1935-08-20 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1935.

RECORDS BY JACK HOBBS AUSTRALIAN CRICKET FACING

WALLY HAMMOND

TO REMAIN WITH THE Y. M. C. A.

PENDING FURTHER

NEGOTIATIONS

MR. C. M. TOBIN

OF SHANGHAI

Mr. C. M. Tobin will continue to act as Physical Director of the Shanghai Foreign Y.M.C.A.

His continuation in his present; office is due to the fact that no mutually acceptable agreement has yet; been reached. The proposal made by the Hoard has been rejected by Mr. Tobia, while Mr. Tobin's counter- proposal in like-wise not acceptable to: the Trustees. In view of thin dead lock, the situation will remain in station quo until mutually satisfactory arrangements can be arrived at.

The following statement has been

FALLING

HAMMOND

BEATS AGGREGATE

AGAINST SOUTH

AFRICATM

London, Aug. 19,

In the same way as the English cricket records created by the late Dr. W. G. Grace began to fall to | Jack Habba, no the records of Jack Hobbs, now retired from first class cricket, are starting to tumble to other Englishmen.

In the Gral Test match at the Oval where Englund Ja playing South Afrien, Wally Hummond, the Gloucestershire batsman. qualined as the, player who has scored the highest number of rans or Englanit rainst South Africa in International cricket.

It was when Hammond became associated with Maurice Leyland in the fourth wicket that the Gloucestershin hutuman #ur- passed the previous aggregate number of runs scored by Hobbs against the South Africans during his carcer of thirty years as a professional cricketer.

When Hummond hnd scored 52 runs be increased his aggre- gate in Test erleket against South Afrien to 1563, which is

Mr. Lee Wai tong (left) photographed with Mr. Kho Sin kie, the Clonene Davis Cup Tennis player, who returned from his recent vigil to America. Mr. Kho leaves for Batavia next werk following A visit to Canton and possible exhibitions in Hongkong and Canton. (Photo Wah Win Fat Pa).

FOURTH TEST

the highest ever made by any POOR FIELDING BY THE

balaman against the tourists. Jnek Hobbs had made 1,562 runs against them before he retired

at the end of inst senson.

Hammond and Leyland took the

SOUTH AFRICANS

issued by Mr. C. S. Franklin, chair- seure from 98 for three wickets EARLY CATCHES

man of the Board of Trustees:"

In common with many business cun. and public organisations in cerns Shanghai, the Foreign Y.M.G.A. las.

made.

Fareed to Act

to 249 for four when Hammond

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was dismissed for 65.

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timme,

twelfth

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DROPPED

London, July 29.

SURREY'S VICTORY.

AT YEOVIL

SOMERSET LOSES BY 8 WICKETS

BOWLERS COMMAND

RESPECT

EXHIBITIONS IN COLONY

KHO SIN-KIE MAY PLAY LOCALLY

STAY EXTENDED

FOR WEEK

(By "Sagax")

Contrary to original

Arrange-

ments Kho Sin-kie, the Chinese Davis Cup player and native champion, did nol leave for Batavia this morning but has decided to extend his stay in Hongkong for a week.

He has now decided to leave next Tuesday and the interim it is possible that he will give: a series of exhibitions in Hong kong and in Canton.

Nothing definite has yet been arranged as if was almost at the rleventh har that he decided not

to sail to-day for the south,

A. W. WELLARD

WELLARD'S 23 SIXES

CRISIS

LEADING STATES MAY SPLIT

FROM CONTROL BOARD

Melbourne, July 25. The autocratic attitude of the Australian Cricket Control Board is likely to result in a breakaway by New South Wales and Victor- ia, who object to the power exerted by the smaller States.

When they Combine these maller States ran defeat the wishes of the two main cricketing centres.

la recent months the Board has inced innumerable obstacles in the way of Frank Tarrant taking a team of 15 players to India, s the guests of the Maharajab of

If arrangements can be made be 10 Off the Kent Bowling Pain, for instructional purposes,

will play in a series of exhibitions at The Chinese Recreation Club elther tensorrow or on Thursday, ¦ while he hopes to visit Canton and there play a series of matches during the coming week-end.

the

En his visit to Canton he will, I accompanied by Lee Wai-tong. wyll known beal Chinese football idol and tennis star, who will probably take part in doubles matches,

N. Y. Yankees Regain Little

Lost Ground

DEFEAT DETROIT

TIGERS

IN BASEBALL LEAGUE

White!

Leslie Ames joined the York: found that in the interests of sound, shire bataman and the pair played

London, Aug. 19. Leyland's administration drastic though regret out

Deadly bowling by F. R. Brown, A magnificent hundred by table retrenchments have had to be boundary sent up the 300 which Robins, the good innings of the Surrey amateur, and A. R. were scored 245 minutes after Bakewell, Hammond, Leyland Gover, the young professional, The Board has been wrestling with the innings had started. Leyland and Tate, the excellent bowling gave the county an eight-wicket this proclem for some months, and was featuring his innings by of Bell and Crisp, and the faulty victory over Somerset at Yeovil has been putting various economies beautiful off-driving and reached catching of the South African in the County Cricket Champion.

New York, Aug. 19. into effect, Including large salary and his century in 125 minutes. slip fielders provided a day of ship to-day,

Only two matches were sche- The hosts had first knock but duled to-day in staff reductions.

thrills at Manchester in the At the close of play the score Fourth Test match, writes A.E.R. with Gover inking six wickets for Baseball League, the Giants beat- the National Recently it became evident that in was 313 for four wickets, Leyland Gilligan, the former England 3 runs, they were only able to order to balance expenditure with being 119 nut out and Ames 25

register a total of 119, to wilchng the Reds and the Pubs win- receipts and to take rare of a deficit: not out.

captain.

ning from the Phillies. England has made à bold bid for Survey replied with a score of 188, which has accumulated during the

in the American League, the victory and our score may prove to A.W. Wellard taking six for 69. past year, more drastic retrenchments

be an extremely useful one when the In their second innings Some of their lost ground by defeating New York Yankees regained some would be necessary, even at the cost!

match has reached an advanced stage set's batsmen were all dismissed for the Championship leaders, the of the loss of the services of one or

196 runs, Brown capturing seven Detroit Tigers, by seven runs to 'more of the senior members of the to Mr. Tobin for the termination of to-morrow.

Everything depends on the pre-Janch; wickets for 70 runs. his contract. staff.

Mr. Tobin was not

five. dismissed nor ឆន his contract period to-day, and if Tate and Bowes

Surrey scored 160 for the logs of broken. The proposal, made to Mr. get to work, we may easily find our-use wickets

The Athletics and the Reuter

1Sox were engaged in a double Definite action along these lines Tobin was not neceptaide to him and selves on top, but the South Africans

header in which the Chicago out-j was finally forced by the International his counter-proposal to the Board are great fighters and must not be) Committer at home who hold title to was also unneceptable. The Bitun-under-rated in any way.

it won the Brst and the Phildeli the property and whe refused per- Lion therefore is that Mr. Tobin with Trafford waald bea

phia Chile the secting game. mission for a loan upon the property be called upon to resume his duties

Results When Wyatt won

to-day's matches antil further reductions in staff were until such time as the parties can proved fully true,

follow: agreed to.

Ket together and agree upon terins. Loss he was sorely tempted tu pat The Boned took action to reduce, South Africa in to bat, but after Under these circumstances the the stall with great regret as they Duckworth had accompanied his cap- Board of Trustees at their meeting feel they will be losing men whoni,tain out to inspect the middle, It was in June passed, a resolution:-

under normal eiretmstances, they first innings.

announce that England would take could ill afford to lose. However, "That Mr. Tobin's services should be, the Board felt they had dispensed with na soon as same could

no other PRAISE FOR BAKEWELL alternative. be conveniently arranged, and that the

It would have been a bold stroke to International Committee be approach, An organisation carrying on the have put our opponents in first- ed with the idea of having his sent large and varied programme which especially with a week-end interven alsewhere, time and method to be, the Foreign Y.M.C.A. conducts, both ing-and I must confess I was glad worked out in the best way possible among its members and in the com- when I NILW for him and every consideration to be manity, will be exceedingly difficult out to face Crisp and

Bakewell and Smith go Bell.. given to Mr. Tobin,"

to handle with only n skeleton staff. Sensation after sensation followed If, however, the friends and members Pursuant to this resolution con- of the Association will rally in its

and in Să minutes, although Eng- sideration was given to Mr. Tobin's support at this time, the Roard feets

Innd had not lost a wicket and had contract and to action taken by Yal it will be possible not only to cope:

71 on the hoard, South Africa had In other parts of the world under with the financial necessities of the

dropped four extches, similar circumstaudes during the de situation but to maintain a full pro-sually safe and reliable slip cd 36 to 27 pints. The Japanese quar- pression and a proposal was made gramme of activities.

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WIN FROM AMERICANS

INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING

CONTEST HELD AT

TOKYO

Japanese Win

Tokyo, Aug. 19. Japan won the swimming mert by

at Mote Park

Wellard, at Maidstone, last month hit six sixes while scoring 70 runs against Kent. In five consecutive innings he has scored 23 aixes-four at Wells, nine at Clacton in two innings against Essex, and ten in the present match at Mate Park. On each of these five occasions Wellard hne scored 50 or more with an

aggregate of 334.

be

TO RAISE FUNDS FOR OLYMPICS

U. S. TO HAVE DRIVE

NATIONAL WEEK NEXT MAY

Chicago, Aug, 17. A national Olympic week will set aside next May to help the 1936 Olympic games at Berlin. finance America's participation in

to proclaim the week. He is honor-

President Roosevelt will ba naked

WOODFULL AND PONSFORD

The Board now announces its re fusal to permit Woodfull, Pons- ford, Rigg. Oxenham, Nitschke, Kippax and Chilvers to join Tar- rant's team.

Woodfull, Ponsford and Kip- pax have all retired from big cricket, while Rigg Just missed selection for all the touring trame,

Even oyster-lipped Woodfull roke his usual silence when in- cormed of the decision, remarking: "It is just what I would expect. from the Board of Control”

SPORTSMEN SHOULD RULE

Chilvers was very blunt. "Cricket is supposed to be n free game but from the look of this it is not," he said. "We are tied up. "Sportamen are supposed to play the game and sportsmen should

rule it."

LOVELOCK IN STOCKHOLM

Wins 1,500 Metres Race Without Going All Out

Jack

president of the committer, metres Amateur athletic associations. and this

other groups will conduct meets and Incenne general Olympic Fund. donate part of the proceeds to the

Stockholm, July 26. Lovelock won the 1,500. international ruce here evening by 6-10tha of a from Gene Vepske, the farmuz boker of the world's in- door mile record, Erik Ny, the While the general committee was in Swedish Olympic runner, finished session. the Olympic baseball and third. finreketball committees met for the Envelock set the price from the Jirst time. These sports never before (start and it did not seem that he have been quart of the Olympic pro- was at any time "all out." Ine gramte.

Lovelock respective times

67 6-10seg., Venske 3min. Dr. Walter E. Meanwell, athletic min. director and former coach of the 58 2-10sec., Ny 4min. 0 8-10nec. University of Wisconsin, was elected In the 300 metres, J. C. Horsfall chuirman of the basketball committee. j Cambridge University's Australian Herman scored a home run for He predicted that many other coun- Impriater, lost by 1-10th of a second

of

NATIONAL LEAGUE

R. H. E.

('incinnati

New York

8 6 1 4 10 1

(the Reds)

tries would send basketball teams to

were:

to the American O'Brien, who re- Berlin, although the aport still is turned 343-10sec-Reuter,

The only grones committee which

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Chicago Philadelphia

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now in foreign countries.

1

AMERICAN LEAGUE

R. II.

E.

22

Philadelphia

9 1 Chivagen

H # Gohnson scored a home run for the Athletics). Philadelphia Chicago

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putting the hall "on the carpet," Vin. rent, Langton (twice) and Mitchell let of Yusu, Ishiharada, Makine ani were the delinquents. Mitchell's catch Negami shattered the world record Jimmy Foxx scored a home ran was the most difficult of the buncis, for the RO metres relay, winning in for the Athletics and Hayes and but the ather three should have been 800 metres freestyle, Negame won

minutes 52-2/10 seconds. In the Piet for the White Sox). I liked the way Smith and Bakewell touch down from Jack Medien and New York attacked the rising bail, while quite Ishiharada third in 10 minutes 2-4/10: Detroit

style Peter Fick won from Yusa and Washington seconds. In the 100 metres frre Arni with 67 2/10 seconds. A new Cleveland

held.

one of the features of the play wa the delightful cutting of Bakewell, who played an excellent innings.

7 16 1

5 11 0

5 1:3 0.

11 10 1

He got right on top of the ball, and 200 metres backstroke was won home runs for the Indians).

Japanese record mark for the long (Trosky and Earl Averill scored did not make the mistake of dropping by Yoshida from Danny Zehr and his right shoulder when hitting it, but both he and Smith should have been dismissed with the total at 16,

The match between Boston Red

Kawazu in 3 minutes 35-6/10 seconds, Sox and St. Louis Browns was in Japanese record.-Reuter..

JACK MEDICA'S FEAT

Tokyo, Aug. 19. Jack Medien established A new

postponed on account of rain.-- Reuter.

world's record for the 400 inetres in TENNIS LEAGUE

4 minutes 15-2/5 seconds.-Kenter-

Bell and Crisp bowled splendidly and luck was not with them in that! catch-dropping spell before lunch.

CAMERON IN GREAT FORM Hammoud gave a brilliant display of batsmanship, and some of his back] strokes through the covers went to pleasant in the pre-lunch period, play- the boundary like a bullet out of easier afterwards, and Cameron kun. Crisp had an fuspired spell in stood up to both Bell and Crisp: the half hour immediately after the lunch interval when he took three Cameron gave another polished dis- valuable wickets,

play behind the stumps and the eare] with which he does his work stamps The game swung right round in hini as one of the great wicketkeepers. South Africa's favour, but luckily for With Tate as his partner Bobins England these great fighters, Loyland was within four of his Arst century and Robins, stepped into the breach for England, which he reached with with the score 141 for Ave,

Leyland zote ile bull forcibly and

I was always looking for runs. Hobins

started little uncertainly, but once

he got his eye in he made some glori.

covers.

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FIXTURES

PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY

"A" DIVISION

Three matches have been arranged cheeky.

Bingia.

for the "A" Division of the Lawn Robins, who hit a dozen 4's, gave Tennis League for this afternoon. a fine display at a critical period, The Chinese R.G., who have already and no man could have served his won the championship, will not be aide better,

engaged although they have two more

ous sirokes through the cove

Robins specialised in a forward land "on the map" again with a stand the Chinese club, however, will bo He and Leyland definitely put Eng matches to play. The "B" team of drive which sent the ball all along of 105 in an hour and a quarter, and meeting the Hongkong C.C. at Cause- the ground, just wide of cover point, then BONIO He made some pretty late-cuts and Maurice Tate saw us top the 850.

delightful hitting by way Bay. England's stock began to rise when

The programme is as follows: Tate must have been inspired by the Chinese "B" runn came at a rate of two a minute. wonderful reception the sporting Man. Recreio "E"

The wicket, which had not been toochester crowd accorded him.

Indian R.C.

Hongkong C.C. v. U.S.Ï.C.

v. Craigengower

had anything definite to report was

that involving the wrestlers. It said ¦ next year when oll team couches and it had selected William H. Thon, † managers will be announced. Indiana - University wrestling coach Invitations have been received tu pad world's professional middleweight hold the final wrestling tryouts at champion, as coach of the Olympic | Oklahoma, Chicago and Lehigh, thể team. C.

C. W. Streit, chairman of the committee said. wrestling committee WOR Ramed

The general committee approved a manager.

plan whereby a national newspaper The general committee withheld chain will sponsor tryouts for the formal approval of the choices until. Į gyinnasties team--United Press.

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