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FOREST HILLS
Herbie Flam Enters Semi-Final
New York, Sept. 16.—Unseeded Herbert Flam, the former National Junior Champion, 'entered the semi-finals of the Men's Singles at Forest Hills by defeating Harry of Likas of San Francisco 2-6,6-4,6-1,6-0.
Wimbledon champion Bob Falkenburg also entered the semi-final, defcating Clarence Carter 8-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Mrs Margaret Osborne Du Pont, the American Wightman Cup player, entered the semi-finni of the Women's Singles in winning from of California Ms Beverley Baker 1-0, 6-2, 3-0.
HOME FOOTBALL London, Sept. 10,--Swansea Town, leaders in the Southern section of the Third Division, dropped their first game of the season when they lost their away match with Leytonin eliminating Mrs Virginia Wolfen-
Orient.
Other football results today were:
Chelten
FIRST DIVISION
2 Charlton A. 2
THIRD DIVISION (Southern)
Leyton Orient 3
Swansea Town
Reading
Newport County 1
Northampton 2 Walsall
Southend U
0 Bournemouth
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THIRD DIVISION (Northorn)
Carlisle United Rochdaic
RUGBY LEAGUE (Yorkshire Cup)
Huddersfield
Yorks C. A.
Leigh
Stroud
(Lancashire Cup)
10 Warrington
RUGBY UNION
3 Gloucester
0}
I
Defending champion Miss Louise Brough also entered the semi-final
den Kornes 8-3, 0-2.-Reuter.
The Postal
Chess Craze
By CENE EDWARDS
Justin Gilbert of New York,
estimated one of the
30.000 nostal chess players who regu- larly engage in long distance
games via the U.S. mails, was studying his board one morning,
15 Leslenlating the next move, when, his apartment doorbell rang.
3
-Reuter.
HOW THEY STAND
Portmouth
Derby
Newcastle
FIRST DIVISION
Sunderland Krningham Chariton .. Wolverhampton
Manchester C Ampensat
Chelsea
Bittney
Liverpool Manchettes Middlesborn' Stake C. Blackpol Sheffield U Perston N Huddersfield Aston Vill Everton
Hory
Goals
PWLDFA Pls.
2 18 4 14 13 4 4 3 12 641 32 17 1 A4 13 10 13 11
3 1
SECOND DIVISION
Saulinimpton
Toitenkam Queen's B. Teeth
Bradford
Harustes
West Hrainwich
Fulham
Brentford
Lelcenter C. Coventry
Cardiff Sheffield W. Blackburn
Grimsby
Plymouth
West 11am
Luton
Lincoin Notta F
Chirsterfield
2 3 10 li
13 b
THIRD DIVISION (Northern)
Notherham
Darlington
Rochdale
Crewe →
1.
Wrexham
Tranmere York
Gateshead Southport Doncaster Stockport C. Hartlepools
Manchester
Halifax Carlisle
Chester
Now Drighlan
Bradford C.
Barrow
Accrington
Oldham ...
13 15
3-14-
THIRD DIVISION (Southern)
Swansea
Ipswich Bournemouth Swindon Bristol R. Exter Torquay Port Vala Notte C. Brighton &
Millwall
Crystal Pai.
Soulbord Bristol C Norwich Heading Wabail Northampton Leyton O
. Aldershol
Walford Newport
uceeneg="s e-"8**#
At the door was an
excited post- man who greeled him with the chess player's traditional Victory cry- "Checkmate!"-and handed over a postal card from Gilbert's opponent. Sure enough, the letter carrier, chess fan himself who had been kiblizing the game from the mallbox since started four months previously, was correct. The latest
move penelled in on the card was Gilbert's Watering.
ever
Four months is about par for postal game where the players are Iwithin two or three days of each
other
mall. However. inter- national games have stretched out for as long as two or three years, The average chess game ends an about 40 maves, and encli postal pawn pusher makes his shift within the 72-hour period allotted after word of his opponent's last gambit is received.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1948.
COOPER CATCHES FOUL UNDER PRESSURE
味粉
Catcher Walker Cooper (left) of the New York Giants, snares an 8th inning foul off the bat of Phils' Bert Haas at game in Philadelphia, as Pitcher Schoolboy Nowe (right) of the home team tries to upset the Giant backstop by yelling “No, No, No."
Walker (note expression on his face as the ball rests In his glove) caught the hall just a step from the Phillies dugout,—AP Wirephoto.
A CANADIAN JOURNALIST LOOKS AT
What It Is That Makes Fleet-Footed Hollanders
BY JIM COLEMAN
As every soldier knows who saw service in Europe, there is as much sport in Holland that is not organised as there is organised sport.
Holland, of course, has a national sport. It is a variation of Shoot the Sherbert to me. Herbert," and it calls for speed and agility,
bark
Reconds.
The
was set up
when Mrs Koen beat the
inches and both time.
BASEBALL
YANKEES SPLIT TWO GAMES WITH DETROIT
New York, Sept. 16.—Rallying from the verge of a coatly double defeat, the second place New York Yankees came back to gain an oven split in today's doubleheader with Detroit,
The split kept New York a game and a half behind the American League leaders, the Boston Red Sox, who play tonight at St Louis. Detroit won 2-1 in the opener, losing the second 4-8 to New York.
Throttled with only four hits by Freddle Hutchinson in the first game, the Yanks fell behind in the first two innings of the night cap and sull iralled 13 late as tho seventh.
The New York batting power us- sorted itself when a walk and two singles tied the score and Johnny Lindell hit a two-run double.
Joe Page tripled home the last Two New York runs in the eighth. Page was the winning pitcher.
DIMAGGIO'S 300TH
Joe DiMaggio's fourth inning homer in the opener was the 300th
Hansenne
To Retire
Paris, Sept. 10-Marcel Hansenne, runner and
The French champton record holder for the 800, 1,000 and 1,500 metres, announced today that the match to be held at the Colombes Stadium here next Sun- day between France and Finland, will be his last international com- petition.
Hansenne said he can no longer
of his 10-year major league career. find time to devote to training for Only seven other major leaguers International matches, but will race have achieved, the distinction.
ocensionally for his club when work In the National, second place permits. However, he had definitely Pittsburgh defeated New York 10-G
given up all Idea of International or to cut the idle Boston Braves lead
championship competitions. to 4 games.
Bob Chesnes, prize rookle, su vived a five-run Afth inning to the route for his 13th win against four losses. He yielded eight hits.
Before
the season's smallest crowd, 1,000, Brooklyn Joosened a 15-hi attack to sink Cincinnati 12-81 and take undisputed. possession of third place over kile St. Louls.
THE SCORES
American League
New York (1st game) Detroit
Hansenne has represented France 18 times. The record is held by the discus-throwers, J, Noel and P. Winter. whe
were exch
for France 42 times-Reuter,
chosen
Britannia Shield Competition
London, Sept. 16.-The swim- ming events in the Britannin REShield competition were decided
1 4
0
2 8 1
(Winning pitcher Freddie son)
Hutchin-
8 120
...
4 11 0
New York (2nd game) Detroit
(Winning pitcher Joe Page).
National League
Pilisburgh
New York
at Eltham Baths tonight.
The winners were:
200 yards brick stroke-Aircrafts- man B. Manley (Britain) minutes 27.0 seconds.
in two
200 yards breast stroke-Scainan A. Laurent (France) in two minutes 34.3 seconds.
free, style-Private J. Borchel
minutes
200 (France)
10 18 0 0.6 Beconds.
(Winning pitcher Bob Chesnes) Cinebinati Brooklyn
in two
100 yards back stroke-F/L L. S. Lumsbalne (Britain) in 67 seconds.
100 yards breast 2G. J. fan Rooy
67.2 seconds.
stroke-Private
(Netherlands) in
First,
100 yanis free style-Private H. Fasel (France) in 55.6 seconds.
The results DI the swimming events were:
France with 35 points. Second, Netherlands with 21. Third. Britain 27, Fourth Nor- way 10 and Filth Belgium with 31 5-13 points.
Shield placings (In points) (cross country, swimming):
U ! +
(Winning pitcher Minner)
01 0 12 15
-Associated Press.
National League
Boston
81
Won Lost
58
Per .503
75 61
.55.1
76
03
.5.17
03
.529
The
.417
after four. events
57
.430
57
31
413
First, France 100:
American League
87 51
.030
83
52
.820
84
55
.60-1
570
.490
51
40
02
40
02
307. .348 3.32
78868828
fencing, shooting and
Second, Britain 70;
Third. Belgium 7:
Fourth, Netherlands 07;
Fifth. Norway 54.-Reuter.
King Farouk Buys
Irish Hunters
Athletically, the Dutch are against being regimented. They did permit them- selves some organisation during the war when, under cover of darkness, they would select teams for the job of dunking their German guests In Amsterdam's many canals. Chess Review magazine, The Correspondence. Chess League of
This was considered to be aj FRANJMANDIBENALMADRASSE JA KORDEONAmma | lady whose husband worked as a Amerien and the American Chess Pretty hilarious sport ami, the
brakeman on the freight haul to Bulletin each conduct
DUTCH HOUSEWIFE Utrecht. postal chess Dulch never tired of it. They prob- tournaments in
Pittsburgh ably miss it now. which an average
Well, it seems that old 794 didn't DOES IT AGAIN of 5,000 players compete each year
leave for Utrecht that day.
Brooklyn In any for cash prizes and chess books.
event, when Bas Van Pelt cleared, St. Louts Valneaktiški, Finland, Sept. 16. the threshold, he could see the tram New York Players are matched according to
Mrs Funny Binnkers-Keen of Hol- half a block down the street and¦ Philadelphia ability and compete under uniform boarding an Amsterdam tram.
The sport consists catching and land, who established herself as the travelling very fast.
Cincinnati greatest woman athlete in the world Despite this tremendous handi-Chicago rules, the most important of which is an ethlent ruling which forbids
No one in Holland ever would during the Olympic Games, equalled | cap, he overtook the car and think of a nestal player from consulting a stopped before attempting to board hurdles during an athletic meeting
waiting until atram the world record for the 80 metres hurtled board. other
The exhilaration before moving
which this es. person
hls chessmen
ft or before attempting to disem- here today
caused He may, however, refer
with
germinated, a time of 11.2 capade
Bas! Boston to books or published advice before
Van Pelt to think of taking up New York "It's done at top speed and young shifting his piece and noting its new children
Cleveland world record
seriously. position on a
go through It
He became a fanatic on the sub- Philadelphia- rigorous during the Olymple Games at Wem-ject of catching trams. He practised Detroit card malled to his course of calisthenics
for several bicy opponent.
years before they are permitted to In tournament play, the entrant ride on street-cars.
British girl, Maureen Gardner, by long hours every day. He spent so St. Louis
that
his work Washington notified to make the opening move
clocked the same much time at it
started falling off at the Krasnapol- Chlengo ingainst three competitors whom he
All the bearded neit keep their
sky and the management was cet- knows only by name and address, facial foliage
IL snood when Mrs, Koen also WOD the 100 ting quite a few complaints. Meantime, three others are posting chasing after the urams. Vey metres event today in 11.8 seconds, their "Arst moves against him.
vie Occasionally,
Them whot which was one-tenth of a second is becoming a trille gimpy. won't better than the time she' Won the gauge his landing correctly and Olymple title.
It was stated that Mrs. Koen will
More heats in the Hongkong and Soon he became famous through-
inter-school swimming leave for a four of Australia next out Holland. Every morning, hun- Kowloon
husband and dreds of people gather on the cor- contest took place last evening at nor to see Bas Van Pelt come out the Chinese YMCA
Dool, Bridges of the house, buttoning his vest Street. and making an epic sprint to catch the tram the brassware at the Krasnapolsky
Paris, Sept. 18-The Sociste Den- They permit the tram to pass the Hotel.
100 Pelt, eh?"
metres free-style "So you're Bus Van
(Boys).—Flest house and then, whille
couragement, the French equivalent the motor- A correspondent ran into
Kem-wah (EX): 2. Bas we said as man's attention
to the Jockey Club, announced today we viewed the great heat-1, Wong Is diverted, they Van Pelt quito by accident. He was man in considerable awe.
Leung Pin-yuen (Ling Ying). Second overtake it and leap on the back inclined to be taciturn at first, but
heat-1, Wong Kuzi-ches (EKC); 1. F that the licence to ride anywhere end.
"Ja," said Bus Van Pelt. ("Ja" | Koon-cheung (Fong Lam). Third heat under the rules of racing
had been when we told him that the head is an old Dutch word which means Cheung K-man (Tung Chl): 2, Kong withdrawa from the jockey, Guy The man who developed this latter porter had informed us of his "You said it, Jackson.")
tron goi trong Lam).
200 metres breast-stroke (Cr) technique is
Lequeux, following on inquiry into a certain Bas Van athletle feats, he smiled happily
"Are you the greatest?" we ask Finallate Chow Wan-yee (Yeung Chung, a complaint laid by the Belgian Pelt Like many others, among the and reminisced about his sporting ed.
Mul Sou-wan Ling Ying), Chang Chung Jockey Club in connection with a has a comparatively modest voca- world's greatest athletes, Von. Pelt career.
"Neln," replied Bus Van Pelt.ying (Young Chung) and Wong Tuk-
race at Ostend on August 9, when on. He looks, eller the shine of liar way. He was visiting a young Came, I will introduce you to him."
He got his start in a very pecu- "Dr. Van Wuow is the
greatest,bing Ling fing).
100 metres back-riroke · {Doys)-Fin! | Lequeux rode the horso Dwight. heat-1. Cheung Kin-inan (Tung Chi);
Lequeur has ridden 42 winners 2, Wang Kam-wab (E.K.). Second heat this
sixth season and is
on the Wong Kwal-chee (EK); 2, Shu-wan (St. Joseph's).
winning jockeys' list-Reuter,
some postal chess
Thus each man engages six others simultaneously. Outside of match will be plunged into a canal. play,
players The Hollanders have created n conduct 30 games at once, and W. crafty technique for frustrating January with her Prewett of Auburn, Calif., probabs the motormen. They hide behind children-Reuter. ly the country's most prolife the curtains in their house until mall order chess champton, has been they see
THEY ENEMIES klown to play 500 opponents at the same time.
Obviously, Prewelt's postman rings more than twice.
ANNUAL MEETING
of
The annual general meeting members of tho Kowloon Chess Club will be held at the Peninsula Hotel en Thursday, September 30, com- mencing at ₺ p.m.
Police Interport
Yesterday's interport match between the Hongkong and Macao police at Boundary Street proved a fitting curtain raiser} to the new season and was an exciting match all the way,
Coming Events Inculminating in a two-all draw.
The Sports World
-FRIKAZURETINATA
TODAY Schools' Seven-a-Side Soccer, Quarter-finals & Semi-anals, Cause- way Bay, 3 p.m.
Dinner to Macno Poller Football Team, Peninsula Hotel, 0.30. p.m.
Football: Combined Hongkong & Macao Police Team v. Chinese Football Association Team, Boundary Street, 0 pan.
Lawn Bowls: Craigengower open Pairs Tournament (2nd Round), 3 p.m.
TOMORROW
Lawn Bowls League. First Divi- sion. IRC KDC at Sookunpoo: CCC v KCC at Happy Valley: HKFC v KBGC at Chater Road.
Second Division: RDGC v HKFC at Austin Road.
sporting
Played in n keen and spirit, the
game served up 80 minules of bright football. Hong- kong led 2-1 at the interval, Macao then caught up, Hongkong agula led and Macao caught Up Πνο mutes from the final whistle as Albert Airosa came through on the rightwing.
Macao's first two goals were scored by their centre-forward, Police centre-forward. D. Carvalho. Redman, the Hongkong three goals for Hongkong.
scored ali
street.
a tram coming down the
BRITISH EMPIRE RECORDS
By "RECORDER”
The Job of collating British Empire records in athletics should be an interesting one and some of the top performances by British athletes compare with the world's best.
The British Empire Games Federation has given the job of collating the records to the South African repre- sentative, Mr Vogt who will act as registration secretary. The rules governing Empire records specify that the per- formances must be not within the British Empire by a British athlete,
last.
However, when the hotel manager heard what he was doing. The Schools' Swimming encouraged Van Pelt to improve his technique.
Wo went through a long dark street to a short dark house and Bus Van Pelt knocked the door. The door finally was opened by a short dark man who hod the fned of a scholar and a hand like an cante's talon.
"Dr. Van Wuow?" wo said, 'ques- tioningly and respectfully.
(Wc "Ja," said Dr. Van Wuow. don't want to go through all that again.)
"Bas Van Pelt says that you are "we said. the greatest tram catcher, giving him a singularly ally smile.. "Nein," said Dr. Van Wuow, shaking his head energtically. "I am not the greatest."
and
wo
"Well, who is the greatest?" asked in bewilderment.
"Come. I will show you," sald Van Pelt Except for the fact that Sydney in Sydney in 1938; while possibly
Dr. Van Wuow, leading
into a Wooderson holds the Empire re-the 440 yards and shot put records small dark room. Dr. Van
the correspondent
Wuow cords for the half-mile, the mile and may be awarded to Deals, Shore it a candle. "I will show you the the three miles, the distribution and Harry Hart. among Empire athletes
greatest," said the good doctor, of the Australia can claim the 220 yards opening a small dark cupboard. As other records should be fairly even mark for John Treloar with a 20.9 he did so, he motioned to us to re-
Scotland, a country in its own the hop,
seconda, perforïnance this year and move our hats.
step right from the Empire Games point feet 10 inches, set by Jack Metcalfe maged
and jump mark of 50 Wo watched tensely as he rum- through a stack of books of vlow, holds two. One in Alan at the STANLEY SHIELD Paterson's high jump mark
and papers. Empire Games. of 6 feet 71⁄2 inches established at Ibrox hurdles time of 52.0 seconds, also thing th
Canada claims only the 440 yards Finally he came up with some- his band. We could sco South China beat the Army 2-1 Park last year which just tops by a an extra time was necessary in the quarter-inch the Australian record at the last Empire Games, for that it was a newspaper.
He opened the paper and pointed re-played seven-a-side tournament of a feet 74 inches held by Olymple the late Johnny Loaring, whose 52.0 match at the Club ground yester- champlon John Winter and the seconds effort is inferior, however, reverently, to a picture. His mean- South African record held at the reconds for the 400 metres hurdles
to Duncan White of Ceylon's 81.8 ing was quite obvious.
"Boomstead is the greatest." said 'A. frst halt penalty iticx same height by Les Barnes.
Dr. Van Wuow, "Dogwood Boom- The other Scottish record holder at the London Games.
siend."From the Vancouver -Pro- is the dise thrower, D. 'Young, with | · Trinidad will stake i claim for vince." a best, mark somewhere int the George Lewis's 0.4 seconds in the vicinity of 155 feet, best ever done 100 yards at the Belush Gulana by an Empire athlete.
In Georgetown
1944, -South Africa should hold quite a while British Guiana points to two few, including Danie Joubert's 9.4 long Jumpers in the vicinity of the mark whose efforts may be Capetowa In 1931 and KDW ro-
Lavery's 14 seconds fiat for
day:
gave the soldiers an intervni lead, Stanley Shield Seven-a-side soc, but the quicker South China for cer, Second and Third Rounds, | wards bundled the ball home soon Happy Valley, 3 pm
after the re-stari.
Inter-School Swimming, Chinese YMCA, Bridges Street, 7 pin.
SUNDAY.
Lawn Bowls:
The score still stood at one-all åt the beginning of the second period of extra time but a penalty for
Games at
Craigengower | hands gave South China a 2-1 lead, seconds for 100 yards' established at | 25-100 ahead of Australian Tomi scores in the match between
Rinks Competition (semi-anal),
D.ML
Interport Cricket Trial at KCC
Lawn Bowls: First Division: KCC IRC at Cox's Path, 4 p.m.
Schools' Seven-a-Sido Soccer Final
at Happy Valley, 6 p.m.
The Army threw everything into a cognised as a world record; Tom Bruce's 24 feet 10 inches.
last-minute effort to save the game is urdies in winning the Empire throw record for Stanley Lay (222
tha
ENGLISH CRICKET
London, Sept. 10 Close of play the Champion. County, Glamorgan, and New Zealand claims the javelina South of England XI ware?
Sauth of England 801 and 178 corner-kicks and appealed strongly Games title in 19381 the pole vault feat D'inches) and Northern Ireland for 6 wickets (W. J. Edrich '80), for D. Glamorgan 229. (Muncer 87, Wooller for another penalty kick just before mark of 13 ft. 8 inw, sot by . 5. the hammer throw mark time.
61, Wood 3 for 24)-Reuter. du Plessis, also at the Empire Games McD. Clark (about 170 feet.) ****-
Ther
two forced
well - takon
Results were:
Cheung
Liverpool, Sept. 16-Three, highly- bred Irish hunters, destined for King Farouk of Egypt,-will-all.
the Egyptian liner,
from Liverpool for Alexandria to-
night aboard Star of el Nil.
A prize Frinch bull dog, worth 250 guíneas, 18 also aboard the ship bound for Catro-Router.
FEROCITY,
Licence Withdrawn
INC.
Wayne Burrow, Oklahoma A. & M. guard, takes the pigskin game seriously, so keep out of his way when the football season commences. De
Boon he'll be busy rehearsing a few: lens-crushie plays with other A. & Mi bralows out Stillwater, Okla homa way,
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