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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

OCTOBER

31,

1935.

GREAT FIELD COMPETES FOR CAMBRIDGESHIRE

FRENCH-BRED

HORSE WINS

ENORMOUS ODDS IN DOUBLE WAGER

NEARLY 19,000 TO ONE PAID TO PUNTER

London, Oct. 30.

The odds of 18,892 to 1, returned to the sole pur- chaser of a 2s. 6d. ticket on the totalisator double for Near Relation for the Cesarewitch and Commander for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, constitutes a world record "tote" dividend.-Router.

RECORD FIELD

London, Oct. 30.

The Cambridgeshire proved the heaviest betting race within living memory. There were forty runners,. the largest field since 1874.

Cominander, a French-bred colt, starting at 28 to 1, was the winner, beating the 100 to 1 outsider Man's Pal, by one and a half lengths, with Finalist, the 6 to 1 favourite, a short head away third.

Wychwood Abbott, the top weight last year's win- mér, ran a great race under 9 st. 10 lbs., finishing fourth. Both Commander, who was second last year, and Man's Pal were ridden by apprentice jokeys still in their teens-Renter Special.

TO CAPTAINI

SERVICES RUGBY TEAM

LIEUT. FORBES IN ENGLAND

WELL-KNOWN IN HONGKONG

Position of captain of the

"THE RUNNERS

Lendon, Oct. 30.

The following was the result of the Cambridgeshire to-day:

Commander, 28 to 1. Man's Pal, 100 to 1.

Flutist, to 1.

There were forty starters.

The race was won by one and a half lengths, with a short bend he tween second and, third. Reuter

An earlier cable

states that azang the

Lamb Probable starters in the

William

Carslake rides

Vallance; Westan, Valerius; Beady, Law Court; Nevett, Guineo Gap: Cliff Richards, Solarium; Barber, Rodeo Se Faltes-Vas-Jeux;

Heavyweights

Sunny Sailor:

Middleton. Second; Rowley, Moidory: Lordling: Sharpe, Flake: Wing. Sadgrove. Joshtia; · Steve United Services Rugby Club at Donoghue, Irongrey; Evans, Gumes Portsmouth has been given to Master. Lieut. J. H. Forbes, of H.M.S.

Mythien Monk nal Sans Pride have been secateheel--Renter. - Dolphin.

Forbes is an experienced player who has been a long time abroad, Well-known in Hongkong. Forbes Ife played serum-half for the Royal last season captained the Navy in Navy in the Inter-Services' Tour the triangular tournament and nament in 1928, and in the same other matches. He was stationed "your"was given a Scottish-trial-here-abourd-H:MS Phoenix.

St. Paul's Cathedral, London.

Pre-eminent in

every country of the World.

STATE EXPRESS 555

CIGARETTES

85 cents far. 50

FRENCH SPORT IN DOLDRUMS

ATHLETES BEATEN CONVINCINGLY

OUTLOOK FOR THE OLYMPICS

Paris, Oct. 30.

Three successive defeats in-

OUR SOCCER FORECASTS

Sunderland Visiting Portsmouth

(By "Sagax")

forecast of

The following is a Saturday's matches in the Home foot- ball Leagues :

FIRST DIVISION

flicted by the British, German ASTON VILLA and Italian track and field teama TON Brentford

have mado the French roaring | DERBY mad and they are more deter- Everton mined than ever to get together MIDDLESBRO

v Grimshy

v Blackburn

* ARSENAL

y Manchester C.

Stoke Chelsea

HUDDERSFIELD v

a team worthy of representing Portsmouth tho

at the country Olympics next year.

Berlin Preston N. E.

WEDNESDAY WOLVES

Athletes, fans, citizens and especial-

Barnsley

SECOND

ly the press have all joined in the ery that something just has to Bradford C.. Incriminations are flying about Burnley

Fulham

At a recent auto race competition in Los Angeles one of the members showed plenty of intestinal forti.) done. tude in bringing his car to stop when the rear wheel suddenly ran off and flew into the crowd. The pic. ture allows the wheel whirling high into the air.

RECENT DEATH OF DR.

1. A. LOWSON

SLASHING HITTER AND FASTISH MEDIUM PACED BOWLER

CRICKETER OF EMINENCE WHO WAS AN EX-INTERPORT PLAYER

(By R. Abbit)

There are so many things that call for notice this week, apart from the Interport, that i am dividing my notes into two sections. In the first place, I feel that less than justice has been done to the memory of a great sportsman, an athlete. and a cricketer.

the

TH

I

THE TEAM WITHOUT TACTICS

SCORES 28 GOALS IN & MATCHES

When Middlesbrough Football season there Club started this weighed on them the fact that last season they scored only 70 goals

in every direction and any number | CHARLTON are being blamed for the low ebb of French sports from Premier Laval MANCHESTER U. and the French Federation to the NEWCASTLE athletes themselves.

PLYMOUTH PORT VALE

The French accepted the licking | TOTTENHAM from the British with enough grace

THIRD but when the Germans recently gave them a one-sided Brushing, winning

v Liverpool

v Sunderland v Birmingham.

▼ West Brom.

v Leeds

DIVISION

BLACKPOOL

y fury

V SOUTHAMPTON

v Norwich

Y

Sheffield U.

Noits Forest

Leicester

v West Ham

¥ Doncaster

"Bradford

r Swulisra

DIVISION

15 out of 15 events, the storm broke. Bournemouth To rub it in, the Italians took eleven BRISTOL R. out of 15 events against them the CARDIFF following week-end in Tarin to bring CLAPTON 0. an end to probably the most tragie PALACE

Cason jn the history of French Gillingham nihletics,

PREMIER BLAMED

Some critics have gone so far as to tion of the sport. Laval, whose entire blame Laval for the present condi- time has been occupied by such minor

(SOUTH)

¥ Coventry Brighton

v Aldershot

v. Queen's P. R.

v Millwall

སྣ་

v Swindon LUTON

Newport NORTHAMPTON v Bristol C. NOTTS COUNTY Exeter READING

y Torquay SOUTHEND r Watford

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH),

in the whole 42 League matches things as peonomy deerves and The Accrington 1.5 goals a match,

scored 4 goals in twelve matches

Italo-Ethiopian conflict, is charged Barrow with indifference and unconcern. The CHESTER This season, so far, they have odds are that Laval doesn't even know.

CHESTERFIELD controversy Crewe

LINCOLN that he's involved in a

finds un that

in very corner of France. Pats state in no uncertain New Brighton terms that the government shoull ROCHDALE take over sports and include in the SOUTHPORT

efficient coaches and to build stndia, York for, they add, defents by other nations involve national prestige.

-2.8 goals a match.

Up to quite recently their for-

ratted

so that oh goals wards that everyone began to probe for

their new scoring formula..

THE SAME, BUT—

The mysterious truth of the whole thing is that

Middlesbrough have no formula. They have no tactics. No blackboard studies.

OPENED OUT

budget the necessary funds to blee STOCKPORT

If blan is to be haid on anyone's '

✓ WALSALL

v Oldlum

v Hartlepools

T

V

Darlington

TRANMERE

Mansfield

y Halifax

v Rotherham

¥

Carlisle

y Gateshead

v Wrexboni

SCOTTISH LEAGUE (FIRST DIVISION)

doorstep it should be on that of the ABERDEEN

French Federation, says one paper, for internal strife and bickering has minde the body ineffective and senile.

time

who are sn

ALBION Arbroath

AYR

y Queen 0'5th.

v Kilmarnock

V PARTICE

* Hibernian

y Dundee

Airdrie Clyde

St. Johnstone: v Queen's Park y Motherwell

COURSE FOR COACHES A ̈ ̈course for coaches la demanded CLAMOUR FOR LADOUMAGUE

and the sending of teachers and There is a general clamour for the coaches all over the country to develop

tha appointment of Jules

Ladoumague is capable of turning out some great raw material. Potentially France the best

I refer, of course, to the late Dr.in search of health about 1899-1900: J. A. Lowson, who recently passed There is little doubt that his amazing away, at the age of sixty-nine, at experience in the wreck of the Bok- Forfar. It

thathara, where by the way a Lt. Mark-

of the Shropshire's was tributes have been passed but it so ham

On and off the field, they have the Federation, continues the article, CELTIC happens that I was in communication other survivor-poor "Dicky" Dunn

composed of pumpous and desider. DUNFERMLINE

HAMILTON busy play ing

HEARTS sume ten years ago both with him (Gunners 1 think), and all the rest made no differences.

Birkett, the flying winger they ing politics that they haven't and with many

DR RANGERS of his contemporaries being drowned,-mide room for

to είνα to spurts. A general over a question of the past history infection which resulted in the end took from Arsenal after he had a house cleaning is demanded with the Third Lanark of the Rugal Hongkong Golf Club. of his colonial career. He was final-had patch: Camsell, the centre appointment of younger men to, m receives one

one particularly interestingly invalided in 1901, and in the Red forward, who is fully recoveted the position, who now interest in letter from C. M. G. Burnie, whom I Sea suffered a hnemorrhage which from a last season's illness; Yors- ngine, some of the older hands would have finished any great ton, the tiny-Scots-international

ver invalid's will recullect, in September 1924, and ninn. But whatever

inside, forward I am glad

who wears the I quote some passages from it. may have led thereafter,

boola in Soccer-are

In continuance.

1921 Dr. Lowson equally mystified. He (Lowson) had a most forceful as that Burnie was wrong about smallest personality. Fale-faced, bright wrote to me that he had been able to

runner ever produced fyed and black-haired, he stood about resume golf in a quiet way and

France, as dictator of French: sports,unners and at present there are at half a dazen, who, under Ameri- five feet ten and had hardly any believe this continued until shortly

Mr. Wilt Gillow, the team mana-It is very rare that a champion Is flesh on his bones. His imposing before his death. He took for niany

fine teacher. He is the exception cord time. Now stadia and the presence can guidance, would come close to re- appearance was increased by a long years a great interest in the publleger, cannot explain. eheroot gripped firmly in one of the affairs of Forfar-and though I do "Our boys have opened out their and despite the hindrance

of the of conches in various sections of the Federation has developed number corners of his mouth. On occasion, not know what his official status may game a little" is all he can offer of fine runners. Ladoumague is as country, it is pointed out, would be his language, like his golf, was no have been, I know that his influenci "Don't forget, of course," he popular among French fans the most important factor in reviving and free.

in the district was great. And so, says, "that two seasons ago we got Georges Carpeniler and Marcel Thil.interest in the sport and build up a to paraphrase the greatest of all ten goals against Sheffield United, Sport lovers have never forgiven the

new morale,

Ernest Lafont, Minister of Public cricket epitaphs:

and that in the next game we were Federation for disqualifying him, al-Health, which puts him in charge of beaten 4-1 by Sunderland at home,legedly for accepting cash. "Lightly lie the turf upon him"

aports, in a recent interview with the That's the way football goes nown-

That his being outlawed was due press, admitted that the government HOME TOPICS

mare to politics and personal enmity was partly to blame for the stagnant The most important thing is than professionalism is frankly ad condition of sports and added that There are one or two cuttings and was one, perhaps the only, survi- | from home which are of interest that Birkett and Camsell have mitted on all sides. He is bitter at he would encourage sports in the yor of the team which was returning The record of the South Africans de struck a great game, and the whole the Federation for their failure to schools, universities and in the arm

bring sports out of the doldrums. It le said that he would make an st- from Shanghai to Hongkong in the noteworthy, They won no less than team are full of confidence. "But don't disk me why."

is unlikely that Ladoumague will get tempt to get the government to in- P. & D. steamer Bokhara when she seventeen, lost two and drew twelve

Another mystery about Middles-the post for he would certainly insist clude in its budget sufficient credits When one was wrecked in the China Sea during mate

matches.

that the Gloucesbrough is this: The only game in which woubl undoubtedly affect fonte

on many drastic changes, some of for the building of a number of Hladin, severe typhoon in October 1991.

1. O lost games were

for the hiring of catches and for the the which they have failed to score of the white haired boys, WAH washed ashore in hister and Essex-hy

purchase of equipment.-United Press, pajamas mare dead than alive. But strongest

counties

this year-one this season was against Brentford hje luck held, He

realizon that

the sort of were they

of who had four former Middles- Jonah, being wrecked, I think, three misadventure which may befall any brough players in their side.

team. The S.A. side made everywhere

EMINENT CRICKETER

"Golf was not Lawson's only game. He was a cricketer of eminence. slashing hitter and a fastisk medium bowler. He played Interport Cric- ket for Hongkong in the nineties,

timer.

was A

regular

+

no means

touring Impression

"He was also one of the cricket they played, and also made history| team which visited Singapore in the by not only winning their first Test Inter nineties--Hongkong's Inst visit Match in England but by pulling off to the Straits (before 1921), and, their first, rubber there. upon the day on which the Visitors

were to leave. Singapore, the in- The team for New Zealand, which habitants awoke to

to find that their plays State matches only in Australia. stone elephant the emblem of the and three unofficial Test Mintches" Municipality which faced the Town (whatever they may be in New

18 મા $1 Hall-Wan inted in many colours,nunci.. All the

interesting most Freen

and red. predumiunting!

the six professional There is very little doubt who the are on the young side, ind principal artist was.

more, are the Amateurs. E. R. T. the skipper has only just yenr. It is the misfortune of cricket,

"Lowson unde a name for himself is thirtieth

during thes severa plagus epidemic great

so, even

And

сли

days,

BRANTOME'S FIRST FRENCH DEFEAT

Fourth

in Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe

Paris, Oct. 6. Baron Edouard de Rothschild's Branteme was unexpectedly beaten in the Prix de l'Arc do in Hongkong, 1804 (Was it not 1890% especially amateur cricket that in

R.A.). When Bombay had a simi- these days there are so few who

Triomphe, which was run over a The simulation a year or two Inter, nonteurs in this wide are all to-day. It was his first defent afford to play cricket all the summer mile and a half at Longchamp Lowson's services were lent by the Hongkong Government to the Dom- particularly young, two at least still in France after a run of thirteen bay Authorities.

These authorities being in statu papillari while three successive victories. He finished did not meet with Lowson's approval. have only very recently gone down. fourth. Brantome's only other He quarrelled with them in a very It is devoutly to be hoped that their defeat was in this year's Ascot downright Inahlon aller

in IL few selection indientes that they hope Gold Cup. months and took himself off to Eng- the future to be able to play at all! land.

events a certain amount of first class ericket.

A FALSE PROPHECY

.“Lowson developed tuberculosis and retired more than twenty years ago, but did not die as he was expected to do. His days of activity, however, Are unfortunately over and he lives the life of an invalid."

The race was won by M. de Saint-Alary's. Samos by a nock from Brantone's stable companion Poniche also owited by Buron Kothschild. The same distance separated Peniche from M. Marcel

HONGKONG'S CHOSEN After I had written as far as that, discovered that the selection of nine of our Interport players had been Boussac's Corrida. Brantome was is little call for a further one and a half lengths published. There comment. I, in common with every behind.

AT

NEXT CHANGE TE KING'S FOR ONE GIRL'S HAPPINESS... he would have changed the map of Europe!

A DARRYL ZANUCK Production 20TM

--other cricket scribe, I think, had tipThe parf-mutuel betting to n So for Mr. Burnie, but I'am very pod thom as cortainties. The interest five-franc stake was: gind to say that he was wrong in has always been in the last placo 99.50, places one or two particulars. First of all, or last two places. I hope to take his last paragraph. I be cuss the two teams for Saturday's FC8.16. The time was 2 mins. 43 leve Dr. Lowenn went to Australia i gama, to-morrow.

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CENTURY

PICTURE

JOSEPH M. SCHENCK présente

CARDINAL

RICHELIEU

Starting GEORGE ARLISS

with Maureen O'Sullivan Edward Arnold • Douglas Dumbrille Francis Lister • Cesar Romerd Relapsed thrLUNII:ERSARILLIÓ

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