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HOW HAVE I. R. C. MANAGED TO GET SEVEN HOME MATCHES?
(By R. Abbit)
YACHT RACE TO COURSE IMPROVEMENT
MACAO
WON BY MR. E. COCK
FOR SECOND TIME
New Railings Constructed
For Valley Race Track"LIMBER"
By the time the Annual Race Meat- ing, which will be held on February 22, 21, 26, 20 and 20, comes round, oficials of the Hongkong Jockey Clube Mr. E. Cock, sailing his own ketch, change of railings round the tracks
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completo Macao and back for cruisera, belong- Sea Lark V, won the annual race tont Happy Valley will have been made.
Owing to the incidence of Christmas holidays and that sort of thing I am afraid that my Cricket Notes have got a bit astray, However, these will, I hope, be in print being to members of the Royal Hong. fore noon on Saturday. There is not very much however
to deal with that is not old newal
The Club and Army match will be continued at 1.30 p.m. (und not at 2 p.m. as I stated yesterday), but an, I said yesterday there is little chúnge of a decision unless, there in a collapse somewhore. The feat of J. P. Williams, their regular number one bat, and C.S.M. Elvin, their regular number eleven bat, in put ting up a hundred and six runs for the first wicket is really remarkable, though of course, had the Club field- ing been in anyway up to form it. would never have happened. I have seldom
Reen dropped catches RO penalized.
LEAGUE GAMES
Wong & Khoo Win Manila
Yacht Club, repeating his feat
of last year..
Actually the U. and I. sailed by Mr. H. S. Rouse, was the first to Стоям the finishing line, followed closely by Ln Cigale (Mr. N. Croucher), but the Sen Lark V won on corrected time.
The elapsed time for U. and I was 15 hours, 21 minutes and 38 seconds, while that of the La Cigale was 16 hours, 23 minutes and seven seconds, It will be noticed that the corrected times run very close.
In former years the tracks were fenced by wooden railings which, be-
.
cause of their size and unwieldiness, they did not provide the course with were not very satisfactory in that easy bends. With the view to im- proving the course, the Jockey Club changed the rulings on track some time ago.
the grass
Instead of using the same type of round posts, the Jockey Club made them thinner and square, and the
instond
This arrangement, used hitherto on the grass track only, has proved satisfactory and it was decided re as well. It is hoped that by the to have it the sand track time the annual race carnival takes place all the railings will be of the new type.
hupports were of iron Tennis Title
METROPOLITAN DOUBLES
Manila, Dec, 24.
Conditions were ident for the race, which is an annual event for the Potts Challenge Cup. All the competitors considered this year's race one of the Anest. Mucno races ever sailed. Khoo Hoo Hye and V. T. Wong Sixteen yachts started for the race visiting tennis aces of the Shanghal as compared with 16 fast year, and Tennis Club, won the 1936 Metropoll-only one, Cherub, wailed by Mr. I. W.
did not finish. ship yesterday afternoon, defeating
wood.
cent
of
tween the IR.G. (at home) and the tan men's tennis doubles champion- S. Rouse has kindly presented al from the bend into the straight, was
In another corking match of thei
Azuma
00.15.38 (Mr. E. B. Lambert) Monsoon ... 02.13.17
(Mr. H. W. Dulley)
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00.13.36
00.42.41
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00.58.48
02.37.26
(Mr. A. G. Dalziel)
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As far as I can make out the only
keep the race track in ns good a con- No efforts are being spared to Senior League Gone is the one be-
dition as possible. During the last Civil Service. The game, as shown
few meetings a portion of the track, in the C.S.C.C. car was fixed on their Guillermo Aragon and Mauricle clock as a prize for the first yacht reserved in order to give the grass a ground on December 1 and I do not Zamora in an interesting four-set over the line. The winner on know whether there has been a mix match at the Laong Lann courts. currected time and the U. and I not this reservation has now been taken chance to grow. The rail marking up or whether the game has just The local pair succumbed to the being eligible-Mrs. Rouse is the out, thus affording a wider bend for been postponed. It seems curious visitors by the scores of 1-6, 6-3, 6-3, wife of the owner of the latter graft the annual races, when big fields are that it has been transferred to the and 6-2.
the clock was therefore won by Mr. expected Sookumpoo ground. In
N. Croucher with La Cigale.. some murvell. ous way the Indians have arranged that all their seven league matches afternoon Minda Ochoa, national The results follow: will be played at home! I should, woman singles champion, added the
confess, to know how it was
1936 Metropolitan women's singles
Finishing Corrected) worked. It is becoming clearer and tournament to her tennis triumphs
Time
Time clearer to me as the season goes on by defeating Irmgard Baumann, Sea Lark V that either some central authority and 6-2. Although outclassed by her U. and 1.
23.13,21 set to 1. The scores were 6-4, 4-0
22.17.10 Mistral has got to take hold and run the
(Mr. E. Cock) League-competently, (and this in- opponent. Misa Baumann put up a
22.51.38
22.31.40 Quest A HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR. vulves arranging all fixtures, or else and fight. With Miss Othon lead Typhoon 00.13.32
(Mr. H. S. Rouse)
(MF that it had better be washed out a)-ing, 4-0, in the second set Mian Bau-
22.33.11 Sai Long together. This "Polly come and have maan staged a brilliant rails, win La Cigale 22.5:1.07
15. Lender Kenry)
22.63.07 Cutty of fixing things ning six games in a row to win the WRY
(Mr. N. Croucher) ruluing the intreg them all is set.
in the game.
****** 00.41.58
22.58.46 Tern The only other game of which I have any information is League one between the K.CC., nt home, and Crafgengower. Both home sides should win, I think. Griffiths match of the men's double competi is back and may be playing for the tion. The Chinese players forced the C.S.C.C. but I was horrified to hear local combination to err most of the that he is still hankering after Rug-Way by their lobs. ger. I thought he had grown out of it, especially as he did uncommonly the first set, 1-0, Aragon and Zu- well at home at the game, scoring, I mora retaliated in grand fashion. believe, very nearly a thousand runs in good Club cricket. It is really mora's clover work at the net and heart breaking the way the claims of the local pair to win six games in political convictions. The
Aragon's timely placements enabled Rugby have ruined so many useful succession and the set. The Chinese Roman Catholic, Protestant, Com cricketers. It la a good enough game combination started
in fact perhaps the best up to
strong in the munist, and Socialist sport clubs, twenty-five or so, if you have only a
second set, winning the first three many of which played within exelu-
appeared.
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Nazi Organisation Of Sport
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strictly
Bonn University complained mourn- fully the other day that his students were compelled to spend too much track. time on the playing field and running
dilettante turn for cricket, but after | Kames. From then on the scores sivo. langues, have almost all dis-sport among the workers is being
then I am inclined to call cricket the better game.
+
"JUNIOR LEAGUE C.S.C.C., Police and University are all at home, their opponents being respectively I.R.C., Craigongower and H.K.C.C. Apart from the Police (if they can field a full team) I think home teams will lose,
fast pace. seesawed with both pairs selling a The locals cracked when Zamora double-faulted twice in a row during his service and the Chinese annexed the set, 6-3,
putting
MORE PLAYING SPORT
BIG ORGANISATION An Interesting attempt to foster
mindo by the, Kraft Durch Froude (Strength Through Joy) organis tion, which is affiliated to the Nazi Labour Front, successor to the Trade Uniona. This organisation has open-
In the early days of the Nazi re- volution the Reichsaportfuhrung had Play in the third set
to concern itself to santo extent with ed 48 Sport Offices, each with a mim, closer with the local pair
was much the organisation of the then very ber of branch offices, in different forth a fine come back. The Chinese popular Gelandesport-a euphorism parts of the Reich. With all won the set, 6-3. In the fourth set for cross-country activities closely time staff of more than a thousand
resembling the visitors had things their own With the introduction of conscrip organising games and gymnastics in
military
manoeuvres, instructors, the Sport Offices way and took the set at 6-2 to caption and the real thing, Gelandesport 350 towns and villages. Workmon the match and title.
bus virtually ceased. Indeed, the are enemuraged to compete for the
And
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had intended to say a few words about the Army and Navy match but it la by now such ancient history that I will merely remark that all went Last Saturday Khoo and Wong War Ministry has asked the Reiche Reich Sport Badge. In the south according to pinn. Branwell did not defeated Leopoldo Calixto and Jose sportfuhrung to discourage Gelandes- many are being taught to ski and come of-be never seems to do so M. Burredo, 0-1, 6-1, 6-0, to enter part wherever found; military now against useful bowling, and the the finals, while Aragon and Zamora ing, it is
ta firmly claimed, la the-nte.
su, compelled to participate Navy were badly beaten. I know it cked out clone victory over Marlano undisputable prerogative. Neverine in sport while at school and univer was only five wickets but the Army Servillon and Rodrigo Dinz, 0-4, 7-5, fess, one
still hears
many people sity, given every opportunity and en- second innings was not very serious | 7-5.
advocating sport because it helps to couragement to keep it up after he and the order was reversed. I will
make the playerwehrufting, or, has begun to earn a living, and har- finish the Club-Army Match on
plainly speaking, a a better soldier. dened by six months in a labour camp Tuesday...
There is
is no doubt that as a result and twelve months military, service, of Nazi supervision and encourage the German of the near future will ment many more Germans are taking) be a a vigorous and
and hardy porson. Or, part in sport to-day, did two as many Germans prefer to put it,
than
ALL BLACKS TEAM
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London, Dec. 27.
F
PATAUDI AND NEXT YEAR'S TESTS
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or three years ago. Boys and girls he will be truly wehrhaftig. are compelled to play games at school. Germany is anxious to prove hor Nearly all but a few are members of new devotion to sport in the organ- IF NOT, YOU SHOULD
orisation of the Olympic Games, for
the Juyvolk, the Hitler You which which preparations are being made COMMUNICATE WITH THE
the League of German Girls,
A formal application has been re-organise for them still more games wi
mes with typical Nazi thoroughness and ceived by the Board of Cricket Control and athletic contests. On October 1 stagecraft. Army sappers are build. HON. SECRETARY naking that the Nawab of Pataudi, sport became compulsory for all ing the village at Doberitz, where the The All Blacks Rugby XV against matches
whe has played for England in Test university students. According to competitors are to be housed in C/o MESSRS-- *.
should be allowed to play the first draft of the law, the stu- monastic seclusion England at Twickenham on January for
from autograph
Oliver; Mitchell, Cunghey, Tindili,
things, to learn how to a light
In a specially chartered aero- Without special permission Pataudi rifle. With the return to conscrip- plane from which flutters, the Olym- Corner: Lambourn, Hadley, Hore, in the circumstances cannot play for tion this part of the law was revised ple Games flag, the Reich Sport Manchester, King, Reid, McClean, and his native country.. an dthese will be converted into local
But the university student is com- Leader is dying from capital to Consent to this application is now pelled to acquit himself as an all-capital to lecture on the forthcoming Mahoney.Reuter
purely a formal matter.
round sportsman. A Professor of games.
I will be represented by Gilbert: Ball. Fear's Tests. England. In next dems were expected, among other hunters, imprudent ments, and late Linstead
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