THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1935:
SHANGHAI BOWLERS SUFFER DEFEAT IN FIRST GAME
MRS. PERRY ON WEDDING HUSTLE
"WE HAD TO ASK
· POLICEMAN”
J. P.'S “O.K.! I'LL BE THERE"
(By Walter G. Farr)
London, Sept. 13. Mrs. Fred Perry, speaking from New York over the Tran- satlantic telephone last night, told me of the reason for the hustle which led to her marriage |
TO-DAY'S RACES
SELECTIONS FOR 8 EVENTS
TIPS FOR THE .PUNTER
(By "Captain Foster")
There are eight races down for to- dny's Meeting at Happy Valley and my selections for the programme are as follows: 1-CARNARVON HANDICAP
1.
Mistake Bay.
2. Bose Queen.
King's Jubilee.
1. Gold Bullion.
Iron Grey.
3. Heart's Glory, 3--CANBERRA HICAP
with the world tennis champion 2-JORDAN H'CAP-FIRST SECTION at 11.55 p.m. on Thursday-just in time to avoid a wedding cere- mony on Friday, the Thirteenth. "The doctor says the injury ( bruised, rii) which Fred received when he lost his American singles title the other dy ten works" the will keep him out. of the game for former Miss Ilolen Vinson, American film star,
explained.
The iden uddenly struck us that this was a married. den opportunity to get
see we are both so for Fred-and -especially Home weeks we had been wondering
busy
1.
Able Amazon. Bag Tor.
Just That.
4-DOUBLE TENTH PLATE,
1.
Liberty Bay,
2. Oak Bay.
(Enssaries Benuty,
how we were going to it this wed-5-NATHAN HANDICAP ding In.
"I was anxious, ton, to be with Fred all the time, for I felt I ought
to see flut he was nursed properly. So at dinner on Thursday we decided.
NOT SO EASY
"Getting married between tennis tournaments and fine contracts isn't And we had to na easy as it sounds. hustle, it only to escape being married
the 13th, un
out with the "We, motored
wit- nesses to Harrison, a tow about 30 miles from here, where the rule about having to give-24 hours' notice is not in force, and found all the officials
gone home.
land
"So we
where Milling
called at a police station, policeman went up to a
behind a big desk and said. married?' Jic I get
*How can
looked bit surprised at first, but was soon telephoning to the town clerk, Mr. William Wilding.
"He then ang up the justice of the
1. Bright View.
2. Erb
3. Macaroni,
6-JORDAN H'CAP-SECOND
SECTION
J.
Lucky Strike,
2. 17th of September. 3. Emergency Call..
7-AUSTIN PLATE
1. Holdier of China.
2. Jungle Jim.
3. Monoplam
B-CANTALA H'CAP
1.
Snowy River.
3.
2. St. Joan.
Alacrity.
'The Shanghai interport bowls team lost to the Police and Civil Service C. C. rink yesterday by 22 shots to 15. The above picture shows the two quartetten. Reading from left to, right the players are:-J. M. C. Lopas, 5. E. Alderman, W. II. Train, S. Shepherd, C. Richards, L. W. Brierley, W. McLeod and A. O. Brawn. (Photo: Ming Yuru).
OUR SOCCER FORECASTS
Huddersfield Away To Middlesbro
(By "Sagax")
RUGBY BLUE IN SHANGHAI
FORMER OXFORD
CAPTAIN
Corecast of FOUR TWICKENHAM
APPEARANCES
The following Saturday's matches in the Home foot-| In Leagues:
FIRST DIVISION
ASTON VILLS v Bolton
Blackturm
thelse
Grim
LEEDS
LIVERPOOL Middlesbree PORTSMOUTŮ Wednesday STOKE WOLVES
SECOND
♥ MANCHESTER * Arsenal
Y SUNDERLAND
West Brom. v Birmingham Hacklersfeld Brentford
v Derby
Preston N. E.
v Everton
DIVISION
BLACKPOOL. v Sheffield U
BRADFORD C. v Hull Bury
DONCASTER
▼ LEICESTER
✓ Bradford
Daily Double Event: Bright View Manchester U. v Fulham
Soldier of China..
NEWCASTLE Norwich Notts Forest PLYMOUTH
pence, Mr. Les Mintzer, and found he SOCCER TRANSFER TOTTENHAM
was in bed. After we had pleaded with him he said, O.K. 1' be right along, and we all rushed to the town huli.
ALL IN S MINUTES
"It was touch and go. The Beener was granted and the ceremony over junt live minutes before midnight. But it was great fun, rushing things like that.
"We are going to California for the honeymoon to-morrow. No more tennis Lournaments"for-Pred for ten- weeks. You see what a good idea it was?.
J. BERESFORD GOES TO
PRESTON N. E.
London, Sept. 18. J. Beresford, Aston Villa's in
inside-right, was ternational transferred last night to Preston North End
West Hom
. THIRD
Brighton Bristol C. Cardif PALACE
Y SOUTILAMPTON
Y Charlton
= PORT VALE
v Barnsley
v Burnley
e Swanken
DIVISION (SOUTH)
BOURNEMOUTH
y Coventry
y Notts County
v Clapton O. GIZZARELLAM
Lalon Millwall
Swindon Northampton SOUTHEND QUEEN'S P. R. v Exeter READING
v Bristol It. -Y. Aldershot TORQUAY ~~Born ̈utTM" Chesterfield; Bercaford-
WATFORD v Newport Joined Aston Villa in May, 1927.) from Mansfield Town. He made THIRD, DIVISION (NORTH) 23 first-team appearances for the Villa Inst sensos, at the end of Barrow
Y LINCOLN which he went on the Continental HALIFAX
CHESTERFIELD Southport
y Darlington tour with the English team and Hartlepools y Crewe played against Czecho-Slovakia. MANSFIELD shall be crossing over to Eng-He also played for the Football New Brighton land in January to make a new film Lengue against the Scottish League | OLDHAM with Olive Brook,"
ROTHERHAM fast season.
It is a colucidence that Beres- STOCKPORT ford was the name
of Preaton's Wrexham -
That YORK inside-right of last season. player has since been transferred to Luton.
"Shall I give up my film career? Certainly not. I believe that plenty of work for husband and wife in one of the most important thingy in mar- ried life. It helps a couple to be happy
That time?" I asked.
.
"Dock this mean you will be separated from your husband during "I'm afraid it does," came the reply, "but it can't be avoided. Fred is going to Australia to play in the tetinis championship there and I had already made plans for my visit to England.
When I asked Mrs. Perry if she would advise her husband to do film work she answered: "Ons Mim star in the family is enough. He will have to make up his own mind."
A LOVE MATCH She passed the telephone to Fred Porry, and I told him that Miss Mary Lawson, to whom Perry was engaged last year, had wished him "all the luck in the work."
Referring to
v Carlisle
CHESTER
v finteskend
v Walsall y Accrington Tranmere Rochdale
SCOTTISH LEAGUE (FIRST DIVISION)
Airdrie the varied reports Arbroath - about his turning professional, he Ayr said, "I can give you my word that CELTIC I shall be an amateur player certain- DUNDEE ly until this time next year.”
Dunfermline "And you can eat this marriage of HIBERNIAN mine a real love game," was his part-1 Motherwell Ing remark.
PARTICK
At the ceremony Miss Vinson's age] Third Lanark was given as 27 and Perry's os 26.
Miss Vinson's marriage in 1925 to
* Queen O'sth. ABERDEEN
UNIMPRESSIVE
APPEARANCE
FORM NO CRITERION OF CAPABILITIES
LOCAL COMBINED SIDE WINS BY A SEVEN SHOT MARGIN
(By "Sagax")
Without revealing any exceptional form, the combined Police R. C. and Civil Service C. C.
lawn bowls rink, which mot the Shanghai inter- porters yesterday, drew first blood against the visitors who were beaten by the local men by 22 shots to 15 in a match that was never, or very rarely, of a standard which can be characterised as anything but a good Club game.
The
initiat
the appearance Colony, on the Police green, of this year's Interport team from the North was' certainly not impressive but the general standard reproduced was no criterion of the capabilities of the and although beaten by a visitors fairly
comfortable margin the display yesterday was in no way disuraging to their reputations as howlers re- T. W. Gubb, who played for presenting the highest class obtaining Oxford four times in the Intern
took the visitors the entire Varsity Rugby Match, and who 21 henda to settle down after their has also captained Blackheath, trip from the North but they should arrived in Shangbai last Sunday, be able to give a much better count He is connected with the Imperial of themselves this afternoon in the Chemical Industries in London first
Recreio grEEN,
It
and has come out China to join the fixture of the, series on]
the affiliated company in Shang fixture there were not as many specia- Owing to the uncertainty of the hai. It is understood that Gubb tors present as would certainly live intends to play rugger and he attended had it not been announced should prove a most useful ac-
that the ship was not due until five quisition to the S.R.U.F.C. Gubb | o'clock yesterday, is a forward.
the
Hand in 1928 by 14 points to 10. The was not the same
A MAGNIFICENT STRUGGLE
RIFLE SHOOTING
CIRCULAR ISSUED TO MEMBERS
MONTHLY SPOONS
the have
PRESENTED
members
C. A.
full
Is Peggy Scriven Engaged?
MESCRIVEN
PEGGY SCRIVEN
Copenhagen, Sept. 14. The Politiken states that Miss Peggy Scriven, the twenty-three- year-old British tennis atur, and Mr. Ingerslev Nidsen, the Danish tennis player, are engaged to be married.
They first met in a tournament in which they played together in Bansind, Sweden, some time ago, says the paper, and the partnership: developed into a romance.
Miss Scriven was going to take | part in a tournament in Copenhagen | afterwards, but was prevented for
private renSORS.
:
iler father told a Sunday Express- representative last night:
.
"There has been some talk of Danish gentleman, but certain- ly she is not engaged to him.”
with
RUGBY FOOTBALL IN ENGLAND
WINS
In a circular issued to
In a few days Mr. Ingerslev Niel- today the Hongkong Rifle Associn-sen is going to Scotland, where he tiun states:
is taking part in a tournament near By the kindness of Mr. Grimes, a member of the Council, and Edinburgh. His partner in mixed also a Life Member of the Assoclu daubles will be Miss Scriven. NOT UP TO FORM
tion, one of the Association's Sliver.
FATHER'S DENIAL Spoons will be presented monthly to During the four times ho played in
Practically all the visiting bowlers the serving Other Rank of the Regu the Varsity match, Oxford lost three Limes and won euce. Gubb captained are well-known to focal exponents of lar Army, who is an individuose
was obvious that member of the Association, game and it Oxford on the necasion they wan in
was nothing like their nett aggregate scores made on the 1929. With the exception of his first yesterday's
form, match, when Cambridge par to best
Even Charlie Richards, Kowloon ranges during the month Othe
not able to skip, was
improved gauge the
by the greatest have won fairly comfortably by 30 points to 3 points, the other matches green to the same degree of accuracy amount. The spoon will be presented Ranges 248 when he was here two years ago to the winner on the Kowloon were all close,
When Cubb captained Oxford the and although he brought off some during the first shoot of each month. eable is being despatched on side, was victorious by 9 points to 0. clever shots during the course of the
Saturday, October 12th, ordering 1914 In 1927 Oxford lost by 22 points to:
us when he led the rifles on repayment for certain mem-
rifle,
complete team which was benten on the Insters. This
sing swivel, und two heads in the first Interport match aperture sight, sling on the Craigengewer. C. C. green two guaranteed for one year after a per-
fus
by one of the Director of The 1928 match was na exciting as years ago.
Mesurs. Parker-Hale, costs £0-12-6, However, the anyone could wish. Cambridge, with
Shanghai skip's three internationals in their three- failure yesterday was not altogether exclusive of carriage, and in view of quarter line, R. W. Smeddle, C. D. due to his own indifferent form, al- the saving which will accrue, in this
number of rifles Aarvold, and W. G. Morgan-the first though it was a contributory factor, respect,
rifles being it is
is suggest. two mentioned played for England but to a large extent to the inadequate sent out in one package, und Morgan represented Wales were
J. W. Brierley, that any member who is consider- support given him by J.
Ling this matter, should decide now, strong favourites.” “In the first twenty whuis renewing an eight-year-old and if he wishes to purchase one, the off on Sunday, Richmond beating- minutes of the game, when they scored visit to the Colony. The 1927 lead
undersigned should be so informed by the Royal College by 13 points to all their 14 points (if memory serves for Shanghai failed to touch top forni
The cost of the cable will be five and Plymouth Albion winning correct)
it appeared that Oxford as No. 3 yesterday and unless he is divided equally amongst those con- from Devonport Services by 14 would be a badly routed side by the backed by a good reputation the pro-cerned. Cheques should not be sent points to 12-Reuter. end of the day,
ilities are that he will not be to the Hon Treasurer of the Asso Oxford's strength lay in her for included to-day. It was rarely that cintion until called for. wards. Led by the Scottish interna- be sent down a shot worthy of the
J. M. Bannerman, they played class of bowls in which he was part tional, a magnificent game and towards the cipating although it must readily be close of the day made Cambridge sup- said that he did some good work on porters realize that it was just as some heads.
uch Oxford's game as Cambridge's. I was also in this game that J. A. Adamson, who was playing full back, dropped n fue goal.
TW. Gubb was at College.-N. C, D. News,
University
LOPES MOST CONSISTENT
centa
by n
the
FOR RICHMOND AND PLYMOUTH
London; Oct. 9. Two Rugby matches were played
At all future shoots, it is proposed FOOTBALL LEAGUE · to have at least one pool target, en- ries for which will be at the rate of &
of each. Two-thirds amount received will be returned to those who score a hit in the "egg", while one-third will be retained by the Association.
CLUB'S ELEVEN FOR SATURDAY
The inconsistency of the Shanghai team was not contined to the latter
Two changes are being made by Members will be interested to know men as neither W. II. Train nor J. M. that, according to an article appearing the Club for their First Divison C. Lopes was up to Interport alan-in the London Timer for September League football match against Kow- dard. The former, as No. 2. is en-16, there is strong probability of oun at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday at Joying his first visit na a member Bf
Happy Valley. Sykes is deputising the N.R.A. Council reverting to the an official team, but he too failed to size of targets in use to about 1932. Gamble and Bickford returns to the
ALONSTONE GOLF RECORD BY the green. However, he re- This is the sive of the target now left wing.
▾ Clyde y Kilmarnock Hamilton
▾ Albion
v Hearts
v. Queen's l'ark RANGERS
Mr. Harry Vickerman, of Philadelphin. NEW WORLD WALKING
was, annulled in Los Angeles in 1934.
SEE HONGKONG
FROM THE AIR
RECORD
Cooper's Second Success
in Two Months
MISS BARTON
ENGLISH WOMAN IN
IN AUSTRALIA
HANDICAP NOW REDUCED
"
glimpse of
covered from an indifferent start nut towards the end gave some bright howling.
Been this
auch
F
out used by the Association
The team will be here--the local Council having fore-Rodgers (Capt.); Sykes and Strange; as follows: passibility some time aga Robertson, Gilchrist and Skinner; ruling eventually Lammert, Elliot, Fowler, Forrow and neither targets nor the Bickford. Reserve: Hynes, of the layers and, re- Score Books will require
is was probably the most con- Should membering his of two years ago, one can readily look to him to lead alteration; the Shanghai side to-day. He started score books purchased from England
on the other hand, all
with some well placed shots and then up to the present time, will be wrong which distances, special dimensions fell away but he also showed a slight | and in any case do not contain have been upproved by the N.R.A. improvement in the latter stages of diagrams for 700 and 800 yards for Council at home.
the came
game. As has been said the standard of yesterday's game cannot be taken seriously as the team did not arrive Canberra, Sept. 12.
in Hongkong until 2.30. p.m. and the players were on the green rendy Miss Pam Barton, of the Royal for their opening engagement within Mid-Surrey, had a phenomenal an hour, of the berthing of their ship, For the second time in two round of 71 here to-day, break-it can safely be said that once the. months A. A. Cooper, of the Wooding the Royal Canberra course held a quariette which will be capable i visitors strike their form they can. ford Green A.C., captured a world's played her best game since she won in Shanghai Inst year.
record by eight strokes. She of retaining the honours which they walking record, recently when he
arrived in Australia. covered 6.000 metres at Battersea Park in 21 min. 52.4 sec,-0.6sec. The previous Canberra record
THE LOCAL PLAYERS
less than the previous best time, was set up only yesterday by Miss The combined Police and. Civil Ser
made by A. Schwab, of Switzer-Miss Barton's 71, which was four McLeod,
Jessie Anderson (Craigie Hill).vice rink
lami.
was best served by W. of the former club, who Heavy rain had fallen just under par, enabled her to win the played lead against Lopes. For con- before Cooper was due to make his Federal Territory Championship latency the local player was the attempt and the event was post-had a first-round of 80 yesterday.
with an aggregate of 181. She brilliant shots. He served his later of the pair and brought off some poned for half an hour. He crvor-She also won all the scratch events men well and thero, were times when ed the first mile in 6 min. 54 8cc.which wore played concurrently ask for guards, or to draw additional six seconds inside his prepared
the Hongkong skip only required to THE ONLY ALL-ANGLE VIEW FROM ABOVE schedule. He slowed down for two with the Championship. Her handi-shots.
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miles, and then gathered speed 2 to 1 by the Australian Women's vice C. C., occupied the No. 2 berth S., E. Alderman, of the Civil Ser- again for the final distance,
Cooper, who is the A.AA. two
Golf Union.
but he did not altogether excel him- Miss Jesslo miles champlon, established a new
Anderson was self. Ilo sent down some very good world record for the 3,000 metres and Mr. J. B. Walker, the new his form was not
runner-up with 155 (79 and 70); shots, It is true, but taken all round on July 20.
up to his beat Australian champlon, third with standard.
Like
Train, he played a The Aga Khan has decided that her of the British Touring team,honda when he and his Shanghai rival 103 (82 and 81). Another mem- few good heads at the beginning but was much better during the closing the fee for the services of Bahram, Miss Phyllia Wado (Ferndown), were engaged in a couple the "Triple Crown" winner, la to tied for fourth place with an aggre-duela for possession of the lie.
of exciting he 500 guineas. He will stand at gate of 170.
Brawn featured some medicore play
the Egerton Stud, Newmarket. The British team were second at with some very good deliveries but The only other living sire whose the end.of the second round in the was no worse than the majority of fee la 600 guineas is Solario. handicap competition for teams.
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