cham- pionship, the match being played at Kowloon Football Club.
Also at the KFC, G. Ferkins beat G. Poat 31-14-in another ..third round match, and at the · A M. Omar best A. W. Grimmitt Kowloon Cricket Glub W. Gill beat. 21-15 in the third round of the|J. C. Remedios.
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