THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE
14, 1931.
TO-NIGHT'S FIGHT FOR WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
IMPRESSIONS OF THE
FIRST TEST
Why England Was So Well And Truly Beaten
“STRONGEST BATTING SIDE". MYTH:|: POSSIBLE TEAM CHANGES
(By R. Abbit)
The best thing about the test match is that it was a clear and definite win, and I take off my hat to the Australians for a very excellent performance. There is no argument about it, --we were beat fair and square. True, we lost the toss, and that may have made quite a bit of difference, but I find it difficult to believe that it made 238 runs difference, especially as the
Primo CarZIDER.
To-day's
Australians declared for eight wickets in their League
second knock !
First, let us consider the wicket. It was said to be a really good and fast one to start with; though, it; so, how the Selectors came to leave out Nicholls, and play Verity, Geary, and Mitchell in the same side, I do not know, unless it is because they are all from the North.
THE BRIGHT SIDE.
Tennis
"B" DIVISION PROGRAMME
CARNERA V BAER
FIERCE DUEL EXPECTED
CHALLENGER'S CONDITION
STATED TO BE BELOW. PEAK
Madison Square Bowl is cer- tain to be packed to-night for the Camera-Baer fistic duel for the world's heavyweight cham-
pionship. American boxing The
critics aver that it is going to be the best and most spectacu- lar fight since Dempsey beat Carpentier and then attempted a “come-back” against Tunney, Max Baer, natural fighter, Idol of the ladies and film star, chal- lenges Primo Carnera, the big- Fest piece of human flesh over to hold
Max Baer.
1936 World
Olympics
NATIONS
a world's title, and both, INVITATION TO 50 like all good modern boxers, have vividly described what one is going to do to the other In as many seconds.
London, June 7.
AUSTRALIAN OUT FOR UNDER 300
Creditable Performance By Northants
CHIPPERFIELD, BRADMAN, AND
J
PONSFORD MAKE RUNS
London, June 13.
Northants, who have a dismal
R.A.0.B.
Benson in the county cricket GAMES NIGHT AT championship so far this sum- mer, did far better than WOK ever expected to-day, when they disposed of the Australian Test players for 284 runs.
This was the Australians' first match after their first Test vic tory, and two of the batsmen who performed well in the match at Trent Bridge, were again in evide ence to-day
Fifty countries have now re- 'ceived their invitations from the German government to parti-Northants. cipate in the Olympic Games in Berlin, in 1936. Only three mulches are expect
Carnera rated a 9-2 favourite a fow weeks ago, has risen in pubile estimation as a result of the announcements that Bher has failed to reach the peak of condi- tion_durlag training.
BUFFALOES LOSE TO SOLDIERS
KEEN TOURNEY
Members of the Royal Ancient Order of Buffaloes recently enter tained a number of friends of the 2nd. Bn. The East Lancashire
pro-
Chipperfield followed up his Test score of 99 with a 71, and other leading contributors were Don Bradman who abtained 65, and Ponsford, who scored bi. Matthews bowled exceptionally Regt, when in addition to the Personally I think that the lck-
usual social amenities, a few com- well against the touriata, and ing will do as a power of good. 1.
returned the useful figures of 4 petitions added spice to the oven- suspect a certain amount of com-
ing's enjoyment. Though for 71. placency at home, and the old old
Batting for. the Iant hour,ceedings were of a most friendly tendency to pick on past reputa-
stolidly held out nature generally, a keen spirit. per- Lions. Verity made runs once or
against the keen attack, and atvaded the atmosphere in the com- twice in a Test, and that in Always
elose had registered. 35 runs for petitive arena, and some really It rained a bit on Friday at tifin, recollected as a vitni reason for ed to be played in the "B" Division
inc games of billiards, snooker, The invitation is worded ne-the loss of one wicket-Reuter.
darts and crib were seen. and, so far as know, probably including him as a slow bowler.
of the tennis league this after-
Efforts were made by Juck cording to the Olymple statutes rained again at night, as bad light is figures in Australia were-
as the Hongkong Cricket Dempsey, promotor, Baer's man- but with this added paragraph: COUNTY MATCHES stopped play after tea. Reuter, of batting6-114-16 28.50 and noon.
ger. and a member of the NewThe whole nation hopes that the course, is dreadful about that sort, bowling135-64-271—11 — Club, following the decision of York Amateur Athletic Commis peoples of the world will accept |
IN PROGRESS of thing. Ile never deals with the 24. Not bad, but Larwood took the committee not to permit aion to have the Bght stopped or the invitation and send strong wicket
and the weather properly, for 19.51, and G. O, Allen 21 league games on the club ground postponed because of this,
The teams."
The following programme of but spreads himself on the fact for 28.23.
The Jewish question has made first class cricket matches, includ. formances each during mid-week, will probably New York Commission listened that Ames kicked up a ball, that
два he had dropped, to make a catch. Mitchell, by the way, in Australia, Saturday.
It is the pace that does it ask the C.R.C. to play off on patiently to the argumenta
then decided that the fight must participation of some countries ing those in the county champion
uncertain, despite official Germanship, are now in progтCAN. Well, I saw Livy Walker do it here. tonk three for sixty, in Teat
be staged according to schedule.
assurances that Jewish members Middlesex v Glamorgan at at second slip in 1912; pretty Cricket, and made que lonely duck,
The subtleties of publicity of foreign teams will be welcomed. |
Lord's There are no striking clashes but not as important as the state But Farnes has definitely arrived, in the rest
have not yet been finally exalthough they are banned from the of the wicket.
of the programme.
ploted, and it is more than like-German team. and he shows the wisdom of playRecreio will defend their 100 per However, to a certain extent, Australia Hot runs on the morning known to the Visitors.
ing a
bowler comparatively un-
cent, record at Pokfulam against the University, and the K.C.C. (should improve their position in of the
of the second day, and England; did well for a bit. but lost three! wickets in the last. hour or so, This suggests
OUR NEXT TEAM.
crumbling wicket. Of course, in writing put here, the table at the expense and all would have been quite we have not got the latest facts|LR.C., it Sookunpvo. easy to understand, had not the from home. But when the results
Australians,
The scheduled programme after our comparative of the Test in detail correspond failure on Monday, run up 159 for with the views one has previously fellows, home teams given first. thred wickets that afternoon, held, it gives one some courage to Next morning they hit, and rattled theorize. A little time ago I said up just over a hundred for five that the Australians had an ex more wickets. Then England cellent batting side, but depended more, or less processed, though by very largely upon Grimmett and this time the wicket must have O'Kelly. Well, they done it, if been pretty bad.
11 may be ungrammatical. Again,
THE CAUSE.
it ls interesting to sue that it is not so much the old stalwarts that gut at the runs. McCabe and Brown were the cat's whiskers in this
mention match,-not
Chipperfield,
to
Making all allowances for the wicket. I think the Australians won because they were a better side. I have scen it said that the team was the "beat English batting side" for years! I imagine there So what are the probabilitses for was a misprint ofeet for the next match? We must. I "woral" as it is arrant nonsense imagine, reconstitute. We shall, to call our side a really good think, without any doubt retain batting side! To my minil, it was Suteille, Hammond, Ames. Ilen- partly bad luck, and partly bad dren, and Farnes. Leyland and selection that lost us the game.
Varity will also probably stay in To start with, there are no the side. The latter did little, but less than four men, who should he is. like. Hammond, a great be in the side but are not, potentiality. through
Wyatt, At. will be sure injuries, physical or moral, to wit-D. Captain the side, and Walters, on R. Jardine, Larwood, G. O. Allen, the strength of his second knock, and R. ES. Wyatt. It is na will probably exclude Pataudi. most unprecedented situation. This leaves us with six batsmen, True, Walters played Skipper's 9 stumper. Farnes, fast, and knock in the second innings, but Verity, a low howler. Also, of he has been very in and out in his course. Hammond in a
change form this season.
Illness
or
to
swinger. Obviously thep, we need
R.W.V.
"B" DIVISJON.
4
V
Recreio C.R.C. SCA.A. K.C.C.
JL.KU.T.C. IL.K.C.C. Graduates V IRC.
Playing in the semi-final of the K.C.C. snooker handicap last night. W. Wing and E. F. Pincher (plus 16) beat Major Primer and S.A. Gray tplus 25) by 102 to 78.
iy that Buer will go to Madison Square as fit as he has been.
ever
In any case, with the approval of Adolf Hitler, extraordinary plans are being made to Insure NO SCIENTIFIC QUALITIES. thut the first Olympiad in Ger-)
many shall be the most successful Neither men have the scientiße of all. qualities of past heroes such as By itler's order, 285 acres of Tunney. Carpentier, Bombardierland in the Pichelsberg district; "Billy" Wolls and even Dempsey, are to be converted into a gigantic. but they both pack terrific sports park. The land is to the punches. Baer, conceding inches west of Berlin, in beautifully A race course in height and reach is confident oded country. that he can get under Carnera'sisting there is to be abolished. guard with his terrifying right and the present stadium is to he Carnera is relying on his weight enlarged to hold 100,000 people. and other abnormal advantages to The area outside of the sindium,
n festival keep Baer off and to put him out will be equiped as with a sledgehammer punch. ground for 250,000-the whole to Baer in his previous fights has be encircled by a wall of stands. not shown himself to be very much A swimming pool with covered.
faster stands and' a cycling track with cleverer nor very much
He will have to covered accommodation for 15,000: than the Italian. win quick if he is to win at all. are to be built.
MAXIE BAER'S FATHER OFFERS HIS
OPINION ABOUT THE FIGHT
HAS INSTRUCTED HIS SON TO GO FOR KNOCK OUT IN THE FIRST ROUND
Asbury Park, June 5.
A left hook to the body, according to Papa Jacob Baer to-day,
is going to make son Maxie the world's heavy-weight champion FILIPINO BOXER WINS
by a knockout after the night of June 14th.
There you have the latest, "Maxic tore into the German," We had no imperturbable two more bowlers, though of course hottest dope, even if it does ho related, "and he almost had him Jardine to meet the bowling with Leyland is a sort of change. come from the prize ring's play-out in the first round. Of course a but a broad as that of Personally, I should like to see boy Maxie's father, who might he didn't put him away until the
'(Essex), Bonner or of an Ernest Smith, Nicholls
Ind who once made a duck in two Robins
the sido. 50 Into
But just be a trifle prejudiced in tenth, but that first round flurry
really won the fight." hours, and thereby saved the Geary's runs in the first innings, favour of his giant son.
But to get back to the Carnera and his wickets will, I imagine,
Maxie, according to Pup, is go-engagement: Maxie will not try to Moreover, instead of a brigade put him in. Yet Robins of fast bowlors, and the whole Bosanquet was in his day, one of ing to stop Primo Carnera, The outbox the Glant Italian, hie Mountain That Walks Like a Man, father said, but will be in there in the early rounds of his fight at to take everything Primo can give Lung Island Garden Bowl, a lit- and then knock him flat.
maich.
is,
14
21
We mill see.
history of the Visitors' side to date the few players who might win shows that this is the type of Test on his own.
bowling they do not like, we had
three spin bowlers, who altogether!
took seven wickets between then, LEG BOWLING AGAIN
of which Geary claimed four.
Mitchell seems to me the complete
Test Match stabbit, and 1, cannot;
quite see how he got picked for Jardino's team. The reason be
DISAPPROVED
was picked this time is indeed like Lord Hawke At Durban
unto the peace of God,
Geary is a dug-out, over forty, but he made 53, and 0, and took four for a hundred and forty- noven. The truth in that we were playing a "may-bo" alde. Geary
Attacks Theory
Durban, (Natal).
Essex v Notts at Westelle Kent Y Worcester at Ton-
bridge
Sussex Surrey at Horsham Hampshire V Lanes - al Southampton
Yorkshire T Lelcenter at fluddersfield
The "Butis" carried off all games of billards, Clarke in particular being in fine form for the win- nors. For the losera, Snuggs and Hargreaves put up sterling per- obtaining 83 points toward the requisite 100.
Results were:
Buftslaew
Land
Eyentl Elort
100
100 v
Clarke
100 100 v
400
E. Laben, itest. BAGE... Horufi Hargreaves..........
Davin
SNOOKER
The snooker games saw a rever-
Derby Gloucester at Derby sal of form and though the Northants "
Australians at service-mon lost two games, main- Northampton.
ty through the efforts of Abbott and Rothwell, they won this 'see- tion 23 pointa. Mound put up
by a great show. for the losers almost scoring double his opponent's figures. A very close game at the and was won by the Buffaloes, but the two points margin in favour of Dyer was not sufficient to take the result out of the soldiers" hands. The scores for the anooker games were:
BIG HITTING BASEBALL
GOMEZ TENTH VICTORY
DOUBLE HEADER FOR SENATORS
New York, June 13. Lefty Gomez pitched his tenth victory of the season when the Yankees beat St. Louis in etsy fashion.
Louis Gehrig again homered for the winners.
E. Lance. Reg. Davi
Abbott
Buffaloes
Mound
Packer
30 Y
Bulpitt
23 Y
Rothwell
Byer
North
-CRIB AND DARTS.
Four games each.of crib and darts were then fought out. The card game resulted in a draw after very even competition, both sides pitting all their skill, with Fortune for once dealing an even hand to each.
On the darts result.depended the St. Louis Cardinals, sustained issue of the evening, and here the the "Buffs" the marksmanship of an unexperted reverse In National League when they were made them "hot Favourites." They bianked out by Fred Frankhorae soon justified their position by taking off the first two games; the Holdiers were not beaten, Smart Performance In the Boston Braves.
There was some big scoring. California
Boston Red Sox beat, Detroit 16-13 however, and took the next, leav In an astonishing match. The ing the result of the whole evoz-
in's competitions
on the Senators iu F4 double header}*****
final resistance
against Chicago White Sox twice me of arts. The
of the military representatives
ut the last crumbled and fell moment, leaving the Buffaloes in by charge of the situation, the con. cluding result bringing the games score to 2% polts to 1%..
Watsonville, Cal., June 8. Making his first Coast op-rattled up doubles figures and pearance in several months,scored wins. Young, Tommy, Filipino ban- Foll results As cabled tamweight lighter, to-night Renter were, technically knocked out Benny
the Gallup in
first of scheduled ten round main go.
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tle over a week from now. And "Maxio can take all the punches ho's going to do it if Papa is to Carnera can give and still grin be believed with a punch he has Jacob Baer Haid. "He won't try to spent a year in developing a left box him. He'll be boring in for aly auccessful tour of the Orient,
knockout." hook to the body.
Jacob Baer didn't rulse his boy
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
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(Gehrig homered and Lefty led handily throughout.
Tommy recently returned to the Gomez pitched)
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of Bacolod, town
Occidental Cleveland
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Was in excellent shape and had Chiengo ... II Carrying his hands high and his his opponent, who once performed (Simmons and Bonura homered) to be a prize-fighter, ho said as head back. Carnera's jaw will be in Manila, in bad shape through-Washington The listed the above impressions, but hard to hit, the eller Baer con- out.
Cronin baniered) now that Maxie is one, he wants ceded. But he doesn't regard that mighty badly to see him at the top as a handicap. of the heap.
"That style leaves his body wide So he's at the Baer training open," he explained. "And nobody, camp; all the time trying to in- not even a man as big as Carnern, spire his son with the fighting likes to take them in the basket."
"Maxle can lay them into the Lord Hawke does not approve spirit of the man whom the elder came off and failed. So Uld of leg theory bowling. Hendren.
Leyland failed and At the Durban Rotary lunch he Baer believed was the greatest body with either hand. He used Bghter in ring history, another to be just a right-handed puncher, came off, more or loss, as he stop-referred to the statement by Mr. Coloradoan, Jack Dempsey.
but he's spent a year working on two hours for eighteen. Ham-D. R. Jardine, England's Cricket Dempsey, too, is at the training a loft hook and It's a great punch like Dempsey did--to punch and Boston mond and Ames did not do them. captain that "I have neither the camp a great deal, the eldest Baer now.
punch until something gave, there'd nelves justice, but they, with Intention nor the
desire to play said.
be no stopping him." Sutcliffe and Farnes, seem to be Cricket against Australia this
And that's just the Referring to yesterday's tiff be-
frame of Brooklyn the only met you cannot leave out summer." Of course, said Lord tween the former Manassa Mauler "I think that punch is going to mind Maxie's Dad and Dempsey Pittsburgh of the side.
Hawko,
such
an action would be and his xon Maxle, Papa said:
win for Maxie. I think ho'll get are attempting to instill in the
the Philadelphia ..... during former Denver boy "Nobody can handle Maxie like a knockout and get it early." public will not go to Jack."
Then Papu Baer went back to next week.
· (B, T. Hanallen homored) with sovon men on the log
Dempsey, IST. ROUND K. O.
As for Maxie, that suits him. Chicago “Why," he said, "I think Maxle He has said he wants his
father New York
peet
The Nawab of Pataudi falled loss
to the English side.
complotely,
After making a hun-
dred in his Test Match, he has
.
MAXIE'S WINNING PUNCH.
done nothing, and should have side," stated Lord Hawko. "Such been written off, in my oplulon as tactics disgust the Cricket lover, And he backed up this statement hits nu hard as Dempsey. The only in the camp right up to the day Cincinnati a man without n Test Match tem- I am glad that the whole subject by tolling how Dempsey had ad- thing is, he doesn't have Dempsey's of the fight. He wants to show perament. The last four words, has been practically settled and vised her to go after a knockout fighting spirit, except every now him, he says that he docs take Boston ...... by the way, will condense into four I hope that the Inst has been heard in the first round of his bout with and then.
hile training seriously, all reports St. Louis letters.
of it for good."
the other Maxie-Schmeling.
"If he went into every flight to the contrary notwithstanding. (Fred Frankhouse pitched)
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SWIMMING
Return Of Formor Interporter
Among the arrivals by the P. and O. Kner Rajputana yesterday from Singapore, was Mr. E. A. Brodie of the Union Insurance So-: cloty of Canton Limited, who is relloving Mr. J. II. M. Andrew us |Branch Manager at Canton,
Mr. Bradio will be best remem- bered in Hongkong as a Shanghai Interport swimmer and footballer, 3 while his name as an amateur Ojockey was made long before he
rode in the Colony.
Mr. Brodie was formerly cap- 1tain of the Singapore Swimming Club and his prowess at water
1 polo is well-known. Io should ba
a valuable acquisition to the Sha-
moen Swimming Club whore he will raplace the absence of 5 "Bertio" Rasmussen, who is now
on furlough.