THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1935.
BADMINTON SEASON STARTS OFF IN GOOD STYLE
KEEN Trying To BADMINTON Get Menzel
To Play
MIXED DOUBLES CONTESTS
KOWLOON TONG LOSE AGAIN
(By "Veritas").
It is doubtful whether either Taikoo or Kowloon Tong will have a very much more enjoy- able mixed doubles league game this season than that in which they participated last night. Although Taikoo won by the fairly pronounced margin of six games to three, at the end of the match there was a differ- ence of only eight aces in the teams' aggregates.
In losing six games Kowloon Tong -conceded but 30 aces, whereas Talkoo fost a total of 22 aces on the three ganos which went against them.
The opening game uf
uf the pro- gramme produced some sparkling bad. S. A. Gray and Miss minton when Alison Mackenzie who were trailing all the way up to 12-16 against T. Stainton and Miss Summers gradually| overhauled their opponents and took) mine acos in a row to win an exciting encounter.
To the Kowloon Tong first pair fell the distinction of winning all three games, ut the other couples put up hard struggles and in all cases were only just besten an the post, P.
carried Leung and Mrs. White
C Summers and Miss R. Summers to 24-22 before losing, and to do so had, to make a big recovery.
In Hongkong
Although the chances are alender, the Lawn Tennis Asia- ciation has decided to make an effort to get Roderick Menzel and Hecht, the Czecho- Slovakian Davis Cup players to make an appearance on the tennis court during their brief atay in Hongkong next month,
The Association is in touch with the players with a view to securing
helt feelings on the matter.
According to latest information the Terukuni Maru arrives in Hongkong in the evening of Decembar 6 and leaves the following day at 3 pm.
This means that the only time to stage the players would be elther just before
or immediately after timn.
S. AND S. HOME TEAM CHOSEN
To Play C.R.C. In
Mixed Doubles
The Sallors and Soldiers' Home have selected the following team to play against the Chinese Resention Club in the mixed doubles badminton league an Monday next at
No. 1 pair: Mr. Waglen and Miss
Dolg.
No. 2 pair: Mr. Gibbons and Mrs.
ST. ANDREW'S IN THE FOREFRONT
RANK WITH RE CREIO AS CHIEF CHALLENGERS TO CHAMPIONS
ELIOT HALL LOSE TWO OF THEIR LEADING PLAYERS
(By "Veritas").
Although the badminton season is only a fortnight old and several clubs are still shuffling about with their teams, testing new players and fresh combinations, there has been sufficient incident and progress to call for a certain amount of observation. One is the encouraging manner in which the programmes
are being carried through per schedule. Apart from Eliot Hall postpon- ing their pre-Christmas matches (and this was always wellknown, the fixtures only appearing in the official lists as a matter of routine), there have been but two. games put off, both in the mixed doubles division.
The chief lesson to be lenrat from this praiseworthy adherence to the fixture lists is that the clubs are keen. And if further proof of this
is
can be
Пля only 10 but
my dovoloped mére rapidly!
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the
E. Soya of the Recreio, one of the badminton Colony's leading players. He la kanály devoted to the the game. (Photo: Men Cheung.)
VILLA AND THE CRITICS
An Action by 30 Shareholders
Recreio have a very fine deputy and.' the change definitely renders weakening of the team. The team has been in action once this season, needed watch &
players a match in fact, without felt then that severnt of the had made a very pronounced intending to strike a disparaging advance on previous form. Where
I think it is right to state that before there was nole.
tendency to con- at the moment keenness is a somewhat centrate on sheer speed and force of more prominent quality than skill hitting, players have now learnt to
of the players, vary their game, among the majority
Ellot Hall were pa a ganie Happily badminton is
Last year which
approachable at the net, but I think
London, Nov. 8.- Which is to say
the Recreio can very nearly hold thats that a good average standard can be their own in this phase of the game In view of the lowly position to-day and in nedifish they are very of the club in the League the attained in much less time than say at grieket, football, tennis and other
powerful indeed
overhead Nothing is such games.
But while it is possibly true to say delight
delightful fore pleasing than the Aston Villa F.C. shareholders form shown by St. Andre agitating for a strengthen-. that keenness is a predominant feature row's "A", and they have alreadying and probably a reorganisa- of league badminton to date (due in earned the right to be listed among tion of the board of directors. the main to the large influx of new the potential challengers for the велком
son The Articles of Association sti- and
лет inexpericneed players), it is championship. Another praiseworthy effort
T. Stainton and Miss Summers equally fair to remark that the older started a Recreio enthusiast said to pulate that any requisition for me "I am more worried about our the calling of a special meeting that of G. A. White and Miss Bryson
games with St. Andrew's "A" than must be supported by 30 share- against A. W. Norrie and Biss Cun-played attractive badminton for Tal-associates of the court are setting a
with anybody else." I thought then ningham. The Taikoo players held akoo, the young lady player excelling
for holders. (if the "Saints will forgive me for long lend of 18-13 but were caught in making clever recovery labs from
saying so) that he was somewhat. the nut. Stainton explolted driving
to his opponenta tactics
backhand
case, but right now verstating the court with marked success.
feel he had good reason for the observation. Certainly C. Summers placed cleverly and his Summers hit daughter, Mise R. effectively to collect two games, while both A. W. Norrie and Miss Cunning- ham hit very hard.
PRAISEWORTHY EFFORT
WI
at 18-all
all before they annexed the next Throu aces for the game.. improvement note
noted in Leung's Tha
Thursday was further em- ine on phasised last night and there is no doubt that he is
promising player. Miss Mackenzie made a successful return to the badminton court, making some wholly decisive shots from the net after a somewhat tentative start.
Brown.
Nr. 3 pair: Mr. Yang Chen and
Mrs. Mory.
Scores:
(Continued on Page 9.)
Badminton Mixed Doubles "Performances" Table
FIRE BRIGADE AND RECREIO PAIRS WITH 100 PER CENT RECORDS.
The following table shows the leading Individual perforinances to date in the mixed doubles division of the Badminton League.
:
Matches Games
Aces Prd. W. L. F. A. 9 0 189 84
2
6 0 126 41
3
8 1
180 98
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1. Carvalho and Miss.A. Remedios (Recrein "B")
Mt. and Mrs; Shute (Firo. Brigadė)
Mr. and Mrs. Sousa (Roerelo "B")
S. W. Liang and Miss U. Khoo (C.R.C.)
B. Xavier and Miss S. Remedios (Recreio "B")
S. A. Gray and Miss Mackenzie (Kowloon T.)
F. 11. Kwok and Miss Smith (St. John's)
W
W.
N. M
C. Chox
Miss Choung (CRC) Mix
Brigade)
L.. A. Sph at Mian Griffiths versio "B")
"and"
S. Remedios
I. A. Alves and Miss O. Ribeiro (Recrolo "A") Dr. A. Oliveira and Miss M. Silva (Recreio "A") J. J. Remedios and Miss C. Silva (Recreio "A")
A. L. Fisher and Mrs, Wild (Fire Brigade)
C. Summira and Miss It. Sumners (Taikoo)
QUEEN'S"
Tournament Model.
1 114 71
G 1 126 01
113 €3
147 154
107 181
03 22
63 23
03 25
63 26
3
OF 85 04 107
better standard than hitherto,
NORMAL PROGRESS
When
the
In short the game is developing
This support has been secured and on normal progressive lines. It
the requisition is to be forwarded to cannot be said that it has made any
Wo shall the management, I will be recalled sensational advance since Inst sen- watch the progrens of St., Andrew's that in June Inst a special meeting of shareholders was convened, the chief son, but it is decidedly on the upwith the keenest interest. grade. It is the type of progress
Another pleasant feature is the object of the promalers unquestion- Jess likely to have quick and unadvance made by the Chinese Recrea-ably being to bring about the return happy reactions.
tion Club and the Victoria Reerea-of Mr. Rinder, the former chairman tion Club. Both clubs took up the of directors. game a year ago and to-day are cap- able of holding their own in the best of company. All of which is highly encouraging. vindicating as it does the existence and chief object of the badminton league.
It did not need one with the vision of an Old Testament prophet to forecast the most likely contenders for any of the championships. Any body possessing knowledge of last season's displays could tackle the job knowing full well that he could con- fine his selections to three, or at the most four teams.
with Eliot Hall as
/non-competitors until after Christ- man we are not yet in the position fully to assess the comparative polen- tialities of the leading teams.
THE FIRST "COMPLAINT"
I think I am right in saying that as yet Secretary L. D. Skinner has received no official complaints, a sure sign that the league is in a happy
The sequel to that meeting after a number of uncleng speeches was the carrying of a vote of confidence in the directors, but had resolution
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sking Mr. Rinder to return to the board been put forward it would probably have been carried. In these circumstances the result of the next suggested meeting will be keenly awaited.
Last evening an offeinl of the As
VERSANTEL "Eliot Hall will not be fatale. At the same time there is one ton Villa club said that so far no re-
exceptioleve K. F.-
may prove irritating to be so if it is playing on their own court, the assis
TO-DAY'S CARNERA'S
RACES
VOW
"COME-BACK"
Ewo Handicap DETERMINED TO
Changes
MY SELECTIONS
(By "Capt. Foster")
Owing to the scratching of Diogenes, King's Parude and
AFTER JOE LOUIS
New York. Primo Carnera, tho Gft, 7in. Italian boxer, no longer has any intention of retiring. He means, morcover, to become a "Vicious Fighter."
Whatever plans he may have made in his training camp have evaporated
Milden Hall from the "Ewo" before his amashing victory over the Handicap (Unofficial), there has German Walter Neusel and Ford.
the
hotel,
been some changes in mounts, and alterations have no been made in the distance hand!-
Carnero sald, as he rested at his "I'm after Joo Louis. There's
for me, retiring
"I'll fight anyone anytime in my
cap. The following is the efforts to get a return match with the
famended list:—
Jockey.
C. V. Echford
10
Handleap.
11. V. Hopkins
Detroit Bomber."
40 Yweight champion of the world.
170 Yile.
Louls, the Detroit Bomber, is ac- cepted here as the uncrowned heavy- Front now on I am no longer a fighter and I will be vicious
150 to boxer, but
J'ony.
Itlacksmith
Bootle
K
1. T. Crowe
Ilon-Hunter
4. 201
Locksley Hall
1. G. Front
Herateh
E. A. Gaubert
110 Y
E. D, Butler
Scratch
F. R. Nicholle
170 Ye
D. L. Newblexing Berwich
1. Gardiner
110 Y
Aternoy Hi Fo Biler Fox
The Cheigh
Wdom Stru
The
оле
Italian goliath is a changed
man. He has already been nick- named the "Big Bomber," owing to
My eclections for the eight the ferocity to displayed in the ring
races are as follows:-
THE EWO HANDICAP (UNOFFICIAL)
The Chetak
Lackairy Hati
Fa
THE
CRIEEF
HANDICAP
Ristre
Great Hall
Pride of Tsingtao
THE COMRIE HANDICAP (FIRST SECTION) Tillicum
Festival Ere Boxing Eve
ST. ANDREW'S STAKES Ribble
Mistake Bay The Tiger
THE GLASGOW. HANDICAP
King's Wardqu Gladiator
Soldier of Britain
THE COOGEE HANDICAP Allas
Bubnlak Blár Shooting Star
THE COMRIE HANDICAP (SECOND SECTION) Partnership
17th of September The Rain Gauge
THE INVERNESS HANDICAP
Valorous
High Speed Soldier of China
Daily Double Event King's Warden/Partnership
ngainst Neusci.
Critics say that if he only con- tinues to be angry" he should again find himself opposing Louis.
Neusel admits that he is probably through with fighting."
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right eye was so bad after the Schmeling fight bone.
that it was opened by Six stitches
Carnera to the
were put in it.
Dr. Paul Rosenberg, who attended the German after his defeat, Brid that the injury is one of the worst he has ever examined.
Spectators at the fight saw Primo Carnera transformed into a wild man in the fourth and inst_round.
Before the fight the Italian said he would adopt new tactics.
But no one took him seriously enough to believe that he would go. berserk in the way he did..
THOSE FOOTBALL POOLS!
Post Office Revenue Increased £100,000 Each Week
Liverpool, Nov. 4. - Extra staff had to be called in to deal with crowds of men and women clamouring for attention in Liverpool Central Post Office.
And the reason whs-football pools.
It is estimated that in Liverpool' alone the Post Offies reaps a harvest. of £100,000 a week for stamps and the duty on postal orders bought by people taking part in these pools.
abreast, extended from the postal order counter to the main en- trance, and it took from 10 to 20 minutes to reach this counter,
sued more than 5,000 postal orders In a short space of time.
not dealt with, either mutally bounce of playing in regular routine. SURPRISE DEFEAT OF throuring the rush time long queues,
officially or
small point which deserves the attenquisition had been received out the same team as laattion of the Badminton Association. year. They have already lost K. L. It is not a tremendous issue, but it Goon, probably the finest player who ma has yet taken part in the local gamo, and I
fine lost to them after the
Whether this will entail thorough weakening of the team cannot say, but it is possible that the "Hall" will not be quite so powerful
K. ctpatient Sations.
without these two players.
THE CHALLENGERS
Лny
another
tween
I think I by the
am speaking for the will be E!
Asnociation.
majority of the teams when I say It is this. Under the Round Robin that a definite ruling on the point system adopted in league games only would be appreciated, and further- one team can play their first, second more that a ruling in favour of and third pairs in rotation right visiting teams would be generally thi I ough the match. The paint is acceptable,
MISS WILSON
London, Nov. 1. The defeat of Miss Enid Wilson, former British champion, by Miss Ramsden, of West Hill, yesterday by G up and 4 to play was one of the
Observation showed that the officials were so expert in handling the business that cach transaction'
the counter, occupied only 15 seconds.
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which team should have this advan- Under such a rullag the advantage tage? Hitherto it has been more or derived from playing pairs in regular teams routine would be equable as all teama less recognised that homo
one or tors, but in
two matches big consideration is to clear up once most important, and they are very lately, visiting sides have been denied and for all an annoying little point happily placed, having lost but one the privilege. As a result the home which later might develop into un-feated in the American women's cham-business being abnormal. of last season's team. He is Dr. teams added to the advantage of fortunate misunderstandings. Rodrigues. But in Eddie Sousa the
And what of their challengers.shoid extend this courtesy to visi-piny both at home and away. The biggest surprizes in women's golf for Loris from other post offices in-
Recreio "A" must be regarded as the
Mazenger's
for
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ARSENAL SECURE NEW RECRUIT
London, Nov. 6. Aston Villa bave paid a fat transfor fee for the services of Tom Griffiths, the Welsh international centre-half, (but am certain they will reap 'n rich reward, writes Charles Buchan.
will be Middlesbrough, too,
'well satisfied and will shortly enter the market for an outside-left and a full- back, for whom they have been look ing for some tinie.
last year, besides winning the Oxford- shire Senior League, they won the County Charity Cup. This year they have been eleced to the Birmingham Combination. and Central Amateur League. Under the management. of my old friend. Horace Williams, who has played for Blackpool and Hibern- ian, they have astonished the pro- fessional opposition by the excellence of their play,
There
the
Griffiths is the enthusiastic type of
WATFORD'S FINANCES player whose spirit will go long way towards the revival of the Villa..
ого few
in clubs Though it has beeh sald that one Southern Section In such a sound mian cannot make a team, I think financial position as Watford. At Griffiths will pull his new club out of the moment, after all expenses have the mire. The talent is
already
been met, their agio debt is one of a there.
2100 or
or so to the bank. There are It is not generally known that not many in the whole League which Griffiths began his career as a centre- can lay claim to a similar happy due to the forward. He was chosen to play for position. It is largely
..
the Welsh schoolboys in that position, wise management of Nell McBain,
he
but as the match did not take place the former Scottish International.
was denied n cap. On joining When McBain took over the reins Wrexham an accident led to his take a few seasons ago Watford were head- ing the contre-half berth which he over-heals in debt to the tune of Tough has occupied with Everton, Bolton and Middlesbrough..
ARSENAL'S RECRUIT
ly, £17,000. Two runs in the F. A. Cup, to the fifth and sixth rounds, and jud. cious transfers have changed matters completely, Unfortunately, Injuries
Ronald Westcott, a centre-forward have affected the team this season, or from Danbury Spencer, who has they would be much nearer the leaders,
Joined Arsenal this week, in the
first player to enter the professional: The following will represent the ranks from the Oxfordshire club, which has had an extraordinary riso C.B.A. in their Mamak Hockey fixture v 12th Batery H.A. on Sunday at Kings Park, bully off.4 p.m.-King, Stoker, Bond, Whitley, Fatmer, Blyth, Fowler (5), Whitley (T), Fowler, Bickford, Smith,
to fame.
*
Formed just over two years ago, Banbury Spencer won their junior championship in the first season, and
revealed a similar state of
long time. Not since she was de- things, the postal erdor and stamp plonship in 1933 has Miss Wilson been "Liverpool is the home of the foot- beaten in a level match by any woman ball coupon business," said an official golfer.
of ond of the leading pool firms to me Miss Ramsden, who led the Westore are over 40 football pool Hill team, gained the deciding paint
in the final round of the Star women's firms here, giving employment to inter-club tournament at Wentworth, many thousands of persons. Surrey, by this victory over Mias "Making a rough estimate. I 'should Wilson, who led the Lady Golfers say that every weck in Liverpool Club.
about 6,500,000 coupons are issued.
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