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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 27, 1937.
NEW ZEALANDERS
AT NETS 3 HOURS
AFTER
ARRIVAL
10 NEWCOMERS AMONG
TEAM OF 15
WICKETKEEPER ALSO RUGBY STAR (By THOMAS MOULT)
London, May 5.
WITHIN three hours of their arrival in London
yesterday the New Zealand cricketers were batting and bowling in the practice nets at Lord's although, as one of them remarked, "the land, after five weeks on board ship, is still swaying a little."
THIS ENTHUSIASM IS PERHAPS EXPLAINED BY THE ANXIETY OF THE TEAM TO MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME, CAUSED BY A DELAY ON THE VOYAGE. THE AMBITION OF THESE UNCOMMONLY YOUTHFUL-LOOKING PLAYERS IS TO WIN A TEST MÄTCH AGAINST ENGLAND FOR THE FIRST TIME.
They reached Southampton four days late, thereby missing the Cup Final. "We were very disappointed," they told me. "but we are in time for the Coronation, at any rate. Seats have been book- ed for us, mostly in the Mall, and two will be guests at the Abbey.”
Fifteen players have made the visit, 10 of them for the first
time.
T. C. Lowry, brother-in-FAMOUS
law of A. P. F. Chapman, is the
GOLFER
manager, and once again W. Fer- GO
gusson takes care of the baggage
and acts as the official scorer. MAY RETIRE
at
Lord Hawke and Mr. P. F. War- ner, were among the group who welcomed the New Zealanders Waterloo. Harold Gilligan, captain of the M.C.C. team in 1929-30, tra- velled to meet them at Southampton.
STRAIN OF BIG EVENTS
STROKE PLAY HIS BEST
TO MEET MAORI C.C. XI
Their late arrival here has caus- ed the postponement of the one-day fixture with the Maori C.C: at Wör-
London, May 3. cester Park to-day. It will be play- Leonard Crawley, the 33-year- ed on May 22. Instead they will old international golfer, has de- continue to practise in the Lord's cided to limit severely, if not to nets each day until Saturday, when give up altogether, competitive their campaign opens at Kenning-play in big matches. ton Oval against Surrey..
He was beaten on Saturday. 6 E. W. T. Tindill, the wicketkeeper, and 5 by J. J. F. Pennink, former who has also played football for the captain of Oxford University, in All-Blacks, was married on the day the final of the English golf of the team's departure from New championship, at Saunton, N. Zealand. Mrs. Tindill is coming over Devon.. on a later ship.
"The strain of match-play is terrific," he said to me before the final began. I can well understand Bobby Jones throwing in his hand.
MY LAST!·
BAR ON INTERVIEWS The rule, now generally adopted, by which players' wives are not allowed with their husbands on the "I have entered for the British tour applies to these New Zealand-Amateur championship; that will ers; so does the bar on interviews, probably be my last appearance in although they are amateurs. în prac-first-class match tournaments.
"I shall continue to compete tice as well as theory.
in They will not be paid a bonus, and strokeplay events, such as the Brit- all they receive during their stay ish Open, which do not trouble me here is a few shillings a day for at all; indeed, I enjoy them." -out-of-pocket expenses. Their situa-
tions
mainly as · managers,
clerks in offices and banks and He may, indeed, prove. school teachers are being kept ful as Dempster. open for them.
* FIVE LEFT-HANDERS
BETTER BATTING
in
AT PRACTICE
GAR WOOD,
TR.
Gar Wood junior, above, is a real chip off the old block and is preparing for the major motor-boat speed races on the Michigan Lake in which he will be racing against his father, who is the present holder of the world's record.
LATEST DERBY CALLOVER Cash Book Price Shortening
LE KSAR AT 11/2
London, To-day.
The latest call-over for the Derby, to be run at Epsom on June 3, is as follows:
11 to 2 Le Ksar
7 to 1 Cash Book
17 to 2 Perifox
10 to 1 Goya 11
!
13 to 1 Solfo, taken and offered 100 to 7 Midday Sun, offered, 15 to 1
taken
100 to 7 Fairford, offered, 15 to 1
taken
100 to 7 Le Grand Duc, offered, 15
to 1 taken
18 to 1 Gainsborough. Lass offered,
20 to 1 taken
20 to 1. Renardo offered, 25 to 1,
taken
25 to 1 Pascal, taken and offered 28 to 1 Full Sail offered, 33 to 1
taken
33 to 1 Le Bambino offered 50 to 1 The Hour
66 to 1 Inglefield, taken and offered 66 to 1 Snowfall, taken and offered 66 to 1 Honquan, offered, 80 to 1.
taken
66 to 1 Scarlet Plume, offered 100 to 1 Battle Royal 100 to 1 Sand Sprite 100 to 1 Winnebar 200 to 1 Frank Hals, taken and
offered. Reuter.
TOLLEY BEATEN British Amateur Golf Championship
Sandwich, To-day.
COCHRANE
MAKES SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT
YANKEES TROUNCE
TIGERS
LEFTY GOMEZ IN GOOD FORM
New York, To-day,
Mickey Cochrane, manager of the Detroit Tigers, who was seriously injured last Tuesday when he 'sus- tained a fractured skull. through |being hit with a pitched-ball from the Yankees' pitcher, is reported to have shown a slight improvement yesterday.
There was a glut of home runs scored in yesterday's games, al- though the clash between Brooklyn and Pittsburgh, in the National Lea |gue, was postponed owing to rain.
Results as cabled by Reuter,
the
were:--
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. E.
4 10
Boston
0
Lopez and Joe Dimaggio hit homers St. Louis
6
9
0
Joe Medwick and Mize hit homers:
New York Chicago
6 12
3
9.
3
.
Philadelphia
6
6
Martin hit a homer
Cincinnatti
1
3
Demaree hit a homer
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago
12
Berger hit a homer.
Washington
5 11
Cleveland
8 12
2
Sullivan and Campbell hit homers Philadelphia
6
7
Werber hit a homer
Detroit
0:
Lefty Gomez pitched New York ́
7 13 Bob Selkirk and Tony Lazzeri hit
homers.
St. Louis
9 - 13 Bell (2) and Clift hit homers. Boston.
11. .17 Gaffke and Foxx hit homers.
-Reuter.
FRENCH TENNIS
CHAMPIONSHIPS
TUCKEY DEFEATS
BERNARD
MIXED DOUBLES
RESULTS
Paris, To-day. Mme. Mathieu and Petra (France) yesterday won the Mixed Doubles title in the French Tennis Cham- the pionships when they defeated Franco-German combination. of in Fraulein Honn and Journu straight sets.
The scores were 7-5, 7-5. There were several surprises in
Another surprise in the British the Men's Singles. Amateur Golf Championship yes- C.R.D. Tuckey (Britain), gener terday, was the defeat of the fav-ally accepted as a doubles player, ourite, A Locke (South Africa), by Gordon Peters (Scotland), in the third round.
Peters, who is Scotland's leading amateur, won by 3 and 2.
J. J Penninck beat Cyril Tolley
The team are more confident The team include five left-hand-about their batting than their bowl ers. Considerable interest was ing. But one of the players, shown in the batting practice of the match at Lord's between, by 4 and 3 in the same round." Carson, & powerfully built left-the M.C.C. and Yorkshire, who Reuter. handed "Aucklander who recently stole away to watch the practice, shared in a world's record partner-and who has seen the New Zealan- ship for the third wicket. Out of ders in their own country, — assur- 445 he scored 290.
ed me that Lamason, a last-minute
CS.C.C. DRAW ON DERBY SWEEP The draw for the Civil But the most impressive knock on selection, will make the ball "move""" a soft pitch yesterday was by Wal- He also recalled that Roberts, a Cricket Club sweep on the lace, whose footwork and wristwork medium-paced bowler used to swing Derby will take place in straightway marked him as a bats- the ball effectively when he came House, Happy Valley, at
Monday, May 31. man in the CS Dempater class. over here several summers.
(France), beat Marcel Bernard while Surface (USA) defeated Cup Caska, the Hungarian Davis player-Trans-Ocean.
ADAMSON CUP GOLF WIN FOR T. J. PRICE
Service The final tie in the match play English stages of the Adamson Cup played Club at Happy Valley yesterday resulted p.m. on in a win for T. J. Price (11) over
A. E. Clarke (12).
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