1939-06-14 — Page 32

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

1939. June 14,

ANOTHER CROP OF CENTURIES IN COUNTY CRICKET

BUT ONLY FOUR ELEVENS WIN TIES OUTRIGHT

WEST INDIES TOURISTS FORTUNATE AT DERBY

Another crop of centuries was produced in the County Cricket Championship programme concluded yesterday, a feature being the number of centurions, who remained undefeated. Of the eight matches played in the champion- ship, only four ended in definite results, the other four being won only on first innings.

As already reported, Yorkshire and Gloucester won by an innings over Middlesex and Essex respectively, the matelies taking only two days. Sur rey and Kent also completed their fixtures yesterday by beating Sunsex and Leicester respectively, each by nine wickets.

Lancashire declared twice in an attempt to force a win against Notis at Manchester but had to be content with the points on frst, innings,

After scoring 141 in reply to Hamp- shire's total of 304, Warwickshire made a good recovery in the follow- on, which realined 400 for Ove wickets.

The West Indies tourists were in a bad way against Derbyshire, but managed to hold out to a draw. At close of play the tourists were still four 95 runs behind with only wickets to fall.

Results and detalls of matches are cabled by Reuter,

LEADING PERFORMERS

The following were the leading performers in the programme just concluded:

RESULTS IN BRIEF

The following were the results of matches in the programmte concluded yesterday:

Lancaslifre (403 for 4 deeld, and 138 for 4 deeld.) beat Notts (316.and.22_for_0)_on_first_ innings.

Surrey (354 and 221 for 1) beat Bussex (265 and 309) by niñoTM Hampshire (364) beat Warwickshire (141 and 490 for 5) on first innings,

Worcester (648 for 6 deeld.) beat Northants (311 and 218 for 6) on first innings.

wickets.

wickela.

Kent (385 and 138 for 1) best Lelcenter (291 and 231) by nine Glamorgan (574 for 7) beat Somerset (385) on first innings). Yorkshiro (430 for 5 decid,) beat Middlesex (02 and 122) by an innlugs aud 24û runs. ·

Gloucester (425) beat Essex (150 and 182) by an innings and Derby (309 and 104) drew with West Indies (204 and 54 for 6). Cambridge (339) drew with Free Foresters (287 and 202 for

13 runa,

3).

Here And There

With "Abe'

Organised Baseball's 100th Anniversary

to 574 by 03- won 24 more before Kumes in 1870 beaten by Atlantics of 8 to 7, in 11 innings. The Brooklyn, first professional league started in

the National Association

ORGANISED baseball in the United scored 2,395 runs

States celebrated its centenary | ponents. The club 011 Monday when, nccording 10

consecutive United Press, "baseball's bigwigs, beint heroes of the past, und present, and

Hathered 15,000 spectators" Cooperstown

Lown to do

do the

gume honour,

1871,

Can You guess who this is? He is In unfamiliar gulse, but some of you may recognise Jean Boroira, the famous French star. The former Davis Cup player is now an artillery dinner captain, pliotographed at n given In honour of the French Army offlers who were visiting London last month.

Fenske Beats All Rivals In Mile Race

Memphis, Tenn., May 13. Chuck Fenske marked up one on of the books to-duya defeat of Glenn San Romani

WHITCOMBE CRASHES IN GOLF CHALLENGE TIE WITH BOB LOCKE Gained Early Lead But Lost By Six And Five

By F. J. C. Pignon

London, June 2. Bobby Locke, South African champion, beat Reginald Whitcombe, British open champion, by six up and five to play in an international challenge match for £1,000 yester day on the Coombe Hill course, Surrey.

Czech Player Wants To

Be

U.S. Citizen

Hecht Taking Out New Papers

New York. American tennis probably has fallen permanently heir to Ladislav Hecht, the former Czech Davis Cup stur and one of the world's most pro- mising young players.

Thus one of the most-talked-of challenge matches of the year ended in the pathetic failure of the British champion and another triumph for n young man of 21 who is rapidly gain- ing the reputation of a world beater.

Locke started yesterday with on advantage of two holes, gained on the Arst 30 holes of the muteh on Wed-- nesday, and threw away his lead with a bad first nine in which he did not even equal the bogey score.

Whitcombe squared the match at the eighth. He ought to have been une up, but missed n putt of less than two feet at the fifth. However, the British champion did win the ninth hole for the lead and seemed hending for victory.

IN THE ROUGH

Then, for some unaccountable rea- son, his game went all to pleces.

Never have seen a more complete Hecht came over as a member of and utter collapse than the failure of the Czech delegation to the World's Whitcombe on the dramatic home- Since At Mnitury Academy, Great Professional Ball Players, with the Cunningham, Archie

Polat Military Academy, drew rules stipulating a player had to be and Don Lash, three of the country's Fair, just before his homeland was ward half, Locke won seven of the the first crude rules and laid president. The Athletics of Phila-leading milers.

taken over by Germany, Now he nine holes, lost one through driving out a field for the first game of base delphia won

considers himselt " refugee and out of bounds, and finished the round the first pennant. This ball, played by his former school-

The smooth stepping Fenske, from intends to apply for American citizen-with a lead of five holes. mates at Cooperstown Classical and was the forerunner of the

the University of Wisconsin but run- } ship. Military Academy, Cooperstown | LUR

***League, which, after a pro N.Y., in 1930, the game has become meeting in Louisville, came into bening unattached, took the featured

The country's tennis oficials, faced

Whitcombe was often in the rough. with a famine of topnotch talent for popular in every part of the world.ing at the Grand Central Hotel, New mnile in the Cotton Carnival's track

cannot find any reference as to York, February 2, 1876, Morgan G. meet last night.

With burst of speed in the stretch, the approaching season since Don On one occasion he sliced fully sixty when it was Brst played in Hongkong, Bulkeley, of Hartford, was the Orst

Penske fmoved past Cunningham, and Budge turned professional, have wel-yards off the line; he did not match president. but it must have been many, many

passed Sun Romani to win by a yard.comed Hecht with open arms and be Locke's approach shots and he missed years ago. As a matter of fact,

Cunningham, also unattached, Anish-already has promised to play in every putts. It would be a mere catalogue ed third, followed by Lash, Indiana important event of the summer, in- of errors to describe Whitcombe's ploy Stale policeman, und William South-cluding the National championships at in lint phase which proved so disas-

Forest Hills. He is not, of course, Irous.

the American The time was 4m. 11.3s, a tenth eligible to play on the of a second under the meet record. Davis Cup Team.

The tireless Lash showed plenty of

BATTING

up

Gibbons (Worcester) v. Nor-

thants

222-

Dai Davles (Glainorgin) V

Somerset

210

Leyland (Yorkshire) v. Mid-

dlesex

180

Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) v. Mid-

diesex

175

Hampshire.......

Doilery (Warwickshire)

170

'Oldfield (Lancashire) v. Nolls

147

Smart (Glamorgan) v. Somer-

sel

Palmer (Worcester) v, North-

unts

Prentice (Leicester) v. Kent

134

Holt (Hampshire) v. Warwick 116

Brookes (Northants) v. Wor-

cester

Foster (Kent) v-Leleester .... Ord. (Warwickshire) `v, Hamp-.

Nutter (Lancashire). v. Noits 100" Arnold (Hampshire) v. War-

wick Fishlock (Surrey) v. Sussex 107.

107

Herbert Sutellis

109

still going strong despite

his age.

shiro

Welch

-Essex-eye

105*

dlesex Lambert (Gloucester) v 104 00

Pallard (Lancashire)

Notts

V.

(Free Foresters)

Cambridge

Emtnett (Gloucester) v. Essex

• Denotes Nol Out

BOWLING Copson (Derby) v. West

Indies Bowes (Yorkshire) v. Mla-

0 for 73

Verity (Yorkshire) v. Mid-

and

diesex

think baseball was more popular in Highlights

the Colony in the 20's than it seems

to be now. It is difficult to account

5 for 20 Fabulous Salaries

5-for-44

In a recent practice match Hecht ley Bell, the professional, 6-4, 11-4, and he was far too good far Helen Wills Moody.

BRITISH DRIVER

| BREAKS 3 MORE Babe Ruth, 1971., 11in. by Young of Vanderbilt WORLD RECORDS

London, June 1.

Locke on the other hand played really well and had the last nine holes His sbx. in 34, which included

a

Whitcombe was as bewildered as anybody at this unexpected landslide, and it was obvious that the burden of his handicap weighed heavily upon him in the final round.

Locke began this with another cruel thrust, an approach close to the holo and a birdie three, to be six up. Then Whitcombe uttered his supporters with an inspiring recovery.

BEST GOLF OF MATCH

for it, but 16 or 10 years ago there CPALDING'S Chicago White Stock-worth, Butler University. were more teams participating in the ings and All-Stars were the first League than there are now. The clubs to make a trip around gamic took a long time to catch on world, visiting the Orient, Australia, in England where it was not very Egypt and Europe in the winter of stamina by taking the two-mile event had little dinculty defeating Berke-round was 74 against 75.

He popular at first, but it has now come 1888-89

the Players League 30 minutes later in 9m. 32.85. to stay, with boseball clubs spring precipitated the Brotherhood War of bested Tommy Deckard, a former

over the country. Ing up all

The 1890. ruined baseball fortunes and teammate at Indiana University.

DOUBLE WIN Japanese, of course, are great en-gave the game a severe setback

Perrin Walker of Oglethorpe Uni- thusiasts and it is only to be ex-Ban Johnson changed the name of! pected that the Filipinos took to the the Western League to the American versity turned in the only double win, game ke ducks to water.

League in 1800 the American setting a new 100-yard dash mark League spread to the east In 1001 for the meet at 9.85. and winning the

the National League fought to 220 in 21.0.

Other new meet records included keep the invader out and the Ameri- cans captured Nap Lajele, Cy Young. a discus throw of 153.0 feet by Havi- S in the case of cricket and soccer Flick, Burkett, Keeler and others in land of Illinois, a javelin tess of 5 for 64 A in Englund, the leading baseball sensational raids

players in the United States are pro- the game's greatest drawing card, and a high jump of 6ft., 44in. shared

He holed two pults of six or seven 4 for 17fessionals. But unlike cricket and

the Red Sox ns u by Horn of Alabama and Diefenthaler up with came

yards, and with Locke in rough and 4 for 20 soccer stars in the Home Country pitcher

baseball did its of Illinois. 1014 the best of them, have bit in the World War

Babe who, even

Purdue won team honours with 27

close behind Major Gardner broke the world bunker, at the fourth, Whitcombe was fixed scales of pay, the top-ranking| Ruth.

was spectacular slugger, was pur-points. Illinols

only four down. But Locke was not baseball players of America con chased from the Red Sox by New with 26 points, followed by Oklahoma records for one mile, one kilometre, to be shaken off. He played the best virtually command their

Own York Yankees, and electrified base- A. & M. with 19 and Alabama with and five kilometres, all from a flying golf of the match, won the two short

start, in the International Class F salaries. They hold out for, and ball by hitting 54 homers for a new 17.

six up again. (1,500 cc. class) on the Bitterfeld-holes, the sixth and ninth, and was seme of them, get foes which must team in 1920, increasing his total to

Dessau autobahn to-day.

When at the tenth Whitcombe, who make the mouths of many English 59 in

following the White

bad bunkered his iron shot, recovered miles and soccer stars water. Im- Sox scandal the old Commission form

The records are:-

to within a yard of the pin a cheer agine getting U.S. $30,000 or $40,000

as abolished and of government for a season of baseball! Now take Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Federal

One mile--203.8 mph.

went up, but when he missed a yard the case of the 22 players in

putt for a half there was an air of o recent

One kilometre-204.2 m.p.lt.

and resignation about International soccer match at Hamp- Judge in Chicago, was chosen Com

Five kilometres-200.6 m.p.l.

ondency crowd. • den Park between England and missioner with dictatorial powers, in

December, 1920

following sen- Scotland which attracted a crowd of

London, June 13.

.The previous records were:

Locke was seven up, dormie seven sational World's Series victories for close on 150,000, Ench of these

the National League by Bill Terry's The following aro the alterations mile-164 m.p.h. (the Inte Frank with another great approach shot, and LB ench! players received

Who

Lockhart); One kilometre-140.2 having lost the short twelfth conclud- Giants in 1933 and the "Gas House" in the Royal Hunt Cup probables: wouldn't be a baseball siar?

Cardinals in 1934, the American Jones rides Zoltan, Maher rides m.p.h. (G. Furmanik); Five kilo-ed the match with a half in birdio

Richardson rides metres-139.5 m.p.h. (L. Duray). three at the next.. Lengue captured four straight World's Mickle Bulger,

Locke was almost unbeatable in Major Gardner drove the same car Series, for the fourth time, in 1935, Belmal, Mullins rides Rose Town.

Blue Star, Chelsen Reach, Flying which he used when he broke three that final round. He went out in 34 1936, 1937 and 1938, the Yankees es ALEXANDER J. Cartwright spon-tablishing a new record by winning Star and Husson have been with-world records on Wednesday, with the and was three under fours for the

thirteen holes played. sored the first baseball club, the three straight games.

engine rebored. Knickerbockers of New York, which was organised on September 13, 18-45, the club-accepting Cartwright's dlumond and rules, an improvement WAS broken over those of Doubleday. The first game between two teams was played

ATHLETIC RECORDS BEATEN: STARTING BLOCKS AT WEMBLEY

By Dark Blue

London, May 15.

Several new records were set up and others equalled at the A.A.As annual indoor championships at the Empire Pool, Wem- bloy, last night, when for the first time in the history of athletic competition in this country starting blocks were used for the sprint races.

B. Giles (R.A.F.) won the first of time of 2min. 3.3sec. the men's fat races to be decided, twice.

History of Game

the score New York Nine, 23; Knie-

the 70 yds. sprint, but one's sym- A C. Pettit a City of London at Hongkong, N.J., June 19, 1840, with pathies must go to T. A. C. Scotcher policeman athlete and holder, rekerbockers, 1. Twenty-one or more (Southgate), who had beaten Giles turned 3min. 3sec., but a Watford ce

"aces," later runs, then won gome, were the first Wearing blue

in the second round in witch he la railway clerk, and British half-mile The Knickerbockers jured himself and so could not com- champion, A. J. Collyer, bettered lub pete in the final.

this, doing half a second quicker club to use uniforms. than the 1937 Ume at 2min. 2.0cc,rousers, white shirts and straw hats,

D. L. Finlay was a non-starter in the 70-yards hurdles, becütise of an anklo damaged at football.

The title went rather unexpectedly to T. L. Lockton (Achilles) after a great

гдсо with V. Scopes F. (Achilles) who led most of the way, but was beaten in the run in..

A DISAPPOINTMENT-

A big disappointment occurred in the 880 yards. Everybody wanted

MEN'S EVENTS

Pale Vault It, W. Yielder (Lough borough College A.C.) 19., 1; it. Bentley (Loughborough Coll. AC), 11. 3. 2 M. V. Binko (Lendon AC), 11, 3.

they

defented Washington Club of Yorkville, 21 to 11, in eight innings, June 3, 1851. The Knickerbockers also were the first team to appear in a two-column box-score, the

New York Clipper of July 10, 1853, re-

The

A. W. Masters thetropollten A.C), 2B (12), in the game of July 5.

10 Yards Sprint. Gues (RAF), cording Knickerbockers (21), Gotham Evans (Millocarian A.C.), me nrst organisation in baseball was the of Bucoball —70, Yards. Itardles. Lockton National Association Achilles A.C.), F. V. Boopes (Achilles Players, formed at a New York con- A.C.). R. A. Powell (Achilles A.C.), vertion, March 10, 1858. The As- time, sec, (equals record).

Pulting the Weight

wright's rules, but made the game they had not long to walt. Brown Randidi (Millecarian A.C.). 1. in nine innings, with the team having at the end of that. dropped out in the third lap, but he A. Milligen (London A.C.), ift. in the most runs

180 Yards. F. Morris (Thames Valley Ume being the winner, Palico), 2

to see how A. G. K. Brown would

bo sulted by running on wood, and Merz (Achilles), 42ft. 044in.sociation adopted most of Cart-)

took part in the ten-laps relay race. Patut (City of London

in the evening..

Inter

A. Collyer (Watford IL), a Game Spreads The holder, A. C. Pettit, lost his Time, 2min, 0.4tec. New record.

to G. F. Morris (Thames

Valley),"

"Leck twice broke the record

In the 00-metres for women. She was.In u class by hernelf.

Long Jump A Powel (Achilles), 11. Sin. 1; 11. G. Waller (Cambridgs ILS

Alf, Din.. d. alt, in., 2: R. C. E. Kiralty (LondonTHE Excelsiors of Brooklyn were the first club to make a tour, high Jump 1. Newman (Lloyds visiting Buffalo Rochester, Albany (8ft. 10in.). If A Tensley (Royal Uliter and Troy, In July, 1860. The Civil

wildfire through 1: "Metropolitan Police, 7; Ponders. End bath blue and gray ranks. The sport did E. Forster in the Ave-laps reço

A.0, 3, 2min, 63,6900, (a now record); The meeting was of Especial Two Miles Championship. Ne lowe continued to grow after the war. significance for the women talent terns Hill IL). 1. D. O, Percival (Lon spotters from the Women's Ainoleur don AC)2 D.-A. Brickwood (Mitcham Athletic Association were present.C.). min sec, (s record).

B: Reid-also-net up now four) Constabulary), ;. I V. Stubba (Poly IL). War gave great impetus to the game,

psLapa Relay Race-London Paper Mill, which spread like

the

a's putting the weight,

looking for likely candidates for the Olymple Games.

Although this was only the Bird year since the 880 yards champlon ship had been included, the 1997

WOMEN'S EVANTS

Putting the eight. Neld Mitch A:0), on 10in (new record), 17:

Ley Mitcham A.CA), aan. in

(Continued on Page. 9.)

Alfred J. Reach of Brooklyn was the frst professional player, being en gaged to play for the Philadelplin Athletics in 1867 The first complete professional team was the famous Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1809, ten men drawing $9,500. The term WOR

65 games, led one, lost none;

·

Alterations In Royal Hunt Cup

drawn.-Reuter,

Оле

Photo of the 1st Bn. The Middlesex Regiment aihtelle team of 1038-30, winners of the Inter-Unit Athletic Championships Back Row eft to right) L/epl. Barkway, Pie. Danne, L/cpl Bowker: L/col Goodair, L/cpl. Merton, Pie. Goodman, L/epl. MoGrady, Pie. Willland, Ple Shate, Compl. sturdy, L/epl. Burbidge, inflädie Kowdida:llymas, Dar, Onslow, L/cpl Tooló, Fin. Bloomfield, L/col, Heton, Plo, Berry, Pie. Lover, Corpi Pace, Li/cpl. Hobson, Lifcol Wookey, L/cpl. Ferrin, L/cpl. Matthews, Pies Bindon Front Bowl/cpl. Dickens, Corp. Ellis, Sergi Foulter, P. 8. M. Donovan, LA Col. L. A. No wnham, Capi, H. Marsh, Adji, M.O., F. B, M. Kamor, Lat. Hiscocks, and L/epl. Noble-Ming Yuen, 52