1939-08-24 — Page 33

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 24, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

OH, I SEE--

WELL, I GUESS IT'S WASHED. CLEAN BY NOW, EH

YEP-- BUT NOW WE GOTTA WASH OUR TENNIS NET..

NANCY

HEY, YOU KIDS YA' CAN'T FISH WITHOUT A LICENSE!

--WERE JUST WASHING OUR BUTTERFLY NET!

WE CAN'T HELP IT IF FISH JUMP INTO ITS;

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SILK SHIRTS

FOR

BOYS

WITH

SHORT SLEEVES

New County Cricket Scoring Method Wanted

Three Recent Matches

BASEBALL LEAGUE RESULTS

New York, Aug. 23.

The following are the results of matches played.in the Major Baseball League to-day:

NATIONAL LEAGUĘ

Turned Into Farces: Pity The Spectators

London, Aug. 1.

A new method of scoring in the County Cricket Championship will have to be devised be- During the past week we have

fore next season.

had three matches turned into farces.

Yorkshire, 183 behind Notts' list would be the procedure of the Foot- innings total,

wickets ball Association towards any breach

nine with

standing, could not resume batting of rule.

intil 2.30 un

It the last day, Tiran

the con- would be useful there was a little over 35 hours for mittee or the M.C.C. would make play.

İsome clear ruling about these de- between

So they scoret when they could jelarations by agreement not help it Their mactivity was captains. They defeat masterly.

the whole was

purping of the rule, which

In 14 hours before fea Mitchell, Fframed to allow a winning captain Leyland and Harber added 26 runs to force home un advantage. to the toil.

One of these days we shall have Mitchell, in that time, nude five;ja championship won or lost by some Barber stayed an hour for ave; and freak declaration or other-and still Leyland scored N uns in 45, there will be no committee to deni minutes.

with a matter till the following

So the game drew close. In 100 minute

scored 77 runs.

to a dreary November.

Yorkshire !

And 1,238 people paid £62 to see! OUR GUIDE

i. All on a summer's day,

Obviously there WHA Lizare for

Yorkshire to gain a first innings TO THE

lead, but not to win the match. ity doing so they would love ground in

the championship. So they decided i

to avold CINEMAS

result

count.

Bitch which

would 101

"While New York Sleeps" (King's, Test any may say Unt Yorkshire to-day),-Clue-and-cutie chasing re- are too keen to win and that southern porters meet a mystery so bewilder- counties would not do that, I musting that it has to be solved twice- point out that Middlesex did much as they catch a killer before the and then find the the same sort of thing against Lon-Killing, print the story of a murder

before it happens-and eashire on the same day.

sane man has been

aguin. murdered With Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers, Chick Chandler and Joan Woodbury. "Secret Patrol" (Alhambra, to-day), The North West Mounted Police used to be the favourite background of

*

FORGOTTEN RULE The other farce was something of comedy. Glamorgan and War- wickshire, after a wasted day agreed 10 joint declaration to ensure that

the full 12 points were at stake. many a satisfying picture, but few Warwickshire closed up at 48 for have been seen of Jale. Here the old none, Glamorgan at 48 for one,

The theme role,

with Charles Star- second declaration was Blegal. The 'ret in the

in

An

was

hos!

are

Chick Chandler and Michael Whaten take time out from cluo-chasing to admire lovely Jean Rogers in "While New York Sleeps," second of 20111 Century Fox's Roving Reporter series, showing at the King's Theatre lo-day.

St. Louis

Brooklyn

R. 1. E.

3

B

3

8

0

the Car-

Medwick homered for

dinals and Lavagetto for the Dodgers.

Battery-Dodgers, Hollingsworth and

Phelps.

Doston

Pittsburgh

0 1

Battery-Graves, Posedet

Lopez.

Pittshorich

Buster ..

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7

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Battery Braves, MacFayden and Masi.

Chicago

12

New York..

3

1 0

Herman and Luther homered for

the Cubs.. Battery-Cubs, Lee and Ilarinett.

Cincinnati Philadelphia

Craft homered for the Reds.

Fred Dyer. Ex-Boxer Believes-lery-Reds, Derringer and Lombardi.

GOLF IS THE MOST

DANGEROUS SPORT

·

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DiMaggio and Gordon homered for the Yankees und Kuhel for the White Sox. Battery-Yankees, Ruffing and Dickey.

Philadelphia Detroit

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Eleven innings. Johnson, Siebert and Lediglana homered for the Athletics, and Gehringer (twice) and York and Averill for the Tigers. Battery.Athletics. Pippen and Hayes.

1 IG St. Louis.......

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Boston

Golf, Fred Dyer-former professional and Pearcek. Reuter. boxer and now physical culture expert-is the most dangerous sport in the world.

Lawn Bowls

DRAW FOR QUARTER- FINALS

rules say that in a two-day match Five Came Back" (Queen's, t. a batting skle cannot declare Juter day) Melodrama about a transport than an hour and forty minutes be-plane wrecked in a South American fore the agreed time for drawing of jungle, and an assorted group of

We were discussing at hus school "Frequently he will Anish his stumps.

passengers only ave of whom can be

In Great Portland-street, W.. the career with fingers like corkscrews, Only lifty minutes were left, and down back to civilization. Their sur Warwickshire scored 43 for the loss face reactions under pressure

death of Charlie Roberts, famous due to the canstunt impact of the ball of one wicket.

studied. Exelling, Inteniously done. Soccer centre half, who died on Mon- on the finger bones."

Tom Whittaker, the Arsenal train- Coincidence, Glamorgan were in Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy day from a head injury which he

ly a similor incklent against Northants Barrie, John Curradine, Allen Jenking thought was caused by heading aer, talised about the risks run

declaration Their

SOCCER players: "Chief danger al football in his 1031.

jand C, Aubrey Smith.

playing days. Other sports leave other injuries-toeal rheumatismi frem old injuries | ruled illegal.

"Off The Record" (Majestic, to- NOT UNTIL NOVEMBER

day).Involved combination of melo- and I was finding out what these its intensity depends on the constitu- M.C.C.

tion of the man. pronouncement

The draw for the quarter-finals of amrmed that on this later ocension drama and romance about a pair of were, suys an English writer.

the hard

RUNNING RISKS

"I have heard before of a player's the Open Singles bowls champion- Sald Fred Dyer: "Yes, there are the captains misinterpreted the rules reporters who marry, and

skull being seriously injured through ship was made this morning and re- but not until November will the Ad-little orphan whom they rescue from

more deaths from golf than from any heading a ball. The men who retir-sulfed as follows: Cricket Committee ja reformatory and try to set on the visory County

I do not mean amens ed from the game within the last ten G. Perkins right path. Pat O'Brien, Joan Blon. other same. deal with the breach.

to how that when ell and Hoblay Jordan take chief professionals-they know

train It is safe to assume November comes no action will be parts.

"The Kid from Texas" (Cathay taken about an event of the preced-i

Neither the top nor the lo-day).-Romantic comedy about ing July. bottom position in the championship cowboy who learned to play pole and table is likely to be affected, and then went East to put his lessons to any revision in the gloom of winter use. A bit of romance is mixed with table polo. Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, of the preceding

Anhony, Allen, Jessie Ralph and would be farcical.

How different in its promptness Buddy Ebsen ire featured.

summer's

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SWIMMING,

Mr. Basto UNG, according to Harry Leverton, president of the "BOXING is certainly one of the the least dangerous of all sports.

Amateur Swimming Association, 1811, White hardest sports-no gaine requires "It is extremely healthy," he said such intensive training. A boxer na "Every muscle is used, and the lungs that it often upsets his nervous sys- [expanded." tem and he becomes punch drunk. | mana This can lead to further disortiers

to take so many blows on the head

which are often fatal.

"If boxers were to take as much care of themselves after a fight as they

did before, there would be fewer lasting injuries. The trained body can stand almost anything."

A strained heart, a strained back, or strained arms are the legacy of the ROWING man. J. T. ("Bossy") Phelps, Master of the King's Barge and leading authority on rowing. said:

It is very rare that any of these rowing injuries are fatal. Imhe-.: diately anything like that happens to taken off all an oarsman, he la strenuous sport.

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Jack Hobbs, of Surrey and Eng- land, spoke as a CRICKET expert: "Nothing much can happen to you In cricket. A blow from a ball can be unpleasant, but the man who suf- fers most is the wicketkeeper.

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