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THE

HONGKONG.

TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, APRIL

28,

1936.

K.C.C. TO MAKE BOLD

BID FOR LEAGUE

TENNIS TITLE

BODIKER TO PLAY: SO MAY HUNG

Kowloon Cricket Club,

who last won the "A" divi- sion league tennis cham-

pionship twenty years ago,

going to make

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serious bid for the trophy which Chinese Recreation Club have held for the last three years in succession. Hopes are running high that the premier mainlaid club will this suntmer be able to turn out ils strongest "A" team for inany years. One happy piece of news is that George Bodiker, time champlon of Cauton, for overal years undisputed cham- pion of Sharmeen and Tungshan, and for some considerable time an Interporier, is to play for K.C.C.

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(By "VERITAS")

GEORGE BODIKER

has ever the most effective pairing and to

Boliker returned from a holidny in Europe last week, and was present el the Colony doubles championship

to final.

1 perimanently Hongkant, 116 letionmi intimated he willingness to play in The Lenials league for R.06.

capture, though posible Another it is not yet definity is that of W. * Hung. who tras hitherto figured in the C.R.C, "A" teams. Hung. however, who is a member of the K.C.C, may decide to team up with is: C. Fincher, hin Colony champion- ship partner.

4 am also led to befjoy that George nest Jack Radger are keen to throw in their lot with K.6.6. this summer. nt with A.E.P. Gues, now happily resivered from his hockey injury, a weti as a certain amount of youthful tatent at their disposal, the Kowloon Cricket Club has every you to ferl antiafed concerning prospects,

RESUSCITATION

dew, but per Ters has been ceptible resuscitation of tennis at the KC.C. for years p., with quite a ber of promising young players This has been making improvement. Frected in the comparative successes of the junior teams in 1989. Last year the club ishod joint runners up with Club de toers in the "C" Division, the team dowing inden- tical recorda. The "D" Division team was also well placed, finishing third' with six games won and one drawn❘ mit of ten played.

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These successes stimulated consi- derable interest เลย Ure club

further J which inforest reflected by the respons this week to a circular letter to members en. quiring if they desire to participate in the league this rammer. Sa whole hearted have the members responded that it is almost certain two

teams

Our Daily Golf Hint

A back-swing of amplē length and a leisurely start downward will avoid a peck of trouble-Bobby Jones.

The New L.B.W. Rule

ultajn some iden of the composition WILL BE FORCED ON

of the Various teams,

ENGLISH AMATEUR GOLF TITLE

Surprise Defeat In First Round

Deal, Apr. 27. Two members of the Walker Cup The selection committee watched opening day's play in the English Anteur Golf Championship here to day.

Some of the more interesting re- sults wore the defeat of Jolin de Forest, 1932 British champion, by C. Stowe, the artisan golfer from Tork- shire by 2 and 1, and the torrific struggle Rox Hartley had against B. Currick of Norfolk, Hartley being taken to the 20th hole before winning.

-Renter.

BADMINTON CLUBS MEET TO-DAY

To Hear Financial Statement

A meeting of badminton clubs will

will be entered in the "D" PA be held to-day under the auspices of |

ea well as two in the mixed

Hen

teams

to Badminton Association, when a

statement of accounts in connection the with last Saturday's "Presentation

Night" will be revealed. will

If this is so .CC will have

competing in tennis league this year, a record for the club and the league,

Competitive regular Rusrantes

AUSTRALIA

The new hw, rukt--which caused a storm of controversy last season- wll be forced on Australia by the M.C.C.

It in certain that Australin wil ne- for the coming cept the new rule Test series in the Commonwealth, in face of the certainty that the M.C.C. will not send out a team if the Aus- tralian Board of Control persisted in its veto,

The new rule was pinyed throughout the recent M.C.C. tour in Australasia under Eric Holmes without a jarring note from players, Press, or on- lookers.

It is well-known that at least three In WIN years ago Don Bradman favour of the now rule.

The objections of the Australian bourd to the new rule are that the leg side is not included and that the now rule tends to shorten the daru- Lion of matches.

The Australian scason-in the ab sence of an English team-has 80 few days of cricket that the board is ehary of doing anything that may reduce the number of gåte days.

If the new rule shortens the length of matches it will not be looked upon with a friendly eye by the Australian bound.

'BOB OLIN

BOB OLIN SMILES AGAIN

LUTON AND COVENTRY

DRAW IN

SEASON'S

NEEDLE MATCH

PROMOTION STRUGGLE CONTINUES

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U.S. OLYMPIC TEAM

HOPEFUL OUTLOOK FOR TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP

An

Chicago, Apr. 20.

+of impressive records ended in the lean and Drake relay races on Saturday. Indicating that the United States Olympic Track team had a un paralled margin in defending íta track championship. United Press,

Coventry missed a glorious chance of making certain of promotion to the second divi- sion of the English Football League to-day, when playing before their ow supporters they could only earn a goalless draw with Luton, their rivals for championship and promo- tion honours,

Nevertheless Coventry are still bet- ter favoured for the title. Their last match which is on Saturday next is a home engagement against Torquny, while Laton live to visit Queen's

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Have you ever listened to a big tough boxer telling the story "How I lost"? It never fails to make you feel uncom- fortable.

Bob Olin told me about his defeat by Tommy Fore the night before, and made the story saund game and wholesome, writes a Daily Express correspondent

"When I heard the referce give the decision to Farr it hurt like hell. I wondered

have to shoot a man to get decision in this coun- try," he said with broad

grin. "But I've slept on it, and the sting has left the wound. I've got bark But here's my sense of humour, bow it is from my point of view.

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'MY BIRTHDAY NIGHT'

"I found an opponent as open as a barn-door, and knew it was going to be my birthday night: I didn't want to use my right too much, be

I had hurt it badly a few days cause before on Pat Desmond's head in the

NO Kym, I just. moxeyed along, piling up points."

He showed me the hand. It was swollen, and short of two square in-

of skin.

In Britain

London.

an aspiring team:

Even if both Luton and Coventry win on Saturday and finish up on level pegging, Coventry will secure prome- tion by virtue of superior gon! nver-

nge.

Several Third Division (Northern Section) matches were playcal to-day. Tranmere came an awful cropper at | Lincoln, who now possess an excellent chance of Anishlug runners-up 10 Chesterfield. Chesterfield continued along a winning path by beating Hartlepools.

The only first division match was'n London "Derby", Arsenal and Chel- Ben meeting at Highbury. The Pen- Britain has a million golfers,sioners did very well to draw. Ar- including 250,000 women, it is senat, however, have still another mild- estimated. They are said to weak match to play in order to allow

them to complete the season's spend something like £40,000,-gramme on Saturday. 000 a year on the spart.

Here are the results as cabled by And this is how they spend Reuter most of it.

FIRST DIVISION.

At least £5,500,000 is paid in subscriptions. Balls alone cost about £1,100,000, meaning roughly 15,000,000 balls. On clubs and re- pairs £3,000,000 is spent. Caddles carn £2,500,000, Journeys to and from courses cost £12,000,000 and food £11,500,000.

Arsenal

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Chelsea

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THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH),

Coventry. 6 Luton

The longue table records. of the first four tearns now read.

P. W. D. L. P. A.. Pts.

0 # 100 44 66

41 22

9 11 81 3 35

A first-class woman player who Coventry... 41 23 must play as much competitive golf Luton

11 84 53 52 during the season as possible if she Queen's P. R. 41 22 about the eighth round wishes to get in line for the inter- Reading... 41 25 214 86 81 52 Pare l annoyed that he couldn'tnational teams, spends about £350 p land on me anything but a flick, Soyear on the basis of one competi-

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH),

Se says: on in and fight!',

'Come

"O.K., I says, let's go.

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"I admit I was taking it pretty casy up to then. Well, I went in and knocked him down. I could have kept him down, but I didn't want to

bustin' my

hand. risk

Men probably

tion day a week. average about £500 a year.

There are 2,000 golf-clubs in Bri- tain, of which 200 are in London, Yet despite the relatively high cost of the game, many of the clubs.do not pay a well as they should. For some of them individual nem- hors make up a deficit at the end of the year.

Chesterfield 2 Hartlepools

Crewe Lincoln

4 Rotherham G Tranmere

The revised lengue table reads as follows.

Chesterfield Cheater Lincoln Tranniere Orowo

P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. 41 24 11 6 91 38 59 41 21 11 0 97 44 63

"I was away out ahead on points. Why should I worry? Well, I did mostly what I liked afterwards, and then this referee gives him the de- No club with fewer than 400 mem-Ord cision!

bers can hope to be a paying pro. Stockport 'FIGURED IT OUT

position In ordinary circumstances. Oldham "Meantime Paul Damski, my mana-A club of this size would have, with Hartlepools

.

It has got to be proved that it does ger, jump up to the referee and green fees, an income of perhaps Accrington

asks. to show his card to the 4,000 a year. -

him Boxing Control Beard official, Colonel in maintenance. Middleton.

The meeting, which club repre- Other business includes the election sentatives are urged to attend, will Rames to no less than de members of a temporary hon. secretary to be held at 5.30 p.m. in the Board It is expected that tries will be succeed Mr. L. D. Skinner, who Room, South China Morning Post

Building. conducted in the war future to dis-shortly depurts on Bome leave.

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"He just figured the referee's On the arithmetic had given out.

card he had 47 points for me and

41 22 10 91 47 53 41 21 11 9.00 67 53 42 10 14 80 70 47

41 19 8 14 61 40

41 17 0 15 83

42 15 12 15 67 41-17.

16.62

41 10 9 16 07

Most of this goes Rotherham ..

41 17 6 18. 73

41 13 14 14 66

THAT "19TH"' HOLE

41 15 9 17 77

Darlington Gateshead Walsall Carlisle It is from the "19th Hole" or the Halifax

48 points for Farr. Ine boxing club bar, that the profits come. Wrexham

And with a shrinkage in drinking York business that's drawn fight"

shrugged his big shoulders, in this country, the profits are not Barrow "Well, the board are going to see what they used to bu, if there are Mansfield if the referro has made a mistake any at all:

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a return fight, and all the funds go to charity.

Many golfers have found that

I am going to ask Farr to give, moclub cats too much, and now play on public courses maintained by other authorities. municipal and These are the most paying proposi tions in golf here, to-day."

"I don't want a dime."

Two such courses in Richmond

TWO THOUSAND AND Park, Surrey, owned by the govern

Yesterday's Prices DERBY BETTING

London, Apr. 27. The following is the latest call, over for the Two Thousand Guincas:

Daytona, 6 to 1 o, 1 to 2 t.

Pay Up, 100 to 12, and o Abjer, 19 to 2 9, 10 to 1. Boswell, 10 to 1 o, 21 to 2 t

t and o. Monument, 100 to 7 Mahmoud, 100 to 6, t and o.

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THE DERBY

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the Derby:

Balahiaxar, 6 to 1, and o.

St. Magnus, 100 to 8 o, 13 to 1 t. Abjer, 100 to 8 0.

Daytona, 100 to 7 o, 15 to 1 t. Pay Up. 100 to 0-0, 18 to 1 t.

Boswell, 18 to 1, t and o.

Monument, 20 to 1 o, 22 to 1 t.

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outer,

ment, are said to make a profit af" £2.000 a year.

Fr men earning less than £1,000 a year can afford to play club golf regularly here. It is a one pound (5/-), a-y sport. With caddie lunch (6), automobile travel (per- hens 31, balls (2/0), apart from clubs; drinks, and subscription, 158. of two rounds in a day tahnormal charge.

The public course player, however, usually carries his own clubs, uses a cheap ball costing very little, fore- lunch, or Lakes sandwiches, only a short bus-ride, and pays on an average one shilling a Thirty-six holes usually cost him, 5,

FANLING BOGEY POOL

Fanling Bogey Pool In the Roney Paol on the Old Courant Fauling over the week-end, J. G. Chesworth won with a card of one up. There were 10 entries.

Punch-Drunk Boxers

to Get Pensions

Boxers heir managers, and light ramblers are rating in a home to provide am form of pen- slon for these no lenger able to fight. The scheme is designed to protect boxers so through starti

bax

to oorly, or through a succarsion of hard Agli bosama punch-drunk and

cannot carry on.

Sponsors of the schim2 are hoping, that the national union of boxers will co-operate. They believe that many

of the union's 600 members would actively support a plan which would

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Armall compulsory contribution by Arrangements boxers to an insurance.fund;

for medical atten- kara phagia) rates,

There have been many cases re- gently," oald one promoter "of promis ing youngsters who have fought 14 y cut before they reached

Gradually they | to morly twention gie hedema pusch-drunk."

Rochdale

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40 14 11 15 54 57 39

40 15 7 18 5 56 37

42 15 7 20 60 75 37 41 12 12 17 60 95 96 10 12 11 17 53 63 36 41 13 0 19 2 89 41 10 12 19 67 37 32 Southport 41 10 0 22 40 90 29 New Brighton 41 9 6 20 43 100 24 SCOTTISH LEAGUE

Third Lanark 3

"CENTURY" AT H. K. R. A. SPOON SHOOT

200 YARDS

*4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5; ; S, Totai 33.

GOO YARDS

0

*5. 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5. 5. Total 35

Danfermline I

450 YARDS

*4, -5,-4, .5, 4, 5, 5, 4. Total 32,

Reproductions of targets above for 200, 500 and 600 yards ranges show line "century" scored by Capt. P. J. C. Rybat at last Saturday's Spoon Shoot at the Royal Naval Ranges at Stonecutter's Jaland.

Capt. Rybot will be one of the contenders this year for the Prize the donated by His Excellency Governor of the Annual Competitions of the II.K.R.A., commencing Thursday..

*denotes Sighting Shot,

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