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Sports
Hong Kong at Play.
SPORTS NOTES AND COMMENTS.
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[BY "BROADCASTER".]
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Championship problems in the lawn bowls league came solution, last Saturday in so far as the senior division is concerned, as Craigengower's 'victory and the de- fest of Civil Service leaves the champions to secure one point more to claim the honours and at the same time perform the " hat trick." Club de Recreio made their fourth attempt to beat Craigen- gower, but the champions again proved their superiority. The Kow loon Shipbuilders drove a wedge into the Civil Service team, and even the Civil Service junior string found to their cost that some of the teams who have dropped by the wayside are still a potent factor in controlling the destiny of the shields,
There seems to be no doubt now that Craigengower is the strongest teara in the league.
Bradbury seems to be the guiding spirit of the team. Without his enthusiasm the team certainly must get broken up. In the same way Grimmitt is
a great asset to Civil Service and
News
WATER POLO.
V.R.C.. "A" TROUNCE KOWLOON.
GOALS TO 1 VICTORY.
At the V.R.C. bath last night the home team's senior string met and defeated the Kowloon Swimming Clab by six goals to one...
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1930.
U.S. BASEBALL
RESULTS.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
NEW YORK, August 17. The following are the results of the baseball matches in the Nation- 'al and American Leagues played on
Sunday:-
National League.
Pittsburg
Boston Cincinnati Philadelphia
CHICAGO LEADING BY A
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Clubs
Chicago
Won Lost Pet.
66.
.600
The detailed scores for the day Follow:-
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Brooklyn
68. 46 .580
N. H. E.
New York
01
47 .565
St. Louis
35
52
Chicago
S
12
.....33
30
.491
Philadelphia
3
50 61
.450
Detroit
89
435
Boston
72 .351
Clevelbad
Washington
9
10
0
St. Louis ... 10
19
New York.
5
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
New York
3
12 -
3
Pittsburg
3
▸
Philadelphia Cincinnati
9
1
+
9.
0
6
A
$ 10
1
6
11
2
0
FRACTION.
Brooklyn
3. Pittsburg
0
St. Louis
4 New York
19
BROOKLYN AGAIN BEATEN,
St. Louis
14. New York
4
3 Boston.
4
8. Boston
ទ
3 Philadelphia
Cincinnati Cincinnati Chicago
American League,”
New York New York Boston
Boston Washington
8.Chicago
1 Chicago
3 Cleveland
0 Cleveland
1 Detroit
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BABE RUTH'S 43RD HOME RUN.
What promised to be an inter- esting game" had all the thrills robbed of it at the outset when the V.R.C. scored two goals in quick succession through Roza- Pereira and Gittina. Kowloon then rallied round somewhat, but although their resistance looked | ATHLETICS. TAKE TWO GAMES promising, nothing came of it and FROM CLEVELAND. before the interval the home team were two more goals up, the points coming from Gittens and Roza- Pereira again.
After the interval a slip by Stewart gave Simpson an opportu nity, and the latter scored the only goal for Kowloon, Gittens and Lawrenc added further goals for the V.R.C. before the final whistle came with the score at 6-1..
The teams were as follows:- V.R.CAT. Knight, J. R. Soares, H. M. Remedios, J. Stewart, E. Lawrence, S. V. Gittins and C. Roza-Percira.
Kowloon.-Angus, Kerr. Simpson, Witchell, Railton, Franks and Henry.
LEAGUE TENNIS.
(UNITED PRESS:]
New York, August 11.-The Chi- cago Cubs leaped to the top of the National League standing to-day when their win over the Braves, couped with Brooklyn's defeat at at the hands of the Cardinals, left their respective percentages at .596 and .395..
The Dodgers lost by a single poiat at St. Louis, being nosed out by to 6, although they got eleven hits to nine for the Cards. Three errors by the Brooklyn team lost "the game.
The Cubs won more decisively, taking gaining a 4 to 2 victory on a basis of tea hits to Boston's six, New York. August, 12-Babe and in spite of the fact that Chi- Ruth's 43rd home run of the 1930sago contributed the sole error of season we made here to-day off the the contest. delivery of Hoyt, Detroit Tigers
Playing at Cincinnati, the Reds won by 42. The Phillies' hits num- pitcher, in the third inning with Reese ahead, and it. was just bered but a bare half-dozen to Cin- enough to give the Yanks a 8-5 wincinnati's eight and the Phillies com which brought their percentage up mitted the single error of the game, to 591, as compared with Wash- ington's 602 and Philadelphia's .672,
The Babe is at present 10 days and eight games ahead of bis 1927 record year when he socked out a total of 60 for the season. Statis- ticians accordingly believe that he
son with a new record.
much of the success is due to his. U.S.R.C. SCORES EASY WIN. leadership to-day by taking both
efforts. It is extremely hard luck on the Civil Service to set the honous go past them again. Last season the same thing happened in spite of wo victories over Craigen gower. One of the Kowicon teams seems to be always the cause of their undoing,
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Civil Service juniora lost to the Electricians by 14 shots. The re- sult was a great surprise. Duck- worth's rink, by no means the strongest of the team, defeated Archibald's team by 24 shata, and it was" Archibald's rink which con- tributed in a way to Civil Service taking the points from the Bowling Green team the previous week! It has now become a custom for Civil Service and the Bowling Green to win or fall the same day. The Bowling Green visited Talkoo and lost the points by two shote, Duncan, the home skip, winning the match in the last head of the game. They again stand with the Lame number of points. Kowloon C.C. performed creditably in de feating the Yacht Club by 18 shots. The Cricketers are due at Civil Serfice this week, and will be greatly favoured to win on their recent form
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At long last the baseball season has commenced. There was 4
large crowd at Caroline Hill on Saturday to see the Japanese bors
The Pirates took an 9-6 victory from the Giants at Pittsburg, pro- fitting by three errors which offset the fact that the Giants made twelve hits to Pittsburg's' eight.
Athletics Give Ground,
Four
Boston
Chicago
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Standings.
AMERICAN LEAGUE,
** * *
s 45.
47
Won Lost
38 Philadelphia.... 76 Washington New York Cleveland
38. 03 Detroit
56 53 Chicago
" 60 Boston... 39 74
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
St. Louis
MINIATURE GOLF IN
AMERICA.
HUGE SUM INVESTED IN LATEST CRAZE.
Washington, August 11.-Minia- ture golf courses, America's latest craze, are helping to correct the adverse business balance, the U.S. Department of Commerce announc ed to-day.
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Unemployment is also being aid- ed by the installation of thousands of the tiny courses on vacant lots throughout the country.
It is estimated that approximate- ly G.8100,000,000 has already been invested. The courses are crowded
ENGLISH IDEALS IN
EDUCATION.
ADDRESS TO STUDENTS BY DR. TEMPLE.
The Archbishop of York. (Dr. Temple) spoke on" English Educa- tional ideals at the opening of the International Student Service Congress at St. Hugh'a Collège last
month, which was attended by about 130 students from all parts of Europe, the Dominions, the United States, and the Far East.
The Archbishop said there was
day and night by thousands of neono more subtle kind of self-flattery
ple, many of whom never handled a golf club before.
Each course consists of 18 holes from 20 ft, to 30 ft. in length. Ab though no club but the putter is used, the golfers must clear" a variety of natural and trick hazards Pet. and the game has proved tremend .667ously fascinating and far less ex- 399pensive than regular golf over .399 full-sized courses. .300 Wealth has poured in apon the .491 'inventor of the cotton seed hull 403 playing surface, Mr. Garnet Carter, 343 proprietor of a hotel at Lookout Jalountain, Tennessee. This surface closely imitatea grass but weara 500much better, allowing hard use of 395 a course to an extent which natural .565
grass would not. 503
Chicago
65
Brooklyn....
66
1:"
New York
41
57
31 50
.481
69
435 .439
34
Pittsburg Boston Cincinnati. Philadelphia
19533882,
LONDON THEATRES.
THE CHEAPER SEATS PROBLEM.
Still more interesting was the
nnnouncement that the Little Theatre, by arrangement
with Joseph H. Levey, is to be an ex- perimental theatre. A lease has been signed for six months with option of renewal.
The plays at this theatre are to be of an experimental and artistic type, and a start will be made on Armistice Day with "The Unknown
Mr. Mauries, Browne recently did Warrior." what no theatrical manager has done before.
At a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel, London, he thanked the critics for the support they had given him and for their constructive criticism, That was rather fine of him, con- sidering how his Iago" had been criticised.
Encouragement is to be given to unknown playwrights, and there. will be associates of the Little Theatre, with special privilegea, en the lines of the successful Theatre Guild of New York.
This question of price for ad- mission is, unfortunately, the most dificult problem the modern theatre has to solve,
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tbau to raise the kind of education under which one had oneself grown up, and that was what he was about to do. (Laughter.) Educa tion was not the filling of the mind with knowledge, which by itself was useless, but which was necessary an a preliminary to the real purpose of education, the assimilation and digestion of the knowledge acquir ed.
Learning Dates.
For example, we begin learning history by learning dates, and the knowledge of dates does not make a. man any more educated. He only becomes educated when he knows why things happened when they did. But you cannot know" that until you know when things happened. There is one date going to remember till death, thanks to the telephone boy who, when asked for the date of William the Conquer replied “ One o double Bix Hastings."
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"In English education we have been mainly training the subcon- scious self. English education has quite unconsciously been directed toward the unconscious. To put it in another way, we have been main- ly concerned to train people's spon taneous reactions to the situations in which they may find themse.res. The way in which we have done that is to lay enormous stress upon membership of a society, and that is the essential characteristic of four typical educational institutions. A great part both of the strength and weakness of the English charak ter is due to this preponderance which we have established for our- ship and fellowship over the in-
have almost lost tellectual element in education. Sometimes we sight of the fact that education has anything to do with the mind at all.
In the American circuit, the stands an excellent chance, barring Athletics dropped one rung down injuries and serious altercations bladder when the White Sox with umpires, of finishing the sea-beat them by 8 to 3 at Philadel The Athletics increased their phia, the world champions making but seven hits. This brought the. games of a double-header from the Athletics' percentage to .667. Cleveland Indians, winning the first
The Senators pulled up to 598 by by a score of 9 to 1 and the second virtue of a victory over the Indians
at Washington, by 9-2. by a 7-0 score. In the second gaine the pitching was tight on both
errors by Cleveland helped the sides, the Athletics getting nine hits hits to seven for the Indians.
Senators, who were able to get to theatre within certain ethical and fixing a minimum price for the selves of the element of member. and the Indians eight.
by 5-1 over the Washington's Senators were like- F. Y. Khoo and Miss B. Chenwise winners, taking an errorless Tigers, who made only three hits in the entire game. A New York. game from the White Sox at Wash-the Browns fronted the Yankees by (University) :-
ington 5 to 4. The Senators made
10 to 5, making, twelve hits while 13 hila, the Sox 11.
the Yankees got only five.:
Making the trip to Pokfulam yes- terday, the United Services Re- creation Club beat the University easily in the mixed doubles league by nine sets to mil. The scores were:-
last to L Goldman and Mrs.
Taylor
0- G lost to E. Grimble and Mrs.
Keary
lost to Col. Skinner and
Mrs. Dook
G. de Souza and Miss G. Tung (University):--
1- 8
0.6
Ho
lost to L. Goldman and Mrs.
Taylor
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3- 6
lost to Col. Skinner and
. Mrs. Dook
3- 6
lost to E. Grimble. and Mrs.
Keary
Y. K. Ng and Miss R. (University)-
lost to L. Goldman and Mrs.
Taylor
lost to E. Grimble and Mrs.
Keary
lost to Col. Skinner and
Mrs. Dook
Perry
PING PONG LEAGUE.
1- 6
1- 6
trounce the South China Baschall FOREIGN ENTRIES INVITED, nine (hitherto hailed at the "In- vincibles") in- the opening game, which was seven incinga. The Nip ponites are to be congratulated upon their fine win, and if they should maintain the form shown last Saturday, it looks pretty cer. tain that they will wrent the title from Maity Chang's crew this season. The Chinese did not ap pear to be quite as good as they were last year, but this is probably due to the fact that they got used to thinking they have no serious rival at the old ball game. It's good thing to be confident of one's own prowesa, but to be over 'con- fident is a great mistake.
Under the auspices of the Hong Kong Ping Pong Association, the following League and Singles Ping Pong Championships (open to the run this season, Colony), will be commencing early next month-
Senior League. Junior League. Men's Singles Championship. Ladies Singles Championship. Entries close on Friday, the 22nd inst. "Further particulars may be obtained from Mesere. China Sports, 16, D'Aguilar Street.
to squalise. In view of this drawn
On Sunday the Kisoras met and defested the babies of the league game, they are now only two pointe the Texaco nine. This was quite ahead of Chinese Athletic Associa
as good a game as the one between tion! These two teams are "due to the two leading aiden on the premeet on September 3, when; no vious day, and the "Koutfit pro-doubt, the Chinese team will go all out to lower the the honours of mises to spring more surprises a
the season wears on Bill Hong last year's holders. Sling is now a member of this outfit and I hear that his brother. During the past week, junior Harry will be donning the same division league matches came to a uniform shortly. Much depends on close, when the V.R.C. finished their battery and it this should their programme in a very appro- break up before the season enda,priate manner by defeating their then they will have a sorry time.uearest rivals, the Fuksen Club, The Filipinos are also fielding a in a very close struggle, by 4 goals tehm in the league and they should to 3. The standard of play was dar quite well in spite of the fact high, and the match was undoubted- that Big Ben Zafra now turns out by one of the best seen this season. for the oil kings." They still have The V.R.C. junior team is very the Leonard brothers and I under- well-balanced and they fully retand that a "dark horse" twirler justify their claim to the champion-
ship title. will be in the box for them.
A fortnight hence will find the elose of the water polo league, and one cannot help noticing the im V.R.C. have done well to remain provement in the two military in the premier position of the teams, Somersets and R.A. They table. In their match with Somer appear to have struck their form sets about a week ago, they came lately, and may provide a surprise close to defeat, as the or two before the season closes, soldiers led by 21, until twe Both teams will meet the Chinese minutes before the end of the Athletic Association during the next gamo. Fortunately, they were able two weeks, and it will be interest-
ing to watch the results. (Continued on next Column.)
very
Boston's Red Sox won from the Browns by a similar 5-4 score' in 'a game marred by two errors by each
team
In the National circuit, the Cuba continued to hold their newly-won laurels when they were victors over the erstwhile league-leading Dod- gers at Chicago by a score of 3 to 2, the Cuba rising to a 1600 percen- tage while the Brooklynites drop- ped to .589. Each team made two errors. The Giants did not play to-day and they remained at .585.
St. Louis Cardinals continued to run fourth with the somewhat im- praved percentage of .827 when they beat the Braves to-day by a score of 4 to 2, profiting by three Boston errors though they made but eight hits to Boston's 10.
The Pittsburg Pirates won both, games of a double-header from the Phillies to-day. The first game wound up 8 to 7 after a tie had been battled through to 14 innings and the Pirates won under a handicap of thrte errors. In the second game, the Phillies made but five hits and committed two errors and the Pirates won 8 to 3.
The detailed scores for the day follow
AMERICAN LEAG DE.
Clubs. Cleveland
Philadelphia
(first game)
Cleveland
Philadelphia
(second game)
Detroit New York
Chicago Washington
St. Louis Boston
Clubs.
R.
H..
E.
1
0 1.
9 11 .. 1
5
14
8
10
11
5 13
NATIONAL LEAGUE
· Philadelphia
R. H.
14 innings 7- Pittsburg
(first game)
Philadelphia I Pittsburgh
(second game).
Brokdyn
Chicago
Boston
St. Louis
Standings.
Won
88
(47. 501
Clubs
Philadelphia Washington New York
Cleveland
Detroit Chicago
B Louis
Boston
Pet.
**672
58 ·58. 500
487
380
351
Bastoa
won
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As to the future. the Globe Theatre is to be run as a commercial artistic limitations. Leon M. Lion is to be co-manager with Maurice Browne and the theatre will open on September 8 with Elmer Rice's
The Street Scene."
(Continued on next Column.)
There are clauses in most theatres dearest sonts, and then there are the absurdly inflated rents for theatres, to say nothing of the cost of labour. The public is promised, however, at the 3 number of cheap seats Little Theatre.
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