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Monday,
HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
September 4, 1939.
H.A. ALVES AND F.V.V. RIBEIRO WIN BOWLS TITLE
Australia Takes
Doubles Match
London, Sept. 3. At Haverford, Pa., to-day the Australians reduced the United Statos lead in the Challenge Round of the Davis Cup 'com. petition by winning the doubles.
John Bromwich and Adrian Quist (Australia) defeated
Jack Kramer and Joo Hunt 5-7, 6-2, 7-5, 6-2.—itester,
Home Football
Prospects No. 9: Men Of Coventry
Although only one important addi- eton has been made to the Coventry City list of players-ut of Lowrie, from Preston North End-bere in quiet confidence that the club will finve to be reckoned with for pro- motion hunOUTH.
No player of nole has left except Macdonald, while the 33 signed on Includes several of the younger mem- bere, who have developed consider ubly under oktiful training. Mr. Harry Storer has certainly seen to it that the average age has been kept flown
the
ROBSON AND
AND NISH CAUGHT ON OFF DAY: POOR FORM
RIBEIRO OUTSTANDING WITH PERFECT GAME
(ly "Abe")
Because of the one-sidedness of the encoun- ter, the Open Bowls Pairs Final, played on the Kowloon F.C. green yesterday, between H. A. Alves and F. V. Ribeiro, of the Club de Recreio,
and T. E. Robson and H. Nish, was robbed of much of its interest; but from the point of view
of bowls, there was much in the game that was really entertaining.
The match was won by Alves and Ribeiro by the margin of 28 shots to 11. The scores give a fair į indication of the difference between the two pairs. Robson and Nish Found Alves and R beiro in their best form, particularly the
fatter,
who AM played the
skip. game of his fe Time after time when the shot win.{
would take out a against him, he word to fit three or
four or draw dend to the Jack. There was it more battle between Robson and Even Alves, but Ribeiro was in more senses than one head and shoulders
Davidson, the loss of whose ser-above Nish. vices was severely felt during Latter part of last season owing to an ankle injury, has fully recovered, and Ivor Lewis hns come successfully through an operation for cartilage removal.
All last season's backs are in excel- leni trim, and Mason, at centre-half, retains the captaincy. Careful atten
The first match will be at home on the nineteenth inst, againat ilir- raingham for the Jubilee Fund. List of players:
Birthplace. Pos. Hight. Wcht. Morgan, W. (Nylon-on-
Tyne) (0 Wood, A. IL (Aldridge) (0.6 | Ager, 15, K. (Birruingtiam) Astley, 7, (Warrington) Tooze, D. Q. (Swanson)
Metcalf, W. T.
(b.) 9 11 4
(ND)-69 19
Billott, C. (Boleover) :) & B 17 10 11 10
Inderd Ribeira was the man who should be given the most credit for the victory; for, although Alves gave him good support, without his bril- Tiant shots victory would not have been so easy,
NISH OFF COLOUR
to
WALLACE
RETAINS TITLE
T. E. Robson, playing lead to 1. Nish in the Fairs Final yesterday, held his own fairly well against H. A. Alves, his opposite nutnber. Robson is shown delivering a wood in the course of the match. while Alves looks on-Photo by Ming Yuen.
AUGUST MUCH TOO HOT IN ENGLAND FOR SOCCER
Splendid Form In Winter Game Opens In Singles Final Unseasonable Weather
Shanghai, Aug. 25. Playing
magnificent a
Kame throughout the match, H. Wallace, lending local lawn bowls player, retained his tille on the
to
London, Aug. 21.
Sporting Tit-Bits
F.A. To Consider Sunday Play
Service Professionals May Play For Regiments
After steadfastly refusing to re- cognise Sunday play since its incep- tion. Uic Football Association has. experienced such an internal rever- sion of opinion that at their, Counell meeting in London recently a sub- commitice was appointed to in- vestigate the desirability of altering the present regulations.
Mr. T. II. Kirkup (London F.A Secretary) sald that circumstances have changed so much In recent bo years that the position should reconsidered.
England will play France in Paris. on May 2, Ireland In Bellant on October 28, Wales at Villa Park on November 15, Holland at Tottenham on November 8 and Rumania at оп Sheffield Wednesday's ground December 6. England Amateurs meet Ireland at ford February 10,
Ipswich the R.A.F. at November 1.
017
on
The lens which toured the Con- tinent and South Africa this close season will meet at Stamford Bridge on October 16.
Professional footballers serving with the Milhin may now play for
Rule
13 has been their mits. walved to chable
to do so. then Previously a "pro" was barred in the Services. A sub-committee was also the whole appointed to deal with matter of Militiamen and Reserves.
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
With a score of 75, 71, 140, A. McKellar won the Happy Valley golf Championship yesterday,
village of Milford, Surrey, until the end of 1000.
an
green estive entered
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the watermen, have TACC for the public-house crews, and now they have been told that the
As the August sun blazed down on the West Indies Throughout the match, Nish hnd Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club greens bowlers while they toiled by no means unsuccessfully
London, Aug. 22. Lon during the close person has considerable difficulty in getting both yesterday when he defeated his Club- against the England batsmen at the Oval, the curtain went
MOTORIST had a strange ex-MRS. Holman, licensee of the given to the ground and considerable his weight and green. He was play-mate, E. R. Harmer, by 21 shots
Arms, Gravesend, perience while driving through Foresters extension made of the covered accom-
make history probably ing far below his best-which was 11, in the final of the Shanghai up on English football, when the Jubilee Benevolent Fund A
Beaconsfield, Bucks, during the will
Gravesend Regatta September imodation.
unfortunate for him at this stage of Lawn Bowls Singles Championship matches were played. Never has our great winter game
Wallace won the Championship Inst the competition.
year, when he also captained Shang- opened in more unseasonable conditions, and when the weck-and. At Wilton Park cricket On the majority of the heads Rob-hat's interport team to victory against players left the grounds all over the country they looked ground, Mr. G. Baker captain of the son held his own with Alves, and Jongkong.
from the very as if they had walked out of a lake. The intense heat High Wycombe second 11 skled
ball which soared out of the ground only on very few hends was he Taking the lead
start, Wallace never lost it and he clearly impaired the standard of football; and can you and fell through the sunshine roof licensee must be the coxswain, A. beaten.
gradually widened the gap between
Mr. T. Orsford, skipper woman coxswain has never steered in this regatta-known as the Water- With the green drawing well ons score and Harmer's. He was up wonder? Temperatures of eighty degrees were recorded of a car.
of the Beaconsfield team said: "The men's Henley-but there is nothing both hands, there were several in P by seven shots to nothing before on several grounds. As a result the attendances were, on
ball just missed the head of the in the rules against it Her cus teresting hends in which the positions Harmer opened his score at the 5th the whole, most disappointing.
driver and his companion and fell tomers are trying to persuade Mrs. changed with every wood sent down. head with a two.
Into the back sent. The driver did ifolman to take the rudder strings, At the 10th head, Wallace had
Major Buckley must have been not realise what had happened. He "I am in a quandary," she confessed, The only occasion in which Robson
It is estimated that the matches third established the overwhelming lead of and Nish led was after the
14 shots to 4, and he managed to were watched by about 350,000 per- fully satisfied, with the performance got out of his ear on hearing a bump. I have not the faintest idea how to bend when they scored a three
sons, the biggest crowd of the day of the Wolves, and, of course, with Apparently he thought that he had cox a boat, but no doubt I should soon Icarn. I shall have to do some One can hardly been hit by another car."
if the boys end 4-1.
slimning before-hand But thereafter they were relain this margin to the end.
Harmer played much better after being at White Hart Lane where Dorsett himself. seldom in the picture, and Alves and the 10th head, and he did very well there was an attendance of 35,000 to think the Wolves' great rivals, Ever
want to get in the first three," she added. (Coventry) (131) B 10 12 0
Ribeiro ran off with a three, two indeed in preventing Wallace from sec Arsenal beat Tottenham Hotspur on, can have been similarly satisfied. Frith, W. Bretold) (RK. BY 11
four and one on successive ends to
Nish increasing his lead. He managed to by one goal to none. Wykes, IL (Coventry) (RIC) 5 11 10
lend 11-4. On Muson, G. W,.
thed. With score, however, at only six heads, (Birmingham) (CIL) 0 9 1 0
saved a six with his last Armeson, L. (Hheffield)
(01) = 10
one of his earlier woods he had taken whereas Wallace scored in 16 ends. out his fifth shot, leaving Alves and Both scored three.
present excellent form Crawley, T. (Blantyre)
(CHL) D 101 13 414 Ribeiro with six, but his last was makes him a certainty for selection Bolleau, H. (Coventry)
well delivered and rested out a front
to the Shanghal interport team to "(1.31.) # 94% 11 7 Snape, J. (Birmingham) |
meet Hongkong In the middle of next 11 wood to sit on the kitty. Bond. W. A, (Dordon) (LM) N
So instead of being down 4-17 as in the Bnal of the Rinks
He is Chapman, 8. R.
they would have been had they lost Championship and the semi-finals of North pte) (OR.) $ 0 Taylor, G. T. (Waliali)
the slx, Robson and Nish
the Pairs Championship. If he should (OR) #
trailing by only 6-11, which was re- win both titles, he will have made Warner, L. EI,
duced with another single on the (Birmingham) (OIL) == Barratt, II. (Coventry)
9th. Ilowever, they made little pro-a "hat-trick," an achievement that (OR)
gress after this in the face of the will be difficult to surpass
(Wallace has been chosen to skip splendid howling of the opposition the rink in the
Second Interport (OR) #
and were finally beaten 28-11.
against Hongkong). (Lochgelly) (11.) T
(Scarborough) {L.D.) B Bmith, D. (Blieby)
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No. 10-Brighton & Forward Problem
During recent years Brighton and SHove Albion have been fortunate in ono respect. Their defence has never given them much anxiety, and conso- quently, when new players have had „lq be sought, it is generally to fil vacancies to the half and forward Vlines.
Last acason
the attack lacked Apunch," and much clover midheld play failed to yield goals. This Manager Charels Webb's chief sim has been to acquire a more versatile Type of forward.
Of the eight now men signed, five| are front rankers of the wing order: F. Hindley (contre-forward), from Nottingham Forest; W. Isaac (inaide- right) (Newcastle United); and T. Evans (Cardiff
Hire CAS 4. James Folke
stone) and G.
(West Brom-
wich Albion), all wing forwards,
'FINE ARRANGEMENTS
were
The thanks of the Hongkong I..B.A.
Wallace's
are due to the Committee of the Match Decided By
Only One Shot
Kowloon Football Club for the ar- for the match rangements made which were perfect in every way:
am sure all the spectators had for the tea grateful reason to be supplied by the KF.C.
spectators who watched the match.
The following were the scores head
by head:
T. Robson II. Nish
II. A. Alves
G. S. Graver
C. B. Robertson
A. Brooksbank 20
J. Barnes F. D. Angus
D. M. Khan
remarks:
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Their defeat at Liverpool did not IN a few weeks there will be an mnice gooit reading, and only Lawtons.os. from one of the countyNEWPORT County have signed W. In Scotland the Glasgow Herald showed anything like England form. Crickel clubs. Dwindling "gates" Robbins from West Bromwich What does not make good reading not due entirely to this rainy sum Albion. He has played 11 times for The return to summer conditions is the number of penaltes awarded mer, will prevent expenses and Wales in international matches. He
Оп two days in
South-West had scored Ave goals for the Welsh makes one more than ever convinced all over the country. We can only ceipts balancing that the League football season in conclude that they were the result July Ue rainfall for Scotland ought to be delayed until of the reminder sent out to reforeca England and Wales wns equivalent side against Thames from the out-
to practically the average fall for side left position. the beginning of September at least about the footnote to Law 12 on the month. In other parts of the In these sweltering days It Is more a obstruction. trial of endurance than of skill for
the players, not to mention the plight Few Injuries
are hardly likely to find the exertions enacted of the spectators, wh
eyes on sunbaked, un- before their yielding turf much of an antidole for bothered" feeling. that "bot and
It is
rcial aspect to be considered. carried off the held on a stretcher Just to prove that crowds are loyal)
THE
THE big surprlac of August 19 was as he was suffering from sunstroke.
Derby County's defeat by Le-In Scotland. cester City. The score was 6-4, and for the winners Liddie gave a very
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(Liverpool),
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Roderick TRNIE country the month was the wettest since rainfall was measured. no surprise, therefore, that cricket British welterweight champion, for all its new-found brightness, has his cut an eye-lid during training for fight with Jimmy Walsh (Ches- hit. Warwickshire. hard ORTUNATELY there were few been
their worst ter), former light-weight titleholder to
financially, have had Injuries
6.000 and the contest at Liverpool Stadi record among the
season since the War. Yet ployers despite the hard grounds.sen Football is essentially a winter uns- Springett, the Gateshead left back, people turned up for one day of the tuin has been postponed until Sep- time, hut, one supposes, there is the came off worst of all. He had to be West Indies game at Birmingham tember 14.
record "putt" THE world's Jones and Morris the Birmingham enough.
claimed by Mr. J. L Coleman, games out of the way now forwards, both had to leave the field:
the Barraba (New playing over ls some kind of Insurance against
leg injury.
ORD Ebbisham has succeeded In South Wales) golf course. He used the weather vargories round about Monday, Charlton's back, was taken Christmas and the New Year. To to hospital with
There were, nt
his annual achievement; he has his putter at the second hole-220 numerous course, delay the start of the season might
dane that for nine He has result of the intense heat, and one son. An exciting match in the Goscombe cause confusion later on when the casualties among the spectators as a taken one hundred wickets this sea-yards and holed out in one. O'Sullivan Cup was played on the Scottish Cup has got into its stride.
onlooker at Swindon collapsed and successive years bui on each occa-
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more remarkable. TN the midst of a solling race in died. Irving, the Hallax Rugbylon it becomes
Dallas, Texas, a line supped on His Excellency the Governor, Sir P.W.D. "B" defeated Clerical "B" by
The score was dead- Some Surprises Gealtry Northcote, His Honour Sir 20 shots to 19.
League forward, was unable to play For Lord Ebbisham now seventy-
two. He has, however, some way to Don Fitch' eraft and the sail flapped Lar Atholl MacGregor, and Dr. J. T. locked at 19-10 at the end of 21
he breaks any record. down. While his rivals drew go before Smalley, President of the HK.L.B.A heads, and in the extra head played
•will scored a perical "B"
Charles Absolom, a well-known Vic-ahead, Fitch worked feverishly to were amongst the large number of P.W.D. "B"
torian club cricketer, look his one Ox the damage, though he figured he
the year P.W.D.
in was nut of the competition. But a hundred wickets in
an octogenarian.squall came up and overturned all R. P. Shaw
sound display. He got two for him- August 19 Falkirk swept the which be become
newly-promoted Cowdenbeath out and the late F. S. Ashley-Cooper fourteen of his rivals and Fitch, an- self, and he added no end of pep to' of their path to the extent of seven tells of a man who, having played ally repairing the line, salled over the side. There were, of course, many hat-tricks. For Portsmouth, goals. Bolton Wanderers will be his first match in 1837, captained his the finish line a winner. Anderson got three, so did Dorsett interested to note that Carruthers,
the right-winger with whom
they for the Wolves, James for Chelsea, Ferrier for Oldham, Chalmers for parted last season, acored four gooks. The League Championship looks like Aldershot, and Alsop for Walsall.
remaining in the hands of the holders, Rangers. Aberdeen, for in- stance, gave a somewhat abject dis- the plate. Dago Costello whiffed play at Motherwell while Heart of Nig Vetkoetter singled, and so did Midlothian were disappointing against Jigy Hoffmann. Centre feld Celtic. They have never won at Choy muffed Dutch Lingenbrink's Parkhead since 1992. If Celtic had high dy. Bases were now load Delaney back in the team they Highpockets Bellamy worked a base
woll set to chase on balls off Chang for the first run; the same time they appear the only
Rongers. laid down Rube. Sartain
heal
club Rangers have to fear, Rangera sacrifice for the next marker. With Unleashing ten-hit attack on Dutch Lingenbrink on third, Chung were more than a cut ahead of Ayr hapless Hank Ching, the Stars and was really up in the air and allowed Unlied, who have lost nine goals in (Humilion) made a most satisfactory Stripes came through yesterday at King Kong to cross the plate on the two games and scored none. McNeo
debut for the winners. Caroline Hill to take the Chinese, only wild pitch of the day. 5-1, in a charity game, sponsored by
TWO DOUBLE PLAYS the Hongkong Chinese Women's
St. Johnstone, like Ayr United, Soldiers Helliet Association.
The next frame
more have got off to a bad start-six goals 11 Blanking the Chinese for four American runs on four blows. Miles lost in two games and none scored. 7frames, the Tulsa mound artist, Glen singled to centre. Baker sacrificed. Allea lost Ave goals in the first half
Miles, only allowed them two sate- Costello also bingled, to left, and
F. V. V. Ribeira
The other newcomers are: H. Bald-c. Longdon (Clowne) (L)
goalkeeper from West Brom-F. Harris (Button-in-
Aahheld) (H.) 5.0 Wich; C. Longdon, half-back from P. Trainor (Workington Brentford; and J. Harris, ball-back,
(C.J.)
who formerly assisted Doncaster. Stevens (Morpeth) G.. Spencer (Crewe) Boyers. Playing list:
Evans Merthyr)
Birthplace For. It 10. Mes (Bajper). Wilson (Ryton-on-
2 Baldwin (Blemingham)
Makamaliton" (Perth
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10
Baseball
J. H. Gelling
AMERICANS
DEFEAT CHINESE
"Bingle")
19
saw
two
be
would At
lies, one of them a triple by left made the catcher show his hand to at Arbroath, where the clover play Helder All Lee in the Afth canto. steal second. Vetkoetter, who made of Gould on the right wing tore holes in their defence. Hibernian were Miles fanned ten Chung Hwamen in four hits in four times up, leashed
10-) (1.A) 8 84% 10 dishing up this splendid job, and single to centre, that chased in both good, if narrow, winners over Clyde, showed the local yokels that ho Miles and Costello for the two while Albion Rovers played so well against Partick Thistle they scarcely really had something on the ball.
deserved to be beaten. China's only in occurred in the counts that totalled five in all.
Davis (Dunfermline) (C.
((03.1:9-11 0|F. Rindley (Worksop)
Day (Brighton)
11 1ft Golfer (Northampton),
Atharton (Presión):
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The two double plays of the game when Hanic Chang singled.
Outstanding results in the Second Choy was given a pass, while were pulled by the Chinese: Wally Dynamo Ho fanned, and Chang rode Ching, Nip Lum and Chaney Chan Division were Dundee's victory at Cramlington) (LR) = 84°17 in on the wings of Leo's triale to were in on the first one; and Dynamo Airdrie and Queen's Park draw at Ho and Chan got in the next in the Dunfermline. Looks as if Duadro (LSL) Sy85% 11:9] 3. Philbin (Jarrow-on="
rightfeld. Tras) - (0.14) § 7-10 7
America didn't start to score until afth when Dago Rabacchi tried to are heading for promotion-Oir 30-0
Own Correspondent. Stephens" (London)
the sixth when three tallies crossed durap one.
TENNIS WIDOWS
Wives of widely known tennis players return from Europe to New York, while their husbands are making a world four. Left to right: Mr. J. G. Harris, Lestor Stoeffen and Mrs. Ellsworth Vines.