SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928.
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MACAO RACES:
14 HONG KONG PONIES CROSS OVER.
STEAMBOAT TIMES.
Fourteen pontes were sent over from Hong Kong yesterday for the Macno Race Club's seventh extra meeting to be held to-morrow at Areela Preta.
There are eight events on the
eard. With record entries, an in- teresting meeting is assured.
- LAWN TENNIS.
ANNUAL TOURNAMENT AT H.K.C.C.
HONDA'S EASY VICTORY.
OLYMPIC GAMES.
SERIES OF ARTICLES BY
· FRED W, PARKER.
HOW THEY STARTED.
Following is the first of a series of articles by Fred. W. Parker on the Olympic Games.
With the Amsterdam revival of the Olympic Games comparatively close upon us it may be interesting to trace the history of these world thrilling contexts to their source, were to follow them, so far as a acrlea sin-of brief sketches will permit, to the Hong present day, and also to touch tennial lightly on some of the arresting personalities who have left an in- Much Was expected of Tdelible mark on the pages of luomura, ex-champion of Formosa, "Olympic" competition.
Three interesting games played yesterday in the open
of the gies championship Kong Cricket Club lawn
tournament,
who had beaten H. D. Rumishn. The actual origin of the Olym- Steamboat times are as follow: He failed to make an impression pic Games is lost in the mists of
on T. Honda
(an ex-local cham-mythology. It is not always girae. From Hong Kong: "Taishan"
won, in straight sets ticable to say exactly where history leaves the Harbour Office wharf plon) who
ends and mythology begins, but (c., the one for boats to Canto) and entered the semi-nal.
Another semi-finalist le E. C. there is irrefutable record that the ut 8.30 a.m., arriving well in time for firat race at 1.15 p.m.; "Sui An" Fincher who beat S. E. Green (an Games were held as far back as much leaves Wing Lok-street at 9.30 fm. ex-champion) in the third round.
90 we may From Macao: "Sul An" at 3.30 In the fourth round yesterday, he B.C. 800, and probably ... "Talahan" at 5.30 p.m. after defeated II. Yoshida in four gets, earlier than that,
Major W. B. Stevenson, in the safely assume them to have been in the last race.
"sand years ogo. Excursion fares will be charged. third round, defeated the Very Rev. actual, existence fully three thou-
A. Swann in straight sets. Yesterday's scores:-
EASY WINNER.
PRINCE IN STIFF
·POINT-TO-POINT.
ST. DAVID'S DAY.
The Prince of Wales, riding his own horse Begomme, won another point-to-point race his third vie- tory within twelve months-at the Beaufort Hunt meeting at Hazle- ton, near Tetbury, Gloucester.
It was an appropriate St. David's Day triumph in the Welsh Guards race. The Prince rode us colonel of the regiment and as a member of the Queen and Belvoir.
The Prince led all the way round the course, and his horse cleared most of the fences cleanly.
At the last fence, when he was some distince in front of Colonel Ross Price, on Queensgate, the Prince looked round, and his horse nearly stumbled as he cleared the hedge. The Prince however, quick- ly steadied Begomme, and, riding on at an easy gallop, passed the winning post amid the cheers of
the crowd.
Open Singles.
held Then, ns now, they were every fourth year. The games were held in honour of the Grecian
4th round;T. Honda beat T. deity Zeus. They lasted five days, Isomura 6-3, 6-2, 6-0; E, C. Fincher and invariably commenced on the after beat H. Yoshida 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5. day of the first full moon
3rd round: Major W. B. the longest day of the year. And Stovenson beat Very Rev. A. Swann that same rule is observed, in 6-3, 6-1, 6-3.
effect, to the present time.
Handicap Singles "A". Capt. E. H. Jacobs-Larkcon (rec. 4/6) beat G. F. H. Bichard (rec. 2/6) 6-4, 8-6.
Handicap Doubles. A. D. Humphreys and G. Sayer (owe 15/1) beat H.
Q. J. Shannon Parker und 5/6) 8-6, 8-6.
RENE LACOSTE,
"I HAVE HAD A BAD TIME."
The First "World Beater." The Greek Zeus and the Roman same. Jupiter were one and the Even the immortal gods had their aliases. Having touted the Titans, conquered the whole world, and Restablished himself on the cloud- v. capped summit of Mount Olympus (recas "king of the heavens," Jupiter
HEART TROUBLE REPORT.
Parie, March 7.
displayed his fraternal affection by assigning, as younger brothers' pro- tions, the monarchy of the nether regions to Pluto, (alias Hades), and bestowing on brother Neptune (Poseidon) that of the oceans.
Claims-that Zeus himself initiat- ed the Games under the shadow of Mount Olympus may be dismissed tor want of supporting evidence. Corroboration is rather too de-
I talked to René Lacoste, the finite an expression to apply to the French lawn tennis champion, over tradition that credits Zeus' sone, the telephone to-day regarding re-Caster, Pollux, and Telemachus. By this victory he won the chal-ports about his illness. He is still with being the very earliest of all lenge trophy presented by Cap in bed. tain W. A. Fox-Pitt.
"I did have a bad time for * while." he added, "but, am
Olympic champions.
Castor was boss horseman and much charioteer, and his twin brother. better now. Don't worry, I'll be Pollux, the first holder of a Lons
In the enclosure before the race the Prince wore a check overcoat
dale Belt or its equivalent. There over a scarlet polo jersey and white on the courts within a month." riding breeches. The crowd cheer- Lacoste added that he would be was no glove tapping in those days. was the ed as he came out from the weigh-unable to play in the Paris-London The regulation. mitten
cestus; and the derivation of that word, literally, "to cut, kill," sug- este that contests rarely went the full twenty rounds.
The rain censed just before the Prince's race. There were six starters, and two to one was offer- ed against the Prince.
He started well and led the field at the first fence, Two riders fell.
Heavy rain which fell through the night made the going heavy on the three and a half miles courne by Hazleton Manor House.
nature of
Pensioned for Life.
was
THE CHINA MAIL,
The larger the city the bigger the pension. No doubt the wily villager who ran a good trial "on the watch" took care to migrate to a more populcus centro before past- ing his entry. But it is to be hoped the "broken time" advocates will pension-for-life not quote the scheme as a precedent.
The First Marathon. With the exception that chariot- racing was a big feature in the of bygone days, Olymple Games events are very much the same they were more than 2,000 years ago. The Pentathlon then consfat-
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Lloyd Halta, star of the Boston Alliette Association, who recently wed the "mile of the century," beal- Ing. Ray Conger, of the Illmols Athletic Club, and the famous Ger man champion, Dr. Otto Peltzer. Hahn, set the pace from start to nish. His time was minutes, 13 grounds, one second short of the world's indoor record of 4.12 set in 1925, by Nurmi, and equaled "the same esam by Jole Ray.
AS
ed of a foot race, discus, Javelin, long jump, and wrestling, while at Stockholm the one alteration was the substitution of a second foot race for the wrestling.
Clearly the classic Marathon race could not have come into existence until the Games had been in being for a few hundred years. It com- memorates the Grecian victory over the Persian invaders B.C. 490, when 10,000 Greeks defeated and drove into the sea a Persian host of some 60,000.
DO YOU KNOW?
Answers to To-day's Questions.
1. Huns were powerful Mongolian state in 2nd century B.C.
2. If is an island near Marscilles, site of a famous fortress.
8. About three-fifths of total arva of India is British territory.
4. Mainland is name of principal island of the Shetland group.
5. Valley of the Loire is known as
the Garden of France.
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6. Firat life insurance policy in England was issued 1683.
tory tells us the expired on receiving
the winner's wreath of laurel, with- out saying "Thanks!"
He
WAS
truly laconic to the last.
The Games were abolished A.D. 394, and the ancient stadium with be- ita tiers of marble terraces came buried in the course of long centuries. A little more than 50 years ago a party of German archaeologists excavated the site, and disclosed the stadium with its adjacent chariot racing track and wrestling ground.
THE VETERANS.
2 INTERNATIONAL GAMES İN 3 DAYS.
Veterans of sport still recall how in the early part of 1886 two. In- ¡ternational Association matches , were played by British teams in three days, on a Saturday and the following Monday.
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POLO AT CRYSTAL PALACE.
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ing-in tent in hunting kit, a dark match on March 9-11, as he was too blue coat with yellow facing and weak-International News Service. black tusselled cap.
A British United Press Paris A Splendid Hunter.
telegram says that Lacoste "in re- Begomme is a splendid light bay ported to be suffering from angina
. Zeus (or Jupiter) is usually de- hunter with a white star its pectoris."
on forebead, and the Prince himself Angina pectoris is a painful picted throned in cloudland and threatening mortal man with 4 and serious disease, usually as fistful of forked lightning held helped to saddle the horse.
sociated with organic change in the heart or great blood vessels, aloft in his right hand; hence, pos- It manifests itself in a sense of Bibly, the javelin idea. He also
in Hong .tightening of the lower part of wore a large wreath of olive
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foot, by one Pheidippes, who fell the chest.
The world-beater's guerdon, ¡ dend after gasping out the glad leave. It is to be hoped that the standing features at the Ideal Be Silver
new club will revive this conveni-Homes Exhibition at Olympia, Kong
Chinesa Copper Cash duin. Lawn tennis followers all over handed out to Olympic winners tidings.
ence, and it would be good for the London. the world will read with concern from time immemorial,
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Bate of Nataye The Marathon races of to-day are game were the old-eatablished Lon. this report as to the
Colonel request, is installed in this won-
7% D.A. cepted as a sign that Zeus had con-over the precise distance covered don clubs to do the same. Lacoste's complaint.
ferred "immortality"" on the re by Pheidippes, and probably Olym- C. D. Miller, of Rachampton, is ar-derful House of the Future. The Lacoste, still only 22, has strong cipient. What was more The course was fairly difficult, claims to being regarded as the point is that it became customary from Marathon to Athens, but re-pole lectures free of charge, and
to the pic races in olden times were run ranging for beginners a course of designers consider that in fifty Chinese Sub. Coin... 31% dis.
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with one or two atiff hedge jumps world's best player.
school and practice buying a house where sunlight is and
aturf-topped. stone fence He won the men's single cham- for the chlef winners to be prompt cards merely refer to these as the arranging a
ground where they can teach their not on tap. It is claimed that this "sunlight" possesses rays with which WAS expected to
bring pionship at Wimbledon in 1925, didly pensioned for life by their grati- "long" race.
One Ladas of Laconia was the ponies and improve their horse-health-giving and tonic qualities fied fellow-citizens, townsmen, several riders to grief.
not compete in 1925, and
villagers, as the case might be. victor in this long race, and his manship. More rain fell during the morn-beaten by his fellow-countryman
He Ing and part of the course over Jean Borotra last year. ploughed fields became like a quag- American champion in 1926, and mire.
again last season, when in "straight The original intention of the ceta" in the final he bent W. T. Prince was to arrive early In the Tilden for the fourth time in bla morning and stay for the Hunt career. Ball at Sir Gerald Cod- The French championship fell to rington's house at Doddington. him in 1925 and 1927. There was disappointment when it He has at one time or another was learned that an important en- beaten every player of the world's gagement had caused him to alter first half-dozen. his plans and necessitated his re- turn to town immediately after his
race.
Two Previous Successes.
at Oxton. Riding his hunter,
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Restricted Plans.
There have been rumours of his intention for business reasons to
the
Ou April 7, 1927, the Prince retire from big tennis. This year finished first in the Adjacent Hunts his plans are restricted to Race at the South Notts meeting
national French
championships, Cark Courtier, he won the Lord Wimbledon and the Davis Cup Mannors Cup in the Grenadier games.
Lacoste's "arrival" as a cham- Guards race at the, Bicester and Warden Hill meeting near Buck-pion was wonderful in its swift- пess. He was boy champion of ingham on March 16.
France at 16. The following year, while still not 17, he beat H. Roper Barrett in the world's hard courts At 19 championships at Brussels. he was a Wimbledon finalist; at 20 he wrested the title from Borotra.]
BROKE.
CARPENTIER SEEKS U.S.
FIGHT.
Paris, April 4.
Georges Carpenter is hungry conversation, "and I certainly will, for dollara again. He's willing to it will not be to go after Bou- fight if the pures is fat.
quillon or anyone like that. I'll go Since he has been dancing and to "America where I'll find men doing his best to sing in the music worth meeting and promoters who halls of Faris, he has been all but will give me ten times what I forgotten in the Queensbury 'realm. would get here."
Often he has been quoted as hav⠀ That, of course, makes na hit ing retired but now, as the box with the French and handsome office receipts......are getting low, Georges is is rather bad. M Georges longs for a fight in Also, he adds, he isn't after any America. A Po title. His championship hopes "If I put on the gloves again," just about ended when Dempsey
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THE REASON THE POLICE LOST THE SHIELD ON SATURDAY WAS FROM LACK OF
SUPPORT, EVEN THOSE PEOPLE WHO STAY
WITH THEM AT
LAICH KOK
THE GAME WAS CERTAINLY VERY FAST
AND WHIST
Dr
THE SHIELD FINAL.
AND 1 HOPE
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TURNED THEM DOWN
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MEN IN ALMER |AND“ŘES STRIPED 2 JERSEYS
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WERE
HOWING UP A CLUE
THE POLICE THOUGHT
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UP's A DAISY
REPLIED BY SCORING ONE
THEMSELVESKIK TIKS WOULD HAVE
BEEN QUITE ALRIGHT-
'SUPPORT YOU NO, IT WAS ONLY LAST WHEK YOURME FINDS HE FOR
KOLD FISH?
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•TO OBTAIN SUPPORT PROM
THE PUBLIC Was of
LITTLE AVAIL.
SOME ONE FROM":"The KowlooN RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION
TiNG AWAY UNOBSERVED
IF ONE OF THE POLICE
PACKS HAD KOT: MIS KICKED
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Why Kowloon Beat The Police.
ALTHOUGH
THEY DID
EVENTUALLY SUCCEED IN OBTAINING A MUSICAL SUPPORTER "OF "SOME NOTE"
KÉNT AND
STILL WHO CAN BLANE:TEL, SHIELD
·FOR HOT FOING. TO THE POLICE. JANS WANT'S
STAY 12 MONTHS
IN A CELL
akin to the sunshine of the sea- side and the Alps..
No matter what the weather may be the children of this house of the future, may play in an at- mosphere permeated with ozone. A great bathing pool, after the Roman style, is sunk into the floor on a balcony which forms a wing.
This balcony is of the house. also bathed in the artificial sun- shine and is one of the most pleas- ing features of the villa.
Movable Flower Beds. All the rooms face the South, and the shape of the walls can be changed at will, so that monotony will be unknown. This idea of changing surroundings at will' is éven extended to the garden, where flower-beds can be taken up and placed in whatever position the owner chooses,
and
Work-saving appliances space-saving devices are legion. The kitchen is ultra modern and full of new and revolutionary ideas. Heating and the service of food will be automatic, and there will be no washing up, as plates and cups are of carton and must be destroyed after use. There is a flat roof garden under vita glass and the beds resemble bunks... The colour schemes of the apartments are changeable at will by means of multi-coloured mask- ed lamps. In the main living room, there is a radio receiver. and transmitter. There is also an electric typewriter, telenewsprint,
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LONDON EXCHANGES;
London, Yesterday.
124
4.88%
34.95
25.33
Amsterdam
12.12
Milan..
92.50
Berlin Stockholm
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Copenhagen
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Oslo
18.26
Vienna
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Helsingfors
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MILAN OUTRAGE. COMMISSION FROM ROME TO INVESTIGATE.
THE VICTIMS..
Rome, Yesterday.
automatic secretary, and an in-The Tribunal for National, De strument conveying the idea of fence has sent a Commission to Milan, headed by General Bolzano, television. ALIRIK
A garage shelters an aero-car the Army Advocate General, and designed to run out and rise verti Colonel Marconi, chief of the In formation Section of the Tribunal cally into the air
The victims of the Milan outrage include six soldiers, two nuns and four children Reuter,
In the annexe of Olympia are twenty gardens of varying types and sizes.