ORBOKET.
"CIVIL" SERVICE@v=R÷K¢‚€.
A friendly match between these Clubs on Saturday was won by the Civil Service by practically two to one. Edmonds took 4 wickets for 7 runs.
Scores:-
CIVIL SERVICE.
E C. Fincher, st. Davies, b
Farthing
1
H. Strange, e Farthing, b
Graham
H. F. Rai 1 Graham
8 50
E. W. Hamilton. Lbs., Graham ...
በ
F. J. Ling, e Sawyer, b Graham... 5.
F. J. de Rome, e Baker, b
Farthing
G. R. Sayer, b Graham .....
20
R. E. O. Bird, b.w., b Graham...... 8-
G. H. Pieres, cand b Farthing ...... 25 W. H. Edmonds,
Graham
Nuos, not out
Extras
Totni
Pearce,
Bowling Analysis.
P. Jacks, e de Rome, h Bird
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13
THE
LADIES' HOCKEY.
-VICTORIA-CLUB-WINS THE
CHALLENGE KUP.
There was a large crowd at Happy Valley, on Saturday, to witness the last of a series of games between teams re- presenting the Ladies' Clubs, known as Victoria and Hongkong, for the Challenge cup presented by Mrs. John Johnstone, president of the Ladies Hockey Associn- tion..
BONGKONG DAILY PRÁÐS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY, 141, 1821.
AVIATION DISPLAY IN HAPPY | CANTON AND THE CUSTOMS
VALLEY
COMES TO AN ABRUPT CONCLUSION.
AEROPLANE SMASHED, BUT AVIATOR
UNINJURED
FUNDS.
PEKINO'S CLAIM FOR AN
"INJUNCTION.
MORE LITIGATION IN SHANGHAI CHINESE CITY COURT.
The aviation display, for which several. The funds held by the Hongkong and thousand spectators assembled at Happy Shanghai Bank in the name of Dr. Wu Valley yesterday afternoon, came to an Ting-fang were the subject of further pro- The longe of the cap. recompanied by Mrs. Pollock, witnessed the game, which end, in the first few minutes, with ceedings in H.M. Supreme Court on the During the first dramatic suddennes. The aviator, Mr.th inst., before his Honour Judge was feast throughout half. the play went in favour of the Lim On, had difficulties with wind cur- Skinner Turner. Victoria side, but half-time arrived with
Mr. R. N. Macleod, appearing on behalf no score. Miss V. Young proved an ex-rents and was obliged to drop into a tree pert goalkeeper. The second half opened near the Graigengower Club to obriate of the Peking Government, submitted a fairly even, but, Inter, the Hongkong team more abrupt, and probably fatal, con-motion that the defendant Corporation showed superior form and should have
(the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank) its won. The result, however, was a goalless tact with solid earth.
Mr.. Eim On had been making flights in restrained from parting with any monies directors, agents and servants, be the forenoon, when the flying conditions now in the possession of the corporation The following were the teams :- Victoria Club-Mes, Richmond. Mrs. Joseland. Mrs. Humphreys. Miss Mac. were somewhat. hazy, but with little and standing in the name of Dr. Wa Ting- Donald, Miss Wentworth, Miss Mitchell, wind. After mid-day A moderate north-fang, and being part of the Government funds of the Republie of China, until after Miss Walters, Miss Rosser, Miss Stub-easterly breeze sprang up. That is to judgment in an action commenced in the bings, Miss Ranger and Miss Robertson.
1.1 draw.
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。.
M.
W
Pearce
2
0
14
0
Farthing
17
2
50
3
Graham
13 9
06
E.X.C.C.
C. Baker, b Bird
14
18
H. A. Sawyer, b Ling
0
LJ. Davies, b Bird
G
W. H. Drummond, b Bird
5
G. E. R.Mayell. b Bird
*
TE. Pearer, and b Edmonds
12
F. H. Farthing. Lb.w. Edmonds... 0
J. G. Lyon. Brown, st. Strange, h
Edmonds.
F. L. Graham. e Noos, b. Edmonds
i
}
0
8
J. M. V. Dorkins, not aut
Extras
Total
Rowling Analysis.
0. น. B.
Bid
Ling
Edmonds
13.1 3 31
3
1
13
€ 2
1
H.K.C.C. 2ND XI.. r. CIVIL SERVICE
2ND XI.
was won by F.R.C.C. by a wide margin. This match. played on H.K.C.C. ground. Hope and Spinks ench took a wickets for 18 runs Sentex:---
B.K.C.E. 2ND XI..
Capt. Spinks, b' Sara
R.A. Madden 1.b.w. Taylor
17 34
J. W. R. MacPhail, e and b Sara... 34
W. W. Mackenzie. b Taylor
7
W. J. Hane, cand b Taylor
0
Col. Grier, not out .....
58
C. C. Daner, o Garvin, b Taylor
10
L. D. McNicoll, run out
33
G
...100
Extras
Total (for 6 wkts.)
Capt. Pritchard, and H. H. Taylor. did not bat.
CIVIL SERVICE 2ND XI
Bowling Analysis-
O
Bura
0 45 2
Corvin
7
1. 37 0
Taylor
Dunkley
0
8 0 44 4 0
0
Chapman
........." 4.5" 0.
0
*
G. J. Taichi, b Hope....
15
Knight, run out
17.
Dunkley, b Hope
Garvin, h Hone
Chapman, e and b Spinks
Gill, L.h.w. Spinks
24
Boriden. b Hope
Gibson, run out...
Taylor. b Spinks White, b Spinks Barn not out
Extra
Total
Bowling Analysis.
Hope
Madden
Tagler
Spinks
0.
1
E
76
D. Capell, Miss.C. Frost. Miss A. Tollan. Miss B. Jennings, Miss E. Jennings, Miss E. Woolley, Miss L Tallan. Miss.M. Ramsey, Mrs. M. L. Raton, and Miss R. Young.".
Messrs. . Wheeler and M. I.. Railton acted as referees.
City Court at Shanghai between the plain- tiff and Dr. Wu Ting-fang."
Hongkong ClubMiss V. Young, Miss say, was moderate at sea level, as Hongkong enjoys protection from winds
Counsel stated that he made the appli which, in the open sen, are much more cation ex parte, but he had in fact inform powerful. In the upper levels, above the ed the bank chiefly in order that they might know the position and in case they heights at which, the force of the wind is wished to instruct counsel to appear, and broken by hills, the current was consider he informed them also that he would only As the Victoria team had won the two ably stronger. The aviator said after-pply for an injunction until after the return day, because it seemed to him that previous games they already had a claim wards that he foresaw the air conditions that would be quite sufficient, The bank to the cup. At the conclusion of the would not be favourable, but he hoped to would then be able to say anything to his game, the teams collected in front of a marquee, where Mrs. Johnstone presented be able, by flying as much as possible Lordship which they thought it necessary the trophy to the captain of the winning against the wind, to make some flights to say. The motion was supported by an
Laffidavit. team (Miss MacDonald) and compliment and not disappoint the large assembly of ed the players on the excellent game that
He was actually in the air hait just concluded. Mrs. Johnstone then spectators. announced that Mrs. Pollock would pre-when, after some preliminary speeches sent a cup for competition annually be had been made in the Jockey Club tween ladie hockey teams, and that the winners of the first three games out of enclosure, the signal was given to Mr.
would be the holders of the cup for
the year. In the event of the same team proving successful two years in succes- sion, or three times in all, the cup would become its absolute property. She hoped to witness many a tussle for the trophy similar to that just concluded:
At the initiative of Miss B. Jennings, the Mirs, John Johnstone and Mrs. Pollock Hongkong Captain, cheers were given for Miss E. Jennings also thanked these two Indies for the interest they had shown in ladies hockey and for the valuable trophies they had presented.
fact.
A FRESH ACTION. His Lordship: The chief point in that is that you have begun an action in another Court /
Counsel: Yes, that is the important
Lim On to descend in order to make theit for the moment that this is the same His Lordship: 1. suppose I may take first flight in the display.
fund as that which I dealt with before 1
Counsel: Yes. The Bank is not obliged to give us information.
Following the presentation, the Pre sident and members of the Ladies Heng- kong Hockey Association were "at Home' to their friends. Ten was provided on the ground.
Before the series of games for 'Mrs, Pollock's cup is commenced, it is hoped that a suitable playing field will be pro-ed a rush by thousands to the spot where vided for ladies' "hockey.
K.C.C. (GOLF SECTION). The 1020 Eclectic" Competition was played yesterday, J. Parkes being the Sinner with a noit score of 36. D. J. Mackenzie was second with 33. The best 4 cards returned were:-.
J. Parkes
38. lens 2 36 D. J. Mackenzie 38 scratch 39 C. M. W. Reynolds .... 42 len 9 40 41 less 140 J. Stalker
NAVAL NOTES.
During the present year of 1921 the commission of the light cruiser Hawkins, Captain Reginald H. H. Henderson, C. B.,
at the same fund I dealt with when I
His Lordship: This motion is, directed-
granted an injunction pending an action
an action in another court which has in the Mixed Court. The only difference is that you ask for an injunction pending accepted jurisdiction.
After a few moments, it was apparent" to the spectators that the aviator was having some difficulty in making the descent. He came near the ground is
by the racecourse, then re-ascended, various parts of the open ground encircled
getting further and further away. Then he disappeared in some trees beyond the Counsel: Yes. The injunction granted by this court in the other action has come Craigengower Cricket Club's pavilion;
to an end. The next suggestion was that there was an anxious interval which seem-the Government should procceu against ed very long to those waiting; then it was Dr. Wu Ting-fang in the Supreme Court realised that the machine had reached largely on the assumption that that Court at Peking, this suggestion being made the ground, whether the landing had been bas jurisdiction over all Chinese citizens. voluntary or involuntary. There follow- similar to that which the High Court of The Government has been advised. how England has over all British subjects.
ever, that the proper Court in which to take the proceedings is the City Court in Shanghai, and this Court bas accepted! jurisdiction. Counsel went on to say that the only difference between this and the former application was that in the first, plaintiffs were the Canton Military Gov- ernment and in this, one they were the Central Government. It was a consider- able. difference, of course, Dr. Wu claim- ernment, and had more or less taken up that position.
the machine had been last seen and those who could get near enough saw it on the ground, badly smashed, broken practically in two parts, and surrounded with broken branches of a tree which had served to
break the fall,
Mr. Lim On says that when he tried to comply with the signal to deseend heed that he was the Canton Military Gov. found the air currents and pockets in the lower levels very difficult to negotiate. The configuration of the hills surrounding Happy Valley would tend to promote whirlpools of air. He could not descend in any part of the race course so he tried
application was a right one to grant in His Lordship said he thought the the circumstances, knowing what he knew had taken place, and that it was the same He would therefore fund now nimed at. grante an interim injunction in the terms return day.
Aagship of Vice-Admiral Bir Alexander further afield, in the hope of landing some of the prayer in the motion until the where not too far from the desired spot.
L. Da, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the China Station; will expire, and she He still had no success, and he realised will be re-commissioned for another spell of duty in a like capacity."
that if, and when, he did get down to The Hawkins was commissioned by earth there would be no more fights that Captain Henderson with a Chatham crew day. To avoid descending amongst the on July 14th, 1919, and that, too, in a rather novel manner, many innovations crowds, he tried to effect a landing in a W.. having been introduced in the messing basket-ball ground near the Craigengower
arrangements, etc. It was an experiment
0. Y. R.
11
16
4
4 0 10
0
4.
0 24**
0
4
3
0
16
4
KOWLOON C.C... R.E. AND INIDAN
ARMY.
This match was played at King's Park on Saturday, and ended in the victory of Kowloon by 88 runs. Stalker took six wickets for 25 runs, and Ramsay was top scorer for the winners with 47 runs. Scores:-
R.E, "AND" 1.As
Major Edwards, e Stapleton, b
Stalker.org
Major Greenaway, o Evans, b'Overy 2 8.6. Redpath. e Evans, b Stalker... 14 Col. Taylor, b Overy
Capt. Wahl, b Overy
2
0°
3
S.S.M. Pearson, run out. Lieut. Hammond, 1.b.w., b Stalker, 0 Sapper Jacobson, e Braga, b Stalker 3 Lieut. Larcom, and b, Stalker... Capt. Murray, e Southerton, b
Stalker. L/Cpl. Hayward, not out
Extras
Total
Bowling Analysis.
0.
J. Stalker 8.3 1 26
∙H. Overy........ * 20
KOWLOON C.C.
0 0
EV Alderson, b Major Edwards. 4 L. S. Bates, Col. Taylor, b Lieut
Hammond
3. Stalker, b Major Edwards ... đ AW. Ramany, o Capt. Murray, b
Major Edwards Member:47 O. J. Stapleton, b 0.8.M. Pearson. 9 R. G. Southerton, b Major Edwards 19 E. L Brage, cand b Major Edwards 21. H. Overy, b Lieut. Hammond....
$
A. O. Brawn, b, Major Edwards'.... 5...
D.-M. Goodall, not out ... B. D. Evans, pot out..............
· Extras
Total
MURDEROUS ATTACKS UPON CHINESE.
WEEK END POLICE REPORTS.
A shopkeeper in Wong Nei Chong village was attacked on Friday night, apparently not from motives of robbery, but because he had pressed a debtor for payment before China New Year.
that has apparently fully justified itself, Club pavilion. When a few hundred feet and the Hawkins bears the name of being from the ground a current, or pocket, one of the most comfortable" ships in caused the aeroplane to tilt side ways the Navy. The crew have most loyally. This, of course, meant & landing with the responded to the appeal made at the time machine more or less out of control, and to justify the changes for their good.
Paymaster-Commander T. Henley has Mr. Lim On started up his engine again. At 11,50 p.m., four men, one of whom local bricklayer. been appointed to the Harkins on the having finally decided not to land in the was identified as flagship recommissioning. He has been Valley at all. but to seek entirely different secured entry into the house, on the pre- latterly doing duty on the Victory, flag landing conditions elsewhere. But it was text that they came to purchase cigarettes, now too late; at this very, moment the and immediately attacked the shonkeeper, ship at Portsmouth..
machine proved to be in an air pocket; it | who was seriously wounded in the head, Lieut. Commander W. R. M. Wynne has would not respond to the propeller. An face and arms by a knife carried by one been appointed to the Titania, Depôt immediate landing was inevitable, and of the assailants. When he recovered Submarine ship at Hongkong. Comman- with that resourcefulness and promptitude from his insensible condition, the assail- der Wynne, who attained to that rank in of decision which in aviators is developed ants had made their departure. An am June, 1915, and up till his new appoint into an extra sense. Mr. Lim On planed bulance was procured by the Police, who ment was employed with the Hydra-into a tree with the intention thereby of were notified of the attack, and the in- graphic Departrauent since March last. breaking his fall. In this he was success "Jured man was removed to the Govern-
Acting Engineer Lieut. F. G. Trittoned he escaped without injury..
ful, and although the machine was wreck-ment Civil Hospital. Examination show. ed that he was suffering from a deep has been appointed to the light cruiser
The intrepid aviator was quickly sur-wound in the head and minor injuries to Carlisle, Captain Edward G. R Evans, rounded by hundreds of people, congratuvarious parts of the body. C.B., D.8.0., commanding, China Station. Lieut. Tritton has been in the lating him on his escape and condoling
A hawker reported to the Police on with him on the smash- of Lis machine. engine room service for five years.-L. and Crowds thronged the spot for some time Friday that whilst walking towards O. Express.
until the broken aeroplane, was removed, Hanghow village in the middle of the piece meal, to. Tin Lok Wharf.
night he was necosted by four hèn, one of whom was armed with a dagger." After threatening to kill him if he raised an alarm, the robbers stole a little more' than two dollars from him. The victim, called for help, whereupon the armed man
..... DE. BARNARDO'S HOMES.
It has been the custom for many years past during Lent to make a collection
The whole affair was over in much less time than it takes to relate the story; the nocident happened at 2.10 p.m.-
Although the great crowd was dis-
for Dr. Bernardo's Homes; and this year, appointed of its hope of flying exhibi-
in view of the high cost of living and the tion, it had a short and thrilling sensation, stabbed him in the arm and then pushed increased number of children who were and the Famine Relief Fand, for which him down the bill. He fell heavily and admitted to the Homes during the war, the display was arranged, will benefit con-lay, unconscious for some time.
it is much hoped to enlarge the numbersiderably. Some three or four thousand
of those interested, so that there may be people paid a dollar for admission to the
& generous-response.
In additions to the collection of money, it is suggested that work parties should be formed with a view to a Sale of Work being held in Easter Week.
Donations and the names of those willing to help should be sent to Mrs. H. E. Pollock, 128, The Peak.
....
4
Bowling Analysin
12
Major Edwards
10
136
Lieut. Hammond
C.S.M. Pearson:
58 Redpath
Continued-at-foot-of nest-cohimam.),
A
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BY A MINUTE."
In the Jockey Club enclosure the Hon.
COPENHAGEN, December, 28th. The question whether the clock in the Mr. Lau Cha Pak, and Mr. S. B. C. Rons, the Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, tower of Lystrup Castle, was right when briefly addressed the assembly. Mr. Ross it struck twelve on the night of December mentioned that Mr. Lim. On was a British 19th-20th, 1915, was answered to-day by subject a Canadian and he was doing a the Eastern, Provincial Court great deal for the Famine Fund by giving It was decided that the clock was prob- these exhibitions of flying. Mr. Ross ably a minute fast. Count Moltke, who remarked that China, although torn by died a few seconds after the clock struck political dissensions, had been able to twelve. therefore died before the new unite in a wonderful way for the relief of death duties came into force. His heirs the famine distress.
thas escape payment of £10,000.
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