THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 22,
1938.
UNIVERSITY "A" FAVOURED FOR BADMINTON TITLE
EASY WIN OVER CHINESE “Y”. LAST EVENING
GOOD START GIVEN BY K. L. YONG & P. K. HUI
(Dy "Abe")
University "A" players established themselves as favourites for the championship of the "A" Division of the Badminton League fast night when they defeated their nearest rivala, the Chinese Y.M.C.A,, by eight games to one at the Eu Tong-sen Gymnasium. The undergraduates now need only to beat the Club de Recreio "A" at King's Park to make absolutely certain of the title.
Last night's encounter promised to be a close and exciting one in view of the positions held by the two teams. Tho Chinese "Y", who had already beaten the undergraduates once before, would have had a clear feld if they had been able to repeat their performance; but the team
too played
the chakily against University men to hope for success. As a result, the match turned out to be very one-sided and completely devold of thrills.
Whatever good badminton there was last night was played in the Arst round, At the start, there was no indication, that the University's win would be so clear cut, but after winning the first three games, the undergraduates were in an almost unassallable position.
K. L. Yong and P. K. Hul, the University's first pair, strengthened their claims to be called the best combination in local League Badmin- ton by giving their side a good start. In their tussle with P. H. Wong and S. Y. Hon, they quickly went
into lead of 7-0 and finally ran out at 1-14. They were too well-balanced
for
4
their opponents. Wong tried
Yong and Hul won all their three noi games, but the two Lec's did deserve to do so.
There is still, a possibility of aj triple tie. The undergraduates' main obstacle now is a match against the Club de Recreio "A", who will have the advantage of playing on their home court. The championship will| go to the University if they win this encounter, but a win for the Portu- guese will place the three teams on level terms once again.
Scores:
K. L. Yong and P. K. Hul (Univer- sity) beat P. H. Wong and S. Y. Hon 21-14: beat C. Au and F. Koh 21-15; beat
H. Kol and A. Chong 21-10. T. F. Yong and K. S. Liew (Univer- sity) lost to Wong and Hon 18-21; beat Au and Koh 21-11; beat Koh and Chong 21-12.
C. O. Lee and C. K. Lee (Univer- sity) beat Wong and Hon 21-18; beat Au and Koh 21-15; beat Koh and Chong 21-11.
INCREASE
hard to stem the tide, but his partner IN WAGES
did not give him sufflelent support.
WORSE TO COME
Worsc was to come for the Chinese "y" in the next match. C. Au and F. Koh, who did so well against the Club de Recreio a few weeks ago, failed completely against T. F. Yong and K. S. Liew, who won with com
And C. O. Lee and parative case.
C. K. Lee rubbed it in by trouncing the weak "y" third pair H. Koh and
A. Chong, by 21-11."
Even a victory by Wong and Hon against Yong and Liew in the first match of the second round was un- able to revive the visitors' hopes and the issue was decided in the next two matches, both of which the undergraduates' won.
The solitary success scored by the Chinese "Y" was due in the main to Patrick Wong, the Colony singles champion, who almost single- handedly took on Yong and Llew. Hon was very weak; had he given Tila partner but ordinary support, the combination would have probably won more than one game.
K. L. Yong & P. K. Hul Best pair in League Badminton?
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How easily Silkylight won the Hongkong Derby yesterday can be seen in this picture at Mr. Erlo Moller's candidate, with, Mr. K. 1. Moller up, canters past the winning post, Desert Chief was second. three lengths behind and Confusion Bay was third. The winning ticket, No. 68172, in the special dollar sweep, paid $141,380.05. (Photo: Staff Photographier).
HOUGH OUTPOINTS
FRENCH BOXER
Sportsmanship Endears Winner To Crowd
Cricket Notes
By "R. Abbit”
Greatest Good Or The
Greatest Number
Craigengower C. C. In Unfortunate Position
When I wrote in my last article that I thought the action of the Cricket League Committee in postponing the matches in view of the very probable bad weather and also the visit of the Corinthians' football team I definitely racant what I said. I was not aware, however, that it bore particularly heavily on the un- fortunate Craigengower eleven, two of whoso members had made arrangements to play to the schedule at considerable personal inconvenience, and I am quite sure that the League committco
were also unaware of it.
So far as I can understand tho
LETTERS TO THE matter, certain clubs approached the
EDITOR
A CORRECTION.
the matches should be postponed definitely and that action was ac- cordingly taken. In the past there have been endless postponements and the fact that the League Aix- tures, when more or less controlled by the committee at the beginning Sir-In your issue of Saturday, of the season (I was not in the February 19, your correspondent "The Pilgrim" refers to the Colony then, but I understand that H.K.S.I.A
as being the present the list was more or less arranged champlons of the Army Large Units in consultation with the committee) Knock-Out Competition. May I point appears to be responsible for the out that
1st Kumaon my Regiment,
by the Arst week in again drew over 8,000 people to the Empress Stadium, Earl's having defeated the H.K.S.R.A. last rived
Frank Hough, the extraordinarily popular Battersea boxer, ines. are the present championa, very sound position which was ar- Court and many hundreds more who failed to gain admission-year in the final. As this is the only February. Each league team had important competition for which this only three more games to play and to see him win a very hard, exciting fight on points by a narrow
Regiment enters, I feel that your this is a pleasant contract to the where margin against Marcel Lauriot, light heavyweight champion of
correspondent is hardly doing us position in previous years
on Justice. Will you kindly take steps therefore to correct the error?
France.
London, Jan. 25.
When Hough sent Laurlot crashing, fight forced upon him. und changed to the door in the seventh round the his tactics quickly. cheering was of that all-obliferating
blur
of the Dght by one swift, woll-imed right cross to the Lauriot came rushing in, jaw as Lauriot's knees banged on the floor, and he was in bad shape when he got up.
J. D. HOLMES, Lieut. Adjt.
1s1 Kumaon Rifles.
JAPANESE
He looked rather tired when, in which deafens one and well- nigh numbs the brain, And when the seventh round, he changed the the lingering doubts as to his victory trend were set at rest by holding aloft of Hough's glove by Mr. Moss Deyong, As already reported profes-the referee, the roar was even worse sional soccer players in Eng- and more prolonged, land and Wales want their
The hero-worship of Hough mys- raised to £5 and the maxi- but it was plain enough during this increased from £8 to Oght to see the little instinctive sportsmanlike tricks which have en- deared him to the crowd.
Ho was hit low twice, but never There could have been only a smoll
The re-margin in favour of Hough. complained and boxed on. feree cautioned-the-Frenchman-on each occasion. His boxing was all- uction, though some might quibble as to its quality in some respects. CONGRATULATED OPPONENT
minimum wage of £4 a week tifies ring-side amateur psychologists, However, Hough, though cool in NET STARS
mum
£9.
They contend that the clubs can well afford the increase, and that the so-called speeding up of the game has considerably shortened the play- ing life of the player.
The Football Players' and Trainers Union, which has a membership of 1,600, have asked the management committee of the Football League to the meet a deputation to consider effects
financial position the on of the majority of the players.
16 MILLION SPECTATORS Union secretary James Fay, in letter to the League, emphasises that attendances at the matches in the four divisions up to Jan. 15, 1938, exceeded sixteen millions, and this is
Once, in the ninth round, when Laurios fought his way out of trou- ble cleverly and pluckily, Hough con- gratulated him as he broke apart, by tapping him on the shoulder. At the
end of thai round, someone from the members enclosure shouted to him to "have one more go."
He turned round and answered with a cheery grin." "Wghto! I'll go
the "absolute minimum," all out." Third-round Cup ties, including re- The fuss he made of Lauriot when plays, realised approximately £70.-the
000 a record.
rec
"The majority of the players," ndids Mr. Fay. "are offered woges on the sliding scale-even by the richer clubs. Terms offered in many cases reported were disgraceful.
It is agreed that it is impossible for some clubs to offer fair wages, but at the same time, the clubs are allowed to prevent the players from betterlag their positions."
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fight was over was obviously Hia friendliness was spontaneous.
from him, 'and he simply Dozing Iterally helped the crowd to cheer his beaten opponent.
looking for a vital opening, fell into his bad habit of cuffing when that chance came, and Laurlot recovered end. and fought strongly at the
Mr, D. G. E. Middleburg's Salitre, Hough is a patently modest chap with Capt. I. 8. T. Bowden up, after none of these incidents could winning Lho Australian Hunters' and possibly be construed as playing to Hurdle Race at Kwanti on Sunday. the gallery. He is just naturally n young man--ex- happy-go-lucky ceedingly lucky at the present time. GRUELLING MIX-UP
TALENT MONEY FIGURES
The flight was a gruelling mix-up The union consider the Football League should devise special from start to finish. Laurlot, a tre- scheme adequately to compensate mendously strong, aggressive ginger- players who may suffer injury out-haired young Frenchman, had a bet side the Insurance Act, and that the ter right hand than Hough and a transfer system should be revised ns weird but confusing variety of al- fees have risen beyond all expecta Lacking blowe, all hooks, swings and tions and the present rules were long uppercuts. made when fees of to-day were un-
known.
He was cautioned in the first round
Players, of course, may receive for a low blow and again in the third, but these were purely accidental. Hough, who had set out with the idea
talent honey for meritorious service
not exceeding the following sums:
No. 1 club, £275; No. 2 club, £220; of forcing the fight, soon found the
No. 3 club, £105; No. 4 club. £110.
Winners of the F.A. Cup may zelvo a sum not exceeding £275, runners-up £220, each defeated semi-finalist £105, each defeated club in round six £118.
SHELAEFF TO FIGHT SHORTLY
JAPANESE
PLAYERS TRIUMPH
Win Doubles Tonnis Over Filipinos
Manila, Feb. 21.
TWO
Visitors
Paris-London Tennis Tournament
French Team Successful
Paris, Feb. 13. Winning six of the remaining seven matches to-day, the French team representing Parla beat a Lon- don team by 13 to 8 in the annual Parle-London Tennis Tournament.
The tournament lasted three days, the score nt the end of the first day belna 4 to in favour of London, while the Frenchmen drew level, nt 7 matches for each side at the end of the second day's play.
Of particular interest 10-day was the doubles encounter between the British Davis Cup team of C..E. Hare and G. P. Hughes and the French pair Glasser-Botelit. After a hard nght, the Englishmen won by 3-6, 0-3,0-8, 13-11; 0-3.
Manis, Feb. 22.
Japan, from
ni
been have
carried matches through March and even in some cases have been April.
Aston Villa's Cup Hopes Raised
London, Feb. 21. Aston Villa's hopes in the F.A. Cup were raised to-day. when, in the second re-play in the Fifth Round against Chal- ton, on the latter's ground, they were successful by four goals to one,
The teams drew 1-1 in the first match and 2-2 in the se- cond, after extra time, Reuter,
played in early seems to be a big exodus after the New Year. And yet owing to Inter-. 'ports and other causes it would be It in Impossible for any set of quito Impossible to get the League fixtures for out-door games to be season over between October and adhered to rigidly. No one could the first week in January. In
cidentally, I venture to suggest to have possibly played on February 12 the Hongkong Cricket Club and the and no doubt the fact that there Army and the Navy that the Navy
match should take place at Christ had been ond postponement in-
maa and the Army on New *Year'a fluenced the League committee to Day. To the best of my knowledge agree with the request of clubs who and belief it would not matter to wished to make one more postpone either the Club or the Army and it rent on the 19th. It was extremely bad luck on Craigengower as I have said but it would appear to be a question of the greatest good or the
would almost certainly WIN GAMES
Interesting Tennis
In Manila
1
greatest number!
UNUSUAL SITUATION
help the Navy. My readers will recall that in the United Services match on January 29 and 31 the Navy could only put forward four candidates for the team, which proves that their cricket resources are largely de- pleted by that time. However,
I am quite sure that the Craigen-whatever has happened, I feel quite sure that the matter will be taken by all teams in a sporting spirit.
Manila, Feb. 17, Y. Tsuruta, No. 4 ranking tennis gower eleven would have been the player of Japan, outstione his part- last people to have wished to beat ner, Matsumoto who la Nippon's No. a 'side that was far below its true player and collegiate champion, standard. It is a tremendous busi- the opening round of the 1938 ness getting into touch with every- Philippine International tennis cham- body in a hurry and the situation
at in which Cralgengower found them plonships yesterday
was extremely unusual, I
In
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afternoon
'ONE MATCH
As far as I know the only cricket match on Saturday was between the Civil Service second eleven and the Diocesan Boys School. The 0.8. the Rizal Memorial Tennis Stadium. selves
batting did not rise to the occasion Tsuruta easily outplayed a promis- think.
and Sargent's leg spinners were too ing young player, E. Yujulco, 0-2,
them.
He The whole question of arranging much for most of
took 6-1, and 6-2.
all wicketal The School seem to League fixtures is very difficult in-
well
as both Playing
aggressive game deca. Take the case of the Navy, have batted very throughout, Tsurula thrilled the From their point of view it would Haynes and Macgowan were bowl- handful of fans. His devastating be infinitely more. convenient for ing ngainst them. I apologise for amushes and his brillant work of them to play off all their League this somewhat skimpy article but rushing to the net had the local matches as early as possible in the there Ion't much doing in the cricket player
concen-senson us in these days there always world at the moment, guessing. Yujulca trated on the baseline and erred consistently with his forchand drives. From
the second set til the end Yujulco never did come near the net
the
smoshed Заралезе tricked his way to an easy win.
and
and
T. Matsumolo won his match but failed to impress the fans. At times he was made to look foolish on easy returns by G. Manuel of Managum- pay. Matsumoto defeated Manuel, 0-3, 6-3, 0-3.
Local favourites, Leonardo Gavia, Amado Sanchez, Felicisimo Ampon their and Juan Ladaw, Jr., won respective matches. R. Walker, Wil Ham Tilden's protege, was a com plete flop. He lost to Sanchez, 6-0,
-1, 0-0.
The complete results yesterday follow:
L. Gavia, YCO, defeated 11. Tayag. UP. 4-0, 0-1, 6-3.
Felix Ampon. Laung Laan, defeated 8. Barcelon, Managumpay, 0-0, 0-10, 6+,
n. Diez, Laong Laan, defeated σ. Quia- morio, Alunan, 7-5, 6-2, 0-1.
G. Laare, YEU, defeated A. Jochon, Managumpay. 4-5, 6-1; 6-2, 7-0.
Y. Tauruta, Japan, defeated E. Yujul. co, Managumpay, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2,
9. Ang defeated. K. Hayashi, Nippon, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.
|_ Y. Ladaw, Jr., JEU, defeated E, de la Cruz, UP, 6-0, 0-1, 6-3,
Calixto, taong iwan, defeated E. Rosal, FEU, 6-4, 7-0, 0-2.
T. Malwutnoto, Japan, defeated G. hta- nuel Manngumbay, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. (
1. Коуакі, при
defeated 13 100, Alurian, 6-3, 6-3,
Felicisimo" "Ampón, FEU, defeated 28. Callier, Alunan, bed, 6-0, 1-2,
7. Gayle, YCO, defenied |A." Dibson,
MTC, 1-1, 6-0, 6-d.
A Bancher Aaraguropay, defeated Walker, thattzelipe, 6-2 341, 85,
Andro Sheleeft, the 17-year-old Matsumota and Taurutu, won the Other interesting matches to-day. Russian Ind who recently won the Philippine International Lawn Tennis were the singles between Yvon Petra welterweight boxing championships Doubles Championship yesterday of Furia and IL. A. Shyes of London, of the Orient by knocking out defeating their Fillping opponents the former wlaning in two straight Daulista. FZU, defented W. H. 7* "Clover" Henry, has signed for a title Carmona and Ampon' after Ave
by 6-3, and the encounter yales. Altunari, &-1 0-1, bout against Kid Vicente, the "Cebu gruelling sets. Caveman, March 5. The night
between C. f. Hare, and Christian
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