THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928,
Sport Columns
BOWLS.
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP RESULT.
In the lawn bowls Open Cham pionship (frat round) yesterday afternoon on the Police green A. M. Holland (Kowloon Bowling Green Club) lost to D. Rumjahn (Craigengower C.G.) 13-23.
FRIENDLY MATCH.
EASY WIN FOR PRIORY PARK.
London, Yesterday. The Royal Hunt Cup resulted as follows:-
1
2
Priory Park (15/2) St. Jerome (33/1) Knight of the Gral (25/1) 3 25 ran. Won by three lengths; half a length between second and third. -Reuter.
AT WIMBLEDON.
THE
CHINA MAIL,
"NAUGHTY CHILD.” JUDGE'S SYMPATHY.
WITHOUT GEARS.
REGARDED AS AN "ETERNAL.
PROBLEM."
PRISON FOR A "GOOD SPORTSMAN."
THE CAR OF THE FUTURE.
Rugby
9
ALWAYS COOLING in the HOT WEATHER.
The eternal problem of the A former captain in the Royal Some time ago Mr. Basil Doan ROYAL HUNT CUP.naughty child is to come to-day be- Field Artillery, a sub-inspector in told me that, in collaboration with fore the Education Committee of the Special Constabulary, and a Miss Margaret Kennedy, he was. the London County Counell, which prominent
footballer, writing a play to succeed "The has to consider a proposal for the Douglas Henry Pegler, 38, was sen- Constant Nymph," in which the He establishment of "a child-guidance tenced to nine months' imprison-hero was a motor inventor.. clinic." Let no one be frightened ment in the second division, at the wanted to know what would be the most desired and important of an uncouth name. What this in Old Bailey for obtaining money by invention for the improvement of stitution would do is simply to give means of forged cheques.
the modern car, and I unhesitat- reasonable and kindly considera- Mr G. B. McClure, prosecuting, ingly voted for the elimination of tion to each particular case of a said that Pegler, an old boy of the the clutch and gear box. We call child intractable at school. Every school, had been honorary secretary ed in Mr. Constantinesco, who, school has from time to time chil- and treasurer of a fund for helping with his famous torque converter, dren with whom it fails, who drag boys of the Rutlish Secondary has gone further along this road out their time na outlaws, every School, Merton, at the University, than anyone else up to the pre- one's hand against them, or are ex- The fund was deficient of 4485, and serit, and the result is in "Come pelled for the general good. We do Pegler had, destroyed returned with Me," at the New Theatre.... not nowadays believe that these cheques and books. He had forged Car engineers and designers in have reached boys and girls are by nature pecu- the name of the chairman of the every country
He something like finality as re- llarly wicked. The wise teacher re-fund, the vitar of Morton. cognises in them the result of some went to France,, but returned to gards the type of engine that unhappy abnormality-physical, this country, as he expressed it, "to can be used with the present type of transmission, and they are now mental, social.
face the music." The elementary school, in the as- Detective-sergeant Morris asid turning their attention to the The Wimbledon draw reveals ture of things, can spare but little Pegler had been given a commis-transmission itself. The method that not a single Englishman has time and consideration for abnor-sion for bravery in the field, and of getting the power from the the engine to the back wheels of a been "seeded" in the singles. The malities. The common necessity had been recommended for only seeded Britisher is Patterson of all schools to be organised for King's Medal for bravery while car has remained much the same Those who have been seeded in the the greatest good of the greatest serving with the Royal Irish Con- for the last 25 years, and both users and makers realise that it Singles are Cochet, the holder. number is there most stringent stabulary. He had been an ex-
There are two main advantages Lacoste, Barotra of France, Tilden. Yet it is in the elementary schools tremely popular man, and had sub-is high time something was done. Hunter, Hennessy of America, that the greatest number of abnor-scribed freely to sporting and other to be gained by a complete re 18 the Italian Morpurgo, and Patter-mal children are to be found, and charities. Of late he had been un-vision of the transmission sys- the danger of their degenerating successful in business, and when tem. First, the elimination of In the Women's Singles the into useless drones or enemies of arrested was working as a chau-gear changing, the bugbear of the new driver, and secondly, some- numes are Miss Wills, the holder, society is considerable. The scheme feur.
From the dock Pegler said he thing, which I think will be far Miss Ryan, Miss Jacobs of presented to, the Education Com- America, Signorita D'Alvarez of mittee defines the children to be hoped when he had expiated his of more important in the long run. MONEY & SHARES. Spain. Fraulein Ausscum of treated as those difficult, mal-ad- fence to direct his energy to becom-the possibility of the use of a far more efficient and entirely differ- Germany and two British ladies,justed, or delinquent, and proposes ing a good' citizen again,
The Recorded (Sir Erncat Wild, ent type of internal combustion Miss Bennett and Mrs. Watson,that the new clinic should obtain Reuter.
information as to the parents and K. C.) sald that Pegler's magnifi-engine. It is impossible to pro-
A friendly match between the Kowloon Dock R.C. and the Club do Recreio "A" took place on the lat ter's green yesterday afternoon and after a very closely contested game the Recreio "A" just managed to heat the K.D.R.C. by 3 shots.
Details:-
K.D.R.C. McKelvie'
Coleman
Henderson
Johnstone
(skip)
Recreio "A."
E.V.M.R. SOURA
C. A. C.
Rodrigues
C. A. Lopes
J. Ribeiro
14 (skip)
F. X. Silva.,
C. G. Silva
L. C. R. Souza
R. F. Luz
(skip)
22
C. E. Marques
H. A. Alves
Duncan
Cuthill
Brown
Greig,
(skip)
15
Cooper
Kempton
Lapsley
Cullen
A. C. V. Ribeiro
(skip)
51
22 (skip) 14
54
Total: C. K.D.R.C. 51.
de Rec. "A" 54.
C. M. S. Alves
TENNIS LEAGUE.
CRICKET CLUB BEATS RECREIO.
WINS, FOR C.R.C.-
On the 1.R.C. courts yesterday Chinese R.C. defeated the the Indians in an "A" division match by 74 to 25. Details:-
S. A. Rumjahn and A. H. Rum- jahn (LR.C.) :—
ЯON,
NO ENGLISHMEN IN "SEEDING."
London, Yesterday.
ELBSCHLOSS EAGLE BRAND BEER
Playing Cards, Cigar and Cigarette Ash Trays will be given free to purchasers of Quart bottles of Elbschloss Beer.
Sole Agents for Hong Kong.
WING ON CO., LTD.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
2/- 1/8
the family history and the influence cent Army record, his work for the phesy with any certainty as to Bank, wire of home, and then, if desirable, R. I. C., his misfortunes, and the the trend of an industry like the Bank, on demand... 2/-9/16 should undertake the treatment of manly attitude he had taken up en-motor trade, as so many exterior Bank 30 day's sight
forces come into play, Bank, 4 months' sight 2/- 3% the child. These suggestions will abled him (the Recorder) to take a
GOLF.
ROGEY POOL RESULTS.
A. E. Lissaman (6)
Other scores:-
W. D. Brown' (7)
E. Grimble (12)
15 entries.
1 up.
1 up.
bad humes or bad heredity, bat by
4 months'
be familiar to those who have studimore merciful view than he would most of which have nothing Credits, ed the work done on "delinquency otherwise have been able to do. Whatever to do with design, sight 2 up wins, cases" in America, and they should Since his offence Pegler had acted while the sudden arrival of a suc- Documentary 4 months'
cessful gas turbine, the resuscita- sight prove useful there as here. But the as what was called "a good sports-tion of the steam turbine, or a problem is of great complexity, man." Many young rebels are made not by
THE DAVIS CUP.
BRITAIN PLAYING
ITALY.
Felixstowe, Yesterday.
In the Davis Cup European semi-final Destefani (Italy) beat Gregory (England) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3,
lost to Ng Sze-kwong and C.
6-2.
Chon
lost to Ho Kn-lau and La
Man-ching
5- 6
7-5.-Reuter.
lost to M. K. Lo and M. W.
Lo
2. 9
BOY'S VICTORY,
S. H. Ismail and D. Mohamed (1.R.C.):-
lost to Ng Sze-kwong and C.
IN LONDON TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Chua
1-10
lost to Ho Ka-lau and Lau
Man-ching
3- 8
lost to M. K. Lo and M. W.
Lo
2-9
I. A. Razack and S. A. Ismail (LR.C.):~
London, Yesterday.
At Queen's Club in the London Lawn Tennis championships, third round, Coen, the 10-year old Ameri- cun Davis Cup player, beat the holder, Colonel Mayes 7-5, 1-6, 6-4. -Reuter.
BILLIARDS.
their schools and their school- fellows. They cannot shine in any
On Paris-- new method of projecting power On demand might completely turn everything Credits, 4 upside down.
sight. Two Main Types.
On Berlin- Engineering progress is, how-On demand
of the regular school activities, so WOMEN'S ELECTION. ever, usually rather by evolution On New York-
they become discontented, and the other boys show contempt for them, and hatred and malice and all un- charitableness are bred.
It has
been found in America that the
GERMAN BIRTHS.
HALVED SINCE 1880,
Berlin. Bright lights
and
1
THE SHARE MARKET.
Stock
Hong Kong. Stack, Exchange.
TT. on London .... 2/- T.T. on Shanghai..... 75
Banks. Hongkong Bank ..... $12021
do. Lon. Beg... £140 Chartered Bank ..... £21 Mercantila A. & B... £853
do.
G. £1435 P. & O. Bank ........ £9*/ Bank of East Asia... $78
Insurances. Canton Insurance
**** $615 Union Insurance..... $934 North China Insurance T142
Yangtze Insurance ... $50
[1296
China Underwriters: $2 b 2.35 ■ China Fire Insurance $285 H.E. Fire Insurance. $720
Shipping.
Douginser
HK Steamboats
1247
months'
**
than revolution, and on this basis On demand
491⁄4
I can see two main types of motor Credits, 60 days' sight MR. MACDONALD AND NEW vehicle supplying the needs of the On Bombay-
VOTERS.
motorist of the future. One with Wire
1844
a large flexible power plant, a top On demand
134%
$37 .... $20 H.K: Tugs & Lighters $24 Indo-Chinas (Prat)...
do. (Dala) $70 Shell Transporta ... 96/8 Water-boats
1944
Mining.
184
Bezgusts
$20%
$116
87
do,
Kailan Mining Ad. 64/~ Langkets (Combined). T12.20
T5,90 (Single)...
Shanghai Explorations. T2.80
084
Shanghai Loans Ranba
T8%%
$4.10
752
17/6
Kong
105
(Bank's
2/1 .... 274
5% prem
The next election would be a gear car, with a lower gear ratio On Calcutta- greatest improvement in public spirit and what they call "social women's election, declared Miss only for starting purposes and for Wire morals" results from the work of Susan Lawrence, M.P., recently and emergencies, such as the genius On demand
a very high On demand".. Morpurgo beat Higgs 7-6, 6-4, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides in giv- it would be a battle not merely for of Mr. Henry Ford first evolved, On Ringapore ing opportunities for the abilities increased strength of the Opposi- and which reaches
state of perfection in many On Manila- of the unscholastic and fostering ation, but for Labour power.
Miss Lawrence, as chairman, was American cars to-day. The other On demand sense of honour-London "Daily
On Shanghal- addressing 500 delegates at the would have some sort of diminu Telegraph."
opening at Portsmouth of the Na-tive supercharged. two-stroke en-On deixand tional Conference of Labour gine of motor-cycle size, working so day's right (private Women.
at an almost constant high speed. paper)
On Yokolum99 28 ------ Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who was and delivering its power through
On demand given a cordial reception, aupport- some sort of torque converter led resolutions introduced by his At the moment the ordinary Gold Leaf, 100 fine
(per tael) daughter, Miss Ishbel MacDonald, motorist is not so much concern
Sovereigns welcoming, with reservations, the ed with developments of this na-
buying rate) Extended Franchise Bill. "I know ture. He is interested in the we are going to get a majority of elimination of the gear-changing Silver (per od.) gloomy shadows are the character the new votos," he said.
The terror, though he often will not Bar Silver lu Hong istics of a report on the health young woman with energy and own it. This factor has taken of Germany just presented to the idealism is going to vote for precedence somewhat naturally Chinese Copper Cash nom
in the minds of designers; and Chinese Copper Cents 6% prem Reichstag by the Minister of the Labour." Interior. The blackest patch from Mrs. Bertrand Russell made a there are now many excellent de Rate of Native in
terest ................... 7% pa. the point of view of the writer is vigorous attack on the Labour vices for this purpose,
Chinese Sub. Coin. 82% dis. The most prominent of all is a Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par the steady decline in the birth-rate.party Executive's attitude of op- In the decade 1871-1880 it was position to making the dissemina free-wheel device, several types "B" Division.
An interesting billiard match be- 38.91, but by 1926 had sunk to tion of birth control information a of which are now on the market. I have tried one or two, and think Playing at home. the Chinese tween the St. Peter's Church 19.50. Last year the fecundity of party, question, and moved that a R.C. defeated the M.B.K. by 63 to Young Men's Club and the "WE" Berlin fell to a point at which it no report dealing with it be referred they are of tremendous value, team, played yesterday at the longer kept pace with the mortality, back. She claimed "the right of both in economising petrol and in Catholic Union Club, by courtesy and any increase in the population choice" for working-class mothers, simplifying driving. of the Committee, resulted in a of the city was due solely to immi- and said they demanded that the wheel behind, the gear-box en- win for the "WE" Team by 59 gration. Not that the further con- Ministry of Health ban on birth ables one to do anything with 9-2 points. The store at the conclu centration of population in and control information being given at one's gears without worrying B. 3. sien of the fifth game was 528 all, around this city is necessarily good maternity centres should be lifted about the clutch and this is a
for Germany.
Dr. Macirone, of Birmingham, marked step in the right direc It suffers from the dis- supporting, said: "We have beention. To pass from one extreme to an forced to set up
a private birth advantage that it only removes other, Germany certainly has cause
control clinic under voluntary the more obvious symptoms of for self-congratulation in the fall supervision at Birmingham because the disease, without actually re- of her infantile mortality from 18.1 we cannot do what we would like moving the disease itself. per 100 born alive in the decade in the ante-natal clinic under the gear-box is still there, under the floor boards, wasting power and 1901-1910 to 10.1 in 1926, The Ministry of Health. mortality from tuberculosis has
lost to Ng Sze-kwong and C.
Choo
4- 7
lost to Ho Ka-lau and Lau
Man-ching
3- B
lost to M. K. Lo and M. W.
Lo
I
0-11
Horace Lo and Iu Tak-cheuk
36. Details-
(C.R.C.) :-
beat Fujimori and Fuku-
shima
beat Kitajima and Matfuo.
ST. PETER'S Y.M. CLUB DEFEATED,
beat Takhibama and Koyama D. 2 leaving the last game to decide the
Ng Sze-cheung and Kwok Po-kun match. (C.R.C.) —
Philip Tal
F. Zimmern
:
A free-
The
Mr. Arthur Henderson said that hampering the engine, though its also materially declined. In towns if there was one question on which more striking deficiencies are re- with 15,000 and more inhabitants such a course would be dangerous moved, and one is inclined to for it was in 1926 9.9 per 10,000 living, it was
one which touched the get its existence. It is for this which the report describes as "ap-solemn religious convictions of a reason that I think that the mat- ter cannot remain where it is, but proximating to the minimum at pre- vast number of the population.
Mrs. Russell's proposal was de- must go forward in the ordinary
course of evolution. land. On the other hand, as be- feated by 257 to 254.
Scores:
lost to Fujimori and Fuku-
- shima
- 6
St. Peter's. W. C. Choy
150
bent Kitajima and Matfuo.
8- 3
P. Pau
107
lost to Takhibama and Ko-
F. C. Làu
150
J'amn
5-6
C. K. Lau
97
Cheng Chi-wing and Lau Fook-ki (C.R.C.):-
119
91
beat Fujimori and Fuku-
ahima
10- 1
714
beat Kilajima and Matfuo
6- 5
"WE' Team:
lost to Takhibama and Ko-
E. Vas
B7
sent found in Denmark and Eng-
yama
4- 7.
E. Remedios
150
E. Nuttall
86
tween 1926 and 1926 there was an
J. Remedios
150
increase from 40,500 to 55,500 cases
At home the H.K.C.C. beat the
M. Baptista
150
P. Castilho
150
of scarlet fever, and an absolute rise of 1,200 in those of cerebro- meningitis.
SIR J. G. BERRY'S £50,000.
778
Recreio Lose.
Recreio by 51 to 48. Details:-
J. G. Laurie and G. C. Grove (H.K.C.C.):-
lost to V. Yvanovich and F..
Remedios
W. B. Cornaby and G. Miskin! (H.K.C.C.) :—.
lost to V. Yvanovich and F
Remedios
beat A. L. Remedios and
A. V. Remedios
STANDARD TIME.
Sunrise and Suneet in Hong Kong
..
5-6
lost 8 A. L. Remedios and
A: V. Remedios,
ธ. 8
beat E. A. Noronha and E.
de Sousa
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN
" HONG KONG.
65
during June, 1928, standard time for the 120th meridian, East of 5-6 Greenwich, is as follows:--
Sunrise, Sunset.
7-5
a.m.
bent E. A. Noronha and E.
de Bouss
21
5.89 7.10
28
6.41 5.41 7.11
5,40 7.10 5.40 7.11 5.40 7.11 5.40. 7.11
7.11
541 **842-
B. K. Valentine and W."DA,
Nowers (H.K.CC.);—-
Jost to V. Yvanovich and F.
Remedios
Jost to A. L. Remedios' and'
A. V. Remedios
best E.. A Noronha and E.
de Souse
5.897.10.
Pump Handling.
I should like to point out here that all this is absolutely against myself, as I am a gear-changing maniac. My own car is one which requires an almost con- tinual "pump-handling" of the
LONDON EXCHANGES.
Paris
New York Brussels Geneva Amsterdam
London, Yesterday.
124.20 4.88 1/16
Tronoh Mines
..
Docks, Wharves, Godowns, &c. K.E., & K. Wharves
HE. & W. Docks China Providants Hongkow *********
New Engineeringe
Shanghai Docke
$186 b 137 sa
$39 35.10
T150
TO
T107
Cotton Mills. Ewo Cottons
*
TB T2.20
34
7811⁄2
Lands, Hotels & Bidge.
Oriental Cottons
S'hal Cottons (Old)
do. (now) .. T27%
H.K. & S. Hotels Hongkong Lands Shanghai Lands Humphreys Estate Hongkong Realties H. Territoriala Prince's Buildings
Pablle UuLDE. H.E. Tramways.
Peak Traine (old)... do. (new)
Star Ferries
China Lights (comb.)
.
do.
do.
$8.95 b 9.20 3 $65
T184 b 187 s $144 $814
n
b 8244. $12% $8 804% b 65 s
(old) $11 b 11% i (new) $11.10 b 11.60 a do. 1928 aspe $11% ELK. Electrica
Macro Electrics
China Buses
Singape Tractions
do. Pref.
Jadustriala.
84,94
25.31.
12.09%
H.K. Telephones
Milan Berlin
92.85
20.42
Stockholm
18.19
Copenhagen.
18.20
Oslo
18.22
Vienna
34.685
Prague
1844
Helsingfors
194
Madrid
29.845
Lisbon Athens
2 7/82
874
Bucharest
795
Rio
Buenos Aires
Bombay
Shanghal
Hong Kong Yokohama.....
Silver Spot & For-
5 29/32
47 29/82
1/5 29/32 2/8%
2/0/% 1/10 31/32
`ward ?.......*** 271⁄4.
-British Wireless Service.
VILLAGE ANOMALIES.
aina Bugars... Mabon Engar Canton Icea Cements (comb.) do. (old)
do. ·(new) *. H.K. Ropes (old)
do. (new) United Asbestos Stores, &c.
Dairy Farms
Watsons **** Der A. Wings Tans, Grawfords Mackintosha Sinceres.. Wm. Powells
Miscellaneous.
H.E. Amusementa H.E. Constructiona B. Ind. G. Boads.... H. E. Govt. Loans
B
$71 b 71% sa
$26%4
$5,00 $0
b
11/8 b 11/11⁄2 sa
$8.40
17/6
$214
b
$2434
$8% 18%
$9:80
b
$1.55 b 1.70
$6.00
$0.70
$10
$21.60 $14
50 cts.
$84
$20 $914
$29 b 81 a $12 64% b .4% Prem. n
water supplies and public lighting are quite distinct. If a man is ar reated in the street the constable
Appalling, on the surface, is the growth of insanity caused by al- Sir J. Gomer Berry, chairman of change speed lever. If one wants coholic excess. Between 1928 and the committee of management of to get really good, results, and ROAD IN 2 PARISHES. doing one half of the road, and the 1926 the number of patients con- the Infants' Hospital, Vincent quite frankly I love it, and con- signed to asylums and hospitals square, Westminster, announced at sider it is really one of the few under this beading rose from 950 meeting of governors and sup interesting things one does when to 10,990. It cannot, however, beporters a gift by him of £50,000 driving a car. If a gearless car Watchet-Anomalies which exist) has carefully to note the precise said that drunkenness is yet a con- This sum will cover the entire comes in I shall probably give up in the village of Poriock (Somer- spot, in order to determine in which picuous phenomenon in Germany cost of the new maternity quarters, motoring, or be seen driving set), owing to its situation in two parish the alleged offence, is com
and Sir Gomer said that he wish some, by then, ancient monstro parlahes, were disclosed at a mitted,
:
ed it to be regarded as a memorial sity, going through curious and county council Inquiry in rel Partshioners on both sides are Two well-known Chinese million to his wife, Inexplicable motions to the ponse to an application that Dover hopeful that the inquiry, will result atres in Singapore have started a He stated that it was her earnest amusement of the general public, hay part of the parish might be in the abolition of this state of business duel. One of them, who wish that an adequats and proper. Finally, I am not sure that gear merged into Farlock,
affairs...
Is a purveyor of tyres, shoes, ly equipped maternity extension changing is not a rough and A portion of the main atrest | 55 pineapples, biscuits and soap, is should be constructed. One of her ready test of one's fitness to be in
play
done
ctual
now offering free packets of patent last requests to him was that any charge of a car at all, and that in divides the parishes, and the Dover For the first time In this country medicines to his customers. The memorial to her should be at the a gearless age driving will become hay burial ground is 24 miles Eugene O'Neill's one-ac other, who has specialised in patent Infants Hospital far more dangerous than it is away. In other days dying people "Before Breakfast medicines and will be remembered "It is the intention of the com- now, as anyone can learn to steer were carried across the street. In at the Theatre Royal, Gla for free gifts of coffins, is not mittes of management, added Bir a car in a few minutes but there order that they might be buried at is in the likely to take this lying down." Gomer, to make the hospital the are many more things in driving 7.11 The results will be awaited with best and most complete infanta than that The Hon. Maynard 7:1
Intereati
hospital in the world.
Greville in Morning Posts
Cure of an
Porlock
¿contains
There are separate systema of cha
scavenging each parish council Máry Gre