Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 24, 1939.
By Ernie Bushmiller
OH, I SEE--
WELL, I GUESS IT'S WASHED. CLEAN BY NOW, EH
YEP-- BUT NOW WE GOTTA WASH OUR TENNIS NET..
NANCY
HEY, YOU KIDS YA' CAN'T FISH WITHOUT A LICENSE!
--WERE JUST WASHING OUR BUTTERFLY NET!
WE CAN'T HELP IT IF FISH JUMP INTO ITS;
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SILK SHIRTS
FOR
BOYS
WITH
SHORT SLEEVES
New County Cricket Scoring Method Wanted
Three Recent Matches
BASEBALL LEAGUE RESULTS
New York, Aug. 23.
The following are the results of matches played.in the Major Baseball League to-day:
NATIONAL LEAGUĘ
Turned Into Farces: Pity The Spectators
London, Aug. 1.
A new method of scoring in the County Cricket Championship will have to be devised be- During the past week we have
fore next season.
had three matches turned into farces.
Yorkshire, 183 behind Notts' list would be the procedure of the Foot- innings total,
wickets ball Association towards any breach
nine with
standing, could not resume batting of rule.
intil 2.30 un
It the last day, Tiran
the con- would be useful there was a little over 35 hours for mittee or the M.C.C. would make play.
İsome clear ruling about these de- between
So they scoret when they could jelarations by agreement not help it Their mactivity was captains. They defeat masterly.
the whole was
purping of the rule, which
In 14 hours before fea Mitchell, Fframed to allow a winning captain Leyland and Harber added 26 runs to force home un advantage. to the toil.
One of these days we shall have Mitchell, in that time, nude five;ja championship won or lost by some Barber stayed an hour for ave; and freak declaration or other-and still Leyland scored N uns in 45, there will be no committee to deni minutes.
with a matter till the following
So the game drew close. In 100 minute
scored 77 runs.
to a dreary November.
Yorkshire !
And 1,238 people paid £62 to see! OUR GUIDE
i. All on a summer's day,
Obviously there WHA Lizare for
Yorkshire to gain a first innings TO THE
lead, but not to win the match. ity doing so they would love ground in
the championship. So they decided i
to avold CINEMAS
result
count.
Bitch which
would 101
"While New York Sleeps" (King's, Test any may say Unt Yorkshire to-day),-Clue-and-cutie chasing re- are too keen to win and that southern porters meet a mystery so bewilder- counties would not do that, I musting that it has to be solved twice- point out that Middlesex did much as they catch a killer before the and then find the the same sort of thing against Lon-Killing, print the story of a murder
before it happens-and eashire on the same day.
sane man has been
aguin. murdered With Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers, Chick Chandler and Joan Woodbury. "Secret Patrol" (Alhambra, to-day), The North West Mounted Police used to be the favourite background of
*
FORGOTTEN RULE The other farce was something of comedy. Glamorgan and War- wickshire, after a wasted day agreed 10 joint declaration to ensure that
the full 12 points were at stake. many a satisfying picture, but few Warwickshire closed up at 48 for have been seen of Jale. Here the old none, Glamorgan at 48 for one,
The theme role,
with Charles Star- second declaration was Blegal. The 'ret in the
in
An
was
hos!
are
Chick Chandler and Michael Whaten take time out from cluo-chasing to admire lovely Jean Rogers in "While New York Sleeps," second of 20111 Century Fox's Roving Reporter series, showing at the King's Theatre lo-day.
St. Louis
Brooklyn
R. 1. E.
3
B
3
8
0
the Car-
Medwick homered for
dinals and Lavagetto for the Dodgers.
Battery-Dodgers, Hollingsworth and
Phelps.
Doston
Pittsburgh
0 1
Battery-Graves, Posedet
Lopez.
Pittshorich
Buster ..
31
2
7
2
and
$
0
B
1
Battery Braves, MacFayden and Masi.
Chicago
12
New York..
3
1 0
Herman and Luther homered for
the Cubs.. Battery-Cubs, Lee and Ilarinett.
Cincinnati Philadelphia
Craft homered for the Reds.
Fred Dyer. Ex-Boxer Believes-lery-Reds, Derringer and Lombardi.
GOLF IS THE MOST
DANGEROUS SPORT
·
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DiMaggio and Gordon homered for the Yankees und Kuhel for the White Sox. Battery-Yankees, Ruffing and Dickey.
Philadelphia Detroit
7
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Eleven innings. Johnson, Siebert and Lediglana homered for the Athletics, and Gehringer (twice) and York and Averill for the Tigers. Battery.Athletics. Pippen and Hayes.
1 IG St. Louis.......
1 + 3 Battery-Red Sox. Ostermueller
Boston
Golf, Fred Dyer-former professional and Pearcek. Reuter. boxer and now physical culture expert-is the most dangerous sport in the world.
Lawn Bowls
DRAW FOR QUARTER- FINALS
rules say that in a two-day match Five Came Back" (Queen's, t. a batting skle cannot declare Juter day) Melodrama about a transport than an hour and forty minutes be-plane wrecked in a South American fore the agreed time for drawing of jungle, and an assorted group of
We were discussing at hus school "Frequently he will Anish his stumps.
passengers only ave of whom can be
In Great Portland-street, W.. the career with fingers like corkscrews, Only lifty minutes were left, and down back to civilization. Their sur Warwickshire scored 43 for the loss face reactions under pressure
death of Charlie Roberts, famous due to the canstunt impact of the ball of one wicket.
studied. Exelling, Inteniously done. Soccer centre half, who died on Mon- on the finger bones."
Tom Whittaker, the Arsenal train- Coincidence, Glamorgan were in Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy day from a head injury which he
ly a similor incklent against Northants Barrie, John Curradine, Allen Jenking thought was caused by heading aer, talised about the risks run
declaration Their
SOCCER players: "Chief danger al football in his 1031.
jand C, Aubrey Smith.
playing days. Other sports leave other injuries-toeal rheumatismi frem old injuries | ruled illegal.
"Off The Record" (Majestic, to- NOT UNTIL NOVEMBER
day).Involved combination of melo- and I was finding out what these its intensity depends on the constitu- M.C.C.
tion of the man. pronouncement
The draw for the quarter-finals of amrmed that on this later ocension drama and romance about a pair of were, suys an English writer.
the hard
RUNNING RISKS
"I have heard before of a player's the Open Singles bowls champion- Sald Fred Dyer: "Yes, there are the captains misinterpreted the rules reporters who marry, and
skull being seriously injured through ship was made this morning and re- but not until November will the Ad-little orphan whom they rescue from
more deaths from golf than from any heading a ball. The men who retir-sulfed as follows: Cricket Committee ja reformatory and try to set on the visory County
I do not mean amens ed from the game within the last ten G. Perkins right path. Pat O'Brien, Joan Blon. other same. deal with the breach.
to how that when ell and Hoblay Jordan take chief professionals-they know
train It is safe to assume November comes no action will be parts.
"The Kid from Texas" (Cathay taken about an event of the preced-i
Neither the top nor the lo-day).-Romantic comedy about ing July. bottom position in the championship cowboy who learned to play pole and table is likely to be affected, and then went East to put his lessons to any revision in the gloom of winter use. A bit of romance is mixed with table polo. Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, of the preceding
Anhony, Allen, Jessie Ralph and would be farcical.
How different in its promptness Buddy Ebsen ire featured.
summer's
SATURDAY
Lamiy
Yes, bet
she's mos ZENOBIA
AT THE
KING'S
WHO is she?
WHAT'S she got?
HAL ROACH Primiti
ZENOBIA
OLISLE
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"But the elderly amateur who goes on to the links without the training which is necessary in all games runs a grave risk.
v. A. R. Micu (C.S.C.C. green)
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(C.S.C.C. green) think
that they had ever been en-C. F. Remedios v. M. R. Abbas
(Kowloon D.G.C. green) gaged in a strenuous sport."
SWIMMING,
Mr. Basto UNG, according to Harry Leverton, president of the "BOXING is certainly one of the the least dangerous of all sports.
Amateur Swimming Association, 1811, White hardest sports-no gaine requires "It is extremely healthy," he said such intensive training. A boxer na "Every muscle is used, and the lungs that it often upsets his nervous sys- [expanded." tem and he becomes punch drunk. | mana This can lead to further disortiers
to take so many blows on the head
which are often fatal.
"If boxers were to take as much care of themselves after a fight as they
did before, there would be fewer lasting injuries. The trained body can stand almost anything."
A strained heart, a strained back, or strained arms are the legacy of the ROWING man. J. T. ("Bossy") Phelps, Master of the King's Barge and leading authority on rowing. said:
It is very rare that any of these rowing injuries are fatal. Imhe-.: diately anything like that happens to taken off all an oarsman, he la strenuous sport.
CORKSCREW FINGERS www attention is given to all! competitive caramen. The Univer
crews are examined by a doctor every week. If you are strong you can take it if you are weak you don't row,**
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Jack Hobbs, of Surrey and Eng- land, spoke as a CRICKET expert: "Nothing much can happen to you In cricket. A blow from a ball can be unpleasant, but the man who suf- fers most is the wicketkeeper.
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