Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 14, 1939.
ANOTHER CROP OF CENTURIES IN COUNTY CRICKET
BUT ONLY FOUR ELEVENS WIN TIES OUTRIGHT
WEST INDIES TOURISTS FORTUNATE AT DERBY
Another crop of centuries was produced in the County Cricket Championship programme concluded yesterday, a feature being the number of centurions who remained undefeated. Of the eight matches played in the champion- ship, only four ended in definite results, the other four being won only on first innings.
As already reported, Yorkshire and Gloucester won by an innings over Middlesex and Essex respectively, the matches taking only two days.
Sur-
rey and Kent also completed their fixtures yesterday by beating Sussex and Leicester respectively, each by nine wich
wickets.
Lancashire declared twice in an altempt to
to force a win against Notts at Manchester but had to be content
with the points on first innings.
After scoring 141 in reply to Hamp- shire's total of 304, Warwickshire made a good recovery in the follow- on, which realised 400 for Ave wickets.
The West Indies tourists were in bad way against Derbyshire, but manufed to hold out to a draw. At close of play the tourists were stil 95 runs behind with only four wickets to fall.
Results and details of matches are cabled by enter.
LEADING PERFORMERS
The following were the leading
performers in the programme just concluded:
BATTING
Gibbons (Worcester) v., -Nor-
thants
RESULTS IN BRIEF
The following were the results of matches in the programino concluded yesterday:
wickets.
Lancashire (403 for 4 decid, and 138 for 4 decid.) beat Notis (310 and 23 for 0) on first innings.
"Burroy (354 and 221 for 1) beat Sussex (285 and 309) by nine Ilampallro (364) beat Warwickshire (141 and 490 for 5) on Arst inningsR
Worcester (540 for û decld.) beat Northants (311 and 218 for 0) on first inningu.
wickets.
Kent (385 and 138 for 1) beat Leicester (201 and 231) by nine "Glamorgan (574 for 7) beat Somerset (385) on Arst innings). Yorkshire (430 for 5 decld.) beat Middlesex (02 and 122) by an innings and 240 runs.
Gloucester (425) beat Essex (150 and 182) by an Innings and
93 ru
3).
Derby (309 and 194) drew with West Indies (284 and 54 for 6). Cambridge (339) drew with Free Foresters (87 and 20% for
Here And There With "Abe".
Organised Baseball's 100th Anniversary
ORGANISED baseball in the United scored 2,395 runs to 574 by
States celebrated its centenary ponents. The club
op-
more
won 24 game's in 1870 before bunten by
of Atlanties
Can You guess who thls la? He is In unfamiliar gulse, but some of you may recognise Jean Borotra, the famous French star. The former Davis Cup pinyer is now an artillery captain, photographed at a dinner given in honour of the French Army officers who were visiting London last month.
Fenske Beats All Rivals In Mile Race
on Monday when, according to consecutive United Press, "baseball's bigwigs, being heroes of the past and present, and Brooklyn. B to 7, in 11 innings. The 15,000 spectators" gathered at Cooperstown to do the game honour. 1871,
first professional league started in Chuck Fenske marked up one on
up the first crude rules and laidl
Memphis, Tenn., May 13, Since Abner Doubleday, a cadet at Professional Bull Players, with the Cunningham,
the National Association of the books to-day-a defeat of Glenn West Point Military Academy, drew rules stipulating a player had to be and Don Lash, three of the country's Archie San Romani out a held for the first game of buse president. The Athletics. of Phila-leading milers. ball, played by his former school-delphia won the first pennant. This
was the forerunner mates at Cooperstown Casperstown League, which, after a preliminary the University of Wisconsin but run-
of the National
The smooth stepping Fenske, from Military Acadeiny, Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1930, the game has become meeting in Louisville, came into bening unattached, took the featured popular in every part of the world. ing at the Grand Central Hotel Newmile in the Cotton Carnival's track I cannot find any reference as to York, February 2, 1870. Morgan C meet last night. when it was first played in Hongkong, Bulkeley, of lartford, was the first but it must have been many, many president.
years ago. As muller of fact, I
think baseball was more popular in Highlights
the Colony In the 20's than it seems
to be now. It is difficult to account
WHITCOMBE CRASHES IN GOLF CHALLENGE TIE WITH BOB LOCKE
Gained Early
Early Lead But
Lost By Six And Five-
By F. J. C. Pignon
London, June 2. Bobby Locke, South African champion, beat Reginald Whitcombe, British open champion, by six up and five to play in an international challenge match for £1,000 yester. day on the Coombe Hill course, Surrey.
Thus one of the most-talked-of challenge matches of the year ended in the pathetic fallure of the British champion and another triumph for n young man of 21 who is rapidly gain- ing the reputation of a world benter.
Czech Player Wants To Be a
U.S. Citizen
Hecht Taking Out New Papers
New York. American tennis probably has fallen permanently heir to Ladislav Hecht, the former Czech Davis Cup star and one of the world's most pro- mising young players.
flecht came over as a member of
en over by Germany, Now he the Czech delegation to the World's Tair, just before his homeland was
considers himself a refugee and
ship. intends to apply for American citizen-
the
Locke started yesterday with an advantage of two holes, gained on the first 36 holes the match on Wed- nesday, and threw away his lead with a bad Brst nine in which he did not even equal the bogey score.
Whitcombe squared the match at the eighth. He ought to have been one up, but missed a putt of less than two feet at the Afth. However, the British champion did win the ninth hole for the lend and seemed hending for victory.
Then, for some unaccountable ren- son, his game went all to pieces.
Never have I seen a more complete and utter collapse than the failure of
nine holes, lost one through driving Whitcombe on the dramatic home- ward half, Locke won seven of the
out of bounds, and finished the round with a lead of five holca.
IN THE ROUGH Whitcombe was often in the rough. On one occasion he sliced fully sixty yards off the line; he did not match Locke's approach shots and he missed putts. It would be a mere catalogue of errors to describe Whitcombe's play In that phase which proved so dinas-- trous.
The country's tennis officials, faced with n famine of topnotch talent for With a burst of speed in the stretch, the approaching season since Don Fenske moved past Cunningham, and Rudge turned professional, have wel- passed San Romant to win by a yard. comed Hecht with open arms and he Cunningham, also unattached, finish already has promised to play in every ed third, followed by Lash, Indiana important event of the summer, In- State policeman, and William South-cluding the National championships at for it, but 15 or 16 years ago there QPALDING'S Chicago White Stock-worth, Buller University.
Forest Hills. He is not, of course, were more teams participating in the ings and All-Stars were the first The time was 4m. 11.5s, a tent eligible to play on
American League than there are now. The clubs to make
Locke on the other hand played a trip around the of a second under the meet record. Davis Cup Team. game took a long time to catch on world, visiting, the Orient, Australia,
Freally well and had the last nine holes The tireless Lash showed plenty of in England where it was not very Egypt and Europe in the winter of staminu by taking the two-mile event had little difficulty defeating Berke- round was 74 against 75.
In a recent practice match Hecht in 34, which included a six. His popular at Arst, but it has now come 1888-00
the Players League 30 minutes later in Om. 32.05. He to stay, with baseball cluby spring precipitated the Brotherhood War of bested Tummy Deckard,
ley Bell, the professional, 6-4, 6-4, ing up all
and he was fur too good for Heleni over the country. The 1890, ruined baseball fortunes and teammate at Indiana University.
Wills Moody. Japanese, of course, are great en- gave the game a severe setback.
DOUBLE WIN thusiasts and it is only to be ex-Ban Johnson changed the name of Perrin Walker of Oglethorpe Uni- pected that the Filipinos took to the the Western League to the American versity turned in the only double win, game like ducks to water.
League in 1900 the American setting a new 100-yard dash mark League spread to
to the east in 1001 for the meet at 0.83, and winning the the National League fought to 220 in 21.9.
ワクワ
Dal Davies (Glamorgan)
V
Somerset
210
Leyland (Yorkshire) v. Mid-
diesex
180*
Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) v. Mid-
dlesex
176
Dollery. (Warwickshire)
Hampshire.....
170
Oldfield (Lanenshire) v. Nutts 147*
Smart (Glamorgan) v. Somer→
sel
141
Paliner (Worcester) v. North-
onts
192
Prentice (Leicester) v. Kerit
110
Holt (Hampshire) v. Warwick
115
Brookes (Northants) v. Wor-
cester
111
Nutter (Lancashire) v. Notts 100. Arnold (Hampshire) v. War-
Herbert Sutclito
wiek
100
Fishlock (Surrey) v. Sussex:
1074
Foster (Kent) v.. Lelcester
107
still going strong despite
his apc,
Ord. (Warwickshire) v. Hamp-
shire
105*
Welch (Free Foreslery) V.
Cambridge
0 for 73
dlesex Lambert (Gloucester) v.
Essex Pollard
(Lancashire) Notts Verity (Yorkshire) v. Mid-
dlesex
"and"
5 for 20 Fabulous Salaries
5 for 44
164 Emmett (Gloucester) v. Essex DD
• Denotes Not Out
BOWLING Copson (Derby) v. West
Indies -Bowes` (Yorkshire) v. Mid-
་
杂 former
keep the invader gut and the Ameri- Other new meet records included cans captured Nap Cajole, Cy Young, a discus throw of 183.0 feet by Havi-
ralds
Babe Ruth, 197ft. llín. b- Young of Vanderbilt
5 for 54 At the case of cricket and soccer Flick, Burkett, Keelds and others in land of Ilinois, & javelin vloer of In England, the leading baseball Bensa carentest drawing card, and a high jump of aft, 41⁄2 in. shared
players in the United States are pro-the
4 for 17fessionals. But unlike cricket and he
ATHLETIC RECORDS BEATEN: STARTING BLOCKS AT WEMBLEY
By Dark Blue
59 In 1921
Babe
Alterations In Royal Hunt Cup
BRITISH DRIVER BREAKS 3 MORE WORLD RECORDS
Whitcombe was as bewildered as anybody at this unexpected landslide, and it was obvious that the burden of his handicap weighed heavily upon him in the final round.
Locke began this with another cruel thrust, an approach close to the hole and a birdle three, to be six up. Then Whilcombe flattered his supporters with an inspiring recovery.
BEST GOLF OF MATCH He-holed two putts of six or seven yards, and with Locke in rough and London, June 1. bunker, at the fourth, Whitcombe was Major Gardner broke the world only four down. But Locke was not records for one mile, one kilometre, to be shaken off. He played the best and five kilometres, all from a flying golf of the match, won the two short start, in the International Class F holes, the sixth and ninth, and 1.500 cc. Class) on the Bitterfeld- six up at the tenth Whiteambe, who
ngain. Dessau autobahn to-day.
The records are:-
When
Was
had bunkered his fron shot, recovered to within a yard of the pin a cheer
went
Putt
up, but when be missed a yard n half there was an air of
for 20 soccer stars in the Home Country up with the Red Sox as a by Horn of Alabama and Diefenthaler
pitcher in 1914
baseball did its of Illinois: who, even the best of them, have
bit in the World War
Purdue won team honours with 27 fixed scales of pay, the top-ranking
ing Ruth, spectacular slugger, was pur-points. Illinois WRS close behind baseball players of America con chased from virtually
the Red Sox by New with 20 points, followed by Oklahoma command their ownYork Yankees, and electrified base- A. & M. with 19 and Alabama with salarles. They hold out for, some of them, get fees which must ball by hitting 54 homers for a new 17. make the mouths of many English cam in 1920, increasing his total to following the White cricket and soccer stars water. Im- ngine getting U.S. $30,000 or $40,000 Sox scandal the old Commission form for a season of baseball! Now take of government was abolished
and the ease of the 22 players in a recent Judge in Chicago, was chosen Com- Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Federal;
One mlle-203.8. m.p.h. International soccer match at Hamp-d
One kilometre-204.2 m.p.h. den Park between England namissioner with dictatorial powers, in
Five kilometres-200.6 m.p.l. Scotland which attracted crowd of December, 1020
following sen-
des and resignation, about the close on 150,000. Each of these the National League by Bill Terry's sational World's Series victories for
London, June 13, The previous records were:
One Locke was seven up, dormie seven players received £9 cachi Who
The following are the alterations mile-104 m.p.h. (the late Frank with another great approach shot, and wouldn't be a basebr 1 stor?
Giants in 1933 and the "Gas House" In the Royal Hunt Cup probables: Lockhart): One kilometre-148.2 having lost the short twelfth conclud- Cardinals in 1034, the American Jones rides Zoltan, Maher rides m.p.h. (G. Furmonik); Five kllo-ed the match with a half in birdle League captured four straight World's Mickie Bulger, Richardson rides metres-139.5 m.p.h. (L. Durny). three at the next, Series, for the fourth time, in 1035, Belmai, Mullins rides Rose Town. Major Gardner drove the same car Locke was almost unbeatable in LEXANDER J. Cartwright spon-tablishing a new record by winning Star and Husson have been
1936, 1937 and 1938, the Yankees es- Blue Star, Chelsen Reach, Flying which he used when be bruke three that final round. He went out in 34 Knickerbockers of New York, which
sored the first baseball club, the three straight games.
with-world records on Wednesday, with the and was three under fours for the drawn. Reuter,
engine rebored.
thirteen holes played. was organised on September 13, 1845, the club accepting Cartwright's diamond and rules, an improvement B. Glles (R.A.F.) won the Arst of time of 2min. 3.3sec. way broken over those of Doubleday. The first; the men's flat races to be decided, twice.
game between two teams was played the 10 yds. sprint, but one's sym-
A. C. Pettit, o City of London at Hongkong, N.J., June 19, 1846, with pathies must go to T. A. C. Scotcher policeman athlete and holder, re-the score New York Nine, 23; Knie- (Southgate), who had beaten Giles turned 3min. sec., but Watford kerbockers, 1. Twenty-one or more in the second round in which he in- rallway clerk, and British half-mile
"aces," later runs, then won a game. Jured
himself and
so could not com- champion, A. J. Collyer, bettered club to use uniforms. Wearing blue The Knickerbockers were the first pete in
the
Anal
this, doing half a second quicker Finlay was a non-starter in than the 1037 time at 3min. 2.8sec. the 70-yards hurdles because of an ankle damaged at football.
The
London, May 15.
Several new records were set up and others equalled at the A.A.A.a annual indoor championships at the Empire Pool, Wem- bley, last night, when for the first time in the history of athletic competition in this country starting blocks were used for the sprint races.
D.
2.
title went rather unexpectedly to T. L. Lockton (Achilles) after a great race with F. V. Scopes (Achilles) who led most of the way, but was beaten in the run in.
A DISAPPOINTMENT
A big disappointment occurced In the 880 yards. Everybody wanted to see how A. G. K., Brown would be suited by running on wood, and ..they had not long to wait, Brown dropped out in the third lap, but he
History of Game
trousers, white shirts and straw hats, they defeated Washington Club of Yorkville, 21 to 11, in MEN'S EVENTS
eight innings, June 3, 1851. The Knickerbockers borough College A.C.) 1211, 1; R. Bentley in a two-column box-score, the New Kielder (Lough-alsa were the first team to appear (Loughborough Coll. A.C., lift in York Clipper of July 10, 1853, re-
Pole Vault-11. W.
M, V. Blako (London A.C.), lứt., 3. ̧
7,5sec.
The
70 Yards Sprint B. Giles (R.A.F.), J; cording Knickerbockers (21). Gotham A. W. Masters (Metropolitan AC). 2116(12), in the game of July 5.
Evans (Milocarion AC.). 3 time first organisation in baseball was the 70 Vards Hurdles T. L. Lockton National Association of Baseball (Achilles A.C.), F. V. Scopes (Achilles Players, formed at a New York con- 4C), 2. A. Powell (Achilles A.C.), ;vention, March 10, 1858. The As- lime, 0.0sec. (equals record).
Putting the Weight Championship-I. sociation adopted most of Carl- Merz (Achilles), zrt, ayin, 12. F. Wright's rules, but made the gume Bandidi (Minenrian A.C) if, Oxin, nine innings, with the team having 4. L. Milugan (London A.C.). 41ft. 8 the most runs at the end of that
took part in the ten-laps relay race 880 Yards.-G. F. Morris (Thames Valley į time being the winner. later
In the evening.
10). A. C. Palfit (City of London
record,
The holder, A. C. Pettit, lost his Time, min. 0.4sec New Word Game Spreads
to G. F. Morris (Thames Long Jump, A. Powell (Achilles),
tille
Valley).
21f1. Bin., 1; İL O. Waller (Cambridge 11.),
702. C. E. Kirally. (LondonHE Excelsiors of Brooklyn were the first club to make a tour, High Jump L. Newman Lloyd visiting Buffalo, Rochester, Albany (8ft 10in.), Tansley (Royal Ulster and Troy in July, 1860. The Civil
D. B. Lock twice broke the recordA.C.), 211. Bin 3. in the 60-metres for women Sho was in a class by herself..
D; Rold
also set up, new. Bgures 1 Constabulary), 2; II. V. Stubba (Poly H. Wur gave great impotus to the gamej the women's putting the weight, as Laps Relay Base London Paper Mills, which spread like wildfire through
d.E. Forster in the Ave-laps race.
1: Metropolitan Fallce #: Ponders End both blue and gray ranks. The sport A.C. 3..2min, 51,6seo, (a new, record), meeting Was of special
Two Miles Champlomhips, N. Rowe continued to significance for the women, as talent (erno D.G. Percival (Lon Alfred J. Reach of Brooklyn was the grow after the war. spotters from the Women's Amateur den A.C.); D. A, Brlekwond (Altcham
Arst professional player, being en- Athlete Association were present A... min, 27160, (a record).
kaged to play for the Philadelphin Athletics in 1867. The first complete
Photo of the 1st Bn. The Middlesex. Regiment atfiletto Leam of 1988-39, winners of the Inter-Unit Athicile Championships. professional team was the famous Putting the Welsht. Reid Mitcham Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1860,
(left to right) --L/epl./Barkway, Pie.. Dunne, L/epl, Bowker, L/epl. Goodair, L/cpl."Merton, Pie. Goodman, L/epl.¦ MoGrady, Pler Williams. Pie. Bhaw, Corpl, Blurdy, L/epl, Burbidge, Middla Row,—Bds:Hyman, Dur. Onslow, L/epl. Poole, Pie. Bloomfield, L/cpl. Scion, Pie. Berry; Plo. Løver, year since the 080 yards champion-filley tiles Ad foten men drawing 80,500. The team A.C.),
Coral. Pace, L/epl. Hobson, L/epl. Wookey, L/col. Perrin,: L/epl. Matthews, Pie. Bindor. Front. How.--L/cpl. Dickens, Corph. Ellis, Bergt. Pouller, ship had been included, iho 1937
won 65 games, tied one, Gost none; P. 8. M. Donovan, Lt. Col. L. A. No wahami, Capt.: I. Barsh, Adit, M.C., P. 8. M. Itamsoy, L./agt, Hloocks, and L/cpl. Noble-Ming Yuen,
looking for likely candidates for the 25 Olympic Games.
Although 'this was only the third
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WOMEN'S EVENTS
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