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BUDDY BAER BATTERS

J. LONDON

WELSHMAN TWICE

AMOUS GOLFER'S

SAVED BY BELL

TERRIFIC BLOWS MISTAKE MEANT NOTHING

(By Harold Lewis)

London, May 25.

Buddy Baer, giant brother of

to

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1937.

DERBY'S AMAZING VICTORY

7214

26 WICKETS FALL

IN ONE DAY

SUNNUCKS HIT IN THROAT

(By THOMAS MOULT)

THOUGHT GAME WAS might be called, in the best incon-

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OVER

.

the

call

soon showed itself, and by tea-time batsinen 62 had been scored, both

to Derby May 25. looking comfortable enough

runs off between Anything can happen in cric-knock all ket. To-day's happenings here them.

POPE RECALLED. melodramatic style, the

Perhaps Woolley was not quite at the hundred his best, but when ceivable and monstrous,

The pendulum of the game be-went up after two hours he was 45 the former world's heavy-weight HON. M. SCOTT LOSES tween Derby and Kent swung as to Ashdown's 50, and punishing violently as though an angry Rhodes in a fashion' that made the champion, smashed his way

giant's hand had struck it, and Derby skipper Pope back TITLE MATCH thrill- victory in one of the most

first one side, then the other, and quickly. ing heavy-weight fights seen for

The change was fatal to Woolley years when he beat Jack London (From GEORGE GREENWOOD) then the first again looked on the

-and Kent-for in Pope's first over verge of defeat. of West Hartlepool, on points in

Sandwich, May 26.

Kent actually put out the cham-Woolley was startled into giving a a 10 rounds contest at Swansea

Kent, The Hon. Michael Scott, Bri- pions for 88 in their second innings, slip catch off a rising ball.

had risen beyond last night.

London's courage in this fight tish amateur golf champion four after being 139 behind, and when, whose spirits will be remembered in Swansea years ago, was the victim of a needing 228 for victory, they creat- their years, so to say, fell to the for

years. Saved by the bell curious mistake of his own maked 100 without loss, their triumph other extreme of depression at this But disaster follow-sad event and during the next half British amateur seemed sure.

last nine batsmen hour they had the experience of ́during a count at the end of the ing during first round, and again at the end championship play on the Royaled swift, the

were out for 43, and Derby wongoing from 102 for one to 122 for of the second, he had his left St. George's links here to-day.

afer all by 82 runs!

Pope, supported by Mitchell, ear split and both eyes damaged

In the belief that Cyril Tolley, No wonder the impression left of

the havoc. In his and his face was so swollen from the hurricane punches of Baer his opponent, was two up, Scott the day's cricket was one of alarums worked

excursions-a breathless devastating spell he took four for Ashdown was that he became hardly recognis-picked up on the 17th green, and and

said: "Thank you for a very sequence of them that included the 11 in nine overs. able.

fail of 26 wickets.

among the fallen, bowled by Pope for a painstaking 60 in 140 minutes. pleasant match.”

COPSON CARRIES ON HAVOC Sunnucks reappeared when

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Yet London lasted until the end, and not merely lasted but put up so grand a fight that the crowd booed

the decision.

EARLY SENSATION The fight started with a

sensa-

t

Actually Tolley was only one up. He suggested to Scott that the ball the hole should be replaced and played out as if the incident had not happened. This was not per- missible, as by the rules a decision to give up a hole cannot be altered.

came

six.

five

KENT BATSMAN HURT The crowning sensation when Sunnucks was struck in the throat by a high flying delivery were out, and straightway he had from Copson. The Kent player

an experience as painful in its way the wicket,

as that of the blow with the ball. staggered away from

For Copson carried on the havoc, collapsed, was carried off by Derbyshire fieldsmen, and as

and bowled Wright and Watt with as he reached the pavilion he faint-

successive deliveries. ed from shock. A doctor was call- Scott, who is 59, has been played, and Sunnucks was pronounced if you go down again like that you ing in first class golf for nearly 40 able to continue his innings after a will be disqualified."

tion, for within 30 seconds London, having received a chop to the jaw; touched the floor with his glove. Mr. C. B. Thomas, the referee, im- mediately said to him:

"London,

years.

FOR 40 YEARS

I do not think that Mr. Thomas could have. realised the tremendousl Two

young American players, force of Baer's blows. But the John Levinson 22, of Yale Univer- effect on London was startling.sity, and Richard Chapman, 25, of He rushed at the young American New York, have joined the favour- giant and fought like tigerites for the title. banging him on the jaw with hooks and swings until, at the end of the round Bear calmly took a vicious

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Among notable players defeated were the two French champions, right hook flush on the chin and Michel Carlhian and J. Leglise, and

bounded back.

SAVED BY THE BELL London collapsed and the count had reached nine when the bell ended the round. The fighting in this round roused the crowd of 15,000 almost to hysterics.

three Walker Cup men, Dr. Tweddell, British captain last year, Harry Bentley, of Southport, and Cecil Ewing, of County Sligo.

Early in the second round Lon-RANGER GOES

don landed what appeared to be a

really crashing right to the jaw, a WELL IN

punch which would have floored

any man in the world. Baer had FIRST TRIAL

turned away from a clinch with his usual contemptious

carelessness;

hands lowered, and he took the full force of it on an unguarded jaw.

SMASHED EAR

This

Temporary Mast

And Sails

go

Newport, Rhode Island, May 28. Mr. H. S. Vanderbilt's new £60,- For a moment he looked serious, 000 America's Cup class yacht, but he never ceased his steady Ranger, which lost her mast in a aggressive style and at the end of storm nearly a fortnight ago, four this round shot over a right hook days after she was launched, took which would have finished the fight part in her first trial to-day. She but for the bell.

was the was equipped with Rainbow's old punch which smashed London's ear.mast and old sails. However, at the count of six the gong again saved London, and he was led in a daze to his corner.

During the 3rd round London was apparently in such bad shape that Baer looked appealingly to the re- He seemed feree to stop the fight. loth to pound the injured ear and looked for a means to finish the fight, but London adopted a smother and this type of defence nonplussed the young American. The fight dragged on, London actually winning rounds in the middle.

Ranger, with Mr. Vanderbilt at the wheel, and accompanied by Rainbow, appeared to

well during her two hours' spin off the coast here, in spite of the handicap of temporary mast and sails.

Four new mainsails and a num- ber of smaller sails have been de-

livered for Ranger.

All the three possible America's Gup defenders Ranger, Mr. Gerard Lambert's Yankee, and Mr. Chandler are now here, Hovey's Rainbow actively preparing for the tests.

rest.

the

soon

This unhappy incident occurred at four o'clock, and the way in which the ball lifted from a bowler of pace was an indication

of how

That made the total 132 for eight,

and Kent were in a hopeless plight. Next over Sunnucks, sympathetically applauded for his pluck in batting. at all, was tamely caught off Mit- chell at silly point-how the fields-

men crowded round!

In 10 minutes the end came, al- in their fierce eagerness the pitch had changed since play though began in the morning. Fitful sun-Derby had believed all was over a shine and a drying wind varied its minute earlier when they appealed and the for a catch at the wicket againat pace from hour to hour, batsmen on both sides paid the Cole. penalty of mistiming.

Not only did they pull up the A VITAL INNINGS

stumps, but were running trium- The sun was shining richly by the phantly off the field, when the um- time Kent, after all the excitement pire called them back and inform- gone before, opened the fourth and led them that their appeal had not allowed. An extraordinary final innings of the match a vital been

to an extraordinary fourth innings not only as regards round-off victory and defeat but in its bear- match.

de- ing on the possibility of the cision coming within two days.

Ashdown and Sunnucks began at 20 minutes to four, but the mishap

Larry Gains has to Sunnucks happened before he

challenged had scored, and only 7 were on the Buddy Baer. The coloured Cana- board in twenty minutes. When dian, former Empire heavy-weight Woolley joined Ashdown, however, champion, has backing for a sub- the more settled nature of the pitch stantial side-stake.

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