Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
June 16, 1941.
MORNING
MONDAY
COMMENTARY
Daylight Saving Benefits Sportsmen
End Of Moonlight Lawn Bowls Matches
Endemic Cholera Would' Threaten Bathing Clubs
(By "Tinkor”)
DAYLIGHT SAVING pronounces or should pronounce the death of "moonlight" finishes to lawn bowls matches, for if they should still finish after dark, which will be around 8 p.m., 'thore will have been something very wrong somewhere.
Generally speaking, however, the innovation is a boon to all sportsmen-though I know it wasn't brought in for their benefit. Recreation has always been curtailed dur- ing the week days, for after leaving office around five it was never much before 5.45 that one was able to start on any game, which at the best left only about an hour for play.
JIB
But it will not be so much af benefit during the summer during the winter months for the extra half-hour of light will mean much to cricketers and to the players in the Colony Tennis Championships. Time and light
Women Golf
A. R. Minu, No, 3, giving directions to his brother, A. K., skip, in the I.R.C.-Recreio "A" League bowls match on Saturday. The Indians lost on this rink.-Ming Yiten.
Champions Aid Rinks Championship Begins
have spoiled many a good finish War Relief Fund
to a cricket match, while we should have no niore replays for tennis matches as happened on -several occasions in the last
tournament.
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There will, of course, be a re- vision of the time for drawing stumps in the Cricket League, ・・
I remember as a youngster. Home it was quite heart-breaking to be put to bed at 9
P.m. with the sun still above the horizon, and there were occasions, later, when I played cricket to well after 10
p.m.
BANSTEAD, Surrey, June 16 (Reuter).Four of Britain's out- standing women golfers. Pamela Barton, Mr Critchley (former Diana Fishwick), Wanda Morgan and Maureen Rattle, played a match to-day in ald of War Rellef for ale raid victims and comforts for the Services. The match was organised by the "Dally Sketch" and finished all square.
The first three are past women champions, while Miss Rulle is regarded as the outstanding young star at the outbreak of the war,
The normal advance of clocis at Home during the summer is also one hour, though for the period of war it has been increased to two hours, and the difference there is in times of sunset there and in order to play, holed a long putt here is
lesson on elementary
into win the fourth. She miss a short geography,
one on the sixth, but holed to more In the. northern hemisphere, long ones, winning holes to give her during the summer, the further side the lead. north one moves the longer becomes the day until, finally, at the arctle circle there is six months day. It is vice versa during the winter.
Misa Morgan putted beautifully in the curly stages and won two holes, while Miss Barton, who hitch-ĥilked,] from the West Country to London
Close Finish
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Recreio "A"
Suffer Season's
Second Defeat
LEAGUE BOWLS on Baturday
was considerably upset by rain,
League to date was provided
M. N. Rakusen Surprisingly Beaten By W. Simpson
Several Close Matches
ONE OF THE TWO SURPRISES in the first round but in the few games that were matches in the Colony Lawn Bowls Rinks Championship played, the greatest surprise of the which commenced yesterday was the defeat of M. N. Recreio "A" were defeated on Rakusen by W. Simpson at Craigengower by 24-13. their own green by the Indian Second surprise was the elimination of the strong Police beaten the champions, either at four skipped by W. Mair, who lost at the Civil Service
C.C. to comparative "unknowns" led by F. N. Hill.
R.C., who have never previously
home or away.
The game was very even, as re gards total score, throughout. A. R. Dallah secured renown in beating The first game was the more R. F. Luz 32-11, which margin of 21 astonishing in the wide differ- shots equalled the record. for the ence in scores. Hill beat Mair First Division. Miss Morgan and Miss Ruttle were: Though Recreio "B" were not with a thrilling last head shot by one up on Mra Critchley and Miss active, the Portuguese Club sufferred 17-16. - Barton with three to play, but Mrs complete eclipse when they also lost Critchley played a beautiful second in the Second and Third Divisions.
SHOULD cholera be oficially at the 10th to win the hole and square
pronounced endemic, as op- the match. The last two holes were posed to epidemic, the future of halved.
the numerous bathing Clubs around the shores of the har-
hour will once more be in the
balance, and threatened.
Endemic as explained in
the
Daughter For
dictionary. is applicable to a disease Don Bradman
that is peculiar-to-any-place-that-
is, which recurs at definite intervals
or Is-permanent. Epidemic
refers
to disease that spreads rapidly throughout 1 community that is normally free from such.
Continuous war is being waged against the scourge, and doubliess the Colony will, at some future date, be again free from Its contamina- tion, but while it is here all water must come under suspicion. And this is particularly so in the case of the harbour
our waters, into which the sewers discharge.
The problem of the harbour bathing clubs is one that can only be solved by the ballding of open
witc
Bowling Green Win
Kowloon B.G.C. "A" chalked up another win when they visited the Kowloon C.C, rinks next door and returned home with a 4-1 triumph. A. M. Holland's four of G. Deacon. E. Levett and W. L. Walker provided the deciding shots when they beat EC-Pinther's rink-(A-E-Perry-L Jack and W. Mulcahy) 27-13, for in total the other two rinks finished up all square.
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Mrs Jesslo Bradman, Licat Don Bradman, Australia's cricket caplain, gave birth to daughter at Adelaide, This is the Bradmans' second child,
The first, a son, died the day after he was born in 1930.
would be considering the possibl- lities of such an extension.
I have never seen a map of currents in the harbour, but it would be interesting to see how, generally, the sewer discharge is carried away by the tides. Is it swept into the
air bathing pools, and I personally centre and so through to the sea, or think that a wise Club Committee does it drift along the shoreline?
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Scores in brief were:
FIRST DIVISION
Recreio "A" 1 Indian R.C. K.B.G.C. "A" 4 Kowloon C.C.
SECOND DIVISION
Recreio
K.B.G.C.
6 Craigengower
THIRD DIVISION
0
4 Hongkong C.C. 5 Recrelo
Indian R.C.
Simpsons rink of W. Nact, A. Eastman and J. Ferguson scored consistently and strongly Over the first 12 henda and then led 20-2. Rakusen registered one on the second head but from then until the 11th was scoreless.
The scores in brief were:
Simpson: 1, 0, 4, 1, 3, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, Rakusen: 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1,
2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 024ft 6. 1. 1, 0, 1, 3, 2, 9, 2. 113 Mair Eliminated
THE greater struggle was at the Civil Service C.C. I was a pendu- lum struggle from the start, four singles over the last four heads giving Hill the one-shot victory, The rinks were J. S. Riddell, J. B. McWalter, J. C. Aitken and W. Mair; W. E. Webber, W. C. Higgs, S. H. Marvin and F. N. Hill.
Mair led 7-3 on the 6th, but with
| two 2's and`a 3 Hill drew up at 10-9 on the 11th and with a single tied
at 10-all on the 12th.
Then they took the lead 13-12 on the 15th, but n 3 and 1 put Meir
: Owing to the break in the pro-back in front again at 10-13 on the
gramme, the result of the Bowls 17th.
Sweep will not be known until Four singles over the last heads later in the week, when, owing to made the match one of the most the provisions of daylight saving, exciting on the programme.
it is proposed to hold the unplayed: League matches.
LOCAL SOCCER
TOURISTS CONTINUE
Scares were:
Malzi $21:
0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 3, 2,
Billy Conn Expected To Extend Louis
Local Baseball
NEW YORK, June 14 (Reuter).--- World Joe Louis will defend his Heavyweight boxing title for the eighteenth lime on Wednesday, June 18.
H.K. Brewers Beat Asheville
Mindanao Trounce Sappers
THE BIG MATCH of the week-end-H.K. Browers v. U.S.S. Asheville was played yesterday and ended in a 7-4 victory for the Beermen. On Saturday, U.S.S. Mindanao trounced the Royal Engineers 12-1, while the all-Chineso "classic"-Chung Hwa v. South China-resulted in a narrow 6-5 win for the former.
The Brewers rattled off with three! runs in the opening canto, while Arculli held the Ashevillelans blank over the first four frames. The lat- ter commenced with one in the fifth, one in the sixth and finally a. two in the seventh, but by the fast inning, the Brewers had feed the game with In four-run splurge in the sixth.
Thrill of the day W RU Dave Leonard's three-bagger in the Arst frame with bases loaded, Scores in brief were!
Ashevilla:
00001 1 # = 4 10 10:1230
Runs **** Hits
Trawery!
Runs
3 0 0
its
3 0 0 0 0 3 X
Forthcoming
Aquatic Galas ANY.M.C.A.
Among the forthcoming aquatie galas, two fixed for the end of the month should prove interesting. On June 28, the European Y.AL.C.A. will meet the Hongkong University anet on June 30 a Government Inter-Departmental gala will be held. Both these will take place at the European Y.MLC.A.
In the "Y"-University gala, Davki. Chinese "Derby"
Hutchinson, D.S. Wilson, A. F. May and N.D, Booker will appear for "Yi, IGHLIGHT of Saturday's games while the University will have the was the Chinese "Derby". Two extra services
of ·Charles Huang, A. V. imings were needed before the win- Ozorlo, W. S. Gege, Kenneth Lo and
Algernon Ho. ning counter was chalked up. Chung Hwa went off with 1 and 2 and main- The Government gala will be tained their lead until the fifth frame in aid of the Domber Fund. when South China came across the The Departments taking part will three runs to lead 4-3.
include the Police: Public Works and Prisons; Revenue, Colonial Secretariat and Harbour: Urbon Counell, Medical and Educational.
In the sixth Chung Hwa took the lead again with two runs at 0-5, and in a tense seventh inning Chin' tod- dled home when catcher Bill Chang failed to grab the sphere.
First extra inning was blank, ond then the fatal ninth.. Grandpa Leung
Y.M.C.A Meeting
A meeting of the Swimming Section of the European Y.M.CA. will be held
was the hero of the day when he on Wednesday at 6 pan. chased in Chang.
Scores Inning by inning were:
1 1 00020 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 24
Chung Hwa:
Runs
Jits
South China!
Runs
Flit
0 0 O 1 3 0 1
005
0 0 1 1 2 1 2 0 0 = 7 Sappers Trounced
ROYAL Engineers were outplayed by the mighty · "M" In Saturday's racas. The game featured a seven- run apree in the sixth frame that
just about killed the game,
R. Engineers: Runs
Mindanao:
Runs
+
0 0 0.0
Water-Polo
Tournament League Table
Some 35 matches in the European
Invitation Y$1.C.A.
Water Polo Tournament have so far been played, and following are the standings leading goal-scorera,
Sigrints
Bilddate
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Royal Navy
6 2 0 1
2 0 2 0 1,3
Royal Scots European
C.3. Units
*=12 Royal Navy
x = §îoyal Navy "C"
Harvard Beat Yale At Annual Rowing Regatta
New London, Conn, June 15. Harvard made a clean sweep of the
DUS A.A. Regt
Royal Scals "I" Middlesex "B": 30th RA 965th RA.
and
Gopla
A Pi
Scorers of more than four goals are:- Dinan (Signals), 16; Jennings (Middlesex "A MeMulty (0th Rent, I.A.) 20: Bindon (Middlesez "A") 0; Slater (Royal Scots "A") ; Allen (Signala) 0; McDonald (Combined
Units) 0.- Paul (Navy, "A") 5; May (YMCA.) 0.
Unlike many of his previous fights, 70th Inter-varsity regatia on the now seems Louis has a worthy, chal-Thames river here yesterday, beating in a three lengths' victory for Har lenger in El Conn from Pittsburgh, Yale in all..three events.. who first arlieved fame as a light- weight. Conn reports he now weight 13 stone, and Louis is expected to weigh 14, stone 4 lbs,
The senior four-mile race resulted vard-Previously Harvard's. treshmen's Harvard have now won „forly | crow had won their race by four regalía and Yale 39.
lengths and the junior crew by half a
It is expected Conn will give the champion a hard battle. Louis usually starts his championship fights at odds of anything up to ten to one on, but this time the odds are only dye to one.
Ned Tarleton Challenged
SUNDERLAND, June 14 (Reuter).
A challenge for his British and Em- piro Featherweight title, has been sent to Ned Tarteton on behalf of Tommy Smith, Sunderland boxer.
Smith beat the Champlon in an over- weight match this year, but lost in 1940 when Tarleton defended his title.
The suggested venue is Newcastle, 0, 2, 0, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0=16 | but it is understood that the Liverpool 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1..1, 1, 1=17 | promoter, Johnny Best, would like to stage the fight in the open air at ́a fool- OTHER CLOSE GAMES' ball ground in Liverpool THERE were several other close Tariston is interested in the chal- IN WINNING VEIN games. W. J. Burling beat W. Mec-nge, which is accompanied by a sub-
stantial offer. Farlane 20-10 at the Police RC, V. MELBOURNE, June 14 (Reuter). Chittenden beat S. M. Rumjahn 21-19 -The Chinese Eastern Football at the Kowloon B.G.C. E. C. team, which is at present touring the Kowloon F.C. E. Kern beat W.
Fincher beat H. W. Randall 19-18 at 10-20. Australla, scored a big win to-day. C. Simmons 19-10 at Recrelo. when they defeated Victoria by ten igools to two.
United Press gives the score as seven
goals to two in favour of Eastern.
So far Eastern have won three of the {four games played. Ther lost to Now South Wales in the first match by six goals to four, and beat South Įteam, 4-2, and, Granville 7-4.
Malaya Tour
Coast
6. Strange, C. Strange and It, Strange
W. E. MacFarlane, J. M..Thomson. At the Kowloon Docks, A. M. Hol-J. D. Thomson and W. MacFarlane lost Sousa but still managed to win 25-22, sey and W. J. Burling 10-20. land conceded: a "possible to E. dato P. D. Crawley, E. Kirman, J. Hemp-
Results in brief were:
AL K. Docks
Despite a "possible" on
Kowloon Cricket Club
La T. Silva, A. M. Rodrigues, F. V. the 15th. Ribeiro and L. Lux beat S. Nolar, head. C. Vas, O. P. Remedios, J. C. A. Jillott, J. McCutcheon and C. Gow- Remedios, and E. da Bousa lost to w. land, 20-19.
L. Walker, J. C. Gill, J. McKelvin and
A. M. Holland 25-23 at Kowloon Docka.
A message received from Mr Walter On the same green 14 Sykes, W, Me Hanming Chen, assistant Manager of Nell, R. Duncan and. A. J. Hall bent the South China Athletic Association's J, A. Remedios, F. A. Kavler, M. Football team at present touring Carveibo and L. A. Guterres 30-12, | Malaya, says they defeated Penang by Other results, were: ',
two goals to mit on Saturday, Chan Tak-fai and Lee Wal-tong were the acords.
At Craigongower C.C.
Last, season's champion, rink, com-
Kowloon Football Club
S. A. Gray, E. Curtis, A.-W. Smith and E. F. Fincher beat S. R. Solina, P. K. Modi, A. Rozario and H. W. Ran- dall, 10-16.
Kowloon Bowling Green
South China have so far lost only ona
W. Melrose, R. Main, J. A. Watson game and drawn one of the nine games pelaing R. Basa, A. E Coates, J. S. and J. C. Chalmers beat B. D. EVADI, played,
Landolt and C. S. Iossolet, beat A. A., Fuller, R. H. Ogden and W. V Baptista, J. H. Xavier, Y. A. Razack Field, 22-12.
Scottish Summer and W. Ward 23-10.
Cup Soccer
London, June 14. Following were the results of the Scolush Football Summer Cup matches played to-day:
Albion Rovers 1. Third Lanark 4; Clyde 5. Greenock Morton 1; Dumbarton 8, Motherwell Glagow Rangers 9. Fal- kirk Hamilton 4. Airdrie ; Ittbernian 0, Ceite 1: Queen's Park a Hearts 1; Bt: Bilrren 3. Patrick Reuter,
Hongkong Football, Club
W. McLeod, WB. Harria,' W. B. Dall and J. Shepherd beat C. Gough, J. Hayward, A. Soutar and C. Pile 24-18.
C. Woodcock, V. Atienza, C. Dow man and V. Chittenden beat K. M. Rumfahn, S. Yusuf, U. A. Rumjahn and S. M. Rumjahn 21-19,
- Hongkong Folice: R.C. F.-X. Delgado, A Kitchell, S. W. Lam and N. P. Karanjta lost to E. Strange,
A. M. Omar, K. M. Omar, I. W. Brad- bury and U. M. Omar beat F. A. Machado, C. M. Bilen, R. F. Lazz and F. X. Bilva 21-16.
Club de Recreto
TW. Carr, 11. II. Nose, N. J. Bob- bington and G. Sherriff beat W. Wil- Hamion. C. RL. Logan, E. M. Remedios and C. S. Thom, 22-10.
A Lapsley, R. Lapsley jr, R. Lopúcy ar and E Kern beat A. Sheppard, f. Bedden, M. E. Purvis, and. W. C.- Elm- Imonds, 19-10.
Jel. 28151.
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