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IMPORTANT WEEK-END FOR SOUTH CHINA FOOTBALLERS
GOOD PROSPECTS OF TAKING LEAGUE AND SHIELD
(By "Abe")
The wook-end is one of great importance to the South China A. A. footballers. Two trophies, the Senior League Champion- ship and the Senior Shield, are within their grasp. Will they seite them both?
They are already assured of the Shield as they have both the "A" and "B" tearns in the final, which will be decided on the Club ground to-morrow afternoon. But the pros- pects of the "B" to lift the Lengue championship are equally bright in view of the fact that they need only to beat Eastorn at Caroline Hill this afternoon to annex the title.
South China "B" have 29 points from 10 matches, while Middlesex have 20 from 17. Therefore, assum- ing that the soldiers take both points from the Royal Scots to-day, the Chinese havo only to beat Eastern to place themselves beyond reach.
Both the Souht China "B" V. Eastern and flie Royal Scots v. Mid- dlesex matches, therefore, have an important hearing on the champion- ship, but it seems unlikely thut Eastern will be good enough to beat the Caroline Hill side.
Tournament Hockey Tie Cancelled
Team Turns Up But Finds No Opponents
(By "The Pligrin")
had been cancelled without their knowledge.
The full India team turned up at the_Club_ground at King's Park yes- terday afternoon to meet Scolländ in the International Hockey Tourna- Much of the Interest in the Shieldment, only to learn that the fixture Anal to-morrow has been taken away by the fact that two teams from the
ame club are in opposition. It is According to the Indian represen- also notorious that two teams from tative, he very early in the day sug Caroline Hill seldom provide thegested that the game should be enn- same high standard of football as celled in view of the weather. but which they meet other saving grace in tomos. The the Scottish representative, it is sat ter is that the row's con
team will strive to emulate the feat of the "A" in 1930 by winning both the League und the Shield. On the other hand, the "A" players have won the Shield year running and they will want to have their names engraved on the trophy for yet another year.
two
Low Scores In Golf Tournament
C. Whitcombe Wins Silver King Event
London, Apr. 22.
Insisted that the match be played, At 2 the Hon. Secretory of the Associ in Association cancelled the fixture, but no information to this effect was re- ceived by the Indian represe
representative, who himself had tried to phone both the Scottish representative and the Ion. Secretary many times without
Charles Whitcombe, last year's
success.
This seems to me to be an unsatis- factory
state of affairs. It
the ground was not in a fit condition the match should have been
put off in
the morning and not at 2 p.m.
I arrived on the ground at 5.15 p.in. und found it in a fit slate for play. International matches have been played before with the ground in a worse condition than it was yes- terday. There were three members of the Press and two umpires pre- sent, and it seems that none had re- ceived any notice of the cancella-- : Hon
I understand that the Indians, who were pretty fed up yesterday, are withdrawing from the
t, but my advice to them
is to stick to it and do nothing hasty.
THE, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 23 1988.
UFS
TRIPLE CHAMPION - Ralph Fisaagan, 20-year-old Florida youth, captain of the all-America swimming team, who recently shattered three national swimming records,, in the Miami Bift moro pool at Coral Gables, Fla., where he is shown. He made new marks for the 250-yard, 220-yard and 200-yard sprints, over 11 20-yard course.
BRILLIANT GOLF IN SHANGHAI BY
BRADMAN LIKELY TO BE
Now
that the Australian cricketers have arrived in Eng- land, the following article, by an Engilah writer, shows how keenly the Test matches between Aus- tralia and England are being looked forward to in the ol Country.
ENGLISH FOOTBALL TEAMS FOR BERLIN
£25,000 For Two -Matches
MORE BRADMANISH THAN EVER!
LOOKING FORWARD TO AUSTRALIANS' TOUR
London.
February can be a very delightful month, with days of clour sunshine such as we had recently, days which bring the spirit appre ciably nearer to the cricket season; but March can be a tedious nuisance. It seems that one's hopes are unkindly deferred just when we had hoped that all wintry habits and, discomforts had boen cast aside. A normal month can contain in truth no more than 31 days, each of no more than 24 hours, and yet liko one who is confined to solitary confinement on a desert island it seems ohl so long.
we
A gift of £25,000 is to be made to
Talk we can as much as we like | assuming a rather jaundiced colour German football by the Football of the delights to come; may by the end of the winter and bat Association and the Aston Villa anticipate joys, dreaming of a sum-ting gloves develop something like Club when they visit Berlin at the friendly argument choose teams and been lucky enough to have had some mer of perpetual joy. Wo con in ingrowing finger-nails. Some have
practice at one of these homely in- doo door cricket schools, and so have not altogether allowed the blandishrtents of n steel-shafted golf club to out- rage the sensibility of the grip of a.. cricket bat.
But, Be Patient!
end of the season. This at any rate is the effect of the matches they make wagers on the outcome of the
Test have arranged to play.
Matches, but with such childish mental amusements we
we have to be Within a few days of the date, May
content. I
I met a
a man a few days 13, being fixed for the match with ago who had several sheets of paper England the whole of the 110,000 covered with details of bets he had tickets were bespoken, and the re-made, and it is not strange to relate ceipts will amount to about 15,000, that they one and all referred to the Sunday is the general holiday in forthcoming horrors which Bradmun Germany, but the F.A. have never was to inflict on English howlers. played on this day, and were not pre-
Just a little more patience and .Goodness pared to do so on this occfsion.
knows Bradman has what a deal it demands and some However, clubs, when abroad, are already made sufficient of a nuisance matting will be spread on turf or free to make their own cholet, and of himself, but according to our concrete in the open air, and even Aston Villa accepted the Sunday date. friend he has not so far been really if the first few bolis which are It is taken for granted that this trying, and this year he is to be bowled do seem to come most sul- match will also be a complete "sell more Bradmonish than ever. Per- lenly and obstinately off the slow
and
haps numission will be lower than for the warm, and I can only hope that direction. I read recently an opinion
he if the summer at in the match with England the gate is I shall be there to see his major that the estimated to exceed £10,000,
reason for the
comparative exercises of talent although quite greater scoring power of Australian So the takings of the two games frankly I should, just once, like to batsmen was to be explained by the will amount to £25,000, and all that see his middle stump go down with fact that they were encouraged by the Football Association and the a bang to the very first ball he re-playing on better and truer wickets, Villa club will receive will be a sum ceived. That I admit to be a vilely and consequently, I presume, did not to meet their expenses.
selfish remark, some might cal! It have time to lose the confidence unsporting, forgetting that a bowler which they brought over with
with them
the
moke
to
share of an international gate in- slender than those of a professional word VISITING "PRO'S '
Hagen And Kirkwood Thrill An Exciting Gallery
Shanghai, Apr. 16.
RETURN FIXTURES
Is due some reward ocensionally for in the boat during a season in this The willingness of the F.A.
his long days of tall. It would be country, however dificult the con- 1822 exception in abandoning the herd, too, on those whose opportuni- diilons might be. This is much the established system of a
ties to see the great man are more same theory as has been put for- Afty-fly
explain why American dicates that they were prepared to spectator, but Bradman out is Brad-golfers are supposed to hole more forgo their financial claims in the man out, and when he is out cheaply putts when they come over here than interests of "the game.
It is something approaching to a our own professionals or amateurs. Germany played in London two miracle more worthy to record than It is said that their putting greens are so perfect that they do not ex- years ago, and it was felt that the many of his long innings. Invitation to pay a return visit should A Great Catch
pect to miss
the hole when within be accepted.
reasonable distance of it, and that The German authorities were very
this habit does not desert them even frank. Although they had received
when the ball is hopping about on nearly £3,000 from their match at
He is so great that the manner of Iras smooth surfaces over her
here. A Tottenham they confessed that they his downfall is a phenomenon to rather unkind comment on the had nothing to offer in return.
discuss and describe. I will remem-emciency of our greenkeepers, and "Our laws will not permit you to her the ball with which Robins bowl-yet there is something to be said receive any money from the matched him in the second innings of the for the idea, and so, too, there is for Test Match at Trent Bridge In 1930. the belief that Australian batsmen expense of the visit, pay all your True he had made 131 runs by then, expect the ball to come to the bat as expenses
They also promised
but he was threatening to win the they want it to, and are therefore maich in match for Australia, a young man
Favoured by beautiful weather and a high standard of play, a large crowd was present at the Hungjao Golf Club yesterday to A. Ricketts, China Amateur Champion, and K. M. Cumming, Thee F.. to take all--and in all see the four-ball match Walter Hagen and Joo Kirkwood against England under the same conditions who already had established him Prepared to deal with it. And who Black. They certainly match ended all square at the eighteenth after a thrilling finish. probability this match will take place Australian ngerous man on the can deny, in fact, that this is the
However, I cannot help remarking that the oficials this season have been rather slipped up yesterday.
British Ryder Cup captain, won the ST. ANDREW'S TEAM
Hüver King, £1,000 golf tournament st Moor Park with rounds of 71, 69, 68 and G8 for an aggregate of 270 for 12 holes,
The tournament was notable for the astonishingly low scores. Seventy was repeatedly beaten.
The 70-year-old Alexander Herd, pinylug on his home course, returned the amazing score of 30 for the first nine holes in the second round yesterday-a feat claimed to be un- la first-class tournament paralleled lo
England. W. J. Cox of Wimbledon Park holed his tee shot from 162 yards in the third hole of the fourth round.
An
Young Eddie Whitcombe of Porters Park, who is only 23 years of age, had rounds of 69, 68, 68 and 73. while. Alfred Perry of Leatherhead finished in 71, 64, 73, 70 to equal
FOR HOCKEY REPLAY
The following will represent St. Andrew's in the Brawn Cup re-play against the C.B.S. "B" on Tuesday, April 26, at 5 p.m. sharp:
1. Hall; H. Broadbridge, E. Chang: P. Lawson, M. Roza, B. Greaves; V. Churn, Y. Ho, M. Churn, S. Roberts and D. Hall.
The Shanghai players ought to have won but possibly the excite- ment of such a tense climax proved the hazard which enabled the visitors to take the hole and equalize the score.
Ricketts and Cumming early took the lead and maintained the lead of one. hole. after. hard-fought. play, unusually Ricketts produced some long
out-distancing drives, often Hagen, but Cumming was the more controlled player, proving equal to emergencies.
The score was squared at the 12th hole when Kirkwood made a benu- tiful long drive, but Ricketts met
second place with an aggregate of misfortune by putting his ball in
278.
Perry's 04 In the second round was a course record.
Henry Cotton, the British Open champion, had an aggregate of 282, going round in 71, 66, 73 and 72
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the water. Hagen's drive landed him into a clump of trees, but with the unperturbed manner and control of his club typical of the world cham- plon, he lifted the ball neatly out of the obstacle and placed it on the green. Kirkwood's second shot tool him over the bunker on the far side and Cumming also reached the green easily, but the hole went to the visi- tors.
KIRKWOOD GETS EAGLE
The Shanghai couple regained the lead at the 13th, a short hole, which resulted in neat and efficient play. The best hole of the match was the 15th and here Kirkwood dis- tinguished himself and showed his mastery of the game by getting an eagle in one of the finest exhibitions seen on a local course. Following a long drive, he reached the green withi hla second, placing his ball with un- canny accuracy within A short distance of the pin. He needed one putt to make a three, which sgoin squared the score and drew a loud round of applause from the crowd which followed the players.
Later, Ricketts and Cumming ob- tained the lend and were dormie one at the eighteenth hole but here they come to grief. The visitors drove well down the fairway did Cum ming got a good drive, but Ricketts drove into the bunker near to the
teo and the process of extrication was, dificult and costly. Hagen, at
the edge of the green, got into dif- ficulties when he chipped a shot which fell short near the sand bun- ker, and Shanghai's hopes
Wern ralaed again, but the Shanghai players were unable to exploit the advantage and Cumming missed a comparatively onsy pult which en- abled the visitors to take the hole and equalize the score.
After the match, Kirkwood gave a demonstration in which, his wise ad- vice to golfers was as much; appró-, clated as his wiffy sallies, and the
Barnes Fractures
Bone Of Wrist
London, Apr. 22. An X-ray examination_re- veals that Sidney Barnes, Aus- tralian cricketer, has fractured He a bone of his left wrist. will not be able to play for six to eight weeks, missing the First and possbily the Second Test matches.-Reuter,
utterly incredible things he can do with golf clubs,-standard pattern and his own inventions.
as the
upon to
to cause sumuner,
lald
proper way-to set about scoring In 1940.
side. That
game was by
accepted by Aston Villa. They, too, also can be
Exactly the same conditions were no means safe for England even after runs?
Bradman had gone, for McCabe, who may ask a German team to play in deal of bother this
relled Birmingham next season, and the en- about until he was out to an amaz- ing catch at deep mid-on by a mem- ber of the Nottinghamshire second XI-Copley, if I remember his name oright-who was helding as sub-
gagement will be fulfilled,
TOKYO BASEBALL stitute. If ever a catch won a Test
SEASON OPENS
AMID CHEERS
Match that one did.
JOE LOUIS MUST FIGHT MAX SCHMELING
If, however, we can do little more than ruminate we can at least be
New York, Apr. 22. allowed when the pencil has been
Internatiorial Boxing put through the last day of February Commission has ruled that Joe Louls on our calendar a friendly peep into
The new
our cricket-bags to see that all is must decide to fight against Max Tokyo, Apr. 17. To the cheers of 60,000 spectators, right and to assure ourselves that no Selimeling in June of this year, or the intercollegiate baseball chamour bats into firewood or has used
trick of a
child's fancy has turned forfelt his title of heavyweight cham-
plan of the world. plonship series was opened at the them for hammering in the pegs of Melji Shrine Stadium yesterday.
Of the seven world titles recognised
In the Arst game of the
season
red chief's wigwam
in Kensington by the Commission, only one-the the Waseda swatters easily defented Gardens. No, everything is in order, flyweight--is held by a British boxer, their rivals from Rikkyo University although pads do have a knack of Benny Lynch.-Reuter.
by the lop-sided score of 0 runs to 1. Waseda batters scored one run in the first stanza, three in the third and one in the eighth.
The losers scored their only digit in the last Inning. Domel.
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