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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 17, 1937.

VARSITY RUNNERS US. TRIUMPH

PENNINGTON AND BROWN SHINE

DOUBLES AGAINST YALE

AND HARVARD

NEW ZEALAND'S CONSISTENCY · Final Test Scores

CHINESE ATHLETIC TO APPEAL

SERVICE TEAMS' DEPARTING TO SHANGHAI

DONATION TO BOYS LEAGUE

Cambridge Massachusetts, July 14. THE Oxford and Cambridge athletes gave a bril-

London, To-day. liant display here yesterday, when they beat Consistent batting in the middle Harvard and Yale by seven events to five in their of the New Zealand batting order thirteenth contest at Harvard Stadium. They are carried the score from 47 for 4 to resulted in a fine recovery which the first team of British Blues to win on American the respectable total of 249. soil.

England were not in a very HEROES OF THE BRITISH SIDE WERE A. G. K. BROWN, lost three good wickets with only 86 meeting of the Hong Kong Football

strong position at the close, having THEIR CAPTAIN, AND ALAN PENNINGTON, THE OXFORD runs on the board. SPRINTER, EACH OF WHOM WON TWO EVENTS. IN WINNING Leslie Hutton, of whom great THE QUARTER-MILE BROWN SET UP THE RECORD TIME things were expected, batted feebly manship of Mr. W. Pryde. FOR THESE CONTENTS OF 47 7-10SEC..

and

But Brown's victory in the half, which finally gave the visi-ing a laborious 12. Barnett

and was c and b Vivian after scor- tors victory, was an electrifying affair. Brown had intended to washbrook, the latter making his miss that event, but as the result of the contest depended upon it, test debut. did not fare a great he decided to turn out again, much to the delight of the shirt-sleev-deal better and three wickets were ed crowd sweltered in the broiling sun.

down with a meagre 36 on the board.

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That the Chinese Athletic Asso- decision to omit them from the ciation would appeal against the First Division was discussed at a

Council yesterday under the chair-

The grounds for the appeal, it was stated, were that the decision. was contrary to the decision of the Council on July 30 and that the to deal adequately with Management Committee had failed

claims for admission.

their

He ran his usual clever race ¡ly-timed effort, and Emery had 25 Then followed the brightest bat- last Council meeting it was at first Mr. Pryde explained that at the He allowed the others to make yards to spare at the finish. ting of the day. Denis Compton, decided to admit 13 teams and to the pace, Northrop shooting into British weakness in field events the 19 year old Middlesex "won-ask the Chinese Athletic if they an early lead to cover the first was once more exemplified

Ali der batted very confidently to would be restricted to 12" Subse quarter in 53sec, with Brown, a Irfan, the Egyptian, scoring their justify all the predictions of the couple of seconds behind last only success by putting the shot critics, and in partnership with quently, however, an amendment

46ft.

Hardstaff, who batted classically, allowed to participate irrespective was made that only 12 teams, be the score was taken to 86 before a of whether the Chinese Athletic Local athletes regarded the dis-heavy shower of rain, brought play would join. This was carried. play of the visitors as easily the for the day to a close. best of any English team in the With only a day's play left, a United States so far.

Entering the final stretch. however, Brown produced one of his irresistible spurts, and strid- ing out wonderfully took the lead halfway down, and finished with a still greater spurt to the tape. He won by seven yards in 1min 54 3-10sec, which was stated to be his fastest time in competition. MAY ATTACK WORLD RECORD

BEST BRITISH TEAM SO FAR

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Scores

New Zealand 1st Immings W. A. Hadlee, b Matthews

SHANGHAI EFFECT

Mr. J. MacKelvie enquired if it would serve any useful purpose hear the appeal, in view of

the departure for Shanghai of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Royal Uls- ter Rifles and the uncertainty of 8 their return. If they failed to come 58 nine teams participating, although 3 back in time, there would be only

53 12 were allowed.

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draw is inevitable, unless some- "We are delighted with our vic-thing really remarkable occurs. tory" said Brown, who paid a tri-Reuter. bute to the sporting attitude of the It was hoped that Brown would places to be counted. "Otherwise H. G. Vivian, c Ames, b Gover

Americans in allowing only first

attack the world's record in the we would have lost,” added Brown. 440 yards, but in view of the possi- The touring team's next match is M. W. Wallace, run out bility of his having to run in the against Princeton and Cornell, at 1: L. Weir, c Matthews, b Gover half-mile this was out of the ques-Princeton (New Jersey), on Satur-D. A. R. Moloney, Hammond

M. P. Donnelly, c Hutton, b Robins tion. It is reported however, that day. he is working up for an attempt on the record during the Oxford and Cambridge team's next meeting at Princeton (New Jersey) on Satur day.

RESULTS

100 Yards. A. Pennington (Oxford); 1; J. Calloway (Harvard), 2, E. Bur- lingame (Yale), 3; M. M. Scarr (Camb.). 4in; 2ft. 10 1-10sec.

220 Yards.A. Pennington, 1; J. Cal- loway, 2; G. Millett (Yale), 3; M. M Scarr, 4. 2ft: 4ft 21 3-10sec.

M. L Page, e Washbrook, b Robins A. W. Roberts, c Barnett, b Gover E. M. Tindill, b Robins

J.

Cowie, not out. Dunning, b Robins

Extras

Total

Gover Goddard Matthews

3. 85

Bowling Analysis

0. M. R.

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7 1 25

6 52

14.1 2 40 1st Innings

Pennington had two great tussles. In the 100 yards a great burst by Calloway (Harvard) forced Pen-

440 Yards.-A. GI Brown (Camb.); nington into a rousing finish over 1: J. Lightbody (Harvard), 2; F. Curtis the last 20 yards to win by inches (Yale), 3: R. A. Palmer (Camb.), 4 Hammond in 10 1-10sec. In the 220 Penning-47 7-10sec (Meet record.)

Robins- ton, Calloway and Millett. who has

880 YardsA. G. K. Brown, 1; A.

England done "evens," ran almost level un- (Yale). 3; W. M. F. Hudson (Camb.), C. J. Barnett, e Hadlee, b Cowie

Northrop (Harvard), 2; J. Congdon L. Hutton, e and b Vivian til the final 50 yards. Then Pen-14 7d 1min. 54 3-10sec. nington threw himself into a kill-

One Mile C. A. J. Emery (Cam-D. Compton, not out

C. Washbrook, Law, (n) b Vivian ing finish to win by a couple of feet bridge), 1; A. Northrop, 2; D. R. Mar J. Hardstaff, not out

tin (Oxford), 3; B. Watson (Yale), 4 in the record time for these con-25vd; 50vd. 4min 13 8-10sec. tests of 21 3-10sec.

EMERY'S FASTEST MILE C. A. J. Emery ran the best race of his life to win the mile in 4min.

Two Miles.-CE. A. Towne (Camb.), 1: W. Woodland (Yale), 2; J. Fox soyd: distance. 9min. 40sec. (Yale), 3; J. K. Hawkey (Oxford), 4.

120 Yards Hurdies. H. Fernald

Extras

Total (3 wickets)-

18 8-10sec.—the fastest time he has (Harvard), 1; J. Shields (Yale), 21 OPEN SINGLES

ever returned. It was also the third best mile ever run at Harvard Stadium.

Knight (Oxford), 3; F. V. Scopes (Oz~{ ford). 4 2ft: yard. 14 2-10sec.

220 Yards Low Hurdles A. Mills LAWN BOWLS

(Tale), 1; T. Day (Yale). 2 D. A. Dergar

L. Nichols (Camb.), 3: C. F.Byers (Ox-1 CHAMPIONSHIP

ford), 42ft, 2vd 23 6-10sec,

High Jump R. Haydock, jun. (Har- vard). 6ft. Zin. 1. R. KL Kemedy (Camb.) "6ft. Zin. 2: G. Aertsen (Har vard), 5ft 10in.. 3 A. W. Selwyn (Oz- ford), 4 Haydock won, as he made fewer total jumps.

SEVERAL CLOSE

ENCOUNTERS

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Capt. G. W. P. Kim recommend- jed that three military teams be in- cluded in the division, and that the 15 fixtures be rearranged accordingly

should any difficulty arise. :-

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It was decided that the appeal Wshould be heard on Thursday... by: 3the Appeal Board under the presi dency of the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo.

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$50 GRANT

13 Amateur Boys' League was approv A grant of $50 to the Hong Kong

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9 ed, but it was decided that the ap 23plication by the Royal Welch Fusi- 1liers, asking the Association to bear' the cost of medals awarded to their boys' team in winning the cham- pionship last year, be referred to the Secretary of the League.

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Running with fine confidence and judgment, Emery contented himself with second or third place for the first half of the race. He clocked 63sec. for the quarter and 2min, 7sec for the half, when he was Isec. behind the leader, Martin, of Long Jump H Ethridge (Yale), Colony Bowls Singles Championship Oxford, who acted splendidly as a 23. 10%, 1: E E. Askew (Camb.) at the Hong Kong Football Club pacemaker.

22ft. 10 in., 2; J. Ferguson. (Yale), 21ft 11in 3: J. P. S. Daniell (Oxyesterday, resulted: ford). 2011. 7kin. 4.

Northrop increased his pace dur- ing the third lap, when he went in- to the lead. With Martin and Wat son weakening, Emery began to make up ground. He was two yards behind on entering the final lap, but, running in fine style, he Copen-

Second Round matches in the

Other matters dealt with includ- ed the appointment of Mr. CH Warren to succeed Mr. Jones, or the Grounds Sub-Committee, the acceptance of the resignatio Mr. A. C. Griggs of Assistant Sec denberg offered ter, Secretary, ment of a This was

Griggs

Pole Vault W Harding (Yale), on the 20th head

A. S. Gomes beat C. G. Silva 21-17 Recreio, the game between J. AR 13ft 3in, 1; F. R. Webster (Camb.), U. M. Omar beat J. Pau 21-6 on heads before Selby won 21 to 19-

Selby and J. C. Brown going to 32 13ft 2: T. Lausen (Tale), 12ft 3 the 16th head (Webster gained second place with Armstrong beat G. Perkins least number of jumps.)/ Wise on the 15th head

Putting The Shot--A Irfan (Camb.), 45ft. 05% m., 1: G. Downing (Harvard), AR. Dallah was not played.

The match between A. E. Coates and

-A. W. Grimmitt had ́s narrow vic- tory over H. Gittins, winning on the 23rd head.

J. Cook beat W. L Walker

on

the 27th head.

A. S. Russell beat E. G. Post-21--

ed up on the back stretch and finish-44ft. 0 in.; 3; P. Hincks (Camb.), 42ft. Third Bound matches at Club delon the 27th.

45ft 1in., 2; B. Titman (Harvard), Close scoring was a feature of the ed strongly. It was a magnificent 6in, 4Reuter.