1939-05-03 — Page 20

Wednesday,.. HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 3, 1939:

BADMINTON INTERPORT WITH SHANGHAI SHORTLY?

Jiminy Braddock, the former heavyweight baxing champion of the world, is almost broke rain. Its wants to return to the ring in order to make another fortune. See below.

BRADDOCK BROKE, RETURNING TO RING

"MAYBE I WILL K. O. LOUIS”

New York, May 2, Jimmy Braddock, former New Jersey longshoreman and holder of the world's heavyweight baxing 1937, championship. from 1935 to

is almost broke again. He was on relief before he won the tile from Max Baer in 1935 in one of the greatest upsets in ring history, but mado a fortune when he held the

crown.

RECREIO TEAM'S TRIP TO NORTH BEARS FRUIT

Financial Consideration Is The Chief Obstacle

(By "The Bird")

The recent visit of six Club do Recreio bad- minton players to Shanghai provided a gratifying fillip to Hongkong badminton, the entire Shang- hai press and other independent critics being most enthusiastic about the performances of the visitors.

In fact, one of the most important], Add to the Remedios-Oliveira results of the visit has been tenta-† combination, P. K. Hul and K. L. tive, but very cordial enquiry about| Yong, and M. S. Lim and P..S. Bun, the prospects of an interport between and it would seem that Hongkong) Hongkong and Shanghal being ar-hus three men's doubles more likely to win than to lose against the franged next season.

Shanghat combinations.

was

Shanghai frankly confess that they did not realise Hongkong's standard high that demonstrated by the Portuguese visitors, and when it Whs learned that there are other players here of an equal, if not a

there better calibre,

was an im-

cry of "Why not an Inter

possibilities of such a contest naturally cannot take definite shape until next season, but Shanghal's keenness is such that unless the obstacles are extremely formidable, every effort should be made to bring about an Interport.

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TESTED

Neither is there any reason to be- lieve that we should prove vastly, It i any, infertor in the mixed doubles line. We have Hul and Miss Khoo, who have for three years proved tcmselves just a trife better than Oliveira and Miss Silva, and we can augment them by Yong and Miss Cheung, or one, two other pairs who are decidedly up to average.

arc

Those aspiring to break west records in low hurdles are not recommended to model their style on those of these three youngsters. The one in the middle, for instance, has never seen an action pleture of For- rest Towns, one feels sure, This picture was taken at one of the school athletle meetings held over the week. end.-Staff Photographer,

Senna, Eardley and Meise probably the three best Shanghai Home Cricket singles performers, but against them we can pit Hui, Au, perhaps Patrick Wong if he returns to the game next Beason, and Oliveira. Oliveira is not

SH the Recreiof our best singles exponent, but he was

good enough to extend Senna when they met at the Club Lusitano a fortnight ago,

OXFORD U. BEATEN BY 5 WICKETS

London, May 2.

NO PROBLEM There is really no problem con- fronting Hongkong as to the playing strength of a team, but there are certain to be other vexing questions,

A sporting declaration by Oxford chief of which will be finance. Thir University in the second innings en- to be thoroughly in-abled Gloucestershire to win to-day would hav vestigated and fair and amicable by five wickets.

In their Arst innings Oxford scored arrangements reached. While Shang-

OXFORD COX MAKES ERROR OF JUDGMENT

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London, Apr. 3.

THE Boat-race was as good as over two minutes after it started on Saturday.

Cambridge's four-length ulc- tory was due to the shock. tactics of Sandford, their stroke, and the faulty tactics of Masteyi Oxford coxswain.

Whatever advantage Massey's - Beht weight gave to Oxford. was lost at the most··critical. stage of the race by keeping too. far over on the Middlesex sla- llon,

The Dark Blues had to row in practically deadwater. Sandford grasped the altuation at once.

Cambridge shot past

till

while their rivals were plugging away as if their boat was being pulled against a lot of dead weight,

an

Τ

It would have been

I bellove it

excking race If Massey had hot unexpectedly erred in judg- ment, says an English welier. No expert was prepared for one of the tamest contests in tho history of the race, Car- bridge's time WOLN 10mins. Jsers.

HELEN JACOBS PRACTISES FOR

Lou Gehrig Volunteers TRIP TO ENGLAND

To Stand Down From N. Y. Yankees' Outfit

Detroit, May 2.

Williamsburg, Va. Helen Hull Jacobs, tennis star who quit the courts during the winter to write a historio novel bere, will return to competition at Wimbledon In June.

She is rearming for the

British

test and a home stand at Forest Hills

While in players were given the opportunity of testing themselves against some of the pick of the Northern elly's The Shanghal men's performers. doubles champions, V. de Senna and 1. Eardley were met and beaten by Remedios and M. A. Oliveira, J. while Oliveria and his partner Miss M. Silva enjoyed the distinction of

by running the shoca off William and beating the Shanghai mixed doubles

Following 2,130 consecutive games in the Major

Looking in good cond!~ champions, Henry Eardley and his

These results, of course, do not to ha! is in a better position to stage in 201, Tom Goddard taking five wickets Baseball League, Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees'

sweaters and a polo cont, reached for a candy bar and sald, He stated, "I might light my mean that Hongkong would be cer- Interport from the viewpoint of for 12 runs, and Gloucester replied first-baseman, has voluntarily asked Manager McCarthy on two

declared.

I'm ready, you may serve." way to another meeting with Jostain to beat Shanghat in a repre- court and spectators facilities, there with 213 for eight

him, sentative match, but it is fair enough is no valid reason to suppose Hong 130 for eight wickets (Goddard four

Declaring their second knock at to put him on the bench.

Open

tournament "There Louis. Maybe will K.O.

our players would on maybe not. Meanwhile no other to assume that

kang could not make a

a successful

Eilsworth Dahlgren has been put nothing particularly wrong with pro tennis. It's on the up and up and heavyweight can do me harm completely hold their own, whether attempt to entertain a representative

in his place at first base. United Press.

playing here or in Shanghai.

Undoubtedly Shanghat side.

However, Manager McCarthy said the United States Lawn Tennis As- public would support it and the only team hit, up 200 for the loss of five seif, and I think it would be better

wickets-Reuter.

for me to get out a while," he said it was possible that Gehrig may be sociation is not strongly opposed to in asking Mr. McCarthy to leave him played later in the day to preserve letting the pros and ame

He announced to-day that he is returning to the ring in an attempt to blast dollars from the hides of Tommy Farr, Max Schmeling and Tony Galento,

sister, Decimo.

Rainy Start Made To 1939 Tennis Season Professionals At Olympia

BY F. K, BURROW

London, Apr. 2.

It may well he hoped that the opening days of the season of tennis out of doors were no augury of what the season of 1939 has in store for us. With everybody eager to get to work or should it be play?-in the open air again, and Press photographers in attendance to snap the first pictures of young competitors at the Herga tournament, which opens the season, the rains descended and the winds blew, and the first day of the season was as blank as the score of the Dingley Dollers in the match against Muggleton. The second day was not much better, but the third began to make amends, and the task of compressing six days' play into four was entered on with a xest, the reward for which will be known by the time these lines appear.

It was particularly unlucky forja terror to his adversaries, his pace not appear the Herga Club that such an unfor- about the court does tunate start befell their tournament, inaterially to have lessened, and for many of the best players at years have only added strength to his present in the country were engaged, always superb strategy. and the entry was large as well as

good. Particular interest attached to The maximum of effect with the the first p

the cheappearance since she worl minimum of effort is still almost bis

more

at Wimbleton ideal of the "abandon" which used to monopoly. Cochet has lost a good 1037 of Mrs. D. Little, then Miss

Her intention, Characterise his game, and seems to Dorothy Round.

much

than he did rapidly tha she finds that more than a year's ab- sence from the game has not knocked in the days when five-sets matches

and he were his delight, all her game out of her, to return

he was known to it in search of new honours, is as the best player of a fifth set in

the world. Of the

others, Nussioin

encouraging to any hopes we may have of being able to regain the for the most impressive; if there Wightman Cup: for even if she is a certain stolidity about his gome

it IR should find herself unable to

by no means purely defensive, under- take the voyage to Americo in that though, since he prefers to wage his: war from the base-line, It has that endeavour, the very fast that she playing again can hardly fail to prove appearance, At that time of writing

and Tilden are the ho an incentive to the younger players of the eight competitors to remain.

the only two out may have a chance of distin- undefeated, and it seems quite likely wishing themselves given to them this year..

Not many home-made that the match between them, care- champions are to be seen on our fully arranged for the last contest courts nowadays; it is well, that the of the tournainent on Tuesday even- memory of them should not be al ing text, will decide which of them

secures the Arst prize of £350. lowed to fade too soon.

AT OLYMPIA

MASKELL'S GOOD FORM I have paid several visits to Olym- Particularly of interest to English form good pin during the fortnight's professional players has been the tournament which ends next Tues shown by Maskell, professional to day. I wanted particularly to see the All England Club. It right have how the passing of the years had been thought he would have been, dealt with those grent players of the rather overweighted by the galaxy. twenties. Tilden and Cochet. It is of talent assembled at Olympia; but

his

over Kozeluh eighteen years since Tiden won his

in the victory opening match of the meeting, his subsequent defeat of Palmieri, his

nino since he won his Inst, just

first championship at Wimbledon, capture of a set from Tilden, and his

fore he went over to

the

now

ruoka

of teating Cochet demonstrate that he

the

real problem would be to make ar- to satisfy 011 the rangements potential spectators,

But these are questions which will arise in due course providing the pos-

sibility of an Interport advices be

for 58), the Oxonions left Gloucester- "The whole team is not going sa shire to get 201 to win and the county good. I am not going so good my

Southend Trounces Newport At Home

London, May 2.

out of the team.

One reason why he had asked to

e benched is that Yankees need more

power in the batting, with Joe

Maggio out of the side, while

Gehrig is hitting an average of only .143 'ns compared with his lifetime average of 341.

In addition to his falling-off with

Its present tentative stage. While no official letter has been re- ceived from

Shangual, a message was conveyed to the Hongkong As- In the southern section of the Third sociation through M. A. Oliveira, Division in the English Football captain of the visiting Recreio team League, Southend, at home, to-day the bat. Gehrig is now allowing balls to the effect that Shanghai would defented Newport by five goals to nil to get by which he formerly caught welcome a representative contest, Reuter.

istic

rest badminton players can assured that the local. Association will make the proper overtures to Shanghai in this connection.

VISITORS PLEASED. Meanwhile the Recreb

was largely due to the fact that the Hongkong women were markedly be- low usual form. However, Remedios and Oliveira surpassed themselves, are especially in the men's doubles and enthustustic about their reception in mixed doubles, and chalked up one or two outstanding achievements. and not unpardonably

a great Shanghai,

success, and apart from the personal pleased with their performances, as The visit was in every way a they found themselves piited against pleasure afforded the visitors at some of Shanglial's top noteliers, allowed Shanghai to gain a new, and players apparently possibly more appreciative idea of disappointed and the Shanghal wo the improving standard of Hong- men proved their superior. But this keng's badminton.

The women

enslly.

DAVIS CUP

COMMENCES THIS WEEK

Germany To Clash With Switzerland

Berlin, May 2.

The contest for the Davis Cup, which is being defended by the United States, begins in the European Zone at the end of this week. All games in the first round will be held from May S to 7.

Competitors are:

Germany v. Switzerland at Vienna; Yugoslavia v. Ireland at Arram: Rumania v. Hungary at Bucharest; Poland v. Holland at Warsaw.

| his record-United Press,

CHINESE THROUGH

ONCE MORE

Mury College men players. tion after a fast match, one pulled

"I'm

amateurs go

tournament

at it." The difficulty, she

Sing an open

added,

does not conflict with fixture of one of the

date

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older clubs. Don Budge-"He's the best in the business today, and when he loses to Perry or Vines it's because ho's had any a bad night like a golfer, or cther athlete,"

Kho And Choy Inved

Second Round

TILDEN GREATEST Greatest man champion-"Tilden was the greatest courtman who ever He had all the shots, the speed and the court ability, and not- only that, he was the smartest,"

The book well, it isn't finished yet, Carter Braxion, Virginia signer Bournemouth, May 2. of the Declaration of Independence In the second round of the tennis and an ancestor of the brown-haired championships, Kho Sin-kle bent Helen, will walk through the pages. Gaus Mohammed (Indin) 6-2, 13-11, She once intended to do his blog- 6-1. The Chinese player was always raphy, but found it too much of a more accurate in ground shots and task. The book will

be her Afth. the far superior despite Indian's "Barry Cort," her irst novel, pub- rally in the second set.

lished a year ago under the nom de In the second round Choy beat plume H. Braxton Hull, was out a Malroy, New Zealand, 6-3,1-0, 6-2. | month before anyone knew that Miss 8-3.-Renter.

Jacobs was the welter.

HISTORY

SPEED

OF LAND RECORD

By A. G. Throssell

London. Mar, 30, ing when he was making a lop

Speed is an adventure, says Capt. record of 120 m.p.h. But he had Chief interest, as far as the first George Eyston, the fastest man on only one serious crash, which was round is concerned, is in the meeting earth. It is an adventure of the on the road at Boulogne, before, the between Germany, winner in the 20th century. A

100

years ngo | driving chain of his 'beloved cor " "Babs" broke and killed him": "ht in the European zone last year, and scientists solemnly declared that Switzerland. Although the German mile a minute was beyond the Pending. scam in the friendly match against capacity of the human frame to Nearly two years later, when Sir the United States last week-end endure. Forty years ago, at the Henry Segrave had stirred America when Germany lost, proved disap-beginning of this century, this speed to emulate the speed of his 1,000 h.p. pointing, it is believed that Germany had just

DJJ been reached-by

Sunbeam, Frank Lockhart, another will win against the Swiss. In the Englishman, the Hon. Charles R. singles Germany will be represented Rolls in a petrol-driven cor. To-ngineering genius, was killed when by Henner Henkel and Roderich day two men, boils also English, have a tyre burst at 200 m.ph. In 1929 Menzel and by Henkel and Georges travelled at speeds within the tiniest the "Triplex," the biggest record- nother American, Lee Bible, driving Metaxas in the doubles.

fraction of a mile in 10 seconds... breaker ever, bullt,, aicidded into the

According to our forebears many soll sand which lines Daytona Beach The countries that will participate lives should have been lost in the and killed a photographer and him- In the second round have likewise, acquisition of this now human self. for the most part, also fixed their faculty of moving at great speed. programme.

SECOND ROUND ·

stcond round in:

od).

A HIGHLY SPECIALISED ART Actually fatalities have been re- Uncertainty, however, still prevalls markably few. Up to 1914. only one Four lives lost in the quest for as to the date and place of the con- is recorded, that of an American

present test between Bohemia and Norway, named Croker at Daytona Beach in speed, the struggle to win the fand Otherwise the programme in the 1905. Between that date, when the spted record. But as the

holder of that title, Capt. Eyston, record stood at 104.03 m.ph and makes very plain in his new book, Dolglum v. Indin (on May 20, 21 Parry Thomas's death at" Pending "Fastest on Eart

Earth" (John Miles, 78 and 22) at Brussola:

Sands in. 1927 it had been raised, to

record-breaking i an even Italy v. Monaco (on May 10, 20171 m.p.h.

more specialised art than racing. and 21) at Naples;

Vivid description of Sir Melcolmm Campbell's many adventures in his of Segrave's the game, Byears at Parry Thomas, great in brain and deliberate steering into the sea at muscle, revelled in risks. He used Daytona when his brakes failed, and to test tyres by lapping Brooklands of Eyston's own experienco In at full speed until the tread flew off. similar predicament are scattered alt He had innumerable narrow escapes, over, this excellent, complète and Illustrated history of metho an whon a' wheel of his car went lavishly

over, the rim of the Brooklands bark-i world's land speed record.

ESCAPES

Sweden v. Denmark at Stockholm; PARRY THOMAS'S MANY France v. China at Paris, England will play New Zealand at Brighton from May 11 to 13, 20

English players will be C. E. Hare, L. Shum, ft. A. Shayes and F. H.D. New Zealand players will compriae E. Malfroy, D. Crambe, D. Brown and V. Edwards—Trans-Ocean,

the professionals; and if ever there coming within a single point of de

value to the was a tealimony

Wilde. In his is well worthy of a place in such · DODGING THE PUDDLES ---One look and a hurried skip back nerom "keeping At," Tilden. forty-seventh year, certainly supplies distinguished company. The success the flooded court was enough for Bifu. G. - Mathias, a' competitor at the it. He can sul produce that cannon- of this modest and unassuming player first open air lawn teoala tournament of the English season at the Horga bali service which was aliviys such] is very pleasant.

Club, Harrow, last month.--

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