THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1937.
TREVOR WIGNAL PAYS TRIBUTE TO
OXFORD'S BOAT RACE
GRIT WINS THEM ONE OF THE BEST RACES SEEN FOR YEARS
London, Mar. 25.
IT will be many a long year before there is another Oxford and
Cambridge Boat-race like the great one of yesterday.
The crowd, for a weekday, was tremendous; but it was one of the highlights of the morning that even those enthusiasts who sported light blue colours were among the most hearty with their cheers when the news was flashed down the river banks that Oxford had broken the spell that first settled on them in 1924.
BAN ON
It is to be doubted whether there bridge in an English sports festival has ever been more popular victory. at its very best.
ame One of the lesser humours was the spectacle of elderly Cambridge men, digaified and solema before the event, delgbtedly shaking hands In the manner of excited schoolboys with equally elderly Oxford men, when the biggest river thrill that has been provided since the war was over.
There was no disposition to speak
of the Oxford crew as super-oarsmeri.
ur even to compare them with some brilliant eights of the past, but
of
BAER FIGHT
DEMANDED
there was everywhere ustement that U.S. CREATES A
agreement
the way they stuck to their opponents when it was generally supposed that they would be left in the reny was among the finest scenes over witness-
waters of old cd on the Thames.
THE CRUTCHES
Father
SENSATION
(By Trevor Wignall)
1
TRIUMPH
Lieut. Davin (left) and Lieut. W right, two of Colony's leading hockey players during the season just ending. Davies plays for the Navy and has represented England at centre-half, and Wright is the Colony and English International right-innor.-
Amazing Recovery By Cambridge In The Varsity Golf Match
(By Vagrant)
Prince's, Sandwich.
Lynch May Defy Boxing Board
(Continued from Page 8.)
agreed to allow Jeck McAvoy, the middle-weight champion, to meet Eddie Phillips, the light-heavyweight champion, at Wembley next month, although they had previously ruled that McAvoy's next opponent must be Jack Hyams, the London middle- weight,
U.S.A. VISIT HITCH
He also mentioned that Lynch has postponed his contemplated visit to America until later in the year.
The spirit of rebellion against the B.B.B.C. is spreading in Scot- land, and Mr. Dingley's present intention is to defy the board. George Cook. the Australian heavy-weight, who some weeks ago was astounded when his application for a renewal of a permit to fight was refused; yesterday appeared before the stewards of appeal of the board.
He was represented by a barrister, but the proceedings were very short. Alter few questions, had been aaked, Cook was informed that the be 11cence
he required would 18sued. It was the Southern Council of the B.B.B.C. that declined to grant a of the and the decision permil,
to accept stewards of appeal net this is taken as meaning that mistake was made. Recommends- only on infrequent tions of branches, however, are turn-
down
occasions.
London Mar. 25. FRESH boxing sensation was Oxford have waited long for the provided last night when it be triumph of yesterday. Before they came known that the stewards of the of Control, went out for one of the few false British Boxing Board starts ever known-there were plenty under the chairmanship of Colonel
Le consider
with a long putt, but the lead was who declared there was no preced-Mydelion, had met to
Madison-square ent for this-there was the usual talk demand made by
At the end of the day's four-back to two. Lucas won the next
with a perfect second shot, and Comed of decadence and a loss of rowing Garden, New York, that the fight at ability, but I wonder how many have Harringay next month between Max somes play Oxford and Cambridge squared after an unforgettable ever seen a fner lot of young fellows Baer and Tommy Farr be banned.
The directors of the Garden claim bridge were level in the annual hunt when Mitchell-Innes, whose con- than those who slowly and carefully
To me the most that took their seats?
he accepted £400 from them and
a half points each. Cam-away, falled with a short one.
must record that Cambridge were wonderful person of the day was the thi Baer is under contract to them, inter-University match with two fidence on the green had slowly cbbed and bridge led at the luncheon inter- lucky. for Lucas's cut drive whistled cox with the crutches. His disability when he signed the contract. is such as to make one marvel tint that therefore he has no he can take any part in sport, but fight any one or anywhere until he val in three of the five games.
Lucas and Dixon, their leading if I had been called on to raise a has fulfilled his agreement to meet
pair, had run up against a wonder special cheer it would have been in Bob Pastor.
The B.B.B.C., who are fallated ful start by Mitchell-Innes, then his direction that I would have
to the New York State Commission, fallen sadly away by disconcerting turned.
to observe the and totally untypical errors. requested
Garden contract,
Carter and Winton had got a lend
+11
right
Scott and Ramsden.
There was a good deal of com-were ment about the nearness to each other, Madison-square of the boats on two or three occasions and to prevent him from appearing of one hole in a ding-dong fight with -more than once it seemed certain in an English ring. that the touching of ours would bring about an infringement-und in the launches that followed the crews breaths were held in anticipation of an incident that would have ruined a splendid test of endurance and skill.
For more than half the distance. the two shells were practically level, but it was Oxford who were the fresher at the finish. The slowness of the time is accounted for solely by the conditions.
THE CHARM
The Garden was represented by Mr. G. D. Roberts, K.C., a junior counsel
to
One
away to the far slope of a bunked ditch only to be saved from total loss by a sucker which enabled his partner to lift and drop.
of
YACHT RACING
Isobel And Gael Win Sweepstake
Behind them Carter and Winton
A sweepstake race over 8.2 miles was contested by the Royal. Hong- were producing too much for Scott third, won the fourth, where Scott kong Yacht Club yesterday. Results:
A and Ramsden. They got a 2 at the was over the green. remarkable
"A" Class Started 14.45 Langley and Boulton were two up nautical feat by Winton, who waded
Finished Cortd. Psn, barefooted into a bunker to explode on Fisher and Thorburn in a game naut
a shower his ball out in a
D.N.F. spray, Carpenter the Treasury and full of good golf.
Then Dalley and Ellis had had the worst
earned Cambridge a half.
16.38.01 Lobo former England Rugger player, and
of matters against Grieve and Thor-Carnica three solleitors.
Carter holed a a horribly long putt
(Mr. S. R. Garratt) 16.32.29 Erig-General Critchley, Mr. Frankburn, whilst Goodban and Booth, ar
st, and
(Maj. B. E. C. Dixon) Gentie. Colonel Walter Witson, and finishing like tigers, had wiped out a the sixth to make his side four up. Isobel
putt by way of counter thrust,
10.40.10 Mr. Syd Hulls appeared for Harrin three holes deficit in the last four Scott saved the ninth with a long
the Greyhound holes to finish one up,
[Col. Muirhend) gay Arena
Contrary
to expectations the North his side faced the last stretch four up a good
by Cicada ***** 10.39.57 Racing Association.
cerning in, and benefiting by fight
(Capt. Bower) wind of yesterday hind fallen consider holes down, but they put ably, and a day of sunshine took some Cambridge bunker trouble at the
Kittiwake ... 10.30.08 of the bitterness out of it. Frost dur-tenth, and more Scott virtuosity with ing the night had covered the casual the putter at the eleventh the dencit I understand that Mr. Roberis occans with a thin coating of ice, but was down to two, But three putts
Acrla! spoko for more than thirty as this thawed and the sun touched
Oxford's way at the fourteenth; enre Ox
3 at the fifteenth, Fot a
Halcyon and though
Widgeon by 2 and 1. they went down
Zephyr Langley and Bouller had a peril- ous feat on a landslide to finish their Gael
and
All the stewards of the B.B.B.C. who were qualified to act were in attendance, and the proceedings, oc cupled, nearly three hours.
Joss
ind
I heard somebody say that there were more foreigners as watchers than ever before. There is no way checking this statement, but one of
that the New York agreement being to any who were not involved in matter that must have struck visitors
respected.
the strife. from other countries was that incly
Replies were made by General BAD WEATHER RULES per cent. of the gathering had no
By mutual arrangement o ball in- -intimate connection with either unt-Critchley, who gave Baer his English
minutes, and that his request was the blue ripples, the scene was pleas-Cambria Oxford won the sixteenth
greens.
1
G
4
3
(Miss P. M. King) Mixed Classes Started 14.55
16.38.17 16.38.17 2
(Mr. Ross)
D.NF.
D.N.F.
D.N.F 10.53.40 16.35.35 1
(Lt. Col. S. Smith)
versity. That is the charm of the contract. Mr. Gentle, -and-Mr. Hulls,bedded-in-turf-could-be-lified and morning-round;-and-now-they lost Toynette 16.53.04-18.40.50--3- Boat-race; it is the inosi democratic while Mr. Ancil Hoffman, the manas dropped without penalty and those three of the first six in the afternoon, (Mr. Allen)
On the cancer of Baer, also, spoke on the with mud adhering wiped
making tainl loss of six in nine event that éven this country
fighter's behal.
holes. Boulter brought some situa- stuge.
At the close of the conference It
At the third, Lawrle holed a crueltonu which even Langley's ability was announced that the decision ten-footer for a two. Still they ut- could not altogether atone for, but of the board would not be made tacked, Lucas hitting a glorious wus Langley who saved his side. known until to-day, and the belief
second home from the rough at the An a great fight by holing n expressed to me was that the fourth, with Mitchell-Innes through putt on the last green. stewards
win
green, and finding the green
FOUR IN A ROW Harringay.
Dalley and Ellis, after losing the
Its magnificent sporting, spirit has been too often commented on to need further reference here, but it was! curious to encounter people who still asked what the participants got out of 11. I think the answer is that their main reward for training that would break the
spell of pack
vote in favour of
at
I am in a position to state that if the short atth with his opponent
12ft.
Mixed classes abortened to 7 miles.
SCHUSCHNIGG FOR ROME
Vienna, Apr. 14. Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, the Austrian semi-dictator, together with his Foreign Minister, will visit Italy on
Benito
and the backs of most athletes is a it is not an appeal will be immedi.under-clubblag himself so that his first hole to a 4, then won four holes April 24, meeting Signor feeling of satisfaction that rapithy falely registered, and that the matter ball fell with a great splash into the in a row, playing the holes perfectly, Mussolinf, frst of the modern dicta-
evaporates. There are no glittering will then be taken to the High Court. depths of
Baer expects to carn at least purses, no huge prizes, no swollen gate-receipts, and--in the muin-10 £30,000 while he is in this country, inquests. It is not old-school-licish to but if he is stopped from fighting remark that the annual meeting of his gains, of course, will be the blade-operators Oxford and Cam-considerably less.
Lilian HARVEY..
A GAY ROMANTIC MUSICAL FANTASY
INVITATION
WALTZ
To: The
CARL ESMOND RICHARD BIRD
HAROLD WARRENDER
ESME PERCY WENDY TOYE ERIC STANLEY HAY PETRIE CHARLES CARSON / ALEXANDER FIELD ANTON DOLIN
N. PAUL MERZBACH
AT
TO-MORROW
THE QUEEN'S
very
waterlogged bunker. But for the intense partisanship, the doings at the seventh must have made rare matter for hilarity, tili Lucas finished the comedy of errors by manfully holing u fifteen-foot pult Mitchell-Innes mude one of his rare part- errors at the eighth, leaving his
with
three-quarter stymie, and a hall, which robbed his side of tho Oxford lead was then down to three. Up to this point he was hit- fing his shuls
ng
hola crisply
ncr
n
whilst the Oxford pair, just off the fairway, found lies from which they at. the Goodban lofted
stymie could not get home in the last match. the lead, twelfth to give his side which Webb promptly removed by cracking a number 3 iron dead at the next. Cambridge came to grief-at- the 17th and 18th, and the Oxford pair got home after a highly exciting game.
The feature of the morning's golf and accurately. was Oxford's play in the leading whitst Lucas was struggling all the match. They went off 1, 4, 2, 4, 3, Was early time against the tendency to wild-to be four up. Lawrie
herole. He pitched up dead at the ness from the tee. Now, at the ninth, here Lucas pushed his tee shot away into second, and holed from ten feet at the rough. Dixon crashed his second the third. Varied thrusts and name- through, to which Mitchell-Innes re-less mindventures brought an Ox- holes at the turn, delightful iron shot home ferd lead of plied with to the green, and Oxford started for Cambridge having played 42 shots to home still four holes to the good.
opponents' 38. Coming home Mitchell-Innes holed When afternoon play started, a
of 7 feet for a 10th,
their
goodly number of spectators went out a nasty downhill put another of 15
with the leading match, some appre- half at the hensive of imminent slaughter, others feet at the 12th, to make his side. 4 holocaust Then the Cambridge Intuition by
orange int
in turn started. Lucas pulled into the rough covery, Both
at the 13th, Dixon found a bunker at All four players made brilliant the 14th, Lucas found another at the starts, all four touched violently and 15th, Dixon was out of bounds at the three up unexpectedly the depths of ineptitude. 16th, the combination used The Cambridge players were trona-putts at the 17th and that was nine Agured men. They went off 4, 4, 3, down. At the 18th Mitchell-Innes made his first slip of the day, cut- but only won one hole back.
ting his second into a bunker, and MITCHELL-INNES UNSETTLED
Whether the stymie incident had Cambridge got one hole, and of what
don't
value it was to prove later. unsettled Mitchell-Innes,
FOURSOMES know, but now some errors crept into his game. He missed the green to the right at the tenth, and the lead end Then Cambridge was down to three. let a chance go, for Lawrie played a weak approach, but Dixon missed the first of two holeable, but, in the cir-k. 1. Scott (Win cumstances, agonising putts, and charter Trin.) a Cambridge got a half instead of n win.
hope, fear, and desTA
Xare up..
Lawrie holed a good one at the twelfth, but falled with one at the thirteenth.. Oxford's lead was now down to two.
(Foultion after 18 holes in parentheses). "
OXFORD
CAMBRIDGE N. S.-Hitchell-Innes
(Sedbergh, B.N.C.) *T. D. Lucas (Blowo,
Lawrie Pemb (Rugby, D.N.G.)
Eton
up
Itron
Magd.)
D. Carter G. 0. 18Lowe, Tria) T. 8. D. L. Hamaden - Whiton (Canford, (Eton, New) Down) (1 up) 2/ *K, N. Fisher (Eun J. D. A Langley Mard.), W. : 1Stowe, Trin.). R. 11. Boulter (Stowe, Clare) (2 op) ...***
8. G. Dalley (Ontario, Emm.), J. 11, EUG (Blundell's, Ne
Thorburn chester, Trin.
Win-
c. P. Grieve (Ample- forth, Ch. Ch.
D. Walker
C.
(Rosaa, Curple)
At the fourteenth poor Dixon was: Jeft
again with a putt that looked to him as long as the Polish Corridor, F.NU. but was under five feet, and Oxford got a hole back. Another of Lawrie's approach shots flew half-heartedly and fell far short. Lucas laid a do- ilente pitch dead, Lawrie hit the hole
Rugby. Corpas). J., Webb (Char terhane, Horta) (2 up)
Total
14 Cath.)
J. W. D. (Foodban
· (Bredfald, Chelat=7, R. O. Both (Stowe, Pemb.) (1 upload 0
Total
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