TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1928,
Sport Columns
SECOND TEST.
ENGLAND PASS VISITORS'
TOTAL
IST. INNINGS' LEAD.
NOT TO PLAY,
TILDEN AND DAVIS CUF..
DECISION ENDORSED.
New York, Yesterday.
London; Yesterday. In the second day's play of the
The officials of the United States second Test Match, at Manchester. Lawn Tennis Association have in fine and sultry weather, on cabled to S. H. Collum, president of wicket unaffected by slight rainfall the Association, endorsing his deci overnight, England were dismissed sion not to play Tilden in the Davis
for 951.
Hobbs made 53, Sutcliffe 64, Ham- mond 63 and Jardine 83.
BETTING TAX.
REDUCTION FOR CREDIT TRANSACTIONS.
A NEW CLAUSE. ›
London, Yesterday.
THE CHINA MAIL,
The story might "have been Im- proved by his ball coming to rest behind the memorial and his third shot hitting that obelisk with auch force as to recoil another 150 yards away from the proper acone of operations, but we will leave it without embellishment.
REPLACE THE DIVOTS,
T
FILM FACES.
MADE READY FOR THE
: MOVIES
A NEW ART.
Screen personality used to be) At my home course, South Herts, the gift of the gods, but in these On the report stage of the Fin- ance Bill Mr. Churchill, Chancellor they tell a tale of a man who enco days all the materials of personal- of the Echequer, moved a new clause lost his ball without hitting it. ity are contained in a small box. the effect of which was to reduce The affair happened in this wise:- the betting tax from October next for credit betting from three, and a half per cent. to, two per cent, and for course betting from two per cent. to one per cent.
There is in London a man who A lot of rain had fallen, and the claims that he can give any course was more than usually soft, woman a new personality in less Our here was not a good player, and than five minutes. In executing a full bang with his mashie, he was guilty of the com- and he is reputed to have more His name is Gerald Fairbank, mon fault of looking up before the modern film masterplaces to his club-head reached the ball. The credit than any other living artist consequence was that he raised an the average person could name. enormrious divot.
He hoped the reduction in duty would add to the efficiency of the tax and that there would be less Cup final.
He felt satisfied that he had This Announcement has caused evasion. If & practical scheme of surprise in sporting circles whore grading licences were to be devised struck the ball, but nowhere could
... STARS ASSISTED. Mr. Fairbank, or "Jerry" as he West Indies, who scored 206 in it had been confidently felt he that scheme would supersede either he see It. High and low he sought is more familarly called, is "make- duo course up man" at the British Interna- their first innings, had made 71 for would be played in view of the re-in whole or in part the reduced per- without success. In
came the explanation; let us hope tional Studios at Elstree-a prol four when stumps were drawn.
quest of the French Lawn Tenniscentages.
The rate of duty upon the totali-that it brought balm to his soul. tege of Herr A. E. Dupont, who Federation to reinstate him.
"The best Worcester Whacked.
Mr. Collum has cabled
to sator had not been settled at the He had missed the globe, and the has described him as
in England," an Leicestershire defented Worces-
the United States
As soon as a new ponderous divot which he had ex-make-up man Associa present moment. tershire by an innings and 200 runs.
tion from London atating habody was constituted the Govern- tractod had. neatly turned over on opinion eonfirmed by Mr. Joe Worcester 77 (Coleman 5 for 30)
has replied to the Frenchment would begin an examination to the ball, obscuring it from view. Grossman, Britain's most experi The moral of this story is that, enced film studio manager. Among and 181.
Leicester 464 Berry 207)---Re-Lawn Tennis Federation saying the with them and see what was a fair
charges against Tilden should proportion which they might pro-if you niways replace the divots, the numerous stars whom he can perly take. The new clause was even when you are without a caddle, 'be said to have assisted are Alice: stand.
The treasurer of the United read second time by 199 to 11 and you at least will not lose the ball if Terry, Ramon Novarro, "Antonio Moreno, Ivan Petrovitch, Gloria States Lawn Tennis Association has was added to the bill.-British you happen to miss it.
Swanson, Nita Naldi, and Maria now cabled to Mr. Collum "All Wireless Service.
Corda. He is now working hard Perseverance, obstinacy-call it to obtain the best photographic re- what you will-leads some players sults from the faces of Miss to extraordinary lengths, to say Estelle Brody and Miss Madelino nothing of the compilation of some Carroll,
ter.
2 YORKSHIREMEN.
THE OLD AND NEW IN CRICKET.
RHODES AND SUTCLIFFE.
Before this season's cricket be- gaa there was a considerable flutter in conservative dovecots over the
· proposed professional captainey of Yorkshire, and in the unseemly bickering the names of Wilfred Rhodes and Herbert Sutcliffe were on many lips. The proposed in- novation was finally scotched; but. whatever one's views on the vexed question of professional captaincy,
grounds at least, both Rhodes and
Sutcliffe are well qualified to lead a
י
concerned, here endorse sentiment
that charges against Tilden should stand and that he should not be re- instated In the team."-Reuter's Reuter's American Service.
TENNIS.
VOLUNTEERS BEAT THE
BORDERERS.
ON THE LINKS.
1
SOME WEIRD GOLF
SHOTS.
THE AVERAGE PLAYER.
:
[By Harry Vardon.]
Some of the shots that one secs
HOLING OUT IN 123.
There is a
exraordinary scores.
Were he anything but the genial story, and it has the merit of being man that he is I might describe true, of a player who' took 123 for
him as the autocrat of Britain's one particular hole.
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On London-
Bank, wire
It was on a course in Hertford-new Hollywood. No super dares to go on the set without his O.K. shire. The hole was a short one, Each star is under contract to but the
green was placed at the truat their beauty to him every on the links are wonderful in their top of a steep hill... In dry weather time they face the camera.
2/~ excollence. Others are almost it was absolutely necessary to put weird as examples of blundering the ball on the green from the tes at Elstree transform an old man Bank, 30 days' sight,
I watched him in his tiny, room Bank, on demand... 2/- 7/16 misadventure.
or it would roll back to its starting into a young one, a girl of six- Bank, 4 months' sight 2/- 4
The player in question teen into a sophisticated, woman of Credits, point.
A friendly tennis match took place on Sunday at Sookumpoo be- The latter have their value as tween Sergts. Meus, K.O.S.B, lessons and consolationa. Every and the Machine Gun
would be even more educative to
4 months'
sight
sight
Co.. now and again, one reads a sym- Csayed the task. He failed, not thirty, and a weedy-looking youth
His efforts to reach the plateau into a hale and hearty man about Documentary 4 months" no one will doubt that, on personal H.K.V.D.C. The match resulted Inposium of articles by prominent once, but time after time.
win for the Volunteers by 65 golfers under some such title as soon developed from a test of skill games to 34, detailed scores being "The best shot I ever played." It into a test of physical endurance make-up disappeared as I watched On demand
All my preconceived notions of On Paris- cricket side to victory. The judg-as follows:
Try as he would, he could not reach ment and cruft of the one, and the inspiriting dash of the other, are characteristics which, in their dif; ferent ways, mark out the leader of men from the rank and file of mediocrity,
shots
4 months' Finch and Urquhart (M.G. Có.) collect the views of the same people the top where safety lay. As fast him work. There was no profusion Credits, beat Potts and Delahunt .. 6- 5109 to the worst
in their as he played the shot, his ball came!f the bright yellow grease paint sight They
On Berlin- beat Hope and Bunting... 9-2 memory.
would have a running back to him with a per-with which. I had always associat-
A little red on demand the ordinary beat McGlinchey and Bell... 10. 1 human appeal to
sistency that was positively hearted screen make-up.
and green over the eyes, careful Norris-Owen and Terry (M.G. struggler with the game.
On New York- patting and working in of flesh On demand. I really think there is an immense breaking. But he succeeded at last,
It is probable that this golfer colour with fingers that gauged the Credits, 60 days' sight 3-8 amount of secret satisfaction when and holed out in 123. 8- 3a champion makes as bad a bungle holds the record for the highest camera effect of the result to the
On Bombay- last shadow, deft strokes with red 5- 6 of a hole as any 24-handicap player
Wire and black pencils, a carefully Co.)
On demand drawn mouth. It seemed extreme- ly simple.
Co.)
lost to Potts and Delahunt beat Hope and Bunting lost to McGlinchey and Bell
Mitchell and Wales (M.G. beat Potts and Delahunt. beat Hope and Bunting
Rhodes has been, and still is, one of the greatest and most "genuine," as the racing men say, of English cricketers. Though of less than average height, he is solidly built and hard as nails-a true English onk. His batting is not so much | beat McGlinchey and Bell .. alive as it once was, of course, but what charm it possesses, of its own kind! the cold. Intellectual churm
Hong Doubles.
7- 4
9- 2 8- 3
might do. It is a touch of nature score for any one hole.
which makes the whole world kin.
two Personally, I have suffered such experiences. The first was at Bury, where, appearing as open champion, I took 14 for n short hole To-day's programme is:
after playing the first few holes) First Round-W. A. Nowers and rather well. The second was at of the artist of the classical school.
D. S. Green (A. P. C.) owe 1/6 v. Muswell Hill when (again as open There is not the smallest taint of 0. J. Shannon and H. V. Parker champion), I took nine for a simple modernity about Rhodes at the wic-long Kong Bank) scr..
little drive-and-pitch hole. I got ket-no "two-eyed" nonsense, 'no
Second Round.-W. D. Fiddes into a ditch and needed seven. shots freakish cross-bat strokes at the
Wilson) ser. V Lieut. 3. M. W. to reach the green. good length ball; everything is pre-Healing and Lieut. G. M. Waters How excited and refreshed the cise, almost austern: the left leg (I. M. S. Tamar) owe 3/6; T. S. members looked! This was coming down the wicket to all but McEachran and A. Reid (Charter-thing like a spasm of the punish- the shortest of bawling. Rhodes, ofed Bank) owe 15 v. C. L. Sandes and ment which they expected to suffer course, is not afraid to hit the ball H. Graves (Mercantile Bank) rac. and did suffer from time to time. und hit it hard if it appears to re-
The ditch was photographed from quire hitting; but he is too discreet
every point of the compass. They may have had much sympathy with the player, but they were also able
to force matters at the expense of
first principles.
A Great Strategist.
15.
BILLIARDS.
some-
to recall proud days when they had done that hole in four, and perhaps
If it be at all regrettable that his CHINESE Y.M.C.A. BEATEN BY they had had an occasional three at batting retains.this old-time favour, there can only be joy that his bowl-
CATHOLICS.
ing has done so too.
In an age which has sacrificed length and spin
A friendly match between the to the ephemeral tricks of "awery Chinese Young Men's Christian As- Ing a new ball, Rhodes' conserva-solution and the Chinese Catholic
The
It.
Yes; they could play golf when they felt in the mood. And a cham- plon could play like the worst when things went badly. He could take nine at a drive-and-pitch hole. They, too, had totalled something like nine for it in periods of adver-
tism is not only interesting and at Young Men's Society was played at tractive but definitely profitable. the latter's Hall last night. There is no individual attacking home team won by a margin of 184 gity. A funny game, golf.
force in England to-day more con- sistent, more tenacious, more pre- meditated, or more guileful than his. That short run of his up to the crease, that quick swing of the left arm-quicker than one might have expected from a slow bowler-and the perfect pitching of the ball, with the gentlest but deadliest spin It is a fine sight to see upon it! Rhodes at it gradually, by tiny variations of length and flight, Bucking the batsman up the wicket to his doom. No left-hand bowler has yet been found in post-war ericket to fill the shoes of this in- imitable strategist.
the no-
points.
C. Y. M. C. A. Lam Shiu-man Lo Hau-kan Pong Shiu-piu Ho Yin-lau...
90
121
192
135
Leung Ka-cham
91
Tse Toon-chuan
150
·Total
719
C. C. Y. M. S. Wong Wai-lim Tse Tak-on Tai Fal-lip Tso Chak-wan Leung Kam-lewong Wong Yat-ping.
.150
150
,-'150
150
150
.108
Total
.858
BASEBALL
BUNKERED OFF HIS PUTT.
It is pleasant, after all, to think that we are all fallible on occasion. When James Braid won the
open championship in manner so magni. ficent at Prestwick in 1908, he did a thing in the qualifying round that the longest of long-handicap players would have felt like kicking himself for doing.
Rep. Cordell Hull, of Ten- nessee, one of the really big men in the Democratic Party.
50 YEARS AGO.
WOMAN BURIED IN A BOG.
A 50-years-old murder was re-
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Braid was nicely on a green In two, about fifteen yards short of the vealed at an inquest at Mullagheroy, hole, which was cut five yarde from near Delvin, County Westmeath, on the banker guarding the back of the body of a young woman found
SQUARE CHINS MADE OVAL the green. Braid putted-and went in a bog into the hazard. Bunkered off his A turf cutter, John Murtagh. This altering of facial shapes putt! He had to take his siblick said he found the body of a young and contours is in itself a highly embedded in the peat specialised art.: Round faces are and hack his way back to the green, woman Sutcliffe is to the younger gen-
which was without blacked" out (with cerise colour- That wonderfully fine all-round The body, eration of county cricketers what
athlete, the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, clothes, was well preserved, with ed powder) to look square, square Rhodes is to that which is passing
who rose to Cabinet rank as Secre- long plaits of auburn or flaxen hair china are made oval or pointed, ac- from view. Sutcliffe's slim, loose-
tary for the Colonies during his tied in a knot at the back of the cording to the wearer's fancy. limbed figure epitomises, as it
Parliamentary career, was a good bead.
Dr. Delvin sald the skin was in
break an ware, the unfettered modes of
golfer. He had a handicap of three
make-up can make or. the new cricket, just as
A baseball match will be played in the Royal and Ancient Club. a mummified condition. On the artist, a fact which British artists lidity of Rhedes embodies the this afternoon between teams from But this standard of skill, did not back he found four cuts, which have failed, until recently, to un- wary conservatism of the old. If the U.S.S. "Sacramento" and the save him from being the central were probably infilcted during life.derstand. Rhodes is the English oak, then U.S.S. "Asheville" on the Happy gure in one of the queerent mis- One of the cuts was in the region. In addition to human stars, don- Sutcliffe is the strong-growing wil- Valley diamond.
adventures ever suffered by a play of the heart. There were also cuts keys, camels, dogs, elephants, and to make up was a dog brought to to make up their eyes to photo- or at St. Andrews.
on both arms. The wounds were a snake have all to thank him for the studios. After two hours graph well," he says, "An artist spent in brushing, on the screen must look natural. It happened at the first hole. Mr. caused with a knife or other sharp improving their beauty. The snake had been Indeed, as if it were a part of him.
Lyttelton made a mess of his drive; instrument. Appeared in "Moulin Rouge," and curling, painting and olling his To look made-up is to commit something in common the wilfulness of the incomparable it did not go very far, and it was The Coroner Peat: 16 a great has the distinction of being the coat he walked out, anuffed, and screen auicide"-Iris Carpenter In between the classic strokes of Hobbs. For, in truth, Sutcliffe be- badly, allced. The consequence was preservative7enly star to whom Jerry has be- not liking the smell of the bril"D. Express.".
liantine used on him, rolled over. Rhodes, and mors care-frea bats- longs to a more ancient and ortho-that he had to play his second shot Asked how long the body was in grudged professional assistance. manship of Sutcliffs; for he, too, dex school than either Macartney from a spot immediately behind one the bog, the doctor replied: Not "There were eighteen to twenty and over in the dust of the studio
Freelding at the quarterly is a classicist at heart, a conserva-or. Hobbs, in spite of their senior of the Iron seas that stand close to less than 50 year?
feet of him, he explained, "and floor. He dashed madly round to
of the Mines, Mr. tive with the essential unities. be- ity in years. He is, in 'n sense a the foreshore on the right-hand side A woman of go who had lived in every inch of his body had to be evade subsequent capture, and re-meeting hind all his easy-going appear modernised Rhodes or Hayward, of the course. He made a terrific the district all her life said that in gone over with a paint bruch to sisted fiercely all efforts to repeat A. W Rogars declared
**** the position resulting from, the lacking as yet their soundness and awipe and hit the seat full, with her memory, no person had ever bring out the pattern of his skin the grooming process.
for the picture. They had a string The trouble with most British new Mozambique Convention The writer had the privilege of wariness, but wiser or more ad- the result that the ball rebounded bean missing. seeing his two superb Innings in venturous than they in the deve past the club-house and left him to The coroner recorded a verdict around his head, but I was mighty artists, in Mr. Fairbank's opinion, would be extremely serious, as the last Test match with Australia, lopment of an aggressive back play fake his third shot close to the that a woman aged from 20 to 30 glad when the job was finished." is that they make up too heavily, there was not available a surplus of TROUBLESOME SUBJECT.There are not ten people on the native labour in the Union from and did not observe in him one to supplement the left foot stroke Martyr's Memorial, a hundred yards met, her death more than 50 years
One of the most troublesome British screen at present who know which the deficiency resulting from single instance of the reckless un which were their especial glory behind the tee from which he had ago, probably from wounds In- orthodoxy of a Macartney or even.
Athenians; startada
ficted by s knife.
subjects Mr, Fairbank has ever had how to use lip rouge, or even how the Convention could be made up.
low, of the same substance as the
free-swinging bat which he wielde,
Yet there
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that