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Army Not Withdrawing From The H.K. Football Association Military Teams Have Successful Soccer Season ATHLETIC MEET TO-DAY'S ARMSTRONG'S EXIT:

POSTPONED

By Squaddy

At a meeting of the Council of the Football As- sociation held recently it was stated that a Military league might, in future seasons, be run and that all Military teams withdraw from the Association. This statement is without foundation as the propo- sal has never been discussed as to whether Military If teams should withdraw from the Association. this were true, it would do more harm to Army Football than good. FOOTBALL

AT last the local foolball season

has almost come to a close and Miltary teams on the whole have not done so badly

and

In First Division Middlesex and Royal Scots finished fourth Afth respectively. The former excel- who have produced some lent football this season, have had a great and in Thomas, jett half. and who towards the end of the season was playing well above the the standard of any left half in Colony He should be a great asset to the Ariny selecfuis fea the next football season although the Army half bark line a strong

Royal Scots have been

unf hunate in finding a good ing wat Tux It was not until la

ATHLETIC

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FRANCE "PURGES" JEFF DICKSON

Area Athletic Meeting | which was the commence to- Ì #4 day at the Polo ground. Boundary post- Street, Kowloon has been toned to Tuesday, April 29.

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The also a winner.. Sholt which they relamed the Army to the turd sur verra year.

RA.SC. have also set up a new record for goals scored in one sea. son by getting 106 thus beating the old record of 95 goals.

Royal Engineers only lost one league match during the

SONOU

and finished six points in front of the runners-up.

PACE

ZIVIC IS PRAISED

FOR FINE VICTORY

HENRY ARMSTRONG was nursing painful wounds in seclusion while Fritzie Zivic, having bat- tered the once cyclonic Armstrong out of pugilism. was looking for more worlds to conquer as holder of the world welterweight championship he won from Armstrong last October, writes J. P. Dawson from New York.

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In the aftermath of Armstrong's, treatment, Dr. Schiff issued the farewell battle there were syn-following statement:

pathy for a gallant warrior, ad- "Armstrong's forehead is edema- miration for his courage and mar. ceus. The edema extends down to vellous resistance to punishment [the cheeks and backward to the as well as a new and better ap- temples The right eye has three praisal of Zivic as a fighter and longitudinal cuts The left eye has

The one longitudinal cut. champion.

most cut extends across the The only fighter ever to hold serious

In three world championships at the right eyelid, about one inch The fifth list of "purg-satue

the mouth there is a laceration of time the featherweight, lightweight ed" Paris business firms,

the upper lip just to the right of and welterweight

vertical and crowns --Armstrong took his leave the medium line, which appeared in a re- of the sport with the distinction of about one inch long. In the lower cent official journal, con-aving contributed to drawing the lip there is also a vertical lacera- Hargest crowd ever assembled in tion about half an mich in lengan. The upper hp was sutured waln tained the sports com-Madison Square Garden for ¿

The lower p pany headed by an

ipals event, and that means the three silk sutures will heal of itself. fargest indoor sports crowd in the American. Jeff Dickson, world. who during the 20 years between the World War and

the present war was France's outstanding sports promoter, states a message from Vichy dated April 5.

All Records Broken

10 Melgunin-Ray Miller bout of

tourbed 22,000 as its peak. OF GOLF

IS INCREASED

You can take

from Gem

The Thod Division this season i Sarazen. [who should know? was a tight thing with Royal Ar the gulf pace is quite a bit faster Force and Royal Signads playing | than it was a few years ago, write- uff for the tile which resulted in

a win for the Airmen,

actor respondent

Sarazen and Ben Hogan won the Air Force have been very Late 18th amal international fotti lucky durant the warn by long ball tonament recently with sevical of them players, but they 4-and-3 victory over Ralph Guli. still managed to keep aloft aruf | hul and Saba Stend in the tinab. well deserved them værhony

Jet 15 year, after Gene fin-1 cla Following

top honours in the event

hundred times hunden vrat." God Sarazen, panalo'y Nogter Shunt a frafle There ar

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Við jou estupelition organred by Army

FOOTBALL.

Smal Uns Naokout Congpetition Wamers

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Rommers 145 L DC, 2nd Bi

Seofs.

RUGBY

Small Units

Winners!-Royan Bagines ES

Runners... Rul Be Royd Seois

Large Unis League

Winners:10pai PaBURPEEN

Runners-up:-Roval Artillery

Seven-a-Side

Winners:--Royal EngateMes

Runners up!--5th A A Reg, R A

Team,

CRICKET Large Units

She

! They

Tel a native of Jackson, Miss. with the A.E.F. came to France

frontline photos gal corp. as a

A small-size Tex Ric- kard. he rapidly monopolised French sports and had a virtual monopoly

French 011

boxmg, wrestling and ice-hockey Be- cause of his successful sports pro- mofpotts he won great popularity and was knighted by the French Government [11 the Ingon of

Honour

Launched Sonja

Henie

Dickson interested

the skating!

star. Sonja Heme, in professional shibitions and finally sent her to America after several successful

1. Iti Is Par Palais Sports

Ja attunend entospirostis putoka

cles

Until the edema Cowelling) dis- appears from the Bus of the Dare- head and eyelids, nothing will be done When the edema disappears. an operation to remove the sear and exers, tisgaur will be perinud.- For the edema to disappear will require at least five day a week

of

of a

Arm-

The gathering of 23.190 paul $78 242 for

It was the spectacle estimated that more than 5.000 fans were turned away The Jun March 22, 1929, drew the oki res A. balm for his wounds. Arm- curd crowd. 21.712 The recortis | strong received 25 pri cent proved erroneous a belief that Jim net gate of $66,817, ur $16,530. His Maloney and Jack Delaney held ailing muger, Eddie Mead, visi- the previous record. Their battlebly upset at the crushing on Feb 18, 1927, drew 20,000 per- fighting man whose management The Goldenbe undertook in 1936, collected the sous, $18,184 paul.

He Gloves amateur tournament has check.

agreed with

and to retire, strong's decision

business he had several Zavie's immediate ring future is added uncertain. He injured his left hand propositions under consideration.

Zivic received about 33 per in the tenth round and the hand was so swollen the champion can-

cent. or $9,836. The champion colled a flight with Promoter Mike

was lavish in praise of the courage Jacobs of the Twentieth Century of his beaten foc. He was look - SC. to Miam in order to go toing eagerly to returning to his wife Pittsburgh for treatment, Until and children in Pittsburgh with Zavie's hand is normal, Manager the biggest purse he ever collected, Latke Carney sand, he would not cummit the champion to a bout. although proposals have been made for a return match between vie and Lew Jenkins, the world

weight champion,

went

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Treated By Doctor

Armstrong had his wound: At one time he was named a trvaled at the office of Dr. Alexan potential ruler of Sonia but th der 1. Schiff immediately after th 4cm.nico never triterialised More boul, and

witz serlusio thum a year before the present win thereafter. After giving the beater Je scented the cuntlet and close | lighter anore than

hour od the Sourt Palace. hame and married a wealthy flos- fon girl and never came back Sarazen teained with Jolinity Dieltson dal more for French Farrell to defeat Tommy AranaK boxing than anyone since Georges and Bubby Cruckshank # the Comment er. He developed, ninong 1928 tour-ball finais. Before and others, the former world champion 'sance then he has won twn national) Primo Camera. His keen busi-

Won In 1928

Ele went

opens, one British open and three ness semize was best reflected by P.G A championships, and he still] the considerable fortune he ar- "A" has a lot of good golf left to play. | qired during the days of the Po-

He

first won the United State: pular Front when he rented his open in 1922, repeated in 1932, and | Palais des Sports tu rival politi- hopes to win agma in 1942.

cal parties for their rallies,

He Sull wearing the knickers that cooked up bitter oratorical rivalry were an emblem of his profession | between the leading political par- years ago, Sarazen proved in this ties throughout the winters

four-bal. renewal of the $5,000

1935 and 1936 and never had that he is still far from through.

vacant night.

Winners:-Royal Engineers. Runners-up:-Combmed Small Units

Small Units

Winners:-Royal Army Service Corps Runners-up:-5th A A. Regt, R.A.

HOCKEY Large Units Winners:-1st Bn.. Middlesex Regt. Runnera-up:-2/14th Punjab Regt.

Small Units Knockout Competition Winners: 36th Hvy. By.. R.A. Runners-up:~3rd Med. Bty., H.K.S RA, Six-a-Side

fWinners:

·Runners-up-

CROSS COUNTRY

Indian Units Run' Winners:-1st II.K. Regt., H.K.S.R.A, Runners-up:-2/14th Punjab Regt.

British Unite Run Winners:-1st Bn., Middlesex Regt. Runners-up:-2nd Bn., Royal Scots,

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BOXING

Hogan's First Win

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It was Sarazen who Won extra-hole match with an eagle in the second round and scored an- other eagle the next day to reach the final.

Hogan, who has led the nation's

for two money winners

years, cracked loose with a tremendous scoring spree down the home- stretch, but it was Sarazen who came through with the clincher, a 25-foot chip shot for a birdie on the final hole.

Hogan birdled seven out of 14 holes toward the finish, and his $1,000 share of the victory boosted his year's purse earnings to $0,055. It was Hogan's first 1941 victory after Ave times capturing runner-

Inter-Unit Novices Winners:--2nd Bn.. Royal Scots. Runners-up-Ist Bn., Middlesex Regt. Inter-Unit Team Competition 'Winners-2nd Bn.. Royal Scots.. Runners-up-1st Bn., Mildin......x Regt. } up money.

new

of

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The decree named two adminis- trators of his sports combine. All the other firms on the list were given

administrators but under the anti-Jewish law Dickson lost control of the Arm beenuse of absent ownership.--- United Press.

CHINESE CHESS

CONTEST

The local Chinese have organis- ed a chess contest in support of the Acroplane Fund Campaign launched by Chinese artists in Hong Kong. The tournament will commence at the beginning of that next month. It is learned two of the nation's ace chess play- ers will participate.

**AND WHO

WOULDN'T BE HAPPY

WITH

EWO/

BEER

ORDER A DOZEN FOR YOUR HOME

Eastern's Chung Yung-sum,

right- winger I still nursing an Injured thigh

##1 the Shteld Semi-Final sued against Royal Navy some time ago.

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Rev. S. Hinchcliffe, First Divi- son referer, may not be officiat- ing next season as he is due for

transfer.

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C Hong Choy, University all-round Macketer graduated in the course of he past seitson and will not be avail-

ble for University next seuson,

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