1938-05-16 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 16, 1938.

SERVICE

HEAVIES DISAPPOINT

R.A.F.'s Victory In

Team Title

(By HAROLD LEWIS)

London, April 14.

The Royal Air Force retained the team championship_of the Imperial Services at

Stadium, the Empress Earl's Court, last night with 38 points. The Army were second with 36 points; the Territorial Army third with 25 points; and the Royal Navy fourth with 24 points.

ASTON VILLA BEAT VIENNA AT BERLIN

Berlin, To-day.

Aston Villa, who are playing a Many people had gone to Earl's series of matches against German

Court, I imagine, to see the heavy-

weight affair between Roger Hunter, football teams, defeated the Vien- the 6ft. Tin. giant, who was a London policeman and is now a pilot-officer, nese XI by 3 goals to 2 in the and Lt. A. R. V. Luke, a man of 6ft.

of 100,000 Sin., of the Territorial Army. It was presence of a crowd

a most disappointing affair, won by Hunter without a really good blow bespectators at the Olympic Stadium

here yesterday.

ing struck.

GRAND MIDDLES BOUT

BEN FOORD HAS BEEN PAID PURSE

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MAY FIGHT NEUSEL AGAIN

(By “HAROLD LEWIS”)

London, April 19.

Ben Foord has been paid his purse by the promoter for his fight with Walter Neusel at Hamburg on Saturday, when he was dis- qualified in the eighth round for an alleged low punch.

At one time it seemed that the German Boxing Board were likely to require Foord's money to be handed to them until they had dealt with the case, but according to a Reuter message, received last night, they are taking a lenient view of the case and will pro- bably only fine him.

In that event, it is stated, they will also agree to a return fight as soon as

possible.

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Meanwhile Foord's manager, Mr. Louis Walsh, has protested against the The victory of the British play-referee's action in disqualifying Foord,

ers was due to their better phy- sical condition and superior tactics. in Hamburg with this protest because

Still, there was a grand fight in the

and there is a good deal of sympathy CAMBRIDGE officers' section, just preceding this heavyweight affair. The middleweight fight, won for the Army from the Royal

it is felt that the referee handled the RUGBY Air Force by 2nd Lt. F. H. Murdoch. The first goal was scored by the fight somewhat nervously from of the Royal Tank Corps, was thrilling Villa's outside right, Broome, in start and permitted infringements by TE

and dramatic.

Murdoch knocked out his opponent, Acting Pilot-Officer A. C. Deere, just 20sec. before the fight was due to end. and there was no doubt in my mind that but for the knock-out Murdoch 'could not possibly have won.

FORGOT HIS SKILL

the seventh minute. Shortly be- both boxers. fore the interval, the Viennese centre-forward equalised.

the

TEAM HOME

An offer was to have been made to

London, April 20. the winner to fight at Earl's Court

The Cambridge University team during the early summer, possibly After the interval the Austrians against Tommy Farr, but the unsatis-reached England yesterday after, took the offensive but the excellent factory nature of the fight may mean their successful tour. of the United

States. defensive combination play of the the cancellation of this idea. Britons frustrated all their attacks.

Murdoch, one of two Army officer brothers who are equally useful in the The failure of their best efforts, ring, did not box nearly so well as be combined with the terrific heat and did last year, being rather obsessed by physical strain, apparently un-ler- his punching power and inclined to forgot his skill. He had fallen into mined the morale of the Viennese the habit of leading with his right, players whose resistance then grew chin well extended in most inviting noticeably weaker so that Aston Villa scored twice in succession, giving them a lead of 3 goals to 1. The Austrians scored their

fashion.

A's it happened, these tactics suited Deere perfectly, for Deere had precise- ly similar ideas on the subject of box- ing, but was generally a shade quicker in the business. Consequently, both second goal during the were hitting very hard but somewhat minutes but endeavours to equalise erratically, and Deere was scoring were frustrated by the distinctly

most of the points.

superior

last few

of combination

VITAL POINTS AT STAKE At this time the issue between the Britons.-Trans-Ocean.

the

Army and the R.A.F. was very close. and each fight mattered a good deal in the points being shown on the screen. Deere certainly won the first two rounds, and was fighting very well in beat 2nd Lt. J. B. Lumby (7/King's the third.

Then, however, Murdoch had an idea. He again led with his right, but instead of panching the back of his opponent's head-he_went_for_the_body and landed with considerable force in the middle of the stomach.

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BADLY SHAKEN

Regt., T.A.) on points.

Welter: F.-Offr. W. G. Moseby (R. A.F.) beat 2nd Lt. Hollander (Tower Hamlets Rifles, T.A.) on points.

OTHER RANKS

JOCKEY GIVEN A SURPRISE

(By "RAPIER”)

They won all their six matches, scoring a total of 218 points to six, the points against them being made up by two penalty goals. They defeated Yale by 40-0, Harvard by 50—0, Princeton by 190, the All New York team by 386, the New York Club by 35-0 and the All East team by 36-0. Mr. Percy Heywood, who was in charge of the team, said the wea- ther conditions were very bad and that attendances suffered in conse- quence.

There was, however, great gener- al interest taken in the games. He was in the United States with the University team in 1984 and could Bay that the interest on their pre- sent visit was much more marked. An unusual incident occurred at He did not think the standard of play in America had improved no- the Valley this morning, in which

ticeably. Mr. C. Encarnacao, the northern jockey, was concerned.

Middle: 2nd Lt. F. H. Murdoch

He took out "Piet Hein, belong- GERMANY AT (4/R. Tank-Corps) beat_Acting Pilot Offr. A. C. Deere (R.A.F.), 3rd rounding to Hollandia, which has been

HOCKEY Light-Heavy:-Lt. R. M. Tarrant]

Peiho Handicap (Dorset Regt.) w.o:, F.-Offr. G. E. New entered for the

(First Section) at next Saturday's Deere was badly shaken, and theton (R.A.F.) scr.

Berlin, To-day. Heavy: Acting Pilot R. Hunter (R: meeting. Directly opposite the band next right-hander, as Deere staggered forward, smashed on his jaw. He fell, A.F:) beat Lt. A. R. V. Luke (69th stand the pony suddenly bucked, and, Germany defeated Holland yester- taken completely by surprise, Mr. day when the International Hockey got up after about seven seconds, ran A.A. Bde., R.A., T.A.) on points. into a tremendous punch and was Fly: A/C A. House (R.A.F.) beat Encarnacao was unseated. He was, match between the two countries knocked out, and silently counted out.

The Army had another very close Cpl. W. Fisher (R.A.S.C., Army) on however, unhurt, and after the pony was played at the Reichs Sports victory in the heavyweight bout of the points.

Bantam: Pte. C. Kentish (5th Beds. was caught remounted and complet-Field. Other Ranks, in which Guardsman Ni- chols, of the Grenadiers, outpointed the & Herts. Regt., T.A.) beat Lee.-Cpl. A. ed the exercise. holder, Pte. J. Weaterton, of the Ter-Cole (King's Shropshire L.I., Army) ritorial Army. Weaterton boxed very on points.

Feather:-Cpl. R. Boxshall (R.A.F.) well until he ran into B stiff right-

There is some dissatisfaction among hander to the chin, and another later, beat O/S R. McLaren (Royal Navy) on

points.

followers of spooker at the way in during the first round.

Light:-P/Sergt. J. D. Varley (R.A. which matches are decided. I know increased their lead to three goals F.) (holder) beat Dmr. R. Jameson quite a few who feel that a fairer way while the Dutch players' only goal at (2nd Seaforth H., Army), second round. would be to decide matches on aggre- was scored through a penalty bully, Nichols might have followed up

Welter: Pte. E. D. Shackleton (5th gate of points instead of by the num- this point, but apparently had not ob- served the shakiness of his opponent's Btn. Queen's Regt., T.A.) beat Pte. G. knees. Curiously enough, Weaterton H. Spears (Dorset Regt.) on points. again boxed cleverly in the second Middle: Fus.-W. McVeigh (R. Scots round until he again ran into the same Fus.) beat A/B F. Algar (R.N.) on sort of punch, but the third round was points.

SURPRISING VERDICT.

'hard and close all the way, and I was Light-Heavy-A/C R. Pring (R.A. a little surprised that the Army man F.) beat Sgt.-Inst. T. Gordon (A.P.T. got the verdict.

S.) on points.

GLOUCESTERS WİN

ARMY CUP

One of the best fights of the evening Heavy: Gdamn. H. Nichols (Grena- in point of skill was the Other Ranks dier Bds.) beat Pte. J. Weaterton (9th flyweight bout, a victory for House, of Middx. Regt., T.A.) on points.. the R.A.F., over, Fisher, of the Army. Corpl. Fisher proved to be a fine, na- tural hitter, who just lacked self-con- trol and allowed himself to be led into :all sorts of traps by the shrewd airman.

London, March 30-Six minutes House met his onslaughts firmly and made no mistake about scoring his from the start of the Army Cup final points until, in the third round; he was at Aldershot a Welsh Guards forward got off-side near his own "25" and winning as he liked.

It was good to see the discipline Arengo-Jones kicked a penalty goal exercised in this Services boxing. I do which was enough to give the 2nd Bat- not mean regimental discipline, but the talion of the Gloucestershire Regiment strict adherence to the proper princ!- their first victory in the competition since 1910. Penalty goals have played ples of the sport.

a large part in their success, for in Feather: Surg. Lt. J. H. Mitchell the semi-final Aréngo-Jones kicked the (R.N.) beat F.-Offr. F. M. Thomas (R. three which gave them a single point victory over the 1st Welch Regiment, A.F.), 2nd round.

the holders. Y

OFFICERS

Light:-Sub-Lt. A. S. Walker (R.N.)

The German players, who showed excellent form, scored the first goal in the first minute and the second shortly afterwards.

After the interval, the Germans

ber of frames won, as at present.A shortly before the end of the match. Writer in the "London Evening News.”

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