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THE CHINA MAIL.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1931.

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CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP

SOUTH CHINA TEAM LADIES' NIGHT FETE

-HOME AGAIN.

Remarkable Record on Tour.

OVER FORTY TROPHIES.

The South China touring. foot- ball team returned to the Colony yesterday morning by the 8.8. Cathay. They left Hong Kong on May 26, and were away for just over two and a half months and created a very good. impression wherever, they went, and were en- thusiastically received. The team received over 40 silver trophies.

In all 24 matches were played, and with the exception of three games which were drawn, the tour- ists emerged victorious in all the remaining encounters scoring 119 goals to their opponents' 23. Their highest score was 11-0 at Medan, whilst the greatest number of souls conceded in a single game was their first match in Java. when they drew at 5 goals all--

Whilst in Singapore, the team participated in a charity match and a sum of $3,327.56 was remit- ted in aid of the Kwangtung flood, relief fund.

Lee Wai-tong, the inside left, headed the list of goal scorers with. 31 to his credit; Fung King- cheung was second with 24 goals; Ip

fast Pak-wah, the

winger, credited himself with 21; and Chu Kwok-luen found the net eighteen occasions.

I

The full result of "the tour fol- lows:-

Annamites Selected

v. Champions, Samarang.

AT V.R.C.

Innovation to Be Supported.

THEATRE'S INTEREST.

SOMERSET DEFEAT NORTHANTS.

Visitors Dismissed for 99 Runs.

NINE WICKETS WIN/

Preparations for the first Ladies'

London, Yesterday. Night Fete at the V.R.C. to-morrow .At Weston-Super-Mare 'to-day night have been going on steadily Somersetshire defeated their visi throughout the week and the suctors, Northamptonshire, by nine cess of this innovation is almost as- wickets after two days' play. sured.

Full results as cabled by Reu- ter were as follow:-

Somersetshire beat

Northamp

Last Tuesday a large gathering of girls attended what might be termed as a preliminary rehearsal tonshire by nine wickets at Wes and yesterday evening a further ton-Super-Mare. trial was held. Miss M. George Scores:-

is to be congratulated on her initia-Northants: 99 and 164. tive and untiring efforts to Somerset: 235 and 29 for 1... make this novel event the success it deserves.

Yesterday evening the girls were pleasantly surprised by the arrival. of Mr. Pang Nin, a member of the projection staff of the Hong Amuse- ments, and, as a result, several hundred feet of bathing belles-may: soon be flashed on the screen at the Queen's Theatre.

To-morrow night's fete includes the following events:

50 yards Hurdles (Ladies'). 100 yards (Ladies' Open). 50 yards (Ladies' Handicap). Pillow Fight (Ludies'). 25 yards (Ladies' Open), Derby Race (Ladies'). High Dive (Ladies').

Team Race (Ladies).

Water Polo (Ladies'). 220 yards (Men's Interport Trial)

SEVEN SISTERS RIDE.

JACK DEMPSEY

- PENNILESS.

Comeback Is Now Necessary.

EXTRAVAGANT MANIA.

London, July 18. According to a Chicago dispatch, quoted by the Daily Express Jack Dempsey, having spent a £500,000 fortune, is penniless and plans to re-eater the ring, fully recognisant of the fact that his mere presence, regardless of the status of his op ponent, will draw an enormous crowd.

Dempsey is understood to have lost £60,000 on Wall Street and simliar sum on sporting schemes in Reno. He is said, to possess a mania for making expensive pre- to make others Soven sisters, were the only rid-sents. In order ers in a special, race at the. Pin-lappy and his lavish gifts, his es-

tranged wife, Estelle Taylor, 6-ner Derby meeting."

more than One of them, Delia Croxon, aged cently said, total eight, fractured a collar-bone when £50,000. her mount fell, but shouted, "I'm all right." The race was won by Lorna Croxon, aged 13. and the 8- 0 ages of the others ranged from 18

5- 0

v. Champions, Indo-Chine

4. I

v. Champions. Saigen

1- 1

v. Runners-up, Batavia

Б- б

v Luno (Champions, Ban-

doeng)

3. 2

v. Bandoeng Selected (Java

Champion)

v. Uni., Bandoeng

v. Malang Selected

v. Tsengnienhui Selected

4- 1 7-0 7- 1 8- 1

r. Samurang Selected

v. Djocin Selected

6- 2

v. Batavia Runners-up

4- 0

v.. West Java

5- 1

v. S.V.B.B., Batavia ...

2- 1

v. Champions, Batavia

3. 1

v. Batavia Selected

2. 0

v. Combined Army, Singa-

pore

3- 3

v. Ali Singapore

1- 0

3- 1

v. Combined Chinese, Medan

v. E. of Sumatra Selected,

7-0 2- 1 11- 0

v. Singapore Selected .....

v. Medan Selected

v. Malaya Selected

Total

3- 1

.110-23

THE 1931 WIMBLEDON TOURNEY.

Discovery of Margaret Scriven.

GREAT DOUBLES · ENCOUNTER

"Wimbledon "1981" is over, and once again our successes have been of a negligible quantity, writes C. W. Packford in "Sport, ing Life."

p

It is difcult to say what wrong with British lawn tennis. We possess both men and women" whose production of the necessary strokes and court-craft is at least equal to others, and yet in a criais they fall.

to our and a half.

.

Our Sports Diary.

LOCAL

LAWN BOWLS-To-morrow- First Division--Kowloon Docks R.C. v. Craigengower C.C.; Kow. loun C.C. v. Kowloon B,G.C.; Police R.C. v, Club de Re- erein; Civil Service C.C. v. Taikoo R.C.; Second Division-Taikoo R.C. Y. Yacht Club; Craigengower C.G. v. Kowloon C.C.; Club de Recreio Y. Cly Service C.C.; Kowloon B.G.C. v. Hong Kong Electric R.C.

BASEBALL-To-morrow- Japanese v. USS. Helena.

Sunday Hong Kong RC V Chiness Athletic.

ABROAD.

CRICKET-To-day-- Middlesex v. Warwickshire. Yorkshire Glamorgan. Hampshire. v Kent. Worcestershire v. Surrey. Gloucestershire v. Bussox. Notts v. Leicestershire. To-morrow, Monday and Tuesday.

Yorkshire v Middlesex.. Lancashire v. New Zealand. Somerset Sussex.

Leicestershire v. Glamorgan,, Northamptonshire v. Derbyshire, Kent v. Notis.

Hampshire, V. Esox. Gloucestershire v. Surrey. Worcestershire. v.. Warwickshire. GOLF-To-day and To-morrow -Canadian Amateur Champion- aktp.

ŚWIMMING — To-day — Army- Championships. (Last Day),

FOOTBALL To-morrow-Seat- tish League.

The only happenings of the past tournament of an encouraging nature have been the undoubtedl advance into the "Arst fight" of Fred Perry, and the discovery of pense of players who a, compara- the eighteen-year-old Margaret tively short time previously had Scriven "Peggy" Scriven will been encouraged in another strenu- soon take a very high place amongous battle fa the leaders of, the game if she reThe most exciting encounter of ceives encouragement...

the day was the American-French

The final day naturally lost duel in the meri's doubles. In this much Interest owing to the "In- | Henri Cochet and Jacques Brug- ability of Frank Shields to meet non, winners on two previous oc- Sidney Wood in the final of the casions, had a battle royal with men's singles. George Lott and Johnny Van The only British success was not Ryn, the latter a winner in the one on which we may unduly con- last two seasons when associated gratulate ourselves. The victory | with Wilmer Allison. The Ameri in the women's doubles of Mrn, cans, playing, resolutely, claimed Shepherd-Barron, the new Wight- | the fight to fake the cup back to man Cup-captain, and Miss-Phyllia | their own country for the third Mudford was gained at the ax-| successive year,

re-

At the end of June this year, Dempsey was offered £150,000 to fight the winner of the Schmeling- Stribling bout (won on July 4 by Schmeling) but he refused the. offer, saying that he was planning his own shows and was staging a fight at Reno, on September 7.

DULEEPSINHJI AND PATAUDI.

Comparisons in Their Styles.

FELINE GRACE.

Comparisons of the Nawab of Pataudi and Duleepsinhj! are in- evitable after the Nawab's record- breaking performance recently, in the_inter-Varsity match.

Those who have seen both the. great Indian batsmen In action will agree that from a purely enjoy ment viewpoint Duleep comes frst. There is more sparkle about his dashing play more of that easy grace which is the true delight of the onlooker. Indeed, for pure beauty of batting, there is perhaps. only one other man in England whom the crowd would rather watch; needless to say, he is Frank Woolley.

The Nawab, however, does not fall far short of his countryman in that feline grace, and there were times in the Varsity match when one..sat fascinated by his enen of execution. But he is just a littic more of the solid workman than Duleep,

1

That he is as great a batsman needs no mora testimony than his extraordinary string of big scores In recent games.

GOLF.

Starting Times for

· Sunday,

The Secretary of the Royal' Hong Kong Golf Club supplies the following list of starting times for Fanling on Sunday:--

9.20 am. J. R. Hinton, R. H. Wild. 9.24 W. C. Shields, G. Castle. AC L Bowker, A. Leach.

9.28

9.32

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