Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 27, 1939.
ROSE ELECT OR NAVYLIGHT FOR HONGKONG DERBY?
BOTH IMPRESSED IN THEIR RACES LAST SATURDAY Many Important Events On The Card To-day
or
̈Mr.
Mr. Eu Tong-sen's Rose Elect Cire's Navylight to win the Hongkong Derby to-day?
This is a problem which has been confront- It was expected
ing race-goers for some wooks.
that Saturday's racing, the first opportunity pun- tors had of seeing the ponies in a genuine race, would throw some light on the problem.
did it? One wonders.
But
The only things established by of an old ailment, but he hopes to Saturday's events were that Rose find a suitable jockey for to-day's
Mr. I. C. Pih took ou Elect has plenty of speed- fact big race.
Mr. Saturday, but which everyone who has seen the Navylight on morning gallopa ta aware-and that Moiler expressed the hope that Mr. Navylight stems to like a longhish l'ote-Hunt, a friend of his, would race which has never been really ride it in the Derby race. confirmed.
But the point now seems to he this: Will Rowe Elect, which created a new record for six furlongs in the Malden Stakes tu Saturday (beat ing King's Warden's best of 1.24.3), be able to keep it up in the longer Derby distance? If she can, she will probably win despite the fact that Navy light, In winning the Triat Plate, had no opposition at all from the rest of the field.
GOOD PERFORMANCES
the
three
VERY DISAPPOINTING The form shown by Hyndford Bridge in the Trial Place was very disappointing indeed, and it does not seen ilkely that this candidate will be of any danger to Rose Eleet or this race WN3 Navylight. Before
bowever, there were nany run, people who thought lyndford Bridge: up to the standard of these two, but opinion must have changed quickly after the Bnich of the Trial Plate.
are
for
Apart from the Derby, there are Both performances were extremely many interesting races on the eard seems little to-day, including the Lusitano Cup, umpressive, and there doubt that the first place in the Blue Garrison Cup, Victoria Stakes, Ex- Riband is between the two, Lilliber change Plate, Chater Cup and the and Blue Express were behind Rose Challenge Cup. Only two Elect, and Eve of Harvest and Con-subscription China ponies,
Desert Chicl, who broke n record quering Time were following Navy- light in that order; but in each case.
On Saturday, has been entered in: there was a clear-cut superiority of only one race, the Victoria Stakes. The winner over the rest of the field. Therefore she is almost certain to The track at the moment is very start, in which case the race should dry and is conducive to fast time, us be hers. Silkylight has been entered proved
by
records for Victoria Stokes and the Chal- established in live races on Saturday lenge, but it la expected that she will morning. Therefore we ought to sea be taken out in the latter race only
fast race if Liberty Bay's cinch for her. Derby record is not lowered.
As only
be expected, both owners are supremely confident of their candidates' ability to win the Derby.
instance, Mr. Eric Moller, for thinks Navylight will win, though he acknowledges that Rose Elect is a "very fine antinal. He very disappointed that his con. Mr. R. B Moller, who rode Silkylight to vic- tury in the Derby and Champlons at
a very
to
If there are upsets to-day, they will probably be caused by ponies which were left at the starting gate on Saturday. There were several of them. The public, therefore, are still in the lark regarding their con dition, and If their jockeys can get them away with the bunch in to day's races, one or two may cause a) surprise.
Confusion Bay, it is understood, will not weigh aut for any events
the 1st annual meeting, cannot take at the Carnival, as she is under a
out Navylight owing to a recurrence cloud.
"Capt. Foster" Selects
The Following:
Selections Made By "Early Bird"
The following selections on to-day's races are made by "Early Bird" of the S. C. M. Posi:
ན
1st Roco
Marksman
Ring Master
Magog
End Race
Cocklerol Ruby Star. Chiltern
3rd Raco
Blue Express Peuceful View Jennifer
4th Race
Desert Chlef
Bear Claw
Oak Bay
5th Race
Rose Evelyn
Double Chance
Gold Sovereign
6th Race
Musketeer
Oranje Doven
Cellie Star
Ith Rave
Lucky Lad
Lancashire Chips Able Amazon
8th Race
Navylight
Rose Elect Illiber
9th Rece
Wild Life
Rob Roy New Star Silkylight
10th Race
King's Wardca Red Fenilor
11th Rack:
Avon Herlio View
1-MONGOLIAN STAKES
Hing Master
Magor
Radium Star 2-PERTH PLATE
(FIRST SECTION)
Chiltern Pumpernickel Ruby Star 3-LUSITANO cup
Lüliber Jennifer
Blue Express
4-VICTORIA STAKES
Desert Chicf Leser Bear Claw Happy Eve
5-GARRISON CUP
Rose Evelyn Bistro
Salvage Master 6-EXCHANGE PLATE
Musketeer Marksman Oranje Boven 7-MELBOURNE CUP
Lucky Lad Lancashire Chips Able Amatos
BHONGKONG DERBY
Rose Elect Navylight
Eve of Harvest CHATER CUP
New Star
Jober
Wild Lite
10-CHALLENGE CUP
Silkylight
- King's Warden
Red Feather
11-BLACK ROCK STAKES
Avon
Hello Vlow Galveston Bay
12-PERTH PLATE
(SECOND SECTION)
Devonian
Rivulet
Happy Landings',
DAILY DOUBLE
Lucky Lad / New Blar
English Cavalier
12th Race
Devoolan Rivulet Hanov Landing
DAILY DOUBLE
Lucky Land and Wild Late
South China Held 1-1 In Charity Soccer
Mr. C. L. Gregory brought Strathbannock home to an easy win in the second section of the Wong Nel Chong Stakes al Happy Valley on Satur day to pay the highest dividend of the day. $60.50. Picture shows the winner at the post-Photo by Jager.
TAKE THIS GUIDE RACE COURSE TO WITH YOU TO-DAY
The following are the entries for the races at Happy Valley to-day. Numbers in front of the ponies' names indicate where they finished in their last three starts.
MONGOLIAN STAKES
(About Half Klo 10 Yards]
Aho
Alpha
Andiamo
Argon
0 Ascot Vale
Avalon
0
Battleship
"O Binck Diamond
analsdon
Bogey Bressay
Calientito
O Celtle Star
0
Charcoat
Chatterbox
0
Cyclone
a Devon Dumpling
Dow-Jones
Fairchild
February Fourth
0 Callani Marshal
0
Gaisch
↑ Geordie
o Go
0 Gold Tower
8 Green Bay
0
Ginness Time
Trudon
High Tower
King Kung
King's Envoy
0 Lambeth Bridge
Makog
Marksman
D Matador
Maytale Court
D Mercury
6 Mileaye
1
Musketeer
National Ifanour
o National Justice
D National Servico
0 New Bedford
Old Fashioned
Opening Batsman
3 Oranje Boven
o Pall Mall
Patriotic Bay
* Pawnre
0 Phoenix Fortrushi Radium Star Ring Master Rose Day Rostrevor Sea Captain
0 Sen Chlet
Sen Horse Silver Star Skip
Sming Time Snowstorin Sanur Hope Sports Gesture Sports Venture Starlet...... Srathbanneck Talkative.... Thanksgiving Day
The Buccaneer
The Grey Tiger
0 The Mermaid
The Spirit of St. Loula
This Time
0 Diny: Tim
Torridge
Total LosI
True Love Welcome
Well Lake Whirlwind Wilber
Wild Tenn
o Wha Bull
Willynilly
PERTH PLATE (FIRST SECTION)
Ajax
(One Mile))
Amher II
A Roaring Time
Baffin Bay Candlelight
Chlitera
Cackleful Eve of She Flinders River Gale
o Heinz
- Suplier
0 King's Herald
Loquacious.... Olympiad Court ö Potonos
Pumpernickel OПtuby Star
ven Kingd Bydney Triumphant Day
LUSITANO CUP (Aholi Walt Mile 170 Yards)
o Alligator
Annay Bay
Armylight
• Avon Big. Ben Blue Diamond Bhic Express Cinderella
Conquering Time Ement Bay English Cavalier Eve of Heaven For All Time Forgotten Star Galaxy Galveston Bay Grey Knight
View Harmony Harmony Eve) Bretle Virw
Hopeful Tine Byntford Bridge Jennifer Lady Love
Litilber Lovely Star Luania
Maglier
Navylight Papoose Peaceful View hase Charming
Flose Elect
Rose Family Поче пла Hozy Time Spring Time Taxin. Minster The Tigress
Victorla
(lalo
VICTORIA STAKES
(One Mile)
3 Bear Claw
Cameronlan Confusion Bay Desert Chief
0 Happy Eve
King's Warden Onk Bay Silkylight
GARRISON CUP
(One Mile)
Bistro Coronation Day
Dekko Double Chance Gold Sovereign
Racing Boy
21 Rose Evelyn
11 Salvage Master
0 Shipminster
1 Smillog Thru
▸ Tempest
- Wild Cat
·EXCHANGE Plate
(About One Milo 171 Yards)
Andiamo
Argon
Ascot Valo
Avion
Black Diamond
Disalsdon
D Nodey
0 Bresay
0 Collento
0 Celife Slar
@ Chatterbox
Cyclona
0 Dow Jones
0 Forchild
February Fourth
Gaucho
0 Go
0. Goid
Tower
o Green Day
Guinness Time Heddon
ngh Tower
King Kong
3 King's Envoy
3 Kut Cheung"
Lambeth Bridge
3 Марок
2 MarkeniAN
G Matader
Maytale Court
D Millasyo
-- Mongol
1 Musketeer
O National Honour
National Liberty
0 Old Yuantoned
o Opening_Katsinan
3 Oranje
Pall Mall
even
o Patriotte Bay
0 Pawnee
Phoenix
1 Portrush
1 Radium Btar
Ring Marter
BOWLERS ARE
NOT HELPLESS IN
LEE WAI-TONG KEEPS RECORD OF SCORING
MODERN CRICKET GOAL IN EACH MATCH
Game Needs To
Be Left Alone
A defence of modern day cricket, And some advice to what he called "the grousing" bowlers, was Includ ed in a speech made recently by: Major M. F. S. Jewell, the former Sussex and Worcestershire cricketer, He Was
speaking at the annual meet-
Rest Side Draw Level In
The Closing Minutes
(By "Abe")
Though obviously the better side in many respects,
ing in Worcester of the Worcester- the South China A.A. were held to a draw of 1-1 in the shire Cricket Club, of which he is charity soccer match in aid of the China Relief Fund played
vice-chairman.
"The game is all right," declared at Caroline Hill yesterday.
Itest goal misunder-
Jewell. " Major
needs leaving
The absence of several players forwards prevented the alone. Much has been said about the over preparation of wickets. who had been originally selected from falling. Once a We were told that it was impossi- weakened, the Rest side considerably, standing by Hou and Harticy let in bie to turn the ball upon them. and the forward line seldom showed Law Tau-mon, but the left wing, Even if this was so, the bowler still any real combination. There were with a yawning goal in front of has further darts up his sleeve in some good individunt efforts but few him, shot outside. On another occa- length, flight, change of pace and concerted: ones. Moss was a hard-sion the same player had a grand working centre-forward, but was chance of adding to the score, but swerve.
"If bowlers were to remember given little support by his inside shot wildly. his he went on, "and concentrate men, who seldom kept up with him,
SCORES LEVELLED on using these essential factors of thus leaving him with too much to
On Moss' broad shoulders the inak good bowling, they would do better do. Courtney, for instance, than just grousing about the state hanging too far back most of the of breaking a way through the Chi- at the wicket."
time, and Rides, playing out of his nese defence continued to fall. His that Gibbons usual position, never seemed really was a lone battle, however, though It was announced would receive over £500 from his happy at Inaide left. Thomas made the wingers made several fine runs benefi-a record for a Worcester- neveral good runs down the left wing, from passes flung out by him. But but made the cardinal fault of look-in one of these, fortunately for the shire professional,
Real, Courtney and Rides kept up The Hon. Charles Lyitelion was ing around for his inside men when the attack, and the scores were
have
beenvelled. Thomas cut in and shot. re-elected captain of Worcestershire, better and his father, Lord Cobham, was obtained by cutting in and trying
I to put in re-elected president.
WIMI MNOLONIOU
1225
1
0 Rose Day
Sea Captain Sea Chirt
Silver Star Smiling Tinsu
@nowstorm
□ Some lope
a Sports Gesture
0 Shorts Venture
0 Starict
1 Strathbannock
3 Talkative
0 Thanksgiving Day
The Buccaneer
143
133
140
results might
shot
himself.
WAG
with
but though Cheung Wing-chol, the
In defence, however, the Rest wereChinese goal-keeper, got his hands the equals of their opposite num-to the ball, he failed to hold it and bers.
Hou Yung-sang and Sheehan it went out to the right. Emberson It back to the middle and pair of backs, and swung ! were a steady
narst-time shot, Harley was safe in goal. The Courtney took
vas very fact that urtainst such a fine South scoring with Cheung still out of his
રામ conceded only one
charge. China attack they
This their
occurred four minutes from
up in the
the forward line.
The Grey Tiger
0
The Spirit of St. Louis
This Tuno
Tiny Tim
True Lovo
Welcome West Lako Whirlwind
Wild Bear
Wild Bull
MELBOURNE CUP
(One And Quarter Miles)
Able Amazon
A Grand Time
A Mooring Time
Aztec
10
tribule toni is ability. But this was also due partly the end, and the final whistle blew the able work of Belting at centre with the scores dead-locked at 1-1.
"Lee
South China tried out two com- half, who kept Arm hold on
"unknowns" yesterday, Wal-tong ell
ong all the time the latter was parative
Isu King-Cheung Wing-chol (in goal), who shing, at left-half, was also in good played with such conspicuous suc form, though he was given a trying cess with the Chinese team in the time by
Func
King-cheung and Tong last tour to Saigon, and Tom Chan- Kwong-sum
Honniball,
the fat, a Third Division half-back. other flank, however, was not quite Cheung gave a very cool and clever up to the standard of the others and display, and Tam gave ovidenco of provided the only weak linit in an promine as a half-back. otherwise admirable defence,
on
NEGATIVE FOOTBALL
The Chinese never seemed to be oing all out. The pace, as a result,
was inclined to be slow throughout the
whole
match. Teams:
With nothing at stake, the South China players did not seem to be
South China A.A-Cheung Wing- going all nul. They showed a bit of pretty, if negative, football in mid- chol; Mak Slu-hon, Li Tin-sang; Lau feld, but once they had got to within Hing-chol, Leung Wing-chiu, Tam Chap-fai; Tang Kwong-sum, Fung Yung-sang. King-cheunk. shooting distance, Hou
Lec Wai-tong, Belirao and Sheehan saw to it that Shiu-wing and Law Thu-man.
Rest of Colony. Hartley; Hou Shechan; Honniball, Yung-sang,
145
Blandford
1:54
Centre Court
154
Double Finesse
254
0 Electron
134
4 King's Privilego
130
Latal That
140
144
shoot,
Lucky Lad
154
Snowy River
sheet was still blank.
2 Lancashire Chips
HONGKONG DERBY
(One And Half Bios)
Annas Boy Armylight Avon ...
Flexuber
blue Expres
Conquering Time Egmont Day
English Cavaller
2 Eve of Harvest
- Eve of enven
For All Timo
(Continued on Page 0.)
Above fa Roso Elect, greatly favoured in many quarters' to win the Hongkong · Derby to-day. On him a Mr. C. Encarnacao, who will be riding him in the big TACE this afternoon,
Lai
they were not given any chance to
When half-time arrived, the score Beltine, Tisu King-shing: Emberson. but twelve Courtney, Moss, Rides and Thomas.
minutes after the resumption, South China tool the lead, rough Lee Wai-tong. The Rest defenders seem→
ed to be under the impression that Badminton
Lee was off-side, and Hartley marle
no attempt stop the shot, but the
to
referee apparently had no doubt at ail that it was a goal.
ວ
League
Matches To-night
Shortly after this, Mak Siu-hori Three matches are down for de- hurt his ankle during a Rest rald.clsion in the "B" Division of the Bad- and was out of the game for the minton League this evening. St. of the match. Lee Wal- Andrew's "A", who are leading this remainder tong, who had already kept his section of the League, should advance record of scoring in every match in- another step towards the title when tact, went back to fill Mak's poslilon they play the V.R.C.
nt right back.
The programme is as follows:
In spite of Lee's, absence, the V.R.C. Chinese
several dangerous Recreio mode ralds, and only poor finishing by the K. Tong "A"
v. St. Andrew's "A". v. K. Tong "B"
v. Chung Wab
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