U.M.
County Cricket
Friday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 1, 1939.
OMAR AND A.R. DALLAH MEET IN BOWLS FINAL
MATCHES
END
IN
2 DAYS
Huge Score By
Middlesex
London, Aug. 31.
the Three matches in County Cricket Champion- ship were concluded to-day after two days of play. In each
the winning county won by an innings.
case,
Huddersfield Beaten In Rugby League
London, Aug. 31. In the Rugby League to-dny, Huli defented Huddersfield by fieuter,
13-9-
Nolts.-180 and 81 (Perks 7
30). ton 102 not out, Voce & for 105)..
for
C. F. Remedios WAS struggling with weight and green mast of the match against A. K. Dallah And lost 21-15.
Staf
Way
Photographer.
S. China To Play 4 Games
In Manila
Manila, Aug. 31.
The Philippines Amateur Alhletic
REMEDIOS, BASTO
ELIMINATED
BY
STEADIER FOES
FAST GREEN PRODUCES SOME BRILLIANT PLAY
(Br "Abo")
Both the Club do Recreio players, C. F. Romo-| dios and B. Basto, in the semi-finals of the Open
Bowls singles championship played on the Kowloon
F.C.. green yesterday were eliminated. Remedios was beaten by A. R. Dallah 21-15 and Basto was dofoated by U. M. Omar 21-6.
Omar's win
Worcestershire-201 (A. P. Single-Federation announced to-day that which he did so
cable hay been received from
round Inflicted # Middlesex thrashing to Warwickshire, winning by an innings and 200 runs after declaring their first innings at 525 for
SOMERSET. NORTHANTS seven wickets. To thin total, Rubert- son, the young Middlesex openlug
At Taunton, Somersetshire defeated batsman contributed 164-bit recondi century in successive matches-and Northants by an innings and 92 runs. (Andrews 4 for Northants-138 Edrich 101.
fur B declared in Manila.
The following scores and were anbled by Reuter:
results
Bandoeng stating that the South team will arrive in China football Manila on September 17,
September 19, 21, 23 and 24 were proposed in the cable for matches
were 23) and 150.
Somerset-300 The other winning countles
The Football Cornmittee has invited Worcestershire, who defeated Nolls, and Somersetshire, who bea: Norh-Timms 4 for 3). ania.
MIDDLESEX v. WARWICKSHIRE the YCO Athletic Club, Le Tran defeated Athletic Club, Santo Tomas Univer- Middlesex AL Lord's, Warwickshire by an innings and 200 sity and La Salle Football Club to meet the visiting players and begin declared 7 for Middlesex.--525
training immediately Instead of dur
middle of September as (Robertson 154, Edrich 101).
Warwickshire.-191 and 131 (Simang the 5 for 45).
customary-United Press.
WORCESTER ♥. NOTTS
31
At Worcester, Worcestershire de- feated Notts by an inngs and runs.
гUBS.
Local Ponies Under
an
Basto over
Was
U. M. Omar
B. Basto
1
The following were the scares hend generally expected, but the case with by head:
As a was not. matter of fact, Baste played dis- appointingly on the whole, but in fairness it should be stated that he was robbed of several shots by the uncanny accuracy of his opponent. who either carried the jack when the lle was against him or drew dend to the jack.
On the other hand, Basto was not: On some heads nearly to consistent. he played very well indeed; but on others he had dificulty in finding hig green and weight.
Omar took only 17 hends to dispose of Basto, scoring on 12 against his
opponent's five.
Training For Second
BY
"CAPT. FOSTER"
who, it
T
of
Europe until the tenth century, introduced
form of horseshoe was
know now."
hand
INNNIL
G
Remedios Off
Here
B. Basto, who was outplayed by U. M. Omar in the semi-
finals and was boston 21-6 yesterday.Staff Photographer,
And
There
With "Abe“-
Story Of A Leather Eater-Billy Conn
WILLIAM Conn, an upstanding forward. Conn dunces and counters. Wille Md Coth the
n face of
Louis is confused by a punch to the choirboy and all of the choirboy's chin. He hates to be hit as a dog ellies is probably the best prize-hates to be bathed. Conn, on the He is ut fighter the world to-day, outside other hands, enty leather. of Joe Louis, says John Lardner. bis happiest and best when the ac- Conn Is everything that Louls is not, tion is fast and the gloves are thick Louis hits with deadly power. Conn's around his noggin. The black man only shortcoming is lack of power, and the white man have only two boxer and things in common-laziness and a Conn
brollaist
vlclunis. for tactician. Louis fights by. rote, wolle relish
器
Louis makes the battle by shuffling Conn expiring his work simply und
frankly. "Why am
Strict Form Against Sporting Half
She also annexed the Hong-
are
A. R. Dallah
Tit-Bits
C. F. Remedios, the former Shang-155 established a record had he won the
Nuthall, the British
ughter?"
he says, "Because I hate like h..to work for
Fighting is the softest living touch I know of. I'
make
mo
hal champion, who would have Mightman Cup captain, and himself. He would rather hit a man
the
hand
Fred
money and keep me fed, and let me step around. Loy, how I love to get in there, and the these guys in the kisser!" He loves it so much that you almost pity him for the slimness of his arms and the frailty of his shoulders, which cheat him of the chance to knock the enemy dead. There is no sense in wasting your pity, however, for Conn does not pity entire 43 thnes than once. In his half, but it is to be hoped that they Colony uitle, was definitely off-colour Miss N. B. Brown were beaten in
the quarter-finals of the American ring career of 51 fights, he has knock- Dallah,
women's doubles championship at ed out only seven opponents. "But 7th villl all stage a comeback after the in his match against A.
Brookline (Mass.) on August 17 by they certainly get sick of me before I am sure regular fol-|
have a good and though he led 0-0 on resumption. We stül bunch of stumera and "dend meat" head, he was finally beaten by 21-15. Misa A. Marble and Mrs. M. Fabyan, Fat through, Boys Conn. lowers of the turf will be!
racers and their presence on the race- The importance of having the jack by 0-1, 6-2. Miss Nuthall and Miss interested to know that
course is, without prejudice, to make and dietating the length of the heads Brown went off in fine fettle and Becomes Champion up the field.
was fully demonstrated by Dallah in won Miss Marble's service in the
gane. Their success
wasght which finally won him a LAT was the case recently in the all the Australian and
After capturing the Hongkong St. this match, which proved to be the opening
not long enjoyed, however, for in
championship. Having Leger on November 20, 1937, with more Interesting of the two China "star" ponies are
Mr. Peanut Marshall in the saddle. After taking single on the eighth spite of Miss Nuthall's fine driving. world's
Americans took the next six whipped a round half dozen middle- by Sir Victor head, Dallah threw
head and the long Happy Eve, owned now under strict training
Sassoon, pulled up lame and although from this stage onwards he took his games in a row. They concentrated weight champions in over-the-weight
Brown. In the bay mare was entered for some score to 18 before conceding a two. their attack upon the less experienced bouts, to pass the time and store the
In another for the second half of the
quarter-hay, the young man did himself the the "first maiden" winners and/or
the light- they were dam the Conqueror by events at the last Annual Carnival, On each of the eight consecutive Miss Miss It. M. Hardwick favour of growing into
refused to weigh her heads which he won, Dallah never racing season, the first success for the purpose of distribut
ifenti do Ferrers. Probably the earliest the connections ing same to their friends hos always
on iron plate out.
and Miss D. I first start, he floyed the champlon, a Mello meeting after the recess been a common practice among the
over the whole fool, after which it was wong Derby, but' the mare was put the jack more than six inches and Miss V. E. Scott went down be- heavyweight division, where, in his
Workman
strong earnest Italian named (6-2, 4-6, 6-2).
Bettina, in 15 rounds of the sort of gradually developed into to shape w Bear Claw, in the Easter sen away from a certain spot, and he fore Miss H. Jacobs attached boing scheduled to be owners, and the jockeys have,
a great course, generally
Il will be seen that sister lakes, knew this weight so well that his grat pony wood was Invariably only a foot or the του
He made THOMAS Halliday, the Exeter City action that makes Conn's heart leap
teeth and his
blcam. importance and value to held on Saturday, Sep-mer, some feeling that the "alumi Local Training
three outings in 1937, the so away from the kitty. only
bnek, who did not report for Betting almost sick to his stomach last being about two years ago, but
How great a part this first wood training until 10 days after hee tombor 23.
nium gift" will be the forerunner of
It is interest-RAINING is now in full swing, I am glad to say that Happy Eve is
The left Judging by their appearanco and are classic successes: L. G. Frost,
that he will remain Hood anatomical trick which is one. ing to reveal that
but the work has been more or once more on her feet and there is played in deciding the issue it is should have done, has been notlded with stinging left hands in the face Mr. L
Bettina
as it liveliness on the cinder track all the
will
hypnofcialties. remembered, was one less ba
confined to collected pace every possibility of seeing the more difficult to say; but one noticed that by the club
not beat it. And as soon as Dallah L. W. Brooka, of Bournemouth and
hypnotized a better fight, ponies have without any question of of our best local jockeys, was the (canter), and we will no doubt see in action at the Double Tenth Meet-in these eight heads Remedios could under suspension until August 23.pn doubt summered well, Thanks are, recipient of many used horseshoes, the ponies being extended to full ing
the Bascombe, has been suspended of next Commencement Bay and Half-failed with his first wood, on of course, due to Mr. Clerk of the but it is strunge to say that he re
the course gallop during
nt Conn is always thinking one Weather for providing a good raining tired from the racecourse
with no week.
Moon Eve have returned from Macao 16th head, when he was leading 18-0, the F.A. for 28 days from August Apostoli, last winter. The fact stason with the result that there was winning aluminium racing plate of an attractive programme has been after spending over six months in Remedios promptly sat on the jack 20, and ordered to repay the club Afth of second ahead of his man,
and registered a two.
within 14 days of August 10 the jarring him off balance with another sum of £48, representing the wages left just at the moment when the supply of excellent either the Hongkong Derby or the extraordinary
From the 8th to the 15th head, paid to him from date of his engage- grass in the
New Territories and Rooty-Hill Derby is beautiful drawn up for the first ineet after the the hospital and both of them
resumpion, but there is no event for looking very well. Macao. This was obviously most glass-case.
the "A" class of either the Australian
Remedios was struggling both with ment for season 1938-30 to the date party of the second part macana to set his weight and green, and essential for the ponics when being Every stable or establishment con- or China ponies. They will, how- Derby Griffins
nothing like the player he was in of compliance with this order the A Bag of Tricks
was he reported for training. In default himself to hit back. and furthermore they nected with racing takes a pride in ever, be seen in action at the Double
his previous two matches when gained the advantage of having at least one horseshoe nailed Tenth Meeting to be held on Satur-
MONG the Derby griffins of his he was continually robbing his op-
player is to be suspended sine die.
TT is hard to believe that Billy has getting the dew upon their feet The to a most conspicuous door or post, day, October 7 and Tuesday, October
season, Eve of Harvest, owned ponent of the shot. His greatest ERBY County announce a pront holiday makers were not persecuted but I have seen with my own eyes 10,
he learned all
knows about "The main attruction on the card by Sir Victor Sassoon, is now an "A" weakness yesterday was in being D by the files and all the ponies r that many such valuable "gifts" were
of £9,474 on last season, which fighting in the 23 short years of his more being short even when the lie was against must come as a pleasant relief to the life, He can fight clean, but his turned to their
with hung upside down. A story was once to be contested on September 23 is class China pony, the headquarters
Grlins "clean" skin. It will be recalled that told about the horseshoe lucit but the Subscription
Autumn promoted to this division after
directors, who are guarantors of adirly fighting is what compels your Macgregor's it was to me a fairy tale and there- Plate for China ponies, sub-grifinis smart performance at the Whitsun last year Mr. J. F.
DALLAH STEADY
£28,700 bank overdraft. Huge leap admiration and respect. He has from of this Club of this season, and the Meeting. On a heavy going Eve of
last year's mengre Strathroy, who holds the record for fore i requires confirmation.
C054 is
heeling.
backhanding, run is over the champion course. The lurvest annexed the Lead Mine
clipping the fastest runs over five furlongs, a
beating
brought mile, a jaunt from the two mile post,
With a two on the 17th head largely explained by successful sell complete set of matched tricks Dallah went to his 20, at which stage ing first prize is certainly juicy, namely, Handicap (six furlongs),
neck
of players, which has in Remedios thought the the champion
$700 to the winner and the second la Conquering Time by a once round and in,
balance of
£2,052, with £4,000 gauging hitting below the bell, His match was a carrying
open, angelle face was a pretty thing fell takings
swapped He went up course and the St. Leger distance, THE origin of horseshoe luck lies in to receive $300 with $200 to the third 1.28.1/3 and the mare was
to see the night ho shake Dallah's still owing. Gate burden of 183 lbs. It is interesting over
form was words with Apostoli and made did not summer too well; in fact skin
The conditions of the Auturan Dunstan pony. the legend of Saint end to his public trouble put an
£32,558, an and the Devil, Saint
low, but at totalled Dunstan, Plate are in such a state that there to relate that the first three placed hands-only to be told that the latter after Christmas, when club form was
and needed one more shot for gamel und appearance.
fouled with his back to the referee. famous for his skill as a smith was is good reason to say that neither ponies (Rose Etcet, Navylight
increase of £4,368 on the year' be Apostoli foul in the open while Billy 1939 Bluo
(re- the Hongkong Strolling around
Remedios celebrated this by taking fore. They are all happy now at Conn's lightheavyweight title Jockey Club stables the other day I one day visited by the Devil, who the nomination of Celtic Star nor Eve of Harvest) in the
Dose standard. I have
as yet seen
where they call Len Hörvey was really much surprised to see the asked him to shoe his "single hoof." Marksman will be found among the Riband are all now in the highest a four on the very next head-the Derby, but they would like two or
dear "dumb Recognising his client, the Saint tied list of entries, owing to the propos
Dallala's first wood for three, but the draft, stand at £47,550.
some good fighters-Georges Car- causing as much pain as pos- two ponies. The weight is assessed crown winner, but it is reliably very next, he neatly rested out way liabilities, including that over- champion) has been held in the post in saying posee Devil roared for mercy on the amount of money won and the learned that the mare is looking CX-IRC. player calmly drew first shot there is no exaggeration
pentier, Gene Tumsey, Paul Berlen- tremely well. Navylight, the
pro- that all the gee-gees had put on a and Saint Dunstan agreed to com-scale starts at, 145 lbs, with a
with his last wood for the match.. Eric Moller, is still in
CYRIL Tolley, the former British bach, Jack Dempsey few good pounds of superfluous fat
amateur champlon, won the Loughron. Billy belongs with the of those. But the money that the bay would promise never again to molest
Dallah fully deserved his victory Lord Warden Cup at Rye on Augustbest won in stakes since January 1. Cel-
Cel Shanghai but building, pro- ers, who has a long string of animals
coming tle Star has earned $5,352 and this mere will be under his charge, told me that he had person or
second with 148 (73 So Billy Conn will lose no time in Micklem was classic left, is scheduled
ong fast green better than his
greens with
In
150 (80 and 70). Tolley's to be an unharnessed wolf in a fully fore part pointing downwards, repre- Record issued by the Hongkong Joc to be senting the avil spirits riding away key Club with having
ving collected $0,850 the China ponies, bona fide grin Shanghai and by sticking to the
reconstructed course, but he did not from the house, I placed the other and in the circumstanca he has in- of this season, but I am afraid that long heads, he had his opponent trail-round of 71 set up a record for the laden table.
the honour for as Latest Gossip three most sold spell of scoring, of course, NOTHER Chinese manager of a At one time the Stewards' budge of to carry a stone extra over the weight animais in speed and stamina. How-
He went out in 30 and holed the last JIMMY Johnstown will have the big alable said smilingly that the the Macao Jockey Club was of offer inches basis while the latter has ever, other events (will, I am sure. was from the 8th to the 15th head went round in the afternoon in 70. feet of his batch had not given him horseshoe with the monogram "M. one and a half stones. However the be keenly contested and racing public when he took his score from five to nine holes in a flawless 34. any headache, for the hoofs and frogs J.C." in the centre, but the fore part nomination of either is, of course, a may look forward to some fine sport
effealthy on account of the was pointing upwards. It was, how-matter for the owner to decide, but of kings during Land all his racers were shod ever, in use for some good while be- there is an adage that "Money can racing
trouble to the farriers. fore one bright sunny day a to not buy a good horse-so don't lame Jockey Club.
out
good "jooks" of our
Horseshoe Luck
ve Hot
her him.
n
cuss
telends" exercising in the yard and him up and began operations, pur-terous weight to be carried by these Eu Tong-sen's Rose Elect, the trip only possible of the day. And on the three more seasons to run the same Ended the world over, except In
and flesh. One of the Chinese train- Plete the job painlessly it the Devil penalty for every $200 or part thereof poster of afgureback soon. because of his steady play.
enter a
Rother
by
and Tommy
to lure in his lot ten days earlier tected by the display of a horseshoe, means he has incurred 172 lbs. The St. Leger, which is strangely, he settled down to the 12, with 144 (71 and 73). G. H. jnowadays is with the heavyweights. owing to the fact that some of his Horseshoes should be malted with the Marksman is down, in the Racing the ompeted on November 9 among who is accustomed to opponent and 75) and W. L. Hartley third becoming a heavy weight. He wants
ponies had protruding belles.
Healthy Hoofs
Ing.
H.. and if entered, the former has superiority of the abovo
7517 the summer had been a dry one, wire" Steward discovered to his your pony,"
the hoofs were able to become brit- amazement that the silver plate was
and break loff in fiskes owing to upside down, but I am glad to King Kong Suited
tie the Tand King sun-
baked by the scorchi-that the Devil will "not" now enter
shoeing cannot be the building owing to the fact that THE next from my notebook is King over-estimated when one remembers the studs are now pointing upwards. Kong, who was paid $3,050 and
weight of the animal plus that of
the
the rider and if a classy pony in bad-First Horseshoes
shod, this will give
no end of
troubles to the connections. The feet
of ponies are the most important WH
por
he has to carry only 181 lbs. which
Is his weight for the height. His last outing before the bresk was an eary
BCRSON
18,
the
second half
of the Hongkong by head:
A. R. Dalinta
-
English Football League Results
London, Aug. 31. WHILE on the subject I wonder run in the Whitnum Handicap over The following wore the results of how many owners and jockeys mila beating Marksman by a good matches played in the English Foot- tions of their anatomy, which state-know when the first horseshoes were four lengths in 2.18.2/5 on a going ball League today. ment is fully supported by the old made and what they were like? The a.paddy field-and King Kong
"No feet, no Maying ing the Army,"
the Ridingcore, another, success without | following taken from
trouble: Thate subscription horse and there cannot exist a more April. 1839, will no doubt be of in-ny
Newport- truthful maxim.
sriffins such as Musketeer, Oranje Notts F. terest to the men of the turf.
This Time Some form of horseshoes was used Boven, Strathbannock, by the barbarian harwatnen who invaded and a few others, who were promin- THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH)" -- the Roman Empire in the fourth and
fifth centuries AD., but the use of ent in the front row at the commence borsssbow-in, anything like their moment of the season, were not in the Capton O.
the close of first): dern form ́did not become general in Umelight before
'*'Souvenirs"
THE
TUTB traditional custom of collecting ¿used racing plates out of classic
humane society after him if he Bob plan of making his fighter, The following were the scores head CHELSEA is talking about theinalats on going through with his effect of psychological treat- Pastor, stand up and slug it out with ment on the team, and several clubs Joe Louis instead of running away C. F. Remedios are toying with the gland' Injection
can punch, and in a Pastor he idea. The modem player has to be even his best friends wan't tell something more than a mere athlete. stand-up night with Joe he wouldn't last as long as a keg of beer at an Lou Nova will was so dark when a pales match Elks convention.
2
2
$
SECOND DIVISION
1. Tottenham.
1
2 Nowcastle 0
19
9 Southend
0
-Reuter.
·
in the English Bowling Associa-finish Tony Galente inside of eight
tion championships was in progress rounds, stopping the belligerent bar-
at the Temple Club, S.E., that onerel just as he did. Maxis. Beer-by
one cutting him t
to bit...the boxing com-
of the players had to uso à cigarette con abould take time
off at
one were at its mislest comedy sessions and
lighter to And the bias-side of his wood. White handkerchiefs employed to show up the jack, and decree that Billy Conn must make cries of "Can you see me?" were his first defence of the light-heavy- the frequent.
THE
rivals Cambridge weight title against Mello Bettina,
man ho won it from in a fight na Park and Henleaze (Gloucester)- B were level at 16-all after the regula close as Siamese twins when they're
tion twenty-one ends, and a five at the extra end gave Cambridge the match after four hours and twenty minutes play.
hugging.
This is the latest boxing gossip from Henry McLemore, United Press Staff carrespondent:
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