1937-09-28 — Page 18

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 28, 1937.

U.S.R.C. ANNEX MIXED CHAMPIONSHIP

COLONYS SWIMMING TITLES

CHAMPIONSHIPS START TO-DAY

100 YARDS DUEL

(By "CRAWL") .

The Colony Swimming Cham- pionships will commence this evening at the Victoria Recrea tion Club with two championship events, the 100 Yards free-style and the 100 Yards back-stroke, in which some very good swim- ming should be witnessed, parti cularly in the former event, where Norman Lee will be mak- ing his first bid for the Colony title

Oliveira, one of Shanghai's outstanding sprinters, will offer real resistance to the South China aspirant, while Pte. Stemp, of the Middlesex Regi- ment, will make his debut in a Colony event:

In the back-stroke championship, Lau Po-her should easily overcome A. K. Rumjahn, but without any pushing power to egg him on. I very much doubt whether the pre- sent record of 68 4-5 secs. will be lowered.

The Championship events will be interspersed with V.R.C. Club events, and will be continued to-morrow, Friday and Saturday night, follow

US. YACHTS MAY RACE

IN ENGLAND

Mr. Sopwith's Proposal

Marblehead, Massachussets,

September 14.

The three outstanding "P" class

COMFORTABLE WIN OVER K.C.C.

MRS. ASHTON AND MRS. RICE-EVANS LEND

yachts-in-America, Mr. Harold FINE SUPPORT TO

Vanderbilt's Ranger, Mr. Chandler Hovey's Rainbow and Mr. Gerard Lambert's Yankee, may cross the "Atlantic to race în English waters next summer if the owners follow the suggestion advanced by Mr. T. 0. M. Sopwith to-day.

Mr. Vanderbilt has been consi- dering taking Ranger, his success- ful America's cup defender, to England, but he has not yet reach- ed a definite decision. Meanwhile the yacht, after finishing a very successful first season with 28 wis

and only two defeats will be laid up at the yards at Bristol, Rhode

Island.

SMALL UNITS SWIMMING GALA

Medicals Carry

Off Championship

GOLDMAN AND SULLIVAN

MRS. BURNETT IMPRESSES

(By “ADREM”')

WITH their two leading pairings showing a marked superiority over their visitors, United Services Recreation Club experienced little diffi- culty in defeating the Kowloon Cricket Club at King's Park yesterday afternoon by 6 sets to 2, one set left unfinished, to win the Mixed Doubles League championship.

After E. C. Fincher and Miss R. Perry had gone down rather badly to Goldman and Mrs. Rice- Evans in the first round, the most optimistic K. C. C. supporter could hardly hope for victory, des- pite the fact that E. F. Fincher and Mrs. Burnett played very convincingly to beat Capt. Loch and Miss Tylor.

The Army Small Units Swimming THERE MIGHT CONCEIVABLY HAVE BEEN A DIFFER- gala was held at the European ENT TALE TO TELL IF TEDDY AND MISS PERRY HAD WON Y.M.C.A. bath last night, when the THAT VITAL GAME. SY R.A.M.C. carried off the aggregate Very little hope could really be entertained regarding Bodiker championship, closely followed by and Mrs. Sweeney, playing together for the first time, and pros- the R.A.0.C.

pects of a K C. C. win depended almost entirely on three sets

ing which there will be a dance. Mrs. N. M. S. Irwin, wife of Col. from their number one pair. As it was, instead of being a set to The following is the championship Irwin, D.S.O., distributed the the good at the conclusion of the first round, they were in arrears, and U.S.R.C. had that psychological advantage, which is in itself

programme:~

TO-DAY

100 Yards free-style Championship of the Colony--

400 Yards free-style Junior Cham pionship of the V.R.C.

50 Yards free-style Handicap-Ladies

(Heats)

prices.

Results:

1 znimk

150 yards medley relay: RAMC, A.0.G.; RASC Time: 56.4/5 secs.

The "Pool” Cigarette Stakes- S/Sgt. Durnford, (R.A.M.C.).

220 Yards free-style Handicap-Boys RAS.C.; R.A.0.C.; RAMC.

300 yards free style

a factor of incalculable importance

All being considered, however, the game was well worth watch- jing. There might have been con- relay siderable disparity in many of (Heats).

Time: the scores but, as is very often 100 Yards back-stroke-Champion-3 mins. 26.4/5 secs.

Fancy diving: RAMC.; RAO.C., the case, this gave no indication R.A.S.C.

lof the tenseness of many of the Water Polo: Hong Kong Signal struggles. Company 4, Best of League 1-

ship of Colony.

TO-MORROW

100 Yards. breast-stroke Junior Championship of V.R.C.

880 Yards free-style-Championship

of Calóny

3

50 Yards free-style Handicap-Boys, GOVERNMENT

14 years and under (Heats).

100 Yards free-style Ladies Cham-BOWLS'

pionship.

220 Yards free-style-Junior Cham-TOURNAMENT

pionship of V.R.C.

Team Race (Four men (-) 30 Yards) Open to Colony.

THURSDAY

eged to elude even the devastating Sullivan, whose presence on the For instance. In the third game other side of the net, can never be of the match between Ernie Fincher

said to inspire his lady opponents and Mrs. Barnett and Sullivan and with anything but a large size in Mrs. Ashton, with Mrs. Burnett inferiority complexes, and scored serving, no fewer than 15 deuces such points that she did by really were called before the USRC, brilliant cross-court driving on the thanks to Mrs. Ashton's persistence forehand and an occasional sima

stroke on the backhand.

The following were the results of and imperturbability, carried the the First Round in the Government day. The K.C.C. pair host this set 100 Yards free-style Championship Departmental Bowls competition, to one, but they were at least 10 -Boys 15 years and under.

50 Yards free-style Handicap Boys Club last Sunday-

played on the Police Recreation minutes longer in fishing than the

14 years and under (Final),

100 Yards free-style-Junior Cham- Education De-

partment pionship of V.R.C.

220 Yards free-style-Championship Police “A”

of Colony.

100 Yards free-style Members of V.R.C. (Final).

SATURDAY

Handicap-

100 Yards back-stroke-Junior Cham

pionship of V.R.C.

50 Yards free-style-Championship

of Colony.

100 Yards breast-stroke-Champion- ship of Colony.

31 Prison “B”:

22 P.W.D. “B” Small Units 31 P.W.D., “D”

SIGNALS JOIN 3RD DIVISION OF LEAGUE

12

21

9500

other two combinations.

MRS. BURNETT IMPRESSES Although Mrs. Rice-Evans and Mrs. 8 Ashton played their usual games, the former invariably, brilliant, especially off the ground on her forehand, and the latter ever the personification of steadi-

Fancy Diving-Championship of Co-l At the meeting of the Manage lony...

ment Committee of the Hong Kong 220 Yards free-style Handicap-Boys Football Association yesterday the (Final).

100 Yards free-style Handicap Mem-Royal Corps of Signals were per

mitted to join the Third Division, 50 Yards free-style Handicap-La-Kowloon Section, thus making eight

free

Championship

bers of V.R.CO

dies (Final)

440 Yards

Colony

Water Polo Match.

The following are additional entries

for the events:——

Pte. Stemp (Middlesex Regiment)—-

Yards free-style.

Boys 100 Yards Cham-

Buckle (Midlesex Regiment)-

sex Regiment)--

/Cpl Holdford

European YM.CA-Team Race

3. H Fancy

teams in each section.

CLUB'S HOCKEY XI

FOR TO-MORROW

The following team will repre- sent the first eleven of the Hong Kong Hockey Club against the 1st Bn. Kumaon Rifles to-morrow at 5.15 p.m. on the Club ground —

Benwell;

Miss Perry was not very good against Goldman an Mrg Rice Evans, but she settled down later to her usual hard hitting and to- wards the end, so far as one could see in the darkness, she appeared to be playing well up to normal.

PREMIER MIXED PLAYER Among the men, Goldman demon-

ness, I was particularly impressed with strated the form which places him the performance of Mrs. Burnett, who, as the premier mixed doubles, play- on many occasions was brilliant to a er in Hong Kong and Ernie Fincher degree and produced strokes which would have done credit to the finest was also very good, although he lady-player ever to have wielded might have been a little more ad- racket locally.

venturous on occasions.

She was happiest on the base- line, where she was forced a great deal to play a lone hand. The op position ladies were all much too canny to play anything within the remotest distance of Fincher, at the net, and although he waited hope- fully for the chance of making an interception, he was compelled, for the most part, to play the role of a spectator

BIG BAD WOLF! Mrs. Burnett, on her part, man-

lace and E-V. Reed RA Bates, W A Reed and J. E. Potter, S. Fowler, TWhitley, GE Divett (Capt.), B. 1. Bickford and V. Bond. Reserve

Woodhouse. Umpire -A. A. Dand.

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Scores:

L. Goldman and Mrs. Rice-Evans (USBC)

beat E C. Fincher and Miss R.

Perry beat G. Bodiker and Mrs. Sweeney beat E. F. Fincher and Mrs. G. C.

Burnett

A L. Sullivan and Mrs. Ashton (USRC.)

beat Bodiker and Mrs. Sweeney beat E. F. Fincher and Mrs.

Burnett

drew with E. C. Fincher and Miss

Perry Capt. Loch and Miss Tylor (U.S.R.C.)- lost to EC Find and Miss

Perry beat Bodiker and Mrs. Sweeney lost to EL F. Fincher and Mrs.

Burnett