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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 13, 1941.
Throughout
Winter
Aquatic Stars Maintain Form
Brilliant Performances By Chinese Swimmers In Recent Galas
Water-Polo Popularity
(By "Tinker")"
WHAT BASEBALLERS would call "spring soa- son form" among swimmers has boon nothing if not surprising, for from the fow galas that have already been held the fact omorges that local swimmers are ready to carry on from where they left off at the end of last year.
It indicates, of course, training throughout the win- ter, and if such is the enthusiasm there is every reason to look forward to as successful a swimming season as the last.
There are rumours of trouble) among the Chinese camps, which, I understand, follows on: the migration of several of South China's aquatic stars to the banner of Sing Tao. This Jatter Club seems to have a vast attraction, for one still remem- bers how
from footballers several Clubs flocked to its standard, but, one remembers, too, the consequent furore,
PROBABLE STARTERS FOR SUBSTITUTE DERBY
LONDON, June 12 (Reuter) Alterations to the probable starters for the Derby Subsiliate have been made and the present list is follows:
Major Baseball
N. Y. Giants Whitewash Chicago Cubs
NEW YORK, Juno 12 (UT)-New
York Giants wallewashed Chicago League to-day. Cincinnati Reds
Cuba 2-0 in the National Baseball
nored out Boston Braves 1-0,
Scores were:
Chiengo
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R.
0
11.
0
E.
Battery: Lee, McCullough, New York ............
Battery: Hubbell, Danning.
.. 0
Cincinnati ................ 1
Dattery: Derringer, Went. Boston A
0 Battery: Jotinson, Beries, Binti.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
11
Bosion...****
Battery: Dobson, Fleming, Bickntal Pyllak. St Leula
Battery: Harris, Muncrief, Swift. Pistladelphia ........... B 1: Detroit
Battery: Heckman, Harris, Hayes, Battery: Gorsien, Benton, Sullivan. The Washington-Cleveland game: washed out by rain.
There are also rumours of a boy.
Annaton (S. Wragg), Camperdown cott, but It is huped that it will not (Lowry), Chateau La Rose (Curry), uffect the combined V.R.C.-Y.M.C.A. Firoze Dia (Stephenson), Owen Billiards-Snooker v. combined Chinese gala that has Tudor (Nevett), Sunny Island (CH been tentatively arranged for the end Richards), Thoroughfare (A. Wragg), of this month. This will be in old Guerdley (Jones), Mazarin (Bart- of the War and Charities,
lum), Devonian (Perryman), Selim Among Sing Too's acquisitions are Hussan (Beary), Sollum ( Tommy Kew, Enrique Chan, and Ng Valdian (Herbert), Startwort (Tay Nin from South China and Chung lor), Morogoro (1. Wragg), Sing, and they are certainly on un-castle
Sun-
(Bensley), Orthodox (D. beatable combination among the Smith), Sunray (Mullins), Ptolemy Chinese swimmers. They proved (E. Smith), Lambert Simnel (Elliot),
this at the
his of
recent three-day gala | Fairy Prince (Lanc).
organised by the Hongkong and Horses without Jockeys are Royal Kowloon Tennants Union Club held Academy and Single Court: at Lalchikok. They won all the re- Doubtful runners loy races, and established new Mr Sawyer.
a
China National record for the 200
metres on 1 min. 55 secs,
LA
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AI Teun Swimming Union have the old brigade of Chan Chun- nam, Lau Tal-ping, Yau Sal-kwan, Tsang Cheong-ming. Lau Yiu-ling and Fong Chong-ylu.
Little need be said of Chan Chun-
nam,
are Fettes and
Lambert Simnel Still Favourite
Tho
latest call-over Derby is as follows: Lambert
for the
Exhibitions At Recreio For B.W.O.F.
was
The Craigéngower-K.B.G.C. "A" senior howls match in progress. H. Lockhart (Bowling Green) bowling with H. White, Y. A. Razack, W. K. Way, R. P. Phillips and J. S. Lan. dolt watching-Ming Yuen.
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Lawn Bowls
A BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER exhibition in aid of the British War Organisation Fund will be held at Club de Recreio, Kowloon, on Frl. day, June 27, commencing at 8,ja |
p.m.
The programme will be
Bulards match (300 points up) between A. J. Osmund, Colony Champion, and E. D. Buch, Shanghai Ex-Champion.
Snooker match (three frames) bc- tween A. P. Pereira Jr., Recreio Service. Cricket Club. Champion, and M. N. Rakusen, Civil.
An exhibition of fancy and trick shots by C. Terran.
Tickets at $2 and $1 are obtainable
Simnet 4/1 last year's wonder of the Open Morogoro 0/1 (0): Sun Castle Off to); (offered); Champlonships, except that he has Chateau Larono 10/1 (o): Devoulan been in training throughout the 100/0 (0), 100/7(); Ptolemy 100/0 winter. Of hla team-mates, Lau Tai-(o); Orthodox 100/7 (o); Starwort ping has shown great improvement. 100/7 (6): Fairy Prince 100/7 (0): at all clubs.. Over the quarter mile, both he and Thoroughfare 100/7 (0); Cuerdley 25/1 You Sat-kwan are second string to (0); Owen Tudor 21/1 (c) Mazarin Chan, but in the furlong, It is said, 25/1 (o): Royal Academy 25/1 (o);
Exciting Pairs Matel At Kowloon F.C.
Guest-Madar Win On Extra Head
TWO MATCHES in the Open Pairs Lawn Bowls Cham- pionship were played yesterday, one at the Kowloon Football Club and the other at the Police R. C. In the first, T. A. Madar and A. E. P. Guest beat V. C. Dixon and H. E. Drew 21-20 on the extra head played, while in the accond U. A. and A. H. Rumjahn easily beat C. F. Needham and A. Brooksbank 24-14.
7
game Was
The Kowloon F.C. definitely the better of the two. Guest and Madar got away to a fine start and had scored 9 shota before Dixon and Drew registered single. From 0-1 the score went to 12-4, at which period Dixon and Drew scored 3, 0. 3 and 4 to take the lead at 14-13!
The green was on the fast side, and both the Bowling Green players had its measure. But once more the Kowloon C.C. combination shot oft into a lend that seemed to put the odds much in their favour, when they registered 1, 3 and 2 to fend
he is capable of extendling and pos- Camperdown 25/1 (o): Sunny Island (0); Valdavian 50/1 (0): Firoze Din sibly of beating the "legless" won-25/1 (0); Pettes 25/1 (0); Annatom 100/1 (o); Mister Sawyer 100/1 (0): 19-14 on the 17th end.
25/1 (0), 33/1 (1); Single Court 50/1 Sellm Hassan 33/1 (0)-Reuter,
der.
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FROM there will be chosen the
team 10 meet the combined V.R.C.-Y.M.C.A. The latter team, of course, will be mainly comprised of V.R.C, swimmers, for though David Hutchinson has teamed up with the "Y", it is his intention to turn out for the V.R.C. In all representative galos.
Charles Huung is back in Hong- kong, and with D.H, Taylor,, Lonel Hoza Pereira, L. M. Remedios and W. Lawrence ̈will ̄form"the" nucleus
of the combined team.
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Four-Minute Mile
American Runners Approach Record-Shattering Time
Pendulum Struggle.
Two 2's, however, brought Drew and partner back into the fray, leav ing them one shot behind on the 10th end. A single for the K.C.C. and then a 2. for the Bowling Green players put them on level terms pt 20-L on the 21st hend.
The extra head opened tensely. Dixon drew three fine woods to the Jack for a count of three, but with his last, Guest edged in a -beauty-to claim the lie.
The skips went down but Drew
THE FEATURE of the big American Indoor Games series held recently was the continuance of the extraordinary miling failed to remove the shot which
Recreio Win
Two Friendly Games Yesterday
CLUB DE RECREIO entertained the Kowloon Cricket Club and Kowloon Tong G.C.A. In friendly lawn bowls matches yesterday and were successful in both
They beat the K.C.C. 67-48, and beat Kowloon Tong 60-40.
Scores were:
Recreio 56 K. Tong 46
Recreio beat Kowloon Tonk 55-46; J. A. Luz, F. P. Sequeira, C, E. Mar- ques, C. G. Silva beat H. Gittins, T. K. Lim, W. J. Howard, A. Spary 19-15.
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F. X. Soares, A. Ferreira, J. A. Re- medios, F. V. V. Ribeiro beat A. Madur, A. E. H. Castro. T. L. Step- hens, A. J. Kew 27-11.
A. J. Osmund. G.-R. Remedios, C. H. Basto, F. X. Silva lost to H. A. Cnatro,
10-20.
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Recreio 07 K.C.C. 48
Recreio beat Kowloon C.C. 67-48.
L. A. Rozarlo, C. A. Marques, D.-C.
the women (girls if you wish), not up in recent years by Cunningham, Bonthran, Venzke and gave Guest and Madar a one-shot Alves, B. Basto beat R. S. Capell, R.
Vivienne Churn and Jacqueline Anderson are reported suffering from water on the knee, the resulta of
Romani, with a new quartette of youngsters in Leslie Mac-victory, Mitchell, Walter Mehl, John Munski and Charles Fenske.
hockey and softball, and they have not yet been seen in training. Celeste Guterres, the girl who gave such an
astonishingly performance over the League Tennis distances and the harbour race last year, is as good as ever, if not m proved, and great hopes are held out for her this year.
But outstanding performance of the new season has been Ho Wal- king's time of 1 min. 22 secs for the 100 metres at the aforemention- ed three-day meet at Lalch!kok, This belters the National Record established by Yeung Sau-king_at Shanghai in 1935, that time being 1 min 23 secs.
L. Sadick also broke a National re-. cord in covering the 100 metres back- stroke in 1 min, 30.2 secs, bettering Yeung Sau-king's time of 1 min 37,4 sees at the same National Meet.in 1035.
Little has been heard of the other girls, but there must be lots to come.
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IN preparation, the V.RL.C. are hold-
Overwhelming Victories In
"D" Division
Valley Match
U. A. and A. H. Rumjahn had a They have been hunted home very easy time against C. F. Needham by the veterans Gene Venzke and A. Brooksbank at the Police and Loui Beccali, the Italian.
green. The losers scored a 4 on the 6th and then a 5 on the 20th. And judging by the incredible way they have been clipping acconds of
The first big count brought the the world record. the staggering pos- scores level at 5-all, but the five on sibility of a four-minute mile does the 20th had little effect as the not seem entirely beyond the bounds Rumjahns were by then leading 23-9, of reason.
Starting with the Sugar Bowl mile
In New Orleans, Munaki narrowly beat Mehl and Fenske in Amin 15secs. FOUR MATCHES in the "D" In the Boston Columbus mile Mebl Division of the Tennis League were defeated Munski and MacMitchell played yesterday and resulted in in 4min 0.78cc. overwhelming victories in three of
the four games on schedule. Chin-
the
Famous Baxter Mile-
To-day's Matches
J, Fenton, A. H. Marton, Lloyd 33-6,
C. F. Hozarlo, E. A. R. Alves, C..A. Lopes. Ed Sousa beat R. Broadbridge, H. Langley, R. Leight, Steven 21-19,
G. A. Pereira, M. Guterres, O. P. Remedios, C. Roza-Pereira lost to 8. 1. Spary, E. C. Curtis, A. W. Smith, E. C. Fincher 13-23.
Kowloon F.C. League Rinks
The following have been selected to represent the Kowloon F. C. in To-day's Patrs Championship the Lawn Bowls League to". matches will be as follow:
Kowloon Football Club.-K. C. Hamilton and A. M. Holland v. H.
ese R.C. trounced the KIT.C. 9-0. TN the Wanamakers mile at the Brokenshire and A. Zimmern; J. W. South China trampled on the Army Millrose games, Mehl beat Mac-Leonard and W. Ward v. R.. P. 614-4
Filipino Club beat Mitchell and Fenski in 4 13.8. MacPhillips and J. McKelvie. Post Office “A” 8-1, and in the last | Mitchell delivered his blow in the match, Indian R.C, beat Post Office Boston Hunters Mile, when he beat Craigenzower-G. J. Perkins and
Mehi and Fenske in 4.10. "B" 6-3.
W. Mair v. J. V. Ramsey and R. The Cralgengower-Central British
The Last event before-
the
cham-Morrison. Assn match was postponed.
pionships was the famo
famous Baxter mile at Scores were:
the New
A.C. gumes. Kowloon Bowling Green, W. C. York This was a race stealing with ex-Ogley and T. Fergusson v. L.. J. Silva citement and had the full "Gar- and J. F. V. Ribeiro; A. A. Dand and den house of 10,000 people on W. V. Field v. D. Hung and F. R. their foes when MasMitchell scored Zimmern.
Post Office “B” a I.R.C. C creation Club "D" lost to Indian Re Playing at home. Post Office Re- creation Club 3-0.
In their first intra-Club gala to- morrow night at 9 pan, and not p.m. as previously stated. The heals were .swum on Wednesday, and following the swimming to-morrow there will be dancing to the muale 11 Hasan and K. Nazarin 1-0; lost to of Mickey's Melody Makers.
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Chan Chung-ip and Lal Fat lost to 31.
M. I. Razack and M. S. Hussain 4-6; lort
| tư_Q. Singh and A. J. Sufünd 0-0,
an “eye-lash" win over Mehl in
:.
Hongkong Football Club.--D, A. What do you think of Gene Venzke, Rozario and J. S. Landolt v. M. F. D. Leonard and D. 4. McPherson Best Who, at 32 years of age even led in Alarcon and L. F. Xavier; W. Col wrote a little while ago on the san and Nazarin 6-4; beat Razack and the race and finished third, to con-ledge and E. Kirman y. W. B. Harris popular held that the Water-polosain 6.9. Beat Bingis and sunlad 8-3. lnue his great sequence of 12 suc. and A. Soutar.
Kwok-fal and Lam Cho-Cheung lost tournament has taken on the Colony, to Hassan and Nazarin 2-8; lost to Razack Cessive placings in this mile? Ho and at a meeting hold the other night, and Hussain 6-8; lost to Bingh and Buffled Won ten years ago in 4-10.
Sensational Rice the following points were decided
3-0.
C.R.C, D K.I.T.C. 0
Olvil Bervice.-M. A. Baptista and
G, S. Ladd. v. W. Williamson and C.
morrow:
BECOND DIVISION
B. D. Evans, A. A. Dand, V. Chittenden, W. C. Simpson (*kipl: W, Nacf, A. East- man, C. Dowman, E Kern (skip); A. Lapsley, V. Allenza, P. Younghusband, W. V. Field (skip).
THIRD DIVISION
B. Thomson, 8. C. Wong, C. H. Fuller,
Fergussan (skip); G. E.
Cross, Woodcock, A. Macintyre. It. M. Ogden (skiph: R. Williams, G. Frost, Y. Abbar, J. T. Smalley (skip),
Reserves W. C. Ögley and W. Scra phing,
Breast-Stroke Record
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At Causeway Bay, Chinese RecreationREGORY Rice is still a track senges v. J. J. Basto and C. H. Danto, two world breaststroke swim- That if a player is within the two Club trounced Kowloon Indian Tennis
sation-only one defeat and Reerelo-E. C. Fincher and A. w.ming records, is unable to parti. yard area but not within playing dis- Club, -0. uance of the goal, he will not be pul 3 Khan and K. 8. Mehal G; Deat 8 seventh successivo win in the Ameri- Dundan; B. A. Mansell and P. C meet here in August in view of K. M. Wong and TY Liang bes! y, that by Don Lash, who scored his Ramacy v. W. L. Walker and R. cipate in the national swimming out of the water if and when the ball Ramchand and Dad 6-3; beat Jageet can cross-country championship. Morgan v. W. G. McMuster and M. the international situation, the is played at the goal. It will be Singh and U. It. Famalt 6-1.
Rice continues to win easly on Fergusson. the track, and in scoring his 14th succesive indoor victory he brought Kowloon Cricket Club,--]. A. Ro- the two miles world's indoor re- medios and L. A. Gutierrez ·V. ́A. cord down to the amazing figures Lapsley and R. Ogden; J. 8. stroko events at 2 mins 60 seca and of 8min 53.4sco at the New York and J. C. Alken v. A. F. Noronha
and A. M. Rodrigues.
C. N. Trang and T. F. Chol beat IChan realised that in a case of this kind and Mehal 6-1; beat Ramchand and Des that the referee must be the solo Co; beat Singh and Exmail 6-0. Judge of whether or not a player is. Y. Two and Chen Yiu beat Khan and influencing play by bemg within the beta-4 beat Tamchand and Dad 3-
Singh Esmail 0-1. Filipinos 8 Post Omen "A" Foss Office "A" 8-1.
Playing at home, the Filipino Club best
area,
This rule will apply most so In the Army and Navy pools where the width: of the baths does not permit
a player being within the two-ynfd
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I. Foon and P. Poon beat 8. B. Chin
A.C, games. Mell Trutt, who was second. In 8.59,8, is a newcomer to this high
and & K. Chin 6-0; beat K. W. Wong and standard, and kept with Rice until
T. 8, Fung 6-1; beat J. Howletz and R. the final dash for the tape. Trutt has
arca without influencing play. Morrison 64
this
-76. líku and L. F. Bouza, beat Chin Clubs all over tho and Chin 0-0 beat Wong untung 0-Ebbley and L/Cpl. Glasgow 6-11 best it
Trapman and Bjēgt Butchaŭ 6-3,
K. C. Wang and i, Chung beat For
Stoner 6-3; bent aley and Claro
beat. Trapman and Pitchali
Years ago, wing some beat Howlett and Morrison G-2
Filipino Club Dinner
The Filipino Club is holding a din-
Foreign Ofce revealed.
Maria Lenk holds the world recorde for 200-metre and 400-metre breast-
mins 15.0 secs, respectively. Both re-
corda were made at a 25-metre pool In 1939.
Water-Polo Tournament
Middlorax Regiment ner party on Saturday next to hid Navy "B" 3-1 in a European Y.M.C.A farewell to Mr L. R. fidefonso, who Invitation
beat Royal
being
Water-polo permanently transferred to
Tournament Manila URLAN
game in the Y.M.CA Pool - yesterday, | Jennings,... » Binden and Quickendon
On the question of carry... The Gonzalez and Z. B. Wel beat Chin been hunting home the fast milers, practice of referees blowing up for and Chin 9-31 beat Wong and Fung 6-11 carrying the ball should be dis lost to Howlett and torrison 8-7. continued na world eliminated
Canteren.
S. China 814 Army - V There will be a with blackboard instruction at the Tennis Club, all-i
• At Ridg's Park, South China best Army B. S. You and C.-M. Tsang drew with of the Club and has been a member Thompson for Navy, in the Army Mr. Ildefonso is one of the founders scored for, Middlesex and Lieut. H. O. YMCA Dool on Wednesday next at welf. Mox and V. Kérok beat 8/ng1 Ford and Stoner 6-01 beat and of the Committee or end of its oneers pool Royal Corps of Signals bout 30th
KAMIN BRAD] Fordwand L/Cpl. stoner: dei;>best apr/Giarrow a beat Trapman and Mitchell for the last 23 years ol
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