1939-08-24 — Page 8

Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 24, 1939.

JOHN COBB BREAKS CAPT. EYSTON'S SPEED RECORD

George Erston hid land spred mark ta tone,

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 as applied 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.

"This notice must be posted in club dressing rooms."

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

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 an hour to-day by covering the mile in each direction at an average speed of 368.85 miles an hour in his Railton

car.

His average speed for the kilometre was 367.74 miles

an hour.

Sporting Tit-Bits

Cobb covered the northward run

at 370.75 miles an- lisur: for the mile southward he drove his rar at 366.07 miles an hour.

Specils for the kllonietre northwards Were 367.02 miles an bour and southwards 371.59 miles an hour.- „Reuter.

(Jolm Cobb covered the northward run on Tuesday at 369.43 miles un hour, but fils engine stated on the return journey and thus its recort! was delayed for one day),

have taken place at Liverpood Sta- dium on August 17, has been pul back, là August 24, in order to give Walsh more time for training

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CIRCULAR les been issued which settles once and for all the Football League clubs' worry re- garding the new rule of numbering players. Numbers shall be from lo 11 starting with the right back, and omitting the goalkeepers. right back will therefore be 2, latt buck 3, right half 4, centre half left half 6, outside right 7, inside HANS Nusslein (Germany), holder. right 8, centre forward 9, Inside left again won the 'singles title in 10, outside

left 11. The numbers the Southport Professional Lawn shall be stitched on to the backs of Tennis Competition, beating W. shirts or Jerseys, they must be ai. Tilden (USA) by 0-2, 7-5, 0 long and in. wide, and of a conden has how appeared in thred trasting colour of the shirts or lernals, but has still to win the trophy. Th this match he failed to reproduce forin which enabled him 10 QUBSCRIPTIONS are arriving in eliminate Donald Budge on the pre- Paris from all parts of the world ous day. He made a fight of it in to erect a statue to the late Suzanne the second set when he had three Lenglen, France's greatest tenniset points with the score 5-4 in his star, many times Wimbledon cham-fator, but allowed Nusslein to re- cover Nussieinave convincing pion.

all-round display Budge and H. Ellsworth Vines, von the Healing

doubles women's singles at Ilkley afternal beating W. T. Tilden and L. R. beating Miss W. M. Lincoln by 6-1, Steeren -2, 7-0, 7-5, 8-0. 6-3. Miss Lincoln had beaten the holder. Mrs. H. J. Sar-

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JAPANESE SWIMMERS SELECTED MSS Preparing For Olympic Games

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Miss Alice, Marble, (left) and Mrs. Sarah Palfrey, Fabyan won the women's doubles tennis championship of the United States\for tile third consecutivo year on Monday when they defeated Miss Kay Stammers and Mrs. Freia Haipnderstry, if Great Britain.

Girl Test

Cricketers

Have To Find Their Own Fares For Trip

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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,

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

A share of the gate money in Aus tralia will go to the Women's Crid- ket Association. Not a penny wil

to invidual players:

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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 Belly Snowball, Miss Margaret Williamson, Miss Dorothy McEvoy, and Miss Aline Brown teach games,

Lowe, Miss Megan

the demon bowler. teaches physical training.

M Sulman Miss

teaches in her father's preparatory school, and Mi Audrey Collina 1s 1 science teacher.

Miss G. Morgan and Miss E. Whelan are in the Civi} Service.

ter.

Miss Freda Iredale is a dress dew signer Miss Betty Belton n choco- late packer at Bourneville, Miss E. Paris in a bank, and Miss Betty Archdate, the captain, is a barris-

Muriet Lowe, No. 1 bat, la an enterprising young woman who seeing the Harringay Stadium being built, thought: "There must be some Jobs going here," walked in and got herself one as secretary to the rink

geant in sets. The difference in ONLY comparatively, few Rugby the two finalista was striking--Miss clubs make a practice of hand- Lincoln tall and graceful and Missing the uptainey round from season Hoahing short and light, and ex- to season Most of the London clubs tremely swift Tokyo, Aug. 17.

the the same skipper unless latter is an excellent baseline player they are Selections of the Japan Amateur

n change. Swimming Federation for.

she controlled the game It is no surgise, for instance, to and the throghout. Other winners Japanese Olympic swimining team

Miss were Blackheath re-electing J. G. W. Dh- that will participate in the 1940 Men's Singles: N. Taylor beat W. T. vies, the Kent cricketer, after the an-Anderson, 4-6, 7-5, 6-7 (this match successful campaign they and under

took 14 hours). Men's Double: W. his leadership ast season.

I now They were: Shigeo

T. Anderson Arai, 200

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that chmond have E. B. Goldson bent hear

again metres; Shigeru

J. B. Sturgeon Miyamoto,

N. Taylor, 6-2, chosen C. D. Laborde to jed them 2002-0, 6-2, Women's Doubles, Miss In Le coming season. metres Eisaku Tanaka, 400 1,500 metres: Hiroshi Takahashi, W. M. Lincoln and Miss P. L. 400 metres and Tomikatmi Amano, MacCorkindale beat Mrs. H. J. Sar- 1,000

free metres

style; Kilchi geant and Mrs. W. II. Durian, 6-1, Yoshida and Yasuhiko Kojima, back 5-7, B-7; Mixed Doubles: Anderson atroke: Tetsuo Hamuro and Seichiro and Miss Lincoln beat Sargeant and Qura, breast stroke.

Mrs. Sargeant, 6-2, 0-6, 0-3. Twelve other swimmers were chosen as substitutes.

Four divers were also picked to THE fest between Ernie Roderick, British welterweight champion, reprenent Japan at the Olymple and Jimmy Walsh, former light games.--Domci.

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TOMMY Farr i still confident that

be will secure return contest with Joe Louis for the latter's world heavyweight boxing championship in New York next Tube. The Well- man has had offers a fight in South Africa, but Farr states that he s concentrating upon meeting Louis next fight in September" he said. " want to get this axed) and then N shall probably underlike an exhib!-] tion tour which wl take me to several countries, inchiding Austra- lia and South Africa."

manager.

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

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

SHE'S MARRIED Highest

scorer was Mrs. Joan Davis, the only married man in the two teams. She made B6 and took two wickets. She is not going to Australia because she has a husband and two small children to look after,

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Miss Mollie Hyde, who captained

Rest, is one

of the best nil- 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, pretty \daughters of Mr. P. N. R. Blakter, the old Contbridge and Kent player, were invited. Both could not afford to go,, so Barbara Foes and Juan slays, at home.

BASEBALL

\LEAGUE

RESULTS

New York, Aug, 23. The following are the results of matches played in the Major Baseball League today!

NATIONAL LEAGUE

St. Louis

Brooklyn

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3

8

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1 Car-

Medwick homered for the dinals and Lavagetto for the Dodgers. Battery-Dodgen, Hollingsworth and

Phelps.

Pittsburgh Hoston

0

2

2

Lopez.

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Battery-Graves, Posede!

AMERICAN LEAGUE New York

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Chicago

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Battery-Yankees, Donald

KOWLOON DOCK RINK

IN FINAL OF LAWN BOWLS TOURNAMENT

Postponed Match

On

Craigengower

Decided

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. Fondør, was played off yesterday on the Craigongower C,C. green and resulted in a win for the former by 22-16.

A splendid recovery,

TO-DAY'S TIE

In the first 11 heads, Brown and his | the 23rd head. men (A. M. Calman, M. Ferguson altogether. and R. Morrison) won no fewer than 10, only the third going to Fender The best match in this round, that and his colleagues (F. C. Channing. between U. M. Omar and A. J. Hall, R. Ellis and W. Mair) for a four. is scheduled to be played off this afternoon on the Kowloon F. C. However, though Brown and his green. As the Omar-Dradbury tie men scored on eight consecutive heads was the fit-bit of the third round, they were unable to register more so does to-day's encounter promise than singles and twos, and at the end to be the outstanding match of the of the 11th head they were leading fourth. Two of the best players in by only 13-4. On the other hand, the Colony are in opposition and Ferder's rink improved matters by spectators should be rewarded with scoring, a two, four and two on thefa fine tussle. next three heads to get to within

shot of their opponents' total.

But thereafter they scored on only Home Football

rone more head-a four on the 20th.

Thus, Fender and his men scored on only Ave heads, but were only six shots behind at the end.

As enn be seen from the scores, the Kowloon Dock players were much more consistent than their opponents.

The following are the scores head; by head:

F. C. Channing R. Ellis

W. Mair

J. C. S. Fender

18

A. M. Calmart

M. Ferguson K. Morrison

J. C. Brown

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

Perkins Qualifies For Last Eight

G. Perking qualified for the quar ter-finals of the singles on the Crai- gengower C. C green yesterday when he defeated his club-mate C. Dow- man in the fourth round of the competition by 21-17 The game went to 23 head!

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

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

CELTIC DEFEATED AT HOME

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

Arbroath

Ayr U.

Celik

Falkirk Illbernian

Motherwell

St. Johnstone

2 Hamilion

2 Albion R.

1 Aberdeen

4 Clydo

3 Queen O'8th.

4 Kumarnock

Alloa

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Henry Armstrong

lost his ghtweight titic.

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AISLE AND FAREWELL

*Bo the condemned man aio a hearty Beakfast?"

"Oddly enough he did — in spite of last night's stag party. Ali zit now for the orange blossoms,” *And the little head ?***

* Tiching över beautifully old boy. Cool at a frame-full of cucumbers, Am I becoming a saturated solution — or de it just the influence of a good

"Your ignorance of the facts of life, Edmond, is little abort of monumental Remember the long drought of Hose's Lima Juice 1 wade you drink before retiring ?- -Pauty and consider, Edmond

knowing me as you do — was that pure altulem>"

“I've never known you da un ense {fish set in your life old boy,”

"Right. My only concern was to BAYC 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, while 1 explain the chemical action of Rose's'—"! ‚·

“I say - look! Quarter to eleven i Where's the ring? Where's my hat P. Is the car ready? Is my tie all right? — Hurry up, hurry up. Where's my ---- ok, here it is → QUICK!”

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

season. Pkturo was faken roomily

Players of the Royal Corps of Signals who are taking part in the Hongkong Football League this when the team played a' practice game with the Headquarters Wing of

Ming Yuen

the Tih Heavy Regiment, KA

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