TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1929.
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INNINGS' DEFEAT
LEICESTER'S EASY WIN V. GLAMORGAN
MATCH OVER IN TWO DAYS
BOXERS
ARE THEY TOO OLD AT THIRTY?
CRICKET TOURS
THE CHINA MAIL,
M.C.C. AND AUSTRALIANS TO PLAY IN CEYLON
The Ceylon Cricket Association officials are always planning some- thing in the best interests of the game in this Island, writes Looker- on in the "Ceylon Observer." They never let the grass grow under their fect. Having heard that the M.C.C. are sending out a team to Speaking generally, the life of a New Zealand at the end of the pre- sant season, they have sent * boxer in comparatively short; Landon, Yesterday. usually he has finished with the formal invitation to the Marylebone Their two most consistent howl-game round about the age of thirty... tourists to play a match in ers, Geary and Astill being in either from compulsion of choice. Columbu next October. The M.C.C. dangerous mood, Leicestershire Loss of speed and youthful fre team will, I believe, leave England by the Otran on September 14 and defeated Glamorgan two days cause many retirements, but a (out of the usual three allotted)more compelling reason is the ever be in Colombo on October 5. In the in the county ericket, champion increasing irk of training. Now Past Ceylon has always had the and again we see a boxer continu-privilege of having a match with ahip.
Not much more than 400 runs were scored in three innings, yet the total was sufficient to provide the winners with an innings' vic-
tory.
at
The match was played Loughborough, in Leicestershire. Batting first on Saturday, Glamor- gan were dismissed for 116 runs. Geary, who played in the success- ful Tesis in Australia, took six wickets for 32 rans.
Leicester replied with 223 rune. Then Glamorgan failed by nine runs to save the innings' defeat, scoring only 98 runs at the second attempt. Astill, who has also re- presented England,, took the game number of wickets as did Geary in the 1st innings, at the cost of 33 runs. Reuter,
FOOTBALL
BUSINESS FOR MEETING OF COUNCIL
A minting of the Council will
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The business will be:--
passing English teams. The last team to New Zealand was led by A. C. MacLaren and included A. C. F. Chapman. They played against All Ceylon and gave our. crowd a delightful exhibition of ericket. Two years ago the New Zealand team, played in Colombo. We can now look forward almost with certainty-to seeing a first class English team play in Colombo next October.
The Australians will be paying a visit to England in the English summer of 1930. The Board of Control have already met and ar- ranged preliminaries. The cricketers will pass through
Colombo in
match with the
the first week of April. Once again the C.C.A., with commendable enterprise, have written in time to the Australian Board of Control asking for а tourists. The Australians have at ways graciously acceded to Cey- lon's request, and no doubt they will be willing to give Ceylon a game next April. The team of 1926 played here and previously the team of 1912. In 1921 a match had been arranged with Armstrong's passing team but the Orient boat Might Come Back. Gorgeous carrying the tourists arrived in Georges Carpentier, ex-light Eeavy-Colombo late in the evening and no weight champion of Europe, since re-play was possible.
ent on the French stage.
To confirm the minutes of the tiring from the ring has been promin The Ceylon cricketers will have last Council meeting.
Correspondence.
To appoint an Emergency Com- mittee of three.
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BLOOD TESTS AND PATERNITY
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The Hamburg Court, according to a telegram from Berlin, has granted a divorce in a case in which the husband, who declared was not his, brought forward as evidence scientific proof that his blood and that of the child
that a child
belonged to separate groups.
WATER RETURN
Lovel and Storage of water in Be- servoirs on July 1, 1929:-
CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS.
1928 4' 6"
1929 37' 2"B 26' 7"B
68' 2"B
Tytam Tytam Byewash.. '10"B Tytam Intermediate Level Wong Nei Chung Tytam Tuk Pokfuham
Leve 104' 4"B 13'10" 39" 7"B - 14'10"B 32' 1"B Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow"; A. denotes "Above Overflow: L. de notes "Level with Overflow."]
Storage in million and decimats of gallons
1928 347.32 13.33
Tycam
This is not the first time that this use of blood tests to determine paternity has been illustrated in Germany. The tests depend on the theory that human blood corpuscles may contain one or both of the two Tytam Tuk...... 1,419.00 substances, called A and B. Sim-Wong Nei Chung larly human serum may contain one
or both of two substances, a and
b; but it is impossible for A and
Tytam Byewash .. Tytam Intermediate
Pokfulum
1929 141.14
.53
195.00
3.52
16.08
14.84
.80
94.34
5.92
1928 310.22
Total
2,024.73. 168.59 Consumption of water in the City to co-exist in one individual, beard Hill District in millions and de- cause the result of their meeting cimals of gallons during the month of is agglutination of the blood cor- June. puscles, and the same phenomenon occurs when b meets B. Thus there Estimated population 423.100 known as Groups I., II., IIL, and IV, containing respectively A plus B, A plus b, a plus B, and a plus b.
Consumption
To appoint a Referees Commit physically that he never requires to this scheme and next October are four possible types of bloodConsumption
Ing in the game for years beyond the average and still retaining his form. He may be so constituted aard, special training; he may be To appoint a League Manage-impelled to continue by necessity, a genuine liking for the sport, or
tee of three.
To appoint an Appeals Board.
ment Committee of five.
To receive a statement of ac-
a spice of vanity.
had the benefit of the help of an English coach before the Austra- lians play in Colombo next April. The C.C.A. are definitely pledged we shal, definitely see an English professional begin his work of training promising young Cey tonese players-the nucleus per- haps of a team to England half a dozen years later.
One can easily gall to mind the counts from the League Treasurnames of boxers who have lingered er and to receive the cash balance. long on the boxing stage-the late To transact any other business Bob Fitzsimmons, Battling Levin-
UNFAIR ADVANTAGE that may arise.
Britton-all world's sky, Jack champions-Dick Smith, British Proceeding to Lord's, Worcester- champion: Harry Stone, the Ameri-Shire had a bitter experience, for can Hebrew light-weight; all these during the second day they lost all were boxing in the first rank long their twenty wickets for 263 runs, after they were thirty. Fitzsim- and were beaten by an Innings and mons was 44 when he met Jack 190, writes the Gentleman in Black Johnson and nearly 48 when he had in the Athletic News. his last fight. Jack Britton, who beat Ted (Kid) Lewis for the world's welter-weight title in 1921, and won a contest a few weeks ago, has retired now in his 44th year.
SOCCER DEFEATS
ENGLISH LEAGUE CLUBS
SUFFER REVERSES
The club tours on the Continent are still producing disturbing ups and downs.
Huddersfield Town defeated this have again been time by the strong Sparta club at Prague. West Ham United also fell to The Hague team in Holland on Saturday by 2-1, Not many teams will equal the record of Wednes day and 'Spurs, who in all results to hand have been unbeaten.
And more sides have just get sail. There's no end to football nowa- days.
WALKING CONTEST
SIX MILES COURSE IN 1 HOUR
A person's group is ascertained by putting two drops of his blood at opposite ends of a glass slide and adding a (serum-from Group III) to one, and b (serum from Group II.) to the other. Within a few minutes one, both, or neither of the drops will show clumping of the corpuscles, and will thus reveal the group to which the owner belongs.
per
1029 1:5.24* 433,420
8.R
head per day. 24.4
Includes 2.21 M.G. from Taikoo, 9.06 M.G. from Kowloon, 6.56 M.G. from Taun Wan and 3.35 M.G. from steamers, etc.
Constant Supply of all Rider Main Districts during June, 1928.
June, 1929 Principal Main Supply opened from 6-10 a.m. and 3-6 p.m. from 1st- 17th inclusive.
From 18th-24th iDelusive the hours of supply were 6-9 a.m. and 3.30pm.
From 25th-30th inclusive the hours of supply from 5-8 a.m. and 6-8.30 p.m. (Peak District 4 hours
KOWLOON WATER WORKS
1928 1029 Level 36' 7"B
Level 34'11"B
Kowloon Reservoir Shck Lai Pui Re- Reception Reservoir 0'11" 58"B
servoir.
Storage in million and decimals of gallons
One medico-legal application of the tests is to the examination of daily). blood stains, for it can sometimes The pitch is said to have begun be shown that the blood from a to break up from about four o'clock given stain could not have been shed the first day, and on Thursday by the person to whom it is attri- H. A. Gilbert circulated for buted. Their use to refute allega. publication a letter in which he ac- tions of paternity is not so simple, cased the M.C.C. of preparing un- since it depends on our knowledge fair wickets-"unfair," he explain-of the way in which the characteris- ed. "in the sense that an undue ad- tics of the blood are inherited. The vantage is given to the side that available evidence indicates that A wins the toss."
and B are "dominant" characters, whilst a and b are "recessive." On this assumption A and B can never be found in the blood of a child unless they are present in that of the father or the mother. A child, for example, who belongs to Group II. cannot have sprung from two Group IV, parents.
The wicket was a natural one, and that it did not last better was due to the hard winter and cold spring we experienced. Altogether, it seems to me that an attempt has been made to make a mountain out
Battling Levinsky, once cruiser champion of the world, and now a north short of 38, and Harry Stone, 40 last birthday and with 24 years of boxing behind, have also retired after very recent con- tests. Dick Smith was older than either of these when he retired in 1923, and he was 39 when he boxed Joe Beckett for the heavy-weight championship.
Fitzsimmons and Stone were of a molehill, alike in that they never bothered about the weight of the men they the moment he made his firet ap- were fighting- "Fitz,"
in his pearance
in prime, fought and heat them all against Blackpool he has lured
a friendly game J. D. ROCKEFELLER An interesting walking contest from middles to heavies, with the money into the coffers of the home between two partics of Chinese exception of Jim Jeffries, and club. Altogether he has figured in took place in Penang over a week- Harry Stone like Kid Lewis, would nine games, including eight under end recently. The starting point cheerfully give away a stone or a League auspices, and total receipts was the Clock Tower in Light stone and a half. The present is have been $1,606. Street and the finish at the Ayer the day of the young and compara Itam Police Station.
tively young boxer; no veteran of The challengers were Mesara. class remains, with the exception Quah Oh Eng and Khoo Teik Swee, of Eugene Criqui, the French and those who took up the chal, holder of the world's leather lenge were Dr. Cheah Toon Siew weight title, who will be thirty-six and Mr. Low Yeow Chee, who were next August. given a three minutes' handicap.
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In well informed circles it was $1.123, Accrington $110, Lower-reported here to-day that John house 2221, and Hashingden D. Rockefeller, Jr., accompanied by 162. The West Indian has hardly James MacDonald, chairman of justified such an expenditure by the American Foreign Policy As his actual play, for his only scores sociation, will visit Russia in of note have been 87, 52, and 43, July.
The
Kowloon
on Reservoire
servoir
Reccption Reservoir
1928 1929 352:50 76.70
118,10
- 15.45
30.73 19.15
Total
409.33 111.30 Consumption of water in Kowloon in millions and decima.Is of gallons during the month of Jane.
1928 1929 Carisumption
305.12
$2.33* Estimated population 105,700 170,740 Consumption per
21.3 head per day
12.1 Dies not include water sent to Hong Kong but includes 0.83 M.G. from Tsun Wan.
Full Supply in all districts during June, 1928.
Jane, 1929
From 1st-4th inclusive the supply was shut off nightly from 6 p.m.
a.m.
From 5th-23rd inclusive a supply of 6 hours per day was given.
From 24-30th inclusive supply to all districts
5 am-6 p.m.
the dally was from
The Government Analyst's reports show that the quality of the water la satisfactory.
Total rainfall to June 30, 1928,
but the fact is, of course, people It is understood that Rockefeller continue to go in the expectation will discuss with Soviet officials 18:23; 1929, 14.38. of seeing a display of batting the world bil "situation. "fireworks,"
negotiations, it is said, are de- One player who has good reason signed to bring about a wider field to welcome his arrival is a young of co-operation between the The hold that L. V. Constantine, Nelson batsman, C. Hawkwood, Soviets and the Standard Of the West Indian now assisting Nel, who, in successive weeks, has been interests-United. Press. son, has secured on cricket enthusi-rewarded with collections of £40 )---
IN COLLECTIONS
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being estimated at about £100,000.
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