Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 2, 1939.
MIDDLESEX ONLY LEADING COUNTY TO WIN MATCH
YORKSHIRE TAKE
POINTS ON FIRST INNINGS Gregory Of Surrey Hits Century In "Benefit”
Sussex, Middlesex, Worcestershire, Kent and Warwickshire were the successful counties in the County Cricket Championship programme which concluded yesterday. Yorkshire could not force a win against Surrey and had to be content with points on first innings, while the match between Lancashire and Gloucestershire at Manchester was abandoned as a draw owing to rain.
Somerselstire were decidedly un- fshire by 171 runs.
lucky in their match against North- Kent-162 and 377 for 4 declared unts at Northampton. When stumps ¦ (Antes 159 not out, Toskd 10G
were drawn. Northants fund theirs | out).
last man in and still needed 92 run! Derbyshire-137 (Landing 5" for to win, but they held out and took (58) and 231. points on first innings!
The match at the Oval between Surrey and Yorkshire was Gregory's Benefit Match, and il was fitting that this player should distinguish himself
WARWICKSHIRE v. LEICESTERSHIRE
At Birmingham, Warwickshire de-
with a century in Surrey's second (feated Leicestershire by nine wickets,
Innings. But the side had to concede
Leicester. 14# (Hollies 4 for 55) and
points on first innings to Yorkshire. (Mayer 5 for 371.
who totalled 431 in their only visit
Warwickshire,-105 (Drake 5 for
to the wickel, thanks to 141 by (21) and 12# for 1. Barber und 114 by Leyland.
Splendid bowling by C. B. Clarke enabled the West Indies to dismiss Hampshire cheaply twice, and the tourists won easly by ten wickets,
The following results and scores arg cabled by Reuter:
SURREY. YORKSHIRE
At the Oval, Yorkshire won points
on first innings from Surrey.
Yorkshire. 431 (Barber 14. Ley- lund 114).
Surrey-210 and 227 for three
(Gregory 108).
ESSEX v. SUSSEX
At Chelmsford, Sussex defonted
Essex by 10 runs,
Sussex.-199 (Ray Smitts
for 47)
and 332 for 4, declared (Harry Parks 133 not out).
Essex 220 (Nyc 5 for 791 and 235.
NORTHANTS v. SOMERSET
Somerset-157 (Merritt 5 for 42) and 290 for 8 declared.
Northants.--246 (Dixon 123, Wel- lard 7 for 911 and 119 for 9 (Wellard
3 for 41).
NOTTS. MIDDLESEX
At Nottingham, Middlesex defeated Nolts by len wickets.
Nofts.-194 (Sims 6 för 77) and 336 (Keeton 100, Sims G for 96).
Middlesex-512 for 7 declared (Edrich 180) and 19′′for 0.
HAMPSHIRE v. WEST INDIES
At Bournemouth, West Indies de- feated Hampshire by ten wickets.
Hampshire-100 (Clarke d for 32) and 139 (Clarke 7 for 15).
West Indies.-222 and 25 for 0.
Exciting Polo At
Miss Alice Marble, the new Wimbledons champion, proved conclu. sively her right to be called the greatest lady tennis player in the world
to-day.
Here And There With "Abe".
Hurlingham Good Team
Edmundsbury and Adsdean bad an exciting struggle in the fint of the Ashton Cup it Hurlinghan.
goals,
It was
was strong at
Available
For Bowls Interport
Miss Marble did. The match lasted exactly half an hour-20 minutes for the first set and ten minutes for the
YUGOSLAV DAVIS CUPPERS
HAVE NO MONEY TO
Sporting GO TO AMERICA! Tit-Bits
THE Dutch Football Association has
accepted an Invitation from the English F.A. play England in on omcial International match at Shef- field on November 8. The match will be played at Hillsborough,
FRIE engagement of P. A. Gibb, the
England and Yorkshire cricke
ter and Cambridge "blue" is an- nounced to Miss Joyce Cooper, of Dringthorpe, York. Gibb is one of the few cricketers who have scored century In their Brst Test match. This was fast December, when he got 106 runs against South Africa in Johnneslung. The father of the bride-to-be is the Lord Mayor of
York.
POR Cixteen guineas someone has
bought a horse, the ancestors of i which between them have won more 1,000,000. Few knew that Salling Home, two-year-old coll put up for sale recently at Northolt, was one of the most blue-blooded horses in Europe. His name does not up- pear in the Stud Bonk through an oversight. Bidders could not know that Shiling Home's stre was the great Derby winner, Papyrus, nor that his cousin, Flyon, wou the As- col Gold Cup n few weeks ape. Salling Home's history goes back to 1700.
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FOURTEEN-year-old Frank
Her, of Manor Lane, Lee, S. E., playing in a match between the two senior house teams at Aske's School, Hatchain, was fatally injured when
which rose medium-paced ball, sharply and fell to near him to give hin time to duck, struck him over the left car, He staggered about and then fell to the ground. Later, complaining of sickness he was taken to the Miller Hospital, where he died on the operating table.
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RTHUR Danahar, the London ♫ welter-weight boxer, was in- volved in a motoring accident a few miles from Newport after his con- test with George Reynolds of Car- diff recently. The car in which Danaher was travelling was in' colll- sion with a motor lorry. The side of the car was badly damaged, and the driver received a cut wrist, but Danahar and his friends escaped in- jury.
gainst
Bob
Premier Now Asked To Make A Special Appropriation
Agram, Aug. 1...
There appears to be some doubt as to whether the Yugoslav Davis Cup team, which dofoated · Germany in the European Zone final last week- ond by three matches to two, will be able to pro- ceed to the United States to play the winners of the American Zone for the right to challenge the present holders of the Davis Cup the United States.
AVERY A CONSISTENT RUN-GETTER
The reason for this is that the question as to who will face their journey to America is still unsettled, The Yugoslav Tenuls Association janti Ministry for Physical Fitness have both declared that they are un- able to finance the journey of the team.
Yugoslav tennis fans, who arc extremely anxious to see the Yugo- | slay "crack" tennis playera make the the United States are now placing their last hopes on Premier Zwethovitch, who is to be asked for a special appropriation of 200,000 dinary with which to cover costs of the Yugoslav tennis players' visit to the United States.
MENTIONED IN Journey
"CRICKETER"
In the "Younger Generallon" Series (No. 10), the July Issue of Cricketer had “Somuý” Avery is the
Premier Zwetkovitch is expected subject, Soccer and crleket enthu-to relum to Belgrade on Thursday, siasts in Hongkong will remember and Yugoslav tennis fans confidently him; he was a member of the Isling- | hope that the Premier will accept ton Corinthian football team which the argument_that_the_American played in the Colony in February, visit of the Yugoslav Davis Cup team 1938.
Of him, the Cricketer says!
would be fine propaganda for Yugoslavia and that he will, there fore, grant a special appropriation
At the age of 24, A. V. Avery has for the financing of the journey established himself as one of the inostrans-Ocean. consistent rungetters in the Essex
team, but during his short career he has been distinelly unlucky with re-
gard to injuries. Last year a trace Yachting
tured Anger kept him out of the game for six weeks and now this
already le has
missed summer several games owing to a further in- jury.
MR. SOPWITH'S TOMAHAWK WINS KING'S CUP
Born at East Ham, Avery's Arst connection with the county was in 1930-us an office boy; indeed it was not until 1934 that he was taken on the ground staff as a slow left- hand bowler. In those intervening four years he played cricke!
Mr. Thomas Sopwith's Tomahawk with the Fairbairn House Boys' won the King's Cup, the chief event
for him Jack Club. Fortunately
at Cowes Week, covering the course Hobbs had taken keen interest af 27 miles in two hours 44 minutes
Cowes, Aug. 1
only ten minutes from the end that WERE it not for the expense, I am↑ At Northampton, Northants won Mr. J. P. Robinson hit the winning W
sure many more lawn bowlers points on first innings from Somerset-goal, after the lead
had changed would be available for the trip to! aliire.
three times in the last chukker,
who is very popular Adsdean deserved their victory, for Shanghai for the forthcoming Bowls second. Kay
at Wimbledon, played well-better fact that they were more aggressive, Lord Interport. I know for a
than in the semi-final when she beat Louis Mountbatten
several prominent players can obtain
Mrs. Fabyan; but whatever Kay die, back, and and the happy knack of ecessary leave but cannot uf-
Alice improved upon! Almost inevi- JOE Louis is to defend his world ford the money go to Shanghai.
heavyweight title changing defence into attack. Ed-if only spectators would turn up to
tably people began comparing Miss mundsbury were best served by Mr.
Marble with those champlons of the Pastor, who has already lasted the
in his school career and strongly re- Bee a bowls Interport in the same
distance against him. The Aght is Jack Trail at No. 2 and Capt. R. O number as they would to a soccer
past, Mile. Suzan Lenglen and Mrs.
40 zeconds, winning by five and a half commended him. It was, therefore,minutes from Mr. Charles Fairey's Wills Moody. This
to take place at Detroit on Septem- seems rather Critchley. I was in the last two match! Then the question of players
ber 21, and is to be over 20 rounds. rather appropriate that he should futile. Obviously the only way of exciting periods that the winners paying
make his Essex debut in June, 1935
Evaine.Reuter. their own expenses would really earned their victory.
It is expected that Louls, provided Result: not arise. As it is, however, only
settling who is the better player
he boats Pastor, wül next defend against Surrey at the Oval, and open Adsdean 74
would be to pit them together in Edmunsbury those who
his curcer with not out innings can afford to spend at (rec. 24) 04.
actual play; but now Mile. Lengien la title against Tommy Forr. Louis
of 28. He played in three other The VillaviclaTM Cup” ̄änüül”mately names down in the list of those will-
least $200 or $300 can put their-is-dead-and-Mr-Moody-is-past hers said to be anxious to prove he can
Miss prine. Comparing
Marble knock Pastor out, and certain critics-Championship-games-that-season-and- at Hurlingham, between Sentors and ing to go north if selected. Never-
then he did not appear again until LANCASHIRE ▼, GLOUCESTER
Juniors whose,ages, combined, should theless, from this list, which closed
with either Mile. Longlen or Mrs. believe Farr will get another tille
1937 when he developed into a useful between be respectively 200 and 100 years, fast Monday, quite a formidable tecn
Moody would be like comparing Don fight for the same reason. Rain ruined the malch
rungetter at number 2 or 3 with an Bradman with W. G. Grace, Gordon
Initial century-100 against Notts-to Gloucestershire at always proves attractive. But on enn be ruised. This Lancashire and
becomes Richards with Fred Archer or James
his credit. At the end of the summer Manchester and the game was aban-July 15, the conditions were not en- obvious when mention mumes Bruen with Bobby Jones. Yet there
he had scored 981 runs, average 24, forced. Major Jack Harrison, for like E. W. Bradbury, A. E.
those who think are
that on that
and had been awarded his county the veterans, was still a great de- Coates, U. M. Omar, J., S. Lan Bay's form at Wimbledon when she
X. M. fender, but the Juniors won easily by dolt, C. G. Silen, F.
outplayed Miss Stammers, Miss Mor- 0 goals to 3. The Trophy, given by Silva, A E. Carey, W. McLeod and ble would have beaten anybody, in-
sented by ex-Queen Victoria Eugenia or No. 3's in this bunch, but it may of Spain.
not be so easy to find a lead Of At Rochampion Military Handicap these names mentioned, only W. Challenge Cup--Final Territorial McLeod now plays regularly at No. Arty "A" Tesin goats, 9th Royal I, although unill recently, Coates and Landoit were two of the best leads Lancer: 5-after extra time.
in the Colony.
doned as a draw.
Gloucester-14 fw 1.
WORCESTER Y. GLAMORGAN
I
da
At Stourbridge, Worcester defeated Count Villavien in 1012, was pre- A. J. Hall. There is no lack of skips
Ginmorgan-130 (Jackson 5 for
50) and 115 (Perks B for 40).
Worcester-06 (Emery Davies G
for 40) and 163 for 9.
KENT. DERBYSHIRE
At Gravesend, Kent beat Derby-
VICHY-CELESTINS
Trials on Sunday
was
und, altogether, nothing can erase, he resembles a schoolboy, who has just been reprimanded by his master and is rather amused about it. Bul there devil in the fellow.
Artistry
«PEHIND that mask of apparent
cluding most cisampions of the past. Like A Schoolboy WITH Robert Riggs is a different
idleness. of lassitude, of er- matter entirely. All the best ratic concentration, lies an artistry women players in the world partici. thut few present-day amateurs can puted at Wimbledon, so there is no natch. There is a super-abundance doubt
Mics regarding
Marble's of confidence too. Beat me if you say to bis op- elains to the honour of being the can he seems to best player In the world. But Riggs' ponents, Here you are, take this triumph made considerably love game, I give it to you" he pro- caster by the fact that the Austra-bably whispers, and then takes the Hans, John Bromwich, Adrian Quist, next game to love. One moment he Jack Crawford. Vivian McGrath and will play cat-and-mouse and the next the Japanese star, Jiro Yamagishi, he will go roaring away for several gaines. Perhaps he will present his have won had all these players been unfortunate opponent with a sel, present al Wimbledon?" This Is a perhaps he will only let him lead by
Per- question not easy to answer.
A game right up to ten, eleven or haps the Davis Cup competition may
even twelve all. But when he wants provide the answer, that is, if the a game or set, he can usually win it.] Australians win through to the Chal- Sometimes his calculations go wrong. lenge Round as they are expected to His boundless confidence goes over do." Meanwhile, Riggs_has_ been the limit, if there is any. It did more or less an engima to English | Inst year in the American Cham- Writers. Heres how one described pionships. He was beaten by on him:-"lie is a slight fellow, below outsider, G. Hunt, in five sets. The medium height. He has a grin that
two sels he won were to love. But Hunt won the Afth and Bnal set. This, then, is the mun, Robert L.į Riggs, Amerien's No. 1 tennis player, who was 21 only a few weeks ago.")
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BELESTING
ONE of the most interesting points about the Interport is that trials will be held to aid the selection of the Hongkong team. Many people have, elumoured for these trinis in
the officials. The present Selection, Committee, however, has decided to huld trials on August 13 on the Civil |Service CC. green and all players) who have put their names down on the list are requested be present at the Civil Service before 3.30 p.m. The decision to hoki "trinis will be welcomed by many people, though others see little value in them. But at least the trials will give the lesser- known players a chance to prove { their worth; and if the Selectors will: choose the team solely on the per- formance of players at these, trialsi and not on past reputation, I for one. say that the Selection Committee) have adopted a very sound policy.
Now Champions
TWO new champions having been acclaimed at Wimbledon, it is not surprising that people are begin- Inlog to ask "How good are Bobby Riggs and Miss Alice Marble?" As | regards Miss Marble, her form in thu championships was so good that few will grudge her the title of being the best lady player in the world to-day, She achieved the "hat trick" in the tournament: this is what she did:- bent Miss Kay Stammers by 0-2, 0-0 In the women's singles; with Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan won the wo- men's doubles by beating Miss Helen Jarobs and Miss A. M. Yorke by 6-1, 6-0; won the mixed doubles with Bobby Rigra, beating F. H. D. Wilde and Miss N. B. Brown by 0-7, G-1.
Vichy-Celestins in the final of the singles, it la ad-
Robert RiggS
A Natural Player
"HE
win
a completely natural player," says Miss Marble, "If It weren't for that he could not raisa his game at will. He could not af ford to play around." Higgs can do almost what he wishes an a tennis court, it is true. He will take on on opponent at his own game and beat him. He thinks it a waste of me and energy to no to the net unless forced, He imagines he enn without. He has a strange tempera- ment Good In
many
but ways thoroughly
opier unorthodox. In ways this temporaiment has been his downfall. Rigits does little else but almost piny tennis. He gave up everything for the game ive years ago. He is a good all-round athlete and, during the winter, boxes at a | Chlengo club, He goes on to the court with about fen rackets. It looks concelled, but Higgs, says, “I don't like to feel that the racket I
mitted, no woman in the world-not; even Mrs. Moody herself-could have played such perfect lawn tennis as...he te something of an enigma. might want is in the changing room."
cap.
ury-
Hongkong Defeated In
Maughan Cup
Honkong L. Guy
Hyde-Lay J. McKelvle
West Wimbledon
W Hawes
E. Triin
A Jenkins
1 J. Jenkinson
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Last year his finger injury doubtedly robbed him of his op- The Arst match in the Maughan portunity to score 1,000 runs for the Cup. (presented by Mr. B. E. between first time in his career, but he again Maughan, of Hongkong} made a century off the Notts bowlers Hongkong and West Wimbledon was and scored 138 against Gloucester played on July 20 and resulted in a shire, His final record was 831 runs, heavy defeat for the Colony players, average 27.70 and he had shown 11 who were able to score on only six definite advance on his previous sea- ends. son's work. Grand players ns they The following were the scores: still are, and will be for some sea- soris yet, O'Connor, Nichols and East- man cannot gu on for ever and it is. Sterrit pleasant for Essex to know that the future is in the safe hands of such players as Avery, R. and P. Smith. Wade and Vigar, while Cray is stilpertences range from shaking handi so young and so full of promise that with the King of Egypt to meeting he should in no way be discouraged film stors. In Hollywood. He niso by a few smali scores. He already played for Leyton v. Dulwich has a good defence.
Humlet in the Amateur Cup Final of But to return to Avery. As 1930-37 und for so young n man hàn member of the famous || Islington | had an extraordinarily interesting Corinthians touring team he has seen life in the world of sport. many parts of the world having play- ed football in India. Burma, Malaya, California. Egypt and
What amazing tour that was. In India alone the Corinthians played 30 matches in alx weeks! This meant a match nearly every day and travelling virtually every night. Avery's
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