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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1932.
1932 CRICKET IN ITS LAST THROES
VERITY'S 5-59
CENTURY BY AMES AGAINST INDIANS
VISITORS BEATEN BY INNINGS
London, Sept. 6. THE English cricket season of 1932 is rapidly drawing to a close, the concluding representa- tive matches having started.
AL Scarborough, Leveson- Gower's team drew with an Australian eleven, after having the best of the argument. Verity bowled well for the Australia tourists, capturing 5 for 59. whilst Bowes responded offee- tively for Leveson-Gower's team by taking 4 for 56. Leveson-Gower's
Australian
combination
complied 209 in their first venture and applied the declaration in the return visit after scoring 12 for 3.
The
eleven were firstly dismissed for 185 and in the dal innings of the match lost four" wickets for a paltry 90 runs,
POOR INDIAN BATTING.
Leslie Ames, playing for an Eng- land eleven against All India, scored 105 not out, the English for G team putting together 282 declared.
All India gave a sorry account of themselves at the crease, being sent back in the first visit for 165. and, following on, a menyre 77 at the second attempt.-Renter
Boxing Prospects
in Britain Better
HEAVYWEIGHT
THE SPEY RECREIO WIN
ROYAL CUP
THE Club de Recreio won the Spey Royal Cup when they beat Kowloon Docks in the final at Taikoo R.C., THE
on Saturday lant. This composite photograph shows two typical hoads, with clusters of woods is close
attendance on the jack.
ROBERT KELLY
LEAVES
HUDDERSFIELD
JOINS PRESTON
N. E.
Q.P.R. CAPTURE
Robert Kelly, the England Huddersfield inside-right, been transferred to Preston North
Rnd.
EVOLUTION OF BOWLS
CHARLES II INVENTED "ONE FOOT ON MAT"
Charles I. frequently played at Barking Hali, where he last £1,000 in one game against Richard Shute, a Turkey merchant. who possessed a private green. Charles played much during his captivity at Carisbrooke, at Holmby House,
SPORT ADVTS.
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Ninth Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 17th September, 1932, (weather permitting) may be obtained at the Secretary's Office, the Club House, Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Club, the Sports Club, and the Stables, Village Road.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOUN on THURSDAY, 8th Septem- ber, 1932.
By Order,
S. A. SLEAP,
Act. Secrstary.
HONGKONG RIDING SCHOOL.
TEL. 58754.
MA TAU KOK RD... KOWLOON. Our Riding Masters have com- menced tuition at our new track.
BUSES 3 AND 4 STOP AT FRONT GATE OF SCHOOL.
Capt. N. A, ROTDESTVIN,
Manager.
"It is the best discovery of
A FORBIDDEN GAME in Northamptonshire, at Harrow-humours, especially in the losers, dun. and at Althorp. He was where you may observe fine variety fret, actually playing a game at Allhorp of impatience, whilst some
and cavel at every- "You have not for a consider when Cornel Joyce came to remove rail, swear
thing, others rejoice and laugh, able time." writes a reader, "given him to custody. Jus anything about the traditions Men played for estates, as well as if that was the sole design of and of the game," By which, I take as high stukes, in those days. Sir their creation."
Cotton plagiarised one, bright Hungerford losing his has it, he would like something new Edward
ides from Earle, "To give you concerning its evolution.
home with the cry, "Here goes
he threw his last the moral of the game," he ex- How old is bowls? Was it play-Rowdon," as ed first with bronze, iron or stone cast at a jack he could not possibly plained, "It is the emblem of the world, or the world's Ambition. bowls? No one can enlighten us, reach.
where most are short, wide, or A manuscript in the Royal I possess a copy of a set of rules Library at Windsor makes it clear of the game, 20 in number, com- rong biased, and some few jostle ve recently discovered that thirteenth century, writes "The James Duke of York and George thin sun was played in the piled in 1670 by King Charles II. into Mistress Fortune."
the London area is that on the Skip" in the News Chronicle. A Duke of Buckingham. Many of one of the oldest bowls greens in drawing shows two players bowl the Royal players' terms and premises of the Sun Inn, Barnes, ing Rt ፡ small cone. Another expressions are used on the green Local records take its history back manuscript of the same century to-day. Rule 13 declares that one to the fifteenth century. In the a jack being used. One foot must remain on the mat. It fourteenth century, all the games shows player is following up his bowl is not three years since the English of the village of Berne, as it then and screwing his body in much the Association agreed to make that
was called, were played on day act an
imperative one. These
green pear. the pond, but when Royal rules also use the word "lic" cattle keeping in the village - were when referring to a drawn shot. creased and the fretful store bul- being Rule 20 advises the players to locks and first quality beeves of inter keep your temper, and remember that period commenced to lear up that he who plays at bowls must the turf the local blacksmith por- take the rubs."
suaded his fellow tradesmen to lay
Joining Burnley in 1913, when Lonly 19 years of are, Kolly gained international caps whilst with that club, and another after ing to Hudderfield in 1927, IRISH
Prior to that year, Kelly spent HAS TERRIFIC PUNCH two seasons with Sunderland, to whom he was transferred by Barn- London, Aug. 30. The prospects of British boxing fley at a fee of £6,550.
jenthusiasts. are definitely looking up. There With Burnley, Kelly played in
Many Acts of Parliament is more hopeful talent on
all the forward positions, but dur-passed to prevent the game horizon than for a long time.
The new Liverpool Stadium,ng the last few songong he has played, mainly because it nearly finished, is going to be an appeared mostly either at inside-tered with archery. important ventre for staging big
fights.
It will accommodate 15, right or outside-right, add spartiers,
the
There is likely talk of a similar amphitheatre being provided in
Londen. To-day the biggest city in the world has to rely upon
Fall renting the Albert
or
Olympia for oerasional big lights,
ROOM FOR STADIUM.
evi- Liverpool's experience is dence that here is room in Lon- don for a stadium accommodating 20,000
Torquay
have
TORQUAY RECRUIT.
Hired Percy Muggs the Blackpool goalkeeper
Discovered by Aston Villa when
same
manner
38
present
By an Act of 1541, which was not repealed until 1845, artificers, labourers, apprentices and servants! were forbidden to play at bowls' Christmas and any time save then only their Master's house
EMBLEM OF THE WORLD.
Many bitter books and pamphlets
against the were written
Ja private green at the back of the
Sun lou.
There on successive May Days game. in the fifteenth century were de- and presence. Anyone playing the Bishop. Earle, in what he called the cided matches between playere over "Micro-cosmographie" (1628): 70 years and those under 20. The consumed. good honest game outside of his own garden Charles Catton, in his "Complent ancients
and the playing is Somerset amateur foot, or orchard, was liable to a penalty Gamester"; Randle Holme, in his beer during the game,
of 68. Sd. hat those people pos-Academy of Armory" (1683) all juniors drank small beer. ball, he stayed with the Milandssessed of land of the yearly value decried bowls.
At the Sun Inn to-day some of of £100 might obtain a lience to
"Never did Mimmicke screw his 'the bowls used are from seven to clubs three years,
piny on their private greens.
body into half the forms that these twelve bias, which means that on
to the says Cotton, who their journey men do theirs,
jack they Queen's
twitted bowlers upon their loud describe almost a full circle in senseless crying after their flight across the top of the lying and their running bowls,
i
Park Rangers have
KING HAL BREAKS THE LAW. spectators. But match serured the transfer of J. Hi,
Henry VIII, however, himself makers must realize that the gen- an inside forward from Barnsley broke the laws by having a bowl eral public are shrewd judres efte is Kft. Sin, and weighs 11st. ne alley constructed at Whitehall the merits of the men they bill.
Place, and he belted heavily upon First-class boxers have been de This is the eighth new mm|his skill as a player.
intro- veloped from the Merseyside. Nel
Biased bowls were first duced in the sixteenth century. Tarleton is the reigning feather-signed on by the Rangers during
The others are:Pieces of Iron and lead were skil weight Champion and an idol with the close season. the sportstern of this shipping
Beecham Fulham), goal: Ash- fully inserted into the woods to make eive them weight and to (Middlesbrough). back: They now want to see a contest man between Tarleton and Johnny Jobson (Slot:kjørt County) and them "pull" over the green.
Bowls found considerable favour McMillan, the Scots champion. Barrie (West Ham), half-backs; with the Stuarts. James I.
Marcroft Gliddlesbrough),commended it to his son Henry, Charles J. wagered high America where he did finely. His
stakes, an example followed by knock out victory in seven rounds Brown (Sheffield Wednesday) and na over Dom Volante was astonish Gaston (Newcastle United) for athers, which brought the game
into disrepute.
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champion looked the part of a
and hoped he would fulfil the pro- Imise.
He might be called a one-round fighter. Few contestants have lived to the second. At present he is not a very good boxer. He has a lot to learn. But he pas Besses a tremendous punch in both hands. He hits harder than any present day fighter before the public.
SERIOUS CONTENDER.
When Doyle has gained more experience he should be a serious contender among the world's best heavyweights.
Doyle knows how to punch his weight. Primo Carmera does not. The Italian's punch is a misnomer. The young Irishman is inconse- quence a far bolter proposition. than the Itailan for future hon- Qura.
Doyle is going to bo in the lime- light during the next few months. Already more than one well- known sportsman has offered n big four-figure choque to ebaro an
and
wards.
ANOTHER BATSMAN'S NIGHTMARE
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