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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH –

August 24, 1939.

JOHN COBB BREAKS CAPT. EYSTON'S SPEED RECORD

'George Eyaton his land speed murk is gone.

No Compulsion For Gland Treatment

London, Aug. 11. A notice that English foot- ball clubs cannot enforce their players to undergo gland treat- ment has been sent to each of the 88 clubs of the Football League.

The circular says: "An in- vestigation is at present being- made into the effects of gland treatment 35 applied to athletes and especially football « players.

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"Pending the results of this Investigation players are in- formed that the taking of such treatment either by Injection or through the mouth, is en- tirely voluntary and cannot be enforced.

MARK BETTERED BY MORE THAN ELEVEN MILES

370.7 Miles Northward And 366.97 Southward

Salt Lake City, Aug. 23.

John Cobb, the British racing motorist, broke Capt. George Eyston's world land speed record of 357.5 miles án hour to-day by covering the mile in each direction at an average_speed of 368.85 miles an hour in his Railton

car.

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His average speed for the kilometre was 367.74 miles an' hour.

Sporting Tit-Bits

CIRCULAR has been issued which settles once and for all

Cobb covered the nortloward. run al 378.75 miles an hour: for the mile southward he drove his ear at 366.97 miles an hour.

were

Speeds for the kilometre northwards

367.92 mics

ani hour and southwards 371.50 miles an hour.--- Reuter,

Glutin Cʻolib covered the northward run on Tuesday at 369.23 miles an bour, but his engine stalled on the return jourtsy and thus his record was delayed for one day).

iye Football League clubs worry 1e have taken place at Liverpool Sta- pinyers. Numbers' shall be from 2

"This notice must be posted arding the new rule of numberingdium on August 17, has been put)

In club dressing rooms.

Mr. F. Howarth, secretary of the Football League, said that the letter was decided on by the clubs in April, when they agreed to an investigation being made-United Press,

JAPANESE

SWIMMERS SELECTED Preparing For Olympic Games

Tokyo, Aug. A Selections of the Japan Amateur Swinning Federation for

that will participate

to darting with the right back, back to August 24, in order to give

dultting the goalkeepers.

The Walsh more time for training.

right back will therefore be 2, left back right half 4, centre half 5.

*

LANS Nusstein (Germany), holder.

feft half B, outside right 7, inside Hain won the singles title in

neys.

Lawn

right B, entre forward B. infide left 18, outside Jet 11. The numbers the Southport Professional shall be stitched on to the backs of Tennis Competition, beating W. T.

(USA by 0-2, shirts or jerseys, they must be Bin. Tilden

7-5, 6-4. Jong and 1 wide, and of a con- Tiiden has now appeared in three trasting colour of the shirts or Jer-finals, but has still to win the trophy. In this match he falled to reproduce i the form which enabled him to the pre- SUBSCRIPTIONS are arriving in eliminate Donald Budge

Paris from all parts of the world the second set when he hurt three vions day. He made a fight of it in to erect a statute to the late Suzanne gel points with the score 5-4 in his Lenglen, France's greatest tennis star, many times Wimbledon cham-favour, but allowed Nusstein to re-

jing.

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cover. Nusslein gave a convincing all-round display. Budge and H. Ellsworth Vines, won the doubles final, beating W. T. Tilden and L. R. Stoefen, 6-2, 7-2, 7-5, 4-6.

*

FISS Gem Hoahing won

the women's singles at key ofter beating Miss W. M. Lincoln by 6-1, 0-3. Miss Lincoln had previously beaten the holder, Mrs. In J. Sar- gant in 2 sets. The difference in,NLY a comparatively few Rugby the two Analists was striking-Misa clubs ite a practice of hand- Táncoln tall and graceful and Missing the caplaincy round from season Most of the London clubs Huling, short and light, and ex-to season.

like to keep

the tremely swift

same skipper unless her feet. The on fatter is an excellent baseline player they are forced to make a change. 11 is no surprise, for Instaner, to find 1.- she controlled the

Kame winners throughout. Other

were Blackheath re-electing J. G. W. Da

and

I now

Japanese Olymple swimming team Men's Singles: N. Taylor bent W. Tvies, the Kent cricketer after the in the 191 Anderson, 4-0, 7-5, 9-7 (this match successful campaign they had under games ut Helsingfors were

an-oak 134 hours). Men's Double: W. leadership last season.

Anderson and F. H. Goldson beat hear that Richmond have

again J., Sturgeon and N. Taylor, 6-2. chosen C, D. Laborde to lead them 200 2-0 0-2: Women's Doubles, Miss in the coming season.

P. L. metres; illroshi Takahashi, WM Lincoln and Miss

nounced here to-day.

They

were: Shiso Arai, 200 Shigeru metres:

Miyamoto, metres; Elsnku Tanaka, 400

1,000

and

400 metres and Tomikatsu Amano, MacCorkindale beat Mrs. II. J. Sar 1,500

tree metres

he will secure a return contest

style; Kilchi Keant und Mrs. W. 11. Durian, B-1.TOMY Farr is still confident that Yoshida and Yasuhiko Kojima, back 3-7. - Mixed Doubles;-Anderson stroke: Tetsuo Hamuro and Scichiro and Miss Lincola beat Sorgenni and with Joe Loula for the latter's world

Mrs. Sargeant, 6-2, 0-6, 6-1. Oura, breast stroke.

Twelve other swimmers

chosen as subsillutes,

were

stutes that he is

Miss Allee Marble (left) and Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan won the women's doubles tennis championship of the United States for the third consecutive year on Monday when they defeated Miss Kay Stammers and Mrs. Freda Hammersley, of Great Britain.

Girl Test Cricketers

Have To Find Their Own Fares For Trip

London, Aug. 8.

Several of the sixteen girls who sail for Australia in October to play cricket for England will be short of cash for the next two years.

Each has to find £150 for fares and personal expenses, writes a Sunday Express representative. They have saved what they can, and some have borrowed from rċ- latives.

A share of the gate money In Aus! tralia will go to the Women's Cric ket Association. Not a penny will go to individual players.

All the girls work for their living.. They lose Their income for the four months they are away,

Seven of them are school teachers. Miss Betty Snowball, Miss Margaret Williamson. Mis Dorothy McEvoy. and Miss Aline Brown teach games, Miss Megin Lowe, the demon bowler, teaches physical training. Misa M. Sulmon teaches in her father's

and preparatory school, Miss Audrey Collins is a selener teacher.

Miss G. Morgan and Miss E. Whelan are in the Civil Service. Miss Freda Iredale is a dress de- signer, Miss Betty Belton's choco late, packer at Bourneville, Miss E. Paris is in bank, and Miss Betty Archdate, the captain, is a barris-

ter.

ពិធ

Miss Muriel Lowe, No. 1 bat, is enterprising young woman who seeing the Harringay Stadium being. bulit, thought: "There must be some joba going here," walked in and got herself one as secretary to the rink manager.

In spite of the effort" all the girts have made, England is not sending her best team. *

When the touring team played the Rest of England at the Oval lest week, the touring team were all out. for 80, The Rest scored 227.-

heavyweight boxing championship in New Yark next June. The Welsh-

SHE'S MARRIED Africa, but Fare Four divers were also picked to THE Arat between Ernie Roderick, man has had offers to fight in South

British welterweight champion, concentrating upon meeting, Louis's Highest scorer was Mrs. Joan represent Japan at the Olympic and Jimmy Walsh, former light- next fight in September," he said. "

Davis, the only married WO- weight le-holder, which, was to want to get this fixed and then I man in the two teams. She made 86 and took two wickets. She is not shall probably undertake an exhibi tion tour which will take me to

going to Australis because she ling several countries, Including Austra-\a husband and two armall children lin and South Athlen."

to look after.

ganies.-Domci,,

the

Miss Molle Hyde, who caplained Rest, is one of the best all- rounders in women's cricket. She had to refuse the invitation to tour because she is a farmer and must- look after her father's farm.

Both the Blaker twins, preity daughters of Mr. P. N. R. Blaker, the old Cambridge and Kent player, were invited: Buth could not afford to go, so Barbara Hoes and Joan stays at home,

BASEBALL

LEAGUE RESULTS

New York, Aug. 23. The following are the -results-of- matches played in the Major Baseball Lenique to-day:

.NATIONAL LEAGUE

St. Louis Brooklyn

R. II. E.

3

8

3

B

鐘

1

Medwick homered for the Car- dinals and Lavagetto for the Dodgers. -Battery-Dodgers, Hollingsworth and ; Phelps,

Pittsburgh Boston

Lopez..

Ballery-Graves,

0 1

1 2 7 2 Posedel and

AMERICAN LEAGUE -

New York

Chicago .........

7

2

1

3 2

and

Battery.Yankees, Donald

Rosar-Reuter,

KOWLOON DOCK RINK

..

IN FINAL OF LAWN BOWLS TOURNAMENT

Postponed Match Decided On Craigengower Green

That long-postponed match in the semi-finals of the Open Bowls rinks championship, between rinks skipped by J. C. Brown and J. C. S. Fendor, was played off yesterday on the Craigengower C.C. green and resulted in a win for the former by 22-16.

TO-DAY'S TIE

In the first 11 beats, Brown and its the 23rd head. A splendid recovery, men (A. M. Calman, M. Fergusoivaltogether. and R. Morrison) won no fewer than

The best match in this round, that 10, only the third going to Fender and her colleagues (F. C. Channing, between U. MOmar and A. J. Hall, 1. Ellis and W. Mair) for a four. is scheduled to be played off this afternoon on the Kowloon F. C.

PAS

the. Omar-Bradbury tie

However, though Brown and his gre

green men scored on eight consecutive heads was the fil-bit of the third round, they were unable to register more so does to-day's encounter promise than singles and twis, and al, the end to bis, Buy Noutstanding" matchs" of the of the 11th. held they were leading fourth. Two of the best players in by only 13-4 On the other hand, the Cofony are in opposition, and Fender's rink improved matters by spectators should be rewarded with scoping a two, four and twp on the tie tussie. next three heads to get to within, S

shot of their opponents' detal,

But thereafter they scored on only Home Football one more head-s four on the 20th. Thus, Fender and his inen scored oni only five heads, but were only six

hots behind at the en

As can be seen from the scored b the Kowloon Dock players were much more consistent than their opponents

The following are the scores had] - by hund:

A. M. Calman

FC. Channlug

R.. Ellis

W. alair

3. C. S. Fender

M. Ferguson

R. Morrison,

J.-C. Brown

CELTIC DEFEATED AT HOME

London, Aug. 23. The following were the results of matches played in the First Division' or the Scottish Football League to-day:

Arbroath

Ayr U.

Celtie

Falkirk Hibernian

2 Hamilton

L

Albion B.

1

Aberdeen

4

Clyde

3

Queen O'Stk.

Motherwell

Kilmarnock

St. Johnstone

1

Alloa

10

-Neuter.

20

21

As a result of their victory, A. M. Caiman, M. Ferguson, K. Morrison and J. C. Brown will now meet F. A. Machado, C. M. Silva, J. F. V. Ribeiro and F. X, M. da Silva in the Tinal which will be played on Sunday, September 10, on the Civil Service C. C. green.

Perkins Qualifies For Last Eight

G. Perkins qualified for the quar-] ter-finals of the singles on the Cral-" gengower C. C. green yesterday when he defeated his club-male C. Dow- man in the fourth round of the The game competition by 21-17. went to 23 hends.

Starting off with a four, Dowman held the lead all the way until the 17th head when he was leading 17-9. But he never scored again!

Perkins registered one, two, two, three, one and three to win out on

Henry Armstrong

lost his lightweight title.

AISLE AND FAREWELL

"So che condemned min ate's hearty | knowing me as you do --- was that

breaker"

"Oddly enough br 'äid – in spita of last night's stag party. All set now for the orange blossomus.**

"And the Bule head?"

Ticking over beautifully old boy. Cool as a frame full of cucumbers. Ant - 1.becoming a saturated solution —— or As it just the influence of a good WOMAN ↳

"Your ignorance of the facts of life, Edmond, is little short of monumental, Remember the long draught of Boss's! Lime Juice I made you drink before retiring Pause and consider, Edmond-

pute akruism?”

* I'va never known you do an unselfish act in your life old boy."

"Right. My only concem was to ISTO. myself trouble and get you to the church in such condition that you could both speak audibly and walk unaided. With the help of Rose's Lime Juice I have succeeded. Listen carefully, Edmond, whille f' espiain' the chemical action of Rose"] = "

** † 143 *** look? Quarter to sleven t Where's the ring ? “Where's my hat? Is the car reaily ? Le my sia allright P --- Hurry up, hurry up. Where's my — ok, hapa illa - QUICK!”

ROSE'S LIME JUICE - THE WISE MAN'S NIGHTCAP

Players of the Royal Corps of Signals Who'sre taking part in the Hongkong Football League this season. Floture was taken recently when the team played a prsotico ramo with the Headquarters: Wing of

the Sik Heavy Regiment) BA-Ming Yuen,

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