SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928.
Sport Columns
HOME CRICKET.
KENT AND MIDDLESEX 'WIN.
A DOUBLE CENTURY.
London, Yesterday. At Northampton Northants took first innings points from York- shire.
Northants scored 164, Rhodes taking five for 37; and 50 for three.
Yorkshire made 149, Thomas taking five for 41.
OLYMPIC GAMĖS.
ARTICLES BY FRED, W. PARKER.
TRACK SAMPLING.
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PROFITEERS,
THE CHINA MAIL,
29. FINAL TICKETS SOLD FOR 108.
COMMONS QUESTION.
Despite avery precaution there ia widespread profiteering In tickets for the Football Assocía-
tion Cup Final at Wembley Tickets have been sold at 400 per cent. profit
ON DOGS.
A WELSH GORGI AGREEMENT,
FUSION OF VARIETIES.
TEASERS.
Answers to To-day's Questions.
1. An Oriental pipe or paratus for tobacco amoking, smoke, being drawn through
ap.
the
the
4. A room in Westminster Abbey,'
so called because it was originally decorated with a view of Jeru- slem.
5. Henry IV. 6. Honiton.
[By A. Croxton Smith.] - In mentioning that Walsh corgis are now entitled to challenge certificates, I also referred a few weeks ago to the efforts that were A reader of "The Daily Mall, being made to bring about a fusion
of the two variction. This desir- water of a glass goblet ́by means In continuing the history of the writing from Hastings regarding able object has now been achieved, of a long flexible tube.
Mr. Fred W, tickets advertised for ante In Д Olympic Games,
thanks to the accommodating dis-
2. An ancient British race who Parker,
how Baron de Huddersfield paper, enclosos 22 Coubertin visualised tha revival note she received. This was writ- position of delegates from the in early times lived in Norfolk and and played a leading part in its ten on the letter paper of a firm of Cardigan and Welsh Corgi Clubs, other parts of Eastern England.
I am assuming that the agreement 3. Queen Boadicea.. establishment.
printera in the West End of London reached by the ten delegates will He also explains why Athens and stated: The tickets are 2be ratified, by their respective was entitled to be the first place phes price 108. each. You can
clubs. for the initial modern Olympiad. have as many as you desire. In-
Although in general character We Ave the revival of the an form your friends. Send at once the two varieties are very similar clent Olympic Games to the vision, as all are going fast,"
in detail, there have been a few energy und porseverance of Baron
"Tickets Going Fast."
differences, and the new standard Pierre de Coubertin. For many
Another reader, writing from will be framed to suit them. The yours he had taken the leading part in encouraging the cultiva Wood Hey, Rock Ferry, Cheshire, Pembrokeshire dogs, for instance, tion of sporting activities in his encloses an advertisement inserted have ehort talls, while those of the native country, and ia advocating in a Lancashire paper by the same Cardiganshire are long. In future res-the natural tail will be recognised, the Interchange of visits of ath-firm of London printers. In
without any docking. The aim letes, in every branch of sport, ponse to a telegram the reader re-
eived the reply: "Quantity 28.will be to produce a dog about from abroad.
As he stood contemplating the tickets, 108, cash." This was fol-221b. in weight, and 12in. high at rediscovered site of the stadium of lowed by a postcard stating: "Just the shoulders. Ears to be erect.
The various holiday tours pass- ancient Olympia at Athens, there got hold of a number of guinea This, I think, is a sensible deci-
tickets, price two guineas, subject slon, the erect cars being smarter, ed off remarkably well. The foot- came to Baron de Coubertin A
is scrious vision of the past glories of an- to being unsold on reply. The 2s, and giving more character to the ball on these jaunts
enough, but with the holiday spirit Middlesex scored 436 for seven cient Greece; of the time when the tickets at 10s, each are going fast. quaint little dogs. As it was po prevailing, which is as it should|
(Hendren 101 not out, long tiers of marble terraces, of Do not be too late if you require sible to make an entry of thirtybe, because by this period of the
At the Oval the game between Surrey and Sumex was drawn.,
Sussex made 139 for four de clared.
Surrey scored 82 for twa. The match does not count in the Championship.
Oxford drew with Derbyshire. Derby scored 294.
Lee taking five for 42, and, following on, 123 for four.
Oxford made 149,
At Worcester Middlesex défent ed the home County by an innings
and 36.
Worcester made 225 and 176.
declared Lee 143).
At Gloucester Kent beat the homesters by na innings and 66. Gloucester scored 174 and 239. Kent made 479 for six declared (Hardinge 263 not out. Woolley 107).
At Cambridge Notts heat University by seven wickets.
the
five Pembrokeshire and twenty "The Daily Mail" understands seven Cardiganshire corgla on-l
which he now beheld the ruins, any." were thronged with excited
nt
TOO MUCH RUGBY.
SHORTENING PLAYERS'
CAREERS.
FIXTURE LISTS.
Saturday
season all our playera thoroughly deserve a typa of game which is lookers as, they watched the great, that the Football Association are Cruft's, they should be able to pre- real relaxation after the strenu laking action with regard to the sent a very respectable front now
Saturday after they are united.
matches. sale of these tickets.
The corgi is said to have a dis-
A tour that hus Interested me position that makes him suitable considerably is that of the Old' as a companion or watch-dog, and Leysians, who have broken ground. it should always be remembered in the North. that he belongs to a working breed. pect to this Old Boy side, they are With all due res-;
and not one of the stranger London
An
in
est athletes of their day contend- ing for the vietors' olive wreaths,
Forty thousand spectators could
around the arena be seated those almost prehistoric days. Here, surely, was the mainspring Cambridge scored 117. S. Staples of Greece's greatness in the past. taking seven for 44; and 106,
Then came the Instant thought:| Staples ngain taking five for 37.
Why should not the past glories be Notts made 139, Blundell taking incarnated? Why not revive these six for 61, and 85 for three-Rou-long-forgotten contests in such
way as to draw together in friend-) ly rivalry the virile manhood of the whole world? It was a stu- pendous thought!
ter.
AMATEUR GOLF.
PERKINS AND WETHERED IN FINAL
Prestwick, Yesterday. In the semi-finals Perkins beat Tulloch 6 and 5 and Wethered beat Tipping 4 and 3-Router.
Sixth Round.
T. Perkins (Castle Bromwich) beat N. Dickson (Glasgow) by 4 and 2.
E. Tipping (Ashdown Forest) beat J. Lang by G and 5.
D. Tulloch (Cathkin brass) beat A. McCallum at the 20th.
R. H. Wethered bent Beaumont Pense at the 21st.-Reuter,
CHARITY GOLF.
HAGEN DEFEATS FRED ROBSON.
a
steps
official representing the Wembley authorities said:
We cannot disclose what we have taken this year to pre- vent profiteering, but they are based on the experience of past years, and we believe that there will be fewer tickets sold in this way than as previous finals.
M.P.'s Question.
of
He looks hardy and robust,
SCHUT
Pilzener Art
EXPORT
HAWKINS JEWELS.
£84,981 RAISED IN FOUR -DAYS..
STORY OF 'ALEXANDRITE."
was never intended to be coddled clubs, and their record this acason or degraded into a toy dog. Al (ten wins and seventeen losses) is; though there are a few in London, none too good, but yet they toured After a
number of unset pre
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THE PERFECT
DRINK
WHICH QUENCHES
THE THIRST
AFTER OUTDOOR SPORT
it cannot be said at present that North and defeated comfortably clous stones had brought £6,219 at they are by any means common three of the leading clube in Christie's the total of the four on Northumberland and Durham,, days' sale of the Hawkins jewels Mr., Joseph Compton, Socialist objects; and the average man,
probably won- namely Northern, Percy Park, and came to £84,981. division MP. for the Gorton
seeing one, would
on Westoe.
This is an astonishing Summ They stand the bodice, short lege, and
of
All Too Long.
is remembered that, medium length, are strong for the The season
ago, nearly virtually closes twenty-four years size of the animal. The heads are shaped like that of the fox.
To think was to act. In Novem- Manchester, will ask the Chancel-der what it was. ber, 1892, the Baron frst mooted lor of the Exchequer in the House the idea publicly.
of Commons:
"Let us attempt to realise upon a basis suitable to the conditions of our modern life the splendid and beneficent task of reviving the Olympic Games," he said. Conflicting Regulations.
There followed à circular letter to all foreign athletic associations
co
A far-seeing man was Pierre de Coubertin. The necessity for a clear understanding, as to the Richmond, Yesterday. status of Olympic competitors had In an 18 holes golf charity match not escaped him. That same cir Walter Hagen bent Fred Robson cular letter contained the follow-
(Cooden Beach) two and one-Reu-ing illuminating passages:
ter.
several thousand
tickets
Sporting Dachshunds.
when
it
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'TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS,
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50 far as universal club foot- £250,000 wan amassed by the varied if his attention has been drawn
ball'ls concerned, finishing with a treasures which had been hoarded to the action of a booking agent,
"local Derby" at Twickenham, by that eccentric Cornish collec- On New York- who has purchased several thou-;
Mrs. Baines and Mrs. Mackenzie which should be a stern battle. tor, C. H. T. Hawkins. Moreover, On demand. sand tickets from the Football have settled a question that has Then the seven-a-sides will end a there are to be moro Hawkins Credits, 60 days' sight 53% Association for the final of the been discussed many times-that most strenuous time, making one Louis boites and exquialte trifles On Bombay→→ Football Cup, in charging 28. of putting the dachshund's sport- more on the list of hard seasons of craft, and even then, one is in- Wire extra on all tickets under and ing proclivities to some useful pur-which are all too long and are formed, the Hawking stores of pos-On demand up to 10s. in value and 43. oppose. Having joined forces, they rapidly sapping the strength of our sessions are not ended. tickets over that value; and whe-propose hunting the hedgerows for players. wherein the Baron invited
The question most frequently operation in the task of reviving ther' any entertainment tax
is Bloats and weasels, which, By strength, I mean the playing asked
no
was! "What is paid on the extra price charged doubt, will give much satisfaction life of our top-class players, those alexandrite?", especially after a the Games "so that every four years the athletic representatives for the tickets,
to game-keepers. Small packs of who play in regular first-class club stone thus hamad had realised On demand.... of the world may be brought to- With reference to this question, beagles or Sealyhams have in the sides week after week, and also £470. The answer is that this gether and the spirit of interna- Mr. F. J. Wall, secretary of the past done a similar service. If undergo the strain of international variety of chrysoberyl-dark green tional comity may be advanced by Football Association, said to a re- they will extend their activities to matches, with as many holiday by day and ruby-red at night-was the celebration of their chivalrous' porter:-
rats when these leave the stacks games as they can pack in as well.fret discovered in the Urals in and peaceful contests."
Under the agreement between and farmsteads for the open, they will alter this, but it does seem to be the celebration of the coming From all appearances, nothing 1833 on the day which happened to the Football Association and the will be putting the community be going too far to expect players of age of the Taarevich, afterwards On demand Wembley, authorities the latter under an obligation. There is no in modern Rugger to keep it up Alexander II. As red and green undertake the sale of tickets. I reason why dachshunds should not and maintain their form for the formed the colours of the Russian should be very surprised if perform any of the duties that cus-best part of eight months out of national flag the stone was appro- had tomarily fall to terriers in this twelve. For that is what this sea- priately named after the young been sold to any one agency. country, and the smaller vermin
son really amounts to. It opened Russian Prince. Agencies were not to charge the might very well receive their at-
Other unaet stones sold includ- ap about the second Saturday In public a greater booking fee than tention.
September, and here we are finished a square blue sapphire, £680 the usual one for booking theatre Mrs. Greenburg. In her little
ing with the most strenuous of all (Well) and a case of twenty-four tickets...
monograph on the breed, states Rugger seven-a-sides on April 28 specimen stones, £610 (S. H. With regard to the payment of that in America the dog is used for I am full out for this seven-a- Harris). entertainments tax upon the badgers, coyotes, faxes, rabbits, side tournament, but, at the same
A Mild Surprise. booking fee, I think that as it and rats. There are no better time, it does put a great strain on does not form part of the
re-dogs bred for ratting, she declares. the players at the end of such a ceipts of the match the FootballThey are reasonably fast, in spite long season.. - Association could scarcely be of their short legs, and their jawa
a mild surprise was the bidding Rapid Decline. held liable.
for a fanciful picture of a pretty are very powerful. Their nogos
Can one really wonder that the girl going to market, by Henry also are uncommonly keen. Ilife, of a first-class player is now Walton, which fetched as much as should like to see owners of all so much shorter than it used to 400 guineas (Permain). Walter suitable dogs taking part in an be? In pre-war days one would was a versatile eighteenth century organised and
continuous cam never have had reason to remark palgn of extermination against the that Cove-Smith is quite a wonder-painter, and is best remembered by
his portrait of Gibbon. Stoats and weasels, though a ful man for keeping his form at portrait of Henrietta Maria, with After visiting America, Baron ·
nuisance in game preserves. are 30 years of age. To be very neat claims to be considered as by R. K. Valentine, L. G. S. de Coubertin came to London In
The ly at his best still at that age is
Vandyck, brought In the Davis Cup Hennessey not nearly as mischievous.
210 guineas pursuit of his great object. There (United States) beat Lum (China) rat is an ever-present danger, so exceptional -now-a-days that it (Lewis and Simmonds)... he was warmly welcomed. The
seems to prove the rule that 27 or
The dispersal of the third por- Within a week or two the Dog so sees a somewhat rapid, decline tion of the famous Dorchester late King Edward-then Prince of G-8, 6-1, 6-0 and Lott (United either in town or country.
States) beht Kong (China) 6-0, 6-0, Owners Club will be opened at 5, in form of the majority of our House library was at Sotheby's. 60.
Montral, Yesterday.
Hyde Park-place, W.2, premises good players, In the Davis Cup Crocker (Cana-having been secured facing Hyde
LOCAL GOLF.
HOLIDAY STARTING-
TIMES.
9.24 a.m. E. C. Frederick, J.
Cameron,
"Imperfect humanity has ever tended to transform the Olympic athletic into the paid gladiator. But the two things are incom- patible. We must choose be- tween the one formula and the
other. Reform is necessary andį must be discussed... There are compromíscs, and there åre contradictions in the amateur, regulations."
. Those contradictions are still in evidence. So far from closing the
G. E. Ellams, G. H. rift in the fute thus clearly fore- CHINESE DEFEATED IN DAVIS
9.28
A. D. Humphreys, T. G. Weall.
9.32
T. L. Christie, K. S. Morrison.
0.36
Bell.
9.40
E. D. Lawrence, Young.
9.44
H
9.48
:
R.
Wodehouse,
shadowed there is evidence of a re- cent desire to widen it.
Dodwell.
"
P. P. J.
E.. R. Hallifax. Whit-Monday.
9.24 a.m. W. K. Falt, E. N. Monie,
Sir John Astley, were among those}]
9.28
P
D. Forbes, G. H. Bell,
who received him, and gave hearty
9.32. **
9.86
Wales-Lord Balfour, and the late
E. C. Frederick, J. support.
Cameron.
J. M. Walker, E. D. Lawrence.
T. L Christie, A. E. Lissaman.
J. S. MeEnchran, D. J. Gilmore.
9.40..
0.44
'0.48
K. S. Morrison, E. R. Hallifax.
V.R.C. "AT HOME."
-LAWN TENNIS.
CUP CONTEST.
Kansas City, Yesterday.
rat.
ing room, totalling nearly £8,500, In a picture sale in an adjoin
and
A small
zn
wash
The chief prize WEB This coming to the end of one's da) defeated Toba (Japan) 6-0, 6-2, Park and close to the Marble Arch. tether so young. is not due so much early XVI century Italian follo At the first congress, held at 4-6, 6-3.-Reuter.
The building has literary associa- to the extra speed at which the of thirty-nine pen Sorbonne, in June, 1894, the re-
tlona, since Dickens, an emphatic game is played as to the exces designs for Goldsmith's work, done under the influence of Cellini. vival of the Olympic Games
ilog-lover, lived' there for some sively long seasons.
was
Gold Leaf, 100 fine Sovereigna
(per tael)
buying rate).
9.20 Silver (per oz.) 28 9/16 Bar Silver in Hong
Kong
4%% prom. Chinese Copper Cash nom. Chinese Copper Cents 6% prem Rate of Native In-
terest
7% p.3. Chinese Sub. Coin ..32% dia, Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par.
CHURCH NOTICES.
. ..
A CHARGE OF ONE, DOLLAR IS MADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDER
THIS HEADING
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,
HONG KONG.
May 27, 1928,
WHIT SUNDAY, Choral Eucharist, 8 a.m. Children's Service 10.15 a. Peak Sunday School, 10 a.m. Matins,, 11 amikke Freacher: Rev. C. Blanchett.. Holy Communion, 12 noon. Evansong, 6. p,m, qui « Preacher Rev. E. V. Koop. after. Evensong
decided upon unanimously. Thus, later to be exercised on popular time....... Mr. E, T. Cox his formed a While criticising the length of This fell to Mr. Meulencer, of A copy of exactly fifteen hundred years after imagination by the long race that limited company and will act as present-day club fixture lists I can-Brussels, at 2345. they had been abolished, the Olym- the first trophy donated was that secretary. The idea is to have a
not suggest a remedy, because if Thomas East's issue, about 1585, pic Games were reborn.
for the Marathon race. It took London centre for all exhibitors some clubs like to start so early of "The Storye of the Most Noble and Worthy Kynge Arthur,' the The question na to where the the form of a statuette of the dying and will act as secretary. The idea and finish so late the others must which was the Fyrat of the Social Evening in Cathedral Hall
follow suit. Otherwise, many clubs first of the Games should be held Pheidippides, the first of all is to have a Londoa centre for all would lose matches through sheer Worthyes Christen, and also of was quickly settled. Sweden had "Marathon" runners, as related, exhibitors and others wao have lack of fitness at the hands of Hys Noble and Valyaunt Knyghtes. been early in the field in claiming Charlie Perry, the veteran Stam- any liking for dogs. Accommoda- weaker clubs.
of the Rounde Table," with twenty- them for Stockholm, but the ford Bridge groundsman, went out tion will be made for club meet-
Fading Out.
three fine woodcuts, brought as 1. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, The Victoria Recreation Club is "Father" of the revival was on to Athens to lay out the running ings. T
Even now, London clubs start in much as 4210 (Quariich). The
SCIENTIST. holding an "At Home" for mem-sure ground in suggesting Athens track. He has performed a simi- The surprising feature of the most cases a fortnight after the Huth copy was sold for only £29 bers and friends to-night, com- as the one city, to stage most. It lay office at each of the subsequent Kensington Show was the entry of West Country, so that it happens in 1911. mencing at 9 p.m., when there ting, the initial celebration. Games held in Európe, will be some swimming events to
over 300 Great Danes, which for that some London club will be up Various books are claimed to be Branch of The Mother Church, be followed by dancing.
It was a proposition that admit- Just prior to the Games the once in a way excelled all other against say Newport or Leicester the most expensive in, cost of pub-The First Church of Christ, Selent- ted of no opposition, and prepara track was "sampled" by the breeds. Of course, it was a great in their second match, whereas lication, but French writers stout st, in Boston, Mass, USA] The swimming events will in- tions, for restoring the site of the veteran B. Fowler Dhon, who compliment to Mrs. Horsfall, who it is the fourth or fifth of either ly declare that Cetate Auguste de clude a 50 yards handicap race, a original stadium were put in hand, ran a milom performance, he rehas seldom judged since her won of those two teams, Bastard's two volumes, Laued be Macdonnell Read, below Bowen diving competition and a water polo match between sides chosen
Chèque For. '£42,0001- peated at later scenes of the Olym-derful kennel was dispersed.
It will take a lot of altering, between 1884 and 1846, containing
Road Tram Station from members of the Club.
The reconstruction of the huge plads.
cause fixture lists are made up 160 facsimiles of "Peintures ot
Sunday, Service, 11.15 am stadium in its pristine beauty of Emerging from the shower While the diving competition pure white marble was a costly baths at Athens, he was greeted ping, the Colony's
At match between Mr. Ng Tal these days some two years ahead, Ornements des Mannscrits from Bubject:Ancient & Modern To shorten fixture lists all round the eighth to the sixteenth century, Necromancy, Allas Mesmerism & has so far not received much sup- affair. It was made possible by with outstretched hand by the late champion and Mr. Ko Yau-cheong as a good deal of heart burn charge to subscribers being over Wednesday. Evening Meeting at
Ping-pong would be a dreadful business, and cost £80,000, to be produced; the Hypnotism, Denounced." port, the 50 yards race had up to last night attracted eight entries, the munificence of one M. Averoff, King Constantine, who con- was played fu the Chinese
of Alexandria, who contributed a gratulated the ex-record holder, YM.C.A., at Bridge's street last to be dropped and keen competition is anticl-million drachmas nearly £42,000; and kept him in animated convez- night Mr. Ng won by two With all these dificulties so out
as so many clubs would have £1,200. The Holford specimen now 530 o'clock.
realised £215 (Besombea)
Beading: Room at above addres "pate //
Members who have put their A cheque of that description would aation for several minutes, Frob- straight sets, 6-0 and 6-4 standing, it seems that the play
day and Friday: 10a.m. names down for this event are: lesya Lord Rochdale, the British ably this is the only occasion, on a
́er must simply be contart to fade W. Howard, J. A. Victor, J. Olympic Association leader, with which a British athlete has inter- The Hampton Wick C.C. are this
of first-class Bugger some four England best, Fran Stewart, E.. Zimmern, D. Lyon, Lono nriety as to the success of his viewed royalty with no other
five years sooner than need be to in the final of Roza Fereira, F. M. da Silva and appeall -
covering then his own
modest
Light Blue in the lok hockey tour A. E. Carvalho.
It was siguiicant of the grip blushes.
vening Standary leak
4Sunday afternoon
Bir ground in Bushe
Ing.
f cordially hvited to ervice, and visit the