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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1935.
HONGKONG WINS WONG PO-KEUNG TENNIS
INITIAL VICTORY FOR
THE COLONY
CANTON PLAYERS BEATEN DURING WEEK-END BY FOUR-ONE
VISITORS UNABLE TO OVERCOME STRANGE CONDITIONS
(By "Sagax")
Full of the glory of an Interport contest, but lacking its concomitant atmosphere consequent upon the absence of an audience, except a few members of the Club and half a dozen outsiders, the annual Lawn Tennis fixture between commenced at the Chinese Canton and Hongkong was Recreation Club's courts on Saturday and concluded yester- day when the Colony captured the handsome Cup presented by Mr. Wong Po-keung by winning four of the five matches.
handsome edip, which ways brought down to Hongkong by the Cantim players on Saturday morning. ww only presented for competition ride three years ago when Use Canton won on their own courts. The con- is conducted on Davis Cup lines. with the holders having the right to
MILITARY
GROUND
thefend the trophy on their own courts RENOVATED
However, this year Canten indicated that, as the Hongkong players would be making a visit
to Shanghai this
month, the holders were prepared to defead the Cup in Hongkong. Ar- Tangements were rather hurriedly mule and was not rerinin until Saturday merging whether it mutually agreed flust the ninth should be official or friendly.
Sa short was the notier that it was not known until the arrival of the Canton Leam just before on what the program would be. In fact,
FOOTBALL PITCH
AT SOOKUNPOO
NEXT SATURDAY'S COMPETITION
Always alive to the enormous
the players were met by the local appeal which football is making Hon. Secretary and on crusade the to local sportsmen, the authori harbour the party adjourned to Meurs, Brewer & Co, where the draw ties in charge of military football ano drafter.have enlarged the accommoda- I made and the progranino
tion at the Sookunpoo ground originally Mr. Wong Po-keung. the appointed
non-playing captain of the and this season the stands will Caulen team, was unable to make be able to hold a total of six the trip and on arrival the visitors thousand spectators. invited Alr. G. E. Watson, the former Canlon resident, to wesume andage-i Inn of the team.
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VISITORS' BANDICAPS With the visitors labouring under severe handicap in having to play din gray courts after having been Accastomed to hard courts, Hongkong find no dimeulty in winning the tie lthough some of the matches were closoly fought affairs.
between Lai The singles mulch Kwong-taun and 9. A, RumJahn was the first staged and the local player put the Colony one up in straight nets, winning by 6-1, 7-5, 6-2.
the
The difference in the scores was not the difference between
The football pitch has been moved further towards the French Huspital, taking in the hockey ground behind i the north end of the stand.
There are now four new substan- tial stamis crecled all around the pitch and it is estimated that ther is recommodation for 8,000 people. |
Dressing room accommodation is provided under the envered stand, this relieving congestion in the Pavillon.
Hongkong beat Canton by four matches to one in the Wong Pockeung Cup Interport Lawn Tennis Competition on the Chinese Recreation Club couts over the week-end. The above picture shows the players and officials. Rending from left to right, back row:-Mr. C. J. Tacchi (Hon. Secre tary, Hongkong Lawn Tennis Association), Mr. R. E. Lindsell (President, Hongkong Lawn Tennis Association), Mr. C. E. Watson (Non-playing caplain of the Canton team); middle row:-Ho Ka-Inu, H. D. Rumjahn and Liu Yal-fang: front row-G. R. M. Ricketts, S. A. Rumjaħn, Lai Kwong-trun and G. Bodiker. (Photo: & Fong).
ELEVEN SIXES AND TWELVE FOURS BY DALTON
SOUTH AFRICANS IN HOLLAND
AN
INNINGS VICTORY
The Hague, Sept. 15.
VICTORIES
FOR CUBS
&
TROPHY
YORKSHIRE CRICKET TEAM
TO TOUR WEST INDIES
GEORGE MACAULAY
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RETIRING
BOWLERS' TOUR
|SOUTH AFRICANS' TRAIL
OF FRIENDSHIP
LESSONS OF THE VISIT
Londoni, Aug, 19. We said "Good-bye" to the last Two important decisions were of our South African friends as announced at a recent meeting of the "E.B.A." Championship meet- the Yorkshire County Cricketing ended out on the Croydon Club Committee.
Club's greens оп Satudray.
The first concerned as invitation They began their tour on May 9 from the Janales Cricket Board of and ended it, officially, on July Control to send a Yorkshire team to 31, Of 63 matches, they lost Aur the West Indies In February only 12. But that is apt the next. This invitation has been whole story.
This splendid collection of amateur accepted. The tour will last about the weeks and six matches will be mortsmen from the Dominions as dnre ognia noi murely added a new played, some of them two-day games, zest to the game of bowls in Deltain The Perond was that George and Ireland, but in every city and Macaulay has notified the Con- town they visited in their long tour. mittee that he is resigning from they have blazd a trail of friend. the Yorkshire team at the end of ship and understanding with their Old In his letter, fellow business-men in the the present reason.
par Macaulay states that he is retiring Country: Bowls, that quiet and
Corellence amateur game, is the con 4rom first-class cricket.
Beeting link which has created new and valuable bonds of friendship."
It was ammuunced that the gross receipts of the Yorkshire homines matches to date amount to £8.097
LTL
In a final Lalk with Mr. F. S. Pass-
, that great enthusinst, Presi eat of the South African Bowls As- as compared with £6,284 for the sardation, he told me that there is Corresponding matches last sesong ronla of sport in South Afries excluding The matches in which where there is a little disagreement
there is Nottinghamshire and the touring and controversy as sides the Australians in 1934 and bowls. The South Africans this year were South Africa's President, that there "I have noticed with regret," said concerned. Fixtures for next sum mer have been arranged at Sheffield, is a tendency in sport to-day to win with Kent, Gloucestershire, Derby-all costs and tot to play the game We do not re- Lancashire, Hampshire, Surrey, and fellow sportsmen in the home coun- Worcestershire; at Bradford, with try in this way, although it has India, Nottinghamshire, Sussex, naturally been gratifying and Warwickshire; at Hull, with players, after making
long
for the game's sake.
GERMANY'S tire, and Somerset; at Lruds, with gard sur bowls contests with our
ATHLETES
to our
BO
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GIANTS BACKWARD x and Glamorgan: and attorney, to find that they can win
CARDINALS LOSE TO NEW YORK
BASEBALL IN AMERICA
New York, Sept. 15.
LITTLE TALENT
AVAILABLE
OLYMPIC GAMES PROSPECTS
Berlin, Aug. 17.
The German track-and-field
Scarborough, with Middlesex and their intchra. Bicestershire.
RUNNING RECORD But I think that another time.
BROKEN
11-YEAR OLD TIME
BETTERED
LESSONS OF THE TOUR
"Naturally, all have been very we should do rather less travelling and take rather more rest. Six mat- ches each week on such a tour is rather too much and a progranime of live games a week would be bet-
tury
tion
In the West of England and in Wates we had a number of players unfit-twa of our men were ill in Bournemouth and wc had geven Buenos Aires, Sept. 15. under the doctor at Cardiff. Every- Returfing has been carried out
The Chicago Cubs gained a championships recently concluded | Jose Ribas broke the world's where throughout the British Isles where necessary and the playing aren
slight increase in their lead over have shown that Germany has record for the 20 mile run to-day the team has had a marvellous recep- and we have been almost killed is at present in very line condition.
The new ground will be opened on. A dushing dlapiny of batting by fithe St. Louis Cardinals in the many good "coming" athletes when he covered the distance in
by kindness. Saturday when a six-a-side competi
"Returning even after three OF tion will be stage. The preliminary R. L. Dalton, the South African's National Baseball League to-day. but only few who have a chance 43 seconds faster than G. Cross-
have been amazed at to win an Olympic Medal. And rounds will be played on Saturday stylish and forceful hat, featured The Cabs won from the Dodgers there is no doubt that the Gerland whose record stood for a four years
period of 41 years.
the growth of bowls in England since the New York Giants man officials are a little disap-
iscem to be but there does not It was in 1894 that Crossinnd my last pointed. The championships for
been much progress in a record for the 20 Ireland. We have found very few example produced no Arthur established the tourists, who are shortly re-Louis Cardinals,
Jonath (who was in Los Angeles mile run by covering the distance, poor greens and it is only here and turing home from a successful
white mar in the in 1 hour 51 mins. 54 sees, while there that we have had to play on In the American League the the best Tigers suffered a reverse at the
sprints).
to-day Ribas ran the 20 miles in disappointing rinks. The whole 36-
of us will look forward to our nexi hands of the Yankees to whom
visit." That is the reason why the German hour 51 mins. I sees.
with
Another working
interested spectator · at they lost by eight runs to seven.
During the run special vigour to get their people intoj Results
the Killason Bowling Club, Sydney. of to-day's
matches good shape and condition, and covered 435-45 metres, beating Croydon was Mr. W. R. Elston, of in oficial recently and, to make them Earnest Harper's 33,653 metres-and the New South Wales Bowling Fallow:
and the final stages on Sunday.
There are 28 teas entered for the
the two-day cricket match here while
e capabilities of the two players competition and some excellent sporty between an All-Holland team and lowered the
hut increly an indication of the form, is promised.
un. grass court, of the two men on
Saturday, Loi Kwong-tson, who has 7
beaten Rumjabu on grass courts in
con official fixture before, was abviously jahn took the sel at 7-5.
tour of England during which In the third set Lai won only the they won the "Ashes" for the first worried by the strange conditions, he first and seventh gauner.
time in the Mother Country, now having become so accustomed
to
hand cutirts that the change was COMPARATIVELY TAME MATCH dways apparent in his play on Satur
The absence of a gallery which is with any Inter- Els timing was a encertain that usually assoelated he was not able to do himself justle port event made Saturday's matches And many an interesting rally was more like a garden party than an abruptly terminated by ine rooflein) Interport and the tennis ser
or outside the court,ved up in the second match between,
while there were
high.
All-Holland hind first knock but the side was dismissed for 99
R. J. 'uns.
Crisp took four wickets for 25,
The tourists, after scoring 181 Philadelphia
wickets yesterday, took | Pittsburgh
colours of the St.
trainers
we
now
steel hard and "extend to the limit," Renten.
trainers might work their athletes
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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athletes in their will-power during the Olymple Ganies at Los Angeles very much, hoping that the German
remembered that German press praised the Auterivan
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Ribas also
"VARSITY SPORTS
Association. He was surprised at the number of young men who take up the game in England.
Australians," he told me, "find it difficult to adapt themselves to Eng- lish playing conditions, In Austra Bu we do not use your big wooden
Without any doubt, enthusiasm for Swimming Club To Hold bowls, ut sunller bowls of the coin-
the Olympic idea is increasing day by day in Germany, and thousands are hoping to be a competitor in the Berlin Games,
turn into the net es when he cam G. R. M. Ricketts and G. Batiker for five pletely mishit the ball, on may occa- rather confirmed the, garden party their total to 319 before the last Boston
impression.
Dalton was Cincinnati wicket fell to-tlay. alon ending it sky
Rumjan during the greater part Ricketts won in five sets in a match! of the game was able to adopt safety that was comparatively listless after not out at the close of the innings tactics without forcing
the pace the first game which had produced th 166 to his credit. Altogether New York Although at times he became the ng-sume hard hitting by both players, he scored cleven alxes and twelve St. Louis
A. D. Nourse had and took the net at every The Canton player in the second fours,
(Leiber scored a home run for match was no where near his top against his name when dismissed the Giants and Joe Mcdwiek for theinde expect to better the ilo conceded only the fourth game form while Ricketts appeared reluc
In the second innings Holland the Cardinals), in the first sot and after losing two tant to exert himself. games in the second he won four in a It was only when he was trailing scored 92 runs, Críap taking an- row before lesing another. Five all behind his opponent that he really other four wickets, for 19 runs.-- was eventually called and then Rum-
Reuter.
grosso
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Through numerous elimination con- present tap notch-standard "consider nbly by next Spring.
LITTLE TALENT AVAILABLE Remarkable was that the champion- ships this year in the brond jump shot-put, hammer-throw, the 1,500 metres and the 3,000 metres, hurdles, As well as the pentathlon (in the absence of Hans Beins Sietert, the world record holder, who was sick), were won by athletes of the army. and police forces. This shows the! great all round spirit for the the Olympic sports in the armed forces.
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R. H.
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(Rogel scored a home run the Tigers and Rolfe for
Yankees).
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Meeting On Sunday
position type, And so we develop fast straight shots rather than fine shola. Also we play 25 ends and not your standard. 21 ends.
"And," added Mr. Elston, with a
ming Club will hold its Third the gante more rigorously than you The Hongkong University Swim-smile, I think that we are a littic inclined to enforce the etiquette of Annual Aquatic Meet on Sunday do. We do not, for example, en next in the European Y.M.C.A., courage the skip to follow up his Swimming Bath, Kowloon, at 2 bowl."
One thing in certain-the Bowls p.01.
Season of 1035, now past its peak, Heats will be decided on Wednes-hus been ያኔ day, at 2 pm.
magnificent success. -H.G.H., in the Morning Post.
BUDWEISER
Hope of winning a gold medal for THE KING
Germany depends largely on Hans
Heins Sievert for the Pentathlon, but
in the track-and-field events general
(by Foxx scored a home run ly, the chances for gold medals are
Chicago
Philadelphia ......
For the Athletics).
Chicago
| Philadelphia
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not so rosy at the present time, it we consider Amerleah records.
In the sprints, the Germans have! a good chance of winning silver and
Higgins scored a home run for bronze medals; they have at least
the Athletics).
Cleveland.
Washington
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Cleveland
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Washington
3 8 1 (Earl Averill scored a home run for the Indians).
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St. Louis Boston
four or five men who cover the 100 imetres at the average of 106 seconds and the 200 metres at 21.5 seconds. Furthermore with the broad-jump, the Corporal Leichum Stett, of army, covered that event with 7.73 metres (which is new German [ record) and experts ure of the opinion, that he will Jump over eight
metres soon.
Policeman Schroeder, of Magde- burg, throw the discus 53.10 metres, while policeman Weelke attained 10.04 metren with the shot-put. An Olympic hope in the hitherto unknown long distance runner Haag Darmstadt, who covered the 10,000 metres in 31.41.6 minutes, which is the third best time achieved this year.
"Lincoln City F. C., will not pay big transfer foes. They are going to foster young players for build Ing up the team," said Mr. E. A. Simpson, chairman of the club, at the annual meeting in referring to | the loss of £1,086 on the past year's | available athletes must go forward at
working,
But it is recognised that if Ger- many in to achieve any prominence in the track-and-field events at next
year's games, development of the
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