GCFriday, Vol" HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 26, 1940.
Sea Biscuit's Career Second Failure In Santa Anita H'cap: Defeat Of War Admiral
(Third Chapter)
By Jack Guenther
ARCADIA, Cal. (UP). Seabiscuit returned to Santa Anita Park in 1938 hailed as a champion. At the age of five he had earned $210,000. He had won the Brooklyn handicap, the Butler, Yonkers, Massachusetts, Continental and the Riggs in quick succession and he apparently, had the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap at his mercy.
After the handicap, the Sun Beau money
mark was just a step away.
But Seabiscuit lived up to his nickname of "Hard Luck Kid" faster than anyone had expected. First he lost his tune-up race. the $10.000 San Antonio, to Esposa by nose. Then,
favoured at 19-10 he went into the Santa Anita and there was Stagehand, one of the great stretch runners of the turf.
Starchand was another story book horse. He camo lo California maiden and in five starts scored three triumphs. One of the races he won was the $50,000 Santa Anila derby. Ife was a beautiful thing, Juli of Jong-striding run, but he was just three years old and youngsters seldom carry their weight against a good older horse,
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But what everyone forgot - was that Stagchand's Santa Anita weight was a feather of 100 pounds while the rugged Biscuit drew 130.
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Now Secretary For
Tennis Assn.
It is announced that with the resignation of Mr. T. A. Pearce from the Secretaryship of the Hongkong Tennis As- sociation this position will be filled by Mr. C. J. Tacchi as from July 26. Mr. Tacchi's address is 4 Cornwall Avenue or the Kowloon C.C.
at
cuit went into the race of the cen-
Admiral tury against War Pimlico.
WAS
WAR ADMIRAL UNDEFEATED THEY all knew the Biscuit then, TAYBE you remember how that but Pimlico is in Maryland in MAX ed. Johnny Pollard, the heart of the east, and the herse the Biscuit's jockey, las in a hospital in the heurt of the east the with a shattered leg while Georgie Admiral, old Man O'War's favourite Woolf took his baby to the post. son. Seabiscuit, the Nouve rich west- For the first 120 seconds of the erner, had won and he had lost, but race Pollard's shouls. rang through War Admiral had always won. Ite had swept the triple crown of the the hospital halls.
Derby, the Preakness and Belmont Two seconds later his tears pud-Stake and he was the king. Men dled the top of his bedside radlo.swore by this king. They said he For during
koso two seconds couldn't be beaten, not by any horse Singchand came out of the clouds that ever lived.
Silent Tam Smith
and
Charles
to whip the champ-by 骗 nose. So in the space of four seconds and the combined distance of a Howard said nothing. They brought teacup, Seabiscault lost $180,000 the Biscuit to town silently They the Banta Anliss of 1937 and 1938. heard 90 percent of the men who make racing their business tell them
Poilurd stayed in the hospital for they couldn't win. But they gald almost another year but the Biscuit hothing. Seabiscuit said it all for went back on the road. He deve-them. loped a game knee around this time, but от he went-through Agua Collente, Meadowa, Arlington
Bay
Park, Hollywood Park, Del Mar, Belmont, Havre de Grace and Laurel, His heart was too big to be stopped by weight, and it was ton big to be stopped by a bad knee.
By October his winnings had soared to $325,480--just a step from Sun Beau now...and Scably-
THE GREAT RACE THERE was a hush in the golden
haze of that November after- noon in Maryland as the two of them were off. But not for long. Within a dozen strides, the close- packed spectators were gasping. War Admiral, the fastest post horse ia racing, the horse who had taken the track from every opponent he
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U.S. TENNIS ASSN. TIGHTENS UP ON AMATEURS
JAPAN SPORTS PROTEST TO AMERICA
"High Handed And Arbitrary"
TOKYO. July 23 (Domel)—The Japanese Amateur Athiolle Associa tion yesterday cabled a protest to the Amateur Audetio Valon of tho United States against the laiter's sudden cancellation of the scheduled
trip to Japan by the University of Southern California basketball team at the invitation of the Japan Basket
ball Association.
The Japon A.A.A. regards the petion as high-handed and arbitrary, similar to the enncellation of their trip by, the
of Hawaiian
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aner.
Gene Mako And Sabin Suspended For Breach Of Expense Rule
NEW YORK (AP)-Twenty-four hours after its executive committee had suspended Gene Mako and Wayne Sabin for breaking the amateur rules, the United States Lawn Tennis Association adopted legislation to forestall similar infractions in the future.
swimmers this Under the new code, the presidents of the 13 sec- tional associations, acting jointly with the national pre- The Japan A.A.A. is now study-sident, are empowered to rule on a club's right to pay. and a player's right to receive travelling and living схрепаса.
ing the possibilitics of strengthen-
ing sports relations between Japan,
Germany and Italy.
PIRATES
NOSE OUT THE GIANTS
NEW YORK, July 25 (UP) Pittsburgh Pirates nosed out the New York Glants 2-1 in the National Baseball League to-day, while the Chicago Cubs humbled the Boston
Braves 8-4. Scores were:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh
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HENRY MCLEMORE
The action for the first time gives the U. S. L. T. A. the power to withhold payment of expenses. Previously, it could only take punitive action after
had broken the rules.
DISCUSSES THE it had been shown that a player
POSITION
Mako, former Davis Cup star and national singles finalist in 1838, and Sabin, No. 5 in the 1939 national LOS ANGELES, (UP). — rankings, were barred from com- That charming vagrant, the petition in all U. S. L., T. A. sanc- tennis bum, won't be with They broke the rule limiting a player
tloned tournaments because: much longer. The same tennis to expenses for eight weeks of com officials who made this "remit petition in one calendar year: 2 tance man" life possible have they collected excessive travelling suddenly awaked and realized expenses. what a wrong they were doing
The executive committee's action. Battery: Sewell, Davis, Lopez and to a group of boys and the the most drastle since Big Bill Tilden Fernandez.
was dropped from the 1028 Davis 1
sport of tennis. 1 New York
Cup team for violating the player- Battery: Schumacher and Danning.
Up until this year any younger writer rule, will keep Sabin and Chicago
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amateur tennis player with talent Mako out of competition 2
could make a living out of the game.. through 1040. They Battery: Lee, Root and Hartnett, Boston ...
4 D 3
A lazy, fistless living, but a living application for reinstatement until
expense funds. September. Battery: Salvo, Javery and Berres. nevertheless. With
from his own association, and what he could wangle in the way of board, lodging and appearance money from cluba holding tournaments, he could just drift about the country all year jon.
Lawn Bowls
Teams For
་
The Week-end
The following teams have been selected by various Clubs for lawn bowls league matches this week-end: CLUB DE RECREIO
“A” V. JR.C. (away)-
J. Silva, F. X. Soares, R. F. Luz and 1. A. Alves,
L. F. Xavier, C. M, Silva, F. V. Ribeiro and F. X. Silva,
JA. Luz, C. E, Marques, F. J. Ribeiro and G. G. Gilva.
"v, Police (nway)- FA: Machado, J. A. Remedios, C. Roza Pereirs and B. Basto
D. C. Alves, C. HL, Basto, A. P. Guterres and 3. J. Basto.
AP Pereira, A.-F- Noronto.-J.-C.
Remedies and J. E. Noronha,
2nd Div. v. c.s.c.c. (home).- FX Monteiro, C. Vas, J. R. Soares and C. P. Remedios,
PM. N. Silva, H. I. Pinna, C. M. Alves
and A. M. Rodrigues.
A. J. Osmund, M. F. Pinna, A. M. Xavier and E. Souza.
CIVIL SERVICE C.C.
1st team v. Kawtoon B.C.C. (away), w E. W. C. Simmonds. J. Holidge, A. Grimmitt and F. J. Jones.
M. E. Purvis, W.
Dursing, M.
Hakusen and H. E. Strange.
Gellatly. J. F. McGowan, Collyer and J. W. Deakin,
2nd team v, fecreio (away).-
nt
least cannot Alla
President Holcombe Ward point- ed out that the association had been lenient in the past in enforc- ing the eight-weeks and expense rules, and that it hoped there would be To need for equally severe punishment in the future.
Winters In Florida, California, Bermudu, Nassau, and almost every- where' else that the sun shines dur- ing the cold months. Summers in the East and mid-west. Easthamp-D" Div. Tennis ton, Southampton, Rye, Spring Lake, Senbright, Canada, odd spots In Wis- consin, and, for the very good ones, Australia, India, Egypt, and points.
IT
way
RACQUET RACKET T was a racket with a
rucquet. Many a boy who got good at ten- nis drifted into this indoleni, pleusur- able life without realizing what he was doing to himself and to his future. The life of a tennis bum was so easy to take. The best hotels, The smartest country clubs. Adula tion. The prettiest girls. Dancing, parties.
There was
South China
Trounce Indians 9-0
South China Athleilo Association trounced the Indian Recreation Club by nine sets to nil in a "D" Division lawn tennis league Sookunpoo yesterday.
match
at
At the Kowloon Cricket Club, the always enough for spending money, and there was not Kowloon Indians Tennis Club beat
care for to-morrow. There was the K.C.C. 5% sels to 3jú. always another tournament ahead.
Scores were:
A few years of this and many s. CHINA 9 INDIAN R.C.
a boy was unable to put his racquet asile and go to work.
M. P. Madar and J. Kifchell (I.R.C.) lost
to K, C. Ip and S. Y. Li 1-0; lost to K. The United States Lawn Tennis TN and K, I. Chan 3-0, last to K. Sung
and K. C. Wan 3-0. Association made a show of stamp-
Ning out this real evil in the spart, LLC. Jest to Ip and Li 0-d, lost to Na M. A. Wahab and K, M. Rumjahn L. A which was making tennis bums on aand Chan 3-0, lost to Sung and Wan 4-6.
wholesale scale of so many young PD. Crawley, I. Lord. II. F. Harper, clation pussed a rule forbidding any
men, several years ago. The Asso
J. Walker, J. R. Carr, A. Steven and player to travel outside of his home 5. Eccleshall.
A. F. Shepherd, A. B. Allan, E. Kirmon than eight weeks during a year.
district on expense account for more and W. R. 2llyer.
C. Strange.
H.K. ELECTRIC
v. Kowloon 1. G. Com
A. G. Gardner, B. A. Owens, Z F.
Lunny and A. F. Paul.
P. Tarbuck, C. E. Deacon and J. K. Sloan.
Gahagan, A
ed
and G. G. S. Thomson.
W. Stoker, R. C. Butler, G. T. Padgett
Reserve, R. F. Gregory.
had faced, was beaten away from the tape
RULE NOT ENFORCED
I Hossa and M. Moendharit (1.1.C.1 0; lost to Sung and Won 4-6. lost to Ip and Li 3-6: Jost to Ng and Chan
KT.C.
34;
* 546 IC.C.C. Át Cox's Path, the Kowloon Indians beat the K.C.C. 1934.
R. D. Crabb and G. Gillard beat S. However, this rule was not en- Salleh and A. R. Azan 6-1: beat M. forced and many of the boys play- H. Hassan and Mit Singh 6-1; lost to
not eight weeks,, or eight M. Hamzan and Jehan Dad 4-8. months, but twelve months a year L. Llewellyn and A.-E. Perry on expense account. But, it would |Salich and Azan 0.1; drew with Hassan seem, that finally, one old tennis and Singh 6-8; last to Ramzan and father pinched another old tennis Dad 3-6. father and said:
beat
A. Bone and F. O'Neill lost to Salich "Lookit! We've got a rule here and Azan 0-0; fost to Hassan and Singh that might be a good one if we 3-6; lost to Ramzan and Dad 1-0. would only enforce it."
will
The Biscuit beat him all the way.. They still tell how the out- Jander came marching home, the
So the Association sent out warnings of the tennis bum. He drum-fire beat of his sixide echo-ing that the eight-week rule was have to stick pretty close to his home ing off Pimlico's cream-coloured really a rule, and to show that they base and save his eight weeks of ramps with a music the West was meant It halted two of the game's touring on expense account for the never to forget,
star players, Wayne Sabin and Gene Eastern Grass Court circult in the Mako, on to the carpet. A last re- summer. At the end it was Seabiscuit byport, Sabin and Make were still in- four.
eligible for sanctioned U. S. L. T. A the grass court tournainents, which A player must make this tour of tournaments.
LEG INJURY
THE ugly runt was the king of
WANDERINGS ENDED
has the national championships ́ ́at' Forest Hills for its climax, I he hopes to gain national standing.
them all that day, but off the TF the U. S. L. T. A. doesn't weaken (Because the results of these tourna¬
track he walked and into a train to F on the enforcement of the rule it ments form the basis for the nation-
be away to the wars again. He was will just about finish off the wander- [al ranking.
off for another shot at the $100,000 [*** Santa Anita purse he had mlased
twice by noses before.t.
Then, in its first start in Call- fornia, the new king broke down | ... and the veterinarians · said he would never come back ile went to his barn a three-legged horse, still $35,000 shy of the Sun Beau marky... while tears, streaked the checks of Silent Tom Smith, the man whose heart was supposed to be az hard as his horny hands."-
(The next Chapter in the final оле of Seabiscuit's career-his winning of the Santa Anita Handicap and his creating a record for earnings);
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