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BIGGS LEAVES HEARTS FOR ABERDEEN
London, October 24. Arthur Biggs, Heart of Mid- lothian centre forward; has been transferred to Aberdeen at a fee believed to be in the region of €2000.
Biggs will play against Clyde at Pittodrie on Saturday, either at cen- tre forward or inside left.
Biggs was signed by Hearts from Arsenai last December to take the place of Mantle when the latter
NEXT YEAR'S BOAT RACE
It was officially announced by
the Oxford University Boat Club
president that the next Oxford. and Cambridge boat race will be rowed over the Putnicy-Mortlake Course on Saturday, April 1, This in a week before Easter.
sustained a fractured leg. Power-ed the following week against fully built, he made a good start in Arbroath, but last Saturday he was his early outings, but fell away replaced by Black. Biggs led Hearts
Alliance team at Pittodrie on Satur- latterly.
This year he was understudy today until half-time, and then Rennie, but reappeared recently: changed to inside left in the second and against St. Johnstone at Perth period. In that position he played scored four goals. He was retain exceptionally well.
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 9, 1988
KID TANNER'S 19TH BOXING VICTORY
PUDSEY TOWN'S TRIBUTE TO CRICKETER
Hutton At Dinner
Of Celebration
London, October 24---Kid Tanner, feather-weight and bantam-weight champion of British Guíana, beat Péte Roger of Belgiùm in the fifth round of a 12-rounds fight at Liverpool Stadium last night the referee Intervening...
Afterwards it was found that Roger Pudsey, Yorkshire, October 15. had broken a rib on his left side, and he was taken to hospital for tren- Pudsey to-night gave its cele- ¡bration dinner to Hutton, the
tment.
Tanner has now won 19 consecutive Yorkshire cricketer, and toasted fights since he arrived in England the scorer of the highest indivi- from British Guiana, Roger boxed dual innings in Test history in well in the early stages but in the champagne and ale.
fourth round he was floored for a There were 300 crowded into count of eight by a left hook to the iaw. Soon afterwards a right to the the hall of the Pudsey swimming .body put down the Belgian for a bath, and Hutton sat between the count of seven.
Mayor and Mayoress, Ald. and Roger was obviously in pain when Mrs. Myers, with the figures 364 he came up for the fifth round, and the number of runs he made after he had been sent down twice, against the Australians at the the referee stopped the contest.
Oval-in electric lights above him.
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Most of the Yorkshire team, in- cluding Mr. Brian Sellers, the cap- tain, were there, and at a special table sat all Hutton's relations, with Miss Dorothy Dennis, his fiancee.
BRONZE TABLET
It was announced that a bronze tablet, commemorating the record score, was to be placed in the pavilion of the St. Lawrence Club, with whom Hutton first played. cricket..
A cheque for £200, collected in shillings in Pudsey, was presented to him, and the Mayor said that Pudsey would always be remem- bered as the home town of Leonard Hutton, who had accomplished the world's greatest feat of batsman- ship.
(Hutton is at the moment in South Africa with the M.C.C. Tourists, this being his first foreign tour.):
A. H. GIBBON'S MOVE TO BRENTFORD
Sqdn. Ldr. Louis Leder, the Royal Air Force Football Association secre- tary yesterday visited Tottenham Hotspur and conferred with Messrs. Peter McWilliam and Arthur Turner the move by A. H. Gibbons to Brentford. The following official statement was issued.
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"That no question whatsoever has arisen between R.A.F. Football A- sociation and Tottenham Hotspur F.C. in regard to the move of 'Gibbons to Brentford, which was conducted strictly in accordance with the rules of the Football Association.”.
Gibbons, who is an aircraftman in the R.A.F. at Uxbridge, last season played for the 'Spurs at inside-left and gained an amateur international cap. Just before this season started Giɓ-- bons decided to play for Brentford.
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NOTTS COUNTY PLAYER SUSPENDED
Read the Notts County half-back, who was sent off the field in the match with Northampton Town on September 24, was suspended for a fortnight and fined £2.
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