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FRECKLES ... AND HIS FRIENDS
GOOD OLD DYNAMITE...... WE GOT YA BACK! AND NOW, WE'LL NEVER LET -YOU 'GO AGAIN!
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936.
Very Few U.S. Athletes Are 100 Per Cent. American
POLISH "STAR" WINS
MOSTLY OF FOREIGN PARENTAGE
TENNIS & POLO EXCEPTIONS
New York.
Americans like to boast of their prowess in almost all fields of athletics, yet there are comparatively few athletes who can truly call themselves "one hundred per cent. Americans." A survey of the current sports mater severe that a good majority Af the nation's entstanding, athletel are of foreign parentage, and in some lenses, of foreign birth.
No spart noems to be na exception to the rule, not even the typically Ameriena" game of baseball.
SALARIZAREMORE OPTIMALNINTRETINESIMONATEN
CRICKET AGREEMENT
EIGHT-BALL OVER AND NEY
BW, RULE IN AUSTRALIA
London, June 4, The M.C.C. has written to the Australian Board of Control ac- senting the eight ball over in all matches in the coming Australian four.
It has also been agreed that experimental tex-before- weleket rule be employed through- out the tour-Renters
EARNED PANORAMA WASHINGTON WINS
Inter-Collegiate
Boat Race
In the four mile, race Washington
Although golf is traditionally awon for the first time since 1926. Califorma was second and the Navy sport of the Sent, some of the un-third. It was one of the hardest ra tian's most skilful golfers happen to
be
of Italian descent. One of the Fatta battles in history. Washington led for the first three quartera of n great golf champions of all times ismile and then the Navy took the lead. Gene Sarazen, whose parents were After the first mile California forged Italian Inmigrants, her golf stars ahead and held the lead to the two of Italian lineage, ne generation Mlle. Jedzrejowska, Polish cham.removed, include Tuny Manero, John-mile pest,
There were 80,000 cheering specta- pien who won at Wimbledon yester. ny Revolta, Tony Penna and Joe
Turnesa, day.
other Many
so-called tors to seo Washington pul on n American golfing aces happen to be terrific sprint over the hal mile.
In England
The crew were stroking 35 and gained or Scotland, in- cluding Tommy Armour, former pro- the lend from third place. Columbia Cornell, Pennsyl- fessional golf champion. Harry was fourth with Cooper, Bobby Cruickshank, one of vania and Syracuse finishing in that
order. the sport's leading money prize win nera, MacDonald Smith and Charles Lacey.
AMERICA AFTER SWIMMING TITLES
AT THIS YEAR'S OLYMPICS
Los Angeles. Fred Cady, Olympic diving couch, predicts that Amerien's men swim- mura will make Japan hustle to keep its Olympiè title in Berlin this sum
2310?".
מר}14!
BOXING COSMOPOLIS
Boxing la monopolized by no par-
ticular nation. Virtually every boxer of any conseJIREA was born of either Italian, German, Polish, Sinvic, Irish,
Russian parents, Heavy weight champion Tony Canzoneri's Italian: feather-wgarht clumpion Freddie Miller's German; Middle webeln champion-claimant Babe | Risko, Pulisha Welterweight champion
Harney Ron, Russinn.
Washington completed the course in 19. mins. 9.0 secs., while California took 19 mins. 12.4 sees, and the Navy 10 mins. 10.8 secs.
In the junior three mile race Washington won in 14 mins. 4212 secs. The Navy was second and Cornell third. The Navy stole the lead at the quarter mile mark but Washing ton, stroking 32, took the lend after
two miles and were ahead for the
remainder of the race-uited Press.
POLICE VICTORIES
Two Bowls Pairs Win In Open Championship
Other top-flight boxers and their went mefules former middleweight champion The
Yarost, Polish; Corbett 11, Italian former junior lightweight champion Johnny Jadick, Ukranian;
former bantamweight champion Lou Salien, Italian; former Cady, Olympic diving each in flyweight champion Malget Wolgast.
Two Lawn Bowls Pairs Champion- 1932 and coach at U.S.C. says for alian; foe Panovic, Slavic; Charlie ship matches were dreide on the men from the Pacific coast will offer Halian; Patay Perrane, Italian, Mas Monday, resulting in two Palice R. Retzlar, German; Ray Impellettiere, Cräigengawer Cricket Club green on the Japanese formidable opposition.
Marck Polish: Steve Dudas, un-C. representatives qualifying for the "These four are almost certainties Eddie Zivic, Croatian and Tony Shuc round.
garinn; Steve Halaiko, Ukranian; third round and two for the fourth for the team," he said. "The best is en, Italian,
In the end round af the com- Jack Medics, the Washington flash The rolls of baseball have such a petition L. Glendinning and „f. She- who has been capturing all the inour wide variety of foreign name that pherd best 5.0. Bux and A. R. Min records and championships in the they seem. like the rostor of the of the Indian R.C., by is shots to cast. Tops in the 100
of Nations. One of the pitching while in the third round W. Lengue
all team stays on the New York Yankees base and W. Mair won from N
Erb- father was born in Madrid. Another Cricket Club, by 27 shots to 12.
is Vernon Gomez, whose hington, and A. Hyde Lay. Kowloon Yankee pitcher, Vitautaas Casimirus Tamuls, was born in Lithuania and came here as a child. Tony Lazzeri,
metre
and 1,500
events. Medien wil chlef value to the, American team by specialising in the 100 autres and one lap on the relay.
- "Another is Jimmy Gilhula of De troit, star of the Pacific coast cham pionship U.S.C. tean, who trailed Medica by inches in most of the big
·nerle He'll-seek a berth in the 100 metre and relay events."
of the most popular men in base
to-day, was born of Idlian PantOther outstanding-players. claiming foreign parentage Include Frank T. Crostiti, Italian; Jee d Maggie, Italian; Earl J. Adams,.. German; George F. Blacholder. Gor- Two high divers, Trojan Frank man; Robert A. Boken, Lithuanian; | Jurtz and Johnny Riley, nie rated by Edward A. Brandt, German; Edward Cady as ameng the best in the coun-J. Cihseld, Polish; Roger M. Cremer,
FINE HIGH DIVERS
J.
Glendinning and Shepherd will now meet C. J. Tnechi and R. Basa on the Kowloon Bowling Green on Mon- day next.
BABE DIDRICKSON'S HOLE-IN-ONE
by, Kurtz placed third in the 1932 Dutch: Tong Cuccinello, Italian, Gene Over Oakmont Country
Club Course.
Olympics ant is national champion, de Sautel, French; Les Ernest Duro- Riley a former national fit feher, French; Lewis Albert Penseza. holder.
Portuguese: Lan Gehrig, Gerutan; Richard I. Gyselian, Dutch; Oral C. Cady said that no other roast mea fildebrand, German; Silas K. John-
Glendale, Cal, June 15., can break its the powerful springen. Norwegian: Sylvester Johngen. Mildred (Babe) Didrickson, the hoard trio of Dick Degener, Detroit: Norwegian: Arndt Jorgens; Nor-"one-wonian track team," who has Marshall Wayne, Florida, and Allwegin Adolph James Liska, Czechonchieved the greatest heights in alt Green, Chicago, with one of the first lovakian: Alphonso Lopez, Spanish; sorts of sports competition, has now two also getting a platform diving Jaunph berth.
Ndian achieved the golfer's dream--a hole- Erucat Natali Lombardi,
in-one. Antony F. Pietruszka, Polish and
Cady wouldn's name any cost men George W. Pingras, Danish, Evensional. MacDonald Smith, over the Playing with the veteran profez- with a chance to place in the 100the great Babe Ruth, one of the most Oakmont Country Club course. tiss metre free-style but said that Art eclourful figures in Amerigan sports, Didrickson holed out a niblick shot Lindgren Paul Wolf of the Hollywood Athlete club and Gillin was of German descent.
on the 105-yard third green,
She played on even terms with the old master of the links, turninit 223 Track and field is studded with a 70 for the eighteen holes, just thred Six men were named by him to many athletes of foreign extraction, strokes more than the Carnoustie Scot. monopolize the breaststroke and back including Eugena Tanno,, jav Eno! Parfor men was 70. stroke events. In the shorter back thrower who is expected to be on the ntrike race Cady picked Adolf, Kisfer Olympic team and William Steiner, born in Europe. Football enthusiasts of Chicago, Van Zebr of North-star marathon runner. Tanno is of always are amused to hear the Notre western and Taylor Drysdale of De-Finnish descent, and Steiner of Ger- Dame University team called the troit. For the 200 meire breast ini.
"Fighting Irish" because most of the stroke his selections were Jack Kollege football, the sport which players happen to be of Polish or Kasley, Michigan, John Higgins, during the fall season attracts, the finian descent. Massachusetts and Ray Kaye of greatest throngs, also has a so Detroit-United Press;
majority of stars whose parents were
would be strong contenders for 200! ONLY TENNIS AND POLO metre relay spots.
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