1937-04-22 — Page 19

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 22, 1937.

V.R.C. IN SOUND POSITION

ROWING SECTION . NEGLECTED

PLEA FOR MORE MEMBERS

the

The annual general meeting of the Victoria Recreation Club was in the held yesterday evening club house, when, as pointed out by Sir Atholl MacGregor, Chairman, there were only two points in the annual report which could not be classed as eminent. ly satisfactory. The points were the falling off in membership, and the condition of the rowing section, which is not receiving the degree of attention it once commanded.·

Sir Atholl stated in his speech:--

The report is eminently satis- factory in all except two points -you will see that the member- ship is down, and I hope that you all will try to induce others to join; and the condition of the rowing section is not entirely

and not satisfactory

receiving the support which we would like to see it receive.

We have again a substantial bal- ance on the working account which, though smaller than last year's bal- ance, is very satisfactory since its decrease is due to two factors, the payment of a considerable typhoon damage bill and a falling off in the bar account owing to no night fetes

being held last year. It may be necessary for the incoming commit- tee to consider the revival of night fetes.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS The election of officers was then proceeded with.

While the result of the balloting was waited Sir Atholl in a short speech remarked:

I feel that I am only voicing the opinion of all when I say that we should like to have recorded in

the minutes how greatly this club deplores the untimely departure of Sir Andrew Caldecott and how cor- dially we hope both Sir Andrew and Lady Caldecott happiness and pros- perity. (Applause).

Further, it has always been our boast that we may count on the

the Governor as our President, and so I suggest for a few months until Sir Geoffry Northcote arrives, when I feel sure he will honour us by be- coming our president.

CHAIRMAN RE-ELECTED Sir Atholl, on the Proposal of Mr. F. W. T. Ross, was re-elected.

Chairman, while Mr. H. Hyndman. hon. treasurer, and Mr. D. F. Lopss hon. secretary, were also re-elected for another term.

The nine committeemen

were:

elected

Messrs. F. W. T. Ross, C. E. Roza Pereira, G. A. Agabeg, F. X. D'Alma-

IN

Joe Louis, the "Black Bomber" who will probably meet James J. Braddock, the present world heavyweight boxing champion, on June 3, has taken very keenly to baseball and is a great supporter

of the Detroit Tigers.

DOROTHY ROUND

IN

Miss

Round, Dorothy

above, former Wimbledon champion, won Singles the Herga Club Ladies' Championship in defeating Miss Mary Heeley, her doubles partner.

COLONY SNOOKER

da a Castro, jnr. L. Roza Pereira, D. TOURNAMENT

Liang, 0. W. Bower, W. L. Clark and D. Lyon.

FUSILIERS"

BOXING

SUCCESS

Seaforths Lose At Shamshuipo

BRADDOCK RECEIVES

COURT ORDER

NEW LOUIS FIGHT MOVE

SCHMELING SAYS

"WE MUST MEET”

New York, March 29. The next move in the efforts to prevent Jim Braddock, the world heavyweight champion, the from meeting Joe Louis, coloured boxer, will take place to- morrow. Braddock will accept service of a court order, requir- ing him to show cause why an injunction to restrain him from be fighting Louis should not given.

It was stated yesterday that the order had been served at Braddock's home at New Ber- gen, N.J., but Joe Gould, his man- ager, said later that the papers had been given by mistake to Gunboat Williams, a former sparring partner of Max Schmel- ing.

Williams. îmagined that he was the intended. victim of a hold-up when the papers were served

on

him. He jumped into a

car and drove to the police station to report the incident.

was

re-

on

be

MUST MEET SCHMELING Later. James J. Braddock to-day served with a summons quiring him to show cause, April 5 at the local Federal Court, why an injunction should not granted against the holding of the projected Braddock-Louis fight at Chicago on June 22.

The Madison Square Garden, who are applying for the injunction, have asked for Braddock to be pre- vented from engaging in any ma- jor contest, and particularly the fight against Joe Louis, "unless and until he shall have rendered ser- vices as a boxer in a contest with Max Schmeling, of Germany, to be

SEVEN KNOCK OUTS held on or about June 3.”

FEATURED

BIG GATE

The Garden- authorities estimat- ed that the Braddock-Schmeling Exciting boxing bouts were seen bout would draw a gate of £80,000, at Shunshuipo Barracks last even-which would yield to the Garden ing, when the Royal Welch Fusi-profits of more than £20,000. liers, in sustaining only three de- Max Schmeling, ex-heavyweight feats, beat the Seaforth Highlan-boxing champion of the world, ar- |ders in the Open Team, Inter-Unit rived in Plymouth in the Queen semi-final round, of the Hong Kong | Mary on his way to Germany for a Area Boxing Championships.

The following were the results:- BANTAM WEIGHT

Fus. Fisher (R.W.F.) beat Pte. Black (Seaforths) on points.

FEATHER-WEIGHT

holiday. He said he would be re- turning to America late in April to prepare for his fight with Braddock, the present champion.

"We fight in America and there are no plans for me to fight else- "I should like

1st String: L/Cpl. Bowell (R.W.F.) where," he added. beat Pte. Hipkiss

points.

(Seaforths) on to fight Joe Louis in England, but

2nd String: Fus. Jones (R.W.F.) beat nothing has been arranged." L/Cpl. Jague (Seaforths) on a techni-

cal knock-out.

3rd String: Fus. Bray (R.W.F.) knocked out Pte. Butters (Seaforths). FEATHER-WEIGHT

1st. String: Fus. Owen (R.W.F.) beat Pte. Green (Seaforths) on points.

2nd String: Fus. Raven (R.W.F.) beat Pts. Col. Morgan (Seaforths) on a technical knock out.

WELTER-WEIGHT

SEAFORTHS DEFEAT RECREIO

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The soldiers took the lead when Ayres scored from a free kick, and McGuigan placed his side further in the lead when he scored twice in quick succession. After the in- 2nd String: Fus. Davies (R.W.F.) terval, the Portuguese did most of knocked-out L/Cpl. McDonald (Sea- forths).

the pressing and J. Gomes reduced 3rd String: L/Cpl. Roberts (R.W.F.) the lead. knocked-out Pte. Ross (Seaforths), Seaforths-Thompson; Webster and

4th String: Pte. Moir (Seaforths) Spiers; Williamson, knocked-out Fus. Davies (R.W.F.).

The balloting committee elected com- prised:

Messrs. J. A: Vietor. A. A. Guterres. C. L. Lopes, T. McMahon, J. Neves, L. E. A. dos Remedios v. C. Strange G. Silva, E. da Roza, J. M. M. Alves. (Kowloon C. C.); 9 p.m.; W. Stafford v. J. E. Noronha (Catholic Union), 9 p.m.

Snooker Championship have been ar-

The following matches in the Colony, ranged for next week:

MONDAY

D. Montralto and W. Lawrence.

CITY AND SUBURBAN WON BY WILLIAM OF

VALENCE

TUESDAY

|

MIDDLE-WEIGHT

McCusker and Cook; Adams, Ayres, Samson, McGui- gan and Wilmot..

1st String: Cpl. Weaver (R.W.F.) Recreio: U.. B. Souza; C. Marques knocked-out Cpl. Reilly (Seaforths). and V. Riberio; R. Maxwell, B. Gosano 2nd String: Fus. Thyer (R.W.F.) and V. Marques; V. Garcia, E. Campos, beat L/Cpl. Munro (Seaforths) on M. Gaan, J; Gomes and Alves. points.

E. A. Noronha v. A. J. Osmund (R.N.Y.P. Canteen), 9 p.m.; G. M. P. Remedios v. L. V. Antonio (C.P.O. and P. O. Rec. Room), 9 p.m...

London,

(Lowrey) Yesterday.The City to 4 while Rippon Tor and Suburban, run at Epsom to- was second, beaten by 3 lengths,

LIGHT HEAVY-WEIGHT day over a mile and a quarter, was Edgehill (E. Smith) was third, a

L/Sgt. Matheson. (Seaforths) beat won by the topweight, William of head behind. There were 15 star-Fus. Bagby (R.W.F.) on points.

(Continued at foot of Next Col.) Valence, which was backed at 11ters.

3rd String: Sgt. Grindley. (R.W.F.) knocked-out Pte. Walker (Seaforths),

HEAVY-WEIGHT.

Cpl. Crair (Seaforths) beat Fus Frimson (R.W.F.) on points.

WELTER-WEIGHT

1st String: Fus. Morgan (R.W.F.) knocked-out Pte. Dooney (Seaforths).