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Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
1' WANT A PENNY'S
WORTH OF SOUP GREENS.
April 20, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
AND PLEASE DELIVER IT TO 220 OAK STREET!
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HAND CUT Jl. 28151.
CRYSTAL
Tony Galento "On The Wagon" For Louis
Heavyweight Fighting Now A Fit Subject For A Comic Strip
Because of official pressure, Tony Galento, the boxing beer baron, is temporarily (he hopes) "on the wagon." He has been ordered to turn teetotal until he has met Joe Louis in the summer; otherwise the match is "off."
That is the latest situation in the world heavy-weight championship! New York's Ostic solons, who np-i proved Galento as a title challenger, well knowing his beer-drinking. elgar-smoking habits and the size of his waist-line, now want to put the poor fellow in moral chains.
They are
turning heavy-weight fighting into a subject for a comic tavern, in strip. Gulento keeps a which he is reputed to be the chief Leer-drinker. Physically barrei- shaped, he usually has als picture taken beside a barrel.
Bistolfi Wins City
And Suburban
London. Apr. 19,
The Cily and Suburban Handicap. run to-day at Epsom resulted as follows:
.
American papers have published pictures, captioned "Galento in train- Ing," and the scene depicted was the Bistolf (linery Wrogs) Jersey fit man replenishing his beer Marmond Hill (Carslake) Taran (Gordon Richards) gloss.
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TO MEET LOUIS-Two-Ton Tony Galento, contor, of Orange, N. J., signs to most Joo Louis in a heavyweight boxing bout, "sometime, somewhere." Seone is in Miami, Fla. Mike Jacobs, promoter.
When the New York Commission:
was five The winning distance protested, Galento's pieture next day.
u length separating showed him drinking milk through a lengths, half straw!
DISCIPLINED
I second and third. The beiting was! 100-8, 11-2 and 9-1. Fourteen ran.i
Of course, Galento being compelled)
Other runners were Unbreakable; to sign the pledge may be a gag lo
Gift steam up a ght which looks about (Pat Beasley), Agincourt (E. Smith), the silliest thing that could be ar-Rodeo II (Weston), Halcyon
(Gardner), Hot Bun II (Colin ranged.
(M. Beary). There is no doubt, though that Richards). Croiscun the American authorities are con- Oven II (Sibbritt) Pigskin (Clifford High Rank (Maher), cerned at the Galento goings-on. Richards),
He was suspended for six months on Portefeuille (Mullins), Esquemeling the grounds that his beer guzzing] (Lynch)-Reuter,
and
bombustic statements
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him being his favourite
Pigskin won the City and Suburban) expression) brought "the noble art last year.
molder
into disrepute.
He
la favour by Mikel was restored Jacobs, who, failing a suitable - ternative, required Galento for Louis, The fight is fixed for June, but the remalo- Commission's
misgivings
Bowls Rinks For Saturday
is at left and Joe Jacobs, Tony's manager at right. Louis was not prosent.
Indoor Bowling
Semi-Final Match In Ewo League
FIFTH SUCCESSIVE
GOLF WIN.
FOR CAMBRIDGE
London, Mar. 23.
Cambridge scored their fifth successive victory in the In the semi-final of the second stage of the Ewo League, the "Com- Inter-Varsity golf contest-a record since the issue was petitors" beat the "Strollers" by 249 points at the Hongkong Bowling decided by matches and not by holes up. On the latter system Oxford had six successive wins from 1899 to 1904. Alleys last evening.
The winners now meet "Hongkong
The Light Blues won the singles yesterday by 7 points From now on Galento must trien Ton against Kowloon Football
The following will represent Kow-Wonders" in the final.
E. Hearther made the highest score to 3, and the match by 10% to 42. As on the previous like any other Agliter. "It's true," he admitted, glumly, at lus Miami Club in a friendly bowls game on of the match, 250, which was also the
highest score of the month, the re-day, when they took the foursomes by 32 to 112, they headquarters. "Up
to now haven't Saturday on the latter's green:
cord for the Alleys since the opening again proved the better fighters.
hence their anxiety to discipline Tony. They are afraid of u flasco.
found. It necessary to train. Beer C. Mose, J. Tang, J. L. Stephens being 200, has been my conditioner but from and A. Spary (skip). now on I've got to live clean."
of the Mr. Kuk, representative donors of the Cup, and Mr. S. A. Apparently it is a case of going "on A. E. Castro, 11. Y. Hsu, Y. Abbas Ismail acted as the official scorera. the wagon" to avold being earted and A. H. Basto (skip).
away in one.
Women's Golf
Results
a card of 98-17-81 won the Silver)
T. M. Gregory, T. K. Lim, J. N. Wong and H. Gittins (skip).
Scores:
"COMPETITORS"
At the end of the Brst round, Oxtord led in 4 matches, were down in 3 and level in the other 3. F. M. Forster was 5 up on E. S. Browne and R. O. Wynn was 6 up on A. G. Ernie Hearther: 259 108 182 609 Buchanan; yet both these games! Doc Molthen 100 203 132 501 ended in Cambridge victories, Dicht Venezia 170 151 150 471 The weather was bitterly cold and! 145 162 137 444 a strong wind again swept the The following will represent the Chas Miller
course, white in the afternoon there Indinn R.C. in a friendly bowls matchi
2,025 was a heavy fall. of 'rain, against the Kowloon C.C. on Satur-
COMPLETE RESULTS
INDIAN RINKS
Totul
Here are the complete results:
"STROLLERS"
210 136 153 505 175 164 153 492
J. D. A. Langley (Cambridge) beat J. 123 160 140 410c. Lawrie 7 end. 113 123 124
Mrs. W. J. E. Mackenzle, returning day on the latter's green; division of the LG.U. Medal Com- J. Hoosen, S.M. Rumjahn, A. B. A. Zimmern petition held over the Old Course, Minu and A. K. Minu (skip); D. M. A. T. Lee Fanling, on Tuesday. Mrs. C. B. Khan, A. M. Wahab, M. Y. Adal and E. Zimmern Brown with a score of 102-3072 A. R. Dallah (skip): A. H. Rumjahn, E. Churn won the Bronze Division OVCT the A. Bakar, A. O. Madar und M. R.
Abbas (skip). New Course.
Total
360
I. D. How (Cambs) beat B. Pether 2) sid 1.
OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS
"When Were You Born?" (King's, to-day) Mystery story in which astrology is used to uncover mur- Otherwise the plot follows ders.
such Anne
TC Harvey (Oxford) halved with w.much the usual course in
Lindsay, S. L. Whitelaw (Cambridge).
matters. Margaret
Antho C. B. Walker (Oxford) beat W. May Wong, Lola Lane, 1,778 Halstead 3 and 2.
Averill, James
Stephenson and
leading Maurice Ceas have the
roles. "St. Louis Blues" (Queen's and Alhambra, to-day)-Romance and
a modern rhythm aboard n
Mississippi showboat, with Dorothy Lamour in the kind of role some of you have and with always wanted for her,
E. 5. Browne (Cambs) beat F. M. Forster 1 hale.
R. C. Twining (Oxford) beat N. 1. Mann 2 and 1.
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B. Booth Combat beat 2. R. Briggs and 3.
"Heynolds (Cambridge) beat A. J.
B. Marshamn 2 up t
A. S. Gilbey (Oxford) halved with Maxime Sullivan singing the famous
D. Carrie (Cambridge).
A. B. Buchanan (Cainbridge) beat R. O. Wynn B and 4..
song that gives this colourful musical
Its title. comedy
Helping Dorothy Tito Gulzar, Jessie Ralph.
Jerome Cowan and
Д
Langley, the Cambridge captain, arc Lloyd Nolan, Maxime Sullivan, up at the end of the Orst round, played relentless golf in the after noon. He went out in 35 strakes and "My Bill" (Oriental Theatre, 10- stood up at the turn.
day) Tom Barry's play, "Courage," Harvey and Whitelaw had a great reworked into vehicle for. Kay fight, the Cantab, round in 78, being Francis az a mother with no money one up at the eighteenth. Harvey sense. She gets herself and her did not get on terms until the thirty-fatherless children into all sorts of third hole and then, owing to a dimeultics, from which they are ex- bunkered tee shot, he was one dawn tricated by Dickdie Moore ne the ugain at the next. However, White-youngest. law. was bunkered at the last hole "Joscite" (Majestic, to-day)—An and the match finished level,
entertaining film, with that French actress Simone Simon in the chief The inest amazing game. was the rele, helped by Don Ameche and last. Here, Wynn, one down at the Robert Young. Light stuff but very ninth, won seven of the homeward satisfying. holes and halved the others to finish
AN AMAZING CAME
the round. 8 up.
In the afternoon Buchanan took LOCAL YACHTING
the first eight holes and went out in 3. Actually he won 11 of the 14
holes played and beat the Oxonian by 5 and 4.
Wynn's 74 in the morning was the best score by anybody before lunch. Reynolds, in the morning, did the Jeighth hote,, which measures · · 183 yards, in one shota No. 3 iron, into the wind.
Only Two Entrants For
Sweepstake Race
There were only two Competitore in a sweepstake held by the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club yesterday over a distance of 1.8 miles. Results:
Finished Corrd. Pos
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE THIRD EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 22nd Aprü, 1939, com- mencing at 2.00 p.m.
The Firat Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
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Secretary. Hongkong, 17th April, 1930,
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