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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1935.

W.R. HAMMOND LATEST TO SCORE DOUBLE CENTURY

REES' BRILLIANT

GOLF VICTORY

Assistants' Championship Has Thrilling Finish

BY VAGRANT

London, Aug. 2.

D. J. Rees, of Surbiton, won the Assistants' Golf Championship, organised by the Daily Mirror, at St. An- nes Old Links yesterday. His score was 71, 70, 73, 70— 284: only one stroke more than the lowest ever returned in the Open Championship.

W. J. Cox. (Addington) finished | pushed his second into the bunker rond with 265, three strokes nhend¦ at the 15th, munud a glorious wooden

shot home

from the short rough of W. Laidin (Malden).

The winner, who was refuer-up last i es the edge of the 17th green, only t year when the dampionship was de: to take thier pulls ever the interven ing 20 yuris, and was short nil the cuted by match play in its final stages, Cully deserved his success. From start way to the 18th. to finish he has played with the atmest courage, and has of all times given the vivid impression that he was attacking the cotirea, and hover at any peried acknowledging its dificulties.

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Behind him entre Cox, 4, 3, with m eight-foot patt for 4. pushing his ter shot out, . then 4 4 4 4. He took G out, then made a bailliant inward half of 21.

Field was mitt in 3, with an ap tle is 1 years of age, aul. ht 5.!

free swing, prouck astray at the eighth, and hone Sin, has beautiful д pathinde but for a curious little dip in 35 with a 2 at the 14th, 4 at the et the left knee at the moment of los 10th, where he was bankered, and a swet-and is extremely long for hisnt the 17th, with three fiddlers from inches. Every put is struck firmly up to the bale, and his chip shots, tuo, are truck firmly to finish always past

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COX IN HOT FURSUIT

There was a grund Buish to the championship, for Cox, in hot pursuit, broke the record of the course, by one ite oke with his last round of BN. only failed by one stroke to tie with his approach putt from five

Log

round,

the edge of the green.

et

With all to lose. Rees aguia out after an early keh, 4 4 4644 4 4 4 2 4 4 4, 43.30 out; home. What a finish! Even he was a little less loquacions as he went his

Com way, but nothing had gone army of shots or his courage.

STEADY GOLF

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In

The game of football is still gaining more popularity among women. At West Ham Stadium in London a football match recently took place between a French and English team, which the latter won by 2 goals to 1.

The photo the Mayor of West Ham is even shaking hands with members of the French team.

Cardinals

Beaten By

Pirates

LOSE ADVANTAGE OVER, GIANTS

ANOTHER BOWLS SURPRISE

MITCHELL BEATS J. C. BROWN

LOSER STRIKES BAD PATCH

There was a horrid, unlucky kick clemn off the green at the fifth, a elever jehlp to within three feet at the sixth. Coming in, a six-yander brought n yards just stopping by the right lip.burst of applause at the tenth, a cut Hers had started the day with a tre-shot brought a five at the 12th. For Cve-stroke lead from his nearest of the rest, it was fine, stendy gelf. ponent; by the end of the third

in 23 for n which he completed aggregate of 214, his lead had hen reduced, W. J. Cox (20) being three 217, and Laidlaw atrokes behind (70) and J. E. Fiek (71) 218.

Of those in the hunt, Rees was first

nith. Good steady gulf going in, but ¦ It does not seem likely that St. ay. He reached the turn it only some dazzling streak could save Louis Cardinals, who yesterday:

deposed the Giants from the top present day surprises in the local followed by Lallaw and Cox, rnch 34.

the day two precious stroke," apiece of the

the near future. ad. Itees knew what was happening wine, who will go a long way in

crack behind, but showed no trace of

Then Cox:

ing.

with

With his fourth successive two

at the 18th passed Cox of the 11th, plaging actually out of one bunker

into

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Laidlaw was out in 14 with a 4 at the short third, where he was bunker. ed, a ten-foot jutt holed for at the fourth, and a cut iron second at the only

ONLY HALF A GAME AHEAD

New York, Aug, 29.

(By "Sagax") There seems no end to the

JAPAN'S DAVIS CUP TEAM

HAVING KNOCK-UP IN HONGKONG

TO PLAY AT H.K.C.C.

Hideo Nishimura and Jiro Yamagishi, the two Japanese Davis Cup players. arrived in Hongkong |

bourd this morning on

the 8.8. Hakone Maru T1) route from Earge to Japan.

Unfortunately the early A tall player, with a glori

cludes

any

exhibition matches

FEAT GIVES SIDE AN EASY WIN

SOUTH AFRICANS IN KENT

INNINGS VICTORY AT CANTERBURY

London, Aug. 29. Spectators at Leicester watch- ing the County Cricket Cham- pionship fixture between Loices- tershire and Gloucestershire were amply rewarded for the de- feat of their county team by some sparkling batting by Wally Ham- mond, the England batsman, who is the latest cricketer to top the 200 mark this season.

Hanunord was in particularly good form and his 252 runs for! Gloucestershire enabled the vist tors to win by an Innings and 260 runs after A Carly declaration. This is the fourth time. this season. that Flammend has reached thres Agures and the 103rd time during his career.

The Gloucestershire batsmen made merry at the expense of thé lelcestershire bowlers when they went to the wickets. The side put on 459 runs for the loss of seven i

WILLIE RUSSELL

WILLIE RUSSELL RETURNING

KEEN LAWN BOWLS PLAYER

OF COLONY

His many friends in Hongkong will have learned with intereat

the

wickets when the declaration was FORMER CHAMPION applied, Hammond having made 252 runs before dismissal.

Leicestershire had 74 runs on the board when the last wicket Tell. Goddard heing the most destructive bowler with five for of the intended return to 136. In the follow-on the hosts were Colony of Mr. W. Russell, the unable to get anywhere near Glos- well-known local lawn bowls cestershire's total and were displayer, and former champion of missed for 125 runs. Sinfield had the Colony. four wickets for 17 and Goddard another four for 59.

in

It is over two years ago now since Mr. Russell left the Colony after having been here for some During his residence thirty years. SOUTH AFRICANS WIN

he won the open Hongkong The South African tourists play; singles Championship twice und ed their last match against a Brst reached the final en four occasions. lass county side to-day at Canter-In 1914 after he had won the title dehury where they trounced Kent by the previous two years, the final match was left undecided while in of the National Baseball League, Lawn Bowls Championships and parture of the Hakone Maru pre an innings and 138 runs.

Kent's failure was in the batting; 1923 he was runner-up to U. M. 4 4, a grand stars will maintain their lead for long although there is every possi- locally but arrangements have for the South Africans only scored Omar

in their one a total of 311 runs 17th. He brought his scare to with a sit from eis feet at the art, as they have already lost some of bility that the eventual winner been male for the visitors to a toe below 4's, and toning over the which fell in backwards, 5, with a their advantage by their defeat will not be the person who was

six-footer astray, 313-34 out, un to-day at the hands of the Pirates. generally expected to secure the on the Hongkong Cricket innings. Kent

Club courts at noon to-day. first innings in which Vincent took himself with the activities of the two shots topped off Bees Trad.

Coming Home, 4, 5, n tee-shot! Not only were the Cardinals title at any stage of the com- ntulher to amas & live-unwelcome bunkered, and the cecovery in another, beaten by the Pirates but the petition previous to the semi- no hedgehog in 1. fenkler bed. Rers got his 78; Laidinys finished two-yarder down, 4 4 3, four Giants were able to take their final rounds, there will be

yarder down, excitement" brewing.

game from the Dodgera by a doubt that whosoever wins the just behind him in 70,

4, people shaking complete strangers and infirming them that he required margin of 7-6 so that they are now final will have worthily succeed. л three to tie. A grand drive, a only half a game behind the St. ed in gaining the highest honour

in local bowls. Then came Cox's great finish. Coxcond home. Silence. Then the in Louis outfit.

There was but a curtailed pro-Civil Service C.C. green, G. N.

Yesterday afternoon, on bas done nothing to suggest that his evitable Oh! as the putt missed. A Ryder Cup election is anything but great day's golf.

gramme in the two major leagues Mitchell, of the Kowloon Dock to-day, three matches being played in the National and only two in Recreation Club, qualified for the semi-final round by eliminating his the Amertean.

former club-mnte, . C. Brown, who this season is playing for the Bowling Green Club. Kowloon The score was 21 shots to 11 on the 22nd head.

THREE PLAYERS' ANXIETY

an excellent ane. His great night at

the end more than justifies it. As

I wrote before the event, everyone in

the field was dead keen to beat him, and he started with the additional of proving his worth. Something of the same anxiety kung i uver W. J, Branch and S. L. King, both of whom have been frequently mentioned as possibiles for the two

AMAZING RIDE

vacant places. In their cases, the REMARKABLE TIME

train proved Los heavy, and neither

of them played the game with the

strective confidence which is natural

fo

them.

The championship has demonstrated clearly that there is a wealth of promising talent In the epuntry, for, apart from the leather's fine score, the course record of 69 was qualled by H. E. Tanner (Addington), beaten oure by W. J. Cox (68), and then by F.. Jowie (Bramhall Park) with 66. In addition, the justifying score for the final two rounds was 158, the same hedre na for the Oper Championship this year.

The following were the figures fur

CYCLIST

The Detroit Tigers, leaders of the American League, won an- other match and it is more than probable that they will win the

BY pennant as was forecast at the

100 MILE RACE ON BATH ROAD

beginning of the season.

the

Mitchell has now joined B. W. Bradbury, who beat . Overy by 22.20 and 1. A. Alves who won The results of to-day's matches) from F. Cullen by 21-12. follow:

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Brooklyn

New York

te. Ji. E.

F

10

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7. 15

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The match yesterday did not nbound with anything that was exceptionally outstanding nor was there much over which to enthuse is neither player was in his vers best form although there were of a hends which were worthy

Bartell scored a home run for quarter-final contest.

(By W. J. Mills)

the Giants). London, Aug. 6. St. Louis K. H. Mosedale won the Bath Piusburgh Road 100 miles race yesterday in the sensational time of 4hr., Chiengo the recurd scores:

Tanner3 4 4 4 6 4 4 4 2-34, out: 27min., 23sec., the fastest out and Boston 44434 436 4-35, home; total 69. home 100 miles over recorded in Cox-3 4 3 4 4 5 4 4 3-34, out; this country, Zmain., 47sec. better 46 3 4 4 3 3 4 4–54, home; total than

the competition record 68.

established by Frank Southall in

Jowie-4 4-2 4 & 5 4 935, out; 343343344-91, home; total 66,

Jowle has come tatu prominence this year. He won the Leeds Cup, which

the same event in 1933.

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5 10 9

X 14 3

2

7

(Galan #1 Hartnett home runs for the Cuba),

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Mosedale, who is a member of the Calleva Club, took the lead from the Boston

la generally regarded as carrying with start, led all the way round, clocking

Philadelphia ....

Mitchell was the better of the

two and played a much steadier game than did his opponent. He was rarely brilliant but the shot

which gave him the game on the 122nd head could not have been improved upon as it rested against scored the jack when Brown was lying.

A TRICKY GREEN Excepting for a few heads when he was bowling moderately well Brown was off form and had great dimeulty in finding the correct run of the green. He was often hope.

K. H. E. 6 10 0 + B D

(Cronin and Cooke scored humelessly wide, while his opponent was

it the open championship of the North. 2-9-23 at the half-way point, and The day was overenst with little Anished an easy winner. His per- breeze stirring the signal Bags, Welformance was all the more startling runs for the Red Sox). come to St. Annes; not, perhaps, the in that he was using ordinary steel

| Detroit day to take that urnickets fowl, the rimmed wheels, with high pressure St. Louis hafeyon, out in a cage, but on ideal

wired-on touring tyres instead of day for wolf.

the more customary wooden spirit rims and tubular racing tyres.

1 REES POOR START

(Gobringer,

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also inclined to take too much grass but it seemed that the rink on which the match was played # 9

was very tricky and not altogether and true. Greenberg

Rogers scored home runs for the E. J. Capell (Allondon R.C.), last Tigers). Rees started none too well in the

-Reuter. morning, 6, 5, taking three putts from year's winner, was second, and his the back of the first green and bunker-time of 4-30-0 was also better than ing his second to the next. He went on, the previous competition record.

1. 3. again showed that he is apt Third place was taken by F. A. be uncertain with wood through tho green at the long 6th and 6th by puit Lipscombe (Century), with 4-32-7.

ing both into trouble only to rebuff the, fives by holing

Rix-foot putt at the fifth, and holing a chip at the sixth.

The team race was won by the Allondon Club (Capell. Me-

6-3, 10-12, 17-15!

Some shots actually took a short straight course just as they were about to bend on reaching the jnek and Buch disconcerting patches are very perturbing to player. who at least expects his wood to take the natural bias and not sud- denly run straight.

Carthy and Frost) with 13-44-8. Match That Gave Yale And ceding a four and he never really

Century R.C. were runners-up

The latter may appear to be a up and Anfield I.C. third, cocktail from fortune; actually it is. At the half-way point Lipscombe amil beer from his cellar upon which was lying second im. 44s, behind

le boted another six-footer at the

ot an inward half of 30 except

Harvard Victory

Brown opened tragically by con-

recovered from the bad start which was due to four erratically delivered woods, three of which were wide and the fourth short.

lle reduced the lead by two on the second head and then drew level at

Was

fe draws at least once in each round. Mosedale, with Capell third, another Harvard and Yale (America) geventh, just fallel to repent the hol-sec. behind. At the three-quarter beat Oxford and Cambridge at ing, of a chip at the eighth, then a point Lipscombe had slowed slightly, Eastbourne by 11 rubbers to 9,5-5 but a three on the sixth hend gave Mitchell the lead by 8-5 and the Kowloon Dock player three at the ninth, finished nine holes dropping into third position behind with one unplayed.

Mosedale and Capell, Mosedale be- of admirable fighting golf in 37.

Leading by eight rubbers to three never overtaken, There was nothing of particular note ing now im. 559. ahend.

when the match was resumed, the The ninth head saw Mitchell On the run in to the finish, Americans won the first and second leading only by a single shot another holed chip for 2 at his against very slight head wind, singles and then required only one (9-8) but thereafter he gradually favourite 16th and three putts at the Mosedale increased his lead more success to make certain of Increased his lead until he was further. Lipscombe also gained a victory. That win was not obtained 14-8 on the 14th head. The scor- Laidlaw camo next, 3 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 3 little on Capell, but not enough to until G. Stevens and E. Mansfielding was slow, being mostly singles, -incredible realing in view of the

Twelve (Yale) defeated C. R. Fawcus and but the bowling was by no means fact that he was out of bounds at the disturb his second place. theta noventh He cuts home in riders of the 96 starters bent thrs. A. Hornsby Wright (Cambridge) of the best, although Mitchell was 37. He drove the green at the 12th. 40min.

by 0-3, 10-12, 17-16-03 games, nearly always able to secure one

One of the oldest members of the made 124 in the Club Mr. Russell closely identified On board the Hakone are two seven for 48 while in the second Kowloon Bowling Green Club for other Japanese tennis players who innings the side was dismissed for a period of 29 years, during which time he served on the executive has lost white in his spare time he was have been on a visit to Java and 19 runs.

Although the county

to York- always to be seen on the club's they too will have a knock-up on

the Davis Cup playera.

shire, Derbyshire continues to win green winning competitions. the Hongko, C. C. together with the championship race

matches and when playing against Somerset at Taunton the side beat the home team by 41 runs,

fairly good counter

On the 17th head Mitchell mado the score 17-9 by registering a two and then 20-10 on the 20th head. He lost a single on the next but when Brown was lying on the 22nd Mitchell, with his last wood, drew dead to the jack for game.

batsmen by taking eight for 36 and dismissing the side for 102 runs in the second knock.

Derbyshire in her first innings could only manage a total of 16

However, A. V. Pope rescued runs but Somerset found Mitchell too deadly and replied with -123 Derbyshire when he captured four runs. Mitchell had five victims for wickets for 20 runs in Somerset's 58 rans, J. C. White brought about second innings which yielded only the downfall of the Derbyshire | 101 runs.-Renter.

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