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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January 6, 1939.
ECLIPSE OF LIBERTY BAY GENERALLY REGRETTED
LOOKING BACK ON CHAMPION'S BRIGHT CAREER
(By "Caplain Foster")"
May I have the pleasure of taking readers back to the Spring of 19327 In that season we saw a wonderful China pony in Liberty Bay (owned by Mr. L. Dunbar) who made his first public appearance in the most exclu- sive classic event, the Hongkong Derby, which sets a ter- rific test and strain over a distance journey of one and a half miles. After winning the Blue Riband with con- summate casc, Liberty Bay was turned out by the con- nections to have a good rest and his next outing was an casy passage in the Sixth Aggregate Stakes over a mile in the late October meeting, the run being merely a pipe- opener in preparation for the Hongkong St. Leger.
However, it was after the fire public performance that many com- petent judges of horse-flesh con- idered that Liberty Bay was one of the finest China ponles that ever raced at Happy Valley. Sume held the opinion that it would be hard to And a bli un to lower his flag whilst other followers of the turf prognosticated that the bay atallion would relire some dny without auffering a defeat. Like everything else, one cannot go on for ever, but the form book reveals that on every occasion of Liberty Buy's success the decision was always by the length of a street with a load of pounds to
spare. He was a non-combatant in 1937. The "ay off" on nccount of being "dotty" was, if I may be per- mitted to say so, a terrible disaster and the end came on February 23 of last year when he met his Waterloo in Skylight, owned by Mr. Eric Meller of Shanghal. It was the une and only occasion that the gallant hero ever walked behind a China pony in a procession to the un- saddling enclosure in front of the weighing room, but please remember at Liberty Bay started his racing career in 1932 with two dozen casy wins to his credit and he has col- lected grand total of $39,148 Lər bis American owner.
VINTAGE OF 1938
Three Outstanding Ponies
.
Now we jump forward to 1938. The absence of a long list of Derby griffins (China ponics) was much marked last year, but it was fully compensated for by a fine increase in quality, the best three being Confusion Bay, Desert Chief and Silkylight.
Enough has been sald about the, lowered the previous record Byure Just named steed, but we know very
ilitle of Desert Chief whose last appearance was when the stallion
got his revenge In the Easter Stakes
Above are members of the Ifo ngkong Volunteer Defence Corps billards team which recently won the 1938 "Soldiers' Club Tournament.” 'ine are some very fine players in the Corps.Photo by Mee Cheung.
Silkylight
Wins Most Stake Money
Last season undoubtedly brought forward some lovely "A" class China ponies, but Judging by what there are at present in training for the
1939 big meet, I do not hold out ! much hope of seeing any to eclipse inose I have just mentioned.
Those riders in the stand" who (2.08% held by King's Warden.have gone down the sink" may be Soldier of Britain and Soldier of interested to know that the Derby Honour) by three two-fifths seconds and the last mile was galloped in griffins drew from the coffer of the 1.02. A note should be kept of Hongkong Jockey Club & to su this fast run. It is learned that the of $49.955 and the list is made up
over a mile, boating Bear Claw and Silkylight by a good margin. It was indeed a great pity that Mr. Eu stallion is no longer on the walking Tong-sen's candidate was under n list.
cloud and the chestnut pony was Confusion Bay is another I have away from the racecourse during the in my note book, This bay stallion second half. It will be recalled that | belonging to Mr. L. Dunbar was la best public performance was in never unplaced and he came under the Mirs Bay Handicap over a jaunt the starter's flag nine times. He is from the two mile post, once round quite young, but keep an eye on hlm and in, trouricing Mr. T. E. Pearce's at the Annual Carnival and niso King's Warden and Lady Northcote's Cameronian who has won three Gladiator by many lengths in a re-beautiful souvenirs, the American cord of 2.05 which was a creditable Club Cup, the Lusitano Cup and St. Tun for a grifin, Desert Chief George's Plate for Mr. Eu Tong-sen.
Louis XIV Undoubtedly Best Of Sub-Griffins: Absent In Second Half
The same story is told every year, Į that is, one subscription grithin among the China ponles turns out to be head and shoulders above ali others. Louls XIV owned by the W. Tant collared Jockey Mr. S. $6,333 for his seven outings during. two months, but the chestnut gelding never appeared in public again after the March meeting. His absence, coupled with that of Smiling Thru who pulled up lame after the Sep- tember meeting, gave Salvage Mas- ter owned by Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield two classics, the Sub-griffins SL Leger and the Hongkong Sub-griffins Autumn Champions. This luck at the wheel brought in $4,000 while Smiling Thru made $4,709 for Mr. Eu Tong-sem Louis XIV would
Flying Trapeze Full Mark Gobi Star
Golden Brew
Golden Cow Golden Idol
In The Bag Iron Knight Jack ligh Labour Day Lancashire Chap Louis XIV
On Your Toe
Piet Hein
Planchet
·Platinum
2,400
75 750
6,333
Lucky Eleven
USO
Lucky Seven
75
Mae's Second Venture Macau Star
60
Melcor Mongolian Cat Mustard National Dignity
1,400
750
425
National Force
750
National Guard
1,100-
National Triumph
200
Palmer
2,644
050
Nexiana
Sahora Stor
325
Salvage Master
4,000
Sen Dragon
750
Smiling Thru
4,700
П
Spilt Hand
4J1
Style
1,375
Sunshine Susie
Acme
$ 175
The Great Triumph
African Cat
500
The Leopard
All Bubn
100
The Scholar
1,200
Arabian Cat
Tommy
Astrikk
423
Tributo
1,050
Urber
Bestevaer
Wenning
175
1,250
062
$49,451
850
076
have piled up more if he had started after the recess. However there is not much prospect of Louis XIV Annual meeting, appearing at the but Smiling Thru, it is learned, will be donning the allic. Piet Hein of the Hollandia zyndleate is fourth in the undermentioned list with balance of $2,044 to his credit.
Be Yourself Borrachito Capo Comorin Captain Blood Celebration Day
Charybdis
Cleeve
175
The form book shows that In The Bag and Tommy welghed out once during the season, but Wonning holds the record of starting 22 times. 324 Cape Comorin, Lucky Eleven and National Dignity chine under the ziarter's orders on 21 ocensions, tho latter two running in Marno and Fanling. Natonal Force and Sen Dragon have each a win, the rest of Their outings being unplaced and Siyinle registered five wins in Macao and one In Fanling. He has no king for Happy Valley. The best dividend of the year was $550 pald by National Guard in the Fokien
Cloudy Star
Cricketer
300
Cuban Love
800
Daddy Longlega
125
Dark Hazard
375
Dokko
1.070
Desert Star
2,338
250
687
1,075
2,057
670
Double Up Eagle Easy Time
Fel Ying... Ferrybridge Final Triumph Five Hulers
as follows:
Advancing Time
*Camerunian
Confusion Bay Desert Chiet
Fowey
$
$,300
4,243
2.886
Elizabeth Expression Time
1,550
2,073
Half-Moon Eve
1.700
Handicap Eve
1,100
Humdrum Eve
2,050
J. C. Jober
2,925
Just in Time Lancashire Boy
2,550
200
Lancashire Lass
Lucky
Moonlight View
2.600 1.000 2.575
National Defence
500
National Bride
1.200
Rose Jane
1.050
Silkylight
10.751
Sunlight View
Tampa Bay
2,000
$49,955
Pinfarthings
The Glunt Panda
(* value of three Cups Included), It will be seen that Silkylight heads the list with $10,751 and the amount is $562 higher than that won by Trentbridge belonging to Mrs. T. E. Pearce in 1933. It is interesting to relate that five China ponies out of 25 failed to collect a cent, but Joher and Lancashire Lass weighed out 10 thnes.
Donald Budge Again Beats Vines
San Francisco, Jan. 5.
In their second professional encounter, Donald Budge again beat Ellsworth Vines by three straight sets.
The lanky Californian has won all six sets so far played against Vines.--United Press,
MAKING GOLF HARDER
Football
Manila Asked To
Come Here
HOW DAVIS BROKE THE WORLD'S SNOOKER
RECORD
For the eighth time in his life, Joe Davis, world anooker champion, broke the world's record for the highest break at snooker. In the fifth frame in the afternoon of his hext with Aloe Brown, in the Daily Mail Gold Cup tournament, at Thuraton's Hall, Leicester-square, he potted every ball on the table in a break of 138. Brown, however, won the match in the evening.
Three weeks previously Davis created a record of 137 at Leicester. In 1837 he made 135, to beat a break of 133 by Sidney Smith made in 1030, which at the time it was thought would never be beaten.
The highest possible, under normal circumstances, is 147.
The record run consisted of the 15 reds, 11 blacks, one pink, two blues, one green, and all the pool bails.
The frame went this way: Davis broke: Brown played a widely shot;
Candidates
For Sullivan 1938 Award
Davis tried a long pot and missed Prominent Golfers
Brown foiled at a cocked-hat double and left a red near the top left pocket.
The reds were well placed. Davis played swiftly and surely, had a few awkward moments, and when, with the pool balls left, Chambers called the score at 111, Davis looked up in surprise and exclaimed: "Why, there is a new record here."
DIFFICULT SHOT
One last and most difficult sho! awalted him. Pink, Inst ball but one, was on almost straight shot Into the bollen pocket, and to get on to the Black with certainty Davis had to screw the cue ball back.
He looked at the black, smiled confidently, and stood away, to chalk la cuc. Then he banged the black Into the middle of the bag, and with a broad grin stood back while the crowd cheered. Chambers waited patiently for the cheering to die down and then announced quietly the new record.
Only once was Davis's superb con- It was decided, at a meeting of Adence affected. As he passed the the Hongkong Football Association, 100 there was a burst of opplause, held on Wednesday night, to invite and as he was
addressing for his Chinese next shot u Manila here during the
spectator broke the New Year Holidays and to send allence with a shout, "Why don't you team to the Philippines at the end give him a clap, Brown?" of the season.
Also Mentioned
Washington, D.C., Dec. 20,
A list of ten candidates for the 1938 Sullivan Award, made by the National Amateur Athletic Union to standing sportsman or sportswoman, the athlale voted as the year's out-
has been handed to the A.A.U, by the Sullivan Award Committee.
The list is as follows:-
Charles (Chuck) Fenske, (rom University of Wisconsin.
inlter
plon, of Philadelphia.
Joc Burk, National Sculling Cham-
Charles E. Yates, British amateur golf champion and Walker Cup team star, of Allanta, Georgia,
Airs. Katherine Rawls Thompson, swimming star, of Fort Lauderanie, Florida.
Adolf Kiefer, all-round swimming star, of Chicago.
Fred Walcott, Rico University hurdler.
Ray Mallatt, Stanford University. quarter-miler.
Ben Johnson, sprinter, formerly of Columbia University.
Don Lash, former Indiana Uni- versity middle-distance and distance This was Davis's 89th three-figure running star, now a policeman in break, and his tenth since the pre-indiana. Negotiations have been going on sent season opened. He has high Miss Patty Berg, national women's tur some time between the two hopes that he will make his hun-golf chumpion, of Minneapolis. bodies and Hongkong were wait- dredth before the season ends. a The winner's name will be an- Ing for certain information from record without parallel in this game, nounced early in the New Year.
Manila.
Though no reply had been re- ceived from Manlio, the Hongkong Football Association, decided, In
time the short
left for arrangements, to Invite Manila and proceed with the arrangements.
THREE-GAME SERIES
Confirmation of Manila's 'accept- more difficult from January 1, ac-fance is expected in a few days. carding to an announcement of the United States Golf Association, act-i
New Par Figures Ruling view of
For U.S. Women
Edinburgh, Dec. 7.
Women's golf will be made slightly)
The
visitors are to play three first will be Ing on the recommendation of the games here. The
Whe Colony, the second Women's Committee of the Associo-inst
against the Combined Chinese and tion increasing the number of yards the third and last game against the suggested as a guide in computing Reserve team of the Colony. women's par on American courses.
and the equal of any sporting record in the world.
Don Budge, tennis star, received the award Inst year-Router,
TENNIS STARS RESIGN FROM COMMITTEE
Because they felt that they had been slighted by the regular members of the Lawn Tennis Association's Selec- tion Committee, tennis stars H. G. N. Lee and E. R. Avory, co-opted members of the committee, have re- signed.
It was decided that all the games For a par 3 hole the recommenda-be played at Causeway Bay. tlon increases the yardage by ten,
Lee and Avory, were appointed last and for other holes by about twenty- The following were chosen as year on the recommendation of the Ave, as follows—
selectars af the team: Messrs. seeded players as being in touch Par 3-Up to 210 yards (instead) Wong Kn-tsun and R. M. Omar, with modern conditions and having of 200.)
Cap. E. H. P. Neill and Commnis-a better knowledge of the players Par 4-211 to 400 yards (instead signed Gunner 1. Cooper. of to 375.)
201
Par 5-401 to 575 yards (instead)
or 370 to 550,)
Par 0-576 and over lustend of Badminton 561 and over.)
not arbitrary,
These Agures are The Association points out that sonie allowance should be made for the nature of the ground and other diff- cult conditians, such the severity of the hazards, especially at a hole where the par is doubtful.
Lieut. Walters, of HLM.B. Modway, the Navy, left-wing, three-quarter,
Plate over a mile ridden by a novler, who has been playing consistently well for this Navy rügger fifteen in the Mr. Young Wing-kwal.
Triangular Tournamnoni this season/--Photo by A. &. Kahn,
WANDERERS
BEATEN BY SAINTS' "A”
At St. Andrew's Church Hall yes terday evening, St. Andrew's "A" beat Wanderers by 6 games to 3 after leading by games to 0.
W. C. Choy and F. V. Wong. (St. Andrew's) beat E. Zimmern and J. S. Ho 21-12 lost to S. W. Liona and E. S. Io 15-21; beat T. J. Ong and C. Y. Yung 21-7.
likely to be chosen for international matches.
Avory said that, in addition, to their feeling that they had been slighted, they felt that the LT.A
was out of touch with modern con- ditions,
HOCKEY MATCHES WITH MACAO
Macao, Jan. 4. Keen enthusiasm. has been the keynote in local sports circles over the announcement that the Macao Hockey Club's first eleven will en- goge a team of the Royal Navy con- sisting of officers on Sunday, Jan.
"When the mixed doubles team to. The match will be played in
Macno. represent Britain in the forthcoming tour to South Africa was selected, neither Lee nor myself was invited to attend," Avory added.
Other fixtures for following week- ends have also been arranged and it is learned that the Hongkong Police team will visit Macao Jan. 15, and "The omission to ask us was put
the 1st and 2nd elevens of the down to a slip, but nobody at that YM.C.A. will play here on Jan. 22, meeting seems to have asked, 'Where been done to explain why we were are Lee and Avory?'
not asked,
A further match scheduled for this Nathing has month is to take place on Jan. 29
"Lee and I were appointed to re- present the players because, being Younger and recently in big lawn tennis, it was supposed that we knew more about modern conditions than E. F. Fincher and H Kew (St, the regular members who have Andrew's) beat Zimmern and Hoserved since the war,
41-12; bent Llang and Ho. 21-14; Jost
to Ong and Yung 11-21.
W. M. Gillis and A. E. Brown (St. Andrew's) lost to Zimmern and Ho 13-21; bent Lian and Ho 21-18; beat Ong and Yung 21-12.
MIXED DOUBLES
"But what is the good if no notice
is taken of what we say?"
H. G. N. Lee is an old British
Davis cup player and E. R. Avory fa
an international.
There are no active players on the (selection commiilee,
Two matches in the Mixed Doubles St. Andrew's Hockey
are down for decision this evening,
the programme being as follows;
University
St. Jolin'a
V. Recrelo
v. Kowloon Tong
"A" Division Fixtures
On Monday
Teams Announced
The following will represent SL Andrew's in the Caer Clark match against the "Y" Ladies to-morrow at 245 nm, on the "Y" Ground.
J. Hall, M. Roza, G. Whille: H. Reid,
The attention of Badminton players. Wong. P. Petlgurra, F. Wong. E.
In drawn to errors in the handbook Churn, F. Gitins, A. Greiner and I. concerning the dates of the "A" Divi- Gitting,
sion matches. According to the book,
matches in 1930 will be played on
DRAWN CUP
Friday, January 0 (to-day), and on The following will reprezent Bt. each tubsequent Friday until Feb-| Andrew's in the Brown Cup match ruary 3.
against Recreio "B" to-morrow at 4
These dates are wrong. The first Pm. on the C.BA, Ground. matches will be played on Monday, R. Rose, D. Chow, J. Brokdbridge,
Newman, January 9, and on every stibsequent | M
M. Vessoon, H. Monday until the conclusion of the O'Sullavan; P. Jeffreys, Y. Ho, M. schedule.
Churn, S. Roberts and T. Jex.
when the team of the 1st Kumaon Rifles will be seen.-Our Own Cor- respondent.
Miss Maton, the youngest member. und eight-winger - of › kan. Hunderlin
Ladies' team. She is only. 18.
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