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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH, 1925

"D. C. L."

HOME SPORT IN 1924, NOT A VINTAGE YEAR." Reviewing the activities of the Home

Timea Bayn:

MALT EXTRACT sporting world last year, a writer in the

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Sport in 1924 was generally not above the average standard in quality. It was not a vintage year" in any way so far

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and proved came from New Zealand and themselves to be a really fine Rugby Football Fifteen. But if there was no of the outstanding point in the sport year, there was no need for pessimism, as the standard of play of the ordinary person was better than ever before.

Most ordinary people will remember the racing season of 1924 by the fact that the Derby was run on the wettest day of a very wet sumcaes. They will re call that thesa in mud. Motor-Car And

were soaked through almost covered were other carriages were stuck on the Douce, and instead of Derby Day being a picnic it was for holiday makers a tragedy. Racing people

Temember 1924 as n

year in which

were below.

acte.

Classic three-year-olds tha average standard. Sansovino won the Derby easily, but did not accomplish afterwards anything of By the close of the season St. Germans was three-year-old Elly

the best of bis The best Straitlace, who won many races, includ- of the two-year- best ing the Oaks The olds would appear to have been Picazoon, Saucy Sue, and Diomedes.

Was

The four-year-olds of 1924 were useful, with Pharos and Twelve Pointer se the best, but they were not in any way cup horses, as a mile and a

Quarter was as far as they would go. Papyrus stayed, fairly

weil, but it is to be doubted whe believed ther he was ever so good as was

Ascot Gold Cup people. by some was won by a French horse, with French horse second and another one fourth. Many of the long-distance handicaps were also won by French-bred horses, who seem to be possessed of bet- ter stamina than ours at the present moment.

domestic

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The year's cricket was a thumph in that England won the Test series against South Africa. Yorkshire were once again the county. which they position champions, a thoroughly deserved, as they were cer tains the best all-round side eren "it they were not always the most enter cricket suffered financi County. prisirs ally from the weather and not a few of are in serious financial the counties trouble. Cambridge won the University match by wickets. The match between Eton and Harrow w was drawn.

Cambridge won the University Boat Race by 4

Rugby hs.

very large

continued to attract

of affairs view of spectators, a state

alarm,

by some people with for unless the money is properly

used it may not do the game any good at all. The International Champion- ship of the year was won by England, who won all four matches in

.part....

Oxford

man the which, on their

form, against the "All Bell

they

was the

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Cam- bridge were alleged to be favourites. A

season feature of the clubs' revival of Richmond, who, once a very great club, had until 1924 fallen on evil The Football Association Cup was won by Newcastle United, who beat Aston Villa in the final tie at Wembley by goals to 0. Huddersfield won the League Championship and Wales the Interna tional Championship. The matches in the various Leagues continued to attract enormous crowds, but the play gener- ally, especially that of the forwards, was not good. The ability to shoot goals seemed to have been lost by the pro- fessional "player.

The

visit of the English. Polo team to the United States of America in an at- to recover the lost America Cup ended in disaster, the United States winning the first two matches of the Beries, and so winning the rubber." The English team was short of practice and not, According to general views, the strongest that could have been chosen.

Golf, as an outdoor pastime, continued increase in popularity. The Amateur Championship was won by Mr. Holder- "..PRO- ness, who also won in 1992. The P fessional Championship was won by Wal- ter Hagen, from the United States of America.

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In the lawn tennis tournament at Wim- biedon, M. J. Borotra (France) won the

The open singles.

women'a men's open aingles fell to Miss K. MeKane (Great Britain), after Mlle. Lenglen (France) had withdrawn because illness.

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The Paris Olympic Games proved from mary points of view as unsatisfactory their predecessors The United States marks, with France second Sweden third, Great Britain fourth, and Finland fifth. Great Britain did well in the track events, but the Games will be chiefly remembered for the wonderful long-distance running of Nurmi, the could Finn, who broke every record lay his hands on.

We congratulate our contemporary on the final phrase, which happly suggeste how handy Nurmi is with his feet.- ED. H.D.P3

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