WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1929.
Sport Columns
SOCCER MATTERS
DISCUSSED AT COUNCIL MEETING
SHIELD. COMPETITION
The draw for the second round of the soccer Shield Competition, made at a H. K. Football Associa- tion council meeting last evening, resulted as follows:-
Senior Division
Queen's v. RA.. at Soakumpoo. China A.A. v. Kowloon, at Club, S. China v. Navy, at Caroline Hill. Recreio v. Police, at Klug's Park.
Junior Division Navy v. Police, at Caroline Hill. Queen's v. S, China, at Sookum-
roo.
P.W.D. v. China A.A., (B) at Club.
K.O.S.B. v. R.A.F, at Kawlpon. It was subsequently pointed out that the Queen's Regiment would not be present in the Colony on the date fixed, they being relieved by the Somerset Regiment. The dates, it is understood, will be made over to the latter Regiment.
Those present included:-Mr. R.
FIRST CENTURY.
HOBBS SHINES AT ADELAIDE
Adelaide, Yesterday. In a match hers the M.C.C. scored | 392 (Sutcliffe 122, Hobbs 75, Hendren 90; Carlton five for 64) and 307 for five wickets declared.
Hobbs, in the second innings, got his first century of the present tour, scoring 101. Jardine made 114.
South Australia were dismissed for 178 (V. Richardson 87; White seven for 66) and 75 for one wicket. Rain then came on and the match was therefore left, drawn.-Reuter.
A MURDER
MAN FORCED TO DRINK POISON
HATRED THEORY
Now York. The New York police, under the new Commissioner, Mr. Grover Whalen, have been call ed upon to solve what is considered one of the moat fantastle murder mysteries which has confronted the department for years.
The victim, Henry Gaw, a night watchman at the laboratory of Guggenheim Brothers, was appar ently forced to drink coffee into which the murderer had poured a large quantity of cyanide of potassium.
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man's death might be ascribed to suicide were it not for the presence of a mysterious man. who held up, bound, and robbed two torry drivers who reached the SHEFFIELD SHIELD
laboratory early in the morning of tear gas. with a consignment Sydney, Yesterday. New South Wales
This man admitted the drivers in Sheffield Shield, beating Victoria on the regular way, but, after felling the first innings. Don Bradman one with a platol butt, compelled secured 340 runs not out in a total the other to bind his colleague. of 713 for six wickets declared for the winners, while Victoria knocked up 265 and 510 for seven--Reuter.
Won the
TUNNEY'S NEW ROLE
Hall (Chairman), Mr. WCHAMPION BOXER AS FELLOW-
Hollands (Secretary), Mr. G. T. May (Treasurer), and Messrs. A. T. Hamilton; R. M. Dyer, P. P. J. Wodehouse, J. Ormiston, H. K. Lee, F. Smith, F. W. Black, Commdr. Byron, R. N., Lieut. Commdr. J. P. White, R.N., and Captain A. W.
Austin, I.A.
It was announced that the Inter- port gumes had been fixed for February 11, 13 and 16, the dinner to take place on the evening of the last-named date at the Savoy Hotel, L.-Comdr. White was appointed to fill the vacancy on the council caused by the retirement of J. W. Barber, to whom it was agreed to send a letter of thunks for his ser. vicas as RN. and R.M. representa- tive,
The suspension of Two Kwai shing was confirmed.
LEEDS UNITED FINED
YOUNG OLDHAM PLAYER ALSO
. IN TROUBLE
Leeds United Football Club were
Aned £25 for legally approaching on the S. Lloyd, a young player, books of Oldham Athletic by a special commission of the Football League sitting at Manchester.
Lloyd, who was fined £10 for
There
was
The intruder then took about £5 from the pockets of the drivers and left them both bound in a room adjoining that where Gaw lay dead. The police believe that this rob. bery was merely designed to
mislead them into attributing Gaw's death to a hold-up.
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Now Engineerings Marines of Great Britain and mise that the intruder entered the
Shanghai Docks American Marines, at Eastney laboratory for the sole purpose of
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Cotton Mills Barracks, Portsmouth, when Captain James J. Tunber, his supper, poured the poison into
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Gaw's lips and tongue were hor Shanghai Cottons (New) ..TS2 n boxer, on behalf of the American
Lands, Hotels & Buildings. chemical analysis Marine Corps, presented the British ribly burned,
H.K. & S. Hotels 9:15 b 9's 9 sa Royal Marines with a handsome showing that the coffee contained a
H.K. Lands ..................$65 a silver cup for the Divisional foot-large amount of the poison..
Shangha! Landı 175, .T165 b If robbery WAS | ball competition. The present was
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..$8 b time ago of a pedigree bulldog mascot by the British Royal Mar- ines. The cup, which is to be com- peted for annually, has a marble plinth and figures in bronze.
The presentation took place at a parade of the whole division, and the
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cap was received by the Adjutant-General of the Royal Mar- ines, General L. S. T. Halliday, V.C. "I would like to ask the privilege to bow my head in prayer for the speedy recovery of your King," said Capt. Tunney at the close of his Presentation speech. An impressive silence followed.
the object of
HK. Territorials Prince'a Buildings.
Public Utilties
Gaw's slayer the police are unable to account for the fact that a man with plenty of time to obtain valu- chemicals took able drugs and nothing beyond the pocket money of H.K. Tways the drivers who had arrived unex- pectedly before daybreak.
One of the drivers is convinced that he had seen the robber working about the laboratory on previous visits, and it is assumed that he was former employee with whom Gaw may have quarrelled. This, the police say, would explain how be knew the deadly effect of the poison and where to obtain it.
signing two forms of the same de- BARSON SUSPENSION hundred pounds was nominations, was declared a Leeds player.'
The commission ordered Imme- diate payment of $100 transfer fee, with the further conditions that an additional payment of £150 be mada to Oldham Athletic should Lloyd figure in one League game with Leeds United, and in the event of the player figuring in the Leeds first team on twelve occasions payment of a further sum of £250, making a total of £500 in all
INDOOR RINK
ROOM FOR 1,000 SKATERS AT NEW RICHMOND CLUB
Richmond's Ice Rink Club, which was opened during the mail week, and can accommodate 1,000 skaters on the ice together, is the world's largest indoor rink. It is to be open to the public on several even Ings a week, when the maximum charge will be five shilinga.
The skating surface is 286 feet long and 85 feet wide. Between 2,600 and 3,000 spectators can also
be accommodated.
F.A. IGNORE PETITION OF
16,000 PEOPLE
The giant petition organised by the Watford Football Supporters' Club, and signed by 15,000 people, has suffered the same fato as its predecesior.
The Football Association declines to reconsider the case of Frank Barson, the Watford international centre half, who was suspended to the end of the season for miscon- duct in the Watford v. Fulham match last September.
Mr. F. J. Wall, secretary of the Football Association, said that the following answer had been sent to to a letter they wrote to the Foot- the Supporters' Club with reference ball Association on Dec. 5:-
The signatories to the petition cannot know the facts of the case. We therefore must decline to reopen the matter.
Mr. Wall added that he could say nothing further concerning the peti- tion.
The previous petition, bearing 6,000 signatures was, after pre- sentation by the late "Mayor of
Association's offices..
RUGGER INTERPORT
Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air Min-Watford, burned in the Football ister, Major K. M. Beaumont, Major B. M. Patton, Sir Murdoch Mac- donald, Capt. A. G. Herbert, of the Figure Skating Club (international style), and Mr. R. S. Hewett, hon. secretary of the Speed Skating and Figure Skathig (English style) Committee of the National Skating Association, are among the mem- bers.
The rugger Interport game against Shanghai will take place on the H.K.F.G. ground on Saturday, February 9.at 3.30 p.m. Admission charges, etc. are advertiseed-to-day.
Mr. Basil Williams, the well- the new club and will generally known amateur and ex-champion supervise and arrange the pro- skater, is the skating secretary of grammes.
War stock to the value of several found on Patrick Dunn, aged about 70, who was discovered dead, dressed in old newspapers, in his room at a house in Newington-crescent. Southwark, S.E.
Mr. Francis Dodd, A.R.A., has been appointed an additional trustee of the National Gallery.
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Mr. Richard Elbon, of Junction- road, Northampton, collapsed" and died while watching the Northamy- ton v. Walsall football match at James Northampton, and Mr. Green, a commercial traveller, of
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