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Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July
17, 1939.
UNION BREWERS NOW ASSURED
EASILY TROUNCE CHINESE B.C. IN THE LEAGUE
(By "Bingle")
Almost ideal weather grooted players and fans out at Caroline Hill during the week-ond, and, although the much-touted CBC-UB_tusslo turned out to be a fizzlo, the other two tilts were well worth the money.
Another Argument Over Local Ground Rules
Beer Baron Chet Bennett's Union Brewers are assured of the focal fing. and, as far as I know, they will be the first sponsored team to win the local unseball lengue. Unbeaten au for-and Chet insists that that's whut! UB also stands for--they deserve the pennunt.
RAMBLING RECS
GIVE MINDANAO
REAL SURPRISE
A splendid opportunity is at my disposal to exhort "I told you so!" to some doubling Thomases, because
been I have
raving about the
It has always been a wonder to me how much a ball team will miss their finger! Without Earl Weng, were Just the Chung Hwa squad plain nuthin' a-tall. To make mint- lers worse, Wilbur We also didn't show up, so two bushers had to fill in: Base China and Johnny Lee.
Tight infeld play did not help Rambling Reca that if they'd only they went put their old-timers in the line-up, Chung Hwa any when down to a heavy 10-2 defeat at the they'd win ball games. They did on hands of Beer Baran Bennett's Union Saturday, and nosed out U. s. s. Brewers. It was a shambles after Mindanao 8-5 in a stirring battle.
must have the second inning! It
The Portuguese led all the way, been because he was not playing in when three markers cressed the plate last company that made Chung com- mit those two awful miscues; I cannot only one blow, an Annie Dakley remember the time when he ever and two bobbles. With bases choked away, unfortunate Ruel played as badly, while unfortunate and none
the Crooner walked the next batter. Johnny Lee probably had the jitters Bases loaded again, the smurt. Nick In this, his frat, baseball game.
Belirno took one on the shoulder.
OF BASEBALL FLAG
The 1st Bn. The Middlesex Regiment, D.C.O. Baltalian Novices Boxing team, 1938-30, runners up Command Novices Boxing Champion- ships, Back Row (left to right) Pte. Fawcell, Plc. Roberts, L/Cpl. Selos, Pie. Maloney, Pte. Emery, Pic, Hugronson, Pie, McElhation Centre.— L/Cpl. Dormer, Pte. Frenchum, Cpl. McGrady, Lt. Col. L. A. Newnham. M.C., Capt. I. Marsh, Adft., Pte, Lazard, Pte. Lusham. Front Row. L/Cpl. Jones and Ple. Williams Ming Yuen.
BRITISH ATHLETES
New Record Sutcliffe Reaches His
Created In 50,000 Runs Of Career WIN MEET
!
Hurdles
Milan, July 16.
A record for women's 00 metres
Well, it was like taking candy from Two tallies, buses once ugala choked, burdles was set up to day by Claudia A kit. Chung Hwa connected for and still none away. Flinger Buol Testone, who was clocked at 11.5 seven hits but only croised the pan was on the well-known epat, no less! secs.
But the next three were, luckily twice, while the Beermen nicked two Chinese hurlers, Wally Ching and for the sailors, just one, two, threer Nip Lum for 12 blows to gamer -10 runs.
The former record was 11.0 peca.. held jointly by Fraulein Engelhardt, Mindanao replied with ashoof Germany, Signorina Valia of Italy Several exciting incidents happen- rally in the next canto, scoring twice and Miss Barbara Burke, of South
Africa-Reuter. ed during the course of this game. on two safeties, u walk and a mis- A Irce-for-all almost got under way cuʊ.
Rees cume
London
When he had completed 107 runs of his fourth succes- Sive century this season, Herbert Sutcliffe, the 44-year-old Yorkshire and England cricketer, marked up his 50,000th
run.
He went on to make a total of 175 in Yorkshire's first innings against nings showed that he is still the. Middlesex at Lord's and In his in- master batsman.
His total of 50,000 runs in first Miss Burke, the South African along the leftfield foul line after All When the Rambling
up the back again with another three mis Olymple and Empire Games runner class cricket includes every innings hud to grandstand a rush bank for an irretrievable ball. It cues, the best the Mindannons could is the girl who held a world record played while on tour with the M.C.C. was several minutes before the game do was to garner one run in their for four years without knowing it teams in Australia, South Africa and rould get under way again. Rum-half of the Inning. There was plenty At the South African championships Jamaica, and it has been reached in ours state that some of the non-pay-of excitement in this frame: Char- in 1935, Miss Burke bont the national 20 years, compared with 20 years ng cash customers refused to budge lie Horton miscued twice, and Spotty record by covering 100 yards in 11 taken by Jack Hobbs, 31 by Patsy
who clouted, a blue dart seconds dead. Some time afterwards Handrén and Mead, and 32 by from their unlawful station, and Pereira,
within inches of the fair line at third an athletic official, reading a report Woolley. Sutcliffe, Hobbs, Hendren, that's how it started
CASUALTIES AVERTED
sack Alert rounded the initial
the
A few casualties were crowly base, forgot to touch first when he about the oficial holder of the record, | Mead, Woolley, and W, G. Grace are Correspondence be- 50,000 runs in Brst class crièkot his- Miss Burke's.
Transvaal tory. Northern averted. All, moved over to centre forseface Douging had him nailed iced that the time was inferior to the only batsmen to have scored field, stopped a nasty grounder which there after Alves had crossed the tween had him bent over for some plate. It was bad luck all around! Athletic Association and the South African Association followed, and a and Babe Chinn missed his footing.
few months later the South African at the bank at rightfield and just missed one which looked like it had
Leading 6-3 in the last inning, the Association officially applied to the
Amateur International a handle on it.~-
EXCITING FINISH
FIGURES FOR 20 YEARS Sutcliffe's cricket figures for 20 Athletic years read as follows;
Times Not Innings Out Best No. Fung 1.075 123 313 60.003
Only two bobbies were chilled up Portuguese were out one. Federation for recognition of Miss to the Brewers, while Chung Hwn three.
The sallors started with Daddy Burke's record. had Ave: Lum, Chung 2' and Lee 2.
easy out. Next,
But fielding honours go to Obear Horton whe grounded to short for Arculli who ran into the crowd along in
Cecil Fino)
Two Cricket Families To Be United
London, July 10. The engagement has been announced between Mr. E. R. T. Holmes, former Surrey cap- tain and England cricketer, and Mrs: Judeth Vaughan, daugh- ter of the Rov, and Mrs. F. A. G. Leveson Gower. Thus two famous cricketing families are to be united.
Mrs. Vaughan is a niece of Mr. H. D. G. Leveson Cower, 52.47who was captain of Oxford in
Aver.
In Yorkshire's match against Lei- cester, Sutcliffe's innings of 234 not out, obtained in five and a half hours, In blazing sun that fatigued even was a brilliantly perfect display.
the third base foul line to catch one thing!" Douglas tripled for a long on a bingle. Two runs in. Wison one to left field. Ruel walked, and also singled but when pinch hitler iying on the ground.
the Ramblers tried some fancy stuff Paget grounded to Nick Beltrao the on him when he was ambling slowly game was over Nick certainly re- the spectators, he showed no hist of the keystone sack because of deemed himselt there. With a toshy weariness and gave as superb an Douglas presence on third. Second tagging of the runner for the second exhibition of stroke play as anyone
the throw, out, he slamined the ball to. Hank could have wished for. and Douglas crossed the pan. One Barros for the third and last out to run in Chase, next, brought in Ruel tuck the game away by a nose.
Mindanao Men Recover Well To Win Game
Yesterday's nightcap was as inter- esting a game as we've witnessed al?
dive Caroline H. Trailing for frames, U. S. S. Mindanao came from Bose out behind a large deficit to Nam Hwa 9-0.
South China counted first in the initial inning and Mindanao retallat- ed with one also. Then, Nam Hwa jumped ahead in the third with on- with o other macker and rallied Krand merry-go-round in the Bith 011 four with a tally of five runs blows, four errors.
But although the gobs only scored once in that inning, a dashing rally in the next knotted the score to start the seventh with 'n 7-7 tie.
run
Undaunted, Nom Hwa scored one Paintpot on, catcher inorc Thomas wikt irow to revond, but Mindanao brought thele stock up one ahend- of them when Terrible Terry doubled to rightfeld. There was some argument about ground rules in this play, and I doubt if, at this Inte stage of the game, all the um- pires knew what it is all about, DIS Probably even the Comunlitee Ground Rutes don't agree on all the many rules that confront the poor unfortunates who play ball in dear oki Hongkong,
These ground rulés, as far as I can remember, were made so that they. would. work bath ways: that is, both aldea would benefit, or would not benent, by them. New umpires out there don't know these ground rules, and apparently the loudest voice wins the argument. I sincerely hope that sort of they'll dispense with any ground rules next season. Then, we won't have any arguments at all, I hopel
BASKETBALL TOUR
Tokyo, July 18. The all-Japan picked team scored victory over Dhard-won 34-to-32 the vialling Cortadian Western Baskot ball team in a match at the Jing sround on Friday-Domei.
ts
sacker Beltrao muffed
froit
SHUT-OUTER—Tommy Bridges, Detroit Tigers one-men'pitch- ing staff, who coured the New York Yankees to suffer their first shut-out of the season. He hold the champs to four singles and struck out 10 men during the game.
He reached 50 in an hour, yet hl only three boundaries in the first 100, followed by thirteen 4's in the remainder of the innings.
SUTCLIFFE'S RECORDS Among his many records, Sutcliffe | has to his credit:-
Four-successive centuries this sea- son, four successive centuries in 1931, and three more later in the same season. He is the only Eng- lish player to score three centuries in three successive Test match in- nings, and the only player ever to make three successive centuries in two successive Tests (Sydney and Melbourne, 1924-25-50, 115, 170, und 127).
Bisley Shooting
SETTLEMENTS WIN JUNIOR KOLAPORE CUP
of
Bisley, July 15. of the Rajah The results Kolapore's Imperial Challenge Cup, Junior event, were as follow:
Straits Settlements 553, Kenya 543, Trinidad 541, Malay Slates 532 Jamalea and Burina 528, Gold Coast Sudan 517 and and Uganda Sierra Leone 510,"
King's Prize Winner
won by The King's Prize was Captain T. Smith, Jate of the 6th South Staffords, with an aggregate of 202. Miks Foster, a former winner, was second with 278, and. Flying Oficer Bunch, late of the Royal Air Force, was third with 277;
1896. captain of Surrey in 1908, and captain of the M.C.C. team of South Africa In 1909-10.
Mr. Holmes was captain of Oxford in 1927 and played in his first Test match at Lord's In 1936. He also led the side that toured Australia in 1935. - In 1934 he became captain of Surrey but resigned last year owing to pressure of business.
German Wins European Grand Prix
White City, July 15. In the Inter-University athletle meet held here to-day, Oxford ond Cambidge beat Harvard und Yale, of America, by nine events to three. 100 yards, 220 yards, 440 yards, half
Now Record Sat In Women's Rolay
Paris, July 16.
was
A now world record for 3 x 800 yards relay raco established to-day in compati- tion by French women athletes at Monte Carlo, vis
The team of the Paris Sports Club, consisting of Miles. Lu- cas, Vincent and Fize, covered the distance in 7 mins. 22.6 secs., thus beeting the old.re- cord of 7 mins. 32 secs,' hold by the Italian club, Venchi Unica-United Press,
Australians Too Good For Philippines
Long Beach, Colif, July 14, The Australian Duvis Cup Team defeated the Philippine team in straight sets in the first singles games of the North American semi-finals. Adrian Quist, of, Australia, defent- ed Amado Sanchez, of the Philip- pines, 0-1, 0-2, 5-2. Quint was calm nlongside the apparently nervous Sanchez, and took the opening. set with deadly succession of baseline drives, keeping his opponent defence- less. In the second set, Senchez had moderately recovered his confidence and crashed through Quist's service, taiting a two-love game lead, but then dropped off.
John Bromwich, of Australia, de- feated F. Ampon, of the Philippines, 8-0, 0-7, 0-3. Ampon appeured doll- like beside the towering' Bromwich, and in the opener Ampon wielded his forehanders as if he were swinging a baseball but.
Adrian Quist and John Bromwich.
In the The British universities won the beat Sanchez and Ampon
Press. doubles by za 4,02, United
mile, one mile, three miles, the high jump, the long jump and the 220 hurdles. The Americans won the 120 yards high hurdles, putting the weight and the pole vault. Reuter,
ITALO-GERMAN CONTEST.
Rome, July 15. At the Italo-German light athletic contest which is being held here, R. Harbig, of Germany, to-day ran the 800 metres in 1 min. 40.4 secs., creating a world record and beating Sydney Wooderson's effort of 1 min. 48.4 secs. Reuter,
Germany Leads
Milan, July 15. At the end of the first day of the Italo-German athletic meeting here, Germany led by 50,6 points to 33.5. spurt, Making a magnificent and
the world's Rudolf Hurbig broke record
800 metres in for
the
IRISH
CHAMPIONSHIPS"
Dublin, July 15../ The finals of the Irish Lawn Tennis Championships played to-day sulted as follow:
Women's singles--Miss Alice Mar- ble beat Mis Noel 0-2, 0-4.
re
Mixed Doubles.--Belford and Miss Noel beat Rogers and Miss Marble 1-0, 6-4, 6-3.
Women's Doubles, Miss Marble and Miss Noel beat Miss Nyerscough and Miss Stoker 0-3, 6-3-United PTCH.
many), 9 mins. 52.3 secs.
High Jump-Langhoff (Germany), 1.9 metres.
Javelin Throw-Berg (Germany), 63.81 metres.
(Ger-
Hop-skip-and-Jump-Koch
1 minute 40.6 seconds, while his op-many), 14.63 metres. ponent, Marlo Lanzi, of Italy, covered
10,000. metres.Spring (Germany),
the distance in 1 min. 49 sec., thus 31 mins, 23.4 secs. establishing a new Italian record.
Other results were: -Hammer-Throw Brask many), 36.32 metres.
1,300
metres. Mehihase
(Gerz!
300 metres Hurdles Soelling (Germany), 52.§; seer, L
(Italy), 200 metres-Mariani 21.2 secs. (Italian record) Trans- (Ger-Ocean.
Verity And Gimblett
Lose Their Places
In English Test XI A. Fagg Anh Tom Goddard
Come Into The Team
Hedley Verity, the famous Yorkshire and England left- handed bowler, who has been in every English Test team for the last few years, has Prix senior was won to-day by Meier, been dropped from the side of Germany, riding BMW, at
Brussels, July 10, The European motor-cycling Grand
average speed of 90.90 miles an hour, to meet the West Indies in The lightweight race was won by the Second Test, which is to Mellors, of Britain, riding a Velocette, start at Manchester on July
at 80.99 inites an hour.
The Junior race was won by Kluge, of Germany, riding a DKW, at an overage
of 83.07 miles an hour. Reuter.
ALBI GRAND PRIX
Paris, July 10. Wakefield, driving a Maserati, won' the Albi Grand Prix with an averago speed of 03.8 miles an hour.
Tongue. in an ERA, was second and Prince Bira, of Slam, was third.;
-Reuter.
Play Unlikely In Bowls Tourney
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22.
Harold Gimblett, the young Somer- Ertshire opening batsman, who scored 22 and 20 in the First Test last month, has also lost his place in the side.
Verliy
The other nine players who met the West Indies at Lord's retain their places. The new-j comers hre A. Fant, of Kent, and T. Goddard, of Gloucestershire,
bateman TC3-
opening and bowler pectively.
Neither is new to Test cricket.
A. Farz, of Kent, who will pro Fogg will probably he tried as an:bably open England's innings with
ton.
England's team, as cabled by com-Reuter, is as follows:
3. Ifardstaff (Notta) A, Wood (Yorkshire)
It is rather ironle that after many weeks of clear, it rather hot, opening bat and is most likely to start Hulton against the West Indies at
England's innings with Leonard Hut Manchester. LORDS V. COMMONS.
heavily of weather rain should foll Four members of the House Lords had a shooting match with four to-day, when the Open Singles Cham-i members of the House of Commons plonship of the Hongkong Lawn and won by 32 polais. The match, Bowls, Association is due to which Is N annual event was mence.
No fewer than 28 matches had been Inillated in 1862. The target, is at 200 yards range and, consists of a arranged for to-day, but it is extreme- moving deer and an effigy of a pirate, ly unlikely that any play will be
possible.. -Reuter.
W. R. Hammond (Gloucester), Capt. | E. Paynter (Lancashire)
L. Hution (Yorkshiro)
A. Farr (Kent) in 20
I. Compton (Middlesex)
D. V. F. Wright (Kent) W. E. Bowes (Yorkshire) WV, Copson (Derbyshire) T. Goddard (Gloucester). England woa the. First Text by eight wickets.
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