Jos E Brown (centro), with Frank Orth (left) and Joe Kelly-a« tha thugs valet hires to kidnap Joe so he won't have to play in the big game —in a scene from "Pole Jos”, the Warner Bros, film now showing at the King's Theatre
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MANAGER'S BRIGHT INNOVATION
-Akron. O., July 18, Saturdays are trial and judgment days in the caddy court at the J. Ed Good Municipal golf course here.
the Every Saturday throughout summer the 75 enddies meet to hear made during the week
gambling.
London, Aug. 7. A brilliant bowling performance by Hadley Verity, the Yorkshire and England slow bowler, was the feature of the programme of matches charges in the County Cricket Championship against them. The most common which commenced to-day. Playing misdeeds are profanity, against Warwickshire ul Leeds. carelessness and failure to keep an Verity captured nine wickets for runs, its a result of which Yorkshire n
on the ball.
their
The court was instituted by Charles were in a favourable position at the Burns, mannger of the course, who end of the day's play. Warwick-decided that the boys were best able shire, after scoring 64 for three to punish offenders against wickets at lunch, were dismissed for code. 205, and Yorkshire had made 51 without loss
drawn.
when stumps were
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THE HONGKONG.
R.A.M.C. AQUATIC SPORTS
CHAMPIONSHIP IN "Y" POOL
MANY CLOSE RACES
Some excling races were witness- ed in the European Y.M.C.A. swim- ming pool on Saturday evening when the Royal Army Medical Corps held their annual aquatic meet.
Kowloon Detachment won the Ag- gregate Championship for the "Arthur" Challenge Trophy, beating Hongkong by 23 points to 15, Plc. Hughes and Pte. Harris who, between
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1987.
Richards Wins The Donkey Derby
London,
Gordon Richards and Stero Donoghue dead-heated in the final of the Coronation Donkey Derby at Alexandra Park,
Then Gordon, up on Dolly, won the re-run by a donkey's neck.
Michael Heary, who rode the Derby winner this year, was alt- other of the Jockeys, all of whom raced in their full colours,
He and Donoghue presented silver cups after the race.
CLASSIC
them, won most of the championship CRICKET
events, contributed in a large mca- sure to Kowloon's success.
Major Eccles was one of the most
popular winners of the evening
successful in the Plunging Champlon-
ship. He also participated in the
Medley Relay for Kowloon.
Ple, Nicholls proved himself LL diver of no mean merit. He
won
this event quite comfortably and was ileservedly applauded for some fine diving.
AT LORD'S
(Continued from Pape 6.)
tired of seeing Surrey beaten and i would keep their subscriptions he their pockets next year. Of course The 50 Yards race for the "Alex-they will do nothing of the kind. under" Cup now a thrilling race, Pte. The bitterness of disappointment will Hughes winning with little to spare
and the
of Kent, DARE:
people they from Pte. Sadler.
which will presently look for the turn of
the road-or learn in
reciate a
for its own sake and cease to imagine that the spice of cricket
Bes
solely in an unbroken series of successes by the home side. But the bigger the fall
Thic water-polo mutch, wound up the programme, ended in a
Official
Of L.T.A. Wants Open
VICE-PRESIDENT NOW IN FAVOUR OF AMATEUR- PRO TOURNAMENT
London,
Mr. Percy Rootham, vice-president of the L.T.A., is now in favour
an
| "open" championship at Wimbledon with professionals such Vines,
· Perry and Tilden competing ou equi terms with the amateurs.
He believes that iltis is the only way to check the many abuses now prevalent at Wimbledon and other tournaments.
The boundary Hue between professionals and amateurs M hard to defino" ho wald "and frequently the distinction is so subtle as to be almost negligible.”
"This open tournament Issue will be decided soon, we all hopr. by the L. T. A. and by the goV- erning bodies of every national association affiliated to the It- ternational Federation. "The great professionals of to-day are all products of amateur tennis. orities, who developed these great players should keep them in utter darkness after they have given up their amateur status."
victory for Hongkong by the odd preciate a great game to ap- It seems hypocritical that the auth-.
goal in five.
At the conclusion of the gain, the prizes were presented to the winner by Mrs. Blake, wife of Col. 11. the greater the shock, and the dis Blake, o..., Man, the Commanding the
brigade of Kent and Surrey Officer;
incy consider that the best is
The full results were as follow: 220 Yards Free-style Championship-not being got out of the cricket of;
1. Pie, Harring 2. Pie. Sadler: 1. Pie the county by those who organise Wion. Time 3 min. 37 2-3 secs.
RAM.C. Plungios Championship
Laidlaw. Distance 40 ft. 3 ing.
1.
INTERPORT TRIALS POSTPONED
cricket. good There Wretched Weather Spoils
the club. It is said, with sound Major Eccies; 2. Pte. Hughes: J. Pte. reason, that Kent and Surrey are
chock full of Allen; Pte. Brickell; 3 Pte. Laidlaware hundreds of streng leent sides within there borders, and playing
healthy enough
Novices 23 Yards Free-style-1, Pie.
Tino 17 3-10 bes
25 Yards Children's face.-1, John Hthe county finance is 2. Billy Smith,
50 Yards Free-style Charopianship-to keep a big staff of professionals 1. Pte. Hughes; 2, Plc. Sadler; 3. Pie and to take elaborate pains to train
arris. The 30 2-5 seen.
the youngsters and to provide them 50 Yards (Open to former members of with plenty of match practice, RA.M.C. who are members of the Corps: Association-1, Mr. Leigh: 1, Air. Skimmer. Time 38 9-10 rech,
157 joint): 2, Pie. Hughes 145 points); 3 Cpl. Howells 141 points).
Diving Championship. Ple. Nicholls
Latties 23 Yards Free-style-1, Mrs. B., Burke: 2, Ark. Eecies. Time 10 45
LUCA,
Warrant Offers and Sergeants'
A PRECARIOUS PROFESSION
There is evidence that Kent and Surrey, among others, jeopardise their chances by giving only halt- heurted trials to young players. And when a batsman or bowler knows
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Saturday's Event
The Interpart Swimming Trials, ranged to take place at the V.R.C bath on Saturday, were postponed on account of the inclement weather. The most important event on the programme was the 100 yards free style in which Wilfred Lawrence and Norman Lee, the two best men for this distance, were to have met to decide local supremacy.
The new date for the trials will be announced later.
The Interport Committee have
scored 404 against Humpshire niter orders an offender to wear his shoe's for Bie winners, wisile Pie. Hughes and there is a tremendous gap beyards free style
SWIFT JUSTICE
being 142 for one at lunch. Led by on the wrong foot. Berry, who scored 153, the Leleester batsmen were at the wickets the whole day.
43 runs.
All offenders are tried with gravity. Urchins, ordinarily irrepressible,
Playing at Chesterfiell, Northants assume dignity when they come into scored 102 for two before lunch the court. Justice is swift. There against Derbyshire, but were all out is no suspended sentence. Judg- for 253. George Pope was the most ments of the court are executed with successful bowler for the champions, dispatch. his six wickets Costing
No volume of written law guides Derby had made 20 without loss at the cuddies tribunal. Either a man close of play.
isn't. And if he's Its guilty, or he
guilty, he pays the penalty, Despite 78 by E. Davies and 90 by Usual practice when a caddy is Smart, Glamorgan, who had 97 for convicted of swearing is for him to four at lunch, complied only 243 plead guilty and tisk for an h against Somerset at Weston-super-mediate sentence. Mare. It was Meyer who was chiefly Burns says the count seldom tem- responsible for the collapse, dismiss-pers justice with mercy. On several ing Ave for 65. Somerset hod 102 occasions, he has been compelled to on the board for three wickets at intervene with a plea for leniency. close of play.
own in
never
100
contes!
100 Yards Breast-stroke Championship—that if he fails in one match he will JURY OF 73
1. He, Hughes: 2. Pe. Harris 3. be left
his out of the next Judic, There is one
chosen by Wiggins. Time B1 secs.
sibilities of doing himself justice 50 Yards Free-style fandicap-1. Pte. election at each session of the court. vidler; 2. Pte, Flint, 3, Ple. Wiggins are undermined before he leaves the made arrangements for further trials Surrey made quite a good start Everybody else is on the jury,
Tine 41 453 3000,
pavilion. It
It also appears that more to be held in the V.R.C. both during Ofern 25 Yards Free-style-1. Grut. against Middlesex at the Oval, scor- Time Was when the favourite
pro-the week. Murdoch; 2. Major Eccles.
16 1.5 Opportunities could be found to pro- Time ing 123 for twu
On Tuesday, August 10, at 8 pm. before
vide players not in the lunch sentence for gambling was that theseen.
the regular interval, but they could
50 Yords Novelty Race-1. Pie, Harris: elevens connected with the county to trials will be held for the 220 yards not eaddy should run the gauntiel. But
obtain more mach practice. Any water-polo.
free keep up the pace and were all out Burns outlawed this practice when 2, Cpl. Howell; 3. A/Cpl. Beare.
style, 50 yards tree style and for 170, H. G. Owen-Staith did most he found that some of the bays, 70-Yards Free-style: 1. S/Sgt. Durnford; 2) kind of match, be it never so humble of the
On Thursday, August 12, also at damage in the afternoon,membering their own losses, wielded Q5. McFarlane: 3. Sgt. Ottoway. is worth more than hours and hours taking Ave wickets for $2
trials will be held for the 400 200 Yards Inter-Section Niedley Relay at the net. runs, paddles too enthusiastically.
Cewloun (Pte. Harris, Pie. Vittler, Pre. | HA,
But there is anotherds free style and 100 yards free Middlesex did not fare loo well them- The most severe sentence takes flughes and Major Eccles; 2. Honkong side to be considered. County stylo, 1yio. selves, their score being 138 for nine away the enddy's privilege to playing Pt. Nicholls, Pte. Sadler, Ple. Flint and "nurseries" cannot create. They can wickets at close of play.
golf on Mondays, which is caddies' Pic. Wilson). Time Zina, 30 secs,
On Saturday, August 14, at 9 p.m., only develop-provideci that Water Pola: Hongkong beat Kowloon
the trials will be held for 50 yards free day.
by 3-2 after leading at the interval by material is responsive to
to treatment-
cht style, 100 yards
backstroke, sometimes two clear goals. Ple. Sadler (3) scored and whimsical Judge
tween the
and water polo | Pte. Harris replied for the Jokers.
youth of
apparent promise straight from the village green and for that evening, including events Other events will also be arranged the player with the skill to hold his for members, fancy diving and an
county matches.
Moreover
over, exhibition swim between Miss Yeung big proportion of those who show Sau-king and Miss V. Thirlwell over QUICK CENTURY
most promise cannot afford to play 440 London, Aug. 7. as amateurs and are unwilling to give
yards. Ilitting up 100 in 51 minutes in up a career in business or at a trade swim, it will be recalled
In connection with the exhibition Nolts second innings against Kent for the precarious occupation of pro- Thirlwell beat Miss Young
that Miss- yesterday, J. Hardstaff,
the young fessional cricket. Unfortunately, the touch at North Point about a month by a Notls and England batsman, is Ukely to win the Lawrence Trophy for the pay of a player before he obtains ago, and the race has been arranged
in the Arst eleven or the second in the nature of a return quickest century in first-class cricket
( clever suce during 1937.
after all, he may between the two. In scoring 120 out of 311, Hardstaffingly small. in doing is exceed- helped Notts to beat Kent by five at the top, but there is poverty
There may be prizes nt wickets,
the bottom. A junior member of a Apurt from batting against the clock, Hardstoft had to make his run county round staff receives at most in a severe heat wave.
three pounds
a week for a season Sir Walter Lawrence presented the of four months, and ifteen shillings No Play Possible Over
winter week
pay. Even with # few odd sums for
playing in an occasional match his income from cricket dues THOL amount to a hundred
The International Charity Baseball it is very dificult to series arranged by the Hongkong and temporary employment of any Baseball League in aid of the Sailors kind in the winter. Moreover, there to the uncertainty of the future. for the Pics Home and the Soclely Protection of Children, could Many a young man who has given not be started over the week-end on a good job for cricket does not account of rain both on Saturday and improve as hoped, and after three professionals are always trying to or four years he finds himself thrown
Sunday. Golfers here are wondering why improve their play either
The series will now commence on Playing on the Cheltenham College America beat Britain in the Ryder theory of making the shots or in the on the world at an age when it is
exceedingly hard to find
Saturday, August 14, with a rat. an opening ground, Worcestershire totalled 319 up in conditions which were sup-application of the theory.
to him, round match between China and posed to handicap their players. In America they strive ceaseless-in any occupation against Gloucestershire, their score
There is not much inducement, Ind
India at Caroline Hill, commencing at It is probable that the Americans ly to roll three shots into two and then, for a young fellow who has a 3 p.m. On Sunday, August 15, com- at lunch being 133 for two. Bull general standard of play is higher two into one.
In Britain if a play trade or contributed 81 and R. C. M. Kimpton because they have more
a clerkship which holds mencing at 10
a.m., the United States gels quite satisfied. 92 to the score, while Tom Goddard Itles for competitive golf tum huve ile makes a special effort to re- any possibilities of advancement to will play Portugal. The winners of captured six wickets for 60 runs. the professionals in
leave it
cricket. these two encounters will clash in the for professional this country. vert Into an eagle. Gloucestershire had suffelent time to They have a winter
The Briton does not concentrate There is, no doubt, the circuit from
lure of a
of a final to be played on Sunday, August make 113 for four before stumps California to Florida in which they on his golf in the way that Amerl-free, open-air life, as contrasted 22. were drawn.
play for prize money amounting to enn professionals The former with a stuffy office or a workshop, about $100,000.
makes a game of it while the latter but a man cannot live on sunshine. Centuries by John Langridge (159) In Britain during the winter the makes it a
a business.
In spite of all handlenps, however, committee and Jim Parks (108) enabled Sussex average professional gets in
for not finding a new about These may be some of the rea-counties with big traditions general- Blythe or the Surrey committee for to make 352 against Kent at Hastings. one round a week.
sons why no British golfer has everly get over their lean years sooner not finding a new Hobbs as to blame They octaplet the wicket thet
the meantime, it is the
for Golf is also taken more seriously won the American Open champion-or later. In
British Government whole day, their score at lunch being in America. The young and old shlp.
almost as fatuous to blame the Kent finding a new Shakespeare.
Lancashire's recent improvement was again evident to-day when they commenced their fixture with Not- tinghamshire at Nottingham. Mnk- ing 149 for two before the interval, they eventually put up 413 for eight, chict contributor being Place with 137.
161 for none.
The New Zealand tourists visited Chelmsford to play Essex and were in quite a sound position at the end of the day. Essex, after being 124 for one at lunch, were eventually dis- missed for 256. Wilcox contributing 110 and Dunning taking six for 71: Before drawing of stumps, the tourists had made 101 for one:
An interesting match is in pro- grees ut Lord's where Young Amateurs are opposed to Young Professionais. The Amateurs have made 280 and 341, while the Profes- sionals scored 384 In their first innings-Reuter.
CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE:
Middlesex
Yorkshire
Derby
SuBox
Gloucester Glamorgan
Notis
Surrey Lancaire Essex Warwick Hampanir Bomerset Worcester Коль Leicester Northants
P
1st 1st No P PWL Inn Inn Res Pos Obt Pet
330 222
235
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