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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,
"CHINA MAIL" SPORTS PAGE
LOCAL RUGGER.
TEAMS FOR TO-MORROW'S MATCH.
BAMBROSE."
At Happy Valley to-morrow the Hongkong Football Club (rugby section) will meet H.M.S. "Ambrose." The teams are:-
H.K.R.F.C. Team. Pull back:--Stewart (1). Three-quarters: McKenzie (2) Bowker (3): Gardner (4); Lammert (6).
Halves: Summers (6): Ralph (7).
Forwards-Foster(8): Forsyth (9); Smith (10); Fochen (11); Millar (12): O'Connor (13): Raiston (1): Curwin (15).
Referee:-D, Fitzgerald,
HOME SOCCER.
YESTERDAY'S DIVISION III
MATCH.
LEAGUE TABLE TO DATE,
(Router's Service.)
London, Sept. 29. The following football match was played to-day (home team given firat) :———
Div. III (North). Accrington.. 3 Durham
DIVISION III. Northern Section.
3 4
4 20 16 10
3 15 18 10
1 16 10 10
14 15 9
Goals P. W. D. L. F. A. Pts, Bradford 9 6 i 2 27 8 13 Rochdale 8 5 3 0 22 10 13 Grimsby...... 8 5 1 2 22 6 II H.M.S. "Ambrose" Team.
Durham....... 9 5 0 Full back-Mortimer (1).
Hartlepools... 5 0 Three-quarters:-Hocking (2) Ashington.... Honeywell (8): Thuncan (4); Wrexham... 8 3 3 Hayter (5).
Lincoln...... 8 4 1 nives: Evans (6); Cowley | Coventry ... 8 4 1 Doncaster... 8.3 3 (07).
Forwards Stafford (8): N. Brighton... 8 3 2 Wilkin (0) Short (10); Morrell | Wigan .82 4 (11) Curnock (12): Balsdon J Nelson 9 4 (18) Gambles (14): Sharples'] Rotherham ... 7 3 2
Crewe (15).
Kirk-off!--5.15 p.m.
V.R.C. AQUATICS.
RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S
HEATS.
Results in yesterday's prelimin aries of the V.R.C, samond aquatic sends the Tolong '« clumping-lips
were
140 vark: 1st Deat-D. Lson 5 min., 8.25 mps, 11); Cookie (13) 77
2nd Dont--A. May Assumpte 3
A.
5 min., 7.145 sees. (1): E. Brodie (2).
100 yarila breusi stroke.---Lit beat! ---Wan Kwong-ting 82375 HPCR. (1 Corporal Tadster (2).-2nd hening Tit-sang 85 ser, 1; B. Rasmussen (2).
On Saturday, an extra event will be included in the programme--50 yards breast stroke for lilles.
The sports proper commence this afternoon and will conclude on Saturday,
WATER POLO.
YESTERDAY'S LEAGUE ALATCIES.
At the V.R.C. bath yesterday, in the Water Polo League, the V.R.G. "B" team beat the East Burrey Regt. by 9 goals to nil and H.M.S. "Hermes" drew (8 all) with Kowloon "B."
NNXT WEEK'S FIXTURES, Nox week's £xinres are 081 under
Monday H.K. Electric Co. V. H.M.S. Carlisle East Surrey
Regt. v...V.R.C. "A."
Tuesday.-K. R.S.F.P.A,
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. K.B.S.P.P.A. "A;" FL.M.S.! "Ambrose" v. V.R.C. "B."
Thursday.--East Surrey Regi. v. i H.K. Electric Co.; K.B.S.FT.A. "B". 1.M.S. Carlisle,**
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3 15 13 9
BIG LEAGUES.
LATEST U. S. BASEBALL STANDINGS.
National League.
W.
Pct.
Pittsburgh New York Cincinatti St. Louis
92 56 622 84 62 576 77 71 520
Brooklyn Boston Chicago
78 74-407 67 77 465 68 81 456 66 83 443 Philadelphia. 61 84-421 American League.
W. L
Pct.
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OLD GAME ON NEW
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BASEBALL FOUNDATION.
THE SEA HAWK.”
JOUREN'S THEATRE'S RECORD AUDIENCES.
KUNIT TO SRE NO FILM.
A WORKING.
JUDICIAL ENVOY'S EARİ
DAYS..
NOW REPRESENTS AMERICA.
Courses.
SECRET RACE.
MIDNIGHT ORGIES TO SATAN.
These issues are revealed in the
commission of three men who
WHO SHALL RULET
Who shall rule a mysterious Record "house" at the Queen's Suggesting baseball principles,
Mr. Justice E. Finley JohnsON, "The Bea revolutionary (Mr.Theatre welcomed cricket
America's representative on the race of 80,000 people who in C. D. Welch of Canada) writes Hawk" to Hongkong yesterday Judicial Enquiry to sit at Shang-A.D, 1925 frankly worship the thus to a Home paper in mail-Adapted from the famous story of TWO DAYS RESULTS.
Rafael Sabatini, the film is a six-hai, who was the guest of the U.S.devil in the almost inaccessible week:-
"As a player and follower of tout century rominee of the high Consul General at a dinner held mountain regions of Moaul? asks Inclusive of the results given cricket for many years and answhich several galloons of last night, was born and brought a Home paper.
Under which flag shall the below the tables of the U. S. major interested reader of the sugges-historic guise und ancient splendour up in the state of Ohio on 4 farm,
The He attended the country school. remnants of populations and re baseball leagues stand as follow:-lens made regarding the speed- the principal settings.
ing-up of cricket, may I bring thela begins to develop rapidly from the finished the high school andligions live the Shabaka, the Three Batsmen theory of base the point where the falsely accused was admitted to the University of Kakais, and Sarlig-who conceal During the time he from the stranger the very exist- ball before the cricketing public? Sir liver Tresillian superbly play- his state. The adoption of this leaf from by Milton Sille, is shanghaied spent. in the high school and ence of their secret language and baseball's hook would not alter had a pirate ship by his sobem University he was obliged to do beliefs as a consequence of 4,000 the technique of the game, but, in other. The ship, captained all kinds of work for the purpose years of conflict?
ngh, freebooting fellow, of paying his expenses. He paid my opinion, would stimulate in terest in each individual contest portrayed by the engaging Wallace all of his expenses by working long-awaited report of a neutral Spanish galloon, Bit Oliver and the during his high school and college were appointed by the League of right up to the drawing of ery is later captured by a stumps.
pirates boing set to work at the
Almest immediately after his Nations last September to inves The procedure would be as cars. Hore the scenes are vividly follows:-
carried through, with the long rows Kraduation he was elected to the tigate the claims of Turkey and
Mosul. The team winning the toss of weary slaves chained to the giant legislature of his state and served Great Britain to the province of takes first innings.
The principal questions arising The side sweeps. During a fierce engage two terms. During that period he bate until three men are out.ment with a Moorish craft, Bir studied law and was admitted to from this dispute are: Where do After a few years of the 30,000 devil worshippers in The teams change over and the Oliver escapes and joins forces with the bar. other side bats until three menthe victorious Moors. He rises practice he was elected as a pro- Mosul province come from? Of
The first team bats eventually to become the dread fessor in the College of Law of the what race are they? are out.
Many Yezidis, when asked, de- again until the next three (includ-Sea Hawk, a terror to all Cbristian University of Michigan. where he ing, of course, the fourth man, sailors and a scourge of the seas taught for a period of nearly 14clared that their tribe traced its who was not out), and this alter- After much further adventuring, years. During the time he was a descent from Noah. nate batting continues until the the story which has centored in-member of the faculty of the time limit is reached or until each directly about an English girl University of Michigan he became with the resemblance between the at present, has batted winsomely seted by Enid Bennett, acquainted with a great many Yezidi chiefs and the types which man, as
comes to a climax soourd an English Chinese students who were attend- may be seen on the best-known twice.
"In the case of county matches ship and to a stirring fusle,
Assyrian monuments. Mr. Sills, while not usually casting the University.
Later, he was appointed as one Every year they sacrifice a of three days' duration, in which each man has not batted twice on for romantic parts of this ort, per- account of big scoring or weather fome skilfully throughout and rises of the judges of the Courts of the white bull to the "powers of dark conditions, the match will always splendidly to the scenes of captivity Philippine Islands by President ness," but nobody has, aver suc He Was the first ceeded in penetrating their the American judge appointed to the temples or in witnessing their be decided by the side scoring the land battle. Mr. Beery contrives McKinley. most runs in an equal number of the chief humor interest inning an innings to be de- picture; his study of the swarthy courts of the Philippines, and has secret rites.
old buccaneer will rank as one of been connected with the Judiciary These devil worshippers believe signated as the part of the game the memorable screen portraits of of the Philippines for a period of in a remote Supreme Being, who in which three men are retired.
the year. The production is lavish 25 years. Some have said of him is far too high for direct worship. "The score, for example, will be made as to ships and actors that he was the John Marshall of "He is in the heavens, and takes summarised, as follows
The Sen Hawk is a picture the Supreme Court of the Philip- no heed of the earth. He leased lat in. 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th Twitch will long throng the memory pines. While many appeals have the earth to the devil," they say, Yorkshiro .. 30 62 17 142 02 10 320
Washington ... 95 50 655 Philadelphin B7 60 692 St. Louis
80 69 537 76 70 621 Detroit
74 75 497 458 67 81 66
82 446 44'102 301
Chicago
Cleveland
3 15 14 9
13 13
New York
9
Boston
Results of September 29:-
Second Game.
National League.
8
73 I Accrington... 9 3 15 13 22 12 14 Southport.... 7 2 2
Boston 6, Cincinatti 1.
15 15
7
7
6
Chesterfield.. 8 2 1 5 7 10 Halifax $ 21.5 II
Boston 2. Cincinatti 1-twelve innings,
New York 0, St. Louis 8."' .. Second Game.
Barrow..... 9 2 1.6 rz Walsall 9 I * 6 II
New York 2, St. Louis 8-Call Tranmere
20 5 13 23 4 ed in the sixth innings by agree-
...
HOME TURF.
DONCASTER CUP & PARK HILL STAKES.
- PROMINENT VICTORIES.
(Times of Ceylon.)
London, Sept. 11.
The race for the Doncaster Cup resulted as follows:
ST. GERMANS HURSTWOOD PLACK
ment.
Brooklyn 1, Chicago 2. Philadelphia 1, Pittsburgh 2. American League.
St. Louis 3, Philadelphia 6.
Second Game.
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St. Louis 3, Philadelphia 7. Chicago 6, New York 7. Detroit 15, Boston 1.
ed on account of rain.
Results of September 24-
National League.
New York 4, Pittsburg 0. Brooklyn 2. Cincinatti
3
2.
3
Eleven innings.
St.
Betting: 6 to 1 against Germans, 4 to 1 against Hurst" wood, 6 to 1 against Plack.
Nine ran.
Lord Astor, owner of St. Germans,
St. Germans won by two between !lengths; length
one second and third.
TIENTSIN RACING. SAUCY SUE BEATEN.
MEMBERSHIP AND THE
BALLOT.
(Reuter's Service.)
Tientsin, Sept. 29. At an extraordinary general meet- ing of the Tientsin Race Club yes terday evening a resolution passed almost unanimously juviling
German and Anstrian ex-members. of the club desirous of resuming membership, to inform the secretary of such intention whereupon they will be admitted without ballot and without entrance fee. The ballot will also hereafter be open to Ger- mans and Austrians wishing to join the Club.
· GARRISON TENNIS.
-LEAGUE AND DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP.
Results of matchen played in the
• Garrison Tennis Lengue during the week ending September 26 ware: "A" Co., East Surrey Regt. beat "B" Co., East Surrey "Regt. by 67 games to 42;,"A" Co., Eat Surrey Regt, scratched to "D" Co.," East Surrey Regt. and R.A.M.C. to R.A.B.C..
Garrison Tennis Doubles Chem- pionship-The first round, will be played on Monday, October 5.
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(Times of Ceylon.)"
Doncaster, Sept. 11. race for the Park Hill Stakes resulted as follows:----
The
JULDI
SERADELLA
SAUCY SUE
3
Betting:-7 to 2 against Juldi; 20 to 1 against Seradella: and 11 to 4 on Saucy Sue.
Four ran.
Won by six lengths; same.
H.H. the Aga Khan, ownsi
Of the Shanghai interport lawn bowls team for Hongkong, the "China Press daysThe team By this victory Juldi incurred will take with it the "Prentice a ten lbs. penalty in the Cesare Cup, and it is to be bored that witch, bringing up her weight to they will bring it back again. The 7 st. 6 lbs. It will be remember team is very well balanced and ed that Aga Khan's Charley's should give good account of Mount won the Park Hill Stakes Itself. Shanghal bowlers will last year and subsequently carried follow their efforts with the ten lbs. penalty to victory in the
Cesarowitch : greatest of interest.
American League. Cleveland 8, Washington
Ten innings.
3.-
4
1
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The commission were struck
Surrey 108 24 50 36 100 02 418 with heroic moments and colorful been taken to the Supreme Court "for 10,000 years, and the devil
on
scenes, and as such should be seen of the United States from the has 4.000 years more to rule.”
UNDER HILLS. MEN MEET IN THE CENTRE.
of
PEACOCK DEVIL.
decisions of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, he has The devil is worshipped in the never been reversed.
He is a hard-working and an is carried from village to village,
form of a bronze peacock, which -
industrious judge. He acted as
He has
Surrey win by 87 runs. by everyone who enjoys adventure "I might add that it is this and romance depicted with the Cleveland-Washington postpon-alternate Three Batsmen' theory screen's greatest skill and cunning,
that has kept baseball on its feet continent. the American Imagine, for instance, Hobbs,
Chief Justice of the Supreme and worshipped by the people, Court of the Philippine Islands for who are forbidden to utter or Sandham, Ducat, and Shepherd scoring 108; the first three being
a period of 2 years, during which even to hear the name of Satan or the syllables of that name, nor time all the pending cases were, out, Holmes and Sutcliffe open up for Yorkshire. With Leyland
decided and promulgated. He is may they wear blue.
Their place of worship la called. 4--and Rhodes Yorkshire lose their
Eight hundred feet below the exceedingly interested in the the Temple of the Sun, and near first three batsmen for 36, and
the picturesque welfare of the masses. Surrey again appear to bat, with summit
a small army of taken a great interest in the it is a spring in which all Yezidis Shepherd and the next man in the Malvern hills
Midnight orgies take place bat, and Shepherd and the next men were able to shake hands and education of the Filipino people. receive the "baptism of the devil." man in the order. There is the congratulate themselves on hav. He never tires in praising the here, and excesses are committed ing nearly completed the tunnel Filipino people and their remark which, for a stranger to witness, continued interest in the contest.
Education among mean death. "Everyone would see the bats. on which between 500 and 600 able progress during the Ameri
His. interest in them is taboo. Only the chiefs men of both teams in action on skilled men have been employed can occupation,
The task the welfare of the Chinese people any one of the three days, and, to since January 1924. stress the most vital point of all, will end in the spring of next of the Philippine Islands is well can read or write, for learning is known and recognised. He has The temporal chief of the devil both sides would receive an equal year.
Just sixty years ago another assisted many young Filipino men worshippers is Said Bey, a mám share of the wicket.
in acquiring an education. He has about sixty years old, with a "The winning of the toss by army of men were building a Collins in Australia would have similar tunnel in exactly the sent a large number, at his own Bowing grey beard. been of no avail, and all the con- same spot. Both tunnels now expense, to the universities in the troversy as to the winners being run parallel, 41 feet apart, carry United States. bedecked with horseshoes would ing single rail tracks of the Great
Western Railway. never have been avoided under this system."
Second Game. Cleveland 2, Washington 6. St. Louis 6, Philadelphin 4 Eleven innings.
Chicago 5, New York B.-Ten innings.
Detroit 0, Boston 5. No other games.
Waseda v. Chicago.
(By Associated Press.)
Tokyo, Sept. 28. The University of Chicago team to-day defeated the Waseda University team at baseball, 2
to 0.
BEST TRIBUTE."
LETTER TO HOBBS FROM THE KING.
"J. B." CONGRATULATED, ~
A crowning tribute to the achievement of Hobbs has been paid by the King, as follows:--
Balmoral Castle,
August 20, 1925, Dear Mr. Hobbs,
The King has heard with much pleasure and interest of your unique cricket achieve- ment in scoring 127 centuries, thus exceeding the number made by the late Dr. F. G. Grace, and also attaining a fur- ther record of 14 centuries in the courte of one season.
His Majesty warmly con- gratulates you upon this. re- markable success, whereby you have established a new and greater record in the history of our National Game.
Yours very truly,
STAMFORDHAM. "The letter," said Hobbs in his wireless talk from 2L0, "will re- main with me as a treasured possession.**
Omar and A, L. Rumjahn, for- merly of Hongkong, have won the Tientsin lawn tennis open doubles championship, winning the final in three straight sets.
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BEATEN NURME
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Alan Helfrich startled the sport ing world by defeating Paavo Nurmi in the Finn's last race in the United States at New York.
M.C.C. TOUR.
WINTER VISIT TO WEST INDIES,
CRICKET SELECTIONS.
1
1
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Hi work as a
member of the proposed Commis- sion will, no doubt, be characteris- The new tunnel is 4,768 feeted by his well known honesty, long, 50 feet. longer than the one industry and impartiality. at present in use. One end opens at the tiny village station of Colwall, and the other at Great Malvern. It is constructed of brick throughout and the founda- tion is of natural rock with con- crete filling.
More than a ton of explosives had to be used each week, and more than 100,000 tons of rock, earth, and mineral have been re- moved. A cross-section of the tunnel is exactly like a horse-shoe and is of the strongest type pos-
sible.
Huge air compressors cease- lessly pump 10016, of air to the square inch into the workings, while deep shafts bored through the Malvern Hills to the level of the tunnel provide additional air
for the men.
There will be one permanent shaft when the tunnel is com- pleted.
"COURT-MARTIAL”
THE SUBALTERN WHO WENT TO BED.
People passing a Royal Army Service Corps Barracks at Alder
hot saw
man in pyjamas fal! from
a window into a bed of thistles, while sounds indicating that an im- promptu band was making "music" with tissue paper, combs, and tongs were beard.
a sin.
FRONT OF TRAIN.
RAZOR ATTACK AS IT STOPS.
A man'a vain attempt to mur- der a beautiful 19-year-old Span- ish girl by throwing her in. front of an approaching train, followed by an attack with a razor with which he tried to cut her throat, was seen by crowds of business people at the Gare de l'Est rail- way station.
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The couple, a Spaniard named Pablo Perez Mena (24) and Gonzalez Ampare, were engaged in a heated conversation, and as a train drew into the station the A reporter learned that a mock man pushed his companion on to court-martial had tried & young the rails, falling from the plat subaltern, who had retired to bed form as he did so. after dinner instead of joining a sxial gathering, the 'eburge" against him being that his conduct
The driver of the train at onoš
applied his brakes and the engine Was prejudicial to the social side of stopped within a yard of the
bodies lying on the line. military life.
Mena turned on the girl and Seated on a pedestal, the officer struck at her with a razor, an who acted as president had pro When the two sets of tunnellers, nounced the subaltern guilty, and then tried to eut his own throa one boring from Colwall and the part of his punishment was that Both were conveyed to hospit other from Great Malvern met in after he was brought in from the where their condition is stated the centre, their working had been bed of thistles he had to clear away to be grave.
Jealousy is thought to have pro 80 accurate that they were less all signs of the disorder which lus
moted the man's attack. than a quarter of an inch out of brother officers had created. the centre line, while the levelling, that is, the floor of the tunnel was accurate.
A rather remarkable lonely grave, with a tombstone of rock, said to have been carved from the old tunnel, lies on the top of Malvern Hills and the new borings. It is that of Mr. Bailard, who was partner in the firm of Brassey. and Ballard, who built the first tunnel.60 years ago. The grave is 80ft. from the monument It is expected that the M.C.C. of Ballard's engineering feat of team will leave England on Decem- those days. A son of Mr. F ber 19 and take the West Indies Ballard resides close by and owns cricket tour in the following the greater part of the land order: Barbados, Trinidad, through which the new tunnel Demerara and Jamaica, arriving runs. home in the first half of April
H. W. V. Robins, the Highgate School captain, accepted the invita tion of the Middlesex Committee to play for the county in three matches. Robina scored 89 for Middlesex Club and Ground against Hornsey The Hon. F. S. G. Calthorpe, Mrs. Brown's muslis dress was | 'in one maloli.
| Captain T. 0. Jameson, Hon. L. H. in close proximity to her hus- Tennyson, Mr. C. T. Bennett, E. J. band's cigarette. Soon a flame
tinguished
7. Kerr (Allos) defeated, the Smith, Hammond, Roo, Astill and appeared, which he speedily ex- holder, George Making (Banknock) G Collins have accepted Invita in the 10-miles professional running tions to go. championsip, for u aide studio of £100, at Powderhall, Edinburgh by [Note: Mr. Tennysos captained 300 yards, in 55min dane dhe England in the later Test matches winner took the lead in the fifth with Australis (in England) in the_ready
Tithing! 1921 season] mile.
• “Your carelessness again,
returned. fgroup at:
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offered in 1919, M
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