FRIDAY, JULY. 7, 1933,
BABE RUTH HITS HURRICANE ~
WINNING RUN.
American League Win
Over National.
49,000 CHEER CONNIE MACK'S VICTORIOUS BALL TEAM
New York, To-day. A crowd of 49,000 B&W Babe Rath, the Yankee's star hitter, clout a homer to give Connie Mack's American League stars a 4 to 2 triumph over John McGraw's Na-}
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KNOCK BY AMES
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MYSTERY OF AIR To Day's Short Story.
LINER'S CRASH MY ONE GOOD TURN
City Of Liverpool”
Fatality.
ENQUIRY FAILS TO FIND
ORIGIN OF FINE
London, To-day.
the accident to the Imperial Alx
The Crook's Story
As Told to PETER - CHEYNEY.
H Well, I've never found it so. wondering what same I would get “TONESTY pays, does it?, deck smoking" a'qulet" "Cigar and]
ped quite close to me, and I heard what he was saying to her.
REALISES 295
Kent Smash Records Against Gloucester.
FREEMAN HAS 11 FOR 60
Oxford Win At Lord's The Air Ministry announces that
London, To-day.
ways air liner, "City of Liverpool," Maybe I've been lucky. I've been up to when I arrived in England: Hurricane batting by Leslie Ames, Flanders, last March, and of which years. I've been a 'con' man, screen when the pair of 'em came which crashed near Dixmude playing a hot game of cards ten I was standing behind a wind- tronal squad at Comiskey Park, who scored 295 towards the Kent there were no survivors, has been too, although that docan't appeal up the companion-way. They stop- total of 592 for 5, was largely res- investigated by the Belegian au- to me as much as card-slicking. Chicago, yesterday,
This is the first game of it's kind ponsible for Gloucester's tenth de thorities.
"The only time I ever saw the to be held, and is being staged in feat and Kent's sixth win at Folkes- They find that fire broke out inside of a prison was when I was
"It's not a bit of good your connection with the sports pro-tone yesterday.
in the central portion of the aero-convicted in the United States nine arguing, my dear, he said quietly, gramme of the Century of Pro-
In compiling 259 Ames estab-plane; that the theory that the fire vears ago for something I didn't do, but with a nasty note in his voice, grese Exposition. It is under the lished a new individual record originated from the engines is That's how life is!
{but 'you're going to co what I tell) promotion of the Chicago Tribune. for the season,' beating. Bake practically impossible; and that. "Here's the funniest thing that's you,' and if you don't I shall have to
The following were the scores:
well's 246. Kent's total is also a while possible causes could be sug-happened to me. I think it's funny make you that's all. ́What you've record for the season, beating gested, these are speculations only, because I once did somebody a good got to do is this: You've got in- National
2 & Yorkshire's total of 591, Kent and the evidence does not admit of turn!" "And I don't believe in doing fluential friends in England--people American
also broke another record with a any definite cause being ascribed. people good turns. You won't find with money to spare and I want Babe Ruth, King of Swat, hit a double century and two other The Inspector of Accidents of anybody tougher than me in Europe, some of it; at least, my gold-mine four-bagger in the third inning three figure scores in the same the British Air Ministry also finds Americs or Africa, and I know those wants it, just in case there isn't with Charley Gehringer (Detroit) innings..
that on the evidence available three continents pretty well. I any gold there You've got to ar on the base to give the American
Ames was responsible for a that it is impossible to reach any didn't get eighty thousand dollars in range that I meet these people, and League stars the winning margin. splendid England Frankie Frisch (St. Louis Cardin-against the West Indies in the and the cause of the fire which
recovery conclusion as to the actual origin the bank through being soft. you've got to tell them that you "Well, here's the way it was. I know all about the mine,, that it's als) banged out a homer for the Test at Lord's, scoring an un-gave rise to the accident.
was coming over from Cape Town on a wonderful proposition and all your
in Cape Town have got] It seems clear, however, that one of the big liners. I'd had a friends
in it, They'll believe none of the engines failed or deve-good six months in Africa. I was money
1x member of card clubs, and 1 you-- loped any defect, that the fuel worked private houses, too, tanks did not burst of spring a leak in the air, and that while the seemed to be asleep most of the time. cleaned up a bunch of money. They pipe lines themselves were virtual-I believe they'd have let me mix the ly destroyed, all pipe connections, cards in front of 'em and they nuts and taps were in order.
wouldn't have seen it. I've made a electrical accumlators had
not lot of money playing cards on big fired,
boats, but I made up my mind I'd Brilliant bowling by Owen derry, is satisfied
The Air Minister, Lord London have
a holiday on this trip. I Lefty Grove, (Athletics). Lefty all-rounder, resulted in a Oxford quiry-British Wireless Service.
Smith, the South African Test could be gained by further en- anybody. I just flew around the that nothing wasn't going to touch a card, not for
"I couldn't hear any more. They Gomez, (Yankees). Wes Ferrell, win at Lord's, in spite of good
decks and made friends. I was walked away. It amused me rather. (Indians). Oral Hiydebrand, (Ia
popular all right. diana). Alvin Crowder, (Senators).
I've told you I'm pretty tough. At There were two people on that the same time I had a sort of pity. Catchers.
boat that I noticed particularly. for the girl. She was such a kid. I've got a quick instinct naturally, It may have been due to this; or it odd between them. He was a tall ness; or it may and I sensed there was something may have been just natural cussed- have been that I lim, dark man with a thin face and just didn't like him, but, anyhow, London, Today. a charming way with him. He was the next night, after dinner, I ran proved the appointment of Sir Erie ing to England to raise capital for almost before I knew what I was His Majesty the King has ap- a company promoter and was come into him in the smoking-room, and, Drummond, late Secretary-General an African mine. I don't know doing. I asked him if he'd like a to the League of Nations to be Bri-what she was, but she was about game of cards.
National outfit.
Score by innings:
1 2 3 4 5 0 0 0 0 0
National ..
American 0 1 2 0 0
6 7 8 9 2000
1 0 0 0 Hallahan, Warneke, Hubbell, N.
D. Wilson and Hartnett were the National batterics, and Gomez, Crowder, Grove and Ferrell were 'the Americans:
The teams were as follow:
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Pitchers.
Bill Dickey, (Yankees). Dick Ferrell, (Browns).
Infielders.
blemished 83.
Hammond and Dacre, who equalled an 1899 record in their last match, scored 129 of Gloucester's second fan- ings total of 173 against the wiles of Tich Freeman, the only bowler to secure à 100 wickets this season. Free- man secured 11 for 60 in the match.
bowling by Bowes, the Yorkshire fast bowler and Test player.
Results as cabled by Beuter: Kent bent Gloucester by an in- nings and 294 runs at Folkestone. Gloucester 125 (Freeman 5 for 18).
Lou Gehrig, (Yankees). Tony
173 (Hammond 56, Dacre 73,) Lazzeri, (Yankees). Charley Geh-
Freeman 6 for 42). ringer, (Tigers), Joc Cronin, Kent 592 for 5 dec. (Ames 295, (Senators). Jimmie Foxx, (Athle-Todd 121, B. II. Valentine 113 not ties). Jimmie Dykes, (White Sox).
out). Outfielders.
Al Simmons, (White Sox). Babe Oxford University beat the M. C. C. Ruth, (Yankees). Ben Chapman, (Yankees). Sam West, (Browns). M. C. C.: 132 (H. G. Owen Smith
by 6 wickets at Lord's.
Earl Averill, (Indians).
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Pitchers.
Lon Warneke, (Cubs). Carl Hub- bell, (Giant). Bill Hallahen, (Car- dinals). Harold Schumacher, (Giants).
6 for 51 and 135.
Oxford 128 (Bowes 6 for 41)
141 for 4.
TABLE TO DATE.
Gabby Hartnett, (Cubs). Jim Wi-Yorkshire zon, (Cardinals).
Catchers.
Infielders.
Essex
Sussex Warwick Bill Terry, (Glants). Frankie Middlesex Frisch, (Cardinals). Dick Bertell, Kent (Phillies). Pie Traynor, (Pirates).
Derbyshire Elwood English. (Cubs). Tony
Notta Lancashire Cuccinello, (Dodgers). Pepper Somerset Northants Surrey Gloucester Waner, (Pirates). Chick Hafey, Glamorgan Hampshire (Reds). Frank O'Deul, XGiants). Worcester Wally Verger, (Braves).
Martin, (Cardinals).
Outfielders.
Chuck Klein, (Phillies),
Paul
-Reuter.
A FATAL FALL.
Schoolboy's Mishap At West Point.
While he was out walking with a party of school-mates last Wednes
Leicester
The
SIR E. DRUMMOND RECEIVES POST.
Ambassador To Rome.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Breakfast For None," by Basil D. Nicholson.
cession to Sir Ronald Graham, who ing. She was married and was go manner, and we corralled three other tish Ambassador to Rome in suc-twenty-three, beautiful and charm "He agreed in bis usual charming! less Service. is shortly retiring-British Wire-ing to join her husband in England. people and started a poker game. I She was a nice kid, and the word was playing as straight as a die,
was
and was Secretary-General to the League didn't know a thing. They had met up about thirty pounds, and he was Sir Eric Drummond, K.C.M.G., C.B., kid just about describes her. She and I was winning tool I'd cleaned of Nations since its conception in 1919. Entering the Foreign Offee in on the boat and he had sort of pall-winning a bit, too. I thought it 1900, he
appointed Private ed up with her. She couldn't have would be a joke to take some of his the Under-Secretary for known much about men, or she money off him, and the next time Secretary to Foreign Affairs in 1906.
He served would have laid off that guy! I the play was between him and me in that capacity until 1910.
From 1912 to 1916 he one of the used to look at them in the dining I did a bit of ace-slipping and scop 15 12 1 1 1 0 188 Private Secretaries to the Prime Mini-Balcon, she laughing and taiking, a ped nearly all he had won. We, 15 9 2 3 1 0 153 ster, and from that year until 1919 favourite with everybody, and he finished soon after this, and I was 14 7 6 1 0 0 110 Private Secretary to the Foreign watching her with his big, quiet
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Sir Ronald Graham, P.C., G.G.B., eyes, rather like the way a cat 92 G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., C.B., watches a mouse. 90 has been Ambassador to Italy since
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"One night when it was blowing
91 1921. He entered the Diplomatic pretty hard I was up on the boat
89 Service in 1892,
BRITISHER OUT
OF WORK.
Committed To House
Of Detention.
Charles Issac Read, 29-year-old B.M.S. Cornwall of the 5th Britisher, yesterday gave himself Cruiser Squadron Caradoc, attached to the Squadron, passport.
and H.M.S. up to the Police for not having af
left Hong Kong this morning for This morning at the Central their summer exercises at Wei-hai-Police Court he was committed to the wet.
House of Detention.
Read has been in the Colony for
day, Chung Ki Hung, aged 8, felli H.M.S. Wishart of the 8th about five years, but has been out down a slope it Kotewall Road, West Destroyer Flotills, is expected to of work for several months stated Point, and sustained a
arrive in Hong Kong from Tsingtao Detective-Inspector Elston, fractured
to-morrow morning at 7 a.m. HMS.
skull.
He was taken to the Government Whitshed of the same unit will CONSTABLE STABBED Civil Hospital, where he died yes. leave for Wei-hal-wei at 9 a.m. terday. The circumstances of the
GAMBLER FINED.
While Attempting To Search A Man,
PRINCESS
ELIZABETH
GROWS UP
To Make Informal
Visits.
HOSPITAL PRESIDENT AT 7 YEARS
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"I went down to my cabin and was, turning in when there was a knock at the door, and he came in. He was smiling-a nasty sort of smile and he sat down on the edge! of my bed without being asked and: just looked at me.
"Well, what is it?" I said, I thought maybe he had come in to ask me to buy abares in his gold mine.
""That was pretty alick poker,” he sald, still smiling. I watched you do it. Just hand me back twenty- seven pounds, will you? :
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"'r' see you somewhere first," I agged
said... 'And I don't like your recusa- tion. The place to have made it was at the table, not now?
All right," he said. You can keep the money. But let me have Princess Elizabeth was seven
your address in London, will you? years old in April and the Duchess Maybe, sometime, I could put some of York has-decided that she is now!
thing in your way. We don't have
grown-up enough to undertake one to quarrel about the ret
"I thought he was a pretty cool for two public engagements of an 'in- formal kind.
card; but You never know when accident are being investigated by Chiu Yee, a Chinese, was sent
The Princess's first "semi-of-people are going to be useful, so 1 the Police,
to the Government Civil Hospital
ficial" visit will probably be to her and for the rest of the voyage we gave him my address in London; : The deceased lived at No. 23 Myesterday suffering from a Ais
own hospital, the Princess Elizabeth Street, West Point.
located hip. He attempted to jump in attempting to search a Chinese of York Hospital for Children, in Most of the time he was hanging were quite pleasant to each other. loff a tram while in motion, near the in Connaught Road Central, near the the East End. She sends her old Empress Hotel, and fell heavily. Taumati Ferry, at 3.30am, this toys and books to the wards of this round with the girl, but she wasn't
Dr. Bruno Hahn, Consul-General constable, was stabbed in the left
morning, Barwan Singh, an Indian hospital and she is president of the laughing much like she had at the Li Chau, member of a large for Germany in Hong Kong, is re-
Ladles Committee though only ined scared. She was a mug all right, beginning of the voyage. She look- gambling syndicate, was convicted turning to Berlin today by the Nord-
forearm,
name at present. When I guess he was pulling some sort of -and fined $150, in default two mark. Dr. Hahn has been stationed creded in making his escape.
„The man, "used a dagger and sue-
But while Princess Elizabeth of threat over her. cuples herself with those weighty months imprisonment. at the in the Colony for the last four years, Central Police Court this morning, and previously represented his coun-ipital for treatment,
The constable was sent to Hos matters and with her lessons, her day or so afterwards we dock- for operating a gaming-house and try in Russia. Hle successor is Mr.
alster Margaret, who is not yet I saw him going down the gangway, still smiling. The girl three, finds life a lot less earnent:" "having lottery tickets in his Gipperich.
her time each day in Berce chariots with them, and he and I travelled At present she spends much of was met by friends and went of races against the little boy next to town together in the same door. The chariot is a doll's pram station this end, and he chaffed me carriage. We had a drink on the and the little boy is the three-y about the twenty-seves pounds I'd old son of Viscount, and Viscountess four-flushed him for. He Was A Allendale, who live at 144 Piccadilly cool card, all right. next to the Duke of York's town rengh
The Plot. house; N
Baw. hit four months after-
possession.
Detective-Bergant Allen produc-]
ed as evidence a large basket con- GANGSTERS ATTACK taining 416 lottery tickets and
equipment for making the same.
Personal Pars,
WRONG MAN:
Spanish Tragi-Comedy.
INDIAN WITHOUT A PASSPORT.
Former Police Guard Ordered To Leave,
Sally Rem, aged 40, former local
'Among the passengers who ar- Six men attacked Santiago Police-guard, was this morning con- Quite a crowd gathers in Hyde wards. Td forgotten all about him, rived on the Nellore yesterday, from Trigueros, of Valencia, in Spain, as victed of entering the Colony with Park each fine day to watch the fun and I came home late one night from Australia, was Judge B. Phillips, he was returning home. They beat out a valid passport, and was order-through the railings-Reater. from Rabaul
him with clubs and took his money, jed to leave Hong Kong
Then one of the men announced Asked by the Magistrate why be Among the passengers en route to to the rest that they had attacked returned to the Colony when the Yokohams on the Nellore, which the wrong man, The gang apolog-certificate that he carried was only arrived here from Australia vester-lead profusely, helped the man to his good to take him from Shanghal to day, are Mr. and Mrs. D, Flizgerald, feet, restored his money and die India, Ham replied that he did not› who embarked at Hobart, Tasmania, "Appeared/---Beuter.
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