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SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929.
Sport Columns
BILLIARDS
FALKINER AT THE DOCKYARD
CLUB
SPLENDID EXHIBITION
Falkiner gave a splendid exhibi- tion last night at the Naval Yard In a match of 800-up, his opponent being Mr. F. Jones the Naval Yard champion.
Falkiner was in Ane form and started scoring at a great pace,
getting an early break of 108 fol- lowed by two smaller ones of 41 and 32. Falkiner then compiled a very fine break of 305 with all round strokes. Jones made a 55 break, but Falkiner ran out with a dashing 181 break, completing his 800 in one hour and 10 minutes, his Falkiner's opponent getting 130. billiards was masterly, his position- ing, being a big feature of a fine exhibition.
Falkiner then competed in a one frame snooker contest with Mr. A. Lewis, the Club snooker champion, and the contest was a very bright one, the balls being cleared very rapidly. Both players were applaud-- ed for clever play, the scores being 59, 43.
Falkiner afterwards treated the company to a variety of trick atrokes, which were extremely clever and much appreciated, and as a closing item introduced a short freak break competition for the members, with special balls, whichį caused great amusement, the win- ner of this being Mr. Bullen.
There will be an exhibition bil- liards and snooker game by Mr. Claude Falkiner and Mr. A. J. Osmund at the Chinese Club at 8.30 p.m. on Sunday. Admission: $2.
National A, A. U.
Mr. Avery Brundage, of Chicago, who was
elceted President of the U.S. National Amateur Athletic Union, succeeding Mr. Murray Hulbert. Mr. Brundage has served as Arst vice-president. For threa times, Mr. Brundage was A‚Å‚Ü‚ all- around champion, once as recently as 1918.
HOCKEY
ARMY WIN IN SIM SHIELD
TO-DAY'S GAME
Ladles' Match
£10,000 DEMAND
BRITISH JUDGE ON SILLY ·
- REVOLVER THREAT
THE CHINA MAIL
“HSINWAH” "...WRECK
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12 MONTHS FOR FRENCH GIRL
"From the foregoing it will be A French girl, Marie Louise seen that the saloon cook drifted Berthe Jacquin, aged 21, who was for about 12 hours on the raft, This two abipmates were in necused of demanding $10,000 with
the water for Beveral hours from Mr. Edwin · John'
longer, and that the cook Paxton, her former employer, ap spent a day in the sea and a night peared in the dock at Lewes Assizes, on the island before being saved. Sussex.
menaces
In the Sim Shield hockey` com- It was alleged that after acting petition yesterday, the Army deas housekeeper to Mr. Paxton at his feated the Royal Navy by three fat at Bexhill, Sussex, Mille. Jacqula goals to nil, Dobbio and Durton left and was paid £1,000 on her (2) were the scorers.
undertaking not to molest him. She went to France but at the end The retura hockey match be of October returned with a French- tween the Hong Kong Ladies and man, Gilbert, by aeroplane. She the Kowloon' Ladies will be play-levelled a revolver at Mr. Paxton in ed at King's Park this afternoon bis flat and said, “If you don't pay starting at 4 "p.m.
me $10,000 I will ahout you" Mr. Paxton, by a ruse, got them into the street and informed the police.
The following will represent the Hong Kong Ladies' Team: F. M. Stevenson, A. Owen Hughes, M. J. Jarvis, N. McNellie, E. S. Laing,
TO-DAY'S SOCCER
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Division L Kick off 4 p.m. K.O.S.B. v. Queen's, Scokunpoo. Iteferee, L.S.B.A. Atkinson.
Kowloon v. Recreio, Kowloon
Yet yesterday's Hong Kong Telegraph" shrieked in its head- lines: "Two Nights and a Day Spent on Frail Raft. This was followed by a sentence (in black type) reading: "Carried for two nights and a day on a frail raft taken off yesterday
In
(Le.. Thursday) morning." other words, the "Telegraph" says in the same breath that the cook was two nights and a day on the raft and was rescued practically 24 hours after the shipwreck!
"Miraculous"
A second count on the calendar accused her of threatening Mr. Paxton with a loaded revolver. She The "Telegraph; yesterday talk pleaded guilty to the first count only,ed of miracles. -It said: "When Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, K.G. | the raft crashed on the rocks at for the prosecution, said that there Shap Chau Shah!" (meaning Hak had been friendly relations between Chau Shan), only three remained Mile. Jacquin and Mr. Paxton before on-it, and two were already dead." she became his housekeeper at the The miracle did happen because to-day's "South China Morning
end of September, 1927. She
left In February and trouble follow-Post" showed that one of the two ed which ended in the payment of the "Telegraph” kajd was
F.C. ground. Referee, Mr. Ip1,000 to Mile. Jacquin. Kau-ko.
Police v. H.K.F.C., St. Joseph's ground. Referee, Capt. Austin, M.C., M.M.
Navy v. S. China, Caroline Hill. Referee, Mr. Hollands,
Division II,
Kick off 2.30 p.m.
S. China "A" v. Navy, Caroline Hill. Referee, Mr. Samy.
K.O.S.B. v. S. China "B," Sookunpoo. Referee, Cpl. Lees.
Small Unita v, Queen's, Athletic ground. Refereo, Sgt. Bunting.
R.A.F. v. Recreio, King's Park. Referee. Mr. Stokes.
St. Joseph's v. Kowloon, St. Joseph's ground. Referee, Pte. Lamb.
E. R. Bell, B. Baker, M. Hansen, M. W. Wallace, M. B. Bird and D. Stanion.
Reserves: F. Cousins and. I. C. Bell.
The following will represent the Kowloon Ladies' Team: M. G. Groundwater, D. Pinguet, H. Eastman, M. White, M. George, M. Mason, L. Dand, E. S. Woolley, V. Eastman, M. Woolley and M. Bryson.
Reserves: B. Hurst and M. Groundwater.
The first match was won by the Hong Kong team by four goals to three.
Hock Club Teams The following will represent the first eleven of the Hong Kong Hockey Club in their match with. the. Queen's Regiment at 4.45 on Wednesday at the U.S.R.C. ground. W. K. Talt, J, Rodgers, W.
When she returned from Frame in the end of October the revolver incident occurred.
Ludicrous Scene
Mr. C. M. Pitman, KC., for Mile, Jacquin, declared: "This is not a serious case of blackmail. If in one Bense it was a serious matter it was an almost ludicrous scene in the flat. as described by Mr. Paxton."
Mr. Justice Rowlatt, in sentencing Jacquin to twelve months' hard labour and recommanding her to be doported, sold:
This class of offence is one to which no mercy
dend has been brought back and inter- viewed to the extent of over a column.
The "Morning Poet" to-day makes the same unaccountable errors-and worse. It repeats, parrot-like, the bit about two days and a night on a raft, the words used being: "The first man found on Hak Chau Shan Island was carried for two nights and a day on a frail raft.....He was eventually......taken off on Thursday morning."
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Exaggerated Horrors Both the "Morning Post" and the **Telegraph"
the phrase: Throughout the second night they drifted on.....!" It ought be realised by now that on the second night the saloon cook was sleeping in a junk off Talkoktsui, in Hong Kong harbour, and the saloon steward was on the uninhabited island, seeing the third man (re- ported by the "Telegraph" to have been dead prendously) lose his rea-
is extended in this country. It is not, strictly speaking, blacknall, which is a worse crime even than demanding money by physical threats, more cowardly, more dreadful, more cruel. But it is sufficiently bad to demand money at the muzzle of a revolver. If you had shot that man and it could be proved, you would have been hanged and Gilbert, too, because we take no notice whatever here of circumming the experiences of the salson The "Morning Post," in describ- stances which, I believe, in your stoward (the second man taken off country are supposed to throw a halo over what are called crimes said: "For over twenty-four hours the laland, on Friday morning). of passion.
tinued as they drifted along......" the horror of their position con- None of the 28 survivors up to yesterday had drifted over 16 hours.
son and walk into the sea.
Unreconcilable
In this case there are elements that make it not so serious as it might have been. I cannot help feeling that there was a vein of silliness and theatricalness at the back of this proceeding which justifies me in taking a more two nights and a day on frail rafts lenfent course, because this crima | two survivors......" In the same renders a person liable to penal servitude.
CHESS
Woodward, L. A. R. Duncan, The Kowloon Chess Champion- E. J. R. Mitchell, J. E. Noronha, ship has been won by H. W.
H. Owen Hughes, G. E. R. Divett, Randall with 8% points out of 10. E. D. Lawrence (captain), G. R. Vallack and C. C. Francis.
The second team, to meet the Punjab Regiment at King's Park at 4.50 on Monday, will be A. N. (Continued on Neri Column.)
The "Daily Press" said: "After
column, it added: "Cheung (le., the saloon cook), however, persever- ed, and by about five o'clock in the afternoon (after he had been on the raft for over 12 hours)......be succeeded in gaining a foothold." How does the "Daily Press" recon- cile 12 hours with two nights and
a day?
In view of what has been shown,
Other, J. Henry, L, F. Nicholson, the "China Mail” enjoins readers to L. A. R. Duncan, J. P. S. Greig, exercise caution in accepting state- I. W. Showan, A. R. Botelho, W. A.ments which, on the face of things, Nowers. H. V. Parker, T. J. Price are exaggerated and not supported and E. C. Finchor,
by facts.
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