1937-05-19 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 19, 1937.

YANKEES BLANK

CHICAGO

Athletics Maintain

Advantage

New York, To-day.

The following were the results of yes- terday's baseball matches:-

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

R. H.

E.

1

6

2

6

0

New York

Ripple hit a bomer.

St. Louis

4

Mize hit a homer. AMERICAN LEAGUE

St. Louis

6

11

Washington

.7

18

Detroit

7 12

English hit a homer

CORONATION GOLF TROPHY

2 Draw For K.G.C. Match

Play Stages

The following 16 players qualit fied for the Kowloon Golf Club Coronation Trophy match play stages (first round to be completed by Sunday, May 23, the draw being: A. A. Lopes V. 1 B. Basto

V.

W. G. Simpson, J. D. Thomson

Philadelphia

8 10

D. J. N. Anderson v. 3A. J. Dennis V.

T. D. Paton

J. R. Leitch

Hayes and Dean hit homers.

R. K. Collings

V..

J. Redman

W. Kershaw

v.

W. Taylor

Chicago

6

1 S. Jex

V.

F. C. Barry

Chandler pitched

E. C. Fincher

V.

E. M. Hanlon

New York

4

8

0

Lou Gehrig hit a homer.

Cleveland Boston

7.

12

2

10

Fox hit a homer.

Joe Di Maggio, Yankee's slugging outfielder, whose ailing tonsils - " were ordered to be removed, after an inspection, is here saying “Ah” during an examination by Nurse Frances Dujat, in New York.

HOW CITY WON LEAGUE

CHAMPIONSHIP

DOHERTY INSPIRES WIN OVER

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY

London, April 26.

TSUI WAI-PUI IN

PARIS

LATEST DERBY

CALL OVER

Perifox Shortens In

Price

LEKSAR DROPS TO

Playing With W. C. Choy THIRD FAVOURITE

In Doubles

Paris, To-day." W. C. Choy and Tsui Wai-pui, the Chinese doubles pair, were leading Journu and Martin Legeay (France) by 4 games to 1 in the first round of the French Tennis Championships yesterday when a terrific thunder- storm prevented further play.

The match will probably be re- sumed to-day.

Baron Gottfried von Cramm, the German ace, is not competing, as his doctor bas advised him to take rest cure at a German spa before

IN beating Sheffield Wednesday at Maine-road, Manchester City the German Davis Cup match with

set the seal on a non-stop rún óf 21 matches without defeat, Italy. which has won them the First Division championship for the first time in their 43 years' history as a League club.

DAVIS CUP

!

There were enthusiastic scenes at the end when the crowd Meanwhile, the second round of surged over the ground, though they were prevented from carrying the Davis Cup matches has been off the players in their delight by a strong force of police.

(Continued in preceeding col)

Lining up in front of the phase, but they obtained a "consola- stands, they would not disperse tion goal a quarter of an hour from until Mr. "Bob" Smith, the chair- the end, when Rimmer netted after man of the club, and Barkas, the Swift had parried a point-blank captain of the team, had acknow-drive by Luke. ledged their greetings and that they had come prepared to cheer exultantly was proved during the match itself.

REWARD FOR PLUCK

This goal was a just reward for the plucky fight the Wednesday made Every goal the City-scored was in the second half, though they were received by tumultuous applause and never the equals of the champions. a fanfare of trumpets, and though Robinson and Drury were skilful the game had run almost 20-minutes inside forwards, but the Wednesday before the first arrived the match were outmatched in other respects, was in their safe keeping before and the speed and telling thrusts. the interval.

of the City in their inspired

mo-

tremendous

It was not until a minute from ments left them at a the end that Brook obtained the disadvantage. fourth goal, but the first three, scor- Doherty again took the chief hon- ed during a spell of 13 minutes in ours and Marshall did much effec- the first half, knocked the bottom tive work in his usual quiet way, out of the Wednesday's hopes, prac-but it was

in players shared and and served as another reminder of another example of the excellent the magnificent part Doherty has team-work which has made the played in Manchester City's trium-championship possible, phant march.

tically doomed them to relegation, which alleally a triumph

HIS PART IN THE GOALS

i

(Continued from Next Column) completed, and yesterday the draw Every one was the result of the for the European Zone third round Irishman's genius. He continued was announced, as follows:- the spadework done by Percival to South Africa. ↑ Yugo-Slavia, at leave Brook with a clear field for Agram. the first, gave Tilson a simple

Italy v. Germany, at Milan,

France,

chance, the second by a dazzling Czecho-Slovakia run, and, not to be outdone, scored Prague, the third himself after a delightful exchange of passes with Tilson.

Sweden v. Belgium, at Stockholm.

All four matches will start - on

The Wednesday were simply run June 4 and end on June 6. -Tranis- off their feet during this brilliantOcean and Reuter.

London, To-day. The following is the latest Call- Over for the Derby, to be run at Epsom on June 2:

85 to 20 Perifox.

8 to 1 Cash Book, taken and of-

fered.

9 to 1 Leksar, offered. 10 to 1. Solfo.

100 to 8 Le Grand Duc, taken and

offered.

13 to 1 Goya 11, offered, 100 to 7,

taken.

20 to 1, The Hour, offered. 22 to 1 Midday Sun, offered, 25

to 1, taken.

25 to 1 Fairford, taken and of-

fered.

25 to 1 Renardo, offered, 28 to 1,

taken.

33 to 1 Pascal, taken and offered.

-Reuter.

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