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HONG KONG SPORT IN 1950

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"THE SEER”

"For I gazed into the future far as human eye could see.”

The 1950 sports season in Hong, Kong has been very much like its Immediate predecessors and the general average of our athletes' performances neither better nor worse than we anticipated.

Football.

In Soccer the Chinese Athletic were again just too good for their rivals, although they found the cpposition a bit stronger this year. Several promising recruits appear. ed in their ranks but the back- bone of the.XI, was the old bri gade perennials, Leung Yuk-tong, who once more retires, Lam Yuk- ying, and that sprightly Peter Pan, Ip Kuu. The Athletic's most dangerous rivals were the Club de Recreio, La Salle College, and the Parsee XI. Once more the Lusi tanian's started shakily, but on the re-appearance of the evergreen Gosano brothers things took a turn for the better, and the King's Park club finished strong runners- up. As usual the Club opened the season with a flourish of trumpets, but their star captures proved dis appointing, and the Colony's pre- mier club escaped being wooden spoonists only through the heroic, efforts of Rodger, Bishop, McBryde and "Jimmy" Stewart. However. they hope to do better next year as several men with great home reputations are expected to turn

out for them.

Tonnyson'

"Ernie" and "Teddy" have in creased round the belts and lost much of their former speed and stamina. Honda was successful in the singles championship; an event he has won every alternate year sinre, 1924 when he beat Ng Szo- kwong, now Sir S. K. Ng. In the league tournament the Chinese Recreation Club were

top of all

ten divisions.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1930,

ANOTHER BOXING | GOSSIP

GOSSIP IN THE WORLD

COME BACK.

Luis Firpo Invited to Fight Again.

"BULL OF THE PAMPAS."

Luis Firpo, known to boxing fans as "The Bull of the Pump- been asked to return to the American ring. The Madison Square Garden authorities have put forward a suggestion, which he is at the moment considering.

Luis Firpe.

OF SPORT

RUGBY PLAYER'S NARROW ESCAPE

THE LARGER GOLF BALL.

ENDURANCE RECORD

The participation of!

The death to announc Athletics. Germany in the

C. Racing, ed of Mr. Sam next Olympic

Dawaon. the well- Games at Los Angeles has become known thoroughbred breeder and doubtful owing to the financial stud manager. He owned the situation. The Government has Cloghran stud, in County Dublin,. ́ informed the Reich committee for Ireland, in partnership with his physical culture that it can. pro- | brother. R. C. Dawson, the race- vide no subsidy for the prepara- horse trainer of Whatcombe, and tions and that its contribution to was also part-owner of the famous the expenses of the expedition to atallion. Blandford, sire of the last Los Angeles must be reduced below two Derby winners, Trigo what was granted for the Games at Blenheim. He purchased Bland- Amsterdam,

1 ford as a yearling.

Harbour Swim. Morokichi Yamagach!, the Japanese merman, won the har tour swim just falling to equal Finch's long-standing record for the crossing. Yamaguchi, who swam a very straight course, was almost surprised and beaten by

There have already been sug- that grand old swimmer, G. J. Never forgetting that moment | gestiona that Germany's entry Cooke, whose knowledge of the when he knocked the great Demp should be cancelled, but in view of tides and currents is unrivalled.sey through the ropes and in turn the anxiety to have the 1936 games Cooke, who has won this race received the knock out, he sug-staged in Berlin it is probable that Afteen times, is talking of retir gests a return fight with Jack at least a small contingent will be ing from this most strenuous Dempsey in order to give him a sent to America. competition, but as he said the chance to average his former de same thing five, ten, fifteen, and feat. twenty years ago we wonder. Another giant ready for the kill-

Cricketers had a just-so season.ing, in Firpo's opinion, Is Primo Billiards. True we beat Shanghai, Ceylon. Carnera. He feels, though he has and Mainya, but that was

not done much recent fighting, yet reached chiefly to four centuries from that he will be able to give a good last season. "Tam" Pearce who flew acro98 account of himself when facing from Vancouver to participate. these two tigers of the ring,' Though not so fast between the wickets as he was forty years ago, Pearce is still our most consistent bat just as Owen Hughes is still our best slip fielder.

Golf.

due

Tennis. For the twenty-sixth successive In the final of the Colony's golf year the

Rumjahn cousins won championship, A. B. Stewart, who the doubles championship at was wintering In Hong Kong fennis, and it looks as if they will beat Remedios, the match finish- retain their championship for ing on the forty second green, many years yet. The younger while Stewart, Fergusson, Sir players disappointed. The only Itime S. A and H. D. seemed like heing beaten was in their gruel- Hing semi-final match against course on Lamma is improving the Fincher brothers when and is preferred by many to Sha-] they lost the first two tin, while the Chinese claim that dets. The Rumjahns Aro as their course at Sai Keung ́ls, as slim and almost as fleet as ever, good as if not better than famed but since the early "thirties" | Fan Ling.

WYATT & HAMMOND |

CENTURIES.

M.C.C. Easily Win First Big Match.

TATE'S BOWLING.

Capetown, Nov. 11. The M.C.C. touring team defcated Western Province by an inning and 177 runs in the Arst big match of the South African tour.

Western Province batted frat and scored 118. Maurice Tate was in fine form with

the ball,

captur ing half the wickets

for only 18 runs. The M.C.C. thanks to consist- ent batting had scored 412 for

the loss of

7 wickets

when the closure was ap- plied. R. E. 9. Wyatt (herewith)

top

wan scorer with 188, whilst

Hammond

scored ex-

actly 100, · R. E. §. Wyatt.

Sandham

72 and Patsy Hendren 68 not out,

Requiring 800 to save the inning's defeat, Western Province failed bad- ly before the bowling of Leyland (3 for 4) and I. A. R. Peebles (4 for. 31), and were dismissed for 122

INTER-STATE MATCHES.

Don Bradman Scores Yet Another.

KIPPAX -104. ་་་་་་་་་

Sydney, Nov. 3. In a Shoffeld Shield match which started here yesterday New South Wales scored 228 in the first innings against South Australia, Don Brad- man 01, A. G. Fairfax 62 and Hooker 54 wore the biggest contributors, Carlton took four wickets for 28, and Daverson four for 60.LY

South Australis had lost five wickets for 74 runs were stumps were drawn,GAR Resuming the

S. K. Ng and Remedios were far too strong for Japan, Shanghai, Manila, and Malaya. The new

WHO WILL WIN?

TO-DAY'S LEAGUE AND CUP

GAMES AT HOME.

[Exclusive to Chips Mail-

By "Linesman."

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Rapidly as Lindrum has been scoring, re- | cently he has not the rates he attained

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From Port Arthur Rugby. (Ontario) comes a story of a Rugby fool- baller being nearly drowned in a acrummage during a match.

Playing for Port Arthur against Fort William in the rain, Ferey Lalonde, a Canadian, was found un- conscious at the bottom of a pile

of players in a scrummage, with his face in a pool of water.

Artificial respiration methods such as are used on persons I

In one of the two matches on scued from drowning were employ- steel vacuum cushions at Glasgowed and he was able to finish the Unlucky Fight.

which were notable because of game.

ཟ་༦། Since Luis Angel Firpo, the Ar-Willie Smith's victories, the Aus-

Lalonde will be careful in future gentine giant, made his bid for the tralian scored

a hundred in 58 when playing in the rain. world's heavyweight championship seconds.

in New York seven years ago, box-| Lindrum's best rate of scoring in ing has grown vastly in popular-a four-figure break last season was ity with his countrymen, says A. J. 1,011 in 30 minutes, made at Man- Daniels in the Sporting Life. chester with Wille Smith again his opponent. His fastest recorded rate this season is 50 per cent. lower-1,111 in 45 minutes on Octo- her 9 in his match with Tom New-

Jack Dempsey. Dempsey waS a lucky man to retain his title the night he met Firpo. Had the rules been strict-

man.

The French Boxing Boxing. Federation declares that a French cham- pion must defend his title every time he is challenged by an ac knowledged challenger, and will be given three months in which to do so. If he fails to do this the title will be declared vacant and open to competition

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As a consequence of this rule, ly administered he would have six championship matches will be been disqualified for hitting his fought before the end of the year. man when in the act of rising, as he did also when he met Jess The following is a list of Home Willard-not merely football matches to-day. The twice. teams in black type may win; where no black type is shown the match may result in a draw:

ENGLISH LEAGUE.

Aston Villa Bollon

Chelsea

Grimsby

Huddersfield LIVERPOOL Manchester U.

Middlesbro

Newcastle

Division L

V.

PORTSMOUTH

v. Birmingham

ARSENAL

Y.

7. Leeds U.

v.. M'CHESTER C.

V. Sheffield U:

Y

SUNDERLAND

V DERBY

v. Blackburn

WEDNESDAY v. Blackpool

WEST HAM

Bradford BURNLEY MILLWALL Notts Forest Oldham

V

Leicester

Division.II.

Y. Everton V. Charlton v. Plymouth

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v. WEST BROM.

SWATICA Bradford C. 7. BRISTOL C.

PRESTON N.E. v.

Reading SHAMPTON

STOKE

TOTTENHAM

WOLVES

v. Barnsley

v. Bury

V.

Port Vale

v. Cardiff

F.A. CUP COMPETITION,

SOUTHEND

Walsall

Luton

Y. Torquay

บ

B'MOUTH Clapton S'HAMPTON v. Coventry Norwich

7. SWINDON Hartlepools ROCHDALE

v. STOCKPORT Doncaster

T

CARLISLE V. New Brighton

Wrexham

TRANMERE

Southport

Chesterfield

v. Wigan

.V. Gateshead

v. Darlington

V. Notts C.

WELLINGTON Y. Wombwell

HALIFAX

NELSON

V. Mansfield

Manchester CL ACCRINGTON v. Lancaster

SCARBORO

YORK CITY

Nowark

Gainsboro

GREWE

LINCOLN

Rhyl Grealey

V. ROTHERHAM

v. Scunthorpe

Jarrow

v, Barrow... "ALDERSHOT V. Peterboro

POLKSTONE v. Sittingbourne FULHAM v."."Wimbledon. Ilford

v. Brentford GILLINGHAM V. Guildford Walthampstowe v. WATFORD Northfleet

V.EXETER Dulwich.

7. NEWPORT CRYSTAL P.

Taunton!... Tunbridge

KINGSTON" Bristol y Merthyr

SCOTTISH LEAGUE.

Division L

Morton Cowdenbeath MOTHERWELL Av. Dundee

FALKIRK V. Hiberniane VB Mirren 7. Queen's Park

this morning! South Aud ABERDEEN trails were finally dismissed for 124 AIRDRIE runs, Hooker, with five wickets for Ayr, Park, 23: TUES, being the most

most successful CELTIC bowler, donde pueda East Fife

New South Wales then went on to HAMILTON score 317 for the loss of five wickets HEARTS Before play was ceased to-day Kilmarad Bradman was the highest scorer with Leith "AMMUT PARTICK ddd-bile. Kipper acontributed 104. RANGERS. v. Clyde

(Continued as foot of next Column.)

Cricket.

It is related that a London pressman fol-

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Germany's first profes- Soccer, alonal football union has been established parti-

at Cologne, and, with the

hulf-dozen west cipation of some German teams, step will be taken at once to establish relations with the professional unions in other countries.

It is expected that professional football will now make rapid strides in that country, Advertise- ments have already appeared in Berlin for first-class players for a

Berlin team.

In West Germany twenty teams are expected to join the new union, and they will be divided into two Only the business divisions. manager will be a paid offcial, all the other being honorary.

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Shaft Ahmed, В Swimming. twenty-five-year- old Indian student

of Osmania University, Hyderabad, arrived in London in a police ambulance, and went straight to bed, where he remained for three days and nights.

Two hours earlier he had clam- hered from the Corporation Swim- |

The rules were ignored again

lowed Duleop into when Dempsey was assisted into the dressing-room after his 100 in the ring after being sent sprawl- his Test against the Australians." ing out of it from Firpo's mighty, "There is no doubt you will soon swinging right, and after a num- be stepping into Ranil's shoes," ming Baths at Worthing, after hav ber of seconds which nobody seem- said the newspaperman. Duleep's ing broken the world's swimming fed to bother about counting. retort was, "Oh! I'm in them al- endurance record by swimming

continuously

hours Z Taken aback a trife by The fight was a thrilling one-ready."

minutes. be a want of the most thrilling in all the ex- what he took to

Shaft broke the existing record perience of men of the game for modesty by Duleep, the reporter of 68 hours 11 minutes made by a 30 years and more-and the story "registered" surprise. "You see,"

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Maltese named Rizzo,

the

Throughout the evening swimmer was cheered on by hun- dreds of people who crowded into the baths, and he went up and down the baths monotonously to the strains of a jazz band.

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of it fired the fighting instinct of explained Duleep, pointing to his young Argentina as no other aport- cricket boots, "these were made for ing event could have done.

Ranji 25 years ago, and they never There was something else, too, really fitted him properly, so I have to cause, the youngsters to take borrowed them." notice. There was money in box- ing, for though Firpo was beaten by a superlor #ghting animal, ho

For the first time in

council of the took back a fortune to the Argen- Fencing, the history of Bri-

Tennis. Lawn Tennis Associa- tine, where he le now a big man

tish fencing, a party

tion of Australia at in the motor trade.

of awordsmen representing the

Its meeting at Melbourne dis- The country has not yet found Universities of Great Britain will

cussed an application which has another Firpo, but there are take part in the Internationai

been made by J. 0. Andersen, at other weights, Students Tournament which is to through the New South Wales As- plenty of men and amateurs and professionals be held at Utrecht (Holland). The sociation, for re-instatement as an alike have begun to make their Universities of Great Britain have amateur player. The council de- formed a fencing organisation not cided to inform the State Associa- only for the purpose of participation that it was prepared to givo ing in the International tourna-

favourable consideration to the ap- ment each year, but also for ar ranging a match against Great plication after a period of two years Britain, an annual tournament, and from the date when Anderson satis a ranking list similar to that adopted the council that ho had ceased to have any professional activities ed by the lawn tennis authorities.

in lawn tennis and to receive any Mr. C. P. Collins, hon. secretary

presence felt.

PING PONG. MEN'S SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP

DECIDED.

The Championship title was de-

cided on Thursday evening in the of the University of London Froyalties in respect to the sale of

tennis material. During tho Chinese Y.M.C.A. Kowloon, when has been elected to a similar pos- period of his probation Anderson Lai Yiu-choak defeated Lat Pul- tion in the new body, and he will maat confirm to the rules governing lum by the odd'set in five, -

Brechin

Clydebank

-Division II;

· DÜMBARTON

Dundee U.

D'FERMLINE

v. Arbroath "

Y. ALLOA

. Albion B.

King's Park

Bt. Bernards

E. STIRLING v, Armadale- Forfar

v Raith R QUEEN-OF-8, v. "Bo'ness Stenhousemuir. V. ST. JOHNSTONE 3RD LANARK`v.. Montrose-

TO-DAY'S SNIPS. Home. Wednesday, Burnley. Preston N.E. Southampton Wolves, Rangers Dunfermline. E. Stirling. Queen-of-South. Third Lanarki Carlisle Lincoln,

Away, Motherwell Partick Thistle, Allos, Pa St. Johnstone;: Stockport

Kingstonians,

be a member of the team. The team is:

amateur status.

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The council intimated that there C. H. Barnett (Cambridge), C. P. would be no visit this season from Collins (University College Hosa South African tennis team. It pital, London), C. G. Hohler (Cam bridge), B. B. S. Houghton (Oxford), and D. Scott-Fox (Oxford).

"I like it." sald Bobby Golf. Jones, referring to the new and larger American golf ball which comes into official use on January 1.

Jones thinks that with the wind against the drive, the distance with the new ball, which measures 1.69 Inches in diameter and weighs 1.55 ounces, will be about ive yards shorter than with the old ball. He does not think, however, that a corresponding fire yards will be added to the distance with the wind behind the drive, his reason being that as the ball nears the end of its course on the fly, Its speed will be come less than that of the wind

was resolved to invite the French and Japanese Associations to, send tears to Australia for the 1981-32

деалов.

Mr. Jeff, Dickeon's Wrestling, plans to promote a

wrestling tourna ment under American rules, with ten-minutes bouts, at the Albert: Hall, Londen, on October 31, were postponed.

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Some American wrestlers, a Rus plan, and an Indian are in England, and it was proposed to complete the programme with a number of young: English wrestlers

¿Two of the principal oversons- wrestlers were in England as visitors, and the Home Office will not permit them to take part in a professional tournament. In the efrcumstances fresh plans are bilag made for, a tournament et a later date.