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for the Canadian Open Championship; and went to the third round of the Ame rican Amateur Championship. Then next year he played for Britain in the inter Hoylake, and won his single. national He will be an interesting Agare if he comes to Prestwick, farming with the other old Edinburgh player a part of the
American "menace."
SCOTTISH TREIFT.
THE GRAND. NATIONAL
THE RACE DESCRIBED... The following description of the nuro was telegraphed to Indian panora
CLUB SHARE IN DISPUTE.“
WIDOW'S CLAIM IN SHANGHAI COURT.
A dispute as to the ownership of a sharm The horses went away to"a splendid in the Luion Club of China, was the sub-
Drifter Jet of proceedings at H.M. Suprem stars, in the Grand National. suade the running from Alenzar,, Winnal Court, Shanghai, on April 9th, before Arravale, Old Tay. Bridge, Fly Mask and Judge Sir Skinner Turner. Double Chance to the first. lease, where
Plaintiff, Mrs. Florence Hamilton... Lemon, of 24, Weihaiwai Road, as the ex
cutrix of her husband, the late Mr. O. A. Lemon, sued Mr. A. Black, of the Anglo- Chinese Import and Export Co., for the return of share No. 164 in the United Club Proprietary, Ltd., or its value, Tla
A tragic commentary on the Glasgow Independent Labour Party's scheme to propagandise the Clyde in favour of the
In times which are admittedly hard and Nationalisation of shipyards is the an
when money is scarce on all hands, one nouncement that a London shipping firm scarcely looks for an increase in saving. has ordered from Hamburg Ave 10,000 Yet it is a strange fact that this sleazer, fell. Tafytus and Patxey were next fence and Double actually what has taken place during the down, at the ton motor chips. The German yard has past two or three years. In their reports Chance then led from Winnall, and Fly secured this huge order because the cost
for the financial year ending in 1924, is between £60,000 and £100,000 less per practically all the Scottish savings banks Mask. At Valentine's book. Bailinale ship than the lowest British order, and recorded increases both in the number headed Double Chance,, the pair being because the German arm has also outbid of small investors and in the sum total
Defendant was pot present, and it was. the British arms on the question of de of their investments. Now it is reported clear of Gracious Gift.. Ben Cruchan and 250.
Peter the Piper, but Ballinodle fell two! livery
How can Nationalisation assist that last year there was a remarkable in the Clyde shipbuilding industry in the crease in the sale of Savings Certificatas fences before the water,, over which. Fyntmated that his solicitor had been in- face of conditions such as these? Will When money was plentiful it would ap Mask landed in front of Double Chance structed to withdraw from the case, but Going. iota the a statement of defence was put in by Mr. Black. According to this, he admitted the Glasgow Independent Labour Party's pear, it was a case of easy come, easy and Peter the Piper..
sebond time Ballymacrory was of
scarce the philosophy country a five-day week in the ship-go, now that it
the share; but contended proposal
anks enable the Clyde workers to secure
in front, clear of Max. Drifter, Double Dossession of the Chance and Fly Mask.. At Becher's that it had been registered in the name the employment which is going to the changed to "put little bit away."
Break, Double Chance regained the lead of Mr. Lemsa only as the representative of Messrs. Andrews and George (now Germans at present, or do anything ex.IN PRAISE OF GOLF.
af Among the earliest poets
Shortly afterwards Silvo assumed com- cept ensure that still more ships will be made in Germany: The British firms national game was the Rev. W. Laurence maud but, was beaten two fences from it. liquidation) when he was in
Newson, secretary of the Union competing for the big order referred to Brown, Principal of Marischal College, home. At this point Fly Mask jumped and was paid for by that firm above lost it, as others have been lost to Aberdeen, in the latter half of the eigh to the front, pursued by Oid Tay Bridge Club, was enlled and produced the share foreign firms, a Clyde shipbuilder, points teenth century. He was a great scholar,The latter obtained the lend over the register of the Union Club Proprietary, out
because the Continental worker not but will be more thought of by devotees final obstarie, but was overtaken in the Ltd., showing that the share in question. was registered in the name of Mr. C. A. only works bouger hours, but works of golf on account of his, Philemon," last two hundred yards by Double Chance,
Lemon on November 6th, 1919. In so far barder. If the Trade Unions would only in which he thus describes how his hero who scored a popular victory. Sprig was
fourth, Silva fifth, Dwarf of the Forest As the Club' was concerned, it still looked TAKE A PEG agree to the method of payment by re-got down in two
sixth, Jack Horner seventh and Maxon Mr. Lemon as the registered owner of sults in all trades, similar to the iron workers, says Leith shipbuilder, there
eighth. Drifter, was the only other to complete the course. was no question that our workmen would make good wiges without any addition And added vigour to his meatal powers:
The result was -- The difference also in But, chief-of Scotia's sons the native to present cueta,
game- not altogether one of rates of wages. a matter of fact, if wages in Germany and this enuntry were equal, the German shipbuilder would still be able to turn out ships more cheaply than the British yard, because owing to the shorter time taken to complete the work, the aggregate wages caste for the German ship is less than the British.
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Each gallant sport employed his vacant
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Golf cheered his spirits and new-string
his frame.
Oft, with brisk ardoar and conteation
keen,
He met bis rival on the extended green. Swing by his arm, the elastic club con
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The stroke whose power the faithful hall
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space, Descended, well-commissioned, to its
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Along the verdant carpet smoothly sped And gently dropped into its hollow beri.
Sir Robert Horne, on his return from 3 prelonged tour in the East was the principal guest at the annual dinner of Hillhead High School Club in Glasgow. In the course of his reply to the toust of bis health, sir Robert referred to what he described as the tragedy of the great decline in the number of British youths going is for the Indian Civil Service. If the present race of progression of natives over British west on, he said, the great work which we bad dolio in India would It was not at the Universities of Ger- SOLE AGENTS.disappear into the past without any re-many, where he studied that the versifier volution. He appealed to the authorities (who rhymes no better than most Prin- of all schools in the United Kingdom to cipals do) had learned the intricacies of put before those who were growing up the game. His failer became Professor not merely the advantages of the career of Church History in St. Andrew's, and which the Indian Civil Service offered the son thus grew up on the classic links. but the glory of the work which they would be capable of accomplishing. PRON HILLHEAL TO MANDALAY
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SCOTTISH SPORT. I met many of my constituents t various places (says Sir Robert Horne, RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP.. recounting his experiences in the East). I spent part n? Christmas Day in the coth- HONOUR. SAFE FOR GLASGOW.: pany of one of my constituents in Man-
FOURTH ROUND IN THE CUP dalay, of all places, and the tones of the Hent you can find everywhere.
In prae- tically every big city to which you go [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. J. they are maintaining the cause of your I
Enisan, March 11 country-not forgetting its accent. went into a shop in a big city the East Chief interest in Rugby gum cuntred one day to buy some shirts, and the man in the meeting of Glasgow High School who served me, after showing me various F.P. and Glasgow Academicala at Old things, said,There's another line that Anniesland. It addition, to keris locul
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THE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS.
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team
Time: 9mins. 422-5seen.'
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Mr. D. Gould's Double Chance, (Major 3. Wilson) Mrs. W. H. Dixon's "Old Thy
Bridge 1.12 (J. Anthung) 2 M. T. K. Laidlaws Ely Mast
(Doyle) a 11.11 ... Betting-100 to 9. Double Chance, to 1 Old Tay Bridge, and 10 to Fly Mask Thirty-three rau Won by four lengths, with six lengths between road and
third.
[Winner trained by F. "Arthier, second by F. Hartigan and third by Couthwaite.]
A HUGE CROWD..
Over 100,000 people were present to witness the race and it is teeboned that millions of pounds changed hands on the race. A feature was the intense feminine
interest
For the first time for three years Royalty was not present. hut there waS
the share.
their
In answer to his Lordship, witness, BU that the Club did not know. Messza. Andrews and George in the mat- try at all, exerps that Mr. Lemon's ad- dress was set down as e/o that firm Witness did not know Mr. Black, who was not, he believed, a member of the Club. Mr. Lemon had been the only per- son the Clith recognized in connexion with the share.
His Lordship held that plaintiff was entitled to the return of the share or its value, Tis. 250. The order would be that defendant return the scrip, or its value Fix 200, and in the circumstances there would be a special order that the costa could be taxed as though the claim wern
for $1,000.
SINGAPORE SUSPICIONS.. MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S REASSUR
ANCES..
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a big Society crowd. Luch Derby andOn the subject of the projected Singa the Countess of Seftor had large parties, por naval base, a reply, on behalf of and tisa Lords WeBesicy, rosvenor the Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain, Allwyn,. Cavendish Edman, the Earl and Foreign Secretary, has been received to Countess of Bradford, Viscount and Visa letter addressed to him by the secre countess Cross, Ladies Rossmore. Ever-tary of the League of Nation's Union,. ton, de rayne, Neild, and Countess Grosvenor crescent, SW. The union
forwarded to Mr. Chamberlain Cranbourn
solution passed by the League of Na tions Association of Japan expressing
the base view that the execution of might produce an unfavourable reaction It was a great race. The course and on the traditionally friendly relations. the weather were perfect.
Nine specists from London were insuf ficient The hooking at Marylebone was suspended..
BOGEY GOLF. WILL IT BE SUPERSEDED BY
PLAY AGAINST PAR?
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WORLD THEATRE.
between Japan and England. In the reply from the Foreign Office it is
"The policy underlying the
the development. of Singapore as a naval base is one which
ben
the keynote of British naval power
for
great
number of years namely, that the British. Fleet must b able to proceed to any part of the world where important British territorial and commercial uterests exist. It is mat- A writer in the Lundon Daily Telrypter for regret that there are people both. states that it is becoming increasingly in this country and in Japan who ha
phrases, and have evident that playing against the par of been misled by current the ese will some day supersede the given little or no attention to the real
เ against factors of the situation, competing
expecially I have got here but it will probably be rivalry the result had an important bear present practice of
to be dominating factor of distance. to expensive far you' I said to him, ing on the destination of the Champion bogey. Par golf sets a higher standard:
How long have you been out of Scotship, and as it consequence of their hand-in fact, it is the supreme test, whereas Singapore is over 2,000 miles from Japan
hogey
golf represents just ordinary, proper (approximately the distance land?" and he replied, "Just 34 years. some win by 2 points to the Acne steady, plodding play, rarely relieved by Plymouth from the United States of But how did you know I said, "Well,icals would now seem, birting unex.
#ashes of brilliance. The difference America). In the years before the I just think I detect the slightest shade pected happenings in their remaining between par, and bogey is the same as Great War the British and German Fleets
miles. of the old familiar tongue, and he re- two matches of the weason, to have that that between an unopened and an opened freed each other across a few plied. Dearie me, I thought I had lost honour safe. The Academical victory bottle of champagne-one is all life and
Every move on either side, there, was well earned, as they played clever sparkle, and the other is tame, dull, and gave rise to imediate suspicion. Himself a perfervid Seot, Sir Robert football at every point. Their
with a distance of 2,300 miles in flat sort of stuff. considers that sometimes we brag a little play was excellent, their intelligent back the almost universal practice tervening, such
very too much. In illustration he told of the ing up both in attack and defence being in America, a number of English clubs possibly develop, even if the countries, American and the Scotsmau who were de-a feature of the game. The Seboolmen, have abolished bogey in favour of par concerned were not bound to an 4- bating to which was the best country on the other hand, were disappointing in scores, and gradually the county and dis other by mutual interests. in the pre to hail from, Said the Tank. You have every department Glasgow University, trict alliances, more especially those in servation of praer, and by the bands of not got anybody in Scotland like George though playing up pluckily enough the London district and the Home Coun-aa historie friendship," Washington. He could not tell a lie against the West of Scotland, were un-
ties, are substituting for competitive play Oh, res," replied Sandy,
able to hold their heavier and more be newer for the older form of goll. could, but he wouldua."
skilled opponents, and suffered defest
Generally speaking, there is a difference by 20 points to 5. Kelvinside defeated of six strokes between the par and the Hillhead F.P. la the East, Ein- bogey score of a course.
Riverside California, sailing flower- The Amateur Championship begins at burgh University had an unexpectedly For example, if 78 represented the bathed bit of paradise, was the scene of Westward Ho on May 25th. Scotland good victory over the Academicals, abogey score, the par would mostly likely activities recently for the finishing tou Little Johnny Jones," the will be hit by the long railway journey, margin of 14 points. Watsonians had the work out at 12, the lower figure being ches and Willis Mackenzie, who by virtue of atanost difficulty in saving their game obtained by reducing 5's to 4's at those screen, adaptation of the famous Georges his native championship will lead his with Royal High School F.P.'s, securing holes which a first-class player can, or is Hine Here were built the racecour
M. Coba stage success, starring Johnny cantry's side, is hardly likely to a draw and Stewartonians jaat won expected to, reach in two shots, and where, behind him a team fully representative from Gala. On the Borders, Melrose pat under the bogey system, he is now allowed scenes representing the famous Epson of Scotland's golfing strength. It will be up brave show against Heriotonians, three strokes from tee to green. The Dowus. The course was an exact replica an opportunity for young blood to taste but came down by 8 to 19. the sweets of international honours, and Hawick are lite Border Champions, and length of these in-between holes is from of the English original, taken from there are some young West of Scotland foretto close the season as the leaders is tions any professional or first-class of racing, Warner Brothers classic of
to 445 yards, and under normal condi-photographe
Little Johnny Jones:" is a roramen players who have figured prominently in the Public Schools Competition.
teur would expect to be on the green the screen, and will be shown at the recent years. who will have very strong
overy time ja two shots. And in nine claims to inclusion if they make the FOURTH ROUND OF THE CUP,
to-day. It is a story of a romance, be journey wonth, men like Alex Menzies. The public preference for Cup-tie foot these lengths to the bogey for holes of World Theatre for four days commencing
cir: ball was again demonstrated by the huge Watson, jun, and William Tullock;
In bogey competitions the men, indeed, who would have to be con attendances at the fourth round of the
usually content to play a man tween a Yankee jockey and an aristo. taking cratic English girl, an the rivalry for sidered wherever the match was played. national competition, and that despite three strokes to get within range of the her hand between him and an unscrupu
Entries for the Prestwick Open close bitterly cold weather. The resulta con
pin. Now, if he were playing against par, lous gambler. on June 11th, a fortnight before play in tained only one surprise, the much which would be 4, his whole attitude to
CORONET THEATRE, falling before the Championship propor. Apparently fancied northern team
wards, the problem before him would we are not to see Sarazen there, much Hamilton Academicals by two clear goals undergo a complete change; he would he Anna Nilsson, Madge Bellamy anik as the little man must want to put him- At Dundee the Benior League club were compelled to go all out or perish. Helen Jerome Eddy are three of the mo self right in British eyes. But we are held at pay by Broxburn United of the And it is quite conceivable that he would famous actresses on the screen, to-day- promised Hagen, Macdonald Smith, Second Division until fourteen minutes survive the ordeal on
a good many Patrol, which will be shown at this They are all appearing in "The Fire Barnes, Cruickshank, T. D. Armour, and, from the close of play, when Halliday, occasions. possibly, Mike Bendy and Leo Diegel, the home centre, scored a goal that earn- and that is good enough to be going on ed Dundee a place in the semi-final. with.
Rangers accounted for Kilmarnock, inat The bero of last week in the States the Arabire team made a commendable was Armour, like Cruickshank, an old stand, as for quite an hour of the contest Edinburgh amateur. His success in the the fate of their redoubtable opponente West Coast Championship is the best hung in the balance. The only draw of thing he had done, and almost the firet the round wis between Cellio and. St. thing be bas done since he went over Mirren,"
have
to professionalism. He came into the ASSOCIATION LEAGUE. Flimelight after the war, although locally
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CINEMA, NOTES.
QUEEN'S "THEATRE.
Coronet Theatre to-night, Mia Bellamy has a rare degree of beauty. That slone has taken her far.. but in "The Fir Patrol," she proves, as well, to have the vibrant emotionalism and piquant per sonality which might easily make of her a Parisian photoplays-until " Body and second Mary Pickford.
Halen Jerome Eddy also emerges from Soul" brought Alice Lake to the screen again last evening at the Queen's her role in The Fire Patrol" with new Theatro-have been of two sorts very honours. Always noted as a character before 1914 he had been regarded as a The principal engagement in the drawing room and impressively smart, or actress, the wistful, individual quality motion pictures. She characterizes Frame in an unconvincing, Apache-like way. young man with something of a future. Leagis was the retary meeting of Air: very underworld and very cave-mannish of her work has lent realism to many Er went over to the first of the post-war drieonians and Heart of Midlothian,
Miss Lake made a strong appeal as the Masters, a comparatively unattractive Irish Championships, and looked a winner The game was drawn at two goals esch, ingenuous American girl, and her por villager, who yearns for the beauty time all the time until he ran against Carl & somewhat unlooked for set-back to the trayal of the woman this girl later bois the gift of her sister. And this is nok Bretherton in the final. That little de Lanarkshire club, who were confidently count he squared in the Mairfield Cham-sxpected to recurs a victory that would came is very cleverly done. Her trans a trifling jealousy. Its object is the Jares pionship, in which, however, on the same send them to the top of the table. The silic, rough the chryanlis of experi- of the boy who is engaged to the younger Machiavelian scheming of a half-crazed day he fell to Inn Munro. That year gain of a point materially improved the end into her second character calle for girl, and it manifests itself in, the
I mind. Armour beat Cyril Tolley in the final of Edinburgh dlab's position, and they are acting of a very high order.
"(Continued on ngak Column). ·· the French Amateur Championship, tied for the moment out of immediate danger
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