HE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1936.
LOCAL BADMINTON LEAGUE FIXTURES CONFUSION
TO BEAT THE.
HOME.
BOOK
(By "Robin"),
Arsenal
Brentford
Sunderland
Charlton Fulham Leicester West Ham Bournemouth
Clopton O. Chester Hamilton Rangers
AWAY1-
Huddersfield Doncaster Celtic
TO DRAWı-
Tottenham Luton Alŕdria
OUR FORECAST
League Games This Week
ENGLISH & SCOTTISH PROGRAMMES
Bolaserow, Shanghai Interport goalkeeper, who made a rather tragia blunder In the match against.
Hongkong last week is seen here affecting a characteristic save in a recent match.
NEW PRESIDENT FOR H.K. RIFLE ASSOCIATION
Mr. R. D. Walker Succeeds Lieut- Col. H. L. Murrow
LOCAL VOLUNTEER IS 300TH MEMBER
(By "Bulls-Ere")
|scribed inter.
One medal will be available for Riflemen in Hongkong will amliated Clubs with a membership regret to hear that, owing to not exceeding 30, two medals to Clubs pressure of work, Lt. Col. H. L. with a membership not exceeding 60, three medals to Clubs with member Murrow has resigned the Pre-slip mal exceeding 100 and four sidency of the Hongkong Rifle medals to Clube with membership ex- Association.
eceding 100.
With the English and Scottish Cups <lnished, for a wock or no, trome foot- ball returns to league matches this Saturday and there are the custom- Ary programmes in the various Eng- lish and Scottish Leagues.
Bolew will be found the special Telegraph forecast and as usual whero a team is in capital letters a
of the Kowloon Canton Railway, and out with the 8. R. (b) rifle. There irin la expected and whero no such indication appears a draw is anti-well-known local sportsman, was una no objection to these medais being
animously elected President. clpatod.
The conditions of shooting for these It is safe to say, however, that his medals is left to the discretion of the successor will ably fill his shoes. At Committee of the Rifle Clubs con
FIRST DIVISION
• Sloke
BIRMINGHAM▼ Dinekburn
BRENTFORD *
ARSENAL
Balton
DERBY
Brorton
Portsmouth
LEEDS
PRESTON
Huddersfield
Wolven
v Aston Y.
▾ Middleabro'
v Grimsby
v Manchester C.
▾ Wednesday
SUNDERLAND Y Chelsea
WEST BROMWICH ▾ Liverpool
SECOND DIVISION
Bradford
Barnley
CHARLTON
FULHAM
Tuil
LEICESTER
NOTT'S F
▼ ́ ́ BRADFORD C...
▾ Plymouth
Newcastle
v Barnsley
Blackpool
Southampton
MANCHESTER U.
Port Yalo
▼ Tottenham SHEFFIELD U. v Norwich
Swansca
DONCASTER
A
WEST HAM ▾ Bury
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH) ALDERSHOT Bristol C. BOURNEMOUTH▾ Cardiff
Northampton Southead QUEEN'S P.R.
•
BRISTOL R
บ
CLAPTON 0.
Y
V
▼
♥
T
Coventry GILLINGHAM LUTON NEWPORT
Notts C. Swindon TORQUAY
Ezoter Reading Brighton Crystal P. Y WATFORD
▼ Mittwall
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)
ACCRINGTON CHESTER
▼ N. Brighton
York
T. (Continued on Page 8.)
The
Our Daily Golf Hint
"A clean-hit, but only moderately hard-hit, ball will travel farther than a badly. hit ball on which twice as much power has been used- Jack White.
the last meeting of the H.K.R.Acer
Deli and shall be carried
that the shooting a BADMINTON
HINTS
Council, Mr. R. D. Walker, Manager bo
Mr. Walker's keenness on shooting activities is a natural one, for prlur to taking up civil life he was in the Royal Engineers, serving with them in the Great War in France, Salonika, Egypt and Palestine.
300 MEMBERS
shot for concurrently with the ordin ary Spoon Shoots, or practices, held weekly
by
the Association.
bo entitled to enter for a special' com- petition which will be held for them at the local "Bisley Meeting in 1036.
The winners of these medals will THE
Last week. I made mention of the WOMAN
fact that, owing to the great Influx
of members, the Hongkong Rifle As sociation had been forced to doubla the entrance for and annual charges, the increased fees applying to all
ATHLETE
members in excess to 800, the original BECOMES
300 members being regarded...as Foundation members and being re-) quired to pay the old scale of fees.
At the time, the membership stood at 280-odd This week it rose to above 300, the new member with No. 300 opposite his name being J. M. Xavier, of the Hong- kong Volunteer Defence Corps,
A MAN
MISS Z. KOUBKOVA NOW MR. KOUBEK
Prague, Jan. 11. Czechoslovakia's leading wo man athlete, Misa Zdenka Koubkova, is to-day a man, legally and physically.
WELL BEHIND SCHEDULE
An Unwieldy Progrmme
A. NEED FOR REVISION
(By "Veritas"),
Unless programmes can Average ten matches per week from now until April 9 inclu. sive, there is no chance of the men's doubles league badmin -ton fixtures being completed by
scheduled time this season.
Up to the present 49 matches out of 106 have been played and only another ten weeks are faft before the season officially closes. The season has reached the halfway stage precise- y with a mere 30 per cent. of the fixtures fulles.
According to the official schedule 81 matches should be outstanding from to-day until April 0 and 39 dates have been arranged for thene matches, giving an average of less than three per evening over about three evenings a week, But figures show that in. stead of 81 games being outstanding no less than 107 remain unplayed.
THE PROSPECTS
As the mixed doubles programme occupies every Friday from now until March 27 and will almost assuredly go into April, there is no chance of teams taking over an extra day each week to wipe off the men's doubles arrears and the only solution, if the fixtures are to be completed, is the extension of the season until May..
Maybe teams as a whole will be prepared to extend the season, but It is more likely that they will have had enough badminton by then and will be only too glad to give it a rest. Furthermore by that time the weather does not encourage such strenuous pastimes, and the possiblity of playing league matcher during the bo regarded "vory summer cannot
IMPORTANCEyfully by most of the players. OF SERVICE
HOW IT IS DONE
THERE are three strokes in Tthe save
in
em-
an
The position only serves to phasise what I claimed when the Ben- son started. That it is impossible to attempt to carry through such unweildy programme. The chief fac- tors which seemed to have been over- looked when the decision was made to have but one men's doubles division are that very few of the clubs con secure their courts more than twice
which aims at making the evenings coincide. The result is that where we find on one evening a week shuttle skim the net and fall eight or ton of the teams engaged, close to the short-service line; on others only two or three matches alob to the long-service line; can be played and the rest of the
teams have to remain idle.~~~~~ and the drive, a long, fast ser- vice which enters the court
THREE PROVISIONS rather far back and at an
The position which has arisen should angle.
provide a corrective for the future Make the preliminary movements and next season it will be imperative to be formed. for all three services na nearly as for two divisions possible the same, so that your op- Under such a system the following ponent cannot decide which you are provisions will be met. (a) program- going to use and move into the best mes will not be too long and teams will be able to complete them within (Continued on Page 0.) position to take it,
GOLDEN MILLER FOR THE
Actually, although 300 full mer- bere have now registered with the Association, the membership is still
Guard against little mannerisma short of this figure, owing to the de-
which wuld reveal your intentions parture of ten members of the
to an alert opponent. Some players, Lincolnshire's for India. It is prob
for example, unconsciously form the Her lawyer in Prague has just an habit of glancing at the roof before able, therefore, that the Council will deride to allow a further tone mption cessful beration Lu change, her sex serving a lob; others stand farther bers to join under the old subscription to
court to serve a drive.. before Christmas, and she has now This does not mean that you must changed her name to Zdenek Koubek, always serve from the same position, So, recovered from the operation, but that you should be able to send Mr. Zdenek Koubek to-day returned The Bronze medals, which have been to work dressed in masculino cloth any of the three types from any
position. presented by the Hon. Secretary for Ing. He is in excellent spirits after
There is, of course, no overhand NATIONAL competition by all affiliated rifle clubs, his change of sex. have now arrived. The medals bear Moanwhile the lawyer has register service in badminton. the Association badge on the obverso, the name of the winners being in
rates.
St. George's Riding School
Ma Tau Wai Road, Kowloon.
BRONZE MEDALS
BUSES 3 AND 11 PASS THE SCHOOL
Special Illuminated Track
for Evening Riding
Prospectus on application
Mr. E. Wobb, Capt. N. A. Rojdostvin
G. WILLIAMS,
Manager and Proprietor.
The shuttle: may not be higher than the uervor's
ed the change with the Bureau of waist at the moment of hitting it Vital Statisties in Prague, depositing Hold the shuttle lightly by the fen- the medical certificaten stating that
the operation was a success,. So the thors, and throw it a few inches to description of-sex on his client's orl the side, hitting it as soon as it
vertically. This is ginal birth certificate is being altered dropping
Some players! accordingly.
MILITARY SERVICE
usual method. ever, hold the shuttle until the last moment before striking it, believing that this helps them better to con-
HIS 'COME-BACK'
IS COMPLETE
London, Jan. 5, Golden Miller, greatest steeplechaser in England, ar- rived back yesterday at trainer Owen Anthony's stables at Let. combe Bassot (Berks) as fresh an though his great "come- -back" at Newbury the previous day had been merely an exer ciso gallop.
Hundreds went in a downpour to see the racing solely because the "Miller" was running.
Now Mr. Koubek, who is 21, facen- trol Its fight, the question of whether ho will have You may serve forehand or back- to make up the regular military ser-hand. Some players serve forehand vice which he escaped as a girl from the left court and backhand The mattor Is already being examined from the right court. This by the Czech military authorities. saves time in that they have Koubkova, when a woman, was not to turn round to get into position halder of the world record for 80 and for the return shot, a small polat, 800 matres, and held seven Czech but worth consideration in a fast women's records. The 800 metres game.
You have only one service, so you record was established at the White City in 1904, when she ran away must play it carefully. The shuttle from her competitors to knock 6 acc. must, of course, fall into the court Ho falled in the National last year off the record, with a time of 2 min, diagonally opposite the one from by unshipping his jockey; he falled 12 4-10 300.
which you, are serving. If it falls in the Champion Chase over the same During the 1926 season Mis on any of the lines surrounding this the following day by falling.. Koubkova resigned from the Czech court it counts as a good service, but, Women's Amateur Athletic Fedora-If you or your opponent receiving tion, and did not reveal her reasons | tho" sarvico have a foot on any of for doing so. She was not a com- } these Hines at the moment the shuttlo! petitor in any event, during the is hit, it is a fault and counts to the
opposing side.
первоп.
SEX DOUBTS OF FAMOUS ATHLETES
WOMEN MAY BE EXAMINED
many and Poland would lose two out standing athletes at present enrolled among the women.
SAME BOLD FENCER
Thousands thought he had lost his nerve for big fences. Good hornomen balloved he was merely stale,;
He proved on Monday that he re- mained the fine, bold foncer that won the public affection.
He carried nearly 18st, counting the effect of the rain. Yet he galloped and jumped as frocly as over over. a sharp two-mile course in the Andover Handicap Chasa.
The fact that certain woinön Prague, Jan. 11. athletes of international reputation As a result of the remarkable ahavo dally has been commented on, change of sex of Miss Koubkova, the, and their masculine stylo.of move Owen Anthony said that the blg Czocho-Slovak athlete, it is expectedment noted,
fellow will certainly run in the Na- here that women compotitors in all Mr. Koubek, as "Miss Koubkova" tional, doless something unfortunate Important contests may be called upon (la now called; has just appeared for | happens.
to undergo a médical æumination if the first time in the streets of Prague This automatically makes him [thole sex is doubled,
If this is done, It is declared, Ger- ly good-looking in a smartly-cut auf back" has been complete.
in men's clothes and looked striking favourite for the race. His "come-
FRED PERRY
About whom Vines makes an alarming statement.
PERRY AND TENNIS
480 MILE TORCH RELAY RACE
NATIONAL GAMES AT ADELAIDE
Centenary Plans
A most spectacular opening to the South Australian Cen- tenary Celebrations adopted by the National Games Council will be the 480 mile torch relay race from Melbourne (the scene of the last Games in 1932) to Adelaide. A team of twenty runners will take part in the race which, it it expected, will take five days.
Prior to the opening of the Games minused bands will play martial music, and the members of the Australian Olympic Federation and Games Coun- cil will be lined up at the dais to await the arrival of the Premier of South Australia (The Hon. R. L. Butler), the Premier of Australia (Tho Hon. J. A. Lyons) and the Viceregal party, when the National Anthem will be
MAY NOT PLAY played by the massed bands, the sing-
AGAIN
VINE'S ALARMING
STATEMENT -
Los Angeles, Jan. 28. Is Fred Perry, world's leading tennis player and famous English Davis Cup hero, permanently finished with competitive tennis?
former
ing being led by a choir of 1,000 sing- ers dressed in white. Then follows the singing of "The Song of Austra- lia." The march past of the contest- ants will then take place, and immedi ately afterwards the Hon. T. L. But- ler wil Invite His Excellency the Governor of South Australia (Drig:- General Sir Winston Duggan.
KC.M.G., C.B., D.9.0.) to officially declare the South Australia Centenary
Calabrations open.
OPENING PLANS
cere-
The Prime Minister of Australia (the Hon J, A. Lyons), who is chair- A disturbing statement indicating man of the Australian National Gamos such a possibility has been made by Council, will then invito HE the Ellsworth Vines,
world's
Governor to proclaim the opening of champion, now the best professional the National Games, and a fanfare of player in the universe and regarded trumpets and the firing of a salute of by many to havo no peers calther guns will follow the Governor's do- among his colleagues or amateur claration. The climax of the
mony will be the finish of the non-stop contemporaries,
torch relay race-the torch-bearer will be escorted by the full team from the entrance, and they will run round the arena to a dais where they will bo received by the Governor. The torch-bearor will then march with the full relay team to the National Games Flame Pedestal to the accompaniment of a fanfare of trumpets, and will I light the fame from the torch brought
from Melbourns.
To-day he told United Preas that English friends had informed him that a recurrence of his old back in- jury had caused Perry to cancel the Australian tour last year, and that he
cannot play for months.
competition
went
to
Bren,
bia Perhaps tennis has ended permanently.
Another Impressive feature will be the unfurling of the Australian HISTORY OF THE INJURY
Olympic Flag as the Olympic Hymn Perry, it may be recalled; Injured is sung by the massed choir, and with his back whilst competing in the the unfurling of the flag hundreds of American national championships Pigeons-will be released from this.
contre of the
A dedicatory last year. He reached the final, but address and Benediction will be dó- lost the match in four sets to Wilmer livered by the Padre to the Games' Allison, playing the last two sots in Council, and the song, "Land of Hope and Glory," will be sung, accompanied by the banda. At the clone of the physical agony. He then Australia to take over a business song Stato Flag bearers will come to appolatment and with the intention their respective positions near the and the declaration of of playing in State and the Australian i rostrum, national championships, but his in- Amatourism will then be made. Jury quickly asserted itself and he Thus the opening of the South returned hurriedly to England last Australian Centenary Celebrations
will month where he is now undergoing to celebrate the State's one hundredth mado-truly a fitting opening
thus will special treatment at the hands of a birthday,, and
South specialist.
Australians honour the memory of the Pioneers from the Homeland who, Interviewed on his arrival in Lon-one hundred years ago, braved the don Perry allayed fears by announc-dangers of the seas in tiny vessels to Ing that he was certain his back carry the Flag to a land 12,000 miles across the sea, followed by dangors would yföld to treatment and that hoand privations in an unexplored confidently expected to be fit for country, and so enabled the founda Wimbledon and the Davis Cup al-tion of the now rich productive State though he did not intend to partici- of South Australia-the Garden State nate in other tournaments beforehand. of the Commonwealth of Australia.
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