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(BY ROY MURRAY)

ground staff before the astute Jimmy Seed saw the possibilities of a future star in him. He fills Inside left position, is very the clever with the ball and cracks a vicious shot with his left foot.

PA KAU PING'S SUPERIORITY

RIFLES SOUTH CHINA “A” DUEL gy when he signed Boulter up for I visualised the Senior League the Charlton Team. Few players Race gradually developing into a have had a more romantic rise to spirited duel between South China stardom than this Ebb Vale youth, "A" and Rifles. The other chal-who was actually employed on the lengers have more or less falled to atay, the pace set by. these two teams and can be ruled out as serious challengers for the Cham- 'pionship crown. The destination of honours still remains uncertain. The recent lapse of Rifles some- what endangered their hitherto Inspiring lend-while South, China "A" have shown beneficial results from their recent engagements. However I am still of the opinion that the form shown by the mill- tary team of late has been all wrong and that they will anally reach their former high standard.

It is on very rare occasions that one can single out a goalkeeper who places his goal kicks to his own players. Pa Kau-ping is one of the few custodians who always endeavours to administer this beneficial move. Most goalkeepers kick blindly, just for the sake of clearing the ball out of the danger AN INTERESTING FACT.

zone whereas a well placed goal It is quite interesting to note kick can be of great - advantage. that South China "A" have a great and nine times out of ten set his chance of accomplishing the un-own forwards in motion resulting usual feat of winning both the in a well organised move. senior league and shield this sea- KUMAON'S IMPROVED FORM. son. Last year they did the trick

and their prospects of repeating) Kumaon Rifles registered their this performance are particularly fourth win last week-end

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1937.

HOME SOCCER RESULTS

Mid-Week Matches

London, Mar. 17.

The' following are the results of the mid-week football matches.

First Division

Wolves 1, Fortsmouth 1.

Second Division

· Newcastle 3, Notts F. 2.

Third Division (9.) Exeter 1, Milwall 1. "

Scottish League Dunfermline 1, St. Mirren D.

Scottish Cup (Fourth) Celtic 4, Motherwell 4 Hamilton 1, Aberdeen 2

International Trial, Probables 2. Possibles 0—a Burn- ley- Reuter

SCOTTISH CUP DRAW

London, Mar. 17.

WORLD RANKING LIST

FOR BOXERS

Little Room To Quarrel With French Choices

Following the appearance of sixth in his class, Dick Corbett ranking lists drawn up by Ameri- taking ninth place. Peter Sarron, cans, French boxing authorities who McGrory is to meet for the and critics have drawn up their world title is ranked first.

bantams Among the

Johnny own list, states Reuter.

British champion, 13 King, the ranked fourth and Jackie Brown tenth. Harry Jeffro, the Ameri- can who twice beat Sixto Escobar, la Arst.

British sportsmen will not quar- rel with it on many points, but they will not agree with the plac- ing of Len Harvey, only tenth in. the light-heavy weight list after his gallant fight against John Henry Lewis, who, as expected, is ranked first. Jock McAvoy is sixth. In the heavyweight section Max Schmeling is first, followed by Jimmy Braddock and Joe Louis. Walter Neusel, who beat Ben Foord at Harringay in November, comes eighth, and Foord, the British and

the In the flyweight section French judge put Benny Lynch Brat, Peter Kane second. Small Montana third, and their own Valentin Angelmanh fourth. Jim- my Warnock, the Irish champion; is ranked sixİN.

The draw in the semi-final of British Empire champion, tenth. JAPANESE POLE

the Scottish Cup was made to Jack Petersen does not appear on the list. No British boxers ap- day and resulted as follows:-

Morton v. Aberdeen-on Hiber-pear In the middleweight and nians ground.

welterweight, rankings.

„Celtle or Motherwell v. Clyde.--- on Rangers ground.

The matches will be played on Saturday, April 3.-Reuter, I

Jimmy Walsh, the British cham pion, is ranked "sixth in the light- weight, and Johnny McGrory, the British featherweight champion, is

bright. Should they win the co-experiencing a very lean perlod. Bookmakers Have Good Day!

veted league championship. this -term it will be their third succes- slve time. The only team to ac- complish this unusual feat was Chinese Athletic, seven years ago. Not since then has any team gone so close to achieving the hat-trick, MILITARY TEAMS PROSPECTS.

This is very gratifying to the In- dian team who are gradually gaining an improved knowledge of the game and have crept away from the last rung of the ladder. At one period their prospects of the title of wooden evading spoonists seemed vague, but on their recent form those fears have been dispelled and they should continue with the revival THREE FIGURE GOAL AVERAGE

London, Mar. 17

The Lincolnshire Handicap, the first big race of the season opened with a real thrill to-day with the little apprentice Jockey Douglas Smith fighting out a ding-dong finish with the master Jockey, Gordon Richards.

On the other hand the present position of Rifles on the League chart suggests the likelihood of a military team achieving league honours. Not since season 1933-34, Navy's second string display a Both were riding greys, and when South Wales Borderers were very handsome three figure goal Smith got Marmaduke Jinks, start- successful in lifting the trophy, average of 109 for, and only 38 ing at 33 to 1 and owned by Mrs. has a military team held such against which is incidentally the C. B. Robinson, home by a head prominent position.. It is also in-most emphatic in all three divi-

in front of Mr. Martin Benson's teresting to note that the first stons. Their position as leaders in Laureat, a 100 to 7 chance, with team to win the Senior League Division II. presents a more rea- Mr. Davey's Coldron, a rank 66 to was a services eleven-East Kent tastic aspect of a certainty than1 outsider two lengths away for Regt 1908-09.

that enjoyed by thy of the other third place. contenders In either Divisions 1 or III.

LESLIE BOULTER Timmy Seed showed rare strate-

Thirty-two horses ran in the race, and both the winner and the

third placed horse were trained in Yorkshire.

Edgehill, a 10 to 1 favourite and Two of the best backed horses, Mente Sano, at 100 to 8 failed to reach the first 14 at the finish. Nipaway, another well fancled competitor, lost its jockey close to home and when running fifth, but it was a beaten horse at that stage.

JUMPER

Beats America's Best

In Debut

Sueo Oye, the Japanese pote jumper, made a brilliant debut in the United States, when, scarcely a week after his arrival, he de- feated America's two best jumpers, Earle' Meadows and Gebrge Varoff, at the almost record height of 14 ft. 3 ins. states Reuter."

animously chosen by a committee

For his performance he was un-.

of nine sports writers to receive the Rodman Wanamaker Inter- national Trophy, awarded annual- ly to the outstanding performer at the Milrose Athletic Association Games.

Oye made no attempt to better That the race was a real lottery the world record of 14-4 establish- and that the horses drawing high ed in 1934 by Kelth Brown, be- numbers had far too big an ad-] cause he was handicapped by a vantage was shown in the fact slight bruise on the heel. His that the first six horses drew the height was three Inches less than following places:-27, 25, 28, 20, 26 the fourteen foot performance of and 30.

Earle Meadows. the Olympic Champion, and six inches better than the 13-9 height of George Varo..

The bookmakers actually admit- ted having won on the racel- Reuter..

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