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$4 BILLION SPENT ON FINAL TEST
SPORT
YEARLY EXPENDITURE IN U.S.:
ANGLING TOPS LIST
America's" caddy bill is more than its payroll for professors. It is $70,000,000—exclusive of tips There are 3.500.000 golfers" in the U.S. They spend $50,000,000 a year on the game, or an aver age cost to the group of $140. Americans spend $4,000,000,000 ́a year on sports.
Angling tops the list with
Other sports bills in order are". Firearms (huriting)$650,000,000. Motor boating-$600,000,000
$1,200,000,000.
interesting and unusual Informa- tion about each,
Softball
Other Menke data:
MATCH AT
THE OVAL
SPLENDID DEBUT
BY OLDFIELD LONDON, Aug. 19 (Reuter)-AL the close of play on the first day
SPORTS
STIR IN AQUATIC CIRCLES
EMPIRE CHAMPION SUSPENDED
of the final Test match at thể Oval A stir has been caused in Aüs- to-day, West Indies had scored 77 | tralian swimising circles by the for the loss of one wicket, R. 8. suspension of Miss Dorothy Grant, in reply to England's" total of 352. Oldfeld, in his Test de- but, was flawless, scoring 80 while Hardstaff took 121 minutes in hit- ting up 94.
At tea, England had 284 for 5. Constantine was the most suc- cessful bowler capturing five wickets including those of Walter Hammond and Hardsta) fór 75.
Green, 440 yards Empire Games champion, for 13 months' by the Board of Control of the Western Australia Amateur Swimming Association.
Action followed a report that she had failed to carry out orders while on tour with the State taam Last February.
Miss Green's suspension will render her ineligible for selection. In the Australian
the team for Olympic Games in Finland in July and August next year.
Golf-$500,000,000, Bowling-$450,000,000
Softball outdraws baseball and Skiing $150,000,000
basketball outdraws them both." Attendance group-$260,000,000. There were 90,000,000, paid, admis- (This includes admission fee and stons
basketball last year. to sil normal costs for attending all Softball drew 32,000,000 and base forms of athletic contests.)
ball 60,000,000. Football attracted Miscellaneous-$190,000,000. (This 45,000,000 and boxing 22,500,000,
BRIGHT WEATHER includes cost of equipment and ex-Tennis drew only 600,000.
The weather was bright and penses involved in such sports as Biggest single day's attendances.
sunny prior to the start, and a billiards, tennis, table tennis, row-Auto racing. 165,000 at Indiana-crowd of 6,000 was present when lag. *.court tennis, racquets, polts on Decoration Day. 1938. Hammond won the toss and elected squash, handball, fencing, etc.) Baseball. 84,555 at Yankee to bat.
There are a few items gleaned Stadium, New York vs. Boston. De- The West Indies have introduced from the recently published Encycoration Day. 1938. Basketball, Victor Stollmeyer in place of Bar- clopedia of Sports by Frank 0.23.000 at Pelping. China, touma- row, the wicket-keeper, and Sealey Menke. In the book's more-than- I ment វង 1931. Boxing, 120,757, is again behind the sticks. The 300 pages, Menke gives the history Dempsey - Tunney, Philadelphia, England XI is unchanged.
Miss Green was 'a member of the of almost every sport together with September 23, 1926. Com husking. Denis Compton arrived at the Western Australian team which 130,000, 1935 championship, New-ground late after being caught | took- part in the Australian ton, Ind. Football, 112.912. at exceeding the speed limit in a Championships in Melbourne and Soldier Field, Chicago, "Notre special àrea in North London. Hobart last February. She did not Dame-Southern California Novem-
Keeton, the young Notts player, perform very well, losing her 440 opened, with Hutton, but was un-yards Australian' title to Myee fortunate to play his first ball from Jchnson hard on to his wicket.
HOME SOCCER RESULTS
JUBILEE FUND MATCHES
LONDON, Aug. 19 (Reuter)
ber 16. 1929. Horse racing, 100,000, last year's Kentucky Derby.
Field hockey is the sire of all ball-and-stick games...
Next to field hockey, lawn bowl- ing is the oldest game.
Dogs, Wolfhounds
There are 104 breeds of dogs, all The following are the results of belonging to one of the six major groups: Greyhounds. wolfhounds,
football matches played to-day:-hounds, spaniels, terriers and mas-
JUBILEE FUND CHARITY
Notts County 1 Notts Forest
Cardif
1 Swansea
Chesterfield
- 1 Barnsley
1
Ipswich
2 Norwich
1
Newcastle
3 Gateshead
0
1
Shef, Wed,
2 Shef, United
4
4 Oldham
$
2 Lutign
1
West Ham
3 Fulham
3
Aldershot
3 Reading
3
Brighton
Stockport
Watford
3 Crystal Palace 3!
Bristol Rovers 4 Bristol City.. 0 Qn's P. Rgrs. 3 Northampton
Southend
Swindon
Torquay
Wallsall
Aston Villa
Blackpool
Bolton
Bournemouth 1
2
· 1
C'tan Orient
1
2 Newport
1
5 Mansfield
1
West Brom.
1
◊ Preston
1
2. Bury
1
Brentford
1 Chelsea
Charlton
1 Millwall
Coventry
3 Birmingham
Derby
4 Leicester
Grimsby Liverpool
3 Lincoln.
2 Everton
1 Manch, City
1
3 Sunderland
3
3
2 Wolves
4
1
2 Port Vale
6 Darlington
1
2 Tradmere
"1
1
Manch, U.
Middlesbro' Southampton Stoke Tottenham Accrington Crewe
Hartlepools N. Brighton Rochdale. Rotherham
Wrexham Yorks
1
Portsmouth
0 Arsenal
& Southport
3 Halifax
3 Doncaster
2 Chester 2 Hull City
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
Arbroath
Ayr Celtic
Falkirk
FIRST DIVISION
Hibernian Motherwell
Partick
S Hamilton
0 Alloa
2 Rangers
7 Hearts
3 Cowdenbeath
3 Clyde
2 Aberdeen
St. Johnstone 3 Albion
Mirren
3rd Lanark
-Airdrie
2 Kilmarnock
2 Queen O'S,
SECOND DIVISION
Dumbarton Dundee U.
-2--- Dundee
3 East Fife
4 Sten'muir
Dunfermline » 3 Queen's Pk
King's Park
Montrose
Morton
Raith
St. Bernards
3 Leith
2 Edinburgh
3 East Stirling
2 Brechin
é Ferfar
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
First Division
tims.
Handball was invented by the Irish in the 10th century,
One billion dollars is bet an- nually on horse races in the US. and $100.000.000 is deducted in breakage and state and track fees, at mutuel. tracks.
punch travels 127 Joe Louls'
miles an hour. Jack Dempsey's had a speed of 135 m.p.h.
Hai-alal was invented in the
16th century by the Basques,
A combination of running and hurling was man's first competitive sport. Throwing was second and wrestling was third.
And baseball is all wrong" cele- brating its Centennial this year. For, Menke says, (1) baseball was played long before 1839; (2) t played in probably never Cooperstown, N. Y., that year; and (3) Abner Doubleday neither created the game's rules nor laid out the first diamond.
was
ARMY BEATEN
BY R.A.F.
KEEN FINISH TO
SERVICES GAME
LONDON, July 2
The Royal
1 Air Force beat the Army by six
3 wickets at Uxbridge yesterday after
2 one of the most exciting finishes in the history of the series of In- ter-Services cricket matches. The match was to be played at Halton, but after less than two overz
2 Monday a torrential downpour put
2
an end to cricket for the day su
4 far as Halton was concerned.
0
|
|
Oldfield, the youthful Lancas- trian who is making his Test debut. Joined "Hutton and proceeded to score faster than his more famous partner, having scored 9 agairist Hutton's 8 in the first 18 runs.
VÁRIETY, OF. STROKES
The pair, using a variety of "strokes, sent up the 100. in 90 minutes and soon after Button completed als 50, scored in go minutes. Oldfield reached his 50 after 95 minutes.
At 133, bowever, Hutton was de- celved by variation of pace and was caught and bowled by Johnson for a chanceless 73 which includ- ed 8 boundaries. The partnership added 131 in 110 minutes.
Shortly after lunch was taken with the score at 137 for 2, Oldfield being 62 and Hammond 0.
A crowd of 13,000 was present after lunch and the batting con- tinued to be attractive. At 168, however, Oldfeld, who appeared all set for a debut Test century, was
clean bowled by Constantine for 80. scored out of 186. He had batted flawlessly, and fine cutting and shots to leg brought him eight boundaries.
ENGLAND—1ST INNS. Hutton, c ́and b Johnson Keeton, b Johnson... Oldfield, b Constantine
W. R. Hammond, e Grant, b
Constantine..
Compton, c Gomez, b Martin-
dale
"I am amazed at the decision. They might as well put me out for life," said Miss Green in .an interview. She denied having falled. to train properly for the Interstate trip.
Steele (N. S. W.). Miss Green finished third. 11 yards behind the winner.
CANADIAN OPEN GOLF TITLE
ST. JOHN (New Brunswick), Aug 20 (Reuter-The winner of the Canadian Open Golf Champion- stip was Harold McSpader, of Winchester, Massachusetts,
with
an aggregate score of 282, madë up of 67, 89, 73 and 73. Ralph Guldahl, former American Open Champion, was second with 287.
The holder was indisposed and 'did not take part.
BASEBALL
Continued from. Page 2 was caught trying to score "on Chung's grounder but the batter
was safe. Chinn was given a life when Badzick bobbled an easy roller and George Wu walked..
With the bags loaded, Chaney Chan fled to Kelinger for the third out. The alors were unable 73 to score again in face of the fine defence of the Chinese, but the 80 latter took the lead with two tailles walked and in the arth. Choy 43 Chung singled.
21
Hardstan, 6 Constantine Nichols, run out
94
"Babe" Chian went down sw'rig- ing at the bad ones. Hong gling. pinch-hitting for Wu, slashed a
24
bingle to right to drive in Choy
Wood, b Constantine ........
0
and Chung Chan led to Todd
Wright, 1.b.w. Constantine
6
and Li to Badrick ending the
0
frame,
1
10
Goddard, b Clarke
Perks, not out
Exxtras
Total
BOWLING ANALYSIS
on
Martindale Johnson Constantine Clarke Grant
Only one solution was avaliable,
1 which was to transfer the match
to Uxbridge, which has escaped
the worst effects of
Monday's
LEAD INCREASED
The winners increased their, lead 352 with another tally in the sixth. Lum walked and pilfered, second and third. Ching fanned for the first time this season, but Tommy Chan batted Lum it with a redhot drive through the box, Choy filled to Chase who whipped the pellet to Douglas for a neat double kill- Ing.
O. M. R. W. 13
81.1
16 1 53 2 17.3 2 '75 5 21 0 25 & 0 31
WEST INDIES—1ST INN§. Grant, c Goddard, b Perks"
1 rain-storm Chey commenced at Jeff Stollmeyer, not out
Uxbridge" at 3.40 and by 6.30 the Headley, not out
2 Army had compiled a total of 175
for seven to which Captain LT. Grove contributed a faultless and
4 valuable 83 not out.
3
There appeared little prospect
2 at this juncture of the match be-
3 ing completed, but Captain R. G. 1 W. Melsome declared at the
over-
2 night total and the Royal Air 0 Force replied with 178, Flight Lieu- 0 tenant, R. G. Muasori being respon 2sible for 80 ht this total before being caught in an endeavour to force the pace,
In the Army's second innings E
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. J. Unwin scored freely in making
2 2 0 0 13 54174 runs out of a total of 149 for
2 2 0 0 3 1 4 seven, to which C. Cokayne Frith
added a valuable 43 runs.
Falkirk Rangers" Motherwell
2 1 1 0 6 3 3
2 1 1 0 4 2 3
Hamilton Partick
Queen of S Albion
Arbroath
Alloa Celtic
Hibernian
2 1.1.03 2 3
Second Declaration
At 5.15 Captain Melsome, de-
2 1 0 4 3 3 (clared a second time, and left 2016 2 2 the Royal Air Force what appear 21 016 4 2 ed to be an outside chance of
1.
0
6
Mindanao
14
豐
Euns.
Total (for one wkt.)... 27
CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES
LONDON, Aug. 19 (Reuter)—– Close of play scores in cricket matches started, to-day are 3.5 follows:
THE SCORES
Hits Chinese B.C. Runs Hits
1 2 3 4 5 € *
5 1.0 0 0 0 0 6
5 2 2 0 0 0 1-10
2 0 4 -0.2 1 I-9 1-102 1 x 7
PRACTICE SESSION
In preparation for the forth- coming International Series, China and Britain held à practice session. In order to try out their represen- tatives. Neither squad was at full Derby 319 (George Pope 121) v; Notts 15 for, at rikeston
strength and, in consequence, the teamwork displayed left much to Northants 305 for 6 v. Glamorgan be desired. Dave Leonard and Gloucester 214. (Bims 7 for 109) battery and did very well to hold at Cardiff,
Pinky Higgins formed Britain's v. Middlesex 195 for 7 at Cheiten- China to 7 hits
ham
Bomerset 381 for 5 (Fishlock 91) v. Hants at Bournemouth.
for 70) v. Lancs at Manchester. Kent 215 (Ames 108, Phillipson
Worcester 372 v. Bussex 25 for 0 at Eastbourne.
"Burrey 336 v Warwick at Bir
2 0 1 55 2 making 149 runs in an hour and mingham.
2 10 13 3 210 miutes. This proved to be a Estex 336 for 8. Yorks at
210 14 4 2 sporting
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CHINESE, DISAPPOINT....
The Belding of the British squad was very poor. a total of tem mis- Cues being committed to allow the Chinese players totally elever, Hank Chang and Wally Ching formed the Chinese- battery and conceded the losers sight safeties.
Britain commented strongly tallying five in the first frame.
losers, and Bling to Chan to Ching The winners replied with the same The Chinese were again dis- for, the Chinese." mumber of markers in the second appointing and Tommy Chan and thereafter always held a com-made three miscues at short. Bill first ball received for 4 and pro- unexpected, victory to which the fortable lead.. Shaw garnered two Bling was the only batter to im-China ceeded to score 92 runs in an hour Army had generously contributed safeties with his cricket strokes press, chalking up a pair of bingles, out of a total of 149 required for in their endeavour to arrive at all and will probably gain a place on Wally Ching fanned twice to bring Runs victory.
costs at a conclusion. A grand | Britain's team for his hitting his total for the day to three Hits The winning hit was struck at game in which the fielding on Daye and Terry Leonard both strikeouts
Britain 25 minutes past six, and gave the both sides was a credit to Interconnected for triple baggers to the Two double plays were pulled, Runs Royal Air Force & deserved, but Services cricket.
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