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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1935.

"CAPTAIN FOSTER" REVIEWS SATURDAY'S RACING

THRILLS GALORE AT

HAPPY VALLEY

HANDICAPPER'S SMART WORK IN ISLAND BAY EVENT

ABLE AMAZON CREATES RECORD. FOR AUSTRALIAN PONIES

(By "Capt. Foster")

The feature of the Eighth Extra Race Meeting under the auspices of the Hongkong Jockey Club which was held last Saturday under ideal weather was, as predicted, that Able Amazon (an Australian Sub-Griffin of 1934 owned by Mr. "Fatshan") established a new record for five Furlongs, lowering the previous best time by a second.

the

The best race of the day was in the Island Bay Handicap. "C" Class (First Section) in which, after a most exciting and thrilling finish,

had, after varofül deliberation, Judges to award a "Dend feat" to Soldier of T'ence and Monoplane. Had the lat Ler won, the solitary holder of the ticket for the second leg of the Daily Double Event would have collected over $2,300 instead of $1,152.80. In my notes I said that the Handicapper had sot a knotty problem for fans to! apot the winner in this race an

very much regret that none of my nominations was places.

The start

starting under the able guidance of Mr. Alce. Polls was perfect, and is deserving of the highest praise.

FORMER ..

OXFORD

GOLFER

BEATEN IN FINAL AT STOCKHOLM

SWEDISH AMATEUR

CHAMPIONSHIP

Mr. Donald Black is to be con- gratulated for his sound judgment in riding three winners and a third, while Mr. Leo Frost was next bist

Stockholm, Sept. 1. with two firsts and two seconds, andl Merge G. Reza nad Ph scored one K. Morrice, the former Oxford win each. Moss. Dietz and Pan had a "kend beat" for a Win, the latter eventually breaking his "duck" for

tho year.

THE OPENING EVENT

The curtain raiser was in the Big Wave Hay Handicap (Six Furlongs) when nino ponies lined up for the

Was

University golf captain, beaten in the final of the Swedish amateur open golf championship over thirty-six holes to-day by G. Falk, of Stockholm, at the 37th hole. Falk is the first Swede to win the Swedish open amateur since 1913.

New Zealand rugby footballers, who arrived recently for their tour of England, Scotland, frøland and Wales, are pictured on a sight-100ing adventure.This picture of them was taken at Hampton Court.

Yankees Win Again From Senators

ONLY ONE match PLAYED

BASEBALL IN AMERICA

New York, Sept. 26. Only one match was played in the major baseball Leagues to- the day, this being between Washington Senators and New York Yankees.

The New York outfit again beat the Senators, winning by four runs to two. This was the only fixture scheduled in the American League.

In the National League there was only onc match scheduled. this being between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals, Morrice was one up at lunch, and but owing to rain the fixture was Tace. Running away tactics, which actually three up at the twenty-postponed. proved fatal were adopted by Clear View, Flybynight and larvent View.first; but at the twenty-fifth the Tho race was too fast altogether, Oxonian had the misfortune, when especially in the first quarter up the stymied, to knock his opponent's ball in the American League follow:

Full details of the match played

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Rock which was covered in into the hole to lose a hole which 28.4/5th seconds while the first half he should have won. Falk was then was run in 59.1/6th. Mr. Black on only two down instead of four, and Bonny Dundes preferred a waiting he squared the match at the 34th. Washington race and on coming into the straight Marrice had his chance then, for New York

apare.

for the home run, he

no dini-

he won the thirty-fifth to become culty in overhauling Clear who

View,

wen tiarmy one, but Falk, his steadiness by this time, was labouring, in easy fashion with 10 lbs. to

unshaken, took the thirty-sixth, and Foxbridge did not have a good start, un they went to the thirty-seventh but nevertheless had no trouble to beat Harvent View who just inanaged to nose out his stable companion,

View.

Both hit good drives, but Falk was on the green with his accond, whereas Morrice was a shade short.

I said Morrice was short with his run-up Friday that Harvest View was on the and left himself a long pult, where- fnt side but that he might be placed. ns Falk was only a yard from the He was and paid

favoured with hole. Morrice made a bold bid and lorieur weather, Able Amazon luid his putt- nearly dropped, but it was no difculty in establishing a new a shade hard and, after hitting the record, namely 1.02.3/6th seconds, lip of the hole, stopped out. Falk with 166 lbs. (10 lbs. over Weight for made no mistake and the match was Inches) in the Corroboree Handicap, his, Morrice was round in 166, Five Furlongs race, lowering Shoot with scores of 76 and 80. Falk was ing Star's record by a second. It was round in 162 with scores of 77 and

Frand race to watch and I firmly 75. Par for the course is 71. belleve that Able Amazon could knock-

off another second or more_ns, after the distance post, Mr. Leo Frost was only sitting on her.

MISS RAMSDEN LOSES

In the final of the women's cham- At the release of the barrier in pionship Miss A. Ramsden (Sun- what was incidentally the best start ningdale) lost her Swedish title, of the day, Derby Day (Mr. Butler) | being beaten in the 36 holes final by nado the running and it may be in Miss K. Timberg by one hole, after teresting to know that the mare cover being three up at the end of the ed the first furlong in. 12.3/6th seconds and the next two were done first 18 holes.

in 24.1/5th seconds but when round.

ing the bend for the straight, Mr.

Butler called on Derby Day for announced that their match against The Scottish Football League has final spurt to which she could not respond. Just before the distance the English League has been ar- post, Able Amazon, who was always ranged to take place at Ibrox Park, at the rear, drew level with Derby Glasgow, on Wednesday, October

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Golf Clubs

30.

AT IRRESISTIBLE PRICES

From SATURDAY,

SEPTEMBER 28.

Matched Sets Five, Steel Shafted Irons Matched Sets Three Steel Shafted Woods Odd Steel Shafted Irons and Woods

25% to 50% Discount A GREAT CHANCE

R. 11. E.

E 10 1

4

7

4

Router.

NEW READING MANAGER

ANOTHER OF BOLTON'S

FAMOUS FORWARDS

CHINESE GIRL'S AMAZING TENNIS

GAMES WINS 61

IN A ROW

"NOT SO GOOD" AT SCHOOL!

(By Stanley N. Doust)

London, Sept. 2. Won 61 games in succession in lawn tennis championship.

in six font only five games rounds of the singles.

Won the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles.

These were the achievements of Miss Gem Hoahing, the 14-years- old Chinese girl, in the Middlesex junior lawn. tennis championships at Harrow on Saturday,

BRITISH WOMEN GOLFERS

SUCCESSES IN AUSTRALIA

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CHAMPIONSHIP AT MELBOURNE

Melbourne, Aug. 29. All the members of the British women's golf team qualified for the match-play stage at Mel- bourne of the Australian Cham- pionship.

Miss Jessie Anderson beaded the list with 161, Miss P. Wade was second with 162, and Miss Pam Bar- ton and Mrs. J. B. Walkei tied for third place with 163. Mrs. Green- leca was equal alxth with 168. Miss Barton's second round of 78 was a new record for the course.

The sixtecu qualifiers will play the first round for the championship to-day.

FIRST ROUND MATCHES

·Melbourne, Aug. 30. She played five rounds to reach Three members of the British the final of the girls' singles and touring team, Miss Pam Barton, won them all by 6-0, 6-0. She Mrs. J. B. Walker and Mrs. W. won the first game in the final Greenlees, were successful in the ngalnat Miss A. Cardinal (whom first round of the Australian -Golf Championship, sho eventually beat by 6-4, 6-1) Women's

in a row.

to give her the total of 61 games which commenced here to-day. This is a world's record Miss Jessie Anderson and Miss for any player in a championship Wade were eliminated. event.

Miss Anderson, handicapped by To lose, only five games in six a septic hand, was only defeated by rounds equals the record set up one hole by Miss McLeod, three by Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, who times winner of the championship. won at Wimbledon in 1925 with Miss Wade was bouten by Mrs the loss of five games,

stričan dalaitteitaUCIOR A.-W, GRIMMITT DROPS OUT

Miss Hoahing is the smallest hawn tennis player who has ever

won a championship She is just

The accession of William But-4ft. high. ler to the post of honour at She is, however, not so good at Reading means that four great school

as she is on the tennis forwards associated in their prime courts. Mrs. Hoahing, her with the Bolton Wanderers club mother, lamented this fact to me.

"Gem," are now football managers,

she sighed, "is back- ward at school Butler follows in the wake of Joe "When her report came in she Smith (Reading's former manager, said to me, It is not so good.j who is now in charge at Blackpool), mother, and it is not so bad. David, Jack (Southend) and Ted am second from the bottom of my

clans. Vizard (Swindon).

The new Rending manager, who joined the club as an outside-right soon after Joe Smith took over and had been signed on ngain for this season, is a native of Atherton and his father was a Rugby player.

connected with Chelsea for nearly Mr. H. H. Palmer, who has been

24 years, will take over the assist- ant-secretaryship rendered vacant by the death of his brother, Mr. A. J. Palmer.

from $35

per set $22:50. per set $5 each

SPORTS DEPT.

Miss Hoahing is a pupil at the Twickenham County School.

TOO YOUNG FOR WIMBLEDON

Not Eligible For Junior Title

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NOT PLAYING IN INTERPORT

A. W. Grimmitt, selected as No. 3.to A. M. Holland for the second match in the forthcoming lawn bowls Interport against Shanghai, will not be playing,

According to Crimmitt himself he is leaving for the North early to-morrow morning, in company with his daughter who is going on a health trip. Grimmitt's

place will most probably be taken, by J. Fraser.

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There are 51 entries for the boys' singles and 95 for the girls' singles in the Junior Champion- ships of Great Britain, which were begun on the hard courts of the Morpeth, two up. Mrs. Morpeth All-England Club at Wimbledon was formerly Miss Susan Tolhurst, early this month, and there are of Victoria, and has won the cham- 20 pairs in the boys' doubles and plonship on two occasions, 42 pairs in the girls' doubles.

MIXED FOURSOMES Neither R. E. Mulliken nor Missi After finishing an equal first, D. Rowe is defending in the singles Mrs. Walter Greenlees, of Troon, events.

and an Australian, Mr. Dalrymple, Miss G. Hoahing, who has twice were disqualifleri in the Australian won the girls' sigles in the Mid-Mixed Foursomes Golf Champion- dlesex Junior Championships, and ship at Melbourne owing to n who also won the open singlea in wrongly-marked enrd, according to the Schoolgirls' Tournament, is a Reuter's message. They had

CALL-OVERS FOR Footballer-

TURF CLASSICS

AT NEWMARKET

CESAREWITCH AND CAMBRIDGESHIRE · ·

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Cricketer's Dilemma

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WHICH TO PLAY?

London, Sept. 4. Jack Arnold, the Hampshire cricketer and Fulham Football

DOREEN JANE AT Club's international forward, had

100 TO 8

to make a dramatic cholec yester-. day between playing for his county against Yorkshire at Portsmouth to-day and turning out for his club against Hull City at Hull.

London, Supt. 25. Doreen Jane is favourite for

He failed to report to the Ful- the Cesarewitch which is to bo run at Newmarket over 24 miles manager in the train leaving King's Cross, for Hull, last night, on Wednesday, October 16.

and he may therefore be expected The latest call-over for the race to play against the champion gives the

prices:

following

starting

100/8 Doreen Jane (1 and o) 100/7 Lucky Patch (t and o)

100/7 Shining Cloud (t and o)

18/1 Tommaok it and o)

:8/1. Hopfile (o)

20/1 Hoplite (t)

20/1 Chrysler (t and, o)

33/1 Woodstock (0)

40/1 Woodstock (t) 33/1 Bunkawni (0)

Reuter

THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE

London, Sept. 20.

The call-over for the Cam- bridgeshire, which is to be decid od at Newmarket on Wednesday, October 30, is as follows.

100/6 Finalist (0) 18/1 Finalist (t) 20/1 Highlander (0)

22/1 Highlander (1) 25/1 Negundo (t and o) 28/1 Law Court (t and o) 28/1 Wychwood Abbot (o) 33/1 Knighted (t and o). 33/1 Badruddin (t and o) 33/1 Almond Hill (0) 33/1 British Quota (0) 45/1 Pepino (t and o) 50/1 O'Grady (t and o)

-Reuter.

U. S. BRIDGE WIN

ENGLISH PAIR IN ARREARS

4

DECIDING WHAT CARD TO LEAD

The first international contract

•

Arnold, a cricketer and footballer.

county at Portsmouth today.

Several Fulham offelals waited anxiously until the last moment for Arnold to arrive.

Earlier a telegram-"Cannot re- lense Arnold"-had been received from the Hampshire Cricket Club. but in spite of this Fulham hoped that Arnold would obey their in- structions,

They have now decided, I under- stand, to take action against Arnold. "For the last two years. apparently, this problem has arisen," Mr. J. Peart, Fulham's new manager, said yesterday: "now it will cense for ever.”

RAISING FUNDS

FOR OLYMPICS

NOVEL AMERICAN IDEA

REFLECTORS FOR MOTORCARS

bridge pairs match ever, played was won at the Dorchester, Park- lane, W., by the American pair, Michael Gottlieb and Howard The American Olympic Com Schenken, who defeated the Eng-mittee has hit on a novel idea to lish players, H. Ingram and S. help finance its expedition to the Hughes by 87 rubbers to 63 and Olymple Games. | by 41,120 points.

It is issuing reflectors which can There was illustration of the be attached simply to the back of sporting spirit in which the match motor-cars and bicycles. This re- has been played when Schenken, flector is constructed on the same trying to make three no trumps, principle as the "cat's-eye" for found that success or failure de-bicycles but is considerably larger, pended on whether he played the having a diameter of 31⁄2 inches, Queen or tẹn of clubs from dum- It bears on to face a small re- my.

ullea of the official American Olym- After deliberating for some pic emblem surrounded by the time, he Look a florin from his words: "American Olympic Fund, pocket, Losserl It, and played (1936."

the Queen. Ils proverbial good The reflectors tire sold for a fortune did not desert him, for dollar each, and are already to be had he chosen the ten, Hughes's seen on the cars of thousands of Jack would have made the trick patriotic and sport-loving Ameri- and defented the rubber,contruct. cans,

Liverpool FC. have secured the Jack Allen, whose two goals services of Van Vuuren, one of against the Arsenal in the Cup South Africa's best goalkeepera. Final of 1932 gave Nowcastle Liverpool have been in negotiation United the F.A. Cup, has been for some weeks, despite a message transferred from Bristol Rovers to from the Colony that he would not Gateshead.

leave South Africa,

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not yet 15 years of age, and there-rounds of 83 and 78-161. Another The Service which attends to fure still too young to enter.

LADIES' HOCKEY MEETING

C. B. A. Members Elect Officials

Anglo-Australian pair, Mrs. J. B.

Walker (Island, Malahide), and moving Mr. Guest, tied for first place with Mr. Rac and Miss Marrie nt 161; their respective rounds being 70 and 82 and 82 and 79. They will play off on Thursday.

Two other Anglo-Australian pairs! finished equal second with 104. Miss Phyllis Wado (Ferndown) and Mr. Ivor Whitton and Miss Jessie

The annual meeting of the Anderson (Craigie Hill), and Mr. ladies Hockey section of the Can- Harvey both had rounds of 80 and

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Their aggregate was 171 (91 and

Those present Included Mrs. G. 80), and Mrs. P. Hodson, the cap-

A. White, Misses D. Hunt, F. Best, tain-manager of the British team, G. MacNider, I. L. Woolley, P. and Mr. Giles returned 186 (91 and Woolley, M. L W. Bryson, R. 94).

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