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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY

1938. 30,

SEVEN GOOD RINK MATCHES PLAYED YESTERDAY

FIRST ROUND OF

BOWLS TOURNEY NOW COMPLETED LAST YEAR'S CHAMPIONS ONLY JUST THROUGH

Several interesting matches were played yesterday in the First Round of the Open Rinks Bowls Championship of the Colony.

A: the Kowloon B.G.C.. J. Remedies, C. Pereira, O. Remedios ad F. Sousa (skip) defeated C. Vos,

Basto (skip) by 28-13.

Last year's champlons, J. Sonres, J.

and Leonard, L.C.R. Souza

C. 8. Rossciel, were seen in action on the Police green against another Crai-E. Remedios, C. I. Busto and J. J. gengower C.C. rink comprising W. 3. Penny, K. M. Omer, M. J. Medina and J. Cavanagh, and only just managed to get through to the next round. Lending by 10-12 nt the 15th, as the result of scoring two singles, a four and a threo on the previous four heads, Roselet's rink jost a single, three and a single in that order in the subsequent ends.

A angle on the 19 put them on level terms, and they then went on to take two more singles to win out by 19-17.

A rink skipped by Bob Duncan, with J. Watson, T. Coleman and J. C. Brown, defeated n Kowloon Bow- Hog Green Club rink, consisting of R. P. Phillips, A. T. Lay, A. Hyde- Lay and E. W. Lines (skip) by 25-15 on the Kowloon F. C, green, Dunenn's four ind nea

nearly

the

way. At the seventh, a four took thein to 10-2, but Linen made a good recovery and, scoring on the next six heads, he and his men went ahend to 12×10. But they could work stop Duncan from registering a four, three and one on the next three succeeding; ends. Leading by 10-15 after the 10th Dunern took a four, two and a single to conclude the match.

EASY VICTORY

a

On the Civil Service C.C. green, R., Shaw, Strange, G. Duncan and W. Gul beat A. J. Coelho, J. B. Xavler. SLAlteran and AES. Ales by 29-13. The winners were never troubled and won easily. Ai the fourth head, they were leading 9-0, which became 18-5 at the tenth. AL the 18th, Clll's men were leading 20-10, but three singles ' for opponents reduced the defiçil.

Another Hongkong F.C. rink, J. S. Howell, G. S. Graver, A. W, Hodges and A. Brooksbank skip) got through to the second round, their victims being H. Gittine, J. L.. Stephens, A. Spory and A. H. Basto

The score was 23-11.

their

(skip), of the Kowloon Tong Club.

The losers started shakdily and were right shots down after the Ath. They improved on the next

The winners were very consistent, scoring an 13 beads, Basic would have been in a worse way bad he not scored a five on the fth bear, for apart from a two m the last end, he could only register singles. The score was 10-6 on the seventh, 18-10 on the 15th and 20-11 on the 20th

R. AND A. CAPTAIN

ELECTED

Licut. Col. H. H. Sutherland To Succeed Duko Of Kent

Edinburgh, May 4. Lieut-Colonel Ilenty Holmes Sutherland, D.S.O., the nominee of the past captains, was elected to the captaincy of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at the

at the business meeting at

St. Andrews last night, He succeedi the Duke of Kent in this capacity.

Col. Sutherland, who is 67, and a

left-handed player, will drive him- self into office according to tradition In September, and it will be an un- usual feature of the picturesque ceremony to have as its principal a golfer who, as they say. stands on the wrong side of the bill.

J. F. McGowan, of the Civil Service C.C., showing his skip where the Jack is. An incident in the Bowls match between the Civil Service C.C. and the Cratgengower C.C. In the First Division of the Lawn League on Saturday. The Clyli Servants were beaten by four shots after icading by nearly 20 shots shortly after tea,

AMATEUR GOLFERS WANT A "SEEDED" DRAW IN TOURNEY

France And Germany Win Their Ties

France and Germany have entered the semi-final round of the European Zone in the Da- vis Cup competition.

At Brussels. France elimin- ated Italy by three matches to

Protecting Leading Lights In all, according to fiester mes

The Early Stages

(By Geoffrey Simpson)

London, April 26.

Stepping into line with lawn tennis, the leading lights of Eng- lish amateur golf want the protection of a "seeded" draw when they play for the championship.

**

15 llabic to happen when straight draw rules the champion-

Educated at Marlborough College. four

where he was contemporary with J. So when the front-rankers Benumont Pease, now Lord War-gathered at Moortown, Leeds, yes- the dington, past-captain of the club, terday to start playing for

career English title they posted up a peti-

heads, however, and were only 5-8 down at the ninth. The Hongkong F.C. players went further ahead to the 14-5, which became 14-3

15th. Thereafter, the losers scored only on one head. n three Or: the 10th.

امج

W W. J.

For

Kather surprisingly, Dr. Lan, Dr. N. P. Karunjia, Howard and E. Zimmern (skip) beat L. Glendinning, W. Glendinning. W. McHardy and F. Nolan by 18-1B

on the Hongkong F.C. green.

ONLY JUST

Cycli

the

b

common-senst

sage, and at Budapest, Cer- many defeated Hungary by three matches to one.

IRISH SWEEPS STABILISED

Confidence Shown Everywhere

DOES A

CURSE HOVER OVER ALL EX-CHAMPIONS?

MAX SCHMELING MAY FIND IT IS SO

(By Davis J. Walsh)

New York, May 10.

Along the stately Unter den Linden and in the festive bara at the Adlon and Furstenhof, full many a "Hoch" and a "Heil" rent the air as the news came in of Max Schmeling's recent knockout of Steve Dudas in Hamburg and there were gutteral cries of "On to Louis," "On to the championship." But I wonder whether any of those rabid burghers gave thought to the legend of the heavyweight division--that once his steps have tottered off the throne, no cham- pion has yet been able to find his way back.

Schmeling is a most unusual man. Unusual enough, in fact, to have won the heavyweight championship away back in 1930 while resting on the bosom of his compers.

St. Dempsey was unusual to the point of being unique and even he was unable to come back against Tunney in Chicago, though they had to use a stop watch to tell the differ- ence, Far from weakening the legend, this lutter circumstance lends it certain support. Beaten out of the title In

the Philadelphia

year

before, Dempsey had Gene, doll-eyed, on the floor in the famous seventh round but got long-counted when he falled to go to a neutral

corner.

have been championship. Tunney

If he had done this Immediately. Tunney, who didn't know whether he was in Chiengo or Wappinger's Falls, even at the prolonged count of ave, must certainly counted out of his But Dempsey didn't, wasn't, and if you want to believe the romanticists, this only confirmed the idea that a curse is on the head of ex-champions forever and always.

LOST

WON

AND

and

The case of Schmeling himself is not without a certain validity in this connection. He won the champlon- ship on a fuke from Sharkey; then lost it back to the latter on a decision that practically nobody liked except two of the most important people in the house. They happened to be two of the three people who voted on the verdict.

Max Schmeling looked con- fitient about his forthcoming fight with Joe Louls for the heavyweight championship of the world as he left Southamp ton early this month for New York.

HIS: BIG CHANCE

Before Schmeling could get Share Chicago, where Louis promptly took key again, several disquieting things him. happened. First Shurkey met Car- nera and got knocked out, the title

In other words, fate and destiny going with him. Then Schmeng have hardly been with Schmeling in met Buer and got knocked out, after his long fight back toward pre- which he tooks on Hamas in Philadel-eminence, and they won't be until phin and got slathered. The result he climbs into one corner was that the German, never a man

on

the

Colonel Sutherland, who is 70- sident neur St. Andrews, and is a popular Gure in the life of the dis-

The men with big names are end the practice of everyone taking trict to which he came to reside after weary of knocking out each other, his chance. the war, has been a member of the IN

The R. and A, have several times R. and A. for 27 years, and has served on various committees of the ship. They contend it is wrong for been asked in the past to adopt

British system for the Club, including the Committee of

#star to receive this quietus ut an qualifying

amateur championship, and always Management, of which he was chair-early stage, while some "unknown"

they have replied "No" mam for about ten years.

steals his way into a late round,

(Special to "Telegraph"} UNWIELDY

Dublin, May 23. The practical-minded will, how-

of the Dr. R. J. Rowlette, one ever, regard 115 he begun a notable Almy

a qualifying Vice-Chairmen of the Hospitals Com the claim for move

the ring, sees Louts in the other. when he joined the Black Watch in tion in the clubhouse which urged

to-day, said that the was pushed far out of the picture 1093

After serving for some years "seeding and a new set of cond-round. There were 231 players for milice, closing the Sweepstake pro- whom promoters doted on anyhow, night of June 22 and, looking across

qvent which opened ul Moor-ceedings on the North-West Frontier, he had tions for the competition,

so very simple. He'll only have to Sweepstakes had become stabilised that it seemed he was definitely and And, of course, after that, I'll all be of Swe town yesterday, a great many

beat a man whom practically every- active service throughout the Greut

whose have not a ghost of a chance and hospitals would now rely upon irretrievably distanced.

He was so far out, in fact, that no-body regarda as a great prize fighter. continuance of the provision of funds War, in which he

of getting anywhere.

from them.

body gave him a thought while Baer The probity and dioroughness with was spattering Carnera around the The crack players feel that the

has become unwieldy which the proceedings were condurt- landscape, to take over the cham-

ed were now well realized through- pionship in 1935. and is therefore due for competition

If there had been The next year, Schmeling had arrangement on the lines indicated out the world.

any lack of confidence, the Sweep fought his way back. But when the by them.

New York boxing commission order- would have failed long ago.

In addition to ordinary provisioned him to meet James J. Braddock for hospitals, the matter of research for the right to challenge Boer, he declined both briskly and brusquely, was now being seriously dealt with.

Twenty-one workers were engaged with the result that Braddock went Meantime, Joe Louis was beating in research work in Canada, London in there and boat Baer, and America as well as in Dublin.-

everybody, so they gave him Schmel. International Press Bureau.

ing with the idea of pieling up some Class AA competition. What he really picked up was himself-after a count of ten. The fight was sup- posed to establish the offelal chal- lenger for Braddock's tile but, In- stead, Braddock passed up Schmeling in New Yorkc and took Louis to

Tolley. Harry was wounded.

Bentley Crawley, Frank Penninic. year he commanded the 7th Leonard (File) Battalion of the Black Watch. and others of their calibre put their

signatures

in 1915 he was awarded the D.S.O.

the to it, so naturally

were impressed

Since coming to the St. Andrews English Golf Union (in charge of

has Identified himself the

district ho

event)

with various public activities. He is have taken notice. chairman of the Memorial Cottage:

n keen

Ho

ord

Remember the shoul that was

a re-

A strong rink on paper, H. A. Alves four, comprising L. F. Xavier, C. E, Marques and F. V. V. Ribeiro, oily Hospital, Luthallan School for Boys, raised when the LT.A. announced "unknowns,"

As I am writing this one of the a Mr. J. Merris, of and is also on the council of St. that the Wimbledon draw would be just managed to beat a Kowloon F.C.

Wollaton Park, has made his reply four. J. Eastman, L. Bones,

Leonard's School. V.

Col. Sutherland "according to plan"? People called also takes a

to the "seeding" plan by dismissing Petherick and T. Fergusson, by 19-17.

Interest in the

"wangling" the draw and pre- Actually, Alves scored on 13 heads British Legion, of which he is

is the

dieted various kinds of disaster for at Moortown Mr. Tolley, who would

like to be "seeded." local But

president. against Fergusson's eight.

five

occupies the scheme. Actually it has worked on the second head and a four on similar position in the St. Andrews out well, and if "rabbits" are now

The game was over 18 holes, how. the sixth gave the losers a lend of branch of the Black Watch Associa prevented from reaching the last ever and that is another con-

At the 15th, Fergusson

of the eight it is still true that the best dillon which, it is urged, should go leading by 10-10. Then Alves chalk-Black

by the board. The petitioners, Home, player wins the title.

addition to their other reforms, de- stre 30-holes matches throughout the championship, whereas now only the final is over that distance.

11-3.

tion, and is also

clinirmon Memorial

ed up a two, a four and three singles Broughty Ferry. He is an elder of

to lead by 10-10 at the end of the A single for Fergusson gave 20th. Alves a two-shot victory.

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the pussibility "Seeding lessens of a fluke result, because when the last stage is reached the giants are there in full force-or should be.

It is claimed that the best golfer That's the whole point. An ar- ranged draw still gives rank-and-fle always wins in a 36-holes test-but never can tell, as Mr. Morris golfers their opportunity of elimin-you ating the big men, if good enough might say. for the job. Therefore there can be по serious objection to "seeding which, as lawa tennis has shown,

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I Did Not

Object To Qualifying

It seems to me that 38 holes be making the

-Says Henry Cotton throughout would championship a test of endurance as well as of folding skill. Even with

Henry Cotton, the Open golf the field reduced to 84, as suggested, champion, denies the report that be it would mean the finalists having had refused to play in the Dunlop- Southport tournament next week to play six rounds of 36 holes.

That would demand six full days because he objected to take part in of top-class golf. It might be too the qualifying rounds. much for some players

Speaking from his Leeds hotel

The reformers in their petition niso seck the introduction of qualifying competition for the Eng- jish championship (decided by stroke play over 36 hotes), which would leave 64 competitors for the A similar plan is followed in the last night, Cotton said: "The only

boxing championship amateur

by reason I withdrew was that I was mnin event.

making men fight all day at the required to go to St. Andrews next Here again elimination of the Albert Hall if they wish to reach a week to watch the Walker Cup Trial small

man is aimed at before the final. It is then claimed that the matches. If I had objected to play serious part of the championship best boxers have won-but some-In the qualifying rounds at South- begins. That is going to take much times it is the strongest who take port," added Cotton, "I should never

have entered the competition." of the romance out of the play, and the cups.

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However, that's been the way of it with ex-champions of the past, Even Braddock recently tried a brief come back, but got no further than his victory over Farr. And before that, there was Willard who got ali the way up to Firpo when he sud- denly lost further Interest, and Cor- bett with Jeffries, Fitzsimmons with

Jeffries and even Jeffries with John- non, although the white man may have been technically still the cham- plon when he entered the ring that day at Reno.

Of the long list, in fact, only three ex-champions, Including Tunney and Sullivan, had the great good senso to withdraw from circulation and stay there. The other was Johnson and he just couldn't help himself, He was in jail.

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