Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 4, 1940.
BASKETBALL IN HONGKONG
Growth Over Twenty-Five Years
European "Y" Squad May Enter League Next Year
(By "Tinker"').
REGIONAL
LEAGUE SOCCER
- LONDON, June 1 (Reuter) The
day:
SOUTH "CH
IN ONE OF THE LATEST pictorial magazines from America, basketball has been rated as following were the results of Region- America's foremost indoor game, and judging by al League soccer matches played to- the thousands that are attracted to the games, it must be. I was recently asked why it was that in Westtom Hongkong it had not extended its influence be-Fulham yond the Schools and certain of the Chinese Clubs,
I was unable to formulate any comprehensive answer. It is an American game and I can only think of two pos- sible reasons (apart from the climate) for its failure out- side the previously mentioned circles.
These are:
(1) The British bulldog is a slow moving creature, and is equally slow in adapting itself to outside influences.
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vented in 1091 by James Naismith, o
physical instructor at the gynnashim of the YMCA. training school at | Springfield, Massachusetts, und I cannot say if netball was played br- tore that or not.
1 Millwall
3 Brentford
NORTH-WESTERN
Blackburn
Rochdole
NORTH-EASTERN
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York
Huddersfield
Racing
Handicaps And Entries For
Macao Meet
C.B.S. SENIOR NETBALL TEAM
The Central British School senior girls' netball team, Miss Marr, the School Sports Mistress, Is seated the centre.-Ming Yuen.
EASTERN TRIUMPH IN MANILA TOUR Crushing
Defeat For All-Chinese XI
(2) The game calls for weers the gaines is obvious in their That there is some connection be- youthful team spirit that is not very noticeable in the staid simlarity of rules and play. The encyclopedia says "basketball, with European Clubs in the Colony.
| somewhat modified rules, is extreme- I did hear quite recently that the ly popular with young women." But, European V.M.C.A. was thinking of the question is whether netball is putting a team inin the field, but modification of basketball or whether THE FOLLOWING are the entries the
to a place where there is basketball is an elaboration of net-and handicaps for the races nt the the possibility of there being a real ball.
June Meeting of the Macao Jockey get-together atmosphere, and where Whatever it is, it is a very strent-Club on Sunday: youth and enthusiasm make it pos- ous game, and that is why I men- 1st Race"LAPPA HANDICAP" sible for such a, teum game to be} lloned, the cimate carly in this (1st Section)-One round.-Fei Ying played.
article. However, China-or rather (140), Jack O'Lantern (155). Little "England has a alunitar game-It is young China-in its adolescent sluge Trincess (155), National Success railed
netball-BUT {t is confined to k
to rapidly assim Hunk sporting (165), Night View (168), Phoenix girls schools.
Strangely enough-circles the Chinese, have risen to the 2nd Race-"NAMTAO HANDICAP" and in Hongkong's sporting(100), have looked hrough every
chaven't been able to And one { softball, and table tennis. At one idol (155), Dekko (188), Dow-Jones:
could lay my hands on top in tennis, fosthall, baseball and i
and (1st Section-Six furlongs--Copper and single reference to netball. Whita-Ume, too, the Chinese Recreation (161 kers'
Heddon (161).
(150), Lancashire Alemanak contains a solitary Club had a formidable team in the (Chap (102), Radium Star (188), Sun-
MANILA, May 29.-The powerful Eastern Chinese reference, and that esteemed volume cricket league. Perhaps, one day shine Susie (181), Tim (181), Wild Athletic Association football eleven from Hongkong last only says that Middlesex beat some will see them back again,
Bear (152). other last year ita the
3rd Race "LAPPA HANDICAP" night concluded their four-game return series here with a
YMCA, and it is the Chinese (140), Desert Star (155), Double CANNOT, therefore, say which Y.M.C.A., Bridges Street, that is the Chance (161), 'Golden
Cow (155), tion at the Rizal Memorial Track-Football Stadium. The Basketball was in-centre of Hongkong's Basketball March Brown (101). Shonghal 4 visitors wrought havoc on the local defence registering
League. I was there that the first | (140). ganes of basketball in Hongkong 4th Race="NAMTAO HANDICAP” four goals in the first period. were played, and that was over 25 (2nd Section-Six furlongs-King's years ago.
was in 1913, I think, Envoy (163), Lucky Eleven (188). that the Colony Chinese first saw Mac's Adventure (149), National the game, and that was at the fur (160), Old Fashioned (140) Persian For Anthem (160), National Honour Eastern Olympic Games in Manila. Cat (145), The Spirit of St. Louis Attracted, they set about formulating their own rules (based on the cor-
(155). rect rules) and some years later 6th Race "CHAIRMAN'S CUP"— saw the
opening of the local League, ne
c. One mile-Country Flower (135), in which there were one or two for Coureur Bleu (135), Fairy Auk (149), Fairy Ousel (152). Gold Clause To-day, the number of teams in(135), Hogmanay (155), Meadow Eve the Schools and Open Leagues is (140), Merry Fatty (135), Merry almost twice the number of years Maker (145), Rothesay Bay (140), the game has been played here. And Shanghai 4 (160), Wood Nymph
in more, only space limits the (155). number of spectators.
tenis - or
County final.
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came first.
OPENS TO-MORROW
AT THE
KING'S
THE Come originated in the (2nd Section)-One round-Bogey crushing 7 to 1 victory over the Manila All-Chinese selec-
GENIUS..OR elgn teams.
MANIAC?
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KARLOFF
BELA
what in
Red
Again
The Eastern Chinese Athletic Association will sail for Singa- pore early to-morrow morning on board the President Polk for another series of games there.
Sox Beaten Some members of the team are
By Chicago
Oth Roce "LIMCHOW HANDI- NEW YORK, June 3 (UP)-The CAP" Five furlongs, Black Boston Red Sox, leaders of the Ame- IN Shanghai, the foreign is une Double Up (146), Engle (155), Iron the Chicago White Sox to-day. The Diamond (152), Cloudy Star (148), rican League were again beaten by of the lending squads in the basketball
Knight (161), Mendow Eve (140)..completo scores were: Langue. The northern port, however, is for more cosmopoli-Shanghal 4 (160). Shih Yin Grand (146), The Mermaid (138), Victory
tan, and, with a far more cosmo- Le connection with the "Chairman's politan cullook,, new gomes have a (140).
IC-
In
AMERICAN LEAGUE..
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7 10 0. Battery: Deitrich, Brown, Tresh. 4 14 4
much better chance of succeeding Cup" a special $1 Sweep limited to Chicago One has but to look at the press 75,000 tickets is being run. The cost ports on basketball, volleyball, ten of one Through Chance is $10, Boston nnel - duck-pins, and mini-ball (miniature football) to see the op- Sweep. Tickets are obtainable at the Bagby, Peacock.
excluding the "Chairman's Cup" Battery: Ostermueller, Wagner, portunities given these new games Cash Sweep Department, No. 17, and the popularity they have gained. Connaught Road, Central, Top Floor.
In Malls, there is at the moment,
a team of girls from America en- gaged in a series of basketball games. They are a famous team (in America), too. But then, Manila is very Americanised, and in Shanghai the influence of the United States is considerable, but I leave it to those who have been to both places to form their own comparisons with Hong-
LUGOSI kong, regarding sporting life.
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ONLY TWO MATCHES in the Kobe. The total exceeded a record (Boston ... first round of the lawn bowls pairsimark reached earlier in the spring championship were played at Happy at the Kyoto track. Valley. yesterday.
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2 4 Battery: Passeau, Root, Todd. Until the present period of plenti- ful money a record of approximately The Philadelphia-St. Louis game ¥10,000,000 in wagers for an eight-was played on an earlier date. day meeting was considered excep~|
Under the law governing roeing in Japan the government takes 15 per cent, of all wagers.
A. R. and A. K. Minu beat J. Wat- The Hanshin meeting was attended son and J. H. Gelling 22-14 at Civil by 300,000 spectators. Service but the game between J. F. McGowan and H. E. Strange against W. J. Penny and A. E. Contes, at the Football Club was stopped on
the 19th head with McGowan and Strange
Joading
22-21. PLAYING IN DARK
The last five heads were played in ❘tional. gerri-darkness, and it was practically Impossible to see the woods when the gone was stopped, with two heads to go about 7.35 pan. The remalit Golf ing heads will be played this after- moon,
The Minu brothers took the lead from the alart and were leading B-1 at the Ath. They led 21-7 on the 14th, but allowed Watson and Gelling to acore on four-out of the last five heads.
Polo Postmoned
Second Round Matches In Summer Singles---
Humphreys (3) four and three; CC. Stark (0) best W. B. Hillier (3) four and three KB. Robertson (5) beat-T. J. Price (D). at the 19th,
already in Singapore. The visi- tors are slated to play four games in Singapore.
Following their series of games in Singapore, the Eastern Chinese play- ers will tour Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Rangoon and Medan. If their pre-
to Calcutta, India. sent plans are carried out,--the- Eastern Chinese team may proceed
FAST AND FURIOUS
HE Eastern Chinese eleven played
"Good morning, sunshine!”. "Go to blazes { "
"Now, now temper! That's not like mummy's little blue- eyed boy."
“Oh, go and climb a tree. I hope you get a thick head like mine. Teach you to jeer.".
"Thank you, I can jeer perfectly well- I don't need any lessons. As for the thick head - so long as I stick to Gimlets or have
stiff glass of Rose's lime juice before I glide beneath my mos quito net - I'll never get one."
"You'll get one nowo if yesi don't clear out. [Pause.] What did you say about lime juice ?" "My dear fellow-the path- ology of the common hangover is interesting. The blood alcohol content falls rapidly after ad- ministration of Rose's Lime Juice the stomach..." "Fred
does this stuff work retrospectively **.
No harm in trying. Send
your boy out for a bottle of Rose's now."
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The
night before a handful of fans. visitors played with machine-like precision and opened the scoring spree after seven minutes of start. Chow Man-chi scored the first tally of the game. Lee Tacky followed sult, accounting for the second goal of the game after 20 minutes of play. After several minutes, the Hong- kong booters scored again when Chow Man-chi dented the net with along kick from the wing. Cheung Kam-hot accounted for the fourth tally in the closing minutes of the first period.
LOCAL REVIVAL
0.
THE local Chinese displayed
little pep in. the second session and carried the attack at the start. In a melee near the goal. Uy Yek- hoc broke the ice for the Manila Chinese scoring on a nice kick that caught Goalle Hu Heng unaware.
That was as far as the Manila Chinese could go as the Hongkong players again went to work. Cheung Kam-bot accounted for two goals and Lee Torky for one tally in the closing period
The Eastern Chinese players de- feated the Philippine selection twice by the scores of 4-3 and 5-2. Last Sunday, the, visitors' walloped the Manila Football League, selection,
€-2.
HEAVY NAZI LOSSES Exorbitant Cost of March Into Lowlands
Parlo, Juna. 3. Officials claim that the Germans suffered fabulous losses in the 23
Captain's Cup Qualifiers, days since the favaalon of the Low-
At Fanling
lands including nearly 600,000 casualties in the Battle of, Flanders, In addition to casualties in the Battle -of-the-Mouse-and fighting In-Belgium The June Qualifying round of the and Holland in the first fortnight of THE FOLLOWING were the reat Fanling, over
Captain's Cup Competition was held the campaign.
the Old Course, salts in the second round of the First during the past, week-end and re- Bummer Singles golf competition aulted as follows: held at Happy Valley recently:
Thomerson,
Nazi air losses-2,000 planes are so great that the Allies'will probably allain numerical equality in the air
qualified.
Jamphrey.
12in should favour the Allies, whose There were 2 entries. The compared with Germany's United optional pool was cancelled.
The Royal Navy Cup Polo com- petition, the first second and third the 20th: F. C. Berry received a walk- C
T. 11, Low (11) best A. McKellar (6) mt *WW. C. Ehewan. 70-8=70, and within 60 days, after which the mar
03-22-10 rounds of which should have taken over
CL, Bowker: G. M. Park Other scores wern. pice on June 6,7 mnd. 17, respective 10) beal id. Parkes free and one 98111 part 11 Mullen mir. Joseus have been at a minimum ly, have been postponed till June 12, un: Major farvey (8)
B. Chubh (15) but beat 11. Smith (0)81-0-12
May (13) two Pearce (3-}}=}}] and D. 17 and 21 owing to the wet weather, inres and two; Li, Carter-(9)
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