THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH
1938.
HOCKEY TRIAL Australia's Davis Cup
FOR ENGLAND
The following have been selected to represent England in trlai hockey match against the Royal Air Force on the Hongkong Hockey Club Kround on Thursday 4.45 pm.:
Dobson (RE); Guest (udfo) and Stickley (Middlesex); Wetton (ILE.); Brown (Police) and Robinson (R.A.F.); S. Fowler (C.D.A.), Huw- Jett (Police), Divelt (Club), Parker (Police), Bond (C.B.A.) and Dunne (Middlesex). Umpires, S. Mettam (H.E.) and S. McCormac (R.AS.C.).
England will play in white.
Committee Meeting
The meeting of the United Hockey Clubs Committee in connection withi the annual dance and the final fx- tures, will be held at the Police Training School to-day at 6.15 p.m.
GOLF AT FANLING
The Bogey (Par) Poot Competition of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club which was played af Fanling over the week-end was won by A. T. Lay (10), one up. K. K. Rounds (9), all square, was sceond. There were 45 entries.
SPORT ADVTS.
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the First Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday. 12th March, 1938, (weather per- mitting) may be obtained at the Secretary's Oce, Exchange Build- Ing:
the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road,
Team Picked
Also Women Players For
Wimbledon
Melboume, Feb. 2.
The Australian L. T. A., meeting here to-day, chose the Davis Cup team to compete in the American zone 'next summer, and the women's team to play at Wimbledon this year,
The teams are:
DAVIS CUP: J. Bromwich, A. K. Quist, L. A. Schwartz and H. C. Hopman.
WOMEN: Miss D. Stevenson, Miss N. Wynne, Miss T. Coyne and Mrs. H. C. Hopman.
Hopman has been appointed player-1 manager of the Davis Cup side and Misa Joan Hartigan is reserve in the women's alde, who will leave Austra ila on March 8,
The Davis Cup team will not come to England to compete at Wimble don, but may play in the American championships,
The L. T. A. announced that the three former Davis Cup players, J. II. Crawford, V. B. McGrath and D. P. Turnbull, were not available
this year.
The decision to participate in the Davis Cup was influenced by the one showing of the chosen Australian players in the recent championships, and, by the financial success of the present tour of the American and German players.
They showed that although a loss of £334 was incurred on the 1937 Davis Cup tour, a profit of som
£8,000 was anticipated from the visit of the American and German players. By cutting out Wimbledon and the expense of the trip to. England saving on last year's expenses will be effected,
SCHWARTZ RANKED SIXTH
the South Australian, Schwartz. He The only newcomer to the team is
reached the quarter-finals of the
Entries close at 12
men's o'clock NOON on Thursday, 3rd March,
By Order,
1938.
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary,
Association Football
ISLINGTON CORINTHIANS
V.
COMBINED CLUB AND
POLICE TEAM
on
singles in the Australian championships this year, losing to Donald Budge. Schwartz is sixth ranked player. Budge went on to win the championship by beating an- other member of the team, Brom- wich, the 19-year-old ambidextrous player, by 6-4, 6—2, 0—1.
third best player he has ever seen." He places only Suzanne Lenglen and Mrs. Helen Wills Moody before her. Miss Wynne, who is a hard hitter with a Ane forehand drive and a great variety of strokes, also comes from Victoria. She has speed and height as well as strength. She is 20 years of age.
BEST ALL-ROUNDER
New South Wales and is Australia's Miss. Thelma Coyne comen front
second ranked player. Nineteen
years of age, she is regarded as the best all-round player in Australia. She is especially strong on the valley. and her court positioning is excellent,
Mrs. Hopman, wife of the Davis
The Astor trio, appearing with
Cup player Harry Hopman, is the Katle Maeltzer, in sensational acro- third Victorian in the team. She is balle dances at the Oriental Theatre ranked fifth, one below Miss Harna a special attraction in onjunction Australian championships (she lost West Bound Limited." tgan, but her better form in the with Universal's rallred drama to Miss Bundy In whereas Miss Hartigan was beaten in the quarter finals by Miss Steven- son) probably turned the scales in
her favour.
the semi-final,
ATHLETIC RECORDS SMASHED
the Wimbledon champlons, Donald 440 yards
Western Australian record for the
OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS
"The Painted Vell" (King's Theatre, to-day).—Hongkong, has
waited a
Macao Surprises Corinthians
One-All Draw Against Portugueso Colony.
Macao, Feb. 28.
The Islington Corinthians to-day engaged a local team and could, manage only a one-all draw,
The Corinthians scored within two minutes of the start, but the Macao defence was particularly soild there- after and allowed no penetration. The equaliser came a minute before full time.Our Own Correspondent.
YACHTING EVENTS Artemis And Widgeon
Score Wins
Artemis and Widgeon took leading places in the second series, sixth women's races held by the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club yesterday over 7.5 miles, "A" class starting at 14.45 and mixed classca at 14.60..
"A" Class
Finished Corrd, Pos, Pis. Artemis.....10.27.17
1 13 Kildwake
(Miss M. Whitham)
.10.20.10 (Miss P. M. King) True Blue . 16.30.10
(Miss J. L. Smith) Nereld II....10.30.59
Jean
Gull
(Mrs. J. M.
11ock)
(Mrs. V. Gowlland)
18.31.07
(Mrs. L. Stanton) .10.32.19 Eve..........
(Mrs. Bader) Redshank....16.33.07 (Mrs. Hopkinson) Carpenter....18.34.17
(Mrs, P. R. Richards)
D.N.F.
Teal
Mixed ClasSCH
2 11
3 10
4 D
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7
5
9
long time to see this picture, which Widgeon...10.36.11 16.20.48% 1 10 is not exactly a new cae; but Garbo
Boers.
Eryl
2
SEVEN-A-SIDE RUGBY
(Miss Crawhall Wilson) is Garbo any time and references to Sirius .....10.47.50 16.34.42 Hongkong make this more than Perth, Feb. 27,
(Mrs. K. Trenchard Davis) Quist, who hears the Australian
ordinarily interesting for local film-Heron 16.44.13 10.34.50% 3 Members of the British Empire ranking lot, ta with Bromwich, this Games team held un athletic meeting
(Mrs. D. Priestley) country's new doubles discovery at Perth where the steamer in which
4 0 Playing together at the request of they are returning home called for Alhambra Theatres, to-day).-Fully
"Victoria The Great" (Queen's and Zephyr 16.40.13 16.36.13
(Mrs. J. O. Patiullo) the L. T. A.-obviously with the the
D.N.F. day.
Dorothen reviewed last weeks. It is a faithful Davis Cup in view--they showed
.D.N.F. magnificent form when they defeated Show (South Afrlen) broke the and affectionate account of Queen Victoria's life, with Anna Neagle in Budge and Gene Mako, in the semi-
in 48 seconds. Newman the title role and Anton Walbrook finals of the Australian champion-Shillington (North Australia) broke (England). Clarke (Australia) and
and as Prince Albert, ships, 3-0, 4–0, 6–3, 0—1, 6—1. They then went on to defeat Von the high jump by clearing 6 feet Trains
the Western Australian record for Theatre, to-day)-Truc
"West Bound Limited" (Oriental to type, and train-wrecks accom- pions of France. Amerlen and Japan, in the final by 7-5, 6), 6–0,
Talbot and Polly Rowles have the SEVENTH RANKED WOMAN
featured roles,
Miss Dorothy Sievenson is the young Victorian player who outplay- ed Miss Wynne in the semi-final of the Australian Championships lost week, only to lose to Miss Dorothy Bundy, the young American, in the final. Ranked only seventh in last years's--Australian-runking, she has been picked first of the players to come to England,
Wednesday, 2nd March Cramm and Henkel, doubles cham-inch.-Reuter Bulletin.
k.o. 5.15 p.m.
CLUB GROUND
Admission
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TO-MORROW-
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QUEEN'S
"WE LOVE DIFFERENTLY
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She has a strong forehand and it
WORLD
RECORDS APPROVED
Paris, Feb. 28, The International Amateur Athle-
panied by plenty of thrills. Lyle Preliminary Rounds Of
Local Tournaments
"Knight Without Armour" (Majes- tle Theatre, to-day)-An Alexander Korda
production, to appear in which
Marlene Dietrich was specially im- The preliminary rounds of the
ported
from
Seven-a-Side
Rugby
Tournament
Kobert Hollywood, Donat appears opposite the famous were played at the Football Club star.
The pleiure is slightly slow, to ground yesterday, with the following Judge by Hollywood standards, but resulls: succeeds-in-holding-one's-Interest nevertheless. The Russian révolu tion forms the background,
LAWN BOWLS MEETING
is said that much of her recent suc- the Federation has approved a list of cess has been due to the coaching of 40 world records including that of Pat O'Hara Wood, the former Davis the Britisher, Sidney Wooderson's Cup player. He has been concent-mile @gures of 4.6.4/10 and the rating on her service, which is thei
Jesse Owens's 10.2/10. American, wenkest part of her game.
established in Chicago in 1938, over Miss Nancy Wynne, Australian which a controversy raged because There will be a meeting of the champion in 1937 and the leading the track measurements varied and Committee of the Hongkong Lawn ranked player in Australia, has been the American, Forrest described by J. O. Anderson,
Towns's Bowls Association in the South China the 13.7/10 in the 110 metres hurdle - Morning Post Board Room on Tues- Australian Davis Cup player, as "the Reuter.
day, March 8, at 5.30 p.m.
Royal Scots-beat-24th; Ileavy Bat- tery, R.A., 15-0.
Police beat 5th, A.A. Brigade, R.A., 5-0.
Middlesex Regt. "A" beat HMS. Herald, 8-5.
Middlesex Regt. "B" bent Royal Scots "B", 3-0.
Club "A" beat 20th. Heavy Bal- tery, R.A., 19-0.
Civil Service beat Small Units,
11-0.
Club "B" received Q walk-over from the Royal Engineers.
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