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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB FOURTH RACE MEETING

Tuosday 27th December, 1955 & Monday 2nd January, 1956 Tu bế held undm the Rules of the Hong Kong Jockey Club

THE PROGRAMMN WILL CONSIST OF 20 RACES The First Hell will be LAPOR -t

RIA

at 12.00 Noot on ball days

they

20 124

| | 30 201 at, the First face.

The Tilla interval is after the Mouth Race || 30 um euch

The Secretary in Oller at Alexandra House will close at 10:00

en both lays

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

NO PERSON WITHOUT A BADGE WILL BE ADMITTED, Aff persone MUST wear their naciges prommently displayed throughout the meeting

Admusan Badges

Are obtainable

$10.00 each per day through the Secretary on the written or personal introduction of a Member such member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him

Titles will be oldunable at the Clubs House if ordered in and- Annee from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 72811).

NO CHILDREN will be admitted to the Club's premises during the Meeting. For this purpose a Child is a person under the age of seventeen years. Western Standard,

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

The price of admission will be $3.00 each per day payable

at the Gate,

Any person leaving the Enclosure will be required to pay the requisite fee of $3.00 in order to gulti re-admissión.

MEALS and REFRESHMENTS will

the RESTAURANT.

SERVANTS

obtainablo be

in

Servants must remain in their employer's boxes except for passing through on their dulles. They may on no account uso the Betting Booths in the Members' Exclosure.

CASH SWEEPS

Through Cash Sweep Tickets at $20.00 each Der day and $40.00 for both days may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building. (Chaler Road), and 5. D'Aguilar Street during normal office hours and until 10.00 am. on the day of the Race

Meeting.

Particular mumbers within the series 1 to 3,000 may be reserved for all ence ineetings as Through Tickets. Such tickets will be issued consecutively only and the right is reserved by the Stowards to cancel any reservation for Through Tickets for a particular Meeting if it is found that sales may not reach the number reserved In the series to 3,000.

In the case of two-day Race Meetings. Through Tickets may be purchased for each day of the Meeting provided that the second day is on a date not less than five days after the first day. In all other cases Through Tickels will only be sold for the whole Meeting

Tickets reserved and available but not paid for by 10.00 24.112. on Saturday, 24th December, will be sold and the reservation

for future Meetings. cancelled

Tickets over 3,000 will also be issued consecutively bul par- ticular numbers cannot be reserved as Through Tickets.

the

The reservation of any particular number does not confer on registered holder any rights whatsoever unless the ticket bearing the appropriate number is issued to and can be produced by the holder.

The Stewards reserve the right to refuse any subscription also the right to remove any name from subscription lists without stating reasons for their action.

Cash Sweep Tickets on the last race of the Meeting at $2.00 each may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices at Queen's Building (Chater Road), 6, D'Aguilar Street and 382, Nathan Rond during normal office hours and until 10.00 a.m. on both days of the Meeting.

SPECIAL CASH SWEEP

Tickets for the Special Cash Sweep on the Pearce Memorial Cup scheduled to be run on 4th February 1956, at $2.00 each, may be obtained from the Cash Sweep Offices.

TOTALISATOR

Backers are advised not to destroy or throw away their tickets until after the "all clear" signal has been exhibited,

ALL WINNING TICKETS AND TICKETS FOR REFUNDS MUST BE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT AT THE RACE COURSE

As

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER

THE JIMMY DIMMOCK STORY

Wept As We Took

The Cup Home

told by JIMMY DIMMOCK to JACK WOOз ·

The occasion was the FA Cup Final at Stamford Bridge between Tottenham Hotspur and Wolves in 1921. There was a crowd of 72,805, who paid the then record gate receipts of £13,414, and the star of it all was Jimmy Dimmock,

With one shot that hurtled low through the damp London air Dimmock became famous for all time. Yet, as he looks back to that April afternoon, Jimmy talks of the goal as “A little on the lucky side.”

"It was raining hard, and as The West Ham girl who had be I made for goal I pushed the como Mrs Jimmy Dimmock a ball a bit too far ahead" ho ro year earlier stood proudly with calln. "IL

wont

straight to the day's heró am. directors and Woodward, tho Wolves right-manager MoWilliam spoko, back; but he only half-cleared back to me,

"I ran forward a couple of yards and tit it The

never romRe

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Dimmock had a alp of the shampagne and asked for a Guinness. "The celebrations

were warming up, when about

Souvenir of the Cup vic- tory. Spun oppiain Arihar Grimsdell is entrying £5.

Fred's World

By HENRY LONGHURST

The idea of playing the last three rounds of

LAST NIGHT'S BOXING

Cpl Cooper Collects Two Black Eyes And A Title At Sek Kong

By Our Boxing Reporter

An enthusiastic audience of almost 1,000 thronged the ringside at the Sek Kong Swimming Pool yesterday for the finals of the Land Forces Novices Individual Boxing Championships of 1955. This was novice boxing at its very best and the com mendable and spirited performances of the boxers was on a par with the excellent arrangements made for the occa- sion.

60

Everything went oft without he could not go on, took the a hitch and when Colonel N. D. [fill count while kneeling in the Lesile O.B.E.. the Chief of ring. A most unfortunate end Staff, stepped up to present the to an excellent bout. prizes after each bout, he did

to the

Welterweight accompaniment of

Gur McLeish generous applause for winners (14 Fd Regt) beat L/Bdr Hunt and losers alike,

(Mov Lt Tp) on pointe This a grand serap in which the fortunoa ewung first to ona then Lo the other. McLeish was

down for a long count in the first round but made a good recovery and had his opponent in trouble and on the canvas for 'Mix' in the final round.

Here is a brief report on ench

more than a foot, eight o'clock I asked the wife if the amateur Championship over 36 holes is clearly of the bouts:

one on which a great many people hold forcible views.

and I know then that Wolves' six-foo! goalkeeper, George, would never got across down to it in time.

and

"I suppose it was my greatest moment. But all I felt at that moment was sorry for Wood- ward."

The ride back to White Hur lane in the evening saw choor- ing crowds all the way for the last mile of the route to the ground. They yelled for "The Boy" as the coach crept for- werd, but Dinumock stayed in the middle of

bunch players.

THEIR OWN BOY

of

Let Jimmy Seed, now Churi- tonte manager, take up the story of the journey.

There was no mistaking who the crowd waziri," says Seed. "Their own boy, the kid from the road Just a little way from the ground, had taken the Cup to Tottenham.

"I was next to him. 1 think he cried throughout that wot- derful trip. He was an emotional fellow, and the occasion was too much for him."

There was champagne and back-slapping in the boardroom.

to

NOTICE

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

we could leave," saya Dimmock.

"Wo left without saying good- night. I was too worked up to stay.

couldn't boílevó I just that all this had happened to ΣΤΟ The crowds were outside the mal entrance, and Alice and me silpped out through side door."*

*

no

1

These have been represented in volume of correspondence, for which I am sincerely grateful, and, when it has been inwardly digested, we will return to the topic. In the meantime I am happy to report that in innumerable golfing households the problem of what to give father for Christmas has been conveniently solved by Mr Bernard Darwin.

Bautamweight Bdr Carring ton (42 F4 Regt) beat Gnr McCormack (74 LAA Regt) on points. This wits a quiet open- ing bout with both men show- Ing a litle too much respect for his opponent, However, there were intermittent spoils of furious activity and in the end Carrington Just

merited his victory.

Featherweight,

Before the Stamford Bridge triumph Dimmock was capper against Scotland, but he did not have

and good game,

Cin Hardiman A now book from this revered, went back to platetaying on the (74 LAA Regt) beat L/Cpl Ward wonder.

isource represents to the commis- railway and observed that he (33 Gen Hosp) on a TKO in the His own manager.

reur à ride and refreshing event was "never off the line now?) third round, the great

This Wos a good McWilliam, had written off

- rare, in fact, that most of was at first a plasterer. The pro-lively scrap from the first bell. Seciland's right back, Jocks cullon urselves to a chapter fession was a chancy and not Hardman wont over to the attack Marshall. enreful Instructionsy. The present i, "The very reputable one, and James imediately and generally held

World That Fred Made." is ver- Braid's parents, on hearing on how to hokt

of the upper hand. The struggle labuit go exception menace

i ambitions in that direction,

never onealded but after at once bound him as apprentice Ward had been down twice in Fan B to Last it is vintage15 & joiner.

the third round the referee very The titl comes from

wisely stopped the bout,

the left-wing

servants

"hon

drated whose

ALL SCOTSMEN

SCOT FIRST

"Peter was # Scot fest and these fursuit days my boss second," says Jimmy Hamilly charitably us he explain the omnipotence and omniscience we McWilliam action. "He wanted believed

and In young

If the professionals were to see me huve a good game in which w young when

A wh

clr-Scotsmen, the amateurs, so my first international. But, even cunstance Ders, are still ready

seemed,

were all Colonels, belleve today, as witness Mr especially at Eastbourne, where more, he wanted the Scots to win.

Darwin's youthful nephew, who Peter Paxton, in a moment

ke solemnly "Could

Fred

exesperation with the committee, make the world?" "That he had observed, "The fact is, sir,

the actually clone SV seemed

Im-plus fair strinks with half-pay could doubt officers." Perhaps Pembridge was probable, but who that one so gifted could, if he exception. had a mind to it?”

"It was years later that he told me of his letter to Marshall,

of his suggestion that would be fatal to rush into the tackle against me.

and

"Marshall held off as I moved forward, and I wasn't used to this sort of thing. It upset me, But I reckon I saw that day. tho greatest left-wing partnership of all time.

"What a contrast they made,

100.

was

Krand

now

seked

Bower

PRESENT RECORD

It

was

TOO STRONG

Lightweight. Bur Dwyer (74 LAA Regi) beat Gnr Evans

(14 FG Regt) on points. Dwyer wis just too strong and too aggres- sive for & vary game opponent. Evans was down for nine in the first round but he made a qulek recovery and had a particularly good being able to catch up on the round without quite

points he had lost carifor on.

lost

w Da

man and

Light-Miditfowojgin. Gar Hor- wood (Moy Lt_Tp) beat L/Cpl. Brown (N Staffs) on a TKO în the first round. The Anal result was a tragedy for Brown

the for who was bf

better | W

boxer. He set up an Incessant Horwood absorbed the punish- attack, from the start and how

ment and stayed on his feet was a mystery.

Just when though Brown must

it. looked

score 1 quick victory le sustained badly cut eye and the referee had no option but to stop the bout and award the verdict to Horwood

A BIG BATTLE

Ay

Middleweight. Cpl Cooper (N Staffs) beat Gar Walker (27 HAA Regt) on a KO in the third Round. This was, as ex- pected the big bottle of

ther afternoon, and with both men

real 'ding-dung' affair. giving all they had it was

Punches

from

wore thrown Light-Welterweight Gar Hills all angles but Walker simply (42 Fd Regt) beat Gar Platts could not last the pace and was (14 Fd Regt) on a KO in the third eventually counted out in the Round Platts deserves a great third Round. The contrast in the deal of sympathy for his plucky two men at the end was interest- performance in this bout, He mg Walker, the loser, was com- was always the more aggressive pletely unmarked, while the and was ahead on points when triumphant Cooper sported two third Round the bout came to an end in the | lovely black eyes... but a big

.winning smile.

..

".

of Light-Heavy weight. Fita John- hadson (I Northamptons) beat Gar

Piatts had a rocurence shoulder Trouble

that dogged him throughout Che competition, and realising that

BADMINTON

Here there was the tale of the member in the clubhouse preparing for departure and being asked by a friend why he There has, of course, been a was leaving. "Eton

masters good deal of golf in the world coming down next week," WDS that Fred made for Mr Darwin the gloomy reply. Andy Cunningham at in it really be 80 years ago

next year?--but

the devoted In the eighties there were side left, and well over Bft be enthusiast wil be happy to know dnly two motable books on all was, with Alan Morton on the that the present record contains Sir Walter Simpson's Through Tickets

"The wing. They moved through us

much about We in

and Art of Golf" and the Badminton general and without ever letting the ball

nixut in particulier

the singular volume With

edited from

by affect

Horace 19th louve the ground.”

coterie of uncles and aunts-in-Hutchinson, whose personal December, 1956, the Rules for

In 1952 Spurs toured Switzer- cluding Uncle Arthur, who laid prosentation copy to his wife Cash Sweeps with reference land. The loveable, kable out the links at Abertovey with was in turn presented to me by

the above have been youngster

pots for holes whom her and famous,

remains Thy most amended to read as follows, in and he got his first glimpse of Miss Gwen Raverat so delight-treasured golfing possession.

life on the

Continental fully portrayed in her book. so far as the range of num-

Period Plece." sonic

Nor had the art of reporting bers which can be hooked as

developed in the light on which Through Tickets

Bernard Darwin was given his some of us like to look on is Com-

↑ WAS 'DEE-MOCK"

first club on December 18, 1884, today. I relish particularly, as cerned:-

base and on the 17th on the team made its

"un- does Mr Darwin, the sentence of Zurich's best hotein speakably muddy and unsavoury describing John Ball's victory on Particular numbers with-

At Coldham "Wherever the players went the course!

Common" the Open of 1800 "when he in the series 1 to 3,000 | cry went up for "Dee-mock!" ear Cambridge, he broke it reached the 14th disc it irans-

Brighton may be reserved for all Skys

Bill Not, he seems to remember, inpired that he manager,

had only to Line: "I heard the cry so often an infantile tantrum but in the negotiate the four remaining Through Tickets. Suchmuck' myself."

that I began to call him 'Dees (normal course of operations. holes in twenty to win."

It was at once mended

It is difficult to write of a book inside continued to give good service so full of accumulated memories Him do a fact which put me in mind of and wisdom without resorting to on and the occasion when, after nearly a whole series of quotations. Let 70 years of progress, a Walker me, instead merely whet the Cup player broke his club

March. in reader's appetite by saying that against America,

and no one In the he will and herein Darwin

on Earlier Oui ha declined an Bond Street showroom, could (he was present of pro.'s shop, which resembled the early days of golf in America invitation from

the

Scottish put a new shaft in. It had to historie the

Quimet's Badminton Association to com- with Vardon and pate in the Glasgow. Tompa- go back to the manufacturers,

the golden age inment, he changed his mind after on the President's receiving an appeal from Those

the slow play,

on the Association to reconsider his professional tourna- dzcision.

Race

tickets

Meetings дай

The

1 ne

There was

demun

will be Innued consecutively only und Dimmock that made the right is reserved by impetuous things, both the Stewards to cancel off the field.

reservation any

for Through Tickets for

There was the time Preston North End when

and

on

particular Meeting if it took the ball past tour defend is found that sales may ers befor taking it right up to not reach the number Mitchell, the bespectacled Pres-

ton goalkeeper. reserved in the series 1

England, 70 years COVES "I showed him the ball and

the Putter, on to 3,000.

the dived. Just as his hands whole period of what may

bewedge, er Tickets

over 3,000 will clutched for it I stroked it round called modern golf. They began menta, on getting cross, and on

him and walked the ball a yard in times when golfers were also be issued consecu-over the line.

apractice-of which, strangely, he bond of brothers, apart from was an inveterate exponent, tively but particular

other human kind, "an elect and numbers cannot be rehended it back.

"Then I picked

and almost persecuted up

body,

AS- Mitchell was sanbling in secret

to places Herved as Through furious. But what he sold was practise obscure non-conformist Tickets."

talk later."

NEXT ARTICLE: Dimmock leaves Spurs

Accordingly subscribers are informed that all reservations for Through Tickets over the numbers from 1 to 3,000 have

it

Malayan Pair Will Defend Doubles Titles

Thomas on a KO in the first round. Johnson looked a good boxer from the start but Thomas offered spirited resistance until put down and out.

Heavyweight. 2/LA Collett (74 LAA Regt) boat Pto Yates (N Staffs) on a KO in the, first, Round. Collett, big strong boxer, carried too many guns for a plucky opponent and knocked him out after only 01 seconds of the first round. With the Colony Championships just ahead it was disappointing

hear that Llout Colleit leaves Hongkong on January 6.

Penang, Dec. 22- The Malayan Thomas Cup badminton player, Ool Teik- bock, eald today he had decided

The show was a credit to all to defend his doubles titlo with Ong Poh-im in the Glasgow connected with its organisation International Tournament and and the big crowd was well re- All-England Championships in warded with novice boxing in the very best traditions of the game.

The Scottish Association has promised

to pay hia, rottern. passigb to Glasgow and the English Badminton Asscoa Bon has offered to pay the fares of both Ool, and "Poh Làm from: Glasgow to Preston for the All Reuter.

nothing compared to the Boss's rites and in many cases wears tembly in the dusk, when the England Championships,

the

"

BADMINTON-

CCC Capture Their Fourth.

Title

Craigengower Cricket Club

the won their fourth title of Lesque season last night when they beat Chineso, YMCA by six matches to three. In the”, finál play-off of the Men's B Division. Rcrits: (CCC players first)

ON THE DAY TO WHICH THEY REFER NOT LATER THAN been cancelled for further CCC Tennis Final years, there were only B7 clubs the garden of the Inner Templa

IN SOLITUDE

red conta....aả

"It is only in solitude and pro. to the ladies, queation of what they wore lights begin to glimmer in the did not arise for there weren't surrounding houses, that prac any."

item is truly

heavenly must be one of the few When Bernard Darwin had in the world who have practised already been playing for avoiron shota in the pitch dark in

Singles Wong Wai-hung beat W. C. Chan 24-23 boat P. Y in England. The Scottish profes ....The benchors never found.

*| Sheen 21-17; Georgo Ma lost to Mrs Marie Ratichand, Re-sionals had only just begun tome out, and today they will, T

W. C. Chan 15-21 beat P. Y. creio tennis champion, defeated come adventuring over the um sure, forgive me." Miss Diana Madgett, the Ladles Border, and most of them had

The following team has been Sheen 21-13; Robert Yung lost.

to P. N. Ho 22-24. Recreation Club" champion 3-0, other professions

solected to represent HKCC # woll Perhaps, as we lenve this The Army 6-1, 6-2, to annex the ladies Rolland

In the Triangular stonemason, much-loved figure looking back Tournament on Tuesday,

Doubles: Wong Wal-hung and the David Brown a slater, and Jack on 70 years of golfing, happiness, cember 27, at Chater, Rond and B. K T Hon 21-115. singies championship of

DC-

Georgo-Ma-beat? W. C......ehan. Craigengower: Cricket Club at Burns (this was the one, surely, we may ba permitted a final

21-3; best. P. who, after winning the Open quotation

ONE HOUR AFTER THE TIME FOR WHICH THE LAST RACE OF THE DAY HAS BEEN SCHEDULED TO BE RUN.

PAYMENTS WILL NOT BE MADE ON TORN OR DIS- FIGURED TICKETS.

Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc. will not be permitted to operate within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

By Order of the Stewards,

THE GAMBOLS

ISHOP EARLY

for

CHRISTM

Race Meetings of the Club as from this date.

By Order of the Stewards, PEAT, MARWICK, MITCHELL & CO.

Tròssurera.

A. E. ARNOLD,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 19th Dec., 1955.

BOUGHT THIS FOR QURISTMAS, GeoRZE

WHAT IS IT?

the CCO yesterday.

by Barry Applebyy

(A FRUIT CORDIAL

TAIL

YOU MIX IT WITH RUM AND GIN

On!

was

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or the most refreshing

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THIRST QUENCHER

Try

Gaymer's CYDER

SURVEDIʻICY, COLD”

HKCC Eleven To Play Army

am. Sheen and Y.

T ·A· Pearce, p

+

at 10.20 commencing Weller RM. MacPherson, Manfred Kan and Z. A. Ablan "It is soothing to reflect that T. N. Leigh-Bennett, OH. P beat W. CH Chen and. B. K.-L. you need never be cross any Pritchard, C. J; B. Lender, L., D.

Lai 31-10, lost to P. Y. Sheen more, never suitor on the green Kibop 1. Le Stanton, G. and Y. T. Mon 18-21. from that dread dhouse Rowe, H. H. Pinniger, A. J familiarly called the staggers, Harvey.

mor pen. the ball'shoot away, 60% wards cover-point off the socket of the marble. M

"No fatal shot, no insanely bad piece of judgment will haunt your pillow, while your un- doverving conqueror · gões: od toy thai-final therapi aught to have been in

Sooner; J. Smith

Malayan Indian Sportsmen Fate

Unusual But

Not Unique

doorge Füz71, goalkeeper, natted agai con when ho t on the, which unique. Longue feat. of Fulham, has dono too, Frank Möms, wh Arsenal Harold Parion Bromwich Albion and India My Boattergood, of Bradford!

"The Male an Indian port men were. the, zitats, at d. cocka" mie committee will ever kewand; at theii mal

tail party, given by Mr. and Mrs again wantonly Insult you by dence yesterday: putting (dat vybum: hydlong//canal you will not bas kicked) out of Among Ela tauror La Révous of ons wilded the Commisioner 20jortecommendationil i la tions: be: 1) P Adaıkar

otice won

competition, át!. Dogziebl, Firesidée

kong Hockey Alouation

drera

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