THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1936,
YESTERDAY'S TENNIS RESULTS
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FAVOURITE
Eve-Of-Derby Betting
London, May 2.
Eve of the Derby call-over found Pay-Up restored as first favourite this evening followed by Tajakhor and Noble King. Pay-Up was quoted st 0 to 1 and Tajakbar at 100 to 14.
6 to Pay Up (t and 6)
Tajakbar (t and o) Noble King (1 and o) Boswell (1 and o) Balahissar (t and o) Mahmoud (t and o)
Star (o) 28
Carioca (t and o)
100 to 14
15 to 2
8 to 1
100 to 8
100 to 7
25 to 1
Barry Bar
29 to 1
28 to 1
33 to 1 (t)
23 to 1
35 to 1
His Grace (t und o}
40 to 1
40 to 1
Abjer (and «)
A. Hyda-Lay, who with N. J. Debbington, yesterday advanced in the Colony lawn bowls pairs cham toplonship.
Midstream (0) 33 to
1 (t) Thankerton (v)
Couvert (t und 6)
Haeburn (4 and of
Fearless Fox (0) 56 to 1 (1)
Bela Ethel (and n)
Magnel (t and o)
Haulfryn (t and o)
45 to 1
G5 to 1
G6 to 1
Walvis Bay (t and ol
100 to 1
Mendicant Friar (Gund
o) Squadron Castle t and o) Spinnlot (t and
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BETTING POOL
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Thousands of pounds in cheques, money-orders
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and postal-orders
:
Telephone Unes blocked from morning Bli mleht:
Staffs working until the small hours of the morning,
These facts point he amazing sequel to the story of the £200,000 Derby Pool promoted by Tote Inves tors Ltd.
£00 worth of pool tickets.
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Want to Sell £20,000 Men
Aston Villa, "Bank of Eng land" football team to be rele- gated to Division II of the
placed League. have
players valued at £20,000 on their trans- ~Fer-listr
Last season Aston Villa pald about 243,000 for star foot. halters in an effort to stay in Division I.
Among players now "for sale" arc:
bought for
James McLuckie, left half,
£6,500 from
an-
chester City in 1934;
Jamca Gibson, full back. £7,500 (then record fee) In 1927. Daniel Blair, full back. Has captained the Villa,
Cost
All three are Scottish Inter- nailonais,
CORRESPONDENCE
Concerning K.C.C. v. U.S. R. C. Tonnis
The Sports Editor,
Hongkong Telegraph.
cornments
POINTS FOR CLUB DE RECREIO, K.C.C. AND I.R.C.
AS
Senior. Division league tennis for the current season opened yes- terday with three matches in which results went according to form. K. C. C. only just scrambled home on their own courts against South. China, but Indian Recreation Club and Club de Recreio gained comfortable wins at the expense of U. S. R. C. and H. K. C.C. respectively. The club "Derby" encounter between the Chinese Recreation Clubs was postponed. Special reports of the matches. will be found on this page.
K.C.C. NEARLY CAUGHT
NAPPING
GOOD IMPRESSION CREATED
BY SOUTH CHINA A.A.
(By "Veritas")
If ever a team, apparently starting the match with a false sense of security, had to fight with their backs to the wall to save tennis league points, it was the Kowloon Cricket Club yesterday when they met South China Athletic in the first "A" Division encounter of the season.
Finally, after K.G.C. supporters bad-heen-given-some-very-palpitating moments, K.C.C. won by the odd act, They took the points and South China
the honours.
Possibly everybody, suve the losing players themselves, was surprised at the opposition offered by South China, If their third string had been on any- thing like a par with the other couples the Chinese would have reversed the result.
Indians Win Without Rumjahn
VERY CREDITABLE DISPLAY
When it was known that Sirdar
Details Of Yesterday's Matches
Below will be found the detailed! results of yesterday's "A" Division league tennis matches, the first being which Recreio Recreio v. H.K.C.C.
won by 4 pts to 214.
A. V. Remedios and J. Gonsalves (Recreio) beat T. A. Pearce and D. M. McDougali 7-6; bent G. W. Sewell and 11, Owen Hughes 6-2; beat E. Bathurst and Hanison T-6.
C. A. Barretto and A. V. Gosano (Recreio) bent Pearce and MeDou- gall 6-3; lost to Sewell and Owen Hughes 10; beat Bathurst and Hand non 6-2.
F. J. Remedios and II. A. Barros (Recreio) lost to Pearce and Mc- Dougall 3-4; drew with Sewell and Owen Hughes 6-0; bent Bathurst and Hanison 0-3.
KOWLOON CC. v. SOUTH CHina
E. C. and E. F. Fincher (Kowloon C.C.) beat W. H. Ho and K. II.
EXPECTED
A. H. Madar, who played ex- tremely well for 1.R.C. against, U.S.R.C. in the tennis longue yester, day.
EXCITING CRICKET RESULTS
Outstanding Feats
NARROW WINS
London, May 25. There were some exciting finishes to first class cricket matches to-day. Leicestershire beat Warwick by one wicket after being in arrears on the first innings. Gloucester also scored by a similar margin over Glamorgan.
Cambridge beat the Army by five runs in a low-scoring match, and the biggest success of the day was en- who defeated joyed by Derbyshire
Geary, with a total of 13 wickets for 43 runs was the hero of the Warwick-Leicester match, while other
Holles of Warwick who altogether took 10 for 58 and Mayer, who cap- tured & for 19.
Wong 6-1; bent F. N. Wong and Sussex by an innings and 25 runs.
Ip 6-3; beat K. F. Lui and II. K. ilo 6-3.
F. Grose and A. E. P. Guest (Kowloon C.C.) beat Ilo and Woog to Lai and Ho 4-6.
of play which is ideal for these jeague Rumjahn was indisposed, 1.R.C. pros-6-4; lost to Wong and Ip 4-6; last bowlers in this remarkabio game were
There was nothing, effervescent about their type of tennis, rather they relied on a sold, though active method matches of short single sets. Lobbing, never vory much favoured by K..pects of beating the U.S.It.C. at King's players, was cleverly exploited by the Park yesterday suffered a slamp overhead and on the But the Indians came up trumps and Chinese, while volley they were superiors to all of despite the handicap managed to beat the home team save the Fincher the United Services by 0% sets to 2%. brothers. Only in ground strokes did the K.C.C. enjoy any advantage and while they could keep the opposition on the run with widely angled drives they were in the ascendancy.
THE "KEY" MAN
He wanted the telephone girl tooly, oplatons-do-vary-and-every-fine-length--lobbing. -
the
10.
Rather better form was expected from the U.S.I.C. But for Goldman and Sullivan they would have suffered a debacle. Neither of the other two pairs appeared to be up to senior divi sion standard, though lack of systemu.
G. Bodiker and G. Clarke (Kow- loon C.C.) beat Ho and Wong 6-2; lost to Wong and Ip. 5-7; lost to Lui and He 4-6,
U.R.S.C.. INDIAN RC,
H. D. Rumjalin and A. I. Madar (Indian R.C.) drew with Goldman and Sullivan G-6; bent Bishop and stafar Withington 6-0; beat Brewer and Stapleton 0-1.
M. O. Hoosen and T. D. Pereira (Indian It.C.) lost to Goldman and
Sullivan 3-6; beat Bishop and Major Withington 0-2; best Brewer
Stapleton 0-4.
and
The complete results together with ments were cabled by Reuter, and leading baiting and bowling achieve follow,
COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
Leicester (108 and 104/0) beat
Warwick (133 and 78) by one wicket. Derbyshire (387) beat Sussex (129 and 233) by an innings and 26 runa. Somerset (262 and 31/0) beat Ner- thanty
(138 and 157) by ten wickets. Lancashiro (332 and 103/3) beat -Worcester (292-and-250/6--dec.) on
first innings.
THE BEST AMATEUR GOLF FINAL
Play to Make a Professional Envious
Harry G. Bentley, the 29- year-old international golfer, added to his long list of triumphs by winning the Eng- lish Amateur Championship at the Royal Cinque Ports course, beating J. D. A. Langley, the 18-year Stowo schoolboy, after the best final in the 12 years' _history of the competition.
Some idea of the superlative play may be judged from the fuel that When George Duncan won the Open championship on this course in 1021 only two professionals, Durican and Len Holland, beat 72 in four rounds. Yet Bentley returned a 72 for the
first 18 holes, with Langley only (wo
strokes more. Amazing is the only word for such a performance in windy conditions, sufficiently trying to test the beat of players.
Although Dentley deservedly won, chief
honours went to Langley, the youngest player ever to have taken part in a major championship.
After a shaky start, he showed such determination and ability that until the later stages it was touch and
There has been no more
go whether he would snatch a thrill- ing victory. gallant loser.,
made
It is difficult to put into words the superb assurance and self-control of. this remarkable youth. He putted perfectly and throughout the day only two mistakes, aguist which he holed many ticklish putts of from two to eight yards. Bentley, too, putted beautifully. In fact, the work on the greens would have put to shame most of our professionals.
A
TOO CRICKETER,
Langley 1103-
Though both the finalists are dis- ciples of Henry Cotton, having been cooched by him during the winter, the
Je Game provided contrast in styles. The tall, slender Langley, bracing his left leg and making the greatest use of his height, employed three-quarter
controlled
slow,
swing, with a high follow-through,
whereas, Bentley, of average build,
crouched well over the ball and punched it with a full, rhythmic
swing.
played golf Bince he was 24 years of age. He has had plenty of opportunities for practice both at home, chipping and putting in the garden, and at Slowe, one of Somerset gained a ten wickets win the few public schools with 'n mine- over Northants after scoring 262 in hole course of its own. It is not his the first innings and enforcing a enly game. When he returns to follow-on, Notta only just sccured school to-morrow he will resume his Apart from Goldman and Sullivan
first innings points scoring 303 to 5. A. Ismail, and M. I. Razack Hampshire's 90. But the outcome
duties as cricket captain and will the U.S.R.C. pairs could make little hentway against the forceful tactics (Indian R.C.) lost to L. Goldman was never in doubt as Notts proceed-continue to play both games when at
Cambridge. of the visitors. The Soakunpoo club and A. L. Sullivan 2-0; beat Bishoped to rattle up 238 for one wicket hnd
in their second knock. reason to feel satisfied with and Major Withington 6-3; beat display of on
Brower and Stapleton 0-1. Pereirn who won two of their three In F. N. Wong and C. P. Ip, South: sots, but chief Conours went to H. D. Sir Certain
by China boast a first couple who will Rumjahn and A. H. Madar who com "Veritas' on the U.S.R.C. versus hold their own against anybody in bined in great style to win one set Britain has gone pool crazy. The seem to call for a reply from the key" TA
K.C.C, tennis match in to-day's paper the Colony. Ip yesterday was the to love, another to one and to drav
Stress has
man, his splendid smashing, six-all with Goldman and Sullivan. telephones at the firm's offices are been laid on the absence from the
volleying and. nice sense of constantly ringing. When betting on K.C.C. team of Miss Mackenzie and
and tactics being primarily responsible for the Thousand Guingas was at its the limited display of Mrs. McCaw. the winning of two sots. Wong, apt height a man rang up and asked for It might have been better that the to bring the racket head through too comment had been left out of your early committed volleying mistakes readable criticism. Ad- but usually made amends with his take down 040 combinations of horses one is entitled to their own but when
-1,200 names--all in longhand.
aired through the columns of the K. F. Liu and H. K. Ho, second Another cllent has taken £250 press they sometimea
a more sustained convey more string, preferred worth-or 2,000 combinations. than a mere opinion. As an interest attack, but they were not always con ed spectator of the match and having fident when going la on the volley and discussed the merils of the various experienced difficulty in countering players at considerable length after the hot drives of the Finchers and the match-both with other spectators with
players and Bodiker. But they were tenacions and sound Lounts clearly knew most of the moven. now
took nots They
from Bodiker and knowledge the general
Was worth her inclusion in. the team holding the Fincher pair up to They are the people who have as third lady player and that on her three-all. crammed to overflowing the firm's display she should be kept in the team
W. H. Ho and K. H. Wong lost of pounds *** post bags. Thousands have been received from people in pinco of Miss Mackenzie. This of
course In a matter for the K.C.C.all three sets, but how near they went tennis selectors to decide but many do to beating Guest and Grose only those think Mrs. McCaw is worth trying two players really know.
time the K.C.C. couple were 2-4 in again in the next match.
arrests, but a sudden return to top Thanking you for publishing this form by Grose enabled them to re- cover and win the next four games. Even then the visitors saved three set points on Guest's service.
Though they were vory keen on
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All the same, in view of 8 A. Rumjahn's absence, the result was a distinct triumph for the 1.R.C., who already give te impression of being
powerful much more during the last three or four years.
peared to be that Mrs. on Clarke and Guest and Grose as weh A. V.
But most of that money must be returned. Only clients of the firm can do business through the post. The ordinary public must get its opinion. tickets at the totes on the race- courses.
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REMEDIOS
Plays Brilliantly For Recreio
GOSANO'S SERVICE
BRITISH-
GOLF RESULTS
St. Andrew's, May 26, The feature of the accond round of
Open the British Amateur
Golf Championship which concluded to- day was the defeat of the favourite Bobby Locke of South Africa by Morton Dykes (Scotland) by one up. Another former South African champion, Bernard Wynne Was beaten one up by Penning of Oxford, Jack MacLean of Scotland bent John de Forest, winner of the 1933 titte by 3 and 2, Rex Hartley, Walker Cup nlayer beat James Stout, another Walker Cupper by 2 and 1.
More than 200 firms of bookmakers, match play, however, appeared to be conclude me it was possible to formerly of Rotherham beat John
Th!s chief disadvantage. ogents, have opened accounts with promises to be rectified during the Tote Investors, Ltd., for their clients. next few months,
NOT AT THEIR BEST
Club do Racrelo's strength was not fully tested by the H.K.C.C. yesterday when they met at King's Park in an homesters had "A". Division match, and once the obtained a winning
Other results were:-J. C. Cowley strokes to make their net excur- load, they eased up considerably, slons successful. Inexperience of
that they will be even more Woolism, ex-English champion onc formidable this year than last. including the leading commission their
A. V. up. Captain Stevens beat Lister Remedios continues to make
Wolker Cup player 2 and 1. Hartley, steady
Other winnere included Jim progress and in this match he was Ferler, the Australian and former the cleverest and most able player
and boy,
the British on view, Remedios, who has made a Shanghai deep study of court-craft utilised his Waller Cup players, Tony Torrance, knowledge to the, best effect, con Dr. Tweddell, Leonard Crawley, and tinually scoring outright. with de Eustace Storey, lente placements after involgling his Outstanding results In the third opponents out of position.
J. Consalves was an adequate Roger Wethered's defeat of game as an individual, but ho and Her, effecting amart intorceptions. Blcomer of Grimsby by 4 and 3, the will beat this pair in the league. success of Lula Arano, Spanish A. V. Gorane, at varying intervals, champion against K. Patrick of brilliant, poor and indifferent, mado land by 3 and 2, the elimination of full use of his powerful and accurato J. Black (Wales) by Frank Svroggie Clarko, playing in his first senter service and continually scored aces. of South Africa by one up, and the divíslen match, appeared to
Barretto ployed at a somewhat more victory of Hector. Thomas,
Walker lelsurely tempo. nervous of himself, and consequently
Cupper over James Brock of Scot-' Barros and F. J. Remedies have land by 7 and 5-Reuter.. did not play so well ho
ALS Nevertheless a little freer use of the been in better form, and Recreio will fost in receiving service and a tight their mox important engagements.
er hepa for some improvement here for the racket when volloying, would nossibly make nun importan
Have Rebuilt
McAvoy May
Right Hand
(By Henry Rose)
Jock McAvoy, British middle-weight champion, may have his right hand rebuilt. That would keep him out of the ring for six months..
I trust I shall not be accused of hyper-criticism when I say that K.C.C. were not at their best. As com bination only Teddy and Ernie Fincher approached anything like true form. Once again Bodiker played a rico Practice in order to settle down into a workman. like and efficient pair.
Clark will need lots of
bo
can.
I have seen ine specialist's re-regrafied to form a completely new port based on an X-ray examination, hand. of the Injuries McAvoy's hands_ro- The ease has a successful prece- ceived in his contests with John dent. Eight years ago Jack Delaney, contribution towards improvement and Henry Lewis in America and will the American, lost hla world light-effectiveness. Jack Petersen in London.
heavy-weight
championship
..
MISS YORKE. WINS
in Grose, who has plenty of style and The report says the metacarpal Amerlen against Paul Berlenbach, most of the strokes, was unlucky bones between the wrist and the and broke his hand in exactly the enough to strike on off day. He was Angers have been fractured. Trau- same way as McAvoy hins done. not "acoing the balls properly for French Mixed Doubles matic arthritis, a form of rheu He was completely cured by the better part of the match, a fach matism caused by injury, - is also famous American surgeon, Dr. Fra-Lamply demonstrated by his continual
lick
Championship
round which started to-day were
A.
Scol-
BADMINTON IS STILL ALIVE
Despite the summer weather, bad- minton's still being actively pursued. by many local enthusiasts, and on Saturday. St. Andrew's will entertain a team from Macao in a men's doubles match. suspected.
now dead. The fee was £2,000. | loss of service. Guest too was In-
This is the first time a Macao team McAvoy has been ordered complete Delaney regained his world title clined to be variable and completely
Auteuil, May 26. has played in Hongkong and no little rest for two or three weeks. There against Paul Berlenbach, und went lost his touch in the last sot after he Miss Billie Yorko (Britain) playing interest is being invested in the occa is a very slender chance that nature on to earn £00,000 during the rest and Boller had taken a 4-1 lead. with Marcel Bernard of France, toston,
General impression was that K.C.C.day won the final of the French mix- effect a cure.
of his career.
St. Andrew's have selected their If there is no improvement at the McAvoy is only twenty-six now, require some team practice, but asd doubles tennis championship, when toom which will bo-E. F. Fincher end of two or three weeks, McAvoy's When his hand is better. I am con- the season has now started, doubtless they beat Martin Leggy and Mma, H. Kem hand will be opened, tendoru revinced he will prove the best propo- this will be confined to their league enrolln of France 7-5, 0-8, 0-3 8. Blies, and R. II. Wong and L. E. moved, and bones reset, and the skinsition British boxing has ever had.
Reuter.
Kirby.
may
matcher.
ww
Notts (303 and 238/1) beat Hamp- akiro (299) on first innings.
Gloucester (177 and 183/9). bout, Glamorgan (240 and 110) by kno wicket.
OTHER MATCHES
Cambridge (238 and 101) bent The Army (151 and 191) by five runs.
The following were tie chief batting and bowling performances.
BATTING:
Townsend (Derby) v. Sus-
BCX...
Gimblett (Somerset)
Y.
Northants
182*
106
Warne (Worcester v. Lan- cashire
115
Iddon (Lancashire) v. Wor cester)
IIarris (Notts) v. lamp- shire
136
105
Yardley (Cambridge) v. The Army
101
(Continued on Papa 2.)
"
FIRST ROUND EVEN When Langley started by taking five and six for the first two par four- holes, losing both, the majority of the gallery thought the match as good as over. The boy, however, never turned
ed a hair. He won the short 4th with a two and the 284 6th with a three. But as Bentley reached the in the wonderful score of 34. Langley was two down at this stage, On the homeward half he drew level, but lost the 17th to a fine three. Bentley hooked his second to the 18th hole, but Langley placed an iron shot (at the foot of the raised green, neatly chipped to within a yard of the pin and squared the match.
turn
In
the second round Langley matched shot for shot. Bentley struck the frat blow at the 6th, where the boy three-putted. At the 9th Longley only half hit a pitch shot; Bentley ran up four yards from the flag and holed the putt to become two jup.
"Although Langley fought with won- |derful pluck, the accuracy of Bent- ley, especially around the greens, were him down. Ile lost two of the next four holes and the match.
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