CHINESE SPORTING
FIXTURES.
INTERPORT FOOTBALL
SINGAPORE TEAM EXPECTED
PUTHIS MONTH:
OTHER SPORTING FIXTURES,
LOCAL FOOTBALL.
POLICE BEAT RA.
MCGREATY SCORES THREE COALS.
Yesterday games in the semi-final of the H.K.FA. Challenge Shield ended in favour of the Police by three goals to ons in
[FROM OUT CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] | The game was played on the Kow
loon FC ground which was in good condition after the heavy rains. Although the going was on the heavy side, at times the play was good. The RA. had out practically reserve team, no less than seren Players being taken from the second for home on the transport City of team. The pick of the side ailed
Marseille on Sunday.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, MARCH 8th, 1928.
|
Under the auspices of the China Nations Amateur Athletic Federn- tion, Hong Kong Branch, the first Chinese Singapore-Hong Kong Interport football match will take place here at the end at this month. The managers of the South Chins and the China Athletic Associationa of Hong Kong are jointly undertak-
Having advantage of light | ing the selection and the training breeze, the Police did most of the of the team to represent Hong Kong attacking in the first half but could Chinese against the Singapore Chi-,
score once only and that goal came nese. The two mentioned major late in the half. The ball crossed associations, together with the Chi-and recrossed the goal mouth before nese Recreation Club, the Hong McGreavy sent it into the net. University sports authorities, and Being a goal down on the change other athletic organisations will of ends, the RA. opened the second assist the federation in making the hall strongly, bat shooting was wild. stay of the Singapore visitors However, Hill took a pass from pleasant one. The tentative proLeach and running round Wyane gramme is as follows:-March 31st, went on to beat Clarke with a fast Singapore Chinese v. Hong Kong shot. The B should have taken Chinese, April 1st, Singapore Chi the lead almost from the centre kick nese v. Army and Navy at Hong but Joyce was wide from close Kong; and April 3rd or 5th, Sing range. A free kick for the Police pore Chinese Hong Kong Civil sent Hudson in and he drove hard Service. The Hong Kong Chinese to the bar, McGreavy running in have started practice for the event. took the ball and sent it into the Chinese interport games are benet. Another free kick for the coming very popular. It may be re- Police ended in a corner Cornwall called that early in 1027, a Shang sent behind from the flag kick- hai Chinese football team visited Fuller of the RA, was ordered off Hong Kong, and early this year, by the referee for disputing a de the Hong Kong Chinese made a cision.
LAWN TENNISĄ
DAIN CONTINUES.
Rain continued yesterday," prem Vouting any play in the Hong Kong Cricket Club Tournament, which
THE PERFECT GIRL'S GRUESOME ORDEAL.
TOTALISATOR
"BOOKIES" TREMBLING FOR
THEIR LIVELIHOOD..
EVERYONE:
has been suspended since Monday. SIMPLE AND WILL PLEASE
The following matches age, fixed Tor to-day
Open Singles. Major C Willeon e Major W. B. Stevenson.
T Honda K. T. San.. Lieut. J. Halev, T. Isaura J. if. da Silva s. E. D. Lawrence. A D. Humphrey's v. Bey. Alex ander,
Open Deubles,
Mr. RM Hamilton, Iata mathematics master at Malvern College, who was engaged in the Ballistice Office of the Admiralty during the war, has invented and patented a totalisator machine that everybody connected with racing has been dreaming of for years, but which nobody thought it was pos-
V M. Tregear and J. B. Kesly S. A Hustin and S. S. Hus Dr. I. Newton and Dr. D. V. Valentine E. de Sousa and A. Vaible to make. Romedios
H. COCHET AT CANNES
AVIGNETTE.
Henri Cochet is playing lawn
The machine has solved the pro- blem that the shrewdest men on the Turf had thought insoluble, and appears to hays removed the chief
troduction of the totalisator inte objectionɗ ́arged, against the - in
England -
These objections were:-
An owner who wished to back fis horse could not obtain a fair prices po
It was impossible to learn the odds against a borse during bot ting without dang sume.
SAN BODY CUT UP AND
"BURNED
THE TAMER OF WILD DOGS,
"MONTEMAL
The police here are recaling Jack the Ripper and Landry in their inquiries into the deeds of Jules Coulombe, an ex-policeman known The Butcher, who is alleged to have confessed to the murder of
beggar and of a
young girl, Bessie Daley,
20
The body of the beggar was found dismembered and frozen in the ADOW the roof of Coulombe's
Coulombe is under read charged with the murder."
Hir mistress, Blanche Larendeau, told the coroner am extraordinary atory at the inquest. She is a coun try girl and came to Montreal two months ago, she said, to visit an aunt who is m à. Roman Catholis institution On returning to the station she had lost bez way when Coulombe came aky and offered to guide her.
bag Kopt A Prisoner.
On the way they passed his house and he invited her to have some nofreshment. As soon as they were inside ha locked the doors and stripped her. For two months, she said, he kept her unclothed, threatening her with instant death if she attempted to escape,
She and she did not ace Bese During the time occupied in Daley killed, but she was terrormed. calculating the odds the fluctuanto seeing him cut the body inte tions in the market upset the pieces and burn them in a stove. result of the calenlatians
A backer could not know the starting price until some time after a race.
Officials took so long in reckon ing up the prices that Ettle time was left for betting on the follow. ing Tice.
tions have been overcome by Mr. All these and many other objec
Hamilton's Super Totalisator. this robot of the racing world.
tennis at Cannes. He is very pale, very fine drawn and hollow of | chuck one would give him more a small man, sft. Bim, but well than the 20 years list are his. He
built. His hair is curly and black, and he wears it long enough to head to induce the wayward lock to justify an" occasional tom of the He down His tennie costume is flannel trousers (with no bolt) and buttoned at the wrist. His shoes. a cotton shirt with long sleeves, are soled with fairly thick craps rubber and are of buckskin with thin gold ring on the third finger Icather strapping, and be wears a of his left hand, for he is married, and me, Cochet is a keenly in terested spectator de hyd watches the flight of the ball, tura- double Cochet always ing right round when it has passed partner. He is careful not to in him; - or when service is to his fringe the foot fault rule, and only when pressed does he discard: s misses a ball be puts his tongue out heavy white sweater. When be with an ironsent grimace. When he starting price or take the prevail wants to have a ball to smashing odds against & horse at any return visit to Shanghai, where the Pile went in and sent into be thinking is hurt, then you bear mouent during betting...
which his partner in a mixed may East, the North, and the Southern Fletcher's hands from inside the a determined "On" and the next China football teams bad a trian-goal area. The ball crossed and re-thing is a point for his side as the gular match, in which Eastern before it was netted and then the work. Coetret holds his racket, loose crossed the B.A. goal several times rest of his wonderful overhead China (Shanghai) won the Chinese whistic went for offside. Before national championship, taking the the final whistle sounded MeGreavy when there is no suggestion of any ly until the moment of impact, scored his third goal by turning into Lee Bysan Cup for this year. A the net from a pass by File. By thing but the most forceful con Honolulu baseball team visited this win, the Palies qualify to play centration. He believes that the Hong Kong. It was hoped that a in the final and will meet the win. French should retain the Dass
pers of the HK.F.C... Kowloon Cup for several yerrs Hong Kong Chinese football team FC game. might visit: Manila last winter, but local fixtures made it inconvenient sfor any Chinese tent to leave Hong
Kong at the time.
Canton-Hong Kong tennis, basket ball, and volley ball matches have often taken place, and this year may see more of this, as conditions in Canton at present are more fav ourable to visitors than they have been for the last two or three years.
BASEBALL ARRANGE
MENTS.
THE NEW LEAGUE..
The entry to date shows that at loast nine baseball teams will parti- cipate in the Chinese Baseball
HOME FOOTBALL
LEAGUE RESULTS.
(THROUGK EZUTTZ'S' AGENCE.]
LONDON, March 6th-
In the Second Division of the English League at Grimeby to-day, Stoke City defeated Grimshy by two goals to one.
In the Scottish League, St. Mir zea defested Queen's Park by goals to 1, while the Celtic scored four goals against Hamilton with out response.
BASKET BALL.
The Students' League of the Hong Kong Basket-Ball Association (both Senior and Junior Divisions);
League ander the auspices of the were to start their matches on
TERRIER RACING.
ELECTRIC RAT" IN NEW SPORT.
LONDON, Feb. 8th Nearly 1,000 men and women in evening dress watched the novel spectacle of fox terriers chasing an electric frat:" Club, High Holbern, W., last!
at the Stadium night
Members of the club, with their questa, sat at the dining tables in. the balcony between the races, and lounged in comfortable chairs. around the arena during the pro- gress of the races
First there were the stirring notes of a huntsman's horn. Capt. Gerald Motion announced the parade of the terriers, wearing brightly coloured coats Those members who wished to bet bought 5 totalizator tickets...
Molay Chorus,
Choice Of Odda,
With it one can back a bores at
tages of the totalisator and the The machine has all the advan-
bookmaker, and none of the dis advantages of either.
It cannot cramp the odds, it
once welsh," it cannot split the skies with the raucous shouting that spoils the enjoyment of many visitors to race-courses, but it can, and it will, it adopted by the racing anthorities do away with stic-tac
Ben be the death Warrant of course bookmakers, and make racing a pleasure instead of a nightmare.
It would also benefit the tax- payer, for there is no question of evading betting tax with the machine, and the wholesale evasions that have been taking place would be things of the past.
The veriest novice at racing can see at a glance how his bet starda. at any time. There is room on each machine for the numbers and prices of forty horses
There are two ways of betting with the machine.
The backer, as stated above, bas the choice of putting his money A bell rang, and as the lights on at starting price or of taking were lowered the dogs were placed the adds shown by the machine t
as the stuffed rat, on its steel arm,
South China Athletic Association. March 7th and 8th, weather perin hittle traps at the starting point. The organisation and policy of the mitting, at the open ground of the There was a clatter as the electric any time during betting. The League will be in the hands of Mr. | Chinese EM.C.A. Richard Shim, manager, and Mr. Street where every subsequent The dogs began a chorus of yelps eng price, or the olde shown at any in Bridges rat began to move round the arena super totalisator will pay the start --K. F. June and Mr. Y. W. Lee, game will be played. KY
nasistant managers of the SC.AA. Ten teams have entered for the and barke which reached full pitch time after a bet is made, by tor The new ground on Caroline Hill Senior League Queen's College, flashed past them simple process of having the ticket on which the South Chinn Athletic Tutorial Institute A" Tutorial The rat made a circle of the track tamped with the ruling odds. Association is spending a large sum Institute B, Hong Kong Univer before the dogs were released, and on Certain horse, and the odds on improvement and turing will be sity, St. Paul's Collega. Ying Wa they went streaking after it, yelp shown by the indicator are becom
IL for instance, a man has bet available for all league games. The College A, Ying Wa College ing loudly all the time. following teams have entered to Mun San College, King's The first race of 150 yards was shorter, or the backer behaves date: Lok Kwen Peninsula School, College, and Wab Tan College. won by Bramshot Jill, belonging to they will become shorter he can Yaumati Kiro-Ora Baseball Club Fight have signed for the Junior Mr. W. Priddle, in 19sec.-& speed jump in with the unmarked betting. Tigers South China; Boy League, and they are Lai Chee of less than 20 miles an hour ticket he purchand when betting. Scouts, South China China Athletic School, Ellis Kadoorie School Ying The races were watched with in opened and have it stamped at the Association Ying Wa College: Wa College. Young Men's Club (P.W.D.) and Y.M.C.A. Hostel Y,MOA. Day the audience whatever the starting pirce, whether Wantsal School, tenas excitement by the women in odds ruling at the moment. Then, Yung King Baseball Club. Paul's College AIMTA VENDA in starting found itself caught as horse won, be paid at the odds School, King's College, and Bt In the scoond race one dog, slow greater or smaller, are would, 11 The Hong Kong Chinese, parti cularly members of the South China All the games will be played on the lid of the trap came down. It shown on his tickets Or he can Athletic Association, and the Amell players are to be numbered, and of the sot, and then, chasing the price when he buys it
the Chinese YMCA. ground, and remained there until the last lap have his ticket stamped starting ricans started the game here more any team appearing fifteen minutes dog furthest behind it began to Odds Shown Clearly. than ten years ago, but at that time ate shall forfeit the game,zman no regular league games were play- ed, but six years ago, a baseball
Officers of the Hong Kong Basket fight stewards rusted out, and separated them, amid the laughter association was formed, Mt K Shou-son Chow, Boo, President; Ball Association, are: Hon. Bir
of the crowde June, of 8.0.A.A becoming the first hon, secretary. Mr. June was un
Mr. E. G. Stewart, President, Mr old Honolula boy TMoffatt, Hon. Treasurer: Mr. B. Richard Shima, Vice-President: Mr. Last summer efforts were made W, Ko, Hon. General Beuretary; Mr. to popularise baseball among the PP. Ho Hon. Secretary, Open Chinese and others in Hong Kong League, Mr. B. B. Leung, Hon.
8: O. Leung, Hon. Secretary Junior League N
EARL HAIG'S CHARGER.
A FUNERAL' INCIDENT.
Lord Hang'e charger, which he rode in France and in the Victory March in 1914 was taken over by the Kang in 1920 and named Haig." This horse followed tin coffin in the funeral procession, and
All the calculations are dona automatically, and the odds are shown clearly, to the public all the time As money pours in for ja horas so the odds against that horse become shorter and the odds against the other horses lengthen. This sig pant miracles performed by machinery in at the mime way as multiplication is dorez ou a elide
A further advantage of the super totalisator over the present totalian tor is that winning backers can he paid their money immediately the
by the South China Athletic Ass Secretary, Senior League, and Bir. ciation, and a team was invited from Honolulu to give demonstrations in Hong Kong and also to play for Among those who have consented China in the Far Eastern Olympiad to referee the games are: Messra at Shanghai, The Honoluin team Ho Ka Lan, Ko Sik Wai, Ho Pak won for China second place in the Ping, Leung Shiu On, Leung Sui behaved aplendidly until just at the winner is known as the machine Far Eastern Championship, and first Bangi Kichard Shim; and Chan Sik moment when the coffin was being automatic place in the International Cham-Pukar taken off the gun carriage to be recenry to cover, the" tax, ank pionship at Shanghai, The Senior League was scheduled placed in the railway yan at Water one to: courses! kuda, machinery
Since last summer many clubs to commence yesterday with Queen's 200 station. Then he suddenly got of upkeep and working, and schools have included baseball College Xing Was B, and restless, and the three men with Not the Feast of the claims made among"" "their recognised forms of Tutorial -8°*- *. Mun. Fang, @Me. bim had to hold Ai sporte, and the promotion of the Ho Ka Lau being referee; and the bridle; and an the
pf Caroline Hill Junior, to-day with Lai Chee lifted he gave portant event in the TiAL.C.A. Hostel, and Ellis Kadooria. kumar'; the
Chin Athletic A BehuGEMCA. Day School, Mramever known fim ne
- Richard Phim, referee.
before, or become Tesk
to his for the super totalisator in thatsit being can be made so portable that only che needed for the have hors
ork of 400 of
ew
"We are faced with one of the most horrible wholesale murderers ever known, said the cormer.
The police are trying to discover the fate of two other young girls who were known to have entered Coulombe's house since when they have never been heard of..
Hus Savage Dogs, Coulombe was the terror of the
neighbourhood owing to his pack of wild dogs four of which he al ways had to lead. He had an un- canny influence over the savage The leads the police to believe that dogs, which cowered at his voice. he may be conected with the mur der last year of a bank manager and his wife whose deg was ap
formerly belonged to Coulombe. The police theory is that this dog parently cowed by the arunderer.
The police recall that Coulomba” was arrested some years ago, at 3 am. when be was walking in the street barefooted and carrying an
RED-HAIRED PEOPLE.
DOCTORS AND LORD CHIEF JUSTICE
MISS RUBY MILLER'S EXPERIENCE
Is red hair a disadvantage Lord Hewart, the Lord Care! Justice, during the trial of a man accused of murder at the Uld Bailey, said people with red hair commit sincide. More More Vitality, P
Sir,
William Arbuthnot Lane, who naraster of hair cocuring, said has made a study of the effects on
ly expenence has been the reverse of that suggested by Lord Hewart Men and women with red hair have much more vitality than dark-haired people und are. better able to reeist disease.
I thought to be due to some glandular avantage possessed by red-haired people. Far from lead- ing to suicide, these fortunate people have an advantage over
fe others in their ability to enjoy
A prominent physician said to a reporter:
Red-baired people are of a much more nervous temperament than those with dark hair. They are high-strung, jolly, and impul sve. Depression is practically unknown; to them and belongs almost exclusively to those with dark hair. If red-haired people commit suicide it is because they are creatures of impulse and not | because of any lack of character. As a rule boys with red hair are full of adventure and hardly know how to keep out of mischief. Al one time the majority of boys in ceformatory schools were found to have red hair.
who has deep red hair, said she
Miss Ruby Miller, the actress
I have always found that a red- haired womanis sincere. She is never lukewarm; ehe loves ferce- ly and hates with fury. It she is your friend you can never shake that friendship. She will work harder than most and is almost violent in her earnestness at play. I prefer dealing with red- haired wonten, the only really honest ones I know
It is always supposed that &
woman with red hair must be n vamp, but this is the reverse of the truth I have had to pro duce my own play to move Af can play the heroine.
mos
years before when he was a police.
axe. His susity was then inquired man, Coulomba suffered a serious into, but he was released, Many injury to the head while stopping
(Continucâ on next Column). a runaway home.
HICAGO
HAD NO PEACE NIGHT OR DAY
Terrible Rash On Body. Cuticura Healed
"A terrible Irritating max broke out en my body, lobe, arma surd bands. The skin was infazed and "I got za panen night or day. I could Dot work, sleep os est; in fact I had to soy in bed for weakce. The trouble lasted a year and three months.
I tried several reasodies but they did not help me. I read an adver- tagment for Curra Soap and Olatment and sent for a tree sampla. After using it I purchased more and LOW.COmplately healed." (Signed) Mrs. Mary H. Bibles, 4, Sunandala Comages, Hallingdon,
Use Cuticura Soap, Otsiment and Tiles for daily tollet purposes, Sase and Chocpant sold throughout the
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