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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1931.

LOOKING FOR DOG RUGBY FOOTBALL IN GOSSIP IN THE WORLD OF SPORT LESSONS FROM PAST FORE" NOT REQUIRED

CHAMPIONS.

Greyhound Trainers' Anxieties.

"STAGE FRIGHT.”

Training greyhounds is no light task, either for the dogs or for! their trainers. From the moment the young greyhound arrives at the kenne's till the day it is seen racing at over thirty miles an hour down the track, its life is zealously watched and guarded. Food at for any human being, constant groom- ing and massaging, regular exer- cise, careful nursing in time of illness such is the let of the young greyhound.

When a greyhound starts its training a close inspection is made of its condition. to determine the amount of work it can stand, and

FRANCE.

Court Sequel to Fatal Tackle.

PLAYER TO APPEAL.

Berdeaux. Jan. 22. Taillantou. the French inter- national Rugby footballer, who here for the was recently tried manslaughter of Michel Pradie during a match at Bordeaux last year, to-day had sentence passed on him.

The Court found that Taillan- tou's tackle, whether legal or not, had in fact caused Pradio's death owing to the force and violence exerted by Taillantou. The Court declared that Taillantou's clumsi- nesa, negligence and failure to observe the rules of the game were suficient to rentier him guilty of

to

WILLIE SMITH CHALLENGES LINDRUM TO MATCH

WITH RESTRICTED CANNONS.

VINCENT RICHARDS FOR THE FILMS.

FOX TRIES TO ESCAPE HOUNDS BY CLIMBING

FORTY FEET TREE.

WALTER HAGEN NOT FOR BRITISH OPEN.

Hunting

TESTS.

The Eloquence of Figures.

CHAPMAN'S LOYALTY.

ON THE COURSE. Surprising Result of

Golfer's Action..

EVIDENCE LACKING.

Mr. Chapman's loyalty to his

New York, Jan. 14. team is to be commended, but the

A Pittsburgh Judge has given logic of facts Is Irresistible, atates

a declalon of the greatest inter- a cricket correspondent to the est to golfers In reversing a Low- Daly Telegraph in reference to

er Court's award of £200 damages. Chapman's recent spirited defence to a man who was bit by a golf of his team against adverse preas ball." comments in England.

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The decision means that the

Last season I saw practically golfer is not legally bound, to every bail bowled during the Ave shout "Foro" to other playera Tosts in England and except for when about to drive.

it may have to be rested for two manslaughter and sentenced him bridge athletic sports will be enumerals in front and back, blue tree quite forty feet up by hunts-/Australian batsmen in dificulties, engaged in the

or three weeks before a

three months' imprisonment with the benefit of the First Ofen ders Act (which means he will be immediately released) and a fine of 200 francs (about £1 148.) and the costs of the trial.

whilst both Universities are in full session.

but

This is much to be regretted, there was no help for it, as March which 7 is the only Saturday on Stamford Bridge was available,

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The suits are designed especial- ly for warm days and the two night games the Jayhawkers have

two patches when the wicket had The Court could not find avi- boen damaged by sun after rain-deree that there was any obliga- the drst during the Australians' tion to warn the plaintiff that the Bright red pants of zeroplane

first innings at Nottingham and ball was about to be played. For the first time

A fox was acer at the second for about two hours Athletics. within memory the cloth, with a strip of blue web-

The Judge emphasised the “að- Oxford and

of each legi Cam-bing on the back

the top of an ivy during the match at Manchester-sumption of the risk of the game covered cream coloured jerseys with red

Scotch fir I never saw any of the leading on the part of the plaintif" who game of his own trainer

white helmets and red. topped

They not only piled up puns; they free will. begins serious work with it. When

Foxhounds, never looked like getting out. short hose are included in equipmen of the Downhara

The Judge said his ruling would thoroughly rested and built up by

hunting near King's Lynn.

Even when the wicket did give not apply. In the case о в поп- good feeding, the novice takes his

ment purchases.

News had been received that assistance, in the memorable game player who was hit by a ball slic place with other greyhounds or

at the Oval, two Australian colta, ed off the course.-Central News. early morning walking exercise,

fox had been seen going into a wood both inexperienced on that sort of and advances stage by stage until The sporting papers comment

scheduled. Kansas will be thea short time before.. Hounds wicket, put on 243 runs. I won-in two previous Tests was 3 for It finally arrives at the tiny when yarlously on the sentence. L'Auto

In the House of only Big Six team to play at searched but were unable to trace der what Bardes and Foster 160. He took 1 for 182, so pro- It can do a strenuous daily gallop, declares that the result is dis-

Aviation writes the Sporting Dispatch.

quieting and n menice to sport

Commons Mr. Mon-ight.

the fox, and just as they were giv. Lohamann and Lockwood, Rhodes sumably no other fast bowler is tague (Under-Secre-

and Walter Brearley, would have likely to get much chance till When the day arrives for the generally. L'Echo Des Sports de-

Walter Hagen bas de-ing up a huntsman saw the fox at thought of that.

1940. that the affair has beentary for Air), in reply to a ques- introduced dog to be

And may I remind Mr. theclares to

Golf, cided not to play in the the top of the tree.

No one has a greater admiration Chapman that he has not always mechanical hare, it is taken to the much exaggerated. It was only ation asked by Rear-Admiral Sueter, of deciding whether said that the decision of the

British Open Champion- A keeper climbed up about twenty for Tate than 1; he is a great bean as convinced of the infallibi track, where it stands with a matter

Carnoustie this year. He feet, and, no longer feeling safe is not a Barnes. Figures-spread is now?

fellow and a great trier. But heity of selectors as he apparently kennelman in the centre of the Taillantou was guilty of brutal Government with regard to parti-ship at

Face precludes the Air Council and Horton Smith. affirmative.

Those who Intend competing at branca to branch like a cal. The ly in Tests, and the melancholy my that from allowing any serving officer,

are Gene of the Royal Air Force to take part Carnoustie French Rugby

Sarazen, fox escaped and was caught after a Tommy Armour, and Macdonald chase lasting an hour. as a competing pilot.

The Royal Aero Club's offer to Smith. are appealing

furnish the cost of British partici- Hagen has won the British title pation in the race--£30,000, accord-on four occasions, and has been ng to the Government statement-elected captain of the American has already been refused.

team which will meet Great Britain for the Ryder Cup at Columbus Ohio, on June 26.

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arena, watching the hare go round play and the Court decided in the cipation in the Schneider Trophy follows the example of Leo Diegel the fox came down, jumping from over a long series-talk eloquent-.

Ebe. Malin announces

Taillantou, the Federation

followed by other, greyhounds. There is much straining at the leash by the newcomer, whose joy-

and ous vole prove it enger to be in. the chase itself, and into the trap Sports Committee it goes to do its first proper trial. against the verdict.

Soon Picked Up.

If

this is satisfactory, public trials are arranged in which the

the

National

A

newcomer takes his place in the for 550 yards-is carefully check- starting traps with five other grey-ed, and the animal "gradėd." hounds, for before the novice can "graded" race. is one in which all run in a race it must have run at the contestants do the distance in least three "clean" trials to prove round about the same time, and that it is not given to biting or this equality in rumping time pro- fighting.

vides the best type of racing.

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"During the years in Billiards, which I have not 'en-

tered for the profes sional championship I have been in hot water and,

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Dutch Horsemanship. Cavalry Cap- tain, C. P. de strangely Kray, won the prize of the Ger-

Mr. Leveson Gower, replying to

criticism,

with says that fact is that last year Tate's fifteen Test

tears one cannot afford Test wickets cost 38 runs apiece. to experiment too much. In South Africa, up to the pre- Australia sald the same thing in sent, he has been more costly still. 1928, Sir Richard Cruise, Surgeon On the law of averages it follows, Then her selectors plucked up and lost four matches.

was riding spite of Mr. Chapman's defence, courage, sent over a team consist- Oculist to the King, his well-known horae, War that if Tate took all ten wickets fing largely of colts, and made Gratuity, with the Warwickshire in every innings bis opponents Tert history.

would still average 400 runs an Hunt near Banbury when the

inalngs off him alone. Animal collapsed and died.

Mr. Chapman 'cannot see why After about 40 minutes' run the Larwood comes into the discussion hunt followers were going over a

at all.

The answer is that the selectors chose him for the last

When the night arrives for the enough, I have been in ten times man Republie in the international ploughed field when Sir Richard Text at the Oval when his record

ed," sald V. Smith at Manchester. formed the climax of the agricul- more hot water when I have enter-military riding tournament, which

and suggestions by a section of tries for the final tournament in- "There appear to be certain moves tural week. Over a hundred en- the press to get the championship cluded Italian, Swedish and German this year declared void because I officers.

The trials are run with veterans of the track, and the young grey-first public appearance of the hound soon learns such tricks os greyhound, owner and trainer getting away quickly, making for watch the race with keen interest the inside berth, or hanging back "Net too good," says the owner. at bends to cut in and forge ahead bloomily, as his greyhound finishes of those greyhounds which have an "also ran." "Stage fright,” re- been forced wide. It is amazingplies the knowing trainer. "He'll not I am the best player of the day am the only entrant. Whether or how quickly youngsters learn from get over that, and he shapes very their elders

is out of the question. Walter the finer points of well.” running.

The future alone can tell wheir drum is the best. One player The time taken in the trials to ther a champion has been found has surpassed my feats on do the distance-usually about 500 or not.

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table, and he is Lindrum."

Smith then issued a challenge to Lindrum to a match "under cham- pionship conditions" for $100 A-side with a limit of five to ten consecutive cannons,

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Air. Max Hoff Еле Boxing, abandoned his second £70,000 action against Gent Turney, the former champion. heavyweight boxer.

Ifr. Hoff claimed that he made an agreement with Tunney on the eve of the against Dempsey.

Philadelphia Aght!

Tunney's attorney, said that Mr. Hof's abandonment was not due to any settlement. Tunney had paid no money because he owed Mr. Hoff nothing.

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india has given Chess. more

than ono mathematician of genius and now she has produced a chega player who may presently fully deserve the title of "Ranji of Chess," declares the Morning Post in the course of a leading article. on Sultan Khan's play at Hastings.

Commenting on his methods of attack and insight into the modern theory of positional play the news- paper saya that he must be placed in the hyper-modern or део- romantic school of which Alakhine is the most brilliant exponent.

The names of F. E. Cricket. Greenwood, of Hud- dersfield, and W. E. Harbord, of Wetherby, have, been mentioned in connection with "the Appointmont of a new captajn for the Yorkshire County Cricket. Club. The appointment will made shotly,

be

second

F. E. Greenwood has played often for the first and elevens, and W. E. Harbord has left Oxford and has taken a bual- ness post in Yorkshire.

Mr. J. Stephenson, Cycling. Catford C,C., and Mr. W. Donovan, Kentish Wheelers will propose at women's racing be no longer al- lowed" at a meeting of the National Cyclists' Union in Lon

Women's racing was first per 'mitted in 1926, and one of the rules was that no race should be Over a dhtance of more than five niles

Football

eleven

will

He dismounted and stood by the felt chat the horse was giving up.

animal as it died.

horse that had been tubed, War Although 18 years old and a

Gratulty won many point-to-point | steeplechases in extraordinary fashion and against many horses much younger. The Animal” was known all over the world. It owed to the fact that Sir | Richard bought it with his

service gratuity.

The following Daddy's Golf. amusing skit on

the

Is golfer published in "Together," the pubita name Heation of the She organisation in Australia:-

Rush a bye, baby, pretty one

sleep!

Daddy's gone golfing to win the

club sweep..

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J. C. Gibbs, the Harle- Rugby, quin Kent, and Eng- land wing.. three- quarter, has decided to retire from Mother will show him her dress-active Rugby owing to business de-

If he plays nicely-I hope that

he will

maker's bl

Hash a bye, baby, safe là your

cot,

Daddy's come home and his tem-

per is hot; Cuddle down closer, baby of

*mine,

Daddy went round in a hundred

and rine.

"Wimbledon. such den place to play at and for that resson 1 would like to enter again this Year, said Mr. Wills Moody, However, I am not yet des elded I wually make up mind, about a fortnight before hand, hurriedly throw my rackets ther, - pick something, and Ish away,el may not know whe

• golog, askil fast before.

mands. His last match will pro- bably be the Harlequins v. Rich-

mond encounter.

A. Kent man by birth, Gibbs join ed the Harlequins in 1919 and was first capped for England in 1925. In all he gained seven internationa! caps, and would probably have had more had his defence been reßnble.

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Steeple Chasing

An astonishing equine dramin nceur- red at Sandown Park in the Prince Wales Handicap Steeplechase.

of

The six starters included the

age mare, Lady Victoria, which

race under

has never won National Hunt rules and started at 33 to 1

She set such a pice that at the end of two miles she was a furlong ahead of the rest of the field and the bookmakera.. were frantically curtailing the odds.

Tragedy followed. Lady Victoria plunged at a fence head foremost, collapsed and died. It was found she had burst a blood vessel., ";

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Another American Tennis sportsman has been luxed to the films, al- though in this case his status is un- affected.. Vincent Richards, the well-known lawn tennis profes- sional, has followed the example of R. T. Jones and W. T. Tilden and has signed a contract to make two Pathe "sportlight" films, in which he will demonstrats and describe the leading features of his play. As an amateur Richards won every championship in the United States with the exception of the national grass courts championship at Forest Hills. He became a profes sional five years ago,

Ono of the best known of 'our grass-court lawn tennis tourna». ments that of the Gipsy Club In North London is likely to be abandoned after running for 83. seasons

Nowadays in the month before Wimbledon, the French champion- ships, and, International matches and trials provide so many dis- fractions for British and foreign hotays, that: the big open tourns- pionshipsat navemente bere they formerly playeil

kupimy, geme, by Upers/Helenɛwill for? witis buck the Ameri-

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as matter of course haya ex- treme dimenity in capturing item. "Gipsy shares in this unfortunate Perpériones.

If we had sent to South Africa men like Bakewell, Verity, Hop- wood, E. T. Killick, and M. Craw- ley, we would probably have done just as well in the present series, and we should certainly do a great deal better in the future.

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