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SPORTS ADVT.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

The Eleventh Extra Race Meet- ing will be held (weather per- mitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday, 20th November, 1937, commencing at 2.00 p.m.

The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,.

Secretary. Hongkong. 10th November, 1937,

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Cambridge Threw Away The

Last Boat Race

By Conrad Skinner

One question has been put to me with quite monotonous fre- quency since last boat race: "Can Oxford keep it up or was 1937 merely a flash in the pan?"

I appreciate this implied confidence after my dynamited fore cast; but that question is precisely the one I am not prepared to answer, for the following reasons:

now-or-never

Oxford's position last season was a one. They had a strong crew, a good reserve crew, coaching that communded confidence, and Inspiring president. This year Oxford lose invaluable veterans Ilke Sturrock and Cherry, and, although Isis crews have shown that general interlat is defnitely on the up-grade, there is still far to go in order to match Cambridge in respect of that abundance which maintains varsity standard.

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In 1837 there was neither tide to lose nor basking threats to imperll. If that short-cut paid so handsomely when a normal fide had to be sacri ficed, what was not possible to an adventurous crew in 1937 conditions?

Hud I had the control, and we had won the toss, I should have insisted on inking Middlesex, or else instituted a sit-out strike! Then, leaving Ox- ford at Beverley Brook to its Surrey "dal" sweep, I should have hugged my Fulham bend round to the Crab- tree, or at least past Walden's; and, before straightening to shoot Ham- mersmith, should have left Oxford "out of sight."

MISTAKEN TACTICS Analysis of the replications of the 1937 victory is not simple. As a spectaelo, the race was, of course,

Now It true that Merifield, veer- magnificent the most thrilling con- test for many years-and any writhing somewhat towards Middlesex, ing of spirit on my part was not due made light use of this unusuni to partisanship. Nor was it the pos- advantage and succeeded thereby in cfforts to sluly quite needless butchery of my neutrallsing Cambridge's

side. And, forecast, but rather

crude get by on the Surrey the "butchery" of a priceless opportunity later, Merißeld cleverly made Oxford in. tactics that gravelled me.

secure by rst pinching Cambridge

We may all deprecate the exis-in too close nt Harrod's, and, after tence of luck in the conditions and that, by penning them in all round in the toss that lands them, unearned, the Chiswick bend. What tide there on plate to one of the crews; but was Oxford thus kept so that Cam- dend water It irks more to see conditions mis-bridge's spurts on the read or ignored. Obsessed by the were largely impotent. Surrey fetish and untaught by Ox- ferd's similar costly mistake in 1836

With all due credit to the splendid rowing, 1037 was a coxswain's year, par excellence, and even Merlfield's modifled appreciation of the faci carried the race.

mistake which Oxford had no in- tention or repeating. If they had won the tass In 1937-Cambridge chose

Some critics, who should have Surrey and handed Middlesex to

wind Oxford With the

actually known better, wrote palpable rubbish

steering. Hunter

was favouring Middlesex (even though but about the

lightly), Cambridge made the in-accused" of boring on both sides of credible choice..

Hammersmith, whereas he actually suffered it; the notion's Inaccuracy having been transparently obvious in the fact that both crews had had to make badly athwart the tide to clear Hammersmith dummy,

Perhaps never in the history of the race, however, has so great an cast advantage been ignorantly BWAY,

ns

So sincks the tide that, after a

CROWNING IRONY false start, Cambridge could back down to the stake-bont again

The crowning irony, however, in easily as in the Com. The great in the charge that it was an unsport- awell of tide on the Surrey bay simply ing procedure on Hunter's part-- did not exist. This was the legend- something "not quite"! On the con- ary year.

trary, a cox may do as he likest his own risk and hla crews, if, by a fuul, he is caught in his trespass. I saw no such foul in the race, but on who thought they did will have to lay the burden on Merißeld, not Hugler.

LESSON OF 1910 Why, in 1910, Cambridge, handi- capped by a bad crab and a neces- sary easy to recover from it, and knowing that for so light a crew all hung on the essential lead at Ham- mersmith, threw tide and caution to the winds and steered over Fulham fints (which in that day were peril- ously studded with pieces of concrete and old boller, capable of ripping the bottom out of an eight), clipped Ful- ham wall on a curving tangent, and

crime.

no Mere trespassing is Sparta rules the tideway-i.e., it is creditable to steal on advantage and get away with it; the affair only be coming a crime if one is so clumsy as to be caught doing it!

Anyone is now at liberty to assess, if he car, the Oxford victory of 1937

shot Hammersmith a canvas ahead, as a criterion for the clarifying or thus making a two-lengths recovery. dissolving of future prospects!

PESTS TRY TO RUIN

SOCCER PLAYERS

(By Stanley Halsey)

A new type of scandalmonger has cropped up in football, according to Mr. Arthur Turner, 'Spurs secretary. He is a dirt slinger, and is known as the "Masquerader."

Fentured together for the first line, John Howard and Louise Campbell, two of the screen's popular youthful players, appear in "Bulldog Drum- mand Comes Back," which opens at the Queen's Theatre to-day.

SAILORS TROUNCE MARINES

Boxing Rivalry In Shanghai

NOVEMBER 17, 1937.

WEEK-END FOOTBALL FIXTURE

Club To Play

S. China "A'

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The following are the Hongkong Football Association Cootball fix- tures for next week-end:

Club

Saturday, November 20

FIRST DIVISION

v South Chin "A"

(Club, 4.15 p.m.). Referee: Kossick.

Linesmen:-Baretto and Morecroft.

(Sookunpoo, 4.15 p.m.).

Seafortha

v 51. Joseph's

Referee:-Isley,

Linesmen-Brothwell

and

Mar-

SECOND DIVISION

v South China

riott,

Club

(Club, 2.45. p.m.). Referee: Youngs, Engineers

(Chinese)

V Eastern

(Caroline Hill, 2,40 p.m.).

Referee: Aldridge.

THIRD DIVISION (HONGKONG)

5th. Bde. RA. v Powbattan

(St. Joseph's, 4.15 p.m.).

Referee: Hudson.

Engineers

(European)

V Ordrunce

(Military, 4.15 p.m.)

Referee Johns.

Police

v Service Corps Joseph's, 2.45 p.m.). Referee Baker,

Medicals

v Stanley

(Military, 2.45 p.m.).

Referee J, Silva.

THIRD DIVISION (KOWLOON) 24th. Bty. R.A. v Seaforths

(Chatham Road, 2.45 p.m.). Referee:Burgess,

(Chatham Road, 4.15 p.m.). Referee:-Dove.

Shanghai, Nov. 16. Sitting at the ringside of Canidrome Gardens to-night, Ad-20th, Bty. R.A. V Kumaon Rides miral Harry E. Yarnell was the proudest man in Shanghai as U.S. victory Navy boxers scored a over U.S.' Marines by six bouts to three, thus regaining the annual championship and the Wallawalla Cup.

The sailors won three straight) fights after the intermission.

The Navy scored two knock-outs and one technical knock-out, while the Murines claimed one knockout.

Admiral Yarrell presented the win- ners and losers with cups at the end of the fights.

Prezent at the Gardens were Beaumont, Brigadier General John Col. Charles Price, U. S. Consul Gen- eral Mr. Clarcace Gauss, and Mr. Stirling Fessenden, Director-General of the Shanghai Municipal Council, Os well as 4,000 sallors, marines and civilians.

RESULTS OF FIGHTS

Results of the fights were:

"Slugger" Jones (Marines), 147. knocked out "Whirlwind" Tummins (Navy), 140, la the first round.

University v Portuguese

Sporting Asso. (Prince Edward, 2.45 p.m.). Referee: Sutterley.

v Royal Sigouls Air Force

(Prince Edward; 4.15 p.m.).

Referee:-Aylwin.

Sunday, November 21 FIRST DIVISION

v Kowloon Chinese Eastern

(Causeway Bay, 4.15 p.m.). Referee: MacCormac.

Linesmen:-Demmee and Dredge.

Police

SECOND DIVISION

V Engineers

(European)

(Club, 2.45 p.m.). Referee:-Day.

3th. Bde. RA. v Kwong Wah

(Sookunpoo, 2.45, p.m.). Referee: Flavelaar.

Police

Wednesday, November 24

FIRST DIVISION

v Middlesex

(Kowloon, 4 p.m.). Referee:-Day.

Linesmen:-Purnell and Sharpe.

Whitey Westerholm (Navy),147 OUR GUIDE

beat "Duke" de Stefano (Marines), 147, on points.

Jackie Ausborn (Fleet middle- weight champion), 163, beat "Killer" Kubiak (Marines), 167, by a techni-

ent knockout.

Pandemonium followed the throw- ing in of the towel by Capt. Kirk, the Marine Boxing chief, owing to the fact that he was not Kublak's second and had no authority to do so. Fur- thermore, Kublak was putting up a great fight in the face of a whirlwind attack, though at the time the towel was thrown in, he was battered on the ropes,

"Butch"

TO THE |CINEMAS

"Lawyer Alan" (King's Theatre, to-day). Though Bill Powell is his usual debonair self, this picture s not quite up to his usual standard. Joan Blondell renders capable sup- port.

seen drinking George Hunt, famous 'Spurs' centre, some players were forward, now with Arsenal, teld the heavily on licensed premises, while Daily Express recently how scurril-one, a married man, was said to have its best to been talking to a girl in the street, ous rumour had done

Truth was that player-pals bad wreck his career.

Mr. Turner told me that 'Spurs gone to the "local" for a drink and, were only one of many clubs who more important, a game of darts, received letters of that kind. He while the married player had been explained that the people who gave hailed and stopped to talk to a giri riso to these rumours were certain who was not only a firm supporter types who frequented public houses of the club but a great friend of his in the club's locality, and, by subtle wife and a frequent and welcome conversation, gave rise to the im-visitor to their home. pression

Directors assured the players they "Terrible" Terlecki (Navy), 133, Ronald Colman in the first film. that they were 'Spurs'

had satisfied themselves on the players.

They gel tight, talk a lot," said integrity of the men before signing Mr. Turner, "and the next thing we them." lcar is that So-and-So, of Spurs, has been seen very drunk in suck-and- such a pub."

Mr. Turner explained that in most cases where these reports had been received the player named had been playing billlards in the club recrea- tion room or checked up to be safely of home.

WIN FOR VICTORIA

Melbourne, Nov, 16. Vletoria bent New Zealand by five wickets in the cricket match which This scandalmongering was ended te-day. Victoria scored 141 brought to a climax in one club when und 203 for five, and New Zealand na anonymous writer alleged that 210 and 223.-Router Bulletin.

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Holliday (Navy), 101, beat Billy Addis (Marines), 158, on points.

Bobby Bryan (Marines), 130, beat

on points.

"Chuck" Haines (Marines). 139, beat Wesley "Killer" Watt (Navy), 130, on points.

"Chick Jarboe (Flect heavy- champion). 100 beat weight "Dollhouse" Crast (Marines), 100, on points.

Dicks "Slippery" Elam (Navy). 149, knocked out George Roso (Marines), 149, in second round,

Harry Croll (Navy), 159, knocked out "Rocky" Zullo (Marines), 181, in second round-United Preas.

"Bulldog Drummond Comes Back" (Queen's Theatre, to-day).-Ken- neth McKenna, Ray Milland and now John Howard have tried their hands with Sapper's world-famous charac- ter, but it is doubtful whether any one of them was as successful

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"Sophie Lang Goes West" (Alham- Theatre, to-day) Gertrude bra Michael's first Sophie Lang was on entertaining alm. This one is up to the standard.

"Nobody's Eaby" (Oriental Thea- tre, to-day),—A frivolous picture, with Patsy Kelly and Lyda Roberti In the leading roles.

"Dangerous" (Mairatio The- tre, to-day)-Belle Davis has a role sulled to her personality. Franchot Tone, ne usual, is good.

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