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CHAMPIONS

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T. L.. Knight.

R. R. Soares.*

B. T. Gosano.

L. Roza Pereira.

H. H. Remedios (Capt.).

W. Laurance.

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TO-DAY'S BOWLS WOMEN'S

CHAMPIONS TO VISIT THE LEADERS

POSSIBLE DOUBLE

CIVIL SERVICE (83). KOWLOON C.C. (61) KOWLOON ILG. (36) [RECREIO.(53)

YACHT CLUB (59) INDIAN R.C. (—-—-—-—-)` POLICE RC. (~)

CRAIGENGOWER (76)

FIRST DIVISION.

-...POLICE RC. (43)

KOWLOON DOCKS (58) CRAIGENGOWER (68) TAIKOG DOCKS (45)

SECOND. DIVISION.

CIVIL SERVICE (63) RECREIO (- H. K. ELECTRIC (-) KOWLOON B.G. (14)

Figures in brackets denote result of corresponding game last year.

League Tables To Date.

LEG THEORY

CONTROVERSY

Trousers Banned In Fashion Problem.

NO DRESSING ROOM

London, May 15.-

LRG THEORY is the

ASCOT TRUSTEES

ISSUE WRIT. !

PROFESSIONAL

COACHING AND

THE EXPENSES

Hampson Jumps Into Lowe's Shoes.

Against Betting Control MAIERS BRILLIANT VOLLEYING

Board.

London

the moment in most cricket circles, but women cricketers have

The "Evening News" under- leg theories of their own.

stands that a writ has been taken It is

out on behalf of the Ascot Trus- fashion problem. What shall the tees against the Racecourse Bett-

wear skirts, shorts or trousers?

recruited

(BY ROVER)

A Pound A Week.

Co

COMMENT on the financial dis

advantages of winning the

There are more women cricketers ing Control Board, following the world's professional sculling cham- than ever this summer, and some of dispute between the two bodies pionship generally leads to the re- the newcomers,

which led to the annoncement joinder-that amateurs will always from sports like cycling or football, that the Tote would not be in go for coaching to the man who where masculine wear is already operation at Ascot this year. has proved himself the best in the the obli-world, and that the ability to coach under the lasts a lifetime. I heard recently

accepted, are making the leg-wear gations of the parties

The dispute concerns

controversy: acute,

Why should we be hampered with arrangement by which a building of an amateur who asked an ex- skirts?-they ask in effect. Ther to be used jointly by the Ascot world's champion to train him for Board was be the Diainoads by going out with get in the way of a free swing of Trustees and the the bat, catch the hand when we gun in 1929 and used for the first him every morning during the summer and the remuneration he bowl, and generally tend to hin-time at the 1931 meeting.

At the last two der our play. The Women's Cric-

meetings the suggested was one pound a week." P. W. L. F. A. Up D. Pts.ket Association, however, to which ground floor was used for the Hagen, Hobbs, Dempsey or

FIRST DIVISION

Kowloon B. G. (8) Recreio (2)

Craigengower (1) Police (7) Civil Service (3) Kowloon Docks (5) Taikoo Docks (6) Kowloon C. C. (4)

Kowloon R. G. (5) Craigengower (1) Civil Service (3) Yacht Club (2) Kowloon C. C. (7)

Recreio (4)

Police R. C. (-)

H. K. Electric (8)

Indian R C. (-)

Shota Shots

$ 4 1 329 266 63 0 8

5 4.1 307 258 49

(

most of the bigger clubs are affl-purposes of the Tote and the door Suzanne Lenglen would hardly Be liated, has definitely banned trou-above as a restaurant.

В

5 4 1 279 267 12

0 B

|sers. ·

5 3 2 294 309 0

15 .6

5 2 3 295 300 0 5 4 0 13 2 0 32

5 1 4 274 267 5 1 4 274 306 5 1 4 257 316 0 59

2

嘤

SECOND DIVISION

5 4 1 365 271 94 Q

B

5 4 1 325 237 · 88

0

8

5 4 1 328 266 62

0

8

5 3 2 283 288 0

5

6

6 3 3 311 332 0

21

6

5 2 3 294 275 19

0

4

5 2 3 274 320 0 46

4

6 2 4 315 368 0 53 6 0 6 284 422

4

0 138

0

Figures in brackets denote positions held by the respective clubs at the conclusion of last season. The Police and Indian R. C. are newcomers to the junior division in the absence of the Tai- koo second string.

Shorts, flannels or any kind of

male wear are forbidden, and even argument against the

expected to give regular private lessons at half a crown an hour. Why, then, the idea that profes- sional scullers are glorified boat- trouser men who exist on tips? It in Such men are highly skilled, technical experts on boat.

sleeveless frocks and transparent theory is the lack of changing ac-foolish. stockings are barred. The rules commodation.

of the Association state emphati-: "Of course we should like to building, and river pilota into the

cally that all their teams must play wear long fanuel. trousers"

an-bargain.

in white, and that dresses or tunica other woman player sald, **but

must not be shorter than three there are no ladies' dressing rooms

inches from the ground when at the parks or commons, and our. After Hampson.

kneeling.

Tner of the Olympic 800 HE news that Hampson, win-

members don't fancy walking to The secretary of one women's the ground in trousers.” club in South London said that, The male point of view although all her team played in warmly expressed by a well-known new world record time of 1 minute was metres last year in the wonderful skirts, many of them complained player I met this week "Trou-49 4-6 seconds, has definitely de- about the ban. "Personally, I don't sers? Ridiculous!" he said. "Wo-cided to retire from serious com- think it matters so long as all the man only want to wear them in or petition will be received with re- players wear the same." she said.der to be different. In fact..that's gret by the athletic public. I am "It looks very bad to have a team all they play cricket at all for. reminded of a all dressed differently. Another They're certainly no good."

THE TEAMS How Women Golfers Compare With Men

First Division.

Kowloon C.C. 1st team:-

is surprising to notice how I

By HENRY LONGHURST

many people take a keen interest

H. Gitting, V. C. Labrum, Hin women's golf without ever hav

Hampton and A. E. Silkstone (skip).

E. C. Fincher, J. Chadwick, J. Aing seen even one of the leading

Howe and. A. Hyde Lay (skip).

women players in action.

delightful remini- scence told me by Hampson him- self, writes a Home correspondent. After the Olympic Games in 1920 Douglas Lowe ran his last race in a relay meeting between the Bri- tish Empire and America. Hamp son and his father were watching. His father, himself an old athlete touch which would be more readi-and racing enthusiast. WES ly associated with women than with lamenting the loss of Lowe to the brute force of the average man athletics in this country, and Tom, golfer. Towards the end, when quite jokingly, said: "Well, I will the course becaine slower, the pur- have to see what I can do about it." ting improved a little. Misa Little did he know how he was Plumpton was, on occasions, magni-destined to fulfil those words, for the ball, how badly they really do

ficent. But the general impression at that time he had done nothing putt, how they compare with the ot

that remained was one of incom-'great on the track. This country, average male scratch player, and got up in two shots at the 13th, petence, which I, for one, am at a however, has a genius for produc

ing great imiddle distance runners, whether they will ever beat hira

Braw'at loss to explain. on level terms. I propose to ans-which, translated for the bencat Perhaps the most interesting and it seems as if J. V. Powell Rumiah and B. W. Bradbury (Skip) wer some of those inquiries.

E. Lammert, D.

of those who are as ignorant as I question of all and certainly the thay atep into Hampson'a and was before I went there, means one which I have been most fre-Lowe's shoes when he comes into "Braid's Best." It is an Imposing quently naked, is whether women his full strength.

will ever be able- and majestic hole

to compete on yards and the second shot must equal terms with men. In the past I. G. Collins' Plans. carry over a great gully and pitch few years they have made a con-

H. Overy, F. Goodwin, T. Fergusson

and J. Fraser (skip).

Recreio 1st

relo 1st team:

During the last two or three

days I have been "bombarded with

E. L.

Barros, L. C. R. Souza, C. Silva and R. F.

Luz.

G.

questions as to how far they hit

S.

v.

H. A. Alves, R. R. Robarts, A.

Gomes, and E. Marques.

F. Xavier,

J. M. M. Alves, F. Ribeirs and F. X. M. da Silva.

Craigengawer 1st team:-

+

G. L. Buchanan, E. Tuck, H. Beer And R. Basa (Skip).

W. T. Brightonan, A. E. Coates, E. Jel Arcul and U. M. Omar (Skip):

Kowloon B. G. 1st team-

R.

C. E. Elliott Heywood, W. anne and A. M. Holland (skip):

R. Hall, A. Me Intyre, G. E. Boy- lance and L. Guy (skip).

J. B. Logon, A. B. Whibley, J. Gib- won and H. Nish (akip).. Civil Service 1st team

known

"Braid's 26

of some 450

UNDERSTAND that I. G.

on to the green, which is cat'at the staat, and in some cases, spectacu Collins, the Davis Cup doubles..

top of the hill

· Miss Joyce Wethered must, I think, be excepted from the discussion, on the somewhat paradoxical grounds that she is not representative of women's golf. She is the ex- ception in her respective sphere, just as is Bobby Jones in his, and one has the feel- ing that there will never be another such player. Of the other first-class

Misa Wilson and Mrs. displayed at Gleneagles was scarce- Clarke are about the longest hit- ters. From the tee I should say y their true form, since they were disparity between the sexes has A Brilliant Volleyer.

all overcome by

the size of the Town smallest is tennis. I remem- that they were equal. to a steady. Tallon, J. Shepheard easy-going

ber a well-known player (a man) greens-which indeed could four-handicap

be more readily measured in fract-whose handicap at tennis, if there

were such a thing would be with ease, though as a matter of method of length and width. All decisive sum of money that fact Miss Wilson, alone among the same, I was a little depressed, her sex, nearly always has some- thing in reserve.

as I have remarked before, at their complete lack of that delicate

lar improvement in the sports with the other side.

In the case of Miss Wilson it was which they have always been as-player, intends again: to take part in clear that both her drive and her soclated, and have began to take competitive lawn tennis in the near second, at the one moment when it part in many in which it was not fature. He had to stop practice to was necesary, had gone 20 yarde expected that women would ever throw off the effects of an accident.

join.

while riding his own horseïnt Bog- further than usual.

The putting which

side races recently.

*K. Lockhart, A. 0. Brawn, N. J. Bebbington and Alderman, F. Jones players,

P. Phillips (skip).]

and J. Deakin (skip).

idge and A. W Grimmitt (skip).

L. Collyer, H. E. Strange, J. Hol- Police 1st team J. Fender

der, T.

and W.

(akip)

women

man:

the women

An Unwise Bet Perhaps the game at which the

at

Spanish Davis Cup team AANRIQUE MAIER, who led the

against Great Britain at Barcelona,

Mat Smith, A. R. Clark the scratch man will outdrive them tions of an acre than by the usual least a good scratch, wagering aay be described as Europe's most

and C. Mass (akip).

"J.

Grem. 1. Perkins, E. G. Post and W. E. Hollands (skip). Kowloon Docks:

J. V. Ramsay, R. Morrison, W.

and F. Cullen (skip).

Greig

A. Calman, J. Kempton, H. G. Coo- per and J. C. Brown (akip).

Atkinson, M. Ferguson, W. Heddley and R. Lapsley (skip).

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W. Brown, J. Watson, J. Polson and N. Drummond (skip).

R. Keown, J. Whyte, W. Wother- spoon and E. Wallace (skip);

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Second Division.

Recreio 2nd team:

3. M. Rosario, E. M. Remedina, A.

L. Alves and B. Basto.

J. E. Noronha, E. V. Souza, J. J.

Basto and J. Ribeiro.

ros

She discovered early in life the secret that constant hard. hitting was one of the most tiring forms of golf and that by playing well within herself she made up fà accuracy any thing she may have lost in length.

She gave a fine demonstration

of this little extra something in

the final at Gleneagles, when she

Kowloon B. G. 2nd team

VARSITY SWIMMERS.

London Wins From Manchester Race.

London, May 15.

would beat Miss Helen Wills in a he may not be as mobile as the he brilliant volleyer. Heavier in build,

French aces, but his' strokes are {more orthodox and his overhead

play more severe.

three-set match.

The result was that she slammed him all round the court for about half an hour and that when the match was over he had amassed' exactly. .one game.

He has modelled his game on that. of Andre Gobert, relying on the speed and spin of his service and on his telescopic reach when handling I do not think, however, that the axon temperament, he is not al the service return. Lacking a time will ever come when the gulf ways cool in a crisis, but he is a

is bridged, as it were, in, golf, for shrewd student of tactics

and a

London, with 69 points, won the simple reason that for all that most dangerous opponent when" in- team honours in the Universities may be said about "timing" and so spired by his own crowd. swimming championships at Liver- forth, length at golf is largely a pool, Liverpool being runners-up matter of strength."

C. L. Farmer, V. Petherick, G. with 50 points, and Manchester Sherriff and W. 8. Drake (skip),

J. C. Chambero, J. Macdonald, T. (holders) third with 34. Sloan, and A. W. E. Davidson skip),

Records were broken in the long

T. Searle, T. Hard, G. E. F. Thomp-plunge, 220 yards free style, 100 Police End team

D Alves, P X Soares, A. V. Bar-son and F. L. Baplay (skip).

and HP. Rozario,

Craigengower 2nd feam:-

yards backstroke, and aquadron

B. Dowman, W. Chester Woods, T. race events.

D. the M J. Medina, Y. Brittain and A. E. Carey (skip)

Abbas and

Razack (Skip). C. S. Suremor Milton, Ward and W. V. Field (Slip).**

Me L Smith, H. Channings W. Riddell and W,

McWal-

London won the squadron race

from Dublin (Trialty College) in 24

mins, 16 seca. beating their own

HONG KONG RIDING SCHOOL

NOTICE.

six

Maler in an officer in the Re- publican Army and recently spent months in Berlin, where he has many friends, and where he played with great gusto on covered courts. He is a versatile sports- Įman, and during King Alfonso's. reign used to steer one of the royal sailing vessels at Barcelona regatta. He speaks Freach. German, and

Me at record by five seconds R. J. C. But- Hereby heg to inform my as English fluently.

C. E. Alexanderlendenning (skip), Duncan. FK Modi, H. V.ters and

And.B. EL Mark Pearse and W. Gill (Sup)..

Reserve Mist

Reserves: J. Johnston and J.. 8. A Landolt

Indian B.C.

Civil Service

W. McLeod and ton (London) retained the 220 opened a branch of the School at teemed customers that I have yards free style title in 2 mine. 29 Repulse Bay next to Repulse Bay

GA, M. Omar, S. O. Box, A. M. Eumolovier, R. Davies, L

jahn and K. M. Omar (skin).

S.

ML Razack, MY Adal AR Luck and JH. Holdman (skip). Dallah and AM. Wahab (skip). T. Armstrong.

Whant L

E. Weit Bishan Singh lake and 5. Eccleshall (skip) Akku

Eeserve- Yacht Claw Creasey and

Ismail, I Harteam.

and B. A. Hyder (skip).'

1. K, Llectric

Paul F.

F. Normington, G. T.

Padgett and H. Hatch (skip),..

W. K. B. Muskett S. Deacon, G

Sloan and A. Tarbnek (aldip).

Besford (Manchestery againi won the 100 yards back stroke event, his time of 67 1-5 BOCA. beating his own record by three seconds,

been

E. Simmonds. J. Fitzgerald, 1.1-5 sees, to beat JC, P. Besford's Hotel where ponies can be hired and OXFORD ATHLETIC OFFICIALS

and R. Wood, (skip), precious test of 2 mins, 42 2-5 Boca, riding lessons will be given,KA

All arrangements can be made The following have

elected with the undersigned at, Repulss officers of the Oxford University Bay Hotel Room No. 223 or

Athletic Club: through Capt. Danilor, Hong Kong Unty, New Zealand and Exeter); hor. President, I. E. Lovelock (Otago Biding School Kowloon Tel.scretary, C. F. Stanwood (Bowdoin, U.S.A., and Univy, Coll); captain of the Centipedes, K. 8. Duncan (Mal Vern and New Coll); secretary, G: H.. Leng (King Coll School and Christ Church).

LS

CR, Brown, J. W.)

A. Macfarlane (akip), E Abraham, N. V. A. Croucher,

Spence and F, Button (skip).

Lunny, L. da Rome, J. G. Haigh Hansen, J. A. E. Selby,

and E. Butler (sidp).

à Murdocác and 3. Bentley (ticip),

The long plunge was won also 58754. by Besford, who attained 64 It 2% Ins to add two and a half Laches to the Universities Tecord

Capt. N. A. ROJDESTVIN,

Proprietor.