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THE LAST WORD IN GOLF BALLS

The SPALDING

"Needled" TOP-FLITE GOLF

gives

greater length

to EVERY GOLFER

An additional quantity of liquid is injected- after the ball is made

into the famoúa Niquid core.

This enlarges the core, expands the rubber winding, increases the tension and, couse- quently, the distance on every shot.

Perfect "feel"!

Longest Distance!

Extreme Durability:

NOW ON SALE

at $1.00 a Ball.

~THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1936

PERRY MAY MEET VON CRAMM AGAIN

F.A. AND OLYMPIC

GAMES

More Protection For Goalkeeper

BALL Weeded for PLAYERS NOT ALLOWED TO POWER and KICK BALL OUT OF HIS HANDS DISTANCE

London, June 29.

IT IS NEARLY AS DURABLE AS

THE FAMOUS “KRO-FLITE”

ON SALE AT ALL GOLF CLUBS, LANE CRAWFORD, LTD. AND MAMAK & CO.

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BOTH GOING TO

FOREST HILL

THEN MONTH'S HOLIDAY "IN HOLLYWOOD

A decision on the question of re FREDA JAMES WINS TITLE AND

participation in the Olympic Games, in Berlin in Angust, was deferred by the International Selection Committee of the Foot- ball Association at their meeting!

....

BECOMES ENGAGED

London, July 6.

at Blackpool on Saturday. F. J. PERRY, who has and the singles championship tat

It was decided to send an ams- teur team to New Zealand in 1937. Mr. C. Wreford Brown was a pointed member-in-charge.

ball under such circumstances.

Wimbledon for the third year in succession, a feat that no one else has accomplished since the war, does not intend to turn professional.

to

Mr. Here-

handsome,

·ASTON VILLA NOMINATIONS

Four Of Retiring Board Of Five Among List

Four of the retiring board of five are among the official list of nominations for the directorate of Aston Villa

The other nominations are fessrs. A. Brown, secretary of the Aston Villa Share- holders' Association; C. S Buckley and Joe Pearson, for mer Villa Players; FLW. Rin- der: C. Sarjeant, member of the Shareholders' Association Committee; J. E. Webster, of

·Birmingham Works FA, and Dr. J. Sangster.

HAROLD GIMBLETT IS MODEST

:

He Does Not Care For Fame

ON THE VILLAGE GREEN

Fleet Street, July 7. Harold Gimblett, who, in two

SHORTAGE OF FUNDS

ALL-AMERICAN -

OLYMPIC TEAM

IN DIFFICULTIES

$150,000 Still

Required

40 STATE-ROOM RESERVATIONS CANCELLED

Fleet Street, July 6. United States of America, unde- feated Olympic champion, may be represented by the merest ske- leton of a team at the Games ·În

Berlin next month. For the first time in the history of the Olympic movement they have experienced difficulty on raising the necessary funds.

Their Olympic Committee are faced with the unenviable task of finding 150,000 dollars" by

jor portion of the US. team is due to leave for Europe.

State-rooms Cancelled

All hope of securing public sup-

He is to play for Great Britain in defence of the Davis Cup An invitation to compete for the on July 25, 27, and 28 at Wimbledon, and on August 5 will leave F. A. Charity Shield was given to for New York to try to recapture the United States champion- Arsenal. winners of the FA Cup, ship which he lost to W. Allison last year. and Sunderland, Football League

As Baron Von Cramm also Stammers, won the women's docb- champions.

intends to visit the United,les at Wimbledon for the second Sir Charles Clegg was re-elect States-in his case for the first rear in succession. ed chairman and Mr. W. Pickford time it is possible that Perry Watching her was [vice-chairman. No change was will have another opportunity of ward Hammersley,

made in the election of divisional meeting the gallant German, square-shouldered young business representatives to the Council. whom he defeated on Friday. man from Hagley, Birmingham,

Regarding the law concerning Yesterday Mrs. Perry (Miss with a solitaire diamond ring i WOULD MUCH RATHER PLAY July 15, on which day the ma the charging of a goalkeeper, it Helen Vinson, the film actress) his pocket. was agreed that though a player few from Croydon to Paris In the evening he took Miss lis entitled to charge a goalkeeper catch the French liner Normandie James to the teithis star's dinner. when in possession of the ball, ie for New York on Wednesday. The ring was on her engagement holding the ball, it is not permis. From there she is going to Holly-finger.

pears to have been abandoned, for- sible to kick or attempt to kick the wood to fulfil Sim contracts. "Only a few people knew my years, has risen from the obscurity Port to the tune of $30,000 p After the United States cham-fiance's name" she said to a re- of the ground staff of the Somer-40 stateroom reservations on the The Council decided that the pionships, which begin on Septem-porter yesterday, laughing broadly set cricket team to the ranks of as. Manhattan, which sails Finance and General Purpose ber 3, are over, Perry will join at the surprise she had caused, England's Test hopes, is not happy July 15, have been cancelled.

seven among most of her friends about his sadden success.

America's final Olympic athletic Committee be asked to consider his wife in Hollywood for

tryouts are scheduled for Friday and report to the Council the ad-month's holiday. He will then go "We had intended to keep it quiet

This slim and rather tired-and Saturday. visability of the Association tak-on to Australia, and return

looking young man, who is just From these it is hoped to add ing some of the financial respon-England in the spring. sibility for the compensation paid On Saturday pretty,

21, last week smote England to something to the Olympic fund, the biggest New York Miss Freda James, with Miss Kay to injured players.

Victory against All-India with a but

hitting sporting crowd could hardly make dashing 67 not out four boundaries from five balls good the deficit. from Nissar. But he is very

Hitting Track Team modest about his cricketing The shortage will hit the track and field athletes, always the "I didn't even know. I was 2 |strongest section of the American cricketer until two years ago, but) teara.

Under the policy of each sport "Naturally I shall go on playing now I have found fame and know I don't want it,”]

mancing its own team, only box- tennis. We shall not be married what it means.

he said in a recent interview.

ing, yachting, and the modern for some time yet," she added:

pentathlon have come up to scratch. Squad of 375 Desperately anxious to

TRUST HER

TO KNOW---

to for a while."

vivacious

CAPSTAN

VA FOR QUALITY

CAPSTAN Navy Cur Cigarettes

He Sympathised They met more than a year ago at a tournament in Birmingham Miss James was off form, and was being beaten. Mr. Hammersley sympathised. They became friends, arranged a game together.

They have played together several times since-Miss James usually wins.

Miss James is twenty-five years. old. She shot into the front rank of tennis players when, at nineteen, she best Miss Dorothy Round.

LOU GEHRIG LEADS BATTERS

fame.

retain

Always Pointed Out "Wherever I go I know that people are pointing me out and their unbroken Olympic record, discussing me I want to lead the America had planned to send the life that I have always led, quiet-biggest team ever to Berlin. by at home, but that's impossible

now.

Los This re-

They had a squad of 375 when

in the games were decided "When I played on the village Angeles four years ago. green I didn't think of fame. It cord total they had planned to top means that your private life beby another twenty.

Individual Standings comes the public's life.

In Major Leagues

New York, July 12

Now it seems that there is one "My mother and brother are Olympic record which they will naturally pleased with me, but I have to leave unbroken, and it may Germany **ill put really would like to be able to go be that out on the village green and play America's best team, total in the

Lou Gehrig's mighty bat con- a game of cricket without having shade. tinued its powerful performance so much depending on what I do during the past seven days of ma- or what I don't do.” jor league baseball, and the end of the week again found him lead- ing the hitters of both the Na- tional and American leagues.

Anstraka's Big Party

While America is in the dold- rums over the tightness of their "I Have Been Lucky"

sportsmen's purse-strings, Austra Gimblett has been offered open lia has sent a team nearly twice cheques for books, articles, and as big as that originally chosen. film work-

Australia's Olympic-Federation "But," he said, "I will not write picked a dozen. Then the country anything or consider making films rose in protest against the work over his team-mate, Bill Dickey,til I know more about cricket. of the selectors.

With

be 377 average .390 maintained a comfortable average

who was second with R 375. "I have been lacky. Possibly I

Dickey, hard-hitting Yarkee, who

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One of the most startling emis- sions from the first selections was was in fifth place among the bat-am only a dash in the pan

Two years ago Gimblett left his that of Clare Dennis, winner ters last week, made a sensational father's farm to work as a grounds-the breast-stroke championship at advance to the runner-up position this week.

man on the staff of Somerset Los Angeles.

Gebrig not only led the major County cricket club at Taunton.

league, batters but also displaced

Jimmy Foxx of the Boston Red

Sax as the home-run king. At the

Queries Answered

Asked about his chances of go-

Britain's Two Hundred Although the British Olympic Association is experiencing siderable difficulty in raising

com-

end of the week he had 23 circuit ing to Australia and the change funds, it is anticipated that Bri-

in Berlin. clouts to his credit, while Foxx from six to eight balls an overtain will have about 200 athletes and Hal Trosky of the Cleveland he said:

"I can only hope that I shall The biggest team ever sent by Indians each had 22. Dickey came

Britain to an Olympiad was the. next with sixteen and Mel Ott of 80% As to the eight-ball over.

side 307 strong which went to

years ago.

At the New York Giants followed what difference can it make to a parisuelve

batsman 7′′* with fifteen

.

Gimblett still leads a farmer's Amsterdam, in 1928, we had 294.

(Continued on Page 11) Pat Malone of the New York

life; walks miles and works hard Yankees continued to lead the in the open-air to maintain a quick

·BATSMEN IN ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA

pitchers of both leagues, withị eye, an alert mind and suppleness eight victories to his credit for of wrist.

the season, against two defeats. Everybody in Watchet kriows

Robert "Lefty" Grove of the Harold. To them he is still the It takes ten years to produce the Boston Red Sox has the next best same farmer's boy-they have al-compleat batsman in England, and record. Although he has aways known-particularly Miss half the time in Australia, where, (counted for eleven victories. Burgess. She's Gimblett's young the weather being hotter, they

mature earlier.-B. J. Evans, jagzinst Malone's eight, he has lost lady....

three games to bring his average below the New Yorker's.

· GOLF ARTISTRY WANTED

CAT ST. ANDREWS

Cat Racing Attempt

Dorchester, July 29;

Mr.

* The fast meeting; states St. Andrews is one of the few Way, licensee of a hotel at For-Way will be run as soon sa the remaining courses that call for tesham, near Weymouth, states electric moase can be installed. golfing artistry as opposed to me that he is soon to open England He said that the best age for rus- chanical perfection. The modern first cat-racing track in the yllage, nes was between two and three standardized stroke with a number Trained cats, be says will years, and expressed the opinion in the that as the sport grew the eats something iron is worse than use chase an electric mouse less it not only fails in its in- manner of greyhound racing. The would be bred for speed. mediate object, but causes the course will be 220 yards long, and Cat-racing is said already

four have a fallowing among" "the" player to lose his

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