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Fought As Enemies
Twelve years ago such are the inexplicable antics of Fale-two Polish fliers, deadly enemies of the air over the Eastern Front, were fighting fiercely to bring to each other separately the catastrophe that overtook them together, as comrades of peace.
Up until a few weeks ago these two seemed to bear charmed lives. They fought through the war as enemies. Each was decorated for
THE CHINA MAIL,
SWIMMING FETE
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUBS
SUCCESS
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PLENTY OF THRILLS
BASEBALL LEAGUE
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The Line-ups The line-ups were:- Phillies J. Alvares
There were three casualties. In he was not playing the same game. the first place a Pressman, who was Prior to that he was doing excellent The Victoria Recreation Club
out in the field trying to make a duty behind the batter, and with scored another success with their few snap shots, stopped a ball with him away and subsequently return- second swimming night fete, on about two hundred tons of force being disabled, the Phillies had a clear Saturday evening, when there was a hind it. He did not stop the pill field to do all the pilfering they large gathering of spectators, in-in the usual way. He used his knee liked. cluding the Hon. Mr. W. Tinstead and I guess he will be Southorn, C.M.G., and the Hon. Sir limping about for a couple days. Joseph Kemp, C.B.E., K.C.
Then wood called to leather. The events provided plenty of Matty Chang got a dandy one on excitement, particularly in the his noodle and if he were to tip the
T. Leonard Services' team race and the open scale to-day, he will find himself
Cruz team race. The latter was a close heavier by a few ounces.
Bautista struggle between the R.G.A. and There was also the Japanese | D. Leonard the K.OS.B. The Borderers led photographer. That guy was squat- A. Alvares slightly most of the way, but lost ting down quite peacefully, doing Figueiredo
Rull by four seconds, the Gunners' lastno harm to anybody, when Tauka- two men turning the trick.
guchi the Japanesc Southpaw
YANKEES BEATEN
In the other team race, four good pitcher, without ryme or reason teams took part, and with the first pitched into him with a sledge-ham. three swimmers there was little to mer ball. I bet that guy will find choose between the teams, although his hat too small for him to-day. the Chinese Amateur Swimming Union were slightly in the lead. Then the V.R.C's fourth man went to the front, but the Club de Recreio's fifth man forged ahead and gave the last man a alight lead, which the latter was able to keep to the end, winning by a touch.
Water Polo
In Close Contest with Phillies Zafra's First Homer
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Yesterday's game at Caroline Hill diamond was more thrilling, the A water polo match was played spectators being kept in suspense ap
between
the
Chinese
Amateur to the last inning. The two teams
Swimming Union and the Combined at play were the Hong Kong Yankees Army and Navy Team. It was a and the Filipinos-last year's cham- keenly contested match, with the pion. result in doubt right to the last
The game throughout was charac minute, when the Chinese snatched terised by hard hitting, and judging victory by three goals to two from the display, the Yankees have The Chinese got the only goal in the the better batting side of any team first half through Tan Chin-hing. in the League. Immediately after the restart, Fin- layson equalised, and later added a second, this shot being deflected He was called to mobilization into the goal by one of the Chinese 1913, and in 1915 was transferred backs.. to the Aeronautic Service. Fight-
The Chinese went all out, and
gium, the city that was so soon to enter upon its own tragic days Although by nationality and choice drafted into the
a Pole, he was Russian army.
The Phillies did a bit of sogging a bit yesterday, but I reckon they would not do it again if the Yankees had Ruffin on the mound. Russakoī who dished them out yesterday for
Zafra
Ball Club
D. Russakoff
C.
Burrell
.ib
Howard
2b
Harris
Bowker
3h
Proulx
Lammert
r.i.
c.t. Owen-Hughes
Skinner
L£.
The Scores
The scores, inning by inning,
were
Bail Club Filipinos
R. R. E. ..11.7 7
9 10 7
HOME RACING
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ing on the Eastern Front, he was Tan Chin-hing clinched matters by the Yanks was a bit too easy. decorated several times by Russia. getting two fire goals, both shot ain't so bad when the full tally is
Major Casimir Kubala is con- from
close quarters, and the taken, and with a little practice, I sidered the foremost aviator and Services' goal-keeper had no chance guess he will hold his own against observer in Polish military avia with either.
some of the hefty batters we have tion. He is a graduate of the
At the conclusion the prizes were out here. Chemistry Department of the distributed in the Club Hall, after
Phillies Leading in Third Frame Jagiellonian University of Cracow. which daneing was indulged in to At the end of the opening canto,
In 1914 Major Kubala, also
by the Lyric Orchestra, both teams remained at par with a Polo, but a resident at that time of which alas provided some
fine
tally each, again tying at the end Austrian Poland, was drafted into selections during the swimming.
of the second, each with another two! the Austrian army. He was trans-
runs to the good. The Phillies shot ferred to the aeronautic service in
ahead in the third with a lone man 1916.
coming past the home plate.
At the start of the war with the Bolsheviks in 1918 when the in- fluence of Germany, Austria and Russia had lifted from divided and war-torn Poland, Major Idzikowski
front.
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Results
The results follow:-
100 yards Handicap (Members). -1, B. Goano, (Time: 72 secs,) Won by four 2, C. Figueiredo. ecconds.
Won by a touch.
to things and got going.
The Yanks made things look rosy for themselves in the fourth staiza with three tallies. The 50 yards Back Stroke (Open to Phillies were then two runs behind, enlisted in the seventh squadron of the Colony)-1, Leung Sui-man, but this did not dampen the pep of sharpshooters and went to the (Time: 83.3/5 secs.); 2, L. Roza the dusky babies. They just settled
Wong down Pereira. He was a member of the famous Kosciusko Escadrille an Song-hing, (holder of the cham- They yanked three men home in the commanded by pionship) who finished first in sixth, and the Americans could do this race was disqualified for touch- no more than smuggling two run- Fauntleroy of
ing with one hand before turning.
nars into the home pan. Diving (Three plain dives from platform Open to the Colony).- 1, Ed. da Roza, (82 points); 2, L. Roza Pereira, (81 points). There were 12 competitors, and some good
American unit Colonel Cedric Chicago.
Hot Weather Indigestion
Its Reason and Why
Dr. Williams Pink Pills Cure It.
dives were seen.
The First Home Run With the scores remaining even the Phillies made their last trip to bat. Big Ben Zafra the first man in proved to the world in general that he ain't got a hole in his bat
50 yards Breast Stroke (Open to the Colony).-1. Lo Chi-hing, before this he had been swinging (Time: 35 secs.); 2. W. Foraita, like an old rusty gate each time he
took the willow in hand. Won by one second.
Не
The hot season of the year is 50 yards Boys' Handicap-1,walloped out one to left field for the the time when people find them-Master Lau, (Time: 49 secs.); 2,home circuit, and thus chalked up the first home run to the good side selves troubled most with indiges- Marter E. da Roza.
bravery. Then they joined their tion. The reason is that the de- 50 yards Ladies' Handicap-1, of his book. This put the Phillies luck and their skill and fought sidebilitating heat thins and weakens Miss Chan Yuk-fai, (Time: 47.2/5 one up, and naturally and incident- by side against the Bolsheviks un- the blood, the source from which sees); 2, Miss Lan Kwai-chun,ally did much to instil fresh energy til 1921.
all parts of the body derive Such good lady swimmers as the and pep into his side. They all The death of Major Leon Idzí strength to carry on their work, Hunt sisters, and the Misses M. slammed away to a man and their kowaki and the severe injury to and thus the stomach and other George, I. Allen and E. Anslo, did efforts resulted in another two runs,
Game on Ice his comrade, Major Casimir digestive organs become starved not get a chance in this race on ac- Kubala, in their attempted flight to and weakened.
count of heavy handicaps.
At this stage the game was put Mitchel Field. L. I, were the first casualties of that long and strange association.
When the process of digestion
50 yards Free Style (Open toon ice for the Phillies and to the goes wrong food begins to poison the Colony)-1, S. V Gittins, Yankees it was sour milk curd.
26.4/5 the system instead of feeding it, (Time:
secs.); 2, W. They went in for the last stanza, soon symptoms of ill-Lawrence, Won by one-fifth of a but with a much discouraged front. health manifest themselves, in the second after a very close race.
They did no more than draw a form of headaches, vertigo, flatul- Team Race (Open to H.M. Naval blank.
Major Itzikowski was thirty- and very eight. Before the outbreak of the war, in 1914, he was a student at Polytechnical Institute, Liege, Bel-
PRES, HOOVER'S NAME
TRACED BACK TO A BERNE LINEN WEAVER
Zurich, July 11.
ence, spots before the ayes, Joss and Military Forces, six a side, each
The Phillies won their first game
of appetite, abdominal pains, de- to swim 50 yards)-1, R. G. A., of the season with the score stand- pression, nervousness, undue tired- (Time: 3 mins. 14 secs.); 2, ing at 11 to 9. ness, and in other ways.
K.0.5.B., (Time: 3 mins. 18 secs.).
Some Soggers
season was under the ladder yeater-
To correct matters, and to get The other teams were the Somerset There are some hefty zoggers, în the health back to normal, the Light Infantry and H.M.S.the Yankee outfit. Russskoff who anly proper method of treatment "Sandwich." ia to restore the blood to a rich, Team Race (Open to the Colony, was the "Home Run King" last red healthy condition, and this six a side, each to swim 50. He whiffed the air more times can best be done by means of Dr. yards).-1, Club de Recreio that he did the pill Burrell, an It has been generally supposed Williams' Pink Pills for Pale (Time: 2 mins, 54 secs.): 2, V.R.C. other strong bat didn't fare very that the name Hoover W38 an People, the most perfect of all (Time: 2
mine. 54.2/5 secs.). well either although he drew a two Americanised form of the frequent blood tonics. A short course of The other competing teams were bugger. Bowker, Owen Hughes and ly occurring German name Huber] these Pills will not only tone up the Chinese Amateur Swimming Lammert are the other wallopers in The papers now bring the news that the blood and banish digestive Unlon, who came in a close third the outfit and they all did some hard the "Amerikanische Schweizer
aleo impart and the Kowloon Swimming Club, Zeitung" has received a letter from troubles, but it will
ogging.
the White House to the effect that ew vitality to your whole system. who were only a touch behind the
Chinese.
The Losing Factor So if your digestion is giving! Mr. Hoover's old country is the
Water Polo-Chinese Amateur The primary factor which caused Canton of Berne, and that his an- you trouble, or if you are feeling cestors have been traced back to weak, depressed, run down, be Swimming Union, 3 goals; Com-the Yankees to lose the game one Johann Heinrich Huber, a wise and begin taking Dr. Wil-bined Army and Navy Team, 2 yesterday was the indifferent pitch-
All goals.
linen weaver.
Hams Pink Pills at once. This possibility had already been chemists soll them, $1.50 per pointed out by the Swiss American bottle, $8 for 6 bottles.
Historical Society; since the begin-.
the
ning of the eighteenth century the *Canton of Berne had systematically
and officially encouraged. emigration to America, and numer- ous families had settled in Pennsyl vania, where they formed a sect known as the Swiss Mennonites.
The name itself means a: man who possesses a "Hube," that is, a small farm.
Members of the Kuomintang met recently in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce- quarters, Shanghai, and resolved to urge Chinese not to pay Municipal rates, because the Council has taken a firm attkude in connection with repairing Settle- ment roads.
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION.
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Officials
ing of Russakoff and the accident to í Burrell. He split his finger In the The following were the offi- second, and although be came back clale
after making a trip to the hospital,
President. H.E Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.
Chairman-Hon. Mr. W. T Southern, C.M.GNU.
Judges Messrs. W. Logan, A. Silva Netto, Y. K. Mok, Peter Paul J. A. Victor, G. T. May and Lt. C. S. Howard,
Starters. Mesars. James Stewart and J. R. Soares.
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY
Sunrise and Sunset In Hong Kong for August (Standard time of
Timekeepers Messrs, J. M. M. the 120th Meridian, East of Green
Alves, RM da Rocha, F. W. Twich), are as follow:
Rosa and Wong Kam-ying.
Sunrise Sunset.
Competitors' Stewards. Mesars. August
p.m.
JA Victor and W. C. Simpson.
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James
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Stewart and J. A Victor.
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Hon. Treasurer, Mr. H. Hyndman.
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