THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1935
R. ABBIT DELVES INTO CRICKET HISTORY
THE INTERPORT
SERIES
EARLY GAMES AGAINST
THE NORTHERNERS
RADIO BROADCA ST AT THE LOCAL
STATION LAST NIGHT
The following is the first instalment of a broadcast given by "R. Abbit" on Interport Cricket. The talk was given from the ZBW studio last night. The second will follow this evening.
It is with a good deal of diffidence that I am talking about Interport cricket alter Mir, Richard Hancock's extremely interesting address to the Rotarian you have either heard or rend in the I will endeavour not to cover papera
of the same ground though muci Loo I cannot avoid repeating some of the statistics.
which no doubt many of
explain that my two principal sources of inferisation have been, first the collected scores which have been bound up by the II.K. Cricket Clul and to which I have had access, and second a collection of scores accounts of games, statistics and other matter which were collected about ten years ago by Mr. Hollands, of Jardines. It was his 'intention to write a book upon Interport Cricket and to judge from a letter I found ho was on the eve of throwing it into book form when he was transferred, I think to Shanghai.
PLAYERS' REMINISCENCES
Whether or not the book will ever be published at the know but . seems a pity that there were ap parently reminiscences of Ur. J. Lowson, E.L.M. Barrett and Norman Witty and Grenier-both of the Straits, which appear to be missing
Thanks to the research of a
to
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years. There have been two gaps in the series since then, one of five years after the Bokhara disaster. In 1802, of which I shall be speaking with some particularity Interand ans of five years during the. Great War. The next game was alno ed ut Shanghai and I first
p.ny. flod the
DAILY DOUBLE GOES UNBACKED
name of someone I have known her OVER THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS
Holly for it was Frank Maitlands- Best
match. Well as he did Hongkong fost by three wickets. They might have won, anid Dr. Lawson if they hnd had a change bowler-that is the only decent bowler on the side was E. J. Cuxon for Lawson was not playin and Sercombe Smith bowled a lot of loane balls.
A TOWER OF STRENGTH
SPORT
ADVTS.
.HONG KONG, CRICKET CLUB INTERPORT CRICKET
Shangluti.
Hongkong VA, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday November Vil, lith, and 12th. Matches will commence nt 11
wonderful race to come in third. No doubt the Handicapper Is satisfiest hus judgment was xound. Bag Tor, facing Heart and Saucy Face gave a very disappointing display and the first two named let the punters down badly.
| a.m.- each ́ ́ day except the - 11th; There was as usual a lot of fun and Armistice Day, when commence amusement in the Novice race, the
ne
Norfolk Handicap, over Six-Furlongement will be made at 11.46 am CARRIED FORWARD
and Mr. R. M. Wood rode a line race Closs of play & p.m. on winner
A on of Queen's at the Football Club's etant and there the barrier was released, Wembly Road and best ve correro que n'e was no change up, the incline. After tag, running and down the Rock 50 cents (ine, tax) per person per
Glory and Sylvandale
open to the Pubtle at a charge of, made the
was well to the front Tülleun Before reach.ng the last quarter Mile | day. Tickets for anle on the Post, Tillicum increased the lead and ground. was aver six lengths ahead of Wem- ·Benches on the Queen's Road.
Stag and the rest of the Beld.
could not see the necessity of side of the ground will be reserved Tillicum for the first half-a- free of charge for Ballors, and had Mr. Tang cared a bit Soldiers and Airmen in uniform,
E. J. Coxon was a tower of strength Winning Post in the order named and, wover at this juncture, Jungle
at once, while 1 believe it is not the end the game was drawn. generally nown that Captain ELM. arielt represented Mainya against before he went up to Shanghai.
HONGKONG'S REVENGE
no-
!!!
THE BEST DIVIDEND
Invitation.
Members and Subscribers are notified that A etand: on thre Chater Rond side of the ground A GOOD START
will be reserved for them and thxi Nobody could complain about the their Laules. Entrance by start for the Sumex Handicap over small gate in Chater Road at the half-a-mile and it was a compliment
Post
but
in the
was a grand race and Mr. P. Botelho roda a elever, race on the winner, Beginner's Lack. This pony WOA made third favourite in the Part and yet, none of the 13 lucky, backers of the first leg would consider Begin- ner's Luck to win.
CAVALCADE DISAPPOINTS
MONTHS
MBY
SHAVING COMFORT
Continued from Page 3)......
passing the Black Rock which is Eyes, Double Chaned And Philanderer, known by old hands na "Danger Zone, all at whom were racing neck and neck | Mr. Li Tre-fong's three candidates col Linder hard pressure with the liberal aped and it was a wonder that they use of the whips. They passed the did not peter out sooner at the pace
were going, to Hongkong about this time but the Junges, after careful deliberation Confess
I never knew until a day or avea Denti Hent to Young Chap and Im took command with his stable two ago that when he left the Enat heelmont Star, and Glad Eyes lost to companion, Bright Star, and Soldier round the bend, he would have won began to play, in county cricket at .hem by the narrowest margin of a of China in Die rear. Bistre (Mr. and be out of the novice class. Festi-o whom the Club extends this home, having been made a playing short head. The same distance Black) was lying handy and,, round val Eve ran a very good race and member of the M.C.C. It seems he separated Double Chance who was the bend. Soldier of Chias led the was unlucky to be nosed out by Plain used to play for Middlesex in the head of Philanderer. It avas a fine procession with Bistre and Jungle Jim. View for third place.
day's of A. J. Webbe and Sir finish and both the Jackoys received a The three passed the Post as named Timothy O'Brien. pontes were
irst win for the year. one of this type was our 1920 eleven even mentioned as a potential English fed in to the dismounting Paddock.
Then
auddenly ono day. and while I am sure of this and of the player.
The main event, Hongkong Grimus to other in-against Notis, he was perder
Cup, was won by Mr. Dunbar's Pontiac 1998 team, I am sure stances exist except possibly in the balled by the umpire.
The bost dividend of the day was to the Handicapper to see all the entries East end of the Pavilion. bard to slave off the challenge by in the Nullah Nullah Hasidicap confin accepting the weights. *Mr.
Fotts years 1880), 1897, 1903, 1964 and 1006. It was Jim Phillips, by the way, the Bay and Mr. Les Frost had to ridu
vor man who no-balled Mold out of first Harvest View who lost by half-a-ed to A class Australian Panies in all the ponies away on the move and It must not be supposed, however, that there are no rules governing the class cricket 7) Coxon never played
th. Harvest View ran though his notion had never selection of players. Naturally enough been questioned before. He said that rerence between handicap and cins $47.20 for n place. I said in my notes
again,
arly the which Night Star, ably ridden by Mr. Forgeninster, Blacksmith and Begin- and showed us clearly the
Ralph, paid $211.00 for a win an ner's Fuck were leading at the 15 Me
At the three no member of the
Post, crew of Rea-going
Furlong either port,
the umpire was acting honestly incre ship is eligible to play for Before going any further I should i though the shore establishments are trying to do his job and that if it form, Rose Queen, in spite of it that with the absence of Able Amazon, Helluvafella (Mr. Frdat} moved up
start of three lengths, was never in
not keep pace with the front was proved to be legitimate of
Paymaster netion
and was content to be qualified. The names
Also Rans." Lt. Commander Hargreaves and Lt. afterwards he would deprive the wag Janger and the mure must improve the race was very open and there were
which
However, the field was first leg wli
of the Dally Double.
bunched together when entering well Dale occur to me, and in 1892 3. M. of his livelihood. A very gallant wayne hundred per cent. if she intends only 18 backers on Night Star for the
of taking a piece of bad luck. His le carry off the St. Leger,
Although Mr. Ralph has made his de Robeck, who was afterwards in brother G. 3. used to keep wicket fo be run on Saturday week.
However
acquaintance with Judges Tester and the straight and at the Distance Fort, result of the running of this main he command at the Dardanelles and be
vent here in Jardince.
seems to suggest that Mr. Macdonald, he has not as yet present Beginner's Luck, who was lucky to get
the rails, camé an Admiral of the Fleet before Hongkong and his nephew is now
through ed his credentials to the members of
was lending and on his death a few years ago.
Two years inter Hongkong again Dunbar has a strong claim for the the betting public and for the benefit!
his don
near elde were Blacksmith, The In a general way a man is supposed went to Shanghai, In September 1891. St. Leger, in either Mistake Hay or of the readers of the Hongkong Tele-
Forgeninster, Deemster,
Locksley IInll enuine
praph, I take the liberty in writing a ling fighting it out neck by neek. It What's The Time, all almost in a be picked in resident before he can Captain John Dunn and Captain Dum-Pontine Bay. there is a very sportbleton, (who was a great figure in
KENT HANDICAP ·
"bit" on his success of
pair of ing give and take in this way. For the Infancy of the Royal Hongkong
"Good Hands" at Happy Valley from instance, Humphreys of the
present
There were 11 starters in the Kent 1926 to 1027. Shanghai team has been resident in it Club), went up, as did the two
Maitlands, Frank and E. W., and Handicap (First Section) over One Hongkong about two months I think. Charlie Dar. A rather curious in- und Quarter Miles and withough, Mr.
MR. RALPH'S CAREER The Inte A.A. Claxton is the only
dent Lowson was' tem-11 Ted (Mr. Roza), Fucific
had three runners, namely so far as I know to
Borarily out with blow on the
Mr. Ralph started to ride in the Shanghai, and Hongkong but
Hall ligi force and the Shanghai skipper git (Mr.
Man-wa) and Victorian of the General Strike 1825 with are many cases of hole playing for would only allow a runner. If it was Hull (Mr. I'il), none
few minor wins to his credit but in of them was 1820 he was at the top of his form Hayward, O. G. Simpson and E. R. against them. This was refused and Victoria All made the wine and and won several classic races for Duckitt nre numer
Voccur to me the runs were walked after that! In Victoria Hall made the rumming and Messrs. Ifall and Shenton whose strin Boy winning the Kent Handicap It was no surprise to see Racing passing the Judges' Box for the first was under his charge. On November (Second Section) as 1 mentioned in ime, she was over two lengths ahead 1926, he rode The Goblin second to af High Speed, Pacific Hall, Ythan, Lady Luck (Mr. G. Roza) in the Hong- my notes that he was in good condi Bistro and the test following.
it did surprise me In February 1802 Hongkong
The sante position was maintained og St. Leger and within three weeks tion, hut it
Cavalcade wox home had their revenge as they won
in the St. Andrew's Stakes, beating tory was due to Mr. Black's judgment race. Racing Boy's vic by an innings and 132 runs. Captain John Dunn made 107 the first cen- fourth officers, two
Brigade Call by half-a-length. The your Inter Cilek tothe and Lowson and L. Markham, ut Luck, who was a hot favourite, was
quartermuators Goblin pald $21.80 for a win and Lady of pace coupled with a pair of good arkey had made 99 in the '06 the Shropshires, I think, alone got to unplaced.
hands, the weight on Great Hlad and Pride of Thinglao was responsible match.
Sand Island alive, though I believe
for their defeat. 1 never thought for agent months later the Hongkongan. E.R.A.' and a steward were later aide went up to Shanghai and lost found on another island. Markham
a moment that Great Hall could last the distance (11⁄2 Miles) and his beat- by 167 runs. Lowson was again said that no one thought the disaster In the same afternoon Mr. Ralph on ing Pride of Tsingtao (Mr. Frost) was lanted when batting after having was so near and all expected the Saligin, owned by Messrs. Hail and an eye-opener. I suppose the more Laken & for C, and as he could not gines would be put right. (The par Shenton, won the Hongkong Autumn we study the
of ponies, the mort followed Champions but being that 1s). He
પી hot favourite we are
with the science ran ups a big score. Sgt. Mumford Lowson and awam ashore with the the pony paid only $5.00 for a win. got six wickets bowling what were aid of some wreckage.
of racing.
could
Hot do described by the then "scribe"
at this November Meeting better than fourth and I am sure that I quole Lowson's own story made tha
that he rodu five winners put of seven Mr. Harriman "underland grabbers."
must have found that who was originally his pony, was when bu Jueled from II.M.S. Porpoise) races and I think his last appearanco her animal altogether and her which had been sent to fetch the sur- was at the Annual Meeting 1927 when vivork.
Saligia succumbed to Mr. Eve's Pengal failure was because the journey was (Mr. Pote-funt) In the Victoria out of her distance. Gold Coin was Stakes. He steered The Gomeril to
so badly kicked at the Starting Post win the Foochow over Two Miles and in the same afternoon he won the permission to dismount and the mare-
Cup
Wadebridge that the fockey asked in the dark as to the personnel atel in May 1847 Shanghai got run at first but then on Sunday the with Dunn in his cabin in the forward
Geezer.
led back to the stables. When It was Saligia's third year of racing namex though in two games I find and 30 runs. Apparently bouts did increased By midnight the ship was came I sprang up and seized a couple ed home in the Gymkhana Stakes.
he was to my estimation about that though ten men got initials put not it and as there was some are it was realized that the ship was him and said "For God's sake John
Lattened down. Monday
By
morning ແ
200 yards behind the field, and it was life-belts at once. I tossed one tis down in the score book the eleventh time another match, a one day'a game!
Saligia won the Governor's Cup with a surprise that the owner was not Just appeared as “Gibb.”
played. It in very debatable being set on to the Formosan coast, get into that--this is the finish." He Mr. Ralph at the wheel on the third called to explain the running of an whether this should be included--for Twice she tried to wear but, with
40 put it on. I rushed outline) was very disappointed in not
day but he (being a a bachelor at the unfit pony, ane thing Hongkong had only ten mener single screw
which practical waited
up the companion
dashed This may mean he was a profes-the count. Shanghai won.
but it has finally been reckoned in hud no grip on the water half the through a dozen people standing on winning the Ladies Purse with The
time, it proved impossible.
the landing-fixing the beit around!
...i Goblin. However, he had the satis- sional-though I doubt it-or a non-
Sails and later awnings were tried member or it, may just mean that
na auxiliaries but were immediately up to the rail of the bridge to pull Post first in the last race of the third the scorer did not know his initials!
blown away by the furlous hurrican myself up the ladder when B She rolled so much that capsizing enme up and washed me off. Poor It is most rare to find a side composed
ተወ day, the Nil Desperandum Stakes.
On the "Off Day" he won the "Ilay entirely of Club Members. The last
seemed inevitable. At noon the glass old Sams (captain). He was fust and Corn" Stakes with The Gnome and was 20.27 by the evening, It 29.15, Some help was
was coming down the step as I went up. The Grig was second in the Tytam obtained by coming to fetch us all out, when a Handicap, After dribbling oil from the vents to wind- tremendous sco came and carried hin Meeting, he was transferred to outer the 1927 Annual ward until they choked. One by one and me and everything away. I ports of the Union Insurance Society the bouts weut Then an enormous
never saw any of the others. They of Canton and white in India he kept sea crushed on the loomed ship and must have been drowned like rata in it up with thoroughbreds over the MALAYAN TEAM ON York Building ALove in the engine-room hatch a hole. My God, what a sea it was sticks. put the engines out of commissiI never saw anything like it! But though driven up for a time the engine-room stuff returned facing practically certain death to try and get the engines to work again,
man on the South China Morissentle.
Post
I have been able to date the founda- tion of the Hongkong Cricket Club as June 1851, and this was the beginning of organised cricket in tho Fifteen years later the dret Interport Match was played, and, as it took place in Hongkong, I imagine the in- vitation came from the II.K.C.C.
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THE EARLY GAMES
As Mr. Hancock told us on Tuesday, Hongkong has won a white two have to Shanghai's fifteen been drawn. I hope that a few dins the into the past, and the accounts of, matches will not prove uninteresting. The first game was described as be It must be remembered that there tween "Shanghai and the Civilians of Club. The result
game was played on of invitations between the Hongkong and the Shanghai Cricket cricket ground which then, of course, clubs. Possibly at first only members was bounded on the north by the sea, pinyed, but subsequently the practice, Hongkong won by an innings and 264 which still prevails, of playing a runs, and it is an interesting, re- Colony side, arose.
ference to the old fashioned methods of cricket when we read that a Mr. McDonnell "Billed the thankless offle
L
at
games are and always have been the the Hongkong Cricket present bowl In the second innings, Shangliaf sengers,
The first date of which I can be actually certain is October 1892, for
|
were three non-commissioned of long-stop without a mistake, the
1
A
BOKHARA TRAGEDY
And then came the tragedy. The offeers in the liongkong side and it only by being through no fault of am returned home in the P. & 0.
Bokhara railing at noon certain that they could not his!
in
to
-members.—-I-am-of-course-
on
LOWSON'S STORY *We were all chutting belew.. Soar
that
he steered the same pony to victory disappointing where anti ran a very
"It was
FIVE WINNERS
of
and
form
400-FAUNG-WAS-played-in-February-1.Uctober_8. There was-a-strong-mon-i of us had turned in but I was chutting Garrison Cup with The of the first few loams other than their their own back wining by an innings weather became thick and the wind part of the saloon. When the craal {aul ho following day the pony romp/Wayward Stag crossed the finishin
WHO WAS GIBB?
TO-DAY ONLY
at 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30.
L
wns
A LONG GAP
Then for some reitson which defents me there ensued a gap of twenty-two
CENTRAL
A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
"LEGONG”
(DANCE OF THE VIRGINS)
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OTHERS DROWN
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A GOOD RECORD
past
the
ATHLETES RETURNING
WAY SOUTH
Mr. Ralph has certainly a good
Shanghai, Nov. &. "Poor Boyle. The last I saw of record and I sincerely trust and hopel One hundred and fifty Chinese him was at the foot of the companion that ho, will have more wins before athletes from Malaya, who at way. He didn't seem to care about the Season is over. Let us turn back tended the recent National Meet, One can imagino the little vei were standing about and I forced my
coming out on deck. All of them to the race, the Nullah Nullah Handi- left for Singapore this morning
by the Conte Rosso-Reuter. ther gross tonnage was only 2,952 way through the crowd shouting lo Shooting Star after all accepted the Sous) drifting helpless through the them to come on. That was the last handicap and I would like to know black night in the shrieking typhoon, I saw of thein. Don't know how I what the owner has to say now about rolling terribly with most of her got ashore. The wave dusted it follow that a pony after winning champion of Canada, Ambrose
the allotment of 160 lb. It does not superstructure torn away. At mid-against the bridge first thing
Francis Martin, bantam-weight night she struck on Sand Island, and head was badly hurt.
and ply Reven white men and sixteen lancars more until I found me nothing "B" Clans should be at the bottom of Palmer, heavy-weight champion of alone reached the land allve.
lying on the "A" class event for it would bo All those saved were on deck at those who were saved were on deck. weights are adjusted for the purpose Zealand, are all on their way to the beach, life-belt still on me. All against the principle in which the Australia, and Harry Lister, middle-weight champion of New the time she broke up which was I don't know why the others did not of equalising their chances of winning England, where they hope to get less than two minutes after she follow. J'erhaps they could not be. However, Shooting Star was second Atruck. The Chic Officer, third and love it was so near the end." top-weight carrier and he
a number of fights.
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