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FARR BETS

HARDCOURT

TENNIS

TITLE

MATCHES

FIRST SCHEDULE

(By "Veritas")

Hongkong first hardcourt tennis championship will start Wednesday next, September 1 with a programme of six matches -three singles and three doubics. Owing to the continuance of the Division Mixe doubles and "A" Imais league schedules. court progrommes have

the hard-

been

ranged for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in each week.

If the weather is kind, three days next week will see 18 matches com. plote,

DWB

All games will be played on the -U.S.R.C. courts but the organisers Bn- that owing to the difficulty of

Its finding umpires amongst

members competitors are requested to furnish their own umpires for the early rounds. Umpires will be off- cially provided for the semi-finals and finals,

Here is the schedule for next week and September B.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER I

Court No. 12, Wong Fuk-Bare and Lal Kwal-fan v. 8. A. and S. 8. Hussain,

Court No. 13 A. V. Gosano v. A. Crawford.

Court No. 14 Ma Kal-kwong and LA Kwai-hung v. A. I.. Sullivan and L. Goldman.

Court No. 15 W. C. Hung v. Capt.j Loch.

Court No. 16 A. V. Remedies and;

J. Gonsalves v. G. E. Clarke and 6. C. Burnett.

Court No. 17 5. A. Rumlahn v. I. Mahan Singh.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

Court No. 1 1. Y. Ho v. J. L. F. Smalley.

Court No. 13 Major MacDonald v. Chan Kam-moon.

Couri No. 14 E. C. Fincher and G. Bodiker v. S. A. Gray and A. Craw- ford.

Court No. 15 A. E. P. "Guest v. X. C. Lau.

Court No. 10 lu Tak-cheuk and Wong Shul-wing v. E. F. Fincher and D. J. N. Anderson.

Court No. 17 M. A. Oliveira v.

1. M. A. Razack,

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

Court No. 12 A. V. Gosung and

B. T. Gonano v. R. R. Todd and 0.

E. Divett,

Court No. 13 A. L. Sullivan v. S. A. Gray.

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J.

Court No. 14 S. A. and H. D.

Capt. ItumJalin

Loch and Tomlinson

Court No. 15 F. H. Kwok v. 5. W. Llang.

Chart No. 16 J. Pengelly and f Agafurolf v. T. K. Leung and J. Ru Court No. 17 G. Choa V Wong Fuk-nam.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Court No. 12 Major MacDonald and A. N. Other v. G. Chua and J. W. Leonard.

Court No. 13 G. E. Clarke v. E. C. Fincher,

Court No. 14 1. Mahan Singh and Firdos Khan v. Chan Kam-moon and Chan Kam-hung.

Court No. 15 Lui Kwal-fan v. 11 D. Rumfahu.

Court No. 16 Dr. A.-M. Rodrigues and II. A. Barros v. W. C. Hang and Tsul Wal-pul.

THE

HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.

AUGUST THURSDAY,

26, 1987.

£500

ON

Hongkong Can Hear Louis-Farr Fight

is announced that the B.B.C. Empire Transmission the Tommy commentary on

LEAGUE TENNIS

"B" Division Title Will

Farr v. joe Louis heavyweight Soon Be

fight will be heard on Friday. August 27 from 12.50 a.m. to 1.50 a.m. C.M.T.

This relay can be picked up in Hongkong from 7.50 a.m. to 8.50 a.m to-morrow on C.S.G., G.S.I.. G.S.C., G.S.D. and G.S.B. Short recordings will be relayed at 11.30 am, and 7 7.15 am.

G.M.T. to-morrow p.m. normal frequencies.

on

Court No. 17 F. H. Kwok and $. W. Liang v. F. R. Zimmer and d N. Other.

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K.I.T.C. LOSE

HIMSELF TO BEAT JOE LOUIS

NEGRO, HOWEVER

IS A 4 TO 1 FAVOURITE

Big Fight To-night

THE world of boxing, particularly British enthusiasts,

will be on their toes to-night when Tommy Farr, the gallant Welshman, who has risen from obscurity to fame within three years, steps into the ring at Yankee Stadium to meet Joe Louis, the unofficial heavyweight champion of the world.

The situation has more than interesting point. In United or less regarded as a title bout. In States the fight, is more Ingland it will only be officially recognised as a fight, with no title at stake, as the British Boxing Board of Control has laid down that only a fight between Max Schmeling, who was side-stepped by Louis recently, and Furr, the British and Empire heavyweight, can carry with it the world title.

Iteuter says that the bout to-night will start at 10 o'clock (Now York local time). The bout has aroused considerable interest as it brings together Farr, who was formerly an hotel “Boots," and America's asknowledged champion, the Detroit Bomber.

Champion Louis will take the ring a 4 to 1 favourite, with few wishing to back Farr, except himself. The Welshman has wagered £500 on the result.

The fight between the "Tonypandy Terror" and the "Brown Bomber" has caught the imagination more than any fight of recent years. It seems amazing that the Briton will be fighting for the heavyweight crown of the world, yet if he wins, he will not be re- garded as world champion in Great Britain as he must fight and beat Schmeling to lay claim to the title.

Despite the tremendous bullyhoo publicity which has been given to-night's scrap, it may be a financial flop, as it is generally regarded that the fight is a "good thing" for Louis. This is emphasised by the belief that the negro will very quickly open the cut over Farr's right eye which he sustained during his train- ing,

The promoters have already eut the price of the cheap seat by more than half, and Farr, who is guaranteed at least, £5,000 may ironically receive more than the title holder, who is to be given 42% per cent. of the gate receipts.

TOM GODDARD, WRITTEN

DOWN AS FAILURE BECAME FAMOUS

Cricketer's Romantic Career

By Ivan Sharpe)

Football

SCOTTISH LEAGUE MATCHES

HOME TEAMS BEATEN

Lonodn, Aug, 25.

Scottish Football A number of

played on were League matches Tuesday and again to-day. To-day Celtic, playing on their own ground, with: spoils could only share the

South. Rangers visited

Surely up 74 in an hour and gave them a beat Clyde. St. Johnstone suffered

fighting chance.

Somerset slumped again and hea home defeat, and libernian also lumped in with len 6's in an innings went down at home before Queen's

to win the of 70, and then took four wickets in Park, Kent's second incings

Wilfred Rhodes, they say, learned to bowl by pitching a ball Queen of for hours on end at the wall of a shed. And cricket in the garden Falkirk and won by the only goal scored. and Motherwell narrowly has been the making of many an Australian

Other men, other ways. the strangest route to international cricket is that of Tom Goddard, the Gloucestershire bowler, who is at Manchester this week-end for the If the weather is propitious, the Test match with New Zealand.

r six years with the match! In 1927, the of "B" Division championship

decided

He was by county, he was written down a falfurė tennis league will be next Wednesday. Cralgengower, pre- and was not re-engaged,

time hadn't taken 150 wickets for the sent leaders, hope to complete their then a fast bowler, and in all that programme by then, and the outcome county, while his average for the last of their encounters will C.R.C. and three seasons had been 47, 30, and not batting figures, Recreio will assuredly settle the 55-bowling,

these! championship problema.

TRANSFORMATION

was

crisis many

cricketer

Craigengower have arranged to So the county cried enough. At has play Recreio on Wednesday next and this hope to meet Chinese Recreation Club echoed the verdict and packed up.

Not re-engaged sounds like the either on Monday or Tuesday next.

to win both sack. But not to Master Goddard, Craigengower need

Although he was in his 20th year matches to become champions.

he decided to change his style, took Only one match in this division an engagement on the ground staff played yesterday, Kowloon nt Lord's (1928) and brought it off Cricket Club, In spite of the splendid so well that in the following summer effort by the Hussain brothers who he not only got back in his job with again won all three sets, beating Gloucestershire but proceeded to Kowloon Indian Tennis Club five to take more wickets (154 for 15 runs apiece) than in all his previous sen- four.

Bons with the club. And finished at The failure of the K.I.TC. third the top of their averagesl pair to win a set, and the defeat of

Nor was it a flash in the pan. His Firdos Khan and I, Mahan Singh, second string by the K.C.C.'s first new, medium-pace off-spin bowling was called to Old Trafford to play two couples was responsible for the was so impressive that in 1930 he result.

for England against Australia.

TRIUMPH

Atter beating Grose and Anderton

Ramsey

Ауг Celile

The result ns cabled follow.

by

Reuter

WEDNESDAY

4 Kilmarnock

2

Queen O'South: 2

1

Arbroath

0

0 Rangers

1

0 Queen's Park 2

1

Clyde

1

Hearts

3 Morton

LET 'EM ALL COME All of which goes to show that the ket. Home-made is the ideal, but it residential rule is a godsend to cric-

Dundee won't work in a day when ericket against counter- up its head

Falkirk needs all the talent it can muster to hold attractions.

What is good for big Yorkshire is Hibernian not good enough for most of the Motherwell others. Besides, there would have St. Johnstone been no Tom Hayward and no Hobbs Third Lanark for Surrey if the birth rule hnd held

Footballers- Attention !

Signs that the local football season is fast approaching can be found in the notice circular- ised yesterday by the Kowloon Football Club that the club will start training on Friday. August 27, at 5.30 p.m. on the K.F.C. ground. All playing

club members of the earnestly requested to attend.

are

and Burnett and Clarke casily, the Since changing from pace to length Hussain brothers all but lost against and spin, Goddard has taken nearly

1,500 wickets in 6 years, including all round. Sign of the times that it's and Wright, eventually scraping home in the twelfth game. a haul of 200 in 1935, and for an weakening.

Details of the match and the average cost of about twenty,

This year he has been setting the revised league table follow.

pace, at the age of 36, and was first

8. A. and S. 8. Hussain (K.I.T.C.) best

D. J. N. Anderson and F. Grosa 6 beat to the hundred wickets mark.

G. C. Burnett and C. G. Clarke 6-1; beat A. W. Ramsay W. Wright 7-5,

The Man who Came Back. What the County thinks about his feat is

Middlesex make no bones about it. They let 'em all come-Australians, you? Thus big Jim Smith, of Middlesex, South Africans and what have also up for the Test, is a Wiltshire nan and appeared for that county to was recommended before he

F. Khan and I. Mishan Singh lost to reflected in the fact that when he Andarsin and Grose 7-0; lost to Burnett look his benefit at, Gloucester last Lord's.

and year the attendance was the biggest- Clarke 3-8) beat Ramsay

ever at the ground. Wright 6-4.

and

M. Singh and B. R. Halleh lost to Ander- Ron and Grase 1-0; lost to Eurott end

0-0.

With his six feet five Inches, Smith veritable giant and when he is is a WELLARD RUBS IT IN

bowling at Lord's, the earth tremors Tho curiosities of cricket are re-are often felt in South London-or Cinrke 0-0 lost to Ramsay and Wright flected in the careers of other players so they sayi

His weight and speed cause much In Manchester for the Test,

Hammond, as is well known, was havoc to his specially-made footwear What does Kent and now he wears a strip of steel born at Dover. think about

that, these lean days? along the sole of his right boot. In A. Pl. But that isn't all. Arthur Wellard the same way, Morris Nichols, the was also born in Kent-at Southfleet. Essex express, wears a steel toe-cap an outstanding all-to prevent a little of the wear and rounder with the Bexley Heath club and was given trials by Kent. But that was all. They let him go.

Bomerset took him

LEAGUE TABLE

Sets.

P. W. D. L. F.

Craigen-

D

0 42

12

12

6.3 Rower C.R.C... 0 40% 18% 12 SCAA..

7 4 0 3 824 80

K.C.C. 7 4 0 3 3441⁄2 281⁄2 2 23% 13%

Recrelo

3

49

become

tear of

wling.

PLEASE Fast-bowlers they come and go.

0

ANSWERING THE CALL

Soccer is on the way and you will 100n be seeing plenty of this sort of thing. The general call-up has been sounded and here cameraman has caught early arrivals at the Brentford F.C. ground. Muttitt and Wilson (right) are putting their honds to- gether.

Wellard's Wondor-Hit

Few cricketers can, like Arthur Wellard, the Somerset all-rounder, say that they hay their first Test chance at the age of 35. Wellard, for some seasons now, has been of international on the verge selection by his consistent bowl- ing and brilliant big-hitting.

A year or so ago, when playing against Essex, Wellard hit a ball from the "Colchester ground to London: The

ball, when it went out of the ground, landed in a passing Roods train which carried it to Liverpool Street Station.

a country When playing in match in Cornwall a couple of seasons Bro, Wellard, who is Ken- 65 167 in tlah born, hit up minutes.

TUESDAY

2 Partrick

A Hamilton

081. Mirren

2 Aberdeen

GIVE YOUR GUESTS

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&

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"THE SIGN OF THE

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But Wellard has rubbed it in, be- hard ant fast-Nichols, Larwood,

a fore now. In 1935, at Maidstone, Voce, Farnes, Allen, Gover, Bowes,

8

ho twice won the match for Bomer- and Clark. Now come Smith and

His side collapsed; he slashed Wellard. What do the barbers say?

ot.

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