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BOXING

Farr-Baer

""Rubber" Fight Proposed

London, April 14.-Tommy Farr and Max Baer have been approach- ed by Mr. Sydney Hulls, the promo- ter, regarding a "rubber" fight in London this summer. A good deal depends on Farr's showing against Red Burman at-Harringay to-night, but meantime terms have been ca- bled to Baer,

Mr. Joe Gould, American man- ager of Farr, is returning to New York this week-end. He told a re- porter that he is seeing Mike Jacobs with a view to securing a return fight for Farr against Joe Louis.

Max Baer's manager, Mr. Ancil Hoffman, said he had no comment to make yet on the offer of £10,000 he had received from the London promoter, Mr. Sydney Hulls, for of the

Baer to meet the winner

CARTHUSIANS WIN HALFORD- HEWITT CUP

London, April 18.-The Carthu- won the Public Schools sians tournament for the Halford-He- witt Cup for the seventh time, at. Royal Cinque Ports, Deal, yester day, defeating Harroviana by three games to two.

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The biggest win was the 7 victory of L. G. Crawley and R. J. Allen (Harrovians) over E. M. Prain and E. Burdon Sanderson in the top game. The winning pair were out in 36, despite a 6 at the seventh.

In the semi-final round Harro- vians beat Wykehamists 3-2, and Carthusians beat Lerpoolians 3-1, with one halved.

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 2, 1939.

Bradman's Record

Bettered

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HE last day's play in Adelaide dis- trict cricket for the season was marked by brilliant batting by sev eral of the youngem brigade.

Don Bradman looked sure of win- ning a handsome trophy for scoring the fastest century of the season- 80 minutes.

But he was eclipsed by R. Christie, who hit up a hundred in..58. minutes for Glenelg, and ran to 188 in 80 minutes.

Actually Christie reached his cen- tury in less than 68 minutes' batting, because three or four minutes were lost in a vain search for a ball hd hit out of the Oval, and drinks were served several times during his in- nings.

Christie's knock was no fluke, He hit four sixes and 11 fours, and did not give a chance. Ho has made several good scores for his club this

season.

Tommy Farr-Red Burman fight in London (according to a Press As-SNAPPED IN TWO sociation message from New York).

He said that at the moment he was preparations | fully occupied with

for Baer's fight with Lou Nova on June 1, and until that fight was over he could say nothing.

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The leg was a wooden one, and the batsman, went on with his innings after he had fitted the one he car- ried in reserve.

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** *. WIGNALL OUTBURST

SAYS Trevor Wignall: "The Brad- mans of cricket, aided and abet- ted by groundsmen, have done more to harm cricket than all the bowlers' -or newspapermen-who ever lived.

"And our Len Hutton didn't help overmuch when he took possession of thirteen the Oval pitch for around hours.

"Isn't there anyone about who can save us? I loathe dictators, but in cricket I would leap up to one glad welcome.".

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ONE DAY TESTS?

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writer in the London "Evening A

Standard" suggests, as timeless Tests are harming cricket, that one- day Tests should be introduced.

He says: "If they can get 100,000 down a leg-break so fast that the people and more than £20,000 for a ONCE upon a time a bowler sent ball, striking the batsman on the leg, Football Cup Final lasting 90 min- snapped it in two. The bowler was Hutes, it ought to be possible to get G. Page, who has been groundsman the crowd and the cash for a match between England and Australia to of High Wycombe (Eng.). Cricket Club for fifty years.

be finished in the available daylight of one English summer day.

"Perhaps this sounds silly. : It nevertheless is a fact that the effort to achieve definite results by allot- ting more and more time to these games has failed. Perhaps it would be an idea to try giving them less and less time and see whether the cricketers can think of a way out of that. Something will have to be done, anyway, to change the nega- tive outlook of players who are scar- ed of going out to win because they are even more scared of being boat- en."

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URING a local cup football match on Symington Works recreation ground in Market Harborough,. Lei- cester, one of the players stumbled in the middle of the pitch and felt his foot sinking into the ground.

Players and referee, and then the crowd, ran to the spot, and an in- vestigation revealed a 17 foot deep well containing 11 feet of water.

It was decided to finish the match, and planks were placed over the opening.

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+ LUMINOUS SOCCER FIELD

ACCORDING to a recent American

magazine, Japan had planned sev- eral new devices to show competitors at the Olympic Games to have been held at Tokyo. A waveless swim- ming pool was one of the novelties, as was a luminous Soccer field.

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TONY GALENTO'S SLOGANS

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THE liquor saloon in New Jersey, run by Tony Galento, who has been matched to fight Joe Louis, world's heavyweight boxing cham- pion, is well-papered in slogans. Two recent additions were.

"Lady, if you drive, your husband to drink, drive him in here.” ..

"Your wife can only get so mad, so why not stay a little longer)”**

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CHANGE IN SCRUMMAGE THE All-Black scrummage used to

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be composed of seven players. The method of packing was 2-3-2. Hooking was only permitted with the inside leg of either of the two front-row men. Those who remom- bered the playing of the All-Blacks in England regard this as the most effective form of scrummagé yet de- vised.

Geoffrey Ward, a Nak Zealand athlete of note, who played alongside the great A. E. Cook regarded. ភ Australia as one of the finest of all those All-Black five-pighths, telle of how, up to 1980, Rugby Baarished in- New Zealand, and crowds flocked to all of the big matches. At that time. they were packing the scrummages 2-8-2. The extra wing-forward-used topuk the ball into the serum and act as general marauder: +

With this system, the game was n brilliant - spectacle,::

The ball came out of the scrúm easily, and play. was always open.

Then in 1930, the old 2-3-2 system Wangabando

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