THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935.
SEMI-FINAL TIES IN RINKS BOWLS
COLOURLESS COLOURED FIGHT
GAINS DEFEATS WALKER
CONTEST FOUGHT
AT LEICESTER
London, July 22.
The only colour in the boxing contest between Larry Gains and Obie Walker for the coloured heavyweight championship of the
Berkeley Bell, with the 1934 Nassau | world at Leicester on Saturday
Bowl, which he won.
was that of Obic's shorts.
Galns won on points after an almost i featureless exhibition marred by tooj much clinching and holding, and the
TENNIS PLAYER verdict was given a mixed reception,
DISGUSTED
BERKELEY BELL ANNOYED
NOT SELECTED BY U.S.
The selection of Donald Budge
i
| despite Guins" popularity in Lelenster,
where he now, resides.
The Caslin was too wily for Walker in the opening rounds and showed splendid defence. The referee, after a series of warnings, told butli men in the fifth round that he would not warn them again. Things bright- ened up a little, but not melt
Walker was aggressive but Gains! was an arch-spoiler and be resisted nil Walker's efforts to make him open:
Gains was tired In the eighth round and in the next Walker frotight blood! with a short left to the Canadian's | nose.
for Gains who was forced to hang on. The thirteenth was nearly unlucky weathered and spell. He
Now York, Aug. 2. Berkeley Bell, of Texas, is thoroughly disgruntled over not being given a place on this year's Davis Cup team, and may turn to the professional ranks after hut he the present tennis season, says slipped to the boards in the next round Herbert Allan, writing in then was sent reeling ncross the ring: New York Post.
in the last one by a flerce right.
Walker from the outset was bent on for the team seems to be Belle Innding a knoék-out blow, but could malu complaint.
not overcome Gains's spoiling tactics. "Why, I beat Badge twice in He circled round and round reeking straight sota last year. If he was land, especially with a left to the good enough to be a semi-finalist ribs, the Canadian almost inevitably the elusive opening, but when he did
at Wimbledon. I should have been fell into a clinch. a finalist. He's ranked tenth, and! I'm ranked seventh, so why should he be chosen over me?" he said.
Bell then answered his question, as he sees the situation. "I'll tell you why." hr said.
OWNL
"The Davis Cup Committee thinks i play around too much. They want nice well-behaved boys who will do as they're told. If gono abroad with the
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kow-towed
have worked as hard na anyone. But I wouldn't have the way the U.S.LT.A. expects a follow to.
"I'm too independent for that. I don't owe the tennis authori ties anything. I've had to sweat for everything I got all these years and I was never given a chance on the Davis Cup team. I'm fed up!" Bell is quite sure that
SWIMMING RECORDS BROKEN
JAPANESE TRIALS FOR OLYMPICS
NEW STARS SEEN
IN TOKYO
Winning crew races has become a chronic habit with University of California this year, and in the third big meet of the year, the Golden Bears best a big collegiate Gold in a 2090-meter race over the 'Olympic Courie nt Long Beach, Calif., Marine Stadium, Photo shows California winning, with Washington a cloin second, and Syracuse third. The time, 6 minutes 15.6 seconds, breaks the world and Olympic Games marks.
MRS. BAER CHANGES HER MIND
ALL RIGHT FOR MAX TO FIGHT
WANTS TITLE TO BE REGAINED
New York, Aug. 3. It will be quite all right with Mrs. Max Buer if her husband returns to the ring wars, with the pionship of the world, which he recently lost to James J. Brad- objective of regaining the cham-
Interviewed at Long-Branch, Now Jersey, by the New York World- Telegram, Mrs. Barr, the news- paper reports in ta copyrighted story, said:
dock.
N.Y. Yankees JAPANESE TO
Twice Beaten MEET U.S.
By Athletics
GIANTS LOSE TO
PHILLIES
TIGERS STILL WINNING
New York, Aug. 11. Several double headers were played off to-day in the major dual defeat of the New York Yankees, who were beaten by the American Baseball Leagues, the outstanding feature being the
Philadelphia Phillies.
VISITORS
CHAMPIONSHIP
TEN SWIMMERS SELECTED
NEXT SUNDAY'S CONTESTS
POOR DISPLAY IN HAPPY VALLEY MATCH
A. M. HOLLAND'S FOUR ENTER FINAL:
EASY VICTORY AGAINST KOWLOON
CRICKET CLUB PLAYERS
(By "Sagax")
It is not given to dignified humanity to be in two places at the same time and it is, there- fore, impossible to gauge accurately the relative standard of the bowls reproduced in the two semi-final matches played yesterday afternoon in the Open Rinks Championship. But it is dif- ficult to imagine that the fixture between the two Club de Recreio rinks on the Kowloon Bow- ling Green Club could have been anything like the disappointing display that was seen on the Civil Service C.C. green where a Kowloon C.C. rink was trounced by a strong Kowloon B.G.C... four.
The prospects of a close and excit- ing match at Happy Valley took me to see the contest between the Kowloon G C.C.quarlette (J. W. M. Brown, R. Tokyo, Aug. 6,
Craig, E. C. Fincher and A. Hyde Ten Japanese swimmers, in Layand the Kowloon B.G.C. four cluding several who participated (P. Farrell, R. Duncan, J. C. Brown in the last Far Eastern Olympic by the latter rink by the convincing and A. M. Holland), which was won Games, to-day were selected to margin of or shots in the in a th
when their dual meet gets under two sides had confidently anticipated. way here on August 17, represent Japan against the in- that was never anything like an thrill. vading, American swimmers, hur as the many supporters of the
Selected for the free-style events were:
If the two fours had been meeting in the first round of the tournament For the Yankees in their first
ur in a club competition the standard encounter Jimmy Foxx. their star halsman, scored two home runs
might aptly be described as mediocre, Hiroshi Negum), anoffieiul world's inclined to poor, but when it is ap but the rest of the team was only record-holder for the 100-metre freepreciated that the contest was in the "I wanted him to quit the ringable to register two runs whereas tyle event; Soichiro Honda, Shezo semi-final round of the Open Cham at first but it's different now that the Phillies, with a homer, from Makina, Makoto Ishiharada, Shoken pionship of the Colony any mention
Arai Shigeo Higgins, chalked know him. Fighting isn't a fane from ten hits.
Takashi of mediocrity wouk! be rievating the up eight runs tirane,
match to a standard of bowls utterly or even a profession with Max--
unjustified by the display given by The Detroit Tigers again it's just his life.
The foregoing represent the cream the eight players. their opponents being the Chiengo of Japan's present crop and will likely While Sox. The Tigers thus in-form the Nipponese World. Olympic trease their lead appreciably.
won,
Yupa.
selection.
L:!
BASEBALLER
GIVING UP
THE GAME
MORIARTY JOINS PRIESTHOOD
LEAVING THE BRAVES
Holyoke, Massachusetts, Aug, 1.
Edward Moriarty has given up a promising baseball career with I can imagine the Shanghai inter- the Boston Braves, major league porters laughing up their sleeves if team, in order to enter the priest- they had been present at the match hood.
"I'm still worried. It's not so much that I mlrd him getting knocked out-I'm afraid he might get some injury which would carry
The New York outfit in the Na- Kicki Koshida will represent Japan and watched what on paper, was) Moriarty, former captain of base- on into his later life. I used to tional League also suffered a in the back-stroke,
two of the best rinks in the Colony ball at Holy Cross college, Worces like, football until a boy down in reverse but it was the team's good
in netion. They would certainly be Reizo Kotke and Tethno Hamuro, fully entitied to look forward to their ter, Massachusetts, explained that Washington was killed and then hit to see the Cardinals beaten the latter in his first year of "big forthcoming visit to Hongkong with after a week's trial with the Braves mother died from shock. I've by the Cubs,
time" competition, will form the
he was convinced that he would every confidence of being able, not never seen a game sincs,
Results of to-day's matches as breast-stroke squad.
Four others will be selected at the Colony in all
only to beat us but to trounce the ever like professional baseball. "I thought at first that Max cabled by Reuter follow: Tokyo, Aug. 5.
He left the Braves and rushed. the official fixtures. competition with the visiting American And in the match yesterday there home here to his parents, announc World and Japanese records loved fighting like a little boy loves
NATIONAL LEAGUE
swimmers. were shattered to-day
were four players who have representing that he had decided to enter a in the a toy. Now I want him to win second-day of swimming contests back the championship for. I know. held to select the Japanese team how much it means to him.
In last night's elimination Koike R. H. E.
was timed at 2.41:2 are, in the 200ed Hongkong and an equal number seminary in Montreal. I've Boston
metre 1
breaststroke. However, Dob year's matches.
who might easily be selected for this next season if he wants to. "I had an offer two years ago when
which will compete
with the never seen a fight and never will. Brooklyn
7 K 2 Kiphuth, of Yale, coach of the visit. (Wally Berger scored a home
ing American delegation, who private. my ranking wasn't as high as it American squad, which arrived It's brutal and savage, but I'll al
ways listen to Max over the radio,”
run for the Braves). is now, so why not" he remarked. here last week.
Mrs. Baer said that she was try-Baston George Latt and Lester Stoe- Hiroshi Negami, a Rikkyo Univer- ing to become interested in sports.
2 10 Fen can he built up, why can't Isity student, broke the world's 400-] "I never was interested before and
G What's the matter with a Fred metre free style record in 4 minutes I do not ride or even play tennis"
(B. Jordan scored a home run Perry-Berkeley Belt match!"
45.8 sec., cutting the former record she said.
for the Braves). held by Jean Taris of France by 1.2| seconds.
"You can't even dance well," New York Max interrupted, laughing Philadelphin
join Hill O'Brien's tennis froupe
*
MIXED DOUBLES TENNIS
The oft postponed Mixed Doubles Lawn Tennis League match be- tween, the Kowloon Cricket Club
Yoshida, who entered the meet un- |
Of the three new Japanese records, Reuter, one was set by a youngster named]
World' recor Be
Branklyn
Cincinnati Pittsburgh
heralded and defeated a field of celestyle event, covering the distance in Cincinnati brities to swim 200 metres back-siroke 57.8 sec., or only four-tenths of
in 2 mis. 35.0 sec. The
in this event in 2 min. 32,2
Pittsburgh
second behind the world's record.
The third Japanese record was.
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(Herman scored a home run for
by George Kojae of the United States, established by Reizo Koike, one of the Reds and Vaughan for
Masanori Yusa, a member of the the country's outstanding swimmers, Pientes). and the U.S.R.C. Is to be played off worse relay team which sut a new who hung up a mark of 1 min. 13 nee. St. Louis
world's record at the 1932 Olymple in the 100-metre breast-stroke, the latter's Games in Los Angeles, set 021
A new tenths of a second behind the world's Japanese record in the 100-metre freo record for the event.-Rengo.
this afternoon courts.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia
R. H. X 10
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New York ....... 11 7 2
Glimmy Foxx scored two home runs for the "Philles" while Hig gins hit one),
Philadelphia
New York
Washington
Boston
Washington
Bostou
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(Werber scored a home run for
the Red Sox).
Cleveland
St. Louis
10 17
7 14 1 (Trosky and Winegarner scored homo runs for the Indians and Coleman for the Browns). Cleveland
7 12 1 7 12 2 (The match was called after the eleventh innings owing to dark ness). Chicago Dotroit
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ly timed Koike, expresses belief he
vered the distance in 2.40 lat.
A TRICKY GREEN
Trun the players had to contend
Kiphuth declared Koike's dash was with a somewhat tricky green, a green
a "remarkable performance".
that was not conducive to the best Americans
The eliminations held here, with the standard of bowls but it would not as interested spectators, altogether be fair to the Civil Service furnished two new dark-horas threats C.C. to blame the condition of the to the tank supremacy of Koike and green for the atrocious Negami.
These
exhibition
that was given by such a galaxy of talent- were Shigeo Arai and Tethuned players. And I am sure none of Hamuro, both of whom scored victories the
Dver Negami and Koike respectively. relievers would take that course to
themselves of the responsibility,
BERLIN OLYMPIC
GAMES
Americans Advocate Transfer
Chicago, Aug. 5.
The Christian Century, outstand-
However, both Negami and Koike were for the standard of bowls that was ing Protestant journal, in an edi consistently better performers.
served up.
torial to lay urged the transfer of The American swimmers have been Hollanda and his men will have the 11th World Olympic Games early evening because of the summer practising in the Koshien pool in the hent. However, in the past few days,
to show a vast improvement on yes from Germany in protest against terday's form if they are to beat religious restrictions. rains have made the atmosphere some- what cooler.
the strong Club de Recreio skipped by C. G. Silva.
rink
The Amateur Athletic Union was
Like all bowls matches, particularly recently placed on record as ad- Thus, since, Sunday, the Americans when some of the most prominent ex-vocating cancellation of the 1936 have engaged in extensive tryouts,ponents of the game in the Colony are Crames if press reports of Nazl Their first formal appearance will not taking part, there were quite a num- atrocities against the Jews and
-United Press.
be until August-17 when they clash ber of gool shots sent down by each Catholics in Germany were verified. with the Japanese over period-United Press.
three-night
Shanghai Polo
Players May Come Here
ARRANGEMENTS
UNDER WAY
Shanghai, Aug. 3. Shanghai is attempting to raiso
a fairly strong polo team to aend to Hongkong because no inter- port matches will be held this year. Hongkong is unable to come bere although scheduled, and therefore Shanghai making an effort not to dis- is continue the interesting annual aeries.
The visit of the 35th Cavalry team of the Chinese Army of Tientaln is still in the offing as nothing definite
An extra international match-has been settled. The International in aid of King George's Silver Club, which is negotiating with the Jubilee Trust Fund will be played Chincas, is writing next week Inform between Scotland and England at at least two games as only eight ponies
Ing them that they can come here Hampden Park on Wednesday, have been lent by local players. August 21. This game will pre- Chinese officers can't bring their own Tho cede the start of the English sea-mounts here and therefore are relying son, which does not open until on local players to supply them with, August 31.
ponics.
(Continued on Page 9).
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