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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHS THURSDAY:

AUGUST

OLYMPIC SWIMMERS BEATEN BY UNKNOWN BOYS

Rain Stops

Baseball

Matches

YANKEES SHARE A DOUBLE HEADER

LEADERS NOT ENGAGED

New York Aug. 7. Of three double headers ache. duled in the American Baseball League to-day one was postponed on account of the wet weather, while in the other two the Yan- kees shared the honours with the Red Sox and the White Sox broke even with the Indians.

In both matches the New York: Yankens out-hit their opponents but it was only in the second that they were able to register more runs than did the Rell Sox. The Boston outât won by 6-5 In the first but lost the second 6-4,

the The Tiger, lenders of

were not American League, ongaged, no match being scheduled

for them.

Parvo or miniature tennis is taking on wall at Melbury, On wet days they play it in the practice area. It's such fun, and is Al for your foot. work. It also makes you keep your eye on the ball. Picture shows H. W. Austin and his sister, Mri, Lycatt, the playing miniature tennis Melbury .Club.

Bl

CHANGE IN

DAVIS CUP

The Senators and the Athletics SCORING

were unable to play off their double header owing to rain.

Only two of the three matches scheduled in the National League were played, the match between the Braves and the Phillies boing postponed.

The Pirates won from the Cubs while the Cardinals beat the Reds. Rosults of to-day'a matches follow:

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Pittsburgh

R. H. E.

6 14 0

Chicago

0

1

4

(Blanton

pitched

for

the

Pirates).

2 11

1

4 8 0

Cincinnati

Bt. Louis

Owing to rain the match bo tween Boston Braves and Philadel- phin Phillies was postponed.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

R. H. E.

2 9 0 3 11

0

ALTERNATION TO BE SOUGHT

THREE SETS AND NOT FIVE

AMERICAN STARS LOSE TO YOUTHS

JACK MEDICA IS DEFEATED

NATIONAL 'MEET

AT DETROIT

Detroit, July 6.

Two new championa were crowned to-night on the basis of record-shattering performances in the finals of the national A. A. U. swimming meet. Neither of the title-holders is yet out of his

teena.

John Macionis, 19-year-old Philadelphia youth who will be a sophomore at Yale next autumn, lupset the dope in the 440-yard free style to wreat the title from Jack

The above picture was taken during the progress of the Lawn- Bowls League match between the Club de Recralo and the Kowloon

Cricket Club on Saturday.

Medien of Seattle, Wash. The IRELAND

blond Lithuanian boy finished only a few inches in front of Medics, whom he had led all the way, although his margin at no time was more than two feri,

Macionis was timed at 4m. 51.58. The recognized world record for the event was 4m. 52a., establish- ed by Johnny Weismueller In 1927. In winning last year Medien's time was reported to be 4m. 60.98.; but his mark never has been offici- ally recognized.

Ralph Flanagan, Miami (Fla.) high school boy to whom the ox- perts had looked to furnish Medica with his chief competition, finished third. Other contestants in the. order in which they crossed the line were Jimmie Gilhula, Detroit; Paris, July 31.

Dexter Woodford, Ohio State Uni Some French tennis enthusiasts want scoring rules changed to inversity, and Ralph Gilman, San crease their chances of regaining Francisco.

BACKSTROKE FLASH the Davis Cup. They ask three- sat instead of the present five- set matches, because their main-cagoan, who is a senior at Rose Boussus,velt High School, won a decided atay, fruil Christian

victory in the 100-metre back- tires too early.

stroke, Anishing seven feet in the van. of Taylor Drysdalz, Detroit.

The need of reform was cried following the Jack Crawford-Bous. sus Davis Cup match, when both players, completely exhausted, could hardly drag their wonry legs back Additional to the dressing room. impetus was given the movement when Crawford was badly beaten by Gottfried Von Cramm and Holner Henkel in Berlin, the "reformers" contending that Craw

SPRINGS A

SURPRISE

BEATEN BY WALES AT LAWN BOWLS

INTERNATIONAL FIXTURES

1

The four reserves of the Welsh team

DRAMATIC FEAT

ENGLAND'S RECOVERY IN THIRD TEST

CRICKETERS AT LEFDS

(By A. E. R. Gilligan)

London, July 16.

The storm came but not from the weather. Bowes, Nichols and Verity provided the thunder and lightning, and some thrill- ing and very sensational cricket ensued during (the hour after! lunch.

JAPANESE FIGURE IN TRIALS

MIYAZAKI AND KOIKE LOSE

YOUNG STARS IN "FINE FORM

Tokyo, Aug. 4. One hundred and twenty

Germans

Refuse To Race Without Swastika

ALLEGED REASON

FOR ABSENCE"

The new Grossglockner Alpino motor road, linking the province of Salzburg.with Carinthia and estab- ishing direct automobila communi-

Ing.

Japanese swimmers, hopeful of cation between Italy, Austria and making the team which will res Yugoslavia, was to have been open- present the Nipponese Empire at ed in a formal ceremony on August Berlin next year in the World 3, with President Miklas and Chan- Olympiad, Last night participated cellor Kurt Schuschnigg participat- in the first team eliminations here.

The opening of the new mute Although no world records were was to be celebrated by an inter broken or equalled, the sensational national motor cycle and auto raco

of a performance

Hamamatsu

It is reported that the German Agricultural School student, Shi-

geo Aral, was considered excop-aces who were to have contested for the prize Bent their tionally noteworthy.

Aral, hitherto little known, de-excuses and refused to be present feated Yasuji Miyazaki in the 100. on the grounds that they consider- metro free style event, negotiatinged the course insufficiently pre-

pared for racing purposes. the distance in one minute flat.

Miyazaki, a winner in the 10th

The reason for their abstention,

World Olympic Games at Los An- however, was alleged to be the fact geles, finished, two strokes behindthey were denied permission to the apeedy schoolboy.

Another "dark-horse".

Saburo sport insignia on their machines

Ito, defeated Reizo Koike, 200-bearing the German swastika, says meter breaststroke champion, by Hares message from Vienna.

a margin of 8 seconds.

Ito is Melji University's latest

addition to the Japanese swimming W. E.

crop.

Only a small crowd was on hand because of heavy rain.

S. L. KINGS'S RECORD

GOLFER BEATS JONES'S BEST

131 FOR 36 HOLES

Phillipson Unlucky

“NO-BALL” SPOILS HAT-TRICK

On a first-rate pitch Essex bats- men, apart from O'Connor, T. N. Pearce, Boswell and Wade, cut a recent very sorry figure in tho cricket match between Lancashire and Essex at Old Trafford.

•

Booth's fast-medium deliveries were the cause, this bowler having a match record of 11 wickets for

111 runs.

The American swimming stars invading Japan, although not per (By E. J. LINNEY)

forming, were present at the pre- England made a dramatic reliminary tryouts-United Press. Weston-Super-Mare, July 12,

Excitement in the opening covery at Leeds yesterday and chance of victory. The wicket Ireland in the international series still looks good, but I fancy that Adolph Keifer, 17-year-old Chi-match to-day between Wales and finished the day with a sporting was quiet by comparison, victory England will win. We must go being anticipated for Wales, but bad-headed" for victory to-day. wrongly, as it happened, for Ire-It must be neck or nothing land won by one shot.

Yesterday's play was dull. till Keifer, who is the son of replaced O'Donnell's rink, which did so lunch time, but during the inter- former German army officer, badly against Lowe, of Scotland, but val dark thunder clouds gathered O'Donnell's second and a remark was made that a was clocked in 1m. 7.88. The A. B. Glaced second in Stacey's storm was imminent. old mark was 1m 8.25., set by mas G. Williams standing down. George Kojak in the 1923 Olym. rink, A. G.

Al Vande

The Irish alteration was the shang- pics.

Were of Newark, N. J., who took the title ing of places by C. Clawson and W. R. Hewitt, Clawson to second and Hewitt last year, did not defend his to third, in W. Gardiner's rink. This led to a better understanding and at Third place in the backstroke Ave ends Gardiner was Ireland's top

London, July 12. (Al, Simmons scored a home run ford was in no shape to play after went to Russell Branch of Olney-scorer.

S. L. King, the young Knole reserve rink of Wales was For the White Sox).

his grueling five-bet match withville, R. I. Other contestants, In Boussus Inn broiling sun only a the order in which they placed, skipped by C. E. Budd, who was a host ordinary collapse, four wickets Park professional, followed up his week before.

were Danny Zehr of Northwestern in himself, and at five ends he was falling for one run with the score Wednesday 64' at Totteridge Bowes cleaned bowled with a 67 yoteerday, to lead the leading McPartland, Ireland's only at 149. University: Sandy Sinkiewicz, De winning skip against England, by Dalton, and Vincent gave short leg 27Southern qualifiers in the Advocates of the three-act match

troit, and Harold Stanhope, Olney-nine shots to two. assert the present-rigid tennle scorville, R. 1

Four rinks finished with Ireland two an easy catch. Then came one of Daily Mirror Assistants golf-ball."

the finest slip catches I have seen tournament by nine strokes. Ing rules tend to sap the vitality

8p. the fifth were sixteen all

This aggregato of 131 puts all 36-- of players in order to make a

The Detroit Athletic Club's team nineteen ends, and McPartland, the for years. Hammond, at second

of Ernest R. Whitcombe. Both. Roman holiday for spectators. The captured the 880-yard free-style Irish skip, made two at the twentieth, slip, took the ball low down with holes totals on major courses in the cases of Rederick Menzel, giant relay title in a race which ostab Budd for Wales scored three at the both hands on his left side off shade. The finest performance for 36. E. Fleid and E. E. Whitcombe, son Czech atar, and Bunny Austin ished an official American mark last end, and Ireland won a fine uphill Bowes to send back Rowan, who belas in a major event has always recorded sixes there; but, even so, Bowen the sheet anchor of the been credited to. R. T. ("Bobby") were safe enough in other parts of were given as evidence to support. The four swimmers were timed in game by 00 to 95.

South African innings. Hammond Jones who, in the Open championship their thesis.

9m. 21.68. The old American re-

had to move very quickly, and it qualifying round at Sunningdale, rine their rounds to qualify, D. J. Roos, last year's runner-up, had no fewer returned 66+68-184 than six fives in a round of 71, patting years ago, cord, sot by the Hollywood A.C.

Sunningdale's standard scratch score being the chief cause. He, too, finish- in 1931, was 9m. 21.8s

Every seat was occupied for the was a phenomenal catch.

Nichols followed this up by is 74 as against the 75-if South Herts ed among the first 20, and no will Scotland The winning team consisted of afternoon match,

Chicago

Cleveland

Chicago

Cloveland

New-York

Boston

2 8 1

1 8

12

2

8

1

(Crouin scored a home run for the Red Sox). New York.................. Boston

6 10 1 4 ถ *

A doubleheader between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Washington Senators was post- poned on account of the wet weather-Router.

LAWN BOWLS RINKS FOR SATURDAY

Hongkong Electric R.C.

Team Selected

The following will represent the Hongkong Electric R.C.. rinks In their Second Division Lawn Bowla match against the Kowloon Cricket

As long as French tenuis hopes rovolve about Boussus, five-set matches will be the bane of the Tri-colour. Chris's supporters say he is one of the most brilliant tennis players and cannot be beaten in three sets. Associated Press,

Club at Ming Yuen on Saturday: R. C. Butler, J. L. King, G. T. Padgett and A. F. Paul (skip);

J. G. Haigh, W. Stoker, J. Sloan and L. de Rome (skip);

crown.

TEAM RACE

་

SCOTLAND'S TRIUMPH

voraus

South Africa staged an extra-

During the frat Essex innings, which Booth finished by taking the lost two wickets in three balls with- out having a run hit off him,

Phillipson dismissed Wade and Smith with successive de liveries and his next bowled Evans, but this was declared a

Tex Robertson, Sandy Sinkiewicz, England. The weather was very hot knocking Langton's middle stump Club at Totteridge for "birdles", at/appear at St. Annes...

twelve-footer hole, yet

Last year's champions placed it is expected to be dry enough for Changed from 149 for five to 150 as potting

race.-A.P.

A. P. Tarbuck, T. P. Saunder- SZE KWONG

son, H. S. Mackay and A. Webster .(aldp).

The reserves will be H. S. Jones and W. Orchard.

SEE HONGKONG

FROM THE AIR

ATHLETIC TEAM

lead. A.

was

Bootland

the while

and

SIEDLE'S DEPARTURE

but Tom Hayniei and Jimmy Gilhula. and thunder was frequent, and just back, and the score board had

every

H. B. Rhodes, out in 86 and back in an play finished rain fell heavily.

at' ninth was his only putt of any a splendid 83, and C. J. Corneloues, for nine.

longth. only five, at the third, returned 69's late in the day. The second. They were the members the final

matches to-morrow, froland

came from a cut drive into a bunker, latter's was a real saving round after of the Los Angeles team, Paul versus Scotland in the morning and

v. Wales in the afternoon. Never was the uncertainty of but he took four to the short fifteenth, his 79. on Wednesday, and enabled him Wolf, Bob Boals, Art Lindegren England w. W another complete defeat cricket more greatly exemplified. where a tee-shot to the edge of to survive.

Hard,

Je, despite with 148. He had a and Herb Barthels. The Lake

rinks by Shore Athletic Chub of Chicago (of

of the English

seven at the sixth, where he cut his teo-shot and went out of bounds for was the only other team in the One Englisk rink was altered, Frod Crisp throw caution to the winds bunker left him a difficult stance for 18, quailfled

PUTTING LAPSE BY COX from skip to lead, hin and hit four very useful boun- his next. Curtis Bull, being appointed skip./ darles before Hammond made an

a six to bo recorded at the seventeenth., Scotland from about the third end easy catch off Nichols to give Eng-

W. J. Cox, who has been chosen for

G. E. Weatherill (Wentworth), who took control of the game, although at land an unexpected lead of 45.

It was a thrilling hour, crowded the British Ryder Cup team, wont was making his first appearance in a five enda Scotland was only 28 to 23.

round in 69. He played the long gamo competitivo ovent, did well to qualify At ten ends they led by 63 to 40 and with incident, and the full course

from Went- fifteen ends they were 95 to 57. In of the match veered round from to perfection, but at each of the last and, like Rhodes, also every department of the game the South Africa's to England's favour, three holes on the outward Journey he worth, returned in 39.

missed putts of between three and Scuts were. excellent,

LJ. Taylor and F. C. Ockenden. 1 were not so accurate, because up to lunch time the four feet for threen. Englishmen

inte Springboks had seemed assured of The sixth hole proved troublesome sons of famous seniors, are among the they were

just

or playing into gaining a comfortable lead. missing

to most of the competitore, notably many who failed to qualify, their opponents woods.

The English fielding was splen- G. W. A. Wright had a bad time: against W. S. Lowe, who did so well did. Mitchell is the best cover polut against the Welsh skip O'Donnell. It we have had since Jack Hobbs's is a record for Wright to be down palmy days; in fact, he is a magni- ) 20 shots, but after being level at five ficant fieldsman in any position. ends Lowe and his men went ahoad It was his brilliance which ended

by her, and one seven was rade ON

rare experience for the dangerous second-wicket part- nership of Siedle and Rowan. He Wright.

The veteran Sprat was the master picload up with such quickness that of his rink, but W. J. Jones and his Sledke, realising, the danger, tried rink pulled up towards the finish and, to send his partner back after losing by only one shot, made the best starting for a second run. The is to be inaugurated next Satur show for England. Tomlinson lost sequel was that when Mitchell's day afternoon when the opening ground in the last six ends to A lightning throw reached Ames both Dunlop's men, who Bre warranting the batsmen were at the other end ceremony is to be performed by their inclusion

and Siedle was run out. Mr. 0. W. Luke, an official of Bristow was nine down to

Barber, too, made some excellent the South Chinn A. A. and other Morrison, whose third man, George saves and I inked the way he re- Chinese sporting organisations. Calderwood, played his best game so

NEW BODY BEING FORMED

INAUGURATION SATURDAY

A new local organisation, the

Sze Kwong Track & Field Team,

As the name implies the new far. Finally Arthur Ball halved his turned the ball full toss to the body is not a club or an Associa-deficit against Bryce Morrison and wicketkeeper. As well sa making tion but merely a team which is to lost by only five shots, hot a bad debut that glorious catch, Hammond in the slips saved several boundaries be formed for the specific purpose an international skip. Details.. of competing as a recognised body such case)--Klak 1183. Fisidlow, C. Carran,

Iraland ** W** (Irish risks nazwed Art in with amazing agility,WEAR, 14 Bad As Melisins). 14. 1

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Smith's head-high slip catch brought further distinction to

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