THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927.
SPORTS SECTION
HOME FOOTBALL.
-LEAGUE MATCHES IN MID-WEEK.
ARMY TOURNAMENT:
London, March 30, The British Army won the later Tutional triangului decer tourna
ment, dufuating the French by five goals to two to-day Highbury (the Arsenal ground in London) Reuter.
London, March 30. Principal league football matchen played to-day resulted (home team given Arab
English Lengue. Division: Bury 1, Sanderland 2. Division IT Portsmouth 5, Read- ing 0.
Division II (South); Gillingham;
1. Brentford 2
Scottish League.
Division : Hearts 3 Celtic 0; Morton 40 Falkirk 1; Airdrieonians 3, Partick 1.-Reuter.
LUXURY GOLF.
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£500 TO JOIN A CLUB.
$100 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION.
It is proposed to form a new golf
club at Addington, East Croydon, with a limit of 150 members, each of whom, will have to take up a shares of $500 and pay an annual subscription of £100,
The object is to remedy the trou- ble of congestion at week-ends. At every well-known course, the num ber of members attending on Satur
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AT WIMBLEDON.
1927 SEATS APPLIED FOR MANY
› TIMES OVER.
AND NO SUZA.
ZANNE! Although the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships meeting does not begin until June 20, the manage-
ment is already snowed under with applications for season tickets."
Major Larcombe, the secretary, informed the "Evening Standard" that letters, whiell havb come from all parts of the world, apparently at least as numerous R last year. which means that the 4,000 seats
THE GOLF BLUES.
Cambridge Defeat Oxford at Hoylake.
London. March 30.
At Huylake, in the annual inter- Varsity golf match, Cambridge defeated Oxford by nine matches to six-Reuter,
BANNED FOR LIFE
NEW ZEALAND RUGGER PLAYERS
SEQUEL TO ENGLISH TOUR.
Wellington, March B.
THE CHIN
BRITAINS BEST
1 POTENTIAE WORLD CHAMPIONS
GREAT YOUNG BOXERS.
MINING DISASTERS. LOCAL SHA
Over Five Hundred Men Entombed,
TWO TERRIBLE EXPLOSIONS
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 30
Having lost the habit of 'pat- The Couricil of the New Zealand ting themselves on the back, Bri Rugby League has enquired into thetish followers of boxing are ap suspension of the players who reparently not yet fully conscious of
The Mining Department has been fused to play during the four of the fact that there are three informed that between 500 and 800 England, and has disqualified for
mixers have been entombed by an life Moust, Peterson Wright, Car young fighters in the country who explosion in the Pennsylvania Coat are well on the way to the win And Goke Company's Ehrenfeld roll, Devine, Singe, and Henry. Counsel represented all
thening of world's championships, mine mained in England. Disqualiaca and Johnny Hill-and the other have been killed by an explosion players except Henry, who has re-Two are Scots-Tommy Milligan Bight miners" are reported to tion will be effective in England. the copper-headed, blue-eyed, and in the Fasline County Coal Cor- cherub-faced youth from Poplar, poration's mine at Ledford-Reu- Teddy Baldock.
Itor's American Servico.
BOXING.
"HOW PHIL SCOTT BEAT DIENER.
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Of the three (says Trevor C, Wignall) I think that Baldock is the most remarkable.. Son and grandson of ex-fighters, he, al- ready has a record that stampe him as one of the outstanding pugilists..of his time.
LITA'S LAMENT.
MARRIED THE ACTOR NOT THE MAN.
WHAT CHAFLIN WANTED.
As already reported. Phil Scott. the British heavyweight champion, †
Even Money Chance. outclassed the German champion
He will not be 21 until next] Franz Diener in a contest in Berlin year, and yet he has scored more fon Maret 4.
than 150 victories, and has prob-| A further telegram states that ably had in all over 200 contests.
Lita Gray Chaplin has meved") Scott used his left most effectively On His form at the Albert Hall throughout and scored with leads recently, when he knocked-out back into Charlie's Beverley Hill and jams. He severely shook Young Johnny Brown in three mansion having obtained a court with, uppercute several rounds, I consider him to be the while her husband is absent in New. order giving ber that paivilege tirnes, and had him groggy.
best bantam-weight in the world. York:
Diener
available, have been applied for He sent him down for a count He will not have an opportunity She celebrated the moving in. by: maay timas over. A ballot will of nine in the seventh round with of capturing a championship taking along a dozen reporters: tell- therefore be necessary. The result a beautiful straight left, and only when he meets Fidel la Barba in aing them about her troubles that of this will not be known until next the gong saved the German. month. After the 4,000 seats have After this Sectt hammered Diener few weeks' time, for the latter's will soon be aired in the Divore
be at Court. fly-weight title will not been allotted there will remain fat will and won by a wide margin.
stake, but if later on he is match-i "I detest the movies," she declar 2.000 ancovered seats which are sold:
Scott weighed 13 st. 2 lb. anded with Phil Rosenberg. Tonyed, but I would work again for for the day only.
Canzoneri, Bushy Graham, or Bud my living before I would part with my babies. Chartig wished me to Taylor, the Americans who will go to England, and settle down. presently be fighting for a cham-Heald America was no place to pionship that is now vacant-live in, but I wouldn't stand for the Rosenberg; so far, having failed children being taken there. They to make the weight he will at never will be English citizens. least have an even-money chance
Major Larcombe said he did not think the absence of Suzanne englen would make any difference to the "gube,"
"Rival Attraction?'
Diener 12. st. 8 lbs.
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ATHLETE'S DOWNFALL.
London, March 8. "Last year, after Suzanne gave. A biteous fgure which appeared days and Sundays incredues season up," he added, "here.
no in the dock at the Sussex Assizes by senson, and its usually neces-diminetion in laterest, and all avail was unrecognisable us the former sary to bock starting times in ad-able seats were taken up. It er athlete prominent in water polo of winning. vance, and there we often long
"waits" during fine week-ends;
The originator of this latest scheme is Mr. J. F. Abercromby founder of the Addington Golf "Club.
Invitations to join have been limited to the members of that club The option has been secured on an area of land, 180 acres in extent. alongside the present Addington
.course,
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The club is to be called the Pine Hills Golf Club, an adaptation of the title of one of the
best-known
American courses-Pine
Phindelphia,
Valley.
TENNIS BALL WAR.
SCHEME WHICH MAY PUT AN END TO IT.
If proposals which have been pat.); forward come to maturity, the rival
butween the principal. Home manufacturers, of lawn tennis balls will shortly come to an end. "
Allegations of high prices, of materials used in the game, and the preferences shown by various "star" players for particular makes of ball-
preference which had gone 80 far as a refusal to play with any other-have led to active contro- versy among those interested in the game faaya a correspondent to the
Daily Mail")
Players Tied" to Firms.
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Lafi-Two-way slidas. "Right-Baf jump at Koners, Out Another resort to add to the growing Hat of places in Canada which are staring winter seasons and attracting vialters from the Dominion and the United States is Kenora, close to the Manitoba-Ontario border, and famous, through its bungalow camps on Lake of the Woods, which are the mecca of thousands during the summer months. Kenora has for some seasons."past staged nyski jump and toboggan slide which for stoopness and difficulty will be ideal for expert sportsmen:
A feature of the toboggan slides that appeals even, to the most energetic is the arrangement whereby walking back to the start la eliminated. The slides run parallel and are arranged in such a way that when the end of one slide is reached the other can be taken, which carries the toboggans back to the starting point of the first slide.
Baldock's Pre-Eminence.
.. Baldock stands.. absolutely alone in Europe, because he is such a perfect blend of the fighter and boxer.
"My married He was with an actor, not a man" declared Lita, sadly, in her best movie style:
"ENTITLED TO RELEASE."
HOME CANCER. VICTIM'S SUICIDE.
That, too, is true of Hill The Scot. who is the living embodi ment of Tom Sayers both in method and poise. is the nearest
"I would not have an animal for i approach to perpetual motion in human form I have ever watched whom I was-responsible put up with His method is to keep moving, what I have gone through lately, whether he is being attacked or and I am entitled to the same re- whether he is himself on the lease." This was a passage from aggressive. He wears down an his last letter, read at the inquest, opponently by his unwearing abil. Francis Ignatius Carvill, a ity to continue fighting; and then, gentleman farmer and ex-Naval Carrickmacross. of course he always has at this commander, u of
Mr. Carvill{ county Monaghan. instant command stock of had been treated for a cancerous punches that are as stiff and dam-growth, and he took his life" by aging as those once wielded by shout himself with a gun in a his great predecessor, Jimmy sleeping saloon on the Irish mail Wilde.
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Better Than La Barba? Hill's next test will be against Evidence of identification was Ernie Jarvis, and if he comes given" at the inquest by William. through this with success it will Higgins, a barrister, of Paper- be high time for Le Barba and buildings, Temple, who said that all Clark and "Newsboy" Mr. Carvill's family were now dead. Elky Brown (who is said by Americans Mr. Carvill had been attending the to be even better than La Barba) Radium Hospital, in Regent Street, where the medical superintendent to set their houses in order, **
used to put radium on his throat On his recent form it is easy to land tongue. He suffered from visualise Hill if he is fortunate something like cancer, but apart enough to escape accident and a from that he was strong and active. breakdown in health-as a com-"It occurred to my mind when we ing world's champion.
last met," said witness, "that his I understood that the pro-tainly has not affected the number and football circles in West Sussex posals under discussion involve the of applications we have already re- and a swimmer of national reputa- enough to beat any man of any affect his mind. Later I had a let Milligan at the moment is good suffering was ag acute that it might absorption of one manufacturingceived
tion, namely Leghe Buchanan company by another, and players
"It is practically certain that Greenger, aged 25, of independent poundage in Great Britain, if not ter from him, in which there was who have heard of the plan are al- Tilden wil play, and Senorita de means, who failed to appear at the in Europe, and I will be surprised a sentence, 'In the event of any ready discussing the effect on prices Alyarez will probably ake Assizes last July to answer
five if he does not account for Walker, thing happening to me, I think you and the good result that would come Suzanne's place 'as the biggest for serious charges of impropriety.
who was lucky to "get. a decision might instruct and later he ex- from un
automatic cessation of sign attraction umong the women." He forfeited £1,000 bail on that over "Tiger" Flowers, and whe is plained what he wished to be done. rivalry that, in the view of many,
On the question of a rival attrac-occasion, while his family and a decidedly not a middle-weight of He concluded with the phrase, In has hindered progress.
tion to Wimbledon, which rumour friend between them forfeited an unusual class.
haste and none too well.' That this The Riviera
has has credited Suzanne with contem-other 21,000,
showed that he expected to die soon. seethed with stories of players plating. Major Larcombe was not Greenyer fled to the Riviera' but
He wrote me a letter earlier, about tied to different Arms, and more unduly concerned.
GERMAN TENNIS "STARS.” WBA arrested in Nice, where he
November. in which he used the than one story "has been current "Mile. Lenglen," he said, "as a spent three months in prison awalt-;
words, 'Just in case the unexpected of players receiving considerable professional, would be precluded ing extradition.
Berlin, March 8. sume in return for their allegiance from acquiring any tennis court
After twelve years' isolation from happens. I was not surprised to Greenyer to-day was shrunkan international lawn tennis, Ger- learn that he was in this frame of to balls of particular make.
which falle under the purview of the and cadaverous. Supported by many's re-entry into the Davis Cup mind, for when we dined together Lawn Tennis Association," he ex-warders, he pleaded guilty and was flats has aroused considerable in- I noticed that he was hardly able plained. "The only chance she has sentenced to 18." months' hard.
terest,
to speak because of his ailment. of getting a place large enough labour.
The probable team is Doctor. He had no financial worries, In would be to take over a sports. ground or a football ground but
Landmann, who defeated Howard fact, his only worry was his anxiety Kinsey and Vintent Richards at as to him health there are numerous difficulties in
Berlin last year; Kleinschroth, Evidence having been given ret such a course;"
Bergmann, and Moldenhauer.". garding the discovery of the Only the last-named is under tragedy, the jury returned a verdict thirty years of age.
of suicide while of unsound mind. On Lond
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VOLUNTEER CRICKET.
H.K.V.D.C. cricket teama chosen for the week-end are as follows:-
v. Civil Service C.C. (on their ground). Saturday, at 2 p.m. shurp: B. J. R. Mitchell (captain), H. Owen Hughes, A. W. Hayward, J. C. Lyal, A. W. L. Ramsay, S. Jex,
ALBERT HALL?
F. T. Orr, G. P. Lammert, S. J. Mr. C. B. Cochran's Endless
Jordain, R. F. Strange, F. B. Jones.
v. Mr. A. A.. Rumjahr's XT ("Var- sity ground) on Sunday at 11 a.m.: E. J. R. Mitchell (captain), J. R. Hinton, H. V. Parker. J. C. Lyal A. W..L. Ramsey, E. C. Fincher, S. Jer, F. E. Lawrence, R. W. Lee, H. C. Burgess, J. A. Summers.
Possibilities,
Mile. Suzanne
LADIES' TOUR.
BRITISH TENNIS TEAM AT PRETORIA.
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Pretoria, March 9. The British ladies' lawn tennis team beat Northern Transvaal by five matches to nil
Mina Saunders-beat Mrs. Oekerse, 6-3, 6-3.
Lenglen, the world's nest woman tennis player, may be seen in England this sum- mer at a professional tournament which Mr. C. B. Cochrau is organis Mrs. Meliquam beat Miss Kellar, Ing at the Royal Albert Hall, Ken-6-1, 6-1
Mrs Watson beat Mrs, McArthur, alngton, WASZE
6-0 6-0
WANDLI Mies Fry and Miss Dic beat Miss McHardy, and Miss Muller, 6-2, 6-4.
Mr. Cochran, said to "Daily Mall" reporter
The Civil Service team to meet the Volunteers will be:-B D. Evans (captain), G. R. Sayer, A. E. Wood, E. W. Hamilton, F. J. de t
"I hope Mlle. Lenglen will play at Rome, E. C. Fincher, F. Baker, F. E the Albert Hall either just before Lawrence, A. W. Grimmitt, F. or just after Wimbledon. I have Ling, FH. Hoidman. Reserve, got three or four well-known play. R. S. W. Paterson.
era to appear, but I shall not stagé a tournament unless I can produce a really attractive card.
Some of the best judges of form
in England are Hoping that W Beavera, of York, will train on
the Albert Hall, and I have had "There are endless possibilities in
numerous experts from all branches
Mrs. Watson and Miss. Saunders best Mrs. Adkins, and Mrs. Van Winkle, 6-0, 6-2.
"
The game, however, is rapidly fascinating the masses and there are several very promising youngsters, notably the seventeen-year-old girl, Fraulein Aussem, who will probably be included in the mixed team to compete at Wimbledon.
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Star Theatre to-morrow (Friday), Saturday and Sunday, at 9.80 p.m., TENNER'S GROUND RECORD.the first three days of the Para
gute mount super season in Hong Kong..
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London, March 8.
During the Cambridge University
Kingsteington,)
sports, B. L. Howland St Johns putted the weight daft 10 ins. Attracted by the loud scree equalling the twenty-five-year-old of a barret in the kitchen SERVICES SQUASH RACQUETS. inter Varsity record, and breaking at
Fammer's ground reco
Will England
London, March 10,0
In the squash acquate tourue
four
Eng
Lt. Scott Chad (Army), beat Lutiona Saunderson(Navy), 9-3, 6-9-9-2 after the
until he is equal to meeting the of sport to discuss various pro- ment, at Princes Club, the very best long-distance runners In posals. These include the Axing beat the Royal Navy the World He accomplished some up of a swimming bath, and I have matches to one. excellent performances last summer even had a request for an indoor and has just shown that he is de-hockey pitch" cidedly useful over country by win- ning the Yorkshire, cross-country championship at Doncaster, in which he beat, E. Harper, the holders The merit of this will be realised whan it is pointed out that Harper won the interaktionsl cross-country championship la
srand also the A.A.A? tanpmlies
at Stamfor
THANKS FOR MCC TEAM.
London, March 10.
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Major Marriott, (Army) best Lt.
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