1940-06-20 — Page 8

Thursday,

League. Tennis

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH June 20, 1940.

V.R.C. ENTERTAINED BY R. SCOTS Excellent Swimming In New Army Pool

Strokes Demonstration By Colony Champions

(By "Tinkor")

K.I.T. C. Beat Kowloon C.C.

In "C" Division

THE KOWLOON Indian Tennis Club more firmly ostab-

lished themselves at the head

SPORTS NEWS

FROM HOME

Leicester F.C. Directors

Fined And Suspended

of the "C" Division table of the Boxing Tournaments In Aid

Lawn Tennis League yesterday. beating the Kowloon Cricket Club 61-2).

The Jewish Recreation Club suf- fered another 2-0 defeat, being beaten by the Kowloon Tong G.C.A., and have yet to register the winning of one set in the League!

Army and South China A.A. easily accounted for Recrelo "B" and the C.B.A. respectively by scores of 8-1

and 7-2.

Detailed scores were;

JEWISH CLUB V. K. TONG Jewish Club lost to Kowloon Tong Godkin and A. Poliak lost to L

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LONDON, June. Five Leicester City F.C. Directors have been suspended sine die, four others suspended for periods between one and three years, Mr. Frank Womack, former manager, suspended for one year, and the Club terim report of the Joint Commission of the Football fined £500. These decisions were announced in the in- Association and Football League, which recently held an enquiry into the affairs of the Club.

The report states that the (two years) and W. S. G. Needham

THE SPLENDID NEW SWIMMING pool built by the Army at the Victoria Barracks was the scene of some excellent swimming last night when the Royal Scots entertained the Victoria Recreation

• Club in a friendly match. The evening's pro- . gramme included exhibitions of diving and swim-chan and E. Lee 4-6; lost to P. and Commission were satisfied that one. Green, A. E. Pallet and L. ming by the V.R.C. champions, who, of Interport Chen 20 loat to M. 5. Lea and D. breaches of the F.A. and League T. Shipraan (directors) and G. Smith

M. Thlan and E. Perges lost to Chan rules and regulations had been secretary)

a blame. standard, conceded handicaps in the open ovents.

and Lee 0-6; lost to Chiens 2-6: lost committed, and "that over to Lee and Kwok 2-6. In these latter, however, the V.R.C. managed to

11. B. Josephs and W. Citrin lost to period of 20 years. (approxim snatch victory each occasion. The R. Scots Inter-Chan and Lee D-d: lost to Chens 2-0 ately) the affairs of the Club had been conducted in an un- Company relay race over three lengths of the bath (each

satisfactory manner. length 100 feet) was won by Headquarters 2, beating Headquarters 1 by 1.14 seconds.

D. Hutchinson gave a brilliant performance in this 100 yards

free style. He conceded the Army swimmers nine seconds and gave his Club-mate, Charles

DATES FOR

Huang, six seconds, but won in CANADIAN OPEN the very fine time of 59 seconds. His closing sprint over the last length enabled him to close the gap of four yards and win by a touch.

D. M. Jordan and Charles Huang dend-heated for second in 72 and 06 seconds respectively.

The opening event was the 100 yarda back-stroke, in which A. K. Rumjahn gave 10 seconds to 2/Lt. Hunter and Cpl. Sutherland, and 5

TORONTO, June 0 (Reuter). Dales for the Canadian Open golf championship at the Scarboro Golf and Country Club, Toronto, were announced as August 15 to 17, by the Royal Canadian Golf Association. The Ontario Open will be played on August 8 and 9 at Erle Downs, Fort Eric, Ontario.

sees, to A. J. Hussain. With the same the V.R.C., and 2/Lt. Millar and B. case that carried him across the M. Jordan netted for the R. Scots. Harbour last year, Rumjalin got home

first by a touch in 72.6 seconds.

Rumjaha laler gave an exhibition

of this stroke.

Exhibitions

W. Lawrence, Colony champion and record holder, swam three lengths in

RESULTS

The results were:

V.. Soares: A. A. V.B.CM. M. de Guterres and A. J. Hussain: W. Law rence; D. Hutchison, Lutz M. Remedios and S. Lee.

und Bdsm

demonstration of the various speeds Royal Scots-Bankier; 2/Lt. Hunter used in racing over 410 yards, 220, and B/M. Jordan: 2/L1. Millar; D/M. yards and 100 yards. L. M. Remedios Fielding, Cpl. Sutherland awam two lengths with the butterfly Slaytor. stroke-nced over each length by two of his team-mates.

100 yards back-strake handleap-1, A. Col. K. Rumjalin (V.B.C.) (72,0); Sutherland (R. Scotel (83.0); 3, 2/LL

E. da Roza and Stanley Lee wereitunter (R. Beata) (20.8), greatly entertaining in an exhibition: of fancy diving.

100 yards breast-stroke-1. E. M. Marques (V.R.C.) (01.0); 2, J. A. Marques (V.R.C.) (92); 3. C. Mackintosh (V.R.C

The 100 yards breast-stroke was (174). from scratch, and E. M.

100 yards free-stylo handicap-1, X. D Marques, former Colony and Inter-Hutchison (V.N.C.) (69); 2, Dead-tient B. port champlon, won in 81.8 seconds. M. Jordan tit. Seats)-and-Charles Ilstang which was an excellent time consider-

ing he has only recently fully recover- (VMC) (72 and 60 respectively),

ed the use of his left arm which wna fractured some time ago.

Exhibition Diving-Ed, da Toza (former Colony champion) and 8tanley Lee.

Itoyal Scots 133 1/1 yards Inter-Coy.

The medley-relay race between team taco,1, 1, Q. 2. (Lt. Dunlop, Bdsm. three teams from the V.RC. resulted sinytor. Cpl. hortis and B/M. Jordan) In a win for the Juniors over the 100); 2, H, Q. 1. (Lt. Buchanan, Veterans,

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The final event on the programme was a water-polo match between the V.R.C. and the Royal Scols, the former won by 0-2, after leading 3-1 at the Interval.

W. Lawrence (3), Hutchinson (2) and Stauloy Lee were the scorers for

Pte.

Mcffugh

Pte. Davidson, Pte. Byrne) (81.4); "B" Coy, (Cpl. Stevenson, Pto. Myles, Pie. Carrigan, Fle. McQuaia) (80). 100 yards V.R.C. medley-relay-1. C. VIC. Juniors (A. K. Humfahn, Mackintosh and A. V. Ozario) (0.4); 2. V.IL.C. Veterans (A. J. Hussain E. M. Marques and D. Hutchison) (30.6); 3. V.R.C. Midgets (L. M. Remedios, J. Marques and Water-pola.ILC. beat Royal Scots

Rion Remedios (0.3).

0-2.

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THE LIDO-

Kwok 1-6.

lost to Lee and Kwok 0-6.

ARMY V. RECREIO "B"

The following directors have been Army beat Recrolo "B" B-1. Emberson and Duffed beat N. A. suspended sine die from ali football Belirno and M. A. Guterres 0-2: bent and football management, including A. M. Alves and R. M. Soares 6-1; bent attendance at matches: J. M. and L. G. Cosano 4-0.

W. A. Tompkins, W. H. Squires, Boocock and Martin lost to Beltreo: [TH! Guterres 4-6; beat Alves and E. Gregson, A, E Pudan and F. S

Smith.

Soares 0-2; beat Gosanos 0-1,

Murray and C. Adlam bent Deltrao and Guterres 0-2 beal Alven and Soares 6-3; beat Gosaner 6-3.

SOUTH CHINA V. CENTRAL BRITISH

South China beat Centrat British 7-2. H. K. 110 and N. K. Ma beat G. H. Fowler and B. I. Blekford 6-4; beat N. Whitley and S. A. Fowler 6-1; beat D. T. Smith and G. Gurevitch 6-2.

II. S. Kwok and W. S. Lee beat Fowler and Bickford 6-0; beat Whitley

6-3; beat Smith nn and Fowler Gurevitch -2.

T. K. Leung and K. I. Chan lost to Fowler

Bickford 4-0: lost to Whitley and Fowler 3-6; beat Smith and Gurevitch 0-1.

and

INDIANS V. KOWLOON Kowloon Indians beat Kowloon 84-21.

Other directors have been sus- pended for the following periods:

A. Needham (three years). L. H. Burridge (three years), A. Rice

F. Khan and H. M. Singh bent Fisher and. Wynter-Blyth 6-1; lost to Zulauf and Hung 3-6; beat Turner and Kevan 6-3,

were absolved from

of Among the alleged breaches players, payments in excess of those rules were payments to amateur allowed to players transferred to the Club, and improper bonuses.

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ANOTHER matter under con-

sideration by the F.A. isi the case of Joe Mercer, Everton right half-back, who played for his Club and not for England' recently, though apparently ordered to turn out for his coun try by the F.A.

Mr. E. Green, chairman of Ever- ton, made the following statement:

"Both Everton and Mercer re- A telegram from the F.A. stating that Mercer must play at eclved G. Singh and G. M. Khan lost to Wembley and not at Goodison Park," Fisher at Wynter-Blyth 4-6; drow with Zulauf and Hung 6-0; beat Turner he sold. and Kevan 7-5.

LEAGUE TABLE

HULCEDOCOM

P W D L

K.I.T.C.

20

S.C.A.A. Police

3

10

Kowloon Tong

10% 10%

Kowloon C.C.

Racrela "B" C.R.C. Recreio "A"

Army

Jowish Club

S. A. and S. S. Hussain beat A. L Fisher and P. Wynter-Blyth -1; bent C..

E. Zulauf and D. Hung 6-3; beat J. I. University Turner and T. C. Kevan 6-1.

Pis.

Saverontrem 1 1 1

The start of the 100 yards free-style in the V.R.C.-Royal Scots swim- ming gala last night held at the new open air Bathing Pool at the Victoria Barracks.

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"Merter gol in touch with me and on my instructions asked his com- manding officer whether he had been given leave to play at Wembley. The C.O. hnd heard nothing from the F.A. and Mercer's leave was to play at. Goodison. He did not finish his duties until noon on Saturday."

The matter will be dealt with by un F.A. Committee as soon as posst-

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This invasion of the provinces may meet with some opposition by what might-be-termed-vested interests, but the programme is as good as those at Earl's Court,

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NOTICE has been received from the Hongkong Polo 2lub that in view of the weather now being more settled, polo, ordinary station_chuk- kors, will bo resumed on Friday, Juno 21.

HOME RACING SUSPENDED

LONDON, June 10 (Reuter)--The Jockey Club announced to-day that atter consultation with the Govern- ment it was decided. that.no further rules until further notice.

round of their ten-rounds contest in aid of the Red Cross at Sunderland on June 1st.

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