1937-11-06 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER

LARRY GAINS CHALLENGES T. FARR

FOR THE BRITISH

AND EMPIRE

HEAVYWEIGHT TITLES LEAGUE

BUT BOUT MUST BE

APPROVED BY

PROMOTER JACOBS!

ELIMINATING BUSINESS BEGINS TO BORE!

(By Harold Lewis)

London, October 6.

PROGRAMME OF NINE

MATCHES

(Continued from Page 19)

TO-MOROW'S SOFTBALL PROGRAMME

Three softball matches are sche duled for to-morrow, H. K. Base ball Club versus the Filipino Club at 10 am, on the latter's ground followed by Canadian Chine against the English Ford will meet the CBA, at 10- the latter's ground-

CRICKET

Press Navy

Kowloon have a good team select ed, although it looks to me as though a ing collapse is not Members of the Press crick outside the bounds of possibility. eleven to play the Royal Navy Baxter, Mulcahy and Broadbridge morrow at King's Park are are really the only three men in the quested to note that the game will team who I would describe as restart sharp at noon. liable and Hung, I understand, will not be turning out, to make

Of course there are several

LARRY GAINS, the Canadian negro heavy-matters worse.

weight, whose age is variously guessed at be POWERFUL ATTACK tween 35 and 40, yesterday challenged Tommy Farr. others who are quite capable of for the championship of the British Empire, and making 50 against a mediocre at his supporters were talking of depositing £1,000 as tack but that is far away from a side-stake on the word of Farr's manager if he Craigengover now admits to one that the fight is accepted.

THE GROUND FOR THE CHALLENGE IS THAT GAINS, AT EARL'S COURT LAST MONDAY NIGHT, KNOCKED OUT CHARLES RUTZ, OF FRANCE, WITHIN TWO ROUNDS, WHERE AS FARR COULD DO NO BETTER THAN WIN ON POINTS AGAINST RUTZ EIGHT MONTHS AGO.

description of being an acer

see them pull it off. This should In Lam, Irance, Kitchell, Winch, be a distinctly close game. Gobind and Bapley, they have as IR.C. on current form should ac- powerful and as varied an assort-count for the Navy but I have a ment of bowlers as any club in the feeling that Recreio might very Division, a "class" wicket-keeper easily put one over the Army. A. Zimmern and if their fielding I notice that, in addition to all leaves room for improvement, it is their usual players, they have in- quite as good as Kowloon's.

Felnded A. P. Pereira, and his fast- medium bowling should make all the difference in the world.

Of course, Farr's boxing record is full of contradictions of that Lam, Rapley, Leonard, Kitchell, nature. He only defeated Ben Foord on points, whereas Max Baer, G. A. Lee Yeoh and A. Zimmern after also having been outpointed by Farr, knocked Foord out Farrare sound batsmen and on top of has been beaten many times, and there must be scores who defeated all this, they have the incalculable those who outpointed Farr.

advantage of playing on their own ground always a trial to visiting teams.

But the fact remains that Farr fight with Crowley, is due to leave for England to-1

FINE BODIY PUNCH ··

My feeling in the matter is that day, and that he states he will I was fully prepared to describe if a definite result is arrived at, be willing to fight in this coun- the punch that put Crowley down Craigengower will get it and if try in November. The oppon-as one of the finest body punches they do, they will eventually win ent and the purse must be suit-I had seen for years, equalled only the championship, provided noth- able.

by an exactly similar panch deing untoward robs them of any of It is also the sad truth that oppon-livered by Seaman Watson at Olym their players. ents for Farr in the whole of Europe pit some years ago, which also put I cannot see anything very out can be counted on one hand that Crowley on the floor. There was no standing in the other Junior fir- is, opponents who are good enough disqualification then.

tures, although Police and Army and who are available.

The board announce a feather-"A" should provide a keen tussle weight series. Johnny Cusick (Man-

SENERE DIVISION

-PROGRAMME

“A” Division

-LR.C

Navy

Army

Recreio

HKC.C

CS.C.C

CCC

HKCC

K.C.C.

CSC.C CCC

Nary

- University

PRC

Division

Some of the teams:

W.

KCE

ER.CO

Army "B"

·Army “A”

CCC. 1st XI E Zimmern (Capt.), A. B. Hamson, U. M. Omar, F. R. Zim mern, ARF Esmail, A. K. Ismail, P. J. Billimoria, F. K. Lee, A T. Lee,

Sling and G. A. Sonza. C.C.C. 2nd XI C. W. Lam (Capt.), B. R. Iranee, W. Rapley, JW

A Kitchell, G. Winch,

Yeoh Gobind, J. L. Youngsaye, L and A. Zimmern

HKCC 1st XIA W Hayward A. Pearce, (Capt.), Owen Hughes, M L Haymes, H. W. Bam Kilbee, H. J. Armstrong, L. T. RL Holden, A

Bowker, F. E Stokes.

FIVE YEARS' CONTRACT"," Farr has just signed a contract chester) will meet Spider Kelly In the Senior Division, Kowloon with Mike Jacobs, the American pro- (Belfast) he has already beaten and Craigengower should also pro moter, for five years. Any opponent him, by the way--and Benny (vide the finest game of the after-A for Farr must consequently meetCaplan (London) will meet Ginger 1000. There has always been con- with the approval of Jacobs. Foran (Liverpool). The winners siderably friendly rivalry between I should think it extremely pro then meet, and thus comes a chal- these two outfits and despite the bable that Jacobs would consent to lenger for Johnny McGrory, whom fact that Kowloon, on their own the match without the slightest ar Foran has beaten

territory, feel they should just gument, excepting always that he

It sound confusing, but these about do it, I also know that the may want some financial arrange eliminating competitions are Fair Valley side are quietly confident as ment with the promoter.

to all, though they prolong the issue to the outcome.

Craigengowe will We may thus see a -Gains at times. fight, and as neither is a stiff pun- cher unless the target is more less stationary, the fight might last quite a number of rouds.

MUST MEET MIZLER

AREA TITLE RULING What I do beg of the ster is to consider their prese Lof de rounds

ships. There are

The British Boxing Board of Con-branches,

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will not

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and the winner ceed 15 rounds

of that night will be Jimmy Walsh's Monday. the light-weight cham-tille fight

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