1940-12-17 — Page 14

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 17, 1940.

Rise Of

Of Anton Christoforidis To Fame

Fame In

In Boxing World

Biggest Greek Idol

Since Londos

ARMY SPORTLIGHT

BY "SQUADDY"

TO-DAY at Sookunpco the Mid-Scots team includes Falconer, of dicsex are playing, the Hong their Battalion frst eleven and Kōng Signal Company in the Auld, and Flemning · of their sec-

Small Units Rugby len- and eleven.

ANTON CHRISTOFORIDIS dropped into Cleve- land recently long enough to belt out in the second round Jimmy Reeves, a trim Negro, who Rugby gue, and the following. At the conclusion of the game will represent the the General Officer Commanding, after establishing a national reputation as an ama--Middlosexi------ teur, won 14 of 15 professional matches to earn high ranking among light-heavyweights.

Major-General A„E....Grasejt, C.B., Ple. Thompson, L/C, Radley. Bds. D.3.O., M.C., will present the win. Hymas, 2/L. F. S. C. Hancock, L/C. ners with the Smich Units fool-

ball Cup.

Christoforidis, a handsome and compactly con- structed Greek, is a striking example of how good cp, Githam. fighters are give the run around by promoters and matchmakers who complain that there is a dearth of worthwhile talent.

Christoforidis has been t the Christoforictis

IS

Cordery. Cont. C. M. M. Mam, L/C. Moggeridge; L/C. Wilson, Sgt: Bayly. L/C: Heather, Drm. Klimke: L/C. Pearce, D/M, Holdfard, Pte. Berry and Reserves L/C, Goddard. In the top half of the League- Royal Scots are leading with 4 points and Middlesex are secand with 3 points.

The Engineers have already bottom half of the won in the one

of the

How they reachett the final, "D", Coy. Royal Scots:-

beat Signals beat "A" Coy, Middx beat R.A.F

beat

24th R A.

WEEK-END

FOOTBALL FIXTURES

this week-end's

Following is Football programme:

Eastern

Saturday

FIRST DIVISION

کیا

V Middlesex. (Caroline Hill, 4.00 p.m.)

Royal Scots (St. Joseph's, 4.00 pan.)

บ Kowloon Boundary Street, 4.00 pan.)

Navy

5-0

St. Joseph's

1-0

4-1 Kwong Wah

5-1

Chub

beat 40th (F) Coy, R.E. beat 30th R.A.

3-?

[Club, 4.00 p.m.)

2-1

beat HQ Coy, Royal Scots

2-0

Ordnance

H.Q. Cay.

Middlesex:~~

United States a year, yet Reeves (mighty few Greek fighters. George league, winning all their games THE following is the draw for WALS the first name" performer (K" 0) Brown, the old Chicago with six points. To give him an appointment.

Navy

SECOND DIVISION

*

V Sing Tao (Military, 2.30 p.m.)

V Kowloon (St. Joseph's, 2,30 p.nt,} Fourth Itound of the

South China

Middlesex Individuals Billiards.

(Caroline Hill, 2.30 p.m.) Championship which | Kwong Wah V Royal Scots will be

Boundary played to-

Street, 2.30 pm.)

Service Corps Cpl. Harvey, R.A.M.C. v. Pte.

(Club, 2.30 p.)

THIRD DIVISION Gordun, Royal Scots.

Club

'middleweight, was one

Phil

A couple of preliminaries is all McGraw, the Detroit lightweight, Mike Jacobs has given Christo-another. foridis at Madison Square Garden,

LEAGUE TABLES "A" Section

the

P. W. D L. PR

Billiards

R. Scots Greeks usually go in for weres Middlesex

2 20 e

4

2 1 1

0

3

day.

2 0 1

1 3

1 0 0 I

U

100

1

"B Scation

0 30

$

Sgt. Hamlen, R.A.S.C. v, B.S.M. Rawlings, R.A.

35th R.A.

2 0 + 2

10 1 310.2 2

0 :

2

The Great Greek Profile stood up thing. A number of current fistic ath vs. Rext. RA there as he has come through else headliners wish Christoforidis į Signals where.

twice in Chicago and had. Detroit and now in Cleveland,

RASC

He will have to get there the An International Record 5th A.A. Reg.

Engleers

hard way, though he would jump

R A.M.C.

10

✡

at the chance to do 160 pounds j

Christoforidis, 23 now and box-12th Hvy Rest., H.A. for Ken Overlin, Tony Zale, Billying since he was 15, has beaten Soose or Steve Belloise, and would the best in France, Holland, Bel- be a suitable opponent for Billygium, Germany Conn.

Christoforidis

Used To Hard Knocks

the Hong Kong Hockey tournament on Sunday 511 A.A. Regt. B team

and Northern IN Africa. He flattened Carmelo Candel and repelled Lou Broull- lard in Paris. Candel drew with Hockey lost to A. N. O.her Marcel Thil and repulsed- Teddy;

X1 by 0 goals to 1. Yarosz.

Biggington scored for the gunners. In a friendy game at King's

Christoforidis took the middle-

the Y.M.C.A.

Ptc. Haigh, R.AS.C. v. S.Q.M.S. Wood, R.A.S.C.

Pto, Whybro, R.A.M.C. v. L/C. Willis. C.M.I.

Following is the draw for the Fourth Round of the Individual Snooker Championship,

layed on Thursday,

to be December,

19.

Dixon. R.A.M.C.

Pte. Whybro, R.A.M.C. v. Lieut.

S.Q.M.S. Wood, R.A.S.C. v. L/C. Willis, C.M.P.

Orphaned in the great Smyrna weight championship of Europe Park R.AM.C. defeated YM.CA. fire, Anton Christoforidis

shone from Bep Van Klaveren in Rot-juniors by 3 goals to 1, and Pun- shoes, peddled

Pte. Gordon, Royal Scots, v. Cpl. newspapers and terdam, and ironed

with out Annett, jabls drew held horses for rich Athenians. He Belgium's 175-pound

Harvey, R.A.M.C. leader, in seniors two-all. broke in fighting in an Athens Brussels.

Pte. Myles, Royal Scots or Piper On Sunday at Chatham Road Milne, Royal Scots. v. L/C: Saun- beer hall. at 50 cents a crack,

Air Force beat a representative ders, R.A.O.C. He became a bell hop and he got

Small Units side in a friendly hockey game,

to Paris.

Although he has had 90 fights on record, there isn't a mark on him, which is something in the way of evidence that he can do something more than swat.

the

German

23

✡

*

He heiled Hitler, whether he liked it or not, and then knocked out Gustav Eder, 160-pound titleholder, in Berlin Lieut. Colonel E. Levett present-

At the conclusion of the game ON Sunday Command Head- He lifted the North African crowned Air Force with the Denar- from Bob Youssef, an Arab, in Algiers,

(Continued at Foot Of Next Col)

Would you clean your

teeth with

GRAVEL?

Imagine the effect of cleaning your teeth with gravel! The delicate enamel would soon be destroyed, wouldn't it? Yet how many people use a harsh tooth cleaner which scratches their teeth in just the same way!

HARSH TOOTH-CLEANERS HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS GRAVEL- THEY SCOUR AND SCRATCH UNTIL THE TEETH ARE DULL AND LIFELESS, Don't tuin your teeth like that! Use Gibbs, the dentifrice with the

1 Give

with

polishing ingredient which cannot scratch. That's the way to bring a brilliant shine to your teeth and to keep them thoroughly clean and

healthy Even after two or three

days' use of Gibbs Dentifrice you'll see a difference in your 'teeth! Its penetrating foarn ensures that Gibbs does everything a dentifrice should do, thoroughly yet gently

your teeth a SHINE.

Gibbs

dentifrice

with

quarters Cricket: eleven drew RIA.MC. at Central British

mental Corps Hockey Shield- their games in the Lengue which they won, by winning all Cricket School.

The final results are as follows:-

R.A S.C. R.A.0.C.

Q Signals

2

R.A.F.

R A.M.C.

C.M H

Siguals

1

R.A.M.C.

R.A F.

3

RA.SC.

C.M.H, W/O

R.A.O C

R.A.M.C.

1

RAO.C

Signo's

}

R.A.F

R.ASC.

0

C.M.H.

R:A.SC.

RA.OC

R.AF.

4

R.A.M. C.

C.M.H.

1

Signals

R.A.O.C.

0

Slynais

R.A.M.C. W/O

R.A.S.C.

RA.F.

R.A.F.

Signals

R.A M.C.

C.M.H

R.A.0.C.

R.A.S.C.

1 CM.H.

Final Positions

Goals

Signals

V

V Air Force Chutham Road. 4.00 pm.)

International (Spokumpoo, 2:30 p.m.)

7h R.A.

น

V

12th R.A. (Military, 4.00 pm) Engineers

V 20th R.A. (Sookunpoo, 4.00 p.m.)

Sunday

SECOND DIVISION

Kit Chee

V 30th R.A. (Carolina Hill. 2,30 p.m.)

Police

น Engineers (Boundary Street, 4.00p.m.)

THIRD DIVISION

V Medicals *(Sookunpoo, 2.30 p.m.)

|

24th R A,

Service Corps

A.S.A.

A

Shell

(Sookunpoo, 4.00 p.m.)

V 35th R.A: (Boundary Street, 2.30 p.m.)

•

OFFICIALS FOR

The Medical Corps NEXT WEEK'S

batted first and declared at 161

a runs for seven, and I must con- |·

7 gratulate Logan on getting a fine

1 half century.

0.

Command Headquarters replied.

six with Brigadier

2 with 103 for

0

WD, L. г. A. Pts.

0 18 5 10

P

5

5

5 4 0 I 13 4 8.

5

3 0 2 3 0

5 2 0 3 0 G 4

I 0 4 3 15

5

2

0 0 5

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TO-MORROW, at Sookunpoo, the

McLeod currying his bat to make- a fine 46 not out, Capt. Dewar scored 30 runs.

CHINESE XI

FOR SUNDAY'S

CHARITY GAMES

Following have been selfried

Association in

the

to represent the Chinese 1990.5 against the chity matches cember 22:-----

ol Sunday 12-

Final of the Small Units foot- "A" TEAM-Cheung Wing-choy (Bing ball competition will Tao); Tsang Chung-wan (South China) Football take place, with H.Q.and Lee Tin-sang (Sing: Taɔ); Soong Coy. cf the Middle-ng-sing (Sing Tao). Hsu King-sing sex playing 'D' or

¡Eastern) and the Royal

Ng Kee-chronit (East- Scots,

eral; Chung Yung-sum (Eastern); Fung This should prove to be a wood (South China)

King-cheong (Sing Tao), Lee Wai-tonk game, as both teams have a strong Sing Tao) and Hau Ching-to (Eastern). (Capt.), Lal Shiu-wing side, including many Battalion players.

Middlesex team includes Juck- son. Sheehan, Bright, and Pearson of the Battalion first eleven, and Revell of the second eleven,

He was the pugilistic talk Paris when the war sent him the United States.

Biggest Purse Paid Yet

of

to

Sidetracked by the more highly publicised Boys, $1,000 is the most Christoforidis Has, collected for a start on this side. He was paid that sum for knocking out Jimmy Burns in three rounds-in Chicago, and for trouncing Tony Bruno, on The Zale-Soose show in flie sure city, where he was stuck down in the preliminaries, when he pro- bably could have licked the prin- cipals.

Reserves:-Lee. Kwok-kee (Kwong Wah), Kong Sh°ng-king (Eastern), Lee Kwok-wal (South China). Lau Chi-chan (Eastern), Leung Wing-chiu (Sing Tao),

Wal-lam (R.E.), Lee Tak-kee (South

China), Chan Tak-fal (South China), Yeung: Shin-yick (Slag Tao) and C, T: Ts (Eastern).

Team Manager:-Mr. W. Hamling Chen.

"9" TEAM-Lau Hihon; lay Yung- sang (Sing Tao) and Tse Kam-hung (South China); Kwok Ying-kee. [Sing Tao), Lam Tak-po (South China) and Lo Wakkuch (Eastern). Tang, Kivong. Sum (Sing, Tao). Chow: Man-chi (South China), (Capt), «Huf,Man-ful (Eastern),;| Chouk Shek-kaan (Kwong Wan) änd Wuz Kini-cheong (Kwong Wahl

"Y" BILLIARDS SOCIAL

A Billiards? Social be held in the V 7.30 p.m.

CHARITY MATCHES

Following are

the the officials for Christmas week Charity

football matches

CHARITY MATCHES December 22 Combined-Chinese "A" น Rest "A"

(Causeway Bay. 4 rum, Referee:-Mr. H. B

Linesmen:-Messrs. R. M. Cinar and

J. Silva.

Combined Chinesa “B” V Reat "B"

(Causeway Bay, 230 pm.). Referee. Mr. W. Gluver, Linesmen:-Messrs. W. Foster

C. Ford.

and

"SUNDAY, HERALD" INTERNATION. AL CHARITY CUP-SEMI-FINAL

Christmas Day

China (holders)

Scotland

(Boundary Street, 3.30 p.m.).

Referre:-Mr. D Kossick. Lincsmen:-Messrs,

A, G, Marie.

England

H. Beard and

Boxing Day

❤ Portugal

(Kowloon, 330 p.m.). • Referee:-Mr. J. Silva. Linesmen:-Mr. K. K. Ip and Rev.

S. Hinchcliffe. CHARITY MATCH IN AID OF B.W.O.F. AND BOMBER FUND New Year's Day

Rest

Y

Combined Chinese (Sookunpau, 3.45 p.m.. Referee:-Mr. D. M. Mitchell. Linesmen-Messrs. D, Kossick and

W, Glover.

CHINA'S

INTERNATIONAL

SOCCER TEAM

Following have

been selected to represent China in the "Sun- Ray Herald" International Cha: i ́y: Match compell'ion to be played on December 25. at the Boundary Street:

Choung Win chow (Shin Tael, Ferns Chung-Wan (Bouth Ching) and, Lee Tine sang (Shig Tao): Soong Läg-sing 19'01: Tho), Thiu:,King-sing "(Eastern); and N§. „Kee-cheong (Eastern)}; Chung Yung to-night sum (Eastern); Finz Kingcheong (Slog-Teo), Leo: Wal-tong (Byuth) China) Capt ), Lat Shfu-wing-(Sing Tao) and He gave the game a shot in the The programme: will consist of Hau Ching-to (Eastern), co arm in Detroit, where he dropped a match against Pay. Corps fol- Reservesi-Lau Hin-hen (Eastern), Joe Sutka 11 times, and had lowed by a Novelty, Compellon Hau Yung-rang (Sing Tao), The Kama George, Burnette down three times uvent amongst the members, | huug (Soulį (China), Kwok | Yinjsken. and out at the finish,--

Yapdealm will be selected (Sinx Tao) Hul Manfil (Eastern), Greeks Who have seen Anton || rèny the following, or sever

Chan Tak-lai- (South' China), Chotaki Shek-kam (Kwong Wah), Lềe” Shek ya Christoforidl have their greatest C, T., Terrán, R. Goldma

(South China) and Wong King-cheangi hero Rince Jim Londos' heyday. Sikes, GT Champelovler (Kwong Wah),

a word for him- Lager TG Stokes, C

and Hi Kemp

TORITI, Mahagor