THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1938.
RAIN INTERFERES WITH COUNTY CRICKET GAMES
TOURISTS DOING WELL AGAINST SOMERSETSHIRE
FOUR RUNS BEHIND WITH ALL WICKETS INTACT
London, July 27.
Rain interfered with many cricket matches in the country to day. The game at Taunton between the Australian tourists and; Somerset was halted after the visitors had got to within four runs of Somerset's total with all their wickets intact.
GIANTS TROUNCED
BY CARDS
Latest Baseball Results In U.S.
New York, July 27
A double victory for the Boston Braves over the Cincinnati Reds In The National Baseball League the feature of the baseball Kramme to-day The traves blank-i
Somerset
found
Australian
| bowlers in fine form and could put together only 119 by the time the lad wicket fell.
The tourists had scored 108 for no wleitet when rain stopped play.
GLAMORGAN V. CAHN'S XI
At Newport (Mon.). Str Julien Cahn's XI, playing against Glanir- gan, had scored 177 for four wickets when the nin came down.
HAMPSHIRE v. WARWICKSHIRE
Rain also interfered with the | County Championship match between Hampshire ANTICE Warwickshire ot | Fournehimath.
Wurwiela/stre batled first and had i scored 238 for are whets when strips were drawn.
LANCASHIRE
v, ESSEX
At Manchester, Essex were all out WIN * For 207 mashire have yet to but,
LEICESTER. SUSSEX
At Leteester, Sussex scored 234 for
d out the Reds in the first gate feight wickets against Lelcestershire.
and won by 5-1 In the second,
The New York Giants received t Troumelig at the hands of St. Loul Cardinals.
Lou Warneke, pitebing
For the winners, allowed the Giants only four scattered hits in the nine innings.
Pittsburgh Pirates Won another match, this time their victims being Philadelphia Phillies.
In the
Rate ther
#upped play. NOTTS
GLOUCESTER
AL Nottingham, Gloucestershire The home county hit up 332 before wern 1 a bad way against Nolls. the last wicket fell, and Gloucester had lost three wickets for only seven runs at close of
play. SURREY . WORCESTERSHIRE
Worcestershire batsmen feund American League, the their form at the Oval against Surrey Yankees outplayed St. Louis Browns and made 400 for nine wickets. 7-9 in Lhe first game of their sche-
YORKSHIRE NORTHANTS fuity
double-header, but rain pre- Al Scarborough, Northants scored vented play in
in the se
second game. 283 ngainst the Yorkshire attack, ond Cleveland Indians had a stiff flight in reply Yorkshire had made 10 with against Philadelphia Athletics before out loss when stumps were drawn. winning out by 12-11, but Detroit - fleuter. Tigers easily defeated Washington Senators.
The double-header arranged be- tween Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox was postponed on account of rain.
Scores:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis
New York
The darts "craze" has now come to Hongkong. A league is now lu progress for the benefit of local enthusiasts. Picture shows a darts game in progress in a public-house in the centre of any city in England.
Game Of Darts Has Come
To Stay In Hongkong
LEAGUE WHIPS UP ENTHUSIASM AMONG LOCAL EXPONENTS
HISTORY REVEALS
HEAVYWEIGHTS NEVER COME BACK
Corbett, Fitzsimmons And Jeffries All Failed
Max Schmeling tried to become the first man in history, to win back the heavyweight boxing title when he fought Joe Louis last month. Four other former champions have tried and failed stuce 1900. Following ts the first of four articles by Henry Super, United Press Staf correspondent, describing these comeback campaigns.
New York, July 30.
They never comeback. Down through the years, from the night of May 11, 1900, when Jim Corbett tried the first great "come- back," heavyweight champions-with high hopes and stout hearts as their major weapons have tried to regnin boxing's most prized crown.
All of them falled some log De-) fore they even got a chance to fight again for the crown, victory
others when
"Gentlemanly seconds away,
Jim Corbett, the Son Francisco bank clerk and first of the fancy dan baxers, twice tried to win back the
title and was defeated "Ruby Bob" Fitzsimmons, Jim
Jim Jef-
fries, the "Big Boller-Maker:" and Jack Dempsey, the ring's great "kill-
are divided by two large double ring The outer of these is the "double and the inner the treble." Thus it all first had to be convinced in
The game of darts, until a few months ago, was almost in but now it has become one of the most popular games here. So unknown in the Colony except in a few military and naval canteens;
much so that an “H.B.” Darts League is now being run for the benefit of the large number of enthusiasts who have taken to, the game recently. The Hongkong Brewery and Distillery Ltd. have donated a cup which will be competed for annually by teams of five, who play home and away matches.
To sturt
the
be
a prize-ring before they'd accept as truths the tradition that "they never come back."
1897.
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Hammond To Captain Team To S. Africa
London, July 27. Walter Hammond, the Eng- land Test captain, has accepted the invitation to captain the M.C.C. team to tour South Africa during the winter. Reuter.
BRITISH GOLFERS TRIUMPH
South Africans Lose Four-Ball Challenge Game
a player throws his dart into
segment Guler ring in the 18
the actually counts 38. In
the value of the throw 1s ring,
There were ofera too-Jack Shar- trebled.
Then, in the centre of the
Willard, Prima Cornera and key, Jeya board is the "bull" or "dusser," Jack Johnsen-who tried to march which is very much like a bull's-eye again up the long, hard road to the in rifle shooting, having
a "bullile.
But they were convinced It and an "outer," whose values are was a fulle job long before they 50 and 25 respectively.
reached the Anal step. There are many forms of the game,
Corbett made the first come back "Round thr Clock," such "Crieltet," "Shanghai," and "Shove attempt on the night of May 11, 1900, ny, but the most usual game at the old seaside Athletic Club in Ha'penny
Concy Island agalost Jim Jeffries and that which is played In all
from Bob tournaments and competitions and who had won the title
Fitzsimmons. Corbett had lost the matches consists of
cuch player
championship to "Fitz" on March 17, starting off at 301,
NO "CLASS" DISTINCTION tion boards installed in their pre- year ago the Anals of a
Many clubs now have had regula-entry of over 8,000, and just over a
The first Corbett-Jeffries fight was "if" he mises for the amusement of mem-ment in London were watched
big tourna
acoring or get must first of all land a dart in the scheduled for 25 rounds. Fo by
rounds Corbett outboxed the heavier "double" section of uny number. bera, and many cafes also have them something like 5,000 spectators.
Once he has accomplished this he Jeffries. In the 23rd round it look
as if Corbett would get the the Metropolls there оге
cd n can score very quickly, subtracting decision.
victory But, with Recently the game took Edinburgh Leagues with several sections each, all his scores from 301 until he gets by storm.
A year or two ago, darts and several of the blg newspapers down to say, 10. As he must fnisl his grasp, Corbett ran into a wild left Sid Brews, by two and one. had been Hitle seen North of the devote a whole page per week 10 with Another
her "double" he must go hook which landed on his chin and Tweed, but a few enterprising men
gossip and results of games,
warily now.
put him out. The double 20 sug- in the licensed trade Installed boards Many have found the gume
On July 26, 1902, in San Francisco, fests itself, but if he falls and secures Fitzsimmons tried a comeback against in their premises and gradually the fascinating
a And
The bout was held in a Jeffries. gume took hold, slowly at first, but change from bridge and other and only a single 20, then he is trying
for double 10.
the
circus teni before a crowd of 10,000 with a rush like a river in spate in mes Boards can be obtained to Should he by
suit any purse and any
any chance throw
and Fitzsimmons led for seven rounds dwelling- The boom in darts has meant em- place from a bungalow to a manalon in odd number he must throw frstand he looked like the winner. But
another odd number-needless (Sunden and Gehrig homered for plement to many men in England, and runiour has it that one hostess say a small one because he musta left to the liver in the eighth round again Jeffries rallied, brought home particularly in the wire-making in-struck an original note by intimating finish with that dreaded double.
and ended the second of the ring's dustry. Wire is used, of course, le on her lavitation cards to a party
somewhat "Darts and dancing." dart outline the segments of the
Corbett, board, and in many cases to indicate (Greenberg, homered twice for the the numbers of the segments.
ORGANISED CAME
Clucionali Boston
5 3
5 8
0
(Myers homered for the Reds). AMERICAN LEAGUE
R.
H E.
New York St. Louis
7 11
1
0
3
for
(Lou Warneke pitched
Cardinals).
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the the Yankees).
Washington
Pittsburgh
4
✪
0
Detroit
Philadelphin
2
1
(F. Young homered
for
the Tigers).
Pirates).
Cincinnati
Philadelphia Cleveland
Boston
(Macfayden Braves).
pitched
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for customers.
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the last few months.
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NOT AN EASY GAME
in
London, July 27. Playing at Walton Heath to-day, Henry Cotton and Reginald Whit- combe, the famous British golfers, won their challenge match against the South Africans, A. D. Locke and
It was a four-ball match with £500 at stake.—Reuter.
A CHAMPION IN THE MAKING
London, July 11. Helen Jacobs, this year's Wimble- don Analist, Stammers about the possibilities of
BgTCCA
with Kay
Jean Nicoll, the young Harrow
the liner on which she was embark- player. In an Interview on board
Was
All of which
may Intricate,
but the
game is not quite great comebacks: retired, began to so difficult as it sounds. Apart al- One of the attractions of the game together from the skill involved, the dream about winning back the title. He went back into training and was from the point of view of the fair game calls for ice-cool nerves and a
she thought Jean Nicoli Dan Cupid must naturally be the sex is that women can compete on quick-thinking mathematical brain re-matched with Jeffries for Aug. 14. ing for America, Helen Jacobs said patron saint of the dart game, and an equal footing with men. All that it is altogether astonishing
1903, is San Francisco. "Gentleman to to see le really must be astonished at the is required ts a co-ordination
of an expert mentally subtracting his Jim" still had enough of his old-line potential world champion, of some of his followers, stendy eye and wrist and prowess
a good scores before he plays in order to see rounds. Then he tired and Nev
left to travel at a high rute (Hate homered for the Indians For many years darts has been on sense of balance.
leave himself a for the And Chapman for
Athletics) inseparable
"double. conventent Reuter.
part of most English Darts is by no means an easy Finally, darts is a game which has after being knocked down twice in taverns, but it is only recently that game. Anyone who starts off with no class distinction. The profession- the tenth round his seconds threw in the game has become organised on that iden is speedily disillusioned, al and business man rubs shoulders the spongs. A gigantic scale. in Wales. for The board, for instance, is divided, with the tinker, tallor, soldier, sailor, instance, there is an individualke the leaves of an orange, into of everyday life-and enjoys himself championship for which there is an segments, 20 in all. Those in turn thoroughly.
the
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There were no more comebacks after that until Sept. 22, 1027, when Dempsey fought Tunney in their fam- ed "battle of the long count." Dem- psey floored Tunney in the seventh On July 4, 1910, Jeffries, who had for the count of nine-a second short retired in 1903, came back in answer got up from the floor and made a of regaining the title. But Tunney
JEFFRIES FAILS
to a plea for a "White Hope" who could take the title from Jack John-human punching-bag of Jack in the son. It was a one-sided bout with last three rounds. Johnson knocking out Jeffries, who Dempsey was offered a third fight
then
35 years old, in a 15-with Tunney. But he was convinc- rounder under a broiling sun at Reno, ed-they never come back.
was
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