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CHINA
MAIL.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
19, 1931.
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SHOWING TO-DAY
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A WOMAN AFLAME with the sacrals of love— and a man who was still a wide-ayed boy. Chance brought them together in an ambrace no force could part.
BODY
CTURE
IND
SODOOL
Directed by
Alfred Santell
only
ELISSA LANDI
incandescent beauty of the continent could give such power to so fiery a role
only. CHARLES FARRELL
could rise to such heights as the eager, Inexperienced lover.
ALSO
CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP
OPEN LAWN BOWLS
CHAMPIONSHIP.
Cullen, Lapsley and West All Win.
OVERY'S RECOVERY.“
Three
the Open
matches in Lawn Bowls Championship were decided during the week with the following results:---
Cullen beat Oswick by 3 shots. Lapsley heat Overy by 5 shots. West beat Burford by 13 shots. In the first match Oswick held Cullen until the eighteenth head when Culleni took
A the lead. three at the twenty-second head gave him a lead of five, but Oswick
Y. M. C. A. HOCKEY TEAM FOR TUESDAY.
to
AGAINST RADIO SPORTS.
The following have been selected represent the Y.M.C.A. first eleven against the Radlo Sports Club nt King's Park on Tuesday, bully off at 5.15 p.m. sharp.
BIG VICTORY FOR U.S.R.C.
Recreio Trounced in Mixed Doubles.
DUNLOP SHIELD.
The United Services Recreation
G. C. Moss; A. Tate, E. 0. Murphy: F. S. W. Smith, D. McClub defeated the Club de Recreio Lellan' (captain), F. Allen; G. C. by 8 sets to nil in the Mixed Burnett, J. Parker, W. H. Smith, Doubles League nutch on the for-
W. J. Brown, and T. J. Price.
Referee: A. C. Jeffries,
iner's ground.
Col. Robinson and Mrs. Keary (U.S.R.C.):
KOWLOON GOLF'
CLUB.
beat Remedios and Mias
Ribeiro
6-4
beat V. Yvanovich and Miss
da Rozu
7- 5
reduced the arrears to 2 before Qualifying Rounds for led Noronha and Miss Botelho - 4
Cullen went out at the twenty-fifth head.
Overy, after fighting in arrears. throughout the match, came on level terma with Lapsley at the twenty-fourth head, but a 3 and a 2 Kave Lapsley a five shot. victory at the twenty-sixth head.
West scored a runaway vietory over Burford, holding, the lead throughout the game.
HOME FOOTBALL.
To-day's League
Fixtures.
ENGLISH LEAGUE,
تا
Championship.
Members are reminded of the qualifying rounds, to decide the Club's entries, for the Champion-beat Noronha and ship of the Colony. These will Botelho
be played off over the Kowloon beat V. Yvanovich and Miss course to-morrow and on Sunday, September 27. Members taking part are requested to arrange their own partners.
Starting Times for To-Morrow.
The Secretary of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club supplies the following list of starting times for Fanling to-morrow:-
9.20 a.m. E. B. Gammel, K. H.
Griffiths.
2
First Division.
Birmingham
".
Sheffield U.
Bolton W.
Middlesbro''
9.24
Chelses
V
Aston Villa
Derby C
V.
Portsmouth
0.28
Grimsby T.
3.
Lelcester C..
Liverpool
F.
Everton
9.32
Manchester C. v.
Arsenal
Wednesday
V.
Huddersfield
0.36
Sunderland
v. Blackpool
West Brom.
V
Blackburn R.
9.40
++
West Ham
V Newcastle U.
0.44
12
Second Division.
9.48
Bradford C. Burnley Chesterfield Leeds Un. Millwall
V.
Bristol City
9.52
EX
V
Wolves
V.
Bradford.
9.56
v, Plymouth A.
Oldham A.
€10.00
1
Notts Forest
v.
Manchester-U.
Port Vale
v.
Bury
Preston N.E.
V.
Charlton A.
Stoke City
Swansea T.
Notts Cnty..
10.04
10.08. 10.12
"
**
Tottenham
Barnsley
11
Southampton
Third Division (South).
Bournemouth v. Crystal Pal.
Bristol R.
V
Mansfield T.
Ca:diff C. Clapton 0.
Fulham
V.
Norwich C.
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Coventry C.
V
Exeter C.
V.
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". Thames
Southend Northampton v. Queen's P.R. y. Watford Swindon T. 3. -Rending Torquay U V. Brighton
Third Division (North). Accrington S. v. York C. Carlisle U. Y. Doncaster R. Crewe A.
Rochdale Darlington
Gateshead
Halifax
V.
V.
Wigan Boro'
v. Lincoln C..
v. Hartlepools
New Brighton v. Hull C. Rotherham v.. Barrow Stockport C. Y. Tranmere R. Walsall
V. Chester Wrexham
E. P. White, H. H. Mundy.
I. H. Geare, 3. K. Mac- Farlan,
Capt. Anderson, Enger.
STAR
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20, & 9.20.
They Learned About Women
Song hits! Laughs!
Romance
of baseball
and stagel
Lieut. Waring and Mrs. Dook - (U.S.R.C.) :— bent Remedios and Mies
Ribeiro
with
Miss
6- 4
6- 1
VAN & SCHENCK
din Roza
6- 1.
Capt Moir and Mrs. Lochner (U.S.R.C.):-
beat Remedios
Ribeiro beat V. Yvanovich and Miss
'da Roza
Noronha and Miss
and Misa
7-5
Botelho
6- 1
G. I
bent
through with a victory in the Cana- dian open to win his first important tournament since 1929, the year he inst captured the British open.
Of the two, golf followers found it easier to explain. Hagen's slip.
Oping from the hoights than that of
D. J. Gilmore, R. K. Hepburn,
A. D. Humphreys, T. S. Whyte-Smith.
G. T. May, H. T. Buxton.
E. R. West, D. B. Evans,
A. Lench, W.
Vallanco.
R.
E. T. E. Nash, G. H. Bond.
W C. Haley, W. D. Harris.
the Lanky Missourian who burst on the golfing horizon buck in 1928 with shot-making equipment whith made him
unbeat- able.
appear almost
Hagen has been, playing golf a long time-he won the American open as long ago as 1914-and it was not to be expected that be could go ahead winning champion- | ships indefinitely.
However, Smith's sagging came
J. E. Richardson, R. M. shortly after he fired his Brat
Wood.
A. J. R. Wolff, H. Lowe. Alan Reid, D. S. Robh.
volley in the national golf wars. And what a volley it was! An unknown youth, from Joplin, Mo., he swept through the majority of 10.16 H. W. Dalley, 1..G. important big money tournaments He
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Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL.
CRICKET-To-day-Inter-Club Match at the K.C.C.
FOOTBALL-To-day-Combin- ed Services v. South China, 4.30 p.m.
AQUATICS-To-das-Police- Sports at the V.R.C.
LAWN BOWLS-To-day- Second Division Civil Service C.C. Y. Kowloon C.C.; Yacht Club, v. H.K. Electric R.C.
MEETING -To-day Annual Meeting.
ABROAD.
I.R.C.
FOOTBALL-To-day- Full English and Scottish Lengue pro-
gramme.
in the Winter of 1928-1929. had а mechanical shot-making form, built on years of methodical to practice, that nothing seemed disturb.
At the age of 21 he was select- ed to play on the Rydor Cup team with the best of American pro- fessionals. On his return he was win one of the hot favourites to the National open at Mamaroneck. The big question at the time was how many strokes was Horton Smith going to beat Bobby Jones, or vice veran. However, it was Jones they handed the cup to.
After his setback, the Horton Smith era in Americán góli went into decline. It seemed Tikely to pass altogether. Smith's chief trouble, according to the sagen, eeems to have been one of psychol ogy, though for a long time he was troubled with B strained back. The professionals agreed "some- thing" went wrong with his swing
FINE GOLFING but they couldn't help him cure it. COME BACKS.
v. Southport
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
TWO
First Division.
Aberdeen Clyde
V.
V.
Ayr Un, Motherwell
V,
Dundee Un. v. St. Mirren- Falkirk.
Third Lanark Hamilton A. v. Partick T Kilmarnock Cowdenbeath
Leith 4th.
Morton-
Y.
v.. Dandco Y. Celtic Queen's Park v.. Hearts Rangers
V. Airdrieonians.
Walter Hagen and Horton Smith.
WORRIES, AND CARE.
New York, Aug. 25.; Horton Smith has finally stilled the club house chatter that he was "a flash in the `pan."
He did it with
When Smith first started he seemed to clip off par and sub-par ! round with acarcely a thought. Ob servera said "ho doesn't know what it means to miss a "putt. But he'll And out." Smith, more preoccupi- ed with golf than perhaps any other export player, kept straining his game until he did learn.
After that the harder he tried- the tougher, things went. It may be that his victory at St. Paul will restore his confidence in a style a Bensational 278 that potentially is one of the best There is an idea that' heading a to grab the $2,600 firat money in in the business. ball hurts. If it is done properly the St. Paul open. a player will hardly feel the ball when he heads it. If he allows the ball to drop upon the top of his bead, then most surely he will know all about it; but that is not good heading, The correct place to take a ball on the head is at the top of the forebead.-Andy Wilson.
Moreover, his Hagen's failure to click out tour- score for the 72 Holes was the low-nament victories in the months cat which has been recorded for a leading up to the Canadian open" major tournament since the "bal- was dus largely to the refusal of his putts to drop Unlike Smith, looy ball" came into use.
Smith's victory places him up however, Hagen refused to worry, alongside Walter Hagen for the "They'll start dropping ong
The these days," he said, year's "comeback" honours. "Haig" a short time ago crashed did.--Associated Press.
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One man's wife is another man's, temptation.
He thought his wife a child. But she played with fire and that's no child's play. Take a tip!
"DON'T BET ON WOMEN"
WITH
EDMUND LOWE, JEANETTE MacDONALD