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OLYMPIC GAMES
Lovelock's Crowning
Triumph In Mile
GREAT BRITAIN BEAT CHINA IN
FAST SOCCER MATCH
There would seem to be no limit to the wonders and perfections of these Olympic Games, writes the Times special correspondent. One had no sooner done with Jesse Owens and Miss Stephens and all the other record-breakers, white and coloured, minle and female, than Forrest Towns appeared as the supreme hurdler of his day, and J. E. Lovelock, not altogether for the first time, revealed himself as the master-runner over a dis- tance approximating to a mile, though on this occasion it was the 1,500 metres, or approximately 120 yards shor- ter than the mile.
men would rest content with the a race. ordinary good position in Lovelock. Indeed, excelled even himself on this occasion. His spurt had carried him into a lead of, say. five or six yards, and, running on as smoothly and easily at in the first two laps, he held on to the lead into the straight. Cunning ham positively tore after him, and Beccall aa last senged the immin- ence of danger and raced up very fast too. But Lovelock had yet another turn of speed up his sleeve and he was still Ave yards in front at the tape.
ominous prelude There was an
the final of the 110 metres hur- dies, if one regarded the event with the anxious, even, humbled, eye of a spectator from Great Britain. Towns, flashing over the obstacles until he was well ahead of Lidman of Sweden, and J. St. L. Thornton, won his heat in 14.1sec., a new world record. Towns, to all intents and purposes, ignored the presence of an obstacle. Stepping over it would be the dullest of dull descrip tions. Towns just sprang, one foot Lovelock was no stranger to re- thrown out like a straight left at cord breaking feats, but his crown-box ng, at where his training had ing triumph had yet to come in taught him a hurdle would be.
In the an Olympic 1,500 metres. absence of his eliminated English rival. S. C. Wooderson, Lovelock carried the main weight of British hopes and fears, and carried it so
That D. O. Finlay, the British Captain, should have finished a worthy second behind such a man as Towns was no defeat in the full That four of sense, of the word. the men behind Lovelock should have beaten the previous best tair com- Olympic figures was mentary upon their "failure."
For the rest, an anxieus Great. Britain was well content that each survive of her Big Three should two heats in the 400 metres; Ger- many, cheered on by the now cus- tomary 100,000 spectators, collared the Javelin throw under the very noses, as it were, of the Finnish! experts: an alian girl occupied the first place in a thrilling net of the 80 metres hurdles for women and Naoto Tajima proved a worthy successor to Nambu in that re- markable feat of agility so well sulted to the Japanese physique, Tajima the hop, step, and jump.
yet another to show that world record in these days is only made to be broken.
was
A GREAT RACE-
well that he not only won by five
FINE HURDLING Finlay hurdled beautifully in the winning of his heat in 14.5 seconds, but it was useless to disguise the pitted against a hurdler as good as fear that, next time, he would be
dition to Towns, there was · Lid- man and Pollard, the American negro, either of whom seemed cap- able of running second. But Fin- lay went hard as well and Anish- ed so desperately fast that he won --and won is the word--the second
clear yards from Glenn Cunning-
himself and faster through the air ham, and the rest of a mighty filela,
and between hurdles Bs well. It but set up a new world record by
was to Finlay's credit that he en- Covering the distance in 3min.
tered the Anal so determined to. 47.8sec. His success left little to the
do his best whate'er befell, and imagination. it was so complete and faultless. He had beaten Can-gardless of opponents superia- ningham, a man who himself had ively good, or otherwise. In ad- broken a world record in America: and he now beat him again. He beat into third place Beccall, the doughty victor of Los Angeles, even though the latter improved upon his own Olympic record. San Ro- mani, a much fancied American. and P. Edwards, of Canada, who requires no further description, also ran faster over the distance Thornton a creditable fifth. than any Olympic runner before them. J. F. Cornes. Great Britain's representative, ran splendidly, and, though he finished sixth, he achie- ved a time within two-tenths of a second of the record and would have won any 1,500 metres before 1932.
place by inches from Pollard, whose time also was announced as 14.4 sec., with Lidman fourth and
W. Roberts ran the best of the British hopes in the 400 three
He won his first heat metres. casily in 48.1sec., and his other, a more serious affair, with much Smallwood, of America, and Lanzl. of Italy, also concerned in qualify-
Cornes, as one fully expected, himing for the semi-final, in 47.7 This
to do, "used his long stride to set the pace. He led for over 300 me- tres and had a lot to do with the "time of 614 seconds for the Arst lap of 400 metres and the record that followed. Lovelock about this period was content to run fifth but when Cunningham, Ny, the Swede, and Beccal moved up he moved with them in the effortless manner that hides the faintest sus- Cor- picion of additional effort.
was the second best time of the day. A. G. K. Brown also won his Brst heat without any difficulty, but gave his adm'rers some 117- xious moments, first by delaying his effort and then by allowing
Priz. of Canada, and Strandyal. of Finland, to race up and show in ra no more than 30 yards from the tape. Already Blazejczek, the German, had made sure of the Arst place. Brown, one hopes pro- foundly, was merely over-con-
HONG KONG DAILY
EXHIBITION TENNIS
Dorothy Round Wins Set From Austin
IS DISPARITY BETWEEN SEXES DECREASING?
PRESS, FRIDAY.
AUGUST
21, 1936.
INDIAN CHAMPION
SWIMMER
World Endurance Record With Manacles
P. GHOSE'S FEAT
An exhibition match of excep-
Calcutta, July 30; India's Cham- Mional interest was played at the pion swimmer, Mr. Prafulla Ghose, Northumberland Championship who has established several World meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Records in endurance swimming on July 31 between H. W. Austin, has who owed 30, and Miss D. E Round, who received 15 writes A. Walls Myers in the Daily Tele- graph.
recently achieved another world record in swimming with hand-cuffs on
This new record was established when Ghose came out of the Corn- Square Tank yesterday Miss Round won the first set at waids 7--5 and Austin the second at morning at 5.25 am. Without any. 86. The play, which was main-sleep, minute by minute and hour ty from the base-line, lasted well by hour he had fought towards a FL's over an hour. and it was decided new record with manacles on
new figures for swimming 'with not to play a third set.
pand-cuffs on read: 71 hours 13 had Austin and Miss Round
minutes. beaten R. J. Ritchie previously and Mrs, J. B. Pittman in an ex- hibition mixed doubles game by B-2, 6-3.
It is something when we remem- ber that India holds no world record' except that of endurance swimming in any event either on land or on water, excepting. of course, in Hockey..
P.
This even result is a credit to the 1934 woman champion, True.
Chose went strong Austin has not a menacing ser-
and was vice, and on the day he made few throughout his venture excursions to the net. That Miss seen smiling and chatting with Round could hold her own at the friends and admirers that gather- back of the court is, indeed, a tried round the tank to encourage
The physi bute to her mobility and rhythm him in his mission.
makes cians who attended on him when of stroke. The decision one wonder whether the disparity he was taken out of water said: "Everything O.K. nothing to fear." between the sexes is decreasing.
HOW TILDEN BEAT MILLE.
LEN GLEN 4:
HIS PREVIOUS RECORDS 1933-72 hours 18 minutes (Cal- cutta), (unrecognized). 1933 (Oct. In the only set they ever play-25)-79 hours 24 minutes (at Royal beat Mile. Lenglen Lake, Rangoon), and (declared ed.. Tilden 60. Her father was gratified be- world champion). cause every game went to deuce. This was Tilden's ruse for proving could concede Suzanne, that he
in her supreme
own realm, as much as three points in every same and yet win a love set.
R. F. Doherty used to give and owe 30 to Mrs. Lambert Chambers, then the best woman player in the country, and also agreed not to volley. These odds were never beyond his power.
Another ex-champion, Ernest Renshaw, when told in earlier days that a woman's skirt must necessarily restrict her activities agreed to dona skirt, and then wagered that he could give a first- class woman player just the same handicap. He won his bet.
MIS. Moody would beat most of the second-class men not because she is physically stronger, but be-, cause her length of drive would
le them up."
Miss Ryan was one of the most successful women players "against the second-class man; on more than one occasion she won Lord Charles Hope's up tor a mixed singles competition under handi- cap at Cannes. Many of her male opponents could not handle her heavy chop. They even preferred Mile. Lenglen's more orthodo strokes. though the 'French player never lost more than four games to Miss Ryan in any match, they ever played on the Riviera,
YODLER EXPELLED
Hong Kong Dally Press? Spects
Berne, Aug. 20.
Franz Hug, who displayed his skill
The well known "Flagswinger
at the openlag of the Olympic Games in Berne, was expelled from the Central Swiss Yodling Associa-| tion, according to the paper "Zuercher
The paper! states that the reason for this ac- tion is that Hug broke the statutes of the Yodler Association by swinging flags of foreign na- tions at various occasions. Transocean News Service.
Sport"
1934-24 hours handcuffed swim- ring with handcuffs (Dacca).
1935-82 hours 30 minutes "hand- cuffed wimming in Calcutta (world record).-"Amrita Bazar Patrika."
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HALF-MILE ARMY SWIM EVENT
East Lancashires Triumph
The Hong Kong Area Inter- Unit Half Mile Swimming cham- plonship was held yesterday morn- ing of Stonecutt.rs Island and resulted in
overwhelming triumph. for the East Lancashire Regiment, who gained the first three places in the team event and individual placings.
The following were the results in the team event:
1. "D" (s) Coy. East Lancs.
2. "A" Coy. East Lancs.
3. "B" Coy. East Lancs.
4. 22nd Fortress Coy. R.E.
5. 9th Anti-Aircraft Battery RA. 8. E.Q. Wing. East Lancs.
INDIVIDUAL PLACINGS
1. L/Cpl. Paarse (R.E.), 2 Pt. Taylor (East Lanes), 3. Lieut. J. M. Calvert (RE).
SHANGHAI'S CRICKET
CAPTAIN
A. J. Barson veteran cricketer and hockey player. was chosen on August 14 to captain the Shanghal cricket team against Hong Kong the forthcoming Interport ser- ies to be staged in Shanghai in, the carly part of October.
YACHT RACE
("Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)
Kiel, Aug. 19. The Third International Marine Cup Yacht Race was won by Italy on Wednesday in a special race which took place in order to break the tie between Italy. Sweden and Germany. In another close con- test Italy crussed the line as victor in, 2 hrs 59 mins, 20 secs., Sweden known quantity in international just managing to gain second football-more than held their place with a 5 second marg ng in own. These Oriental players pass-front of Germany...-- ed and tackled well, but they were Fransocean News Service. apt to lose the ball too easily. It
nes, still running amoothly, did not dent; certainly he soon got ahead fall back far, but on the second
of his challengers again and fin- time round Cunningham, Ny, Love-ished second. Rampling's experien- lock, and Beccali were in front of
ces consisted of an easy second to him, and at the bell these four an-
Blazejezek and a third to Lu Valle, swered to its challenge in their of America, and Skawinsky, of own especial way. The strongly France. In each case his time was bull Cunningham,forged ahead
185ec. Lu Valle and Williams, two for a bit: Ny, in the Scandinavian more of the American coloured manner, lengthened the stride in athletes, would appear to be the a conndent, threatening manner,chter dangers. Lovelock, always the master of any
The modern pentathlon at the kind of situation, slided, rather Olympic Games has been won by than spurted, into his old position, Lieutenant Handrick, and when the back stretch had many, with a record score of 314 surprised and subdued the British been fairly entered, spurted, or points. The score was the odd team, and no score was recorded rather glided, again. Beccali quick-half-point better than Count until Dodds finished off a "good. kened his pace without any uneven Oxenstierna's in the event at Los movement to give Great Britain hastening, as befitted a champion Angeles. Of the British competi- the lead 12 minutes after half- of long experience. Perhaps, he, like more than one close observer. thought Lovelock had spurted a shade too soon. Actually that was an injustice both to Lovelock's judgment and technique,
1932.
of Ger- Wes their pace, however, which
OLYMPIA RADIO SHOW
London, Aug. 19.
tora J. Macdougall was placed thir- time. Then followed a period of The Value of exhibits at the teenth, which was two places bet- vigorous play. at the end of which Radio Show, which opens at Diym ter than when he competed in Finch scored from a good move-pic to-day week, is estimated at
ment on the left wing, and so put £8,000,000. Nearly 150 manufac GREAT BRITAIN BEAT CHINA Britain two goals up. The British turers are showing sets and com-
In the preliminary round of the team, whose forwards had pre- ponents on five miles of stands. football competition, Great Briviously been lacking both in speed The exhibition, the principal When a man has set himself totaln beat China by two goals to and ball control, was now playing features of which promise to be the winning of one event, con- none, and thus qualified to meet much better. and maintained the "all waves" rebelvers and television- scious, as it must be assumed, that Poland in the second round,
BEAUTIFUL RUNNING
his stamina would 'not fall him, he is entitled to go ahead where lesser
U.S. BASEBALL HOME FOOTBALL LEAGUE BOWLS
Close Victory For Giants
New York. Aug. 19. The following ware the results of baseball matches played to day-
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York
יד
Brooklyn
B 5 2
1 3 7 0 Melvin Ott and E Ripp homered.
R. H.
Chicago Pittsburg
+ 7 0"
5 12
0
Philadelphia
1
7
4
Chuck Klein homered, Boston
9 II Lopes and Berger homered.
0
No other games were sche- duled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
4 12
Boston
Werber homered. Philadelphia
5 9 0 Bob Johnson and Hayes hit home runs, Thirteen innings were played.
Boston Philadelphia
Detroit
Owen homered. St. Louis
Scottish League Matches
London, Aug. 19. Eight matches were played in the first division of the Scottish Football League to-day, with one or two surprising rezulta
Celtic visited St. Johnstone and I went down by the odd goai while Third Lanark upset Kilmarnock on the latter's ground by three clear goals.
Rangers entertained Dundee and won in a canter, but Aberdeen, be- fore their own supporters, could do no better than a draw with Hiber- nian.
I
The full list of results, as cabled by Reuler, and the revised league table follow.
1 Hiberniat
Kowloon C. C. Teams
For To-morrow
The following have been selected to represent the Kowloon Cricket Club against the Civil Service Cric- ket Club in the Senior Lawn Bowls League at King's Park tomorrow at 3.30 p.m.
Goodwin, R. G.
Qeo. Lee, F. Craig. 4. Hyde Lay (skip); F A. Broadbridge, H. Overy. A. Spary, A. E. Bilstone (skip); H. Gittina, V. C. Labrum, J. M. Jack, E. C. Fincher (skip).
K.C.C. "A" TEAM
Kowloon O.C. "A" will meet the Oivil Service C.O. st. Happy Valley and will be represented by the fol- lowing:
C. W. Fletcher, J. S. Dinnen, R. P. Phillips. W. W. Hirst (skip); A
2 J. Kew, A. Nissim, L. E, Lammert,
2 L. Jack (skip); S. J. Houghton, J. '3] R. Canning. T. Ferguson, T. W
3 Carr (skip).
0
Aberdeen Albion Hamilton Hearts.. Kilmarnock
1
A St. Mirren
3 Falkirk
3 Dunfermline
0 Third. Lanark
Queen O'Sth Rangers
3
Partick
3
Dundee
0
St. Johnstone
2 Celtic
1
AMENDED LEAGUE TABLE
St. Johnstone 3 2 Hamilton
0 1 8 3 2 0 1 9
6 4
7 4
8 4
2 11 I 711
Motherwell
3 2 1 0 7 45 Third Lanark 3 2 0 1 6
4 4
0
Aberdeen 3 2 1 9 8
2 5 Celtic
3 1 1 1 5
5 3
Rangers
3 2 1 0 8
15 Clyde
S 1 1 1 0
5 3
815
1
Falkirk Partick Hearts
3 2 0 1 ទ
6 4
Albion
3 1 0 2 6
9 2
3 2 0 1
3 1 2 0 9 11
8 4 8 4
Dundee Arbroath
3 0 2 1 3
4 2
3.1 0 2 4 B Z
13. 15. 1 Solters and Bottomley hom- ered.
4
New York
Dimmaggio homered
7 12 D
P. W. D. L. F. A, Pts.St, Mirren 3 2 0 1 11
Washington
Stone homered.- Reuter.
"THERE'S AN
H.B
8 0
HR
Queen's Park 3 0 2 1 3 6 2 3 0 1 2-28 1 Kilmarnock Queen O'Sth. 3. 0 1 2 5 11 1 2 1 Hibernian 3 0 1 2 3 Dunfermline3 0 0 3 6 "12 0
COMING OFF THE ICE IN A MINUTE!"
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It was a fast and open game in of strong Chinese attacks led by ber 1525d which the Chinese so far an un- Buen and Fung
British Wireless.
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