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GROWTH OF RUGBY. Mr. F. Kennedy (Broughton Ran- gera), the chairman of the Rugby Lengue, speaking at a dinner given by the League at the Hotel Metto Fole, London," said In bringing the Rugby League Cup final to Wembley for the first time in the series we have ne object at all in interferring with Rugby Union foot- ball."
It was stated that after a foul bad been given against Clifford, he went to some spectators and nimed a vicious blow which caught Mr. Partleton, who fell to the ground senseless.
FOOTBALL MATCH SCENE. SIGHT TESTS FOR UMPIRES. Richard Clifford, a playing mem- Poor wapiring, at lawn tennis her of the Eigehill Football Club, tournaments has been ascribed to was fined 40s, with £1 Is. costs, at the defective sight of some umpires.. Croyden Palies Court, for assault Opticians have now, been asked by ing Frederick C. Partleton, the Lawn Tennis Umpires' Associa secretary of the Littleton Athletiction to devise special sight" tests of nature that all who pass Club, against whom Edgehill were such a playing at Mitcham.
them successfully will be capable of giving accurate decisions in all circumstances. This is not the first time that the cause of some form of human ineficiency has been diagnosed as an eye affection. The eye faults of tennis umpires will be discovered by a specially arranged
worked but by optical research Series of tests which have been scientists. An umpire's response speed will be ascertained with the aid of an instrument which will pro- ject coloured targets on to a screen. over which they will move to and fro, simulating the passage of a across the court. tennis bal Abruptly, the speed and direction of this movement will be changed. and the speed with which the um- pire under test responds to this abrupt change will be carefully as- certained.
ST. THOMAS WIN HOSPITALS
TEAM TITLE.
For the last few years, he added, they had been finding that their game in the North was growing to such an extent that they had found is difficult to fix the final because they could not find a ground big enough. In Australia and New Zea
and the Rugby League game had taken a big hold.. and colonials when they came to England to play expected to play is a match in the capital. and he hoped that when the Australians' came. over next year to be able to stage a test match at Wembley. In coming to Wembley, added Mr. Kennedy, they wished to show the London public what their game really was, and he was confident that pace Londen bad seen the Rugby League game they would want to see it again.
Mr. AT. Bonner, of Wakefield, an official of the League, said there was great "feeling against Rugby League football in the minds of people who knew nothing about it. King's fourth: Walter accomplish They had got a wrong impression ed a creditable performance in course in 45mins. about the play and the players. So covering the far from all Rugby League lootersecs., and second and third places ballers being professionals, 50 per were shared by the London men, cent. of them were amateurs, and who ran in together. it was only in the leading clubs that twelve were:- players were paid for their services. AMERICAN BOXER FOR MANILA.
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The twenty-six runners in the forty-third annan inter-hospitals cross-country championship found the going at Hayes (Kent) very heavy, but only one failed to com- plete the Blackheath Harriers 7 miles course, W. J. Walter (Bart's) won the individual race fairly com- |fortably, but the team contest was most exciting, and St. Thomas' Hospital, in scoring their first vic- tory since 1880, had only a point to spare from London Hospital. St
жете third and Bartholomew's
The first
W. J. Walter (Bart's), 45mins. 27sec.. 1; J. S. Horsley (London) and T. J. F. Evans (London), equal,
WOKING HALF-BACK KILLED.
PROFESSIONAL TENNIS. Pierre Etchebaster (Paris), (the
Champion of the World) beat E. J. Johnson (Moreton Morrell), whe received half-15 and a bisque, in a tennis match at Prince's Club. Knightsbridge, by three sets to none (6-2, 6-9, 8-6). There was some dis- appointment recently when Etche- baster, who was not too severely handicapped, failed to win the Pro- fessional Invitation Tennis Handi-
2; J. G. Billington (St. Thomas),eap at Brighton. In the match that Before many moons, American R. H. B. Snow (St. Thomas) he lost he appeared to have gone fight fans may have a chance to P. A. Forsyth (St. Thomas), a little off his game. At Prince's watch the late Pancho Villa'a "kids; R. G. Macbeth (King's), "; he was able to settle down almost brother lad believed by many Somerset (King's), B; H. B. Lee at once. He won his championship to be due for a close, shot at the (Barts), 9; S. T. Falla (London), there-against G. F. Corey and he flyweight crown. He is known as and G. W. May (London), equal, found his confidence and grip of the Little Pancho. Like the other10; H. Lee (St. Thomas'), 12.
game after a shaky start in the first Pancho who became world cham-
set. When he did find that confidence pion, he has speed, headwork, and
Johnson, though he played brave- grit Little Pancho is still hardy
George Edward Wheatley, the ly to the finish, was just outclassed. more than a boy and until recently
a time when Johnson he has been good only over the four well-known Isthmian League foot There was
underhand twist service and six round routes.
baller, who has played half-back for had an Before a crowd of critical Manilans he de- the Woking Club, was killed while which was almost as effective as livered a workmanlike trimming to motor cycling at Woodham, a mile the good American services, and also a side wall service which tuck- or so from Woking. Wheatley Was a tough lad known as Kid Gabo in eight rounds. Pancho hit from all on his way to Chertsey, where he ed his opponent up. Both were points, just as moments when he was engaged in the building trade. gone. Etchebaster gave the Ameri- Beemed in the tightest box, and His motor cycle cams into collision can service really cleverly, and if showed he was able to stand hard with another motocycle ridden by the services of the two players had punishment. He beat his opponent Frank W. E. Tate of Church View, been changed the match would have easily. Little Pancho can keep up Thornash-road, Horsell, Woking. been played at even odds. The light a fast pace for eight rounds. T 3 Tate is a motor body builder was uneven and at times bad, and should not be long before he will employed at Weybridge, and he was this was, of course, all against John- be able to handle 12 When he also on his way to work. He receiv- son, who was giving" a good many found Gabe, Parche weighed only ed slight injuries, but his machine years away. Johnson was, general- 1071 pounds. Another three or four was badly damaged. Wheatley at-ly speaking, on the defensive, both pounts on his frame will mean atended a local football club dinner when on the service and on the
hazard side. at Horsell on the grevious evening.
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librettist and musician England It was not had ever produced. every country that could say that the operas they produced were as popular to-day as they were years ago. Mr. Thornley Dodge remark ed, amid laughter, that
fanci amateurs had peculiar One Yum-Yum in an amateur per formance wore twenty bangles dang
A fairy ling with threepenny bits.
Iolanthe wore silver shoe
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Bome
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Professor T. M. Smiddy, the High Commissioner of the Irish Free State, was the guest of honour at the Burke Bicentenary Dinner of the Irish Literary Society held at the Florence Restaurant, Lon- don, last month. Mr. Ashe King. the president of the society, was in the chair.
the
The Hairdressers' and Barbers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Bill, which has just been before a Select Com- mittee of the House of Commons, aima at the suppression of the Sunday shave, unless for members of the Jewish Communion, for whom the interdict is shifted to Saturday. The object, of course,
Mr. Ashe King, proposing "The is to put hairdressers" shop's on
Immortal Memory of
Edmund exactly the same level as all other
Burke," said that Burke was one businesses so far as Sunday tradin
of the few Parliamentarians who ing is concerned. During the dis- buckles all over her hair, and an cussion in Committee it was ex Iolanthe in another amateur pro-
In grew greater as time went on. plained that the laws against Sus duction emerged from the river
his own time he was called the dinzer-bell of the House of Com- day trading bad favoured barbera wearing a wrist watch... simply beenuse in old days the bar
mons, for when he rose the House ber was a barber-surgeon, and the The results of vocational, train emptied. Among those of operation of "bleeding" and binding in the Navy during the period House of Commons of that day, ing (which, by the way, is typified April lat-September 30th, 1928, are Fox, Sheridan, and Pitt, Burke by the two spiral ribbons, or considered to be very satisfactory, stood head and shoulders above bandages, painted round his pole) according to Admiralty Beet orders. them. He was an extraordinary might be called for on a Sunday The most popular
combination of imagination and just as much as a weekday.
motor driving. There were 408 ap- common sense, a devotes of liberty, Even Henry VIII, in rhewing plicants, and 313 were trained durand an even more passionate de-
Next Charter, ing Barber-Surgeons'
the period.
votee of order. Philosopher in the. divided them into two crafts, one "handymen," with 178 applicants study and man in the street, he"
wise like of which, beyond their proper bysi and 150 trained, followed by boot was profoundly ness of shaving and hairdressing, repairers, of whom 52 were train-philosopher and acutely wise like did not go further than blood-led out of 62: applicants. There the man in the street. He was the Jetting and tooth-drawing. In 1743 were 37 students of foreign lan- greatest of all Irishmen and one there was a complete, rupture be guages, all from Mediterranean of the greatest of all men. tween surgeons and barbers-on the stations, and 21 were trained. Only Professor Smiddy, replying to initative of the surgeons, But one qualified as a butler and valet,
the toast of "The Guests," said probably the barbers continued to and one for food and cookery that if humanity, was to progress bleed patients and draw their teeth Neither of the two applicants for it could only be on the fundamental for a considerably longer period. country house lighting were suc-principles that Burke had stood
An early nineteenth century
for, and the society was doing a rhymester has recorded the achieve-
good thing by celebrating the ments of one of thein-
A man, giving evidence regarding Bicentenary of Burke and by mak a street accident in an action before ing known that he was a great Mr. Justice Horridge in London Irishman. recently, said that a man came up and inquired if he saw what had happened.
the
In Liquorpond Street, as is well
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The following howlers appeared Directory and Chronicle recently in an astronomical publica
tion --
Mr. Justice Horridge made a zote of this evidence, and wrote the word
"A locus is a thing like a mush- gentleman instead of "man." Mr. Justice Horridge was reading room, but if you eat it you will this over, when the man called his feel differently from a mushroom,
for focuses is poison." There was an innovation at a attention to the fact that he said
man" gathering of Old Playgoers' Club
and not "gentleman.” Philosophy increases thirty-two at the Hotel Cecil, London, fast Mr. Justice Horridge: Very well. feet per second." nonth, when Mr. E. Thornley we will not quarrel about that. Dodge gave a discourse on Gilbert Every man is a gentleman now. and Sullivan operas with Misa Kate Mr. Justice Horridge in another Contes at the piano. Mr. Carl case recently pointed out that the Fientetbels, the founder of the lab, word wanna was disappearing from said that after forty years of dia the English language. cussing the decay of the drama thes thought instead of having discord
"Genius is an infinite capacity for picking brains."
"A molecule is a girish boy."
ho shews people to their "The sextant is a bald-beaded
"A charwoman," he said, "is no places in church.""
"The people in Iceland are call- longer a charwoman, but a char
"Ambiguity means telling the
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