THE HONGKONG ·'TELEGRAPH:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1936.
EVERYTHING SET FOR TO-DAY'S BOWLS FINAL
WORLD OLYMPICS
FILIPINOS DEFEAT ITALIANS
AT BASKETBALL
LATEST SUMMARY
OF RESULTS
Berlin, Aug. 13.
Nida Senff of Holland to-day won the Women's 100 metres backstroke at the World Olym pics, covering the distance in
min. 18 9/10 secs. Wilhelmina
Mastenbrock,
also of Holland, was second in 1 min. 19 2/10 seconds and Alice Bridges of America third in 1 min. 19 4/10 seconds. Reuter.
FILIPINO BASKETBALL WIN Berlin. Aug. 13. The Filipino basketball team out- classed the slower Italians to-day in A match to decide for fifth place in the basketball competition.
"The Filipinos fast passing attack had Italy beaten to the ball on re-. bounds and fumbles. Borck scored eleven times fur the Philippines while Mazzini netted ten times for Italy.
Philippines were represented by Barck, Quanco, Ohodo, Martinez and Marqulcus, with Cruz and Yumboo as substitutes, while Italy's Leam was Planu, Mazzini, Novelli, Premnant, With Basso and l'ellercia
substitutes,
[S
Canada defeated Poland by 42 to 15 and with United States enter the final which will be played to-morrow, -United Presi.
LATEST SUMMARIES :
Latest list of summarised results at the World Olympics us sent by United Press, is as follows.
MEN'S 1,500 METRES FREE-STYLE
Heat 1-sharada (Japan) 19 mins.
65 8/10 seca.
Lievers (Britain)
Arendt (Germany)
Hent J. Medica (UBA) and
Terada (Japan) tied in 19 mins. 65 5/10 secs. Jorgensen (Denmark)
Heat -Uto (Japan) 10 48 3/10
BCCS.
Flanagan (U.S.A.) Freese (Germany) |
Heal Christy (USA) 20 20
5/10 sec. Wainwright (Belinin) Prywara (Germany)
Fastest fourths to qualify - wero- Pirie (Canada) and Tallis (France).] 200 METRES BREASTSTROKE Ileal 1-8amuro (Japan) 2 mins,
44 5/10 secs. (Olymple record).
Sletas (Germany) Kayo (U.S.A.)
Heat 2.-Ito (Japan) 's
secs.
45
Green Is Fit
SAN BE
Charles Borck (left) and Primitivo Martinez, who figured con. spicuously yesterday in the Philippines basketball team against
Italy.
Hongkong-Born Cricketer's Great Bowling At Lord's
Hongkong can again bask in reflected glory. Latest
is that Lieut. J. W. A. Stephenson, the Essex county and Army representative cricketer, who was born in
Officially Stated This Morning
A GREAT MATCH THE HISTORY OF
ANTICIPATED
COATES SLIGHTLY
FAVOURED
EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON IT KEEPING FINE-
"There is no doubt whatever, that providing it does not rain this afternoon, the lawn bowls Anal will
THE PROSPECTS be played" said Mr. C. B. Hosking.
(By "Veritas").
If this morning's promise of fine weather is mainlained, Hongkong's lawn bowls fra- will flock to the terity Kowloon Bowling Green Club afternoon to watch thin the final of the Colony singles championship between L. A. Gutierrez, a former holder, and A. E. Coates, who has reached this stage of the championship for the first time.
No matter what amount of sun a fairly there is during the day,
But with heavy green is assured. two such experienced bowlera this is not likely to have a very detrimen- tal effect upon the standard of piny. The biggest enemy to both players is more likely to be nerves.
hon, secretary, H.K.L-B.A., this morning, and even then it was per- fectly fit for play."
"I looked at the morning.
green this
So that it only remains for friend J. P. to keep to himself for the match to be played.
Tele. graph sports commentator, will report the match for to-morrow's edition.
"Veritas", well-known
BLIND
OARSMEN
GUIDED
AUSTRALIAN
CRICKET
WHEN W. G. GRACE TOOK OUT A TEAM
(By R. Abbit)
Owing to the lack of many books of reference, and to the fact that probably there are very few books which deal with the period, it is only possible to guess at the amount of interest taken by the general public, or indeed by anyone but professional cricketers and the most keen of amateurs, in cricket between the Mother Country and Australia in the earliest days.
W.G. TEAM
W.G. spent most of the summer
It is a fairly safe assertion that it although a syndiente was formed, it was not until May 27, 1878 that, like is not quite clear whether or no there was some element of speculation in some new planet, Australian cricket
the matter. But with the enormous nangin sworn into the ken of "the man in
the street." Of this the story will be enthusiasm for erleket which existed told in due time. But for the cric-in Australia at the time, and the per- keters and the cricketing public--(os sonal reputation of W.G. there was
Le fear of failure. opposed to the man in the street) Australian cricket was definitely on the map before this: No doubt the first two tours, the story of which has nlready been writen, had raised the
Four years trying to get his side together and interest considerably. later, in 1888, a visit from a team of had a good deal of dificulty in doing aborigines reminded people that there. When one thinks here what a business it is to collect a team to go was such a pince.
up to Shanghai one con realise the to collect n But it was in 1873, ten years after trials of a captain trying to the last English trip to Australia that side for a six months absener., How-
in getting
a good the next team set out under the ever he succeeded
Hornby, W.
Yurd leadership of W. G. Grace, who by side though A. N.
Ton
Alfred Emmett,
Shaw that time was in the heyday of his ley,
and The side-once not go. In comparing the progress of the
London, July 18.
ns the Inte leading cricketer among Pooley could not players through the present tourna
The Tanmes staged its mast human the younger amateurs. This no doubt mere twelve men only-consisted of ment and bearing in mind the standard of play they have maintain-regatta of the year yesterday. All had the effect of concentrating at W. G. Grace (captain), G. F. Grace, etlone is inclined to view mure the carsmen were blind-blinded in the tention on the doings of the English 3. A. Bush, F. H. Boult, W. It. Gilbert, teom. But it must be remembered A. Greenwood, R. Humphrey H favourably the chances of Conten display
that in early days cricket in Aus- Jupp, J. Llywhite, M. Mcintyre, W. Remi-final Certainly his
For minty years St. Dunstan's tralia was a very remote thing to the Oscroft and J. Southerton. (I shall Grimmitt was more impress held this regatta at Putney for its English of those days, Letters took hope to deal with the team in- sive than than of Gutierrez againe sightless war heroes-men who are
over two months and reading the dividually in my next article.) Alves. Even so, neither match realis now grey ar bald.
accounts of matches was rather like
This time the team sailed from ed expectations, so that it is foolish to
reading past history! Later of course place too much emphasis on those games,
A COMPARISON
BY WOMEN
war.
i
blind
The oldest sculler was fifty-three, the youngest thirty-five, a boy of the advent of the submarine cable put Southampton and travelled by the seventeen when he lost his sight on the news in the next day's papers and P. & O. Mirzapore, sailing after the helped a lot and now in most counusual quiet send-oir froin a party of personul friends only. They knocked The players have one affinity. They the battlefield.
trics you can sit in your own arm- are great fighters, and are usually
Fine sportsmen were these seen at their best when catching up
They wished their rivals chair and listen to a running corn over a week off the time of Goorge
days
only. After The un- of the crowd and the arrears. Another similarity is that oarsmen.
references to sea-sickness, (W.G, was both apparently prefer medium to "best of luck, old boy," as they were mentary of the game, and hear the Parr's team, as they took
Vanmistakable sound of the bat hitting bad sailor) we learn they had a short heads, Against Grimmitt, towed off to the starting point.
on ingquished congratulated victor without the ball. But to resume my narra. Contes scored consistently high heads, while it was noticeable trace of regret. that Gutierrez was happier on the short head against Alves.
Early, and even comparatively lengthy leads do not always mean a great deal in lawn bowls, but it is safe to presume that should either
to-day secure a player vantage, it will go a long way towards
One of the races was for ex- service men who had lost an arm as well as their sight.
WIVES CHEER
cheers
{tive.
TEAM OF ABORIGINES
gale in the Mediterranean and put
In
of
to Malta and Alexandria which latter and pince W.G. found very dirty "heard of its bombardment years
In 1808 Charley Lawrence, whom I have spoken several times later without any regret" He was before, brought over a team of Aus- disappointed in the Suez Canal, where A was the routine then, the team It was one of the best races of the trollan aborigines to Engiand. It is they stuck on the mud.
quite possible that as he had been in quick ad-afternoon, and when
twell Australia since 1881 engaged on his had to shift into the Nubia at Galle, a comfortable voyage to oarsmen passed the post well of their nearest rivais a great cheer coaching duties at Sydney he wanted and had Hongkong took three wickets in four balls when playing. deciding the match. The players are went up from the towing path, where a holiday in the old country and took Melbourne where they arrived on before their first game. And if waS at Lord's last month for Gentlemen against the Players. so well matched that a fast start were from children watched the this team along to help pay the ex- Dec. 13, 1873, and had some practice
The natives did not pretend to be here that W. G. Grace first discov When the day's play had seven overs for ten runs. With the and a good start will probably win
Blind and deaf men also rowed frst-class cricketers but they did well that he was going to have 8/10 finished. Stephenson had taken second ball of the day he sent back the match.
If Contes plays anything like his in the regatta. They were "coxed" and Mitchell-
But must have he refers on many occasions. It is Turnbull, Pearce eight of the nine Players' wickets Wyatt and his other victims were
by women who give up their leisure against clubs and even some of the with the wickets, a matter to which top form, he should win, but every banished
in coaching these sightiens which had fallen. At one stage Inner. Thus Gover had
riors on the lake in Regent's Park been a weird business, as they also curious that there in not nearly 50 plenty of entertaining bowls.
book which incidentally was written ilupper who led Oxford he captured four wickets for no three county captains and yet another thing points to a close came, with
They guided them by the language gavo exhibitions of boomerang throw-much reference to this in Cailyn's
ing. There were twelve of them. runa and later he had an average Varsity match.
of touch. which read
Balke (Germany) Kahley (USA) Heat 3. Biggins (USA) 2 mins,
49 8/10 05. Alpad (Philippines) Jensen (Denmark)
Heat 4.-Spence (Bermuda) 2 mins.
52 secs.
Clawsen (Canada) Erbert (Czechoslovakia) Heat 5-Kolke (Japan) 2 mina
́43 8/10, soca, ndefonso (Philippines) Iefna (Germany)
Adialuddin of Philippines swam the Instest fourth in 2150.2 and qualified.
100 METRES MACKSTROKE
(SEMI-FINALS)
Heat 1-Keller (U.S.A.)
0.3/18 secs.
Vandeweghe (U.S.A.)
· Oliver. (Australla)
min.
Ilcat 2-Drybdala (USA) I min
8 6/10 secs.
Keyokawa (Japan)
Kojima (Japan)
M
1 27
W
in the
SURREY AGAINST SURREY 0
Between the taking of Gover's first 10 This has been Stephenson's most wicket and the other three an un- Alan successful season in first class cric-fortunate incident occurred. ket, and more than one competent Melville, in trying to avoid a rising critic has agitated for his inclusion bell from Copson, was struck on the in the England Test team.
the field. Melville had made
This Is How
They Reached
Actually right temple and had to be assisted The Final
he received a trial this year, and in off
wus
this match it is reported that he was contact with the ball and so gove keenly watched by the M.C.C. Com a catch to Verity, who ran forward the from the gully. Later on Hart, of choosing mittee who
Middlesex, took the amateur's place England team to visit Australia.
Frank Thorogood, News-Chronicle in the field, cricket commentator fully describes the Stephenson's great bowling in following article.
Lord's, July 18.
reason
Following Gover's onslaught it seemed quite fitting that two other Surrey men should have curbed their professional colleague. It was Holmes and Brown who added. 70-in
hour before
This
regaitn:
war-
penses.
weaker counties,
By the way, in those days, touring about the same lime as W.G. wrote
his reminiscences. them Captain Sir Ian Fraser, blind M.P., teams seem to have confined
THE WICKETS TROUBLE was in a launch following the row selves to one spare man, which would But then of ing boats. He knew all the oarsmen, be pretty hopeless now.
It may be that the professionals of and gave each an encouraging word course the programmes were much at the start of every race. His wife shorter and easler. But they looked 1801 and 1863 were more used to "coxed" some of the blind scullers. pretty queer lot to judge from an having bad pliches as they travelled for the two All old
which is photograph
is reproduced all over England. in W.G.'s Reminiscences," One England olevens and played a lot of Sitting near Sir Ian was a with a glimmer of sight, restored to gathers that the tour was a success what might be called rustic cricket; war-blinded eyes after eighteen but it has never been repented and white in the next ten years wickets months' treatment in St. Dunstan's. I have never heard of any of the had much improved in England, and perhaps Dr. Grace was more used to He is now self-supporting, and runs aborigines playing cricket new. 2nd Round beat F.X.M. da Silvan boot-repairing business in Wands-
21-10 3rd Round-beat N. J. Bebbington
21-18
L.. A. GUTIERREZ
1st Round-Bye
worth.
mas in
It was during the spring of 1873 good wickets than the professionals that a number of gentlemen connect- of ten years before, though, of course Regatta is the only time the boot-ed with the Melbourne Club asked Engilah wickets in 1873 had in no 4th found-hent A. 8. Gomes repairer meets his old pals of St W. G. Grace to bring over a team. way attained their present-day super-
(Continued on Page 9.) Dunstan's, and he looks forward for It was in no way an enterprise of excellence.
the Melbourne Club as a Club and Shepherd months to this reunion
་ ་ ་ ་
21-15
tho
Gth Round-hent
LATE-COMERS arriving here a little over an
round about 12.30 had good Surrey captain played a hall hard
to be astounded at the into his wicket
season Brown has been remarkable progress made in the
an eye on a playing as if he had course of one fleeting hour. The second visit to Australia. At Lord's Yoshida was fastest fourth and figures on the board had moved he hit seven 4's and was unlucky with such deadly effect against to be caught off the shoulder of his
avold
rising the. Gentlemen as to denote the bat when trying to
ball on this rain-affected pitch full of 6 wickets for 22; but a
Copson/bawled steadily and well,
flattered m As in the case Cof
qualified.
FARNES HAS greater sensation occurred soon and his figures of four for 20 never
6 FOR 69
AND KENT LOSE
BY INNINGS ···
after six o'clock.
It was then that Lieutenant J. W. Tate, the auburn-haired Derbyshire Stephenson, die fast-medium bowler bowler comes quickly off the pitch, who plays for Essex, and who is and with his short, run up he ex-
of energy. attached to the 2nd Battalion Mid-ipends the minimum dlesex Regiment, took the wickets
of Hardstaff, Sinfeld and McCorkell
A DREADFUL START The Players made a dreadful start from the Nursery end as the result Barnett was out with only a single total the board, and with the The over read on of four deliverles. thus: www. In noxi over bo standing at 21. Stephenson not only accepted a tame return from Gim- bowled Velly second ball.
CONGRATULATION OF blett but clean bowled Leyland with
COMRADES
his first ball.
To unbuckle Leyland-the word round to congatu- "unbuckle" I believe, is often used selection for the Australian late Stephenson on his remarkable in Yorkshire, to describe tlie fall of cricket tour to-day by taking six performance, and one which had a batsman gave de mercurial Army
heralded at been
an earlier stage not man undisguised pleasure,
London, Aug, 13.
Kenneth Farnes, Essex ama-
Comrades, id especially those of
tour fast-bowler, celebrated his Essex..
Kent wickets for 69 tuns, and only by the capture of two wickets thus playing a prominent part with successive balls, but by
in the defeat of the Hop county subsequent, dismissal of Hammond told "the" by an innings and 216 runs,
But
to relate
And at all periods of the game the his boyish eagerness in the gully crowd that cricket for himself.
Stephenson
sensning very real | all Stephenson actually captured and earnest.
after this collapse wickets though Farnes's
Happy eLockfent
recovering one of bowling was, A. P. Freeman caped clght of the nino Players' this performance by taking & for Oz that had fallen when an excfilar we saw Hammond despite the fact that Kesex oompiled day's cricket came to an end. After his best mboda. Beautiful off-driving tomado bowlfur. Verily with a delivery, and deft, inte cuting were the a great innlogy, but BOOT Chiet contributors to this total which like so many others kept very features
taken four wickets for after hitting Brown for 6 he encoun and O'Conner, low, he
and
that incorri SKILL OF HARDSTAFF
who had assisted Ham- Hards for the fourth wid
were-Nichola k storesdel=96/ERO s. na ringgit and his Sorondtered Stephenson...
When Kops, baited, Ujay want to spell of bowling-read 10-4-27-0. picted and were Diktslased: for Tialii The early collapse of the Gentle- Following on they are even worse men was mainly due to Gover, who,
gible fell
fellow clean-bowled him.
mid, were mani and forth, a amados in blasir yoool of bowling at the morid, Centflied on Page 9.).
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SPEEDWAY WIVES WIN RIGHT TO
WATCH HUSBANDS
Our Daily Golf
Hint
Correct timing cannot be accurately defined, yet it is at the root of all games, and distinguishes the good player from the indifferent.
-R. He and J. Wethered,
Bemi-Final-beat II.
Alves
Rhodes Scholar Is Favourite
IN ST. LEGER BETTING
London, Aug. 13. Rhodes Scholar is favourite for the St. Leger according to the call-over made to-night. Mahmoud is second favourite. The ruling prices are as fellows.
21-15
22-17 3. A. E. COATES 1st Round-beat J. F. McGowan
21-18 2nd Round-beat T. Fergusson 3rd Round-beat W. Mair 21-10-
7 to 1 Precipitation (p) 18 to 4th Round-beat P. E. Knight
21-14
(3)
Raeburn (0) 100 to 7 (1) 6th Round,.--beat. A. · Hyde-Lay
ANAR 12 to 1 Fearless Fox (t and q)
Reuter. Bemi-FinalA. W. Grimmitt 21-201
11 to 8: Rhodes Scholar (0) 0 to 18 to 2 Mahmoud. (9) 7 to 1.
100
.
RIDE
“YOU CANNOT CONDEMN US TO STAY AWAY”
London, July 16.
Mrs. Vic Huxley, wife of the famous speedway rider, won a battle for riders' wives after a stormy scene in the pits at West Ham just before the world-championship meeting started last night.
The fiders cheered Mrs. Huxley: Riders were asked to vote on the resolution, proposed by Mr. John und escorted her from the pits to her Hoskins, the West Ham Speedway sent in the stand.
So Mr. Hoskins lost the war he controller, banning wives of riders from attending tracks where their had tried to wage against riders
wives, husbands were competing.
Discussion was proceeding when Mrs. Huxley, more ardent than most pre-vote suffragettes, rushed into the pits, made a rousing speech.
wo
There was voting in the pits and ace riders from all over the country voted heavily against him, even the bachelor riders like Bluey Wilkinson.
Mrs. Dickie Case, in hospital fe She, shouted, "You cannot condemn us, to slay at home. We mailed our covering from a minor operation, Limbaugh for better or worse. If the sent a message saying the moment.
insist on being she got out of hospital she would be worst happens"
at a track watching her husband "My husband would never go to a ride
The A.C.U., governing body at track without me. If they bun me they baa him. The only time I'm speedway racing, clinched the wives not with him, is when he is at Man-victory. They will not accept a chester and even then he 'phones me suggestion that wiyes should be Immediately after the racing as barned, psic
with them.
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