FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1927.
SPORTS SECTION
LAWN BOWLS.
Craigengower Creeping Up.
K.C.C. LEAD SECOND DIVISION.
Prospects For To-morrow.
"
At home again the Craigengower} Cricket Club are confident of an- nexing the points against the Kow-
that to-morrow's team as a whole Is
THE CHINA MAIL.
RACING.
EXHIBITION DOUBLES ·
GAME
ON THE LINKS.
AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
LAWN TENNIS.
RESULTS.
"LATEST BETTING ON THE . DERBY.
THE LAST EIGHT.
'.
London, May 26.
At Hoylake the climax of à day's
Jamieson-was 蔬
SICKLE FAVOURITE,;
London, May 20,
.9 to 3 ugat. Sickle.
5 to 1 7 to 1 9 to 1
DISPLAY ONLY FAIR.
After several postponements, the exhibition doubles tennis match in
HOME CRICKET.
LANCASHIRE DEFEAT GLAMORGAN.
LOCAL COLLAPSE.
* London, May 26. Playing at Swansea Lancashire
dián Recreation Club was played Lancashire wont to the wickot yesterday on the Hong Kong C.C. first and ran up a score of 293, to- stand court, S. A. and H. D. ward which Green'contributed 78: Rumjahn defeating Ng Sze-kwong and T. Honda by the odd set in five (G-4, 1-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4),
Glamorgan collapsed against Tyldesley's bowling and were all dismissed for the low score of 93 h runs. Tyldesley took four wickets for the loss of only 16 runs.
loon Bowling Green Club. A year thrills, which included the defeats on the Derby (all taken and offer- Did of the pavilion fund of the In-fdefeated Glamorgan by ten wickets. [ The following is the lateat betting ago the Kowloonites, but 1 Taney of Internationala--English: Storey; ed); same green by 17 shots, I Rex Hartley and Heddard, and much stronger. Whoever wins, the Scottish: Hope, T. Torrance, W.
and Murray, result ought to be much closer.
dramatic struggle watched by A A local "Derby" will be fought tense crowd of 3,000 in which the out on the Kowloon Cricket Club New Zealander, Dr. Gillies defeated 100 to 7 green where the visitors will be the Kowloon Docks Recreation Club Haley in the fifth round by one. 100 to 7 Haley defeating Major Thorburn 26 to 1 who make no secret of their napirn (Sunningdale) in the fourth round tions for the championship of this Division. Here, again, it is diffealt by three up and one to play aroused the whisper: "Is this the youthful to spot the winners beforehand.
Yankee menace after all?" The Civil Service Cricket Club
(By Short Head.") Last Saturday say an attenuat- ed programme of League matches. owing to the rain making havoc will be at home to the Taikoo Re-
Haley playing against Dr. Gillllos,
the next five, but, smiling and con-
Call Boy. Adam's Apple. Hot Night. Lonė. Knight. Moneymaker, Damon.
-Reuter.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
The tennis did not reach the high standard expted from four such well-known ¿xponenta,
Following on. Glamorgan fared The reigning doubles champions of the batter, their innings realising 208, Colony (the Rumjahna) were fully of which Bell made 55. extended and in the fifth set they 2 runs Lancashire ran out easy
With unly one wicket down for| were down by 4-2.
winners.
with some of the greens and the re-creation Club and, with a little bit was two up'st the eighth hole; lost! Half Yearly Meeting on June 10. best all-round exhibition, but re-i Ault was that only one Firat Divi- "joss," they ought to win. A year fident, squared the sixteenth, halved)
sion match and three Second Divi-go this Bxture was played by mu-the seventeenth, but was bunker of Members of the Hong Kong
tual arrangement at the Kowloon
Taikoo and lost the eighteenth. Bowling Green Club, the Club pulling off the victory by 10:
sion games were played.
In the First Division the Craigen- gower Cricket Club improved their standing in the table by defeating
rink,
shots.
ago Jobson (Royal and Ancient), Taikoo. Last year's match resulted Landale (Liverpool and the 3 year-old youth McNair (Renfrew), in a win for Taikoo by 33 shots.
The half-yearly general meeting
Jockey Club will be held in the The Last Eight.
Jockey Club Room (Hong Kong The last eight consist of the Aus- Club Annex) on Friday, June 10, the Police Recreation Club on their Recreation Club entertain the Kowdell (Stourbridge), Wethered, Dr.
In the Second Division the Taikoo tralian champion, Nettlefold, Twed-at 12.30 p.m. own ground. The Police could
toon Cricket Club. If the latter's Gillies, Montmorency (Stoke Poges), only come out heat on one Mair's rink being superior to Dteam is the same as a week Rumjalin's rink by five points. Omar got the better of Moss by nine shots. and Basa's rink-a very fine one
The Club de Recrolo are again this season-scored over West by 23 shots to nine. Thus, out of at home, the visitors being the Civil Service Cricket Club. The King's three matches played the have secured only a couple of points Park team declare that the result is always contrary to the predictions this season. Craigengower have of the scribes, so I will remain neu now the same number of points astral and see what happens! the Kowloon Dock Recreation Club, but they have played one
more..
Police
match
The Yacht Club will be at home to the Craigengower Cricket Club
TO-MORROW'S FIXTURES.
The official programme for to- morrow is as follows:-
First Division.
Kowloon
Reuter.
ABE MITCHELL.
An Operation for Appendicitis.
THE ROYAL HONG KONG
GOLF CLUB. ·
Ladies' Section.
us followe:-
is
Ng Sze-kwong gave, by-far, the|
ner who was off form. {esived little support from his part-
To-day's Match.
The match between the Chinese R.C. and the Indian R.C. in the "A" Division of the local Lenguo is down for decisión to-day on the former's courts.
It is expected that the result will blending of strength and elegance go, a long way toward deciding the and control.
senior championship this year.
The teams will be:- C.R.C.-Ng Sze-kwong and C.
Even more than Mr. Bobby Jones does Mitchell make the game look supremely easy, for, while Mr. Jones
is the acme of grace as he swings Choa,. M. K. Lo and Ng Sze-cheung, the club and a marvel of consist-M. W. Lo and Yew Man-kit. ency, there are times when contem- L.R.C.-S. A. Rumjahn and A, H. plation of the shots brings a puck-Rumfahn, 'I. M. Razack and H. D.
hla
FRIENDLY GAME,
· K.C.C. v. Kai Tack Aerodrome,
(Aerodrome)
Scores:
Lancashire: 293 and 11 for one,
Glamorgan: 931 and 208.-
Reuter.
FOOTBALL.
ENGLAND'S BIG WIN OVER FRANCE.
A HUGE GATE.
Paris, May 26. In glorious weather and before crowd of 25,000 England defeated
inil-Reuter,
GERMAN CULT.
A GREAT NATIONAL
MOVEMENT,
Berlin, April 7.
Inter-
Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minis- ter of England, photographed on the grounds of his home, Astley ¦ Hall, in Worcestershire:
WEALTHY NEW YORK' BANKER COLLAPSES.
New York, May 20.
er to his brow-an effect which Rumiahn, S. H. Ismail and J. A. France at football by six goals to DEATH AT TENNIS. shakes the belief that it is all aa Cassumbhoy. London, May 26. Abe Mitchell has been operated simple and natural to him as and should repeat their feat of last A Good Recovery.
season when they won by 11 shota. on for appendicitis, but is progress style suggests. Then why is it, we may reasonably ask, that Mitchell The Kowloon Bowling Green Club ing favourably--Reuter. The seauence of home wins that
[A cable of May 23 atated: has not yet secured the Openi was a feature of the previous Satur- receive the East Point Recreation day's play was broken by the Club Club and a very fine game should Herbert Jolly, the Fexgrove Club Championship? Certainly it is not de Recreio losing at King's Park to be witnessed in spite of the green professional, replaces Abe Mitchell that he lacks the qualities as a
The death has taken place sud- the Kowloon Bowling Green Club not being in the same fine condi-(who is suffering from indigestion) score player which this event de In the golf team leaving for mands, even though he has built up
denly, while playing tentis at his by as many as 23 shots. The result tion that it was a year ago. The
his reputation very largely ns the
A friendly game of lawn tennis
country home in Long Island, New in a sense Anttered the winners. home team will have to play their America to-morrow.]
result of the fighting apirit which he between teams representing the
York, of the well known American Machchan's rink always held a very best to snatch the points.
shows when he has to face his Kowloon Cricket Club and the Kai
banker Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, commanding lead over A. Ribelt's
Tack Aerodrome took place on the opponents singly in matches.
whose fortune is estimated at be rink and Anished 12 shots to the.
It is the fact that he is the only K.G. ground on Wednesday evening,
tween thirty and forty million good. Wylle's rink, however.
first-class professional who invaria- the visitors winning by 10 games struck a patch at the start
bly survives the qualifying stroke-71 to 61.
The process of turning a mili- dollars-Reuter's American Ser- tary into a sporting nation is pro-
vice. against J. Ribeiro's rink and were
competitions
Lieut. J. H. Dale and Lieut. J. M.ceeding apace in Germany. which precede all the
[Mr. Harry Payne Whitney was The result of the draw for a important tournaments, and he Healing down in the early stages 8-1. But
prize presented by Mrs. Leggatt must have finished arst in. those Abraham and C. I. Atsina 8.3, beating thrown on the great national the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. He beat Eesting sidelights are constantly be born in New York. April 1872 and married in 1896 the daughter of events more often than anybody N. Ross and E. J. Gill 9-2, beat J. C. effort. This spring the annual ex- Bye Mrs. Sommerfelt and Mrs. else. That is sufficient evidence of Lyal and F. E. Lawrence 8-9. 25-3.hibition of the "Secession" artists was educated at Yale. He entered Piercy,
hie ability at the score-play game. Lieut. C. G. Trencham and Lieut. displays only pictures painted to becoming the director of Metropoli life early in the theatrical business Bye Mra. Murray and Mrs. Sim.
The truth is that the long-drawn-out; Mrs. Hornell and Mrs, Gilmore.test of four rounds of this grinding/A. M. R. Keene (Aerodrome) lost the slogan "Sport."-"This covers tan Opera and Real Estate Com- Mrs. Ross and Mrs. Boylan Smith. form of golf, such as the Open to Abraham and Atkins 1-10, beat every form of action set against pany. Later he became a director Mrs. Crawford and Mrs. Dodwell. Championship' exacts, has proved Ross and Gill 7-4, lost to Lyal and land or sea-scape: sailing, fishing,
of several other large concerns, hunting, boxing, and every imagin- among them the Westchester Racing Mrs. Murdoch and Mrs. Brown. more than his physical condition
Lawrence 4-7, 12-21. Mrs. Cameron and Mrs. Oliver, could stand.
Lieut K. W. Beard, and Lieut. able form of ball-game. The most Although he has sald
Association, the Montana Power Mrs. Davison and Mrs. Redmond. fittle about it, his health has been C. G. Couper (Aerodrome) lost to remarkable fact about it is the will- Company, the Whitney Realty Com- Mrs. Cassidy and Mrs: Sheldon,
indifferent for some years,
He Abraham and Atkins 2-9, beat Rossingness of "Secession" painters to Mrs. Roffey and Mrs. Maitland.
came straight from hospital to re-and Gill 6-5, beat Lyal and Law-accept the parole. This most vio-pany, the Sinclair Consolidated Oil
lent and anti-academical body was Association and the
Corporation, the Saratoga Racing Bye Mrs. Robinson and Mrs.sume the career of a professional rence 6-5, 14-19,
Guarantee Parker.
Lieut. N. R. C. Munro and Leddra started as a protest against official Trust Company. He was a mem golfer after service as a gunner in Bye Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. France, and could not quite recover (Aerodrome) beat Abraham and belief that the portrayal of the sub-ber of a number of sporting clubs,
his old fitness. His health has pro- Atkins 6-5, beat Ross and Gill 8-3, jeet was more important than the
manner. To-day it seems to among them the Royal Thames
be Yacht Club.] To be played for over Deep Water bably been better during the past beat Lyal and Lawrence 6-5, 20-18. Bay course, 18 holes match play. year than for a very long while. Totals: Kal Tack Aerodrome 71; taking pains to show sporting effi-
elency in detail.... of handicap For one thing, a private engage- Kowloon Cricket Club 61. Half the difference allowed.
ment which enables him, to, devote are to be his attention to playing instead of following looking after a professional's shop teaching all and sundry among the members who want lessons, and having to attend to the other re- quirements that are imposed by a position as professional to a club seems to have given him start in life.
Second Division. Taikoo R.C. v. Kowloon C.C. Club de Recreio, v. Civil Service
C.C. Royal H.K.Y.C.
Craigengower C.C. Kowloon B.G.C. v. East Point R.C.
V.
for good play by Fergusson and Craigengower C.C. v. Dixon subsequently they would
B.G.C. have been swamped. Fortunately Kowloon C.C. v. Kowloon Docks R.C. for their Club they steadied them-| Civil Service C.G. v. Taikoo R.C. selves and went on to win by nine shotsuite rood recovery. On the third rink Warren had an un- hill fight from the start and lonked, too, as if he would succumb to de It Souza's rink by a shot or two. was a fine ding-dong game, but Warren had the right temperament to pull the game out of the fire and In this win by a couple of shots, connection it was at first reported. through rather careless filling up of the official card, that Warren's rink bad lost: and of course, the mistake was copied with all faithfulness by the other papers-except the "China Mail."
their
that cheers but does not inebriate"
SELECTED TEAMS.
The following teams have selected for to-morrow:--
bern
.
First Division. Kowloon Bowling Green Club. Hazel, Harvey, Duncan, and Russell (skip); Muir, Holland, Magill and Macfarlane (skin); Dobble, Hedley, Chapman, and Farrell (skip).
Civil Service C.C.-Laing, Brawn, Grimmitt,
Oswick (skip) || Maughan, Westlake, Keegan, and Deakin (skip); Smith, Lamble, Hal- ledge, and Pendered (skip).
K.
Docks Ramsay. Kempton, Lindsay and J. C. Brown (skip); Greig or Cooper, Henderson, Me- Laggan, and Gray (skip); Gourlay, Neilson, Cullen. and Lapsley (skip).
Whyte Smith.
The different rounds played on or before the dates:
1st Round, June 17. 2nd Round, July 8. 3rd Round, July 29. 4th Round, August 19, Final Round, September 9.
SUNDAY'S MATCH.
The postponed match between the
Kowloon C.C.-Goodwin Smith, week, but provided no more
| (skip),
No Relaxation.
1
new
that
rain improved health which most people
man who never allows his concen- tration and determination to relax
SWIMMING.
LOCAL RESIDENT FOR CANADA.
"Sports Advice Centres" are to be erected in several districts now that
one
DISCOVERY ON PENANG HILL.
Hospitable Hosts.
the first institution of this kind, in A SMUGGLER'S CAVE. This was the first time I had spen
of Berlin's most populous this green the Club de Recreio
boroughs, has proved a success. and- in first-class season. It appears
"Sport as Medicine" is the watch order, instifving the delay in play-
word of this enterprise. It has ing on it until the official bowls sea-
been found that in the new zeal for son had started. There was, by the
health and beauty at all costs
Penang, May 19, way, a miniature Invasion of visi-
ansmic girls have been overstrain- A large haul of dutiable liquor tors other than actual players, most
ing their hearts and young men was made last night at Penang of the Bowling Green's first League
overdoing it all round by taking up Hill, in the course of which re team being prasant to necard their
I have seen it suggested
BID FOR $25,000.",
too many strenuous forms of exer- volver shots were exchanged. Mitchell takes too much out of him- moral support to their colleagues.
cise at once, Medical advice as to Taikoo R.C.-W. Weir, Whyte, Royal Hong Kong Golf Club and self in the eliminating rounds of
The raiding party consisted of This, however, was not permitted
physical fitness is free of charge, the Assistant, Government Mono- to stand in the way of the Club de J. Russell, and Wotherspoon (akip) its Junior Section is due to take championships by trying desperate- Mr. A. M. May, a well-known so that fainting fita after swimming poffes; Chief Detective Inspector. Recreio dispensing
usual Sloan, Seath. Macleod, and Drum- place on Sunday morning at Happy by hard to accomplish the best score local swimmer and member of and collapse after boxing will e Lucey, Inspector Fowler and Euro- lavish hospitality both to visiting mond (skip); Laing, Grimes, Muir- Valley. The course was flooded instead of being content to qualify the Victoria Recreation Club, cur no longer. These bureaus are plavers and spectators. The head and Morrison (skip).
during the heavy rainfalls this comfortably. If he really is in the will be among the 500 competi- very necessary. German talent for pean officers of the Monopolies.
A Desperate Character. The raid started at six o'clock: was certainly much appreciated and Pile, and Gibson (skip); Abraham, falls between now and Sunday the who knew him believe him to be, he tors, including some of the best organisation at once makes itself proved once again that the Port- Kern, Hill and Taccki (skip); course should be in fair shape again will be able to stand the strain of swimmers of Canada, the United felt whenever two or three enthu-
siasts meet. Matches Involving in the evening and lasted until guese are, sports in defent as well Hirst, Hyde, Wragge, and Pile by then.
hard work in the preliminary States and the World in general, strenuous training are played by eleven at night. The Happy Valley Course will be rounds before girding his loins for who will compete in a big 21 amateurs in no wise fitted for them Two Chinese who, it is alleged, na in victory.
At Happy Valley the Civil Ser- Craigengower CC-R. F. Loz, closed on Friday morning, June 3, the main part of the test. The mile open, swimming contest to by their ordinary occupation." have been engaged in liquor amug- vice second atring found the East C. S. Rosselet, E. Arcull and D. on the occasion of the King's Birth- whole history of the game goes to be held in Canada at the end of The intention to follow In Eng-gling for over a year, one being a Point Recreation Club too strong Rumjahn (skip); F. J. Neves, D day Parade.
show that, in competitions, it is the August.
land's footsteps in yet another desperate character wanted for for them and they were down by Fritz, W. B. Muskett, and U. M.
Whitsuntide Programme.
The contest is to take place in matter, that of the week-end, is full gang robbery, were ambushed in a 10 shots. Massey's rirk was the Omar (skip); L. A. Rose, M. A.
Details of the Whitsuntide pro- who attains greatness.
It is the Lake Ontario, near Toronto, over of pitfalls also. The open is de-doorway as they were descending only one to make any kind of im- Sousa, C. Bennett, and B. Basa pression, winning against_Hamil (skip).
gramme as arranged for members man who feels that the opportunity the distance mentioned, and the manded not for the leisured classes the hill carrying dutiable liquor to 'ton'a by Rix shots.
of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club is ripe for taking things easily for a first prize is about $25,000 only but for the whole nation. a motor-car waiting at the foot.
The Sqelal Democrats deserve the
Inside the Cave, Jut Fanling are us under:— Civil Service C.C.-Beattie, Rose,
time that he is quite enfe, no mat-| (Gold). · quartette got the better of Alder-
heartfelt thanks of a nation for The events begin on June 3 (the ter what happens who becomes 80
After an exciting chase Insting man's men by only three shots, and Haynes, and Taylor (skip); Jones, King's Birthday) and
Mr. May has an excellent local their restrictions upon Sunday trad- for an hour they were captured and extend to lack that, when he wants
to get record. Lee easily put naid to Brawn's a-Holdnian, Luck, and Alderman June 6 (Whit Monday), both days going again at his best, very often Harbour Race last year, won it ing offices and shops, the opening
He was third in the ing, the regulation of hours for clos-aken to the police station. count by the unlucky margin of 13. (skip): Strange, Simmonds, Archt-inclusive.
he cannot for the life of him. do it.
The raiders then made a four- The East Point thus have the satis bald, and Massey (skip).
the year before, and was placed up of great mixed-bathing places on mile climb up one of the steepest faction of winning where they lost
The programme is as under: That is why qualifying competitions Kowloon Bowling Green Club- Running Bogey Pool: Unlimit- are apt to be debilitating influences second in previous attempts. He lake-sides, and the like. They have and narrowest paths on the hilpeet
not yet succeeded in instituting an last year..
Hale, Hatt, Slipper, and Warren ed entries: $1 per card; 60 per cent, and insidious enares to a first-class has, of course, won many bath early closing day in the week, but the smugglers' den in a large cave, (skip): Ferguson, Cuff, Dixon, and On the Kowloon Cricket Club's Wylle (skip): Meintosh, Stonham, to winner, 30 per cent, to ranner player; they very seldom inspire events at V.R.C. night fetes, etc. there is a movement on foot to make which they surrounded and enter-
up if 40 entries. If less than 40 him, as they do. Mitchell, to keep Further he has youth on his side, Saturday afternoon a poor man's ed green the Craigengower Cricket Budding, and Maclachlan (skip). entries 90 per cent. to winner. his concentration tuned up to it being only 20 years of age, holiday too. If this succeeds it will Inside they discovered and took Club turned up with a player short, K. C. C.-Gervin, Labrum, Medal Pool: Conditions aa best pitch..
When only nine years of age be the biggest revolution Germany possession of 800 gallons of illicit which may have had a bad effect on Petheram, and Davidson (skip) above:
Concerning the danger of slack he swam around Stonecutters has ever experienced.
liquor, valued at between $30,000 their play. Even so, they scored a Edwards, Lyal, Smith, and Lam- win on one rink-Kitchell dispos-
Beat Ball (in fourballs):-Lessing, even when the position looks Island three times, the total dis. That some success in improving and $40,000.
physique, already ing of Davidson, as expected, by mert (skip); Gitline. Lawrence, half combined handicap, Medal secure, one rammembers anons tance which he covered being been attained 1) attested the three shots. Lammert's rink had Hamble, and Herridge (skip).
round, 90 per cent. to winners. $1 lesson. A player stood a good many Yacht Club Williamson. Vaux entrance per pair.
Unlimited en holes up at the end of the first about 12 miles.
bespoke tailoring trade, which has no trouble in beating Knott's rink
round of a final.
Mr. May has just completed been obliged to rule out all pre- Some officials put by the fatal 19 but Herridge just Greig, and Davies (skip); Bullock, tries.
All the above competitions will it to him that he need not. go and his apprenticeship... with the war stock sizes for men. There got home against the short-handed Black. Thornhill, and C. P. Edwarda) rink skipped by Brightman by a skip); Reed, Wood, Wynne-Jones, be played on the Old Course, and win by about 10 up and 9 to play, Hong Kong Electric Company, are only two kinds of waist mea- all are open to members and sub- because all the people would catch and is going to Canada next surements to be considered-those couple of shots. According to the and Shields (skip). rules the latter rink should have.
R.G.-Maxwell, Boy, scribers,
an carly train home, and the prize- month, where he intends taking which have developed to several of Headley Down, near Petersfeld, 25. per cent deducted from their Walmsley and Matthews (skip): The first and second can be play-distribution ceremony would be a job. It was after deciding to times the size demanded during the gave a cat to some friends who live
Whilst trying to keep his score, but this was not done on Richmond, Speirs, Munro, und ed for on the same round, but spoilt, Saturday because so it is said- Dinnen: (skip): Grimes, Warnock, separate cards must be taken out lead with halves in the afternoon go to Canada, that he learned war and after, and those which are near Guildford, fourteen miles
McTavish's
A Rule Ignored.
Talkoo
Second Division.
the C.C.C. had already lost. What Chalmers and McKechnie (skip), before playing
this has to do. with it I know not. East Point Recreation Club--
As the rule exists the rule ought to F, G. Samways, R., W. Williamson,
be applied irrespective of a rink R. McKellar, and R. W. Lee (skip) ;|
BRITAIN'S BEST PLAYER
"winning or losing. At the same. Baker. G. Vickers, A. K. Hender time there are those who think that son, and H. M. McTavish (skip);
It was a thing that anybody might about this race and made up his have done without being asked-he mind to enter.
the penalty for playing, one man G. M. Shaw, A. Webster, R. H. Harry Vardon (Six Times Open benten. short in a League game is too heavy. Whiteford, and A. T.. Hamilton Champion) writes: His absence in itself is a handicap -to his side. Of course, it is held (skip) A MAN
BASEBALL.
STORM WRECKS A GRAND
STAND.
Norfolk, Va., May 26.
jogged along so easily that he soon lost several holes: Then, when he tried to produce his best game ngain, he found that he could play hardly one shot well, He was
Mitchell is certainly a very won There can be no question as to derful hitter of a golf ball, and the Craigengower Cricket Club who is the outstanding British golf- more one sees of him, the more con- that if his woods have to be played by others the latter have the ad- AE Coates, J. Lely FHer At the dawn of the season: Abe vinced does one become that he can vantage of playing three instead Williams, and W. T. Brightman Mitchell has begun the round of big play every shot. When he was an of two wooda and thus baving a (skip); D. K. Kharas, Y. Abbas, Haffairs in a manner worthy of the amateur, as for instance, when he bigger chance of getting on the Beer, and F. T. Knott (skin); W. E player who is to captain our team met Mr. John Ball in the Inal of A seventy-mile-an-hour wind Jack. It would be interesting to Nicholson, A. Razack, CA in the United States this year. He the Amateur Championship at have the views of readers of the Rodrigues, and A. Kitchell (skip) was a class by himself in the Westward Hot In 1912, it was com-wrecked the Grand Stend at the China Mall, on this pointed Club de Recreio.PA. Yvano tournament at Roehampton. One morly sold of him that he could not Fortamouth baseball ground, while
To-morrow's Prospects. vich, F. X. Silva, C. Silva, and can say this without detracting impart stop 10 hie Jron shots, the game was in progress. Some very interesting matches C. R. Souza (skip); CF. Vas, from the performance of Ernest There may have been ground for the One man was killed and over fifty are down on the card to-morrow, the J. G. Osorio, F. E. Remedion, and Whitcombe, who made a wonderful criticism at the time, but it is cer injured by the storm, which blow Ribeiro (skip). AV. Ribeiro, fight in the final after having sp-tain that nobody would pase such off the roof of a railway warehouse,
American Service portant bearing Ultimately on the D. M. Remedios, CE Marques, and peared to be in a hopeless plight, Judgment to-day. He is the finest killing four persone Rauter's
but who has not quite Mitchell's British golfer of his generation. League championships.
Ribeiro (skip)
results in which may have an im
several times as small,
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG
KONG FOR MAY, 1927.
(Standard Time of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich).:
Date May
CAT WALKS 280 MILES.
Three months ago Mrs. Kenward,
away
The cat has now returned to its old home, and the fact that its paws". are nearly raw proves that It did not travel by train or motor omni- bus.
It is not, however, to be compared with pre-war ents, ann pedestrian. In 1911 a.cat walked from Kingston- on-Thames to Street,in Somerset shire, taking six months over the | Journey of 188 mileen Marya Sunrise Sunset p.m.
em.
5,40
6:39
5.89.
6.30
In 1908 a cat is said to have walked 280 miles from Toosing to Nowcastle on Tyne. But the cham 7.01 plon cat walked is undoubtedly the animal which, in 1918, walked from 17.02 Ripon to Cardiff, 250 miles, Ja nine Kek days. This cat, which could do 7,02 | nearly thirty miles a day, and keep * it up, would have strolled the four- ‚7.02 | tden.miles from Guildford to Head- ley, Down to rat an appetite for 7.02 lunch ante identiques and