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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1932.

COLONY'S INTERNATIONAL PLAY GROUND

HUGE RECREATION PARK TO EXIT "OUR BETTY!”

BE OPENED

GOLF, TENNIS, BOWLS, SWIMMING

FISHING AND BOATING

LOCAL FIRM'S NOVEL IDEA

(EXCLUSIVE TO THE TELEGRAPH" BY "VERITAS")

RE THE END OF SEPTEMBER it is hoped, there will be completed in the BEFORE

New Territories the finest and most spacious recreation park to be found in this! Colony. It will offer facilities for golf, tennis, bathing, rowing, motor boating, fishing, clay pigeon shooting, croquet and lawn bowls, and it promises to become the mecca of all sportsmen in Hongkong.

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the "also ran" at Wimbledon and British hopes of winning the fadies' titla, or of figuring in the final tic, have, as a result considerably dwindled. Miss Nuthall was defeated by her bete anke, Mme. Mathieu, France's leading player.

the ground at the end of the sea. son, yet this county has had only Afteen hours cricket out of 47 house available play, in four matches, The position of Derby- shire is tragic, Most of the under

No less than $30,000 is to be put into this project, which has so many novel features, and the work of levelling the ground, laying out the nine-hole golf county's grounds still are course, and preparing the tennis courts, is to be put in hand straight away.

The site for this remarkable project, which is a private enterprise, is at Tai Lam Chung (16 mile stone) on the Castle Peak Road, and is probably the most perfect situation for such a re- creation park.

The object of the promoters of the ambitious scheme--the Outdoor Sports Equipment Company- is to make the recreation club international in character. There will be no entrance fees or sub seriptions charged for membership.

The recreation park istare called upon for entrance fees)

and annual subscriptions. Nor is made possible through the it open to the pubile in the sense enterprise of Mr. Mow Fung that one can buy an admission tic. ket. It has therefore been decid and Mr. Lionel Bruce Chueyed that membership, and the right of the Outdoor Sports Com-to use the grounds shall be given by the Outdoor Sports Company. pany, Gloucester Arcade, to Those who desire to make use of whom, Mr. Denis H. Hazell, the park and Hs facilities, will be Par Eastern Director of asked to become customers of the Outdoor Sports Company, The Messrs. William Sykes, Ltd., amount of goods bought will de Sports Specialists, acts in an termine the length of membership

to which the purchaser is entitled,! advisory capacity.

schedule on there linex of

is being prepared by the of promoters. the

to

offer

Fully alive to the lack facilities afforded hundreds residents (particularly of

One of the chief attractions of Chinese community) par-the project is that it will ticipate in sporting activities, opportunities for members, with these gentlemen conceived the their wives and families, to go out idea of laying out and control- for the week-ends. Though ling a recreation park, where application is to be made for the people could find their needs in safe of liquor, adequate arrange- this direction, fully satisfied.

no

ments will be made for obtaining light refreshments, together with

The pavillon is to contain ail social inter- course after one's sport is finish-

dres-

At the present time, the Chinese,ins and teas. mimbera of whom are keen golfers, have, apart from the International

lub at Sheungsbul, no opportuni-requirements for ties for indulging in the Kamy. Similarly most of the other club ed. and will, of course, be fitted in the Colony, who cater for either with absolutely up to date ing room accommodation. tenuis, bowls and other pastimes, have such big membership lists, EUROPEAN SUPERINTENDENT that players experience not a little

A European superintendent is difliculty in getting in an adequate

to be in charge of the park, and amount of sport.

Appreciating the position, the there will be Chinese groundsmen Outdoor Sports Company have ap-to attend to the golf course, tennis pronched the Government, applied courts and other ground require- for and we believe, secured a site for a recreation ground directly on Castle Peak Road.

ments.

the se

Among the objects of the pro- jeet is to organise tournaments between members and visiting 30 ACRES IN AREA.

teams. For such purposes, com- Covering an area of some 30 mitlees will be formed. Certain acres, the site lends itself to the nominal charges will be made to of the project, ank the plans, which have members for been approved, indicate very clear-sports grounds, which will bej ly, how well has it been laid out. used solely for their upkeep.

At a cost of $30,000 the sponsors The management of the reeren- of the scheme have arranged for aftien park wil be in the bands of the nine-hole golf courses to be laid out | Outdoor Sports Company who re- together with hard and grass ten-serve all rights of control. nis and Badminton courts, bowls Inwns, croquet lawns, and clay pigeon shooting butts.

All of these will be laid out on the right hand side of the Castle

Peak Road approaching from Kow. loon. On the other side is to be |orrectl a commodious pavilion,

PITTSBURGH TAKE

THE LEAD ·

facing the sea, and leading down CHICAGO FALL BEFORE

to the bench which will not only

offer excellent facilities for bath- ing, but has a stretch of bands which will delight the children.

CARDINALS

New York, June 26. Although themselves disengag- Here too, is to be bullt a boat-ed, the Pittsburgh Piraten to-day house, the scheme providing for claimed to the leadership of the both rowing and motor boating. A National League, displacing Chica- car park is to be laid out close to go who have, together with Bos the pavilion, directly off the road. ton, been falling from grace of

late.

Among the other attractions al- Chicago were to-day defented by tached to the scheme is the perfect St. Louls, last year's champlons. paradise the Venue offers for In the American League, the fshing enthusiasts, whilst the de- lightful country all around, offers some magnificent walks.

Athletics won a double-header against Beston, who seem unable to break their long sequence

of defeats. Simmons hit a home run.

Such are the attractions. But to put the Idea into practical form | Results :—— was the problem confronting the promoters, and their deliberations

has resulted in the following novel St. Louis acheme.

A NOVEL SCHEME.

National League.

4 Chicago American League.

Philadelphia

The object of the recreation Philadelphia park is not to make it into an or Chiengo dinary club, where the mombers i

15 Boston

→ Boston

3 Detroit

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water and they have recently had six blank days out of neven. Since the beginning of the season, seventeen countles have lost £8,- 000 owing to the weather.

The county championship is deve- be- loping into a mere struggle tween counties and the weather. Out of 43 matches, only seventeen have been concluded, and in twenty matches results has not even been reached on the first innings.

PLIGHT

OF

CRICKET

FINANCIAL RUIN FACING THE COUNTIES

Cricket has reached the gatoway- of another crisis, and it is the mont Herlona in the history of the game. Following upon last sca Bon's wet weather and vanishing gates, this year's flooded grounds and abandoned matches have rendered the situation desperate. Many of the counties began the Renson heavily in debt, and this year the financial embarrassment has grown more neute, so that, unless there is as early improve- ment in the conditions, the number of counties competing in the championship next year will seriously shrink.

June 1 was a second successive blank day, all matches boing. washed out. Not for 20 years has 24 such a thing happened. In cricket days at Lord's, there were only eight full days of cricket. AC

the Oval, Leyton, love. Manchester, and half-a-dozen other county grounds, blank daya have exceeded those on which ericket has been continuous. At the recent Bath Festival, three of the six days passed without a ball being bowled. Watson's beneft at Manchester was #t complete fusco, entailing a certain loss of at least £1,000.

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Gloucestershire will have raise £10,000 for the purchase of

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