THURSDAY, JUNE
Sport Columns
`AT `WIMBLEDON.
SURPRISING THIRD DAY RESULTS.
MRS. MALLORY BEATEN.
London, Yesterday.
The third day of the Wimbledon tournament opened in fine weather before a fair attendance.
There was a thrilling battle be- tween the youthful British stylista, Austin and Wheatley. Lycett was beaten by Mr. Moon, the Austra Han farmer, and Mrs. Mallory went down before the Australian, Miss Bickerton.
Full results:-
MEN'S SINGLES.
First Round.
"Bunny" Austin beat
Pat
Wheatley 6-2, 6-8, 6-8. 6-2, 6-1.
Moon (Australia) boat Lycett 9-7, 4-6, 7-5, 6-7, 6-0.
Second Round.
Boussus (France) beat Andrews
6-4, 6-1, 6-1.
MEN'S DOUBLES.
First Round.
Lott and Hennessey beat Danet and Gention (Franco) 7-5, 7-5, 6-3. Tilden and Hunter beat Avory and Higgins 6-2, 6-3, 6-0.
WOMEN'S SINGLES.
First Round.
Miss Bickerton (Australia) beat Mrs. Mallory (America) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Second Round.
Helen Wills boat Miss Goldsack (Britain) 6-2, 6-1.
Miss Jacobe beat. Misa Ridley
6-0, 6-2.
GOLF IN U.S.A.
CHICAGO PLAYER CREATES
RECORD..
A HOLE IN ONÉ.
Kansas City, Yesterday.
hole in one stroke in the second round-Reuter's American Service.
GOLF IN FRANCE.
NO. "SWEEPS.”
DETAILS OF CEYLON DECISION.
ATTENDANCE ASPECT.
NOT FOR PARIS.
THE CHINA MAIL
POLICEWOMEN IMPOSSIBLE,' FRENCH OFFICIAL'S VIEWS.
CROWDS BOUND TO JEER.
BABIES IN 1928.
HIGHER BIRTH-RATE THAN LAST YEAR
crease.
GAIN IN POPULATION.
It is something of an achieve- After repeated reports of lower ment to have caught M. Faralicq birth rates, the number of live for a few moments' conversation. births registered during the first He is the captain of the thirty-quarter of this year in England and one French police officers who Wales showed a considerable` in- have come to London to box-and play Rugby with the London They numbered 168,099, which, police. Scotland Yard, their according to the Registrar General's hosts ("charming men in charm-quarterly return, was 16,846 more The decision of the Ceylon Turfing quarters," as M. Faralice than in the preceding quarter and Club to do away with sweeps on says), have mapped out a rushing 973 above the number recorded in race days (Arst announced locally programme for their entertain the corresponding quarter of last in the "China Mail") will be receiv-jment.
From a two minutes' talk in a
year. Theas births correspond to ed by turftes with mixed feelings, writes "Trespasser." It is bound lull however, one drew the follow- an annual rate of 17.4 per thousand to have the immediate effect of ing, the "Manchester Guardian" of the estimated mid-year popula- smaller attendances at race meets, is informed by a London repre- tion for the year 1927, which is 0.1 particularly in the cheaper en-sentative. "We do not intend to per thousand above that recorded closures, which are patronised copy your system of women in the corresponding quarter of chiefly by persone who only take policemen. That is a paradox sa 1927. aufficient money to have a flutter or far as France is concerned.
two on the sweeps.
It The deaths registered number
'Flu And Smallpox.
Influenza was stated to be either.
isn't a French idea. You English 186,315, and were 20,820 more then It is evidently a realization of the people respect the officers of in the preceding quarter, and 82,465 fact that the crowds are sure to be the law at sight, and your women less than to the corresponding smaller that has prompted the are 'men of action. What would quarter of 1927. The general death C.T.C. authorities to start a big ad happen in Paris if we put women rate of 14.1 was 3.3 per thqusand policemen in the streets? There below that recorded during the car- vertising campaign by the distri-would collect a jeering crowd of responding quarter of that year. bution of handbills in the city and hobbledehoys, girls, men, women, the displays of numerous pastera and children round every unfor- The avowed intention of the Club tunate policewoman. No, it is not is to make the public take an intel-possible. It is utterly impossible
In France woman a primary or contributory cause of ligent interest in the racing itself: in France. this, of course, is like "asking for rules in one domain. She rules death in 3,156 cases, or 2.81 per the moon" so far as the average her husband (at home), her cent, of the total deaths." Infantile person who attends the cheaper en- children, her house. But there mortality was equal to eighty per ale ends. Someday, perhaps, she thousand births, which is twenty- closure is concerned.
While a large number would may vote in the elections, but one below the average of the ten ugree with the Turf Club that their, that is a long way off, and the preceding first quarters, and fa the decision in the matter is right, prospect, if conjured up, would lowest rate recorded in any first quarter. Small-pox was mentioned others would be as emphatic that merely produce amusement. the sweeps should not be abolished.
as a cause of death in thirty-six cases during the quarter. Of these, thirty-two had been provisionally classified to small-pox
Prohibition in London. "Your customs differ from France, none the less, is changing. There are no beggars ly to buy tickets in the sweeps now in Paris, no night restaur should be discouraged if it can be ants. Everything is quiet, and proved that there is a fairly large people go to bed at night." precentage of people who attend Faces for this purpose only.
I would certainly agree with the reason put forward by the Club ours. that persons who attend races mere
The natural increase of popula-
quarter under review by excess of births over deaths was 31,784, as against 37,224 and 43,386 in "the first quarters of 1926 and 1926, and a decrease of 1,644 by excess of deaths in the first quarter of 1927.
tion in England and Wales for the
The number of persons married
"As in London?" I asked. "London!" He seemed amused. "In London, well, it is again a Is it conceivable that people matter of custom.. I was in what would pay a comparatively large you call a night club. At twelve entrance fee and spend the good a'clock they took away my wine- part of a day on the course merely glass, wine and all. Well, it was to buy a couple of sweep tickets in quite correct-very correct. Pro- in the fourth quarter of 1927 in each race? If there are people hibition, I think you call it? And, England and Wales was 186,666, a interested only in the sweeps, it is of course, you are all in bed by decrease of 16,812 over the number far more probable that they would ten o'clock. Perhaps, sometimes, in the preceding quarter, and depute someone attending the races 10.30. When I said that the 28,848 more than that in the corres- to purchase the tickets for them. people of Paris go to bed, I was ponding quarter of 1926. The num
The average race-goer would or contrasting them not with Lon- ber corresponds to an annual rate dinarily first make his Investments don (a quite particular and spe of 16.8 per thousand of the esti on a race, and only after he has cial category of people) but with mated mid-year population, and was done this to his satisfaction would pre-war French people who never 2.8 more than that recorded in the be think of patronising the sweeps, went to bed at all.
"What about Montmartre and corresponding quarter of 1926. Again, after a race is run, the or
In Great Britain and Ireland dur- dinary race-goer would be more an- the Americans" I suggested. xious to see whether his has won there is Montmartre,
"Yes, as you say, he answered, ing the three months ended Septem- but that ber 30, 1927, the natural increase and what his dividend (if any) is has nothing to do with Paris or in population was 91,102. than-to-Worty-about-the-results-ofrance Why, a bottle of scham-number of Hermans married was the sweeps drawing. In fact it is pagne which cost 20 franes be- 212,568. only after one collects one's win-fore the war now costs over 200 nings and backs in the next race francs in Montmartre. It is an that one's attention is turned to American, not a French, concep- the sweeps,
tion." This is evidenced by the fact that I asked him about the London comparatively few people gather traffic.
The Way With Motorists.
round the boards announcing the results of sweeps after a race, "Much slower, of course than:
ary consideration.
INDIAN RULER.
MAY STAND FOR BRITISH
PARLIAMENT. .."
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MONEY & SHARES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONE.
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Bank, wire, m. 2/- $4 Bank, on demand.......... 2/- 7/16 Bank, 30 days' sight. Bank, 4 months' aight 2/- 4
Credits, 4 months'
sight Documentary 4 montha'
Bight
On Paris-
On demand
Credits,
sight
On Berlin
+
1262/4
*months'
On demand adv
1. On New York
On demand ..
49%
| Credits, 60 days" -sight
On Bombay
Wire.
186
On demand
*186
-On Cafeuttaa.
Wire
186
On demand
1361⁄4
On Singapore
88
On demand
1 On Manila-
On demand
On Shanghai
On demand
75%
D
30 day's sight (private
paper)...
On Yokohama→→
On demand
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· Playing Cards, Cigar and Cigarette Ash Trays will be given free to purchasers of dozen Quart battles of Elbichloss Beer,
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WING ON CO., LTD.
Newly Arrived Ladies'
Bathing Suits Bathing Caps
Bathing Shoes
In Big Selections and at Very Low Prices
YEE SANG FAT CO.
AND SHAWLS.
fur-trimmed coats.
HYDE PARK.
Gold Loaf, 100 fine
(per tael)
Sovereigna
buying rate)
Silver (per oz.)
(Bank's
2/1
27 9/16
5% prem.
Bar Silver in Hong
Kong
Chinese Copper Cash nom.
Chinese Copper Cents. 6% prem.
Rate of Native Ins
tercat
Chinese Sub. Cain
7% p.a.
324% dis
Hong Kong Sub. Cola Par.
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THE SHARE MARKET.
.Stock
T.T. on London T.T. on Shanghai
Banks.
Hoat Hoa Block.
Exchange.
Kongkong Bank ..... $129234
do. Lon. Reg. $140 Chartered Bank
Mercantile A. &R
do.
£215
C
$75
$817
$336
P. & 0. Bank Bank of East Asia
Insurances,
-Canton Insurance
Union Insurance.......... North China Insurancs 143 Yangtze Insurance
Chica. Underwriters w
China Fire ́Insurance' $235 EK. Fire Insurance -- $722
Shipping.
Douglaser
HE. Stammboats
$37
$29,
H.E. Tugs & Lighters. $2
Indo-Chinas (Pref) $85 絲
do. (Def.) $70 Shell Transporta
Water-bosts
Benguets
Mining.
Kallan, Mining. Ad ̧..
105/-
$204
Langkats (Combined). T12.20
do.(Single) ... 75.90 Shanghai Explorations T2.45 Shanghai Loans ..... T3
Rauba
$4
Tronob Mines ...... 17/6
Docks, Wharves,
Dk Godowns, &c.-
EK. & K. Wharves .. $180 b 18744
ILK & W. Docks ́...
China Providents
Hoogkewa
Naw Engineerings
Shanghai Docks
$40
$5.10
T150
TE
T105
T8.70
T2.20
39.20
$144
ARON DAÄÄR
$24.90 b 25 a $12%
304
whereas the grounds round the in Paris. Less dangerous. But The Maharajah of Burdwan MILL GIRLS' TO-DAY. Judge'a box and totalizator are better controlled. Your system hopes to have the opportunity of
PLAN FOR IMPROVED Al. Espinosa, Chicago, won the crowded, with inquisitive backers. of white armlets is much better entering Parliament at some future SILK STOCKINGS. OUST CLOGS
LIGHTING.
Cotton Milla. mid-American golf championship It is therefore much more reason-than our truncheons, and your date.
Ewa Cottons with a acore of 289, Archie able to presume that the vast point-men are better instructed, The Maharajah, who is shortly!
Following a visit
which Oriental Cottons
T514 Compaton, with 294, was second. majority of people attend the races One of your white arms can con- to take a political course at the Cidham. The clatter of clogs in
Bai Cottons (Old) .. Scott College, near Lancashire towns and villages, a the pald ..to Hyde Park,
(new) T271⁄4 Ado, Espinosa created a record with 68 for the sake of the racing itself and trol a busy crossing where two Phillip
is traditional sound, is fast disappear-it- in one of his rounds and also did a that the sweeps are only a second./French policemen would be neces-Northampton, said recently
understood that Lands, Hotels & Bldgs. Sir Vivian Henderson, Under- HL. & 8. Hotels.... sary. Of course, we're here for
While there is no immédiate) ing.
$85%.*** While defending the public from made friends of the Paris and sport, not for study. Sport has
prospect of my putting up for Nowadays you will not find 25 Secretary to the Home Office, is Hongkong Lands
Shanghai Landa ............. T134 the reproach which might be levell London police.
any constituency, I would be per cent. of the Lancashire mill preparing a scheme to improve amphreys Estates On the other ed against them, namely that they hand, one cannot help noticing
willing, having learned more girls wearing clogs and shawls. the illumination both of the main Hongkong Realties.... 1834 do not take sufficient interest in the the differences. For instance, if about the work of parliamentary Instead, thay are dreased as trimly thoroughfares and of the less H.K. Territorials
Pablle Utilities. racing itself, I think that the Turf a policeman holds up a motorist candidates, to stand if the Con-as City typists, and wear silk stock- frequented parts of the park. Prince's Bulldings servative Party thought it worth ings and shoes, with neat hats and When the conduct of the police H.X. Tramways. Club has made a wise decision in for driving on the wrong side, or
while to invite me.
in a recent case was the subject Peak Trams (old) this matter. They have sacrified for drinking after midnight, or
of questions in Parliament do. (new) At the Philip Scott College, the Mr. J. Clegg, a shoe and slipper recently, the Home Secretary was Star Ferries a fairly large source of revenue, for any other of your crimes, he but they have done the public a ser has a free field. Your motorist Maharajah will live the life of an manufacturer, of Waterfoot, said: asked whether he would suggest China Lights (comb.)
to do." (old) '? $11.65 Silk stockings are. now so to the First Commissioner of
(new) 811.45 b 11.85 vice. Furthermore, experience of tamely takes it all. No one stops ordinary student, rising at 7.80 and
cheap that the girls prefer to Works that the park should be do. 1928 fase 311.15 sweeps on Ceylon racecoursea has to look on. In Paris, by contrast, breakfasting with the others. He Chantilly, Yesterday..not been too pleasant in the past when 2 gendarme stops a is a stern opponent of Indian ex-
$20 rather than the hand-knitted son-Hicks replied that he was In the French ladies' open golf and it was only a year ago that I motorist he, the gendarme, has tremlats,
HK Telephoses The offending The Maharajah at Caxton Hall,
stockings their grandmothers bound to admit, after such inves-Chins Buzes championship final, over 36 holes, urged the adoption of certain neces-much to say.
tigation as he had made, that Singapzce Tractions Mies Gourlay, Camberley Heath, sary precautionary measures in the motorist has much to say, which Westminster, warned India against
Silk stockings require an ac additional lighting facilities
Pref best Mrs. Percy Garon, Essex, 4 running of sweeps if public con- he says with vigorous gesture, trying to get rid of British rule,
A: Industrials. Every passer-by stops and con- and said that the alternative 'was and two-Reuter.
ane Sugars fidence in them was to be restored. tributes to the argument, for or rule by yellow or brown rades or companiment other than clogs would be extraordinarily useful.
and shawls. Consequently the Sir Vivian Henderson's pro- Mabon Engaza I admit that it is a most difficult against. *
girls have discarded the clogsposals will be submitted in due Canton Ices matter to run seven or eight sweeps I could hold him no longer, for
for ahoes and the shawls for course to the First Commission Cements (comb.) on one afternoon on the racecourse the car was waiting to take him
er of Works, Viscount Peel, and hate. and unless the closest supervision and his colleagues to Claridges exists there is bound to be corrup for dinner. tion.
-FINAL WON BY ENGLISH
WOMAN.
BILLIARDS.
The return billiard match be tween the Chinese Y.M.C.A. and the "WE"-billiard team took place yes- terday and resulted in a win for the "WE" team by the narrow mar- gin of 9 points. The results are as follows:-
Chinese Y.M.C.A.
Wong Pon
150
65
K. C. Leung
Yuen Sinn
160
C. Cheah
150
The fair patrons of the turf will miss the sweeps most. Those who accompany their husbands, to the course and do not Indulge in the "luxury" of backing horses will miss their flutter on the sweeps. For their sakes at least the Club would be well advised to run a two- rupes totalizator again in the main onclosure.
NOT COMPULSORY.
Soviet Russia.
LUXOR DISCOVERY.
ORIGIN OF BRITISH MUSEUM
SARCOPHAGUS TRACED,"
wear these and be in the fashion better lighted. Sir William Joyn-HE. Electrics
Macao Electrics.
wore.
Dr. J. Wilkins on medical officer the Home. Secretary: for Oldham, said:-
It is regrettable, because clogą
are healthy footwear. keep the feet dry.
GERMAN STUDENT BEER. CUSTOM ABOLISHED.
Strasbourg-Beor la no longer to be a compulsory drink for the German university corps, and thus a century-old tradition has been at the bottom of a deep pit. They rabolished.
Cairo The French Institute of UNDER PYRENEES. Oriental Archacology announced that a party digging in the necro- polls at Thebes (Luxor), hab dis covered two roughly cut chambera
FIVE-MILES LINK FROM --FRANCE TO. SPAIN, AN
Paris-The final inauguration on
4.87 22/82
34.91
do.
do (new)
(old)
HK. Hopes (old)
dow (new) United. Asbestos
Stores, &c Dairy Farms
Watsons
Der A. Wings Fane Crawfords
Zackintoshs
Sinceres
$5.60
804 11/8
17/0
-$21.60
$14
They
LONDON EXCHANGES..
London, Yesterday.
Paris
128.95
New York
Brussels
"Geneva.
25.299
Win. Powalls PassMiscellanGODI
53.
Amsterdam
12.10%
H.K. Amusamic fan,
80%
Milan Berlin
92.80
H. Contructions
B. Ind. G. Bonds
85%
20.40
HE Gort. Loans
5%-Frem #
Stockholm
18.18
Copenhag Oslo Vienna
18.20
18.23
84.645
184
198%%
contain some dorty sandstone July 18 of the new Franco-Spanish blocks from the temple of King tunnel through the Pyrences at Taharka (722-668 B.C.), of the 26th Camfrano is to be the occasion for
ententeme the celebration of a Franco-Spanish
Dynasty ostentat
This form of betting was very The decision to this effect w popular with the ladies and its dis taken at an annual Gen continuance in the main enclosure, eral Chapter of German students' which was regretted at the time, corps held at Wolmar, Saxony. Near the blocks was found a This General Chapter controls all will be still more keenly felt now the great students corps through quantity of modern objects, includ-|
that there will be no aweeps also.
supreme.
must be admitted that the gut Germany and its orders are ing a rope, a pulley, a pick nails, baskets, and rollers, which bad the candidates ford evidently been left alon sen Various corps will French
1881 heir pots
IonalThe pit
finitely
gracing.
ed to
to the
Kluz - Alfonso and Doumerge are, to pres
President Fat the
29.525
7/82
HONG KONG HEIGHTS
For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:
Victor Peak
Signal Station
Fest
1828
17743
1784
1728)
$1725
1808
1000%
Feet.
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