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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

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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. ti ket on the totalisator double for Near Relation for the Cesarewitch and Commander for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, constitutes a world record "tote" dividend,-Reuter.

RECORD FIELD

London, Oct. 30.

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

Commander, 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- ner, 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. Reuter Special.

TO CAPTAIN SERVICES RUGBY TEAM

LIEUT. FORBES IN ENGLAND

WELL-KNOWN IN HONGKONG

-

Position of captain of the United Services Rugby Club at Portsmouth has been given to Lieut. J. H. Forbes, of H.M.S. Dolphin.

Forbes is an experienced player who has been a long time abroad. He played scrum-half for the Royal Navy in the Intor-Services Tour- nament in 1928, and in the same year was given a Scottish trial.

St. Paul's Cathedral, London,

Pre-eminent in

every country of the World.

THE RUNNERS

London, Oct. 30.

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

Commander, 28 to 1, Man's Pol, 100 to

1,

Finalist, G to 1....... There were forty starters.

The race was won by one and a half lengths, with a short head be tween second and third-Reuter.

An earlier cable states tho among the probable starters in the Cambridgeshire, Carslake rides William of Vallance: Weston, Valerius: Tendy, Law Court: Nerett, Guinee Gap; Cliff Richards, Solarium; Barber, Rodeo Second; Richardson, Faites-Vos-Jeux; Maler, inflation; Couch,

Middleton Laurent Seavyweight:

Rowley, Maldore; Lordling; Sharpe, Flake;

By Sailor; Wing

Sadgrove, Joshun; Steve Donoghue, frongrey; Evans, Games Master.

Mythical Monk and Sans have been scratched.-Reuter.

Pride

Well-known in Hongkong. Forbes last season captained the Navy in the triangular tournament and other matches. He was stationed here aboard H.M.S. Phoenix.

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ATHLETES BEATEN

CONVINCINGLY

OUTLOOK FOR THE OLYMPICS

Three

Paris, Oct. 30. successive defents in-

OUR SOCCER FORECASTS

Sunderland Visiting Portsmouth

(By "Sagax")

The following is n forcenst of Saturday's matches in the Home foot- ball Leagues:

BOLTON

FIRST DIVISION,

v Grimsby

Blackburn

Y ARSENAL

flicted by the British, German ASTON VILLA and Italian track and field teams Brentford have made the French roaring DERBY mad and they are more deter- Everton

HUDDERSFIELD v Chelsea mined than ever to get together MIDDLESBRO

a team worthy of representing Portsmouth

the country at the Berlin Preston N. P. Olympics next year.

Athletes, fans, citizens and especial.

Is the press have all foined in the

WEDNESDAY WOLVES

Fulham

SECOND

* Manchester C.

#inke

*

v Liverpool

Sunderland

Y Birmingham

v West Brom,

v Leeds

DIVISION

v BLACKPOOL

v Bury

› SOUTHAMPTON

Norwich

v Sheffield U.

y Notts Forest

Barnsley ery that something just has to be Bradford C.

CHARLTON At a recent auto race competition in Los Angeles one of the members showed plenty of intestinal forti- done. Iecriminations are flying about Hornley tude in bringing hit ear to stop when the rear wheel suddenly ran off and flew into the crowd. The pic-in every direction and any number are being blamed for the low ehh of) ture shows the wheel whirling high into the xlr.

French sports from Premier Laval | MANCHESTER U. v Leicester and the French Federation to the NEWCASTLE athletes themselves.

PLYMOUTH PORT VALE TOTTENHAM

THIRD

RECENT DEATH OF DR.

J. 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 TEAM WITHOUT TACTICS

SCORES 28 GOALS

Football

IN 8 MATCHES

When Middlesbrough Club started this season ther weighed on them the fact that last azuson they scored only 70 goals in the whole 42 League matches- 1.5 goals a match.

The French accepted the licking from the British with enough grace but when the Germans recently gave them a one-sided thrashing, winning

West Ham

v Doncaster

y Bradford

y Swansea

DIVISION (SOUTH)

15 out of 15 events, the storm broke. Bournemoutht To rah it in, the Italians took eleven BRISTOL R. out of 15 events against them the CARDIFF following week-end in Turin to bring CLAPTON 0. an end to probably the most tragic PALACE season in the history of French Gillingham athletica..

Y Coventry

v Brighton

v Aldershot

v Queen's P. R.

Millwall Y Swindon Newport NORTHAMPTON Bristol C. NOTTS COUNTY v Exeter READING

v Torquay SOUTHEND v Watford

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)

PREMIER BLAMED

Some critics have gone so far as to blame Loval for the present condi- |tion of the sport. Laval, whose entire

time has been occupied by such minor Accrington thlugs as ceonomy decreça and the Ilarrow Italo-Ethiopian conflict, is charged. with indifference and unconcern. The CHESTER

CHESTERFIELD hu's involved in controversy LINCOLN that finds an echo in every corner o New Brighten scored 34 gunla in twelve matches that are that Laval doesn't even know CHES

Wence. Faus state in no uncertain

This season, so far, they have s

--2.8 goals a match.

Up to quite recently their for- ratted on goals so that

their new scoring formula,

tults

France.

R

of

terms that the government should ROCHDALE take over sports und include in the SOUTHPORT wards that everyone began to probe for budget the necessary funds to hire STOCKPORT

efficient conch and to build stadia, for, they add, defeats by other nations involve national prestige.

York

SCOTTISH

▾ WALSALL ▾ Oldham

* Hartlepools

Darlington

♥ TRANMERE

✓ Mansfield

* Halifax

Roterham

y Carlisle

v Gateshead

y Wrexham

LEAGUE

(FIRST DIVISION)

I blame in to be laid on anyone's

ABERDEEN doorstep it should be on that of the French Federation, says one paper: Arbroath ALBION for internal strife and bickering has made the body ineffective and senile. CELTIC The Federation, continues the article, DUNFERMLINE

Is composed of pomponts and dodder

AYR

HEARTS

THE SAME, BUT~~- The mysterious truth of the I refet, of course, to the late Dr. in search of health about 1899-1900. whole thing is that

Middlesbrough have no formula. 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-

They have no tactics. true Forfar. It is

that hara, where by the way a Lt. Mark-

No blackboard studies. of the Shropshire's was the. On and off the field, they have tributes have been passed but it so ham

"Dicky" Dunn happens that I was in communication other survivor poor all the rest made no differences.

ing antiquities who are so busy play- HAMILTON Home ten years ago both with him (Gunners 1

Birkett, the flying winger they ing politics that they haven't any room the

RANGERS with many of his contemporaries being drowned-made in the end took from Arsenal after he had a time to give to sports. A general and

infection aver a question of the past

I of his colonial career. He was final- bad patch; Camsell, the centre house cleaning is demanded with the Third Lanark

appointment of younger men to fill received one particularly interestingly invalided in 1901, and in the Red forward, who is fully recovered the positions who show intercat-in of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club letter from C. M. G. Burnie, whom Sea suffered a haemorrhage which from a last season's illness; Yors

would

have finished any ordinary imagine, Rome of the older hands

wears the will recollect, in September 1924, and man. But whatever luvalld's life hen, the tiny Scots international I quote some passages from it. may have led thereafter, I am glad inside forward who

boots in Soccer-are to say that Burnie was wrong about smallest He (Lowson) had a most forceful continuance. In Dr. Lowson equally mystifled. personality. Palc-faced, bright wrote to me that he had been able to eyed and, black-haired, he stood about venut

resume golf in a quiet way and I five feet ton and had hardly any believe this continued until shortly flesh on his bones. His imposing before his death. He took for many appearance was increased by a long years a great interest in the public ger, cannot explain. cheroot gripped firmly in one of the affairs of Forfar-and though I do corners of his mouth. On occasion, not know what his official status may his language, like his golf, was fine have been, I know that his influence and free.

in the district was great. And so, to paraphrase the greatest of all erleket epitaphs:

OPENED OUT

в

CLAMOUR FOR LADOUMAGUE

Ав

y Queen O'Sth.

v Kilmarnock

PAKTICK

✓ Hibernian

Airdrie

y Dundee

v Clyde

St. Johnstone

·v Queen's Park

v Motherwell

COURSE FOR COACHES course for coaches is demanden! and the sending of teachers and conches all over the country to develop the raw material. Potentially France capable of turning out some great

There is a general clamour for the appointment of Jules Ladoumagus,

Is the best runner ever produced in

runners and at present there are at France, as dictator of French

sports.

least half a dozen, who, under Ameri Mr. Wilf Gillow, the team mana-It is very rare that a champion is

fine teacher. He is the exceptional guidance, would come close to re- cord time. Now stadia and the presence Our boys have opened out their and despite the hindrance of the of coaches in various sections of the Federation has developed a number cou game a little" is all he can offer of fine runners. Ladoumague is country, it is pointed out, would be "Don't forget, of course,' he popular among French fans the most important factor in reviving says, "that two seasons ago we got Georges Carpentier and Marcel Thit, interest in the sport and build up a

new morale. ten goals against Sheffield United, Sport lovers have never forgiven the

Ernest Lafont, Minister of Public 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,

sports, in a recent interview with the That's the way football goes nowa-

That his being outlawed was due press, admitted that the government days.

more 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

would

encourage aports In the bring sports out of the doldrams. It He said that he vor of the team which was returning The record of the South Africans is struck a great game, and the whole the Federation for their falluster

would. make an at- from Shanghai to Hongkong in the noteworthy. They won no less than team are full of confidence.

"But don't ask me why." is unlikely that Ladoumague will get tempt to get the government to in P. & O, 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 suficient credits was wrecked in the China Sean during matches. When one realizes that the

severe typhoon in October 1891. two lost games were against Gloucesbrough is this: The only game in which would undoubtedly affect some for the hiring of coaches and for the on many drastic changes, some of for the building of a number of atadla, in his ter and Essex-by 110 menns washed ashore

the which they have falled to score of the white haired boys.

purchase of equipment.—United Preas, year-one this season was against Brentford pajamas more dead than alive. But strongest counties

befall

EMINENT CRICKETER "Golf was not Lowson's only game. He was a cricketer of eminence,

Fastish medium slashing hitter i anil

bowler. He played Interport Cric-

ket

for Hongkong in the nineties,

"Lightly Be the turf upon him" HOME TOPICS

There are one or two cuttings

nt

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 schools, universities and in the army..

♫

Was

this

his luck held, le was a regular realizes that they were the sort of who had four former Middlea- Jonah, being wrecked, I think, three misadventure which may times.

"He was also one of the cricket team which visited Singapore in the nter nineties--longkong's last visit

touring team. The S.A. side made brough players in their side.

splendid impression everywhere

they played, and also made history by not only winning their first Test Match in England but by pulling off

to the Straite (before 1924), and, their first rubber there.

upon the day- pn which the visitors

hax

B

most

BRANTOME'S FIRST FRENCH DEFEAT

in Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe

were to leave Singapore, the in- The team for New Zealand, which! habitants awe

awoke to find that their plays State matches only in Australia stone elephant the emblem of the and three "unofficial Test Matebe Fourth Municipality which faced the Town (whatever they may be) in New Hall-was painted in many colours,

interesting Zealand, green

and red predominating personnel, All the six professionals Thero is very little doubt who the are on the young side, and so, even principal artist was.

more, are the Amateurs. E. R. T.

Paris, Oct. 6. Holmes, the skipper has only just Baron Edouard de Rothschild's attained his thirtieth year. It is the

the Brantomo was unexpectedly during the severe plaguo epidemic great misfortune of cricket, and beaten in In Hongkong, 1894 (Wnk it not 18967 especially amateur cricket -RA.). When Bombay had a simi- these days there are so few who

who can Triomphe, which was run over a lar visitation a year or two later, afford to play cricket all the summer, mile and a half at Longchamp Lowson's services were lent by the unnieurs in this side are all to-day. It was his first defeat Hongkong Goverment to the feminicularly at after run thirteen

Authorities. These authorities

atatu pupillari while three successive victories. He finished

"Lowson made a name for himself

Who

the Prix de l'Arc de

not mest 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 fashion after faw selection: indicates that they hope in Gold Cup months and took himself.off to Eng- the future to be able to play at all land.

events certain amount of first class cricket.

A FALSE PROPHECY

"Lawson developed tuberculosis and

The race was won by M. de Saint-Alary's Samos by a neck from Brantome's stable companion HONGKONG'S CHOSEN

Ponicho also owned by Baron vime distance After I had written as far as that, Rothschild. The retired more than twenty years ago, I discovered that the selection of nine separated Peniche from M. Marcel but did not die as he was expeeled to-do His-days-of-activity, however, of our Interport players had been Doussie's Corrida. Brantome was are unfortunately over and he lives publlelicu. There is little call for further ono and a half lengths the life of an invalid.”

comment in common with every behind. other cricket scribe, I think, hnd tip-

AT

NEXT CHANGE THE KING'S FOR ONE GIRL'S HAPPINESS he would have changed the map of Europel·

A-DARRYL

ZANUCK

The pari-mutuel betting to a

Production

was: Win Fec.

20TH

Fes.25.60

CENTURY FICTURE

So for Mr. Burnie, but I am very ped them as cortainties. The interesti giad to say that ho was wrong in has always been in the last place five-frane stake one or two particulars. First of all, or last two places. I hope to dis-99.50, places Fcs.20, to take his last paragraph. I be cuss the two tennin for Saturday's Fes.10. The time was 2 mine. 4 lovs Dr. Lowson went to Australia game to-morrow,

JOSEPH'M'SCHENCK protonit)

CARDINAL

RICHELIEU

Starring GEORGE ARLISS

with Maureen, O'Sullivan Edward Arnold • Douglas Dumbrilis Francir Lister Cesar Romero