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Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 16, 1939.
CURTAIN RUNG DOWN FOR FIRST HALF OF SEASON
MANY INCIDENTS
SEEN IN LAST WEEK'S RACING
(By "Captain Foster")
The Hongkong Jockey Club brought a suc- cossful first half season to a close last Saturday at Happy Valley and in spite of the bad weather there was certainly a big crowd of keon followers of the turf.
Incidents were numerous, the best would have broken 'his "duck" and being a dead heat for the first post-I have reason to believe that the ex- tion in the frame between Gog, with ¦eitensent of the race, this first ex- Mr. Needa in the saddle, and pertenco ahead of the pack) was Phoenix, with Mr. S. C. Llang up, in partly to be blamed.
the Nailing Handicap for China
ponies, subscription griffins of this
season. The Stewords disqualified Nice Handling By
the first pony, Boolat Bay, who was ridden by the jockey-owner Mr. S. W. Lee, in the West River Handlenp and also the second pony, Clowner, piloted by Mr. Hearne in the Lantao Handicap for a similar offence.
Tyne, who was made a favourite In the West River Handleap, ran out after passing the football gate and he let the public down very badty to the extent of 1,620 and 009 tickets for win and place, respectively.
Mesurs, S. W. Tung on Flybynight and Y. T. Fung on Gold Sovereign were unseated in the lust event, the Lantao Handicap, after passing the seven furlong post, the former being sent to the hospital with a broken collar bone and the latter was un- injured,
Racing on the whole was good with a few exciting finishes but the grass track was badly cut up after the running of a couple of events. Several topweighters sueli as Anna- bella, Bredon and Brutus falled lo weigh out for the Wallsend Handi- cap coußned to "C" class Australian ponies and the absence of Lovely Star and Potentate imong the China steeds was, 1 understand, due to the slip- pery going.
POCONOS SURPRISES CRITICS
Mr. Needa
I was glad that my nomination: (Expansion Time) in the Shing Mun. Handleep for "B" einss China ponles was rightly forecast and returned a fur dividend of
$24.10 for a win. The success of the mure was due. wont any fear of contradiction, to the nice handling by the jockey Mr. Needn, who rode a well-ilmed fron from the back. Humdrum Eve, who carried all the big money (2,217 for win) eue out of the ruck too tickets being equivalent 10 $11,085 soon and the chestnut, gelding was bally beaten by the winner by four
good lengths.
race
Best Race
Was Lantao
Handicap
Photograph of the boxing team of the 1st Bn. The Middlesex Regiment, winners of the Inter-Unit Championship, 1938-39. Back Row (left to right);--Pie, Hoggonson, L/Cpl. Metroy, Pie. Fawcett, Fic. Moran, Pie. Eaton, L/Cpl. Betts, Ed. MoDonald. Central Row:-L/Cpl. Web- ster, Cpl. Holdford, L/Cpl. Phillips, Cp). McGrady, Lt. Col. L. A. Newnham, BLC., Capt. H. Marah, "AdJL,"Cpl. Elis, L/Cpl. Noble, Plc. Gelst. Now: L/Cpl. Hope and Pie. Gribble.-Ming Yuen.
GREAT BRITAIN WINS DAVIS CUP TIE WITH SURPRISING COMFORT
Great Britain beat France by these rubbers to one with one to play in the Third round of the Davis Cup tie at Wimbledon. The crux of the round was when R. A. Shayes defeated B. Destremau by 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; 7-5 in the first of the two remaining rubbers on Saturday, May 27.
It was one
The best race of the afternoon was, apart from the Interest mani- fested by the public in the special dollar cash sweep, the Lantuo Handi-
the most remarkable cap for "D" class China raters, for matches of Shayes' career, and the every punter was out to find the best selectors indicated their satisfaction snake in the grass. There was as with the British team's performance usual an extraordinary flow of public by choosing the same side to meet money on all the roses in the pot Germany in the semi-final next and the total chances sold were 8,418 week-end:-C. E. Hare, R. A. Shuyes, and 4,821 tickets for win and place F. H. D. Wilde. with L. Sham "re- respectively, The total figure cannot serve Mr. D. Black in the opening event, andicap run on the second day of tion well on Friday, May 26, when eclipse the belling in the Monly Great Britain started the competi- the Carpentaria Handicap, must have
unded every erite when this bay the Whitsun meeting.
home in easy
The sparkling display of Mrs. Dun. bar's Poconos with the assistance of
to
Boolat Bay Disqualified For Boring
Dekko
for ten years and Britain for four in an unbroken run of European do- mination. France has seemed to possess the more promising material, but they are not yet the glants on grasy that the three "musketeers" were. This was the first meeting at the new Wimbledon of the two na- tions. Our Own Correspondent.
LIGHT BLUES
GIVE RIVALS
BIG FRIGHT
By winning the last singles match played, J. R. Briggs the Oxford golf Blue, gave his University victory over Cambridge in the annual lawn tennis match which was finished at Oxford-on-May-20--At the close of play on May 10, Oxford led by
matches to 4, with nine to play, and thus they required only three of these nine to give them a winning lend.
fleld of 17 runners was no joke to a surprise doubles victory over And paid $06.80 for a win to Uie de- Mr. A. 11. Potts, the offelal
starter,
ter, Petrn and P. Pelifzza
6-3, 3-0, 6-3, the and after a couple of abortive at-4-6, 6-3. R. A. Shayes settled the light of those who stuck American candidate. It was, how-tempts the dying gule was released, issue in the first of the two singles
for Australian GIVE ponies over half a mile course but tape. He was chased by Ebony Idol, Dostremau,
and white bigh tribute Poconos was carrying 19 lbs, of lead Gold Coin, Fei Ying and the rest must be pold to Shayes for his cour-
the time, following in the rear. There was age in under the scale weight,
curbing daring strokes— namely, 54 seconds cannot be ac not inuch positional change as the courage that often scenied to be at cepted as a track record.
steeds raced up the incline, but com- breaking-point it will remain one ing down the hill Diogenes and Ebony of the strangest matches ever played Idol began to flag. Owing to the in the competition. This match, with rain visibility was very poor when its astonishing phases of good and the runners came round the bend, bud, beggars description. The strain but the first to catch my eyes was of the occasion rested heavily upon Valorous followed by Clowner. Gold Coin, Night View and both men, and it was really Desire-
and may, whose. nerves-
s-failed him in the Royal Highness. Half way down the crisis, although Shayes was far from straight Valorous dropped the anchor being without his purple
patches. and that was the end of Mr. Wood's The Anest thing about him was that mount. Taking the advantage of the he could pull himself together just opening Dekko shot forward through as he seemed to be going to pieces. Mr. S. W. Lee did not have any the rails in a most remarkable way luck with his new acquisition-Boo- and after
public ch- passing the
STILL THE ENIGMA Int Bay-who bored so badly in the closure it was impossible for Mr. T. Went River Handicap for "C" class W. Lee's enndidate to lose the race. Shayes remains the enigma of the Chilna ponies that the racer was dia-
There was a good ding-dong tussle British team. There is so little sta- jualified after an inquiry held by the between Clowner, Gold Coin. Night bility about his game, which is as towards. The official rosult was View and Royal Higliness for the likely to touch the heights--for a Laughing Girl, Bright View and An- minor positions, all fighting in a row perlod all too brief as the depths. as Bay. It was, no doubt, rather in the last 50 yards from the touch Boussus, the "yeteran" of the French isheartening to the owner who line, Dekko crossed the wire by two side, massacred him by 6-2, 6-4, 6-U In the second single. Shayes was completely nonplussed and altogether too strained by the angles of a left- harder. L Sham who deputised, found the steady, accurate Boussus far too much for him, though he made a gallant fight in the third set, n fight which should do him a world of good. He has the shots and the speed of stroke but his ground work, is scarcely sound enough to worry such a seasoned campaigner as this left-handed Frenchman. If he could tighten things up a bit he might easily go a long way.
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As Hare beat Destremau after a long and fighting match, he took a well-earned rest from a match with Boussus whom he has so far never beaten. The
complete results were: C. E. Hare (G.B.) beat B. Destre- mau (France), B-2, 6-3,
6-3, 3-0, 14-12: R. A. Shayes
lost to C. Bous- Bus (France), 2-6, 4-6, 0-6; beat
Des tremau, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; L. Shaffi (G.B.) lost to Boussus (France), 0-6. 2-6, 6-1; Hare and. F. 1. D. Wilde (G.B.) beat P.
P. Pellizza and Y.
Y. Yetra (France) 6-3, 6-3,- 3-6, 4-6, 6-3.
So the match turned out to be a fine fight between two countries who are still, trying to build up young! teams to replace the men who won the Cup and held it so well-France
lengths ahead of these four ponies, but after a few minutes' deliberation Clowner was awarded second place and a short hend separated him and Gold Coin. It was a fine finish, but the Fanling hope was disqualified by: the Stewards for boring and the of felal result of the event was Dekko, Gold Coin and Night View.
It may be of interest to know, that the last named pony has started seven times this season and has three placed outings. Dekko presented a fat cheque of $83,643,20 to the lucky drawer of ticket No. 130,147 and the amount was $11,584.86 more than the sum handed out by Mrs Dunbar's Red Feather at this time last year. į
But Cambridge were in a (ghting mood, and after their captain G. Nicolaidis, had beaten his Oxford rival, L. E. King, an Australian, and two other light Blues and won their matches, It did not look too good for Oxford who might have to rely on winning one of the three remaining doubles. However, Briggs fought back after losing the first set, and being 4-1 down in the second to beat the Dane, H. Grut, by 4-8, 12-10, 0-1, thus giving Oxford their all-important 11th match.
Volleylag was responsible for the Soccer Blue R. G. Sturdy, beating H N. Dhamija, a typical Indian stylist, who tries break his op- ponents' hearts by keeping the ball going. Dhamlju won a long first set through his patience, but once Sturdy improved on his ground strokes, Dhamija was hardly in the picture. for Sturdy's volleying was of a very
Another Unusual Bet At White's Club
London, May 29. White's Club is famous for its bold gambling spirit. Re- cently it was told how Mr. Toby Milbanke bet Mr. Rich- ard Sutton that he could not play a golf ball. from the Tower Bridge to the steps of the Club in under two thou- sand strokes. The other night another unusual bet was made. Two members wished to play "double or quits" on £25. They decided to play Instead seven-up at billiards. of stringing to decide who. was to start, they tossed. The member who lost was com- pelled to begin and, to the amazement of the onlookers, he proceeded to make three successive glorious flukes off red and won the bet. Yet so rare is it to score off an open- ing shot at billiards that ex- perts invariably play a "miss" into baulk.
DERBYSHIRE -WIN BY-AN-
INNINGS
London, June 13. Derbyshire defeated Surrey by an immings and 43 runs in the County Cricket Champlonship to-day.
In their only visit to the wickets, Derbyshire scored 247, Parker taking six wickets for 34 runs.
Surrey, however, were dismissed for 77 and 127, A Pope taking six for 44 In the first innings and G. Pope five for 46 in the second.-Reuter.
high class indeed, and his smashing decisive.
The Oxford captain, King, was not. in his best form against Nicolaidis, who had really only to keep the ball in play to win. The first set of 6-love to the Cambridge man is a true pleture of the play. for King hardly hit any balls into court, and although he made a brief stand to win the second after being 5-3 down, he returned to his erratic play in the final set.Our Own Correspondent.
A. H. Ramlahn, the young V.B.C. swimmer,winning the 100 yards, backstroke very exally yesterday in the gala between the V.IL.C.; and Chung Shing. Rumjahn took 77.2 seconds here whereas in the relay he was timed at 73 secs, for the same distance Staf Photographer.
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AMERICANS TO MEET IN FINAL
French Tennis Championships
Paris, June 15. Two Americans will meet in the final of the men's singies in the French Tennis Championships now in progress. This was assured when Otto Szolgetti, of Hungary, was beaten in the semi-finals to-day by Bobby Riggs, who won casily by 0-3, 0-0, 0-4.
The other semi-final match bc- tween Donald McNeill and Elwood Cooke, both of the United States.-- United Press.
WOMEN'S SINGLES
Paris, June 15. In the semi-nals of the women's singles, Madame Mathlet (France) beat Modemoiselle Pannetler (France) by 6-2, 6-2, while Mademoiselle Jedrzejowska (Poland) beat Madame Lebailiy (France) by 6-3,
MIXED DOUBLES.
6-3. 2-0,
Paris, June 15. The American combination Elwood Cooke and Mrs. Strah Palfrey Fabyan entered the final of the mixed doubles by beating Smith (U.S.) and Mademoiselle Goldschmidt (France) by 6-2, 6-2-Reuter,
Bookies Satisfied After Three Days' Racing
at Ascot
London, June 15. The majority of book-makers at Ascot to-day were well-satisfied with the culmination of the third day's racing which was again held in cool and sunless weather.
of
The majority of the women favour Loan, 8-1, took. the Rousmoorial thick overcoats and mackintoshes in Stakes. preference to the usual Ascot crea- ilons,
was
Lord
who beat odds-on
A successful outsider Astor's Fulham, 100-9, The Hon. Mr. Peter Beatty's two- Mrs. James Corrigan's year-old, Tant Mieux, ridden by favourite, Signal Light, 8-11, by a Gordon Richards, starting at 13.8, was length in the Waterford Stokes, the winner of the New Stakes and giving Richards his double. was the only successful favourite. Smith ended with a further success
Biggest surprises were the defents being the winner in the Cork and of Mr. James Rank's classic four-rrery Stakes on Old Rellance, B-1,
Scottish year-old,
Union, 13-8 beating His Majesty's three-year-old, favourite In the famous Gold Cup Cosmopolitan,, by three lengths.- event, and Mr. Dunne's Portobello, Reuter's Special." 4-7 on favourite in the Granville Stakes, which was won by Mrs. Bar-
low's Cosmohone, at B-2.
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Portobello was badly left at the post and finished last.
Scottish Union, ridden by Carslake, endeavoured to make all the running but Fiyon, ab
ably ridden by Ephraim
Smith effectively took command close to the finish, comfortably beating Maranta, owned by Sir Abe Balicy, who made a great bid to bring off the Hunt Cup and the Gold Cup double, into second place.
UNIQUE FEAT
E. Smith thus completed a unique treble, having previously ridden the winners in the Derby and the Ascot Stakes.
Lord Milford Wins Ascot Gold Cup
London, June 15. The weather was duli at Ascot to-day when Lord Milford, with his four-year-old, Flyon, won the Gold Cup, the most coveted trophy of the meeting, by Ave lengths from Slr Abe Balley's Maranta, who was three lengths ahead of James Rank's Scottish Union,
Lord Portal's Mobro, starting at 5-1, was a comfortable winner in the Ribblesdale Slakes, and his trainer, Scottish Union started favourite at Mr. Boyd Rochfort, had u further 13-8, while Flyon started at 100-0 and success when Mrs. Murray's Glen Maranta 20-1-Reuter.
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