1941-08-01 — Page 22

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 1, 1941.

Items Of Interest To Swimmers

Origin Of Swimming Naturally Lost From Record

Earliest Of Men Must Have Taken "Dips"

Week-end Gala At N. Point

(By "Tinker")

A CONTEMPORARY scribe the other day wrote that there was no apparent origin to swimming, and as with many other of the natural abilities of the human be- ing it is impossible to imagine that there would be any specific beginning.

Primeval man must have encountered water. He may not have had much uso for it except for drinking and fishing. There must have been other occasions, however, when he used it to wash his wounds, and the strange things it did to his body may have surprised him.

Having recovered from the shock of anding another colour to his torso underneath his conting of dirt, he may have been sufficiently interested in the phenomena to bravely face total Immersion.

Deaths by drowning there must have been and fear of water in large quantities must have been Inherent, for the seas and lakes in those days contained fish and amphibians the size of houses. But our hero, the first man to swim, lived in a slightly later ern-when they had shrunk a bit,

He must have felt the buoyance of the liquid medium and on one great occasion when he tumbled in he discovered that by moving his arms and feet like a doj; he could not only remain afloat but was able to move around.

Outsider Wins Again At Newmarket

NEWMARKET, July 31 (Reu-

THIRD SOCCER S

TEST MATCH.

Action in the Third "Test", match between the touring Hongkong Chinese footballers ier) St Leger and other classle and Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground. three-year-olds raced

China won 5-2. Here we see Lai Shiu-wing being tackled by two of the home team, while C. T. Tsao waits in the rear,

for

the

Sussex Stakes over a mile course here to-day, but Lord Glanely's outsider. Eastern Echo, úppet calculations with victory over the fancied Firis, owned by Captain Baille.

Lord Rosebery's Ptolemy, the only

It is very possible, too, that one of St Leger candidate running, was these early fishermen dancing with third.

Anger over the one that got away,

may have slipped and fullen into his

pool and by similar manipulation of

arms and legs have got back to safe-

ty.

By incidents similar to

these it

must have been discovered in long gone ages that man could maintain

e

Schmeling Abed With

himself in water. For water, after "Stomach Ache"

all, is the home of the first forms of

e. The noeba

and parameelum

and other unicellular boxiles-the Jowest forms of life-are to be found

in water.

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Six Chinese Soccer Players Invited The House of Quality & Service

H.K.C.A.A.F. Annual Meeting

Club Withdrawals

The Hongkong Chinese Amateur

To Stay In Australia

It now transpires that there were concrete offers behind the message from Sydney that stated that the touring Chinese football team from Hongkong were seeking to remain in Aus- tralia. This is what the Press reporta:

Six members of the Chinese Soccer team have re-

Athiette Federation held its annual ceived offers to play with clubs in Australia.

and

general meeting yesterday, despite the fact that six affiliated Clubs had withdrawn during the past term, a successful year wILM reported. Mr Mok ing was in the Chair.

They are V. K. Iyul (centre- forward), C. T. Tsao (outside- left), E. II. Chang (right-Half), Lu S.

Sung (centre-half), X. We Are Trying

Hau (left-back), and S. W. La! (insfile-left),

Many days have passed since the NEW YORK.-Max Schmel- 25 minutes dog-stroke record for a ing is recuperating from 50-yard pool to the present time of stomach ache and parachute 25 seconds, but the improvements fighting in Crete in a ward on have been mainly over the last hun-the ground floor of the former in the report Mr Mok Hing revealed A profit of $800.67 was shown, and dred odd years, only.

American College just outside A.A., Chinese Bathing Club, Chinese int during the year South China Aliens, Harry W. Flannery, C. B. S. R.C., Talkoo Chinese RC, Chinese from German-occupied Athens after Football Union had withdrawn, but correspondent, sald in broadcast Y.M.C.A. and the HK. Miniature had to provide £100 bonds for each an interview with the former heavy-that the last tree named had since weight champion.

Breast-stroke and side-stroke were the two principal styles in Britain before 1873, during which year J. Trudgen Introduced a new stroke which he had learned in South America.

say

"siness probably had been due to drinking some chocolate

rejoined.

New Officials

tlon. Act regulations they will stay. from the Commonwealth Immigra

the players can be exampled

of the Chinese players.

The Australian Soccer Association

The bonds provide that the players will leave Australia within six months.

The players will ask the Chinese Consul-General (Dr Pao) to nego- tiate for exemptions:

Keen To Stay Leichhardt, but the other players YUI has been approached by would not divulge the names of the

To Get Consent’

Says Manager

""

MIR PETER WOO, co-manager of the touring team, revealed this: "Several State League clubs have invited Chinese players to sign three-year contracts, and play for them."

"Our players do not desire to play to get the consent of the Australian with separate clubs. We are trying. authorities for the whole-of-the team-

This was called the Trudgen, com monly known as the Trudgeon and from it arose the crawl. This latter

abandoned by the British during The following officials were elected was copied from the natives of the

time he was, separated from his for the ensuing year: South Seas-was introduced Into

company," Flannery sald Schemling : Chairman, Mok in: Vice-Chairman, Australia as late as 1900 and reached

fold him during the interview. Audio Tam Pak-fans: General Secre- Lam Chi-fung: Treasurer. Mok, Wai-to: Britain in 1902. One cannot

The milk in it may have soured." tory, Lo Kwok-min; Clark, Yick Fa-she how long it had been in use by_the_(The-Nazis, in announcing South Sea Islanders."

The following were elected to take elubs who had approached them. to remain in Sydney so that it Schmeling was in a hospital, said charge of the varlous sporting, he was suffering from a "tropical activities, with the assistant given discaso.")

second: In Hospital

Football (Sre Po-wai and Lam Chun ho); swimming (Teo Yim-sun and Lau FLANNERY said he found the Tin-kwang); basketball (Kwok Mak-hol

local swimming news there is

University gala has been postponed

Tanged

until August 30, but the VRC La Tsun return gala will be as ar. In this latter Meet, however, one event has changed. Instead of hold Ing the 100 yards breast-stroke, the distance has been lengthened to 220 yards.

THE dearth of sprinters in the V.R.C. was made most apparent at the trials held in their pool on Tuesday night for the selection of the combined V.R.C.-Y.M.C.A. team against the Combined Chinese Clubs. All four who clocked first and second were from the "Y",

And latest news is that D. II. Taylor is giving up competitivo swimming,

former prizefighter asleep in a ward with nine other German soldiers in the college building now tumed into a hospital,

"Schneling, it was learned, was among the first group of parachute troops which landed on, Crete in the early morning of May 20 to under- take the first invasion of an island by air," said Flannery.

"Schmeling landed in a vineyard three miles south of Canca and four miles east of strategic Suda Bay."

Schmeling, who previously had been reported killed in Crete, said he lost 25 pounds from the strenu- ous battling and subsequent illness.

His Descent

escribing his descent, Schmeling

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"I am keen to stay in Australia,"compete in basketball and base- sald Hyul.

ball games.

"We have permission to remain In Australia for six months, but with

"My play has improved here, and

In another season or two I am sure

and Slu Iton-lit: track and field (Tsang I would do very well." Kin-hong and Chu Fook-sing); volley-ball (Tsui Hang and Yu Ting-chilk); water. Leichhardt's secretary (Mr W. polo (Lau Ting-kwong and Fun Bing Orr) said: "I intend to do all possi- and ble with the immigration authorities Wang Sin-wan and Soong Chi-yin) and (Lau Chung-tean and So Kim-ho); billiard to enable dyul to stay in Australia. Yuen Kam-to and Ng Par-ling in charge

"Hyui doesn't want fantastio con- allions, and he would be the of publicity.

greatest centre-forward in Aus- tralia,"

Ench of the following eleven slubs aliated to the Federation nominated five representatives to serve on the body:

The co-manager (Mr Peter Woo) Chung Shing Benevolent Society, Eastern said: "The whole team would like to Club, BinA. A. Talkno Chinese stay. Hongkong Miniature Football Union, Tung Yea Club, Chine Y.M.C.A., Ling Fun Club, Kh Chee, Wah Kiu and Kow-

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"Our players have become very popular because of their good con. could be shot at,

were only about 12 seconds that we duct as well as good play.

"The players appranched are good "And we were shot at, too.

all-round athletes, and would be B "Each of us guarded outselves as boon to Australian sport. we came down with a pistol.

"Chang and Hyul are Olymple Games' basketball representatives." "I've got a lot of friends over there

Former Cases

the assistance of the Consul-General for China (Dr Pao) it is hoped that the present restrictions will be re- moved, and the players allowed to remain indefinitely in Sydney.

"If our request is granted I will remain in Sydney after the comple- tion of the Australian tour to help in making arrangements for the team in the competitions," said Mr Woo. May Start Businessca

ALL of the players had good jobs A in Hongkong, Mr Woo added. If they could not secure positions Sydney many would start in business on their own."

In

State League club oficials favour the proposal. Owing to the with- drawal of Newcastle City Club, there are only 11 teams in the State League. An extra team would do' awny with the bye cach week,

State League regulations provide

A pleasant surprise was the form of Tony Lopes over the 50 yards Back-stroke. He beat A. K. Rum- John, and it is always an encourag- ing occasion when one of the younger swimmers sprouts into the fore. Ils wooped pretty low before we jump-quoted him as saying. I hope the A. RESNIK and A. Beth-Halevy, that all applications for admission be

time of 32.4 seconds was excellent.

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ATTRACTION this week-end will

A be the triangular gain at North

Point to-morrow between the Chinese Bathing Club, South China AA and the University Swimming Club. This is in aid of the Chinese Medical Relief Fund.

one of the

South China was Chinese Clubs that was hard hit by migrations to Sing Too, but they yet have a

a number of promising swim- mers, especialy among the women.

The programme contains two In- vitation maces-100 metres free-style 'for men and 200 metres breast-stroke for women. R would be fine it some of the sprinters from Lai Tsun, the V.R.C. and Sing Tas turned out for the first named event, while in the 'second I Miss Id Po-fuen takes part there is no doubt, as to the winner.

(in

ed out. Then we opened the 'chutes war is over soon and we can get right away, and, as result, there ‡ together again.""

M Ho Wai-king, die young C.B.. siar who, after only a year's aoquaintence with swimtning ald❤. so well in the championships last -year, has) made further advance sonho should be a prominent figure at this meeting;

Trojan Basketeers

The following will represent the Trojans in their inlust appekranen ka the Basket- ball League for the Wu Tah Chen Trophy. agathat Chinese YMCA, at the Chinese ***, Waterloo Road. AS 7.20 p.m.on Baftirday:

6.Tigueiredo T, Silva, II Blv. Hill “Silva, Nick Beitrag. Poon Kwon-yim. B Naven 21. Cemund and 3^Young,

Rink Championship match at the Kowloon C.C. on Sunday

A. M. Rodrigues bowling, being watched by L. J. Silva, Ribeiro, J. Hoosen and A. M. Rumjahn." The Indian kipped by M. R. Abbas beat the Recreio four, skipped

by HA Alves, 24-10,-Ming Yuen.

members of the 1000 Palestine

team which toured Australia, were made at the annual meeting in No- given permission to stay in Austra- the competition table must also apply vember. The two lowest cluba in

for re-admission.

lin after the tour.

They are still playing in Victoria,

LAWN BOWLS SWEEP DRAW

The weekly Lawn Bowls Sweep ¿was drawn this morning and re-

aulted on follows:

FIRST DIVISION

---- Recretà "A" (B). V. K.D.G.C. "A" (150) Hevrelo "1" (497) v.. Craigongower (554) Kowloon C.C. (83) v. Police (800) K.B.G.C. "B" (192) v. C.A.C.C. (452) K. Docks (520) v.. Indian R.C. (494) SECOND DIVISION

Talkoo (102)

V. Iecreio (1403) II.K.F.C. (560) V. I.K.C.C. (07) Prison O.C. (182) v. K. Tong (38) Kowloon F.C. (307) v. Kowloon C,C. (450)

Craigengower (5301 resiz,

THIRD DIVISION

Electrin (520) v. Craizengower (439) K.D.Q,C. (08)

Indian R.C. tato)

ILK.C.C. (500)

Police (112) 'rests.

Boxin

v. Heerala (185)

Fanling Golf Starting Times

Sunday

Old Course

0.16 T. J. J. Fenwick, S. L. Lloyd, 920 G, G. Aitkenhead, D. S. Röbb. D2 W. Hewitt, It. Farrest.

928 K. 8. Morrison. I. II. Ucale. 022 11. 7. Phillips, O. C. Worrall. 030 A. McKellar, J., Macintyre, 10.10 A. Lissaman, A. K. Mackenzie. 1020 A. 13. Jurves, H. Young. 10.32 W. I, E Mackenzie, H. Overy.

New Course

950.

W. Park, W, Stoker.

Monday

Old Courio

v. Kowloon F.C. (521) ▼910 A. E. Liasaman, D. 8. 'Robb,

v.. II.K.F.C. (457)

Danahar Or Snow To Meet Ernie Roderick

9,20 B. L. Lloyd, IL Forte,

9.24

A. 11. Purvan, T. II. Gearo, 9.2017. Phillips, A. J. Dennis.

man Snow and Arthur Danakar as *nal eliminator for the British welter-weight championship, the winner to meet Ernie Roderick for the title.

Bily Hazelgrove is to meet Eric Jones (holder) for the southern By- weight championship, and the. Board. has also decided to recognio night THE BOXING.CONTROL between Eddie Maguire and Dave BRDARD has decided to recognise « McConve as for the southern mid-

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