THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL
1937.
FINCHER-RUMJAHN SEMI-FINAL ON WEDNESDAY
REVISED TENNIS PROGRAMME
The Singles
Final On...
Friday DOUBLES
·MAY 4
(By "Verkas"}, ̧.
Unless rain comes to stop the tennis matches arranged for this afternoon and to-morrow, the postponed singles champion- ship semi-final between E. C. Fincher and 5. A. 'Rumjahın' will' be played on Wednesday.
This match takes the place of the singles Anal originally scheduled for Wednesday.
Instead the final will be played on Friday, and the inen's doubles final will be tranferred from Friday to Tuesday week.
the
The amended programme for remaining matches in the Colony and H.K.C.C. events is as follows:
Colony
THIS AFTERNOON
Doubles
Championship
Remi-final. Wong Shul-wing and Luk Ding-chcung v. 8. A. and H. D. Rumjalin.
TUESDAY
H.K.C.C. AUxed Doubles ünal. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Sullivan " Polglase and Mrs. R. M. Wood.
WEDNESDAY
G,
Colony Singles Championship semi- final, E. C. Flacher v. S. A. Rumfahu.
THURSDAY
II.K.C.C. Singles Championship. A. L. Sullivan v. M. Pagh.
FRIDAY
Baor Changes Mind
New York, Apr. 24. Ancil Hoffman. manager of Max Baer, the American heavy- weight boxer, ins cabled the Madison Square Garden that the former world champion has re- consideres bis decision to quit. "He will
will gladly night Bob Pastor of New York providing a date can be arranged," says Hollman,
-United Press
After being out-polnted by Tommy Farr, the British heavy- weight champion, last week, Daer announced that he would retire from the ring.
£20,000 Offer
For Schmeling- Baer Fight
(By Geoffrey Simpson)
An offer of £20,000 for an aprл.
air fight in London awaited Max; Schmeling, the former
weight champion
heavy-{
of the world, when he reached Berlin on his re- turn from the United States,
It was made by Mr. Sydney Hulls, the Harringay promoter, who plans to match Schmeling against Max
| Baer, at the White City Stadium' In
June.
Baer knocked out Schmeling in len rounds in their first and only meeting in 1933, and later went on to win the world championship.
The proposed Landon contest, therefore, would be a balife be- tween two former world title. holders.
It would be the biggest fight ever held in England, but before anything
Clubhouse Chatter
By "Veritas"
DANGERS OF EXCESSIVE COMPETITIVE SOCCER IN HONGKONG
H.K.F.C. DROP BROAD HINT
TO THE ASSOCIATION
ONE wonders what amount of game, are becoming anxious as to the Juture developments of soccer in the "notice, if any, will be taken |Colony, and that overy effort should by the Hongkong Football Asof its lustre and appeal,
be made to prevent it from losing any
Hocintion to Mr. V. M. Gray- burn's timely warning issued at Successful Visit the H.K.F.C. annual dinner og
To Canton Saturday concerning the dangers of encouraging and organising top much competitive football. No more atting emphasis for its plen for more friendly and less In the Telegraph alone, columns competitive football could have been made by Mr. Grayburn then his re have already been written about ference to the recent visit to Canton this subject. It has, soto of the football team drawn from the.
Clubs. There were several memor- quartered."
It will probably able features about that visit. The have to go through a dozen Colony players and oficials were loud similar processes before our Int administrative body realises that clubs and players are beginning
Here is the Irish team, composed of the full first eleven Royal Ulster Rifles, photographed with the Insperk, been hung, drawn and Hongkong and Kowloon Football ternational Charity Cup after they bad beaten England. (Photo: Yuen Chun Studios).
ROYAL ULSTER RIFLES
WIN CHARITY CUP FOR IRELAND
ENGLAND'S
MORBID MOOD
(By "Veritas")
Ireland... 3 England... (Moore . Ferguson)
(Lando)
Colony Slurtes Championship final, can be done Baer must beat Tommy THIS International Charity Cup
H. D. Rumjalin v. E. C. Fincher or Farr, the British champion, whom he S. A. Rumjahn.
meets at Harringay on April 15.
TUESDAY, MAY 4
Colony Doubles Championship final. E. C. Fincher and W. C. Ilang v. 8. A. and H. D. Kumfalin or Weng Shui- wing and Luk Ding-rheung.
RUMJAHNS TO WIN TO-DAY Should Reach 12th Final In 13 Years
SCHMELING AND BRADDOCK
final played at Caroline Hill: yesterday produced a standard of play which suggested the 22 Schmeling at the moment is con- players were suffering from foot- cerned with the threatened break-ballphobia. In any case the game down of his match with the cham- plon, Jimmy Braddock, arranged for gave the crowd good cause. for June 3 in New York,
developing this complaint.
He told the Daily Mall Berlin cor- Ireland won easily. Much easier respundent that he had made no progress on his New York visit. The than the score indicates. They were position is that Braddock has signed the better of two not very good teams. Lo meet Jou Louis in Chicago on June Nevertheless one could find reason
Twilight Settles On The Football Season In England
final.
For the most part the problems of championships, promotion and re- legation are settled.
Manchester City, making a bril linnt recovery late in the season have team has better deserved such no honour. Arsenal have still a chance
Doncaster, like Reading a few years go, returning to the third division. RARE STRUGGLE There is a rare struggle for the third division
This year they
In their praise for the fine sports- Chinese opponents, but by the specta manship displayed not only by their tors. The crowd, as keen os mustard
to find the soccer senson burden-in following the play, never hesitated some and intrusive.
Over 500 League Matches
ONL
NLY as a result of superhuman efforts on the part of officials like
to applaud any good work, whether accomplished by the Canton or the Hongkong team The Canton hosts went out of their way to make every- thing ideally satisfying for
the visitors. The effect has been to give a good many people a new und hap pier impression of the Chinese nt- titude to football. And off the field the Hongkong representatives were
Mr. C. Carter, and the willingness treated just as royally. It is a mai-
of teams to co-operate in the playter for the keenest satisfaction that
50 event proved successful. ing of mid-week matches, has it been the
There is every likelihood of this the season's pro- possible Kramme completed as far as it is mutch being perpetuated. this time, Very possibly the F.A.
get
will have the right to look back with Club Winds Up
pride
upon the fact that in the space:
of nearly eight months
more
than
580 league matches have been The Season together with an Interport series, un
of excess, entailing a loss of prestige
Work on the new tennis courts
International Charity Cup competi-PHERE was a very jolly atmosphere tlon, the Lal Wah Cup tournament. in the Hongkong Hotel Roof Twilight has settled on the
the Senior and Junior Shields, the Garden
оп Saturday night. The 1936-7 football in England and
Governor's Cup competition and the Club dinar Sur an outstanding Kotewall Cup. Nevertheless One success. Speeches were short, cor- Scotland. There is still another
(south) title: Luton escape from the feeling that in i rectly reflective, and in some cases week left before the league
of this achievement, association witty. rugby section pointed, to programmes are completed and and Notts County have identical re-football has become a little too com- a season of distinct achievement. the Blarney then follows the English Cup cords and everything hinges on their petitive. The most direct threat is The Interport von
last games.
Luton's goal average is to rob the game of its pretensions
trophy recaptured, superior and it is possible this may for establishing and quickening Seven-A-Side
Mr. A. F. Walkden's tribute to the decide whether they or Notts enter friendly relationships on and off the fino dimploys of the Royal Welch the second division.
feld of play and of its desirable alm Fusiliers was generally appreciated. Aldershot will have to apply for to create truly sporting rivalry. Les Afterwards the indies joined in. And re-election to the third division. to-day does one feel that "The game's how the Paul Jones were enjoyed!
Jn the northern section Stockport the thing." Rather is it becoming and Lincoln are still grimly fighting "The competition's the thing", Very K.C.C. Improvements for the championship and promotion. clearly this can be taken to a point such an Both have game to play, but
port lead in the race by one point, and glamour which the game hitherto 22, ignoring the June 3 date with able excuses for both sides. The
of finishing second, but Charlton are Glasgow Rangers never fail has boasted.
the Kowloon Cricket Club is Schmeling. Legal proceedings have sun was fierce and glaring; the scnson slightly better placed.
win either the Scottish League PF.A. Should Take Note
proceeding space. Already the turt been started to prevent the Chiengo has now lasted close on eight months, At the other end of the table one the Scottish Cup.
has been laid. Very shortly, it is To-day's
championship contest. tennis
the players are, in fact, football- surrowfully observes that Wednes have made it the league, and very
hoped, the new lawn bowls green inatch Is the open doubles semi-final
weary, and only the important stakes day are practically doomed for comfortably hove they won it.
will begin to take shape. It has long between Wong Shui-wing and Luik Ding-cheung-and-the-Rumjalin the-Baer-Farr-contest,said-Schme- ficiently interesting for anybody-toWednesday win their last match and for relegation and Ayr and Morton
- would like to fight the winner of attached to the match kept il suf- relegation, though it is possible, if Albion and Dunfermline are doomed ONCE having created competitions, been felt that the K.C.C. need a
It is not easy, even if in fact second green, and it is e ling, discussing the London offer, "but remain in his scat.
a big asset to the club when A comfortable win for the cousins, still consider I am bound by con-
have to settle which two of
of Leeds,
blem is how to conduct them in such which will mean their twelfth appear tract to fight Braddock on June
Manchester United and the Wednes- ance in the final in the course of 13 under the auspices of Madison-square
the have topped the 100 mark affliction to England put up a rather woeful day shall drop into the second divi-dThree teams in the four English a way that they do not become an progressive movements at such a
players and the important Institution As years, is indicated Wong and Luk Garden,
the K.C.C., A clause in my contract
showing. They should have
in goal-scoring. Manchester City game. have
outlined and I am just as certain that the club already are steady players and the day forbids me to sign for any light before better. Chief foull was in the attack Blackpool and Leicester have made have 105 so far, Luton are credited methods by which this might be them win
doubi
reap set, though I
it.
benents from such a policy. which never became consolidated. themselves safe for promotion into with 101 and Lincoln with 103. accomplished, und I am not going Neither courts nor bowls green are The Rumjahns are playing quite well at the present and they are not He plans to go ahead with his pre-Only Blake and Bickford threatened the senior division, but as to which None of the first division Scottish over the same ground again. But ifikely to be ready for use much, be-
danger even looked like scoring, likely to be upset by the slowing-
parations for the Braddock fight until
will win the second division chum-League teams has reached the three- Mr. Grayburn, speaking on behalf of fore the end of the year, Blekford was very shabbily
time the K.C.C. may be to down methods of the Chinese.
next week. Leicester with a gamexion, in which only 34 games are duced numbers of Hongkong this activities. But this is dependent on A three-straight sets win is
badminton denite decision has been reached treated both by his inside forward pionship will not be known until figure mark, yet in the second divi- an important club which has pro- time In the meantime he cannot entertain and his half backs. I don't recall him to play, are one point behind Black played, probable outcome the tasteb
Two games in the H.K.C.C. handl-
receiving one decent pass throughout pool who have completed their AX-have accompilshed the performance, subicct public, and other clubs are several factors, and it is too early at the game. But he
h was
forward resolutions this stage to say whether or not the cap doubles event are also being
good tures. Bradford City and Doncaster Ayr have scored 122, Morton 105 willing to put worker, prepared to fetch and carry will find new pastures next season, and St. Bernards 100 precisely.
concerning the same matter at the game will be revived. Badminton played this afternoon. R. M. Wood
F.A. annual meeting, as was done players generally are agreed that it and still make things difficult for the and J. E. Richardson meet F. Harrison and A. S. Rend; and A. H.
lust year, then the Association should would be a great boon to the game opposing defence..
begin to appreciate that footballers here if the K.C.C. adopted it once Penn and J. R. Collis piny G. E. R.
both players and Gupporters of the again. Divett and B. Q'M. Deane.
cousins.
Led 5-1, Then Lost The Match
the
V.
IN KOWLOON TONG TENNIS FINAL
that date."
other offers,
SCRUMMAGE RULES ALTERATION
How Will They Hook
Next Season?
ཐ
But
RATHER WOEFUL
Leeds lose theirs, goal average will will compete in the arst division desirable, to shelve them. The pro completed. It. Is good to sec
these
dunu sion.
Blake played a similar role at centre-forward and one could not but admire his pluck, his energy and his attempts to be enterprising, That ha incked the necessary experience to allow him to polish off some ex- tremely courageous efforts was' un- fortunate, but does not detract from the merit of the efforts. Of the rest
next season.
no less than
Melbourne Inman To Play Billiards In Singapore
..
Melbourne Inman, the famous billiards player, writes to the Straits Times slating that he and Horace Lindrum will leave England on April 24 The complete official code, from the of the forwards it is kinder, to remain on a world tour. International Board, for the 1037-38 silent; except that I would say Lands They expect to be in Singapore in July. Their exhibitions 1.111 include season has not yet been presented to proved a real disappointment and an hour's blillards, two or three frames of snooker, and a display of fancy the four Home Unions for ratification obviously has not yet become suf- strokes. and adoption, so it is not yet possible ficiently reclimatised to conditions to to make a definite conclusion as to be ranked in first division class,
the changes reported a fortnight ago, Considerable work devolved upon As regards the most important Webster, Strange and Smith, the last point, the change in the Scrummage named playing in goat. On the whole Law, the whole thing depends upon they came through the ordeal with whether the old Law 15,
the section
how easily Ferguson beat Webster in which deals with the first three feet their duels for the ball. The half not being raised or advanced, and backs were purely and simply defen
sive, and not especially notable
Inman is the former billiards champlon. Horace Lindrum is a snooker wizard and recently compiled record breaks of 141 and 135. He gave Joe Davis a very close fight in defence of his (Davis's) title as snooker champion
few weeks ago.
as
Last year. Lindrum achieved the billiards player's exhibition in record- a four-figure break (1008), and at snooker he six times topped the
lucky to lose his match with S. A. Fries is deleted. This Sub-section Sredit, though I was surprised to see century, with 131 as the best break-since exceeded as above mentioned.
final
It wasn't surprising to find the Cricketers Honoured By Pung led 5-1 in the final set, hoa Which hos always been read in con- that respect. They only partially the losers, but this does not exoner-
O. L. Pang (owe 30.4) was 0- Gray (owe 40) yesterday in the of the Kowloon Tong Club bandicap singles. two match points in the eighth game and another in the ninth. But each time he made wild ahota which proved to be costly errors. Neither -player was at his best, though Pang
played some very nice shots.
The scores in favour of Gray read 0-4, 5-7, 7-5.
KCC TOURNEY
An American tennis
junction with Sub-section (F), the subdued the Irish forwards, one actually altered.
in Irishmen playing better together than
ate the English Inds for thele pitiful efforts to drive the ball gooiwards.
Ireland led 2-1 at half time and Moore clinched the issue late In the second half.
Sookunpoo Club
Members of the Indian FC. gathered together in the club-house at Sookunpoo on Saturday evening
ABOUT THE WINNERS If (K) is not deleted, there would Keem to bo. Iiille · comprehensive
The Irishmen raised their game to change; but if (KC) has gone. (and this appears to be the case) then a level sufficiently higher than that
at dinner to celebrate the success of the new ruling seems to imply that of the Englishman to win the match
with
the First Division cricket "team in something to spare, the outside men of each front row
Ferguson, Moore, and then Moore the League and to honour three may hook with their inside feet
At times the forwards played to gain, scored for Ireland, and Lands members, A. R. Minu, A. H. Modar One doubts the efficacy of this, for gether with fine understanding and obtained England's goal.
and K. Nazarin, who were selected was played at the Kowloon Cricket stantly kicked out again, but also further demonstrated that he is a tournament surely not only will the ball be con- there was always danger coming from
SPLENDID SEASON
to represent Hongkong in the last the Erwin-Killen wing, Ferguson Club yesterday, the following taking when it is hooked, it will have a con- much better left winger than an in- first eleven of the Royal Ulster Rifles,
Interport match against Shanghai, Ireland was composed of the full siderable tendency to come out of side forward, and Moore's go-ahead who
Addressing the gathering. Mr. A. the side, rather than the back of the methods made a useful contribution during the week-end-winning the congratulated Mr. A, IL Rumjahn,
thus
completed the double el Arculli, President of the Club, scrum.
to the effency of the attack.
first division championship, and the captain of the cricket team, on his Charity Cup. Very praiseworthy success. Referring to and Mrs. H. Cairns, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wither retrograde nove in the opin: not much in the picture at centre- that wonderful 1934 season of the not only brought fame to themselves Glabraith, Campbell's deputy, was and meritorious. One is reminded of Interporters, Mr. Archill sold they the three Gardner, T.
T. Hunter and Mrs. Old. "B" team.-A. W. Ramsey and lon of those who are continually half, though one appreciated his South Wales Borderers, though I but honour to the Club (Applause). Miss Perry, Mr. and Mrs. W. Gittins, advocating solidarity of shove, and obstructiveness. The wing halves honestly don't think the Rifles are
Meszra, Rumjabn. Minu and Mr. and Mrs. Coombes, R. Harding a return to the good old days of weepingoed, dolive notable work as good a team as the 24th. But Madar suitably replied.
wheeling.
In their forwards well sup- they have enjoyed a marked success. and Miss Nash, N. A. E. Mackay and
piled with passes which had some ful season. Next year, though, look Expressions of regret that F. D. Miss Old, A. L. Fisher and Miss A.
The complete code la expected out practical value. Stevens was bril-out for the Seaforth Highlanders Pereira, their former fast bowler and Mackenzie. C. J. Tacchi and Mrs. in a few days time, when presum-liant in defence and Pickering, though have a hunch they are going to figure Interporter, was not with them to Blandford.
mably we may expect final elucidation not his equal, was sound and con-very prominently in our compe.join in the celebrations were made
of this point.-H. B, T., W.
ceded nothing.
by the speakers.
part:
A team-Mr. and Mrs. A. E. P. Guest, Mr. and Mrs. T. White, Mr. and Mrs. H. Crabb, W. L. Mackenzie and Mrs. E. C. Fincher, W. W. Hirst
"B", team won by nine points.
Many packs in these circumstances
a
tions.
7
by which
con-
Smith (RAS.C.) England's goalkeeper leaps high to fist out, the ball during an Irish raid in yesterday's International Charity Cup matchi Irmlmad beat England 3-1. (Photo: Ming Yuơn).
ri