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LAWN TENNIS.

HONG KONG CHAMPION

BEATEN.

LOCALS WIN SERIES.

The last two matches of the series between Hong Kong and Malaya Chinese

decided yesterday

were

Khools Strong Game. Khoo maintained his superiority in the second set and kept Lo on the run most of the time by his fast forehand shots, ocensionally wianing by mixing in a clever placement or a brilliant sale. Lo found it ex- tremely hard to break through Khoo's sound play and although the local champion varied bis tactics, he met with no success being re- quently, beaten at the net.

Lo drew level after losing the first game but then Khoa forged ahead with" a lend of 5-1, and eventually won the set at 6-2.

on the Chinese R.C. courts and attracted a large number of specta- į Prior to the above match Lai tors. The result was our win for Kwong Tsun beat Ong Ee Kɔng in The local each side, and as Hong Kong start-straight sets, 6-2, 6-2 ed with a lead of 2-1, the issue went man played a sound game through- to them.

out and on the run of play proved to be the superior..

TO-DAY'S LEAGUE MATCHES.

Chief interest centred in the match between Khoo Hoai Hye and M. W. Lo. A very good struggle was generally expected, but the Singapore champion beat the local player in convincing manner, win- Another interesting programme of ning in straight sets, 6-1, 6. He League games is on the cards to-day. played forceful game throughout. The Hong Kong C.C. are down to showing himself to be a cool and play South China, and should win. resourceful player, and possessing a Melachran has expressed to willing- sound defence. From the start, itness to play again and his inclusion was apparent that he meant to force should strengthen the side consider- the pace and with Lo opening ably. Goldman is still out of the shakile he took the first game with team but it is hoped he will take easy. A long and good struggle for part before the season. is well ad- the second game followed. Both vanced. indulged in aggressive tacties. and The Kowloon Cricket Club meet play reached a high standard. | M. B.K. Kowloon are confident of After many deuces had been call-winning, but the M.B.K. are likely ed, however, Lo, taking risks, to surprise them. The tie between served two double faults and gave University and Craigengower should the game away. The local champion produce an even struggle. then broke through his opponent's b service by dint of some enterprising play bek Khao retaliated and led Thereafter the visitor out- classed Lo, sending a barrage of swift forehand drives all round the court, which Lo found extremely difficult to take. Khoo thus won the first set at 6-1.

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Othe: Divisions.

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Five matches are also down for

also decision in the "C" Division. The struggle for honours is very een at present, an account of the reverse the Chinese Recreation Club suffered last week.

The programme follows:-

"A" Division. Kowloon C.C. v. M.B.K. Hong Kong C.C! ». 8,C.A.A. University & Craigengewer.

"B" Division.

Nippon r. Kowloon C.C. Hong Kong C.Cur. Y.M.C.A. Chinese R.C." . Recreio.

R. E. and S ». University, Indian RC. r. M.B.K.

"O" Division.

Chinese .C. v. R.A.O.C. Craigengower e. Civil Service. Club de Recreio . Indian R.C. Hong Kong C.C.. r. R.E. and S.

FRENCH HARD COURTS

TENNIS..

AMERICAN REVERSE.

[THROWOK REUTER'S AGENOT.]

PARIS, May 23.

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In the French hard courts cham- pionships the Americans met with

dual reverse.

In the quarter final of the wG- men's doubles Mademoiselle Bouman (Holland) and Senorita d'Alvarez (Spain) beat Miss Helen Wills and Miss Edith Cross, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.

In the second round of the mixed doubles Gregory and Mrs. Watson (Britain) beat Wilbur Coen and Miss Edith Cross, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.

Davis Cup.

In the Davis Cup Contest Hm- nessey (United States) beat Abe (Japan), 8-3, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1.

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THE F. A. CUP FINAL.

BOLTON'S WEMBLEY HAT-TRICK.

GALLANT FAILURE OF PORTSMOUTH.

HONOURS FOR DEFENCES IN KEEN

not lost

CUP FINAL.

Bolton's previous successes were gained in 1928 and 1923. Before the war they had reached the Anal round on two occasions and were defeated. Since the war they have a suptie played on a neutral ground Five of their players-Pym, Haworth, Seddon, Nuttall and Butler-have now won three medals, and Finney two. Cook, the little player brought from Dundee, has achieved in three months what such famous players as Bloomer and Buchar strove in vain throughout their playing days to accomplish.

once

GOLF.

ROYAL HONG KONG "GOLF CLUB.

STARTING TIMES FOR SUNDAY.

9.99 .. [ H. Geare and A. E.

Lissaman.' 9.32

H. G. Howard and S. T., Butlin. SJ. B. Fox and N. H. Prockter.

R. Warbrick and J. K. Milward.

A Leach and J. S. Dykes..

9.30

9.40

9.14

**

9.53

0.59

0.50

E. D. Black and R. P,

Moodle.

10.00

C. G. Perdue and B. H. C. Hallowes.

RF Wright and D. L. Newbigging.

HOME CRICKET.

BIG VICTORY FOR MIDDLESEX.

J. C. WHITE IN FORM.

(THROUGH REUTER'A AGENOT.]'

LONDON, May 23. At Lord's Middlesex defeated Worcestershire by an inaings and 100 runs.

The home team batted first and which Haig made 130. Gilbert cap- ran up the big score of 453, ot

tured five wickets for 93 runs.

Worcesterstershire responded with only 167, Haig taking four wickets

for 14 runs.

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The visitors fared worse in their second innings, scoring only 96. F. M. Ellis' and A. G. Enthoven took five wickets for 38 Coppic.

Kent. Somerset. At Taunton Kent Somerset by 80 runs.

LOCAL BASEBALL.

QUESTION OF GROUND DELAYS START.

defeated

Kent batted first and scored 318. Wellard took six wicketa for 108.

Somerset replied with 168. Free-" man took five wickets for 67 runs,

The visitors in their second innings wored 63 runs White had

for 20 runs.

LONDON, April 7. Quickly we were surprised by Bolton Wanderers won the Foot-events, for Portsmouth, whose in- ball Association Cup for the third experience. of the "big occasion" time at Wembley to day, when they chance of winning the match in the was expected to give Bolton a defeated Portsmouth by two goals first half-hour, at once seized the scored during the fast twelve minutes of the game.

initiative, and in the first ten miautes the ball was rarely out of Lancashire territory, only with definite menace to Gilallan. Portsmouth's little Cook swelled. tremendously in the centre of ac tion. Haworth, the Bolton right full-back, repulsed one dangerous advance with a splendid clearing kick, but a few minutes later he was glad to concede the first corner. Finney, his partner, made a timely intervention as Weddle reached eagerly for a tempting centre from Cook, and fifteen minutes had gone before Bolton hearts bent with ex- pectancy, but Butler, after cutting A Daily Prene representative the side netting. in at great speed, shot wildly into learned yesterday that there is The Wanderers every indication that "the Baseball were obviously surprised and un-season this year will be as success-to get, but scored only 123, six of settled, and Portsmouth's backs ful as in the past. Five teams have their wickets falling to Freeman for were permitted to survey the field, entered for the senior division of 60 rues and make deliberate passes of their the League and four for the junior, clearing kicks.

and the Association is, in readiness to proceed with the programme.

The Hong Kong Football Associa- tion have not, so far, handed over the ground to the baseballers but within a week of their taking will start the League programme charge, the Baseball Association which, was originally scheduled to begin on May 18.

The Wanderers' triumph has been gained with the following suc

cesses --

v. Oldham Athletic (b) ... 2–0 v. Liverpool (a)

Replay (h)....

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v. Leicester City (a). 9-1 v. Blackburn Rovers, (a). 1-

'Replay (h).

r. Huddersfield Town.... 3-1 z. Portsmouth

9-0

WEMBLEY CARNIVAL.

Bolton Wanderers 2, Portsmouth 0. One Cup Final is very much like another, a football carnival at Wembley that goes to make a Lon- don boliday and one bright entry in the balance-sheet of the railway companies From Paddington to St. Pancras the usual carly morn ing somnolence of a great city is broken by the tramp of the latest

and hundred thousand strange

Fy was first called into direet action with

ground shot from Watson, and Bolton took their first corner-kick when Bell sliced the ball alarmingly across the face of the goal. The game was more diag dong now, but Forward, who was the weak link in the Portsmouth attack, lost a good chance of soor ing when a wide pass from Cook left him with a clear view of the target. Half an hour had passed before Gilfillan was called upon to repel a simple shot by Blackmore, but Pym had to fiat away for a corner when Thackeray made a swerving shot from a free kick

against awarded

Kean for handling, and the same desperate measures had to be taken with a

high dropping ball from Cook. A siege was maintained for several minutes, and not one Bolton player was within yards of the half-way line.

An Anxious Time.

SITUATIONS VACANT dialects. All is cut to a pattern, everything works to a timetable as carefully elaborated as that which brings two

hundred excursion trains converging upon the capital all through the black night. Only the colours and the accents change, It had been at anxious time for and they only rotate Once every Bolton, but a moment of more three years Bolton Wanderers, sup; palpitating alarm was to come. A ported by many cloth - caps and cry of Goal!" was stifled in their many yards of blue-and-white rin-throate as Bell stunned himself by bon, come to Town, and then more heading back a deliberate drive at strictly than ever does custom con- close range by Blackmore, who, in form to its rules. The Wanderers the next minute, found an op- come to win the Oup, and in- ponent's body in the path of variably they win it. One day they another hard shot. The ball was will fail, and then surely Wem- driven out to Forward, who, bley's concrete walls will crack and benefiting from Mr. Joseph's ap- fall asunder.

plication of the advantage rule in respect of an unsuccessful foul, completed a fast run with a square pass to Weddle, and the centre for ward headed down at that corner of the goal where Pym was not. It seemed a certain goal, hut Sed- don dropped down from the clouds" and turned the ball aside.

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As a matter of fact Bolton came near to failure in what must be reckoned a surprising finsk to-day. They gained a victory that was just about merited on a careful balance of the game's fluctuations, but Portsmouth made a splendid fight and went down with their

Somerset were left with 212 runs

Sussex Defeat Champions. Sussex won a sensational victory over the Champions by an innings and 93 runs. Scores:

Sussex 460 (R. S. Duleepsinhji 14

Lancashire 213, and 154.

Hants v. Glamorgan: Hampshire won by 42 ras. Scores

Hants, 179, and 168. Glamorgan 28 (Kennedy 6 for 3), and 63 (Kennedy 8 for 24).

the "OUT FOR BLOOD."

Burnden Park sit up and take notice. Eleven minutes from the end" Cook centred strongly to Blackmore, too strongly, so of the head out to Butler, and leader sent the ball with a glance while Thackeray stood between the devil and the deep sea Butler launched his bolt at an acute angle.

Gillian threw himself forward in vain, and Mackie, dropping into goal, kicked desperately, and the ball cannoned off his leg, hit a past, and nestled in the netting for

to witness Portsmouth's

tragedy.

That was the first goal, and, of course, the deciding goal. For a few minutes Portsmouth appeared

COMPSTON'S HINT TO

HAGEN.

THE GOLF SENSATION,

(THROUGH ESTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 23.

"Out for Blood" is the heading,

ton endeavours to stimulate Walter cancel the proposed matches at Hagen to retract his decision to Moor Park on May 31 and Birming hem on June 1 for which hundreds of tickets have been sold.

to accept the tradition. Yet so of an article in the Evening close did Mellwaine, the captain, Standard in which Archie Comp come to scoring in the eighty-ninth from forty yards that it was a pity minute with a hard ground shot the counter-attack was so long de layed. Meantime Bolton had scored another goal, for Thackeray failed to intercept a long forward pass by Gibson, and Butler, retrieving the ball close to the dead line, passed it back to Blackmore, who this time gave Gilfillan something altogether too hot to hold...

The Men of the Match, Reputations are more frequently but Haworth and Seddon may look mistaid than made in a Cup Final,

Hagen's withdrawal on the score of "tiredness" has created a sensa tion in the golfing world."

It is recalled that Hagen lost against Archie Corpston by 18 and 17 last year and lost both' com- petitive matches during his present visit against George Duncan.

"I cannot make out whether he flags flying. They provided, the It was a little lucky, perhaps, but

still time for him to change his or his game is safit, but there is Wanderers with opposition that Seddon does these things; it was

on their third medal as being the mind," says Archie Compston, who made the game as close as had been also the turning-point of the hardest earned but the best merit wants to show Britain that he can expected, and they played with a test. Previously, the response to

Haworth was spirit that made the match a good Seddon's rally call had not been ed.,

the rock on match the Americans in's hand to one to watch. Of course is was not convincing, but Bolton could not which the Portsmouth attack was hund contest. an exhibition of brilliant football, let their captain down after that finally broken. He tackled power- recommend Good.

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and cleared his lines with strong cident of the opening period was mosphere was electric, every mo- ment and every movement pregnant with dramatic issue. And until the seventy-eighth minute it was any body's game." He who goes to Wembley expecting more than this deserves disappointment.

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Bolton's Revival.

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HOCKEY.

a narrow escape of the Portsmouth kinks Seddon worked tremendous for Hagen, goal when Bolton's Cook and Gil-ly and daringly. For a long time fillan went down in a heap as they he had to be a defender, but as challenged for Blackmore's centre. the tide turned or, rather, as Cook was first on his feet again, turned it he became the motive but Mackie dashed up and kicked power behind the attack. The third success was Blackmore. He led, the ball away.

The following will represent the maneuvred, and shot, whereas Machine Gun Company H.K.V.D.C. Weddle generally waited for some in Whites, against the M.G. Coy. thing to turn up, and when Weddle Somerset L.I on Thursday, May had failed the chance had disap-30, at 5.30 p., at Shamshuipo :— peared. Such is the weakness of N, S. Loe, H. V. Parker, G. A. L the attacking formation that makes Plummer, R. M. Wood, E. J. R. quarter-backs of the two inside for Mitchell, T. 8. D. Whitley, H wards.

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To appreciate the drama of the It was a definitely better Bolton Final in its own peculiar setting that came back from the dressing and atmosphere one cannot ignore room, and as evidence of enterprise the preliminary pageant of song Blackmore had the distinction of and almost" military parade à causing the first stoppage for off stereotyped ceremony but moving side. The initiative. had passed to still alike to the oldest Wembley the Wanderers, and whereas Ports- Portsmouth seized and maintain- pilgrim as to the newest. That mouth's turn had been very much ed an early ascendancy by theer de preliminary of the countless chorus solo by Cook of Wales, Bolton's termination, strong kicking" by inakes vibrant the already taut more of a concerted number. bycke and half-backa, and the nerves of the spectators, and not Gibson, the most artistic and not cleverness of Cook, but they never cyẹn the most tense moment of the least thrustful of the ten forwards, played with the method that Bolton football sends such a tremor, along was the chief schemer, Brotch Cook showed when the game began to run the spine as does the reverent, al borrowed Welsh Cook's music and the other way. Thus it most impassioned singing of the rendered it almost as well, and claimed that the Wanderers ex byma, "Abide With Me." As the Blackmore began to show Wembley perience won the day after all, vaqt concourse stood, every man a centre-forward-yes, perhaps an even though it won it at the bareheaded, and the music of 90,000 England leader. He forced Gil- different end of the game from that voices and two Guards bands swell-fillan to make the best save from selected by the prophets. Ports- ed in majestic volume, only the the best shot of the first hour's mouth were all thrust and pluck, fluttering of uneray pigeons play, and in the next minute he and they kicked to smithereens the populating the lofty eaves of, the rounded off a bewildering dribble nerves. theory. But tactics and Stadium roof broke the great still with such a pass to Butler as would style will tell, even in a Final; and ing of movement.

have incant a Bolton goal nine in these matters the Wanderers Chinese music (records supplied by When it was over reaction and times out of ten anywhere but at were always the masters. All The Pleasant Co.), relief found outlet in Hailing the the Stadium Gilfillan caught at honour then to the Hampshire de 7.46 p.m.-Evening weather re. emergence of the teams, and the barheight a deceptive dropping-fenders who held them at bay until port. tremendous roar that greeted shot by Cook, and then hà dived at the sands had well-nigh run aut. 8 p.m. Evening programme, Portsmouth declared the allegiance and diverted, brilliantly shot Bell, Mackie, and Gilfillan played (Columbia records supplied by of a London-apparently very strong from McClelland that appeared boroically, and Portsmouth's belief Mesars. Anderson Music Co.). in Stadium tickets. It was to be a certain to score. Still another ex-

10.30 pm. Close down," battle of South against North, and cellent effort by Blackmore was Londoners chanted the war cry, countered by Gilfillan, and barely

"SUNDAY'S PROGRAMME. Play up, Pompes," to the tune twenty minutes were left when Gil- of the Westminster chime, as en- filan was thus encouraging Portscashire.

"Union Church" to be Relayed. thusiastically as the Marines, whose mouth for one supreme effort. uniforins were vivid splashes of Then disaster befell Portsmouth spirit of immaculate sportsman 1:48 pm-Weather-report. colour among & crowd bewildering: Bell, the left full-back, who had ship, and an amateur team's three ly blue and white, since blue and fought magnificently, twisted. him cheers for their opponent had cd white was the colour combination self as he tackled Butler. He was never the warmth of the hand- Organ Recital-1, Andantino (Le of both teams. Bugles sounded back on the field in three minutes, shakes at the finish.

2, Suite Gothique (Beell- There were Mare). without, and the Prince of Wales but as outside-left and not as full-only three stoppages for injuries, mann, (a) Coral (6) Priere, WIE welcomed warmly his back. Thackeray took his place, all of which were accidental; there Opus 25. father's deputy in the now and Butler, who had been very were eleven fouls, scrcral for 7.49 p.m.-Evening, weather catablished custom of greeting the tch tied up by. Bell, immediately injuries, all of which were ac port. teams as well as presenting the found greater freedom. His legs cidental; there were eleven foula, 9p.m. Evening programme, priza at the finishTha Princu avan began to perform that strange several for, handling, had one (Victor and HMV records sup a few minutes late, but almost on dance that makes spectators at Blackened by & trace of Vice-pired by Bears, 3. Mouthre & schedule time the battle öpened. (Oontinued on next Column).

10.30 p.m.--Close down."

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