1939-06-21 — Page 32

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 21, 1939.

THREE YOUTHS TAKE LEADING IN HER PHILIPPINES

LIMELIGHT IN GOLF TILTS

JAMES BRUEN MASTERS L. G. CRAWLEY 4 AND 2

From F. J. C. Pignon

Hoylake, May 23.

This was youth's proud day at the amateur champion ship meeting, here on the Royal Liverpool Club's sun- bathed links. Two 19-years-old players, James Bryen, of Cork, and Tom Hiley, of Southport, and Kenneth Thom, 17-years-old Essex boy champion, stole most of the ad- miration of the big crowd for their amazing feats of golfing skill.

Bruen gured in what may be in a bunker. He simply stepped Into regarded as a key malch to the the sand and hanged a shot of about championship when bc defented | 150 yards on to the green. Leonard Crawley, a golfer of vast This shook Crawley, who proceed- and undoubted ability, ined to take three puits, experience

a most convincing manner,

Who a

in which Crawley battle was soon enmeshed in the strangle-

RAN AWAY

From that point Bruen was always

hold of Bruen's releniessly accurate Kolf. Crawley's putter, the only clubutyed in a "birdie" 4, the next in 3, in the lead. The long third was that might have saved ilm, served and then Bruen run away. Ile be- only Temporarily to stave off his apparently inevitable eclipse.

came favo up by holing a 4-yarder for an "eagle" 3 at the arth, won the was rather

Young Bruen, trained 10 thesixth, where Crawley moment and having lost about 2st. in the process-in a sturdy little fellow, but Crawley, hero of any famous golf and cricket matches, with

his sandy hair,

bristling moustache and powerful bulld looked every inch a powerful athlein

unluckily bunkered over the green. and also the short seventh, where crawley's pulter was about is much use

to him as a barge pole would have been.

FINE SECOND SHOTS Physical strength was not to be the deciding factor. On the whole, Bruen had slightly the better of the long driving, but it was the fact that the youth to frequently outplayed his opponent with

scemi shots of perfectly.

ilm his advantage.

Crawley his first success at the eighth, a hole of 527 yards, where both

were over the green with two shots, and Crawley chipped near

ugh to get his four; but he took three putts from four yards and los the ninth to be four down again--out in 40 against 36. controlled Then Crawley did make a fight of length that gave it. He won the tenth with a grand

chip and a

1 a putt, and the 11th, where Of the two, it was the more ex-aren pushed out his tee 'shat. He perienced golfer who displayed the holed putts of about three yards on nervous tension of the great match, each of the next three greens for and he did so by frequently leaving halves, but even this did not shake his long putt short or failing to hole the Irish lad. It was Crawley who

put the length of his club, cracked. Bruch is A poker-faced

need youth who displays neither pleasure nor annoy- unce. It was impossible to read in his face any sign of anger when his long drive to the second hole finished

He missed a 4ft, putt and lost the 15th, hooked his drive to a bunker, played out into the rough, half-hit his next into another bunker, and (Continued on Page 9.)

Noronha And Rodrigues Cause A Surprise In Bowls Pairs Tourney

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(By "Abo")

Four matches wore...completed and

FATHER'S PONY],

Miss Dallas Lee Franklin, daughter of the American chairman of the Shangħal Municipal Council, lead- ing in her father's winning pony "Applejack” in the race meeting held at Shanghai last, week.—South China Photo Service,

Here And There With 'Abe".

First

DA

Perfect American

Polo Team Assembled

Cricket

BOWLERS COME INTO THEIR OWN

Rain Interferes With Matches

with

Rain interfered several matches in the Coun- WHILE preparing for the West- sent sixes sizzling through the beards

chester Cup pulo series against of the pavillon die-hards before the ty Cricket Championship pro- Great Britain, it was the intentions had burst into splendour. Un-

the Americans to field what re-fortunately, Barnett is off-form A gramme which concluded cently became known as their "dream" for Copson, he has been knocking team. This consisted of Michael at the door-steps for a long while yesterday. Phipps, Cecil Smith. To my Hitch- and the good form he

has been cock and Stewart Iglehart, every one showing-he

took the first "hat of whom carries a ten-goal handicap trick" of the season-has deservedly -the highest ranking in polo. The won him a place in the side. plun went awry when, a few days before the series was due to start at Retains Old Skill

v. Oxford

SENDING FOR

に

ENGLISH FOOTBALL

PROFESSIONAL COACH

P.A.A.F. Determined to Lift Level of Game in Islands

Manila, June 15.

The move of local athletic officials to boost football here is now dofinitely taking shape. Philippino Amatour Athletic Federation officials have contacted with Secretary Rous of the British Football Association for the purpose of hiring an (experienced English professional football coach. |According to arrangements, the English coach may

arrive here in September.

The imported English professional football coach will help organize leagttes, demonstrate, officiate and generally help Improve playing technique in the Islands. A year's contract is being offered by the PAAF to the right party.

Applications from football coaches from Austria, Germany and from other European countries have been received in Manila, but the PAAF refers an English coach, PAAF om- cials point out that an English coach will be easily understood here.

SEASON'S PLANS

Football is due for a real breakt beginning this season. Various sug- nestions of the PAAF football com- mittee were approve

ut the meeting of the PAAF

committee last month. The most important item was the proposal to hold an annual football tournament between

soccer- playing countries in the Far East.

The

other

recommendations proved are as follows:

The

ap-

improvement of the flood-light system in the Rizal Memorial Foot- ball Stadium.

The purchase of football instruc- tional films from England.

The purchase of magnetle footballį boards for Instructional purposes.

The football series of five matches with the Islington Corinthians during the month of February.

Football will Kent and Gloucester won their public

also be played by all schools

this year. beginning Sussex respectively on Monday, but agreed in adept football as one of matches against Glamorgan and Bureau of education officials have

Burcau in the County Championship Middle- sex were the only side to win out-the events in the 1939 national inter- With all public scholastle programme. right yesterday though in the non-schools taising to football, the aport championship programme, Somerset- is expected to be as popular as bas shire defeated Oxford University by ketball and other major sports in the by 219 runs.

four runs

ITALIAN WINS KING GEORGE V CHALLENGE CUP

British Boxers In World Title Bout

London, June 12.

Len Harvey, holder of the British and Empire heavy- weight champion, will fight Jock McAvoy for the world's lightheavyweight championship in the open air at White City.. on July 10, over 15 rounds, it was announced to-day.

On the same programme, Jack Doyle, Irish heavyweight, will oppose Eddie Phillips, former London bus-driver and one of the leading heavyweight in England.---Reuter,

JOHN COBB HOPES TO BETTER RECORD

London, June 3. While thousanda gaze daily at the fastest enr on earth, Captain George Eyston's "Thunderbolt," in the Bri- tish Pavilion at New York World's Fair, a challenge is being secretly prepared by n fellow-Briton in a small engineering shop at Byflect, In the quiet countryside of the South of England.

Meadow Brook, Long Island, on Juric 4. Cell Sinith was hurt, and at the last moment Winston Guest, it former TF English cricket were not at this Westchester Cup player, was invited moment so rich in batting talent, to fill the vacancy, Though not the Selectors might have turned to

Rain suved Notts in their match Islands in the near future. ten-goal player like the others, Guest Herbert Sutcliffe as an opening bats against Yorkshire. Faced with the nevertheless has had a great deal of

man. By luis performances

this task of scoring 233 runs to win In experience of international polo,

and

season, this veteran has proved that three wickets-all taken by Bowes their second innings, Notts had lost furthermore he is a No. 4 player or even if age is creeping on him he without a run--for only back-Just the man the Americans needed; for there was not a player has lost little of his old skill. The when rain stopped play. Yorkshire

the "dream" team with much following are some of his innings this thus won en first innings. and

experience at hending off summer for Yorkshire In the County

The Middlesex victory Was only the opposition. In the first two mat- Championship:

made possible nts, who closed their

It is the car with which John Cobb, by a sporting declara- ches, the Americans, flelding the team

tion by

London fur-broker and racing motor- of Phipps, Hitchcock, Iglehart and

second innings at 343 for nine, leav

ist in his spare time, will challenge one Guest, won and retained the West-

the 357,5 miles per hour world re- ing Middlesex to get 286. Robertson... chester Cup. In the third game play-

(144) and Denis Compton (111 not

London, June 20.

cord set up by Eyston in September, a out) obtained the r

e runs for Middlesex

In the International Horse Show 1030, just 24 hours after Cobb, the exceed 350 m.ph., had team in place of Guest, and the

who had lost three wickets when to-day, Lt. Col. Alessandro Bettoni, first man

wag secured.

of Italy, riding the 14-year-old beaten the previous record.

the

Cobb told reporter that he be programme, many splendid bowling King George V Gold Challenge Cup

gures being returned. On the other after a jump-off with Captain Bizard ly build a car which will enable men hand, only four centuries were scored of France, who was riding the ten- to travel seven miles a minute, 420 quite a change from the crop of year-old black gelding Honduras, on miles an hour, the equivalent of the three-figure innings of late.

which Details and results of matches are cabled by Reuter.

unfinished in the Open Pairs Bowls Championshiped on Sunday. Smith came into the yesterday.

The biggest surprise of the day was the defent of F. A. Machado and F. X. M. da Silva by their club-mates, A. F. Noronha and A. M. Rodrigues, at the Kowloon F. C. green. The lat ter, both of whom are comparatively new to the game, not only won but won easily by 29-11 after lending nil on the first four

the

way,blished a lead of 8-

On

heads they

$110 25-2 which became

the 12th. Though Machado and Silva covered somewhat, they were, never able to get over their bad start. The winners scored a five and a four amongst their 14 successful heads.

Another Club de Recrelo pair, P. Remedios and E.

E. de Souza got through to the third round by eliminating W. C. Simpson and T. Fergusson, but re- quired

tra head to do so as the #cores were tied at 22-22 at the end of the 21

an extra

Rams At one stage of the

ing

16-4,

two

and Souza were lead- but a five and

a three on successive heads by Simpson and Fergusson reduced the deficit con-

siderably, and another scored eight ing, during which they

Simp heads

shots fu

placed

and

in the lead by -20-19

at the

son

cnd

of the 17th head. Thereafter the struggle was very close, and when the last head was played the Portuguese were leading by one shot, 22-21. Simpson and Fergusson scored single and in the extra head, Reme dios and Souza had a brace.

OTHER MATCHES

a

Matches Should Start

Not Later Than 5 p.m.

(ly "Abe")

I have been specially asked by Mr. R. P. Phillips, Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls Association, to re- mind competitors in the Open Pairs that all matches must start carlier.

at 5 p.m. sharp or

125 not out 165 .116.

234 not out

V. Lancashire v. Itampshire... V. Leicester

These feats would do credit to man at the height of his powers, let

"dream" team, conceding ten goals alone a man who has reached the wiers had a better time in this chestnut gelding. Adigrat, won a leves British engineers will ultimate-

| handicap, were beaten by 17 goals to twilight of

14.

First In History

Arst-class

his

carcer.

Mile of Century

cricket

THIS team is a 40-goaler, the first EP everything turns

oulos we in the history of international expect, life would be very dull play and the first "perfect" polo team indeed after a while, leaving nothing there ever has been. For that matter. to excite Lig and to quicken our It probably is the first 100 per cent. pulses. Take that "mile of the unbeatable tenin ever put together in Century" run at Princeton on Satur- performers: any sport, for the simple reason that day. Nearly all the spectatora were polo is the only form of athletic watching Sydney Wooderson, the outing that attempts to grade its per- British holder of the.

official mile Robertson formers with mathematical precision.

LEADING PERFORMERS The following were the leading

BATTING

(Middlesex) V.

144

Northants

.

he won the Cup two years ago, distance between London and Edin- Captain W. F. Butler, riding the burgh, in 56 minutes. ten-year-old chestnut mare Big Sweep,

was the best

The car he will take to Bonneville English competitor. with four

faulis. Salt Fats Utah, USA. next August

will be a David to Eyston's Goliath.... Reuter.

It will weigh only three tons against the 611⁄2 tons of "Thunderbolt." Many believe this makes a car dangerous

wickshire Hayward (Oxford)

Somerset

praying fields. Smith is 200 pounds of the greatest milers in the one of Timms (Northants) v. Middlesex 120* Mayer (Warwickshire) Having seen many of the story of Ah as an alligator. In the mile run indoors. Yet; who won? Worthington (Derby)

matches played, 1 heartily agree with Mr. Phillips. For too many ties are commenced later than 5.15. In one match played on Monday, play did not start until 5.30 with the result that the last few heads were played in almost darkness→→→ which is not fair to either pair.

This was the conversation I heard on one green:

Skip. Where's the jack? Lead. Here, just at my foot.

Skip-But where the is, your foot?

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Is that the type of bowls we want?

At the Civil Service CC, A. E. Coates and B. W. Bradbury defeated their club-mates, T. L. Locke and W. K Way, by 23-14. The game was very even unili the 16th head, at which stage Locke and Way were Meyer should have been played yes leading-13-12, but in the remaining terday but was postponed until to- heads they were only able to score single whereas Coates and Bradbury

day. put on 11 shots.

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On the sume green, W. Hobbs und

I Mendows, who led 20-13 on the

15th head on Monday, completed

and

nor

v. Lan

cashire

Paynter (Lancashire) v. Derby-

shire ...

Denotes not out.

111

101

01

រ

Of these four players, three of them record, und Glenn Cunningham, the attained perfection on Long Island's former American hulder and

Compton (Middlesex) world who D. has

Northants clocked 4 mins, 04.4 secs, for the Texan ind

American polo there have

Not Wooderson;

Cunningham been but 10 players called perfect, But Charles Fenske, an outsider, so and here are four of them teamed up. Phipps was the sixteenth to be elected to speak, who was invited to take and is the baby of the team. The part in the race to Increase the race of it. only argument against the team is interest nad to make a list not one of them has had much The biggest disappointment from experience of defending. A 10-goal very point of view, of course, was Wellard. man, as his title implies, is a player the poor showing of Wooderson, who Recustomed to leaping on his pony was last. To those of us who had Sims and tearing sort of roughshod through expected such great things from this the opposition. But then, argues the frail-looking Londoner it is dimcult Jepson (Notts) v. York- other school, what does a 40-goal to imagine that he was so outclassed, shire

especially when one considers that team need with a goal-keeper?

the winning time was

only

Perks (Worcester) v. War- Tost Selections

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he salied for the United States he had clocked 4 mins. 7.4 secs. for

4

beforehand, that only a few

mysi

race

HAMMOND, Paynter, Hutton, the same distance. After the

Joe Hardstat Denis Wooderson' claimed he had been Compton, D.V.P. Wright and Bill fouled by Rideout and the fact that Bowes were more or less natural he latter apologised shows that this cholces for the First Test match must have been so But according gainst the West Indies, but the to a cable message, the authorities on selection of Harold Gimblett,

the and A. Wood was --

Wooderson had been fouled, were

American

spot, while appreciating that

wood well Australians Tast tional, Anyhow,

did very well in the last Test agreed that the foul was not inten~|

Com-

has been included to take the place running at his best and would have summer and probably for this reason mentators sald Wooderson was not of Leslie Ames, who is giving wicket-been beaten in any case. keeping a rest this summer. Then

Gimblett, the Somersetshire opening Offer Declined batsman, has scored so many runs

In the current season that his recogni-

son

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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

G, S, Ladd and

mar (Police R.C.). tion is only just. Blue-eyed boy of AN offer has been made to Wooder- Penny and A. M. Omar (Police R.C.). the Lord's pundits around three years

E. G. Post and A. E. Carey v. G. their match against A. A. Razack Duncan and W. Gk R. Ells and Do, he is just emerging

restage the race from a Randall's Island and J. S. Landolt, winning by 27-17.

on Saturday, but The match between R. Duncan and Fitches v. W. L. Walker and J. C. dew adventurous cricket-there is offer, preferring to return to London temporary cellpse. Evidently. the the Englishman has declined, the A. M. Holland und L. C. R. Souza

Gill (Indian R.C.).

plenty of evidence of it in England to take part in the English A.AA. M. Y. Adel and A. R. Dallah v. J. this summorults Mr. Gimblett meet in July. It is extremely un- Fraser and E. C. Fincher (Hongkong admirably. Of him, John Robertson, fortunate that in such a race as that F.C.). by 20-16. The remaining three heads W. McLeod and W. Dall v. L. A. recently said, "It this young man is paration had been made and so much the well-known English sports writer, Saturday in which so much pre- bu played to-morrow.

Collyer and F. Haynce (Cralgen not careful he will again find him- publicity given, on Incident of this M. J. Medina is still sick, E. power C.C.).

self in a Test team." The mind runs sort should arise. From this distance Zimmern will be partnered by N. P. N. P. Karanjia and E. Zimmern v. rlot conjuring up what might happen one cannot tell why Wooderson has Kazanjia in this competition. Their J. B. Logan and J. G. Meyer (Kow-It Charles Barnett, of Gloucester, and declined the offer, but perhaps he is match against J. S. Logan and J, G. loon F.C. green).

Gimblett opened for England and well-advised to do so.

C. S. Rossclet could not be com pleted. The game was stopped after

18 heads with the latter pair leading

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BOWLING

(Somerset) Oxford ****

(Middlesex)

Northants

0 for. 55 to handle, but Cobb thinks that it is. a small, lightweight car which will

6 for 79 break the world's record. The basic

principle of Cobb's challenger is 11. Worcester

for 86 twisted single-backbone chassis with: and 5 for 69 two Napier Lion engines slung back- Bowes (Yorkshire) v. Notts 5 for 29 to-back and aslant, one engine driv

and 3 for 0ing the front axle, the other, the Watkins (M.C.C.) v. Cam-

brlige Andrews

(Somerset) V.

Oxford

Smith (Leicester) v. West

Indles

axic.

rear

A 2,000 horse-power car, it is 5 for 31 being "tuned" to develop an extra 300 h.p-and with this under its

5 for 43 bonnet Cobb, 30-years-old bachelor and genial plant of six feet two for 53 inches, expects to streak

7 for 57 Wright (Kent) v. Glamorgan 5 for 51 Salt Flats at 360 m.p.li.

V

V.

7 for 79

0 for 271

| Martindale (West Indies) v.

Lelcester Goddard (Gloucester)

Sussex

5 for 67

V.

.4 for 80

and 6 for 53

RESULTS IN BRIEF

The following were the results of the matches completed yesterday:

Kent (248 and 88 for 1) beat Clamorgan (217 and 118) by nine wickets.

Gloucester 191 and 162 for 6) beat Sussex (225 and 124) by four wickets.

Yorkshire (244 and 108) beat Notts (120 and 3 for 41 on first innings. Rain interfered with this match.

Derby (356) v. Lancashire (267 for, 7) abandoned owing to rain.

Essex (156 and 248) beat Surrey (110 and 146 for 51 on first innings.

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Worcester (271 and 153) beat Warwickshire (246 and 70 forl) on first innings.

Middlesex (280 and 288 for 31 beat Northants (222 and 343 for 9 decid,) by seven wickets.

Somersot (226 and 257) beat Oxford (120 and 144) by 219 runs,

Leicestor (216) 'drew with West Indies (182 and 314 for:8)...

M.C.C. (206 and 193) drew with Cambridge. (197 and,

133 för 6).

over the

England Footballers Return Home

London, May 201 Thirty-two England footballers, laden with souvenirs and presents, arrived In England yesterday from their tour in Europe. Each had a brightly painted flagon, presents from Bucharest, containing Rumanian 11- queurs. F.A.

S. F. Hous, in Secretary charge, cald receptions in all three countries in which

they

played—Italy, Rumania and Jugo-Slavin had been wonderful. Gates had been records. the tributes to British skill and sportsmanship most sincero.

Although they arrived in South Africa only the day before, the England F.A. team opened their tour of the country with a 6-1-victory over. Western Province at Hartiny Vule

(Cape

Fractically Province). the whole town turned out to 200 the match, which was watched by the Governor-General, Sir Patrick Duncan. The speed and combination of the England side completely out- classed-the home team, and at half- time the score wha 3-1-Our Own Correspondent.