FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1929.
Sport Columns
COUNTY CRICKËT
LEICESTERSHIRE'S GREAT VICTORY,
SOMERSET LOSE IN TWO DAYS
London, Yesterday.
At Thanten, Somersetshire lost to Leicestershire in the county cricket championship by an innings and 109 runs, the home side's batsmen giving a very poor display. Scores:-
Somerset (1st innings) 108 runs. Leicester (1st innings) 311 runs for B wickets, declared.
Samerset (2nd innings) 94 runs. Astill took 7 wickets for 34 runs.
The match was finished in two out of the usual three days.-Router.
TENNIS MADE EASY
SHOVELLING A BALE
[By . . . Crole-Rees.] To the layman it must seem peculiar that there is a rule in Lawn Tennis which reads to the effect that a player must not strike the tall more than unce with his racket in making a shot. To him it may appear that it is dificult enough to strike a fast moving ball even once, and it must puzzle him. how it can be struck twice in the same stroke. This is very true as regards normal ball play for naturally, directly touches the racket, whether it bo in the centre of the racket even the handle or frame, it is going to rebound with such force that it is almost im possible for the player to strike it Circumstances, however, often ngain. arise during the game where it is pos sible to break this rule of the game.
A'ball which in falling, for instance, shall, we say from a lob, has first
a
CHANNEL SWIMMING struck the top of the net and then
MANY ATTEMPT LONG SWIM
Dover, June 20. channel-crossing season
מנו is
The again.
What Julius Caesar did in a boat in 55 B.C. and Gertrude Ederle did in a bathing suit in 1920 A.D. has been done twice this year on Fontoon- bicycles, at least a score of swimmers. are in training to do what has not been done since 1923 the swimming of the English Channel from England to France instead of vice versa.
gently dropped into a player's court, there the greatest temptation here to scoop the ball, one might almost say shovel the ball, with the racket instead of striking it, and in shovelling the ball is struck more than once because, although it may not be obvious, it bounces along different parts of the face of the racket and each one of these little bounces is equivalent to the ball being struck. Thus, it is, of course, a
definite fault.
In the instance of a player applying "top spin" or "cut" the ball may come in contact with a greater part of the racket, than it would cover if just placed upon a stationary one, but at no time leaving it except at the end of Two bakers, a mattress inaker,
the stroke. What happens is that the couple of stenographers, a nursemaid racket moves across the ball, with the and a Bohemian mechanic have splash-ball in close contact with the face of ed their way from the coast of France the racket all the time. This is a per- to the coast of England, and it is get-fectly legitimate stroke. ting to be old stuff,
crawl.
LONDON'S
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THE CHINA
"ZOO".
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF GREAT INSTITUTION
WORLD'S BEST
The London Zoological Society is to-day the most important institu- tion of its kind in the world.
The Society was founded in 1826. It is 101 years since the public were first admitted to the gardens since people first began to say "Let's go to the Zoo." The date was April 27, 1828. It was not until the following year that King George IV. granted the Socfety a special Royal charter (March 1829)
"for the advancement of Zoo- logy and animal physiology and the introduction of new and curious subjects of the animal kingdom, Nineteen-twenty-mine, therefore, is the centenary year of the grant
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MAIL,
its creation, maintenance, and suc- suggestion for the formation of a cess. True there is a charge society for the study of animal life for admission, and more visitors and the public exhibition of wild every year, But because of the animals. On his return to England constant improvements made in from the East in 1824 Sir Stamford. buildings, in appliances for the Raffles found his suggestions had care of the animala, and the scien-borne fruit in the formation of the Two years later the tific work which the Society must new club. carry out, income is always behind Zoological Society of London was in being, but it was not until the expenditure.
granting of the Royal Charter in 1829 that arrangements were final y concluded for the occupation of the Gardens in Regent's Park.
"The Zoo"
There are menageries elsewhere in the country, but most people speak of the "Zoo" as meaning the
Zoo Landmarks London Zoo. Englishmen, that Is.
May, 1836, is marked in the an- From year to year the number of visitors shows steady increase. nuals of the Zoo as a month in There is no need to seek analysis which many endeavours were al of the Zoo's attractions. For one last crowned with success. For it who visits there with a was in that month that after re- and purpose peated failures the first living person scientific interest there are thousands who go for specimens of the giraffe ever to mere amusement and diversion. To reach this country were installed in The problem of children it must be a place of al- the Gardens. most incredible marvels; wonders transport in those days was a first seen in picture books that have serious one. But at last all diff- culties were surmounted and the four animals-three males and one female safely housed. These were the original members of the Zoo's famous herd of which no less than 17 were actually born in the Gar dens. In this year also her Royal Highness Princess Victoria (as she then was) presented to the Society two musk deer. On her ascent to the throne the following year the Queen became patroness of the Zoo- logical Society in which her Majesty always maintained a lively interest, making to it many gifts of valuable animals..
"Waiter Gay," above, owned by Lord Wollavington, didn't have speed quite enough to nose out "Trigo," a rank outsider, who won the Terby at Epsom Downs. He did finish second, though, before one. of the most brilliant crowds which has ever witnessed a Derby that only needed the presence of King George, confined to his home by illness, to complete the picture.
The Zoo To-day.
To
Not one but many visits would be necessary nowadays to gather even an impression of the Zoo of 1929, There is certainly not room to describe it here. Since the war- there have been many great- changes and improvements--the Aquarium, for instance, and the New Monkey House. For the or dinary person interested in the Zoo as a spectacle--and this in- cludes all the children at least- there has been written and illus- Again, where the fault of double ing of the Society's Royal Charter. | miraculously come to life. And no trated a huge library of books on This year the really ambitious swim-striking is very tempting is when a It is an important landmark in the doubt to a considerable percentage the Zoo, and the "news" interest of mers are out to perform the more dif-player is right on top of the net and he history of Zoology and as such is of its grown-up visitors the Zug is its inmates is testified to daily by ficut feat of starting from England and wishus just to tap the ball so that it to be marked by special celebra- never much more than a kind of photographs appearing in papers finishing in France, unfavourable cur-dropa, shull we say a foot on the other tions. On April 29, after the ordin-super-circus, an entertaining co-all over the kingdom. rents to the contrary notwithstanding side of the net. Assuming that the ballary general meeting of the Society lection of creatures 30 queer that The Zoo goes on from strength Among the men and women who have has risen up to the height of its tra- had been held, there was A they must be seen to be believed in. to strength. Couid, its founders ancounced their intention to compete ectory from the bound and just re- for the gold cap offered for the firstquires such a tan to win the print out-special reception of British and There is also that large section learn something of its position and England-to-France crossing this year right. Such a ball has to be strack foreign guests-in University Col- consisting of harried "uncles" and prestige to-day, they would be fully. are several who in previous years ac- very carefully, for it is easily possible lege Hall, Later in the year, June "aunts who think gratefully of repaid-being disinterested men- complished the. France-to-England to strike it with such temarity that the 20, a garden party was to take place Regent's Park as the one place for all their early trouble.
racket will strike it a second time in the Society's own grounds at where pephews and nieces can al- speak in detail of its value as a centre of inquiry and research is cause the impact of the first stroke has Regent's Park and the gardens were ways be piloted without fear of
disappointment. As the centre of impossible here. Brief reference, been sufficient to deflect it only slightly. to be specially illuminated.
While Londoners may choose to harmless and innocent amusement too, can only be made to the regard the Zoo as their very own for children of all ages the Zoo will Society's newest achievement-the. it would be fairer perhaps to always hold its place. Neverthe-establishment of the new open-air describe it as a national possession. less, this can hardly be claimed to animal sanctuary at Whipsnade, Captain Frazer (Maymyo) won then an affectionate sense that is. have been the idea of its primary some 450 acres in extent, and in the minds of its which is primarily intended as a Empire Visitors' Competition at the For, of course, the Society is per- function
the Fel- founders.
Zoo nursery. Lucifer Golfing Society's meeting atfectly self-contained...
Why a Zoo? Walton Heath.
was 152.lows of the Society, by their an- Wilkinson
The founders of the Zco were in- (Nuwara Ceylon) wasnual subscriptions and by the work
most serious-minded men, second with 182. Singapore Free of their voluntary council and com- Press,
mittees, have been responsible for Their interests in the new venture, as set forth in the terms of the Royal Charter, were largely scien- tific. That this is true need not prevent anyone spending a happy hour in front of the Mappin Ter- races one of these fine days. But on the occasion of a centenary celebration it is worth while recall- ing the fact. In the first place then, the Zoo is an institution for the advancement of science and re- search. In the words of a serious writer of 1831: "One great aim of
These include Charles Toth, the American who swam from Cape Gris Nez to Dover in 1923 in 16 hours and 54 minutes; Norman L Durham of London, who did it in 13 hours 57 minutes in 1928; George Michel, the Paris baker who crossed in the same in 11 hours 5 minutes; Ishak year
Helmy, the Egyptian who struggled over in 23:40 last year, and two Eng
lish girls who also made the distance in 1928-Ivy Hawke and Hilda "Laddie". Sharp.
Miss Sharp did the Gris-Nez to Dover swim in 14:58, which was within half an hour of Gertrude Ederle's channel record for women.
Two other women who have no Eng. lish channel crossings to their credit yet but hope to have some soon are the American twins, Phyllis and Berenice Zitenfield. It is also possible that Mercedes Gleitz, the London typist who swam the channel in 1927, wil compete for the gold cup this year.
Other aspirants for channel fame in 1929 include a middle-aged woman with a family of eight, an 11-year-old school- girl, a one-legged swimmer and an athletic though white-bearded gentle- man of 80.--Associated Press.
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BIG SOCCER
DEAL
MILLWALL PAY HEAVY FEE FOR
SWEETMAN
Millwall have secured the transfer of S. C. Sweetman, right back, from Queen's Park Rangers, at a fee stated' to be between $5,000 and $7,000. Sweetman was the centre half of the amateur side, Hampstead Town, when he was signed by the Rangers in the 1925-6 season, but he was unable to hold a place in the half-back line. He was given an opportunity at right back, however, and has developed wonderful- ly in that position.
Millwall have for many years had an excellent defence, but Furt, who has given the club such fine service, is now quito a veteran, and did not appear i regularly last season. The advent of Sweetman will strengthen the defence, for he is a sound player, and there should be no worries in this respect during the next campaign.
OVERSEAS GOLF
London, June 28.
His score
Electricity Scoring Tennis Play
JEUX
COCHET
The newest innovation on the French courts this year is doing away with the old-fashioned hand method of scoring and will probably be adopted by other modernized tennis layouts. The umpire, left, announces the score over the microphone to keep the crowd advised of the score, then turns the dials at his side: which control the score board, shown right, and flashes the numerals in the red spaces..
deed
the Society is to diffuse as widely as possible a practical acquain- tance with living animals in order to eradicate those vulgar, pre- judices which have in too many instances usurped the place of truth.” Or, in other words, to pro- vide opportunities to observe direct. from nature. And if animals in
captivity are not really in a natural state they are at least the actual animals and not the marvel- lous creatures that we see pictured in ancient "natural histories." The early travellers and explorers had their little failings.
The advancement of knowledge by observation and inquiry was and is the primary object of the Zoo- logical Society.
How the Zoo Began
The Zoological Society was, in the first instance, an offshoot of the Linnean Society. Members of that society who were specially inter- ested in animal life agreed together. to form a special section within the Linnean Society to be called the Zoological Club. This was in 1822. This was six years after Sir Stamford Raffles had made his first
Though situated in London, thei Zoo is a national institution, by its constitution and nature outside factional interests, and the more likely, therefore, to increase in in- terest and usefulness.-"Morning. Post."
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