Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 3, 1939.
BADMINTON INTERPORT WITH SHANGHAI SHORTLY?
RECREIO TEAM'S TRIP TO
TO NORTH BEARS FRUIT
Financial Consideration Is The Chief Obstacle
...(By."The Bird")
The recent visit of six Club de Recreio bad- minton players to Shanghai provided a gratifying fillip to Hongkong badminton, the entire Shang- hai pross and other independent critics being Jimmy Braddock, the Former most onthusiastic about the performances of the
heavyweight boxing champion of the world, is almost broke again. te wants to return to the ring in order to make another fortune. Ben below.
BRADDOCK BROKE, RETURNING TO RING
"MAYBE I WILL
K.O. LOUIS"
New York, May 2. Jimmy Braddock, former New Jersey longshoreman and holder
visitors.
In fact, one of the most important} results of the visit has been tenta- tive, but very cordial enquiry about the prospects of an interport between Hongkong and Shangh being ar- ranged next season.
Shanghal frankly confess that they did, not realise Hongkong's standerd was in high as that demonstrated by the Portuguese visitors, and when it was learned that there are other players here of-an equal, if not a better calibre, there was an im- mediate cry of "Why not an Inter- Port
The possibilities of such a contest naturally cannot take definite shape until ext season, but Shanghal's keenness is such that unless the obstacles are extremely formidable, every effort should be made to bring about an Interport.
SHANGHAI TESTED While in Shanghai, the Recreio
play cry were given the opportunity
of the world's heavyweight boxing of testing themselves against some
performers. of the pick of the Northem city's
championship from 1935 to 1037, is almost broke again. He was on relief before he won the tile from Max Baer in 1935 In one of the greatest upsets in ring history, but made a fortune when he held the
crown.
He announced to-day that he is returning to the ring in an attempt to blast dollars from the blues of Tommy Farr, Max Schmeling and Tony Galento,
Add.
the
combination, P, K. ul and K. L. Remedios-Oliveira Yong, and M. S., Lim and P. S. Bun, and it would seem that Hongkong has three men's doubles more likely to win than to Shanghai combinations.
lose against the
Neither is there any reason to be lieve that we should prove vastly, if any, inferior in the mixed doubles fine. We have liui and Miss Khoo, who have for three years proved themselves just a trifle better than Oliveira and Miss Silva, and we can augment them by Yong and Miss Cheung, or one or two other poirs who are decidedly up to average.
Those aspiring to break world records in low hurdles are not recommended to model their style on those of these three youngsters. The one in the middle, for instance, has never seen an action picture of For- rest Towns, one feels sure. This picture was taken at one of the school athlelle meetings held over the week. end-Ming Yuen.
Senna, Landley and Melse aro probably the three best Shanghai Home Cricket singles performers, but against thein we can plt Huf, Au, perhaps Patrick Wong if he returns to the game next our best singles exponent, but he was senson, and Oliveira. Oliveira is not
they met at the Club Lusitano a good enough to extend Seana when fortnight ago.
OXFORD U. BEATEN BY 5 WICKETS
OXFORD COX MAKES ERROR OF JUDGMENT
London, Apr. 3.
11
THE Boat-race was as good. as over two minutes after started on Saturday.
Cambridge's four-length vic- tory was due to the shock tactics of Sandford, their stroke, and the faulty tacties of Massey, Oxford corswain."----
Whatever advantage® Massey's Hght weight gave to Oxford was lost at the most critical stage of the race by keeping too
Far
tion.
over on the Middlesex sta-
The Dark Blues had to row In practically dead water. Sandford grasped the situation at once. Cambridge shot past while their rivals
till plugging away as if their boat was being pulled against a lot of dead weight.
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believe it would have been an exelling race if Massey had not unexpectedly erred in jadr- ment, says an English writer. No expert was prepared for one of the tamest history of the bridge's time 3sccs.
contests in the
race.
WZB
Cam- 10mins.
HELEN JACOBS PRACTISES FOR
Lou Gehrig Volunteers TRIP TO ENGLAND
To Stand Down From N. Y. Yankees' Outfit N.Y.
Detroit, May 2.
Williamsburg, Va. Helen Hull Jacobs, tennis star who quit the
courts during the winter to write a historte novel here, will return to competition at Wimbledon la June.
'cached
NO PROBLEM In an exhibition mixed doubles
There is really no problem con- match, Oliveira and Miss Silva ex- tended Henry Eardley and his sister, fronting Hongkong ns to the playing there are
London, May 2. Decima, who are the Stinnghul mixed strength of a team, but doubles champions, losing by two chief of which will be finance. This University in the second innings en- certain to be other vexing questions, A sporting declaration by Oxford
She is rearming for the British sels to one, A very creditable per-
test and a home stand at Forest Hills matches, Remedios and Oliveira suc- formance. In one of the official would have to be thoroughly in-abled Gloucestershire to win lo-day
by running the shoes off William and ceeded in beating the Club Lusitano arrangements reached. While Shang-261, Tom Goddard taking five wickets Baseball League, Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees' tion after a fast match, she pulled
vestigated and fair and amicable by five wickets.
In their first Innings Oxford scored | Following 2,130 consecutive games in the Major Mary College men players. first string, Senna and Silva who, hal is in a better position to stage alt for 42 runs, and Gloucester replied first-baseman, has voluntarily asked Manager McCarthy on two sweaters and a polo cont Looking trim and in good condi although not Shanghal's first-ranking Interport from the viewpoint of couple, are fully representative of the court and spectators' facilities, there with 213 for eight declared.
Declaring their second knock at to put him on the bench. is no valid reason to cuppose Hong 132 for eight wickets (Goddard four average.
for a
a candy bar and said, He stated, "I might fight my
These results, of course, do not to kong could not make a successful for 58), the, Oxonjans left Gloucester-
"I'm ready, you may serve."
Open way to another meeting with Joe
mean that Hongkong would be cer- attempt to entertain a representative ahire to get 201 to win and the county good. I am not going so good my-In his place at first base.
"The whole team is not going so
tournament "There is Loula. Maybe I will K.O.
Ellsworth Dahlgren has been put nothing particularly wrong with pro.. Shanghal side. blm. tain to beat Shanghof in a repre- inublic would support it and the only team hit up 20e-tor the loss of Aveselt, and I think. It would be betler 1
ennis. It's sentative match, but it is fair enough maybe not. Meanwhile no
the up and up and wiekels-Renter.
However, Manager McCarthy said the United States Lawn heavyweight can do mo harm”—completely hold their own, whether to assume that our pinyers would
for me to get out a while," he said it was possible that Gehrig may be sociation is not strongly opposed to
Tennis As
United Press.
playing here or In Shanghai,
out of the team.
his record,United Press,
amateurs go The difficulty, sho added, is open tournament date does not conflict with fixture of one of the older cluba.
other
Rainy Start Made To 1939 Tennis Season
Professionals At Olympia
BY F. R. BURROW ·
London, Apr. 2. It may well be hoped that the opening days of the season of tennis out of doors were no augury of what the season of 1939 has in store for us. With everybody eager to get to work-or should it be play?-in the open air again, and Press photographers in attendance to snap the first pictures of young competitors at the Harga tournament, which opens the season, the rains descended and the winds blew, and the first day of the acason was as blank as the score of the Dingley Dellers in the match against Muggleton. The second day was not much better, but the third began to make amends, and the task of compressing six days' play into four was entered on with 'a zest, the reward for which will be known by the time these lines appear.
It was particularly unlucky for, a terror to his adversaries, his pace the Herga Club that such an unfor- about the court does not appear tunate start befell their tournament, materially to have lessened. and for many of the best players at years have only added strength to his, present in the country were engaged nlways superb strategy. and the entry was large as well as
good. Particular interest attached to. The maximum of effect with the the first appearance since she won minimum of effort is still ain.ost his the championship at Wimbleton in monopoly. Cochet has lost a good 1037 of Mrs. D. Little, then Miss deal of the "abandon" which used to Dorothy Round. Her intention, characterise his game, and seems to ahe finds that
more than a year's ab- tire much more rapidly than he did sence from the game has not knocked in the days when five-acts
matches all her game out of her, to return were his
and he was known delight, to it in search of new honours, as the best player of a fifth set in encouraging to any hope we may the world. Or the others, Nusslein have of being able to regain the is for the most Impressive; if there Wightman Cup: for even if she is a certain stolidity about his game should find herself unable to under-It is by no means purely defensive, take the voyage to America li that though, since he prefers to wage his endeavour, the very fact that she is war from the base-line, It has that playing again can hardly fall to prove uppearance. At that time of writing. an incentive to the younger players he and Tilden are the only two out who may have a chance of distin- of the eight competitors to remain guishing themselves given to them undefeated, and it seems quite likely this year.
Not many, home-made that the match between them, care- champions are to be seen an our fully arranged for the lust contest courts nowadays: it is well that the of the tournament on Tuesday ever memory of them should not be al ing next, will decide which of them lowed to fade too soon.
secures the first-prize of £350,
plá
AT OLYMPIA
I have paid several visits to Olym-]
of the
his
MASKELL'S GOOD FORM Particularly of interest to English Kood: form.
the
during the fortnight's professional players has been the tournament which ends next Tues shown by Masisell, professional to day. I wanted particularly to see the All England Club. It might have how the passing of the years had been thought he would' have been dealt with
great players of talent assembled at Olympla; but rather overweighted by the galaxy twenties. Tilden and eighteen years since Tilden wo Arat
his victory
da over Kozelah championship at Wimbledon, and opening match of the meeting; his nine since he won his ins
subsequent defeat of Palmleri, his fóre he went over to the ranks of capture of a set from Tilden, and his the professionals; and if ever there coming within a single point of de was a testimony to the value of feating Cochet demonstrate that he keeping fit," Tilden. now in his is well worthy of a place in such forty-seventh year, certainly supplies distinguished company. The success it. He can still produce that cannon- of this modest and unassuming ployer ball service which was always atch is very pleasant."
Undoubtedly the
i
rangements real problem would be to make ar- to satisfy all the potential spectators.
But these are questions which will Southend Trounces
Newport At Home
nrise in due course providing the pos- sibility of an Interport advances be- yond its present tentative stage. While no official letter has been.re- ceived from Shanghai, a message
London, May 2. was conveyed to the Hongkong As
In the southern section of the Third sociation through
Oliveira, Division in the English Football M. A. captain of the visiting Recreio team League, Southcod, at home, to-day to the effect...that.. welcome
contest, Reuter, and badminton players
rest assured that the local Association will make the proper overtures to
on
in asking Mr. McCarthy to leave him played later in the day to preserve letting the pros
at it."
Anding
which an
te benched is that Yankees need more
One reason why he had asked to j
power in the batting, with Joe
DiMaggio out of the side, while
143
Gehrig is hitting an average of only as compared with his lifetime average of 341.
In addition to his falling-off with the bat, Gehrig is now allowing balls easily.
Tere Would defeated Newport-by-five gools to nil to get by-which-he- formerly caught|
Shanghai In this connection. onnection.
can
VISITORS PLEASED
was largely due to the fact that the Hongkong women were markedly be-
low usual form. However, Remedios and Oliveira surpassed themselves, Meanwhile the Recreio players are mixed doubles, and chalked up one. especially in the, men's doubles and enthusiastic about their reception Inor Shanghai, and
two outstanding achievements. not unpardonably The visit was in every way a great pleased with their performances, ne they found themselven pitted against success, and apart from the personal allowed Shanghai to gain a new, and
DAVIS CUP COMMENCES
some of Shanghal's top notchers. pleasure afforded the visitors, THIS WEEK
disappointed and the Shanghal wo the Improving standard of Hong-Te
The women players apparently possibly more appreciative idea of men proved their superior. But this kong's badminton.
the fooded court was enough for Mim G. Mathias, a compellier at the DODGING THE PUDDLES-One look and a hurried skip back across first open air iawn tennis thamainent of the English season at the Herga. Club, Harrow, last month,
Germany To Clash With Switzerland
Berlin, May Z. The contest for the Davis Cup, which is being defended by the United States, begins in the European Zone at the end of this. week. All games in the first round will be held from May 5 to 7.
Competitors are:
CHINESE THROUGH
ONCE MORE
ond
Д
Don Budge "He's the best in the business today, and when he loses to Perry or Vines It's becouse he's hind a bad night IIke a golfer or any other athlete.".
"TILDEN" GREATEST Greatest man champion-"Tilden- was the greatest courtman who ever speed and the court ability, and not only that, he was the smartest."
The book-well, it isn't finished yet. Carter Braxton, Virginia
pigner
Kho And Choy In lived. He had all the shots, the
Second Round
Bournemouth, May 2. In the second round of the tennis and an ancestor of the brown-haired. of the Declaration of Independence championships, Kha Sin-kto beat Helen, will walk through the pages. Gaus Mohammed (India) 6-2, 13-11. She once intended to do his blog- 6-1. The Chinese player was always rophy, but found it too much of more accurate in ground shots and task. The book will be far superior despite
her the Indian's "Barry Cort," her first novel pub- rally in the second set.
In the second round Choy beat plume H. Braxton Hull, was out a Hahed a year ago under the nom de Malfroy, New Zealand, 0-3, 1-6, 6-2. month before anyone knew that Miss 6-3-Reuter.
Jacobs was the writer.
HISTORY
SPEED
Ofth
OF LAND RECORD
By A. G. Throssell
Landon, Mar, 30.
Speed is an adventure, says Capt. record of 120 m.p.h. But he
Ing when he was making a
Tap
had
Germany v. Switzerland at Vienna;, Yugoslavia v, Ireland at Agram; Rumania v. Hungary at Bucharest; Poland v. Holland at Warsaw. Chief interest, as far as the first George Eyston, the fastest man on only one serious crash, which was round is concerned, is in the meeting earth. It is
the on the road at Boulogne, before the between Germany, winner in the 20th century. A 100
years ago driving chain of his beloved car
ari adventure of
to
at the
in the European zone inst year, and scientists solemnly declared that "Babg broke and killed him at Switzerland. Although the German mile a minute was beyond the Pendine. team in the friendly match against capacity of the human frame the United States last week-end endure. Forty years ago, when Germany lost, proved disap-beginning of this century, this speed pointing, It is believed that Germany had just will win against the Swiss. In the Englishman, the lion. Charles R. been reached by on singles Germany will be represented Rolls-in a petrol-driven car. To by Henner Henkel and Roderich day two men, both also English, have Menzel and by Herkel and Georges travelled at speeds within the tiniest
to emulate the speed of his 1,000 h.p. Nearly two years later, when Sir Henry Segravo had siirred America Sunbeam, Frank Lockhart, another engineering genius, was killed when another American, Lee Bible, driving the "Triplex," the biggest record- a tyre burst at 200 m.ph. In 1929 'fraction of a mile in 10 seconds.
breaker ever built, skidded into the The countries that will participate lives should have been lost in the and killed a photographer and him- According to our forebearn many soft sand which lines Daytona Beach In the second round have likewise, facquisition
human self.:
Metaxas in the doubles,
SECOND ROUND
for the most part, also fixed their faculty of moving at great speed.
of this new programme.
Actually fatalities have been
A HIGHLY SPECIALISED ART Uncertainty, however, still prevails markeably few. Up to 1014 only one as to the date and place of the con-is recorded, that of an
Four Ilves lost in the quest for American test between Bohemia and Norway named Croker at Daytona Beach in "peed, the struggle to win the tand Otherwise the programme in the 1005. Between that date, when the holder of that Lue, Capt. Eyston,
speed record. But as the second round is:
present record stood at: 104.55 m.p.h, and makes very plain in his new book. Belgium v. India (on May 20, 21 Parry Thomas's death at Pendine Fastest in Earth" (John Miles, 7 and 22) at Brussels;
Sanda in 1927 It had been raised to Italy v. Monaco (on May 19, 20171 m.p.h.
and 211 at Nopics;2
Sweden v. Denmark at Stockholm; France v. China at Paris England will play New Zealand at Brighton from May 11 to 19.
English players will be C. E. Here, L. Shafu, R. A. Shayes and F. II.D.
E. Maitrey, B, Coombe, D. Brown Wilde.
New Zealand players will comprise and V. Edwards ---Trans-Ocean,
▸
PARRY THOMAS'S MANY ESCAPES
ad
inoro
Caminettindag is en en
∙art than description of Bir
many adventures --In his 13 years at the game, of Segrave's Parry Thomas, great in brain and deliberate steering into the sen at musele, revelled in risks. He used Daytona when his brakes falled, and to test tyres by lapping Brookdands of Eyston's own experience in a
as when a wheel of his car went lavishly illustrated history of the at full speed until the tread flew off, similar predicament are scattered-all He had innumerable narrow escapes, over this excellent, complete and; aver the rim of the Brooklands bunk-world's land speed record.