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LONDON, July 7th. The Amateur Athletic Champion, ships held at Stanford Bridge are a miniature edition of the Olympic games. This year there was a strong entry of Olympic compoti tera from the Continent and
Dominions.
'THIRD DEGREE" TORTURE.
MENTAL AND PHYSICAL.
NEW YORK LAWYERS' CONDEMNATION.
FEWER DOCTORS.IN ENGLAND.
DECLINE IN NUMBERS OF STUDENTS.
MANY WHO DO NOT QUALIFY.
For the next few years the num ber of doctors in England will decrease owing to the falling off al the number of student entries since 1023,
EXTORTING CONFESSIONS.
NEW YORK. Accusations are sometimes made that the police in the United States
In the first ten years of this habitually use the “" third degree," century about 1,500 new students or methods of torture, to extract were registered annually; in 1919 confessions of crime from suspected the high-water anark of more than persons. The police usually reply 400 was touched, and in 1924, the by denying the charges or by saying largest number of qualified doctors that they are much exaggerated. ever registered came into practice.
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Records began to go early in the
won the Javelin Throwing with 999 feet 9 inches, a world's record.
Soon after this Lord Burghley smashed the existing official world's record by doing the 410 yards hurdles in 54 secs.
In addition to this four new British records were established, and one Championship record.
The full results were:
Marathon Race.
In the Marathon from Windsor to Stamford Bridge, a distance of 58 miles, 243 yards, the British re tord was beaten by the well-known runner, Payne, the first three bome being:
H. Payne (Woodford Green) Time: 2 hours, 34 minutes, 34
D. McLeod Wright (Maryhill
H.)
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and last year the number was a little above 1,900. The number of new registered practitioners has steadily decreased since 1924.
Few Women Eetire.
association of lawyers, the Associa- tion of the Bar of the City of New York, in an official report, confirms
Commenting on these figures the existence of these methods, at
given by the General Medical beast, so far as the metropolis is Council, the Lancet remarks that concerned. A special committee is a large wastage of medical which was appointed to look into students owing to the fact that it declares that we are of the many ever proceed to their quali
fication. opinion that many of these accusa, tions are well founded," and urges
Women doctors, also, fall out of further and comprehendive survey practice on marriage, but the num which will include recommendations ber is not very great. The Medical Women's Federation sent a ques for such changes in the laws, as maytionnaire to 1,000 of its members be necessary to stamp out the evil. in the British Isles, and found that The Committee which has so report only 0 per cent of the total dropped ed includes three former Federal out of practice.
A further analysis was made of district attorneys for New York's medical women who qualified in and three former New York County London between the years 1923 and 1925; of these only 63 had retired district attorneys. "
from practice, of whom és had mar ried, while 41 others who had mar- ried are still working at their pro- fession.
Every American journalist who
E. Harper (Haliamshire H.) ... 3 has had contact with police activi- Time: 2 hours 39 mins. 3 secs.
Throwing The Javelin,
ties knows well that the "third degree" is in daily and hourly use
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S: Lay (New Zealand) 900 feet 9 not only in New York but in prae- A DECREE AT NINETEEN, inches.
(World's Record),
440 Yards Hurdles. ・・
Lord Burghley 54 secs. (World's Record).
Half Mile..
D. G. A. Lowe, the Olympic Half ale Champion, strengthened Bri- tish hopes for the Olympic games by retaining his title in 1 min 56.3/5 secs, four foot shead of the German Engelhart.
Quarter Mile.
A girl of 19 was the petitioner
Mr. Justice Hill in the Divorce Court on June 7th.
She was Mrs. Mavis Irene Dalton, of Gravesend, and the suit was brought by her guardian, who asked for the dissolution of her marriage
tically every other city, in the coun- try. The worst abuses are direct- ed against poor and friendless menin divorce suit which came before. who have little opportunity to make public protest. If they com plain in court (and usually they Are too overswed to do so) their word is held lightly against the unanimous denials of several police officials. Once in a long time the treatment is meted out by mistake to some one of influence and there is a scandal, but such things are quickly forgotten Many judges (Bri-that it is necessary in order to
wink at the practice on the ground
"ro-
D. G. A. Lowe won in 50 secs.
Throwing The Discus "Paulus (Germany) 147 feet tish Record).
Long Jump,
De Boer (Holland) 24 feet ins (Championship Record),
120 Yards Hurdles.
tain convictions. The press luctant to protest, openly, because the newspapers for the most part feel they must maintain cordial re- lations with the police in order to get the news. There are, of course,
Atkinson (South Africa) 14.7/10 some honourable exceptions to this secs. (British Record).
Pole Jump.
Kelley (England) in an exhibition jump cleared 19 feet 7 ins. (British Record).
100 Yards,
The 100 yards was a thrilling race. It was won by the South African, Legge, in 9.9/10 secs., by a yard by the two Germans Koernig and Wichmann, who were only inches apart.
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BOUT.
GERMAN CHAMPION
DEFEATED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGEEST.}"
SAN SEBASTIAN, July 8th.
rule.)
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A familiar method of extorting confessions is to question a prison- er for hours on end without a mo ment's "rest, several interrogators taking their turn in this. He is often denied food and water and For making deprived of sleep. what the police regard as false statements he may be slapped, his arms twisted, or a burly officer may knock him own and kick him, Men are often beaten with a section of rubber hose, which has the advan- tage of being very painful yet leav ing no marks which might be exhibited in court. If two OT MOTD persons have been arrested and tax- ed with the same crime the police do not hesitate to tie to each about the statements of the others, saying that they have confessed. For example, when Mrs. Ruth Snyder, who conspired with her paramour Judd Gray to kill her husband about a year ago, was arrested she was prevented from sleeping, given
In a twelve rounds contest for the European Heavyweight title, Paolino Uzcudun knocked out Lud wig Haymann, the German Chaminadequate food, questioned hours pion, in tht eleventh round. Uzcu dan was markedly superior through out. 15,000 spectators watched the fight.
Uzcudun weighed in at 14 stone 2 lbs. and Haymann at 13 stone 7-lba.
BANK NOTES IN CIRCULATION,
STATEMENT FÖR JUNE.
The returns of the average amount of bank notes in circula- tion and of specie in reserve in Hong Kong, during the month end- ed June 30th, 1929, as certified by
on end without mercy, and was told (falsely) that Gray had accused her of the murder. She broke down. and admitted her share in the case a few crime. In another
months ago (reported at the time in the Manchester Gugrdian) an in-
which took place in April, 1926- on the ground of the adultery of her husband, Charles Edward Dal- ton, who did not defend the suit,
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