1928-08-21 — Page 9

TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928.

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PING PONG LEAGUE.

SOUTH CHINA BEATS CHINESE CATHOLICS.

EASY VICTORY.

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Clover mon and sluggers, they all fall before M'Govern, until Terry met the cold, phlegmatic, method)- cal Young Corbett.

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Young Corbett crossed his right to Terry's jaw and knocked him back on his heels. A jarring shock to M'Govern. No one else over met him like that. He rushed in again like fury, and then the wildest mix- GLO'STER BEAT, WORCESTER

ing ever seen in a bout between lit- IN TWO DAYS.

tle men began, In the middle of it, with gloves flying everywhere, OPENING MATCH.

HAMMOND'S BIG SCORE.

Corbett suddenly stood straight up, reached out deliberately with his Playing in the first match of the

to taking nine left hand, put the tip of his glove In addition Ping Pong League, The South China wickets and catching the tenth in under Terry's chin, tilted Terry's Athletic Association met the Chin-one Innings, W. R. Hammond took head back, and just as deliberately ese Catholic Young Men's Society another @ wickets in, the second.

a crushing straight right at the latter's premises, Caine-road innings of the match against Wor across to Terry's jaw, knocking him. Just night. Despite absence of cester, also making, a big score, their champion, Kwan Man-ching, thereby contributing materially to

Sensation Colour! But Young On demand..... 49 South China A.A. overwhelmed his side, Gloucester, winning easily

Corbett had the punch that Credits, 60 days' sight-60%- their opponents by accuring 87 by an innings in two days.

Всев with it. for all his On Bombay- London, Yesterday. juuinta out of a possible 108. A very

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the In

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Young On demand Association's ex-champion, Wong ship, Gloucestershire beat Worces of the second Lan-yia. who obtained the indivi-tershire at Cheltenham by an inn- Corbett, escaping from a furious at-

tack on the ropes, turned calm-Wire dual record of the" match by for-ngs and 168 runs. Scores:-

Worcester 35 runs (Hammond 9ly, as if he were the only unexcited On demand... feiting only one game throughout. for 23) and 167 runs (Hammond person under the of, watched

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V.R.C. "A" TEAM DEFEAT'

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LAING'S "HAT TRICK."

TILDEN BEATEN.

LOSES IN SINGLES AND DOUBLES.

New York, Yesterday. W. T. Tilden has boon defeated in lawn tennis, both in singles and doubles. This occurred in the Eastern grass court championships of the U.S.A. Details follow:-

Doubles. Final: Lott and

J. Doag beat Tilden and F. T. Hunter 4-0; 9-11, 7-5, 6-0, 6-3.

Singles.

On Yokoham

"THE CHEESE CHAMPION," There was George Chip, a middle-On demand weight champion with colour in 30 day's sight (private.. every movement, a elever slugger. He fought a stolid second rater, Al M'Coy, in Brooklyn. in the dress-On demand ing-room M'Coy's manager, Jack Dougherty, went to Chip and asked him not to knock M'Coy out when the bout had gone a few rounds. "He's a promising kid and a quick knockout might spoil him," said Dougherty.

Chip, agreed to let Al go three.or four rounds. He started boxing, cleverly, holding back his punches. D. Luing performed the "hat Quarter-finals: Frederick Mercur Al M'Coy awkwardly let his left trick" for the "A" toam of the beat Tilden. B. Bell boat Hunter-arm hang down until his glove pear- Victorin Recreation Club in a Final Doeg beat Mercar-Reu-ly trailed on the floor. He was a league water-polo match against ter's American Service.

southpaw. Then he swung it. The the same club's "B" team yester-

blow met Chip's chin, and the back! day.

Both sides began a man short COLOURFUL BOXERS. of Chip's head was first to hit the

but had the full complement in the second half.

U. Lyon opened the scoring for "A" and Laing put in two more in the Arst half. Stewart, centre- half, was responsible for the fourth and Laing the fifth.

The "B" tried hard but failed to score.

The table to date is as follows:-

Goals,

V.R.C. "A" V.R.G. "B"

2nd K.O.S.B.

1st Queen's..

Royal Navy

HOW SOME OF THEM

WERE K. O.

[By Robert Edgren.} How they're saying that Mr. Heeney, who is to box Mr. James J. Tunney, lacks colour?

Which reminds one of the story

P. W. D. L. F. Per about the fight between John L.

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Old timers remember Al as ab- solutely the most colourless cham- pion in all history. He held the title several years by picking soft marks and insisting upon no-deci sion bouts, and everybody called him "The Cheese Champion."

There was "Elbows" M'Fadden, a.,

New York bricklayer and a tough

4Sullivan and Charlie Mitchell 2Chantilly, France, in a driving rain-fighter, but no champion. They storm and ankle deep in mud. After called him "Elbows" because of a the fight one of Sullivan's backers queer defence he had, all elbows complained bitterly that John L. weaving around and spearing his hadn't been able to fight in his opponent's punches. usual style because the cold, drizz- ling rain chilled his muscles and made him slow.

"Bli' mel"

Mr. 'exclaimed M'Donald, who backed Mitchell. "Hi didn't see anyone 'olding a bloomin' umbrella hover Mitchell"

M'Fadden fought. Jee Gara; the cleverest light-weight in the world. His elbows speared Joe's best punches, and while Joe was trying

attack to puzzle out an

one of si Fadden's wild swings louped over and knocked him cold. The most colourful coloured boxer in history knocked out by a bricklayer. Not long afterward M'Fadden went back He sald bricklay-

On Murray parade ground yes,

So if Mr. Heeney lacks colour, not terday, the Sergeants of the 2nd Batt. King's Own Scottish Border having knocked a row of opponents ers drew in a hockey match with into the discard, the same can be the Machine Gun Company of the said of the champion. Gene never to bricklaying. Hong Kong Volunteer Defencel diaplayed much "colour" either being was better business because the Corps.

fore or after winning the title. He old pay envelope came round at the isn't a sensational fighter. He's end of every week. clever, a well-trained athlete, and he boxes to win.

The Borderers led in the first half and were two up in the second (after the Machine Gunners had equalised) but the final score was 3 go all

But the Jimmy Johnston style of ballyhoo never fitted Gone. They McGlinchey opened for the in- can't call him a "dashing, slashing. fantrymen. After the change of smashing. crashing" fighter, be- enda, Vallack made the score one- cause the adjectives don't describe all. Bell and Bunting put the Gene at all. Gene is a cold, cal- he was matched with George La Borderers two goals ahead. culating, careful boxer without a Francis reduced the leeway and knock-out punch. And there's no Vallack finally equalised with his "colour" in that, even though it gets second goal.

the money.

Marton (at back), Mitchell and Whitley (halves), Francia, Vallack and Lammert (forwards) played well for the Volunteers. Ware (goalie) and Bunting (forward) were the pick of the Borderers.

FANLING GOLF.

With the name of John L. Sullivan, most colourful of fighters, that of Non-pareil Jack Dempsey is remembered by the Old Guard. They used to almost worship The Non-pareil. Middle-weight cham- pion and magnificent in every fight,

Blanche in San Francisco. Nobody figured it much more than an ex- hibition for Dempsey. In the thirty-second round Dempsey had La Blanche on the ropes and was peppering him fast to wear him down.

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Heeney is called. "Honest Tom" because he always tries to fight. In this he outclasses some of the more advertised uplifters like Sharkey Sir Montagu Turner. and Mias and Delaney,, and they are always Turner and Sir Charles and Lady called "colourful fighters."

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A SHOCK FOR M'GOVERN. There have been champions with "colour," worlds of it, and, there have been cold-blooded, colourless individuals who could whip them.

· La Blanche, stolid and slow-mov-| Tunney he'll want six fights Court and Directors of the Bank of ing compared to the brillant cham- in next year. "I don't England, and the bankers and mer- Such a specimen shows up in the plon, pushed blindly away to get care for big purses, but the chants of the City, which was held ring every now and then. There more room, as he

turned awung fighting will keep me in trim," he at the Mansion House on the night was Terry M'Govern, for instance, clear around with his arm extended said. "Overwork is less dangerous of July 19. the most colourful of all the little at full length. The flying fat than lack of work, as Tunney will fighting men in the world, and there caught Dempsey on the tip of the learn." "There were

26 entries In the was Young Corbutt. Terry was a chin. He fell at full length, knock- Of course, a champion usually Royal Hong Kong Golf Club's blaze of colour in every fight, aed cold by a grazing blow. changes his

He al- That became famous as the "La Times.” A bogey pool competition at Faniing blinding flash of colour. last week-end. A. E. Wood (han-ways shot out from his corner like Blanche swing," but was soon barr dicap 15) and W. M. Lyons (han- a thunderbolt, and, the moment he ed by rule, because it was a "trick dicap 18) both finished all aquace reached his man the air was full punch," and chiefly because it had and divide the pool. Scores of 1 of cracking sparks and the explosive knocked the colourful Dempsey out. down were returned by F. A. thudding of gloves. Wildest kind HEENËY AN HONEST SCRAPPER Redmond (6), D. W. Beamish (13) of fighting, every second of the Heeney has been a "good sport" and N. 'K. Littlejohn (18).

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