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SPORT

SPORTING NEWS AND NOTES

HOME FOOTBALL FORECAST

The following are the English and Scottish league nxtures to be played today. The teams in capital are tipped to win.

Bolton W.

Liverpool

• Middlesbro'

Grimsby T.

Blackpool

DIVISION I.

ASTON VILLA

VJ

Derby C.

CHARLTON

A.

น.

Leeds U.

CHELSEA

V.

Leicester

C.

EVERTON

V.

Brentford

Huddersfield T.

V.

Arsenal

MANCHESTER V.

V.

Birmingham

PORTSMOUTHI

V.

PRESTON N.E.

V

STOKE C.

鲨

SUNDERLAND

Y

DIVISION

II.

V.

MANCHESTER

V.

7.

V.

V.

W. BROM. A.

Newcastle

T.

WOLVES

Bradford

BURNLEY

BURY

CHESTERFIELD

LUTON T

Plymouth A.

SHEFFIELD U

SWANSEA

TOTTENHAM Á

TRANMERE R. WEST HAM U.

DIVISION I

ACCRINGTON S

BARNSLEY

Darington

Notts F

Southampton

Blackburn R.

Norwich C.

Millwall

Coventry C.

Fulham

Shemeld

W

GATESHEAD

HARTLEPOOLS V.

LINCOLN C.

Northern. Section).

N. Brighton

Halifax T

Carlist U Southport Crewe A Bradford C

Chester

HULL C

CLDHAM A.

Barrow

Doncaster · R. Rotherham U

DIVISION . (Southern Section).

Swindon T.

Rochdale

STOCKPORT

Co.

WREXHAM

York, C.

Y.

J

ALDERSHOT

V.

BRISTOL C.

V.

Port Vale

CRYSTAL PALACE

Y.

Watford

EXETER C.

V.

Ipswich T.

MANSFIELD 1

.V.

Brighton

Newport Co.

Cardin C.

NORTHAMPTON T.

V.

Clapton O...

NOTTS CO.

9.

Torquay

U.

Q. P. R.

1.

Bristol R."

SOUTHEND U

Reading

WALSALL

T.

Bournemouth

ABERDEEN

ALBION R

CLYDE

SCOTTISH LEAGUE DIVISION L.

Hamilton A,

HEARTS..

· KILMARNOCK.

QUEEN OF SOUTH QUEEN'S PARK Railh R.

RANGERS

V."

7.

A

Motherwell

Partick Thistle

Hibernian

Third Lan. Celtic

St. Johnstone ·

Y.

St Mirren

Arbroath

FALKIRK

Ayr U

US. BASEBALL BASEBALL NOTES

RESULTS

New York.' Sept. 2.

The following are the results of Baseball matches played, yester- day

NATIONAL LEAGUE ·

R.. H. E.

0

*

0

6 12 0 pitched for the

Today's Big Game

(By R.O.Y.)

In a charity match, sponsor-. ed by the National Women's Rellet Association," the "Üper-

·seas" 'Chinese will clash with the Chinese Baseball Club, at Caroline Rill this afternoon, for what will be the unofficial, Chinese baseball championship of the colony.

Keen rivalry exists between the

1 two clubs, and a keen battle should

New York Pittsburgh (Klinger

Pirates)

Bostop

7

0

Chicatt

4

G

(DiMaggio homered for

the

Braves)

Philadelphia

5

12

3

St. Louis

12

2

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Detroit

6

10

New York

3

8

kees).

ゴト

(Henrich homered for the Yan-

St. Louis.....

Boston

3 个

result. The "Overseas" veterans

will go into the game aupremely

Lee Wai-tong.

Steudimers Prisonified •

COLONY SWIM HEATS

Further Results

At V.R.C.

Results of heats in the Colony Swimming Championship. held "at the V.R.C. pool yesterday, are as follow:

100 YARDS BREAST STROKE

(First Heat)

1. Chan Luk-ke, 73 4/5 secs"; 2.

K Nararin, 79 1/5 secs.; 3. Lau Kal-ming, 81 secs.

(Second Heat)

1. Fung Chung-yu, 75 1/5 secs.,

2. Mak Wal-ming, 77 2/5 seca; 3. Tang Hon-chu, 80 3/5 secs.

200 YARDS RELAY RACE (First Heat)

1. V.R.O.. 1 min. 47 3/5 secs. ".

Lai Tsun Swimming Union, 1 min. 49 4/5 secs. 3. H.KU., 1 min. 55 4/5

secs.

(Second Heat)

1. Chung Shing Benevelent Sa ciety, min. 50 3/5 sec.; 2. South China, 1. min. 51 2/5 secs.; 3. Chin ese YMCA.. I min. 54 2/5 secs.

CHEERO CLUB. RENOVATION

The Cheero Club wk close temporarily from Monday to Sun- day, September 11 for interior al- terations and redecoration.

cf

The following programme activities has been planned After the Club recvens:-

Tuesday September 12:- Whist Drive at 8.45 p.m.

Wednesday. September 13: Dance at 8.30 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, September 15 and 16:-Bridges

2

Friday September 23-Jumble sale at 2.30 p.m.

Contributions of article for the jumble sale are invited and should

be left at the Club's premises.

confident, after their decisive de Cricket

feat of an All Hong Kong team last

week. but the local league cham-

plons are expected to make posi-

tional changes, in order to reserve

1 some of their strength for an im- 1portant game the next day,

5 8" 1

(Kress homered for the

and Foxx for the Red Sox)

INTERNATIONAL FINAL

The Chinese Baseball Club will

NOTTINGHAM · BEATS KENT

London, Sept. 2. Splendia bowling by Bill Voce,

the Notts and former England

go into action again tomorrow at bowler, who took 13 wickets in the

Kent

0 9.30 am., when they represent course of the match, enabled

China in the final round of the Nottinghamshire to defeat Brown International Tournament, against by ten wickets in the County

the British Exapire.

Cricket Championship.

Cleveland 11 Philadephia ...... 4

12

1

The Empire representative, ars Kent were dismissed for 84 in

7 expected to provide stern opposi

3 Hayes homered for the Athlon for the Chinese and another surprise win for them is quite

letics!.

Chicago

Washington

(Simmods homered

Senatorz (Reuter).

Sporting

11

18

2

6 9

1

the Drst innings. Voce táng

seven for 39, and 122 in the second, Voce this time capturing six for 53.

within the bounds of possibility. SOMERSET * LEICESTER

CHINESE DINNER

Somerset scored an easy .vic. tory over Leicestershire, winning

A meeting of the Hong Kong for the Baseball League was held on by an innings and 140 rims..

Thursday evening, when it was

Leicester scored 113 (Andrews 6

decided to hold a Chinese dinner for 58) and 178 (Wellard 5 for 37). on September 11, 1938. Mr. H. A and Somerset made 432 (Lee 95))} Barros, who was appointed acting ENGLAND XI v. AUSTRALIANS The Australian cricket tourista Hon. Treasurer, presented a finan-

cial report which showed a grati: beat an England XI at Blackpool fying balance of sáme 3300 stand-by ten wicketa,

Fixtures to the credit of the League

TODAY

BASEBALL-Chinese Baseball Club

7. Overseas Chinese, Charity match (Caroline III).

HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS

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London, Sept. 2. Two matches in the English. BOWLS-Hong Kong Electric R.C. Football League were played yes Police R.O. Happy Valley Tour-terday, the results being as follows:

SECOND DIVISION dament, Craigengower C.U. Y

Pans (08.0.0. green): Civi

(Pollte (green).

GOLF-Happy Valley Me

England XL-132 (Ward

6 for 44, O' Reilly 4 for 38) and 19 (O'Reilly 5 for 44, Ward 4 for 20). Australiana-174 (Amar Bingh

6 for 44) and 58 for 0.

'CLOSE' OF · PLAY The following were the cipse of play scores in the other matches: Gloucestershire 97 and 210 for

4: Essex 552,

Surrey 270 and 132; Lancashire

Susse 77 and 457 for 5; York- Queen's P. R. Exeter 0-(Reu-abire 339 fox 9 declared. Rain

Norwich

2 West Bromwich 3164 and 14 for 0. THIRD DEVISION (SOUTH)

stopped play-(Reuter.)

Hardcourt Tennis

LEE WAI-TONG WINS FROM CRAWFORD

Steadiness Too Much For K.C.C. Player

By F. Mela

Let Wai-tong and Alec Crawford, who shared two" sets in the hardcourts tennis championships "at. the U.S.R.C. two evenings a50. fought out again yesterday and this time the South China foot- 'ball star won in straight sets, his steadiness proving too much for Crawford who, however, put up a dour struggle in the second set.

Lee won the first set with comparative ease, bringing off a number of crisp volleys in the process, His best asset, however, was his first service which won him a number of points.

A

Crawford should have forced the useful practice against K. K. Fung pace. He might have won he and Wong: Fuk-nam. They played did but he was playing for fately good tennis but I do not expect and that proved is undoing. that they will be able to beat the Truls especially af Tsul Wal-pul TSUIS WIN

appears to be playing better tennis found today than he did when the an- Kwan hung and Ma Nal-kwong anual Colony lawh tennis cham- much tougher proposition than they imagined and though they won in straight sets, it took them all their time to take the second one which went to 16 gamęs.

The Tsui

brothers

The Colony champions play- ed with their usual confidence and though they were hard pressed at times, I could see that Wal-pul had something in reserve and was never fully

extended.

THE COUSINS -

The Rumjahn cousins. the big- gest threats to the Tsuis had some

plonships were held.

FULL SCORES

Yesterday's results were: Tsui Wai-put and Tsul Yah-pul beat Li Kwan-hung and Ma Nai- kwong, 6-49-7.

H. D. and S. A. Rumjahn beas K. K. Fung and Wong Fuk-nam, 6-4, 6-2.

B. Steto and C. K. Chan beat S A. Gray and G. C. Burnett; 6-3 6-2.

J. J. Ferguson beat A. R. Kit- chell, 57, 7-5, 6-3.

Lee Wal-tong beat A. "Crawford. 6-4 .9-7.

· SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,

1938.

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The following is the programme for Monday:44

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