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TENNIS LEAGUE.
.. MID-WEEK FIXTURES.
The Chinese Recreation Club,
who have been making history in the Tennis League for the past few seasons, have set an example worthy of emulation by the other Clubs in regard to matches in arrears. Since last Thursday they have arranged a series of matches
CAPT. CAMPBELL
· BANS BROOK. LANDS.
HANDICAPS THAT HE NEVER WINS.
HORLEY, May 28ch Captain Malcolm Campbell, the famous motorist, who has driven a
to make up for those postponed motor-car faster than any other previously and they have fixed, Englishman, and who created a several for this week. Two should
have been played last Monday, but
world's record at Daytona Beach not so long ago, has decided to ban Brooklands unime the present tem of individual handicapping altered.
is
to
had to be put off again un account of rain. They will now be played next week. To-day in the "A" Division they will meet the Indian Recreation Club who are also active playing of their matches. Other His decision was the sequel Clubs are reported to be fixing up
incident in concection with matches, but it is not always easy the Gold Star race at Brooklands to keep in touch with them.
to-day. His car was entered as an
an
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20th, 1928.
SEX EQUALITY IN CRICKET. SPELL OF A VICAR'S
VIEWS OF FAMOUS WOMAN PLAYER.
COACHING.
A woman cricketer who has made a success of the game, and who has realised the science that lies behind every stroke, has taken to task women who are keen to play cricket. but who will not accept the advice of the coach
Mrs. Eric King-Turner, Kent's famous woman player, who first made her successful entry into cricket as Miss Mariel Maxted," plays regularly for a men's team,
the Folkestone Ramblers. She is a
fine right-hand slow howler, and one of the team's first "batsmen.”...”
"Do you think you could take! Hobbs' wicket" a Daily Express
The list of matches is arranged as ordinary touring car with a four-representative asked her, discussing
follows:-
To-day. "A" Division:-Chinese R.C. e.
Indian R.C. "B" Division:-Chinese R.C. e.
M.B.K.
To-morrow. "A" Division:Chinese" R.C..
Kowloon C.C. "B" Division:-Chinese R.C. v.
Kowloon C.C. ̧.···
Friday, 22nd.
scater body. Questions were raised about the car, so Captain Camp" bell decided to withdraw from the race and any future handicap events on the Brooklands track.
I understand, however, writze a' Daily Express correspondent, that Captain Campbell will Brooklands in scratch events, and
race at
"C" Division:-Chinese R.C. 1. | if the handicapping system
. Hong Kong C.C. Chinese altered. Otherwise he will R.C. II Nippon Club.
abroad. Saturday, 23rd.
"A" Division:-Kowloon C.C. e.
Indian R.C.
Busday, 24th.
A Division:-Indian R.C.' r
Craigengower.
Monday, 25th,
is
TACC
"On the Turf," he said to me today, "it is only the horses who are given weight in handicaps, not
the jockeys. Donoghue was never handicapped.. It wae only the
A Division:-Chinese R.Cr.horses "that he rode which had to
M.B.K.
"Division-Chinese R.C: II carry penalties. But I have found
v. R.A.M,C.
GIRL ENGINEERS.
GOOD LOOKS SAID TO BE
HANDICAP.
"Good looks seem to be a draw. back to a girl taking up engineering work," said Miss Haslett, organiser of the Women's Engineering Society and the Women's Electrical Asso-
ciation, at the Conference on New Careers for Women, held on Lon
don
"We put forward a woman for a drawing office appointment Miss Haslett explained, "and her quali fications were excellent, but the
director and quite frankly that she was too good-looking for the job. and would probably upset the men in their work.
"Another director, expressing the technical qualifications required of a girl, "added, "And she must not
jump if the foreman says Dama '."
The Dirty Overall Phase. A girl must also get rid of the idea that if she goes in for engineer- ing she will spend the rest of her She life in dirty boiler overalls. passes through that phase, but it soon.goes.
Parents are often a great bandi, cap, for they think that a girl is abnormal if she wants. to take up engineering-that it is not a nice Indy-like profession like secretaria! work. This is true in a way, for a girl has to work with men, wear
For a long while now that at Brook- lands I have been handicapped as a driver, instead of the car being handicapped."
women as first-class cricketers.
"Have you ever seen. Jack Hobbs strictly on the defensive?" was her reply." If he were do you think any bowler could dislodge him t
"As long as he is the enterpris ing, venturesome and sporty Jack Hobbs, I think he himself would be the first to admit that such a thing might happen
Obedience.
Women will equal men on the cricket field when we all realise what a really difficult task we have before us. The "arge schools must have a coach, and they must obey him in all things.
One or two teams do see the
WIFE.
FAMOUS SURGEON
INFATUATED.
CAREER SACRIFICED" FOR HER.
(or a. CORDEN.]
History teaches us that othe women have a subjective influence over men, and modern science gratuitously informs us that the sez appeal is the most dominant force in life.
A woman need not be beautiful
"
THE ROSY SIDE.
DUNMOW FLITCH
HUMOURS.
PERFECT HUSBANDS AND WIVES.
[BY. CORDER.]
LONDON, May 29th.
FUTURE OF CIVIL
AVIATION.
A CHILD'S INFERIORITY
COMPLEX.
SIXTY REGISTERED OWNERS | (UY A HARLEY-STREET WOMAN DOCTOR.]
IN ENGLAND.
We hear a great deal of the in- TRIBUTE TO BLACKPOOL'S " | feriority complex among adults,
ENTERPRISE.
Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, and Mr. J. F. Three wedded couples stood in Leeming, of the Lancashire Acro the peace court of Dunmow Flitch Club, visited Blackpool on May at liford, Essex, yesterday, and ad-19th to inspect the dites of the mitted that for a year and a day Blackpool air pageant at Squires they had lived in perfect harmònz,
How very sad! How they must have missed the rapture of making
to exercise this compelling power.it up. Love really begins with the She can have a devastating or a first tiff, and ends with the last inspiring influence; she can make row. Married life without a row is like flowers without fragrance, wine
favour, without
Bongs without words."
er man then.
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The case of Mrs. Theresa Richis
Irwin, decided at London Sessions provides one of the most enthralling stories heard in the courts for many
years.
She is a brunette of 37, looking younger than her age, a woman of medium height enjoying a good, natural complexion and possessing pair of brilliant, challenging dark eyes, sparkling with a sease of humour. lines round her mouth, and she has
There are laughter
an impertinent retroussé nose
She is the sort of woman that a
man would instinctively accept as a "pal," a woman who would beget as she inspired confidence even passion,
Wife Of A Vicar, .. Mr Irwin is the daughter of a Sheffield doctor. She married the
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necessity, notably the girls of Mon-Rev. George Freeman Irwin, vicar
trose College, Margate. It was de of St. Paul's, Cheltenham, whom lightful to bowl against them last she saddled with a county court season. They out, drive, pull, and claim for nearly den for night play forward like the real cricketers dresses. they are, and they beat us, the Folkestone Ladies, quite well. Thoy have a coach, and are a credit to
him..
Mrs. Irwin returned to Sheffield
One of
Twenty Years. Captain Campbell also pointed
to live with her parents, out to me that he has been driving
the most popular and famous doctors in Sheffield was Dr. George at Brooklands for nearly twenty
"Women should follow the coach years, and that latterly the only in every detail. After all, a coach Henty Pooley, now aged 60, an races be has been able to win at is interesting, apart from anything ophthalmic surgeon who during the else. I can hear my father saying war had worked miracles in skin Brooklands have been scratch races.
I am going to bowl at your left Captain Campbell also had trou-side, and you have got to be grafting. ble to-day in another race in which
Ranji-hook and glance.' he had entered a car. He drove this car on the track. Inst Thurs- day, and tested it thoroughly before bringing it back to his workshop and handing it
to his mechanics. It was found quite
over
sound, and he said to his mechanics, The car is running perfectly."
When he went to take the car
out of the shed to-day he found that it could not even be pushed along. Two teeth of the constant
mesh in the gearbox had broken, This is unheard of in motoring mechanice, and Captain Campbell cannot explain the mystery.
Engineers state that two teeth could not have been damaged in the ordinary way of driving unless some foreign "matter had entered the gearbox.
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FIRST AIR. GOLF" FOURSOME.
knickerbockers on occasions, and AIRPLANE AS DRIVER IN NEW
sometimes do night work.
"But this does not make us ab normal, and we want to cease to be regarded as curiosities. We want to work with men and not against them."
The chief qualifications for sales manship, said Miss Gladys Burlton, principal of the Burlton Institute, were tact, sympathy, good health, good brains, good temper, and love of humanity,
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GAME.
WOMAN'S CHALLENGE
New York, May 98th. /. The first game of air golf was played successfully on the links of the Old Westbury Golf Club here yesterday.
H. Palairet.
0:,
Now I'm going to bowl at your that brought him an income of He had an established practice off bail, and you must be John Shyter, and late cusik. Or Now £5,000 a year. But his finances for style alone; you must be L. C. were failing when Mrs. Irwin con- sulted him about her eyes. He had a child, and he known her as engaged her as a secretary, and in
counsel, he sacrificed his income, the words of Mr. H. D.Roome, his
"My one aim is to play the men's his home, his career, his reputation, game lo carefully and in their way and his honour and position for a that they hardly know I'm a woman lamentable infatuation. He says he in the team.
"What girl who really loves the game could fail to be interested and, absorbed when the dear old coach game, with the names of all the is giving her a short history of the gianta 1
team of soldiers. I had been bat that the slightest aspersions should "Last year we were playing a is to blame, and he does not desire ting some while when one of the bowlers said: I thought you had be cast on Mrs. Irwin, who is the a woman playing!" "So we have,' dearest person in the world to
said 1..
"When is she coming in he asked. She's here,' I said, 'I'm
it."
WHEN GIRLS PAY.
JUDGE ON THE BRIBING OF POSSIBLE HUSBANDS.
him."
travelled the country, staying at
The pair left Sheffeld and
first-class hotels as man, and wife. They ran up bills which have since be paid by Mra Irwin's father and Dr. Pooley's friends
They wore arrested on, account of worthless cheque given by him as an undischarged bankrupt to the manager of the artillery Mansions Hotel, S.W., in settlement of a bill for £32 134. 6d.
Mental Torture.
The suggestion that it wa
the usual thing nowadays for young woman to pay when she went to a cinema with a young man, was
Dr. Pooley, a typical professional made by Mr. A. E. Robinson, a man with a clean-shaven, studious solicitor, when he appeared at the face, looks his age. He wears gold- Shoreditch County Court, for rimmed spectacles, behind which warehouseman who sued his former
are the eyes of a thinker. His lips fiancée for the return of linen, are thin and his mouth tightly glass, and other articles of the closed, and he has the delicate, value of 29,
sensitive hands of a skilled surgeon. Throughout the hearing he hung his head, and had the appearance of a man suffering severe mental torture.
The girl, Rose Osborn, living at Mansford-street, Bethnal Green, E, counter-claimed for £10 against Stanley W. Bowden, of Toyes- buildings, Bethnal Green.
Mr. William Henry Cook (51), a fish salesman of Winchelsea-road, Tottenham, and his wife, Elizabeth Mary, won the flitch and knelt on the ancient Dunmow kneeling stones hollowed by the knees of many happy couples of long ago.
A second fitch was divided be tween Mr. and Mrs. William George Ward, of Chadwell Heath, a cater er; and Mr. and Mrs. William Herbert Barrett (42), a clerk, of St. Mary's-road, Ilford
Gate, and the proposed permanent
but it is little realised how the games of inferiority affects, children. It is apt to interfere with their whole future development and outlook in life.
A baby comes into the world weak, helpless and crying lustily." "He is dependent on the adults in his environment for food and warmth. As bo begins to grow, he realizes that he is small and others big by reason of their site and their power in contrast to himself, and his feel- ing of inferiority increases
Ho decides that this must be com-
aerodrome on the borough boundary at Marton. Sir Sefton congratulat- ed Blackpool on the lead they were taking in civil aviation, and said he hoped they would obtain their bated, and he adopts the means of reward in the way of increased striving to be strong and domineer- popularity for the resort. That ing. How often do we hear the civil aviation was growing in child say, "When I am as big as favour, he said, was proved by the daddy." This striving for "big- fact that while, a year ago, there" and power is a perfectly were only seven registered owners, healthy outlook when his education. there were now 80, and he was hoping that before long the number
would be 200.
He could foresee the time when aerodromes would be looked upon as being as necessary as railway stations. The motor roads were now crowded and more people were thinking of the air as a means of transport. The British had been a nation of seamen; he hoped that in future they would be a nation of The Court of Dunmow Flitch, airmen. Light acroplanes could he whatever it may have been in olden bought for £500, which was less days, is now a queer combination than many people paid for motor- of witty fooling and earnest senti- cars, and it was net much more difficult to learn to fly than to drive; ment. Counsel for flitch ask em
Witty Fooling.
barrassing questions of the non-
sense type, which are answered with
perfect gravity and in all serious.
ness by the competing husband
The winning couple have been married for 35 years and have bad
16 children.
flitch.
LL CIT.
If an aerodrome were provided at
possible to convey visitors to and Blackpool, he added, it would be
from all the large centres, and there could be taxi trips to the large towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire. It is estimated that 200 aeroplanes will take part in the Blackpool Air Pageant on July 6th and 7th. The
Why have you turned from fish to bacon?" inquired Mr. J. H. Hayes, M.P., appearing for the I.A.F.. will reproduce their Hendon display in full, and in addition **Well," replied Mr. Cook pro- there will be displays and com smoked haddock tastes much nicer fessionally, "you will find that petitions for civilians,
with a rasher of bacon."
comes unchecked and he is allowed to grow up by doing things for him
self from Bis oarliest days, whether he takes his first step by himself or whether he puts his shoe on for the first time.
some
Mistaken Kindness Frustrates Efforts. Unfortunately, by the mistaken kindness of the parent or other surrogate, however, the continual doing" for the child increases his inferiority. Then
parents treat the child as a toy or a pet,. because he is small. At other tis be become the subject of ridicule. Sooner or later, he discovers that he has not been told the truth be- Or, cause he is unimportant. again, too much is demanded f
him.
How Failures Are Made. All these happenings increase his sense of weakness and inferority, nobody and without rights. As he grows ho ap pears timid, shy, or nervous He He thinks that he is
cannot adapt himself easily to the may be so tinged that his search for world around him. His horizon power and sense of superiority He falls short of doing his work may be gained through inactivity. in the world. These children often become the failures of life.
The wise parent will seize the opportunity of giving the child The little child's movements are every chance of relying on himself.
very slow because he is still in the state of sensing the weight and size of objects. His small fingers can not seize them as he would wish," This fact is often unrecognised by adults and he is told "to hurry up." In the the end the job is done
"Did you always take out the RICH RECLUSE STARVED. children "Mr. Cock was naked.
"He could not do it" murmured 5,000 GOLD SHARES IN HER for him. Unfortunately this hin Mr. A. S. Comyns Carr, KC, re- prosenting the applicants.
FLAT.
ders his development, for he thinks he cannot do it, so increasing his sense of inferiority. Patience is
"Yes, he could-in a motor CORONER'S SPECIAL VERDICT. the keynote for the adult.
coach," remarked the judge (Mr. Charles Austin, the comedian).
The judge was arrayed in a scarlet robe and a full-bottomed wig, and tins, wore wigs and gowns. The died at her fat from starvation. counsel, who included two "Por
jury was composed of six charming
Although she had ample means, Miss Annie Turner, aged 54, of Ladbroke-quare, Kensington, W.,
An inquest was held at Hammer- young spinsters dressed in white, smith, and it was stated that in the fat were found a considerable and six dashing young bachelora.
It was stated in "court" that sum of money and 5,000 gold mine out of the 216 young men and shares. women who had served on the jury Mrs. Annie Nickiese, caretaker" at many had paired off from the box the fat, said that at first there and qualified as competitors for the were two sisters there.
year ago one died of consumption and starvation.
flitch.
About a
Mr. Oswald," the coroner: Had
The Occasional Word Of Praise. Further every child should be en- couraged to realise that he is ap preciated when he can accomplish small duties for himself. In ex- periencing this, he will feel that he i, of real value and so overcome his inferiority sense. In such things lie some of the fundamentale of becoming a good citizen.
WIRELESS AS A CURE.
NEW TREATMENT FOR PARALYSIS.
NEW YORK. Electrical science once again pro- mises to lend its aid to the world of medicine.
The First Talking Machine, "All three competitors declared | that their favourite author was Misa Turner any visitors or letters t
-No. Dickens. **And Isobel Clack,"
Did she read anything Yes, ing the value of short wave-length added Mr. Cook, causing counsel to four papers a day...
exclaim: "Who the dickens is Isobel Clark 1"
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I've never met the lady," said Mr. Cook, "but she writes beauti- ful love stories."
Among the bright things said dur ing the trial "were:
Mra. Nickless said she last saw
A grand baby is better than, aed and Miss Turner was found dead baby grand."
on the cofa. A will was found in the fat.
"A thing of beauty may be a jaw for ever."
"The first talking machine was made out of a rib."
force."
Two American scientists are test-
wireless broadcasting apparatas a & cure for general paralysia. The bacilli of this disease cannot live
Miss Turner alive the previous when the blood is at a high tem Saturday. On the following Monperature, and previous treatments, day morning, noticing that her notably by Dr. Wagner von Jauregg, of Vienna, have been papers had not been taken in, she made by injecting malaria germs made inquiries. The flat was enter into the blood of the patient, the intention being to kill the bacilli of the particular form of paralysis. This treatment, however, is very difficult to control. With the new treatment the blood temperature can be raised and properly con- trolled at the same time.
Accidental. Discovery. it was noticed that men working The discovery came accidentally." in the General Electrio. Company's
Mr. Oswald; Here was a woman of means, who would not provide
they were operating six-metre wire- less acta !!!
There was a medical suggestion that his mind had become un- Bowden anid that the girl had balanced to an extent that affected The winners of the match, a team given up some of the things he wallsee, the Sessions chairman, put broken off the engagement and his judgment, and Sir Robert composed of Mr. William Hammond bought, but refused to give up the him back until the next Bessions to playing on the ground, and Mr. rest. While he was out of work obtain a further medical report
"A wife may complain that herself with food. Her sister died when her husband meets "A saleswoman must have a real MM. Merrell, manager of the for the pictures, but he always Mr Irwin showed some agitation, married. On the other hand, no was miserliness. There will be t pretty in a similar state, but she had con- for six months she sometimes paid When Dr. Pooley left the dock girl he is apt to forget he is already sumption. It almost looks as if it nffection for people. The more Curtiss Field Aerodrome, playing paid next week." obnoxious they are, the more she from the air, secured their victory
Miss Osborn; He was out of and she reached out her hands to thing may drive him to realise the special verdict-Death from Stary works became faint and ill when must like thera."
(Laughter.) by three up.
work for much more than six him as he followed a warder with awful truth with such terrible tion and Self-neglect.
out a backward glance. months; he was frightened of work,
Mrs. Nickles said to a Daily "The chilling atmosphere which
Even when he was employed, Irwin, said that she carried on Dr. Mr. Walter Frampton, for Mrs. The game consists in the airman
The tent in which the court was occupied the flat for nine years. Mail reporter that Miss Turner had sometimes becomes appareat on the
sometimes paid when we went to saleswoman when it is dropping the hall from the airplane the cinema.
beld was crowded, mainly with mar- but she did not think she had any Pooley's practice with the aid of a part of a
of locum tenens when he was ill. He ried couples, young and old, eager relations in this country. She clear that no sale will be made is at an altitude of about fifty feat not only bad manners, but disas as near as possible to the green,
challenged Mr. Roome's statement to gaze on ideal married bliss. added: trous from a business point of view the ground partner then holing out charms.
How the wives nudged the hus Nothing but an emergency will
quoting the accepted equality of the bands when the competitors de clared that they never drunk, induce a customer to go back to in as few strokes as possible, as saleswoman who has once treated a in ordinary golf.
never stayed out late, and always refusal to purchase as a personal
appreciated the company of their wives And how the husbands grievance. A saleswoman is like Fraulein Thea Rasche, the Ger- a doctor, She must diagnose her man airwoman, issued a challenge
to look for wings sprouting on the laughed when the judge pretended customer at a glance and develop to the winners to play her and a off against this, and she would
perfect husbands shoulders-Daily the soothing.bedside which inspires confidence."
manner
woman partner.-B.U.P..
er
Judge Cluer: Sometimes, bribe men to succumb to course, it is known you have to
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Miss Osborn: Never, sir. Judge Cluer said that it wES clear that Bowden had had money from Miss Osborns and she was en- goods detained by her would be set titled to £8. The value of the
have the balance, £3 18. 6d.
that she had infatunted the doctor,
Bexis.
The Chairman postponed sentence for three months, and released Mrs. Irwin on her own recognisances to officer which, if satisfactory will await a report from the probation mean that Mrs. Irwin will be bound over.-Daily Mail.
Nail.
The heating effect of the waves was tested with a solution, and the discovery made that a six-metre wave-length apparatus gave suit-
It is believed that a high tera- peratura can be produced locally apon the skin with this new ap
I believe there are some bro-able results. thera abroad. Although she was very friendly and amable, I do not believe she was known to anyone round here. She certain-paratus. ly had no close friends.
She would often go out for a walk in the morning, and at one time did a good deal of painting, of which the was very fond.
Scientists are careful in their statements regarding the medical value of this treatment, but the Rockefeller Institute in now ex- perimenting with it."