1935-10-04 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER

1935.

DOUBLE TENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING NEXT

A SPECIAL SWEEP FOR

SECOND DAY

DOUBLE CHANCE BOUGHT OVER

BY MR. L. DUNBAR

SHOULD REPRODUCE BETTER FORM UNDER 'NEW OWNERSHIP

(By "Captain Foster")

two

I am not writing this week, about the pro- spects of various ponies for the Ninth Extra Race Meeting to be held on the 10th and 12th October, owing to the fact that there are more gallops before the meeting and they are always a very useful guide to me in selecting my nominations. However, my racing notes will. appear on Wednesday the 9th inst, and I sincere- ly trust and hope that I would be able to spot the eight winners.

CRITICISM ANSWERED

Good entries have been received for the two days of racing and the Ifandicaps have already been published. The main event on the! First day (Thursday) is the Double Tenth Plate (Five Furlongs) which has attracted eight first class China

GIRLS' REPLY TO THE Ponies, but I am afraid that it will

RECENT ATTACK

SOONER PLAY FOOTBALL

(By Richard Lewis) Some doctors are saying that women should not take part in sports.

be a tame hflair due to the presence

of Liberty Bay. Sadko, the great old warrior. is W owned by Mesara, Tesler and Abraham.

The special $1 Cash Sweep, is on the Kwangtung Handicap over a distance of one and a quarter Miles confined to China Ponies "D" Class to be run on Saturday and I under- stand that 43,000 tickets have at- ready been sold and I expect it will exceed the 50,000 mark. There are

"Girls who have no desire to play 22 entries for this big event and it combative games are cajole and

is almost certain that the field will! coerced by embittered, int-chested sex-

less hoydens who try to mould gentle be over 15.

feminine girls into their own pattern,” xaid one doctor the other day.

Eighteen years ago there was a fa- mous team of girl footballers-Dick,

SECOND DAY CLASSIC

The Sub-Griffins Autumn Plate tone and a Quarter Miles). for

A new all-time speed mark for automobiles was set on the salt flets, near Donneville, Utah, when Sir Malcolm Campbell, British speed king, drove his Bluebird at 304.31 miles per hour. American taste require a re-run over the same course in an hour, and in the re-run Sir Malcolm's speed dropped, to make his average just over his 300-mile-par-hour goal. Above, Sir Malcolm in his salt-splattered Blue.

bird during tests. Below, the Bluebird speeding over the salt bed.

WALK FROM LONDON TO BRIGHTON

Kerr's team. What are those girls do China Punlea Subscription Griffins RECORD TIME BY

ing now?

FAMILIES

The answer is: Thủy murry nud rear families in one case two sets of twins. And they all say: "I'd sooner piny football; it's not so strenuous."

of this Club of this Season to be run on Second day is a classic event and the winner is to receive $600, Second $250, and Third $150. All the best subs of this season have been entered and it may interest

Of the brilliant 1917 team more than racing fans to know that Double half-have "settled down." Four eml Chance is now the property of Mr. grated. Three took up nursing.

IL WAS originally Do they miss the cheering crowds, L. Dunbar.

foreign tours, the heroine-worshipowned by Mr. Chan Wing-yung and the autograph hunters? Five told me: I am sure that Double Chance will

-the

now

Mrs.

his

WINNER

EIGHT MINUTES TO SPARE

London, Sept. 9.

New Zealand

Rugby Team

Win Easily

RECOVERY FROM DEBACLE

BRITISH

ATHLETES

A SECOND

ERROR

FOUND IN CAMPBELL'S MOTOR RECORD

ANNOUNCEMENT BY PRESSMEN

Wendover (Utah), Sept. 4. Sir Malcolm Campbell is still not satisfied, although he is very happy that he has at last achieved his life's ambition to put the world's speed record up to 300 miles an hour,

WEEK

WOMEN'S LACROSSE VICTORY

BRITISH PLAYERS BEAT AMERICANS

HISTORIC WIN AT BRIGHTON

(By M..POLLOCK SMITH) London, Sept. 9.

At Rocdean School, Brighton, the 1934 English women's tour- » "I have not sel a record I tan-

ing team beat the visiting Ameri- not beat," he said. "I can build a cans by 21 goals to 1. This was car that will go much faster and the first time in history that I shall probably do so.

American lacrosse women have made a record which another driver played a match on British soil. cannot excel, for what I can do an Americans had considerably im

Opinion was unanimous that the

other man can also do."

I have not

proved since last year, when our

"The old car stood up to the test women toured U.S.A., and in the beautifully. I could not have ex-contest equivalent to Saturday's pected more of her and now I um match beat them 27-0 in a 30 taking her home with me. We are minutes each way game, going home, to have a good rest.”

ANOTHER CORRECTION

On Saturday the regulation 25 minutes was played, and "summer lacrosse" proved a-delightful For the second time. Sir Mal-and but for two smart saves by speciaele. Play opened briskly, colm's new speed record figures have the American goal, Kute Wetherill, been corrected,

made with her hand, the English Yesterday he was disappointed to would have scored in the first learn that the average speed of his half-minute. The two runs was a fraction below the tome, E. Gibb, opened, the score English 1st coveted 300-299.874. Then it was a few moments later, and then announced that an error in the time goals by L. Brown, C. Valentine, ing had been made, and a new two more by E. Gibb, and a couple average for the measured mile of put in by L. Green, made the 301377 was given,

home side seven

up before the To-day the final official figures Americans found their were stated to be:

Their attacks battled sharply, and North-easterly run-Time 11.83 failed to score chiefly through the

sec., average 304.311 m.p.h.

pace.

excellence of England's goal, 1.

South-westerly run-Time 12.08 Davica.

sec, average 301.311 m.p.h.

Play throughout this half ful Average mean time 11.955sec.filled expectations that the Ameri Speed 301.1292.

The American Automobile Asso-every point. They fought bravely, cans were absolutely outclassed ut ciation Control Board stated that checkedl

ON TOUR the first error was in the timing. apart from

well,, played hard, but,

RECORDS GO IN S. AFRICA

'VARSITY STARS IN ACTION

Capetown, Sept. 7.

Bome misfortunes, It arose thus the run northward wasted many opportunities. Their over the measured mile was mide prevalling fault, perhapa, was in 11.83sec., or at the rate of 304.-hanging on to the ball too long, a 311 miles an hour. The trip south- mistake which time and again ward was actually made in 12.08sec., deprived them of real chances, but or at the rate of 298.013 miles an this error hour.

frequently was forced through others of the team not The computation figures taken placing themselves to receive the from the timing tape, as well as necessary pass, the timing tape itself, shows that there was an error of .10 in sub- traction.

The second error is said to be

Was no

FIFTH VICTORY

A CRY FOR HELP OF SEASON

The first half closed with the London, Oct. 3.

English leading 13-0, and an A Brilliant performance was The "All Blacks" rugby foot- The Oxford and Cambridge due to the fact that Pressmen an amusing incident occurred in the second lap, when the sea breeze "I wish I could play again to-morrow, give a good nccount of himself for achieved in the Surrey Walking ball team from New Zealand, team of athletes, which is tour-nounced the figure before the ofl-earried from a far corner a plain-

now touring Britain, have quick ing South Africa, won their cial report. I'm at caughtning") Walker, right never been given a square deul, in on Saturday by C Winlock dyrefovered from their rette Universities of Capetown and times, Sir Malcolm ordered that the Point, I believe, was in

new owner. Thiga pony has Club's London to Brighton race

H. H. ly

match to-day against

Elated by the alteration of the

the corner tive ery of "Help!" An American, Molly half, of Freckleton, near Presion, in fact it has been over-galloped and taining the "Victory" Cup he im- day they won their fifth match Stellenbosch and the rest of Bluebird should be crated at once. confrere to pass to, and the enemy

Eccles, wife of a master started 14 times before the recess, foiner who was one of the team's most with two wins, one second and three minutes the record of 8 hrs: 1

proved by more than eight of the season.

Western Province. They secured He has also packed his bags, enthusiastic spectators.

was-bearing down on her!They thirds. It will be recalled that min. 6 sec. set up by J. H. Ludlow, Bristol to-day by the joint Somer- African Universities and 5 by but I am very glad to hear it all ally, and scored their 16th off it:

The tourists were entertained at | 19 points to 11% by the South The news came somewhat flat, wreated the ball from her eventu- It is nearly 10 years since she

Christmas just before stopped playing football.

Double the Derby walker, in 1932. set and Gloucester fifteen and won the rest of the Western Province. the same," said Sir Malcolm. This year, too, she has had to stop Chance was given a "try-out" and

Later in this half the English Four Western Province records entering the village sports because she he covered the Derby distance (11⁄2 Whitlock's time for the distance by 23 points to three.

Howland On Saturday the "All Blacks" are were broken. R. L. always wins, and the other giris say Miles) in 3 minutes and 29 seconds, of 52 miles from the Clock Tower, due to meet Lancashire and Che- (Camb.) broke two

aldo was more extended, and after of them in

the 18th was scored by M. Lockley, the quarters being 36, 32, 32.2/5th. | Westminster, to the Brightonshire at Birkenbend-Reuter.

U.S.A. made a terrific push, urged winning the shot putt with 47ft.

and cheered by the onlookers Splendidly game, obviously enjoy. ing their beating, laughing to a man, suddenly Gretchen Schuyler -2nd Home-secured the ball, and slammed it into the net to score USA's first and only goal amid a roar of applause.

CLUB FIXTURE

it in not fair.

"I'd play football again if I wasn't 34, 36.2/6th, 38.1/5th. The first Aquarium was 7hrs. 53min. Dec. no busy," she told me, slapping pastry mile was done in 2.14.2/5th and His time for the race, which now into cake-tins.

the first 14 Miles in 2.50.4/5th. finishus beyond the Aquarium at a Hnd the owner gone slow with the point along the front, was 7hrs.

London, Oct. 3. "GIRL ALEC JAMES"

In a Club rugby fixture to-day, Alice Kell, 1917-1925 captain and pony, Double Chance would have 53min. 50sec. right back, is now Mrx. Cooke, wife of had a credit belance of a few thou-

Whitlock, who is aged 27, has Moseley beat Northampton by 14 baker. She still lives in Preston. sand dollars Instead of $1,200 accomplished several fine perform- points to 10.-Reuter. She takes her five-years-old son to earned to date.

ances, but none equals this achieve- League matches; then takes him homel

ment. He went away from his again and shows him how they should

have done it.

JOCKEY ALLOWANCE

In the matter of

Jockey

s charge hand at a factory which reads as follows:-

Harris, "the girl Alec James" she was so tricky nt insido allowance. Rule of Racing No. 103

in Lancaster.

Flo Rance, goal-scoring inside for- ward, rides horses round her husband's | fruit farm near Perth, Australia. "It's a great life," she writes back home.

Her two

sots to twins think so, too. Alice Mills, the outside left, liked America when the team went over

there in 1020. She went back a few yours later as an emigrant.

Now sho la mother of four.

TWO ARE NURSES

11 in., and the throwing the dis-

cus

R. with 118ft. 3in. F. Webster, the Cambridge pole vault, created a now record in winning his event with 11ft. 1 in.

The other record was broken by Western J. H. Schoeman, the Province champion, in winning the yards in 22 1-10sec. He beat

rivnia after Croydon and sul CRICKET UMPIRE 22 Sweeney, the It.A.F. runner,

sequently was never seriously chal- lenged. It was soon evident that he was set for a record, and long before the half-way stage he was "There shall be no allowance or well inside all previous times it the penalties in handicap except various intermediate stages. penalties for winning a race after He walked in perfect

formi the publication of the weights, throughout and his pace did not and in such ovent the penalty sineken. He covered the full dis- shall not exceed 10 lb.”

tance at an average speed exceeding

has been amended to allow Novicesnilles an hour.

who

T., W. Richardson. (Woodford

have permission to ride in Green A.C.) made a magnificent, open races to claim the appropriate effort in the closing stages to finish allowance, namely five lb, in Handi-second. He shared fifth position

RESIGNS

AN AUSTRALIAN OFFICIAL

in this and the 100 yards. In the 100 yards ho won by a yard in 8-15sec., despite the soddon track, and in the longer sprint he won by inches.

S. Kiel, the Western Province hurdler, beat the Inter-Varsity hurdles champion, A. G. Pilbrow, of Oxford, In the 120 yards hurdles by a foot in 15sce, dead. Pilbrow

HIS OPINION OF gained his revenge in the 220 yards which he won from Kiel by a yard In 23 7-10sec.

LARWOOD

Melbourne, Sept..5.

The quarter-mile found the Cam-

A. G. K. Brown (Camb.) won the Several of these former girl muni- cap races of the Ninth Extra Race with S. E. Horton (Surrey W.C.)

half mile casily in 1mla. 56 6-10set., tion workers had on urge for nursing. Meeting with the exception of the at Bolney, and was nearly four known Test cricket umpire, has to run hard to win the mile in 4min. Mr. George Hele, the well-but W. T. Squires (Oxford) had Florrie Haslam, right half terror of eighth race (Fukien Handicap) of minutes behind J. F. L. Henderson forwarded his resignation to the opposing forwards, is in a hospital at the Second day. The Stewards of (Worthing and District II.), who Victorian Cricket Association.

33 4-10sec. Binckburn,

the Hongkong Jockey Club are to was then second, but over the last He will not officiate in either bridge Australian, J. C. Horsfall, Florria Redford, whose "daisy be congratulated on adopting this 14 miles Richardson overhauled all 'cutters" a nurse at Montreal, Canada. She "pep" to racing and the public canderson was third.

won more than one match and I am sure it will give more his rivals except Whitlocks. Item Shield or club matches in the out of form, and he finished third

coming season, emigrated in 1927.

Mr. Hele made to J. Erwee, of the Universities, Jenny Lancaster is happily married look forward to bigger dividends.

his first appearance as a Test who beat a fellow University run- Match umpire in Brisbane in 1928, ner, Visser, by inches in Gisec.

The British team won the relay when Chapman's English team from the South African Univer- the record defeat in runs in any

rest of Western Teat match..

Province, third.

ton Preston man. They have a girl of

There arrived quite recently a

seven, and a grocer's shop. Her only batch of 60 odd Sub-Griffins for MARATHON GOLF routed Australia by 675 runasitles, with the

grouse is that the shop keeps her In 1936 racing and they are branded when she would sooner be going to front number 1 to 69. Some have matches.

been discarded but I do not know their numbers. I had

an op- portunity to "look-see" when they

HOME FOOTBALL were landed and they are not a bad

BLACKPOOL DRAW WITH NOTTINGHAM

FOREST

London, Oct. 3,

FEAT

THREE MILES IN 61 STROKES

ACROSS ROUGH

Watching Larwood's leg-stump attack in the first Test match in Sydney In December, 1932, Mr. Hele early formed the opinion that It would have the effect of killing stroke play and engendering bittor ness among players. He expressed

INTERNATIONAL CRICKET

DECISION

bunch 'It is too early as yet to express an opinion as to the Jikely winner of the Valley atakes but I an inclined to think that they are

the view after that dramatic series AUSTRALIAN BOARD'S better than this year's lot. How-

of Tests that Australia would ever, the riding test of the Sub- Griffins will take place at the Race

never see bodylino bowling again. He had the highest opinion of Course to-day at 12.45 p.m, and the COUNTRY

Harold Larwood as 'n fast bowler, draw for the ponles accepted by

Melbourne, Sept. 7. and considered that he might have Nottingham Forest and Black-tho Stewards will be held at the

The Australian Cricket Board of Three miles across rough country been just na successful had ha Control, at a meeting to-day, agreed pool were engaged in a drawn Administration Block, the Stables, In 61 strokes is the remarkable bowled in an orthodox way. game to-day in the Second Divi- this evening at 5.30 p.m. For the performance just put up by W.

to accept the South African propo- sion of the English Football convenience of Members wishing to Carey, golf: champion of Euroa,

sal to cover completely the wickets League,

view the riding test, tifine can be Australia

at Johannesburg, Durban, and. Cape The match was played at: City obtained at the Club House if

Lanco in 100. It took him.20 Town during Carey, says Austral News,

the forthcoming. Ground and each side scored two ordered in advance from No. 1 Boycopted the challenge of another but once in the open he showed his The fear is that the new turf will ac-strokes to clear the town of Euron, Australian tour of, South Africa goals-Reuter:

(Telephone_21920).

golfer that ho could not do the dis- championship' form,

not stand up to a four-day match.

NEWMARKET.

RACE CLASSICS every time they touched the ball.

CALL-OVERS FOR TURF EVENTS

CESARÉWITCH

In recording this historic match it must be remembered that Ameri- cap Women have only played London, Oct. 3.

lacrosse for some four years, their Doreen Jano's price has son is very short, about three shortened slightly for the Cesare months, they have no first-class witch which is to be run at New players to train against, and most market over 214 miles

of them also play hockey. That Wednesday, October 16.

they enjoy the game and are good The following is the latest call-sports was obvious, and mention over for Cesarewitch:

of their faults while saying 100/9 Doreen Jano (t and o) taken ns, constructive criticism and nothing about the English must be

18/1. Lucky Patch (0) 20/1 Lucky Patch (1) 20/1 Quashed (o)

22/1 Quashed (t)

20/1 Hoplite (o) 26/1 Hoplite (t) 22/1 Samarkand (0) 26/1 Samarkand (t)

25/1 Alcazar (o) 28/1

Alcazar (t)

on

་་

28/1. Near Relation (t and o) 45/1 Chrysler (t and o) 66/1 Sudbury (t and o)

-Reuter,

THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE

London; Oct. 3. The call-over for the Cambridge. shiro, which 'Is to be decided at Naymarket on Wednesday, Octo- ber 30, is as follows:

100/8 Budruddin (0)

14/1 Badruddin' (t) · 13/1 Law Court (0) 100/7 Law Court (t) 100/6 Finalist (0) 20/1 Highlander 22/1 Highlander (t) 25/1 Almond Hill (0) 26/1 Negundo (0) 28/1 Negundo (t)

28/1 Knighted (o)

30/1 Knighted (t)

38/1 Gunboat (0) 36/1 Gunboat (t) 33/1 Plymouth Sound (o) 40/1 Plymouth Sound (t) 60/1 O'Grady (0)

not mere fault-Anding.

Our American friends have come here to learn by playing against better teams, so we give them good opponenta, and the score is Im- material.

EMPIRE GAMES

OF 1938

Sydney Making Bid For Anniversary Feature

Sydney to making a bold blå to have the Empire Games in 1938, the year of the 150th, anniverary of Its foundation. The New South Wales government ins already offered to guarantee £10,000..

The selection, which will be de cided by the Empire Games Federa tion (of which Lord. Lonsdale is president) Hes between Canada, Bouth Africa and Australia. It is also hoped to hold the world's sculling championship in Sydney, states Austral News

66/1 O'Grady (t) 66/1 Pepino (t and o

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