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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.
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YESTERDAY'S HOCKEY.
German Club Lose.
"ZIMMY"
THE HALF-MAN WONDER
The
World's Champion Legless Swimmer.
MCLELLAN SAVES THE VOLUNTEERS.
E. F. Fincher Undefeated! for 35 Runs.
FIRST DAY'S PLAY.
of the
An enjoyable game of hockey was) Zimmy grew up to a tender age At the close of the first day's played at King's Park yesterday in blissful ignorance of his mis-play in the match between the afternoon between mixed teams re- fortune, but, when his mental Volunteers and the Kowloon Cricket! presenting the Recreio and the faculties began to operate, ho de-Club at the K.C.C. yesterday the C.B.A., and resulted in a win for the termined not to permit his phy. home team were 43 runs in arrears latter by four goals to one. sical disadvantage to stand in the with three wickets in hand.
way of his progress; consequent- For a full description On the home ground, yesterday ly he undertook to perfect himself match read "Cover, Drive's" article afternoon, the University defeated in certain lines of endeavour which in to-morrow's China Mail. the German Club by the odd goal injure far beyond the accomplishment three, in a friendly hockey en-of the fully normal person, and so Volunteers-Ist Innings. counter. The Germans led by the rightfully earned for himself the R. H. Griffiths, c and b Burnett only goal scored at half-time, but cognomen of his "Half-man" Won-E. J. R. Mitchell, b Burnett in the second half, toward the end, der.
W. D. Folley, b Burnett the 'Varsity netted in rapid succes- sion.
SOUTH AFRICANS
DEPART.
"The Golden Chains of Friendship."
Scores:-
He has perfected himself in the A. C. Beck, e Hampton, b Lyal extremely difficult science of H. Owen Hughes, c and b swimming and diving, and has no Burnett
equal to-day in navigating on the D. McLellan, b Skinner water. It is here that he sur-F. Bakar, e Burnatt, b Lyal. passes his normal brethren. Plac-A. J. R. Wolff, b Goodwin ed on an equal basis in the water, L. D. Kilbee, e Lawrence, b he will outstrip them, in long dia- Lyal
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THE MIRTHQUAKE THAT IS ROCKING ALL WITH LAUGHS.
19
16
9
11
43
5
5
9
THE 4 BROTHERS MARX
14
Skinner
0
Extras
21
Total
153
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
O. M. R. W 12 3 39 1 .15 2 55
8.4 2 5
31
3
tance swimming, high and faney J. E. Richardson, not out diving, and endurance tests while R. R. Davies, e Lawrence, b submerged in the water.
Zimmy holds world's records in Representatives of the four home all aquatic sports, and has per- Unions were present at the fare-formed before the crowned heads well lunch at which the South of Europe and audiences all over Atrican Rugby team were guests on the civilised world, just complet- board the Union Castle liner Arundel Castic at Southampton. The tourists later sailed for Cape- town.
your
Mr. Theo Pienaar, the manager of the South Africans, said the tour had been a wonderful experience. "We in South Africa had formed a high estimate of the manhood of
declared country,"
Mr. Pienaar, "and you have not fallen below that estimate. Sportsmen of a better type could not be found You have made a great anywhere. impression on us. This is a genuine message from our hearts.
"We
thank you for everything
Our Sports Diary.
To-day. CRICKET-Kowloon CC. Volunteers at 1.30 p.m. (Secon Day).
V.
RACING Third Day of An- nual Meeting at Happy Valley.
Wednesday.
CRICKET-Volunteers v. Unit- ed Services at HK.C.C. at 1.30
p.m.
RACING-Fourth Day of An- nual Meeting at Happy Valley.
you have done for us, your wondering an all around the world tour, ful hospitality, and we are bound to thus earning the title of "Globe you forever with golden chains of Trotter," when in fact he never friendship. Records from the foot- actually took a step in his short ball point of view are nothing as life.
Goodwin
Burnett
Lya!
Skinner
1 7 2 Kowloon C.C.-1st "nnings.
| E. C. Fincher, c Wolff, b Owen
Hughes
E. Lawrence, b Hughes
E. F. Fincher, not out
N. A. E. Mackay, b Beck
9
Owen
16 35
F. E. Skinner, c Griffiths, b
Owen Hughes
G. Lee, b McLellan ......
18
F. Goodwin, e Folley, b Wolf 20
G. C. Burnett, b Owen Hughes
0
H. Hampton, not out
Extras
Total (for 7 wts.)
100
The match will be continued to-day at 1.30 p.m.
We fail to do F. B. WILSON PASSES
compared with records from the Of all the handicaps Which are sporting point of view, and if we inflicted upon human beings, there have succeeded in some measure we is none as fatal as the absence of are very proud. We thank the "the will to do." great public of this country for the many things because we are under kindness you have shown us, and the impression that we cannot do we leave with great regret." then when the only thing that is Proposing the toaat of "The holding us back is the lack of "the Springboks," Mr. Walter T. Pearce, will to do." president of the Rugby Union, said
AWAY AT 51.
Former Cambridge Captain.
MASTER AT ROSSALL
London, January 20. The death occurred last evening
Witness Ziminy, who will appear the shortness of the tour was a re- at the King's Theatre from to- minder in a way of the brevity of morrow in conjunction with the a footballer's career on the fleld. picture programme at each show.; But if the Springboks' time in these They call him the legless wonder. islands had been short they were In a large tank he performs many full of happy triumphant memories. remarkable water feats.. He was
"In our particular pastime," he a contender is the Catalina Island of Mr. F. B. Wilson, the old Har- dow and Cambridge University anid, "we share in the pride of the swim, and says that he is going cricketer. He was in his fifty-first performances of any side which to attempt to swim the English plays the game as the Springboks Channel next season.
I have done. They established a
There is no fake about Zimmy
year. He gained a place in the Harrow eleven in 1899 and often showed splendid batting powers.
clear ascendancy over the sides they He gets right out in public and, met in Great Britain and Ireland, in regular course, does what is alAgainst Eton in 1900 he made 70 and 24, and did much to bring and the two lessons which stand out most 48 wonderful as his stage
Harrow a victory by one wicket. above any others are that the ball feats. He gets around without needs constant companionship to legs as well as we do with a pair At Cambridge he did little in 1902, understand and master its vagaries, of legs. He is an expert autoist but the following season he finish- and that the old-fashioned belief in and, perhaps, his greatest feat is ed second in the batting averages, the scrummage being one integral in being cheerful. He has a smile scoring 464 runs with an average whole, and not three divisions, must that isn't artificial, or that isn't of 27. In the University match he put on for theatrical purposes. made 7 and 42, Captain the fol-
be re-established."
Old and recent generations, he Life has done its best to lick lowing year, he hit 46 and 7 said, were glad that the South Zimmy, but he has come up emil-against Oxford, and for the season. Africans had demonstrated beyond ing and has refused to be beaten had an aggregate of 529 and an
average of 85.28. all doubt that eight forwards work down.
Mr. Wilson did not appear in ing together, striving for the unit- When you see Zimmy, just ask
heave.
were
ed shove and heave, would always yourself if Life would not have county cricket, but in all first-class beat a scrum made up of three in- been more successful in trying to matches he scored 1,130 runs. He in was also a good rackets and tennis dependent rows one of which tre- defeat you than it has been quently did not join the shove and trying to defeat him. Deprived of player, and represented Cambridge They in the home coun-legs, as Zimmy is, would you have against Oxford in 1902 and 1903. tries had been making the game too the courage and the perseverance Afterwards he took up a scholastic ensy. Back-row forwards
to go out and win your way in the appointment at Rossall School. now almost purely obstructive in world with a smile on your face their intentions, and consequently and no malice in your heart, be- half-back and three-quarter play cause Life hadn't been as fair with
Playing behind such a pack and had. declined. He did not deplore you as with most people?
Most of us expect the best of scrum-half as the Springboks had the results of the South Africans' the position when we run our race. against England on Saturday, the matches: if they brought home to
If we think we are getting any the great post-war Scottish three-quar- the present generation of 'Rugby players the real necessity for a re-worst of it we are bitter in our ters like Macpherson and Ian Smith We complain of our would have scored half a dozen turn to ancient principles and for protests.
handicaps and quit instead of tak-tries against any defence in the physical fitnessin
ing the bit in our teeth and prov-world.-A London Evening News ing to the world that we have the writer.
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The 'Annual' “Athletic Sports more than a valuable drawing Meeting of the University "will be resed for a theatre. He teaches ses; legless and yet able to walk; held on Saturday, March 5, 1932 Allône of life's greatest lessons. He armleer and yet able to labour, ás 1.80 p.m., on the University ground; typifies the indomitable spirit of those with hands and arma. It Pokfulam. There will be a. Half man which can be crushed, and proves to us that only those who Mike, race open to the Colony (post shows us that those who possess|lack that spirit are truly helpless entries)
that spirit may be blind and yet and truly to be pitied.
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