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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER?

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. Abbiť" 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 difdence that I am talking out Interport cricket after Mr. Richard Hancock's

Rotarians which no doubt many of you have either heard or read in the

It

the

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 Inter-and

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of Ave years during the Great War. The next game was also pay

at bonnghai and I first find the

DAILY DOUBLE GOES UNBACKED

name of someone I have known per- OVER THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS

sonally, for it was Frank Maitinni's Brat match. Well as he did Hongkong oat by three wickets. They might have won, anid Dr. Lowson if they

bad nau a change bowler-that is the only decent bowler on the slde wax E. J. Coxon-for Lowson was not playing and Sercombe Smith bowled a lot of loone, balls.

A TOWER OF STRENGTH

CARRIED

FORWARD

wonderful race to come in thin. No doubt the Handicapper in natisne b.r walld. Bag Tor Racing Heart and Saucy Face gave d very alsappointing display and the fit two named let the punters down badly.

SPORT ADVTS.

HONG KONG CRICKET CLUN

INTERPORT CRICKET

Hongkong Va. Shanghai. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday November 9th, 11th. and 120K Matches will commencent II

each day except the 11th

was as usual a lot of fun and amusement in the Novice racs, the Armistice Day, when commence- Norfolk Handicap, over Six Furlongs meut will be made at 11.45 am. nd Mr. R. M. Wood rode a fine race Close of play 5 pm. on the winner Wembly Stag. So soon Wembly as the

was released,

made, the

い

A stand on the corner of Chucon's

and down the Rock, open to the Public at a charge of

Milo

round,

E. J. Coxon was a tower of strength / Winning Post in the order the did not beter out sooner at the pace eng Tillicum for the first half-u-tree-

to Bangkung about this time but 1 the confess I never knew until a day or

bit

.

at the Football Club's stamil and there

Gory and Sylvandaw Road and Des Voeux Road will be was in change up the incliner After) (Continued from Page 8).

pussing the Black Rock which is Tillicum was well to the front 50 cents (ine. tax) per person per" byen, Dopble Chance and Philanderer, known by old hands us "Danger zone, Before reaching the last quarter and day. Tickets for sale on the

Past, all of whain were racing neck and neck M. Li Tae-fong's three calidates col-

increased Tillicum

the ander hard pressure with the liberal sapsed and 10 was a wonder that they was over six lengths ahead of Wem-

Benches on the Queen's Road. bly Stag and the rest of the field. e of the whips, They

named and they ever at

could not nee the necessity of side of the ground will be reserved were gon Juncture. Jungle

· of. Judges, to

after careful deliberation

charge for Sallorg, Dead Hent to Young Chap and Jim took command with his stable mile and had Mr. Tang eased a two age that when he left the East hetleinzont Star, and Glad Eyes lost to companlon, Bright Star, and Soldier round the bend, he would have won Soldiers and Airmen in uniform, began to play in county cricket at hen by the narrowest margin of a of China in the rear. Histre (Mr. and be out of the novice class. Festi- to whom the Club extends this home, having been made a playing short head. The Hame distanco Black) was lying handy and, round val Eve ran a very good race and invitation. member of the M.C.C. It seems he separated Double Chance who was the bend, Soldier of China led the was unlucky to be nosed out by Plain Members and Subscribera am. used to

notified that play for Middlesex in the head of Philanderer. It was a fine procession with Bistre and Jungle Jim. View for third place.

stand on thứ great days of A. J. Webbe and Sir Anish and both the Jockeys received a The three passed the Post na named

Chater Road side of the ground F'molhy" O'Brien. His name wo great ovation when the ponies were

and Soldier of Chim registered his Paddock.

will be reserved for them and first win for the year. even mentioned as a potential Englished in to the dismounting

Nobody could complain about the their Ladies. Entrance by one day,

the: The main event, Hongkong Grimins player. Then suddenly

start for the Sussex Handicap, over small gate in Chater Road at the against Notta, he was persistently no Cup, was won by Mr. Dunbar's Pontine

half-a-mile and it was a compliment bailed by the umpire. (I wonder Bay and Mr. Leo Frost had ride 40 stave off the challe by man who no-balled Mold out of first

Harvest class cricket?] Coxon never played length. Harvest View ran & very

it

THE BEST, DIVIDEND

A GOOD, START

IL

The best dividend of the day was to the Handicapper to see all the entries East end of the Pavilion.. In the Nullah Nullah Handicap confin-accepting the weights. Mr. Futta

HOL

extremely interesting address' to the stances exist except possibly in the way Jim Phillips, by the way, the hardView who lost by half-n• Led to “A” class Australian Fonies in all the ponies away on the move and papers. I will endeavour not to cover that there are no rules governing again, though his action had never brood 'race and showed us clearly the which Night Star, ably ridden by Mr. Forgemaster, Blacksmith and Begin- too much of the same ground' though selection of players. of a Ber-going.j been questioned before. He said that difference between handicap and efuss Italph, paid $211.60 for n'win and Bera Luck were leading at the

I cannot avoid repeating some of the statistics,

Before goue any further I should explain that my two principal sources of information have boon, first the collected bound up by the II.K. Cricket Club

Hecond a collection of scores accounts of games, alatistics and other matter which were collected about ten years

one of this type was our 1920 eleven and while I am sure of this and of the 1808 team, I am sure no other in-

years 1889, 1897, 1993, 1904 and 1906. must not be supposed, however, Naturally enough no member of the crew

to play. for though the shore establishments are qualised. The names of Paymaster Lt.-Commander Hargreaves and Lt. de Robeck, who was afterwards In came an Admiral of the Fleet before his death a few years ago,

The

umpire was acting honestly in trying to to his job and that li action was proved to be legitimate afterwards he would deprive the man af taking i

form. Rose Queen, in spite of a bad start of three lengths, was never in danger and the maze must, iomprove

if ne hundred per cent. Intends

khe

Helluvafella

scores which have been alo occur to me, and in 1892 J. of his livelihood, A very gallant way to enrry off the St. Legor, which was frui lor of the ph has made hik Wen ganca and to which I have had necess, and command at the Dardanelles and be.} brother G 4 Plece of bad luck. lishe run on Saturday week. However; Au

ngo by Mr. Hollands, of Jardines. It "was his intention to write a book upon Interport Cricket and to judge

eve of throwing it into book form

Shanghai.

months I think.

man

Milo

Post the three Furlong Post $47.20 for a place, I said in my notes

(Mr.

Frost) moved up but that with the absence of Able Amazon, the race was very open bad there were could not keep pace with the front

content 13 backers on Night Star for the rank and was

to be in the Double.

However, the field was Although Mr.

ether when entering 5. used to keep wicket, for

he result of the running of this maintance with Juters Tester and the straight and at the Distance Fest he has not as yet present-Beginner's Lasek, who was lucky to get longkong and his nephew is now rent recins to suggest that · Mr.

Jardines.

Dunbar Bas a strong chaim for the ed his credentials to the members of through the rails, was leading and in went to Shanghai, in September 1891. Pontine Bay.

Two years later Hongkong against. Leger, in either Mistake Bay or or the readers of the Hongkong Tele- Deemster, Forgemaster, Locksley Hali ~

the betting public and for the benefit his near side were Blacksmith, The futaiu Johi Dunn and Captain Dum-

graph, I take the liberty in writing a

and bleton, (who was a great figure in

"bit" on his success of a pair of "Good Hands" at Happy Valley from 1926 to 1927.

here in

What's The Time, all almost in a

line fighting it out neck by neck. It was a grand mee and Mr. P. Botelho Lode a clever race on the winner, Beginner's lack. This puny WILE made third favourite in the Pari and yet, none of the 1 lucky hackera of the first leg would consider Begin-

when he was transferred, I think to Shanghout two the only laid out

with a blow on the High Speed (Mr. Roza), Facific Kalent of the General Strike 1925 wilà ( nera Llick to vi

PLAYERS' REMINISCENCES

In a general way a man is supposed to be a genuine resident before he can be picked, but there is a very sport

KENT HANDICAP from a letter I found he was on the i give and take in this way. For the infancy of the Royal Hongkong i

nstance, Humphreys of the present Gil Club), went up, as did the two There were 11 starters in the Kent team has been resident in Miamis, Prank and E. W., And Handicap (First Section) over One Barff. A rather curious in-sud a Quarter Miles and although, Mr. The Inte A.A. Claxton in

accurred, na Lowson was temi Tse-fong had three runners, mainely Malaya 90 far as I know to Shanghal, and llongkong but there knee-gan and the Shanghai skipper

play for

are many cases

Mr. Tang Man-wa) and Victorin playing for of Erkong-A, W.

would both Shanghai and

only allow

a runner, if it was Hall (Mr. Pilt, no of them Hayward, O. G. Simpson and E. IL

promised that Lowson should not bowl placed. At the fall of the white flag, a pity that there were apuckitt are names which occur to me

against them. This was refused and Victorin Hall made the running and parently reminiscences of Dr. J. at once, while believe it is not

he runs were walked after that! In onssing the Judges' Box for the first Lawson, E.I.M. Barrett and Nurman generally own that Captain E.I.At the end the game was drawn, ime, she was over twa lining the Whitty and Grenier--both of the Barrett represented Mainya against Straits, which appear

of High Speed, Pacific Hall, Ythan, to be missing.

us before he went up to Shanghai,

Bistre and the rest following. research of u Thanks to the

The same position was maintained an on the South China Mornintle-{

Whether or not the book will over

he published I do not know but it

Reema

of or

Fifteen

THE EARLY GAMES

O Inter the first Interport been drawn.

The

по

HONGKONG'S REVENGE

延意

Post have been able to date the founda- Lion of the longkong Cricket Club as As Mr. Hancock told us on Tuesday, June

and thin was the beginning Hongkong has won seventeen matches ericket in the Colony, to Shanghai's fifteen while two have I hope that a few dips Match was p

and, it took Into the past, and the accounts of the Right months later the Hongkong place in

llongkong,

the in matches I imagine

will prove uninteresting.de went up to Shanghai and lost vitation came from the II.K.C.C. The first game was described as behy 157 runs. Lowson was, atin

tween "Shanghai and the Civilians of famed when batting It must be remembered that theno

after having ganes are and always have been the the Hongkong Cricket Club," The takon 8 for 66, and as he could not result of invitations between the game was played on the present bowl in the second innings, Shanghai Hongkong and the Shanghai Cricket'cket ground which then, of course, ran up a big score. Sgt. Mumford cluba. Possibly at first only members was bounded on the north by the sea, pot six wickets bowling what were played, but subsequently the practice, Hongkong won by an innings and 264 described by the then serii which still provalls, of playing a runs, and it is an interesting readerhand grubbers," Coinny side, arose.

ferone to the oldfashioned methods of cricket when we read that a Mr. Mobonnell "filled the thunkless office

The first date of which I can be netually certain is October 1802, for there were three non-commissioned ofleers in the Hongkong side and it is pretty certain that they cou'd afford to be members. I am of course quito in the dark as to the personnel

not

of the first fow teams other than their names though in two games I find that though ten men got initials put dawn in the score book the eleventh just appeared as "Clbb."

WHO WAS GIBR?

This may mean he was a profes- ional-though I doubt it or ʼn non- member-or it, may just mean that the scorer did not know his initials! -It is most rare to find a side composed entirely of Club Members. The last

TO-DAY ONLY

at 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30.

BOKHARA TRAGEDY

115

of long-ated without a mistake, the And then came the tragedy. The only bye being through no fault, of team returned home in the P. & -0. his."

The game was playert in February

9.8.

at noon

MR. RALPH'S CAREER

Mr. Ralph started to ride in the

a few minor wins to his credit but in 1920 he was at the top of his form and won several classic races for

`CAVALCADE DISAPPOINTS

Messrs. Hull and Shenton whose string Boy winning the

konu

On November

It was no surprise to see Racing Wax under his charge.

Kent Handicap 1926, he rode The Goblin second to Second Section) as I mentioned in Lady Luck (Mr. G. Roza) in the Hong-my notes that he was in good condi-

St. Leger and I within three weeks lion but did

surprise me that Cavalcade was nowhere and ran a very -he steeret the same pony to victory disappointing race. Racing Boy's vic-

the St. Andrew's Stakes, beating fourth officers, two quartermasters Goblin paid $21.80 for a win and Lady Brigade Call av balf-a-length. The of Luck, who was a hot favourite, was

FIVE WINNERS

and Lowson and Lt.. Markhom,

I

quote Lowson's own story made when he landed from HC Barnier which had been sent to fetch the sur- vivors,

LOWSON'S STORY

in

ing,

Blunt) in the Victoria, out of

her

In February 1802 Hongkong home had their revenge as they won by nn innings and 132 runa. Captain John Dunn made 107--the first cen-

of pace coupled with a pair of good tory was due to Mr. Black's judgment try in Interport Cricket though t D. Starkey had made 90 in the 36 Shirov I think, signs to unplaced.

hunds, and the weight on Great Hal match.

and Pride of Tsingtas was responsible for Sand Island alive, though I bellove

their an E.R.A. and a steward were later

defcat. I never thought for moment that Great Hall could trust found on another island. Marklem

the distance (1% Miles) and his beat said that no ong thought the disaster In the same afternoon Me. Ralph on

in Pride

of was so near and all expected the on-aligia, owned by Messrs. Hall and an eye-opener. I suppose the more Tsingtau (Mr. Front) wax gines would be put right. (The pas Shenton, wm the Hongkong Autumn sencers, that is),

we study the form of ponies, the mare. Lowson and evam ashore with

He followed Champions but being a hot favourite we are disappointed with the science aid of some wreckage.

the the pony pald only $G.GO for a will.etter than fourth and I am sure that racing. Spinnway could not, tio It was at this November Mesting that he rode five winners out of seven Mr. Harriman must have found that races and I think his last appearanc was at the Annual Meeting 1927

who was originally his pony, was her animal

altogether and her to Mr. Eve's Renal failure was because the journey wis

distance.

ance. Gold Coin was Stakes. He steered The Gomeril to so badly kicked at the Starting Post all chatting below. win the Foochow Cup over Miles that Octobes. There was a strong non- of us had turned in bang wies. Some and in the same dufternoon, he won the permission to diernoiant, and X med the mare 1860 and in May 1807 Shanghai got

soon at first but then on Sunday the with Dunn in his cabin in the forward Gurriaon with The Geezer.

Cup

was led back to the stables. When their own back winning by an inning increased By miduisit the ship was canie I aprang up and seized a couple and the following day the pony romp-line, he was to my estimation about

weather, Leesme thick and the wind part of the saloon. When the crash.

It wits Saligia's third year of racing Wayward Stag crossed the liniching. and 36 runs. Apparently bouts did battened down. By Monday morning of hire-belts at once. I worked one coed-home in t not it and as there was some spare it was realized that the ship was him and sald "For God's kn John

the Gymkhana Stakes. 200 yards behind the field and it was time another match, a a one day's game

Saligia won the Governor's Cup with a surprise that the owner was not was played. It is very debatable being set on to the Formosan coast, et 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 waited to put it on. I rushed out day but he (being a bachelor at the unfit pony. her single xerew which practically D one thing Hongkong had only ten men had no grip on the water half the through a dozen people standing on

the companion way, dashed time was very disappointed in not the count. Shanghai wen.

but it has finally been reckoned in time, it proved impossible.

winning the Ladies' Purso with The the landing-fixing the belt around Goblin. However, he had the satin INTERNATIONAL Sails and later awnings were tried mo as I went. I had just reached faction of piloting The Grig past the suxiliaries but were immediately up to the rail of the bridge to pull Post first in the last race of the thi

thirel blown away by the furious hurrleans, myself up the ladder when

day, the

the Nil Desperandum Stakes. Then for some reason which defeats | She rolled so much that capsizing came up and washed me off. Poor

On the "Om Day" he my there ensued a gap of twenty-two seemed inevitable. At noon the glass old Sama (captain). He

won the "Hay 151 and

Corn" Stakes with The Gnome and wax 2927 by the coning it was coming down the step as I went up The Grip was second in the Tytan 29,15. Some help was obtained by coming to fetch us all out, when Handicap, After the 1927

Annual dribbling all from the vents to wind. tremendous sea came and carried him Meeting, he was transferred to outer ward wil they enkodi. Opet ko and me and everything away. I ports of the Union Insurance Society the boats went Then др enormous never saw any of the others. They of Canton and while in India he kept sea crashed on the doomed must have been drowned like rats in it up with thoroughbreds over the! stove in the engine-toom hatch and a hole. My God, what a sen it was sticks, mut the engines out of commission.1-I never saw anything like it! But though driven up for a time the engine-room stuf returned facing! practically certain death to try and! get the engines to work again. DRIFTS HELPLESSLY.

A LONG GAP

CENTRAL

A ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

"LEGONG”

(DANCE OF THE VIRGINS)

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FOOTBALL

IRISH TEAM FOR EDINBURGH

London, Nov. 7. The Irish, soccer team against Scot- land at Edinburgh on November 13 will be as follows:

A GOOD RECORD Mr. Ralph has certainly

Scott (Belfast Celtic); Cook (Evér- "Poor Boyle. The last I saw of

record and I sincerely trust and hope ton), Fulton (Belfast Celtic); Mc- him was at the foot of the companies that he will have more wins before Cullough (Manchester City), Jones way. He didn't seem to caro about to the race, the Nullah Nullah Hundi Banibrick (Chelsea), Doherty (Black-

the Season is over. Let us turn back (Linfield), Mitchell (Chelsen); Dug coming out on deck. All

gan (Leeds), Stevenaon (Everton), One can imuming the pasty pawere standing about and I forced my (her gross tonnage was only 2,962 way through the crowd shouting to handicap and I would like to know

Shooting Star after all accepted the pool), Kelly (Derry City), Router. them to come on. That was the lust black night in the shrieking typhoon, I saw of them. Don't know how the allotment of 100 b. It does not what the owner has to say now about Foudig ibly Wild

ne got ashore. The wave dushed de follow that a pony after winning a champion of Canada, Ambrose superstructure torn away. At mid-against the bridge first

Francia Martin, bantam-weight night she struck on Sanel Island, in head was badly hurt. I knew nothing "B" Cinns should be at the bottom of Palmer, heavy-weight champion of seven white men and sixteen luscurs more until I found mystif lying on the "A" class event for it would ho Australia, and Harry Lister, the beach, life-bolt still on me. All against the principle in which the All those saved were on deck at these who were saved were on deck. weights are adjusted for the purpose Zealand. are all on their way to middle-weight champion of New the time she broke

I don't snow why the others did not of equalising their chances of winning. less than two minutes after she follow, Perhaps they could not be However, Shooting Star was second England, where they hope to get struck. The Chief Umeer, and allieve it was so near the end." top-weight carrier and he ran a number of fights.

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sphinh

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