12.
HOLIDAY CRICKET.
KOWLOON C.C.'S BIG VICTORY.
LOCAL RECORD?
A great deal of interest was shown in the two-day cricket match between the Kowloon C.C. and an eleven captained by H. R. B. Hancock. This game, which commenced on Friday, end- ed on Saturday in an overwhelm- ing victory for the K.C.C.
The Kowloon batsmen were in happy mood and put up the big total of 493 runs. This is re- garded as a local record for a single innings. E. F. Fincher, a rising young cricketer, scored it century in brilliant style.
Gahagan scored 26 russ for the Electric. R.C., while Davies (26) and Paterson (26) contributed 52
LONG LIFE?
THE CHINA MAIL,
out of a total of 79 put up by the UNCONVENTIONAL DR'S VIEW" Civil Service, Scores:-
Electric R. C.
ON EXERCISE.
26
LOVE AND EUGENICS."
1
9
3
Robust views of health fade-
b
C. E. Gahagan, b Divett.... W. II. N. Murdoch, b Robertson W. B. Muskett, b Robertson .. G.. Murray, e 7, b Robertson
hit. wicket, L. de Rome,
Paterson
J. R. Way, b Robertson A. F. Paul, b Paterson S. J. Stanesby, 1.b.w., l Pater-
Bon
F. Normington, 'b' Robertson H. F. Akehurst, b Paterson J. C. Dunbar, not out
Extras
Divett
1
views with which many people will
DIVORCE LAW.
REFORM SCHEME: SCANDALOUS CASES.
MANY WITH SIXTY WIVES.
In the district of Tantah, in the Delta (saya Mr. W. E. Drakeford, "Daily Telegraph" correspondent
MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1928.
which the offspring become home- MODERN SURGERY.
less little vagabonds, who often give the police a good deal of trou- ble as accomplices of drug- traffickers, pickpockets, and other criminala. Having spent his money, the Berberine returns once more to domestic service and contracts a fresh union with the same results.
THE LINE OF:
ADVANCE.
SUBJECTS FÖR STUDY.
patient.
AFGHAN ROYALTY.
HOW TO RECEIVE KING AMANULLAH.
PUZZLE FOR THE SOVIET..
A
Delivering . the Hunterian The forthcoming visit of King Oration before the Royal College Amanullah, of Afghanistan to Emancipation of Woman, of Surgeons, at Lincoln's Inn Russia is giving the Soviet Gov- 4 disagree are contained in a book
This state of affairs has long fields, recently, Sir Holburt J. ernment many anxious moments. by Dr. Logan Glendenning, a lead-in Cairo,) there lives an Egyptian
Waring, surgeon and joint-They are faced with the problem ing Kansas City practitioner, which enteraan, name Issawi el Sharif, exercised enlightened Egyptian lecturer in surgery at St. Bart.'s as a Communist Republic of how has lately, been published in Eng-who was recently condemned by opinion, and about two years ago Hospital, said that at the moment to entertain their visitor as
was the actual technique employed by royal personage and yet preserve 10 land.
the Assize Court to pay £E.2,000 a special commission "Men are not going to embrace damages to each of two women pointed by the Ministry of Justice the surgeons had reached a very the attitude of the Third (Com- writes, "They are whom he married and divorced to draw up proposals for the re-high stage, and it did not appear munist) International, which 18 energies," ha
3 going to embrace the first likely, under false pretences. In reality, form of marriage and divorce to him that such great progress preaches the overthrow of kings
trim-figured girl with limpid eyes no fewer than sixty women have laws. The principal objects of
King Amanullah will go to and flashing teeth who comes along, been victims of El Sharif's this reform are the restriction of could be expected in the future and potentates. 86 in spite of the fact that she is marrying propensities, but whe-polygamy and the limitation of in the details of operations, or in
on his way back to Afghanistan. probably recking with hyporten-ther any action will be taken by divorce. It is proposed to make the diminution of auffering to the Russia after a visit to Germany, His visit to Soviet Russia will In his opinion, the main lines of w.slon, colour-blindness, hay fever and the remainder is not known. The polygamous marriages subject to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis." recent case had been before. thea magistrate's licence, which will
On the subject of fashionable courts. for considerably more only be granted upon proof of advance in the future would be in be the first visit of a monarch to Such is the anxiety of the So- diseasca: "Surely everyone can re-than a year, and if the other means to support more than one the sphere of biochemistry and the Communist State, call one or two friends who have ladies come forward two by two wife. In regard to divorce, the biophysics, and it would be well complained all their lives, and have El Sharif will probably be gather thrice-repeated verbal repudia. for medical students and practi- viet Government that ex-officials lived all that time in the most per-ed to his fathers before they all tion is to be considered only as a tioners to pay increased attention of the Russian Foreign Office of preliminary to proper proceed-to problems which came under pre-revolution days are being
those two subjects.
called into consultation to advise fect conditions of health. They receive satisfaction.
ings, such repudiation on the part
M. Chicherin and M. Litvinoff- are inclined to' have 'fashionable'
This good gentleman's proce-of a drunken man or one under Two hundred years ago diseases.
dure was perfectly simple, thanks constraint to be void, and the was born John Hunter, whom the Commissar and Assistant to the ignorance of his victims divorce by oath to be abolished.
the Orator described as "the Commissar for Foreign Affairs Thin And Fat People.
respectively-on this delicate It is also proposed to accord to founder of modern scientific aur matter, and a reception com- much uric and the laxity of Egyptian laws ""In 1885 they had too much one and customs concerning marriage women the right to divorce in cer- gery, the creator of our musuem mittee has been appointed to work and divorce. Koranic law allows tain circumstances, and also a and the patron saint of our col-
Total
DOWLING ANALYSIS.
0. M.
13 4
94
8 .2
23
1
5.3 0
20
4
In a junior League match, the Robertson Electric R.C. surprised the Civil Service 2nd XI, the former win- ning by a narrow margin.
K.C.C. v. HANCOCK'S XI.
On their own ground, the Kow- 'loon C.C. defeated Mr. H. R. B. Hancock's Xi. by an innings and 178 runs in n two-day match.
On the resumption of play on Saturday, the visiters, after fielding all day on Friday, were faced with the huge total of 193 runs put up by the home team.
Hancock's XI made 110 runs in the first innings of which the cap- Their tain himself claimed 34. second vanture yielded 205 runs, Lt. Mussoa being top scorer with 63. Lyal captured five wickets for 66 runs, Reynolds 4 for 60 and Goodwin 6 for 72. Scores:-
K.C.C.—1st Innings.
W. Brace, b Roed
A. W. Ramsay, c and b Owen-
E..C. Fincher, c
Hughes
Wales
Pearce,
Capt. J. Reynolds, b Thorpe
JC. Lyal, e Owen-Hughes, b.
Musson
E. F. Fincher, e Hayward, b
Paterson Fletcher
1 0 2 Civil Service 2nd XI.
H. F. Harper, e Normington, b
Gahagan
R. G. Robertson, b Gahagan, R. I. Davies, e Murray, b Way G. E. Devitt, b Gahagan R. S. W. Paterson, b Way- G. Gull, b Way
F: 1. Holdman, not out J. C. Fletcher, b Way C. Slade, b Way
C. E. Jones, e Paul, b Murdoch E. W. Simmonds, e Stanesby, b
Way
Extras
Total
TOWLING ANALYSIS.
0
$
25
4
26
9 appendicitis. In 1895 they took
1 the Kneip water cure. In 1900,
2
non-surgical biliary drainage.
79 mentera
make one T.
In
1925 they had inferiority complex. "Exercise and fresh air are sup- posed to be the sovereign aug
of long life," continues Dr. Glendenning, "X admit they feel better. That they 3 promote longevity I seriously doubt. "An impartial examination of all the means yet proposed to prevent early death or lengthen ilfe leaves me with the conviction that nothing anybody does to himself after he is born makes more than a few hours' difference
Q. M.
R.
Guhagan
6
1
22
89 Way
6.2 0
2ǎ
G
60
Muskett Normington Murdoch
2
0 .9
0
2 1
0
1
16
1
73
Oyon-Hughes
117
R. E. Lindsell,
Reed
e Hancock, b
14
B. Goodwin, e Shaw, b Mussan 31
S. fex, not out
H. T. Buxton, b Wales
N. H. Roas, b Wales
Extras
Total......
ROWLING ANALYSİR.
Reed
Wales
Thorpe
Musson
Owen-Hughes
Shaw
VARSITY 2ND XI v. SINDIII & BOHRA MERCHANTS.
At Pokfulam, the University 2nd XI defeated the Sindhi and Bohra Merchants by five wickets.
at the micst." Discussing thin and fat people, the doctor writes: "The thin type has enormous lungs, more than he requires for his nutritional needs, so that air does not blow in and out of all his lung spaces, and these people are peculiarly able to tuberculosis,
of the Soviet Union.
The Queen's Frocks.
a man to have only four legitim- right to alimony, but not for more lege.". In a short review of the out the details of the correct pro-
Hitherto no progress of surgery since Hun- cedure to be adopted.
King Amanullah is likely to be 01905 und 1910 they all had their ate wives, and when El Sharif than one year.
teeth extracted. In 1920 they had wanted to get rid of a spouse he Moslem woman has been able to fter's day Sir Holburt touched accorded the, finest reception of would persuade her to sign a obtain a divorce without the con- upon the discovery and applica paper, deceiving her as to its consent of her husband, which is tion of general and local anaesthe- his whole tour-if only a suitable tents, which would eventually equivalent to depriving women of sia, and said the net result of all ceremonial can be evolved. prove to be a bill of divorcement, such a right entirely. Further the discoveries in connection with Plans have gone so far that it Thas already been decided that the In this way he was able to re-more, if the proposals become law surgical anaesthetics was such King will be met at the station of pudiate any of his "wives" when a woman will be able to insist that almost any desirable and ever he felt inclined, simply by upon embodying conditions in the justifiable operation could now be Moscow by M. Kalinin, President producing the bill of divorcement marriage contract, the infringe- performed by the dexterous sur- with the lady's signature. Some ment of which will be a legitim-geon painlessly, and with very The Queen of Afghanistan of the ladies were apparently not ate ground for divorce,
slight anaesthetic risk to the stated in an interview that for These proposals will have a far-patient when administered by the present European tour she legally married at all, for El
Bac had spent £5,500 for frocks alone. Sharif recently protested against reaching effect if they are carried well-trained anaesthetist. 5
published statements to the effect out, and will constitute the first teriology had also made tremend- The entire tour will cost the royal that he had had sixty wives, and step towards the emancipation of ous advances since Hunter's day, couple not less than £180,000, and declared that he had had only woman in Egypt. The draft law and the combination of antisep- possibly more. thirteen, but it is unlikely that he was approved on Jan. 10 by the ties and aseptics had enabled the will take proceedings for libel in Consultative Committee of Legis-modern surgeon to submit to this connection.
lation of the Ministry of Justice, operatión every organ and every and reverent admiration. (Hear,
hear.) and the Ministry of Justice is ex-part of the human body. Casual Unions.
to the pected to submit it
Another advance in connection The Earl Birkenhead, respond- That such a case should be Cabinet in the near future. It with surgery had been the trans-ing, said that any layman who possible is explained by the fact will then be submitted to Parlia- fusion of blood, first practised in came into a large company of that in Egypt a man may divorcement, when the real battle will be-1635. No serious progress was surgeons must do so with mixed his wife by the simple expedient gin, for the ulema of Egypt are made, however, until the latter feelings. He had a great admira- of taking an oath that he will be strongly hostile to the introduc- part of the eighteenth century tion for the surgical profession, divorced if he does not get his tion of any such reforms, which and the early nineteenth century, without desiring to push the ac- People Who Worry.
hair cut within twenty-four they condemn as heretical and but at the present time it was quaintance closer in any indi
The non-fulfilment of contrary to the Koran, the pro- quite a simple operation for any-vidual case. (Laughter). It had "The heavy one, on, the contrary, hours. has very small lungs, and because such an oath forthwith dissolves posed restriction of polygamy one who had mastered the tech-been put forward on behalf of the he does not regularly breathe in the marriage. Or a man may in having excited especially violent nique, and the procedure was in illustrious name of John Hunter. good aver-supply of form his wife three times that protests. These protests have, constant use, especially in cases that for the first time he intro- oxygen to burn all the food he eats, she is divorced, and the matter is however, met with little sym- of injury or disease, where a duced scientific surgery to the it accumulates in the form of fat, thereby settled. In such circum-pathy on the part of the Egyptian large amount of blood had been world. If that was so they could observe to what lamentable.con- and this may have something to do stances it is not surprising that public, for even in Egypt the days lost.
Cairo, Alexandria, and other large have for ever passed when re- Sir Berkeley Moynihan, pre-clusions it might guide them in with his obesity.
their predecessors. The thin ones acidom have heart cities are teeming with waifs and ligious oracles were regarded as sident of the Royal College of regard to
from casual infallible and of universal author- Surgeons, Sir Arthur Keith, and (Laughter.) It meant that for a or arterial diseases, and if they live strays resulting
many other distinguished sur-period of many thousands of past youth, the period of tuber unions which may be dissolved ity.
It is for- i
geons and physicians, as well as years in the world's history their culosis, they are likely to live for with the utmost case. tunate that the
average
the Dean of St. Paul's (Dr. W. R. own defects, or, what was more ever; notice that at least 60 per
Inge), were present to hear the surprising, each other's defects, cent, of very old people are of this Egyptian, notwithstanding the
oration. impression created by the un-
were of opinion that they were type."
competently exercising a highly specialised scientific profession. Savoury case of Madame Ali Fahmi, who killed her husband in a London hotel two years ago, is a
He hoped they were right in the view they took of the modern good husband and-an indulgent
proficiency. (Laughter.)
The Merchants scored 136 runs. 68 HI. T. M. Barma made 49, G. P. 0 Daswani 17 and E. M. K. Malubhoy
and A. T. Nomanbhoy 12 ench.
The home team replied with 150 match for the after winning the
32
493 loss of five wickets. S. R. Kermani,
going in first,
retired with 91
0. M,
I
W which included 19 boundary shots
.26 3
83
21.2 5
60
3
2F. S. Chen collected 18 and N. P.
Karanjia 14,
16 0 98
1
.27
1 111
2
LEAGUE TABLES.
..16 } 96
2
4 0 14
0
6
Hancock XI-ist Innings.
A. W. Hayward, b Lyal ...
E. J. R. Mitchell, c E. F.
Fincher, b Goodwin
T. E. Pearce, b Goodwin
Lt. A. H. Musson, b Lyal
H. R. B. Hancock, run out Capt. N. Thorpe, e Brace, b
Goodwin
Lt.-Comdr. A. P. Shaw,
C
Goodwin, b Brace
H. K. Batger, b Lyal
H. Owen-Hughes, e Ross,
Lyal
C. D. Wales, cand b Lyal
Rev. J. P. Murray, not out..
The positions in the League to date are:--
Division I.
P. W. D. L. Pts. 8 7 0 1 21
University .....
1 Kowloon C.C..... 7 5 2 0 17 4 Cralgengower C.C. 8 3 8 2 12 7 3 2 2 11 34 Royal Navy
Indian R.G. "A" .. 7.2 3 2 0 10 Civil Service C... 8 1 4 3 7 Chinese R.C...... 7. 1 2 4 5 .. 7 1 1 5 4 16 Royal Artillery 13 Indian R.C. "B.. 5 0 1 4 1
Division. II.
P. W. D. L. Pis.
b
0
University 2nd
9 9 0 0 27
1
Kowloon C.C. 2nd. 9 7 1 1 22
9
Extras
Club de Recreio. 9 G R.A.O.C..
0 3 18
8 6 0 3 15
Total
110
Royal Navy 2nd
9 4 1 4 13
Electric R.CL
9 3 10
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
9 3 0 5 9
0. M. B.
15.1 3 41
12 1 37
3 "Tamar".
5 Civil Service C.C. 9 2 0 7 6 8 0 1 7 1
7
1
16
Lyal
Goodwin
Brace
Reynolds ....... 4 1 9 0 Hancock's XI-2nd Innings.
A. W. Hayward, b. Reynolds.
Police R.C.
Royal Engineers..7 2 0 8 6
"PROS" AND AMATEURS IN CRICKET.
22 GOOD MIXERS.
E. J. R. Mitchell, b Reynolds.
27
H. Owen-Hughes, e Ramsay, b
Reynolda
14
T. E. Pearce, c and b E. F.
Fincher
29
H. R. B. Hancock, e Jex; b
Goodwin
L A. II. Musson, e E. C.
Fincher, b Goodwin
Capt. N. Thorpe, .b Goodwin
·Lt-Comdr. A. P. Show,
Reynalds
K. H. Batger, e Brace, b
Ramany
Rev. J. F. Murray, b Brace
C. D. Wales, not out
Lyal
Extras....
Total .....
BOWLING ANALYBIS..
Goodwin
Brace
Reynolds
E. F. Fincher
Rose
Ramsay
**
0,
M.
8 0 25
85
.12.5 8 .18 4 28 .19 3 51 2 20
.10
7 1 24 2 0 9
League II.
I fancy people will welcome the decision of Sussex that fram BOW on amateurs and professionale will 68 use the same gate of the pavilion
21
2
is matches on the county cricket grounds.
and out A
Dr. Glendenning does not believe that a person should be medically examined once a year,
"I have seen the plan in opera- tlon, and I have seen practically nothing result but grief and up- happiness.
father.
;
The waifs who swarm in the streets of the big cities are most
WALKING THE EARTH.
Kipling's "Village that voted the earth was flat" has it corollary in a colony that firmly believes the earth is flat.
The Dean's Reflection, In the evening the Hunterian festival dinner was held at the One of the colonists, Mr. Wilbur Royal College of Surgeons, Sir
The Dean of St. Paul's, who Glenn Voliva, ie on a walking trip Berkeley Moynihan presiding. to the edge of the world, states a.
The President, proposing the also replied, said he was bound to toast of "The Guests," said the reflect that in his own profession
science was the only thing that pared with surgeons, He won- For many years the colony has had advanced within the last two dered why they could not X-ray offered a reward of $2,000. to any centuries. In painting, in sculp their patients. Instead of doing
"A middle-aged man is the usual 'Idren of Soudanese from the British United Press Chicago meclaim, might almost be made that they were badly equipped as com-
victim. In the great majority of cases if such men have anything to be found wrong with them it is a Blight defect of the heart,
hypertension.
Bome
Northern Soudan or natives of Upner Egypt, who come to Cairo or Alexandria to be employed as domestic servants, and are known
sage.
interests, perhaps, and had (Laughter.)
kidney change, and a beginning of generally as Berberines. These one who can prove to the satisfacture, in the design and craft of that they had to suggest to their the burdening of the arteries, or /individuals apend a year or two intion of the colony that the world is architecture, and in literature, patients. they had done some. such employment, and, having round. Few have been optimistic they had altered their immediate thing serious, like shooting a fox. saved a certain amount of money. to try for the prizes all have failed. return to their villages to idle The colony is the Zionist colony away the time until their money at Zion City, Illinois, founded in is spent. In the meanwhile they 1801 by Dr. James contrect, temporary unions, of Dowie, a Fundamentalist,
Fearing The Worst. "This report is handed to a man who believes he is in good health. He looks up things in an encyclo- paedia or medical book, and decides he has received his death sentence.
"He goes on a diet to reduce his uric acid, is denied whisky, gin and tobacco; in fact, anything which might Highten his gloom. Not one of his abstentions changes the tissues of the body.
"If he had not had the examina-
tion he might have lived 25 years without a symptom. He has been
The distinction between the man turned from a happy, self-contented who is good enough to earn
hig
bread and butter at a game and
member of society into a moroso, apprehensive hypochondriac:""
2 the other who is good enough, too, "The Human Body," by Dr.
8 but has no need to take the reward Logan Glendenning (Knopf, 258.).
B for his skill, is rather illogical, I│*
think. I don't remember, for exam.
205 ple, seeing Bryant make. a separate entry from the rest of the Millwall w.team. Nor do I imagine Alan Mor- ton has any less fun out of his International games than he had in
• C.S.C.C. 2ND v. ELECTRIC B.C.
1 his amateur days.
4 I have never met anyone who laughed the less at Chaplin, was less intrigued by Shaw, or beliey. ed his Member of Parliament less it to represent his viowa because
his professional status. "Olympian."
At Happy Valley, the Civil Ser- vice C.C.. 2nd XI lost to the Electric
of
The death has taken place at Shotley Bridge, Durham, of Mr. John Baxter, retired engineer.
"THE BANANAS.”
WHATS IN A NAME IN SPORT.
Is there anything in the nature 3f football which makes for the bestowal of "pet" names on clubs? Roflection shows that the habit-has certainly never attained much hold In other sports.
The question is raised by a well- known and staid weekly which ob Jects strongly to Waratahs,
Wallabies," "All, Blacks," etc.,
In 1870 Mr. Baxter went to and in a humorous moment sug
R.C. by seven runs, in a low scoring Newcastle as inspesting engineer reste that if a team came from the Messrs. Dent and Co. West Indies the players would only
match..
After dismissing the visitors for to the small total of 86 runs, It looked who
at that time ran the be known as the "Bananas, just
ps if the home team would secure Arrow Line of steamers between as a team of Greenland players. an easy victory especially as Leith, Dundee and New York. He would become the "Walruses," they had made 62 runs for the loss then took up an appointment in the Perhaps it is the dignity of of only four wickets. A collapse, same capacity with Mosars. Henry cricket which has preserved it from however, set in at this stage, Scholefield and Son, Newcatle, ache nickname. The footballer Way's (6 for 25) splendid bowling position he held for 27 years, may talk of the ref. but we are
Wartortle tiring in 1920, hen the feet, was never likely to hear of the "ump,
downfall of the home team..
PROHIBITED
ANCHERAGI
changed their tastes, but when- The toast of "The Hunterian they regarded the work of those Orator," proposed by Sir George Alexander who lived centuries ago they must Newman, was suitably acknow
remain in a position of profound ledged by Sir Holburt Waring.
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