8
U.M.
County Cricket
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 1, 1939.
OMAR AND A.R. DALLAH MEET IN BOWLS FINAL
MATCHES END IN 2. DAYS
Huge Score By
Middlesex
Three
Huddersfield Beaten
In Rugby League
London, Aug. 31.
matches in the County Cricket Champion- ship were concluded to-day
London, Aug. 31. In In the Rugby League to-day, Ilull after two days of play.
defeated Huddersfield by each case, the winning Reeler, tounty won by an innings.
Middlesex inflicted
sound thrashing to Warwickshire, winning by an iupings and 200 runs after declaring their first kuning at 525 for seven wirket To this total, Robert- son, the young. Midilesex opening batman contributed 154-tila recond century insurerssive matches--and Eirich 101.
The other winning counties were Worcestershire, who defeated Nolls, and Somersetshire, who bea. Noch ants.
The following scores and results were exbled by Reuter:
WORCESTER. NOTTS
At Worcester, Worcestershire de feated Notta by an inttigs and, 31
13-0.-
Notts-100 and 81 (Peaks 7
for
C. F. Remedios WAS struggling with weight": and green most of the WAY
match against A. R. Dallah and Tos!
21-15. Photographer,
Stap
S. China To Play 4 Games In Manila
BY
REMEDIOS, BASTO
ELIMINATED STEADIER FOES
FAST GREEN PRODUCES SOME BRILLIANT PLAY
(By "Abe")
Both the Club de Recreio players, C. F. Reme- dios and B. Basto, in the semi-finals of the Open
Bowls singles championship played on the Kowloon F.C. green yesterday were eliminated. Remedios was beaten by A. R. Dallah 21-15 and Basto was defeated by U. M. Omar 21-6.
As a
U. M. Omar
B. Basto
Manila, Aug. 31.
Omar's win over Basto was The following were the scores head The Philippines Amateur Athletic generally expected, but the case with by head: 130).
Worrestershire--281 (A. 1. Single-Federation announced to-day that a which he did so was not.
vable
ley been received from matter of fact, Banto played dis- ton 102 not out, Voce 6 for 100).
Handocok stating that the South!!
appointingly on the whole, but in China football team will arrive In fairness it should be stated that he Manila on September 17.
SOMERSET, NORTHANTS
At Taunton, Somersetshire defeated Northants by an innings and 92 runs.
Northants-138 (Andrew's 23) and 150.
September 19, 21. 27 and 24 were proposed in the cable for matches in Maniin.
for
i
declared
The Football Committee has invited
Le Tran Club, WARWICKSHIRE the YCO Athletic Y
Somerset-380 for $ Tinns 4 for day. MIDDLESEX
was robbed of several shots by the uncanny accuracy of his opponent, who either enrried the jack when the He was against him or drew dead to the Jack.
On the other hand, Basto was not nearly so consistent. On soine heads: At Lord's, Middlesex defeated Athletic Club, Santo Tomas Univer-be played very well indeed; but on Warwickshire by an innings and 200ity and La Salle Football Club to others he had difficulty in Anding his
meet the visiting players and begin green and weight. Midellestx-525 for 7
declared training immediately instead of duur- Robertson 154, Edrich 101).
middle of September as Warwickshire-194 and 131 (Slmsing the 15 for 45).
customary.-United Press..
I una.
Local Ponies Under
Omar took only 17 heads to dispose uf Baste, scoring on 12 against his opponent's five.
Training For Second
BY
"CAPT. FOSTER"
I am sure regular fol- lowers of the turf will be interested to know that all the Australian and China "star" ponies are now under strict training for the second half of the racing season, the first success for the purpose of distribut- mecting after the recess been a common practice among the being scheduled to be owners, and the jockeys have,
n course, generally attached great
winners and/or the "Arst maiden"
ing me to their friends has always
nium gift" will be the forerunner of more classic successes. It is interest-
who, it will be remembered, was one
Europe until the tenth century,
know now."
and
Remedios Off
B. Basto, who was outplayed by U. M. Omar in the somi.
finals and was beaton 21-6 yesterday.—Staff Photographer.
Here And There
With "Abe". Story Of A
Eater-Billy Conn
WILLIAM W
Conn,
Tit-Bits
Strict Form Against Sporting Half
after the
A. R. Dallah
never
women's
of
#
A Leather
7111 upstanding forward. Conn dances and counters. Irish lad with the face
Louis i confused by a punch to the He hates to be hit as a dog chalrboy and all of the choirboy's chin,
prize hates to be bathed. Conn, on the ethics is probably the best fighter in the world to-day, outside other hands, eats leather. He is at of Joe Louis, says John Lardner, his happiest and best when the ac Conn is everything that Louls is not.tion is fast and the gloves are thick Louis hits with deadly power, Conn's around his noggin. The black man only shortcoming is lack of power, and the white man have only two Coun is a brilliant boxer and things in common-laziness and a tactician. Louls
fights by rote.woltike relish for their victuals. Louts makes the battle by huming Con explains his work simply and frankly, Why am I Dghter?" he says, "Because I hate like h., to work a living. Fighting is the softest touch
I know of. It'll make me money and keep me fed, and let me step around. Boy, how I love to get in there and tag these guys in the kisser He loves it so much that you aimest pity him for the slimness of his arms and the frailty of his shoulders, which cheat him of the chance to knock the enemy dead. There is no sense In wasting your C. F. Remedios, the former Shang-
MISS D. Nuthall, the British pity, however, for Conn does not pity had champion, who would have established a record had he won the
Cup captain, and himself. He would rather hit a man Wightman
In his entiro Colony title, was definitely off-colour Miss N. B. Brown were beaten in 41 times than once. half, but it is to be hoped that they ln his match against A. R. Dallah, the quarter-Annls of the American ring career of 61 Bghts, he has knock- will all stage a comeback
doubles championship nted out only seven opponents. "But resumption. We still bave a good and though he led 9-5 on the 7th wom bunch of stumers and "dend meat" head, he was finally beaten by 21-15.Brookline (Muss.) on August 17 by they certainly get sick of me before
Miss A. Marble and Mrs. M. Fabyan, I'm through," says Conn. racers and their presence on the race- The Importance of having the jack by 6-1, 6-2. Miss Nuthall and Miss course 15, without prejudice, to make and dictating the length of the heads Brown went off in fine fettle and Becomes Champion up the field,
was fully demonstrated by Dallah in won Miss Marble's service in the
was HAT was the case recently in the After
game. Their success capturing the Hongkong St. this match, which proved to be the opening
fight which finally won him a Leger on
On November 20, 1937, with more interesting of the two ties, not long enjoyed, however, for in
championshily, Having Mr. Peanut Marshall in the saddle, After taking a single on the eighth spite of Miss Nuthall's fine driving, world's Happy Eve, owned
the Americans touk by Sir Victorhead, Dallah threw a long head and the
next six whipped a round half dozen middle- Sargoon, pulled Jame
and although up
They concentrated weight champions in over-the-weight from this stage onwards he took his games in a row. they were introduced into England ine bay mare was entered for some score to. 10 before conceding a two. their attack upon the less experienced bouts, to pass the time and store the the time of William the Conqueror by events at the last Annual Carnival, On each of the eight consecuuve final match Miss R. M. Hardwick favour of growing into
ve Miss Brown. In another quarter- huy, the young man did himself the the light- Henri de Ferreru. Protably the earliest the connections refused to weigh her heads which he won, Dailah form of horseshoe was an iron plate
six inches and Miss V. E. Scott went down be-heavyweight division, where, in his over the whole foot, after which it was out. She also annexed the long-nut the jack more than of
gradually developed into the shape we kont Derby, but the mare was beaten way from a certain spot, and he fore Miss H. Jacobs and Miss D. Arst start, he fisyed the champion, a strong earnest Italian named Mello by Bear Claw in the Easter Stakes. knew this weight so well that his arst Workman (6-2, 4-6, 6-2).
Bettina, in 15 rounds of the sort of held on Saturday, Sep-mate feeling that the "alum- Local Training
importance and value to
to the sou-
It will be seen that Sir Victor's pony wood was invariably only a foot or had only three outings in 1937, the
50 away from the kitty.
THOMAS Halliday, the Exeter City action that makes Conn's heart leap and his teeth blearn. He made tember 23.
tast being about two years ago, but
back, who did not report for Bettina almost sick to hit stomach first wood training How great a part this
until 10 days after he Judging by their appearance and liveliness on the cinder track all the iu to reveal that Mr. L. G. Frost,TNING is now in fuil swing, I am glad to say that Happy Eve
but the work has been more or once more on her feet and there is played in deciding the issue it is should have done, has been notifed with stinging left hands in the face
that he will remain goud anatomical trick which is one pace every possibility of seeing the mare difficult to say; but one noticed that by the club n collected ponies have without any question of of our best local jockeys, was the (canter) and we will no doubt see in action at the Double Tenth Meet-Fin these eight heads Remedios could under suspension until August 23, for William's specialties.
hand hypnotized Betting as it not beat it. And as soon as Dallah L. W. Brooks, of Bournemouth and doubt summered well, Thanks are, recipient of many used horseshoes, the ponies being
better fight, Fred extended to fulting of course, due to Mr. Clerk of the but it is strange to say that he re-gallop during
on the Boscombe, Commencement Bay and Half- failed with his first wood,
has been suspended by hypnotized the course of next Weather for providing a good raining tired from the racecourse
with no week.
Moon Eve have returned from Mocao 18th head, when he was leading 18-9, the F.A. for 20 days from August Apostoli, last winter. The fact is
at Conn is always thinking season with the result that there was winning aluminium racing plate of an extraordinary supply of excellent either the Hongkong Derby or the
An attractive programme has been after spending over six months in Remedios promptly sat on the jack 20, and ordered to repay the club
within 14 days of August 10 the fifth of a second onead of his man, Jarring him off balance with another grn54
the in the New Territories and footy-Hill Derby in his beautiful drown up for the first ment after the the hospital and both of them are and registered a two. Macao. This was obviously
the 15th head, sum of £48, representing the wages left just at the moment when resumpion, but there is no event for looking very well. most
From the 8th to the "A" class of either die Australian essential for the ponies when being
paid to him from date of his engage- Remedios was struggling both with ment for season 1938-30 to the date party of the second part means to set
himself to hit back. turned out,
Every stable or establishment con-er China ponies. They will, how- Derby Griffins and furthermore they nected with racing takes a pride in ever, be seen in netion at the Double
his weight and green, and was he reported for training. In default certainly gained the advantage of having at least one horseshoe malied Tents Meeting to be held on Satur
nothing like the player he was in of compliance with this order the A Bag of Tricks his previous two matches getting the dew upon their feet. The to a most conspicuous door or post, dny, October 7 and Tuesday, October AMONG the Derby grifins of this he was continually robbing his up-
when pinyer is to be
be suspended sine dle. holiday makera were not persecuted but I have seen with my own eyes 10.
season, Eve of Harvest, owned ponent of the shot. His by the files and all the ponies re- that many such valuable "gifts" were
he learned all The main attraction on the card by Sir Victor Sassoon, is now an "A" weakness yesterday
knows about -turned to their headquarters with hung upside down. A story was once to be contested on September 23 is class China pony, the
was in beingDERBY County announce a profit is hard to believe that Blily has mare being short oven when the lie was against must come as a pleasant relief to the life. He can fight
of £8,474 on last season, which ghing in the 23 short years of his "clean" sitin. It will be recalled that taid about the horseshoe luck, but the Subscription Grifins last year
Autumn
clean, but his promated to this division after her him. Mr. J. F. Macgregor's It was to me a fairy tale and there- Plate for China ponies, sub-grifins smart performance at the Whitsun Strathroy, who holds the record for fore it requires confirmation.
directors, who are guarantors of adirly fighting is what compels your of this Club of this season, and the Meeting. On a heavy going Eve of
DALLAH STEADY
£28,700 bank overdraft. Huge leap admiration and respect. He has a the fastest runs over five furlongs, a
run is over the champion course. The Harvest annexed the Lead Mine
last year's meagre £954 is complete set of matched tricks With a first prize is certainly juley, namely, Handicap
two on the 17th hend largely explained by successful sell-heeling. clipping. (six furlongs), henting
backhanding, His $700 to the winner and the second is Conquering Time by
Dallah went to his 20, at which stage ing of brought  neck did not summer too well; in fact skin' THE origin of horseshoe luck Hes into receive $300 with $200 to the third | 1.28.1/6 and the mare was carrying over. He went up to shake Dallah's still owing Gate
ing Remedios thought the match was 11 peyers, which was 100 gauging hitting below the belt.
takings fell offen, angelle face was a pretty thing trouble put an end to his public
the legend of Saint Dunstan pony. The conditions of the Autumn a burden of 163 lbs, it is interesting
the and
was words Devil. Saint
with Dunstan, Plate are in such a state that there appearance.
Apostoli and made Strolling around the Hongkong famous for his skill as a smith was is good reason to Eny that neito relate that the first three plant hands-only to be told that the latter after Christmas, when club form to see the night he swapped
ponies (Rose Elect, Nasylight and needed one more shot for game!
low. but still totalled £3
£32,558, an Apostoli foul in the open while Billy one day visited by the Devil, who the nomination of Celtic Star nor Eve of Harvest) in the 1939 Blue Jockey Club stables the other day I asked him to shoe his "single hoof." Marksman will be found among the Riband are all now in the high a four on the very next head-the Derby, but they would like two or comized the world over, except in increase of £4,368 on the year befouled with his back to the referee. Remedios celebrated this by taking forc. They are all uppy now nt Conn's lightheavyweight title
(re was really much surprised to see the Recognising his client, the Saint tied lot of entries, owing the prepastandard. I have not as yet seen Mr. good "looks" friends" exercising in the yard and him up and began operations, pur-terous weight to be carried by these Eu Tong-sen's Rose Elect, the triple only possible of the day. And on the three more seasons to run the sume England where they call Len Harvey there is no exaggeration in spying posely cousing as much pain as pos-two ponies. The weight is' assessed crown winner, but it is reliably Dullah's first wood for three, but the draft, stand at £47.550.
very next, he neatly rested out-way-llabilities, Including that over champion) has been held in the past.
that all the ree-gees had put on a
The Devil roured for mercy on the amount of money won and the learned that the mare looking
by some good fighters-Georges Car- good pounds of superfluous fat and Saint Dunstan agreed to com-scale starts at 145
LRC player calmly drew first shot Low
with
a pound tremely well Navylight, the
pentier, Gene Tunney, Paul Berlen- Dempsey and Tommy YRIL Tolley, the former British bach, Jack and flesh. One of the Chinese train-plete the job painlessly if the Devil penalty for every $200 or part thereof perly of Mr. Eric Moller, is still in with his last wood for the match. ers, who has a long string of animals would promise never again to molest won in stokes since January 1. Cel-Shanghai but I Dgure that the bay
won champion,
the Loughran. Billy belongs with the Dallah fully deserved his victory Lord Warden Cup at Rye on August best pro-the Star has earned $5,352 and this mare will be coming back on, because of his steady play.
those. But the money under his charge, told me that he had person or
tected by the display of a horseshoe. means he has incurred 172
The Hongkong St. Leger, which is strangely, he settled down
12, with 144 (71 and 73). G. H. nowadays is with the heavyweights. to the Micklem was big classic. left, is scheduled fast green better than his opponent
second with 148 (73 So Billy Conn will lose no time in owing to the fact that some of his
fore ponies had protruding bellies.
part pointing downwards, repre- Record issued by the Hongkong to be
L. senting the evil spirits riding away key Club with having collected $0,030 the Chinn ponies, bona fide griffins
150 (00 and 70).
Tolley's to be an unharnessed wolf in a fully from the house. If placed the other and in the circumstance he has in- of this Healthy Hoofs
of 71 set up a record for the laden table. a teme akair owing to the long heads, he had his opponent trail round mictod course, but he did not way round they will enter the build-curred 170 lbs. Both ponies are 14.0 it willson, but I am afraid that Shanghai-and by slicking to thei
h.h. and if entered, the former has superiority of the..
hold Latest Gossip NOTHER Chinese manager of At one time the Stewards' badge of to carry a stone extra over the weight animals in speed and stamina, How-most solid speil of scoring, of course, went round in the afternoon in 70. big stable said smilingly that the the Macao Jockey Club was of a for inches basis while the latter has ever, other events will, I am sure, was from the 8th to the 15th head He went out in 36 and holed the last feet of his batch had not given him horseshoe with the monogram "M. one and a half stones. However the be keenly contested and racing public when he took his score from five to any headache, for the hoofs and frogs J.C." in the centre, but the fore part nomination of either is, of course, & may look forward to some fine sport 19. were very healthy, on account of the was pointing upwards. It was, how-matter for the owner to decide, but of kings during the ascond half wet soll and all his racers were shod ever, in use for some good while be- there is an adage that "Money can- racing season of the Hongkong by head:
glass-case.
mile, a jaunt from the two mile post. Horseshoe Luck once round and in,
course
the champlon and the St. Leger distance,
of our dear "dumb
sible.
enter a building,
confined to ess
in
CX-
pro
greatest,
Rather
from
amateur
of
The
left
anc
cuss
to turn in his lot ten daya carller forseshoes should be nailed with the Marksman is down in the Ruthe oneted on November 9 among who is accustomed to fast greens in find 75) and W. L. Hurtley third becoming a heavy weight. He wants
4
fe not buy a good horse-so don't lame Jockey Club.
without any trouble to the farriers fore one bright sunny day n
If the summer had been a dry one, wire" the hoofs wero Ilable to become brit- amazement that the silver plate was
Steward discovered to his your pony."
tle and break off in Blakes owing to upside down, but I am glad to say King Kong Suited the land being boked by the scorch- that the Devil will not now enter Correct shooing cannot be the building owing to the fact that Lover-estimated when one remembers the studs are now pointing upwards.
the weight of the satmal plus that of
the rider and
if a a classy pony is bad- First Horseshoes
by shod, this will give no end_of
por
IE next from my notebook in King Kong, who was paid $3,050 and
last
he has to carry only 101 lbs, which
1
English Football League Results
London, Aug. 31.
The following were the results of
Is his weight for the height. His outing before the break was an easy troubles to the connections. The feelWHILE on the subject I wonder run in the Whitsun Handicap overed matches played in the English Foot- of ponies are the most important
how many owners and jockeys mile beating Marksman by a good tions of their anatomy, which state, Arment is fully supported by the old know when the first horseshoes were four lengths in 2.18.2/5 on going ball League to-day;
ying in the Army, "No feat, no made and what they were like? The ilke a paddy field and King Kong horse and there cannot exist o more April, 1039, will no doubt be of in-an
following taken from the Riding, should score another success without
trouble. Those áruthful maxim,
arins such as terest to the men of the turf.
Musketeer,
Cranie Newport A| Notts F. This "Some form of horandines was used Boven, Strathbannock.
Time by the barbarian horseman who invaded and a few others, who were promin- THIRD She Roman Empire in the fourth, and ent in the front row at the commence- fifth centuries AD.. but the use of horseshoes in ansthing like their moment of the season, were not in the Clapton O. der form did not broome general in limelight before the close of first
Souvenirs
THE traditional custom of collecting kused racing plates out of oldie
.SECOND DIVISION
1 Tottenham - 2 Nowegație: DIVISION (SOUTH)
Southend
-Retler.
1
17
•
nine holes in a flawless 34.
+
•
The following were the scores head
A.R. Dallah C. F.Remedios
2
TIMMY Johnstown will have the humane society after him if he Insists on going through with his talking about the plan of making his fighter, Bob CHELSEA is
effect of psychological frest-
Pastor, stand up and slug it out with ment on the team, and several clubs Joc Louis instead of running away are toying with the gland injection....even his best friends won't tell iden. The modern player has to be Pastor he can punch, and in something more than a mere athlete. stand-up fight with Joe he wouldn't. last as long as a keg of beer at an was so dark when a pairs match Elks' convention..
Lou Nova will In the English Bowling Associn-finish Tony Galento inside of eight tion championships was in progress rounds, stopping the belligerent at the Temple Club, SE, that one rel just as he did Maxte Buer-by of the players had to use a cigarette cutting him to bits...the boxing com- ahter to find the blas-side of his mission should take time off at one wood. White handkerchiefs were of its musical comedy sessions and employed to show up the jock, and decree that Billy Conn must make cries of "Can you see me?" were his first defence of the light-heavy- frequent. The rivals Cambridge weight title against Mello Bettina, the Park and Henleaze (Gloucester) man he won it from in a fight. as were level at 16-all after the regula-close as Siamese twins when they're tion twenty-one ends, and a five at hugging.
bar:
the extra end gave Cambridge the This is the latest boxing gossip match after four hours and twenty from Henry McLemore, United Press minutes' play,
Staff carrespondent: