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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1936

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INFLUX OF FRENCH HORSES INTO ENGLAND

HELEN JACOBS

ON MOTOR TOUR

OF ENGLAND

Plays Last Match For Charity

MISS KAY STAMMERS'S

NEW COSTUME

London, July 7. Miss Helen Jacobs, looking re- markably fresh after her long struggle with Mrs. Sperling at Wimbledon on Saturday, when she won the women's. singles cham- pionship, played in an exhibition match in the grounds of Sir Ar- Ithur Crosfield's house at Highgate,

yesterday.

H.H. the Aga Khan, above, has been seriously affected as a re- sult of the recent influx of French race horses into England.

The exhibition is organised an- nually by Sir Arthur and Lady) Crosfeld in aid of the North Isl lington Infant Welfare Centre and play until I start practising for American championships," Wards and the 6th North London the Scouts, A number of other tennis Miss Jacobs stated. "I am going stars. including F. J. Perry andjon a motor tour through Britain 1. W. Austin took part.

and shall sail for home perhaps at Miss Jacobs played with 1 Hthe end of the month. Although Wheatcroft in a mixed doubles was terribly tired after Saturday match against Miss Kay Stammers!I am perfectly fit again.”

Among those who watched the and J. EL Crawford, who

play were the Earl of Athlone and 63,9-7.

Princess Alice Countess of Ath- lone, Princess Marie Louise Miss Stammers created some in-Princess Helena Victoria. terest by her departure from the conventional white costume. She wore a pale blue divided skirt andį

New Departure

TOM

a white jumper with pale blue fac-- lings. Miss Jacobs wore a white) duffy jumper and white shorts with a dark blue stripe.

• Enjoy the flavour and the fragrance of this fine cigarette.

BASEBALL WASHED OUT

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Sports

Chatter

(By "REFEREE)

Gittins Bound For England

V. GITTINS, the former Colony 100 Yards free-style swim- ming champion and Interporter. left the Colony for England on a year's holiday a week 250 Jast Friday by the m.v. Potsdam. It is

strongly rumoured that "Sammy"

will be taking a course and sub sequent examination in Economies

at Oxford University.

Kwok Joined By Family

K

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SENDING STABLES

EN BLOC

EFFECT OF DEPRESSION ON HOME MARKET

H.H. AGA KHAN'S CONFERENCE

(By Hotspur)

London, July 6. TT is likely that unless there is a rapid improve- ment in internal conditions in France there will be a further large influx of French horses into this country. For some time past they have |been coming, so to speak, in single spies; now WOK CHUX-HANG, who

tarned to the South from they will be coming in battalions. Shanghai in order to spend his stam-

I hear of several prominent French owners who are making mer vacation here, has been joined plans to send their stables en bloc to England, not with any fixed by the whole of his family, who left Canton recently owing to the politi-idea of racing permanently here, but to run their horses out in cal unrest Kwok is at present their races and then try to sell them on their English form. swimming in the Colony and repre- sents the Chang Shing Benevolent Society at water-polo. He was a notable absentee from the C.B.C. harbour swim last Sunday week.

Two New “Y” Swimmers

N. Booker and A. Keown,, two of the Central British School's

finest short distance swimmers,

One prominent French owner, M. Pierre Wertheimer, in- stead of sending his 1936 crop of yearlings into training as usual in France, with a few exceptions, is sending them to be trained here by Frank Hartigan. M. Wertheimer has had a few horses sent to Weyhill every year for some time past, but in future he will be racing here on a much larger scale.

His smart filly Catherinette,

who finished third to Nightj Song in the Queen Mary Stakes

have joined the Junior Section of 25 Ascot, returned to France as MAX SCHMELING SAYS "NO" the European T.M.CA. They were she has a few valuable en- seen in action for the first time ingagements to fulfil in the im- He Will Not Fight Joe Louis Again senior competitive sport a week

mediate future, but she is like- ago last Wednesday in the triangu

ly to be sent to England again Iar contest staged in the “Y” pool.

later.

Owing to heavy rain, both baseball League matches scheduled Chan So Now Plays Tennis

This is the last game I shall for yesterday were cancelled,

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Future Of French Racing CHAN SO, who plays for South These plans show what a gloomy China in the "A" Division of view of the future of French ras- the Lawn Tennis Leagus, was in hising is taken by those immediately younger days one of the best soccer

with it. It has been backs in the Colony, partnering concerned Gerrard against Shanghai in Hong languishing for some time past. Kong when the Interport series and the outlook grows darker in-

revived in 1923. He

stead of brighter. A few years one of the few South China play-

jago the yearling sales at Deauville ers who did not go over to the Chinese Athletic Association when were of growing importance and that body was formed. A knee were attracting buyers from far injury, however, ended 3 very

and wide. eniourful football career.

W23

Lz Williams Due For Home

Was

July Hamburg,

4- Max Schmeling, who knocked out Joe Louis, the negro bazer, on June 19, said that he declined to fight Louis a second time.

He added: "I beat Louis clear- ly on June 19. For me. boxing is not an affair of money but of title.

Louis My victory over gave me the right to fight for the world's championship, and I shall insist on meeting James J. Brad- dock the next: time I enter the ring.

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For the last two or three years lieve that there was something like they have been hanging fire, and (half a million people present to

TIEUT. J. P. Williams, the bril-mportant breeders for sale have see the last Moscow Derby

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liant Army all-round sportsman been disposing of their young and Interport cricket and hockey stock privately instead of sending player, is leaving the Colony for them up to suction. Home next November, and will not be accompanying the East Lanez- shires to India when they leave the Colony next January.

East Lanes. Soccer

THE Fast Lanes, are fortunate in that there will not be mary changes in their soccer teams before they leave for India in January Lawton, Carrol and Galsworthy are among the few footballers who will not be with the Regiment in India.

Logan's Interest In Bowls

LOGAN, formerly the chair-

W. man of the Victoria Becreation Club, now takes a great interest in lawn bowls. He invariably watches the matches at the Football Club every Saturday.

lu Becomes Bowls Enthusiast

His Best Buyers

A Good Market

It is probable that the Bussian market for bloodstock will be a good one for some time to come st the Soviets have

It was a sign of the times, when least,, and until the Aga Khan, who has been 2 [formed their own gigantic. studs, vendor in Normandy for some which are projected, and of which years, sent a few of his surplus they now have little more than the yearlings to be sold at Newmarket nucleus.

It is, however, on the home last year, and sent them all there! for disposal last week Probably market that the English and Irish the best buyers at the Deauville breeder mainly depends, and sales next month will be English through all the bad times the home owners and trainers in search of market has kept its level. There bargains.

was a sharp downward curve after

If racing were going through a the boom of the twenties, but the

bad time in England this French curve is steadily upward now, and competition in our bloodstock mar-will be still upward if the yearling ket would be having a serious sales at Newmarket last week can efect, and possibly some people be taken as an index. would be demanding a quota. But Strangely enough, although rac-. fortunately racing is so prosperousing is booming in the United IU TAK-LAM, the Chinese Rein England at the present time, States, there is no large demand

creation Club. tennis player, is showing great interest in lawn bowls, although the green at the C.R.C. is not yet ready. It is al- ready making many enquiries as to how the game is played, what is "wrong bias" and other features of

the game.

Graver Going On Leave

G.

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and the bloodstock market is so from there for English bloodstock, strong and so resilient, that we although the projected sale of have been able to absorb all the Blenheim for an enormons SLI

our best horses are importations without prices here shows that

There are wanted there, bat general buying having been affected. limits, of course, to all this, and is not yet on the scale of former

influx s further enormans

of years. French horses might not be so

S. GRAVER, a member of the good.

Hong Kong Football Club

“A” lawn bowls team, will probably

not be available next summer as he

He hopes, however, to take part in a few games while in the Old Country.

Henderson On Leave Next Year

Horses For Soriet

Aga Khan's Conference

I believe that when the Aga han returns from Geneva this

The French people have been week he intends to have a confer-

is due for leave early next year.able in the last few months to ence with his advisers regarding dispose of a number of their aires his sires, of which he owns more to the representatives of the So-than anyone in England. Even if viets, who have been combing Blenheim leaves France he will England and Ireland since last still have three there - Eastom autumn for stallions, and whose Pasha, Firdaussi, and Bahuddin wants. I believe, are nothing like the last-named of whom is at Mr. satisfied yet."

Benjamin Guinness's stud in Nor- They have made several more mandy. He has disposed of Zion- will have gone away on leave by purchases of sires in Ireland during ist and Dark Japan, whom he had

the last month. This, of course, standing in France. is all to the good of the market,

THE Kowloon Bowling Green Club will probably be without the services of M. J. Henderson next season as it is understood that he

them.

Bowls Win For Lay

A.

ing surplus horses.

was to be

·A premature, statement to the. T. LAY beat J. S. Dinnen by for they are not bidding enormona effect that Tai Akbar 21 shots to 19 in the Final of prices and trying to buy our best retired at the end of this season the Kowloon Cricket Club's novices sires. Rather have they been tak probably arose from the circum- scratch singles lawn bowls toarna- Címent. This is one of many events

in their anal" tournament.

Arcelli Out For Season?

...el· ARCULLI, the lawn bowls

E. Are the Craigengower Cricket Club, and a member of their First Division "A" team, will pro, to the virtual closure of foreign believe, to have either Tai Akbar bably not be playing again this sea- and Dominion markets on account or the four-year-old Theft, who, it son owing to an acute" "attack o* {of adverse exchanges. A

is to be presumed, will not be sciatica..

The Russian projects for im- raced after this season. Consul General's Tennis Enthusiasm proving their thoroughbred breed- OMM A. Bianconi, the Commuting are on a vast scale "Improv General for Italy in Hong Kong.ing" is hardly the right word, for NEW ASTON VILLA CHAIRMAN is so keen on tennis, that he has had in the Revolution and the years)

stance that Lady James Douglas A. Drug

wants a sire to replace Gains- Sires whose form on the Turf borough at her Harwood stud was shown in handicape and who]Gainsborough is still virile, but he were not near-classic form have is an old, horse now, and cannot She would like, I been a drug for some time, owing live for ever.

the court at his house in Repaise succeeding it, the thoroughbred The first meeting of the recon- Bay fitted with floodlights so that horse virtually disappeared instituted Aston Villa FC board of tennis may be played even after Russis. Things are different now, directors elected Mr. F. H. Nor sunset, and from all accounts these games are always thoroughly enjoy able affairs.

and the Russian public is taking mansell chairman in succession to a great interest in cacing. I be Mr. J E. Jones.