FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1929.
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DERBY SWEEP
LUCKY MEN IN THE LOCAL DRAWINGS
In the sweep on the Derby at the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuild ers, J. L. Alves drew Trigo and thus wing $2,694.23, whilst Capt, C. Mutton and A. Harper drew Watter Gay (2nd), winning $744.07, and A. Wong, of the Kongmoon Customs, drew Brienz (3rd) and won $872.08. The sum of $413.37 is divided between holders of tickets of unplaced starters. The draw way as follows:-
Aristotle (1137) Pilgrim, M. Innes, W.
Anderson, Parry, Lawrie. Barbizon (2102) F. Webster,.s.s. "Wa
Shing."
Bosworth (402) C. Tratt, ss. "Tal
Hing."
Brienz
PHYSICAL DRILL
GYMNASTIC SHOW AT CENTRAL
BRITISH SCHOOL
A demonstration of physical drill and gymnastics was given by boys attend- ing the Central British School, on the playground yesterday, in the presence of the acting Director of Education
Mr. E. Ralphs), the head (Mr. G. F. Nightingale), parents, and friends.
master
Taking their first lesson five or six weeks ago under the direction of Sergt. Mills, cf the Somerset Light Infantry, the pupils showed what they could de in parallel bars exercises, and "horse" work, these events including splits, on one foot and back lift, right and left hand vault, clear jump, splits centre, right and left corners, leap, splits over sitting on horse, and a splendid final tableau.
ienz (786) A. Wang, Kongmoon Casny
toms.
Cavendo (2145) G. H. Tennyfather. Cragadou: (4156) E. J. de Figueiredo. Empire Builder (3017) Thomas and
Harper
En Garde (462) Mutton, Parry." Engelberg (4421) C. Pain, (Canton), ¦ Gay Day (5119) Mutton, Harper.
ATHLETICS
WHAT IS AN AMATEUR?
The amateur athletic puriete Golden Rain (2497) S. J. Clair, (Kong- were On the warpath at the Grand Prince (3924) W. Cochran, T. | A.A.4. general meeting,
"Truth" of April 17. An athlete longer an
moon Customs).
Cochran, Coom, Schofield.
Horus (4913) Kettlewell and Young is deemed to be no
ss. "Chusan."
Hunter's Moon (4848) J. A. Young, 8.3.
"Chusan,"
Kopi (4847) J. A. Yung, 9.5 "Chusan."
Leonard (2134) Whibley, Magill.
Le Voleur (3198) J. Videro).
Montclair (778) Kwong Hap Hing.
Mr. Jinks (3145) Lawrie, Harper.
N.P.B. (2271) Shik Tik Ming.
Osiris (3319) Harper, Jenkins, Mutton.
Lawrie.
1
P.D.Q. (801) Martin Brylen. Posterity (5852) Mutton, ¡larper. Rattiin the Reefer (2062) Polly and
Barney.
Reedsmouth (547) Wong Hing, 8.5.
"Wing On."
Reflector (2601) Condell, Craig, Bond. Robertu (2642) Cochrane, Telefer,
Bond, Dabzon, Cochrane.
The Carthaginian (5599) Kam, Kun
Nam (Hh Lee & Co.)
The MacNab (2992) Ip Wan Co.
Trigo (5450) J. L. Alves (Bradley
and Co.)
Tom Peartree (2408) M.H.C. Canton
Club.
Walter Gay (3591). Capt. Mutton, A.
Harper.
The Field (2025) E. W. Blackmore.
EASMA Chab
The Easma Club's drawing resulted as follows:-
Trigo: Ticket No. 8250 drawn by Jack- Son and A. J. Harvey (H.M.S. "Suffolk").
Walter Gay Ticket No. 1541 drawn
by Cebu Club,
Brienz: Ticket No. 3619 drawn by K. M. H. Shih of Custums Club, Canton.
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FRENCH WOMEN'S CHAMPION. SHIP RESULT
MOLLY COURLAY WINS
Boulogne, Yesterday. The French Women's Open Golf Championship
30 over
koles at Wimeretix was again won by Mine Molly Gourlay (Camberley Heath) beating, Mts. Mayne Addington, six up and four to play. Reuter.
RETURFED WICKET
The returfing of the wicket at the Hong Kong Cricket Club ground has been completed. The work was elabor ately done and it only remains to be seen how it will thrive in these "dry days.
With
plentiful supply of water, cricketers will find a really first class wicket to play on.
OPEN-AIR ZOO
BIRDS AND REASTS AT WHIPSNADE
IN RURAL ENGLAND
AGED CURATES
MARRIED MEN WITH £250 A YEAR
HOPES AGAIN DASHED
the assistant
One of the most amusing and Disappointment is felt by a most beautiful places in rural Eng-large number of Churchmen who land to-day is the new open-air Zoo have been working to better animal to be transferred from clergy at the fact that their cause at Whipsnade. Almost the ärst conditions of the older
Regent's Park was a wombat. has found no place in the schemes The sight of the open country and made by the Ecclesiastical Com- of the gorgeous view was too much missioners for disposing of the for this country-lover, and it bur- sarplus income of £450,000 expected rowed a way out of its open-air during the year. enclosure into
The estimate of the surplus and the schemes are described in the Commission's annual report.
Married Men on £250
the free life. It was unlucky that it paid dearly for its few months of freedom. its badger-like smell was too attractive, and local foxhounds destroyed it; but I enjoyed. an honourable epitaph. A report was spread that the hounds had killed a wapiti!
Other queer animals have been at large in the neighbourhood, bua they escaped from another great open-air Zoo of a more private nature. The most widely-spread of these is that little Eastern deer men younger than themselves, how- it is no larger than a bare-theever, many of the older clergy ex- muntjac. Specimens have been perience great difficulty in securing seen in quite a number of different even this sum.
The position of the older curates who have not attracted the atten- tion of the patron of a benefice is one of extreme hardship. Many are married men, and the average atipend available for them is no more than £250 a year. Owing to the natural desire of the beneficed clergy to have as their assistants
RIDING SCHOOL
Owing to the illness of Mr. A. J. P. Heard, the first lesson in horsemanship which was to be given by the Sports Club's Riding School on June 4, had to be
postponed. Mr. Heard, who has been appointed places. says
One kind-hearted critic The Ecclesiastical Commission riding master, has now recovered and suggested the releasing of a (Grants to in all probability the first lesson will mountgil to
Unbeneficed Clergy) keep one be given next month.
isolated Measure was passed by the Church muntjac company!
Assembly in the Summer Session for the sole purpose of extending the powers of the Commissioners so as to allow them to make grants to unbeneficed as well as to bene- feed clergy, with the principal object of assisting the older curates."
Walter Hagen, captain of the American Ryder cup team, is seen just giving Major J. H. Batley, Secretary of the British Golf Asso- ciation, a chance to see what the Ryder trophy feels like. Haig took the famous cup over to London with him on the chance that the British team would win-and they did
amateur who exploits his ability for profit. It was proposed to add "or the fame gained by him as an athlete." That was meant to bar men writing, broadcasting, or lecturing on the subject, and sub- sequen! resolutions on these specific matters were
GIRL'S GRIM JEST
LAUGHTER AFTER TAKING POISON
discussed A girl's laughing confession that and. like the first one, rejected. she had taken poison was described The consequence would be that no at an inquest at Aberdare, Glamor man who ever did such things gan, in mail week on Eunice could take part in athletic govern- Griffiths, aged 18, a county school ment or management.
pupil and daughter of a miner of Margaret Street, Trecynon.
No further accidents are likely at Whipsnade. The whole of the spacious place--some 450 acres of down, field, and woodland have been enclosed by a proud, stiff wire feace, some 9 ft. high, with a bracket leaning inwards at the top. Inside this the first-comers have their own private estates, each within a ring fence. Some skunks, looking furtive and yet very much at home, and the wombat and a number of llamas, suggesting soms new agricultural beast brought to inhabit the enclosure of the old
Among the schemes that have now farm these and some few others been made by the Commission to are already in residence, The dispose of the surplus is one for walls of the Fellows' Pavilion begin contributing funds for the
During the debate Sir Lewis. Dibdin, the First Estates Com- missioner, announced on behalf of the Commissioners that they would not oppose the Measure, but that owing to lack of funds it was un- likely that any effect could be given to it.
to
to arise, and its windows will have endowment of assistant curación. the The announcement of this scheme
an uninterrupted view
over
most spacious landscape within has aggravated the disappointment,
the home countries.
Birds and Bird-Boxes
since it is felt that the Commis- sioners have availed themselves of the powers given them by the Measure only to introduce a scheme which will not affect the fortunes of the older assistant clergy.
Younger Men Benefit The endowment of curacies, it is argued, will have no other effect than to relieve certain parishes of the costs of maintenance. It is further believed that if
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At present the most populous division of this incomparable zoo is the copse, specially reserved as a bird sanctuary. Among the under- growth at the foot of the oaks run pheasants of many varieties, gorgeous with all the colours of Mongolia and the far Eastern re giors from which, they hail The trees fairly bristle with bird-boxes,
any ad- big and little, with small holes and
vantage accrues to unbeneficed big, fixed low and fixed high. The clergy it will go to the younger unconquerable hope is nursed that rather than to the older men. they may be inhabited by spotted *The *hopes reposed in the woodpecker, wryneek and red Ecclesiastical Commissioners were start: .but more vlugar birds, the greater since another recent especially starlings, have been the effort to provide for the older first and most active discoverers. assistant clergy failed. This was But migrant birds are already in an unsuccessful attempt made at the legion thereabouts. A resident in last Session of the Assembly so to the neighbourhood has already-com-amend the Patronage Measure as plained that be was kept awake by to make the Patronage Board re- the curkons!. The swallows flit sponsible for reporting the names about the old farmstead and must of clergymen who could not attract wonder at the change, if they are the attention of patrons. the same swallows that nested there
Eocle- a year or two ago. Willow wrensiastical Commission has from its and chiffchaff are to be heard sing formation been subject to the ing from almost as early in the criticism that it makes no provision morning as the larks, which always for direct representation of-the It is perhaps as well to re-
begin the day's concert. A num clergy. Its personnel consists of mind these purists that the presi
She took rat poison before she ber of pairs of pigeon have return the diocesan bishops and members dent for many years of the A.A.A. | went to school.
ed to the high pines to nest; and of the leading official laity. and one who has done more for
Her father said that she had COO
their plaintive piece to dis- been corresponding with a young
traction. the sport than any living man, Sir Montague Shearman, wrote the man for more than a year, and a
Two solicitors were married at volume for the Badminton Library fortnight before she received a let-
A considerable time must elapse the Guildhouse, Eccleston-square. from on athletics and Rugby football. ter
him which greatly before the public can be admitted; They were Miss Carrie Morrison In the past some of the men who upset her.
and since this delicious bit of Eng- and Mr. A. E. F. Appelbe, partners gave much time to the sport as Lucy Winnell, a friend, said that land is primarily meant to serve as in a firm of solicitors, of Rochester- the officials of the A.A.A. and who the dead girl called to see her at cradle for the young, it will never row, Westminster. Miss Morrison were devoted to the purity and 9.30 a.m. "We chatted for half an be as free as the contracted 40 is well known in the East-end, DENTIST. progress of athletics were profes-hour," she said, "and before she acres or less of Regent's Park. But where she has worked as a "poor sional journalists. Nowadays the went she tapped me on the shoul-it will have advantages peculiar to man's lawyer." Their business very men who are the object of der and said. 'I have taken itself, not excelled even by the im- partnership is to continue. Miss this attack are men who have done poison. I said, "You haven't, have mensity of Banff or the Yellowstone Royden performed the ceremony, more than any others to pat our you? Then she laughed loudly and Park. A perfect bit of English and afterwards a reception was held athletica on a sound basis. They tapped me again. I took it as a landscape is being preserved, and in the hall of the Guildhouse. have overthrown pot-hunting and joke." individualism by their club Dr. Ivor Banks said when the girl great oaks and beeches the songs of matches and relay races. Their was admitted to hospital her whole the first warblers will continue to be sport is freer from scandal than body was in convulsions.
She was heard.
Less welcoine is the host make any beast, wombat or other, any other sport. But their sac- unable to speak and died in a quar- of rabbits, who dig in the close "regain his freedom with a sigh" if cess has raised that queer form of ter of an hour. The poison she down grass and throw out on the ever he digs his way out. jealousy that expresses itself in a took contained more than 10 per surface heaps of pure white chalk,
Not the least attractive part of purity campaign, the object of cent, of strychnine.
They do not "consent to a mutual Whipsnade on the enginering side which is to penalise the indivi- The coroner, Mr. P. J. Rhys, in relation" with other animals, and is the arrangement for watering Shattering the world's javelin throw dual rather than help sport. record by 1 inches, Carl Jark, cadet is very satisfactory
It returning a verdict of suicide from are treated as if they were outside the animals; and great care is being
of West Point Military Academy, sent
to find that strychnine poisoning, said that the the pale, though they are especially taken to clothe with planta what- the steel platter on its record-breaking the 4.A.A. gave these folk short girl's mental faculties must have numerous within it. And the ever earthen erection has to be journey of 158 feet, 3 inches.
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