FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1929.
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ROBINS TO PLAY?
.""TICK" FREEMAN SPRAINS SHOULDER
FIRST TEST TO-MORROW
London, Yesterday. In addition to losing the services of J. B Hobbs from the team (through his being injured on June 111, England has suffered another loss for the first Test match against the South Africans on June 15, 17, and 18. A. P. Freeman, of Kent, will not play because he has sprained his shoulder. The young amateur, R. W. V. Robins, of Middlesex, will probably be offered the vacancy.Rcuter.
Robins is a Cambridge (cricket and Soccer Blue. He did not bowl much for Cambridge but he has come on of late, and is also a fine batsman and outfield. His bowling is akin to that of the "Titch" Freeman leg-break type..
Surrey's Victory
London, Yesterday. At the Oval, Surrey defeated Glamorgan in less than two days in county championship match.
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Scores-
Glamorgan 37 runs (Allom 5 for 14, Geary 5 for 22) and 183 runs
Geary 5 for 48).
Surrey 295 runs for 6 wickets, declared (Sandham 187; Mercer 6 for 76)-Surrey won by an innings and runs-Reuter
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HONG DOUBLES TOURNAMENT
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The annual Hong Doubles lawn tennis tournament organised by the Hong Kong Cricket Club com- mented yesterday.
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L. A. R. Duncan and D. S. Green (owe 4/6) of the Asiatic
THE TOTALISATOR
HELPING LARGE AND SMALL OWNERS
SUCCESS RESTS WITH PUBLIC
In the "Sunday Despatch" the Marquis of Zetland, a steward of, the Jockey Club, and late Governor of Bengal, writes the following interesting account respecting the introduction of the Totalisator at Home.
There haugs on the walls of a country house in Yorkshire that house from which in the middle of last century that good horse Voltigeur went forth the picture of another horae famous in his day, who enjoys the distinction of being the first horse ever entered in the British stud book.
He was foaled in 1770, and his name was Pantac. But what is of special interest is an inscrip-
tion in one corner of the picture, from which one learns that he was the winner
first Spring
at the
Meeting at Newmarket, in 1776, of sixteen hogsheads sporing prize!
of claret.
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Circumstances have changed, and this year will go down into racing history as the year of Im- Dortant changes.
of
Can we not all recall countless occasions on which we have stood waiting with impatience for the number board to go up? And, if we have been given to philoso- phising. has it not seemed to us to be strangely in accordance with the general cassedness things that the delay has been greatest precisely in those cases in which prompt information as to the starters, their jockeys, and the draw for places has been of to greatest importance that is
un- have been say, when fielda
Helping the Backer
Petroleum Company met M. Gasanlly large? Mills and M. D. Scott. (ree. 1/6) of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and won 6-4, 6-2.
To-day O. E. C. Marton H: J. Armstrong (owe-15) of Mesus. Deacons will meet Stanion and G. R. V. W. L. Horridge (ser.) of the Imperial Chemical Industries (China), Ltd.
During the past months
the
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but for the advent of the Totalisa- tor we should not have seen them
even now.
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was more of a pastime and leas. of A business than it is to-day, racehorses were owned mainly by men who could afford to treat their racing as a hobby,
There are now upon the Turf ⠀ many small owners to whom the business side of
racing must necessarily be an important con-
To such men,
even more than to the large owner, a reduction in the scale of entrance
Bigger Prizes There is another section of the racing public which stands to benefit materially from the com- ing of the Totalisator-1 mean that section of it which owns and runs horses. Far too little consideration. sideration
hitherto has
been shown to the owners to this coun-
try, and it is only fair that some part of any revenue which may be from the Totaligator derived
allotted to the prize should be fund.
With more money available for this purpose, two reforms which will gradually
are badly needed become possible.
(1) Larger sums will be given race, for the placed horses in a and
(2) the heavy entrance fees and forfeits at present charged to owners will gradually be reduced. In this country the amounts the second and third given for horses in a race are usually so small as scarcely to be worth win- ning, with the wholly undesirable result that there is much too much easing up of horses towards the finish of a race.
fees and forfeits will be a very
real blessing.
But these reforms can
come only, if the pubile give the Totali- sator a fair trial. The success or the experiment is in failure of their own hands. Is the experi- ment one which is worthy of their support? I hope that I have been able, even in this short article. to give them reasons which will con- vince them that it is.
'CHASE FATALITY
AMATEUR RIDER'S FALL IN
HUNTERS RACE
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YOUNG GAMBLERS
$5 NOTE PICKED FROM FRIEND'S POCKET
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TWO SCALLIWAGS
"Your gift of imagination worthy of a better cause" remark- ed Mr. B. W. Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy, this morning when he convicted a Chinese youth
who was charged with picking the
pocket of a man in Pottinger-street and stealing a $ note.
The complainant said that yester~ day afternoon he met a friend who asked him for
a loan.
He took out the $5 note with the intention of changing it to accommodate his friend, but when the latter toid him that he wanted only a few ten-cent pieces, he returned the note lo his pocket and gave his friend some stiver coins.
the
They had not walked much further when witness felt a slight! pull at his pocket and immediately seized the accused, who was only person near him at the time. Mr. J. Joicey was killed whilst. The accused was thoroughly search- Fancy ed by a Chinese detective but the riding his | Laureate, in the race for the Dover money was not found. Then the Hunters' Steeplechase at Folke thought occurred to the detective to
own mare,
storie on May 8.
Fancy Laureate fell over another horse at the last fence, and her rider broke his neck and died im
How many races are there in this country which compare with the Viceroy's Cup at Calcutta in this respect. where the winner re-mediately.
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ceives Rs. 30,000, and second Rs. 10,000 and third Rs. 5,000?
Yet there is not a race run for at Calcutta in which stakes in this same ratio are not awarded to the owners of the second and third. That is to say, sums equal to 50 per cent of the stake offer ed to the winners are invariably provided for distribution between the owners of the second and third horses,
Figures That Talk Then compare the cost of rac racing. ing to the owner in Calcutta and of
in this country respectively. made which
Here the owners race for stakes which are largely subscribed by themselves.
Jockey Club have been busy re- and
vising the rules Changes have been will ensure the number board, srith the starters, jockey's, and draw or places for each race, being hoisted as soon as the pre- vious one has been run
SOCCER'S PRIZES
CHARLTON'S DRAMATIC RISE TO FAME
Then there is the question of objuctions-always a- tiresome
Take any race in
Great Britain and see how much of the stake has been provided by those who have entered horses to run for it
The Kempton Park Great "Jubilee" Handicap, for instance, value £3,000, as run a a plate
ane. The man who bets with the Totalisator will not have to worry his head about objections unless the objection be due to a cross, year ago.
Of the total prize
or something which has occurred £1,265, or 41 per cent.. was sub- in the actual running of the race, scribed by the owners who enter. and only then if it has been lodged their horses for the race.
In the vase of another well- ed within five minutes after the placed horses have been weighed known race, the Yorkshire Oaks,
value advertised an in.
£1,000, the owners last year con- tributed £892, or 89 per cent. of the prize!
Not uil the 1928-29 "Soccer" scase was whistled out on May 4 were the Third League promotion Bradford City problems settled. and Charlton Athletic, who quali fied to fill the places in the Second Division of Port Vale and Clapton
-If no objection has been lodg- Orient, set the seal on a season of ed within these five minutes the brilliant endeavour.
case all-right signal will be hoisted; and so far as the Totalisator is concerned that will be final. Of course, these reforms could have been brought in without the in- troduction of the Totalisator.
in the
of Bradford, a club with an honour able First League and Cup career behind it takes the first step to re- gaining lost status.
the re-
Charlton's promotion is ward of a comparatively new club which forced itself into the soccer limelight almost from the start.
But the fact remains that we have had to wait all these years for them. We are in many res- peets a very conservative people, and I have little doubt myself that
Armitage, the amateur centre half, is still their "big gun."
with
of
Take a small race such as the Abingdon Plate 1200, ran for at Last year the own- Newmarket.
for this ers who entered horses race contributed £123, or 61 per cent. of the stake.
We have it on
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Mr. Joicey was a young man and had ridden Faney Laureate in sey. eral races recently. The mare fell in the race won by Big Wonder at Lingfield and prior to that her owner rode her a whiner at the Banbury Hunt Meeting.
A fatality similar to this occurr- ed at Cheltenham three weeks be
fore, when the jockey, F. Stakes, fell with Arosa and was picked up dead.
Mr. Scratchley, who rode the fo vourite, Drumbeg, in the Dover Hunters' Steeplechase broke a col lar bone when the gelding fell while leading at the last fence.
LOTTERIES BANNED)
NO GAMES OF CHANCE IN RUSSIA
Moscow, May 31. The authorities have banned games of chance, including botteries, unless they are specially sanctioned. ---Trans-Ocean.
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look into the accused's mouth and the $5 note was found there.
"Safety First”
the theft. Accused denied alleged that the complainant had lost the money to him in gambling and wanted to take it back. the struggle he (accused) placed the note in his mouth "for safety." Then the complainant handed him over to the detective and accused him of pocket picking.
In
Questioned by the Magistrate as to how he, auch a young fellow, could gamble for such high stake as $5, the youth said that he work- ed for $2 per month and yesterday received his wages. In the gamble the complainant lost $5 to him. He
(accused) gave complainant his $2. as change and took the latter's $5 note.
Brother's $27
The Police said that when ar- rested the accused told the detective that he had been given money by his elder brother to buy rice.
Asked about this, accused asserted that the $2 he had on him was in His intention fact his brother's.
was that, if he when he gambled lost it, he would refund the money to his brother from his wages.
The elder brother went into the witness box and told the Magistrate that he had given $2 to accused to buy rice. He also knew that ac- cused had gambled with complainant and won some money from him, but when questioned by the Magistrate admitted that he did not actually see the two gambling.
As the accused had no previous conviction, the Magistrate ordered him to receive 12 strokes, and made the comment quoted above.
Sub-
asked His Worship also Inspector R. Murphy if anything about the accused's was known brother, remarking: "He looks like a scalliwag, too."
EXPLODES AND INJURES Á YOUNG MAN
REVENGE ALLEGED
A woman is believed to have been the motive of a drastic affair which occurred in Yaumati last night.
Owners' Small Costs furred, especially towards the root, DYNAMITE CHARGE And so one could go on ad in-it is a sign of disturbed stomach, bowels, indigestion, finitum. No wonder that the disordered Elacted to the Third Division in
finds the breeding cold or feverishness. Baby's Own Tables act almost like magic, and 1921, after "probation" in the
amall owner and running of race-horses
safely even for the youngest babe, Ken League, Charlton startled the
rather expensive amusement. football world in the 1922-23 sea-i
Now compare with this the posi-in curing such disorders.
The way these Tablets work is in Calcutta. son with series of brilliant Cup
tion of the owner In successive rounds they festa.
the authority of simplicity itself, for they are alm- beat Manchester City (away) Pres- It is passing strange that Brad-
the secretary of the Royal ple in composition, being made ton (home) and West Bromwich ford City should have followed
Calcutta
Turt Club and I only of the purest ingredients and the Second
containing not a trace of narcotic what he (home) before falling at the Valley Bradford back to
can confirm
Say & or other harmful drug. to Bolton Wanderers, who eventual League within twelve months, be from
personal experience-that ly beat West Ham in the "White cause both dropped from the First since the Totalisator has come in Horse" match that was Wembley's Division to the Third.
stakes have gone up and entrance Peter O'Rourke, the famous first Final.
fees and forfeits have gone down, Bolton beat them centre forward, who led the City until now it costs an owner no On the day Charlton had a record crowd of front line when they won the Cup more than 1 per cent of the win 42,020, which, despite the lean in 1911, was recalled for the present ning stake to run his horse in any times they have bean through season in the capacity of manager. тасе. financially, suggests plenty of sup- And, with a slender purse to At some of the smaller meet the same time they sweeten the pert for a successful team. Their work on, he has built up a team of ings away from Calcutta this stomach, correct the digestion, cool ground at the Valley is of the youthful stars who have attained standard has not yet been reach-feverishness, check diarrhoea if "natural amphitheatre" type, and, the avowed object of the club, and ed; but even at such meetings it present, allay eathing pains and with money spent on it, could be also beaten the League scoring never now costs an owner more ald the teething process, relieve made a wonderful enclosura.
record set up by Millwall last than four per cent, of the winning croup or cold, expel worms, if any, Famous Players
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and thus quickly restors the child Charlton have produced some Football is certain of a new boom
All Depends on Tote to a normal condition of health, first-rate players during their in Bradford; and South-East It is far more important at the Chemist everywhere Ball Baby's League career, notably Miller and Londoners will be anxious to sup- present time to aim at reducing Own Tablets, or sent post free, 60 Biswell, now at Chelsea, Herod, of port the plucky Charlton Club in the cost of racing to the owner cents per vial, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60, Klangse Road, the Spurs; Haley, of Fulham; and its
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In days gone by, when racing Shanghal,
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A Chinese named Ting Pui (22), living at No. 156, Tainam-street, was removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital suffering from severe in- Juries to his right hand, caused through the explosion of a charge placed of dynamite which was under a camp bed on which, on ac count of the heat, he was sleeping on the pavement.
In connection with the affair, the Police have arrested another youth, in whose possession was alleged to have been found one stick of dyna mite charge with a with fuse attached.
A paragraph in this morning's Police report dealing with the affair stated that the two youths are known to each other, and it is be lieved that revenge over a woman was the cause,
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