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THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1934.
NEW CRICKET RECORD MADE AGAINST AUSTRALIANS
LATEST Two Big
DERBY League
CALL-OVER Tennis Games
PRICES VARY A
LITTLE
COLOMBO OFFER AT 7-4
STILL FAVOURITE
IN "B" DIV. TO-DAY
One of the best rantches in lo-day's "B" Division tennis league pro-
me promises to be that between Kewloon Cricket Club and the Club de Recrcio,
The Recrelo, who lant your finished third, have a strong combination, and the K.C.C. will need the advantage of playing on their own courta In
order to win. London, May 30, The latest enllover for the Derby classic to be mm next Wednesday, wns, made here, to-night as followe:
Colombo 7 to 4 (0) 15 to 8 (6) Umidwar 10 to 1 (t and o) Easton 10 to 1 (t and o) Windsor Lad 13 to 1 (t and n) Lozingaro 22 to 1 (t and o) Admiral Drake 25 to 1 (t and o) Tiberius 28 to 1 (o) 30 to 1 (t) Allaha 28 to 1 (0) 33 to (1) Medieval Kolght 33 to 1 (t and o) Valerius 33 to 1 (0) Bondaman 35 to 1 (o)
Badruddin 35 to 1 (0) 40 to 1 (0) Patriot King 59 to 1 (0) 55 to 1 (1)
Rathmore 50 to 1 (0) 66 to 1 (t) Achtenan 68 to 1 (t and o) Primero GG to 1 (0)
Hornsey Wine 66 to 1 (0)
On Top 80 to 1 (0) 100 to 1 (1)
Ruthless Abbot 80 to 1 (o)
Baron Madchausen 100 to 1 t
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Pride of Chilterns 100 to 3 (0)
Dunne remales absent from the K.C.C. side owing to a lawn bowls engagement, and W. GiRins will probably come into the side to partner C. I. Stapleton. Burnott will again line up with R. B. Lewis and Groy and Oppenhelm will constitute the third pair.
The promoted C.I.C. side will also the up against a useful proposition in visiting South Chinn Athletic Associs. tion, and it is doubtful whether more than two sets will separate the teams, at the close.
The fall programme le
"" DIVISION.
University v Graduates LR.C. v İLK.C.C. K.C.C. Recreio S.C.A.A. C.R.C.
A record crowd of 40,000 attending the historic Penn Relay Carnival in Philadelphia www records fall on track and field. An outstanding performer was Ralston Lagore (left), North Carolina, who hurled the javelin 214 feet 6 7-8 inches, bettering the old mark by more than nine and one-half feat. A famous record-breaker on the cinder path was Glenn Cunningham, Kansas star, pictured at right broasting the tape to win the mile event from Gene Vanzko in 411118, a new meet mark. Vanzke was
15 yards behind at the finish.
242 FOR THE SECOND WICKET
BY SANDHAM & GREGORY
SURREY'S HUGE SCORE
VISITORS FIELD
ALL DAY
London, May 30.
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AMBITIOUS
A 48 year old second wicket SOCCER SCHEME
at the
record was shattered Kennington Oval to-day, when
Andrew Sandham and J. SPORTS FOR THE Gregory
WORKERS of Surrey put to- gether 242 while playing against the Australian Test team.
The previous record, establish- od by F. W. Hearne and M. Read, was 191, and was made for the South of England eleven at Gravesend in 1886.
EXPERIMENTS BY NATIONS
London, May 24.
A very ambitious scheme of Inter- national Soccer matches between the workers of many European nationa The Australians, as a result, had has been arranged in connection with n tiring time chasing the ball in celebrations to be held at Dorchester the "Tolpuddle martyra" centenary
Fleetwood 125 to 1 (0)-Router BOXER MATCHED MISS STAMMERS BEATEN IN FRENCH the first day's play of their match at the end of August and the begin
OAKS BETTING
New Call-Over
Figures
London, May 30. A call-over far the Oaks classic was made in London this ovning, with the following figuren quoted.
Campanula 21 to 8 (t and o) Light Brocade 100 to 30 (0) 7) to 2 (1)
Zelina 9 to 2 (s): 5 to 1 (t) Har Three 100 to 9
London.
OPPONENT FOUND FOR BRILKA
An opponent has been found ja Hongkong for Minx Brilka, the German boxer, who arrived in the Colony at the beginning of the week from a tour of various other cities of the East.
Yesterday afternoon Prof. S. M. Fernandez, the woll-known local physical culture specialist, presented himself at the office of the S. C. M. Post and intimated that he was pre- pared to accept the challenge isäved
Fresh fields are being conquered by Max Brilke, if there is any pro by the Rugby League game. France is already making head-meter who might be interesting in way; and now comes the informa staging a conteal. tion that Italy is keen to try it out. The French Rugby League has received, an official request from a group of Italians who are inter ested and a representative of the Lengue will visit Rome to arrange for exibition games.
Prof. Fernandez has been in Hong. kong for the past three years and has been,, engaged in physical culture training. He came here from the Federated Malay States, where he states he was the 9st, boxing cham- plon. He is still under ten stone in | weight,
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CRICKET GOES BACK
200 YEARS.
Cricket went back two hundred years when the Vine Club at Sevenonks, Kent, the oldest cricket club in the world celebrated its bicenten- ary recently with a reproduc. tion of the list cricket match played on the club's ground.
In that match Lörd John Sackvill and Sir William Gage Sackvill and other men of Kent opposed Viscount Goge's XI from Sussex.
Players in the bicentenary match wore exactly similar clothes to those of the first players, and the game wRS played under the rules of that time,
HITLESS FOR EIGHT-
INNINGS
HARE AND AUSTIN AS WELL
ANOTHER SAD DAY FOR ENGLAND
THREE DEFEATS.
Paris, May 30. Britain's interest in the French tennis championships is now practically extinct as a result of to-day's matches.
They saw Miss Kathleen Stammers) beaten very carily in the women's singles, H.W. Austin and C.E. Hare eliminated from the men's doublesi ofter five set match with Borotra and Brugnon, and Miss J. McAlpine, and Miss Barbara Yorke make their exit from the women's doubles.
Miss Margaret Scriven in company with Jack Crawford managed to survivo another round in the mixed doubles at the expense of Mrs. Howard,
to
GERMAN DAVIS
CUP HOPE.
Berlin. May 22. Cormany's only hope for the Davis Cup, young Gott fried von Cramm, romped to-day easy victory against stiff International competition to win the annual Berlin championship tournament, defeating the Italian champion Palmieri. in the finals 6 love, 6.1, and 7-5.
Germany's ranking woman player, Marle Luise Horn, also easily defeated the dashing Californian Eliza- beth Ryan in the finals for the women's title in straight _sets 6-2, 6-2..
another Englishwoman and Brugnon, JAPAN'S 100 ATHLETES
Miss Stammers was disappointing against Fraulein Austom in the singles quarter-finals, winning only six games in two sets. The German
Senators' Experience tri was rarely extended and won her
Against Yankees
'New York, May 30. A rare pitching feat by Whitehill of the Yankees saw Washington Senators hitless for eight innings to-diny, but the Senators finally score n run and then blanked out the opponents.
Cleveland were nosed out, as were St. Louis, but in the National League, the Giants won with ease. Scores as cabled by Reuter, follow,
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Against two such experienced cam-
FOR BERLIN
against Surrey. The countyning of September, Previous plans, batted all day to compile 372 for owing to certain European complica. three wickets.
tlona, have had to be changed, but a more ambitious aeleme now has been
Sandham was magnificent and launched. stayed until stumps were drawn, Mr. H. H. Elvin, Chairman of the remaining unbeaten with. 201 to National Workers Sports Association his credit. He hit without blemish and a member of the T.U.C. General Council, interviewed in London, all round the wicket, scoring his anid rung In 330 minutes, and having one six and 21 fours to his credit.
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"It has been deckel to form Western European sports zone, and Gregory gave him wonderful the first thing to bu inaugurated is a football competition. The countries support, and the pair collared the interested will be Great Britain, Australian attack to auch an ex- Belgium, France, Holland, Switzer- tent, that 242 runa
were added land, Spain and the Saar. Matchca before Gregory left after hitting will be played at Dorchester between up a vigorous 116, which had six-a British team of the National Work- teen boundaries as chief hits.ers Sports Association, and represent- atives of Workers Sports Associations Reuter.
in Switzerland, and France. Another match is to be played at Fondon between England and Belgium, and further Axtures will bo arranged later.
MOTOR RACINGTM
"We have launched out on a bold experiment. It has been deelded to
Marathon Proceeds At form what is termed the National
Isle Of Man
London, May 30, Ideal weather favoured the "Man- nin Beginternational motor car raco which is being run in on the Isle of Man to-day.
Workers Football and Sports Ground Company, to provide sports grounds for the workers throughout the coun- try. The persons associated with the venture include Sir Stafford Cripps. M.P. Mr. George Cadbury, Jun., Mr. Pethick Lawrence, and Col. Malone. We have secured a football ground It is organised by the Royal Au-quarters of the London Labour Foot- at Hendon which will be the head- tomobile Club. The distance is GO laps of three and a half milles eir- cuit. At end of 25 laps the leaders! "There will be a were Dizon, in a Riley, whose speed Britain and Palestine, and this latter match between was 72.53 miles per hour, Black in team will also be playing in the hour. Eyston, in an M.G. Mugnette, ter. Our aim is to produce amateur 71.22 miles an hour-British Wire-teams of trade union and labour Jenni
i players equal to any in the country.
ball Club.
paigners as Borotra and Brugnion Country Stirred By Faran M.G. Magnette, 11.27 miles per International corapotition, at Dorchen-
"Bunny" Austin and young Hare dki
to
extraordinarily well take the East Games Successes match to the fifth set.
The Englishmen won the first amd third set, and took the fourth to ten zanes before' fading fortaining tennis,
out. It was
Tokyo, May 24. Spurred by the success of their. athletic delegation in the Tenth Far Eastern Championship Games, Japan today plans on sending more than GOOD SHOWING.
100 athletes to the Olympic Games have no reason to feel disgraced con-
Miss McAlpine and Miss Yorko in Berlin in 1930. cerning their result. Opposed to what was indicated to-day, the various Until the early part of 1938, it is, regarded today as the strongest teams that will make the trip Barlin Eladies combination in the world will be in almost constant training. Q Afdine. Mathlou and Miss Ryan-thy} Japanese athletle officials believe Aliance, and the Franco-American Manila, have given the Japanese teams 6. had to play 36 games before winning valuable experience this year.
(Whitehill pitched for eight hitless fogers carried the encounter the full that the Far Eastern Games held in
innings)
New York
Washington
A fierco fight for The first set Because the field meets in Japan, terminated in favour of the English
girls at the 18th game, but the effort however, will undoubtedly develop There were appeared to cost them a lot, and, many new stars before the Berlin Mdme. Mathieu and Miss Itgan hit event, it is probable that only part of the winners who made the trip to back to gather the next two sets bath Manila will participate in world olym
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Japan's athlete's develop very 'carly: in their school life and one problem will be to keep some of those whe now holders of international records and winners in Manila, from Relting sale,
ore
To widen the experience of the nower men, athletic associations plan to invite several foreign athletes af nate to visit Japan this summer and and next for a series of contents. In fact Jthree of America's outstanding swim-
McAlpine and Miss. B. Yorke mers have already been contracted and:
(England) 8-10, 6-3, 6-3.
Men's Doubles
Brugnon and Borotra (France) beat Austin and Hare (England) -4-6, 6-3, 7-9, 8-1, 6-2. *** Mixed Doubles
will compete in the national awimming championships this summer.
Same of the best American track and fled stars are expected to give the Japaners a thorough tryout for
their newer men.
Japan at least has not retrogressed since the last. Olympics as evidenced by their powerful allowing at Blanin and Miss where the Nipponese mormen mado. Brugnon a clean sweep of the tank eventa (Eng-except the 220-meter breast-stroke, and captured a goodly number of the | track and field events, including
the general championship,
J. Crawford (Australia) Scriven (England) benl (France) and Mrs. Howard land) 6-4, 2-0, 6-0.
Rome, May 20.,
It is expected they will be leading centeriders at Borlin in the swimming In the Il Duce Polo Cup contest events, the dashes, jumps and pole {held in ·Rome, between the teams | vault.
of France, Hungary, and Italy, the Young milltary offfears áró determ- frat game, between Hungary and ined that the fine record for horse- Italy, onded in a draw at 4-4,banship main at Los Angeles shall Then the French beat the Hungar- be repeated,
Meanwhile, all circles are planning
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