Of Recent Gala
Gives Cause For Satisfaction Johnstone's And Lawrence's Records An Example
All That Is Now Wanted Is The Shanghai Pennant
(By "CRUSADER")
· ALTHOUGH IN ACTUAL FIGURES, only three records were broken at the recent Colony championship swimming gala, Hong Kong has every reason to be satisfied with the standard revealed.
Keen competition for nearly all events and splendid times returned by men, women and boys augurs well for the future.
Most striking improvement was shown in the 50 yards free style, the 100 yards free style and the various ladies' events.
There was a line-up of five com- petitors for the 50 yards, all of them capable of clocking under 26 seconds for the distance. In former years many a title has been won in times❘ considerably above this mark and Chan Wing-kar's record of 25-1/5, set only last year, was considered to be safe for some years.
However, Taylor made no mistake and not only did he smash the record, but he smashed it by no less than two-fifths of a second,
LAWRENCE'S FEATS
seconds.
Probably because he was out of the Colony during the period, nothing fur- ther was heard of Johnstone until 1929, when, at an age when most swimmers are languishing in retire- ment, Johnstone made a come-back to establish his best times and smash all Colony records for free style events with the exception of the 50 yards.
His times for the 440 and 880 still stand second only to Law- rence's.
Both Lawrence and Johnstone only | reached the front rank after years of
commenced swimming in 1927 but it was years later, after numerous unavailing efforts, that he started to find his best form.
In the 100 yards, 59-2/5 seconds set by J. R. Johnstone in 1929, was a methodical training. The former great -improvement on previous times but Lawrence, in the 1934 season, lowered this sensationally to 57-4/5 and went even better the following year when he ciinped three-fifths of a second off this time.
Lawrence, in winning this year, showed all the brilliance of his form of 1935/ in clocking 57-2/5, although unlike previous years, he did not have matters all his own way.
Such has been the improvement in the local standard that despite this very excellent time, he was pushed all the way and, indeed, was only able to take the lead over the last 25 yards to win by a narrow margin followed by three other competitors, who finished practically together.
MISS VIVIENNE CHURN by virtue of her success in the La- dies' 100 yards free style cham- pionship, now occupies the posi tion of Hong Kong's premier lady swimmer.
dances throughout, can be consider- ed most satisfactory and all we need to cap a most enjoyable season will be the Shanghai pennant.
It was not until 1933 that he
We can leave that little matter in achieved an ambition in cracking 60 the hands of Wilfred Lawrence and for the 100 und from that year dates his merry men, who, we can be sure, his ascendency in Colony and Shang-will try very hard not to disappoint hai swimming.
us.
In 1935 he established new records for all distances except the 50 yards DAVIS CUP for free style events, which records still stand in his name to-day,
THE LADIES
Another aspect of Colony swimming
AUSTRALIA AND
where a marked improvement is ap- YUGO-SLAVIA
parent, is in the ladies' sphere.
a
ALL-SQUARE
all
final in the
The 100 yards free style, won by Miss Vivienne Churn in 75-4/5 se- It was unfortunate that we were conds, followed by Miss Ip Choi-man unable to see David Hutchinson ir and Miss Doreen Weir, provided
Brookline, Massachusetts, To-day.— action, while the absence from the splendid example of spirit and de- Yugo-Slavia and Australia are Colony of Norman Lee, who gave termination to win.
square at the end of the first day's promise of developing into one of the It is noteworthy that all three who play in the inter-zone Colony's all-time stars, was absent | placed, returned better times than Davis Cup. from the Colony.
that set by Miss Lopes in winning the A. K. Quist (Australia) beat Mitic It is therefore a source of great event the previous year.
(Yugo-Slavia) in the first match, 6-0, satisfaction that despite the absence Although the present times are 6-4 and 6-3, but Puncec (Yugo-Sla- of these two very fine swimmers, satisfactory, there is a great deal of via) levelled the issue when he beat there were still many of similar stan-room for improvement and I feel con- John Bromwich 6-2, 8-6, 0-6 and 6-2, dard who were able to give Lawrence fident that next season will show-Reuter. such opposition.
several steps in this direction.
NOT ANTICIPATED
OMAR BEATS HALL IN CLOSE GAME
ESSEX BEAT
NOTTS
London, To-day. Thanks to splendid fast bowling by Kenneth Farnes and Ni- chols, Essex scored a big vic- tory over Notts in a match which concluded yesterday.
Joe Hardstaff batted well for Notts to score 117 out of their total of 271, while Peter Smith, better known as a bowler, topped the 100 mark for Es-
sex.
Scores as cabled by Reuter:-
At Clacton, Essex beat Notts by 7 wickets.
Notts 271 (Hardstaff 117; Nichols 5 for 34) and 74 (Frances 5 for
30).
Essex-233 (Peter Smith 102; Voce 5
for 70) and 113 for 3.
nd 113
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CRICKET
(Continued from Page 24) Winchester had led by 60 runs in the first innings. Six matches were left drawn.
H. A. Pawson, the captain, scored centuries against Harrow and the Greenjackets. A. J. Wilson was the most consistently successful bowler, but Pawson did some good perform- ances, notably against Marlborough, R. A. Henley and A. R. Taylor were a dangerous opening pair. Taylor im- proved greatly as a batsman.
TONBRIDGE SCHOOL Tonbridge had their best side in re- cent years, and had a very successful season, On the sixteen matches play- ed, nine have been won, five draws, one was a tie, and only one was lost. Of the five school matches played, Sherborne were defeated by 147 runs, Lancing by nine wickets, Dulwich by four wickets, Clifton, at Lord's, by 213 runs, and the match against Stowe ended in a tie.
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The batting has been strong throughout, the outstanding feature being the way the so-called tail, gen- erally came up to scratch when the earlier batsmen had failed. On only three occasions has a total of over 200 not been exceeded. P. G. C. Wood, who, unfortunately, was not able to captain the side against Clifton, Lord's, through illness, and C. L. Wel- ford each scored two centuries, and T. R. R. Wood and G. R. Leahy one each, while only two members of the side, failed to score at least one 50.
M. P. Ross-Price bore the brunt of the bowling. He took over eighty wickets at a little over 12 runs apiece. R. A. A. Smith, J. L. Rampton, P. G. C, Wood, and R. D. Dousflèld have all bowled well. The bowling has, in-
In the 50 yards back stroke, Miss LAWN BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP The Colony have every reason to be | Sa Wai-ying's 38 seconds will be hard - satisfied with the form of Enriqus to beat but Miss Eileen Grant, who Chaine, who in smashing the previous took second place, showed a tremen-. record heid by Kwok Chan-hang, ac-dous amount of promise and I have complished something that was not little doubt that, this very youthful anticipated for some time.
swimmer will not be far off 38 se- conds by next Summer.
At the Kowloon Football Club yes-deed, been of a high standard. Another promising V. R. C. swim-terday U. M. Omar, a former cham- ing and it is to be hoped that he will mer for this event is Miss "Liza" An-pion, entered the Quarter Final Round keep at it hard with a view to lower-derson, who is training with great of the Open Singles Lawn Bowls ing the remarkable time set by Dickie seriousness and should be ripe for Championship when he defented · ́A. Ha!) of Shanghai, who, however, used competition in the near future.
J. Hall by 21-shots to 16 after the "butterfly" stroke which is barred
heads. in the local championships.
Chaine has returned even better times than 72-2/5 seconds in train-
Fong Cheung-yin and Lo Kut-sing, on the other hand, who also. competed. in the race, should not be discouraged by the fact that their times do no bear comparison with Chaine's.
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Miss Ip Chol-man also rose to fame overnight through her ex- traordinarily fine performance In the 440 yards free style.
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STARTING TIMES FOR ̈
FANLING
SUNDAY
Old Course..
Omar started well and at the eighth 9.16 a.m. M. Follock, R. J. K. Walk- head was leading by 11 shots to 2 which had included two threes.
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R. G. Gray, E. A."Empas. -0.24: „ 'A, “N. and Q. ́A. A. Mae-
KP fadyen. ? 9.28
This swimmer has a beautiful action
After this Hall rallied and at the and is improving rapidly. Her feat in 17th head took the lead at 14-13 for coming second in the 100 yards rather the first and only time, Omar scored demonstrates this.
a singles on the next three heads while Hall replied with a two on the 9.32 21st. Omar scored two twos on the next two heads. ···
In their moments of depression, let them think of J. R. Jolinstone. This' In the heats, she only managed to swimmer, most of whose free style qualify for the finals by virtue of times rank second to Lawrence's, first being the fastest third and yet a few made a name for himself in 1916 days later she set a cracking pace în when he won the 100 yards free style the final and almost caused an upset! title in 63 seconds. In 1919 he again. All in all, the championships
In a Hong Kong Water Polo League match this played yesterday.
Chinese Bathing
Club won this event, in 64 seconds. In year, both from a view of performan-drew with South China. A.A.. the teams, 1021 he lowered the time to 80-2/5 ce and entries, and the large atten- ' sharing two goals. '
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0.44 M 9.40 9.52
F. D. Hunter, A. Sommer-. ** felt, ¿
L.' 'M. Wylle, Į. H. Geare. J. B. Harrison, J. Linäker. J. M. Pearson, J. W. May- hew.
P. E. Annis, J. W. Clague. PC. Jackson, E. Laidlaw. R. C. Gairdner, L. Cramer.
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