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ALL THE

HARDCOURT TENNIS

ALEC CRAWFORD THROWS AWAY FINE CHANCE

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Lee Wai-tong Fights Hard

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To Stave Off Defeat

(By F. Mela)

Alec Crawford, of the Kowloon Cricket Club, lost a golden oppor- tunity to enter the second round of the Colony hardcourt tennis championships yesterday when he met Lee Wal-tong at the United Services Recreation Club.

Crawford, 1-1 down in the first set. rallied in grand style to take it at 64 and he had actually run away to lead 3-2 and 40-love when, adopting safely first tactles, he not only allowed Lee to save the game. but eventually take the set at 11-9.

Lee started off very well but after

had found his Crawlord

football length the South China stor could do nothing and the K C. C man won the next five ganes in a reel to take the set.

his Crawford maintained superiority in the second sel until he cast off his forcing game and played "pat ball" tennis. This sulted Lee very point well and he piled up after point to fully extend his upponent.

CLEVER VOLLEYING

Lee Volieved very cleverly and

OTHER MATCHES

The other hatches resulted as follows:-

Pang O-lam and Mok Fuk-in beat H. W. Ler and S. W. Llang 6-4, 4-6 6-2.

Lee Kam-ming beat K. K. Fung 6-4, 0-7.

Peter U beat' J. F. L. Smalley. C-35-3"

A Crawford, and "Lee Wal-fang. 6-4, 9-11 (unfinished).

Tsul Yan-pui beat C. K. Chan 6-4. 4-6, 6-2:

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Bick Szeto beat S. S. Leong, 6-2. G-3.

though his shots lacked stins they HOME FOOTBALL

RESULTS

London, Aug. 30. Beaten by Bolton Wanderers on Saturday. Chariton Athletic won

SPORT

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1938.

SPORTING NEWS AND NOTES

Area Aquatic UNAUTHORISED New Soccer

RACE TOTES A Charge Rule

Sports

LIEUT. BARRON. WINS

OFFICERS' RACE

Further progress in the Hong Kong Area Aquatic Sports WAS made yesterday when the units Recreation the Victoria met at Club.

Some very interesting con- tests were seen. especially in the Offeers 100 yards' free style event. Lieut. Lawrie of the Royal Scots was beaten by Lieut. Barron by 1/5th of a second. The former swem flne race, but it was evidently too much for him to carry off the prize after having com- peted in "the 440 yards free style event and the 30 yards earlier in the afternoon. The following were the results:-

50. YARDS FREE STYLE (First fleat! Lieut. Lawrie (Royal Scots › Royal En-

29 secs.

Barron 2.-Lieut. gineers) 29 1/5 secs.

3.-L Cpl. Sutherland (RS) 31

secs.

(Second Heat) 1.-Thomson (8th R.A.) 29 secs. 2. Scales (R.S.) 29 1/5 secs 3. Slater (RS.) 31 3/5 secs, 440 YARDS FREE STYLE·

(First Heat) 1-Lieut. Calvert (RE) 6 mins. 11 3/5 secs.

2.-L/Bdr. Norman (R.A.) 6 mins. 16 secs.

(Second Heat)

41

1.-Lieut. Lawrie (R.S.) 6 mins.

were always well-placed. His over- head shots were on the weak side. but towards the end, when he had torted Crawford into playing "the game that suited him, he did bring aff some very clever angle valleys.

a more | their first points in the First 41 1/5 secs. It Crawford had been experienced player he would have Division of the English Football Lontinued forcing the game and he would have won" but as it turned at home by four goals to two mins. 53 2/5 secs. out the game had to be left un- finished Crawford taking the, first set at 5-4 and Lee the second at 11-9.

League yesterday by beating Stoke

Wolves and Leicester played a drawn game, neither team scor- ing.

In the Second Division, Man- They decided, after the match. chester City gave an indication of that they will play the match all their strength by visiting Chester- over again on date to be de-field and winning by three goals elded by the Committee in charge të nll of the tournament.

TSUI WINS

Young Tsul Yan-pul, on the tur Curt. played good tennis to beat C K Chan in three sets, the favour of the former scores. in being 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

Tsui had things his own way in the first set but in the second Chan found his stride and made Tsui do a lot of run- ning. Brially winning the set at G-1. Chan, who won the doubles title in Canton re- cently, made some very nice shots if he is given plenty of tine to do it but he is rather. on the weak side "on the run."

WILL BRADMAN

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LIVE IN ENGLAND?

JOB OFFER FROM BOOKMAKERS FIRM

London, August 19. DON BRADMAN yesterday "met directors of the London firm of bookmakers which has offered him a position at a salary of £50 a week.

were

2-L/Sgt. Dibben (5th RA) 6

100 YARDS BREAST STROKE (First Heat)

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1.-L/Bdr. Norman (RA) 1 min. 21 4/5 secs.

2. Pte. Harris (R.A.M.O.) 1 min.

(Second Heat)

23 1/5 secs.

1. Gor. Saunders (R.A.) i min.

Results of matches played yes-31 2/5 secs. terday were as follows:-

FIRST DIVISION Charlton 4, Stoke 2. Wolves 0. Leicester 0.

2-Tmp: Thompson (R.A.) 1 min. 38 4/5 secs.

3.-Gar. Lee Hon (R.A.) 1 min. 39 seca.

100 YARDS FREE STYLE Officers' Race--Final 1-Lieut, Barron (RE) 68 1/5

2.-Lieut. Lawrie (RS.) 88 2/5

seca.

SECOND DIVISION Bradford 1. Swansea 1. Bury 0. Fulham 2. Chesterfield 0, Manchester C. 3.secs, Sheffield U. . Coventry 0. Tottenham 3. Sheffield W. 3. Tranmere 2. Millwall 0. West Ham Blackburn F. 2" THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH) Northampton 2. Watford 0. Port Vale 2. Newport 1. Walsall 0. Ipswich 1.

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH) Doncaster 0, Southport 0. Halifax 2, Bradford C. 2 Hull 0, Oldham 2.

Lincoln 2, Barnsley 4. Rotherham 4. Crewe 1. Stockport 3. Accrington 0. Wrexham 3, Hartlepools-0.

(Reuter

U.S. BASEBALL

RESULTS

New York, Aug. 30. The following are the results "of baseball matches played yester- day:-

NATIONAL LEAGUE

New York Cincinnati

R. H. E. 3 7 2 3. 11

(Ott homered for the Glants).

1 9 10 15

AMERICAN LEAGUE

New York

4 13 8 12

1

50 YARDS FREE STYLE Boys' Race-Final 1.-Boy Robinson (R.A.) 29 3/5

secs.

2-Tmp. Thompson (RA) 30 2/5

secs.

3-Boy Byrne (RS.) 37 secs.

C.B.A. HOCKEY

MEETING

To Run Two Teams This Season

G.H. FOWLER IS CAPTAIN

The Central British Associa- tion men's hockey section held their annual meeting yeater- day afternoon when it was decided to run a senior and a Junior team this season.

The latter team will play friend- ly matches on Wednesdays and

1 Saturdays while the serior teari O has entered for the United Hockey

Tournament.

G. H. Fowler was elected Captain of the C.B.A senior XI with N. B. M. Whitley as Vice-Captain, D.'T. Smith was appointed Hockey Re- presentative.

I understand that he had a long discussion with them about their Brooklyn proposal, "and that the directors Pittsburgh

last night hopeful that further negotiations would result St. Louis in Bradman joining their staff.

still taking (Bell homered for the Browns, Negotiations are place, and it is expected that the and Henrich for the Yankees),

15 17 1 Regarding softball, W. Mair was Australian captain will again meet Detroit

1 3 3

elected Captain of the team representatives of the Sports In-Boston

(York homered twice for the enter the Softball League. vestors Society, Ltd. Dorlaid House. London, 8.W., the Arm concerned Tigers and Cronin for the Red shortly after the final Test match Sox).

at the Oval.

£1,504 A YEAR

The post which he has been offered is that of chairman of an advisory committee to the Society at a salary of £2,500 a. year.

Following yesterday's conference, Bradman and two representatives of the firm furiched together in a West-End hotel.

Should he accept the offer, it would mean that the world's greatest batsman would live in England more or less permanently. The firm feels that if Bradman would accept a job in England he might eventually play for one of the counties, and that his presence in cricket here could not fall to beneat our young cricketers.

Cleveland Washington

(Simmons homered Benators-(Reuteri.

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for

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A meeting of the League will be held at the Hotel Cecil on Friday.

at 5.30 pm; when? Muir, G. H. 3Fowler and 8. MacNider will at- the tend as representatives of the

C.B.A.

Sporting Fixtures

TODAY

Y.M.C.A. Ladies' BADMINTON.

Badminton, in the West Lounge. in the Morning. ⠀ BOWLS-Open Singles Champion- ship Semi-Final); A. R. Dallah v. B. W. Bradbury Club de Re- creto. Umpire, H. A. Alves. SWIMMING-Hong Kong Area In

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dividual championships (VRC). 2.30 p.m.; Colony Championship Heats (V.R.C.), 6 p.m.

TENNIS-Hardcourt. champion- ships, E. E Storey and J. J. Ferguson v. A. Chan and J. Hsu: P. Kong H. D. Rumjahn; G. E R. Divett and, G. W. Bewell 7. D. 8. Sze and F. Grose: Taui Wal-pui Pang Ol-lam; I. Agaturon v. B. A. Rumjahn. PORN TOMORROW! BOWLS.Open Singles Champion- Ahip (Semi-Final, J. A de Liz V. Ramsey, Cl Service Cricket Club, Umpire R. P. Phillips.

MENACE"

Two Operators Fined

Charles Johnson, of Wat- son-street, Islington, N. and John Sidney Haigh, of Rock- road,

Mr.

Now In Force

LEAGUE FUND GAMES WILL NOT BE TAXED

Soccer rules Bre changing- slowly, but surely.

The recent public trials gave London first opportunity of seeing

another small operation,

amendment in

few

Small, but important; and have noticed I, says the Evening Standard,

posed on charging in general.

All Intended to make the game

less of a scuffle. -

Football Transfer Fees

The varied comment which has greeted the payment of some- thing like £14,000 by one football club to another for a player deals what Herbert Chapman called "sound" business, the commercialism of the show- man." All these things have been forced fipon football governors, writes

really with a more or less natural progression in

Home correspondent.

than

John

"OBJECTIONABLE"

Among members of the council of the Football Association at the In 1899 Sir Charles Clegg and beginning of the eighteen eighties | Messrs. Crump and Alcock reported there was no more convinced op that the practice of buying and ponent of paying men to play selling players was "unsportsman- football

Morley'ske and most objectionable,” but brother Edward (as Sir Frederick they could not stay the tide.

"Fifty Years of Wall tells us in

In 1901 a representative Football"), but in 1883 It was he who moved the resolution that It Manchester City was amazed and hurt at having to pay £450 for a was expedient to legalise payment full-back. By 1905 the £1,000 under restrictions.

mark was achieved.

of

Again it was attempted to limit the practice, and £350 was fixed

in the interests of the player, as as the highest transfer price. The protecting the weaker clubs. and figure was so easily evaded that it was dropped, and before the war as stopping poaching.

the sum of £2,500 had been reach- ed.

Acocks Green, Birming ham, were summoned at Epsom recently by the Racecourse Betting Control Board for car- rying on pool betting without authority on the Board's Epsom Downs on Derby Day. Each was Aned £5 and ordered to pay 5gns costs;

A year ago there was a change

Another Lancashire football Anthony Hawke prosecut-in the conditions about charging

on-legislator. John Bentley. always ting..said: "No. one suggests for a goalkeepers. Now observant moment that these unauthorised lookers would see a new limit im-defended the transfer system as totalisators are in any way finan cial rivals of the authorised tota- lisator carried on under the law. mischief, "But they are * and a serious mischief, because members of the public do not necessarily distinguish he- these unauthorised tween totalisators and the proper offi- cial totalisator."

Much depends on how reterees The public complained to the

being let interpret its meaning If they In- Board that they were down when they found they were terpret it literally, we shall see being paid considerably less than an end of obstructionist methods the affical dividend paid. "It does by defenders. become an absolute menace when this is going on contrary to the law." added Mr. Hawke.

Police Inspr. G. Sivier said that after the Derby winners were paid by unauthorised totes at the rate of 51. The official tote was about 45-1 Bookmakers pald between There was a lot of 20 and 22-1. disorder.

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to the Additional notes charging rule provides that charging is permissible if "It is fair, and the players concern- ed are attempting to play the ball."

A full-back will not be allowed

Perhaps he did not foresee a' day when it would be said that huge transfer fees penalise weak club, who cannot com pete..

then show by their decisions what players must and must not do. Punishment for an illegal charge

to charge an oncoming opponent by a defender in the penalty ares for the purpose of protecting his is a penalty kick. There was sur- prise in one Scottish trial match And the players con- goalkeeper. cerned in a charge--not merely when referee gave one of them-must attempt to play though a the ball,

In early trial gamës it might help defenders to carry on as In the past. Referees would

Flash!

GOLD

CALL-OVER FOR ST. LEGER

London, Aug. 30.

The following is the latest call- over for the St. Leger:

7/1

11/8 Pasch (o), 6/4 (taken and

wanted). Pound Foolish it. and op. 6/1 Scottish Union (t. and o.).

Glenlaan - (6.). Sadruddin (o.). Portmarnock (93).

8/1

a penalty. al 100/6 charge appeared to be 100/6

fair.

100/6 Referee explained that the play100/6 ers were not attempting, to play the ball.

25/1

Golden Sovereign (0). Challenge (0), 18/1 (1.). :. Seventh Wonder (0.).

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