THE CHINA MAIL.
HOME ATHLETICS.
A.E.R. REGRETS.
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CRICKET SNOBBERY CHARGES WITHDRAWN,
ENGLISH NEED FOR OLYMPIC GAMES,
THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1927.
SPORTS SECTION
REFEREE CHOSEN.
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THE "TOTE.”
EUGENE CORRI FOR THE “BIG” FIGHT.
SYSTEM'S POPULARITY IN FRANCE.
WHY IT WORKS WELL.
made
WALKER V. MILLIGAN.
London, June B.
Since bookmuking was Mr. Eugene Corri is to referee illegal in France and the part- was intro- the fight between Mickey Walker mutuel or totalisator
the whole (Amerien, holler), and Tom Milli-duced on racecourses, gan (Britain) for the world's mid-system of beiting has been under
strict State control, the depart dleweight boxing championship.
immediately concerned This has been agreed to by Mr. being more directly in the Ministry C. B. Cochran (the promoter) and of Agriculture, and in Jack Kearns (Walker's manager).-leaser degree the Ministry of Fin- ance and Ministry of the Interior. The bout will be held in London, There is, as everyone knows, a
Reuter.
LAWN BOWLS.
or
Will Club Secretaries Bowls Conveners kindly send. in teams for Saturday's League games in time to be published in our issue of Friday?
at Olympia, on June 30, and will
be of 20 rounds.
ments
A
good deal af clandestine bookmaking done, particularly In the numerous small cafe bars of the capital, but this in ngainst the law, and a!! racing in its various phases
IA closely supervised by the Govern ment,
Public Point of View,
From the public point of view it is not to be doubted that the me- chanical bookmaker which has re-j placed the human agent has’grown : in popularity, as it has become re- cognised that it returna the selen- tifically correct odds against each horse's chance, according to the measure of public Savour bestowed
Mr. Cochran suggested that Georges Carpentier (ex-heavy on it. weight champion of France, who
The necessary authorisations for lost to Dempsey for the world's į the operation of the pari-mutuel title) Ahould be referee, but Mil-socielies are issued annually by the ligan objected.
Kearns was formerly. Dempsey's manager but he is now looking after Walker's interests.
Milligan is a very promising mid- dleweight.
"BOBBY
ABEL.
COMFORT FOR REST OF HIS LIFE.
The affairs of "Bobby" Abti, thei veteran England and Surrey ericke-I ter, who in nearly blind and found himself in straitened circumstances, have now been settled.
His business as an athletic out- fitter has been sold to Mr. Charles | Riggs, of Bishopsgate, who has ar- ranged to retain Mr. Abel in an ad- visory capacity, and the funds sub- scribed for him have been expend- ed.
Surrey C.C.C.'s Part.
The committee who conducted the settlement state that the committee of the Surrey Club long ago decided ngainst doing anything to save Abel's business, but promised him that as soon as he could dispose of his business they would provide for him,
The "Daily Mail" Fund (amount-| Ing to £1,010 0s. 9d.) has enabled the committee to settle with the creditors of R. Abel and Son, to re pay the mortgages on Mr. Abel's house, and to provide an annuity of approximately 178. Ed. per week. To this the Surrey committee will add a further annuity from funds in their possession and a weekly pension, all of which combined wili tnsure for Mr. Abel comfort for the remainder of his life.
K.C.C. TENNIS TEAMS.
Ministry of Agriculture.
The society that undertakes the
INDIAN TOUR SEQUEL.
Mr. A, E, R. Gilligan, captain of the M.C.C. team which toured in India last winter, in a lettor to the Press expresses his regret that in an interview with the Press on his return from India he attributed snobbishness to certain clube India. He adds:
PREPARATIONS FOR 1928.
KNIGHTON HANGED.
FAMILY APPEAL FOR A REPRIEVE.
PENGANTA
CORONER & DEATH PENALTY
K.C.'S BEQUESTS.
SIR E. MARSHALL-HALL'S 2110,044,
SOUVENIRS OF TRIALS:
SHARE MARKET.
DEFICIAL QUOTATIONS.
Hong Kong, June 9, 1927, 10,30 n.mi..
Stock,
Ton London
Sir Edward Marshal-Hall, With auch an important function William Knighton, the 22-year-K.C., the criminal lawyer, who as the Olympic Games immediately old Ilkeston (Derbyshire) man died on February 23 Inst, left in front, interest in the doings of whose execution was originally estate of the gross value of TT on Shanghat English athletes will necessarily be fixed for April 7, then postponed 2110,644, with net personalty Intense, for there cannot be any by order of the Home Secretary £88,605. His will, which has doubt about it we want some new for his appeal to be reheard, was just been proved, contains many
in
ed at Amsterdam.
and ablo representatives to take
Banks,
Hong Kong
Stock Exchange.
2/- 77%
Hongkong Bank . "$1070
do.
It has been pointed out that part the business to be transset-1hanged at Bagthorpe Prison, Not interesting bequests, among the Chartered Bank
club has rules by which its com- mittee must abide, and I realise that the expression was in appro priate and might appear to qualify the gratitude of my team for the splendid welcome, hospitality, and courtesy shown us generally.
Grent Resentment,
a first-class
tingham, on Wednesday in mail
I am inclined, writes Harefoot" week. in the "Athletic News," to think Knighton murdered his mother that England will find a few in. her sleep. It is believed that worthy to rank with the best. the case has established two pre-
contested.
cédents:-
following to:-
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My Wife, the pearl necklace she is in the habit of wearing, hoping East Asin that she will give it to my daughter (Miss Elna Marshall-
Marine Insurances,
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.... $620 (1) The postponement of an Hall) when she no longer wants Canton Insurance
China Underwriters 80 cta, execution for the re-hearing it
North China Insurance T148 of the appeal, and
My Daughter, the silver cup Union Insurance..... $278 b & sa
Fire Insurances,
!
Special Features. The season now opening is going to be fuller than its predecessor, and it will be possessed of features I was speaking under a sense of all its own, one of which will be (2) The carrying out of the and cover Epsom Plate 1701, with Yangtze Insurance... $40 M. great resentment, unanimouely the three-day championship gather- shared by my team, at a quite uning in London, at which every
death sentence after it had the request that if she has no been postponed.
child to whom to leave it at her justifiable allegation almed at a very prominent supporter of the A. A. A, title, except one will be
When the appeal was first made death she will bequeath it to the China Fire Insurance $210 H.K. Fire Insurance.. $800 it was urged that Knighton should Benchers of the Inner Temple. game who had done his very best
The exception, of course, is the be found guilty but insane. This
The Benchers of the Inner to help India to see
Shipping. Mamthon event to be run at the plea was rejected and the appeal Temple, the silver gilt George III English side.
Four-Club Carnival In Manchester was dismissed,
Douglases
$31 cup and cover given to me by my H.K. Steamboats Mr. Gilligan, in the statement re on the same day that the France
$224 ferred to said:
Then came the Home Secre- constituents at Southport. v. A. A. A, match will be contested
H.K. Tuga & Lighters $1.10 tary's dramatic intervention. My very old friend Robert Indo-Chinas (Pref) ... $30 at Stamford Bridge.
du. Family's Last Appeal.
Ernest Moore, all my legal books
(Def.)... 365 Shell Transports After postponing the execution not in my chambers, and the large Star Ferries the Home Secretary sent the case mahogany bookense in my room, Water-boats back to the Court of Criminal Ap- provided that he is still a practis- Refineries. peal and at the second hearing the ing member of the Bar at my China Sugars... new evidence took the form of a death. statement by the condemned Trinkets and Charm, man's sister, Doris Knighton, Miss Louis Nieville, the collec-Berguets ......... aged sixteen.
tion of small blue and white china Kailan Mining Ad... 40/- It is now revealed that the hanging in three Chinese cabinets Langkats (Combined). T20% whole family on Good Friday at my flat, and the original do. (Single)... T sent an application for reprieve sketch by "Spy" of my picture in Shanghai Loans
Shanghai Exploration. T4 to the Home Secretary, who re- "Vanity Fair." Also my gold Raubs plied personally,
pro-
Amateurs (in two Indian cities) were asked to be honorary mem- hers of the clubs, but the fessionals, were not, and this spirit of snobbery was not only grossly discourteous of the M.C.C., but especially no to Lord Harris, a former Governor of Bombay,
Reminder half-yearly meeting of the Hong Kong Jockey Club in the Hong Kong Club annexe at, 12.30 p.m. to-morrow.
SPEED-BOAT CHAMPIONSHIP WINNER
Long Beach, Cal.-An enthusiastic welcome awaited "Smiling Dan" Loynes upon his arrival home after winning the National 151-class speed-boat championship with "Miss California" in regattas, competing with the fastest bonts in America, Loynes has been crowned by Father Neptune as king of the seas and is receiving the trophy.
POLO CHANGES.
working of the system at a race meeting ls given 4 per cent. of the takings.
There will be big differences Allocations.
noticeable in the pony polo world The allocations for the provinces, this season.
One of the most noted
There will be in operation a few new competition rules, mainly adopted by the A. A. A. in order that Englisinnen may be familiaris ed with the methods of other coun- tries and under which International competitions such as the French match, the Triangular contest, and other events-are conducted.
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A Few Strong Instincts. We may see the 100 Yards Cham- pionship run without the strings and stakes which have been the vogue since order came to oust chaos from athletics; we certainly shall see the high jumps, contesteil with the pegs which support the lath facing themselves in order, as some folk think that no enter prising high jumper may take a rest on the lath!
And there will be other changes of more or less importance, which I venture to think are not those of which Sir Montague Shearman re- cently had something to say. He at any rate is a firm believer in competitions being properly con- ducted, even though, in common with others, he may not relish too many changes, whether they occur in the interest of a world-levelling
process or not.
Hallamshire's Honours. What may fairly be said of the A. A. A. prezident is that he has no stomach for the athlete whose sense of sportsmanship is wrapped. He has not perhaps had the close experience of some of the shady people in athletics that others have hall, and it is these who make the muny rules necessary. Sir Monta- gue would have the athlete possess. ed of "a few strong instincts," and then we might be able to get along with only a few plain rules." But as things are well-
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repeating watch made by Boxall, Tronols Minus A crowd of about 200 assem- of Brighton, which I always wear, Ural Campions bled outside the prison just before together with the chain and the eight o'clock, but it is not believed trinkets,
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match-box. pencil, any of the condemned man's rela- charm, ste., attached thereto, K. & K. Wharves.. tives were among them.
Also the fron box with gilt bands K. & W. Docks 'Buses drew up at the end of and Chubbs lock in the safe at 3, New Engineerings
Hongkews Perry Road, and a number of girls who alighted ran to be "in Temple Gardens and the con-Shanghai Decks time,"
tents of the said box. creating an unseemly scene just as the first muffled or the Contes de la Fontaine, the H.K. & S. Hotels
The Garrick Club, the two vols.)
the sharp morning air. notes of the passing bell flonted on
property of the Earl of Beacons Hongkong Realty
Hongkong Lands field and containing his book H.K. Territorials. plates.
Humphreya Estates... $12
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Relented and Saw Relatives. that the sentence would not be Knighton had retained a hope carried out. His hopes dashed, he became despondent, and for a time he refused to see relatives who had called at the prison to say a last good-bye.
A letter from them was taken to him, it is stated, but he still refused to see them,
Orientals
Lady Evelyn Herbert, my gold Prince's Building snuff-box with musical box inside, Rural Lands
Countess of Carnarvon, the
Cotton MiniB. George III. silver tumbler used as Evo Cottons a sugar basin.
Ernest W. Harvey (one of the Shal Cottons (Old) trustees), as some small token of do. (new) my gratitude for his faithful and · Buses, Trams, &c. devoted service and friendship, Eventually, however, he relent- the small oak case hanging on the ed and saw his two sisters. They wall at the Temple containing re Peak Trama (old)) said that he was "fairly cheerful."volvers, etc., souvenirs of trials in "Billy wanted to be married at which I was engaged, and the Christmas and the end of contents of the said case.
Miscellaneous. The bulk of his fortune was Canton Ices..: Jamiary, but I prevailed upon
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him to wait until Easter. It was left in trust for Lady Marshall-Cements (comb.) our intention to get married then Hall and his daughter, the do. (old) Hallamshire Harriers have in and go into rooms until we could capital to be divided after the China Lights (comb.) $14.20
do. (new) deed collected for themselves and get 2 house," said Florence death of the survivor among the the North the honours of the win- Henshaw, the doomed man's latter's children, failing which ter campaign, and they stand in sweetheart. disputably as the great racing team. of the time.
Meritorious Career.
do. do..
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| the capital to be paid to the Ben-China Prov. "I do not know if this kind of chers of the Inner Temple for Dairy Farmas thing is likely to continue much charitable purposes.
Der A. Winga H.K. Amusements It is futile to wonder what their longer, for the death sentence
The trustees are directed to H.E. Constructions rare sporting president, Mr. Her does not seem to be any deter-sell, through Messrs. Christie H.E. Electrics bert Newhould, thinks of their rent," said the Coroner at the in- or some other first-cises firm of E. Ropes (old)
(now) auctioneers, all antiques, etc., Lane, Crawfords achievements, because he is steeped quest on Knighton.
"There is a strong feeling grow-save those specifically mentioned Macao Electrica in sport and has a way of valuing
Right from the ing up for abolishing the death in the will." athletic exploits. The following teams will repre- totalling 4 pe rcent., are 1% per sides, the Harlequinu, run by Lord day's of his close and active con- penalty. I do not know if we shall sent the Kowloon Cricket Club in cent. for breeding purposes, 2 per Wodehouse, has been disbanded. nection with The Wednesday Foot-see it in our time, but I think it the Tennis League on Saturday, at cent. for charities, and 4 per cent. Lord Wodehouse has not given up ball Club, and through a meri is coming."
in aid of agricultural and veterin- the game but has foined Captain the torious track-racing career, he has "A" team v. University on K.C.Cary instruction. These sums are, HOR. F. E. Guest's Templeton team. proceeded to make things pleasan ground-E. C. Fincher (captain) it is stipulated, to be paid out with- It is stated that Mr. Lewis Lacey; ter for all concerned with amateur
in two days after the racing.
.4.80 p.m...
and E. F. Fincher, W. Hyde and C. E. Millard, C. W. E. Blahop and L. Jack.
"B" team. v. Nippon Club at
King's Park:-C. II. Atkine (cap- tain) and D. J. Purves, P. M. Pin- guet and G. S. Ford, A. Hanson and W. Woodward.
"C" team v. Craigengower C.C. on K.C,C. ground:-C. H. Leddra (captain) and K. A. Carstensen, R. F. Stranger and J. S. Smith, Geo. Lee and A. J. Kew.
TOTALISATOR AT HOME.
The "Racing Calendar" states:
bets may be laid either for a win or this season after all, so that the very deep. a place for first and second when Duke of Penarande has had to there are four starters, and for first, second, and third when there are eight starters.
The minimum stake is 5f, and. all Ì other stakes must be in multiples of 5f.
Miracle of Speed.
make a change in his side, Major A. L. Tate being introduced instead
of Mr. Lacey.
SCOTTISH CYCLE RACING.
As for the automatic totalisator Cycle racing in Scotland appears itself, it is a miracle of speed and to be coming back into its own and accuracy, as all who have watched a large number of new clubs are its lightning operations are aware. boing formed in the west. Com- Money is poured quickly through petitions arranged by clubs are at the window for investment on the tracting good entries, and some horses, and each new amount is re- very promising young wheelers are in full public view, while taking up the sport enthusias
tically,
ternational. achievements, there
Fight For The Lead... While the local honours are no doubt aweet, the others are the more distinctive, and I suppose that the doubled defeat of the (Continued at foot of next Column.)
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the noted Anglo-Argentine player, racing, and his satisfaction at the in the majority of people's lives made from some quarter or another Under the system now in vogue will not be able to get to Britain success of his own club must be and they think they ought only to induce man to change his style i Hallamshire's great win in the to go on to the theatre after a of dress, anys the Paris correspon- London-Brighton relay race winds good dinner-Miss Sybil Thorn- dant of the "Dafly Feler ph up for them a most remarkable sen- dike
But man is conservative, and the son, for they have cleaned up the
enthusiasts, or cranks, who start Yorkshire titles, the Northern, the
such movements arc generally National, and provided half the
doomed to bitter disappointment: scoring strength in the English In- Birchfield Harriers would give the For some time past attention has Bank On demand
side. Wonderful greatest satisfaction, for the Mid- been directed to the anti-collar land alde are never an easy prey, agitation, and great hopes were They are old campaigners, and have entertained by its leaders when a a knowledge of racing tactics that shirt with a soft collar was put on always takes them a fair way on the market in aid of, the scheme. the road.
The great enemy aimed at in this This was to be seen when over revolt against convention was, of the first stretch in the big relay course, the stiff collar; but that event they sent out that pastmaster starched abomination seems to be In pate judging. C. E. Blewitt, to in no danger yet of being ousted, deal with the less experienced and the shirt with the soft upper Payno. There was not much in it, ring, which is really no, collar, but what there was stood to the caught on with few apart from the Birchfielder's credit, and then the literary and artistic colony of the ex-champion miler, B. Macdonald, Latin Quarter of Paris. Now it in went on to secure a lead. Up to the trouser that is being attacked, that point Hallamshire had the and one of the objects of the first On Bombay worst of things, but A. C. Neal Salon de la Mode Masculine, which Wire Becured a lead of well over a minute has just been opened, is to throw are the third stretch had been ridicule on that garment. We are On Calcutta- covered and never again 'were they all being urged to wear the knee anywhere but in front.
A meeting of the Jockey Club was dously the grand total of
on 1 race is
the investmenta brought right up to date.
held at Newmarket, when the re- port from the committee which has been appointed to consider the effect of the Betting Tax was presented by the Earl of Lonsdale. After a full discussion the following reso lution was proposed by the Stewards and accepted unanimous ly: "That the committee appointed aired. to inquire into the Betting Tax be
One of the points emphasised in favour of the totalisator is that, as has been indicated. It can be used either for straight-out betting or betting for places, as may be de- Dividends in 2 Minutes
requested to institute without delay. Moreover, the mashine posta
an inquiry into the means by which | betting may best be made to con- tribute to the maintenance of sport, and to report to the club."
ETON XI'S TOUR,
dividends on the first, second, and third horses within two minutes after the finish of the race, and it is, generally. agreed that the prer. cautions against fraud and break- downs are as perfect as they can be.
It may be added that backers who
It is expected that an Eton cricket do not find it convenient to draw eleven will go to Scotland this their winnings on the racecourse season to play a number of matches
this does sometimes happen, Incredi
in the Border district. Major ble as it may seem can do so within. Steel, M.P., is intercating himself in the matter. His eldest boy is at seven days after the race at the Eton. Cricket visitors to Scotland headquarters of the Pari-Mutuel are becoming fueressing pópular, and the Etonians would be a big attraction.
to-morrow,
Society
Ian Smith, the Scottish rugger wing three-quarter, who is suffering clot of blood on his knee, from
The extraordinary meeting of the has joined the Grange C.C., the Hong Kong Cricket Club is to be M.C.Cof Scotland. He hopes to held, at the pavilion at 5.30 p.m. play for the eleven later on Smith
was a good bat when at Wi He has not been definitely Tha Kowloon Chead Clep will be to rest from sport during the sum playing a series of gamek with mer hut, owing to his eagerness to
Hermes to-morrow-bei nba fit for the opening of the next. Slab Arpáni, after which there Rugby season, he has decided to do will be the pressatation of prizen.
GENE TUNNEY
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ing Louis XIV, Henri III, and And so the record which it had Napoleon in trousers. been estimated "might be beaten by S
The feminine man will always believe that his country is wrong.
Probendary Gough.
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By the way, there were sugges- It is absolutely certain that tions that the course used this year, the world must be made safe for was not quite the same as that over capitalism—Sir George Fourler. which the "previous, record was made and that it was considerab'y shorters I have no Information on this point, however, but come off hambug, I have to caldut cial announcement will doubtless be Mr Pope (Clerkenwell Magis made to clear this point:
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