THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1936,
SURREY BOWLERS SURPRISE THEIR CRITICS
GLOUCESTER
FOUR STUDIES OF Gem HoaHING ÎN ACTION AGAINST MISS ROUND
TWICE
DISMISSED
CHEAPLY
EXCITING WIN FOR WARWICK
YORKSHIRE LEAVE
IT TOO LATE
London, May 12. Warwickshire, Surrey and Lancashire scored outright wins in the county ericket champion- ship today, while Somerset in- flicted defeat on the All India
team, despite the visitors' fine second innings. recovery. York- whire outplayed. Essex but were denied the full reward, while Notts gained a very narrow first innings lead over Sussex, and Worcestershire had a lucky escape against Hampshire,
The detailed scores s cahiel hy Renter were as follows. 1
COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP Warwickshire (213 and 218/9) beat Middlesex (150 and 280) by one wicket.
Surrey (229 and 378/4 dec.) best Gloucestershire (174 and 19) hy 274 'runa.
Lancashire (371/7 dec. and 35/2) beat Northants (214 and 160) by eight wickets
Notts (498/8 dec and 160/6) bont Sussex (384) on first innings
beat
Yorkshire (454) beat Essex (219 and 180/7) on first innings
Hampshire (365 and 173) Worcestershire (290 and 135/7) on first innings:
OTHER MATCH
Somerset (496 and 89/1) bent All India (228 and 356) by nine wickets,
LEADING PERFORMANCES The leading individual batting and bowling performances were:
Batting Leyland (Yorks) v. Essex 263 Langridge, Jas. (Sussex)
V. Nolta
Merchant (All India)
Y.
Somerset
167
151
Fishleck (Surrey) v. Glou
cestershire
153*
Martin (Worcester) $
Hampshire
101
Paris (Hampshire) v. Wor-
cester........
83
indicates not out.
Bowling
Verity (Yorkshire),
CORNISH RUGBY XV SETS NEW RECORD
801 Points In Season
The Redruth Rugby XV has set up an English record by
The "Owdacious" Little Miss Gem Hoahing BASEBALL
ZENAKANONSKONNORCORANICHIURETANS
LEAGUE FOOTBALL ENDS THIS WEEK
IMPORTANT MATCH THIS AFTERNOON
East Lancashires and Royal Welch Fusillers will complete their second division football league programmes this after- noon, and the result will dreide the
On runners-up position, Saturday the season's. fixtures will be brought to a clone when St. Joseph's meet R.A. (1.5emun) in a first division encounter,
acoring no fewer than 801 | (COMMAMBO points during the season just
concluded. One of its players, M. C. C. Order
Faviell, scored 41 tries,
a
record for any Cornish side. In its Easter programme, Redruth defeated a touring side from Grange- town, in Wales, by 37 pls. to nil, beat the Old Leysians by 22 pts, to 5, and overcame St. Thomas' Hos- pital by 22 pts. to uil.
The team's record is all the more meritorious when it is stated that Redruth is a small town of about 6 for 3710,000 population. It has always
been a stronghold .of
Rugby, how- ever, and many of its players have been capped for.
In the which took Cond to the
t for a8
Smith fiddlesex) " Warwick
Gover (Surrey) v. Glou- cestershire
-5 for 10
Ечлех
Howorth (Worcester) vi
Hampshire
Perks (Worcester).
Hampshire
6 for 71
Wyatt (Warwickshire)
v. Middlesex
semi-final of the English counts
5 for 71❘ championship, the majority of the
players were from this title town.
5 for 89
SURREY BOWLERS ON TOP
Surrey's supporters, who have been yelling about the need for more bowl- ers, had to eat their words when the
manner Gloucester
London favourites beat Gloucester in
no
uncertain could only aggregate 293 over two full innings,
their second atten ht realising a mere 110 runs. Gover Wrought the destruction, capturing five for 40,
Leyland carried his undefeated score of 218 on Saturday to 263 on Monday before losing his wicket, but despite Yorkshire's imposing total they could not wring a victory out of Essex, who defended doggedly after a follow-on and held their opponents to first innings points.
Warwickshire's ono wicket BUCCIS against Micklesex provided the most exciting finish to any game ao far this
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WINS TEN
·GAMES FROM DOROTHY
ROUND
London, April 18. "Owdacious”. That seems to be the only adequate word to describe fifteen year-old Miss Gem Hoahing's performance in winning ten games against the fourteen of Miss D. E. Round, Wimbledon champion of 1934, and ranked equal first of. Bri- tish girls last year, at Melbury, yesterday.
It is true that Miss Round at times. forgot this same quality of audacity: had she played consistently, up in Danton's famous maxim and dared more she might have daunted her composed little opponent in what, admittedly, was for her a difficult match. As it was we had the ex- traordinary experience of seeing the young Chinese girl collect the first four games against Miss Round and then, after losing seven of the next elght, pull up to 5-all and 6-all, so that Miss Round took just over three-l
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Our Daily Golf Hint
The most important single item for consideration in-tak- ing the club back is to make certain that the club is awung back, not merely picked up or lifted with the hands.
-Bobby Jones.
HALVING
A HOLE IN ONE
GOLF'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENS
FOOT-FAULT STARTS
RULE ON SUNDAY
STILL TROUBLING LEGISLATORS
NO NEARER TO SOLUTION
For many years past the Service Rule In Lawn Tennis, or as it is more popularly known, the "Foot. fault" Rule, has been the subject of frequent and sometimes acrid dis- cussion amongst lawn tennis play. ers observes Lawn Tennis and
Badminton,
́CAROLINE HILL MATCH
GOOD SEASON IS PROMISED
tako on
Whe
That baseball in to important place among the Colony's summer
sports attractions Indicated at a meeting of the Hongkong Baseball Association
at the Europe yesterday at Y.M.C.A. The season opens on
held
day next with a match between the Japanese and Overseas Chinese, but later on, It Waa intimated, double headers would be feature. A tentative
made
for
the
arradians
In the year 1934 the International | earlier Federation appointed a Committee Japanese to open the season during
The
this week was squashed at this meet- with instructions to consider a pro-
ing when it was decided to make a posal made by the South African draw so that the season could make Lawn Tennis Unlon for altering the an official start on
Sunday. Rule, and any other proposals which outcome of the draw is the clash be
tween the Japanese and Chinese Over- might come before them, to recom-
seas, and no more interesting tie mend one of them or not to recem could head the season's programme. "Well, I'll just have to do the mend any of them, that is, to leave
EIGHT TEAMS COMPETING Cricket is in the news again. quarters of-an-hour-to-win-by-G same myself," remarked a the rule as it is at present.
No less than eight teams will parti The South African proposal was on cipate in the league including the player in a singles match atl Farnham Golf Club, Surrey, re- the face of it a simple one! It was to Americans, reigning champions, cently, when his opponent holed the effect that the server should be Japanese, Canadian, Overseas Chinese, out in one.
asked to observe one condition only U.S.S. Mindanao, Hongkong Volun and that was to keep both feet behind tears, Eastern and Puicking Univer And to the astonishment of him-the bust-line throughout the act of "Mr. Matty Chang's proposal that a self and the opponent, he did.
delivering the service, thus dispensing limit of twenty players be permitted The almost impossible in golf had with the existing prohibition against to register with a team was carried after discussion, while it was further happened. Mr. T. S. Wilson, of Larkhill Golf Club, Scotland, and Mr. walking, running or jumping.
agreed that where a new player was J. D. Lyall, of Rochampton Gỗlf Club,
Although the Rule would have been introduced, the
of the
the res- halved the 10th hole in one. The
had to be con- and there shortened, the Committee did not feel vote obtained distance was 157 yards were six witnesses to the fent.
After making every allowance for Miss Hound's quite unusual number In the 1934-35 season Redruth did A big drive to speed up English of errors in simple valleys, plain not suiter a single defent, but during county erleket this season has begun. Į drives and doublé faults, enough this last season they' were twice: New M.C.C. Instructions to all could be seen of Miss Houhing's con- beaten, their final record reading: Brst-class clubs, and umpires will tre in the drive, quickness in court and tactical gifts to convince the sceptical that she should do great things in the future.
Points
P.
36
W. D. L. F.
0 2 801 90
A.
SAVAGE ATTACK
Freddie Miller Loses Boxing Crown
over
mean-
Delays caused by rain and light cut to an absolute minimum!
Wet wickets dried-artificially, if necessary as quickly as pos- sible;
Fewer and aborter "had Night" stoppages.
The instructions, are the outcome of a recent meeting of county cap- tains,
Washington, May 11.
HELPING THE SUN Pete Sarron, the Syrian-American featherweight boxer, won the world's.
Umpires, this season, will be on featherweight championship here to the ground by nine o'clock every night when he secured the decision morning. If the wicket is wet they Freddie Miller, (Cincinatti) the must see that every effort is made to holder since 1933.
dry it. Sarron, of Alabama, won points in
Drying is no longer to be left to fifteen furious rounds in the first wind and sun. Groundsmen must title fight over held in Washington do everything in their power to get Sarron finished sensationally and pitches ready for play. almost knocked out Miller in the thirteenth and fifteenth rounds.- Reuter
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Eliot Hall "A", runners-up in the Hongkong Badminton Losgus, hod Stordin PK Chung Ki S Line IC Loại Ko Li Yong and K. Y. Lee, Sitting P. E. Tan (Chairman) C. O. Lee (captain) and R. A. Hill (Warden).' (Phatoi A. Fong).
If play is interrupted hy' raln during the day artificial means of drying the wicket are to be used 25 Boon na rain ceases.
var When bad light stops play umpires are to go out directly the light Im- proves at all.
county captain said: "We are out to put a stop to wasted time in cricket.
"If we don't study the people who pay to see a day's cricket there will be no county championship ten (years hence.".
IN AUSTRALIA-
MAN OF 71
WINS 100 YDS. SPRINT
99TH WIN SINCE HE WAS 60
Gravesend, Apr. 18. This in the story of an athlete who never says die.
Mr. S. Flinn, who is 71 and a con- riderable bit, to-day won his 29th race since his 60th birthday. The event was the 100 Yards Veterans' - Open Handicap at the eighth spring athletic and cycling meeting of the Imperial Paper Mills Sports Club held at the Milton-road ground. Although the weather was bitterly cold a large crowd attended to cheer Mr. Flinn to victory.
Flinh said after the race, "and that
Six previous cases of a hole being halved in one in a singles match are recorded. They were:-
1919.-At-Forest Hills, New Jersey. 1923-St. Augustine's, Ramsgate, 1927. Royal Bastbourne. 1929. Scraptoft, Leicester. 1933-Colwyn Bay,
Following the Forest Hills, case, one of the players offered a bet of 22,000 to 58, against the feat being repeated in his lifetime.
that there was simplification, because the new proposal would make it more difficult of administration by umpires and linesmen.
of Canton.
pective league teams r
before the player could take the field. Caroline Hill Diamond will be the venue for the league matches, and be- cause of its spacious area, bir. Matty Chang suggested that if a player hit the ball out of the ground it should automaticason which followed was count as a home run. The
PROPOSAL DISCARDED The South African proposal was discarded, and the International Com-lengthy but finally the suggestion was defeated, the meeting agreeing mittee, of which Mr. Jean Borotra is that every hit had to be run out.. himself a member, scitied down to consider all and any proposals which
LIST OF MANAGERS were made to them and of which
Managers responsible_for the ful- details were published in this journalfilment of all league nxtures were announced 43 follows: Americans and Cisewhere.
(Mr. T. Thompson), Japanese (Mr. Š. Salto), Overseas Chinese (Mr. Matty Chang) Canadians (Mr. W Muir), HLK Volunteers (Mr. E. Porter),
(Mr. L Chi Leung), Pulching Academy (afr. T. Kim) and U.S.S. Mindanao (Mr. C. Horton).
LOVELOCK
TURNS TO
Eastern BOXING
Wins Featherweight Title
London,
The auxiliary line, a narrower ser vice court, a shorter service court and other proposals were discussed and
discarded.
OFFICIALS
Confirmation of
The Committee met again in Paris on March 18 this year, and after a Following a suggestion from the prolonged discussion. a majority of chair, it was decided that probable the Committee consisting of Monsieur line-outs of the teams bo published Borotra, supported by Lt-Com-
the game mander Ben Wyatt under Instructions on Thursday before from the United States Lawn Tennis was scheduled to be played. It was intimated; that arrangements "I have only ono ambition now," Mr. į J. Lovelock, the New Zealand run- Association, decided to recommend to are in hand for the issuance of is to win my hundredth ovent in the ner and one of the world's greatest the International Federation that two score cards on the ground to en- milers, is now featherweight champion alternatives should be considered, otle able spectators to keep an active in- It is now taken for granted that near future. After that I shall not of the London hospitals. In winning of which would allow jumping and terest in the games, and it WAS Don Bradmon will coptain the, Aus- take things seriously."
the title he showed a very good re- the tralian side to tour England in 1837.
and running as well, in other words, bored to facilitate matters Bradman, leading an Adelaide Mr. Flinn won his race in 1045 purtoire of, blows, but he said after und uner would permit of walking also decided that players be num
the original South African proposal round. Acam on an up-country Easter tour, seconds, but, if truth must be told, he words that he much prefers running. stored centuries. In successive received 33 yards' start. A member "My greatest ambition is to keep all over again. matches, took five wickets for tour of the Veterans' Athletic Club, he clear of the ring" he said. "I am The International delegates were teen runs one day, kept wicke the began his athletic career as a member going into training for the Olympic not enamoured of the suggestion that
the appointment next, slumping twe batsmen.
of the Essex Beagles and in those Games soon and I intend to compete two, alternatives should come up for of Mr. W. Muir as President of the days his events were not limited to the in most of the big running events this discusalon at the meeting to be held local body was passed unanimously sprints..
Lovelock also expressed, the in 1937, and the Committee was re- and with acclaim, following which "Tstill And the old fashioned stand opinion that it would be a great fear appointed (Its constitution is publish- Mr. T. Thompson was appointed
ed elsewhere in this issue) with in- Honorary Secretary
for the ensuing ing start best," he said, "and I think for milers.***. old men who use the modern crouching By his win' at the Stadium Lovestructions to submit one proposal and year.
Regarding umpires, it was de position are mistaken.. But possibly lock helped his hospital, St. Mary's one only for altering the rule.
elded that the-procedúro in vogut if I wore young I might look at it to tie for first place with London
The fact is that neither the Com-last season be readopted, which differently."
Hospital..
mitice nor anybody else has yet found allows for a neutral "player" um Conditions on the ground werä so
Lovelock gained his boxing Blue at a solution which commends itself pire to take charge of games. I New York, May 12.
alow that D. 3. Horne, the famous Oxford. He is being trained now by generally to the lawn tennis world, was ales tentatively agreed upon Nunez, 117 lbs., from the Philippine Polytechnie racing cyclist, was unable the famous old time lightweight, and until something is found which that efforts be made to obtain non-
Owing to his medical does give universal antisfaction,
would be Islands, knocked out Angelo Mugnolo, to concede the Immense handicap of Malt. Wells.
It playing umpires, who
alternativ 114 lbs., of Brooklyn in the second 210 yards in the mile race and gave studies. he will start training for will be far better to leave the exist- willing to umpire, on
Sundays. round United Press.
up after the second lap..
ing rule alone. running later than usual this year.
AMERICAN BOXING
Nunez, Knocks Out Mugnolo
SEASON."