THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 24,
1936,
RECREIO BECOME BADMINTON LEAGUE CHAMPIONS
"Captain Foster" Cives
SOME ADVICE TO NOVICE RIDERS Importance Of Correct Timing: Answer To Correspondent
I have before me a letter
addressed by an ardent THE MACAO
novice who has asked me
for a formula, showing how the various quarters of a railc's gallop should be timed during the early morning try-outs, and it certainly gives me much pleasure to accede to his request medium of the Hongkong Telegraph.
through the
Let it be clearly understood that do not profess in any way to he an authority on the subject, and 14 am sure all experts will agree that un golden rule can be lauf "lown, as this is obviously a matter for the trainers. However I append below a time-table chart, which was taken al random and computed from the train- various ing times performest by
cinusc of Australian 244245 China Ponies during the months of January and February of this year. and sincerely trual that it will be a use- ful guide to all the novices,
RACE .MEETING
AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME
ARRANGED FOR SUNDAY
(By "Captain Foster")
The April race meeting under the auspices of the Macao! Jockey Club will be held at the Arcia Preta, Macao, on Sunday. First saddling bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m., and the first race
Aldershot Defeat Clapton Oriont
London, Apr. 22. Aldershot accomplished a
smart performance When
they visited Clapton Orient to-day and won a third divi-
sion (southern section) foot
ball match by the only goal scored Reuter,"
Ponies To Follow At Macao
MY SELECTIONS
(By "Captain Foster")
My selections for the six events are as follows:
AREJA PRATA HANDICAP. (THIRD SECTION)
The Werd
The Rain Gauge Rugby Star
PRAIA GRANDE HANDICAP
Merry Jester
Paymaster
Strathalan
AREIA PRATA HANDICAP (SECOND SECTION)
Popular Star
JOCKEY CLUB CUP ·
Pride of Tainglas
Valley Vien
Emergency Call
this.
And
3rl.
NE
"fast"""""
Inst
tance
(r
(2
QT
(25
Or
1⁄2 mile
Table A
I mile
40.
1.20
1,54 2.25
31.
1.05
Flyby night
39.
1.TH
1.42
31.
1.05
Great Itall
38.
1.16
1,50
31.
1.03
37. 1.14 1.48
2,19.
36
1.12
1.46 2.17
35. 1.10
1.44
2.15
34.
1-08
1.43
2.13
ai. 1.05 31. 1.05 31. 1.05 31
1.0%
34.
1.08
2.11
30.2 1.03
13.
1.06
1.39 2.03
30.
1,03
Boxing Eve Night View Mike
32.
1.04 1.36
2.03
1.01
31.
1.02 1.32
2.01
59
31.
1.02 1.31
1.59
31. 1.02 31.
1.38
1.58
28,
.56
1.02 1.30
1.57
27.
z
There seemed to exist a tendency aruong the novices to rush way i Vull speed from the barrier and they never consider for a moment the in- ortance of conserving a little speed
the final home run. No claim is made that the above chart will solve the problem, but, it will certainly Asiat novice-jockeys to improve their knowledge of judging pace, and this,' I am sorry to say, is very much ignored at the Valley.
NOT PROPORTIONATE
will be run at 2 o'clock. The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.,, will berth the 5.3. Kinshan and she will leave at 9.30 a.m., returning from Macao at 6.00 p.m.
Fairly good entries have been recniven and the handicapper has apared no pains in the allotment of weights to see all the punies finish-1 ing in a line. The trip to the Por-
from tuguese colony, apart
the
In the first place one should know that speed and energy are not pro. racing, is worth making and I hear! portionate, and it makes no differ.a good crowd will turn up.
AREIA PRAta handicAP (FIRST SECTION>
LADIES SPRINT
Soldier of Italy
R. T. 1'.
The Rala Gnoge
L. A. Silva
Back In
Hongkong
Prove Much Too Good For Eliot Hall
HOLDERS
DEFEATED BY TACTICS
LAST NIGHT'S MATCH
(By "Veritas")
In an atmosphere of un- fettered excitement and amid outbursts of frenzied applause, Club de Recreio "A" last night won the men's doubles badminton league championship when they beat Eliot Hall "A" in a play-off for the title at Taikoo Recreation Club by seven games to two.
This
is the first time Recreio-have won the men's doubles lengue, and a close the achievement brought to
successful season. remarkably They had already secured the mixed doubles and ladies doubles champion- ships.
Hot Hall, sustaining their second defeat since participating in the bad
far the most. minton lengue, were part out-played by a team, whose tacties were ideal for the occasion and whose spent allowed them to return the most difcult of shots.
Well over 100 enthusiasts made the long trip to Talkou and they sny Recreio jump away to a lung and win. ning lead as at Club de Recrein when the teams met in a normal league fixture about A month ago. The Portuguese won the first four games, thereby making victory merely n matter of time,
are
although
B
9.3·4
The Dunlop trophy for the mixed doubled division of the bad- minton league which Recreio "A" havo rotained for the second suc-
cassivo year.
SOCCER SEASON DRAGGING
WAY TO WEARY END
Club Capture Amother Good Inside Left
Hongkong league football season is
CRICKET
A GLANCE BACK Features Of The Season
LOSS OF GOOD PLAYERS
(By R. Abbit)
To every cricketer the end of the season brings a feeling of sadness, if he is indeed worthy to be called a cricketer. Tho thought that one's gear must be laid aside for five or six months is sad to anyone-though to the youngster no doubt it often seems merely a joyous pauso before the new season shall find him with his ability all im- proved.
The schoolboy may look forward to the coming of maturity when his full strength will be avaliable to practise and play the gure he has been learning to the best advantage; the young player at his full strength Jook forward to added ex- may !perience of the game to ripen his Jability.
But after that comes the time when teach
season at its end brings the reflection to older players that they will not be getting any better-or younger, until at lust the thought in- trudes Itself, is this the end not only It of the season but of my cricket?
is rather a sad time and I belleve one is much happier when the plunge is talten and the bat is put aside with the other old veterans, maybe in a sland, for good.
Yet of cricket we may say that it other stande by one longer than games, except golf, if you call that a game. And there is much to be got out of the game even when one's last Rome Is played. I for one have finished with everything but the mildest of village games I fear, but I still hope to get plenty of fun out of the game. And this is always a con- solution.
Having thus stated at some length that we have come to the end of the 1935-1936 season, let us look back upon it and consider how things have. gone. To begin with, we did our duty by defeating Shanghai, and on the whole aur selected tearn was a good representative one. As things turned out there might have been one alteration but no more. Since then matters have followed a pretty aver- cuurse. It is true that one or
Athletic will be without Mak Sui-age
LOSS OF PLAYERS.
ELIOT HALL'S WEAKNESS Once again Eliot Hall's weakness. from the base of the court was ex- ploited to the full. They encountered the same trouble in Shanghai, and it is quite clear that until they have brought their baseline game up to the same standard as their net play, they will be a target for a team such as Recreio "A", who have developed badminton these
phases of two simultaneously and
therefore much better equipped.
gain destined to drag its way to a hon (unless he has made complete his two Senior League games have not The badminton itself, always of an exciting nature, was not, weary end. According to the pro-recovery from influenza), but other been played off but that was due very up to in-wise should be at normal strength us largely to bad aveather in the last two
will be months of the season. from the purist's viewpoint, the best grainme officially drawn seen in Hongkong. Eliot Hall were clude the remainder of the season's it is expected Tsui Al-fai
the big ball available. not only disconcerted by Recreio's outstanding matches,
In any case Club need 100 per cent. tactics, but also found the occasion game is to continue up to May 13.
To u superficial observer it might from their ve remaining rather too big for them. Only in several chubs have about four games
games. It is doubtful whether they appear that the H.K.C.C. were having two ganes did they make any real outstanding, and a number of mid-success
week. games
have
beer scheduled for can attain this. They have tem rather a difficult time and perhaps in fight and the Portuguese scored
A full programme is very much easier win than anticipat the week-end, but there is but little porarily lost the services of Wilson a way they are. But there are so but have secured a worthy substitute, many factors at work-to-account-for There was a great deal of faulty interest left my championships in all so I am told, in Flexions & newcomer this. They have had an amazing run
ļof ill-fortune
It Three divisions have
decid been
in losing players. judgment in taking baseline Job There may be something of a struggle to the Colony who has played in
being week, numbers of "out" shots
for the runners-up position in the Scottishi Alliance League football, would be very interesting to compare But George Hill has decided to give list of their eleven in their first turned. But credit must also riven for some super strokes which first division. It largely depends on the game rest until next season and League Match and their last. I have at full mentioned the subject before but t whether Chub can garner a suficient
cannot be
will bear re-examination. In steady number of points from their matches, they therefore
strength.
succession they Lost Hill-Wood, Athletic, with are best placed for the
The complete programme for the Ricketts; Redmond, and Duckitt honours have only one more match to play, this being against the Police week-end and the rest of the season, After January his racing activities will be found in an adjoining column. claimed T. E. Pearce, for he is a lon in Civil Engineering. He was tached to the first game as Ellot Hall, to-morrow.
In
Steward as well as an Owner, and at however, more disappointed,
being
the end, as a Anal blow T. A. Pearce than FIVE dal races allowed unable to play very much badminton winning the spin of the coin, enjoyed
decided that he would like a little return will the advantage of playing in rotation: or tennis. is timely
Association football. I cannot In the opening event, the Arein help Recrolo in their
league tennis In consequence Recreio played Car-
sure if E. J. R. Mitchell played at all, Prata Handicap-Third Section over engagements which will be starting valho and Silva as first pair instead. of Remedios and Oliye made a
but since Christmas a serious lineas six furlongs, The Here and The Rain
very shortly.
kept him out of the game. Rugby Gauge are on level terms, but it will
claimed Frost-and then him. At
ence whether a pony runs but in theIt may not be known to owners that front az is onsed along back in the the term "jockey allowance" at Macao rene, for in the end it will balance is not the same that a novice re- 113. The ability of a pony to move crives at the Valley. There are three fast is, of course, mainly dependent
and when
ནཱ ཝཱ་
upon his formation speak of speed, we think of muscles, bones and tendons. The possession of stamina depends a good deal on the question of wind and when we talk of energy, WO consider the Jeart, lunga and blood,
DR. RODRIGUES EXPECTED
conditions attached to jockey allow and emuls player, made a welcome
ances and they are as follows:
1. A. Silva, the Recreio 'badminton
!!ฉ Colony return to the
(n) Jockeys who have not won a bringing with him his bride from
fat race whether they have Portugal. ridden in previous.flat race or not, allowed 10 lbs.
While in Europe this winter, Silva (b) Jockeys who have not won travelled all over the Continent and more than FIVE fiat races also successfully sat for an examina- allowed 6 lbs.
(c) Jockeys who have won
3 lbs.
gnined outright hees.
TREMENDOUS IMPORTANCE Tremendous importance was
The Portuguese
be
at
of
REST OF THE SEASON'S LEAGUE FOOTBALL
Below will be found the complete Jeague matches to be played between
R.K. Kowloon
Does it pay to save energy in the early running by holding, a pony be low his normal ability ? I was sur- prise to discover, when i went into the question what an interesting line of information it disclosed must not be overlooked that the faster a pony runs the faster he tires and, surely, there must be a speed limit be remembered that the former, after Another Recreio badminton absentee brilliant showing against the Varsity'n no matter how good the pony feels. cxing the Wong-Nel-Chong Stakes who will be returning this year from first string, finally running out win- As spood increases, the heart and (second section) over half-a-mile, has Europe is Dr. A. Rodrigues, former ners 21 to 16. The importance lungs are spoeding faster and how not been in the limelight. The Here Varsity cricketer. Last year Rodri- the result was reflected in the subse- Jong can this last? When the heart left the hospital quile recently andres was a regular member of the quent gamen. Oliveira and Reme, and revised programme of football A. T. Jarmain. an overtaxed, the lungs must reach last Saturday Mr. Roza galloped him Recrele "A" team, helping the team dios casily won against Llew and L, to-marrow and the end of the season thoir limit of respiration no over a mile. In company with his amount of driving or pushing by the stablemate, Seventeenth of Septem to finish runners-up in Jockey coupled with the application ber, they covered the circuit in prettyle is expected to be back in Hong- of the whip or the use of the spurs useful time and he has a good chance kong about October. will produce any more speed.
to pass the post first. There has been many an occasion The Rain Gauge is a sprint pony when runaway tactics were adopted and should be well up in the fight-! but the auccess of this kind of waring line at the finish, Rugby Star fare couki be counted with your fin-has been kindly treated and the gora and I certainly cannot vote stinker should run well in new en- against the riding of races from the vironment. Both Soldier of Italy and back within striking distance of the R.T.P., did a lot of over the sticks leader. This had been proved by the at Kwant! during the Winter and
and
second c advantage
being, that
Recreio would start session with an odd game
the league. Ellot Hall's second pair, Indications which closes on May 13.
the
AMALGAMATION OF SPORT
h
end of the
damaged
(Kown). 3.15 ankley went on leave! There
WEDNESDAY, MAY C 1st Division Elan. . . .K. Polke (Rowhon),
1 W. 1 Reynolds.
SATURDAY, MAY 9
19
season getting on for a pretty useful team in the people I have mentioned! The Club always auiter very heavily from 4.45 the claims of other games, as do the Civil Service. it 18 devoutly to be hoped that they will get along some
ome new blood before next season.
feature is the Another, but happier, recovery
Civil Service who of the
BU
Ist Division ILK.FC Navy (Clubs God), 443 pm, l. Chapman.
ILA. (1) v. H.W. Fusiliers (Saokunpowero third and had a very 4.45 p... D. Komsick.
2nd Dirkien HKP.C. 7, RW, Fisilliers (Clubs (ind), v.m., W. Caller,
good chance of being a very good third had they played their game against the Navy. Some of their Rugger men Jare coming back to the fold.
SATURDAY
fet Division Recreio were without Eddie Sousa
8. Chine". Chub de Recreio (Caroline Barros 1), 415 pm, W. R. Reynolda. in the third couple, II. A. substituting. To general surprise he W. Fullers . Kowloon (Chatham I.), and Dick Alves won their match 4.45 pm... Chapman.
It, Navy v. I, Ulater I (Causeway Bay), against C. O. Leo and K. L. Yong. 4.10 p. 3. M. Omar,
T.K.F.C. v. E Lan, R. (Club Exl), 445 after trailing for three parts of the encounter. Thoy staged a worklorful .m. W. P Payne.
and Ivalo recovery to catch up from 12-18 and
The Kowloon Cricket Club are R.W. Fullers v. 8.C.A.A. (Chatham Rd.).
F. Lan. Y. FLK.P.C. (Club Grd.Í. 4.43 usually the first to start and m., F. Huxley. Elan it. Kowloon (Kowiba). 215. P. Tayne. con-
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 · 9. MacCormac IL Uler R. v. H.K.P.Q. (Club Grd.), 3.16 p.m., A. T. Farmain.
RAS.C. and ILA.D.C. v. Eastern (Sooka poo), 4.45 p.m., T. Darke
Northern jockeys to be the best their book of form does not reveal Germany's Move: Athletically to win 31-18.
method.
anything. The former was reapon-
Federation Formed-
Berlin., Apr. 19.
"Father of German Gymnastics," over
beat
·་
SUNDAY
This, of course, made the champion-3.15 ship safe for Rocrelo. They A good soat depends upon balance sible for knocking Mr. Davis out of
tinued to dominate nid Remedios and Oliveira placed them further ahead and grip, and by a certain amount action for a good while and I under- of riding, the novice will very soon stand that the latter, R.T.P., was a
with a comfortable win over Loo and develop both his sense of balance and sub-griffin of the Tientsin Raco Club. strength of grip, Ride as far as pon-That is all I know of those two Since Friedrich Luding Jahn, the Chan
Eliot Hall snatched their first sible with a long rein, bearing, in ponies. mind that a strong seat independent Rugby Star has another engage a century ugo laid the foundations game when Llew and Lee of the roins roes a long way in the ment in the Prais Grande Handicap for athletics and physical culture in Barros and Alves, and then in the direction of making good hands. (six furlongs) which is confined to Germany, the dream of all sportsmen game of the evening Carvalho The combination of all those with only non-winning cul-grims of the Hong: has been to see all sporting activities Silva overcome Lee and Yong by a fake
single ace. make you a good horseman. In kong Jockey, Chab of this season and of the, German people brought into (Continued on Page 1) racing, a fockey, must have some good,
collaboration under one organisation. knowledge of fudging the pace to en-
This was at last achieved to-day- ably him to climb to the top of the tree and we are all aware that it is not an easy task to master,
THE TIME TABLE GUIDE
As I have said, no golden rule can
A
REMARKABLE GAME
WES
and
SUNDAY, MAY 10
1st Division
2nd Division
EL Len, IL r. W. Fusiliers (Prisco Edward B), 445. p.m., W. R. Reynolda.
The Club de Encreto, 2nd Team, are unable oil the remaining fixture. The punte therefore awarded to the following teams: Radio, K. Fotball Caster
Jat Division R.A. (L). I.K.F.C. (Club Gr§.),, 4.45 | ILA-B.C. and R.A.0.0. C.A.AY.IK Police (Carothe 1118), 5.m., W. Reynolds.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29
Lat. Division
1st Division
PORTUGAL'S TEAM FOR SATURDAY
To Meet Chinese Olympic Soccer
are
always the last. to finish with some interesting and most enjoyable all-day or two day matches, while their hospitality is unbounded. So every one is very pleased to welcome their rather unexpected win in the Senior : Shield. The Indians, who are also desperately keen (consider their in- ternal League if I may so phrase iii): carried off the Junior Shield very deservedly. It is time however that someone else won If next year.
Figures are slow in coming along but I shall endeavour to publiaha series of tabloids on the various Club. records, and also to produce an article or so during the. Summer on cricket jin general or in particular re the
home matches against India.
If a novice should be naked by the when an immenso inaugural ceremony It
a romarkable game.
12. Lan. I. v. Club de Hecredo (Chatham trainer to canter the inile in 221 took place in Berlin at the Germany punctuated by some of the best and he will see at glance that table Hall and the establishment of the Home of the worst shots of the whole 41, 446 p.m., W. H. Raymaldr
I.K. Polks. Bi. Joseph's (Kowkon) 8.15 "C" calls the four quarters of a mile German Athletic Federation was evening. Stiva's clover opening work to be timed in 38, 38, 34 and 31 formally proclaimed.
was an important factor, but it must.m. D. Komick, Ind Dirbelen
12W. Pullers. I. Ulster H. (Chatbarn Three years of patient work were be said that Carvalho was quick to seconds respectively. A careful tim
it with some telling Bd), 5.16 p.m., F. Richardson. bo'laid down as "to how the various ing of this sort capaot, under any needed to achieve the amalgamation improve quarters of a mile should be really circumstances, do any harm to the of the 300 Independent sports naso-"kílis" atki, piniondid recovery shots.
SATURDAY, MAY 2
Shanghai Portuguese sportsmen are AMERICAN BOXING Lee and Yong put up a grand fight,
felding a strong soccer team on ied; but, I am sure an owner will pony, and must be accepted na
oppose the Chinese be pleased to see his pony finishing steady cantor for a "C" claas China ciations in Germany without destroy.
1.K. Po v, Club du Recrela Kowloon). Saturday to
JOlympic Games representatives, who the last two furlongs gamely, rather Pony. For an Australian pony, the ing any of the great positive features and although in arrears up to 18,
I. Unter 1 v. R. Nary (Sockypool, will be seen here in a series of ex- than crawling the, home straight table "J" covering the mile in 2.05, already developed in the various or succeeded in levelling. Recreio then under the pressure of the whip and has the intermediate quarters to boganisations and without disturbing obtained their 10th ace, but Eliot Hall 4.45 m. H. . Smyth.
lovelled again, Setting the match
DC pun, W. P. Payne.
5. China" v. E. Lan. I (Caroline (hibition games. Saurday's game will apure. It will be observed that from run in 32, 14, 82, and 20, and this the work of physical culture.
From now onwards all athletics, with one hand out, Ellot Hall scored
be played at the Stadium in Yen. will two acos, but were then pulled back. til), 4.4 p.m... Omar. and physical culture sparte the time-labics of the chart dealg should not be too fast for any of our
H.k..OR W. Fusiliers (Club Grping Road, from 3 p.m. Portugal's nated "A" to "G" Inclusive, the last dumb friends from the Antipodes
In conclusion it is not to be ex-develop uniformly in all parts of the The score went to three all and then
Aokland, April 23. half-a-mile is to be galloped in 1.05,
ILA (8) Kowloon (Chatham Rd.), 446 Lean follows:
M. Souza, C. F. Remedios, C. Gon-
Andre Lenglet, 16 lbs., received a finishing the last quarter in 31 pocted that a neylee should be able Reich. They will be Incorporated as four all with Rocreio serving. The 415 D.The D. Krasick
salves, A. Victal, A. S. Costa, E. ineffective
"Buddy" Baer,; seconds. The object of the first half to time the various quarters within integral part of national education. final aos came after a succession of p.m., 1. Chapman
"kill"
RW. Fusiliers Eastern (Chatham 14.). Victal, R. Favacho, J. Rozario, H. C. clear decision over hoing slower is to conserve a bit of a fifth of the second, but, by follow. All sportsmen will now aim at the fast drives, doop lobs and
With the match decided interest
(captain), L. Rozario, V. 245 lbs., brother of Max Baer, in 3.18 pm, W. Brierley. the shergy and further, the nocording, the chart conscientiously be enn samo goal, train for the, samo ends,
I. Ubier R. . B.A.A (Sobkunpoe), 3.15 Colleco quarter is up the inclino "Black adapt himself, and cechow ngainat, tha and compete for the same prizes un
(Continued on Page 9),
Sousa, Reserves: E. Silva, H. Sousa, six round contest.-United Press. pn., MiscCormac. der the same rules and conditions. fallacy of running out in front.
*2nd Division
.
Lenglet Easily Boats Buddy Baer