THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1936.
Colony Soccer Reform Measure Squashed
ANNUAL MEETING FIASCO
MOTION NOT DEBATED
"AS YOU WERE" SITUATION
(By "Veritas")
Hongkong faces the pro- spects
another chaotic
of
football season. Unless the H.K.F.A. Council has a mystery solution up its sleeve which it intends to produce like a sur- prise packet from a bran tub. the Yesterday
Association throw away its big opportunity which of introducing reforms would guarantee at least some moasure of relief from the ap palling muddle of fixtures which has prevailed HOW for years past.
HOBIC
When the Association ussembled for its annual me ting there was every prispect of some eostent anil construc five effort being made to rid Joval football of the distressing features of fast peasan Insand the merging will so down to posterity as a 'triumph over the clock and a notable example of inarticulate, neqqulesence on the part of the cluba atpresentatives,
It was generally expected that everything would become subordinate
to the question of discussing proposi-
tion which would bring about
Joe Louis going down for the count in his fight with Max Schmeling. This picture was taken at the ringside and wire- lessed to London.
Joe Louis Paid £27,896 For Being Beaten
Schmeling's Achievement ividly Described
(By Trevor Wignall)
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much-neelest reform in the constitusi tion of the league and the conducting; of the Association's subsidiary com petitions.
JUST AS THEY WERE
Ever since last Christmas this sub- jest has boon on the lip of font Jatters and club representatives. Things can't 40 on as they are was the general consensus of opinion.
But things will go on as they are as a result of yesterday's finsta. It would not be fair to say there was,
a ddiberate attempt to throttle die.
MAANDAGOELA FRANÇOIVENT ANNIEGUNKANNE)
H.K.F.A. Annual Meeting
The full report of the Hongkong Football Associa- tion's annual meeting, held yesterday will be found on Page 9.
cussion, but it is true to assert that there was a tendency to rush the inreting through in the quickest, pos- sible tine. And equally certain it was the meeting, with shop-like | meckmoss, agree to this procedure.
Consequently à molion, which, by its vetyumportance, demanded a full and free discussion, with probably amend- gents forthcoming, was dismissed by The proposition being put directly and immediately to the
meeting. Nelhor proposer, seconder, nor any member of the meetlag was invited to atale views on the motion. True there was a murmur or twat Mr. Syd- ney Strange was heard to protest that it was difficult to restrict the first division to a certain number of teams the Association might be placed in an invidious position when it came to deckie which team should or should not be admitted to the division
But what appeared to escape the no- tice of the chairman was that the kneeling as a whole had by no means made up its mind whether the proposi tion as it stood was desirable or not. This is what the representatives wish- ed to, and in fact, should have, dis cuased,
(Continued on Page 9.)
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IL WAS delivered quite. twenty He behayed in a manner seconds after the bell had sounded whose brain had ceased to function, to end the Ofth round, and it trans-whose legs had left his body, and formed Eris into a collapsed pugi- whose list with sadly weakened legs and tails,
become useless dizzier brain. It was all he could In the final four rounds the best do waddle back to his corner, and he could do even two ammonia capsules that, feebly. were broken in his nostrils did not clear his head..
was to beat the
RIOTS FOLLOW
BIG FIGHT
Negroes Attack White Men
0:33ÍÐARE LEAGUE TENNIS
YACHTING DEFEAT FOR BRITAIN
BY UNITED STATES IN CUP, MATCH
Firth of Glyde; July 11. The United States six-metres team of four yachts aside to-day won the British-American Cup, heating Great Britain by four- love, in a best of seven races.
Feature of the American Nue cess was their excellent team work.—Beuter.
SCHMELING'S CRICKET
TRIUMPH
AFFECTED
New Yoris, June 21. BY
Riots in the negro quarter of New York and jubilation in
Germany followed last night'
big fight in New York, in which Max Schmeling, 31-year-old veteran German boxer, knocked out the "unbeatable" negro, Jac Louis.
was
RAIN
Two Matches Completed
FINE BOWLING
ኳ ጊዜ
were
C.R.C. SURPRISED
I.R.C. WITHOUT RUMJAHN WIN
22 SETS
K.C.C.'S BIG WIN
How near Chinese Recrea-
Our Daily Golf. Hint
Whether one in swinging a club or an axe, one must relax always before deliver- ing the blow.
-Abe Mitchell.
Will Amar
tion Club (1) went to defeat in Nath Return
their "A" Division tennis lengue |
match at Sookunpoo yesterday To
To England?
can be gauged by the fact that! despite the absence of H. D. Į Rumjahn, the Indian Recrea- REPORT tion Club stole two and a half seta.
With H. D. Rumjahn in the team it is quila within the bounds of possibility that the Chinese would have suffered a reverse.
a set and
İS DENIED
THEN CONFIRMED
There was considerable coming and going and fluttering in the dovecutes of the India Cricket Board of Control yesterday con- cerning the latest position of I Amar Nath. the Indina Fest cricketer who was recently sent wubordination to his captain, the, back to India because of alleged in- Maharajah af Vizianagram.
The Indians put up a gallant exhibi The fight was the greatest non- title contest in the history of boxing.
tion. They, rather unwisely one feels, is result one of the most sensational
London, July 14. Hansen pretnership, teaming Hosen split up the S. A. Rumjahn-M. O. ever known. Everyone had pru
Bad weather continued to upset the with Razack and S. A. Ismail with phesied that Schmeling would Be county cricket programme in England Runijam. The upshot was that Sir- beaten.
Until the fourth round it during the last two days and only dar figured in three defeats, whereas Armed that, everyone
An early, message dated that the right. Then Louis, wus knocked
Lwo matches
finished. So with loosen he might have snatched Nawab of Bhopal, President of the dinwri. Thereafter the fight
restrictedl wag Schmel-
India Cricket Board had frmly ro the play between ing's,
Lancashire and Derbyshire that the Razack at Hoosen were the most the All-India tean now in England quested the captain and manager of Louis fought courageously, but in match was left drawn only one innings successful L.R.C. pair, beating W. C.to recall Amar Nath immediately so the twelfth round he was knocked being completed.
Hung and lu Tak-choak and drawing that he would be in time but.
with the Tsui brothers, Hung unit second Test match at Manchester on for the
and Northants
Yorkshire, Gloucester, Middlesex fu also conceded n set to A. H. Madar July 25.
and A. R. Minu. Won first innings points, while Surrey beat Kent at Blackheath after a fluctuating en-
Schmeling, whom the crities said was "past his prime," has become the long-awaited "white hope," and has won the right to fight James J. Braddock for the world title,
Twelve wickets in the course of a match Middlesex and Mercer of Glamorgan, werd taken by Smithof while Verity hat & for 42 against Notta
COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP '
He told Gilbert Cant, the Evening counter. Standard New York correspondeat, this afternoon. "I confident I can Bowlers were on top. Only two krock" "Brandneu
es out. I could have į centuries were scored-Fage for Kent stopped Louis sooner if my left eye and Hulme for Middlesex, had not been plused. Whenever he ved to my left he would get out of my range of vision and sometimes his jabs. I had trouble in getting away from Braddock said, "Schmeling put up & good fight, but I think I can heat is all he has got-and that will not him easily. His deadly right hand
The results, togelber with feading airbe enough."
batting and bowling performances, The result was, the biggest upset tess and he tagged me with his right.
And Louts said, "I just got care-fenbled by Reuter, follow. fighting has known since Corbett did not know what beat John:
Sullivan
was doing 133 the half the time. Can he hit? He stre
TAPE BLAMED Louis's managers say that he was There was very little betting on beaten because he was not allowed Louis also merited disqualificarimbed Into the ring it would have in previous lights. There was, they the contest, but when the couple to use as much tupe on his fonds as flon, He landed four palpably low been easy to get thirty to one against say, but enough protections for a man blows, and because of two of these for which he was cautioned he lost! Selumeling
with his big hands. ONE-ARM WIN
Louis's defeat came as a stun- ning shock the negro population of the nation.
In Harlem, New York's negro quarter, they had begun celebrat- ing-sure-of-another-victory-for-
Black
Moses." News that') he had been knocked on brought everything to a stop.
The punch was of the same kind lurtles. The defeat of Dempsey can." that the late Pancho Villa shot at by Tunney, or of Baer by Braddock Jimny Wilde when the Welshman does not even begin to compare with was deprived of his world's fly-it. weight title several years ago.
the rounds.
Ju the opening three rounds it All day yesterday America was looked as though Louts would be an still dazed by the result. Stunned sy winner. His straight left was people are all the more amazed by so often, in Schmeling's face that the the fact that after the third round, German's left eye was tightly closed "Ladis, alleged superman of boxing, but from the instant when Louis was outfought, and made to look began, to reveal himself as a wide the veriest novice.
open target to Schmeling's right his tremendously boosted star faded in pitiful fashion.
100 ON THE CHIN
he
or to
In picturesque Americanese, Was a sucker for a right hand, but If is true to say that the coloured an astonishing clrcumstance is thut boy was eclipsed by a one-eyed and more often than not. Schmeling ene-armed opponent, for Schmeling broke all the rules of skilled boxing rarely used his left except in 'defence by leading with his right.
Judge distance. Louis followed fashion by weep- ing billerly when he reached his dressing-room, where sad news awaited him. His foster-father in Detroit, while Hatening to the broadcast of the bout, had a stroke, which induced Louls and his wife to leave for Detroit early yester day. Schmeling told me last night he
The
Then rioting broke out.
men
Angry negroes roamed the streets "beat-
ith white ing-up"
and stoning cars and buses.
One gang of 25 coloured men attacked a white man in a drug store. Police arrived just in time to rescue him. In another distur bauce a negro was shot and badly wounded, Seven hundred extra, police and detectives were drafted into the dis- triet. There four brisk street battles before order was restored.
There was rioting, too, in
Little Harlem, Chicago's negro quarter.
In Detroit, Louis's home town, a
were
The final punch that dropped Louis for the count was to all intents and purpuses started from Schmeling's dressing room, and it was preceded by a leap thu seemed to carry the Gerinan half way across the ring.
From the beginning to the con- clusion, Louis was unable to get out is now. certain to meet Jimmy Brad-negro girl went to a drug store,.or of the way
of that telegraphed right, dock for the latter's world title next dered poison, and began to drink it. but it is nonsense to claim he has September. gluss jaw,
A customer dashed the bottle from I have
reason to know that articles her hands. She was taken to hos- over were signed, but will hear more of pital. one hundred rights to the chi, the details when, to-night I journey and Schmeling himself confesses lo
Herr Hiller cabled his congratula- with to astonishment that Louis Blood where he will referee a contest in He sent a bouquet
Braddock, tions on "the magnificent victory." up for so long a time to what was which Leroy Haynes is
to Schmeling's awful punishment.
Alm star wife. Anny Ondra. "Let Louis says he knew nothing of more than 60,000 saw the fight at the ly," he said, "on the wonderful vic- that me congratulate you whole-hearted- what was happening after the fifth Yankee Baseball Park on Friday, the fory of your husband. He is our round, and that is easy to believe. paid attendarice was only 30,878.
greatest German boxing champion."
He must have accepted
Philadelphia
engaged, Although it is established
Yorkshire (162 and 9/0) beat Notts (84 and 121) on first innings. Lancashire (37/0) drew with Derbyshire (116/8 dec.).
Gloucester (145/7) beat War- wickshire (67) on first innings.
Middlesex (238 and 138/7, dec.) boat Essex (144 and 146/8) on first innings.
Northants (161/8 dec.) brai Sussex (82) on first innings.
Surrey (113 and 191/6) beat Kent (228 and 76) by four wickets,
Glamorgan (249 and 23/03 beat Leicester (94 and 176) hy
wickets.
BATTING
Amar Natis has promised to apolo- Luk Ding-cheong and Wong Sui-gise and to behave in the future, and hung put up a most praiseworthy it was felt that he had already beon performance for the winners, capsuleiently penalised and that they turing all three sets with the total might be serious repercussions if he loss of seven games. Hund and I was not recalled..... lak-cheuk were disappointing while
it was hardly expected that the Taui brothers would concede half a Hel,
PREMATURE Subsequently a later message from Reuters correspondent at Bombay they should be, rabbed of H. D. Rum Amar Nath's immediate return to
It was hard lines on the Indians that Bhopal that the anouncement
quoted a statement by the Nawab of Jahn's services, especially as it was England was wholly unauthorised and the result of an accident sustained while having a practice at the Kowloon premature. Cricket Clab last Sunday.
of
Later a London Rester despatch said that Major Ricketts had made A statement on behalf of the Maharn- fal
Vizianagram expressing his
NINE FOR K.C.C. Kowloon Cricket Club scored their first nine-love victory of the season complete willingness to accede to the when they trounced C.R.C. (2) to this Indian Board's request to take back tune at Causeway Bay. The Fincher Amar Nath now that the effect of sets in their successes, and the team ben felt. brothers included a couple of love is necessary disciplinary action had generally won as it liked.
Recreio revealed the full strength of) their hand by beating South Chins A.A., who ran both K.C.C. and I.R.C. to the old set, by seven sets to two. Actually only one set was lost out-1 right, but two were halved.
Once again A. V. Remedios and 4. Gonsalves proved a tower of strength 10 the Recreio, winning all three sets; but they had difficult stomonta against | F. N. Wang and K. H. Wong and K. F. | Lut and H. K. H. In both sets they en Wong combination also had a twelve were taken the full distance. The
Fagg (Kent) v. Surrey Hulme (Middlesex) v. Essex Sandham (Surrey) v. Kent
121
101
78
BOWLING
Smith (Middlesex) 'v..
Essex
games.set with A. V. Gosario and Bar- retto, while they drow six-all with! Barros and Silva.
Actually the Wong's were rather unlucky not to meet with more suc cess. It is fateresting to note that they played the maximum number of
games over three sets.
TO-DAY'S TENNIS -MATCHES-
"B" · Division. Programme
gramme of organised sports. A full Only tennis figures in today's pro- "B" Division schedule is on tap includ-
Over at the Hongkong Cricket Club, ing the Important match between for 31 U.S.R.C. figured at the losing end of Craigengower and Club do Recreio.
the score, conceding 5 sets, Two
Recreio are favoured to win, al
6 for 12 featurck of this match were the though the match is being played at
for 81 achievements of Sewell and Owen-
7 for 28
.and
.
Mercer (Glamorgan)
Lefcenter
V.
.and.
6
Verity (Yorkshire)
Notto Gover (Surrey)
Sibbles (Lancashire)
Derby
Farnes (Essex)
Middlesex
Hughes
winning all three sets, and Happy Valley, which is a distinct nd- 8 for 42 the fact that lathurst and Lys drew! vantage to Cralgangower. v. Kent 7 for 36 each of their seta,
Y.
7 For 3G
7 for at
Watt (Kent) v. Surrey 6 for 46 k.C.C. Smailes (Yorkshire)
Nolts
Clark
(Northants)
V.
6 for 37
Sussex Todd (Kent) v. Surrey Larwood (Notta)
Yorkshire
The two C.R.C. teams are due to meet each other, while K.C.C. are at home to the Cricket Club and the 1.R.C. receive Civil Servico, who last wook unexpectedly hold Kowloon Cric- ket Club to a draw.
P. W. L. F.
3 3
LEAGUE TABLE
Sela
A. Pts. 0.21. G
6
3 3
0134 414
t
3 3 0 20%
6%
#
3 2 1 14
13
4
4 2 2 18
20
C.B.A.
413 15% 174 2
1.R.C:
*C.LC. (1) Recreio I.R.C. 5 for 37 H.K.C.C. 5 for 41 5.C.A.A.
C.R.C. (2)
5 for 59 U.S.R.C.
4 0 4 4 22 0
1
9 40
26
Here is the full programme.
C.R.C..(1)
K.C.C.
C.C.C.
V. C.R.C. (2)
V.
University
Y. C.9.C.C.
Y. H.K.C.C.
1. Recreio
GIMBLETT'S STROKE THAT HAS BROUGHT HIM FAME
Poised to drivo, perfect balance.
Let foot to the ball, weight coming Hands well in front, left elbow
forward,
bent.
Perfect follow through,
Hunds turning over with balance maintained.
Graceful sweep of the bat nearly
finished, and
the end of a correri and powerful forward drive.