ALL-INDIA HOLD SURREY
Improved Form On Eve of Test
LARWOOD 10 FOR 62 -
London, To-day.
It was gratifying to supporters| of the All-India cricketers that the tourists should strike their best form on the eve of the first
*Test match against England
which will start at Lord's this! coming Saturday, and though they only managed a draw against Sur-
"STORY
DR. AXEL
MUNTHE
READS OWN
WORKS FOR
FIRST TIME
Sight Regained After Many Years
rey, the performances of Mushtaq SEQUEL TO BEST-SELLER TO
All who scored his second
tury of the tour, Hindlekar,
cen-
and
APPEAR SHORTLY
Dr. Axel Munthe, author of
Jai must give rise to the hope The Story of San Michele," the
that India will at least put up a good show this week-end.
best-seller which appeared in 1929, only recently read his own Sandham and Fishlock were book for the first time. the two outstanding batsmen for This revelation is made in a re- Surrey, but the best performancejmarkable introduction to the illus of the mid-week programme must trated edition of his book, to be be credited to Harold Larwood, published early in June by John the Notts and former England Murray. The introduction is call- fast bowler, who took 10 wickets led "Instead of a Preface." for 62 runs against Lancashire to enable Notts to win by five wic- kets.
When Dr. Munthe wrote the
Sussex
drew with Cambridge book he was going blind rapidly.{ University at Worthing, where An operation by Professor Alfred Brocklebank was conspicuous for Vogt, of Zurich, restored his sight. some good bowling. his figures for Now, for the first time for many years, he is able to read with
spectacles.
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the match being 10 for 130.
Scores, as. cabled by Renter, where:-
At the Oval, Surrey played a drawn him. game with All-India. All-India: 220 and 241 for 5 dec. (Mushtaq Ali 141. Hindlekar, 80, Jaj dō). Surrey: 452 (Sandham 105, Fishlock
98) and 52 for 3.
At Manchester, Nottingham beat Lancashire by 5 wickets. Lancashire: 188 (Larwood 5 for 27)
and 143 (Larwood 5 for 35). Notts: 242 for & dec.. and 90 for 5.
At Worthing. Sussex drew with Cambridge University. Sussex: 198 (Brocklebank 5 for 57)
and 274 (Brocklebank 5 for 73). Cambridge ; 209 and 237 for 8.
At Birmingham. Derby beat War-| wickshire by an innings and 10 runs. Derbyshire: 318 (Worthington 81, C
Elliozz 97).
Warwickshire: 101 (Townsend 5 for! 44, Mitchell 5 for 42) and 199,; (Townsend for 46).
Written When Blind
When at last the long manu- script was read to me, I was re- minded of the old Doge in Venice who, when shown Tin-
·THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936
وو
OF SAN MICHELE'
The success of the great zeppelin Hindenburg has revived belief in the value of the lighter-thamair machine. Here is the last of the US. Army zeppelins, the Los Angeles, which has not been used, except for instinctional perposes, since the dinasier to the Macan, following close upon the loss of the Akron.
MAJOR SENSATION AT WIMBLEDON
CIRCLING GLOBE
PERILOUS TRIP
ROUND WORLD
IN SMALL BOAT
From Seattle Across
Pacific
ADVENTURE IN HURRICANE
IN TASMAN SEA
Taking 22 days to cross the Tas- man Sex from Auckland to Sydney land. 18 months (with pauses) to cross the Pacific Ocean from Seattle, Washington, Dwight S.) Long, a Seattle University gradu-| late arrived in Sydney, NSW, last month in his 32-foot ketch Idie Hour, thus completing the first half of a leisurely round-the-world cruise. The ketch has now travel- led 14,000 miles.
Since the Idle Hour left Seattle she has been to Hawaii, the Mar- quesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand and now Australia. At Tahiti, Timi, a 15-year-old native, joined the ketch and he was Mr. Long's only companion from there to Auckland. Two New Zea-
11,300 miles crossing.
SARAH PALFREY-FABYAN landers joined him for the Tasman
ELIMINATED
įdays Mr. Long was forced to sail} her with this until she limped into
In A Hurricane Dr. Munthe in an interview stat- |
Soon after leaving Samoa, the led that until last month he had;
London. To-day. Joan Saunders Great Britain), Idle Hour ran into a hurricane, Ito have his book read aloud to
The Wimbledon tennis tourna-caused another surprise when she which, snapped her mainmast. A In "his introduction bement was favoured with glorious beat Miss Peggy Scriven (Great jury mast was rigged, and for 24 [writes:-
weather, and there was a specially Britain), 6–4, 1-6, 6-4. large and enthusiastic crowd.
Men's Doubles In the first round of the wo In the first round of the men's Auckland, where the boat was re- men's singles Fraulein Horn (doubles Gandar Dower and Wheat-jitted. The stay in Auckland last- (Germany) provided the first craft beat W. C. Choy and Ho. 64, led two months. torette's frescoes glorifying hisrs. Fabyan, the seeded· American
major sensation when she beat 6-3, 6-5.
From Sydney Mr. Long was Choy and Ho were outplayed, scheduled to go up the eastern Choy, though the better of the two, coast of Australia, visiting the asked with unfeigned astonish Wightman Cup player, 6-2, 7-5. ment if it really was he who Allister (South Africa), 6-3, 6-1. his backhand.
Miss Noel (Britain), beat Mrs. Was erratic and very uncertain on Great Barrier Reef, and then go He also lacked to New Guinea and the East In- Miss Kay Stammers (Britain), support from. Ho.
dies, before setting out for Eng- "As I am now reading through
Kho Sin-kie and Gordon Lum land via the Suez Canal The this rambling narrative to its best Miss Violet King (Britain),
best Godsell and Purcell, 6-3, 6-4; final section of the voyage will be 16-1, 6-2. bitter end for the first time by.
16-0. the critical light of my
Jacross the North Atlantic,
eyes, I have an uneasy feeling| that I have come out in this book a far better man than I have been in life.”
various deeds and victories,!
had achieved all this?
Unpublished Work
CWZ
Dr. Munthe said that "Death
At Leeds, Yorkshire took first in-fand the Doctor," the book on' nings points from Hampshire. Hanta: 138,
Yorkshire: 164 for 7.
At Bath, Somerset bext Northants by 105 run.
COTTON DOES IT AGAIN
TWO RECORDS IN SUCCESSION
BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
Sho and Lum showed perfect [combination, making clever place- ments and volleying with great skill,
Itoh (Japan) and Cunningham (America) best De Borman・ and!
WOMAN M.P. WINS PIGEON RACE.
Vandeneynde (Belgium) 6-1, 6 Plane And Car Faster
16-1
which he has been engaged at in tervals for the last five years will probably never be published. "It is too personal for publication," the. said. Its theme however is Somerset: 252 (Clark 5 for 52) and hinted at in the last words of hia;
282 for 7 dec. (Gimblett 143). new introduction to "San Mi-whose record score of 67 on the Landmeyer Northants: 148 (Wellard 6 for and 281 (Wellard 6 for 69).
London, To-day. Henry Cotton; the 1934 holder,
Itoh and Cunningham over-! whelmed their opponents. Itoh's Mrs. M. C. Tate, M. P. for vollying and smashing were tril-Frome, Somerset, was declared, to liant, and he also made some very have won her race by car and sero- wily placings.--Reuter.
plane against pigeons recently. DOUBLES HOLDERS WIN Her velocity has been worked out London: In the Men's Singles at 1,194 yards a minute, against 54) chele":
(Germany) beat 1,146 yards a minute of the first Wallasey course last Monday was Lederveagh 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Radstock Húming Society's pigeon, "The night will be dark for washed out because the first round)
In the Men's Doubles the Ger-jowned by J. Gregory, of Pease- there will be no stars overhead matches in the British Open Golf man champion, Baron von Crammi, down. and no hope for a dawn, but Championships were declared null and H. Henkel heat Collins and The race was over a distance] have been in darkness before, and void on account of interfer-Anderson by, 6-0, 6-4, 6-2, while of 114 miles, from Tamworth, War- It will be lonely to be dead, but ace by a cloudburst, showed that the Australian player Jack Craw-wickshire, to Radstock, Somerset. it cannot be much more lonely his performance was not a mere ford and Adrian Quist, the Mrs. Tate few to Frome and trans-
flash in the pan when he went holders, beat the
At Gloucester, Gloncester beat Leicester by 61, runs. Gloucester: 305 and 174. Leicester: 189 (Goddard 5 for 60) and
229, (Armstrong 93).
EARLIER RESULTS
than to be alive."
I
Czech acesferred to a car.
A sequel to his earlier book, to over the Hoylake come yesterday Krafta and L Hecht-Trans- At Worcester. Kent beat Worces-be called "The Missing. Chapters)
in 68, beating the new record of Ocean Service. ter by 7 wickets, Worcester: 169 and 122 (Freeman 5
of the Story of San Michele," will 69 which had only previously been for 46).
appear in the autumn.
set up by Percy Alliss. Hectar
144 for 3.
Kent: 148 (Howorth 5 for 39) and Dr. Munthe came to London Thomson, the winner of the Bri- from his home at Capri to finish tish Amateur title, returned # writing his book. He said he had score of 7.
rtina.
Arthuri
At Lord's, the M.C.C. beat Oxford been much inconvenienced by a re~! Ernest Whitcombe went round University by an innings and 123 cent report that the Italian an-in 81, while at Wallasey Denny M.C.C.: 223 (Hendren 98, Edrich 114), thorities had forbidden his Italian returned a score of 72, Oxford: "128 and 92 (Smith 7 for 31). secretary, to accompany him to Havers 74, Alfred Perry, the
England.
holder, 76, Richard Burton 71) At Westeli, Essex beat Glamorgan This is entirely untrue," he Arthur Lacey 73, Cyril Tolley 75, Glamorgan: 142 (Eastman 5 for 36) said, "I have never had an Italian and D. H. B. Martin 77.
by 9 wickets.
US. BASEBALL RESULTS
CARDINALS HAVE CLOSE SHAVE
GIANTS NOSE OUT PIRATES
New York, To-day. following were the results League baseball matches) yesterday:
The
and 128 (Eastman 4 or 24).
secretary. The story apparently Martin, the Oxford Blue, was Esser: 213 D. Davies 6 for 50) and was based on my leaving my Ita-most unfortunate in that his first of the
GI for 1.
lian valet behind. As he is just of round scores were washed out, as played age for military service, I never he had created a record over the intended him to accompany me" lengthened course at Hoylake two
daya previously with a score 172.
TO-CY'S MATCHES
The following programme of mid- week matches begin to-day-
Lord's-Midlesex Gloucester Oval-Surrey v Cambridge U. Chesterfield-Derby v Worcester Liverpool-Lancashire v Kent Trent Bridge-Notts v Warwick Leicester Leicester v Hampshire Bath Somerset v Yorkshire Northampton-Northants v Essex Worthing-Sussex v Oxford U.
Kent
CRIMINALS' ARSENAL
Last year 153 rifles and pistols, 10 bombs and shells, and 1,650 rounds of ammunition were sur- rendered to Southend police
County Championship Table To Date
Derbyshire
Notts
Middlesex
Yorkshire
Surrey Hampshire Leicestershire Gloucester Somerset
Worcestershire
... National League: *
of Chicago
Demaree homered. Other scores returned yesterday Boston at Hoylake were as follows:
Allan Dailley Saming Charles Whitcombe Leonard Crawley
J. H. Basson Jack McLean
Gene Sarmien
4. Wollam
Alfred Padgam
James Adzins
W. Coggin (America)
J. Ferrier
H. Bentley Native cham-.
pión)
Scores from Wallesley were:
W. Smithers
Thomas (Formby)
Tarner LAmerics)
Taggart...
Matthews (Eochampion)
1st Inns No
Poss
W.
L Result Pts Pts.
Per. C
3
113
68.48
0
101
73
61.20 60.83
77 271
51.33
46.56
Bear (America)
45.13
85
43.58
55
71
*25.55
53
35.30
54
**2.72
Essex Warwickshire Lancashire Sasser
48
43
31.11
12
52
12
50
27.22
Glamorgan
10
18
12.00
Northants
10
40,74
$2.00
Bert Gadd
Rees
Easterbrook
Reginaki Whitcombe
Abe Mitchell
Cox (Ryder Cup player)
28.88 Bobby Lockas (South Africa)
J. Busson
“Ezands
EREBROEIXERRE A CAFERROCKERARRE
R HE 8 11 1
6
9 1
Cincinnatti Brooklyn
3 12
0.
5
Hallahan pitched.
6.
Σ
3 9
Boston
3 5 0
2 9
7 11 0
Pittsburgh New York
Terry and Whitehead hit homers
St. Louis
Philadelphia
American League
Foxx and Cronin homered. Detroit
6 11 Simmons hit two home runs..
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia.
- Moser homered. Cleveland
Trosky hit a home run.
Washington
St. Louis
Beater
A
13
13
2
8 12
2
# 9.2
12
10 12
5
12
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