1937-04-02 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1937.

66

'CAPT. FOSTER" REVIEWS THE EASTER MEETING

CHOSEN TO

PLAY IN

DAVIS

CUP

TSUI WAI-PUI LEAVING ON SUNDAY

WITHDRAWs from

CHAMPIONSHIP

(By "Verilis")

In beating

R. L. Withington yesterday in the Colony singles championship, Trui Wai-pui play- | ed his last game in Hongkong for six months. On Sunday he is off to Europe to play for China in the Davis Cup, the Chinese National Amateur Athletic Federation cabling him that his services will be required

It is not known whether TЯui will play singles or doubles. Much whil depend upon the relative form of himself and W. C. Choy, Choy has already departed for Europe and will be able to get in a fair amount of practico, whereas Taui will arrive in France

with just sufflelent time to have a knock-up before the team pinys New Zealand fri the Arat round.

Tsul Is the first Colony champlon to play for Ching in International tennis, but it is an honour thoroughly deserved. is progress to the fore- front of China's tennis players has nutural and he is now In u ft

beek to have his gatne moulded

on better lines. Tsui has most of thei strokes and a good tennis brain. He can therefore be expected to profit tiandsomely from his experiences during the next few months when he will be coming into conflict with the ercam of the world's amateur termist talent.

Tsui Wai-pul booked his passage yesterday and will sail by the Vic- toria on Sunday afternoon at ve o'clock.. Last night he made a hasty visit to Canton to fx up his passport. He will not play this afternoon in the men's doubles, but will scratch

events. Yesterday played In order to get in Bome practice, and from what I saw of the match he seemed to need it rother badly,

Trom

Doin

FIT

-

Wales hockey team which recently competed in the International Hockey Tournament.

Record Crowd Expected For Badminton Championship Finals To-night

TO-DAY'S TENNIS

HUSSAINS VERSUS THE SHUTES

NEW INTEREST IN CHAMPIONSHIPS

(By "Voritus")

Provision is being made to scat a record crowd at to-night's

Colony badminton championship KUMAONS

finals which are being played at

Club de Recreio, and which bring WIN ARMY

together some of the cream of local talent.

Exceptional interest is being dis- played in the mixed doubles mutch, In which fast-moving, hard-hitting Oliveira and his partner come into conflict with adroit and skilful P.K. Hut and Miss Khoo, Both-couples reached the final without difficulty and they are expected to be well matched as well as affording striking contrasts in style and method of play. It is true he had a fair amount in

With the Tsui Wal-pul threat re- hand of Withington, and undoubtedly

Hul boasts the betier court-craft, slacked off after winning the first moved from the Colony tennis cham- set casily. As a matter of fact he pionships new interest is invested in but Oliveira's speed is likely to stand

him in good stead, particularly in 8. A. Rumjahn now ap- the events. look things rather too comfortably al

chanco of mixed doubles where so much base- one time and was four-love down in pears to have the best the second set. Then he asserted winning the singles, though he has to line work bus to be done by the male himself again and won the next six get by players such as II. D. Rumjahn, player.

Lee Wal-tong and E. C. Fincher. games in a row for the match.

(By "Veritas")

力

a

HOCKEY

TOURNEY

Single Goal Decides

RECORD DIVIDEND AND NEW TRACK TIMES

KING'S WARDEN AND STRATHROY SHOW THEIR PACES

WINNING JOCKEYS AND OWNERS

As was predicted, the salient] Li Po-chun feature of the Easter Race Meet- Sunshine ing under the auspices of the Hongkong Jockey Club was the handsome four dividends cach

exceeding three figures, the high-

oat being $477.40 paid by Poten-

tate ably ridden by the novice

jockey Mr. W. Poy.

In the "dally double" on the second day, the comination of King's Justice (Mr. S. L. Yen) and Wild Cal (Mr. S. Y. Liang) returned $3,054.40 for an outlay of

vf $5 and this overshadowed the record of $3,322 paid by the union of Golden Dragon (Mr. A. J. P. IIcard) and Flying Tourlat (Mr. J. E. Noronha) on Sep- tember 23, 1933. Mrs. T. E. Pearce, the wife of the popular owner of the Dynasty's stable, was the solitary successful punter.

The racing itself was of very high standard with plenty of thrills and full of exclting finishes. Tu sub stantiate this, I have taken the trouble to segregate the margin of defeats with the following results:

Short Head

2 FACES

Length

"

A lead

4 Neck

2/2

do

11⁄2 do

2 do

0

do

Total

20

It will be seen that Li events were

20 20 .20

MEETING OPENS WITH AN UPSET

Potentate's Victory

The Easter Meeting opened with a

COMPLETE

REVERSAL OF FORM

King's Warden Is Beaten

IN EASTER STAKES

The greatest glorious uncertainty of racing was witnessed in the Easter Stakes for China ponies run Jast Monday when King's Warden,, after a sequence of fire successful outings Including the annexation of the Champion Stakes at the Au- nual Meeling, fafted to siriko his usual form and went ander badly to Bear Claw and Happy Evel

It was a big surprise win for Bear

high explosive bomb in the Canton Claw was beaten by King's Wurden Handicap for "B" class China pontes, in the Exchange Plate run on Febru- when Mr. Eu Tong-sen's secondary 23 and also in the Hongkong string Potentate, under a novice Autumn Champions at the fall of Jockey, Just managed to snatch the last year. While the ponies were verdict by n short head and pald

fans that King's Warden op-

c477.40 for a win to the delight of racing it was remarked by some

ten backers. Mr. Eu had twe nom-peared to be off colour and I wonder inations, Polentate and Rose-Queen, whether the hard run in the Shek the latter, being considered the cream Pal Handicap on Saturday was the of the stable, was given to Mr. Deilz. cause of his disappointing display?

Potentate was allotted 150 lbs.

As soon as Mr. Potts released the who was in the tape, Gaidiator Jumped to the front claimed the jockey

allowance 5

Mr.

pony

of

pony,

but

mount,

Tale-

came some, anxious moments when this year's Hongkong Derby and the

champion

The liberal applica-

|

lbs. and he weighed out at 145 lbs. followed by King's Warden, Bear Being a

14 hands' Potentate Claw, Happy Eve and Cossack's won between a short hend to a length was running 13 lbs, under the weight Beauty. Before reaching the famous for Inches and this chestnut gelding

"Black Rock"-Hoppy Eve moved up while in three races the distance was bad a pull, of 17 ha. over avoc Eve, to second position, but her stable one and a half lengths.

The latter The going during the two days was

did all the run- companion Gladiator was labouring with great, dimculty and it seemed on the fast side with the result that Bing at the release of the barrica he was sent out to do pace making. King's Warden with Mr. S. C. Liang ing the adva

hot pace was set by Mr. ip.. in the saddle won

advantage the Shek Pat

the low impos!, Coming down the hill, Bear Claw Mr. Handicap over

Poy chas

chased

Sir Victor's racer and over six furlongs in record before the head tas reached, took the lead chased by Happy Eve time of 124.379 towering Apollo's steeds

DC and King's Warden. As the pack were well bunched. Then entered the straight, the winner. of figure by three-fifths of a second. The track record, 1.55.4/5 established by the Australian cob Electron (155 they passed the distance post for at bs. with Mr. Deitz). In the Adelaide this juncture Potentate took com-on Bear Cade no impression- Stakes at the Annual Race Meeting mand of the field. After a ding- tion of the whip on the two nagi over course from the two mile post, dong battle down the straight, Mr. could not in any way accelerate the once round and in, did not have a su

Eu's candidate crossed the wire first. long life, for Mr. J. F. Macgregor's It was certainly a creditable perform-speed of Happy Eve and King's War- den, and Bear Claw presented his Strathroy under the guidance of Mrance on the part of the jockey Mr. card to the judges claiming the main

to throw in the event by a good length, Black with a burden of 165 lbs. un- Poy who refused nexed the Broken Hill Handicap last sponge. The jockey allowance of

It may interest one to know that the Monday in 155.3/5 breaking Elec- lbs. was the main cause of Havee

Eve's downfall. It may be of inter-mile was covered in 1.54.3/6, the est to know that the last mile was quarters being 27.3/5, 20.3/5, 28 and tron's time by a fifth of a second.

The following list shows the sue run in 1.58.4/5.

29.2/5 seconds. Actually it broke the Another upset was seen in the record of 1.55 set up by Diana Boy cesses of the jockeys during the two Swatow Handleup (first section) for on April 17, 1933 but it could not be days of the Easter Meeting

dale considered as official owing to the "D" class raters when Sylvandale 1st-2nd. 3rd,

ploted by Mr. Ralph romped home fact that Bear Claw was carrying one first, trouncing the third best backed pound of lead under the weight for pony Plain View by a neck and handed out $101.50 for a win. The inches as per. scale. It was indeed a great pity as the prospect of a firm two favourites Victoria Hall and Pride of Tsingtao gave a very dis going during the summer months ls

very remote, oppointing display and let the pun- Lors down very badly.

WINNING JOCKEYS

(By "The Pilgrim")

Kumaon Rifles played skilful and attractive hockey to beat the There is little to choose between H.K.S.R.A. by a single goal in the In the doubles, Hung and Fincher the ladles, though Miss Khoo, on final of the Large Units Army Tsul was having some difficulty in

little more hockey cup yesterday. making strokes on the run and walle must be respected as potenital winners form, is probably a Withington could find the corners he now that Tsui and Paul Kong are out decisive in her net shots.

of the way. Their only threat ap

The Brigade, champions for the ar. N. Deltz. of forcing always had good chance

Though Patrick Wong is expected Tsul into errors. The Army player pears to be the Rumjahn cousina.

to win the men's singles, he will not two previous years, were beaten by Mr. D. Black Improved considerably during the

match To-day's programme is centred on have particularly easy

the tch a better team, winning goal | Mr. S. C. Ling first period of the second set and doubles matches, though one has been against T.C. Lee, who in brilliant coming ten minutes from the end Mr. S. Y. Llang scored outright points with some de-scratched off as T'sal has withdrawn overhead and who, moreover, can licate drop volleys which left Taul from the tournament.

cover

the court very quickly. Wong's when Trilek Singh netted. standing.

placements which are so perfectly

the enough, but the attack, with the ex- Fincher and Hung should have an disguised will probably earn When Tsui decided to apply pres-easy passage into the next round at Chinese "y" player the majority of ception of Lieut. Garthwaite, were sure he became more of a Davis Cup the expense of the Chan

brothers his points.

simless in methods, depending solely player, volleying brilliantly and who narrowly beat Rump and Raven- raising chalk on the baseline with his hill earlier this week. More interest- Handsome challenge cups have on wild hit and rush trotics. perfect length drives. He was never ing will be the encounter between been generously donated for

The Kumaons were much Excellency the fully extended, and when he wanted the Hussain brothers, champion couple three events. His a point he usually obtained it within last summer's "C" Division league Governor, who is patron

of the methodical and always had tennis, and E. L. H. Shule who has Badminton, has given a an unreturnable shot.

challenge thing in' reserve. mis БОП,

while Kenneth us a partner. The

for the men's singles, Shute pair won very well against B. trophies for the winners of the men's O'M Deane and Leys in the previous doubles have been donated by round and they will probanly repeat Ezro Abraham and for the

CRAWFORD WINS Crawford, the young K.C.C. player

i

the

Mr.

mixod

· The Gunners

were

Mr. S. W. Tang Mr. S. L. Yuen energetic Mr: W. Poy

more

Mr. L. Ralph

Mr. X. T. Fes Mr. C. L Gregory Mr. Yo Hul-ying Mr. H. C. Pih

Mr. W. IL S. Davis. Mr. I. C. Harris some- Mr. B. Proulx

The Rides were the first to attack, a brilliant bout of passing between

20 20 20

2

The Day's Finest Performance

bent Clarke in straight sets us anti-ine performance to-dhy, especially doubles by Mr. E. M. Raymond, both Trilok Singh, Narain Singh, and Mr. Black and it is interesting to RECORD RUN BY

cipated, though Clarke had op- portunities of taking the match to a they can lob as well again.

Third set. His volleying, however, let him down very badly and Craw ford had only to shorten his drives

and lure Clarke into the forecourt to make certain

of his polats. The

The programme follows:

OPEN DOUBLES

Kam-

W. C.

CLUB SINGLES HANDICAP

、་

Association.

to

almost

with ū

SUCCESS.

5

KING'S JUSTICE SURPRISES HIS

OWNER

To Win Morrison Hill Handicap

Mr. Deitz heads the list owing io the fact that he has more places than relate that Mr. S. C. Liang did not

Following the above, King's Justice of whom are Vice-Presidents of the Sher Singh nearly yielding a goal. have a second during the two days. KING'S WARDEN

provided Then the Brigade took up the run- However, credit must be given to

pnother sensation to his new owner, Mr. Pou Ying-wai to The best performance of the first register his arst win in the Morrison winners coch und Mr. S. Y. Liang These will be presented to the winning and Khuda Bux was seen in these three jockeys for riding four

for two wins. Mr. S. W. Tang, who day was the superb running of King's Hill Handicap for "B" class over six ners at the Association's Presentation action, testing Ram Singh E. L. H. Shute and K. Shute v. Night on April 12, which will wind fierce drive. Captain Stapleton was recently returned from Shanghai, cut Warden in the Shek Pal Handicap furlongs and at the same time pald

but through Mohammed the ice to register his first win at the when he cracked the six furlongs into his 52 trusty friends $101.00 for a 5. A.

Hussain; up the season. military player also revealed weak-S. S. Hussain and Chan

To-night, the programme starts at Fazal cleared in the nick of Ume. Valley on National Faith in the Pok~ | 1.24.3/5 to establish a new record, win. Incidentally this event was the ness on the backhand and was only Chan Kam-hung und

The Gunners looked like scoring oni fulam Stakes while Mr. B. Proulx lowering Apollo's time by three- arst leg of the daily double and there secured a third place out of two fifths of a second. The Jockey Mr. effective when he

9.15 p.m. sharp, and in addition

were only ten backers. could maintain moon v. B. C. Fincher and

the men's singles and mixed doubles more than one occasion, but Gajendra mounts, Mr. R. S. T. Bowden made S. C. Liang, who rode a hard race, baschine rallies will his scaring fordung.

proved championship finals, a men's doubles Singh and his partner

his debut as a jockey but with no contributed in no small measure to Here again the jockey allowance hand drive.

the success of the pony and his

upset all calculations and a tribute SUCCESSFUL OWNERS

jockeyship was a wonderful piece of must be paid to.Mr. S. I, Yuen who Usually Crawford was able to out-

A. K. Mackenzie v. J. T. B. Evans; exhibition match will be put into severe stumbling block.

court. Those taking part will be Remedios mange him. The younger player. Owen Hughes v. R. L. Withing- ELAH. Shute and J.

Within a few minutes of the restart Among the owners, Mr. Eu Tong-work..

rode clever race, Taking the Kounding the corner Gladiator and advantage of the feather weight of ave a neat display of sound tennis,

the Recreio this but he missed an open goal. Im three wins and three seconds while Oak Bay (both first class sprinters) 135 lbs, Mr. Yuch pushed his mount Admission to

with two

wins and a third. The dier of Britain, who in turn was until the winning posty was reuched, L. T. Hide and J. F. Leys v. R. evening will be fifty cents, including mediately Trilok Singh raced clear of Mr L. Dunbar was the next best were over four lengths ahead of Sol- to the fore and maintained the lent

Brigade defence only to find undermentioned list shows, the suc- more than three lengths in front of Fazal rob him of a certain goal. cesses of various owners:

King's Warden. At this stage Mr. After a belated challenge by Rose- 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Pearce's charger did not look to have Queen and Red Feather, King's Jus Thereafter several profnising move-

chance in bat hot pace two fur- tice finished a length ahead of these. ments by the Brigade were spoilt Eu Tong-seFL

longs from the finish, but the jockey two in the time of 1.27.3/6. For the through the forwards getting offside, Eve

would not allow King's Warden to second leg of the daily double Mrs. lose his action and he came down theT. E. Pearce was fully compensated At the other and the Kumacns were Ian awarded a long corner and Captain

home stretch at a terrific pace to for the confidence placed on Wild. Stapleton, receiving from the

clinch the issue by a length, beating Cat who had no difficulty in winning sultant hit, pushed the ball out to

Oat Bay who was in receipt of 27 the Boa Vista Handicap (frat sec- Trilokt Singh who beat Fazal with a Starboard

(Continued on Page 0.)

lon) by two good lengths.

though he was not at his best, on: F. V. Harrison v. G. E. R. Dlych against L.A. Carvalho and A.M. Silva. Narain Singh sent Sher Singh away, sen was the most successful with

choosing to engage Clarke in base-

line rallies he was tempting fate, and

he might have finished the rantch off

HANDICAP DOUBLES

quicker If he, had adopted more Hancock and T. E. Pearce, ...enterprising methods."

Leung Ping-chiu by no means had

an easy line against J. D. Milne, and League Badminton

If the captain had got'started earlier, there might have been a different Greslatanics in the CRC. represcata- tive. But he lost grip on the game "at the critical moment and' conceded

the set at 6-4, A

tax.

Without Patrick Wong Chinese "Y" Beat Recreio

Lound was wonderfully steady and Milne had to choose very carefully hla 'opportunities for raiding the net. The

Wong to Wong and Boon: 15-21. Thought without Patrick "winner's 'ground - strokes, functioned | their - star performer,

Chiriere

H. A Noronha and N. de Silva splendidly and the only time he ap- YM.C.A. managed to. Dent Club de (Recreio B host to Ong and Koh Deared at a disadvantage was when Recreio "B" in their last but one 8-21; lost to Koh and Hon 19-21; bent Milne could add pace to his shots and badminton league match Inst night. Wong and Boon 21-11. to get Leung on the run:

Recreio, who werd at home, con-

ceded the ninth game.

In the Club Handicap Singles, M.

Chinese “Y” have only to bent Pagh had a strenuous task in bealing CRC. in their last match to finish University F. A. Joseph, the match going the full

third in the table a very creditable distance. Pagh lost the first got after holding a substantial lead, but performance indeed. Scores in last Recreio

| night's encounter follow.

o could not

HAR

LEAGUE TABLE

the

flick shot.

L. Dunbar

Lancashire Dynasty Mrs. Dunbar

C. B. Brown After Uts the Kumaons stormed H. A, Browning the opposition goal but met with no Chu Cheong-fan further success, although Narain Ling Singh scored, but the point was dis- J. F. Macgregor allowed.

T. & E.

Pau

The Brigade retallated in spirited Vilas fashion but Captain Stapleton was a Yeang and Ph P. W. D. L. F. A. Pls, tower of strengih in defonce and with C. N. K. the help of his colleagues, Bhawan Grayburn 14 13 0 1. 69 21 20

Singh and Gulab Gingh kopt the Why, 12 10

Gunners at bay. 2 81 27 20

L. C. LA 0

L. T. F.. Recreio "B". 13.8 0.5 50 65 10.

Llout. Garthwaite and Khuda Bux Diamonds madon fast right wing comblaation A. W. Hughes for the losers, who were also woll) Perak served by Bachan Singh and Kishen Mrs. Stanton

Weetoo Singh in defence.

Chusia At the conclusion of the game Mrs. Dr. S. N. Chau Currie presented Captain Stapleton Mrs. Kwok Hia with the silver cup

Li & Lis

thereafter he got a hot, pace which H. A. Barros and A. E. Xavier Chinese his

counter. (Recreio "B") beat T. J. Ong and F. YMCA... 139.0 4 70 47 18 Pagh

have won easier if he Koh 24-21; beat H. Koh and S. Y. C.R.C.

13 0 0 7 47.61 12. had been able to make use of the Hon 21-5; beat T, W. Wong and H. Univeralty forecourt, but the rallies, nimosi Boon 21-3.

"RO ......133 0.10 30 68. o exception, were conducted N. A. Bottrae and E. A. R. Alves St. Andrew's from the baseline, where Joseph (Recrelo "D") lost to Ong and Koh

"A"

14 3 0 11 45 75 # pulled out some excellent shots,

11-21; lost to Koh and Hon 0-21; lost Free Lances. 14 10 13 31 27 2

without

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1

CREDITABLE PERFORMANCE

BY COURTING EVE

The manner in which Courting|great sprinter in his time. Eve captured the Coolgardie Hand- Racing Boy, the public idol of cap over six furlongs for non-win-1932 and one of the best sub-grifins ning Australian ponies of this season over supplied by the Russion dealer was a creditable performance owing Mordohovich, staged a come-back in to the fact that this cob was badly the last event (Boa Vista Handicap- off at the start. He was not in the second section) and it was a very pleture when the pack entered the popular win. His last win was” In straight; but his silk was noticed at the Kent Handicap run on Novem- the distance post. From this junc-ber 2, 1038 while last year the pony ture Courting Eve overhauled his was placed only once (in the Hay oppotients one by one amid shouts and Corn Stakes) out of 18 starts. and applause. Courting Eve was Tho great warrior had 162 lbs. on sired by Double, Court who was a his back and be won by two lengths.