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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY

12, 1935.

OMAR BOWS TO

TO THE

THE INEVITABLE IN BOWLS TOURNEY

DEFEATED BY SOUTH

RAMSAY

AFRICAN TOURISTS

MATCH COMMENCES AND HELD TO DRAW BY

ENDS WITH A FOUR

CLOSE SCORING THROUGHOUT THE CONTEST

(By “Sagax")

NORFOLK

TWO-DAY FIXTURE AT NORWICH

London, July 11.

In a two-day match prior to the Third Test at Headingly, Leeds on Saturday, the South African cricket tourists to-day

played a drawn game with Nar- only possible to have one com- pleted innings ench.

folk at Norwich where it was

Norfolk gave a good account of themselves when they went in to

hat and compiles a total of 325 uns, of which Edrich contributed

To the already large number of names of prominent local bowlers who have bowed to the inevitable in the current championships, must now be added that of U. M. Omar, one of the most experienced players in the Colony and the only man who has twice won the Singles title since the War.. In the third round on the Club de Recreio green yesterday the Craigengower a score of 367, the highest scorer and Interport skip succumbed to the accuracy of J. V. Ramsay, of the Kowloon Docks Recrea- tion Club, by 24 shots to 20.

There was con un lust on the three second shots.

Hamby was full entor for his vie Lory and although the match was not altogether of the highest standard of

180.

1it before dismissal.

The South Africans replied with being K, G. Viljoen who was not put with 10 runs to his credit.

When stumps were drawn Nors folk and made 59 for three wickets in their serund innings. - Router,

AMES RECOVERS ______

London, July 11. Leslie Ames, the Kent and Eng- Klumes | ronided by a strained leg sustained in the Serund Test match at Lord's As a doubtful starter in the Third and had previously been regarded Test at Headingly, Lords, has now

Reuter, recovered,

He drove with mad Car it www a four his lust wood in en attempt to dis- on penise und winch somewhat lodge Ramsay's erunter, but et his undermined Omar's confidence and al. fopponent's wind ever so slightly an though te was able to draw level with only registered a single. Had he hit had wicket-keeper, who has been

the SQUETT hi oprement im Geveral oeensions Hei Rajassy's wood could ever got the four out of his would have ended on that

For the Brst and only time Omar altret.

took the lead on the 24th head when he scored a single when

be posted. inst the jork after Ramsay was lying The Kowloon Tork pinyer bosts in the Colong it was well apted the sores on the 25th lead with

the clan of many of the better gabies wen so far in the Championship, single and the pored a four an 2011 to qualify for the next round, There have, of courer, been enite

With his first wond on the final water of matches which have by far!

brillinger but

head Ranway was bearly a foot from excerted yesterday's in

falar bees a larice unter: the jack while Our was two gards

through Hamsay's serund shot wa

out on the fack and tony took three drives in an attempt to save the tume at each of his wors was at least a Foot wide of the objective, leaving funny with a four

of much wore contents.

Rammy was not in his best form and Oper was naturally playing much below his standards. The Craig cover player was not aħde to find the weight of the green very sacressfully and although these

WAS

Devnsiona when he was bowling dead on the

very! jack he was more frequently wide of his objective for a player? of his experience, The Kreen tricky but that cannot be blamed fors its defent for it was as hard for his.. opperent as it was for him to "find: the green."

RAMSAY OFTEN DEADLY

Ramsay was straying with deadly, accuracy on many evasions Int there were also lines when he was unable to gauge the draw of the grven or its in weight. He played a shade better than his opponent whose wider experi-

saved him from an earlier de fent than the 26th bend.

pneu

The Kowloon Dork player should And himself among the last

right

or in the semi-finals if he reprogres his est form as he has been playing very good bowls of hate Arcured some very Lories.

and has

creditable

1

DOROTHY ROUND REVEALS GREAT FORM

BEATS KATHARINE STAMMERS

AT BECKENHAM

(By Frank Poxon)

London, June 17. Mentally and physically tired, Miss Kay Stammers, conqueror of Mrs. Moody, was benten in 28 minutes by Miss D. E. Round in the final of the Kent Lawn Ten- nis Championships, at Beckenham

He certainly took Omar quite un aware when he sent down four well placed shots on the first head to re gister a maximum count, with Omar heavy with his first wood, short with on Saturday. The score ha second, wide with his thin! and 6-2, 6-0. wide and heavy with his fourth.

Ray early showed better forms

UNIVERSITY CRICKET.

Comments On Match

By R. Abbit Comments by R. Abbit on the 97th annual university cricket match between Cam- bridge and Oxford which was won by the Light Blues at Lord's during the week, will appear in morrow

our iSsuc

YOUTH & AGE

to-

OVERSEAS GOLF TOURNEY

WON BY PLAYER FROM INDIA

LUCIFER SOCIETY

COMPETITION.

London, July 11. In the annual Lucifer Golfing 1224 11:3422464999 27011319 Society's Oversens tournament at Walton Heath, L. Faster, of Calcutta, with a score of seven up, won the first prize in the 36- hole bogey competition in which competitors from all parts of the world participated.

The two best scores over today's righteen holes were returned by Norman Brookes, the Australian Davis Cup player and Wimbledon lawn tennis champion, and by T. S. M. Terrace, of Shanghai, both of whom were five up.

CLEVERNESS VERSUS COURAGE

THE

VILLAR-COOK

AFFAIR

That youth will be served in the oldest and truest of ring-sayings, writes a Speelal Correspondent in The Olurreer. Truer even than that a god big in will heat and little an, for the latter saying les who is apt to be moved by the Many pends largely upon the referer sympathy of the crowd. haust have disliked the match be- ! tween Pancho Villar, the young? Spanish heavyweight, and Cook, the Australian veteran, when it was arriangel, for if half what was said of the Spaniard could be

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS

London, July 11. Lancashire had an easy victory against Essex in the county cham-believed, pin, winning at Manchester by an innings and 1 runs after they had declared their first funings closed at 412 for five wickets.

SCOTTISH WOMEN'S GOLF TITLE

MISS ROBERTSON DURHAM WINS

GREAT FIGHT BY MISS BAIRD

(By Eleanor E. Helme)

Nine Batsmen

Struck Out

By Pitcher

BASEBALL FEAT IN U.S.

YANKEES WIN AGAIN

New York, July 11. Joe Allen, the pitcher of the New York Yankees' American League Baseball team, brought off one of his best feats to-day London, June 14. Scotland have a now, and it when he struck out nine batamen must be owned unexpected, cham- when playing against the Clove- pion, for yesterday, at Lossieland Indians, whom the Yankees mouth, Miss Robertson-Durham, bent by eight runs to one. of Gullane, beat Miss Nan Baird, the holder, at the 20th hole of the ostensibly eighteen-hole final. yesterday's defeat by Washington In the semi-finals she had beaten although the Tigers only managed Miss Helen Nimmo by thres and to nose out their opponents.

St. Louis Browns and Philadel

two, and Miss Baird had beaten Mias Jean McCulloch two and one.

The Detroit Tigera avenged

by beating the Senatorn, to-day,

Terrace is a consistently good

a double golfer and his handicap was live Miss Durlam owes her champion-phia Athletics shared strokes, enter.

ship the most perfect putting header, Although the latter lost second game, Jimmy Foxx, which it has ever been my lot to the 842N It was not merely that she their batsman, hit two home rand hoted a goodly number of long ones, but still more that she put them. time and again, so close to the hole that they did not have to be holed out, and did it, moreover, by such

Woman's

Debut In

Honours were also shared by Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox in a double header.

The New York Giluts are stil

Athletics th trueness of striking that winning, and to-day they beat the

50 YEAR OLD COLLEGE

nobody could feel the slightest | doubt or anxiety regarding its dis timtion,

Results of to-day's matches, as enbled by Rrater, follow:

AMERICAN LEAGUE

She is short player, unarined! with the full variety of shot of some other Scottish champion, but those she has she can go on play-St. Louis ing without fault or intermission.

Philadelphia (She did not make the mistake of

trying to produce shots of which

K.

H. E.

#

10

0

7 12 2

MeNair scored a home rtin for

she was incapable, just because if the Athl-kieg). was a final and might be thought

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to demand something impressive: $1. Louis instead she trusted in her quito Philadelphia ..... beautiful putting and her trust! (Clift and Coleman scured homo ven more than justified.

EMANCIPATION JUBILEE we were in for one of these trageties of the ring dess

Dartford, June 10. cribed by Jack London in his story

No sports- Fifty years ago, in the face of convention, "A Piece of Steak.” man cares to see a "fight" in which the opposition of the only interest is as to whether frills and furbelows, an unsung 1. Hopwood gollected 103 runs weaker rain will be knocked heroine of feminine emancipation

In the final she was, never up for the champion county, while i

cut or not. On the other hand, as founded a physical training col-

until the 15th hole, which she won Washbrook scored 107 without los-Fronati Doyle Pays in "Rodney lege for young women.

Frustrated an frowned ROOR, in two, so that for dogged courage in his wicket.

Stour," "The annals of the ring

as she broke her Joe Allen struck out nine of the Essex were dismissed for 173 in show that a hard veteran, full of cheeked, hampered and hindered at

discretion to the winds and aero particularly their feat indings in which Booth tuming and ringeraft, ean five every turn, Four young women threw her fat would be hard to beat. took six for ba, and, in the follow-years and a heating to many initiated into the dark mysteries of aukle ski-ing last February, and Indians batsmen).

still was to play with a supporting on. they lost their last wicket for youngster.”

boot im that font.

185 rs.

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physical culture.

runs for the Browns and Jimmy Foxx hit two for the Athletics), Cleveland

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Boston

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the Borgan Osterberg When the men stood up stripped i

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PLUCK AND PERSEVERANCE there has been no such contrast in Thysical Training College on Dartford

national institution. Northants, playing against Not- an English ring since Savers faced Heath is s

The runner-up, Miss Baird, is Boston Linghamshire at Peterborough Teens at Farnborough 75 years has trained more than 1,640 pupils, who have enrried the ambitions of proved no match for their opponents ago.

Zeke Bonura scored two home I have not forgotten Carners. Madame sterberg into every seat of less endowed with pluck and in the perrverance, To hold title is and lost by an innings and 45 runs,

magnificently! The Spaniard is

girls secondary education shade shallow country, into the Colonies and thatways harder than to win it, and runs for the White Sox and Dahl- The visitors compiled a total of built, perbates 440 rims, W. Vore taking, seven for hested in with the widest shoul-Dominions, into universities, factories, the way she kept her head and gren hit a home run for the Red

her own fine putting, when there Sox). ders I have seen in the ring, wider and clules,

This month the College with rele- i i while Notts replied with a sco Levon than Ford's, and looking all [ of 254, of which Walker contributed his ft. 2in. and 15 slone. Villari brate it; Jubler. Member, past and was every temptation to lose both.

114. 'kins tonk five wickets for

is as handsome as a film star, with present, will combine in paying t-teaks highly for her temperament 4X4 rubs.

free of personality, more

In the final, when Miss Durham, a small well-set hem, short-crispe to a woman who achieved, by as well as for her golf. #k Reneration

do. apitulors could In their second innings Northants Leurls and a fine aquiline nose. were dismissed for 65 runs.--Bu-is well maseled but light in the The College and grounds, which are who had seen the inside of no arms atal legs, Hight on his feet, now the property of the nation, stand single bunkers all the morubu, with a reach more than proportion-as a tangible landmark in the story of visited three in the first four holes, acquisition by women of a now and was consequently three down, ate to his height. It is almost en-

she stedfastly refused to be shaken. New York ough to say that Cook is his exact place in the life of the nation.

Martina Berman Osterberg was Nor could she make any inipres Pittsburgh upposito in every respect. To saainst the first exponent of Swedish sion after getting me bark by ac

(Arky Vaughan scored a home Cook was six inches shorter and a physical culture in Great Britain.good run up at the fifth, for though stone and a half lighter gives Under the auspices of the London she holed putts of six yards at the ran for the Pirates and Melvin iden of the disproportion between Schoul Board she ensured, during the 6th, ten yards at the 7th, and six it for the Glanla),

Cook's big head is set penultimate drende of the last een-

tur.

Lawn Bowls Contests

OTHER MATCHES

Misa Stammers wa. mentally tired than old his opponent and with his breause she had a reaction-a rebound Grat delivery on the scrond head befrom the thrill and excitement of reated against the jack to register a the previous day. She could not con- count of one and then on the third gentrate. She was physically tired head he again rested the jack. Omur because she had played in three events dislodged the wood but Ramsay faced on Friday. In sure our young Bowling the shot for the final count ta malo players enter" for too many events the scure 6.0.

It was n

the men.

A HARD HITTER

Dock player making the score 10-6 the result that Mie Stämmers made wet bad the centers on shoulder up, covering his chin, isj

Li

every head

i

VICTORIAN CRITICS

than a

Det rust

7

7

1

Washington

(Gehringer and Goslin scored home runs for the Tigers).

NATIONAL LEAGUE.

R. T. E. 4 10 Q 24

Cincinnati

She won the 9th, through Miss Baird pitching short, and so turn

Heston

Chicago

+ 12

Villar sparred with his left thirteenth feet rather wide apart. Cook stood venture she purchased Kingsheld and and sinking the putt. with the up in the traditional British style. its grounds near Dartford and drow bad The Spaniard seat out straight into her wide curriculum English

Ten years after the start of her tee-shot two yards from the pin MOTORING

AWE.FUL SILENCES

RECORDS

ភ R 1 on his shoulders with no apparent fury, the introduction of Swedish, yards, at the 8th, she could do no Brooklyn

# 8 at all, his wide nose has been gymnastics into more than 100 schools more than halve all of them. beaten level with his brond that in England,

F 13 B face, and both his ears are bruised IL. Duncan. af the Kowloon out of recognition. Ilis arms and

(Stainbach and Gaian scored Green Club,

In 1885, discouraged and criticisedd unly one down, out is 41 to eliminated

ves in par figures, and then Miss home runs for the Cube). A. 9. Brawn of the Civil Services are short and thick. Peculiar 4. C. le 21-5 in the Lawn Bowls ill-built for boxing, one would from every nagle, the bought a house Miss Baird's 39. Two more hai

in Hampstead, where she set out on

11 1 I would not detract for a moment singles Championship on the Kowloon think, but quick as a cat for all her grand ideal of furthering through Durham squared the match, Miss Philadelphia

St. Louis

5 7 1 from the great merit of Miss Itound's Dock green.

his squat bulk, and of unquench physient training in its rondest sense laird having the first mishit shot OMAR DREWS LEVEL

able courage. Cook says play. Her footwork and her stroke

he is the emancipation of women.

of the finid and a long putt which

(Vergez scored a home run for Omar improved on the next four production were car perfection as

one-sided affair. Brawn under forty, so I suppose we must Slowly but surely public attention just stayed out. Two more halves, head and registered two two and snything which the mest hypercritical scoring only on three hends. He re believe him. He looks about 45. engendered success. At once creathing but now it was Miss Baird who was the Phillies and Joe Medwick for

first und two singles to lie the scores. But he could desire. From the first stroke Ristered singles on the

a denund for women having to hole the long patts for the Cardinala). and supplying a was again erratic on the eighth and she was calling the time and impose third heads and a three on the four-

exports in physical culture. Mme them, and then at the 15th Miss Osterberg built up her position, lead-Durham took the lead, putting her Ramany lay two shots, the Kowlooning her will upon her opponent, with th, but faded out from this stage

ing and educating public opinion. on the next heal. Omer found the error after error.

the until Preen on the eleventh, and with Rura

M. Round, specialised in strives of when the

ended ay taking too much grass en

Kame back bant, the Craigengewer player very low trajectory and she volloyed score at 1-6. The winner

four, a three and four two's. managed to lay three to take him extremely well. within one shot of his opponent.

The men's ringles title was won by i

ARCULLI v. SLOAN 4. Yamarishi, Japan's number une again made the scores level at 10-10 ranking player, whe heat I. G. Collins,

Ramsay lay three shots on the neat 6-3, 6-1. Collins, a great dou Arculli defeated

heads while.

JR. Sloan by which followed. Then in came Mme. Osterberg sought means to en-breadths in silences when you could Omar for the third les player, is not nearly so impres-eight shots, the core being 21-1, time, evened the secrew at 13-13 AL

Cook with a quick squattering rush, sure its perpetuation. In 1915, a das hear nothing except tiny waves Stonn led comfortably the conclusion of the 15th head, on sive in singles. On Saturday he was which Omar was originally lying two Painst a real unster of the singles

who is likely to so far first eight heads when he was lead ducking under the Spaniard's arms after deels had been signed for the tossing on the shore or a yellow. ENGLISH DRIVER

in the nation's behalf, she died,

graph wires.

IN AMERICA when he bumped up an

Wimbledon. There is not an apparent in by 7-4, but from then onwards and uppercutting and hooking at transference of the Clege to a Trust hammer twittering on the tele

Arculli staged a splendid recovery wond only to have Ramsay return the weakness in Yamagishi's game.

close quarters. The fight followed

This year one of the participants in The Jubiler celebrations will be the This was Jodsed 11 "bonnie compliment immediately afterwards plays lawn tennis with the mitul and and not only did he level the score these lines throughout, but it was to give the Craigengower player the the inserunte fe of a master of but went in to take the lead when never uninteresting. Villar hits Principal of a famous Physical Train- fechtOut to the 19th, halved in

he geured four on the 11th head, both hard and quickly, and Cooking College which is one of the several

The Craigengower player con- showed great cleverness in step-daughter-houses to Kingsfield. Fifty four: out yet farther to the 20th. A two to Runday was followed by

A specintly Interesting, match was tinued to play consistently two singles to Onar, the scores then the final of the men's doubles. All result that he maintained the lead Ping inside or ducking his tremend- | years ago she was one of the four There the golf did break down. ous punches. Soon Cook's sharp young women who braved convention Miss Baird pulled her drive into a deep bunker, took two to get out, being 15-15 but Ran say took the lead four men. Perry and Austin

and til the

and, though Miss Durbam could do with a two on the 19th hemi and then Tuckey and Wilde, were "on trial" on the end of the game which was hitting at clase quarters had open. Ila a great venture.

no better than a six, that was good enough for the hole and the Cham pionship.

while

11 single on the following end

tw

ahut,

AN EXCITING FINISH.

franc,

choss.

A brilliant

•

left to an almost incredible dis-sports and games, taught by malo Benonstrations were tance.

It seemed to reach right professionis.

Still Miss Baird stuck to her She won the next hole, and

across the ring, but Cook easily given in the newly-nequired College RUNS.

halved the remaining three, each BROKEN and in London halle. On the Taikoo Club green, E, el avoided both it and the heavy right As her life's work drew to a close, in turn missing the hole by hairs-

the

with the

22nd hund.

►

MITCHELL v. MUSKETT

ed a cut on the bridge of Villar's handsome nose laut apart from this visible damage there was little

LEAGUE TENNIS

erept nearer to game with a single on for the Davis Cup challenge round.. the next. Romany, on this hund, was rockey und Wilde won lying two and placed his third wood match at 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.

On the Civil Service Club Green done to either man: Once Villar In the draw to block his opponent, The winners were the better team G. N. Mitchell gained a decisive drove Cook to the ropes and seem-

Muskel with It

The following matches will be and Frank Wilde was the best player win over W. B.

out, but the Australian neatly 'Omar drove nnd, with a lucky wick of the four. On his form in this score of 23 points to seven In 16/ed to have a chance for a knock layed, this afternoon in. the "D" Division of the Lawn Tennis League: the Radio Sports

V. Police R. C. off the wood in the draw, carried the match he should be assured of a place beads.

in the Davis Cup doubles pair. ils Muskelt started well, scoring two slipped him and escaped to

Army T. C. single in the first middle of the ring amidst tremend South China itty but unfortunately the jack

In the losing doubles and a

six ous applause. The fight followed Kowloon Docks Austin was better than Perry.

The next knocked against its msay's my backly made a mistake,

three enda. But in wood. However, he had saved one

Mr, Andrews, of the United States, bends Mitchell averaged twos and these lines to the end, when the Kowloon F. C. shot and when he registered a three and Madame Ileurotin, of France, won took the score to 12-5. On the ten- verdict in Cook's favour was well Indian R. C. on the next head to make the scores the women's doubles, beating Miss to head Muskett scored a two, which received. Perhaps a draw might 18-18

It was again anybody's game, Stammors and Misa Freda Janies at was his Inst. success Mitchell in have been given, but, after all, took wint punishmont he received On the 22nd. hoad Omar touched 6-3, 6-2. It was, indeed, a black the last six heads chalked up two points should be given for defence, without flinching, but I am a little the jack and rested six inches away Saturday for Misa Stanners, after three's, a double and three singles, and Cook's defence was superb. Boubtful as to his staying power. bot Ramsay faced the shot and that far-from-black: Friday,

to win by 23-7.

The Spaniard may go far, for His chest in not deep enough, and secured the count. Omar made a In the mixed doubles final Perry At Cralgengower H. A. Alvos beat brilliant effort to finish the game and Miss Round beat R. G. N. Cooper M. Y. Adai by 23 shots to sia in 15 he is quick for a big heavyweight, he seemed to me to be tiring a

and he can undoubtedly, hit. "Helittle towards the end. on the 23rd hoad when he was. Tying and Miss Dearman at 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, heads.

V. Chinese R. C.- V. Kowloon B. G. C. V. Kowloon G. C.

HIGH AVERAGES MAINTAINED

Salt Lake City, July 11. The English motorist, John Cobb, driving a Napier Railton, established several world's re cords which were previously held by the German, Hans Stuck.

The following new times wero erented by Colb;

In the morning semi-finals Mias Baird turned three up, out in 31, against Miss McCullock, three times holder ofthe title, -but. at the sixteenth her lend was reduced 50 Kilometres at an averago to one hole, and only the missing speed of 154.40 miles an hour; of a holeable putt by Miss Mc- 50 miles at an average of 153.608 Culloch on the noventeenth prevent- miles an hour; ed a long-drawn-out fight. Miss 100 kilometres at an average Robertson-Derham, outdriven by speed of 158.18 miles an hour; Miss Nimmo, not only managed to 100 miles at an average speed of halve many of those holes where 152.05 miles an hour and she had bndly the worst of it in 200 kilometres at an averaga length, but by holing the long putts speed of 153.34 miles an hour. gained many vital ones.

Reuter.

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