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SPORT ADVTS. Colony Badminton

THE HONG KONG

JOCKEY CLUB.

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1937. 20th, 22nd. 23rd, 24th and 27th February, 1937.

On Saturday. 20th, Monday, 22nd and Tuesday, 23rd February, the first bell will be rung at 11.00 a.m., and the rat race will be run at 11.30 m. On Wednesday, 24th February. the first bell will be rung at 11.30 am, and the first race will be run. at 12 o'clock NOON, and on Saturday, 27th February, the first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m., and the first race run at 2.00 p.m.

on

The timin interval will be taken

race

Saturday, after the fifth Monday and Tuesday, and after the fourth race on Wednesday.

MEMBERS BADGES AND ENCLOSURES. Members are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their hadges prominently displayed throughout the Mecting.

No one without a badge will be admitted to the Members' Enclosure. Badges admitting non-members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $10.00 per day including tax or $40.00 including tax for the Meeting (Jadies $5.00 and $20.00 respectively) are obtainable through the Secretory upon

Introduction a member, such member to be responsible for all chils, etc.

by

Badges admitting to Members En closure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course.

1st floor, The Secretary's Office, EXCHANGE BUILDING, 27704) WILL CLOSE AT 10.00.a.m. ON THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, and at 12.00 NOON ON THE FIFTH DAY.

(Te).

A limited number of tins will be obtainable euch day at the Club House, provided they are ordered in Boy, Tel. advance from the No. 1 21020.

Championships THE FIRST UPSET

THE HONGKONG

Colony Badminton Championships Dates. Extended

Owing to the encroachment of the Chinese Now Year holidays, it has been found nécessary to ex.

Fincher & Kew tend the closing date for the com-

Defeated

"SEEDED" PAIR

(By "Verllas")

Providing the first upsel of the tournament, E. F. Fincher and Henry of the Kew of St. Andrew's, one "seeded" pairs, were defeated in the second round of the Colony doubles badminton championship last evening

pletion of the first two rounds in the Colony badminton champion ships.

Originally all matches were to have been played by Tuesday next, February 23, but another week has now been given players to fulfil their fixtures.

All 'first and second round games, therefore, must be played on or before Tuesday, March 5. No extension of this date will be any circum- permitted under stances.

by K. L. Yong and K. S. Liew of the Fred Perry Says

University.

The match, played at St. Andrew's Church Hail, went to the visiting couple after a grilling encounter 16-8, 4-15, 15-13.

There were thrills galore in the deciding game. Fincher und Kew went into a 4-love lead, then Kew missed a "altter", while à little later Flacher, whose smashing had been deadly in the second stanza, made twe bad blunders with this shot. Fincher and Kew should have established a 0-2 lead, but they actually found themselves trailing 6-8.

attacking

The University pair, steadily and forcing the opposition on the defensive advanced to 11-8, but were pulled back to 11-10. They continued to add points on service. however, and reached 14-12 with one On no pretext will children be

hard in. Fincher saved the situation permitted in either enclosure during with a rather lucky smash which the first four days of the Meeting.

come off the wood, and the homesters Then won PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

point on the first hand.

and The price of admiralon the Kew lost a good opportunity Public Enclosure is $2.00 per day. eventually the service passed with including tax for all persons includ-Llew and Yong leading 14-13.

ing

to

They

lost one hand before clinching the issue, a pretty drop shot finally for feing Fincher into an error.

well

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THE AMATEURS APPROVE

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Below in an article by Fred Perry in the London ▸pecial series appearing in the Morning Port.

(My Fred Perry)

New York. Since the advent of professional- ism, as we know it to-day, with

many of the leading amateurs 10- Ing over to the paid ranke, we are faced with the burning question: Open Lawn Tennis.

TELEGRAPH.

FEBRUARY SATURDAY,

POLICE VICTORY Seaforths Beaten In

Hockey Tournament

The H.K. Pollce (Europeans) de- feated the Seaforth lighlanders by three goals to nil in their frat en- counter in the Senior division of the United Hockey Tournament, played on Wednesday at

Sockumpoo.

The game was fast and it was the experience of the Police which triumphed over the soldiers who have not yet had time to settle down..

Perkins and Pulfee, For the Pennell worked hard, the former having just returned from leave and the latter having recently taken up the game again after an absence of two seasons. Fenneli takes the place of Wilson, A.S.P., Kowloon, who goes on leave.

H.M.S. BERWICK DEFEATED In a close hockey match on the Race Course in Shanghai last week,

made

the the eleven

up from

defeated Shanghai Hockey Club H.M.S. Berwick by three goals to two.

20, 1937.

Footballer

Accused of

Shamming

(By Arbiter)

For the first time in my ex- perlence a footballer has been reported by a referee for shum- ming injury on the field.

The player is John Oakes, the Charlton centre half, and the club have made an indignant protest against the referee, Alr. P. Snape, of Manchester, and demanded an inquiry by the Football Association.

In the Cup-tie with Coventry recently Oakes headed the ball After he and fell to the ground. had fallen a second time. Mr. Snape ordered him off the field, though he resumed, later.

Mr. James Seed, the Chartion manager, told me that after the match a doctor ordered Oakes to bed, suffering from concus Bion.

REORGANISING CRICKET

COUNTY SUPPORT FOR

MR. WARNER'S PLAN.

Mr. P. F. Warner's plan for the reorganisation of first-class cricket programmes is rapidly gaining favour among county club officials throughout England.

Jardine's View of Tests

The plan propounded by Mr. War-about it as I did when I was twice ner, the newly elected president of bowled for 0 between noon and four Middlesex, at the annual meeting of o'clock at Leed's one summer." the club, is devised to remove at one sweep the forces which have been luding to deterioration in the posi- tion of individual county clubs.

those It is calculated to restore

and clubs to prosperity to raise county cricket to a position compare

esteem. Whenever a new star joins the pro-able with that of football in popular fessionals, the question. When there going to be an open tourna

in ment? crops up, and officials of both fields are asked if they are really favour of it. I, too, have been asked these questions many times, but even of the leading though so many amateurs have become paid players,

Is

Tins will be obtainable in the came over the and Kew scoring at the coming of the open tournament

Restaurant in the Publle Enclosure. *BERVANTS' FASSES

Passes for Servants will be issued on application to the Secretary, Ist floor, Exchange Building.

is, I think, as far off ever.

ing ladles, and is payable at the Gate. Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted to the Public Enclosure at

The losers started the match very $1.00 per day including tax.

Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, etc. will shakily and were over-hilling their and Yong displayed not be permitted to operate within lobs. Liew the precincts of The Hong Kong confidence and sustained Jockey Club during the Race Meet-formulated attack which gave them the first at 15-8. A complete change encounter in the second stanza, Fincher will. But there were several excel- lent ratlles in which all four players shone with brainy shots. However the homesters went to their points after to tie at 15-4. During this period it seemed Fincher and Kew had obtained full measure of the were running it when they, them- opposition, but the University players came back

very strongly in the deciding game.

Llew and Yong deserved to win on the display. They were more and sustained in attack. Fincher Kew tended to over-exploit the lob, the short ones in particular being hit loo high. I was a keen match with a lot of first-rate badminton. Llew and Yon should reach the semi-changing. Anal fairly easily.

Any persons found loltering with Servants' passes in their possession will forfeit the same and will be removed from the Enclosure.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary. Ilongkong, 15th February, 1937,

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League Badminton Results

There is no question that the off- cials running the amateur game to- day are much more disposed toward an open tournament than those who

selves, were actual players. Twenty- five years ago there was never any hope or even any question of open tournaments.

In those days a professional wast merely a paid player, hired solely for the purpose of giving his employers the shots they required for a specified fee, of course. But the position is

Mr D. R. Jardine, former captain of England, addressing the English Speaking Union in London expressed the opinion that international cricket "As a money spinner, he said. has out-lived its usefulness

Without an Numbers of famous cricketers and Test cricket is grand. club officials have assured Mr. War-English tour in Australia and an ner of their full approval.

Australian tour in England, county cricket would cease to exist; at least two-thirds the county clubs would find themselves in queer streets?"

Details of the plan were given by Mr. Warner to a Morning Post repre- presentative. They envisage:

Five-day Trst Matches.

Test Matches to start at noon on Thursdays, continuing until 6.30 p.m., and starting at 11.30 a.m. on other days.

County programmes of a maxl mum extent of twelve home and twelve away matches...

Matches between Gentlemen and Australians or South Africans; Players and Australians or South Africans; North and South: North of England and. Adstralians South Africans: England and the Resi, or "Under 30's" and "Over 30%"

PROCEEDS DIVIDED

or

These matches would be played at Lord's, the Oval, Old Trafford, Not- tingham and Leeds. Proceeds would be divided in the same manner as arc those of Test matches under present arrangements.

FIVE YEARS' CHANGE-OVER Let us look at the imposing list of players who are now known as pro-It is hoped-that-all-county-cricket clubs will be persuaded to accept a fessionals. Every leading amateur of

programme on the lines proposed in the past five years will be found in

time for the next visit of the Austra- that list. What the amateur game

llars in 1938. has lost, the professional status has these galhed. After all, certainly men are still the same fellows they always were, even though they are pald to play.

Dealing with barracking Mr. Jar-- dine said, "Australia has lost the dignity of the game because of bar- racking. At first it is funny, but when one heurs the four stock-in- trade cries of the barrackers through five months they cease to be funny." It would be a tragedy if barracking cricket, he ever came to English added.

CORRESPONDENCE Kowloon Golf Club Repudiates Report

Sir, Referring to the report in

to yesterday's issue of the Telegraph, headed

Golf Club "Kowloon Vacate Course," on behalf of my Committee it is emphatically-denied. that any offelai notification has been received to vacate the Course Kowloon City.

at

"I am convinced," said Mr. War-

W. STOKER, Hon, Secretary, ner, "that the new scheme would tone up cricket and give it a greater

Kowloon Golf Club. vitality. It would Improve the

The information published yester- financial position of those clubs which are in difficulties, and save day was extracted from the annual them from bazaars and other deplor- report of the Hongkong Rifle Asso- able means of trying to keep them- ciation, which contained the follow-

compiled, it w

It was learnt that the selves afloat.

"Five-day Tests would definitely in paragraph: "As this report was not mean slow play. The process of Kowloon Golf Club, whose course ex- playing out time does mean that. I tends over the ranges, by permission need only refer to Collins's Innings, of the War Department, has received In 1821, or that of Noble, in 1899, official warning that it must be pre- when, if remember rightly, he took pared to vacate the

being

nament is swinging into favour, but about seven and a half hours to score by a date yet to be "tirely,

There is, also, no doubt that the leading professionals of to-day would beat the leading amateurs. Thus, the professionals can help the amateurs by playing with them, and help the game by teaching the so-called hopes" the finer points of the gume. The amateur officials realise this, and slowly but surely an open tour- I honestly think that we shall not sce it for at least another fifteen years or so, by which time the game will be in the hands of people who are actually playing the game to-day. These people want to play against the leading professionals because they Jenew them as amateurs, and when they get into power, as they must surely do eventually, then I think we shall find every lawn tennis player being known only as a lawn tennis player-not as amateur or profession-

ก.

DEBT TO AMATEUR GAME (Continued from Page 8:)

We professional players owe every- Grifiths 21-9: beat Fisher and Mac- thing we are to the amateur game. ir It kenzle 21-0: beat Shute and ShuteThere is no doubt about it.

were not for the amateur game and 21-11.

Its officials, who did so much to help ST. JOHN'S v. KOWLOON TONG us in our struggling days, we should not be in a position to earn a goodly We must Kowloon Tong introduced. T. Aliving from the ancient art. Madar for N.A.E. Mackay in the team realise that, and the mooner we realise to play St. John's Cathedral last it the better. night, Mackay being engaged in a championship match. St. John's had quite a hard struggle to win, two of the games they won going to 19, while a third was setted and won at 24-21.

D. Kwok and Miss P. McCaw (St. John's) beat K. C. Hoo and Miss T. Gonzales 24-19; bent T. A. Maslar and Mrs. N. Castro 21-10; beat R. E. Lee and Miss M. Xavier 21-14.

R. Koh and Miss M. Smith (St. John's) beat Hoo and Gonzales 21-9; lost to Madar and Castro 21-24; best Lee and Xavier 21-17.

G. A. Smith and Mrs. Penney (St. John's) beat Hoo and Gonzales 24- 21; lost to Madar and Castro 12-31;

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The amateurs must also realise in their turn that they can improve only

runs.

about. 60

The new representative matches

"As this Report was being com-

Yesterday the following amend- would add an enormous amount of ment to the paragraph quoted above interest to the game. They would was made by the H.K.R.A. make a welcome change from the series of 240 inter-County matches which draw only a meagre number plled, a minute was received by the ΟΙ spectators, except when the op- Council, address to the Government, ponents are two of the stronger with coples to the Kowloon Golf Club and this organisation, pointing out counties,

"The plight of Leicestershire is the that the increasing use of the ranges writing on the wall, It is a hint by the Garrison in the future would that the present system has falled-seriously interfere with the existing that drastic measures must be taken facilities for golf, and recommending if cricket is to compete with the mul- that the Golf Club be divorced titude of counter-attractions which from the ranges. have grown up in the last generation. "SPEAKING" FIGURES

"The figures speak for themselves," Mr. Warner added with emphasis. "Receipts at the M.C.C. versus Aus- tralla matches in 1920, 1930, and were £3,059, £4,811, and 1934 £4,515. I could quote many more figures to show that representative matches of this kind invariably and Jring in good gutes. You can com-

LOCAL WEDDING

MISS J. LEPPARD MARRIES MR. A. STEVEN

Alexander Steven, of Government Medical Department, Miss Joan Leppard

Mr.

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pare them with gates of £804 and married, yesterday afternoon, at the C005, brought in by the Middlesex-Registrar's Office, Supreme Court, The bride, who was formerly con by playing with players better than Kont and Middlesex-Surrey matches themselves. The professionals are all last year at Lord's-two of the best nected with the Ladies' Salon of players who have been in the game county matches of the year from the Lane, Crawford's, is the daughter of Warrant Officer C. T. Leppard, R. E for many years, and their knowledge point of view of popular appeal.

He joined "It is claimed that many counties The bridegroom is the son of the In various parts of the world, can be have, been increasing their member- late Mr. Robert Steven.

now ship, and have no need for such a res the Government Medical Department One in 1933, and is a member of the organisation of programmes.

of the game, and of conditions of play

of considerable use to those playing under the amateur flag.

can only say that many of those Medical Section of the Volunteers. Let us, then, get together on this

Mr. J. P. Murphy, Deputy Re- creased, thing for a change, and, Instead of counties where membership has In-

are suffering from acute gistrar of Marriages, officiated. the amateurs taking great pleasure in

inancial embarrassment.

Witnesses of the wedding running down the professionals, and

"A further point is that players the professionals, In their turn, taking

who would take part in these new Dr. J.A.R. Selby and Captain J.R.T. equat delight in telling the world

representative matches would also Hodges, R. E, prove an added attraction when they how bad the amateurs are, let us band

Among those present at the wed- together to aid the amateur game by returned to play for their country. giving its players the benefit of our Finally, two or three counties have ding were Mrs. J. A. R. Selby, Ser- experience and attempting to teach aiready adopted the 24-match progeant-Bridges, R.A.M.C., and Mrs. them something by means of exhibi→ gramme and have found that it paye Bridges, Dr. (Miss) Ruttonjee, Dr."

Cheung, Nurse Sung, and Miss K. tions and other games. The amateurs, them. in their turn, can help us by agitating "I do not claim that the plan is Winch. that we should be permitted to play beyond reproach. It is designed to against them in open competition,reatore cricket throughout England,

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