Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
March 8, 1940.
"Captain Foster's" Racing Review PROSPECTS FOR FIRST EXTRA MEET
Events for Non-Winners VANISHING At Spring Meet: Easy RACE PONIES?
Day
for Punters
ALTHOUGH it is officially called the First Extra (saddling bell at the usual 1.30 p.m.), the prelude to a series of six race meetings before the recess is in reality a continuation of the Annual Carnival, for all the events without ex- coption are confined to Australian and China ponies that started at the Spring meeting and did not win.
There are the usual nine events on the card with the inclusion of only four handicap contests and it looks that punters will not have a bad day.
My hest three pre Ascot Day. The curtain raiser will be the Hay and Corn Stakes for China Princess Clan and Vanity Fair, the fost being my fancy, and there ponies, subscription grillins of wil be piloted by Mr. Ip Kul-ying imy season. The scramble over who was the Juckey for a second Ahort distance from the 1% place in the Blue Mountains Plate.
For a long shot † certainly recom- mile post (about half mile 170 yards) is to be ridden by the mend Franklin. Venus Bay is stilt "red letters" jockeys, who haven at the gone, but it is worth remembering; that the sire W324 to carry a penalty of 2 lbs. for Double Court. uch race won in addition to the weights so designated in the HONGKONG H’CAP
programme,
(First Section)
One would hardly expect to find such stalwarts us Celle Stor, Port-
Eh, Rose Evelyn and Salvage Mus-HERE are 11 China ponies in the first section of the Hong-
ter among the list of nominations.
Rose Evelyn is not a lady for akong Handicap, five being Derby novice to bandle, because the mure griffins and the balance from dova not like the tape, and the old brigade.. All the young fearned that the mount has been en-sters of this season have been Lusted to Mr. G. Treventon. How-
Rose Elret and Deseri Chief, two as happy Valloy last year. of the most prominent China ponies They are here being fed in by Mrs. Eu Tong
een after the Champions race at the 1939 annual meeting.
Gonsalves & Remedios Enter Second Round Of Open Doubles
(By "Tinker")
P. H. WONG AND C. AU ENTER SINGLES SEMI-FINALS
Next Week's Schedule Amended
TWO MATCHES in the senior badminton singles championship of the Colony, were played off at King's College last night, P. H. Wòng and C. Au entering the semi-finals at the expense of C. K. Cheah and D. Kwok respectively. Only one of the two junior games at Taikoo was played,
The results were:
1. H. Wong beat C. K. Cheah 19-2,
C. Au bent D. Kwok 15-4, 15-0.
15-0.
JUNIOR SINGLES
Next Week's Matches
THERE HAS BEEN 。 slight mix-up in the men's doubles
W, Gillies bent F. Trang 17-10, 15-5. matches. The fixtures contained
I. II. Wong was never fully ex-in tended by Cheah, who was nervous and erratic in the opening set, but who improved in the second.
Au had an easy win his first set but in the second, agafrial Kwok, though leading 0-2, was forced to
the following list are correct:
Tuesday, Mar. 12
י
OPEN DOUBLES
J. J. Remedios and L. A. Carvalho
College, 8 p.m.).
THERE WAS MUCH to interest spectators at the Hongkong Cricket Club yesterday when further matches in the Colony. Open tennis championships were played.exert hintself when his opponent v. II. Eardley and N. L. Sunits (King's Four singles and one doubles, the scheduled programme, were decided. The most interesting was the doubles en- counter, wherein A. V. Remedios and J. J. Gonsalves eliminated Ng Kam-chuen and Tsoi Ping-fan by 8-10, 6-4,
G-1.
The singles results were: Tsul Wai-pul beat 1. Agafutoff,
0-2, 0-4.
1. D. Rumjalin beat Firdes Khan, G-1, G-1.
S. A. Rumishin beat B. C. Fay,
6-1, 6-4.
Are China Ponies To Disappear Altogether?
THE DECISION of the Stewards of the Hongkong Jockey Club to section all the Australian ponies into four classes instead of three after the First Extra Race Meet- ever, with a little luck Rose Evelyn entered for the second event, ing, which will be staged to-morrow, has not taken us by hould break the wish-bone and re-and I have good reason to be-surprise, because we fully expected the move so as to have
ater the first win of the season for lieve that they will not accept a leg for 1941 meetings. Mr. Eu Tong wen.
the allotment of the lead given by Portrush has changed ownership the handleapper,
Quite recently a preliminary notice was circulated to members to the following effect that in view of the un-
(the new owner being Dr. Lee Shili- However, I see that Dupont Bay Kee), but the record of the fastest and Galaxy are on the same level, certainty of obtaining China pony subscription griffins, and
tunes over half mile performed by the and should the former weigh out, we pony will renuin under the name off are bound to witness a fine tussle Use late owner, Mrs. J, H. Taggart, over the champion course. For a until a new track figure has been beating of half length, Galuxy has established. This chestnut gelding is been asked to concede 5 lbs. to Red dangerous, and so is Celtic Star. Feather, and it looks a lough pro-
position.
LOITERERS STAKES Twenty-Threo Entries
For The Sprint THE Loiterers Stakes for China
ponies, bona fide grifies of the season, has attracted no less than 23 entries and the sprint] is over six furlongs.
Rob Roy and Humdrum Eve are nicely weighted, but the distance.
fraid, is beyond their endurance. I Uke Red Feather.
DAILY DOUBLE
Moonie Ponds Handicap (First Section)
On their recent outings Dupont THE first leg of the daily
Bay. Jolinber, Possible and White
double is on the Moonie
Diamond should be in the limelight. Ponds Handicap (first section) and I gure that Possible will catch for Australian ponies of any "the judges" "eyes first. A red pencil agason, and-the-jaunt--is-over-
can be drawn against Xenophos as the mile, the big noise maker pulled up lame after å gallop last Saturday.
RANDWICK PLATE
One Mile Event For
The Australians
the difficulty of acquiring China pony griffins at reason- able prices, the Stewards signified their intention of im- porting fifty Australian ponics of a superior class to the present subscription class.
This new class will be in addition to the Australian subscription griffins, which will be increased to a list of one hundred ponies. The cost of the new class will be approximately $1,450, and members will have to buy the ponics at an auction to be held under the aus- pices of the Race Club. Further detaila and regula tions relating to this new class et cetern-will-be- announced later.
SAFE ASSUMPTION
In the light of above one can safely assume that the so-called "China ponles" will, in a couple of years or more, go off the stage, and Happy Valley will be the iving land of our dumb friends" from the Antipodes.
Looking over the entries, Criffel strikes me as the best pick of the bunch, und, furthermore, the mare from John Peel's stable is well keyed for the event. I much prefer to see her over six furlongs, but neverthe- less Criffel has a pull of 9 lbs. against Tornado Star, who heads the handl
to consider the have cup, and we HE Randwick Plate (first adjustment of the poundage.
Corklerai another
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contender section) for Austrálian sub-
must not be despised. De- which cription ponies of this season vonian let the public down very should be quite interesting, and badly Adelaide
Australian Handleup, but the in the run is over a mile.
the bay has been kindly treated for. to-morrow's run. Should he be able to reproduce his form when he was third in the Melbourne Cup, De-
for Lady Northcote.
SPORTS ADVTS. vonian should register his first win
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
HONGKONG H'CAP (Second Section)
THE FIRST EXTRA RACE MEET-T was true that the judges ING will be held (weather permit-l could not separate Expansion ting) at HAPPY" ·VALLEY an Time (Mr. P. Woi) and Po- SATURDAY, Dth March, 1940, tentate (Mr. Encarnacao) for a commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 8econd place in Ichang Handicap run at the Annual Carnival, and
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„MEMBERS' ENCLOSUPE
it is learned that both racers
(second
will be seen that the fifty cobs com- apart prising the new class, the 1st of subscription grimins is limited to one hundred gec-gecs against this season's bunch of 61 ponies, and, therefore, it stands to reason for one to predict that seventy-five per cent. of the pro- gramme for next year's Annual Carnival will be .confined to Australian ponies. It wiII not surprise me in the least to see tho Hongkong Derby be confined to the new class Australian ponies and furthermore it will not be long to have an "E" class.
It will be recalled that for two years (1038 and 1939) in sutera- sion the late delivery of China ponies sub-class caused much an- xiety not only to the Stewards but the owners as well, and the 1040 meet saw the elimination of
that familiar racing phrase, "For China ponies, subscription grißins of this Club of this meeting."
sub-
the
DEALERS' EXCUSE
The exclusion of these events was forced upon
of the non- Club on account delivery of the 'steeds subscribed by members, and the Russian dealer's excuse was that he could not obtain an export permit from the Japanese Government owing io political hostilities up north. Apparently he must have used to his
the advantage
"Force Majeure clause, but other gly Russian merchants were able to amuggle out quite a lot of China ponies, and the Hongkong Jockey Club Informed Its members that 02 Derby grimns entered for the annual big meeting.
I am not out to start a con- troversy, but there is a wide gulf of moral rectitude between the dealers of Australian and China ponies. The Commonwealth up- pliers lived up to their contract, and all the shipments arrived here on time as stipulated by the Club, which naturally gave the trainers many months to prepare the ponies for the Spring meet- Ing
and the subsequent Satur day's aft
afternoon sporta.
the exorbitant Apart from Prices
for China ponies, the Russian dealers never think twice before nifixing their signatures to result any guarantee, with the
been that many owners have caught with "scrap of paper" promises, and some are now in fool's paradise waiting for replaced Derby grimns. It will serve no purpose to enumerate a list of the "unfortunate" owners, but under this category Stewards are included. leave the matter here.
Iew We
WINDSOR LAD GOES
TO STUD
No One without a badge will be with the same two jockeys will admitted to, the Members' Enclosure. weigh out to-morrow for the Such must be worn throughout the duration of each Meeting in such a Hongkong Handicap manner as to be readily Identified. section) over 1% miles,
Badges admitting Non-Members to Over a longer distance Expansion the Members Enclosure and Club Time should turn the tables on Rooms at $3.00 for Gentlemen and Potentate, with Blue Diamond fol- $3.00 for Ladies (both including tax) lowing behind. Jober is not bad for are obtainable through the SECRET- big money, but Gladiator, Just In ARY upon the personal or written Tine, Rose Jane and Taxing Master application of a Member, such Mem- are trying to win out of their dis-of the Derby in 1934, is now bor to be responsible for all visitors tance. Introduced by him, and for Payment
of all Chits, etc.-
The Secretary's Office, "Ist Floor, Exchange Building, (Tel, 27708) wil
#
pose nt 12 o'clock NOON,
MUTIONS ara obtatriable at the Club
21920).
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
BRANDWICK PLATE
(Second Section)
WINDSOR LAD, winner
owned by the Sun Insurance Company and a group of Lloyd's underwriters..
House-provided they are ordered in ALBURY belonging to Mrs. Eu After his Derby victory advanco from the No. 1 Boy (Tel." Tong-sen should not have the horse was bought by Mr. any difficulty in crossing the bar The price of Admission to the first in the Randwick Plate M. H. Benson for £50,000 Public Enclosure is $1.00 Including (second section) for Australian from the Maharaja of Rajpi Tax, for all Persons, Including ponies of this season, and, in-pla. Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.cidentally, this event is the (Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform are second log of the daily double." [admitted, Half Price,
Sen Jay anvt.Sprint Shins are my ship has resulted from an arbi- next two to fill the minor positions: tration following an operation Warrego River finished fourth be-
performed on PLEASE Turn To Pago 9.
the horse by
By Order,
o. n. BROWN,
cong, 4th March, 1040,
Secretary.
The present change of owner-
Dublin
Tenule Kwok beat I. M. A. Razack. 7-5, 5-7. 7-5,
CLUB SINGLES
drew level at 9-9.
Keen Shooting At Kowloon City Ranges
A LARGE CROWD of 124 en- thusiasis were present at Wednes- day's spoon and practice shoot of the Hongkong Rifle Association at the Kowloon City Ranges. The weather was good, although the light de- teriorated towards the end.
Mr. W. Tansley WAS agaln successful in the revolver shoot al 10 ant 15
yards, securing 50 points: out of a possible do.
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C. I. Cheah and T. T. Chin v. P. 11. Kwok and D. Kwok, (King's College, 0.45 pan.).
K. L.. Yong and H. F. Chew v. H. M. Lau and S. C: Chang (Taikoo, D. 1.C.).
It. T. Woo and K. L. Lal v. F. Koh and C. Y. Yung (Taikoo, 8.30 pan.).
Thursday, Mar. 14
SENIOR SINGLES
K. L. Yong v. H. F. Chew (King's College, 8 p.m.).
H. Eardley v. P. S. Bun (King's College, # pan.).
MIXED DOUBLES
M. A. Oliveira and Misa M. Silvn v. On Wednesday, March 13, firing T. T. Chin and Miss M. Ding (King's will be at 200, 500 and 600 yards and College, 8.30 p.m.). will commence at 1.45 p.m.
3. J. Remedios and Miss O. Ribeiro Leading scores on Wednesday werev, P. I. Wong and Miss W. Cheung
(Talkoo, 8.30 p.m.).
Aperture Sights
Il'cap.
R. G. Belsch, Jr., beat J. L. C. Pearce, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.
C. H. B. Hyde beat 3. T. Gould 5-7, 6-1, 10-8.
S. M. Garrard heat T. A. Pearce, 6-8, 6-4, 6-4.
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was i
in the doubles motel that the necessity of linesmen in these foster games was emphasised. There could be no blame attached to the umpire, for the light was none too good, and all four players were hard hitters. I particularly followed the effect of a wrong decision in the Bithas follows: Kame of the first set, when Remedios and Gonsalves were leading 3-2 and 15-40 on their opponents' service.
ball dropped just outside the st. t. J. Heap Ser. Recreio pair's baseline and raised a F/Set F. Tollison 1 jft of dust. Mistakenly, the umpire Mr. W. Trenneth Scr. thought it lind been a fine ball, and Mr. A. F. Evans 1
A.S.P. (1) D. Lole Ser. gave the point to the Chinese, They Mr. A. L. Warburton 3. went on to win the game, making 4: A. Guard Ser.
J. Le Secteur Scr. the store 3-3 Instead of it being 4-2. Rr. II. G. Foreman 2
bir. The Chinese won the seventh C/Sgt. P. Hale Scr,
score 4-3 in P.S.. (B) . C. Hoo 1 game. making the their favour, instead of it being the 1. 9. Chanchal singh 1 olher way round. The eighth and Sat. W. Ilenderson 3
L/Sgt. Puran Singh Ser. ninth games were won by Remedios | 571 1. v, W. Cooper Ser. and Gonsalves, giving them the leadF/O. J. Farmer 0 at 5-4. Hutt they won the sixth 5.1, (a) c. c. Chau Ser,
Cpl. 5. G. Brighty Scr. game, the ninth game would have 13.M. F. Masten 2 given them the first set at 6-3.
LONG STRUGGLE
Sgt. (6) P. 11, Thong Scr.
Capt. P. Bale 3
Sat. E. C. Bremner 5 B/M. W. Hufford Ser. Sgt. (R) K. C. Wong 3 Major 9. White
As it was the first set, de conch ST. (8) AC Chan 2
Open Sights
Cpl. R. Langford Ser. Sgt. M. F. Rushman Scr. I/Sgt. (R) O. T. Leong St. R. Green d
Cpl. Wood
Cpl. V. M. Hammond
S.M. J. C. E. Mead Cpt. Naranjan Singh
300 500 600 T.;
yes, yes. yds
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GOVERNOR'S CUP
TEAM CHOSEN Hongkong F.A. To Meet Chinese Federation
AT A MELTING of the Leaguo Management Committee yesterday the following team was selected to re- present Ilongkong Football · Assocla- tion against Hongkong Chinese Ama- feur Athletic Federation in the anal of the Governor's Cup at Caroline
on March 17 at
Blackburn (Navy); (Police), O'Regan (Navy): Bright (Middlesex), Williamson (Kowloon), Wilkinson
HotAuck (Middlesex); aon (Royal Scots), Fox (RE), F. Fowl-
1
Robinson
87 (Club), A. v. Gosano (St..
into a gruelling struggle which Mr. C. A. Hyett only ended after 10 games had been ended played, and
the against Portuguese
pair. Ng and Tsol were seen at their best in the opening set, and though mony of their points were given by their opponents through them sheer carelessness, there was nothing among the other three that could C. E. Olway Nil
Mr. G. II. R. Fox 14 equal Ng's forehand drive. It was,
was, Mr. C. A. Dunk however, his only real stroke, and Col. G. 8 Lochrie Nil
Lt. K. 1. M. Busiignan Nu even that failed towards the end.
Remedios
the stendiest St E. Breese
P. C. Narain Singh throughout. Over-anxiousness to P.B.. (R) C. Wang I place the ball carefully.when at the A.C., W. H. Golder 11 Cpl. J. E. Hawking 7 net cost the Portuguese-quite-u-num. 1. A. Evans 10 ber of points. Not having their winner of nett spoon. (h) winner
er
Bickford (Club).
Reserves Sheehan (Middlesex). full-back; Forrow (Club) and Guy (RA), half-backs B. Gosano (St. Joseph's), W. G. Pryde (Club) and Thomas (Middlesex), forwards.
Players Suspended
At an Emergency Committee meet-
21 232 23hing H. Millington and Ho Yau-kec, 73 Club and Kitchee, respectively, who
23 21 70 were given marching orders during
whole attention on the ball, they hit at handicap spoon; (b) winner of possible their second division match on Febru- too early and sent the ball into the button: winner of in) or thy will have hry 10, were suspended until Decem-
his handicap reduced by one point.
ber 31.
net.
Concalves, though rather weak over-head, recovered the swing of his service in the second and third sets, and with the exercise of extra care with his ground shots was a
ost helpful partner. mosi
one-
After winning the first set, the Chinese pair never had the lead again. There was always a game difference between the score in the second set, while in the third they were definitely out-played.
FAY IN ACTION
C. FAY in action was quite a
B. delight. He has a free and easy
Fay
| style, if not very accurate, and is possessed of a really powerful ser- vice. Sirdar Rumjahn's steadiness and retrieving power stood him in good stend when Fay's first cannon- ball
service went over the net. In the second set, when applied
ព little more caution, the rallies were fairly long and interest- ing. But they invariably ended, not with winners, but with mistakes.
Teul Wal-pul the champion, though he conceded six games in the two sets against 1. Agafuroff, was never seriously extended,
To-day's Matches
The following is the programme for to-day:
Prof. O'Connor, the veterinary surgeon.
INSURED FOR £45,000 Windsor Lad was withdrawn from stud last year suffering from an in- fection of the frontal. sinus. Mr. Benson wanted to have the horse destroyed, but as he was insured for £43,000, the Insurance company S. sought their own veterinary opinion. The operation followed.
Mr. Benson, however, did not con- sider that the horse could resume stud duties. After arbitration, he agreed to pecept a num, stated to be £27,000, and another £14,000 to cover his expenses in Windsor Lnd's iliners,
The horse is to stand at Burnt- wood Stud, near Winchester, under the management of Capt. "D. P. Nicoll. The stud fee will be made public shortly.
OPEN 'SINGLES
Lam Kwan v. J. W. T.conard A. Crawford v. Ip Koon-hung P. S. Leong v. S. A. Graz Paul Kong v. J. S. Throbald Wel Chung v. M. Pagh W. C. Hung v. T. C. Chan
OPEN DOUBLES
Taul Wal-pul and Tsui Yun-pui v.
A.'Hussain and O. Rumjahn,
CLUB SINGLES
C. B. Nicholson v. G. W. Sewell
COUNT THE
"TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
Army And C.S.C.C. Cricket Teams
B. A. Fargus, B/Chdr. Gardner. Cpl. lount, Cpl. Boocock, Plo. Emmerson, Pte. Hatfeld, Gar, Barsby,
CIVIL SERVICE TEAM
The following will represent the Civil The following will represent Anny In Service CCL. Strange (Capt.). G. 2nd XI against the Army on thel, Junior Lengue cricket fixture with sturday Civil Service Cricket Club. qt Happy Ainslie, E. W. Hamilien. P. D. Crawley, Valley, on Saturday, Capt. 3. F. Lawrence K. J. Attwell, V. C. Band, I. La Lock- captain). Brigadier, T. MacLeod, Major, hart, G. P. Stone, H. F. Harper, A. F. J. E. Bwyer, Llout. A. W. F. Feal, Lieut. Sheppart, and J. r. Macklowan.
800
DRY GI
BY APPOINTMENT
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