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THE CHINA

MAIL.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER

2, 1930.

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Sport Columns

IS DISTRIBUTION INTERPORT SHOOTING|

LEGAL?

Unsolicited "Sweep"

Tickets.

NOT ATTRACTIVE GAMBLES..

the

By Theophilux.]

Truth, in a recent issue, has de- voted two paragraphs to the Liech tenstein Sweeps, relating to sweep stakes on English races which are conducted by "Mutual Distribu- tions (Overseas), Incorporating R. J. Duggan, Ltd., etc. After describ- ing Duggan's activities in Ireland, and his transfer of "secured for his enterprise the August patronage of Government of that Princi- pality." Truth goes on to say: "In India and Burma tickets are touted by local agents, and there is nothing in the printed matter which they issue to show who are the persons now responsible for the business in Leichtenstein. It is, however, fairly clear that the methods adopted for the sale of tickets must heavily diminish the value of the chance in the lottery for which cash is paid. There are not only agents whose remuneration is undisclosed, but swarms of sub- agents-and-tiekots are offered on reduced terms

to anyone taking

three or more.

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Natives Allowed.

"Taking one consideration with another, I should not myself regard these sweeps on the Derby, the

St. Leger, the Manchester Novem- ber

Grand Handicap, and the National as attractive gambles, anil though Europeans should be able to look after themselves, it is a pity that the authorities in India and Burma allow the traffic in the tic-

CONTEST.

Hong Kong Secure Last Place.

SHANGHAI WIN.

ENGLISH FOOTBALL WORLD'S LADY TENNIS

CUP.

Draw for Second Round Announced.

NOTTS COUNTY AGAIN AWAY.

801

Owing to some explicable rea- not Reuter's Agency did cable the draw for the first round proper of the English Cup until last night-nearly 30 hours after it had cabled the results by code. However the Sunday Herald and the

PLAYERS

MRS. MOODY SUPREME

SECRET OF ENGAGING WITH INTERNATIONALS.

ENGLISH HOPES

[By A. Wallis Myers.)

Singapore, Nov. 24. Weather conditions of & most trying description prevailed yester-China Mail published a list of re-

In attempting to classify the that day morning when Singapore fired suits that was virtually correct, the

ten women players of the off in the annual Inter-port shoot-only addition to the list being the first ing competition at the Farrer Queen's Park Rangers and Thames world, the appraiser Js only to

conscious of his difficulties, writes Range, writes the Singapore Free match, which was won by the for- A. Wallis Myers in the Daily Preba

Telegraph.

none of those in the lists competed in all three champion- ships (French, British and Ameri can), and that women, much more than men, must always be more susceptible to climatic and surface

It was an extremely hot morning,mer by 5 gesla to nil.

changes. This morning Reuter sends the which caused a mirage, while vary- Ing light, due to clouds and the draw for the second round, to be fresh breeze, did not add to Singa-

This year, like no other, form has fluctuated. The only place that "leaps to the eye" is that of Mrs.

pore's chances. The shooting, when played on December 18, adding the Moody at the top. She stands to- compared with the results of the superfinous information that the day, as she stood last year and the shoots, was not at all encouraging. Clubs In the First and Second year before, in splendid isolation. The full scores were: Shanghal Divisions come into the competition Below her is much talent but to reach little that seems likely 907; Singapore 873 and Hong Kong

in the third round.

her high level; and in the maze 845.

and Notts County are again drawn to of the season's tournament At 200 yards Singapore were only five points behind Shanghat's score.play away,, their opponents in the match play I am, faclined to think At 500 yards the score, dropped 26, eecond round putting Singapore 31 points behind Rovers. Shanghai. The team was thus left

The China Mail

being Doncaster that the secret of Mrs. Moody's Brentford are fortunate supremacy has been lost to her

younger rivals.

Man-Like ground with the almost impossible task of in playing on their own

If Mrs. Moody played as much scoring 340 points at 600 yards, or Gillingham, at home, should ac- lawn tennis as some of her con- against, the lowly Norwich City. 34 per man, which left each mem-count for either Aldershot Town or temporaries her record of invin- Peterborough. Either Tranmero, cibility would probably be tarnish- Rovers or Gateshead "should""aced, for, although she has cultivat count for Folkestone. Lincoln City ed a speed of service and drive need have no qualras regarding which have a man-like superiority their visit to Scarborough, and the over nearly all her opponents, she aame may be said in regard to is not a born strategist. Crystal Palace's trip to Newark But she is wise enough to limit Town. Wrexham will go into the her match play to the major meet- third round at the expense of eitherings of the year, and she comes Wellington Town or Wombwell. to each better trained, physically Carlisle United have nothing to and mentally, than the rest of the fear from Tonbridge Wells- field. She has made a habit of the harder The full list of ties in the second practising against

strokes of men; not for her the round is as under;

depressing influence of games Gainsborough Trinity v. South- against opponents who cannot ex-

port.

will publish "SECOND SLIP'S"

articles

on

LOCAL CRICKET

every Wednesday.

keta among the native population."ber of the team a margin of only

I think perhaps Truth has a too one point below the highest possible. | high respect for the European's Actually, the team fell short of the capacity for looking after himself. task by 64 points. Singapore has My own mind is completely inno- not won an inter-port rifle shooting cent of the possibilities of any pit-competition since 1909 and the beat falls regarding the Kult Club score since then was made in 1927 whose 'Manager' has just issued ma when 915 was returned against with a book of tickets on the Hong Kong's 949 and Shanghala Viceroy's Cup Sweep. The gift 945.

of course, was

unsolicited, and is

marked Private and Confidential," and on the back of each ticket is a

printed notice to the effect that NATIONAL GUARD

"No ticket will be issued except to members, with whom alone the Club will correspond." I hasten to add that, as far as I know (and I know nothing at all about Buch things), the Kulti Club's sweep- stake is absolutely irreproachable and above board. At the same time, when I am asked, in my capacity na Secretary to a station club to distribute these tickets (presumably to members of my club) it would seem that have right to make enquiries, and I should be grateful if any one could confirm my already proconceived confidence in the Kulti Club. Also, La there anything to prevent mo from embarking on similar specula

tions myself?.

ADOPT POLO.

Denver Cavalry Are Keen Players.

-GOING DIFFICULT.

Denver, Colorado, Oct. 25. Denver units of the Colorado na- tonal guard have adopted polo, s a part of their winter aporta pro-

gramme.

The city has a troop of cavalry,

and those members who have the

tract the speed which is her nature to exploit.

next

Brentford v. Norwich City.

All Powerful. Accrington v. Torquay. Gillingham v. Aldershot Town Mrs. Moody's championship vis

or Peterborough,

tories this year were even easier Fulham or Wimbledon v. Hali- than last. She did not lose a set In Paris or at Wimbledon, and al- fax or Mansfield, Nelson v. York City.

though threatened with the loss Tranmere or Gateshead v. Folke- of one in the Wightman Cup match-Mrs. Holcroft-Watson took stone. Watford v. Luton or Clapton the first five games-her defent

Of the Orient.

was never likely. Crewe v. Queen's Park Rangers.thirteen games she only lost one. Doncaster v. Notts County. I am led to the conclusion that, Scarborough v. Lincoln.

in all countries, the science and Newark Town v. Crystal Palace. technique of the game are not re- The Bristol Rovers v. Stockport. ceiving adequate attention. Walsall v. Dulwich Hamlet or number of women players is in-

Newport,

creasing in almost all lands, but Wellington

v. there la no lack of facilities for

practice. Wrexham. Carlisle v. Tunbridge Wells. Exeter v. Coventry.

or Wombwell

Our Sports Diary.

LOCAL.

Hockey-To-day-YMCA. v. RA King's Park, 5 pm.

Golf-To-day-Second round of Rallway Cup (Ladies).

December 15-Aanual Meating R.H.K.G.C. Jardine, Mathesong Board Room, 5.30, p...

Chess To-day-First round of Kowloon Chess Club Cham pionship. the

time have been allowed the use of the horses for the game, according to Major Alphonse Ardourel. quartermaster of the Colorado divi-

game,

The Pratt family own a large ranch east of Denver and their team is composed entirely of mem- bers of that family..

Penalties Involved. I ask, because as recently as October last, I was nearly scared out of my Secretarial wits by asion. Government Judicial Department In their first- Circular, calling my attention to guard team found the go- Section 294A of the Indian Penal

ing difficult, losing to the Code, and to the dire consequences Pratt ranchers by 12 goals to 1. of (A). keeping an office or place for the purpose of drawing a lot tery not authorised by Government, and (B) publishing of a proposal to give any consideration contingent on the drawing of any ticket in a lottery, not authorised, etc. After stating that no lottery is or will be authorised, the circular ends up with the remark that: "All clab superior quality of the Fratt harses. The Guard since has aweepstakes and lotteries which are secured several faster horses and is not confined to members of the club, Including visitors enjoying expected to give the ranch team

better battle in their next encoun- the use of the club as honorary terUnited Press. membera, are thus definitely pro hibited"--and that the law will set In motion those dira prosecutions which, as noted, scared me out of my Secretarial wits.

What would happen to me i£1 circulated Kulti Club tickets to members? There is something in the circular about "abetting any such lottery or sweepstake." My enquiry is of strictly academic

Major Ardourel, who has become perhaps the team's most ardent fan, offered a ready alibi for that first defeat, blaming it mostly on the

HOCKEY.

K.B.S.F.P.A. HOLD THE ARGYLLS,

On the USRC ground yester saturs since the only use to which day afternoon the KB.S.F.P.A. XI. 1 put lottery tickets is for shaving played a drawn game, with the paper, which I presume is not

legal, though I admit that, in Argyll and Sutherland Highland- those hard times, free supply at XI. Both teams were well sliaving paper might be regarded balanced and some good move- as the Secretary's perka,andments were witnessed. There was

no scoring in the first half. therefore-a onaldsration." How-

After the interval the F.PA? over the

broke through and C. Francis forated,

found the net This leadway

hort lived

the tem

neatly

Football Tomorrow

Club "A" H.M.S. Medway,

4.45 p.m.

Lawn Tenn fs-Thursday Ladies' Open Doubles Champion- ship-Semi-Finals.

Monday-Ladies' Open Doubles Final, U.S.B.C.

Racing Saturday - Twelfth Extra Race Meeting.

Monday Entries close for Thirteenth Extra Meeting, noon.

December 18-Thirteenth Extra Race Meeting

December 21-Fanling Hant Club's Steeplechase Meeting

February 15 Fanling Hunt Clab's Steeplechase Meeting. T

January 18 Fanlog Hunt Club's Steeplechase Meeting...

Boxing Saturday Tournament, City Hall, 9 pm.

Cricket Saturday.Division L Craigongower GC. v. Civil Ser- vics (L.); Univerzity v Kowloon C.C. (F.); Division II-Civil Ser vice v. Craigsengower (TA); Heng Kong C.C. Royal Signals (L); Police. v. Univeralty. (P.) Indian RG V. BAS.C, (F) Kowloon C.C. v. Recreto. (F.),"

FootballSaturday-First Divi slon-St. Joseph's Burderers Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Recreio v Chinese Navy v. Kow loon Second Division Navy Borderera; St. Joseph's v. Chinese, Royal Artillery South China; Highlanders: University v Kow Clubev. Argylt Sutherland toon. Becreto. Eastern; Third Division R.A.0.0. Folden.

Fanling Hunt-Sunday Open ing Meat, Hunters Arms, 2.16 pm.

Monday Fencing Fencing Club Meeting, Yacht Club, E.45

Athletics March 15 and 16MEN Hong Kong Canton Unftet-in

En-lish

World Improvement.

No one who has toured Ger- many this summer could have failed to have noticed the wealth of new courts, many of them equipped with swimming baths and plant for physical exercises. In South America, shortly, to be visited by a British team, there is the same development, and in the East women are demanding and obtaining opportunities for more play.

1. Mra. Moody (Helen Wills)

(United States). 2. Fr. C. Aussom (Germany). S. Mrs. Holcroft-Watson (Eng

land),

4. Miss Ryan (United States). 6. Mme. Mathieu (France).

H. 6. Miss

Jacobs (United

States).

7. Mias P. Mudford (England).

8. Senorita E. de Alvarez

'(Spain).

9. Miss B. Nuthall (England).

10. Fri. H. Krahwinkel (Ger-

many).

to Europe.

It will be seen that England and America each have three players, Spain and Germany two, and France one each. Australia might very well have had. one or two of her women in the list if a team from the Commonwealth bad come

German Star. Frl. Aussen, the present Ger- man champion, has five victories to her credit over the players She was In the semi- classified. final both at Wimbledon and in Parts; In the French champion- ship she beat Miss yar, to whom she was obliged to retire in the British tournament Mrs. Watson was unable to play at Wimbledon, and her singles season has been Lestricted; she has beaten and. been defeated by Miss Jacobs: she

'as

too good for Miss Nathall early in the year. Her break of five games against Mrs. Moody has been mentioned.

自容

Miss Ryan Disappoints. Although in all three finals at Wimbledon and playing with as much vigour as ever, Miss Ryan has only two victories over, against three defeats by, "First Ten" players. Mme. Mathieu has advanced and has outstanding Miss Jacobs was handi- talent. capped by illness, but reached the Miss Mudford is final in Paris. Icas verentile, but her driving power and her mobility are a real asset

to England's resources. Senorita de Alvarez did not play at Wimbledon, and, after beating me. Mathieu at Auteall, fell to Miss Jacobs in a rather ́poinfal match.

New Talent.

Miss Nuthall's successes in Eng- land were few, but in winning the American championship, although of meeting deprived of a chance Mrs. Moody again, she acquitted herself well. Frl. Krahwinkel bas beaten Mrs. Godfree and Senorita de Alvarez this year, although She is neither was at her best. one of many German players gift- ed with stamina and zeal.'

All this activity feeds youthful ambition, but it does not neces sasily furnish intelligent and sym- pathetic coaching, nor ensure that ardent disciples can explore the altimate art of the game, Never was there a greater opportunity for professional Instructors-of | date-are several maturing play- the right kind.

The following "order of merit is based mainly, although not en tirely, on results in major events. I add the necessary qualification

RUGBY FOOTBALL.

CLUB

A. H.M.S. MEDWAY.

The following will represent the Club "A" fifteen v. H.M.S. Medway to-morrow at 4.45 p.m.

AN. Other W. Harris Walkon Allera, D. F. Kliby, G. P. Ferguson

W. King, LH, M. Macredy; R. D. Beaumont, B. L Stock H. D Clip pingdale, A. D. Coppin, Watson, W. J. Kerr, W. R Andrews and Mitford.

Referee: Mr. G. F. Reas.

Future Dates.

The following fixtures have been arranged

Saturday, December 8-Club" "A"

South Wales Borderers. Saturday December 18-Club United Services

Saturday, December 20, Clab South Wales Borderers.

On the fringe of the elect-and doubtless to come in at an early

ers-Miss M. Hetley and Mins F. James of England, Miss S. Palfrey of America, Miss Mataya of France, and Mic. Sigart of Bel- gium.

"THE MONKEY'S PAW'

· PRODUCTION BY Y.M.C.A. DRAMATIC SOCIETY,

The public will welcome the pro- duction of W. W. Jacobs well-known. play, The Monkey's Paw" by the Amateur Dramatic Society of the Kowloon Young Men's Christian Association

This thriller, the only dramatic work by Jacobs, will be produced during the second half of the pro- gramme on Ladies Night at the Y.M.C.A. on Thursday, December 4.

The first half of the pro- gramme will be in the form of a abort concert, leading vocalists and musicians rendering their selec | tipas. All are cordially invited to

attend this function.

NO

INTEREST.

SHANGHAI - NANKING RAILWAY DEFAULT.

With the exception of his long

Shanghai, Yesterday?) left hand Scott had

The Shanghal-Nanking Baliváy He showed himself lacking both has defaulted in the interest par Insoffence and defence, phe went of 686,700, due on December ds, open as a gate for erbody at 1. This is the first time Ching has tack and Strinbling commenced a defaulted in the payment of inter terrible price for ft-Norman est on Shangaal-Nanking Railway Hurst

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