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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935.

WHAT WILL DUNCAN'S REPLY TO

BOWLS FINAL

TO-DAY

MEETING BRADBURY IN

OPEN SINGLES

CLOSE AND INTERESTING MATCH SHOULD BE SEEN

(By "Sagux")

this afternoon when

The final of the Open Singles Lawn Bowls Championship will be docided "Bob" Duncan, the Kowloon Bowling Green *player, will face B. W. Bradbury, of the Craigengower C. C., on the Club de Recreio.green, with two objects in view. He will not only endeavour to claim the title, which, if he is successful, will be the first Singles Crown he has secured during a residence of over 30 years in the Colony, but he will also make overy effort to pillory the Interport Selec- tion Committee for the error they made in omit-

One hundred Pacific Northwest Indians, representing 10 tribes, Tought their annual bottle over a threo- milo course in Puget Sound for the International War Canoe trophy. The Question Mark, fourth from the camera, manned by paddlers of the Nooksack tribe, recaptured the trophy they hold in 1933 and 33 from the Sannich tribe of Vancouver Island. Fifteen thousand spectators cheered the Indians on their test of speed and endurance.

ting him from their rinks which have been Yorkshire

*chosen to meet Shanghai.

LOCAL ROWING REGATTA

SHANGHAI TEAM SELECTED

TO COMPETE HERE IN NOVEMBER

As indicated yesterday the omis sian of Duncan from the Interport teams was a contingency totally unexpected and if he wins the singles title to-day the Committee might be made to regret their error. He will, of course, have to show form which will produce a standard of bowls worthy of such an import- int match,

If the form shown by Duncun in the majority of his earlier matches is any criterion then I am firmly convinced that he

cap-

ably of that andard of ac- curacy which would make a cham- pion proud of being the title holder whether that player is his opponent or himself.

JAPAN AT THE OLYMPICS

SELECTORS BE?

Cricketers Beat The Rest

TWENTY FOOTBALL

PLAYERS

PICKING THE TEAM

FIRST TIME IN LAST 30 YEARS

SECOND VICTORY

IN SERIES

with a

World Series Baseball To Start Soon

ARRANGEMENTS FOR MATCHES

ANOTHER RIVAL FOR LOVELOCK

BOBBIE GRAHAM AS MILER

JUBILEE SPORTS MEETING

(By FRED DARTNELL)

London, Aug. 20, It was unfortunate that the weather broke down no es fa affect the alien- inned for the Jubilee sports meeting at the White City. The rain nade the truck heavy, too, hut some good

Giants Lose

Tie Through

Bad Fielding

CUBS OUTHIT BUT TRIUMPH

BASEBALL IN AMERICA

New York, Sept. 17.

By beating the New York Giants to-day the Chicago Cubs were able to forge further ahead in the. National Baseball League to-day.

The Cabs were outhit by their

performances were registered and opponents who registered "cleven the issue of the International hits against the Cubs' seven but with minte open

sen until the Just event, the Chiesgo outfit converted their England, with Alford of Wales assist hits into five runs whorens the Ingin

in the half-mile. heat Septland Giants were only able to register by 5234 to 484 pts. A will for

win for three runs, It was errors' in the Scotland in the with F. S. Whitting

mile relay would have held which gave the leaders the made it a but

Bey

match.

hany turning a 10yds, arrears inte an Byla

lead over the last "leg" of The St. Louis Cardinals were quarter mile, the result was as engaged in a double header with Bill Roberts's attempt to the Brooklyn Dodgers but they Kampling's quarter-mile record was not successful. The

The condition of the were only able to finish one of the truck and the moderate quality of the fixtures, the second being called apposition he met were all agains off

owing to. darkness, The him beating 18scc. of even equalling | Cardinals still maintain their it. Roberts made hacks of every position as challengers to the body, however, and laced home kulf Cuba. a dozen, yards in front of Whitting-

han

This is the sixth time this season he has beaten 49see, and I am Kuro he has now done enough for glory until next season and the Olymple

Gamer.

Fine

work was done in the mile and the three miles. Bobbie Graham, the Scottish runner, showed the class of : man who has done din 12sec. by beating Reeve, of the Polytechnic, by five yards; grand time considering the conditions.

He led at the half-mile in 2min, 7.8sec. and the three-quarters in 3min. lisee.

1.

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The Detroit Tigers suffered defeat at the hands of the Boston Red Sox in the Ainoriem League while the New York Yankees won from St. Louis Browns by the odd run in seven,

Results of to-day's matches follow:

NATIONAL LEAGUE

R. H. E

4 8 1

6 17

1

2 R

4 9

0

8 15

0

7 13

2

Boston Pittsburgh Chicago, Sept. 17.

(Wally Berger scored a home London, Sept. 17.

RANGELEY BEATEN Tokyo, Sept. 10.

Judge Kenesaw Landis, the

run for the Braves). For the first time during the Baseball Commissioner, has an- Twenty soccer players including

slated to re- past thirty years and the second nounced that the World Series longer race and was content for Cincinnati

Beavers did some comic stuff in the Philadelphia officials are three

2 8 1 present Japan at the next Olymple time since 1903 when the series will start on October 2

while to let Laidlaw and Wylie make inaugurated, Yorkshire

The first three matches will be the running. Five Inps from home Philadelphia

1 5

1 I will here and now admit that, at Games in Berlin, according to the was

American League he went to the front and won by 60 Cincinnati...... 0 40 At a meeting of the Shanghai the beginning of the season, I had preliminary report, submitted to County Cricket Club beat the stared in an

Field, yards, Hore we have another "for- not considered Duncan' player the Japan Amateur Athletic As Rest of England in the annual Park, probably at Navin

(Dolph Camilli scored a home Rowing Club Committee held fast with the capabilities of making sociation by the Japan Football Champions v. Rest match. the home ground of the Detroitable rival to Lovelock,

To-day Yorkshire crowned E week noven naines submitted as such

The number of those

There was a fine struggle between run for the Phillies). Tigers, while the next three will progress in the Colony's Association,

be in a National League Park, Scotland, for second place, and the Brooklyn

C.T K. Allon,

of England, and Wylie, of mombers of the prospective inter-Singles Championship but none will Japanese players is subject to re-highly successful Benson

with the victory over the Best by 149 u probably Wrigley Field, Chicago, former had the best of its by a few St. Louis 'port crow to be sent down to deny that he is a worthy finalist.duction in accordance

at the Oval, thus emulating the Hongkong.were considered but no given the same opposition which be

In the earlier, rounds he was not association's budget.

yards. The board of directors of the champion side of 1905, which scored or Sportsman's Park, St. Louis..

The seventh game will be play- definite decision was arrived at. Subsequently received although he Japan Football Association at a 65 run victory against the Rested in an American Leagus Park and the half-mile, C. Young was a

Scotland carried off the 100 yardy Brooklyn

St. Louis bit too quick off the mark in the form (Bordagaray scored a home run' The seven oarsmen are: N. Harris had to qualify against some proved meeting announced the following of the Country,

Yorkshire cricketers are the only if the Series geep that far.

It is noteworthy that no travel W. C. Botha took all the heart out of was called off at the end of the - (English), J: G. Harvey (Scottish), bowlers and it was not until he had five members of the Selection Com-

event for Walter Rangeley, and for the Cardinals. The match players who have over beaten the F. Frischon (German), L. Rierstad reached the last sixteen that hemittee:

Shigemar Takekoshi, Koichi Rest after having won the cham- or layoffs

be necessary. Serilishaw a furlong frain home in seventh innings owing to dark- United PresR. (American)

Nor-came under notice,

started

the 880 yards. Kudo, Yukichi Hamada, Takeshi pionship. The series was

ness). weglans: P. Wilson,

Finlay of course, won the hurdles Nagano, and Shizo Saito.

in-1909-when-Middlesex-drew while

and T. Thowson.

method of selecting the the following year Lancashire also The He received a bye in the first players will be decided next Decem-drew. Then Yorkshire won by 65 runs and ever since that time the round and even when he beat Iber or January. not thought that here was a payer team Cavanagh by 22 shots to eight it was Some favour sending the winning Rest has either won or drawn.

after the inter-collegiate Yorkshire, on Saturday, had first who was to offer a serious challenge player and adding a few superior knock and the Innings realised a for the title. Cavanagh is joint players selected from the other total of 138. The Rest replied with Colony's Pairs Champion and one of teams.

score of 179.

und three

A. Thoresen

From the above material there should be no doubt that the Row log Club should be holding its own

MANY NOTABLE VICTORIES

. against the Hongkong, Canton and Manila representatives says the Shanghai Timca. The question the best skips the Craigengower C. Others favour picking a team of stroking the representative

C. has in the "B" team,

from all the schools and belleve However, Duncan continued on that it would result in a stronger four and pair will probably be his path of progress against leading aggregation. allotted to Paul Wilson (Nor-spponents, for, in the third round, Present indications, however, are wegian) and for the remaining he trounced A. O. Brawn, who, it that the winning team in the play- Uree members of the four the will be recalled, eliminated A. Eoff will go to the Olympic games,——

Silkstone, the conqueror of R. F. United Press..

Committee will have before them Luz. Duncan scored his 21 shots six oarsmen of defiulte promise.

whilst Brawn was only able to

There will be ample time in chalk up a total of five. which to train a crew before the mid-November regutta nt longkong and those selected should be in fine form when the

time arrives.

To find that support has been forthcoming after the recent dis appointing rumours to the effect that Shanghai would probably be unable to accept Hongkong's in vitation is indeed gratifying, and it is to be hoped that the Rowing Club will be able to form a first class crow from the material at their disposal.

Mias Joyce Wethered, the Eng- fish golfer, concluded the North- orn Californian section of her tour

There was certainly no fluke in either of these victories. He then drawn against A. Macfarlane. Al- reached the hat sexteen and was

must immediately after the draw was announced I had it remarked to nie that in the Duncan-Macfarlane match, the worst two survivors in the competition had been drawn against each other. I am many shared this view but after eliminating the Hongkong Football | Club player, Duncan went beat no lers an opponent than A. M. į Holland, a former champion and i ang of the best players la the Colony to-day.

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to.

REACHES HIS FIRST FINAL

Then his next victim was G. N.

to-day by playing the Del Monte Mitchell, the Kowloon Dock R. C.

course in 73, a woman's record at player, who had beaten such polable.

three below bogey.

(Continued on Page ◊.)

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A BASEBALL MANAGER

BROWNS APPOINT

HORNSBY

In the second innings Yorkshire

New York, Sept. 17. declared at 202 for nine wickets,

The St. Louis Browns' unseball Maurice Leyland scoring the last century of the season by knocking team competing in the American up 133 runs without losing his League have given Hornsby a contract wieket. The Rest scored 112 guns, three-year managerial Hedley Verity taking six for-00.-with a substantial raise. In salary.

United Press. · Reater.

COUNTY CRICKET

AVERAGES

HAMMOND LEADS BATTING

G. O. ALLEN TOPS BOWLING

London, Sept. 17. The final match of the English cricket Mon. that hetween York- -hire and the Rest of England, was concluded here to-day and as a re- Kult of this fixture W. R. Ham- mand, of Gloucestershire, has bc- come the lending batsman of the year, just pipping Herbert Sut- cliffe, the Yorkshire and England balaman.

G. O. Allen, of Middlesex, heads

the bowling.

The leading first class batting and bowling averages for the sea- son are as follows:

G. O. B. ALLEN

BATTING

Times Not

Inns. Out

W. R. Hammonď

GB

5

54

.3

2,494

15

1.

Aggr. H. S. · Aver. 2,010 252 40.35 212 48.00 654 197

46.71

BOWLING

Aver.

6.72

H. W. Sutcliffe E. Tyldesley

Overs Maldens Rune Wickets

09.1

11. 200

42 13.09 1,279.2 -463 -8,032

211-14.86

Rouler.

G. O. B. Allen'

Hennessy Road, Wanchal.

A. D. Baxfor

·H. Vority

.0

74 480. 660

3 11 4 5 7 1 (Terry scored a home run for the Glants).

for England, He was in a class by New York himself, but our Scottish friends Chiengo nursed a grievance, na they consider he should be running for Scotland.

The six-a-side football game were well contested. The Spurs had their goalkeeper, Nichols, hurt in the game! with Chelsea, and finished with five 11:41.

FOOTBALL IN SCOTLAND

MOTHERWELL BEATEN AWAY BY PARTICK

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Cleveland Philadelphia

R. H. E.

5

3 7

1

# 8

1

New York

Detroit Boyton

4

13

1

10 1

5 14 3

St. Louis

(Greenberg scored a home run for the Tigers). Chicago Washington

0

3 15 1 ४ (There were fourteen innings).·

Reuter.

London, Sept. 17, Two Eirst Division football matches were decided in Scotland to-day, Partick beating Motherwell and Queen's Park winning from four goals to one while Queen's Clyde.

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