Saturday HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
Destination Of Rugby Cup
Will Be Decided
This
Afternoon
In Tournament Match Club And Navy Clashing
(By "Fly-Half")
At the Club ground at Happy Valley at 4 p.m. to-day, Club and Navy meet to decide the destination of the Triangular Rugby Tournament Cup. There is incentive enough to bring out the best in both teams. Navy, having beaten Club once already this year, must win or draw this afternoon to retain the trophy, while the Club must win to recover it.
The result of the previous game; WI a win for the Navy by the narrow margin of one point (14-13),) although if one looks at the score from a try-bearing point of view,' Navy held a greater advantage than the score, as represented by points. line four They crossed the Club
of lines against the Club's reply twice. Since the game of December) 10, both teams have recorded good wins against the Army.
The tearns pleked for 10-day's game show few changes from those last encounter. which met in the
Pay L Stevens, having fully re- covered from his leg injury, is pre- ferred in Hunt for the full-back position. The return of Stevens will make the Club chances of try-scor- ing less as he is a sure tackle and his positioning uncanny. The Navy threes are unchanged, as are also the linlves.
BACKS WELL-MATCHED Clubs are to play their regular back division. Individually, the backs are well-matched in attack but In fence the Navy men are more
pendable.
English Second Test
Team Chosen
Capetown, Dec. 30. England's team for the Second Test to-morrow will be W. R. Hammond, B. H, Valen- tine, P. A. Gibb, K. Farnes, Edrich, Goddard, L. Hutton, E. Paynter, Verity, Wright, L. Ames and N. W. D. Yardley (twelfth man)-Reuter,
Joe Louis To Fight John Henry Lewis
Joe
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TUSSLE FOR THE BALL
December 31, 1938.
DON BUDGE SINGS THE
Army and Navy, played at' Au Incident In the Triangular Hockey Tournament mately belwern the Bookunpoo yesterday afternoon. The soldiers, who won their first game against the Navy comfortably, were held to a draw of 4-4,-Photo by A.A. Kalın.
Here And There
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-With
Local Tennis Players Feeling Better Now
Leonardo
Guvla and do justice to their undoubted talents,
Hockey
ARMY AND
NAVY PLAY TO A DRAW
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PRAISES OF BARON
VON CRAMM Californian Says German Ace Was Thoroughbred
By Lawton Carver
New York.
In a magazine piece which explains why he turned professional, J. Donald Budge seems to reveal himself u a thoughtful, appreciative and level-headed exception to the greed and thanklessness practised by most of our athletic idols.
1le states almost bluntly that he, Incentive to play your very best. is throwing in with the professionals You had to, to win against him.
Von Cramm was as great a because his family could use a little spare scratch, otherwise money, and sportsman as he was a player. We he Borg out of his way to pay might play a terrific inntch, hut ta his parting respects to officials of the the evening we went out to a movie United States Lawn Tennis Associa and never thought about tennis r tion and to admit that they have have seldom had more fun then I muide him what he is to-day. did in spending an evening with him and Henkel, Os But what was most interesting and Gene Mako
court, Gollfried was a jabout the red-headed young man's or off the
and Wimble thoroughbred.
farewell Newport
to
don and Forest Hills and German- GREAT MATCH WITH GERMAN "The match with Von Cramm in
hep end ad-
town was the miration Gottfried
10
say:
von Cramm.
Professiona
there was none
was
one ΟΙ my
the M.C.C.
and
match between
the and
South his
the
for Baron the Davis Cup Interzone round of Under the 1037 is the one that I'll remember circumstances, he might have stuck longest. Some have said it was the Davis Cup match over "Why I'm greafest the tle of his Turning
passed played. I will leave that to the up any comment on great young tennis historians,"
I'll interrupt. Mr. Bludge here to German star who only recently was released from & concentration camp ready are agreeing that it was the
say that the tennis historians after a hitch on a morals charge.
CRAMM AS INSPIRATION greatest match ever played. The situation was this: Fred Perry had But, instead, Budge has this to turned professiona and thus Eag "Of all the players I have met, lund was expected to succumb with- I enjoyed playing out too much fight in the challenge
United States Equally matched in almost every more than Baron Von Cramm. of round against the respect this time, the Army and Navy Germany,
strongest Germany, and relinquish the cup.
In the inter-zone final for I think my tennis would played to a draw pf 4-1 in the friends, Triangular Hockey Tournament at have been better this past year if right to meet England, the United States and Germany had won two Sookunpoo yesterday. The first en- he were still playing.
"My feeling after the Davis Cup matches each when Budge and Ven WHILE is not suggested for a more like those in the Philippines counter between the teams ended in
form and then they will be better able to an easy victory for the Army. matches at Germantown this scut Cramm met, and the latter promptly single moment that the shown by
their The Navy started well in
that the competition couldn't moved out to a 4-1 lead in the Ath New York, Dec. 22.
Amado Sanchez, the two top-ranking However, they will meet with very match yesterday, and after a series have been so awfully strong If 1 set after they had split the first four. on from there to his Despite 13 storin of criticism tennis players of the Philippine still competition, for it is reported of attacks took the lead. The score was not feeling any too well. Von Budge went de aroused in the sports pages of the Islands, at the Kowloon CC on that Yvon Petra, of France, and Kho at half-time was 2-1 in favour of Cramm was an inspiration and un dramatic victory.
Getting back to Von Cramin after de-nation, who have castigated the bout Thursday was anything like their Sin-kte, the Chinese champion, are the sailors. The general stat
that match, Budge says:
"Von Cramm was such a
wonder. as being utterly unworthy of public true standard, at least the exhibition also taking part in the tournament play in attention. Promoter Mike Jacobs and revealed one thing: It was that the
Exchanges continued to be exciting for the side. The sailors will have ful sport at the end-this was the Navy have included Hain and Matchmaker Bill Farnsworth of level of play in Hongkong does not Team Of Three
in the second period, when the Army to look sharp.
climax of my thrill of winning Griffiths in the pack to the exclusion Madison Square Garden were going fall very far, if at all, below the
saw more of the game. The saltors Second Test Begins
When I saw that smile on his face, of Northey und Pomphrey. The adamantly ahead to-day with plans i general standard of the
Islands.
FROM
point of view, scored two goals in this half and the
after he had lost the biggest match bitter eight men to play have plenty of for the all-coloured heavy-weight Granted that the visitors were not the Hongkong or the Teul coldlers three, the game thus ending THE Second Test
of his life, and knew how bout between dash for the loose and generally championship
accustomed to playing on
grass
disappointment must be, I brothers cannot make the trip. Were in a draw. not impress courts, still they Is in this department that a game! Louls and John Henry Lewis on
ran thought as I to the net: Gott is won. For the line-outs, Navy have January 25.
even when the ball was kept in the they able to do so, the kudos of Lewis is a lot better than most air and they did not shine to nny Colony tennis might receive a boost:Rajputana Rifles, celebrated his re. Africans begins at Cape Town to-day in you certainly have got more :
leave by und will continue on January 2, 3 out of the capable men in Anderson, Oglo and
game than any player Romana.
people believe," Jacobs suld, "or he appreciable extent in their volleying the Tsuis have improved consider-turn to the Colony from wouldn't be the light-henvyweight and smashing. As a matter of fact, ably during the past 12 months and scoring three goals for the Army.
sista of A. Melville. (Capt.), B. Mit- who has won everything
FRIENDLY SPIRIT Dunnett comes into the Club pack champion of the world right now. Sanchez was extremely weak over-cun be relied upon to hold their own
chell, A. B. C. Langton, W. Wade, "I want to add a last word to spring one of the biggest head, repeatedly smashing either out in all but the best company. On top
A. W. Briscoe, A. D. Nourse, P. G. Both are hard-working forwards surprises in
as were played. Before we started, he in to participate and should provide a well-balanced much more capable of a really great in they generally play much better to
the
kas, N. Gordon and E. A. Rowan. sald: Don, if you get a tournament,
baf call, Club have the bout than most of the contenders we than they did. I don't think I would threa of those selected have with-
with-Shield Soccor Intermediate row.
Out hero, of course, the most pecullar shall I throw the next point or shall material for good line-out men but have to-day. Mark my words, the class them as a combination above drawn from the team, thus neces-
feature of the team is the omission we play them as they are callca? up to date their bucks have seen fight'll draw like nobody's business, the Tsui brothers, who beat them sitating the selection of others to OUR Senior Shield soccer matches of E. L. Dalton, who in
making 102,
'We will know "My answer was! very little of the
no matter what they say about it." 6-3 in the only set which they take their places. Only two of the will be played during the holl-saved the side together with Langton. between us if there is a bad call, Sports writers have massed in a played. Only Gavia played singles, three vacancies have been led days. This afternoon, Kowloon clash The cable services do not state why and let's not hurt the feeling of the source.
common tle of indignation against | which was a pity: for I am sure The result is hard to forecast. the projected bout, pointing out that many would have liked to see how three namely tente will let of with South China "A" at Kowloon; he is not in the team for the Second linesmen by throwing points.
howthree, namely Szeto Bick, George to-morrow, South China will Test, but one feels certain that there "Early in the match I got a bad Navy generally establish an early at least three, and possibly four Sanchez would figure in this phose Choa and A. E. P. Guest.
play Eastern; and on Monday, St.must be a reason for it it is incon- call. Gottfried looked across at me superiority and advantage because heavyweights are much more quali- of the game. Not even their closest
Joseph's meet the Navy at Causeway ceivable that he has been dropped and smiled. It was such a friendly Club ure slow in settling down. The fied to fight the Brown Bomber for friends would claim for George Chon Football Tour
Bay and Club play Police on the after making a century. The inclusion smile that you didn't mind being of Navy XV are better in combination the most prized diadem in Fistians, und Szeto Bick that they are one
Club ground. As a result of their of Balaskas interesting. An old Test robbed. You'd take a bad cull to see the best pairs in the Colony; yet they and team-play, which has been ex- MANY GOOD CONTENDERS
EAVING on the same steamer for recent victories, South China "A" They point out that Tony Galento took a set from Gavia and Sanchez.
"A" player Balasicas is the only Greek that smile. emplified lately in the clever cross-
"Last year, as a favour to me, Von in International cricket to-day. He kicks from the wing
men, which / and Max Baer are the top elinkers/ But for the fact that Chos dropDet Saigon as the tennis players, are are now on the crest of the wave, j* * for Transvaal, and in the Cur. Cramm went out to California 10
the South Ching footballers, who are and barring any untoward occur- Plays without fall land ball in the as contenders, with Lou Nova and his service in the ninth game, the visiting Salgon at the Invitation of rence, I expect to see them in the Irie Cup matches last season, he took play in the Pacifle Southwest and hands of some forward or three Tommy Farr, despite his succession first set might have been consider-
round. the soccer officials there. Under the semi-final
be- The match
wickets for 489 runa. A. W. Bris-Pacific Coast championships. In re- guidance of Mr. Mok Hing, 17 players tween South Chinn "B" and Eastern coe, who comes into the side in place in Germany this last summer. But backing up the centre of the field of defeats, following in that order.
turn, I promised that I would play Provided the Taibol-Elllat combin-
Nova may definitely be counted
and a secretary, Mr. Chow Yun-ning, should be much
1:
closer nalr. of K. G. Viljoen, is also a Transvaal when I learnt that he had been taken being, however, tion is not allowed to ussert, itself, out for the time
will be making the trip. The players While the League champions are no man. Last season in the Currie Cup
Chank
into custody refused to Choo
play in "white hope
Siew-hong, Y. Z. from California" re-
longer power they were last sea-series, he totalled 500 runs in 11 in- winning.
Germany. I know of no one who enough fight innings, once not out, with a top score has been a finer ambassador in sport fuses to consider his man against was fairly obvious that the ball Kwok-wai, Lau Hing-chai, Lau Tin-them to make the outcome of their of 175. The other newcomer to the for his country than was Gottfried.. Club "A" meet the Royal En-Louis for at least another year. did not rise sufficiently for both gineers on the same ground at 2.45 Meanwhile, the Louis-Lewis bout
Eastern problematical, side, E. A. Rowan (an old Testite), Now that he has STY, Tse Kam-hung, Lim Tak-po, match with
been paroled in p.m. Club should win what promises is a certainty, and the Aghiers have Gavia and Sanchez to use their fore-Law Tau-man, Lai Shiu-wing, Chan! The best game on Monday will un-also hells from Transvaal. He had a Germany I sincerely hope that his
hand drives effectively. Being Tak-fal, Fung
between St. lean perlod cut doubtedly be that King-cheung, Yeung
Inst season and to be a hard gune.
already begun training-Reuter,
did great play and sportsmanship have It is fairly, Lau
Chung Sung
I am toldnotblog of note in the Currle Cup. Kwok Joseph's and the Navy.
not been lost to the game." Tang Kwong-aum.
that
the Saints are fielding a very
and 4. The South African team con-
to pariner Peers In the second row. He may history, and i know he is of court or into the net. So, assum- of the refusal of the leading playersmediately after their encounter with Van Der Byl, E. Q. Davies, X. Balas, how the spirit in which our matches
ball from
this
ably closer.
Weak Forchand
Eastern.
the civilians have a good chance of since the manager of the sensation THROUGHOUT the exhibition, Tin-sang. Mak Slu-hon, Lee son, there is sti
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