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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8; 1941.

PROGRAMME OF

ARMY SPORTING EVENTS Hockey, Rugby And Boxing Finals This Week

Army To Meet

COMMAND SPORTING

Police In Charity EVENTS FOR WEEK Soccer Game

By "Squaddy"

THE FINAL of the Inter-Unit team boxing com- petition will take place at Murray Barracks to-mor- row night between Royal Scots and Middlesex.

I close against

TO-DAY

Tournament (First. Roured):

TO-MORROW

BOXING-Inter-Unit Team Box.

A JUDGE OF CHAMPIONS HORSEFLESH EXTENDED

I

H. D. and S. A. Rum have given Mr. | jahn, holders of the Oper AUGBY → Army Seven-a-Side Charles S. Howard $5.35 Doubles Tennis Title, re (Sookunpoo, at 3.00 p.m.). and asked him to please ceived their first real op buy me a horse, writes position this season wher ing competition (Final): Middle-Henry McLemore from they were extended by A sex v Royal Scots (Murray Bar- Los Angeles. If he agrees V. Remedios and G. Choć racks, at 8.30 p.m.). HOCKEY-81x-a-Side

to do it, my future is guar-in the current Oper Tournament (Prelimmary and anteed. A horse that Doubles Tennis Competi First Round): 2.00 p.m., Royal Howard buys, particular- tion yesterday on

Hockey

Signals v 2/14th Punjab Regt.

the

"A"; 2.20 p.m., 5th A.A. Reg.,ly a bargain one, is a bet- stand court of H.K.C.C HA "A" RADC 2.40 p.m. ter way to wealth than a and won by 6-3, 5-7 and

H.K.S.R.A. "B" v 2/14th Pun-

jab Regt. "B" 3.00 pm.. H.KS rich aunt "with a heart 6-2. R.A. "A" y Middlesex "A": 3.20 flutter or a doting uncle p.m. 5th A A. Regt. R.A, “A

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a counterfeit

R.A.S.C; 3.40 p.m., 5th A.A with Regt. R.A ་ ་ཎྜ ་་་ V

Combined chine." Military Hos.; 4.00 p.m., H.E, ''B'

Royal Artillery, who were pre-' win for the Army for them to see- viously drawn against Royal ure the trophy. They were leading Scuts, have withdrawn from the | until the last minute of the match competition owing to the lack of when the Chinese drew level, numbers as a full team is 15 men. They were in no way 'isgraced The General Officer Command-by the result and pl 4 up to ing. Major-General AE Grasett, expectations. The Arng

ay have C.B. D.SO, M.C. is attending the one more game before boxing and will most probably of the season, and th present the prizes at the conclu- Hong Kong Police i aid of sion of the competition.

Charity. The date will be noted later.

notified for

* information that the prices for admission to football grounds. controlled by the Football Association, will, for Service personnel only be 60 cents, to all covered stands and 40 cents to uncovered stands This does not apply to the Army

prices will remain the same.

ROYAL

The weighing in for this event will take place at Murray Bar- Jacks to-inorrow

and the teams will then be mode known.

HOCKEY

ANTIK

TX

It is

THE Army Six-A-Side hockey ground at Sookunpoo where the

commence

will tournament 10-morrow at Sook unpoo with the preliminary and

First Rounds; the second rounds will be played on Thursday at Sookumpoo.

The following is the draw for to-morrow's games:-

v. 2/14

2 p.m. Royal Signals Punjab Regt. 'A': 2.20 p.m. 5th A.A. Regt, H.A. 'A' v. R.A.O.C.; 2.40 pm. HKS.R.A, 'B' v. 2/14

Punjab Regt. 'B': 3 p.m. II.KS.RA v. Middlesex Regt. 'A'; 3.20 p.m. 5th A.A. Regt. R.A, 'B' v. R.A.S.C.; 4 p.m. 5th A.A. Regt, R.A. "C" v. C. M. Hospital; 3.40 p.m. R.E. 'B' v. R.E. 'C": 4.20 pan R.A.F. R.A.M C 4.40 0.m. Middlesex! Regt. B v. R.E. 'A'.

5th A A

V

Regt, ICA. and Mid-

dlesex both have strong teams and I think that one of

these should pull off this competition.

FOOTBALL

THE football

season

is nearly

finished and Middlesex and Royal Scots have one more match each to play in the Senior Divi- sion.

Royal Engineers have won the Second Division with the R.A.S.C. runners up, and in the Third Division Royal Air Force and Ro- yal Signals have to play off for the title before the Champions v. the Rest game at Caroline Hill. This game should be worth watch- ing with both sides keen to secure the honours.

were unlucky

The Army team last Saturday not to win the Kote- wall Cup.

The game, between South China and the Army, had to result in a

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Army Service Corps, who are favoured to win the Junior Shield on Saturday against South China, have been in strict training and have been working

for some new moves

the match which they will not dis- close to anyone.

* 你 ATHLETICS

out

TO-MORROW, Middlesex Regi-

inent will meet Hong Kong Uni. versity at Shamshuipo in a field and Truck athletic meeting.

V

R.E. "C": 4.20 p.m. RAF RA.M.C: 4.40 pm., Midd e- sex Regt. "B" v R.E. “A”

SATURDAY

RUGBY-Seven-a-Side

(Finals): (Sookunpoo, at 3.00 p.m.). FOOTBALL-Senior and Junior

Shield Finals: Senior Shield- South China Royal

V

Navy (Causeway Bay, at 4.30 p.in.); Junior Shield-South China R.A.S.C. (Causeway Bay, at 3.00

p.m.).

MR. PETER WEI UNSEATED

V

A rather unusual acci- dent occurred this morn- This is to enable them to selecting at the Valley in which etic Meeting which takes place on Mr. Peter

Wei was Apel 22, 23 and 24.

their team for the Command Ath-

volved.

ing exercise,

in

In the first set Choa and Re ma-medios were unsteady but in

an

proved greatly in the second set Chou played a good game Basing my figures on what his featured h's play with hard drive own bargain basement steeds have and good placing. Remedios mad brought in the way of prize several errors. His volleying wa money, Mr. Howard's $5.35 pur-at times brilliant but his overhead chase should enable

me to buy work was weak, that little vine-covered trailer I've always wanted, and to make a bid for the world's free-style a- settin's and a-rockin' champion- ship.

For $5.35, Mr. Howard is almost a certainty to get me a nag that

In the first set the champion won easily but in the second se the losers improved considerabli and were leading at one stage bi 4 games to 1. The Rumjahns wo the next four games in a row t lead by 5-4.

won

thi

will win a stake or two. Look at

Chop and Remedios what his bought-for-a song crea- next game on the latter's service tures have done. Seabiscuit, who They won the next two game was bought for $7,500 or there- though deuce was called severa abouts, made so much all he need-times in both gaines. ed was a paying teller and an iron grill to become a First National Bank. Kayak II, a marked-down job, could easily start a loan so- ciety of his stall with thousand dollar bills and he's only three years old.

In the last set Rumjahns woi the first two games but Choa and Remedios were only being led b 3-2 at one time.

The Rumjahns, however, réele off the next three games in suc cession.

TENNIS: RESULTS

OPEN DOUBLES: H. D. and S. A. Rumjahn bez Chou and A. V. Remedios 6-3 5-7; 6—2.

CLUB HANDICAP SINGLES T. J. Gould beat T. C. Monagha 6-1, 0-6, 6-1.

CLUB HANDICAP DOUBLES C. H, R. Oxlade und A. H. Bur

well beat F. W. Carter and E. N Thursday 7-5, 6-4,

CLUB SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP..

Money Making Horse.

the Saratoga sales by Mr. Howard Porter's Cap was picked up at for $1,300. Porter's Cap is mak- ing money faster than a show-off Middlesex Regi, have also been

engraver at the mint, his latest asked to produce a team to com- He took out Mr. Cire's Stew-haul being the $50,000 Santa Anita pete against the Chinese at Caro-ards' Cup winner, Starlight, which derby. He's a greedy little cuss, line Hill on Sunday, May 4. has been entered for the first see too. He wants it all, and already tion of the Calliope Handicap to is entered in a batch of later rich be run on Saturday, for its morn ! stakes, including the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap, the Ken- On reaching the seven furlongs tucky Derby, and the Belmont. post, the pony was seen to stum- By his victory in the Derby Port- ble as a result of which Mr. Weler's Cap became the first eligible was unseated, He fell clear of for the Pimlico Special at Balti- 6-2, 7--5. the pony, however, and was not more. injured. He got got up, remount- Stagehand is the only horse ever exer- to win Santa Anita's two most worse prized stakes-the Derby and the Handicap but he may be joined by Porter's Cap before long. He won the Derby like a good one. He had speed enough to stay up with the early leaders after the break and when he made his run he ran over horses getting to the front. And he finished the mile and an eighth full of run

and

WAR CUP SEMI-FINALS

his experlence.

The draw for the semi-finals ofed, and completed the the War Cup to be payed on Sa- cise, evidently none the turday is. Preston

Shefeld for V United or Newcastle.

Trottenham Hotspurs or Arsen- al v Leicester.

The matches will be played on the ground of the first numed club unless a mutual arrangement

Is made.

The final will be played on May 10.-Reuter.

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EXHIBITION SOCCER

The following have been select- sound as two dollars. He can go : ed to represent the Rest against on any kind of track, too. He likes South China, Champions of the, a fast one and loves a slow one. First Division of the Football League, at Caroline Hill on Mon- uay next at 4 p.m.

Can't Be Just Luck

M. Pagh beat H. J. Armstron

TENNIS OFF

The Hong Kong Cricket Club courts

being unfit for play,

the Stand Court Co- lony tennis match ar- ranged for this after- noon, has been post- poned.

Bankier (Royal Scots); Rough- Eventually, racing folk are go- ley (Navy), Blackburn (Police); ing to quit referring to "Howard Freshwater (Middlesex), Hsu luck." It cannot be luck for the C.S.C.C. CRICKET. XI King-shing (Eastern), Thomas simple reason there isn't that much (Middlesex); Fowler Club), Fung in the world, But what is it? What The following will represent King-cheon (Sing Tao), Hendy is the secret power that enables Civil Service C.C. in a Junior Cric (Navy), Burber (Navy), Hau the pleasant automobile tycoon toket League match against Polic Ching-to (Eastern).

look at a horse and know that he on Saturday. Recerves-Lapsley and Max has the makings of a champion? H. E. Strange (Capt.), G. Ain well (Kowloon), Fraser (Royal There must be thousands of per-slie, V. C. Bona, P. D. Crawley, C Scots), Bright (Middlesex), Soong sons who actually know more Davidson, F. E. Lawrence, Ling-sing (Sing Tao), Lee Page about conformation and bloodLockhart, J. F. MacGowan. Navy), Howlett and Ferrier (Po-lines than Howard does, but they Utchell, N. L. Smith and A. Wat lice) and Riertsen (Club).

go on dealing with platers while son, he saddles the winners. ··

TO-DAY'S BADMINTON

Following is to-day's Badmin-

GOLF RESULTS

The Time Is Coming......

Results of the Captain's Cup a There's a time coming, though, the Royal Hong Kong Golf Clu when he is going to need luck. held during the week-end wer He is going to need it to dodge the Old Course, J. Limaker 88-15- rocks his rival owners are guing | 73 (21 entries); New Course, R. N to throw at him when they final- Wood 87–1671. (19 entries). ly can't stand the sight of him standing in the winner's circle N. Smith v. T. S. Young (7.45 with a silver cup or plate, in his p.m.).

ton Championship programme:-

AT KOWLOON C.C.

Junior Singles

Junior Doubles C. C. Pereira and A, E, Xavier v. P. C. Leung and K. F. Chiu (8.15 p.m.).

Benlor Doubles

BOWLS: MEETING

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hand. Either this is going to hap- The annual general meeting o pen, or some track is going to the Hong Kong Lawn. Bow's As make itself popular with the other sociation will be held at the Boar owners by running a rich race for Room of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe all horses except Howard-owned son and Co., to-day at 5.30 p.m.

ones.

M. A. 'Oliveira and L. A. Car- I wonder what kind of a horse | chobses to spend my money fo valho v, K. W. Choy and K. B. Mr. Howard'll get me for $5.35? | He could buy me a goat and `th Low (8.45 p.m.); H, C.- Eardley I'm hankering for a chestnut colt chances are. it would be a stak and N. Smith v. P. Wong and with blue eyes and a blazed face, winner before the your is out- Au (0.30 p.m.).

Lut I'll settle for anything he | United Press