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The Kiss That
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Their love was a call to arms-for them, It was a chal lenge to fight for their dads-until these irrepressible youngsters made them the Best of Enemies
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BEST OF
ENEMIES
with
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ON THE STAGE
THE SENSATIONAL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. : TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1933,
MACKEY TWINS
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AT THE KING'S RESTAURANT
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"DON'T GIVE UP. THE SIP
FREE BEER
VINES-GLEDHILL
IN U.S. NATIONAL DOUBLES
BY SHIELDS & PARKER
REMARKABLE 5 SETS MATCH
WINNERS TWO SETS DOWN
Brookline, Aug. 28... Frank Shields and Frankie Parker, the youthful Ameri- can prodigy, will contest · Turnbull and Quist, the Aus-
VINES AND GLEDHILL,
AGAIN BEATEN
BOWLS SEMI- FINAL
A HYDE-LAY V COATES
TODAY'S BIG MATCH
The first of the two semi-final tles in the Open Lawn Bowls of the Singles Championship Colony takes place this afternoon, when A. Hyde-Lay, the K.C.C. re- presentative meets A, E, Contes of the Craigengower.
Hyde-Lay, in view of his splendid performance in eliminating A. W. Grimmitt in the previous round will start alight favourite.
The match-is-being-played on the Police Green and should pro- the vide one of the best tles in tournament to date.
tralians, in the final of the ARMY SWIMMING
American National doubles
tennis championship.
To-day Shields and Parker provided a sensation equal to that of Turnbull and Quist at Wimbledon, when the American pair beat Keith Gledhill and Ellsworth Vines in the semi- final round in a five set match.
Shield and Parker won by
3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. The match was featured by an amazing recovery on the part of the winners. Gledhill and Vines, strongly fancied for the cham-1 plonship, had the match practical ly in their pockets. They were leading by two sets and then just wilted before their compatriots" attack.
ONE PAIR IN IT. Keeping their mistakes to the minimum, Shields and Parker adopted a line of attack which brooked no opposition, and their dazzling net play swept Vines and Gledhill off the court.
Once the winners-had captured the third set there was only one pair in it, and they went on to secure the remaining sets for the mutch dropping only five games on the way,
INTERESTING
AMERICA LOSE
ROTARY TENNIS TOURNEY
CHINA WINS BY FIVE MATCHES China outclassed America completely in the semi-final round of the Shanghai Rot- ary Cup international tennis tournament by winning five straight matches as the result of four days' play. In the last match C. C. (Guy) Cheng
· trimmed Maxoy Smith on the C.T.C. court in three straight sels, the scorer-being-7-5, 7-5 and 6-0.
SPORTS Squires in
COMPETITION
AMONG SHAN GHAI FORCES
At the Shanghai Rowing Club pool last week the local British Forces had an Area Swimming Meeting which included competition between teams from the 93rd Highlanders, East Lancashire Regiment and the Small Units and the final result showed the first named winners with 62, to the East Lancs' 32 and the Small Units 30. Several good times were put up and some interesting diving was seen for a special trophy, the Highlanders scoring 279 to the East Lancs' 277 and the Small Units' 247.
L/C. Filden recorded very good| time for, the 100 yards Breast stroke, covering the three laps of the pool in 84.4/5 seconds, and revealing that he is of champion- ship class as the local champion- ship record is only 80-1/6 seconds,
Pie McPhee proved very suc cessful in the straight swimming events winning the two laps in 41 seconds while he also took the 100 yards in 70 seconds. Cpl. Kildne won the 200 yards free style in 2 This provides additional interest minutes 44 seconds which is fair to..the final. At Wimbledon (time though not in line with that Turnbull and Quist served up one put up by the local stars.
of the biggest sensations of, the meeting by overcoming Gledhill and Vines, and now Shield and Parker have been the second pair to accomplish this in the course of two successive national cham- pionships-Reuter,
MAMAK HOCKEY
Important Meeting
To-Morrow
A general meeting of the Mamak Tournament will be held in St.. Andrew's Church Hall to-morrow evening at 5.30 to consider amend- ments to rules as proposed by the Hongkong Hockey Association, and to elect an executive mittee and match secretarles for the coming season.
com-
ST. LEGER CALL-OVER.
found
London, Aug. 28. The call-over prices for the St. Leger, whilch is to be run at Don- on September 13: castor Hyperion favoured
6/2,Hyperion (o.) 11/4 (t.) 7/1 Scarlet Tiger (o.) 15/2 (t)
- 8/1 Thor (0)
100/7 Raymond (o.) 100/6 (t) · 100/0 Pelleitation (o.)
20/1 Foxbridge (0)
20/1 King Salmon (o.) 22/1 (t.) 22/1 Harineri (t. and o.)
25/1 Sanapeine (0)
25/1 Young Lover (o.) 25/1 Light Sussex (0) 60/1 Solfatara (t, and o,)
-Reuter,
The following were the results:
266 23 YARD RELAY. 1.-Argyll and Sutherland
Highlandera.-
2.-East Lanenshire Regi. 3.-Small Unita.. .Time: 3 minutes, 4'seconds.
100 YARDS BREAST STROKE 1.-L/c. Filden (EL). 2.-Cpl. Coleman (A. & S.). 3.-Pte. Douglas (E.L.). 4. Dr. Dixon (S.U.). Time: 84 4/5 seconds.
66 23 YARDS FREE STYLE.
1.-Ptc. McPhee (Argylls). 2. Pte. Hanton (S.U.).. 3-Cpl. McCarthy (E.L.), L/C.
Garnon (EL),
Time: 41 seconda.
200 YARDS FREE STYLE.
1-Cpi. Kiidne (Argylls). 2-Pte. Len (Argylls). 3.-Pte. Higginson (EL). · 4-L/c. Contes (Argylls). Time: 2 minutes, 44 2/5 secs. 100 YARDS BACK STROKE..
1-Cpl. Shearer (Argylls). 2-Pte. Jackson (Argylls). 4-Cpl. Coleman (Argylle). 4-Pte. Thompson (E.L.).
BOYS RACE.
1-Boy Champman (Argylls). 2-Boy Nairn (Argylls). 3-Boy Hall (Argylls).
SHARKEY NOT RETIRING
TO CARRY ON FIGHTING
NEXT SCRAP. ON SEPT. 10
FIT & READY
New York. Pospite rumours to the contrary, Jack Sharkoy does not intend to hang up his gloves" following his knock-out defeat at the hands of Primo Carnera. Far from retir- |ing, Sharkey is full of fight, and
wants a contest overy month
The former champion meats Kink Lavlinky over 10 rounds at Unicefa on Bepiamber;101
100 YARDS FREE STYLE. 1. Pte. McPhee (Argylls). 2.-Pte. Hanlon (S.U.). 3.-Pte. Blair (Argylls), Roach
(E. L.).
Time: 70 seconds.
266 23 YARD MEDLEY RELAY. 1.-Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders. 2.-East Lancashire Regt. 3.Small Units.
DIVING.
1. Pte. Agnew. (Argylls), 2. L/c. Gregson (E.L.). 3. Bds. Orr (Argylls). 4. Pte: Saunders (S.U.).
BOY'S DIVING. 1-Boy Englis (Argylls). 2-Scott (Argylls)."
On Friday last the Chinese cap. tured the first two singies, Cheng triumphing over C. C. (Dudy a gruelling match which went the full length of five Rets. On Sunday V. T. Wong won from Squires in the first cross over singles in four seta Smith's defeat completed the the Chinese team series with
and
Only about a dozen spectators. winning all the contests. witnessed the match, which was played more or less in the manner hard throughout, leading all the of practice. Cheng had the upper time. Smith fought hard in the first two sets but in the third set ho simply tried to toss the ball over,
FAST DRIVES.
in a the
Cheng took three games row to establish a lead in opening set. However, the score was brought to five all through the fine efforts of Smith in aending over swift drives while Cheng appeared to have gone slack. By games winning the next two Cheng gained the set at 7-5.
The second set was almost n replica of the first, Cheng leading at one time by four games to one, Smith gradually caught
up.and
drew level at five-all. After hard rallies Cheng obtained two more games to win the set, Smithylold- ed in the third set, allowing his opponent to pile up point aftor point. Cheng captured a love set and the match.
Sussex Sure to Be
YANKEES AND Runners-Up
GIANTS LOSE
PITTSBURGH WIN DOUBLE HEADER
SEVeral matchES
POSTPONED
New York, Aug. 28
LATEST COUNTY
CRICKET
London Aug. 28. By their startling defeat of Yorkshire, Sussex have made almost certain of finishing run- ners-up in the County Cricket Championship for the second year in succession.
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Both the New York Giants and Yankees were beaten in Major to play and Longue baseball matches to-day. sufficient to assure them of second
place. St. Louis totted up a dozen runa
To-day Yorkshire suffered their against the Giants and Detroit'
Becond outright defeat since helped themselves to six against winning the championship ten the Yankees.
days ago, and their Inst three matches have yielded them only Several matches were postponed three points out of a possible 45,
The batting collapse. of York- owing to rain, these including Brooklyn v Chicago in the Nation-shire was a feature of the match. al League and St. Louis v Boston In their first knock they scored and Cleveland v Washington in the 115. Sussex, by no means happy at the crease, scraped together American League,
249 to give them a useful, Scores as supplied by Rester although not a very formidable-
lend.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Boston
Cincinnati
R. H..
Q 2
1
(Lucas pitchod and blanked out Boston)...
Philadelphia 5 13 Pittsburgh
But it proved too much for the champions, who failed miserably. against the deliveries of Pearce (5 for 34) and were dismissed the second time for 114 and thus' lost by an innings and 20 runs..
GODDARD 10 FOR 64. Gloucester continued their im proved form by taking full toll of Hampshire and winning by an (Davis homered for Philadel-Innings and 89. a bangka ba phia).
Philadelphia. Pittsburgh.
1 10
2
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Goddard, bowled with marked Jeffect. In Hampshire's Initial knock he captured 6 for 56, the home team being sent back, for
(Lindstrom and Vaughan homor 221. ed for Pittsburgh)
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