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Saturday;

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 27, 1939.

TWO GAMES

GAMES FOR SOUTH CHINA IN BASEBALL LEAGUE

MADE

SCHE

WITH

TO FIT

PRESENCE OF U.S.S. MINDANAO

(By "Bingle")

South China Athletic Association have the toughest assignment over the week-end, as they are playing two games. Since the Baseball League has made up the schedule to fit in with the presence in this port of U. S. S. Mindanao, this unfortunate circumstance, in which a team plays one game on a hot Saturday afternoon and an. other on an equally torrid Sunday morning-cannot be helped.

Aller an unruffled schedule tust; year, without a game being postponed on account of rain. Inst week-end'ag washout was the weatherman's first interruption in long long spell. I'm afraid conditions this year will tre similar to those of the seasons of 30 and 37, when we didn't know whether we were n-foot or on horse- back.

weather permitting.

However, South China and Union Brewery will clash at Caroline, It to-day at 2.30 pan. Both teums are r'arin' to go, with the edge on "Beer Baron" Bennett's Beermen, who have won two and lust apne. On the crest of winning wave, the UB boys feel that this

another guine is

push- over but I don't know! They shouldn't underestimate C. C. Lee's stalwarts, who are all good leather players,

Lam Hwa, who lambasted Fotinny Alvares' speed balls-but couldn't even see Spotty Pereira's roundhouses should massacre Madeen Arculli's straight pitching. That there are so few lits off Arcülli has been a source of bewilderment to this correspon- dent. Perhaps batting eyes haven't been attuned to the atmospherie conditions out at Caroline Hill There are so anany muffed and mis- Judged dies out there that are binmed on the sun

Tehk! Tehk!!

Harvey-McAvoy Bout Now Postponed

London, May 26.

The fight between Len Har- vey and Jock McAvoy for the world's cruiserweight cham- pionship, which was fixed for June 22. has now been post- poned as McAvoy is having a boil on his right side.-Reuter,

Golf

AMERICA'S LAST HOPE VANISHES

DISORGANISED TEAMS

London, May 20. The Chinese Baseball Club take un America's last chance of winning Club de Recreio

in to-morrow's the British Amateur Golf Champion- opener at 10a.m. Both teams are ship now in progress at Hoylake apparently disorganised units this vanished in the semi-anals to-day season. The Chinese are without a when the Scotsman, Alex Kyle, de- leader, while the Rambling Recs have feated "Bill" Holt, of Syracuse, by changed their leadership this season. two and one after Holt had earlier But, before the season ends, I have defeated young Kenneth Thom in a a hurch that the Chinese Baseballers sparkling match by three and two.

Anthony Duncan, the Welsh cham- will find themselves, and really go to town. They have two good hurlers plon. Is the other finalist. After in Earl Wong and Wally Ching, and beating Dick Chapman, conqueror of Diminutive Nip Lum has already Charles Yates, by five and three, proved his mettle behind the plate, Duncan went on to beat Charlie Stowe while versatile Wally can also fil the by three and two in the semi-finals. bull as back-stop. Veteran Tommy The final will be played on Satur- Chun, who starred for a few seasons day-United Press.

with China's baseball squad in the Far Eastern Olympics, is their logical leader, to my mind.

succession. If he can, he'll be "Iron

inningal

The Rambling Rees, who are also Man" Lee from now on. As it is, seemingly unable to get started, have finging a 7-inning game in this heat good material to

work on. Thoy leaves a pitcher pretty well petered certainly miss Eddie and Linho out. But fourteen Gleanno. In their tussie with South Whew! China a couple of weeks ago, they outhit their opponents D to 8, but came out on the short end of a 7 to 5 verdict. Their hits were scattered,

of course, and six were left on bases A little more "umph" and th y'd have won the game!

I give the, edge

to the Chinese

Three

West Indian Batsmen Score Centuries

Here's the "Black Bradman," otherwise George Headley, star bain- man of the West Indian cricket team now touring England. He is expect- ed to make a lot of runs this summer.

"Capt. Foster" Selects The Following:

(By "Captain Foster")

There are nine races down for to-day's meeting and my selec- tions are as follows:

Selections Made By "Early Bird"

Last week's pep rally has given the Molthenmen plenty of confidence, and they feel they're due for their first) win. The Hongkongites will be 66 augmented by the

of flashy infielder

Paulino, Honorate sence

who switched his affections over to this Club after being released by the Union Brewery two weeks ago.

Larry Lawrence-and-Dave Walker South China's clash with the Hong-will again be the battery for the kong Baseball Club in the nightcap Molthenmen, and they have shown to-morrow at 11.30 am, will find the improvement during practice sessions. former aggregation a somewhat tired) "Colonel Dave Walker says that he 2nd outfit. They have only the one has the Indian sign on those buse-

squad in this tilt.

LEE'S TASK

slabman, C. C. Lee, to rely on, and runnera with larceny in their hearis, I doubt if he can pitch two days in We shall see what we shall see!

Co

001, slender, clear-eyed, with a complexiom:lika a wild rose--yet"khie's seldom missing when cocktall tim rolls round. And she's seldom in bed before the small hours of the morning.png

Then how can she keep thist - willowy figure and that soft peach bloom of a skin? Tip- too nearer, and peep over her shoulder you'll find" "the" - Answer "In her glaan, Her

drinks are !! Gimlets,”! made with Rose's Lime Juice, just as they were in the good old Hong-Kong days.

And here's another secret, but keep it under your hat. She happena to know that Rose's has a quiet -way of kllling off a hang- over before it comes to lifa. No morning-after headaches after" Rosa's. It neutralizes the aftermath of alcohol.

The following selections are made by "Early Bird" of the S, C. M. Post: 1st-Baco-

Courting Eve Snowy River Criffel

Race

Conquering Time Jennifer

Moonlight View

3rd Raco

Murkaman

King Kong

Celtic Star

4th Race

Double Chance Night View Ebony Idol

5th Iaco

King's Privilege

Torondo Star

Vixen Tor

Gib Race

Just In Time Jober.

Avon

7th Race

Sports Venture Talkative

Gallant Marshal Bama Bay Janber Ruby Star

9th Race

Some Hope.

Guinness Time Kut Cheung

Daily Double

King's Privilege & Sports

Venture

BRITAIN LEADS IN DAVIS CUP

BONDI HANDICAP

Courting Eve

Snowy River

Double Finesse

LEAD MINE HANDICAP

(FIRST SECTION)

Jennifer

Hoetlo View

Red Feather

Marksinan

TOURISTS DEFEAT OXFORD

Results Of Matches

In Brief

Middlesex 1402 and 8-1) defeated Hampshire (183 and 2241 by nine wickets,

Gloucester (353) beat War- wickshire (181 and 156) by an innings and 16 runs,

Lancashire (464-8 deeld.

and

243-6 decld.i beat

Leicestershire (361 and 294

for 8) on first innings.

Glamorgan (162 and 170-4) beat Northants (191 and 138) by six wickets.

Essex (406) beat Sussex (149 and 244) by an innings and 13 runs.

West Indies (480-7 docld.) beat Oxford University (232 and 243) by, an innings and five runs.

Yorkshire (350-2 decld, and 104-11 beat Cambridge Uni- versity 194 and 369) by nine

vickets.

POSTPONED SOFTBALL FINAL

To Be Played To-Morrow

The postponed game in the final

for the champlonship of the Inter-

Softball Hong

between Lengue Socony and Dutch Barkers will be played to-morrow at 4.30 p.m., at the Kowloon Football Club. Prior to the game, two exhibition tits will be witnessed, between members of

BY AN INNINGS:

ESSEX ALSO WIN

Middlesex, Gloucester, Glamorgan and Essex won their matches in the County Cricket Championship pro- gramme which concluded to-day. Lancashire beat Leicestershire on first innings, while both the Universities were defeated, Oxford by the West Indiana and Cambridge by Yorkshire.

The West Indians seem to have gol into their stride with the advent of

CARDINALS BEATEN

warmer weather. Batting only onee Baseball against Oxford, they declared at 480 for seven wickets--the highest total of the programme. Three batsmen, H. P. Bayley (104), J. II. Cameron (100) and E. A. V. Williams (120 not out) helped to swell the score.

Helping Yorkshire. N. Yardley, last year's captain' Cambridge, scored 140 not out against his former team-mates and was to.

D. of

N. W. D. Yardley scored 140 not out against old

Section A and Section B. These are scheduled to begin at 3 pm., and all players are requested to be on the feld by 2.45 p.m. Admission into the team-mates, stand will be twenty cents.

Line-ups for the two championship contenders are as follows:

Pos Dutch Bank

p Cociho-

Socony Figuereido

Silva-Nello-

c. Pereira.

1b

Beltrao

2b

Brown Castro

Pearson

Gosano

Baros

3b Souza

⇓ great extent responsible for Yorkshire's victory by nine wickets.)

Results and defalls of matches are cabled by Reuter.

LEADING PERFORMANCES

The leading individual perfor

mances were:

BATTING

BY BRAVES

New York, May 20.

The following were the results of matelies played in the Major Base- ball League to-day:

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Pittsburg

R. H. E.

17 0 Batteries, Tobin, Brown and Berres Chicago

5 11 1 Batteries, Lee, Lillard, Harrell, Russell, Mancuso and Garbark. Boston

2

7 11 Batteries, Walters and Lombardi, St. Louis.........

10 Batteries, Warncke, Shoun, P. Dean, McGee, and Owens, Franks,

· AMERICAN LEAGUE

Chicugo

2 10 1 Batteries, Dietrick, Brown and Tresh.

Cleveland

1 11 2

Batteries, Harder,

Dobson

and

Pytlak.

Philadelphin

D

0 0

1

Batteries, Pippen and Brucker. New York

4

Batteries, Hilderbrand and Dickey. Washington

2 0 1 Batteries, Leonard and Guiltani, Boston.....

4 10 2 Batteries, Rich, Heving and De- sautels-United Press.

To-day's Badminton

"At Home"

If this morning's rain continues, the Hongkong Badminton Association "At Home", arranged to be held in the ground of St. Andrew's vicarage, will take place in the Church Hall.

The function will start at 4.30 p.m. with ten, after which the season's prizes will be distributed.

bridge

102

Iddon (Lancashire) v. Leicester 100

*Denotes not out

gs Alves

Sequeira Marques Lopes

I Remedios

of Cosano

W. R. Hurmond (Gloucester)

v. Warwickshire

102*

ri Ozorio

Paynter (Lancashire) v. Lel-

cester

-159

WHITSUN HANDICAP

At the conclusion of this game, Mrs. LR. Ildefonso, the wife of the Pre- Compton (Middlesex) v. Hamp- aldent of the Hongkong Softball League, will present the China Sports N.W.D. Yardley (Yorkshire) Plaque to the winning team, and also modals donated by Lane, Craw-E:A.V-Williams (West Indies)

v. Oxford................. ford, Ltd., to the players.

Nichola (Essex) v. Sussex

140

ahlre

Cambridge

143

140*

BOWLING

120*

Goddard (Gloucester)

J. H. Cameron (West Indies) v.

Oxford

Warwickshire

€ for 65

100

Buswell (Northants)

V.

A. H. Brodhurst (Cambridge) v.

Yorkshire

Glamorgan

B for 30

100

H. P. Hayley (West Indies). V.

Oxford

Robinson (Yorkshire)

V

0 for 80

104

Hutton (Yorkshire) V. Com-

Bowes (Yorkshire) v.Com-

bridge

4 for 31

King Kong..

Cello Star

SHATIN HANDICAP

(FIRST SECTION)

Dekko

Double Chance

Night View

SPENCER HANDICAP

Crifici

Blandford

Vixen Tor

LEAD MINE HANDICAP (SECOND SECTION)

Just In Time

Jober

Avon

STONECUTTERS PLATE

National: Honour Opening Batsman GOE

WARWICK FARM. HANDICAP

Janber

Ajax

InDan Har

SHATIN HANDICAP (SECOND SECTION)

Some Hope.

Ileddon

Magor

DAILY DOUBLE EVENT

Criffol/National Honour

Tennis Tourney At K.C.C. To-morrow

Weather permitting, on American tennis tournament will bo hold at the Kowloon Cricket Club to-morrow

Hare And Wilde afternoon, starting at 3 o'clock.

Win Doubles

Dunn Scores A Triple Win

Sydney, 'N.S.W., May 5.

D. B. Dunn, the young Sydney Unl versity champion athletle, and Aus traila's prospective Olymple repre- sentative, had triple win here after only three weeks' training following an appendix operation.

At the Sydney University athletic championships Dunn won the 100 yards in 10% seconds the 220 yards) in 224 seconds, and the broad jump with a leap of 22ft. 4 in.

Armstrong Splits Bone In Thumb

London, May 28, After an examination," the "doctor i reported that Henry Armstrong, who | retained the welterweight boxing tile against Ernie Roderick on Thursday evening, has split a bone in his left thunb.United Press.

Billiards Match HMS. Kent beat the European the YMCA. The scores.

at

Y.M.C.A. at billiards yesterday

were 4.3 follows: Y.M.C.A. names first.

Timm 180, Fletcher 117; Sykes 180, Grey 127; Purson 101, Gratton 150; Champelovler. 100, George 1650; Kent| 840, Y.M.C.A. 509..... Yvon Petro and Pierre Pellizza by | 0-3, 6-3, 3-6; 4-6 and 0-8.

* Snooker The Frenchmen led 3-1 in the first A snooker match was also played, set but the Englishmen recovered London, May 20 well: Hare and Wilde word erratic ending in a win for the Y.M.C.A. Great Britain took the lead to-day in the third and fourth sets, but their Lomaev 38, Cothill B1; Curtis 76, In the Davis Cup tie against France, inderstanding was; regained in the Deacon 21; Austice 55, Whittaker 32; when: Charles Hare. and F. H, D. Atth, Wilde finishing the match with McKenzie 50, Beaver 23; Y.M.C.A. Wilde won the doubles match against a lover game.---Reuter.

|30, Kent. 118.

Cambridge

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