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June, 9, 1939.

FIRST HALF OF RACE SEASON ENDS TO-MORROW

CHIEF INTEREST ON LANTAO HANDICAP EVENT

TICKETS SELLING WELL

IN DOLLAR SWEEP

(By "Captain Foster")

Chief interest at to-morrow's Sixth Extra Race Meet- ing under the auspices of the Hongkong Jockey Club will no doubt be centred in the Lantao Handicap for "D" class China ponies over the mile course. A special dollar cash sweep is being conducted on the event and at time of writ- ing the sale of tickets is nearing the 140,000 mark, which guarantees the first prize to be over $63,000.

After the running of the Lantao| Handicap, which is the last contest' on the programme, the Hongkong Jockey Jockey Club will draw the curtain for the first hall season and there will be no more at racing un-i Australian ti September 23. Our

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friends" China "dunb evacuate from Happy Valley for their suminer recess and it has been reported that some owners have al ready made arrangements for their racers to spend the holidays at Fan- Ing and Macao.

First Half

Mile Race

For Aussies

First saddling well for the opening While on the subject, the Macao event, the Carpentaria Handicap for Jockey Club Has circularised a special Australian ponies of this season, will notice to their members announcing be rung nt 1.30 p.m. and it may be that they have acquired the service of interest to know that the contest of Dr. J. Vidigal, a graduate of Lis- ben University of Veterinary Science, is the first sprint over half a mile Macan since the introduction of these ani- all pontes gruzing in

The ban on mals from Antipodes. will be under the care of this vet.

winners of $500 or more has brought forward a few lame-ducks and they are Flinders River, Loquacious and Tarzan, all of whom have started Southern Star did a lot only once, of amah work during training und

zund

A most interesting feature of last Saturday's racing was Mr. Encurna- Cao's fine riding; he had four wins to his credit including a "hat trick, which was the first to be scored at The this Happy

Valley

-season.

honour of being champion jockey for the mare ans never appeared in public the Arst half season cannot be taken from Mr. Encarnacno by any other Wit

the Kong Brothers'

as he is well abend to the front with colours. With

racing

Janber and Bailin

a total of 20 winning mounts. is Bay out of the rond, Ajax should nearest rival is Mr. Needs who has 15 wins and he is followed by Mr. Ph with nine successen.

CONSOLATION RACES Those "Jockeys in the stand" who have "gone down the sink" may be able to get some money back to-

morrow, for there are nine attrae-

tive handicap events, practically all being consolution races. The ab

sence of several good "uns and public

favourites will not in any way lower the standard of racing and punters are unsured of a good day's sport with the usual thrills.

have an easy passage to collect the first prize of $600 stoke money and with the Australian Jockey Mr. Ray- mond in the saddle, the combination is hard to crack. Amber II and Poconos should fill the minor posi- tions In the frame.

21 ENTRIES FOR NANLING H'CAP

"Andy" Wright directing operations in a practice game this week at the Kowloon Cricket Club green while other players look on. F. E. Nash Is on the right background of the plcture-Staff Photographer.

PURCHASE OF GRAZING

LAND CONSIDERED ·

(By "Capt. Foster")

It is learned that the Hongkong Jockey Club is contemplating, or inay have even started negotiations, to purchase a big plece of land In Fanling for ponies to graze.

If this is correct, I feel confident in saying that the project will be received with open arms by all owners, big or small, as it will fill a long- teit want.

There are, I know, quite a few owners and trainers who have a pre- judice against turning out their ponies owing to the files which attack the animals in the pastures. The theory of some trainers may be right, but they must not overlook the fact that where the ground is "stained" with dung, the breeding of flies increases. So the care not to allow animals to feed where they dung is a valuable and natural protection.

Though I am no naturalist, I think the grassland should be fenced Inta different plots so that if one plot gets stained ponies may be removed to another grazing area. This will undoubtedly lessen the persecution of flies.

Some Speedy Ponies Among The Entries

A fine scramble will be seen in i

SECOND LEG OF DAILY DOUBLE

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New York, June 8.

Here And There With Abe"

More About Cricket In The West Indies

"Nealerday's issue

ro-Indians had been led to expect, cost-

printed the first part of aning their fast bowlers a yard of pace, article, written by S. H. Hayes in and they had no other bowlers of the Cricketer, on the West Indies Test Match Calibre-perhaps they ericketers, icam of whom is now never had. Paschll, who was Learle touring England. Below is published | Constantine's uncle, must have been the rest of the article:

their best and his only English tour

"In 1928 a West Indian team came [eane late in his cricketing life. to England again, but hopes raised

by the earlier team were not ful- Weak Batting

filed. They won only five of their 30 first-class matches and had lost every Test Match by lunch-time on

VET it was batting which really the third day. The old characteris-

let them down in Australia. tles of patchy brilliance showed Headley, Grant and Martin apart, strongly, Challenor was nothing like they showed neither skill nor reso- the great batsman of the previous lution against Iremonger and Grim- tour, their three really fine fast mett. In the last Test Match, how- bowlers were handicapped by poorever, the rain came to help them, catching in the slips and behind the Grant declared twice and they won wicket." "Many a time," said Con-an exciting victory, 1933 in Eng- stantine, "I wished I

could field slip innd was very much like 1928, but to my own bowling. This tour did it served to endorse opinions of make the name of that great player. George Headley

formed already L. N. Constantine scored 1,391 runs, overseas, and It produced yet an- Took 107 wickets, and fielded glori-other fast bowler of the very high- busly.

est class in E; A. Martindale, who, like Francis, St. U. Constantine Great Performance

and Headley, later found his way into northern English league cricket. West Indian cricket did an astonish-

TN the drawn game with Essex heing thing when it produced Headley, lashed up 130 in an hour and a He revolutionised our conception of half. Then he went to the Oval and West Indian negro batsmanship-a saved the game against Surrey with batting machine of the Bradman half-centuries in each innings. The

of lovely next match was at Cambridge; Con-type. He has a wealth stuntine took ten University wickets strokes and moves to the ball with a fascinating smoothness, but most is the composed tem- The following are the results or for 88, clean bowling nine of them.

And

so to the Middlesex match. remarkable matches played in the Major Base-Middlesex declared at 352 for six perament and the control which en- ball League to-day:

wickets, Haig and Hendren having ables him to discipline his play as

the occasion demands. In

first- scored centuries. West Indies losi

class games in 1933 he scored 2,320 ave wickets for 70 runs. In came Constantine to score 80 within the 30. Middlesex hour, nobody else again, but Constantine is feeling like a little help. C. S. Marriott demon- it now and bowling at top pace lidians to cope with subtleties of flight strated the inability of the West In-

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Chicago

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Batteries, Lee and Hartnett.

New York

Batteries, Gumbert, Brown Danning.

Pittsburgh

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Tobin

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takes seven for 97, Hendren 50.

runs,

overage 00.20. In the Oval Test Match, on a wicket giving him

none of the last seven double figures, and spin. There and at Lord's they 156 all out, West Indies 259 to win

were well beaten. Hut at Manchester

on a wicket now no better than it they fought an honourable draw. Berres, should

Five wickets fall for

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Boston、、、、、、 2 10 Batteries, Fette and Lopez. Cincinnati vs. Philadelphia will played at night,

AMERICAN LEAGUE" New York ........ 7. 12 0 Batteries, Donald and Dickey. Chicago

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121, Constantine coming in again. No Solidity

Of the next 133 he scores 103, again within the hour, and West Indies be are past the post by a wickets. The

pavillon rose in him, and with rea-| SOIL.

Test Matches

the story of West Indian cric- ket thus far is not one of im- pressive team performance, of solidity, or even stubborn respecta- bility. Rather do we think of an intoxicating melange of brilliant hit- ters and headlong fast bowlers, of TN the Test Matches it was not that lithe, eager fleiding, If not dependa- England played superlatively ble catching. Great players they Batteries, Smith, Brown and Tresh. well, but the West Indies played have had-Challenor, the first section ponies

Constantine, badly. Constantine did nothing at Headley, Martindale and many very in Test Matches good ones-Small, St. Hill, Roach Kelley, ali, and indeed

always looking for a away from his own land his record and Scaley,

did chance to hit a four and if possible astonishingly poor. Hobbs

a six, John. Martin, Francis and and/or play in the first Test, but in the

other two he tamed the new terrors Griffiths. When, cricket grows of- as he had tamed the old. That sum-ten-care-worn-and-drab with sophis

and merc cleverness, the mer West Indies fielded while Hobbs tication scored 13, 123*, 53, 159, 14, 119. eagerness and sparkle of West In- He was 46 and. In the nature of dian cricket are badly needed." things could not play in many more

China ponies, the Hwang Ho Handicap for rub- be well up at the?

There are 21 entries for the Non- ling Handican for subscription griffins of this season, that have not won more than $1,000 History was made in the betting in stakes, but it is not to be expected last Saturday when the Manly Handi-that-all-will-weigh out owing to the cap for Australian "C" class ponies fact that many of the entrants are was selected by the followers of the in the Hwang Ho Handicap. How- turf us the best "kill" of the penul- ever, I like the chances of Magog, timate meeting. The winner (Anna National Honour and Wild Bear and bella)

1,428 ticke had tickets for win, the 1 will make my final selection to- second pony (A Great Time) carried 1,064 and Twilight Star, who finishei the ruck, was backed to the tune

morrow.

The Shing Mun Handicap for "B" cluss China ponles is the second leg of the daily double, but there are ao more than seven entries and the list is certainly small. Judging by the performances

Humdrum Time and

The latter is undoubtedly finish scription China ponies of this season over half a mile. There are a few better animal, but Expansion Thine speedy roadsters such

as Heddon, appeals to me on account of a pull of

A few pounds and with Mr. "Vic Kut Cheung, Radium Star, Rose Day. Needa up, the iron grey mare is my Sea Horse and Welcome. The last choice. Potentate to be ridden by named has been knocking at the door Mr. Encarnacao is dangerous. Gladla- for a long while, but he has certor, owned by Mrs. Graselt, cannot complain about the poundage; in taloly a stiff proposition because the fact he has only five flights from the weight adjuster has put him at the bottom of the staircase and I would back the tree. My best three are readers

A-

ut, 1045 fickets. The total chances Rose Emily Ought ton of the thum sit and see pony, should the going be firm.

taken for a win amounted to 0,036 while for places the figure was 5,212 tickets. The two added together in- volved a turnover of $80.750 which was a record. With the no doubt exception of A Great Time, barred from competing, all other entrants will be seen in action in the Wall- send Handicap and I wonder whether the betting will again be raised to a fever heat.

To Win This

Very poor response has been re- eelved for the Yangisze Handicap for China ponies gruning of this season

view of the embargo on winners. The run is over six furlongs and my fancy is Rose Emily to be followed by Galveston Bay and Peaceful View.

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Six Entries For

'un over anything from six furlongs Great Bight H'cap

and under, but the pony has not lived

up to his reputation. In my school! In the Great Bight Handicap for of experience I am afraid, without "3" class Australian ponies that prejudice, the pony is a clinker. The have not won more than $1,000 in official handicapper has rated him at stake money, the great fight over slx the bottom of the ladder and If Tal-furlongs could only attract six no- kative can speak to the starter to let minations and out of the total two him through the barrier first, then entrants (Flinders River and Tar-

he may have a chance.

FIRST LEG OF DAILY DOUBLE

The first leg of the dally double is on the Wallsend Handicap for "C" class Australian ponies and it will not keep the punters in long sus- pense, for it is only a sprint from the 11⁄2 mile post (about half mile

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LUCULLUS WINS BERKSHIRE FOAL PLATE

Landon, June 8.

170 yards). The result of the Manly The Berkshire Foal Piate was won Handicap last Saturday was Aima-to-day by Lucullus, starting at 7/4, bella, A Great Time, and Murray with Double Greek, also 7/4, in second River and it will be remembered that place, while Maid of Essex, at 8/1, there was some heavy money poured was third,

оп the first two. As A Great Time Ten ran in the race, Half a length is Ineligible for the contest, Anna-separated first and second, and three bella_must therefore-be-the-first-fe-lengths second and third Reuter vourite. I may be wrong, but it op- |? peared, to me that the third cob

| Murray River- did not have a clear passage and this pony and her stable mate, Macquarie River, pre worth following up. Brutus belonging to Mr. Troverton is under a cloud, but Bredon owned by Mr. Tinson is look- ing extremely well and the distance Is to the mare's liking. Bredon is my best tip.

West River H'cap May Be Tame

The West River Handicap la the longest fount to-morrow for "C" class China panles over a distance from the two mile post, once round and in. It looks that it will be a tame affole and the field, "I nm afraid, will not be over half a dozen- runners, Boolat Bay has rejoined his 'old' com- pany, but I don't fancy him. :'As Galveston Bay has to carry topweight, there is good reason to believe that. the pony will not accept and I DO- minato-Tyne,··-Bright View and Laughing Girl. I expect to zen these three finishing in that order.

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Washington ... Batteries, Krakauskos, Masterson and Ferrell,

Cleveland Batterics,

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Detroit

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Philadelphla Batteries, Beckman, Pippen, Joyce, Dean and Brucker.

13 · 1 Batteries, Trout and Tebbetts Test Matches, but as he made ease- Speed Record Boston

8 131 ful movements this way and that Batteries, Galchouso, Heving, the pace and fire of the attack Le- Dickman, Desautels and Peacock.

St. Louis

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Boston

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came a furious futility. Two years JOHN Cobb, the British motorist, is Ister this same West Indian attack

return to the United States in was Lackling Woodfull, Ponsford, August to make an attempt to break Batteries, Gill, Whitehead, Spindel Dradman, Kippax, Jackson and Me- Captain G. E. T. Eyston's world land Cabe in Australia. The old dificul- speed record of 357.5 m.p.h. This vs. Louis nightcap post-ties of team selection showed them-was revealed recently by Mr. Gus poned on account of rain.-United selves, Grant going straight from P. Backman, Secretary of the Salt

Lake City Cambridge Press.

Chamber of Commerce, to captain a side entire-

BOWLING GREEN BEING LAID

AT HONGKONG C.C.

Work hos alteady been started on the new bowling green which is being. laid at the Hongkong Cricket Club. It is expected that the green will be ready for play shortly."

Amongst the members of the keen Cricket Club are some very bowlers, and it is likely that they will put in a team in the Hongkong Lawn Bowls League next summer.

The green is being laid on eastern side of the ground, near the B-and-Somlees-

-tho-Onks Slaken, int. Epa

the

ly strange to him. Constantine was who stated that Cobb had notified os usual magnificent outside the Test him to that effect. Cobb, he added, Matches and ineffective in them. In hoped to reach a speed of 370 miles Cobb beat ten Test Match innings he lost his an hour. Last year

record with 350.20 wicket every time for a highest score Eyston's old of 14 and his eight wickets cost 407. m.p.h., but only held it for a day Wickets were slower than the West before Eyston set up his new record.

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