Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
August 16, 1939.
DEFINITE RESULTS REACHED IN COUNTY CRICKET
YORKSHIRE BEAT WORCESTER BUT MIDDLESEX LOSE
LEN HUTTON SHINES WITH BAT AND BALL
Definite results were reached in many of the County Cricket Championship matches which concluded yesterday. Yorkshire were amongst
the successful counties, but Middlesex, thoir closest rivals, were defeated by eight wickets at the Oval by Surrey.
Scoring was inclined to be low in most matches except in the one at Hastings between Sussex and Kent. The latter, after declaring both their innings, at 440 for eight wickets and 223 for four, won the encounter by IOU run, a century by John Langridge In the second innings fail- ing to save Sussex.
Hampshire.--285 (Sperry 5 for 13) and 245 for 7 dreld.
Letcestor. 189 and 104,
SOMERSET ♥. GLAMORGAN
Glomor-
two
AI Weston-super-Mare,
de fented Somerset by
Somerset, 127 (Mathews ₫ for 40,
wickets.
Leonard flutton, the young England Judge 4 for 861 and 201 (Smart 5 for opening batsmans, distinguished him-393.
self with both bat and ball in York- Glamorgan---151 shire's match against Worcestershire (Andrews 5 for 04).
at Bradford. The champions were 23
.rung
ins behind Worcestershire in the first innings, but Hutton scored 109 in the second and was chiefly respon- nible for
Yorkshire's total of 309. Then w
when Worcester went in a Deconst Ume, Hutton took five wickets for 58 runs.
for 58
The West Indies tourists sustained another defeat, this time at Chelten- ham (College Ground) where they were entertained by Glouestershire. The visitors were benten by seven wickets.
The West Indiana scored only 162 and 220.
The following scores and results of matches were cabled by Reuter:
SURREY
▼
MIDDLESEX
At the Oval, Surrey defeated Mid- dlesex by eight wickets.
Middlesex.217 (Parker 4 for 34) and 223,
Surrey.-272 (R. W. V. Robins 0 for 80) and 171 for 2.
SUSSEX v. KENT
At Hastings, Kent defeated Sussex | by 108 runs.
Kent-440 for & declared (F. G. H. Chalk 124, B. H. Valentine 104, Wood D for 80) and 223 for 4 declared (Fagg
131 not out).
|
and 172 for B
YORKSHIRE. WORCESTER
defeated
At Bradford, Yorkshire Worcestershire by 80 runs.
Yorkshire.-171 (Perks 5 for 65) and 309 (Hutton 109).
Worcester:dure.-194 (lution 5 for 58).
find
197
GLOUCESTER . WEST INDIES
At Cheltenham (College Ground), Gloucester defeated the West Indies [by seven wickets.
West Indies.-163 and 220. Gloucester.-152 (Constantine 5 for 40) and 231 for 3.
Records Go In Japanese National Meet
Tokyo. Aug. 15.
Four new International swimming records for this year were set by youthful Japanese swimmers yester- day on the third day of the national swimming championship meet, at the Meiji Shrine pool, Tokyo.
Sussex-191 (Wright 0 for 49) and 304 (John Langridge 141), NORTHANTS v. WARWICKSHIRE At Northampton, Warwickshire beat Northants on Arst innings.
Warwickshire.-371 for 4 declared (HI 138, R. E. S. Wyratt 151) and 9.0 sec. 200 for 4,
Shigeo Arai, of St. Paul's Univer. sity, equalled the national record for the 200-meires free style by negotiating the distance in 3 min.
Thailand
Wins Tennis
Interport Series
Miss Sanguan and Sanol were mueli joo good in their mixed doublen match agalusi W. Sander and Mra, L. II. Andrewes of Hongkong yesterday, winning by 0-0, 0-3. The Timlland pair won nino games in a row at the start of the mintch-Staff Photograplier,
ROBSON AND NISH ALMOST CERTAIN TO ENTER FINAL
Rain-Storm Stops Play In Lawn Bowls Semi-Final
Baseball
REDS BEAT PIRATES TWICE
New York, Aug. 15.
The following are the results of matches played in the Major Base- ball Longues to-day:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Pittsburgh Cinelunati
Battery-Redis, J. Lombardi.
8 12 2
Thompson
and
5
Н
1
6 10 0
The four players (T. E. Robson and H. Nish v. Gibson and W. V. Field) in the semi-finals of the Open Pittsburgh Pairs Bowls Championship braved a shower and near-Battery-Reds, John Niggeling and darkness in an attempt to finish their match on the Civil Herschberger.
Cincinnati.
Brooklyn
Service C.C. green yesterday, but the rain-storm finally New York forced them to abandon play with still one more head to go.
At the end Robson and Nish were, and Nish play before in this con- leading 20-15, principally ns the petition how they have come so far result of a four on the
20th head, this season.
for
12
B 13 Kampouris homered for the Glants, Battery-Dodgers, Beck and Millies. Philadelphia
Boston
Battery-Phillies,
Phelps.
3
0 0 B
+
Hamlin and
11
7
2 15 3 Ten innings. Slaughter homered for St. Louis. Battery-Cardinals, Bowman and Padgett.
Chicago The following were the scores head St. Louis
Robson
Gibson and
and Field
which was played with rain failing most of the time. It was an un- by head: fortunate ending to what had pro- after the 10th, Robson and Nish were mised to be a thrilling Anish;
only leading by one shot, 10-16.
But Northants367 (R. P, Nelson #3, Waseda University, set up the best ceded a four on the 20th, leaving
Yoshida, graduate of in the rain, Gibson and Field
time this year for the 100-metres them with the herculean backstroke by covering the distance having to score a six on the remaining in 1 min. 0.4 sec., while Tomikatsu head in order to win.
Hollies 7 for 118).
NOTTS Y. LANCASHIRE
Kilchi
At Nottingham, Lancashire defeat-Amano, of Nippon University, com- ed Nolts by six wicketa.
pleted the 1,5300-metres free-style in 10 min. 21.8 sec.
Notts 237 and 234 (Phillipson 7 for 55).
Lancashire,148 and 323 for 4 (Paynter 154),
HAMPSHIRE. LEICESTER At Southampton, Hampshire fenled Leicestershire by 17 runs.
Lask
Head Nish
con-
2
of
This last head will be played on the Kowloon FC. green this afternoon, but the result is almost a foregone
Tetsuo Hamuro, winner of the conclusion. 200-metres breaststroke in the Berlin Olympics: tied with the national Robson played a great game record for
event when he yesterday and was the best of the de-negollated the distance in 2 min. 40.4 four men on view, giving an indica-
sec.--Domel,
tion to those who had never seen him
the
This is the Canadian Davis Cup team which recently -lest to Cuba in the American Zone of the competition. The team is totally new-strong on youth 1f weak-in strength and experlenon, ·Left to rights—Benos Hall, U. of T. Divtually student; Bill Fodlar, of Vancouver and Toronto; non-playing captain,
D. Forster, Montreal; Kills: Tarshis, ut Montreal, and Phil Fearson, of Vancouver and Toronto.
CAREY DEFEATED
AMERICAN LEAGUE
6 New York
Sanoh And Kasom Take Doubles Match From Finches And Remedios
(By "Abo")
By winning the doubles match yesterday on the Hongkong C.C. courts, Thailand won the Tonnis Interport against Hongkong by threo matches to nil. Thus to-day's two remaining singles have no bearing on the result.
Thailand's
representatives were
Sunch and Capt. Kasom, who de-
feated. C. Fincher and A. V. Re-Tennis League
medios in two straight sets after an exhilarating match, which provided the best tennis of the whole series. Fincher und Remedios played well, particularly the atter, whe was a good us ever I have seen him, but there was a greater steadi- ness about the visitors' play which told its tale in the end. The local men reached great heights in many of the rallies, but their game was far too inconsistent for them to hope for victory against the Thailanders.
"The final scores of
6-4, 7-5 in favour of the visitors give a good Iden of the closeness of the strug- gle. Tad they been a little steadier, Fincher and Remedios would have extended Sanch and Kasom even further, but though they equalled the visitors In brance, the two locals lacked their stability.
NARROW ESCAPE FOR K.C.C.
Rain Interrupts Vital Match
It was unfortunate for South China A.A, that the rain como down just when it did yesterday When when they were playing the
taking service, Remedios was very Kowloon C.C. "A" in the vital good indeed and hit several outright match for the championship of winners. while at the net Fincher, the "B" Division Tennis League. as usun), was steady and sometimes brilliant, making some interceptions
Rain had interfered with the match which left Sanoh and Kusom liter-ce before after it had started. Yesterday, it seemed that the match ally standing
would be completed but the rain- storm broke when the teams were
to
square the
GOOD RECOVERY After losing the first set, however, the Honghong men had to put their playing the last round, with the best feet forward
Chinese leading 1-2, and drove all match, and thus were unable to take the players hurriedly to shelter.
The Chinese were showing good the chances which the visitors could form and alford to do. And perhaps by being certain of winning the
appeared to be almost too careful, Fincher and Remedios
encounter, found themselves 3-5
which would have given them the In arrears. But the local men fought back weli one, set in the last round to clinch the championship, as they needed only And after squaring the set at 5-5, issue. they were within a point of taking the lead at 6-3 on Kasom's service, but were unable to take that vital lost to W. T. Lee and P. Dew A. V. White and F. Grose (K.C.C. point.
The following were the scores:
4-6; bunt F. N. Wong' and H. K. Ho
The Thailanders in the end main-6-3.
tained the squarer frontal attack, ond D. J. N. Anderson and N. A. E. in the closing exchanges the Hong- Mackay (K.C.C. "A") lost to Lee kong pair were split asander, largely and Dew 4-8; beat N. K. Ma and W. through the machinations of Sanoh, H. Ho 6-3.
Kasom filled his role splen-i
B. Soltau and W. M. Gilling (K.C.C. "A") lost to Wong and H. K. By this time Sanah is quite well- Ho 5-7; lost to Ma and Ho 4-6. known to local tennis enthusiasts.
The match will be replayed next But yesterday's doubles match was Tuesday.
ຈ former
the first occasion on which Capt. Ka- Cambridge "Blue", was seen in action in an official match in the Colony. He proved **
himself be well-equipped player, overhead, possessing a useful service: but rather lacking in consistency.
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15
In the only remülsing match in the second round of the open Bowls singles champlonship, G. Perkins de- feated A. E. Carey on the Craigen- gower C.C. green yesterday by 21-17 on the 29th head.
Tennis
ARMY KEEP
SERVICES TITLE
to
H.KCC. v. KC.C. “B”
The H.K.C.C. beat the K.C.C. "B" team 0-0 in the "B" Division of the
strong Lawn Tennis League yesterday.
E. E. Story and J. J. Ferguson *-*
beat D. A. Joyce and (H.K.C.C.)
He was a useful partner for Sanoh, whose trickiness forced Fincher and J. H. S. Duncan 6-3; beat R. E. Lee Remedios into making weak returns and A. L. Fisher 0-2; beat F. A. which Kasom summarily dealt with Broadbridge and W. L. Rapley 6-3, at the net.
MIXED DOUBLES MATCH Before this, there was a mixed dou-
bles
match
B. O, M. Denne and W. H. Jowett beat Joyce and Duncan 6-3; bent Lee und Fisher 6-3; beat Broadbridge
In which W. Sander and and Rapley 6-1. Mrs. L. R. Andrewes opposed Sonol
F. J. Gould and Capt. A. B. What- and Miss Sanguan, the lady champion beat Lee and Fisher 6-1; beat Broad- man beat Joyce and Duncan 0-1; of Thailand. The visitors were far bridge and Rapley 6-4.
the better pair and won 6-0, 0-3.
In the knock-up before. the
Miss
match!
favourable created an extremely
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
impression with her ter- enough to beat any lady in Hong- rific forehand drive and her strong kong. Apart from a palpable weak- overhead work at the net. But in ness on the backhand, she seems well- the matcht, she did not make us much grounded in the rudiments of the use of her forehand drive os had game. been expected, while her backhand was distinctly vulnerable.
The Interport series concludes this Nevertheless her agility and the afternoon with two singles, in which Carey is one of the six players
accuracy of Sanoh's placements were S. A. Rumjohn will meet Munng selected to go up to Shanghal to re- Inter-Services Lawn Tennis Cham- The Army easily retained the
enough to see them through against Roeng and H. D. Rumjahn will play present Hongkong in the Interport.pionship, which concluded at Wim-class. The
a pair who were not quite in the same Sanoh.
visitors won the first bledon recently, the final placings nine games in a row.
If the Rumjahns can conserve their energy sufficiently to last the fult Army, 10 wins; Navy, 4; Judging her by her exhibition yes- distance, they ought to make a good 4. Yesterday's results were terday, I think Miss Sanguan is good fight of to-day's games,
TO-DAY'S MATCH
If all four players reach their best 2nd Lieut. D. R. Bacquet farm, bowling of a very high stand- ard ought to be seen at the Kowloon (Army) beat Sq. Ldr, D. K. Burnett F.C. this afternoon when L. J. Silva (RAF) 6-4, 6-4; Capt. D. and J. F. V. Ribeiro meet their club-nett (Army) beat P/O A. J. Mackay I. Bur- inates, H. A. Alves and F. V. V. (R.A.F.) 3-0, 7-5, B; Capt. 11. Ribeiro, in the other semi-final of the F. C. Home (Army) beat Lieut. A. Open Pairs Championship.
Kirkconnell (Navy) 6-2, 6-2.
The pairs are well matched. The Doubles: 2nd Lieut. D. R. Bocquet former did extremely well last week and 2nd Lieut. A L A Bishop to beat J. E. Noronha and C. G. Silva, (Army) beat Sq. Ldr. J. L. H. Flet- another formidable pair from the sher and F/O E. Holden (RAF) Club do Recreio, and are, therefore, 3-0,
7-5. 1;
Capt. R. C. H. Kir unlikely to be intimidated by the It (Army) beat Lieut. W. B. Muspratt
and Capt. H. F. putation of Alves and Albeiro. will be a battle between youth and experience.
Gunners To Meet
Home
and Rev. C. R. F. Muspratt (Navy) 6-2, 0-7; Taj, L. E. Bourke and Capt. D.. Burnell (Army) beat Capt. P. F. Glover and Cdr. M. A. W. Buzzard (Navy), 6-3, 6-2.
Capt, Glover and Cir. Buzzard (Navy) beat F/O A. E. Robinson and
Signals At Soccer R/O AJ. Mackay (RAF) 『.。
63; Lieut. W. D. Muspratt and Rev. C, RF Muspratt (Navy) beat, Sq, Headquarter Wing of the 8th Ldr. B. K. Burnett and Sa. Ldr. R. G. Heavy Regiment, Royal Arillery, Shaw (RAF) 6-4, 3-0, 6-4 Sq. will meet Royal Corps of Signals in Ldr, J. L. R. Fletcher and F/O a friendly football match on the Holden (RA.F.) bent Lieut. A. Kirk- Railway ground, Kowloon, to-mor-connell and Surgn. Lieut. S. B. Ewens row, at 4 pm.
(Navy) 10-10, 0, 02.
MISS J. Holman (Wimbledon High The following will represent the School), Mias J. B, Rudd (Wimble Gunners: NE
don County) and Miss M. Ereaut (Jersey College), three of the chief contenders for the singles title, all reached the fourth round in the schoolgirls' lawn tennis tournament lat Queen's Club.
L/Bdr. Purdu»; Bdr. Doyle, L/Bdr. Dunn; Gar. Brown, L/Bdr. Roberts, Gar. Fisher Bdr. Owens; Gnr. Bur gés, Gar. Woolridge, L/Bdr. Cross Bdr. Lyons.
Capt. Kamota (right), captain of the Thalland leam, revealed strong overhead play when he partnered Sanohin, the doubles against E., C. Fincher and Ai V, Remedios. By winning, this match in straight sets, the visitors have clinched the Interpori mries sgainst Hongkong,' - Staf Photographer.
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