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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1934.

FIRST ROUND OF THE SCOTTISH CUP CONTEST

New Soccer Stadium

POLO GROUND LEASED TO NAVY

Ever on the increase inj popularity among all com- munities in the Colony, the game of football has never enjoyed the best of facilities locally owing to the limited number of playing grounds, at the disposal of the clubs, and of late years it has been necessary for the local ad- ministrative body to dis- tribute the weekly fixtures over Saturdays and Sundays, Sunday football being but a comparatively recent in- novation.

Now, however, the situation is to be considerably relieved by the. acquisition by the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines of the spacious Polo Club ground at Causeway Bay, recently vacated by its erstwhilet lossecs for the new site in Mongkok, Kowloon.

Three playing pitches have laid out on the old polo ground, which now. been converted into one of the best football arenas in the Culony. The "centro" ground hàn been kuitably unclosed with suelent senting accommodation to meet the demands of practically any match.

Eany of access, twintig served by both, tram and bus, will become n populer rendezvous

week-end for football matches, and in future it will be allocated its' share of the inere important fixtures of the mea:

son.

Arrangements have already been finaled for the official opening of.

It was a thrilling split second of action that the camera caught on the Pittsburgh gridiron as Sieda), a Minnesota player, (extreme left), lesped to intercept a forward pass Intended for his Pitt oupon. ent. In the instant the latter's hande would have closed safely on the ball, Siodni anatched it away, Minnesota won the exciting gamo

LOCAL YACHTING

the ground, and on Saturday, De❘ THIRD WEDNESDAY

cember 15, is Excellency Admirał Sir Frederie C. Dreyar, K.CO., 9.1.8. Commander-in-Chief of the Chinn Station, will kick off in the - first match to be played on the main ground, where a picked Royal Navy side will be opposed by South China's *13" aggregation. The timed for four o'clock,

Diatch

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Prior to the commencement of the match there will be a short opening Ceremony, including the hoisting of the Ensign. The Manned Bands of the Chinn Fleet will be in attendance and will render selections during the afternoon.

Admission to the ground will be $1,; -30 cents and 30 cents.

LEAGUE CHANGES

RACE SAILED YESTERDAY

13-7.

BILLIARDS LEAGUE

Results of Week End Games

The Royal Engineera Sergeants' Mean and the Royal Artillery Ser- geants' Mess won their fixtures in the

Steel Coulson' Billiards League Last week when they beat St. Patrick's and the Garrison Sergeants'

The Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Club yesterday hell two races for their Mess respectively. third Wednesday in succession. Mrs. Bruusgaard won the race for "A": cinas yachts in Jan, and Capt. H. slatshall won the ", "Y" and class in Robena.

Further alterations have been made, In the Axture list for the week-end Wasp League football matches in Hong- kong.

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The Chief and Petty Officers' Club were not engaged and, DA result. the Royal Engineers assume loader-

ship.

Reshits of Friday's matches were as appended:

R. Patrick Smith

Royal Engineers

180 G/Ret. Holger 144 091/88%. Growsmith' 160 100 G. M. C. Staples 136

15 Sat. Hollingworth 127 )

50 Caps Regen

JAY

Toil

0 3 Royal Artillery

Ligt: -W, Pink

Carrion Sergeant shot," Sonthe-

S/Sgt. Finod

(8gl. 4., Bloomfield 165

HEL. 1. Wendta 14 Set. Hing

140

100

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RANGERS Billiards

GIVEN

EASY TASK

COMPLETE DRAW ANNOUNCED

Chatter

Championship

Qualifying Competition

BY FRANK POXON

The decision of the Billiards Association and

From what I hear, that entrance

Women's Hockey On The Continent

ENORMOUS IMPROVEMENT IN

GERMANY

Below we publish an article by Marjorie Pollard on Con- tinental bockay which should be of particular interest to local.. enthusiasts. Mariorie Pollard is a well-known English hockey player herself. She has taken English teams to the Continent every Easter for some years and has seen hockey played in most parts of Germany and Holland.

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London, Dec. 5. The draw has been made Control Council to have a

An English Women's Hockey | Then there is always the strain of for the First Round of the qualifying competition pre-

team is going to Holland and Ger- travell'ng, strange surround'ngs, Scottish Cup, which is to be paratory to the Champion-"

many in the spring. As yet no unusual food-factor which i played off on January 26. ship proper is an interesting dates have been settled, but such maintain, reduce the value of a

team to about 75 cent. of its .. Rangers, present holders move and I hope it will be details will soon be known.

The last time an English team normal strength. went to Germany was in 1926, And, all important, unless of the Cup, and the team successful.

when we played matches in tenni a been warned and almost holding the premier position

fee for the qualifying competition rather bumpy pitches, scored, their style of play and try to beat Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, and pleaded with, the players will alter in the First Division, have will be £6, maybe guiness. I am in spite of heat, dust and something their opponents at their own name. been drawn against Cowden- also led to believe that the parlike 40 goals without much responsa, This is a captain's nightmare. A fee for the competition proper will But that was eight years ago, and team of English plavors must stick beath on their own ground, he reduced to a very considerable we did not play a represents to its own methods. It cannot, while Celtic who were win-extent. That is all to the good. tive German side, although we with any success, adont the Con-

of were a full International team tinental style all at once. is This qualifying stage

I remember a'match in Mannheim, murs, not for the renior players that had just beaten Ireland by 8 Davis. Newman, Smith

(W),goals to nil and Wales by 20 goals amid dust and fierce enthusiasm. Lindrum and McConnchy; it is in to all.

when we were three-goala down Since then, hockey in Germany in less than ten minutes. We tended to attract such playera as Sidney Smith, Sidney Lee, Will has improved enormously, but it were clapping the ball about, Leigh, Tom Carpenter and Arthur has always been played in what copying our opponente. A mess- might be termed, mannish style. age had to be sent round the team, The clubs at all mixed, running pungent, urgent. We won in the both men's and women's clevens, and by 14 goala to 3. Joint practices are held, so it is I mention all this because thero. get unnatural that the style of are still people in England who both men and women is the same; belittle Continental hockey, and robust, bard-hitting. rapid, and pay: "More of your walk-ovora.” deadly accurate. It is the same in | In the last few years we have had Holland. Hockey on the Contic- no walk-overs, We have had to ent is coached by men and played fight every inch of the way, and in their style.

victory has called for all the con-

And

nera in 1933-34 will be, at home to Montrose who, up to last Saturday were holding a position third from the bot. tom of the Second Division table.

The complete draw is as under:

Partick Stenhousemuir Vule-o-Coha v Dumbarton. Buckie Thustle Beith. Third Lanark v Creetown East Stirding v Haith. Dumfermiline v Hamilton. Forlar Chirnside United Vale o' Fathull y Hibernians, Celtic v Montrose. Fraserburgh v, Dundee United, Falkirk v Aberdeen. Albion v Paisleyacas. Queen's Park

Alloa

East Fife y Clyde. Brechin v Leith

Peebles Rovers v St. Mirron. Rangers v Cowdenbeath, Inverness Caledonian v Clachna- cuddin.

King'a Park v Edinburgh, St. Johnstone y Arbroath, Hearts v Solway Star, Ayr.v Queen of South Morton v Bo'ness. Galston Kilmarnock, St. Bernarda v Airdrie. Berwick Rangers'v Rosyth yard,

Dundee v Motherwell.

Penll.

I would suggest that the win rer would be the official Jun'or Champion of the United Kingdom with no obligation to pay an add tional fee in order to play in the championship proper.

I am sure the scn'or players would not object for they are as kein as anybody to get an influx of new players-an influx which is so badly needed.

BOYS' CHAMPIONSHIP

The prospects of the forthcoming Boys' Championship are excellent and I expect 'n racord entry; that would be a fitting tribute to the memary of the late Mr. Harry, Young. the "father" of this event He lived to see it become one of the most popular fentures of the billiards year, with the standard of play steadily improving from year

to year.

We decry baleterousness and any- [contration; determination thing that savours of dangerous hit-ability that an experienced team ting, concentrating on finesse, short can produce. passing, 'control of ball and body, |

The conditions are aguinat in-

PRESTIGE AT STAKE

and accuracy. How this style will To me, these matches with Hol- fars in competition with great land ent Germany are all import strength, long awinging passes (mostly knee high), terrifically hard. The prestige of English

reckey is at stake, and hitting, remains to be ezen.

do hope that the England experienced visitors. The grounds team that goes ahrord in the are usually very hard, dusty, and ring will insist on hav'ng a real with gruss only on the wings, Rama, bath in Holland and Ger- The bulls are not leather and be many, before it meets the national have accordingly. Games are they have to get any 'des of the

fram. Only in the way played often at 6.30 p.m.. an awk race of the pitch and the pecu- ward unusual time. Who war ander after Continental Farites of the bail, and become accustomed to the foreign inter- |pretation of the rules.

It was this event which brought out Sidney Lee, who was later tes anyway?

premic in the Amateur Champion-

A KICK IS A CRIME

We are apt to think in England ship until he "crossed the floor? Dock-and became n most promising pro

that we own the game of hockey fessional with a bright future.

There is always a great deal of and Its rules, and that overywhere -f noise on the side-Ene, and the we go it should be played as we It is, financially, all for St. Dun- stan's, and this year donation cards layers, too, keen up a flow of play it. This attitude leads to have heen faazed in order to swell conversation, which is irritating trouble, frayed temners, and bad the proceeds. Leading players, and incomprehensive. Rules differ feeling. At the outset, it is al- the finest snooker player in the amateur and professional, will dis ferens. A slight kick is a crime, whatever happens

rightly, and the umpiring is dif-ways best to warn world-his win over Horace Lind- tribute the cards, and I imagine and the whistle-fairly rends the down-to-different-interpretations ram-et Melbourne was completely that the result will be gratifying.

-Reuter.

Yuehi

Ostu

Jan

The match between the Lincoln- ahire Regiment and St. Joseph's Isobel arranged for Chatham Road ground on

Cicada Sunday next will now be player on the Kowloon Football Club Cround. commencing at 4 p.m

Pet

Carpenter.... 10.68.47 -

(Lieut. MacMullen). ** 10,42.30 (Lieut, Donaldson).

.... 10.46.08 (Major Grimn}.

.10.30.28 (Mrs. Bruusgaard).

16.45.14 (Doctor L. Davis). ***... 16.53.40 (Lieut. J. R. Portman).

10.39.67- 2 (Commodore F. Eliott). Royal, Painted Lady 10.40.58-

The following are the results:

"A" Class, Started 13.00

Finished Corrected Porn Pt Pa

tu dale

81, 0

Cicel

Hailey

Lordsh Con

11 8/8 TIT

McQuliean

4

A

Tolai

1

8 14. Gatmell

150 Sgt. Ramion

r

4

3 Mr. Ghz. W.

Larkhan

/Sat. G. Ronch

100 A/Ft. Dyer 18/Cdr. Clic

150

7

2 3

Intel

A6P

Total

101

7 10

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The following League Table includes

melchra played 10 date

6 8

P

15.000. Clut

R. E. Sata Mour.

|R. A. Sau M·RY.

to Feb. 27 the women professionals

The Royal Artillery and Welch Fusiliers were to meet in the Second Division at King's Park

on

(Major F. C. Booty).

Sunday, but they will now play on," "X" and "G" Class, Started

Jade 10.59.50 10.45.45 24 13 On Sgis Men

(Lieut. Williams),

the Hongkong Football Club ground] fhxtend, the game being timed to start Heron at 2.30 p.n

The Third Division match between Robenn the East Lancashire and the Linenin- shire Regiments will be played on the Railway Recreation Club ground at 4 p.m. and not at 2.30 p.m. as originally Gael fixed.

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D.N.F.

18.03.35 16.40.01. 1 5 KI (Capt. H. Marshall),

Widgeon 17.02.67 10.49.23 3 3 4

(Mr. R. V. Dixon).

17.15.21 16.63.09 (Mr. J. D. Davis).

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time hitting are not penalised ❘ing of conduct or decisions. 141 Davis is in a class of his own at

snooker.

Play starts on Dec. 27, and I shall 41 The Women's Amateur Cham- look forward to seeing some very Pionship begina on Jan. 19 and entertaining billiards from these finirhes on Jan. 26. From Feb. 18. keen lads.

will decide their billiards and

snooker Championship; there are

DAVIS AND SNOOKER

Joe Davis has done what I felt

about 60 other events, so that the sure he would do-proved himself

is organisers will be kept pretty busy, 'Continued on Previous Column.

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