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NANCY
SLUGGO WAS AWFUL MAD AT ME BECAUSE
I DIDN'T LAUGH AT HIS COMIČ STRIP YESTERDAY!]
LOOK, NANCY-- [ DREW ANUDDER
STRIP TODAY...
OH, LET ME SEE!
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
HA HA HO HO
HA HA
HAWW
By Ernie
WHAT ARE YA LAUGHIN' AT?-- DIS IS A SERIOUS STRIP-- IT'S
SUPPOSED TO BE SAD!
July 24, 1939.
Bushmiller
TSK-TSK !I WISH HE'D GO BACK TO HIS
PAINTING!
WHY AMERICANS ARE SUPREME IN POLO
They Play From Their Boyhood, Have Grounds All Over The Country
By Martin Stephens
London, June 27.
No challenge for the Westchester Cup was ever more launched than that of 1939, but once again America have triumphed at Meadowbrook -they won the first match on June 4 by 11-7 and the second a week later by 9-4 and though our players did their level best they were not quite good enough.
It is a rum to say that polo in America is played on a much broader basis than in England, but one never realises how true it is til une has seen the conditions,
I had thought about it at all
take terrific eterney, though they pains to improve their shooting.
Secondly, there is the general exodus to shoot grouse when the best six weeks in the year for polo are coming. Thirdly comes the fact that
I had imagined that Meadowbrook almost every Komme played is in had the same geographic relationship pursuit of one of a glittering prize,"
to Fifth-avenue that Hurlingham has so that a ten weeks'
to St. James's-strect. Nothing could the ponies' tails off. be further from the facts.
"RICH MAN'S
Acuson rides
GAME" It is about 30 miles fom New York Fourthly, there are comparatively;
London area; In open country, and the club house few grounds in the
And finally, and is a small, old-fashioned farmhouse, seven I think. Round it are grouped a series of 30 most important, is the fact that polo palo grounds up to about 20 malles is regarded--to some extent rightly-; way, most of them in private owner as a rich man's game, played as an ship.
appendage of the London social
game,
come,
George Raft and Ellen Drew, favourite stars, are odds-on favourites to thrill you with their performance in "The Lady's From Kentucky,” now playing at the Queen's and ́Alhambra Thicaires,
:
KENT BEATEN BY 13 RUNS IN A GREAT FINISH
By Kenneth Rankin
Tennis Stars Going. To Philippines
Famous Players
Are Invited
Manila, July 21. The Herald reports that the pro- fessional tennis players, H. Ellsworth Vines, W. T. Tilden, Donald Budge and Lester R. Stoeffen, who are now playing tennis in Europe, while en ronte to India and Australia, have accepted an invitation to appear in Munila next February.
The report states that Vines may arrive in January to participate in the 10,000 peso Philippines open gelt championships-United Press,
DAVIS CUP MATCHES
Cuba Defcals Canada In First Singles Match
Havana, July 22.
Cuba won the first singles in her Davis Cup contest against Canada here when Morales defeated Full in straight sets.
the North American Zone.
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Club's Win
At Staines
Staines, Middlesex, July 22. ing their Bridges Street pol, The Emme Tigre Boat Club (Argen». feature the night being the two tine) four which rowed at the Henley open invitation events, 480 yards Centenary Regatta recently won the buck-stroke and 240 yards free-Staines' Fours ut the Staines by Victoria Recreation Club, style relay, both of which were won Ainateur Rowing Regatta to-day, when they beat Barclay's Bank Row- A. K. Rumjahn, who came second ing Club by half a length over back-stroke championship last year, to Wilfred Lawrence in the Colony seven furlong course.
The winners led for most of the
Scores were 6-1, 6-2 and 6—2. Chinese Y.M.C.A. held their first Winner of the contest will meet | swimming gula of the season tast Australia in the final of the North Saturday night before a large gather- American Zone.--Traxs-Ocean,
The winners of the tie between Cuba and Canada should have met Japan (who received a bye in the first round of the Amerkan group) in the second round of the North Ameri- 'can Zone, but Japan have since with- drawn and the winners will now London, June 20. Eventually, Valentine, whose splen-automatically meet Australia in the There was a grand finish at Tun-ald 99 had taken 2 hours 25 minutes, Anal bridge Wells yesterday, where Notts was bowled by Jepson, and there- beat Kent by 13 runs with only 10 upon Foster was similarly dismissed. minutes of extra time remaining. hitting out rather misguidedly, for
Kent were set to make 254-4 there was no need for undur haste. higher total than had been scored in NOTTINGHAMSHIRE-141 In. any previous Innings and needed to Keeton, e Chalk, b Watt Harris, & b Lewis... 1G, F. II. ficane, e & b Watt when their first four wickets had Gunn. Todd
one for 29 runs something very
Knowles, Watt very definitely forthcoming in a de- Voce e Fag. 6 Martin specia! was required. That W85
Winrow, e Fage, b Todd Glick, b Wall ful-partnership-between-B--H-wheat, c-level-b-Maril Valentine and P. G. Foster, who, by Buller, not out
Jepson, b Watt batting of high amateur class, put on 152 together for the 11th wicket in
go at no more than 60 per hour, bul
On these grounds polo begins in season. When one reflects on these April and continues at full blast till two contrasts the wonder is not that] the September championships, though we cannot and more good players, every game played is not, as is usually but that we found the tinlf dozen we the case in London. ** tournament did who put up so excellent a show-
Ing.
What is the solution? One point The American who plays polo re- pairs to his country house on Long of view, not without logic, is to say Island, where he enjoys the game that polo will never be anything but throughout the season in the same a game played in England by a sort of way that the Englishman dful of well-to-du people for unjoys his winter'a fox-hunting, their own enjoyment
Another possible development in NOT CONFINED TO WEALTHY
His pontes ure moved from ground which I personally have always be to ground in a motor horse-box.lieved and which is somewhat more while he himself
all first-class polo counts and goes hopeful is that between his office in New Yoris and need not be played in London. In It need not be these days of the motor-car and the his game of polo. _thought_that_the_ordinary American jimotor horse-box high-class polo pleyer is merely a rich man enjoying could be played well outside Loudon
tinself. Mr. Hitchenek himself is unus it is played round Long. Istund. extremely hard-working baniter, The London season serves many Then again, the ordinary American useral purposes, but it is something
115 minutes.
Total boy is entered lo polo nt much of a sinckle. Moreover, if "polo for
But when Valentine went ni 181
NOTTINGHAMSIiind inn the Englishman|the publie" Is younger uge than
which is und Foster
Keelon, e Valentine, b Todd Ave minutes later all who, if he is very well-to-do, con- obviously desirable from many points seemed up, and even more up when
Harris, e Sunnucks, Wall
F. G. H. Chalk, b Todd sklers himself lucky to start stick of view, Rames played by ligh
Gunn, Wate and ball work when he goes to a handicap teams in the vicinity of such Spencer and Watt were both out by
202.
Knowles, e Valentine, Some cracking blogis on the university
Sandhurst For towns as Birmingham, Manchester, off-stels by Martin jave elders and Giles, Martin
Wintow, h Wall many years Mrs. Hitchcock was turn-Leeds or Newcastle might draw
school boys plenty to applaud, bul Voce, e Valentine, ing out Leums of boys from Aiken, crowds to them.
net
Vore and Butler with the new ball Wheat, e Spencer, in that
liberal severity Pulo is to the horse-minded young were a nasty pair for tail-enders Jeron, not Dist
Butler, e Valentine, b Marin graduated such players as Tommy American what fox-hunting is to his buvo to face, and at 10 minutes to
13, 1-4 Bitchock, Sewart Iglehart, Ebby English counterpart. Thus their six, when Levelt wat: Lb.w., a very Gerry and Billy Post.
game is far more broadly bassestgottant effort har nurrowly tailed.
Total
RENT-Ist Inn. Michael Phipps,
Ramond and than ours, which is the real reason
HEANE'S GOOD INNINGS Winston Guest were all in top-class why we have not "won the West- The weather was of the sort to
FRRAL W. b Voce .......
H. Clintic, bw, b Vuce pola within thrue years of leaving ehester Cup,
match the erichtet, and the Nevill Sunnucks, e Harris, h Jepson Vale, Winston being a spare for the
round was at its best; but criticism. Valentine, e arris, b Voce
Tadd, b Buller must be made of those spectatora P, d. Foster, ↳ Jepson, who, neglecting to cover their moter- Spencer, ibw, b Vnce ears, frequent and annoying delays. W. H. Levelt, e cane,
The morning's play set the fashion, W. Martin, Wheat, b Butler for the day's interest. So -eastly did | Lewis, u Butler Heane and Knowles add to Notts L-b, w 105 tend that the time of a declarn-} tion way soon being discussed, but}
KRNT2nd Inn. then Watt caused one of those col- Fogg. e Butler, b. Voce inses which made the
15. G. it. Chalk, Butler game so
Sunnucks, h Voce .... absorbing, and it became, a question, H. Valentine, b Jepson of whether Notis would have enough | Todd, ti Nuller runs after all.
or to
1927 international when stili an Valley Golf
undergraduate.
All this, moreover, enly touches the fringe of East Coast polo. The: West. where polo is played In California all through the "winter. reckons that with players like Cecil) Smith, Elmer Bocseke und Eric Pedley, they have just as much claim! to attention as the East.
Summer Singles Re-Drawn
Owing to the vns! size of the country and Its differing climatic conditions polo goes on all the year The following is the revised draw round, and on the population_ratic]in correct order in The Royal Hong alone there is an obviously larger Kong Golf Club's Happy Valley choice of players than in England. second summer singles tournament:
PLAYED EVERYWHERE
Byes Inta Second Round
It is a game played nil over the W, V. Abern (9) v V. S. Ebbage Country by persons in reasonably] (103, humble circumstances and not only
G. T. May (13) v G. E. Willerton
at- Headquarters. With us, with the (13). exception of short seasons or “weeks” A, I. Burnie (18) v C. C. Stark (D). at Cowdray, Rugby, or Westonbirt W. S. Hiller (8) v H. N. Moran there are practically no grounds nul- (18).
side London where top-grade polo is J. Linaker (14) v W. F. Barnes
Ilkely to be seen.
Moreover, the richer American willi
(12).
N. J. Booker (13) v W. H. Jowit spend any money on a pony he wants. (12).
For his Old Wesbury Whitney, haz collected the finest string of ponies in the
Watt, not out ava
Toul
Walt Walt
P. G. Foster, b Jepson Spencer, butler Heane's 88 was further proof, fw. If. Levell, lbw, h Voca such were needed, of his right to wait. b Butter place in the Gentlemen's term, but. W. Martin, b Butler despite what he had done, Notts, with Lewis, not out seven wickets down, at 12.20 were
only 220 abend.
9, 1-b 30
Total
NOTTINGI
Gles then proceeded to play a little innings of 27 which may have Todd escaped noilee at the time. but, the Martin runs he made and his eighth-wicket Watt partnership of 28 with Wheat meant Lewis almost everything to the subsequent Todd course of the match.
WATT IN FORM Martin took the last two wickets Lewis with consecutive balls, tit once
His match Vace
Second Inn
Mortta
WALL
KENT-First
Butler Jepson Giles
Butler's value to Notts was equal-reare
Second innings
uller
Inning
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Umpires: Tarbox, Newan
U.S. GOLD CUP'
50
18
The winners of this latter match will meet either Germany or Yugo-Slavin, who will meet at Zagreb on July 28, 29 and 30 to determine the win- ners of the European Zone, in the Inter-Zone final, and the winners of this latter match will then meet the United States in the Challenge Itound, which will be held at the Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia, between September 2 and 4.
GERMAN TENNIS TITLES
Menzel Will Meet Henkel For Men's Singles Crown
Humburg, July 22, The men's Flagdes faal in the Ger- man lawn tennis championships will be contested by Roderich Menzel and Henner Henkel both of whom vanced from the semi-finals to-day. Menzel defeated Goepfert in a five sets match, while Henkel had comfortable victory over the young German Davis Cup player Kock in 19 straight sets.
7
2
beat Lau Yiu-ting, who came third in distance and were rarely in danger that event, in a thrilling 400 yards of being beaten.
Rowing conditions were most un- back-stroke race in which the result
*
was in doubt until the closing stages. favourable, a strong current from the The time of 8 mins. 50 7-10 sces recent floods caused by the torrential is not very good for the distance,mins which felt on Friday and especially as there are more turns than strong up-stream wind prevailing.
A member of the Tigre Boat Club, in a pool of V.R.C. dimensions.
Victoria Recreation Club were com-G. Pryche-Hughes entered the final fortable winners of the six men 240 of the Junior Sculls but was beaten yards free-style relay, making full by J. Goldle (Eton) of the Viking "use" of the turns, but their time of 2 | Rowing Club.-United Press,
mins, 75-10 secs. was by no means Making their debut at Henley in Impressive as the average per mun the Wyfold Challenge Cup. Tigre
was 21 5-10 secs.
Boat Club reached the final where The following were the results: they were beaten by Moldenhead
OPEN EVENTS
Rowing Club by one length in 9 mins, 10 secs.
400 Yards back-strok≈ (Open to the Colony:-1, A, K. Rumjahn (V.R.C.); 2, 1nu Yiisting (Lei Chun Swimming Union); 3, Wong Shiu-ghi. Time: 5 min. 50.7 secs.
240 Yards free-nlyle Relay (Open to) the Colony)-1, V.R.C. (D. A. Hut- chinson, C. Sulva Netto, L. M. Reme- dios, H. A. Ozorio, C. Ni da Silva and A. J. Hussain); 2, Chung Shing Bath- ing Club (So Tin-me, So Pui-kin, Chung Shy-chi, Fung Kal-song, In the semi-finals of the women's Ng Shu-mun and Ng Chun-man); "singles Mrs, Hilda Sperling, of Den- 3. Lai Chun Swimining Union (Fong) mark, beat Mile, Somogyi, of Hun- Who, Kam Kan-song, Cheung Shiu- gory and Mme. Kovach, of Hungary | leung, Pong Wing-knú, Cheung Kong- eliminated the Dutch champion, yu and Chan Chun-nam), Time:2 min. Mlle. Couquerque,
7.3 secs.
In the men's doubles semi-finals, CO Yards free-style (Members):— de Stofant and Cunapell, of Italy, 1, Yeung Wing-bul; 2, Chol Hok- 175 beat Celnar and Siba, of Yugo- chung; 3, Yeung Mon-yin. Time 49
Slavia, while the American com- sves, bination of Smith and Anderson defented an Hallan pair in Cavriani and Del Bello-Trais-Occan.
Mr. Sanford went to 22,000 dollars T. J. Price (3) v H. Smith (8), for the famous Jupiter, and Mr. R. R. Els (15) to meet winner of Rain Watt was the man. Sonny Whitney (son of Harry Payne the First Round match between A. J.ures of 11 for 117 do him no more Whitney) gave £1,500 for his bay Dennis (9) and J. W. Macdonald (7) than justice. gelding, Estallata; which won the F. Buckle (12) v G. P. Stone (is). Championship last year.
N. J. Bebbington (15) v E. Tucky great, and both before and after Gunn lunch he looked the match-winner voce team Mr. (19).
all over. Voce was not far behind Buller A. J. MacFadyen (18) ❤ M. L.htm, and Chalk, Fagg, Sunnucks and Jepan world, and Reidy (18).
Ileana Todd were none of them long in
Ciles Me Winston Guest's stud if not far
A. W. Aslett (18) v W. B. Richard-
possession. As Valentine--who has Gunn behind it.
son (13).
a double.century this season againal When these players get hold of a J. W. Mayhew (8) v S. F. Chubb Notta to his, credit-walked out a top-class pony--and how few there (16),
spectator aald, "As long as he's there are of them-they never under any Surg. Cur. Nicholson (8) VG.
webve got a chance." And so they circumstances part from them. How Davies (12).
had.. rareclully when Foster joined many of our players can afford to K. S. Robertson (4) v D. H. Clark him at 2.45. de the same?
(18).
As good as anything else was Agminst ( this, one has to set the E. Greenwood (18) y Col. Collin their running. Every possible single Gold Cup Handicap for three-year conditions in England. First of all | (5).
olda, before a crowd estimated at as laken.. and a number of un- grounds are often water-logged in a The first round is to be played on kely-inolding but nerfectly safe 2's, 50,000. The winner's time of two season already too short. This, 1er before July 30; the 2nd August 0 By ten the score was 144. and they minutes two and three-fths of think, is one of the prime reasons the 3rd August 13; the 4th August on in ns lively fashion after-second is a new track record, Cravat
the American superiority na 20; the semi final September 3 and
words though Faster gave a very came second and Specify was thirð...... strikers, and possibly of their ac- the Final on September 17.-
herd chance to firat slip off Butler, United Press,
for
K.C.C. TOURNAMENT
Programme of Tennis Ties For This Week
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The following are the matches ar- ranged for the coming week in Kow, Joan Cricket Club's annual tennis tournament:
Wednesday
GO
"A" DIVISION EVENTS
Chan Yards free-style:-1, Chun-nam; 2, Cheung Kong-yin; 3, Kam Kun-sung. Time: 34 secs.
100 Yards breast-stroke:-1, Fong Chung-yiu; 2. Wong Shiu-hung; 3.| Tam Shick-chun. Tine: 77.3 secs.
80 Yards back-stroke:-), Lau Ylu- ting: 2, Wang Shlu-chi; 3, Pong Wing-kau. Time: 55.5secs,
"D" DIVISION EVENTS 40 Yards free-style;l, Chan Yu-. tong: 2, Ng Kam-fun; 3. Szeto Hang."] Time: 37.4 secs.
GD Yards breast-stroke:- 1, Ng Court No. 1-D. J. N. Anderson v. Kam-yung; 2, Leung Chiu-ming; 3,
A. V. White (Senior) Chiu Yun-man. Time: 47.5 secs, Championship).
40 Yard back-stroke:-1, Young. ..`3--A, Crawford v. J. R. Yu-man; 2, Wong Wing-kin; 3, Chún
Turner. (Senior. Chain- Yee-tong. Time; 27.0 secs. pionship).
120 Yards three-styles' Helny:-1, 3F, A. Brondbridge v. F. Kam Kan-sang, Wong Shiu-hung and Grosa (Handicap 'A'). Fong Wah; 2, Lau Yiu-ting, Tom W. C. Hung v. b. Sol-Shek-chun and Ng Kam fan; 3, Wong 1nu (Handicap "A").
Shlu-chun, "Fong chung-yu and Chan 5-W. M. Gillins v. N. A Chun-nam. Time: 1 min. 46 secs.
E. Mackay (Handicap "A"):
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43
-G, M. Gillard v. B. D. Lay (Handicap "B").
Thursday
"
Gray (Handicap A 2R. E. Lee v.
H.S.
Couri No. 1-E, C. Fincher v. S. A:
The chairman of Lai Chun Swim-. ming Union, Me, Yuen Lun-she, pre- sented the prizes at the conclusion,
Gray and Mrs. Kevan.
Saturday
Inglewood, Cal, July 22.
Duncan (Handicap B) Court No. 1--A, E, F, Guest v. A. V.. Kayak, If to-day galloped to an
Friday
Sunday easy victory in the mile and a quarter Court No. 1-J. R. Turner v. G. M. Court No. 1-A, E P. Guest v. D. J.
2-A. Crawford v. R. T.
Gillard (Junior Cham-
plonship).
Broadbridge (Handicap
"A").
White (Handicap 'A').
N. Anderson (Hand!- cap "A")
Change of day, if necessary, is ni- lowed, but the match must be played
3-P. Wynter-Blyth and on or before the above mentioned
Mrs. Milllard v. S. A. day, weather porm.ling.
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