1935-11-12 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1935.-

4 GOALS IN 7 MINUTES: FASCINATING FOOTBALL

Wong Wing makes a typical save from a corner kick during yester. day's football match at Happy Valley. (Photo: Mee. Chaung).

1940 OLYMPICS

JAPAN MAKING

PLANS

GOVERNMENT TO ASSIST

Tokyo, Nov. 6. The Japanese Foreign Office andt | Ministry of Education have divided! to assist the efforts of various eports organisations to make Tokyo the venue of the Olympic Games in 1940, a year which will see elaborate celebrations in Japan in honour of the 2000th anniversary founding of the Empire.

of The

Sponsored by the Ministry Education, a committee to make preparations will be organized by

JOINS PROFESSIONAL TENNIS RANKS

WIGHTMAN CUP PLAYER FORFEITS STATUS

New York, Nov. 11, Another woman tennis player has turned pro- fessional. Mrs. Burk- hardt Arnold, the diminu. tive Los Angeles heroine of this year's Wightman Cup has announced her decision to forfeit her amateur status to join Bill O'Brien's circus.Bruter,

Recreio

the Tokyo Municipality and Beaten In

the

Japan Amateur Athletic Federation,

Suitable grounds for the Grimes Tennis Match

an

will be constructed either on extensive reclamation in Tokyo Bay, as proposed by the city, or in the outer gardens of the famus Melji Shrine To the Y.20,000,000 estimated to be necessary for this and for expenses of celebrating the anniversary, the Government is expected to contribute heavily.

As soon as preparations are under way here, the Government will up countries proach the Olymple through diplomatic channels for an agreement to hold the 1940 games in Tokyo,

BY MACAO CLUB.

Macao, Nov. 11.

A tennis tournament took place in Mucas on Sunday in which selected players of the Club de Recreio of Hongkong were inatched against a team of the Civil Tennis Club of Macao. The home team won by live Rots to four.

The set in which J. de C. Fernundes and A. L. F. Silvn pinyed against. L. A. L. Silva and J. J. Romedios, The decision of the Government resulted in the defeat of the visitors pair playing by 7-4. The same. to make positive offorts to get the against J. Consalves and A. V. Ite Games held in Japan is the result medios won 7-4, and against J. Xavier of a strong belief that both Italy and A. E. Xavier, 7-4. and Finland, bidders for the event. The sets between A. Mello and C. are out of the running-Italy being Silva for the home team and these wo busy with the Abyssinian war of 7-4, 6-5, and 6-6.

respective pairs, resulted in scores. on her hands, and Finland handi- capped by other circumstances that make it difficult for her to be host to a huge gathering of international athletes.

MCCORKINDALE'S LAST FIGHT

In the sets

THE SERVICES DEFEATED

IN FAST ENCOUNTER

"REST" LUCKY TO WIN POPPY,

DAY FUND MATCH

The Rest

(By "Veritas")",

...5 Combined Services...

The Rest:--Wong Wing; Li Tineering and S. Strange; Robertson, Gough nud Eestmap; T&o Kwai-shing. Tam Kong-pak. Lee Wai-tong, B. Gosane and Bickford.

Services:-Nowlands; Swain and Walvorson; Clarkson Lawton and Bowers; Baxter, Rose Higgins, Biller and Baldry.

A big, light-hearted crowd;· light-hearted, football; Many goals and a few dollars to aug- In other words a ment the Poppy Day Fund. splendid match. Two goals in the first two And all minutes; four goals in the first seven. of them the culmination of dazzling forward line movements.

After these series of shocks. the football settled down to a more orderly and normal pro gress, but a hot pace was main- tained right through the second was the half and at no time. spectator's interest allowed to

wander.

SENSATIONAL OPENING

WAS WICKET TO BLAME?

For Two Collapses

FORTUNES SWING IN INTERPORT

Yesterday's Features

(By "Veritas")..

SIX Shanghai wickets full in 50 minutes for an additional 40 runs; Hongkong leads by 33 runs on the first innings. Put 50 on the board for the loss of two players in their second at- tempt, then finish the day's play with eight wickets down for 84, enjoying the comparatively slender tend of 117 with two wickets in hand.

Teddy Fincher and Lieut. Garthwaite snapped on their way to the wicket to resume their big partnership on Saturday. (Photo:

Ming Yuen).

catch by Alec Penree, terminated by an equally brilliant

INCIDENTALLY could anybody wish to ace better throwing in to the wicket from the boundary than The opening was sensational. Thej

the field with Services swept

Alee Pearce's yesterday? up

Tom of nuvement and Hdley PARAPHRASING one left flank

Webster's most famous obser-E Colony's fielding scored with a grand "daisy cutter." llalf a minute later the Rest were on level terms, Tao being sent away the right mard Lawton heading in

vations one might say "Nar that's T onally good. It set a new stand- cricket!".

ILA

was excep.

ari in local cricket. Fincher and T. A. Pearce the leading lights. Only his own goal from under the bar.

Three minutes later the Services Arts of reasons and excuses goes to show what can happen when

were being advanced last team gets on ils toes. This watch gave promise of A

ahead again through Ridley

evening for Hongkong's collapse. genern all-round improvement in the ent

them contained in MINU bowled without relief for 60 season's future football in Hongkong who crowned another excellent move-

But 1 feel 1 minutes after tiffin, and bowled for the teams were very represenia- ment and in less than five minutes Several of tive and every player did himself Wal-long had equalised with a element of truth.

his ground shot from must insist that the wicket was folly well. Forcira too discovered an typical

inspiration.

post-adjournment bad as popular opinion spell saw him twice as accurate as credit.

The Services put up an astonish- 20 yards leaving Rowlands helpless, not so

Lively exchanges continued and would have it..

any previous efforts. ingly fine display and were, on the somewhat against the play Lee Wai- whole, a better team, and infinitely superior in half back play. They did at the Rest fed by the odd road iNFERENCES drawn from figures are dangerous things. Because not deserve to lose and only the ch bined brilliance of Strange, Li Thu-

After the change-over the Services the batting of both teams went to sang and Wong Wing stopped them

took up the Initiative and for long Pieces the immediate conclusion from getting

a spate of goala,

periods attacked the Regt goal. In was "a bad wicket". It Sydney

playing Strange had been

the course of determined attack for place

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ini Interport Strange was injured and carried of IT wasn't visible from the pavi- feam he could not have

is the field and doring his absence Bal- lion. Certainly the pitch wasn't a much finer showing than in this dry fired in a brilliant right footed so true as on Saturday, but the

He had a tremendous amount

first-timer which had Wong Wing beaten all the why."

match.

of work to necomplish, being matched against a clover wine inadequately covered by Eastman.

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five.

The Rest responded with a same what lucky, though hard worked-for Several times Strange took ter-goal by Gosane and before the end the rifle shots point blank either on same player scored again, Rowlands' his chest or head and didn't move anticipation. being poor.

players would muscle. Other

have collapsed as if pole-axed. Even after a severe kick in the face Strange returned to save a dazen threatening situations,

Li was a fine covering partner and Wong fielded the ball safely and at times skilfully.

LEE WAITONG AGAIN

played by J. Nolasco and L. Mello whose spelling work was a feature With the exception of Robertson,

5.6 and 2-6 respectively,

Poppy Day Football Yields

against the visitors, scores were fi-0, of the match, the Rest half bucks $1,350

RECREIO HOCKEY.

TEAM

The Recreio Hockey team London. Nov. 11. against . K. S. R. A. 2/3tty, to Oble. Walker, the American morrow at 6 p.m. on the Marina Negro out-pointed McCorkindale Ground, will be as follows:-N. A. A. dos Remedios, the British boxer in a fight to- Faria; night.

E. R. Alves; A. A. R. Botelho, McCorkindale was severely bat-J. Gonsalves, A. J. Baato; F. tered and after the fight an- Nolasco,' C. P. d'Almada, A. M. nounced that he was retiring from Xavier, A. S. Xavier,, A, Angelo boxing-Reuter. »

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were disappointing. Gough rarely found a reply to the elever scheming of Ridley, Higgins and Rose, and) Eastman, although he hung grimly on to Baxter, a very fast and efficient right

winger, was not happy and

kicked weakly.

Lee Wai-tong was the brains of a

(By "Veritas”).

were approximately

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UNITED SERVICES V. SHANGHAI

It is announced that the hours of play in the cricket match between Shanghai and the United Services to be played on Thursday will be as follows:

Start at 11 a.m. Tiffin 1 p.m. 'Restart at 2 p.m. with stumps 'drawn at 5.15 p.m.

The match will be played on the Hongkong-Cricket-Club ground.

most it appeared to do was to help the ball turn a little more sharply.

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E chief reasons were the ex- cellent bowling after tiflin of

LEC Pearce set a leg trap which Awas not a success. It caused his father two long, but magnificent runs to the mid-on boundary

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times, well, but Leach got hḥn in

Ho

like a

TAM Pearce butted dourly, and at the end. Alee seems temporarily to have lost most of that form which put him in the Kent County cleven. scratched

about the wicket rufted

chicken. He has still eradicate that old-time weakness on, the leg alde. His cover driving and Aquare cuts are things of beauty...... when he has made up his mind to use his foot.

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to

end today. THE match should

Hongkong will do well to reach the three-figure mark. I shall be surprised if Shanghai are set more than 150 to win. And I feel they will

get the runs.

sporting finish at least is assured.

ADOPTION OF NEW L.B.W. RULE

To Be Discussed In London This Month

Important meetings of the Board of Control of Test Matches at Home and

the Advisory County Cricket Com- mitte are due to be held at Lord's on November 19. Among the matters to be considered at these meetings

nro:

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(a) The passing of the accounts of the South African Test Matches in 1935.

(b) General arrangements for the three Test Matches with All-India in 1936.

(c) An application from the Tex Match Selection Sub-Committee for a Test Trial Match at Lord's In 1936.

and admisalon charges.

(d) The duration of Text Matches (e) The question whether any made to the Speels! Instructions to Alterations or additions shall be be issued to First-class Umpires. These include the 1.b.w, experiment. (f) Admission charges to grounds in All-India games with the coun- ties,

Among the many advocates of the.. sale. distinguished and otherwise, i

I. F. Wnde, captain of the South African team recently touring in Enirland.

The views of first-class umpires also

A view of Shanghai's obvious are mostly in favour of the Rule.

"tall the chances are still fifty-fifty,

Not Sending Baseball Team

To Berlin Games

JAPAN FEELS EXPENSE IS NOT WORTH WHILE

WHICH is hardly suficient to account for 14 wickets falling The gate receipts for yester-for 124 runa. forward line which did not consistently day's Poppy Day Fund football combine well, but at periods sprung match into brilliant forin. Lee was always $1,300.

Tokyo, Nov, 6. outstanding baseball organization did not receive the type

Pereira and Minu (Hongkong) and Japan, the world's second base of the country, which came to the of

for which he craves and passes for

Before the start of the game the Leach and Jenkins (Shanghai) | ball playing nation, has decided not conclusion that the privilege of too often had to try to break through teams were presented to the Acting and the rather second rate batting to send a diamond team to the meeting the American stars in a from impossible positions.

G.O.C. (Major General F.

Olymple gammes at Berlin next single game, and an exhibition.con- year.

test at that, since it would not.

A menuice

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Bernie Gogano was the weak link Thackerny) by Captain 11. E. lingue, of the two teams. in the attack. He was obviously out R. A. Subsequently General Thackeray of place at inside left in the first kicked off. half and Lee wisely changed him with

Of the six wickets which fell As a result of this decision it figure in the Olympic champion-

to Hongkong after the timin is believed here that the proposed ship scoring, did not justify the Tum after the interval. Even then

Leo Wai-tong, idol of the Chinese adjournment only one could be Olympic baseball contest, promoted expense of sending 12 or 15 men Gomano did not show the improvement football crowds was given the disregarded as being aided by the by the American Amateur Athletic some 20,000 miles. expected, his ball distribution being tinetion of leading the Rest of the wicket. This was when Leckie Union wretched. A saving grace was hi Colony team. Wolverson, brilliant two goals towards the end, but both left back of the Navy captained the touched a quickly rising ball from

Minu which Dunkley held. possessed an element of luck in so for Combined Services. as Rowlands was at fault with both. Tam Kong-pak put in some next touches and operated fairly well with

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were bowled all over the place

The match was one of the cleanest BOTH Pat Madar and Elliott Bickford, but his headwork, usually on record. There was not a single by normal deliveries. Kermani Is feature was rendered very in premeditated foul, and the fow offective by Clarkson and Swain who offences were confined to hands or revealed superior judgment in jump- other technical brenchies. ing for the bail.

TRO was fast but not at his best,

due chiefly to Wolverson who played Higgins had a narrow esenpo from a rattling fine game at left back formaty injury when he accidentally the Services. Ilis tackling was so cute into collision with Strane, The perfectly timed that only about three impetus of his rush sent Higgins times during the match did he fall flying into the air and ho fell with to come out of a duel with the ball, his leg rather badly bruised.

ARTISTIC SERVICES

The

and In which a Japanese Instead the Lengue will denate all-star team was expected to meet the funds which were to be used an American amateur aggregation, for the baseball expedition to the will be cancelled..

general fund to end Japanese run- The decision was reached by the ners, jumpers and swimmers to Tokyo Six Universities League the Berlin,

was out to a brilliant catch, as was Jenkins. And the wicket had LAST WEEK ! nothing to do with Hayward hold- ing a red hot off drive from Williams.

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WHEN Hongkong batted a second time Lench frankly intimidat-

ed the Colony players with his fine length. But it was little more than that. A few balls went Prior to the game and during the through rather more quickly than Services played artistic and interval the band of the East Lan-usual and once or twice Jenkins high-speed football. Ridley was Leo cashire Regiment played a selection got up." The wicket was un- Wai-tong's prototype in the forward of music.

doubtedly taking spin but not line and his superb approach work inspired Baldry to give an outstand The Football Association Introduced treacherously. ing account of himself. The right the innovation of sending a board

constant source of

of round the ground indicating the team ONE

or two of the Shanghai wing, was also dunger, although Rose was inclined changes. They were written in Eng- playera afterwards

pooh- to try and take the ball too far inah and Chinese.

poohed the idea that the wicket instead of shooting first time. His

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taetics suited. Strange who is always The quick time in which the first was as bad as the batting made

four goals were scored probably con- it appear to be.

at his best in close-quarter

The half backs made excusigtitutos a record in local football. The 1

trio. Claroghan

An

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brought in for the rat came half a minute after the THE

THE struggio for first innings lead half a minuto Was especially kick-off, the second prominent and Lawton was an ad- ter the third two minutes later and

injured

mirable pivot,

ivot, especially In the fourth four minutes later.

shadowing of Leo Waltons

of

Walverson was slightly the better

the

Lwo backs

was very safe in tackhough Swain!

less happy in his

but rather!

Rowlands has played much better] The match fully Illustrated the disadvantage of his height. All five goals were ground shots which he falled to get down to in time, although he did get his hands to Gosano's goal-scoring kicks.

HOME RACING

London, Nov. 11. the November handicaps

The following is the call-over for Crawicy Wood, 9 to 2, 0., 5 to 1 Mistral III, 100 to 12, t and o. Newton Ford, 18 to 1, and o. Reuter,

realised all expectations. At one slago, before Madar went, Shanghai were in Just as promising a position

my had heon Hongkong on Saturday. The loss of four wickets kim yierART 140 runs,

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KERMANI achieved, great glory.

His innings was painstaking, but

had "Class" stamped all over it. Ho thrived on Pereira. Masterly driving,

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