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- specta of another chaotic football season. Unless the H.K.F.A. Council has a mystery volution up its sleeve which it intends to produce like a sur- prise packet from a bran tub. Yesterday the Association
throw away its big opportunity which of introducing reforms would guarantee at least some measure of relief from the ap- palling muddle of fixtures which has prevailed now for years past.
sotne
When the Association assembled for it anmal meeting there was every prospect of some cogent and construc- iire effort being made to rid facil football of the distressing features of last season. Instead the meeting will fro down to pasterity as a triumph over the clocks and a notable example,
of inarticulate acquiosence on the part
of the clubs' provenintives.
It was generally expected that hing would become subordinate everything
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the question of disenssing proposi- tions which would bring about much-aded reform in the constitu tion of the league and the conducting of the Association's subsidiary com petitions.
JUST AS THEY WERE
Ever since last Christmas this sub-
Joe Louis going down for the count in his fight with Max Schmoling. This picture was taken at the ringside and wire- leased to London.
Joe Louis Paid £27,896
For Being Beaten
Schmeling's Achievement Vividly Described
(By Trevor Wignall)
New York, June 21. THE blow which actually gave victory to Max Schmeling in his
sensational fight with Joe Louis might have meant his dis qualification if the contest had been conducted under rules of the old National Sporting Club.
was
Di delivered quite twenty ( He Jehaved in a manTIET one seconds after the bell had sounded whose brain had ceased to function, to end the rth round, and it trans-whose, legs bad left his body, and jest has been on the lips of fout-formed Louis into a collapsed pugi- whose arms had become useless ballers and club representatives. list with sndly weakened legs and
dalis.. Things can't go on as they are was the general consensus of upinkun.
But things will go on ax they are as a result of yesterday's fiasco. It would not be fair to say there was a deliberate attempt to throttle dis-
H.K.F.A. Annual Mecting
The full report of the Hongkong Football Associa tion's annual meeting, held yesterday will be found on Page 9.
outalan, but it is true to assert that there was a tendency to rush the meeting through in the quickest pos-; sible thre. And equally certain it was the meeting, with 'shoop-like meekness, agreed to this procedure.
Consequently a motion, which, by its very importance, demanded a full and free discussion, with probably amend ments forthcoming, was dismissed by the proposition being put directly and.
moliatoly to the meeting. Neither proposer, atconder, nor any member of the meeting was invited to sinto views on the motion, True there was a murmur or two. Me. Syd- gey Strange was heard to protest that was dimcult to restric, the first division to a certain number of teatUR As the Association mleht be placed in an invidious position when it came to
deckie which team should or should not be admitted to the ilivision,
But what appeared to escape the no- tice of the chairman was that the meeting na a whole ånd by no means made up its mind whether the proposi tion as it stood was desirable or not. This in what the representatives wish- red to, and in fact, should have, dis-
enssed.
(Continued on Page 9.)
RIOTS FOLLOW
BIG FIGHT
Negroes Attack White Men
·
YACHTING DEFEAT
FOR BRITAIN
BY UNITED STATES IN CUP MATCH
Firth of Clyde, July 14. The United States six-metron team of four ynefits aside to-day won the British-American Cup, beating Grent. Britain by four- love, lù a best of seven races.
Feature of the American HHC- CORN WAN their excellent team work-Renter
ANDRAIMAALSABAtemperature and CO
SCHMELING'S CRICKET
TRIUMPH
New York, June 21.
Riots in the negro quarter of New York and jubilation in
AFFECTED
BY RAIN
Germany followed last night Two Matches
big fight in New York, in which Max Schmeling, 31-year-old veteran German boxer, knocked out the "unbeatable" negro, Joe Louis.
Completed
FİNE BOWLING
London, July 14,
Bad weather continued to upset the county cricket programme in England during the last two days and only
The fight was the greatest non- title contest in the history of boxing, its result one of the most sensational ever known. Everyone had pro- phesied that Schmeling would be
raten.
Until the fourth round it sceaned that everyone WOM figli, Then Louts WHS knocked down, Thereafter the fight was Schmel-restricted ing's.
twa matches were finished. Sa Was the play between Lancashire and Derbyshire that thei Louis fought courageously, but in match was left drawn only one innings the twelfth round he was knocked twing completed.
Schmeling, whom the erlifes said was "post his prime." has become the long-awaffed "white hope," and has won the right to fight- James J. Braddock for the world title,
aut.
He told Gilbert Cant, the Erening Standard New York correspondeat,
this afternoon, "I am confident 1 can
knock Braddock out. I could have stopped Louis und not been closed. Where
elsei.. Whenever he moved to my left he would get out of my range of vision and sometimes had trouble in getting away from his Jabs."
Braddock said, "Schmeling put up a good Night, but I think I can beat him easily, Ilis deadly right hand is all he has got--and that will not
dizzted brain. It was all he could In the final four rounds the best do to waddle back to his corner, and he could do was to beat the air be enough." even two armonin, capsules that | feebly.
And Louis said, "I just got care- The result, was the biggest upset less and he tagged me with his right.
were broken in his nostrils did not sekting has known since Corbett did not know what I was doing
clear his head.
beat John L. Sullivan in the half the time. Can he hit? Ife sure 'nineties. The defeat of Dempsey jean" by Tunney, or of Buer by Braddock does not even begin to compare with
The punch was of the same kind that the late Pancho Villa shot at Jimmy Wilde when the Wekaman was deprived of his world's By- | it. weight le several years ago.
TAPE BLAMED
Louis's managers say that he was There was very Bitle betting on beaten because he was not allowed the contest, but when the couple to use as much tape on his hands ag Louis abso merited disqualifica-climbed into the ring it would have in previous fights. There was, they He landed four palpably low been easy in get thiety to one against, not enough protection for a man blows, and because of two of these Schmeling.
with his big hands. for which he was cautioned be lost the rounds.
tion.
All day yesterday America was still dazed by the result. Stunned people are all the more amazed by the fact that after the third round Louis, alleged superman of boxing. was outfought, and made to look the verlest novice.
ONE-ARM WIN
In the opening three rounds it looked as though Louis would be an easy-whner-His straight-left-was so often in Schmeling's face that the but from the instant, when Louis Gertman's left eye was tightly closed,
a wide began to reveal himself as open' target to Schmeling's right his tremendously brosted star faded in pitiful fashion.
In picturesque Americanese, he was a sucker for a right hand, but It is true to say that the coloured an astonishing circumstance is that boy was eclipsed by a unc-eyed and one-armed opponent. for Schmeling rarely used his left except in defence or to judge distance,
more often than not Schmeling broke all the rules of skilled boxing by leading with his right.
100 ON THE CHIN
The final punch that dropped Louis for the count was to all intents and purposes started from Schmeling's dressing room, and it was preceded by a leap that seemed to curry the German half way, across the ring.
of the way of that telegraphed right, but it is nonsense to claim he has
glass
juw. 11c
Louls's defeat came as a stun ning shock to the negro population of the nation,
In-Harlem, New-York's--negro- quarter, they had begun celebrat. ing sure of another victory for "The Black Moses." News that he had been knocked out brought everything to a slop.
Then rioting broke out.
Angry roamed the streets "heat- negro white men
and sloning Ing-up" cars and b1405.
Ohe gang of 25 coloured men attacked a white man in a drug store.
Police arrived just in line Louis followed fashion by
to rescue him. Wc+p-
In another distur Ing bitterly when he reached lits, bance a negro was shot and badly
new's dressing-room where sad
wounded. awalted him. His foster-taller in Detroit, while listening to the broadcast of the bout, had a stroke, which, induced Louls and his wife to leave for Detroil carly yester day.
Schmeling told me last night he
Seven hundred extra police and detectives were drafted into the dis- triet. There were 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
From the bevinning 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
dock for the latter's world title next dered poison, and began to drink it. September.
A customer dashed the bottle from I have reason to know that artleks her hands. She was taken to hus- have accepted mut
over were signed, but will hear more of|pital. one hundred rights to the chin. the details when to-night I journey Borr Hitler cabled his congratula- and Schmeling himself confesses 10 Philadelphiu · with Braddock, tions on "the magnificent victory." to astonishment that Louls stood where he will referee a contest in He sent a bouquet to Schmeling's up for no long ilme to what was which Leroy Haynes is engaged, Alm star wife, Aany Ondra. "Let awful punishment.
Although it is established that me congratulate you whole-hearted- Louis Says he knew nothing of more than 60,000 saw the Bght at thely," he said, "on the wonderful vic- what was happening after the fifth Yankee Baseball Park on Friday, the lory of your husband. He is our round, and that a cusy to believe, pald attendance was only 30,078. greatest German boxing champion."
Yorkshire, Gloucester, Middlesex and Northants Won first innings points, while Surrey beat, Kent at Blackheath
Aluctuating en-
counter,
after a
Bowlers were on top. Only two centuries were scored-Fagg for Kent
and Hulme for Middlesex.
Twelve wickets in The course of a minteh were taken by Smith of Middlesex and Mercer of Glamorgan, while Verity had 8 for 42 ngainst
Notts.
The results, together with lending batting and bowling performances, cabled by Reuter, follow,
COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
LEAGUE TENNIS
C.R.C. SURPRISED
I.R.C. WITHOUT RUMJAHN WIN
22 SETS
Our Daily Golf Hint
Whether one is swinging a club or an axe, one must relax always before deliver- ing the blow.
melbe Mitchell.
DELINQUANTACANA; KALIAMYONUNUZ
K.C.C.'S BIG WIN Will Amar
How near Chinese Recrea- tion Club (1) went to defeat in their "A" Division tennis league
Nath Return
matela at -Sockanpoo yesterday To England?
can be gauged by the fact that)
despite the absence of H. D.
Rumjahn, the Indian Recrea-REPORT IS DENIED
tion Club stole two and a half
sets.
With H. D. Rumjuhn in the team it is quite within tho bounds of posability that the Chinese would ; have suffered s
reverse,
The Indians put up a gallant exhibi- | tinn. They, rather unwisely one feels, split up the S. A. Rumjahn-M, O. Hoosen partnership, teaming loosen with Razack and S. A. mail with Kumlaha. The upshot was that Sir- with loosen he might have snatched dar gared in three defents, whereas
THEN CONFIRMED
There was considerable coming and going and fluttering in the dovecotes of the India Cricket Board of Control' yesterday con- cerning
the Intent position of L. Amar Nath, the Indian Teat ericketer who was recently rent back to India because of alleged in- subordination to a captain, the Malineajah of Vizianagram.
An early message stated that the
Nawab of Bhopal, President of the Anet ntal half.
Julia Cricket Board had firmly re quested the captain and manager of Razack and Housen were the most the All-India team now in England flung and lu Tak-cheuk and drawing that he would be in time for the successful, L.R.C. pair, beating W. C. to recall Amar' Nath immediately BO
with the Trauti brothers. Hung and recond Test match at Manchester on In niso conceded a set to A, H. Mndor |July 25. and A. R. Minu.
Amar Nath has promised to apolo- Luke Ding-cheong and Wong Sui- gise and to behave in the future, and hung put up a most praiseworthy wan felt that he had already been performance for the winners, cap-uriently penalised and that they turing all three sets with the total might be serious repercussions if he loss of seven games. Hung and lu was not recalled. Tak-chrok were disappointing while
It was hardly expected that the Tsui brothers would concedo half a
PREMATURE
of
Subsequently a later message from Reuter's correspondent at Bombay quotes a statement by the Nawab of It was hard lines on the Indians that Bhopal. that the announcement they should be robbed of H. D. Rum- Amar Nath's immediate return to Juhn's services, especially as it was England was wholly unauthorised an the result of an accident surtained premature. while having a practice at the Kowloon Cricket Club last Sunday.
Later
London Reuter despatch said that Major Ricketts had made n stutement on behalf of the Mahara-
NINE, FOR KC.C. Kowloon Cricket Club scored their jah of. Vizianagram expressing his first nine-love victory of the sessonplete willingness to accede to the when they trounced C.R.C. (2) to this Amar Nath now that tile effect of Indian Board's request to take back tune at Causeway Bay The Fincher his necessary disciplinary action hnd brothers ineluded a couple of love been felt. sets in their successes, and the team withi [generally won as it liked.
Yorkshire (162 and 9/0) beat Notts (84 and 121) on first innings.
Lancashire (37/0) drew Derbyshire (116/8 dec.).
Recreio revealed the full strength of Gloucester (145/7) beat War-their hand by beating South China wickshire (67) un Aral innings. A.., who ran both K.C.C. and LR.C. Middlesex (238 and 198/7 dec) | to the odd get, by seven sea to two. boat Essex (144 and 140/8) on first Actually only one set was lost out-
right, but two were halved. innings.
Northants (161/8 le.h beat Sussex (82) on first innings.
Surrey (113 and 191/8) beat Kent (228 and 75) by four wickets.
Glamorgan (219 and 23/0) beat Leicester (94 and 176) by ten wickets.
BATTING
121
52
78
Fagg (Kent) v. Surrey..... Ilulme (Middlesex) v. Essex.. 101 Sandham (Surrey) v. Kent
BOWLING
Smith (Middlesex) v.
Essex
and Mercer (Glamorgan) v.
Leicester
Verily (Yorkshire)
Notts
7 for 28
Once again A. V. Remedios and J. Consalves proved a tower-2 strength to the Recreio, winning all three sets, but they had Bifficult aiements against F. N. Wong and K. H. Wong and K. F. Lui and H. K. Io. In buth sets they were taken the full distance. The Wong combination ako ded a twelve ganes set with A. V. Gosano and Bar- rette, while they drow six-all with: Harros ned Silva,
Actually the Wong's were ralheri unlucky not to meet with more suc cess. It is interesting to note that they played the maximum number of games over three sets.
TO-DAY'S TENNIS MATCHES
:
"B" Division Programme
Orly teris figures in to-day's pro- gramme of organised sports, A full "B" Division schedule is on tap includ- ing the important natch between Craigengower and Club de Recruio.
Over at the Hongkong Cricket Club, for 31 U.S.R.C. figured at the lasing und of the scure, conceding 54 sels. Two 6 for 12 features of this match were the though the match is being played at
Recrolo are favoured to win, al-
6 for 81 achievementa of Sewell, and Owen: Happy Valley, which is a distinct ad-
Hughes in winning all three sets, and
8 for 42 the fact that Bathurst and Lys drew 7 for 36 feach of their scts.
and.
Gover (Surrey) v. Kent
Sibbles (Lancashire)
.
7 for 36
T.
7 for 84
Derby
Farne# (Excx)
Watt (Kent) Y, Surrey 6 for 46 K.C.C.
Middlesex
Smailes (Yorkshire)
Notta
Clark (Northants)
Surrex
LEAGUE TABLE
Sela
6 for 67 Recreio
*C.R.C. (1)
.R.C.
5 for 37.K.C.C.
Todd (Kent) v. Surrey 5 for 41. 5.C.A.A. Larwood (Notia)
5 for 59 U.S.R.C.
Yorkshire
C.R.C. (2)
A. Pts.
G
1
644
P. W. L. F.
30 21 330 1344 33 0 20
21 14 13 4 2 2 16
20
4 1 3 154 17%
4 0 4 4 22
4.0 4 0 20
vantage to Craigengewer.
The two C.R.C. teams are due to meet each other, white K.C.C. are at home to the Cricket Club and the IR.C. receive Civil Service, who last week unexpectedly held Kowloon Cric ket Club to a draw.
Here is the fall programme.
C.R.C..(1)
C.R.C. (2)
University |
Y. .C.B.C.C.
C.R.A.
I.R.C.
K.C.C.
v.
1
C.C.C.
V.
H.K.C.C.
Recreio
GIMBLETT'S STROKE THAT HAS BROUGHT HIM FAME
Poised to drive, perfect balance.
Left foot to the ball, weight coming.
-Hands well in front, leti · elbow
forward.
bent.
Perfect follow through.",
Ilands turning over with balanco maintained.
Graceful sweep of the bat nearly
finished, and.
the end of a corrèci and powerful forward drive,