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MICKEY WALKER IN JAPAN'S DESIRE FOR

GREAT BATTLE,

Defeats Johnny Risko Convincingly.

POINTS DECISION,

Miami Fla, Feb. 25. Mickey Walker, world's middle- weight title-holder, won a decision over Johnny Risko, Cleveland's baker boy, in their 10-round bout here to-night.

1940 OLYMPIAD. '·

Difficulties Which Have To Be Overcome.

TRAVELLING EXPENSES.

Tokyo, February 23, Japan has its eyes on the Olym- pic meet which is to be held in 1940. The movement was launched here in aporting circles which have the backing of the hotel and other business intereats as well as the Tokyo municipality which is ex- Walker did the feat in spite of peeted to foot a good share of the

Risko's 30-pound advantage.

bills.

THE CHINA MAIL.

GOSSIP IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

LOCAL BOY SIGNS AMATEUR FORMS FOR

ENGLISH THIRD DIVISION CLUB.

VINCENT RICHARDS UP WITH THE TIMES.

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REMARKABLY FAST SCORING IN CRICKET MATCH IN CEYLON.

ARGENTINIAN GOLF INVASION.

over the

The fight was fast and furious,

Qne of the principal obstacles Walker carrying the battle this the Japan Athletic Sports League opponent throughout, poundingfully realizes is the long distance. Risko with all the clever punching to be travelled by the participants in the style of a real in the international games from

Preliminary arrange- minutes. Included in his undefeat- seen only champion,

various countries and the enor

Aviation. ments have been ed innings were seven G'a and five The baker boy held his own'dur-mous 'travelling expenses required,

made for staging the 4's. The average age of his side ing the first five rounds and in the In view of this fact, the officials of

was 54 years! sixth he managed to release a ter- the International Tourist Bureau Schneider Trophy race rifie blow which opened a deos have in mind a plan to accord the waters of the Solent with due re- foreign participants in the games gard to the objections of the ship- free passage over the government railways and request will also be ping companies to a course which made to the Trans-Siberia Railway causes congestion at the approaches as well as the Nippon Yusen to Southampton. Kaisha and the Osaka Shosen Kaisha for a discount in fares. Associated Press.

gash under one of Waiker's eyes.

In spite of the blood pouring from his eye Walker continued to pursue his rushing tactics and

· aggressiveness during the re-

minder of the encounter.

Ho pressed his attack and in the eighth and ninth rounds he had Risko helpless and almost exhausted. verging on a knockout.

The champion took seven of the

ten rounds while three were OXFORD CHASING FOR

credited to Risko who held a 30 lb. advantage-United Press.

HOLDER OF LADIES'

CHESS TITLE.

Plays 23 Opponents Simultaneously.

ONLY THREE LOST.

Miss Vera Menchik, the woman chess champion of the world, play- ed 23 opponents simultaneously on February 6 at the Empire Social Chess Club, Bayswater. Her op ponents were drawn from the club's 800 members, and thero were sixteen men and

women. Miss Menchik walked from one to another enlly making her moves, occupying only a few seconds over each, and of the 23 games she won 15 and lost three.

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“BLUE RIBAND.”

Exciting Finish to Point-to-Point.

London, Feb. 27.

The British pilote should be well satisfied with the lay-out of the

course, for it includes two very acuta turns-one of 150 and the other of 170 degrees. In the last race the British pilots out-flew their rivals on the turns, and their vic- tory was in no small degree duo to this fact.

Lady Houston, in a telegram from Jersey, in connection with her offer towards Britain's expenses in the Schneider Trophy contest, says: The Hon. John Pearson, cidest

"I have received a telegram gay- son of Lord Cowdray, who is study-i ing nt Christchurch, won the Blue ing the Government has insisted on Riband of the Oxford point-to-a banker's guarantee being given by

point steeplechases to-day..

After an exciting race he finish-Thursday for the £100,000 I have ed barely a length ahead of Lord promised. Dalmeny's Barney, Mr. Pearson "This is the sort of insult only a was riding Triplex-Central News Labour Government could be guilty Wireless.

of. I am instructing my bankera to do this."

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Definite steps to curb Baseball. the home run bar- rage in the National

An erratic player is George Duń- can, wondering genius, whose public performances have been dull for some time; and yet, if he were to play Hagen, either at home or in America, thousands of golfers and the American leagues were dis- would back him to beat the "Hnig," closed in announcements made by

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The American loop said that its ball would have the same cover 18 formerly, but heavier stitches.

These changes, the officiala ba- love, will make it harder."to bat the pill out of the lot."

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Lindrum's break of Billiards. 1,402 in his gamo with Davis in Edin- burgh, was the

one hundred and fifty-first four-figure break he has made in his career, says Sporting Life.

All but forty have been made by the Australians in Great Britain and Ireland, and his one hundred and eleven breaks of a thousand or over in England have been made in ten months' actual play, covering a season and a half.

In his one hundred and fifty-one breaks of four, figures Lindrum has scored a total of between a quarter- of-a-million and three hundred thousand points.

Lindrum, accompanied by New- man, will visit Colombo in April on their way to Australia.

Gede Tunney the ex- Boxing. heavyweight champion of the world, is plan- ning to follow the path of Marco Polo into ancient Cathay, according to the New York American. Ac companied by his wife he will sail for Cairo, where they will join the Haardt motor expedition through the Near East At Beirut the women go to Damascus and the men push on through the deserts and mountains of Asia to the Kingdom of the Great Kahn in North Chins.

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G. G. Edwards, a Football local boy who gained his Blue for Cam- bridge this year, has algned amateur forms for Luton Town in

the Third Division. He made a successful debut in the match against Bristol Rovers, his side winning by four goals to one.

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Jose Jurado, the brilliant Golf. Argentine golfer, and three of his colleagues, Freccero, Churio and Genta, are to arrive in England in April to take part in the spring tournaments and in the Open Championship,

SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1931.

SURREY CRICKETER MOTORING PRIZES AT

PASSES AWAY.

"A Noble Innings in Game of Life.”

ROBERT HENDERSON.

MONTE CARLO.

Principal Award Won by Briton.

INVICTA CAR.

London, Feb. 3.

The principal award in the Close by the field where he first Monte Carlo rally, a prize of £400, learned to hold a cricket bat, has been won by a British driver Robert Henderson, the former Sur- and car, D. M. Healey in an In- rey, cricketer, was buried at Bed-v.cta car. A Riley nine, driven by dington Churchyard.

Leverett, won first place in the The Rev. C. J. M. Godfrey, who | 1,100 c.c. category. played for Sussex for ten years, and who took part in the service In the church, said that he had known Henderson for fifty years. Henderson and Maurice Read did more to raise the whole tone of county professional cricket than

his

Healey made. Stavanger starting point, and was awarded a total of 255 points, which include points for the distance he drove to Monte Carlo, and roints for ac- celeration and braking.

A Lorraine (French), driven by

The tour is being conducted un-any other men of their time. Apart Wimille (also from Stavanger), from Henderson's great cricket¦ was second with 254 points. Lord in the great game of life," and with 253 points. career he "played a noble innings de Clifford (Lagonda) was fourth

was a thorough sportsman and gentleman to the list.

der the auspices of the New Zealand Speedway Association, and arrange ments are in hand for a series of triangular Test matches in which England, Australia and New Zea- land will moet.

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The most remarkable innings he ever played was his 59 not out againat Yorkshire' in the Oval game of 1889, the "gaslight An X-rays examina-match." The lamps in the pavilion Racing. tion of Mr. L. Whit-and around the ground were light- ed, but despite the bad light it jockey, who was thrown from his and Henderson made the winning

feld, the amateur

was agreed to finish the match, mount John Hasty on January 16 in hit, giving Surrey the victory with the Amateurs' Chase at Hurst Park, two wickets to spare. He had his benefit in 1897 when Yorkshire has revealed that there is a frac- visited the Oval. tured dislocation of the cervical section with severe, injury to the spine. He is lying in the Hurst Park racecourse hospital and his condition is stated to be critical.

Thus has ended the career of per-

haps the finest gentleman jockey of the day. Of the amatours only Mr. F. R. Thackray has ridden more winners since the jumping season

If the weather is at all kind to the visitors at Carnoustie they may, spring a surprise on the home pro-begun in August. fessionals.

Freccero, Churio and Genta aro paying their first visit to England and they hope to be pitted, with Jurado against four of the Ryder players in exhibition matches.

There is a very keen rivalry be- tween them. In two matches re-

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"AUSSIES" HELP GLOUCESTER.

Financial Position on

Sound Footing.`

Thanks largely to the success which attended their match with the Australians last season, Glou- Arrangements have cestershire made a profit on the Rugby, been made

year's working of £1,933, and the financial position of the club is French Army Rugby thoroughly sound. Gate receipts in team from Saigon to visit Malaya creased by nearly £1,200, while in November, writes the Straita income from subscriptions rose by Times.

£200 and reached a total of £3,203. When Gloucestershire cricket was They will stay in Malaya, a fort-resumed after the war, £4,266 was cently at Buenos Aires Jurado and night and among the fixtures being raised, of which £3,500 still remains Freccóro were in great form arranged will be matches against in hand. against their colleagues.

the North and South. They will also play the Malaya Command, the greater part of which team will pro- bably be formed by the Gloucesters who have a good Rugby reputation. The visit of the French team will be in the nature of a return visit to the Malaya Command, who took

ber and were defeated by 14 points a weak team to Saigon last Novem-

While the Hon. Mrs. Hunting, Theodore Grosvenor

-the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Strawbridge, the American millionaire—was rid- ing with the Cottesmore Hounds from Lecithorpe Melton Mowbray, her horse fell dead under her.

Mrs. Grosvenor was flung from the saddle and rendered uncon- scious. Several riders-among them Sir William Wilcox, the Home Office expert-went to her help.

After first aid had been given she was taken in a farm eart through the fields to a car belonging to Lord Furness, in which she was conveyed home.

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A team of New Dirt Track Zealand speedway; Racing. riders is to visit

England

this season. The "All Blacks," as they will be known, sail for England in company with the English team at present touring New Zealand and are expected to arrive in England in May,

DEMPSEY'S RECORD

·CHALLENGED.:

Sharkey Proves Box Office Proposition.

FIVE MORE YEARS.

Boston, Feb. 28.

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A remarkable Steeplechasing. incident. Oc

curred in the race for the Prince of Wales's Lady Victoria, one of the compcll- Steeplechase at Sandown Park.

tors, raced away at such a pace that she was over a hundred yards jockey thought she had broken her in front when she came down. Her

neck, but examination revealed the fact that she had ruptured a large blood vessel. The veterinary sur- geon stated that the mare was com- pletely exhausted by the pace she had set and was probably dead as she rose at the fence.

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The world's figure- Skating, slating champion, Herr Carl Schaefer, won the men's European figure- skating championship contest at Vienna this year. Herr Schaefer bas now won the championship three years running.

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Vincent Richards," the Tennis, well-known lawn ten- nis professional, bas followed the example of Bobby Jones and W. T. Tilden, and has signed a contract to make two, Pathe "sportlight" films, in which he will demonstrate and describe the leading features of his play.

Richards has been playing ten- nis since he was twelve years of

Yachting.

Jack Sharkey of Boston, Ameri-age, and as an amateur won every can heavyweight champion, was the championship in the United States ring's biggest money-maker in 1980, with the exception of the national according to the anquet financial grass courts championship at report of his manager, Johnny sional five years ago.

Forest Hills. He became a profes Sharker's gross income from the Buckley.NE

boxing business last year was ro

Sir Thomas Lipton, ported at 218,000, including $178,-

who is on a visit to 000 from his boat with Mar Schmel

Nice, declares that Lis bout with Phil Scott In Florids."I am trying to live until my ing in New York and $40,000 from he is on the Riviera for his health "According to Buckley, Sharkey 82nd year; that is, until 1932 expečte to remain in the ring for when I will make another try for another five years, it the end of the America Cup" he stated which time he believes he will have recently, says the British United drawn a total of about $10,000,000 Pressen van

de Wrigh as his share of ante receipta and thue eclipse Jack Dempsey record. ablished Of course this high esti

-based or Shi

"According to 0 Cricket. looker!

Observer Beauchamp has recent {a}rucor\Efor fast scori:

which lasted we just over

In his last affort to win the America Cup" back from América In 1930 Bir Themes Lipton's yacht, That Shamrock, V, waa sõn time Tested by the defending yacht. Bir

made In 1830, 1901 1908-1912 and 1920

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Of those who made John o. Groats their starting point the - first place was taken by Black (M.G.), and the second by Cochrane (Talbot).

WILLIE SMITH'S RECORD.

Four Figure Breaks in Four Sessions.

Willie Smith had a dramatle race against time at Manchester in an attempt to set up a world's record, with two minutes to

and spare!

won

When play was resumed in the afternoon in his match with Sidney Smith, Willie was in play with a suspended effort of 602,

He failed at a long blow cannon from hand at 847. Sidney Smith put on 30, and then the ex-cham- pion occupied the rest of the session compiling an unfinished 1,002-his fourth thousand run in four consecutive sessions.

Sixteen minutes from the close the break stood at 802. Then fol- lowed a bad spell,

He made superhuman offort to extricate himself, and by the time he had got the running again to his liking thero was only a few minutes to spare. The Darlington man, how- ever, scored rapidly and thus achieved the record.

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