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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

THURSDAY,

SEPTEMBER

1934.

HONGKONG BOWLERS DISAPPOINT IN INTERPORT

OMAR'S UNFORTUNATE

EXPERIENCE

LOST FORM AGAINST SHANGHAI

COATES AND BASA PLAY WELL, BUT WINNERS TOO CONSISTENT

"

SMART WIN FOR HANKOW TEAM

Shanghai, Sept. 6.

ing with E. G. Pont an skip won The Interport lawn bowls match by 20-14.-Our Own Correspondent. was resumed to-day on the Police Recreation Club ground at Hongkow Park where Shanghai beat Hongkong

by 22 shots to 16 after the scores had WIN FOR HANKOW

been 10-10 yesterday when rain

enused an interruption of the match

on the eleventh head.

Despite yesterday's heavy rain the green to-day was keen and on the) first head of tho resumption, good Conten woods were sent down by A.

Shanghai Beaten By

Fiye Shots

RUMJAHN WINS

ENTERS BOWLS FINAL

KEEN GAME WITH

CHAPMAN

D. Rumjahn, of the Craigengewer C.C.,. qualined for the final of the Open Lawn Bowls Singles Champion- ship yesterday when, on the Kowloon Bowling Green Club's green, ha eliminated A. Chapman of the Yacht Club by 21 shots to 19 after 20 heads had been played.

One of the most outstanding features of what was a match of championship standard was the on- forcement of the much discussed foot-fault rule against D. Rumfahn In the eighth head when the Craigen- Rower player was being led by seven shots to three and his opponent was laying anether three.

The match produced bowls of a high

Chapman standard with both players revealing some good form.

Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young as they appear together in "A Man's Ckele", now showing at the Queen's Theatre.

and R. Basa (Hongkong) but J. E. Harvey (Shanghal) shifted the Jack and the northerners scored two shots. Hongkong retaliated with a single on the thirteenth head and a three at won the contest to-day by af shots steady throughout the match without WIGHTMAN CUP

the fourteenth, Bana, 11. Beer and U. M. Omar laying the shots. Shang- hal again went ahead by scoring ono un the fifteenth and two on the six- teenth but longkong tied the scores at Afteen all at the seventeenth.

SHANGHAI SUPERIOR. Shanghai's superiority was definitu on the next four heads, scoring three, one, one and two to win by 22 ahots to 16. The eighteenth head was a brilliant one at a critical stage of the game.

"Dick" Basa drew two beauties but E. B. Heaton-Smith upset the hend and lay the abol; Harvey drew an other. A heavy wood from Deer dis- turbed the bead hut Shanghai stili lay two, Porter adding a third. Omar failed to save the count.

The Shanghal four were consistent. and Coates were ly good. Basn Hongkong's best players. Omar and Beer were delinitely off their game.

The teams and rearoa were: Shanghal

C. M. Sequeira

Hongkong

A. E. Contes

E. B. Heaton-Smith R. Basa

J. E. Harvey'

II. Beer

C. W. Porter 22 U. M. Omar

15

-Reuter.

"DEFEAT OF A SKIP"

Shanghai, Sept. 4. Hankow who were led by 10-9 by Shanghai in the other lawn bowls Interport match on the Police Green, to 16-Router.

How Hongkong Lost To

South Africa

IN EMPIRE BOWLS MATCH

By J. E. Linney.

being really brilliant, except on some occasions when he sent down a couplo of beautiful shots to claim the count. Rumjaha opened indifferent, although in the trial bead he threatened to re- produce for which would have easily carried him into the final,

PAIR WIN

ENGLISH PLAYERS IN GERMANY

DOUBLES TITLE SECURED

TRADE REVIVAL

AMERICAN EXPORTS AD- VANCE SHARPLY

Washington, Sept. 5. The improvement of United States foreign trade, shown In a undertaken by the review National Chamber of Commerco, lina considerably improved the outlook in the direction of covery.

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THE EMPIRE GAMES

HOW ORGANISERS WENT WRONG

The British Empire Games and the Women's World Games point a moral to those responsible for their organisation.

There were good crowds, over the holidays at the Empire Games, but in general the attendances, particularly nt the Women's Games, were fir smaller than they Fought to have been.

The fault is not altogether with the public. Indifference may be traced in some cases to insuf- ficient publicity and in others to exorbitant prices of admission. A Derby correspondent has writ ten rather emphatically on this subject. He has just spent a holiday in London with his wife and daughter and all three, being keen enthusiasts, Axed their holiday so as to take in the Em- pire and the Women's Games,

TAN YEN.HENG.

PERAK

BOXING CHAMPION

NOW RESIDENT IN HONGKONG

His experience on the opening day of the Women's Games 18 Pather luminating. There were evrtaln eventa staged t ten o'clock in the morning and, being PLAYER FOOT-FAULTED.

an enthusiast, he went as early as this to the White City. He pald However, after scoring a single on the first hend he became erratic and

18. 3d, and was informed that ho mixed an occasional brilliant wood

could go anywhere and, as there with some which were only mediocre.

were only about a dozen of the

Mr. Tan Yen Heng (Battling Chapman quickly Jumped into the

general public presont, he got a the accond hend with lead on

London, Aug. 13.

very good seat. At lunch-time he Chan) who joined the Far East the three and

seventh

The German lawn tennis cham;

According to the review, ex-"passed out," only to find on his Flying Training School last May is he had scored seven shots to his opponpionships at ilamburg, although

1934, totalled return that his original seat had a fighter of some repute. ent's three. On the eighth head;

They brought disappointments to ports for

In addition to winning a large Chapman was laying three when Great Britain in the singles de-$161,000,000 compared with $144,- jumped in price to 68.

If he had stayed in the Stadium number of important boxing con- Humjuh sent down his last wood cats of Miss M. C. Scriven and C 900,000 for July of last year,

he would of course, have been tests in Perak, Mr. Tan is the holder. The bowler was instantly foot-faulted

In the Import field, American able to retain his seat without the of the 1033 Amalgamated Amuse- and the wood, which threatened to R. D. Tuckey, have nevertheless and the head, wenn stopped before yielded another honour to add to firms bought $127,000,000 worth increased fee, which I regard as a ment Gold Belt, the championship

those of Wimbledon and the Davla

belt for North Malaya.

Apart from boxing, Tan is also ploce

n very fine athlete. Something of the same sort imposition was carried

Mr. Tan has now concentrated Bank Holiday, when half a crown his attention on aircraft engineer- was charged for places which had ing and is at present doing the two been priced at half that amount on years engineering course at the Far Games.

School in

It could interfere with the head.

thirteenth

of 1983.

July,

of shamolcas extortion.

of out on

losing game up to this point but he won the German women's doubles ending July 31 were $1,297,000.- the opening day of the Empire East Flying Tralation of the

recovery

and

were bowled. In one instance, thead were dend on the jack while on their opponents in the final, for the Reuter Special..

London, Aug. 14.

Th cow was then 10-3 in favour Cup. Miss E. M. Dearman and of goods during the month of After a rainy morning, wea- ther truly meat fog, the war of Chapman but on the next head Miss N. M. Lyle, the Wightman July just passed and $142,000,000 Runjalin with a perfect draw scored Cup doubles players, added their worth in the corresponding period section in the British Empire his fourth point only to see his appon names to the list of those of the ntive other British pairs who have Games, and there was a good at-ent lend by 13-5 on the

Exports for the seven months tendance at the Temple and Pad-hend. Rumjahn had been playing

title since the championships were 000 ns compared with $813,000,- dington greens.

a wonderful A alight breeze nerons the green staged

started in 1925.

000 for the first seven months of nt the Temple Club was not noticed scored a two, a three, a two and

Oddly enough, local opinion the previous year, and imports favoured the chance of Mile.

during the same time wore $990,- cough by the players, who pre- one to level the scores at 13-18 on ferred the

the forehand from the the seventeenth head.

His two shots on the fourteenth Adamoff and Mile. R. Collquerque. 000,000 as against $735,000,000.- Pavilion, and many wide woods

the fifteenth head he twice carried strange reason that they had lant end of the rink between Hong-the jack for his count of three. On beaten Miss Scriven and Miss R. M. kong and South Africa, there were the seventeenth head Runjahn wan Hardwick, but Mies Lyle and Miss plenty of them. For the Peterson. three South African woods wide, laying three slots when Chapman Dearman must have supplied K Gaina fight at the White City on but The defeat of a skip" sums up favour of Hongkong, thanks to a draw to the jack Chapman bumped strong corrective when they won Sept. 10 thore will be covered

Jack high, and the shot was in was lucky to save two. In trying to Hongkong's defeat in the lawn bowlsane wood from the Hongkong ono of his own woods in for second caelly by 6-4, 6-2. Miss Dearman's seats available at the two ends of Interport, U. M. Omar playing the third, who removed the Southphot. weakest game since his arrival. African shot from the jack. Ifong- RUMJAHN TAKES LEAD. W. Porter, Shangbal'a skip. played splendidly, as fistanced by the first head today. Hongkong were lying five when Porter. went down a well Judged benvy wood to give Shanghai

U. M. Omar Plays Weakest Game

a.count of two.

Shanghai, Sept. 5.

has had..

volleying was particularly crisp and decisive, and the pair implethe Stadium for half a crown each. mented their claim to be consider-My advice to the athletic people kong, wanted four shots, and their frat

For the first time during the matched one of the best Great Britain 18: Go thou and do likewise... skip played firmly with his

Tuckey and Miss Scriven were wood, but was wide, and he rubbed Rumjahn took the lead on the twon

кспа the back of Hothausen's wood send to make the score 16-14. However, beaten in the final of the mixed by tieth head when he secured a single ing

It to the jack for shot. Thoma is lead was short lived and a two G. von Cramai and Frau Sperling From thence onwards Shanghat played his second wood wide, and on the next bead gave Chapman his by 6-2, 6-4 The winners, besides were in a moral ascendancy, The Nish. the Hongkong skip, played sixteenth shot. Rumjahn had trailed gaining this title for the third standard of the play in general was firmly on the jack, but instead of the jack but, using the wrong hand, year running, had also won the high with the ones, two and three hitting it squarely on the face, he had carried it among Chapman's singles, von Cramm from C. L.

A. E. of each team well matched.

Burwell by 6-2, 6-1, 6-4, and Frau Coates was very seund while Basa Caught it at the back and sent it woods.

A three on the 22nd head

Sperling from Frl. Ausser by 6-2, was better than yesterday but Beer sideways to the South Africans

Hongkong wood between them and Chapman was laying three shots when do anything right.

In the subsequent friendly match this scored, but the South Africans Bumjahn, with his third bowl seat-st year. B. Maier and A. K

tered two of Chapman's woods and Quist won the men's doubles. against the Pollce, Hongkong, play-won by two shots.

knocked the jack to one of his own. Reuter Special.

was mediocre. Omar was unable to two wide woods. There was a Rumjahn the lead again by 18-16.-3. Both were singles winners

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With his last wood Chapman, bump- ed one of Rumjahn's into the jack and then the Cralgengower player drew a third.

When Ramjahn scored a two on the next head the match seemed to be all over but Chapman raade & gallant offort to retrieve the altuation. Ho prolonged the, gamo until the 26th head when he was beaten by 21-10. TO-DAY'S SEMI-FINAL.

The Reconit semi-final match be- tween A. W. Grimmitt and V. Pethe- rick will be played on the Craigen- Rower C. C. green this afternoon, commencing at 6.10 p.m. The final will be decided on Wednesday next on the Club the Recreio green, at. p.m.

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Hongkong. On Sumebody with a wider vision course, Mr. Tan will sit for the and an enterprise that under-Government examination for stands the public point of view aircraft engineers licences

returning to

before is sadly needed in athletics. Tan's engineering studies are not

to Malaya. should like to see somebody run to interfere with his boxing act!-

a big meeting at e common vitics as he is already fighting hie price, say, of 18. 3d, with per way to popularity with his fellow haps, 19 per cent. of the seating

In the form of boxing bouts

at 5s. for those who desire topups in the School

be a little exclusive and do not mind paying for it. Jeff Dickson, too, has sensed the value of cheap seats

Mr. Tan hopes to interest the Colony in Bantamweight contests as soon a a muitable opponent and appeara.,

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