FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1926.
“CHINA MAIL" SPORTS PAGE
BOWLS.
TO-MORROW'S FIXTURES AND NOTES.
BLANK DAY IN KOWLOON.
[By "Skip."]
The following are, the League games down for decision to
morrow:-
First Division." Craigengower V. Kowloon
D.R.C..
Police v. Talkoo. Civil Service v. Kowloon B.G.
Second Division.
Indian y. Civil Service, Yacht Club ·V. Craigen-
gower,
Taikoo v. Kowloon C.C. East Point v, de Recreio.
*
K.C.C.
The following have been select-
HOME GOLF.
QUALIFIERS IN THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP.
ONE AMERICAN FAILS.
London, Juno-17.
At Sunningdale (over 86 holos); in the qualifying competition of the British open golf championship, Bobby Jones of America led with 134.
"Other scores weres Gadd (Britain) 141, Compaton (Britain) 142.
Amongst other qualifiers. were Abe Mitchell and 3. Kirkwood 145 ench; Cyr Tolley and Von Elm 148 cach: Melhorn 150.
Stein (America) falled with 181 ---Reuter.
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[Yesterday it was reported that Bobby Jones did the first, 18, holes A with a course record of 86. Hubsequent cable stated:-
Bobby Jones did the second
ed to represent the Kowloon C.C.Found in 68, making the lowest two. against Taikoo RC. on the latter
ground?-
W. Goldenberg, R. Abraham, C. J. Tacchi and W. Hill (Skip).
F. Goodwin, L. E. Lammert, J., Fraser, and J. Gibson (Skip). A. C. Burford, V. C. Labrum, J. P. Robinson and H. Overy (Skip),
K.B.G.C. The following is the K.B.G.C. team against the Civil Service:-
Hazel-Hatt, Farrol, and Whip
ley (Skip). Chapman, Pearman, Nicholls,
and Guy (Skip). : Nish, Maclachlan, Holland, and
W. Macfarlane (Skip).
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Craigengower receive the Kow- loon Dock team in the First Divi- wion and will be all out to reverse
the previous result, when the on their own areen
Dock team
won by eight shots...
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The Police play their return game with the Taikoo Recreation Club, They were very badly beaten in the first game at Taikoo. Having readjusted their sides some better results are likely. In any case they are bound to give their opponents a much closer game on their own green and it is more than likely that they will winde
*
The Civil Service team who are at home to the Bowling Green are also due for another win, but their unfortunate opponents of to-morrow have still yet to regis- win. On their home ter a "Green" the Civil Service will have an advantage, and should win.
In the Second Division the Indian Recreation Club will 're- ceive the Civil Service second string. At their last meeting in the Valley, the home team won very comfortably.
round, aggregate ever returned in
a Arst class championship.)
The Other Tournament.
London, June 17.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE AUSTRALIANS.
SECOND DAY'S PLAY AGAINST
YORKSHIRE.
START DELAYED.
Shefeld, June 17.
Second day's play in return match between Yorkshire and the Australians (the first having been drawn):--
47.
The start was delayed till 1
WHEN APRIL COMES TO KEW. Joy Joy, joy, Joy" they sing LOCAL SHARE MARKET.
A BEAUTIFUL PEN PICTURE:
making life and beauty almost 'articulate."
Look There is Mr. Grey Squirrel, in the grasa. Ho thinks you are looking at him. In fact, She nods to London, as she he is sure you are. And he knows. passos, on her way, those dear he is worth looking at He will spots of green where the country just show off a little. So be Jumpe has nover quite made up its mind along with curious ball-like-bounds. to say good-bye and go away final-Are you watching? Yes. He sits
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OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS,
T.T. on Shanghai
do.
HONGKONG, JUNE, 18, 1926, 10.30a.m.
London
Bank of East Asia
ty, leaving the great city bare and up on his haunches, dangling his TT. on London unredeemed by the Autter of green tiny front legs stiffly, tall up, cara
Banks. loves against a grey background; cocked and bright eyes, alert.
Hongkong Bank ittle green spots of no one knows is not afraid, not be He lives
a dog what ancient data all that is left there, you are there on sufferance. of what once were honeysuckle This is his place, not yours. Still, Mercantile Bank, A. & B.
Chartered Bank lanes and spreading pastures miles, you mustn't coma too close. away from the small, countrified
not presume. Off he gambola P. & G. Bank... maiden of a London that she never gain; again stops, thon claws his quite forgets herself to have been way, a streak of gray, furry, light April nods on her way through, ning, up a tree trunk; swings out. well pleased to see them holding to the furthest bough; sits thera China Underwriters their own bravely yet; flying their and washes his face. You see how North China. Insurance. little green flags, fluttering their is done! So easy! Clumes Union Insurance cri Pretty green skirts, as much at mortal, whyever don't you try? Yangtze InsuraDOS home now, and at ease, in the huge You don't know how jolly life is
Fire Insurances. There were 12,000 spectators.metropolis that hugs them to her up here. And Mr. Grey Squirrel China Fire Insurance.
heart (are they not a bit of her flattene and camouflages himself. Fire Insurance
p. owing to the wicket being
wet.
The Australians wou the toss
and decided to bat first.
At the close of play they had scored 148 runs for 6 wickets.
C. G. Macartney made. 64.
Reuter.
WIGHTMAN CUP.
LADIES' TENNIS, BRITAIN v. AMERICA,
No play Arst day because of very childhood-her precious, ten-Into a bit of a bough and a waving. rain.]
der, Age-long childhood?) 4s ever loaf and peers down to see if you They were when solitude and per- are game. As he watches you pass fume and tinkling of streams creepingly along, walking tamely hedged them round about, instead on two feet that flatten themselves. of the scream and roar of traffic, one after the other, on the low and the reck of petrol, and the un-.
flat ground, he wrinkles, his nose ending business of the capital ofin supreme though tolerant scorn. the world. And when she comes glissades down and flashes up to Hyde Park she dallies awhile: again twenty times a minute. yhe plays ring-a-roses with the
The Mystic Wayı- winda and foots it fastly on the
There is a cuckoo calling. April
green alleys that little flowers may came STRES. She hides herself in the brought him with her when she There are long vistas Park; she loves its greenness. She self might strax under whose nd her. She peeps into the Green athwart whose aisles Titanis her kisses Poter Pan and chatters to canopied shades Orlando and the children in Kensington Gar Kasalind might sit and talk of post-Kew will be waiting, and she hur-
cens. Then she bothinks her that I love in
EVEN ON SINGLES. At Stannes (over 86, holes) in
London, June 17. At Wimbledon the ladies Wight the qualifying competition for the British open rolf championship. the whole of the American conman Cup lawn tennis began.
Miss Ryan (America) beat Miss Hagen Etingent was successful.
topped the list with 143. William Joan Fry (Britain) 6-1, 6-3,
McKane) beat Misa Brown (U.S.A.)
The doubles were G+1, 7-5. poned owing to rain. Reuter.
son (Notts) was next with 144 Then came Jurado (Argentine) | with 146.
Amongst other qualifers were the Americans, Barnes and Gunn with 148 each; Walker, McCleod, Armour and Watrous with 149 oach: French 153; and Mackenzie- 155-which is the last score to qualify-Reuter,
PALACE HOTEL BILLIARDS.
In the Palace Hotel billiards handicap last night, J. F. Ribeiro (ews 200) beat W. Ogley (owe 30)
by 250 points to 176.
Breaks: Ribeiro, 51, 18, 30, 18. 32, 15, 25, 23. 20. Ogley 15.f
The tournament will be "con- tinued on Monday night.
The following are second round fixtures:--
June 21-F. Hobbs (owe 70); v. G:
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Moore (owe 200). 22.G. Blain (scr.) v. W
Fish (owe 60). 23.-F. E. Silva (we'200) v.
J. W. Henderson (scr.)
24. F. Ribeiro (owe 200)
v. T Clough (owa 120); 25.-Philip Tel (owe 180) T. Mitchell (owe 120). 28.-L A. Osmund (owe 200) a v. C. Earnshaw (owe
200).
29. A. Luz (owe 180) v.
T. Pile (owe 150).
30.-F. M. de Cruz (owe 200) v. A. McGinley owe
200).
All matches to begin at 9 p.m.]
PING-PONG MATCHES.
The following will represent the Dockyard Y. M. Club in a ping-pong The Indiana match against the University at have yet to register a win, and Ithe Naval Yard to-night-the Rev. am afraid that they will not be. W. Hewitt, E. Goddard, R. Jones,
Andrews strong enough to beat their op-C. Pile, N. ponents to-morrow.
Hackett.
and H.
The same team will also play against the Diocesan School at the
Craigengower beat the Yacht Naval Yard on Wednesday, next at Club a fortnight ago on their own 7 p.m. green, To-morrow they visit Tolowan, where a much closer game should be seea, with the home team probably just getting home...
HOME LAWN TENNIS.
Mrs. L. A... Godfree (Mlas
TURF TIPS.
PUNTERS, PROPHETS AND DISAPPOINTMENT.
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"Springtime, the only pretty ries on. And everyone knows when
ringtime." : abe-has-been-there because of what it was, verily, into. such a green they see after her coming. What April world was born one Shake they see.. Kew Gardens inpeare, the Prince of Magicians, April are of a beauty so exquisito who could so easily people ite: and fragile that words become greenness with a lover and his lass, teary-akin to April's tears, born a queen and her court, a king and of beauty and beauty-bearing. hid' jester could BO poignantly weave Romance into it with a wave of his wand; could so bind us fast in his spells that we must event see what he bids us see, hear what he wills that we shall hear. When April comes to Kew she has a mind to Shakespeare. She too, sings of "daisies pled and violets blue. And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow huc
(That) Do paint the meadows with
delight"-she, even as he.
The Bewitchment." First there is the green-a new green, a very ecstasy of green. green below and groan above, groen n-near and green filling out all the distances. One sees winter-wain people stealing softly along those. peaceful glades. walking with grateful feet and reverent hearts, with eager eyes and hushed lips, hardly daring to breathe for fear the miracle that has happened yet
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WHEN THINGS GO WRONG, "
Racing prophets
well are A abused class and only constant ex- perience of the hard things said y disappointed punters can inure them to the reflections' cast upon their estimating abilities. But a better instance of expert opinion gone to seed has not for à long time been provided than was the case this year over the Derby, observes the "Singapore. Free "Press" Coronach started the pro-
ceedings a strong favourite with gain should prove, but miragé almost all prophets but when the after all, and the fairyland-coms Versailles from Paris, Kew Garro Cottons.
Orientals Two Thousand- was run and he
true suddenly vanish. But nodens is a heritage' of delight and' anished a very tired and besten For the green below is starred song, of rare and delicate, things horse, Colorado winning with ease. with daffodils.. They are real, of which any capital might be by five lengths, the critics were Sometimes hundreds of stars run. Proud. Hera London breathes, not slow to revise their opinions together, and then the green is here she rests, here she throws off and many of them revised them flooded with daffodlis. And when her cares. She comes clad, not in er gown of sophistication, but in very thoroughly. Thus, "Hotsper" the daffodils hear a certain tune of the "Daily Telegraph." as a rule that, they every one know they all ier woodland dress". giving, "this one of the most reliable of pro begin to dance to-it.
one day to idleness." She Strolle hets, writing a month or so before shining narcissl that Spring has long the cool green wage chatting the Derby, could not seo Coronach Bung from her apron as she passed. o April of bygone years. winning at all. He said "Coronach | The lamps, of the tulips are all times, perhaps, in moments of is inclined to explode all light orange, amber, amethyst, reariness and doubt, of hunger and his energy in a minimum of time flame, rose and white: The white thirst for a beauty beyond things auch horses do not, why lamps are frilled with big, pink een she may stretch out pitecus Derbys.
. It is not in ren daisies that they also may have hands to a past that will nevermore on to assume that a horse show-colour.
But the black- In the rock gardens the return unto her.. ing these characteristics is going fairies have waved wands and be sird flutes, and she inclines her to play the part of a stayer when witched big frises into miniatures ar and listens to his required 'to-do so." Yet Coronach
of themselves. Many other flowers vanderings. The lac blooms, and out and wins with ease! comes
nave undergone that bewitchment the brushes her cheek against its The fact of the matter is we know
that they might be fit company for purple cones. And the smell of very little indeed of horse racing the small, dainty things that live! t is to her the same sweet frag and owners. trainers and hand-and have their being among the rance that swept her simpler cappers often make the most. grotesque mistakes, whilst many
l'ofes-the
There are
rathe primrose" rey rocks; clumps of pale prime anemones, violets, saxifrages eaths; little dwarf trees; and the air is full of the sweet savour
Some-
ecstatic
Miscellaneous. Canton Ices
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do. (new) hina Buses hina Lighta (comb.)
do. do.
(old) (new)
hina Prov. (comb.) do. (old) do. (new) Dairy Farms Or A Wing (full pd.)
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K. Constructions fongkong Electrica
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K. Ropes (comb.).
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Perhaps she, too, with .... "do, (new) April, weeps a little. Anon she Hongkong Tramways springs. gathers closelier around her her ane, Crawfords wondland dress and prepares to Macao Electrics
eturn. But first she picks a pony Mackintosh.....
Nanyang Tobaccos Peak Trams (old)
.do. (new) inceres Singapore Trame Caris
nga watching gardener could take exception. There is "rose- nary-that's for remembrance; pansies for thoughts;" lad's-love for a past love's sake (though love
good horse is condemned because of some running which if he could speak he could easily explain, while many a jockey comes under sus of them all. April is not a visible one to whose gather- picion because he fails to get into the place which experts think. he tensely interested in the work of
She puts a the gardeners here. should have occupied: Horses are. London, May 29, Chiswick Park: In the Mid-Caracterised as squibs, jades and sorts of lovely ideas into their rogues, when aften probably, it is heads; and so the rock gardens are
place wherein to linger. dlesex lawn-tennis-championship. a matter of something wrong-In-
Enchanting Scenes. With an
unbeaten record so finais, Colonel Mayes beat G.
side and extraordinary reversals of far, the Kowloon Cricket Club Hughes, 8-6, 10-8, 6-1. will to-morrow have their hardest game, for the Taikoo team on their own "plot' 'are almost in- vincible. Should the Cricket Club win to-morrow, they will Mrs. Beamish and Miss Clark atand a very good chance for the beat Mrs. Lambert Chambers and Championship of this division, Miss Harvey, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3,
but they still have to meet the
East Point Club, who are also un-
defeated with a game in hand.
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8 never past), a sprig of lacnited Aabestos because once she wore a lilac-
Mrs. Mallory beat Missg form are often as much due to the But the green above is worth,prigged gown; a primrose or twol
Terry, 6-8, 1-6, 6-1.
Eames and Aitken best Brame Hillyard and Bobb, 6-2, 2-6, 6-8.
Division II.
Kowloon C.C....
P. W. D. "L. P.
4. 4 008
momentary feelings of the horse himself probably as to any sup- poued manipulations by rider or trainer.
LOCAL CLUBS, PLEASE NOTE,
looking at this perfectly new, un sullled green fresh from the very womb of the morning. The little pointed emeralds of the young elm leaves, the tender limes, the gold green of the beech, huge trees that have as yet but a green, fragile ve This is how Home clubs treat of lace thrown over them. "The sport writers
sherry standa on the edge of the To his own paper, Mr. S. P.wood, wearing white for Easter
the tide. The magnolius, each like a Foenander, ("Vulcan" of 8 3000 Times of Ceylon"), wrote from lock of water lilles flown from 4 20:24 London as follows: The M.C.C.ond, settled on dark brow 4.2 0 2 4 have done, me the very high hon branches to see how they liked": 4 1 1 2 our of according me the privileges and staying there the almond. 41 123 of an honorary member and have blossom, the just-in-bud-apple 4 1 0-3 2- sent me a member's Ucket to Lussom-0 April, how enchanting 300 3.0 Lord's for the whole senson.are thy ways! Under the steer
was proposed by Lord Hawke, bine sky with its high-piled cloud SHOTS FOR AND AGAINST. seconded by Mr. P. F. Worner and she wouves her magle dissolve supported by Mr. A. E. R. Into an artist's tears of sheer de Gilligan.
East Point R.C. The East Point Club are at
Taikoo R.C. home to the Club de Recreio and should continue their sequence of Club de Recreio
Craigengower), victorios.
Civil-Bervice Yacht Club
"Enquirer":"The player con- Indian R.C.. cerned is in the wrong. The rules on the matter are plain. Once a player has played for one Club he. cannot play for another Club dur- ing the same season it does not matter in what division of the. League. :
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Division I.
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Craigengower C. C. 59 Kowloon Dock Taikoo R.C.
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