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TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1940.

2* In the World of Spons

SMALL CROWD AT RIFLE FOOTBALL

ADVERTISEMENTS SHOOT ON SATURDAY

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

NOTICE TO MEMBERS.

-Only-19 members turned out for the spoon and -practice-shoot, held at Stonecutters on Saturday.

Nelt,spoons were won by the following, S.R. (b) Mr. J. A. Guard of the PRC. with a score of 93. S.R. (a) Mr. R. Tynemouth of the D.R.C. with a score of 87.

1.

Handicap spoons went to Mae. (b), and to Mr. H. A. Evans of the Leading scores were as follows:--

-S.R. (b)

H'p 200 500 600 Ttl FIFTH EXTRA RACE MEETING, Mr. J. A. Quard ser. 30 31 32 3 Sgt. Q. E. Breese scr. 33 31 29 93 Mr. J. G. Biles... 4 30 31 29 90 Mr. H.JS. Blake scr, 31 32 27 20

GREEN ISLAND HANDICAP,

S.R. (a)

R. Jeffery of the R.N.R.S. for SR. D.R.C. for S.R. (a) rides.

C. C. Chau scr. 31 31 31 93 Cpl. W. J. Gash 2 32 31 39, 92 Cpl. R. Langford 3 28 32 50.00 Pte. J. Scott 5 32 32 28 90H Cpl. V. M,

Hammond 1 30 31 28 89 LA.C. L. R: Hunt 3 28 31 29 88

Bateman 2 37 28 38 83

S.R..(a)

2nd Day-Monday, 13th May. Mrie. R. Jeffery.. 4 28 31 26 85n P. Sub/Lt. B. M

In view of the number of entries, received for the above, it has been decided to divide the race into three sections.

The third section will be race No. 11 and fun at 6.30 pm.

A cash sweep, tickets $5 each, will be held on this race but "All through" chances will not parti

Mr. R. Tynemouth 6 32 28 27 A7N Cpl., F. Cole

COUNCIL MEETING

AFFILIATION BY

NEW CLUB

An application for affiliation by the Sing Tao Sports Chub was grunted at the forin ghly meeting of the Hongkong Football Associa- tion Council held 'yesterday.

A letter by the Society for the Education and Relief of Youths" from pecupled area, applying for permission for a charity match t raise funds, was read and the Council agreed that arrangements

5 28 31 26 83 C.S.M. W. Bean... nil 24 31 25 80% be left to the Chinese Amateur

Sgt. R. J. Heap... 1 31 29 23 83 Mr. R.J. Johnston 6 26 28 27 81 Mr. H. A. Evans 10 25 28 24 17 Mr. V.R.J. Merrett 6 23 27 26 76 Mr. H. S. Jones 5 31 22 23 76

Mr. R.N. Medhurst 8 28 26 22 74 S.B.A. W. L.

Harrington 10 21 24 26.71 The results of Wednesday Shoot cipate, and tickets can be purat Kowloon City Range on May 1. chased only at the Race Course were as follows:- during the Meeting.

S.I. (R)

S.R. (b)

H'p 300 500 600 Tti.

By Order of the Stewards;

C. B. BROWN,”

Secretary. C/Sgt. F. Hale.... scr. 32 34 30 96

Hong Kong, 4th May, 1940.

A. C. Chan ser. 34 31 33 98

A.S.P. (R)

260 S.L. (R)

THE HONG KONG »"

JOCKEY CLUB

D. Lole scr. 32 33 30 5

Home Racing Fixtures

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JUNE - AUGUST MEETINGS LONDON, April 19 (By Air Mall)

THE FIFTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPYYesterday's issue of the Racing VALLEY on SATURDAY, 11th and MONDAY, 13th May, 1940: commencing at 2.00 p.m. on Saturday, and at 12.30 p.m. an Monday.

The first Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m., on the First Day and at 12.00 NOON on the Second Day: The Tiffin Interval will be after the second race (1.00 p.m.) on the Second Day.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE

The temporary green

card. board badges are now cancelled and will no longer procure ad mission to the Enclosure.

No One without a badge will! be admitted to the Members' Enclosure. Such must be worn throughout the duration of each Meeting in such a manner as to be readily identified.

Badges admitting Non-Mem bers to the Members' Enclosure

Calendar contained a number of meetings to be held under the Rules of Racing, in addition to those already arranged up to and i including June. 1.

The most important of them is that to be held over the July Course at Newmarket on June 21 and 22. This meeting will take the place of the usual Ascot meeting and will be held under the Astut authority.

SUBSTITUTE RACE

The substitute race for the Gold Cup will be run on the first day of the meeting. a Friday, and the race for the Royal Hunt Cup will be run on the Saturday. What 11 be the position of members of the Private Stand at Newmarket; and will the stand and enclosure be taken over 10T Д Royal Enclosure?

Mr. A. F. Evans 7 24 28 27 79 L/Cpl. D. Hung 9 24. 29 26 79% Mr. Pang Shun..." 26 29 24 79% Mr. N. V. Whyte 8 23 29 26 78 Mr. R.J. Johnston 6 25 31 21 77 A.C. W. H. Golder, 6 25 27 22 74 F/O. J. Farmer 13 25 23 25

Athlette Federation.

The failure of the Eastern Athle- tic Association to inform the HK. FA. of their Macao tour was men tlored. The Association had no ob 73xjection to the tour, bu a letter would be addressed to Eastern A A. reminding them of the neces- sary formality...

(N) Winner of Nett spoon. (H) Winner of Handicap spoon. Winner of (N) or (H) will have his Handicap reduced by one point. PROGRAMME

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The shoot on Wednesday, May 8 at Kowloon City will be at 200, 500 and 600 yards.

The final Shoot of the season will be on Sunday, May 19, the pro- gramme being arranged by the Hongkong "Naval Volunteer Force.

TENNIS TOURNEY AT C.S.C.C.

An honorarium of $750 was voted to the Secretary for his work dur

ng the season.

U.S. Baseball

Results

NEW YORK, May 6 (Reuter)— The following are the results of baseball matches played yester- | day:

NATIONAL LEAGUE

A mixed doubles tennis tourna- ment will be held at the Civil Ser- vice Cricket Club on Sunday. May New York 12. commencing at 2.15 p.m. sharp. Cincinnati

Teas, ball boys, and balls will be Philadelphia provided and the entrance tee will Chicago be $1 each player.

SPORTING

FIXTURES

TODAY

Boston

R. E. E.

2 7

2

3 7

0

7

11

1

5

11.

1

Pittsburgh. I'

(Flescher homered).

4

3

Brooklyn

9 12 14

St. Lou's

(Mze and Padgett homered)...

BADMINTON.-S. Andrew's Club v. Club de Recreio, in the Hall. 8.30 p.m. MEETINGS. Monthly, of Hồng-

kong Football Referees' Assu-Cleveland ciation and Lecture, 8 p.m.

TOMORROW

RIFLE SHOOTING, Hongkong Ride Association's Weekly Spoon and Practice Shoot, at Kow- loon City, 1.45 pm.

THURSDAY, MAY 9 BADMINTON-St. Andrew's Club Badminton Tournament. 8.30

p.m..

SATURDAY, MAY 11 RACING. Hongkong Jockey Club's Fifth Extra Race Meeting.. at Happy Valley (First Day).

REVISED LIST The new and revised list of x-14. 15 Worcester tures is given below:

16. 17 Windsor 17, 19-Redcar

JUNE

41

1.

3 Redcar

3.

4 Lewes

5.

6 Worcester

5,6 Beverley

7. 8 Windsor

and Club Rooms at $5.00 per day 7 8 Thirsk

for Gentlemen and $3.00 per day 10. 11 Birmingham for Ladies (both including tax) 12, 13 Newbury the 14. 15 atwick

are obfaluable.

through

14. 15 Doncaster....

SECRETARY upon the per 17, 18 Wolverhampton ronal or written application of 419, 20 Brighton Member, such Member to be 21. 22 Ascot Authority responsible for all visitors intre Meeting at Newmarket

duced by blm, and for Payment 22 Beverley

of all Chits, etc.

25, 28. 27 Newcast..

JULK

2p. 29 Burst Fark The Secretary's Office, 1st 28. 29 Catterick Bridge floor, Exchange Building (Tel. 27794) will close at 11.45 a.m., 2. 3. 4 Carlisle on the First Day and at 30.45 2. 3. 4. 5 Newmarket a.m., on the Second Day.

6. Gatwick

Tiffins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered in advance from the No.)

Boy (Telephone 21920).

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PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

The price of Admission to

s. 9 Nottingham

8 Haydock Park

10, 11 Bibury Club (Salis--

bury)

12, 13 Newbury

13 Doncaster

16, 17, 18 Newmarke

20 Alexandra Park

20 Birmingham

the Public Enclosure is $1.00 20 Edinburgh

2.23 Leicester

including Tax, for all Persons, 26, 27 Liverpoot including Ladies, and is payable 27 windsor

at the Gate. Soldiers and Sallors 29, 30 Wolverhampton

ju Uniform are admitted Half 31 and Aug. 1 Stockton

Price.

Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary,

Hong Kong, 6th May, 1940,

AUGUST

3 Manchester

3,5 Hurst Park

5.6 Ripon

5, 6 Birmingham

6. 7. 8 Brighton.

8, 10 Lewes

10 Thirsk

265 12, 13 Nottingham

21, 22 Bath

23. 24 Gatwick

23, 24 Stockton

26. 27 Salisbury

28. 29 Haydock Park

30. 31 Brighton"

30, 31 Lanark

Macao Race WONDER BOY JOCKEY'S

Results

MERRY MAKER PAYS

BIG RETURN

Following are the results of the race meeting held at Macao on Sunday:-

1- Kwan Chap Stakes"-1 Mile, for Chins Ponies "Y" Class

1.-Fairy Ousel · 2.-Fairy Auk. 3.-Meadow Eve.

Won by 4 lengths, a length. Time: 33.4, 1.09.4, 2,214. " Pari-mutuel:-

Winner: $11.60.

2-Wan Chai Stakes"-1 Mile; for

Place: $5,70, $8.10.

China ponies "X" and "Y" Classes

1.-Eagle.

2.-Iron Knight.. 3.-Hogmanay.

Won by: length. 1. length. Time: 343, 1.09.1, 1.44.3, 2.20.2. Pari-mutuel:-

Winner: $31,60...

Place: $8.10, 36, $6.50. "Ma Kok Handicap" (1st Sec.) Mile, for China Fontes "E" Class

1.-Radium Star. 2.-Dow-Jones.

3.- Sunshine Suzie. Won by:- neck, 1 length. Time: 30.11.01.4.

Part-mutuel:-

Winner: $25.20. Place: $910, S8 20: 4-"Nam Wan Handicap

longs, for Chipa Ponies “D” Class

1-Night View.

2.--Fei Ying. 3.Dekko.

Far

Won by lengths, 1 length. Time: 31.1, 1.02.4, 1.35.4.

Pari-mutuel:--

Winner: $8.40.

Place: $9.90.

الله

5.Ma Kok Handicap" (2nd Sec.) 1 Mile, for China Pontes "E" Class

1.King's Envoy.

2.-New Bedford. 3.-National Anthem.

Won by: short head, length. Time: 29.3, 1:01.1.

Pari-mutuel:-

Winner: $27,70.

Place: $14.20, $6.80, $32.80. --"Consolation Stakes Me,

AMERICAN LEAGUE

R. Ħ.

6 13

0

(Keltner homered). Boston

Chicago"

*7

01

for Non-winner of this meeting

T

11

0

"X" and "Y" Classes

1-Merry Maker.

(McNair homered) Philadelphia

5

10

1

3.-Fairy Auk,

Hayes homered) Detrait

0

12

C

Time: 31.3, 1.05.2.

4 9

0

Pari-mutuel:-

7 11

1

Winner: $60,30.

3 9

New York

St. Louis

Washington

(Case homered)."

LEAGUE STANDINGS

Brooklyn Cincinnati Chicago .

Cleveland Boston Cincinnati

NATIONAL

2.-Bogmanay.

IMPOSING RECORD

GRAKLE WON HIM £82,000

Grakle the horse that gave an icecream man a turreted mansion to live" Inis dead.

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DARLING OF U.S. RACING FANS

When Grakle won the Grand Recently Jockey Jack Flinchum National in 1831 Emillo Scala won lost his "bug." Ordinarily, there is £82,000. He spent part of Grakle's no national to-do when an ap- "gift" on turreted home in prentice jockey, loses his bug (the Honor Oak Park, S. E. five-pound weight advantage al- lowed first-year riders, dubbed because the money is running out- Now he wants to sell it not "bug" because of the asterisk that "I still have a pound or two in. precedes the weights of bug-rid-¦ den horses on race programmes, he is lonely.

my pocket," he says), but because

baby-faced 17-year-old, who looks But Jockey Jack Finchum, a

like an angel and rides like the devil, has in the past three mon- ths become the darling of US. racing fans.

HIS two sons-part of the Grakle "fortune went on setting them up in the Ice-cream business

are joining up shortly. Mr. and Mrs. Scals feel lonely- in their mansion.

*POOR GRAKLE”.

Emilio's grateful to Grakle for visitors, making him rich, but

WINNER AFTER WINNER

At Miami's Hialeah Park and

winter Tropical Park,

country, took to the cute little converging from all очег the

"I get very bored now that I Puss-in-boots as movie fans took don't have to work." he said. "All I to Shirley Temple a few years ago. seem able to do now is dig in my

Old-timers as well as race-going i

garden or read."

recruits

form Ignored playart Flinchum regardless of his

charts,

Mr. Scala sighed...

"Poor Grakle," he said "He

mount, Booting home winter after seems very young to die. He was.. winner. against top-notchers like a beautiful horse." Eddie Arcaro and Don Meade, he

Poor Grakle! He ran so hard

racing season. was the sensation of the Florida to give Emillo his "boring life of

On the first anniversary of his first winning ride at a U.S. ¡race track recently. little Jack Flin- chum could look back on an im- posing record: in 1.167 races at Hot Springs, Keeneland, Louisville, Cleveland and other lesser tracks before going to Miami-be had booted home 190 winners, 182 to place, 132 to show. With 63 win- nets since the first of the year, he was last week leading the race for No. I jockey of 1940.

FULL-FLEDGED

What Ittle. Jack Flinchum saw

lelsure."

GOLF

RESULTS

Captain's Cub, . May" qualifying competition at Fanling on May 4-5. Qld Course: P. E. Annis 93-20-73.

There were 21 entries. Yew Course: J. Linaker 87-153

There were 10 entries.

PEER SERVES TEA

TO B.E.F.

shead of him was even more ex-Lord Fermoy, who is 55 and has clting: two days before he

his home on the King's Sandring- hami presented with five pounds of lead

estate, is out in France weights (tled with a festive blue "doing fatigues" for the troops. ribbon tu symbolize his meta- He sweeps floors, peels potatoes- morphosis from a bug rider to a serves meals to the soldiers, and full-fledged jockey, he was signed does every kind of job as an as- up by rich Sportsman Herbert sistant in a Y. M. C. A. canteen Woolf Kat a

reputed salary of behind the lices..

Won by half length, half length. $20,000 a year plus 10% of win-

Place: $22.10, $16.40.

CASH SWEEPS

Won Lost Pet

10 1 .909

0.3

RACE 1

750

No. 140

..$315.00

B .8 .500

EX

257

90.00

203

45.00

AMERICAN

10 4 .714 181.

ONE MEET: EIGHT RECORDS:

U.S. TRACK SEASON

Unplaced ponies ($50 each),—No,

ning purses).

Flinchum

will

An

I tried to join up, but was re- garded as too old." he said, as

and In the Kentucky Derby, Peewee with sleeves rolled up

apron round his waist he served probably ride Woolf's Prompt Pay, by the same gustomers, "and it has taken me sire as Lawrin (1938 Derby win-six months to get out to do my

bit here." ner). His following hoped Ke would have better luck in the Lord Fermoy was M. P. for Derby than he did during his King's Lynn for 11 years. Queen first bugless day, He rode four Mary is godmother to his three horses, but nary a winner.

children.

MARTELL'S BRANDIES

10

5 667

RACE 2

9 6 .600

No. 105

.$325.60

+

202 83

93.00 46.50 Unplaced ponies ($12.90 each), Nos. 138, 109, 342, 104.

Y.S.O. P.

BOTTLED IN

RACE 3

No. 82

351.40

#1

250

100.40

178

CORDON ARGENT (Over 60 years old)

RACE 4

CORDON BLFU. (Over 85 years old)

No. 91

305

$229.30 65.50 32,70

.*.

RACE 5

THREE STAR

No. 153 470

$203.07 58.00

(also in nints)

**

292

FOR THE FAST THREE YEARS THE US. INDOOR TRACK SEASON HAS WOUND UP WITH A RECORD PARTY AT DART- MOUTH'S DAYIS HELD HOUSE IN THE NEW HAMPSHIRE HILLS. For the express purpose of breaking records, the sea- son's fastest runners are annually invited to stretch their legs on its phenomenally fast, six-and-two-thirds-laps-to-the-mile spruce, frack with Dartmouth rainers acting as pace-markers, There, two years ago, irőn leg-

15-YEAR-OLD RECORD

ged Glenn Cunningham "ran his Negro John Borican erased a 15-; amazing 4:40.4 mile. Last year year-old indoor record when he Negro John Boricas set world's in- ran a three-quarter-mile in 3:01.2, door

records for a half-mile In a mile relay, à New York Uni- (1:49.8) and 800 metres (1:49.2).versity quartet (Standard Braun, Recently at Dartmouth's third Jim McPoland; Harold Bogrow, record-smashing jamboree, 1500 Jim Herbert) chalked up a record- onlookers saw not one or two," but breaking 3.15 dat and set a new eight world's records: faill

Indoor record for

metres

along the way, met

50.20 Unplaced ponies ($27.00 each).--- Nos. 139, 212.

........ 29.00 Unplaced ponies ($10.70 each); Nos. 499, 343, 398.

ا.

V.V.E.S.O.P.

RACE 6

No. 383

54

13

..$561.00 103,10 51.80 Unplaced panies ($28,60 each). Nos. 164. 311.

* EXTRA "*.

(Over 70 years old)

SEVEN BETTER Negro, John. Youle Woodruff, In a half-mile relay: the same loping around in nine-fopt strides. N.Y.U. team (with George. Hagans erased the records Borican set replacing Herbert) entered the Jast year. His 1:47.7 clocking for record-books with a clocking of the half-mile and 1:47 fat for 800 | 1:27.7, bettering the old Indoor metres were even better than the mark by four seconds. outdoor marks for those dis-

WHIRLWIND TIMES tances made by Briton Sydney Two days later, while track fans" Wooderson last summer,

were still chewing over these Negro Jim Herbert ran the fas-whirlwind times, bespectacled test quarter-mile (0:48.4) and 400 Chuck Fenske, winner of seven | metres (0:48,9) ever recorded in-mile races in a row this winter.

doors, hu. time for the quarter at ran a paced three-quarter-mile on The YMCA has

decided to Inng laat cracking the mark of the University of Chicago's indoor hold a Summer Handicap Billiards 6:49,6 established by Long Tom dirt track in 2:59.7, smashing all Tournament. Entrance fee will be Halpin back in 1913.

$1"and entries close on May 10.

records indoors and onit,

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