1929-09-04 — Page 9

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1929.

Sport Columns

FOOTBALL

MATCHES IN ENGLAND AND

SCOTLAND

NARROW VICTORIES

London, Yesterday.

were

The following matches

played to-day:

Suuthport

Division III-North

WATER POLO

TWO UNDEFEATED TEAM CLASH

CHINESE "E" DEFEATED

Two hitherto undefeated teams the V.I.C. "A" and the Chinese "B" came to grips yesterday al the V.K.C. and the result was that a 3 very high class water polo match

was seen.

4 Carlisle

Rochdale

2. Chesterdeid

Scottish League

Rangers

F Queen's Park

-Heater,

ก

TENNIS.

OPEN INVITATION TOURNA-

MENT ENTRIES

SINGLES AND DOUBLES

BASEBALL

THE

CHINA MAIL,

GONS SCORE OVER CHINESE IN FRIENDLY SET-TO

[By. "Bingle"]

In a friendly set-to the ball nine from U.§.S. “Guam", defeated the South China outfit yesterday at Caroline Hill. The game through- out was characterised by good ball craft, and both gangs played the really old ball game. Scheduled for seven frames, the decision could not be arrived at until an extra stanza was played.

The Chinese team was leading by two runs up to the seventh, when the Gobs worked themselves to s level. An extra inning was called,

The V.R.C. won by three goals to and the sailors got the deciding run. one after a hard fought battle.

The other game was between the two K.O.S.B. teams and resulted in a win for the "A" team.

League Positions

The latest positions of the con tending teams are as follow:

League Table

Goals.

F. A. Pta, 19 2 12

P. W. D. L. 5 G 0 Chinese "B" 65 6 I 17

K.O.S.B. A6 3 0 3 8 10 5 3 0 2 23 10

Navy ... 50 36 17 Somerset. 6 2 0 1 11 Kowloon "B" 4 6 22 K.O.S.B. "B" 6 Chinese "A" a 1 0 5

9 16

V.R.C. "B" Kowloon "A" 6 5 0 1 19

For the Chinese Athletic Asso- V.R.C. "A" ciation Invitation Tennis Teurng, ment (open to all Comers) the en tries for the Single and Doubles Championships are very satisfac- Lory There are about 14 players for the single and 12 pairs for the doubles. More entries are expect eď to come in. Practically all the best players of the colony have en- tered in the two events.

Singles

15

JACK DEMPSEY

ASSOCIATION

10

1. W. Lo; S. A. Rumjahn; T.SUSPENDED FROM THE EQUITY Honda: E. F. Fincher; 1. D. Rum- jahn; H. Lo; S. E. Green; G. Bodiker: Yosida: W. Hardy; IL Tak-cheuk; K. L. Ho; Lim Bong-so; John Lim; and others.

Doubles

OVER A "TALKIE" DISPUTE

New York. Aug. 28. Jack Dempsey was suspended to- day from membership in the Actors'

S.. A. and 11. D. Rumjahn T. Equity Association. Honda and Yosida: M. K. and M.

This was reported to have been

W. Les E. F. and E. C. Fincher; H.done because the former heavy. Le ard C. Choa, S. E. Green and C. Bodiker; G. Richardson- and W. Hardy Fu Tak-cheuk and Chiu Tsun-chiu: Lim Bong-so. and John

Lim, and others.

$0. runner

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weight champion, who capitalized his pugilistic fame on the stage for a short time, opposed Equity's at- tempt to impose its rules upon motion pictures.

Two players of note have arrived

Both Dempsey and his wife, From the Straits specially for this Estelle Taylor, have worked in the tournament. They are Lim Bongpictures, though they have not been to Khoo-Hool- involved in the "talkies" which hye in the All Malay Championship, caused the trouble. Introduction of 1929, and John Lim, third ranking the talking motion picture brought Chinese player in the Straits. They many actor members of Equity into will play in the singles and doubles.motion picture work and precipitat- Khoo Hooi-hye is prevented from ed a commotion when the organiza- coming by business but he may be tion tried to impose stage rules on able to turn up on the 15th inst. the picture lots.-United Press. when exhibition matches will be ar ranged for him.

Entries for these Open Events! will be closer at 5 p.m. to-day with either the Chinese Athletic Association or Mr. K. L. Ho, c/o China Sports; 16 D'Aguilar Street by that time.

The draw will be announced on Saturday, and matches will begin on Monday,

McEACHPAN AND SUMMERS DEFEATED

Only one match was played in the

. Hong Doubles tennis tournament yesterday, this being between J. S. McEachran and J. Summers (owe 15/3) of the Chartered Bank, and A. D. Humphreys and R. Valentine fowe 15/3) of Messrs, Dodwell's.

The latter pair won in straight sets, the final scores being 6-3, 6-4.

OFFICIAL DATES FOR SWIM- MING & TENNIS

With reference to the open events of the Chinese Athletic Meeting to take place at the new Reclamation Ground, North Point, the following are the times and dates on which each event will take place:

Swimming (Open) September 6, at 10.15 pan-100 Metros Free Style (Heats).

September 7, t 9.00 p.m.-100 Metres Free Style (Final).

Track (Open)

September 7, at 4.15 p.in.-1,600 Metres Rela.

September 8, at 2.45 pm-800 Metres Relay.

Tennis (Open

Sept. 9 Singles (1st Round).

+

10. Singles (1st Round), 1-Singles (Semi-Final).

12.--Doubles (1st Round). 13.-Doubles (Semi-Final), 14-Singles (Final).

15-Doubles (Final),

Matches will be played from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. each day except on the 15th, when the match has to be finished be fore 4p.m.

The final score was 4 to 3.

This afternoon the sailors will play the Japanese team at 4 o'clock.

Tony Canzoneri is shown here working with a sparring partner.

in his Garden of Allah camp, near Chicago, where he is training for his bout with Sammy Mandell, lightweight champion, at Paddy

Harmon's Chicago Stadium.

PROVIDENT FUND

AN ALLEGED INJUSTICE IN

MALACCA

Once again what has always ap peared to us to be the "immoral" outlook in regard to institutional provident funds has cropped up. says the "Singapore Free Fress" of August 21... In Malacca a Muni- cipal employee was convicted in the local court of receiving an illegal gratification, was sentenced and was dismissed from service. The question then arose in Municipal

Commission according to the report

in the Malacca Guardian' as to what was to happen in regard to his Provident Fund contributions. It

Bill McKechnie, enigma of the diamond, has been renamed manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, succeeding Billy Southworth, according to an nouncemen: by *Hair Trigger Sam" Breadon, Cardinala president. Weep. ing Willyum, as he is known to the seemed that it was generally goes and apparently it doesn't matter agreed that in any case the Muni- trade. wins a pennant wherever he where he goes. He won a flag and cipal "contribution towards the em- world's series in Pittsburgh, and, run-ployee's Provident Fund account ning true to form, he got a champion- must revert to the Municipality. ship for St. Louis and was on the way

That seems a course of action for to doing the same for Rochester when he was switched back to the majors.

Al Singer put his K. O. punch on Andre Routis's chin four times at Ebbets Field, but the little Frenchman who holds the world's featherweight championship, wouldn't stay put. Finally Referee Forbes had to stop the hout. Here's the last knock-down in that second round. Roitis has just been floored and Singer has turned to get to corner. The title was not affected as the bout was not at the

required weights.

Betty Carstairs, noted British sports- weman, arrived at New York recently en route to Canada where she gave thorough tests to her new speedboat "Estelle IV" which has entered in the Detroit Labour Day International Harmsworth Races.

which sound arguments might pro bably be discoverable. After that however, the question remained as to what was to happen to the em ployee's own contributions, and it is in regard to these that the same spirit of despoilment and injustice prevailed which has been notice-employment. Thirdly his savings, able in previous similar cases elae- which have no particle of relation- where. In the first place it was ship to his criminal doings, are for- stated that everything was fore-feited. And it should always be feited automatically unless the remembered that these savings are | Commissioners decided to return it. † not voluntary savings. They are a

Startling Suggestion

forced contribution upon which his not be an employee unless he agrees employment depends. Thus he can-

to join the Provident Fund, and it is easy to see that this provision, originally intended as a well-mean- iny rule to ensure thrift, can be-

In the second place the President made the startling suggestion that "none of the money should be re- turned but that some of it should be diverted to payment of the man's debts." Exactly what right the President imagines he has to die- tate to a former employee, merely because he happens to have con- mitted an offence, how his savings should be arbitrarily disposed of, Heaven alone knows-upless per- haps it be Hell, where such an idea might well be conceived and brought forth. In any case this extraordinary conception was ap- parently abandoned because it was eventually discovered that the money "could only be retained in

the Fund or returned to the affen-

der."

come nothing more than an instru- ment of unbearable tyranny. There can be no shadow of doubt in the

tributions which are paid in for mind of any upright man that con-

"provident" purposes, are sacred from merely because their owner has lapsed from grace.

confiscation or retention

Also a Guarantee We are not aware of course of the partielar rules of the Malacca Municipal Provident Fund and it may well be that they contain provi- sions which make the fund in real- ity a "Provident cum Guaran- tee Fund" and if that be so the actual application of this Malacca instance may he wide of the mark

But our wish is not so much to call

attention to the Malacca instance 28 to protest against that spirit which is so ready to extend

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