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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1937.

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LYNCH OUTPOINTED BY WARNOCK WIMBLEDON'S “OFFICIAL HOST STORMY ARGUMENT FOR CH

Comdr. Hillyard Recei

From Illness

London,

BEFORE FIGHT

Cmdr CHAMPION OVERWEIGHT:

Hillyard, has ··quite· recovered from his recent serious illness.

He will be on duty at the

top of the Committee

in

stairs

at Wimbledon. Since his ad- ministrative connection with the All-England Tennis Club ceased 1926 he was secretary from 1907 to 1925 Cmdr. Hillyard has continued to act as official host for .

distinguished visitors at the Championship meeting.

Thirty years ago he

received the most eminent of these. This was when King George V., as Prince of Wales, whom he had known since their days in the Britannia together, paid his first visit to the old Wimbledon.. The Prince's visit was a prelude to the Royal acceptance of the All-England Club presidency and the gift of a cup for the men's singles championship.

SECOND U.S. AMERICA'S CUP TRIALS

YANKEE DEFEATS

RAINBOW

WINNERS LEAD IN LAST 5 MILES

Newport, Rhode Island,

: June 4.

NO TITLE AT STAKE

RAIN DRIVES CROWDS AWAY

(By HAROLD LEWIS)

FRY 39 202 WORLD H'WEIGHT TITLE FIGHT FLASCO

44 Seats Sold For Schmeling Braddock

Clash

New York, June 2. the fight between Jim Braddock, heavy-weight champion

Glasgow, June 3.0 A FTER two hours of stormy argument following

the weigh-in, Benny Lynch (Glasgow), fly- With weight champion of the world, was beaten on of the world, and the German, Max points by Jimmy Warnock, the flyweight champion Schmeling, advertised throughout of Ireland, over 15 rounds at Celtic Park, Glasgow. New York to take place at Madison Island Bowl at 8.15 on Thursday WARNOCK THUS CONFIRMED THE VICTORY HE GAINED 50,000 printed have been

night, only 44 tickets out of the RECENTLY AT BELFAST.

·sold. LYNCH'S TITLE WAS NOT AT Even these have been bought chief- STAKE. THE DECISION, WHEN GIVEN BY MR. ARTHUR ly by people seeking a souvenir. MYERS. OF MANCHESTER WAS GREETED BY HOWLS OF WRATH FROM THE GLASGOW SPECTATORS AND BY fered against the fight taking place Odds of 1,000 to 1 are being of SHRIEKS OF JOY FROM THOUSANDS OF IRISHMEN WHO as scheduled. The New York State HAD COME OVER FROM BELFAST FOR THE OCCASION. Athletic Commission is considered WARNOCK HIMSELF SEEMED A TRIFLE SURPRISED BY THE certain to suspend Braddock, who VERDICT AND WAS OVERJOYED. HE RUSHED TO HIS SE- is now training in the Middle West, COND AND THREW HIS ARMS AROUND THE NECK.

if he carries out his intention of staying there and not appearing for

The whole afternoon was spent in wrangling, and it was not until the weigh-in scheduled for Thurs- after four o'clock that Warnock's brother, who acts as his manager, day. decided that the fight should take place. The match was made as It is already proposed to match near to championship conditions as possible, 15 rounds at 8 stone the winner of the Braddock-Louis and 4 ozs., because a championship fight had been banned by the fight, which takes place at Chicago British Board of Boxing Control.

on June 22, with Schmeling for a fight in Philadelphia in July for "the Warnock, a natural flyweight, and eventually in the fifth round undisputed championship of the was under 8 stone, but Lynch stopped the fight again, and threat-World.". Reuter. turned the scale at 8st. 21b. 2oz. ened to send the next offender ont should accept Lynch's forfeit little after that. The suggestion that Warnock of the ring. The fight improved a

money of £150 and fight at

rextremely puzzling. catchweights was flatly refused, early rounds to wait for another valuable left hook owing to War- Lynch seemed content in the Lynch could rarely use his and Lynch was given one hour in chance for a damaging blow. How-nock's stand, and Warnock ran which to conform with the

in

weights. Lynch, however, did dox style of the Irish left-hander ed judgment.

ever, he began to find the unortho- under the right swing with practis-

not return and Warnock's brother refused to fight.

CONSENTED AT LAST ?

Mr. Gerard Lambert's Yankee defeated Rainbow; the 1934 de- fender, in the second race of the preliminary trial series for the At last he consented after the prospective defenders of the promoter had undertaken to pay a America's Cup off here to-day. further £200 himself.

Warnock WHEN LIFE LOOKS GRIM

Yankee built up a 51⁄2-minute whom I saw before the fight, told lead in the last five miles of the me the money was not the only con- race by reaching to leeward in a sideration. He would rather Lynch fading southerly breeze.

had made the weight than accept a thousand pounds.

Rainbow took the lead in the first leg of the triangle, owing largely to a splendid exhibition of helmsman- ship by Mr. Charles Hovey, the son of her owner. Mr. Chandler Hovey

JIB BLEW OUT:

:

A further sensation was caused' when two other opponents in this ill-fated programme, Jimmy Walsh, the lightweight champion, and Joe Connelly, of Bathgate, both failed to weigh-in at the stipulated 9st: 11lb. Walsh subsequently did so, ut Connelly failed and had to sur- render his forfeit money.

She led by more than two minutes at the end of the eight-mile ther leg, but lost part of her

A crowd of 50,000 had been ex on the next leg while reaching,pected, but the ni

night was cold and when her big Genoa jib blew out rain fell during the big fight.

My Halfway down the 10 miles' run estimate of the attendance was no back to Brenton's Reef Lightship more than 15,000 the yachts were almost side by side, Rainbow leading by a shade.

DRIFTED ́OVER LINE

Mr. Lambert tried the manoeuvre of reaching to the eastward, jibing and reaching back to the finish. The speed so gained more than off- set the extra distance, with the re- sult that Yankee drifted over the line în a light breeze with a long

lead.

Endeavour II. is expected here to-morrow from Bristol. She has been rigged with the spare Park Avenue boom, similar to the one she broken the other day.

NOT WORTH FUSS The fight itself was desperately hard, but at times tedious and scrambling, and not worth all the fuss it had caused It was evident that the keenness of the rivalry was the reason, for much, holding and-wrestling.

When Lynch landed a hard right to the Jaw in the first round, which ropes, a quick finish seemed likely, sent Warnock staggering into the

but Warnock survived dificult period and was never« «in again.

BOTH WARNED The referee warned both men for holding.. innumerable occasions

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