1930-02-27 — Page 9

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1930.

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HOME FOOTBALL

Trio of Matches in Leagues

"POMPEY" GO UNDER

London, Yesterday, Three League matches wera played to-day, in the First, Second and Third (Southern) Divisions, respectively.

CRICKET

Volunteers Meet United Services

A CLOSE GAME

The Hong Kong Volunteers

a third cricket, were engaged in match yesterday, when they' met a United Services team on the. H.K.C.C. ground 'and 'defeated them by 18 runs, after a close Kame in which 340

runs were

Scores:-

Valunteers

Wyatt

Manchester City, playing at Home, had no difficulty in account-knocked up. ing for Portsmouth who went down a year ago by 2-1..

Bradford City gained a coupla of much-needed points at the ex- pense of the more lowly Bristol

City.

Bournemouth, at home, defeat-

ed Northampton by a couple of

goals.

Division 1.

E. C. Fincher, b K. H. Batger, b Wyatt E. Zimmern, e Suther. b Musson F: Zimmer, e Laslett, h Fry W. D. Folley, b.w, b Musson.

J. R. Mitchell, e Wyatt, b Fry

S. V. Gittins, b Wyatt

N. C. Hung, b Fry

G. E. R. Divett, e Marfarlane, b

Wyatt

A. Rekl. b Wyatt

A. C. Beck, not out

Extras

Total

United Services

D

170

Lieut. Macfarlane, c and ↳ Reld 20 Comdr. F. C. Baker, b Beck

Mid. Suther, b Reid

Zimmern b Reid

Results:

40

Manchester C. 5 Portsmouth

Division II

2 Lieut. Wolfe-Barry, b Divett

3

4

Licut. A. H. Musson,

0

1Lt-Col. F. G. Wyatt, c&b Divett

28

A. B. Laslett, e Mitchell, b Reid

9

Sub. Lieut. Moseley, b Beck

I

Pte. Fry, e Fincher, b Reid=.. Lt. Anstruther, c Datger, b Beck Lt. Christian, not out

2

Extras

26

Total.

101

Bradford C. 3 Bristol C.

Division III South

Bournemouth

3 Northampton

-Reuter.

LEAGUE TABLES

Division I.

Goals. P. W. D. L F. A. Pts. Wednesday 28 17 6 6 73 35 40 Derby30 16 6 9 62 56 37 M'chester C. 30 15 8 900 55 36 Blackburn

30 14 5 11 77 68 38 30 14 Tuddersfield 30 14 5 11

ប...

Leeds...

20 15 2

Leicester 31 13 12

Liverpool...30 12

Sheffield U. 30 13

47 50 33

57 42

64 65

49 57 31

60 30

Aston Villa 29 13 4 12 50 58 30 10 M'chester U. 30 13 4 13 49 68 Middlesbro' .29.13 313-04 58 20 West Ham 31 12 5 14 84 01

81 01 20 Bolton

11

717 55 52

29 Portsmouth .30 10 8 12 52 31 25 Burnley....31 10 9 13 60 73 28 Birmingham .29 10 7 12 45 45 27 Arsenal.....20 10 8 13 40 13 28 Everton...30 8 0 13 51 43 25 Sunderland .28 8 7 13 42 69 24 Grimsby ..29 8 0 15 43 Newcastle ..28 10 2 16 63 74 22

Oldham Blackpool

Division IL

P. W. D. L.

Goals.

F. A. Pts.

.30 17 8 5 66 31 42 ..20 19 2 8 75 57 40

Chelsea ..20 14 10 5 53 28 38 Bradford ..29 14 7 8 40 50 38 Bury ......30 15 4 11 60 50 3% Southampton 29 13 6 11 67 63 31 Wolves .....30 12 7 11 56 56 31 West Brom, 28 134 11 76 67 80 Cardiff......30 12 6 12 43 42 30 Tottenham ..38 109 11 45 47 29 Notts For...29 9 11 9 38 42 20 Charlton ....28 0 10 9 40 37 28 Stoko

51 10 13 65 h 28 Holl

.28 11 6 22 41 40 28 Bradford C. 10 9 9 12 48

Preston N.E. 30 9 8 13 44 50 20 Millwall 29 6 13 19 42 57

Notts Cnty. 30 7 13 10 42 45 Barnsley 30 8 8 14

Reading ..31 7 10 14

Swansea

.31

Bristol C. .29

7 8 16

Division III-South

Brentford

Goals.

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts.

.20 20.3 6 72 30

2 01 21 41

G 03 88 26

46 32 35,

20

Plymouth ..20 17 7 Brighton

Northampton 28 16

Bournemouth 27 12 19: Southend ...29 11

Norwich 29 13

Fulham

Grystal Pal. 30

Coventry

Exeter.....30 11

Queen's PR. 27 10 8 9 -42 Luton ... 29 9

Swindon

29 8 9 12

Walsall ....20 9 8 14

0. .28 7 10 11 28 41

***ARLI88*-**-***aNAREN

Newport....27 8 6 18 40 52 Watford.80 816 80 54 Torquay....29 6 8 15 40 58 Gillingham 80 7 5 18 32 02 Bristol R...26 6 5 15 48 60 17 Merthyr 27 28 17 88 31

In

A University Match

an inter-faculty cricket match played on the University ground yesterday afternoon, the Arts Faculty beat the Medicals by 38 runa.

Taking first knock, the Medicals could only score 75, of which D. K. Samy contributed 39.

The Arts Faculty replied with 113, McDougall (25) being

the highest scorer.

CRICKETER'S DEATH

Veteran Interport Player Passes Away

Shanghai, Yesterday. The death has occurred of the well-known Interport cricketer. Mr. Harry Ollerdessen, from peritonitis. -Reuter.

Our Sports Diary

LOCAL

THE CHINA MAIL.

Hockey To-day Hockey Club V. Punjab Regiment, Marina ground, .m.

Football-Saturday-Senior Division: St. Joseph's' v. South China, Recreio v. Club, Chin- ese v. Police, R.A. v. Kow- loon; Junior Division: East- 017 v. Somersets, Club v. Chinese "B". R.A.M.C. V. South China "A", Recrelo v.. Chinese "A". South China "B". St. Joseph's, Ewo v. R.A.

March 8-Shield ties semi- finals.

Cricket Saturday - Divi- alon 1: University v. C.3.0.0.; Division II: C.S.C.C. v. Uni- veraity, H.K.C.C. Y. R.A.S.C., Recreio v. R.A.0.C.; Friendly —K.C.C. v. C.C.C., C.C.C. II. v. D.B.S., R.E. & S. v. K.C.C.“ II.

Racing-Hong Kong Jockey Club-Saturday, noon.

Fanling - Hunt — To-day— Hounds Meet, Hunters' Arms, 3.30 p...

Tennis-To-day H.K.C.C. Tournament.

GolfSaturday-Captain's

Cup, Fanling.

Chess Friday--Champion- ship. G. Woudenberg y. D. E. Carvalho; I. A. Boulanin v. J. S. Smith; C. M. Sequelra v. 0. Hassan.

Rifle Shooting-April 20 and 21-Volunteers' annual rifle meeting. Stonecutter's.

HOME

Football-March 1-English Cup (six round); Scottish Cup (fourth round).

Billiards February 21 to March 29-Amateur Cham- plonship, London.

Hong Kong in November, 1922, when his younger brother was also in the team, then captain od by the famous, veteran interpor- ter Billings.

TENNIS

Matches at the H.K.C.C.

To-day

The Hong Kong Cricket Club's tennis tournament will be resum- ad this afternoon, when, weather permitting, the following matches will be played.

(second round):-

Open Singles W. C. Hung v. S. A. RumJahn: Ng Sze-cheong v. F. H. Kwok.

Open Doubles (first round):-Kong Too-cheung and Ho Ka-lau v, J. Barrow

and D. M. Macdougall; (second round). M. K. and M. W. Lo v. Luk Kang-cheung and Luk Ding-cheung,

Club Championship (flest round):— 1. S. Harris v. H. Nijhoff; O. EL C. Marton v. T. J. Price.

Handicap Singles "A":-S. L. Parsons rec. 3/6) 7. G. H., W. Churchill (scr.).

Handleap Doubles:-P. W. J. Planner and K. K. Batger (rec. 4/0) v. T. C. Monaghan and N. L Rallion (acr.).

AMUSING!

and sadly to be regretted-his lack of Aght, "tennisly" speaking. It is be scared against him. only through these that points may

"Khoo ban too weak a service open at all angles for his opponent to take the offensive from. It is alow, easy; and bounds just the right height for a forehand smack.

"His overheads lack that terrific cocksureness and he is easily daunted. Instead of picking up to return the smash when his op- ponent poses-although he knows best what he is up to he just brings down his guard, so to speak, and lets the sphere flash or float by.

Backhand Like Lacoste "However, ho has a deep court offensive that would catch a base- Hne player right at the feet and make him stroke out of position or pick-up a weak return that would be very handy for an acute place- ment to a man right up at the mesh.

"He has a backhand very much like that of Lacoste, where from a horizontal plane a racket smacka the ball fiat which often results in an unreturnable stroke, but it is

What Manila Thinks of doubtful if he can send them over

Khoo Hooi Hye

The following "write-up" of the visit of Khoo Hoof Hye, the Malayan tennis champion, and Gor- don Lum, the Chinese champion, to the Philippines for the Manila championships,

taken

from an American contemporary, provides amusing reading:

"If Gordon Lum and Khoo Hooi Hyc, Chinese top-flight rackets, contrary to general rules, let loose In the Carnival net tournaments the same stuff they dust off in their practice games every afternoon on the Laong Laan asphalts, it cannot be denied, with subordinate clauses, that they are a menace to our first rate racket wieldera.

"Taking them individually, Gor- don Lum, with his former local court experience, when ho played in last Carnival meet, as an asset, is a brand new Gordon in his tenais togs. His former slice-drive from the forehand is now a deadly slap at the ball which sends the pellet to the other side of the court with a "dirty" bounce; his backhand is A combination of Francisco

Aragon's and that of Tugayo-aay ing the least about it, and everyone who has seen him play at the net will not err in saying. "he knows his tennis groceries."

Gordon Lum's Weakness "It is difficult to make an effen- According to the "China Who's sive out of his service aces, unless Who," the late Mr. Harry Bertram one in the calibre of Francisco Ollerdessen was born at Shanghai | Aragon knows his game. His in 1886, and was of American na-subtly disguise cunning is a riddle. tionality, sceing war service in that is unexpected and puzzling at 1918-19 as a Lieutenant in the US. the same time, and he does not de- Army. From 1911 to 1917 he ser ceive himself with trying to kill the ved in the American Co., Shanghai ( ball everytime the fault of most Volunteer Corps. He was educated of our top-flighters.

at the Shanghai Public School: "His weakness is in bis mid-

stendily.

"His foreband drive is deceiving. It is well camouflaged, as his racket starts only a foot from his side when he makes it, thus ably dis- guising its direction. With the ald of an unfailing network, there's no saying what havoc he may create to local racketers.

"And as both of them assured the writer that they intend not to make foals of themselves in the coming meet, the tennis enthusiasts will have more than they expect to en- thuse for."

MOTOR CYCLISTS

Dinner And Presentation of Prizes

At, dinner hald at Messra. Lane, Crawford's last night the awards won in the recent motor cycle reliability trial wore sented. Most of the competitors in the event, which was held on January 31, were present.

pre-

Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin pre- sented the prizes, the Motor Cycle Section Cup (presented by the

Rogers, who lost only six points. Texas Company), going to Mr.

Mr. Clarke took the premier award. Mr. Smith took the second. Mr. Miller the third, and Lieut. Williams the fourth. The team prize went to Messrs. Rogers, Clarke and Williams.

An enjoyable gramme was provided by Messrs. Blakeley, "Dick" Barty, Jeeves, Grenham, and Fountain,

musical

pro-

SHEFFIELD SHIELD

then became a stock broker, and court ground play where he lacks Big Stand by Ryder and

[Many In Hong Kong will remember the veteran cricket- joined the Shanghai Stock Ex- the necessary abruptness to dive at

Harry Ollerdessen, er,

who change. played here for Shanghai against | Cooke.]

He married a Miss Louisa | hot fast rallies sent at furious

speed, and his mata handicap le-

Left to right, back row: William F. Carey, President of Madison Square Garden; George F. Getz, of the Illinois Boxing Commission, and Jimmie Johnston, co-manager of Phil Scott Seated signing articles for the bout in Miami between Jack Sharkey of Boston and Phil Scott of London are Johnny Buckley, manager of Sharkey; Frank Bruen, Vice-President of Madison Square Garden, and Charley Johnston, manager for Scott.

Hendry

Sydney, Jan. 29.

A Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and Victoria was begun yesterday after a delay of three days owing to rain.

Victoria, winning the toss, put in New South Wales, who scored 330. Bradman made 77 and Allsopp 65. At the close of the day's play Victoria had lost 2 wickets for 45

runs.

The match was left drawn to- day.

Victoria scored 222 for the loss

of 3 wickets, of which Ryder made

100 not out and Hendry 95.

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