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COLONY BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1919.
Seeded Players Junior Matches
By "SIDELINER",
The Colony Open Badminton Championships entered their third week of play when six matches were decided at the Victoria Recreation Club last evening, the programme being featured by two upsets in the Junior Men's Division.
In the Singles, W. C. Chung, last year's runners-up in the Junior Men's Singles and seeded No. 1 in the present tournament, lost to his clubmate and doubles partner D. C. Lau 15-8, 15-11.
In the Junior Men's Doubles H. F. Tai & W. N. Cheung combined brilliantly to overcome the
pair, P. Wong & S. C. Chan, 16-9, - 10-7.
seeded
The Senior Men's Doubles found the favourites for this year's title. Robert Tay & Patrick Wong, taking three hard-fought games to subdue their YMCA clubmates, Raymon Young & Bill Funk, the score was: 16-6, 12- 15, 15-7.
The match saw many fast court, Miss Bernardine Remedios | D. Hemedios
ness.
LADIES' SINGLES
& Miss T. Remedios
"Senior Men's Doubles.- Tay & P. H. Wong bent B. Funk & R Young 15-6, 12-15, 19-7.
Eliminated In
and brilliant rallies with all played a grand game In the 15-0, 15-0,
Ladles Singles-Mian Margaret four concentrating on the fore-brekcourt but she failed to stem Xavier beat Mas 11. Kwong 11-0, court. Tay & Wong outshone the tide against the better KCC1-3. their opponents with vigorous combination. smashes but it was Funk who delighted with his clever place-
Miss Margaret Xavier proved
TONIGHT'S GAMES Young ment shots and drops.
last night she is a serious con- made several spectacular cross-tendor for the Ladles Singles
the games Tonight's
ot court drops at the net but was title when she easily defented Inclined to. be wild in the Mias Helen Kwong 11-8, 11-3.
Kowloon Cricket Club are:
7,00
Men's She
p.m. (Junior smashing exchanges,
nll-round showed an The rat set
Toy & saw
of command
strokes besides Doubles): R. M. Soares and J. run into u 4-2 lead
perfect match temperament and A. Soares v L Pomeroy and G. Young's over-enger- her coverage of the court Rozn Pereira.
p.m. (Junior Men's left little to be desired.
7.30 Then, by carefully controlling Miss Helen Kwong put up n Singles): C. II. Ngan v K. P. their smashes, Young and Funk lucky fight against her more Chong. led 8-4. At this stage Tay be
8.00 p.m. (Ladies' Doubles): experienced opponent, though
Miss A. gan a one-man attack and his ste Coiled to match her op- Miss M. Leong and smashes
and found
T. Baptista command of strokes Heah v Miss ponent's again and again.
and was inclined to be erratic Miss Margie Xavier."
8.30
Mixed p.m. (Junior at rriical periods. JUNIOR MEN'S DOUBLES Doubles): A. J. Gonsalves and Miss G. Silva v S. Guttinger Second upset of the evening and Miss M. Bain, was when H. F. Tai and W..and
9.00 p.m. (Ladies' Doubles?? Cheung bont the seeded pair, Paul Wong and S. C. Chan, 15-9. Miss I. Soares and Miss Y. 15-7. Tai and Cheung were de- Franco v Miss H. Kwong, and (Junior Men's finitely the pick of the two pairs Miss II. P. Lam,
9.30 p.m. the Doubles): E. M. Rozario und J. Cheung's smashing from
court coupled with Tai's A. Motta v F. M. Ribeira and ne performance at
net T. E. Rodrigues. the would have beaten any other Junter palt last night.
baseline the
Wong gave his partner great support at the net and the
pais
won eight points in a row. Young then won two points with excellently executed cross- court drops which left Tay & Wong looking helplessly on. Tay regained mastery and won the next three points for the set at 15-8.
The second ret Raw Funk relying more on placements than power smashes and. with Young Bading his touch, Tay & Wong never got a look. In.
und,
Their hardest smashes were returned bor
though they levelled the score at 12-12, Funk more points on his won three more
the playing of service to force the declding game.
With Young mishitting again, the third set found Tay & Wong
10-2. Fighting lending
hard, Funk & Young brought the score to 10-7 by carefully placing their shots, forcing Toy to net his sinashes and drops.
tho
However, the effort to close gap in the score proved too much for them and their strokes went off when Tay, again, let loose with his slashing attack from the baseline and the do- elding set went to "Tay & Wong
15-7.
last evening.
rcar
Wong was inclined to be erra- COLONY TENNIS tic while his partner falled give
his usual polished formance at the net.
Lo per-
Both Tal and Cheung concen- trated their attack on Chan and seldom gave Wong the chance to use his deadly overhead smash. THE RESULTS Results of the Badminton Open V.R.C. last evening are: Championship matches played at
.
Junior Men's Deubica-11, F. Tai & W. N. Cheung beat P. Wong & S. C. Chan 15-8, 15-7.
One-Sided Matches
The strong combination of In Koon-bung and Lee Wai-tong, contenders for the doubles the veteran title. disposed of Ho Kn-lau and Pang Oi-lam at Chater Road yesterday. They Junior Men's Singles.-D. C. Lau
won in two straight sets, 6-2. beat W. C. Ching 13-4, 15-11 J. A. Soares beat 1. Kempton 10-15, 19-15,6-1, to enter the next round of the Colony Open Doubles 15-12
Ladies' Daulin-Mra i F. Stokes Championship. & Mrs Adle Tamworth best Miss
Century v. MCC ponement.
AFTER THE BATTLE
Referee Walter Cho (left) raises the hand of smiling Manuel Ortiz after the world's bantamweight boxing champlon handed Honolulu's Dado Marino (right) a beating in their 15 round championship sight at Honolulu on March 1. AP Wirephoto.
Grand National Winners & Story Book Careers
By WALTER PILKINGTON
The Lincolnshire Handicap on March 19 will usher in a new season for horse racing in Britain. The popularity of this one mile sprint last year has attracted a new record field. One week after the Lincoln comes the climax of the National Hunt season, the Grand National at Aintree racecourse, Liverpool. The most popular of the winter jumps, it shares world fame with the Derby, at Epsom in June..
RUGGER NEEDS A DRESSING UP
SAYS JOHN MACADAM
We haven't finished with the game of Rugby, and please don't think it for a minute for, what with one thing and another, and the colossal com- placency that surrounds this game-for-game's sake, we are spurred to break once more info the breach, dear friends.
It has been anid before, and we have no apology to make for repeating it, that Rugby football should be played on a more competitive and much less
casual basis.
Colleague Pat Marshall, who has played the game boy ami mon and still watches It with his boyhood enthusiasm, repudiates our original suggestion of o Itugby
Union
Championship conducted on Football League
lines, but sees the
knock-out ด
of
TLIC
find a
bazed on the counties,
counties would champlon apiece In the early part of the season and then, in the latter part of the season, in the midst of all the traditional fix- tures the clubs love to fix for themselves, thero could be a K.0, competition rather like the Soccer Cup.
11 would do no harm, be agrees, and would
put a bite into the game which it certainly hasn't got at the moment; more than
that, it would put a bit of class into the England selection, that hasn't been able to find n winning side for nearly two 'cars.
LOSING APPEAL And now, hero's our old friend, Major John Evans, one of of the honorary secretaries Newton Abbot (South Devon) to agree Rugby Football Club, In principle, if not in detall
The time has come," he says
Bany Avelly
HAD A
1 CAN ALWAYS TELL WHEN JOE'S LOSING DAY AT THE RACES
Ramsey Bucks To Fight Bob Pulling
Boxing fans will have an op- portunity shortly of seeing Bob Fulling of the Royal Navy, and with the Walrus, "when
we Inter-Services Welter and Mid- must face up to the fact that die-weight Champion in Hong- Rugby is losing its appeal....kong, matched against Ramsey Soccer has a competitive appeal Bucks, the Lightweight Chum- that Rugby Jacks-take away pion of Hongkong and Shanghai, leagues and cup and see the over six rounds.
will
Pulling holds the following championships:
R.N.V.R.-Champion of Great
effect on Soccer!
IR, thousands "As it watch watery game of Third Division Soccer while only hun- Britain: Featherweight Division dheds will watch a full-blooded 1037: Lightweight Division 1938. Arst-class Rugger match in a South Division Champion of Great Britain: Lightweight Divi- neighbouring field."
Major Evans, an enthusiast forsion 1939, Mediterranean Flect Rugby football, not content to Champion: Lightweight 1941/3. keep to tradition and, watch the Inter-Services Welter and Mid- game dle a natural death and hedleweight Champlon, Hongkong, has two major suggestions to 1047/8.
19
make: he will dress Ruggers up a Rumour is that this will be. little by cutting out stoppages, Pulling's lost fight in the Colony. and he will titivate the watchers Ho is 33 years old, and he will by introducing some form of be leaving the Hongkong station competition that is lacking at In June 1949. the moment, this being where you came in.
WEMBLEY MODEL
two
Charities Strike
As in the last three years, there is a huge entry list for the National. The handicapper had to deal with no fewer than 53 horses. Nearly one third were put on bottom weight. Most of the prominent jumpers of the post-war
The gallant major (he got period have entered, including the best priced winner for some years, Lovely
himself a DSO in the war, as a
A Double · Cottage, and the Irish horse, Caughoo, which won at a hundred to one in 1947.
matter of fact) isn't prepared at what law this stage to state
Philadelphia, Mar. 14.-Jack Notable absentee is that grandį. There are 14 Born fences. to see Lord Mildrany successful revisions he would make, but Slight rain at the end of the veteran, Prince Regent, which including the feared Canal tum, in this year's bid for glory. He ny student of Rugby League Kramer and Bobby Riggs, the tennis top professional that has long been a popular agure football would be first set caused n brief post-nished third three years ago. Vanlentine's Brook, and
prepared to Subsequently It carried tou graveyard of hundreds ut
Notional Hunt racing. His brief you here, and if you hap players, today settled a US$25,- weight to have a real National hopes through the unconcealed ambition. is to win pen to be located in the South by agreeing to play in tourneys 000 damage suit against them On resumption. Ho and Pang much made
chance. Its owner, cinema mag-years, Becher's Brook. This is the Grand National. He nearly there Is the Wembley Rugby D ftreat effort
nate J. Arthur Rank, has yet to not the highest
sponsored by the "Philadelphia jump or the did
be regarded as managed to take the first game,
so on Davey Jones. He was League Final to realise his dream of winning widest.
Inquirer Charities" for the next winning, when the reins broke a model-it you are lucky. but thereafter Ip and Lee came this great mce. The Prince was The third Jump is an Inch
But he is prepared to say that
YRATS. in his gallop to the final fence, Into their own and, asserting his greatest hope after lie had higher and equally wide, with Last year he finished third, on the leading dozen clubs in each themselves, took the next six
Damages were sought by In- games in a row..
Ho and Pang Welsh,
been successful in the Scottish,
six feet ditch to take on the Cromwell. Again he might county should play each other at quirer Charities for admission and-Irish-Grand far side. One waterjump-re- annexed only one point in the
fees it allegedly-lost-when-Riggs- have won if an injury had not home and away and so use up Nationals,
appear in the 1948 last three games.
One horse which many fancy quires a 15-feet leap and the forced him to ride with an arm the better part of 24 of their 40-did not
waterway
way itself is over 12 feet strapped to his side.
season. There tournament. win the National this year is wide.
jodd games betier of the Bricett, which as a yearling was
But Becher's Brook al-
Lord Mildmay is 41, a typical would still be plenty of dates In settling the suit, Kramer, world's pro champion, agreed to walle Lec
bought for 260 guineas by a Mr Ways brings more
obstacle
In In the Grand National since He has plenty of Ideas on a play Inquirer Charities the next had the losers
fences have to be
1933. Good luck to him this projection of county champion- tennis tourneys for twice. Unfortunately, spring!
ships into area championships three years, while Riggs, former rest of Bricett's servico. The over some
are always too
champlon, agated to play for Can you imagine Cardiff and the
five years-United which story is a romance. Sold by perhaps, there
next uuction he made only nine many runners, and much inter-
Tom VICTORIA CLUB in consequence from
Waterloo at Twickenham! guineas. Then he was badly inference
fallen horses, It is
JUNIOR MEN'S SINGLES
D.C. Lau showed remarkable Capetown, Mar. 14.-B. form in his match with W.C.Crews, Capetown University
hio lobbing, smashing Chung and placing being a treat to see, all-rounder, celebrated his His greater repertoire of strokes birthday here today with a told out in the end.
century against the MCC. Trolling 4-8, Lau began to 1t was largely due to his
the pace with powerful efforts that force
the Combined overhead smashing and accurate Universities were able to score Pang was the lobs
to the back of the court 200 for 8 wickets in reply to the losing pair, which proved Chung, who lost the next 11 MCC. points to concede ae set:
In the second
Game continued to hit with tremen
was
to
too much for first innings total of 477 by the responsible for some clever net Nelson Dixon, who lost his literier than any other horses to sporting peer. He has ridden for invitations and tours.
Lau
dous power, forcing Chung in-
who, using all the strokes nt his command, ran out the set and match at 15-11.
10-15
19-15.
players were seen at their best
first
15-12.
Wis
in the
Kempton's smashing
Д
Alt the
nearly every In Britain's Royal Navy on war jumped
piny which beaten
on. occasion. Ip put splendid spin service
D. J. Leonard
494
come
ail the
Fair. Judgment New Favourite
For Lincolnshire
and then
low
Press
League Cricket
BATTING:
Cricket Averages
G. N. Gosano (Recreto) A. M. Prata (Recreio)
L. F. Stokes (Scorpions)
J M. Gosano (University)
Owen-Hughes (Scorpions)
T
A. Major. R. Dave (Army)
(Optimists) L. D. Kilbee Dr. E. L. Gosano G. A Souza Cower)
Pearce (Scorpions)
R. W. Franklin (Optimista)
Crews was run out for 104 in the closing minutes of play. Going in when two wickets were down for 50, Crews flogged the garnered several points. to many errors of judgment. MCC spin attack of Jenkins, On another Court, Tsui Wal-jured in misuming a jump. Ho loose and Thought Chừng levelled
the Wright and Compton, and raced pul and Tsul Yan-pui did not was put out to grass and for- not surprising that few finish. CALLOVER score at 11-11 by alternating to his 50 in 33 minutes on the have much trouble in defeating gotten. Finally he was given Some years ago I saw a gallant being drives with short lobs, hei slow pitch.
to jockey Tim Malony, horse fail to win, through and L. F. de away failed to hold the brilliant Lau Crews put on 88 with Elley Souza in two straight sets; Bricett was not fit to race again hampered over the last fence by
(50) for the third wicket and they only lost three games. The until 1945. Sent to England the la riderless horse.
Two or three years ago Prince Tauf brothers took the first set following year, he won a three- was helped by Birrell (58) in a fourth wicket stand of 102.
after eight games and won the mile race and found a purchaser Regent, then the favourite, had Another Junior Men's Singles
out for 240,
at £2,500. He has never looked a similar experience and falled With four men
next 6-1.
London, Mar. 14-Fair back,
to make up the lost distance on Enw J. A. Soares just Wright match
brought and Palmer
made the the
It yards run in. 15 all Judgment was STORY BOOK CAREERS manage to turn the tables on about a minor collapse, the next
OTHER RESULTS M. Kempton after three sets- four Universities' wickets fall-
There are many similar in- part of the great gamble which favourite for the Lincoln- makes the Grand National both shire Handicap when the Singles Both ing for 20 runs.-Reuter.
HKCC
#tances of story book careers. a lottery and memorable B.T.M. Jones beat G.B. Mae Moffat, twice runner
up perience for the half million or card on the "Spring Double". Smart, 6-3, 6-1. KCC 2nd XI
Grand National, cost so who
from in the
the four was called over at the Vic- P.II. Bonnerman beat A.
his owner only £70, The KCC second eleven will Furrer, 6-1, 9-1.
Revelry quarters of Britain every year to torin Club here tonight. nothing if not muperb. After
Now quoted at 10 to 2, the winning the first set, Kempton meet the RN Dockyard in
beat Dr. H. cost £10,000 but once changed seo the thrill of a massed start R. Segalen
hands for a mero £20. Rear- and
other dramatic Newmarket-trained the
four-year- had the match within his grasp friendly ericket match on
mament was
of anco exchanged epizodes this century-old old is reported to have done a ha led when
13-7 in the Navy ground, King's Park, next Meyer, 6-4, 0-4.
for three sacks of oats. Even panorama of horse racing.
splendid gallop over the week- second. But Soares staged a Saturday, starting at 2 o'clock. TODAY'S GAMES
the peer of modern steeple 'CALLED A LOTTERY The KCC will be represented
and he displaced the grand recovery and drew level.
COLONY OPEN DOUBLES chasers
Prince Regent, was
Drakkar 09 Kempton begon to tire and by S. A. Gray, (Copt), E. A. J.
Little wonder it is called n French-bred Court 1: F.M. Ribeiro and Tfirst purchased for 340 guineas, Soares superior stamina pulled Hancock, S.
He became worth many times lottery. In 16 races in the last favourite. Drakkur drifted just
over have only 20 years the odds
two points from 9 to 1 him through to the next round. Hannu, H. Matth. E. Rodrigues v Tsut brothers,
Court 2: Leo Yue-wing and this sum. The moral has been
to 100 to once been below ten to one. Lee Wal-pointed บ
in an old English That was in 1934, when renown- A Wong Shul-wing
feature of the Lincoln- tong and K.II. Ip.
saying-never look a gift horse
wps the np. ed Golden Miller, Club Singles
seven-year-shire callover in the mouth. Court 3: J.D. Mackle v D. The object of the
old and carrying the top weight pearance in the betting of the Grand
of Theresa Manila Interport
over 12 stone, came in first topweight Royal Tara, National is to test the stamina Nolan,
Following his victory in Remedios, winning 15-9, 15-8. A meeting of the Interport Court 4: B.T.M. Jones v. P. and Jumping ability of the best Both
steeplechase Tim, Gregalach and three-mile Mrs Stokes
and Mrs Sub-Committee of the liong H. Bonnerman.
steeplechasers, at weights, which
Lord provided
on Saturday, Tamworth alternated playing at Kong Football Association will Court 5: J.B., Hawthorn v R. give each horse an equal chance makers
book-Windsor the net and
Mildmay's Cromwel bechme a by paradiso winning both were, pro- be
The formidable nature of the when Association's Segalen, held at the
to one outsiders. minent with their smashes and office at 5.15 p.m. tomorrow to
firm favourite at 9 to 1 for the Court 6: JL... Pearce v M. fences unfailingly overcomes Forbra and drops from
Shelin's Cottage Grand National. all 'paris of the select the Manila Intervort team. Heenan,
the majority.
made fortunes for their backers at half that price. When the best jumpers unaccountably fall it is not surprising that punters habitually plunge on putalde
LADIES' DOUBLES Mrs L. F. Stokes & Mrs Adia Tamworth proved too good for the two sisters, Miss Bernardino Remedios
Miss Z
A man d
AND THIS IS THE PLACE ANÍ
·THEY MENTIONED -
MIGHT AS WELL STAY FRIEVER.
LOOKING FOR
PETER LEDS..
10000.
White, W. H. Cowie, R. Leigh, G. R. Rosselet. E. Guest, and C. Langston-Jones;
Mister Conquest
.....AS ANYWLERS! WELL, AT LEAST-"//
THEY SEEM TO? «KNOJY UIM
HELLO THERE, SAILOR!
WANT ANY HELP?
at
to one;
Cherry
chances.
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Is to
QUOTATIONS
Lincolnshire
Tonight's' quotations were: 19 to 2 Fair Judgment 100 to 9 Drakkar. 100 to 7 Mister Lovell. 18 to 1 Spurned.
22 to Tara.
ara.
(Recreio)
N. R. Oliver (Opt
hent (Scorpions:
O. J.
Howarth
A/C J. S. Beirne (RAF) G. Gosano (Recreio)
G. T. Rowe (Optimists)
D. Chelliah (University) M. M. Little (Optimists)
17
Inn. N.O. Runs H. S. Aver.
14 6
16
253
88*8*=*=382688 ANDER
מסיחד
498
62*
48.27
387 85
43.00
593 110 42.35
417
410
*30* 213
122.
37,00
35.50
320
32.00
358
32.54
300
30.00
345
28.7K
28.75
284
26.40
4
270
25.09
0
309
24.00
232
23,20
23 20
203
22.55
12
210
14
243
21.08
21.08
231
201
17.03
0
224 249
17.23
1 222
222
17.07
A. Zimmern (KCC)
10
204
18.50
Maj C. R. Murray-Brown (Army)
200
15.84
N. Hart-Baker (CCC)
218
15.57
at
1
* Not Out, Qualification: 200 runs. BOWLING:
Overs Maldens Runs Wkts. Aver,
Cpl Hart (Royal Navy)
01
20 204 27
7.55
Gar: D. Banton (Army) 'L/Cpl
154,5
40 380
30
7.78
70.4
20
215
Dr. E. L. Gosano (Recreio)
181.3
390
8.44
110.4
19
419 47
B
00
10
23 208
0.04
230,4
52
070
70
9,57
135.2
25
2.78
05
10.30
1000
103.3
207
10.00
213,1
30-
678
10.00
100.2
24
$1.31
76.1
270
ติ
23
21.73
T.
F/O. E. N. Gambríli `(†
T. F. Mahon (Optimists). CFO L. White (Royal Navy) R. E. Leo (KCC)
100.5
004 40 12.20
103.5
600 41 12.10
(RAF)
144.1 132
24 420 32
13,12
178.5
(CCC)
235.2 37 103.5 107,0
17
162.2
00.4
100
217.4
40
Patchouly and Royal
Star
J Jones (Army)
J. C. Koh (University)
A/C D. Graham (RAF) A. P. Pereira
(Recreio)
Lt A. Stepto (Army) T. A. Pearce (Scorpions) G. N. Gosano (Recreio) F. Howarth (Scorpions) Cpl. A. Hodgson (RAF)
McLellan (Optimists)
It is therefore not without significance that the Arst Grand National in 1839 was won by a horsa called Lottery. In those
25 to 1 Crown Flatts, days the race was for gentle- men, or amateur, riders only. Signal and Romanó. 20 to 1 Speciality. of £10 It was a sweep-stake
33 to 1 Bright Paul,
D, Lord cach, with £80 added.
Today the added money
Nelson, Philadelphe, Red Pip- £5,000, and it costs £10 vin. Sen Shah.
Up. Telra enter, with an ultimate liability or € 100.
For the first tour Shah and Yellow Idol. years all horsen carried 12 stono.
Grand National The race had become a handicap when in 1047 professional Jockeys were allowed to com- pete, for what has become the world's blue riband of steeple- chosing.
40 to 1 Queue
0 to 1 Cromwell. 20 to 1 Clercarrig. 22 to 1 Happy Home, Fol Mond.
25 to 1 Royal Mount, Ulster Monarch and Cavallero.
33 to 1 Rowland Roy-Reu-
Britain's sportsmen being romanile, many thousands hopeter.
II. Lean
(Univeralty)
P. J. Billimoria
A. K. Tsmall (IRC)
A. I sualth (Optimists)
A. el Arculli, Jr (IRC)
II. Owen-Hughes (Scorpions)
S. M. Teh (University). ... T. Crabtree (Craigengower)
Qualification: 20 wickets.
PRAZEBEERRING
7.00
13.04
193
805
383 30. 12.70 43 13.32
347 24 14.45 24 34.04 B01 34 14,73
341 22 16.40
624 20 17.40 683 30 17.51
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