THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 4.
1938.
Moment In Lawn Bowls Match
VOLUNTEER AQUATIC SPORTS An Exciting
THIS WEEK PROMISES TO BE GREAT ATTRACTION Hongkong's Leading Swimming Stars In Action
Swimming of unusually high standard and keenness is expected when the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps hold their annual aquatic sports at the V.R.C. on Saturday next, and most of the Colony's leading swimmers will be seen in action.
An attractive programme has been drawn up, and this year's event promises to surpass its predecessors in entertainment. Inter- unit rivalry will be at its keenest and best in a schedule which caters for all tastes.
Mizler Too Good For Daly
By Fred Darisell
THE EVENTS
The events are as follows:"
Volunteer Inndleng (heats) 60 yards.
Ladies' Invitation Handicap (30 yards).
Race
200 yards free style Team (teams of 4 men, 66 yurds each)
HK.V.D.C. Nursing Detachment
Champlouship (50 yards heats).
High Diving.
50 yards Ladies Invitation Hand- cup Final.
Volunteer Handicap 50 yards Final. 300 yards Team Race (leam of six
Officers and Sergeants Ruce, 25
ment.
London, May 31. There was a cold snap in the air last night when South London box- ing partisans gathered 5,000 atrong At the New Cross Stadium to see Harry Mizler, ex-light-weight cham-yards, pron of Great Britain, outpoint George Daly, of Blackfriars, over 10 rounds.
Tominy
1 last saw Daly sparring in Fort's training camp in
in America und he has evidently learnt something of Trans-atlantie methods. He worked
First Aid Race (post entries). Blindfold Rare, 26 yds, H.KV.D.C. Nursing Defochment
Championship Final, 50 yards Fancy Diving Exhibition.
Inter-Unit Water Polo Final. Machine Guns V Beach
units have been divided
for the body with both hands and got Defence.
The
the inside position very cleverly and
cross.
several umes scored with a right differently this year, and teams are arranged as follows:-Coast Defence, Beach Defence, Mobile Machine Guny, Portuguese Company Chinese Company.
Mizler boxed stylishly, but he was rather averse to feading, although he was always a menace with his swift right-cross
and
A.
Referee,
The officials will be:-Timekeepers, He shook Messrs, countering.
J. J. M. M. Alves, A. Daly up in the fifth round in this Guterres and D. F. Lopes; Referee, way, and the Blackfriars man kept Mr. D. Lyon; Water Polo dancing in spiritedly to the fray. Mr. H. Hyndman.
Lieut. J. M. Calvert, Mr. C. E. Roza- Starter, Mr. D. P. Lopez: Judges, Star Percira and Mr. G. A. Agabeg.
Mizier's left hand, developed in his amateur days when he won the Brl Hish Amateur Championship, proved very embarrassing to his rival in the
sixth
An exciting incident in the Police-Craigengower bowls match in the Senior League on Saturday when a wood grazed past the jack lying near the ditch. Craigengewor wore thres up on this rink and finally won by rix thota-Pictorial Neues.
TO-DAY'S LEAGUE
TENNIS
Two Matches Likely
To Be Played
Last night's heavy rain hay serlously threatened to-day's mixed doubles tennis league programme, but it is believed that two of the three matches will be played, pro- viding no further heavy rain fulls this
morning.
}{ practically certain that the courts will be too heavy to permit the C.R.C
versus Recreio match to
Major- be played, but the two encounters
Mrs. A. W. Bartholomew, wife of the The prizes will be distributed by round, but Daly rallied wor-General Officer Commanding. derfully and took the honours with General A. W. Bartholomew, after three smashing rights to the law. which there will be dancing.
Daly's blows, however, did not
The gals will start at 0.30 p.m.. carry as much power as those of his and admission fee will be one dollar. opponent's.
A GOOD WINNER
It was a grand tussle and Daly carried the fight to his man with plenty of confidence. He landed with the right several times in the ninth round, but Mizler rained a hall of blows on him on the ropes and it was wonderful how Daly managed to survive.
Daly fought well in the last round, but Mizier maintained his supremacy to the end and was a good winner of A good fight.
Johnny Ward (Ireland) and Dave Finn (Mile End) was a bustling aTair. Ward was sent down in the first round. But he fought dercely afterwards, and was always setting the pace. Towards the end Finn scored freely to the body and gained a narrow victory on points,
The first bouts to be decided were the first serics of the light-weight competition and resulted as follows: Alex Burton (Hoxton) outpointed Sld Hardly (Deptford); Angus Mc- Gregor (Scotland) outpointed Wally Davis (Notting Hill); Johnny Jones (Jurrow) outpointed Tommy Johnson (Bognor) and Temmy Williams
Amongst the minor bouts, Jack Smith (Worcester) beat Billy Med-. hurst (Swanscombe), who took some heavy punching and retired in the Marylebone) knocked out Eddie third round, to be rather unrenson-Hallett (Camberwell) in the first ably disqualified for Ꭼ . doing. round.
The doctor said after the bout that Medhurst had broken a bone in his jow.
The elght-round bout between
Rothmans
In the semi-finals McGregor out- nointed Benton and Jones outpointed Williams, McGregor won the final.
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French Athletes
Well Beaten
GERMANS SUPREME
Paris, July 4.
The French National Light Athletic team suffered its heaviest defeat in the past two decades, when it lost to Germany yesterday by 40 points to
105.
SUZANNE LENGLEN STILL VERY ILL
Paris, July 4, The condition of the famous French tennis player, Suzanne Lenglen, who is suffering from a pernicious anemia was practically unchanged yesterday evening.
The three attending doctors declared after a new thorough examination yesterday that the condition slightly improved but that the improvement is not yet sufficient to allow a further blood transfusion-Trans-Ocean.
;
WHY SHELAEFF WALKED
OUT IN THE KID VICENTE BOUT
Filipino Knocked-Out In Return Fight Despite Ref's 'Long Count'
Shelacff, the Mrs.
IPSWICH TOWN FOR THIRD
DIVISION
TEAM OF THE YEAR IS.
GIVEN PREFERENCE OVER GILLINGHAM
London, May 31. Ipswich Town were elected to the Third Division (South) of the Foot- ball League at the annual meeting of the clubs held in London yester day.
The result of the voting for two places was: Ipswich 36, Walsall 34 und Gillingham 28.
As anticipated, the two Northern Section clubs applying for re-elec- tion, Barrow and Accrington Stan- ley, retained their places. Shrews- bury Town 15, South Liverpool 5, Scunthorpe 1, Wigan Athletic 1.
Ipswich Town began as an tuma- teur organisation 40 yearz ngo. They changed to professional foot- bail in 1930, entered the Southern League and won it in their first year.
The club own seven and a half acres of land and have one of the most up-to-date grounds in the country. Their attendances have reached 20,000. Several former League players, including MeLuckie, Williams, Alsop and Burns, are on the books and arrangements regard- ing transfer fees for them have been made.
scale of fees for referees and lines-
mcn,
"I don't sCC why anybody here should be afraid to speak their minds and let everyone know what they think," he said, In speaking against the resolution tabled by the Manage- ment Committee. On hands the necessary three-fourths I show of
majority was not obtained.
REFEREES' FEES INCREASED By the adoption of the other re- solution, referees in the Third Divi- ston will now receive as much as their colleagues in the First and Second Divisions. Hitherto referees In Third Division games received 12 Zs, and Hocsmen £1 15. In future they will receive £3 3. and £1 110.
Gd.
respectively.
The meeting passed a proposal stating that clubs must intimate to players in
writing by April 17 cach year the terms under which they desire to retain their services or, in the case of a player whose service Is not required, the
amount of fee, if any, asked for transfer. In the event of the club failing to intimate in this manner the player may be deemed to have a free transfer.
Messrs. M. F. Cadman, A. H. Oakley and A. Brook Hirst were re- elected to the Management Com- Rutherford
Mr. A. Scott Duncan, former inanager of Manchester United, is in mitter, and Mr. G. F. was elected for a year.
charge of the club.
Walsall next season will continue In the Southern Section, with Ips-
wich taking the place of Gillingham LATEST
Port Vale, who had been transferred from the Northern Section, Occupy the place left vncant by Millwall, the promoted team.
the
Both Barnsley and Stockport County, who were relegated from the Second Division, go into the Northern Section, from which Tran- mere Rovers were promoted,
"Gillingham, one of the pioneers of old Southern Leugue, ore omitted. Formed in 1093 as tho New Brompton club, they were ad- milted to the Southern Division in following year. One of their outstanding performances was
the defeat of Arsenal in the F.A. Cup in 1890-1900, Ave games being neces- sary before a decision could be reached.
the
FOUR-UP-AND-DOWN FINISH
BASEBALL RESULTS
Giants And Yankees' Record Wins
New York: July 3. The following were the results In the major baseball league encounters played.to-day,
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York
R. EL E
Philadelphia Brooklyn
4. 7
0
0
(Rosen homered).
5 0
1
(Seeds homered). Basion
3
1
5. 13.
2
0: 14
!
Mr. Bendle Moore, the Derby County chairman, and champion of the "Four-up-and-Four-Down" pro- posal created
a surprise by with- drawing his resolution which he has tabled year after year without suc- St. Louis
His action, apparently,
was Pittsburgh
cess.
dur
to the graduat dwindling of sup-
port for the iden,
(There were 12 Innings).
AMERICAN LEAGUE
3
10
(Vosmick homered),
9
Mr. Moore mentioned that he had beem in touch with the Southern Boston Section clubs and that they would not in future make recommendations for election. They would leave the New York matter to the annual meeting. Не (Dickey homered). had not yet approached the Northern Washington Section clubs on the subject,
(Caster pitched). The Derby representative gained Philadelphia his way on two other important
Shanghai, June 27. as holding a bottle of smelling salts Accompanied by Manager Heinrich under his boy's nose" said Seelig. Seelig and
Seelle, Andro The third meeting between Kid 18-year-old welter-Vicente and Shelaeft, held in Manila, weight champion of the Orient, was described as n farce, with the counts, the rejection of a "secret" Cleveland stepped off the P. and O. Naldera Filipino unwilling to fight almost ballot, and the granting of a unifrom Chiengo this morning, the broad grin on his right through the bout. The decision freckled face testifying to his plea of a draw was booed by the crowd sure at returning to the city where who thught that Shelaeff had won be first won wide recognition as easily. boxing prodigy. While Seclig talk- Scellg stated that Shelacff wil Singapore and the Philippines, She-fights here. The Russian lad is ex-
animatedly of their experiences in start training_Immediately laeff stood attentively by and did his pected to establish his training
ed
LET US SHOW YOU
for
his
The encounter was fought out in the Colombics Stadium in Paris be fore 2,000 spectators. Germany's best with nods, gestures and a word headquarters at the Canidrome Gar- presentatives occupied the first two here and there, to lend support to dens. places in no less than ten fifteen events, including two relay
the his manager's statements. races. Four other events were won
of
Andre Seelig was full of optimism
outright by Germany. The only over the great future that lies ahead French victory was in pole vault that of his protege. Shelaeff he said, has Isvas won by Adler-Trans-Ocean,
Improved a hundred per cont. "Walt
t you see him in action" be told The Shanghai Times reporter.
SYD WOODERSON."You'll be surprised at his improve-
WANTS TO RUN A MILE IN FOUR MINUTES
was
Confirmation of the announcement | by the Auditorium that the Russian Ind in under contract to make three appearances under their promotion made by Manager Seelig. Shelacf, however, may stay more than two months here and fight more than three times should suitable opposition be found.
England's Third Test Team Chosen
Th ereNow Bowlers
London, July 3. from which the toom to represent Four new names appear in the 13 London, June 10.
England in the third test will be Sydney Wooderson,... Tanky, be-
selected. spectacled holder of the world's
While they are looking forward to Gibb, Verity, Hutton, Smalles, Paya- The 13 are Hummond, emelal mile running record, 4 mins.ja cumpaign in America, Seelig stated ter, 0.4 secs., has two ambitions.
Compion, that at the present time, an offer Wright, Hardstaff, Burnett and God- Edrich, Nichols, He wants to run a four-minutes Dickson to fight in Europe is more
which they have received from Jeff durd mile, and he wants to beat Glen attractive and they are leaving for The new men, Gibb, Smalles, i Cunningham, who has an uneficial Paris after their stay here. The Nichols and Goddard replace Ames, time of 4 mins. 4.4 secs, He would Jike to do them at the same time.
Wellard, Farnes and Sinfield. Hard well-known European fight promoter Wooderson was scheduled to go Parls.
has promised Sheineff six Bghts in staff, was 12th man in the Inst lest, lo the United States this summer for
Ames has apparently been dropped because of a broken finger received "mile of the century, race, but Asked to give the "low down" on in the second innings, of the second find to decline owing to pressure of Shelaeff's "walk out in lils fight test. Farnes, the fast bowler, took against Kid Vicente, Scell explained soven for 380 in the Arst and second Now it is hoped that Cunningham that the Russian lad had hurt his tests, Wellard, who played in the can be persuaded come over here right hand with a hard wallop early second, took three for 126 and Sin- to meet the English crack. The in the aght. He was suffering great field, who was in the first, tool two
most suitable occasion for such a pain and although Seelig implored for 123.
business.
raco
would mcot at 'tlic
be the International im to carry on and try fighting with The test will start at Manchester White City track on his left, it was too much for Shelaeff, on Friday. August bank holiday, Monday,
Regarding the diness of Hammond, August 1..
The Russian, however, wiped off Sir Felliam Warner, famous former that solitary black mark to his record cricket player and editor of The
It is a toss-up whether Wooderson by knocking out the Filipino in the Cricketer, stated to-day that Ham- can beat Cunningham, but it la al- return fight, despite a long count" most a certainty that mulher of given by the referee. Stelig was fult mond was making splendid progress them can do a four-minute mile on of indignation at the antagonistic and was certain to play. the White City track. Although the attitude of the Bacolod oficials and best in London, Its bends are too crowd whey must have counted 20 going treatment for his injured log. Hammond, however, is still under- sharp, it is too unsheltered, and the over Kid Vicento and they did their He will leave for London to-morrow track itself is too slow for roally best to avert a knocic-out, Kid or Tuesday, for further treatment fast timesUnited Prem,
Vicente'e, manager even went as far Router.
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