G.B.S. AS A BOXING EXPERT.
THE PECULIAR BIFF" OF
TUNNEY.
CHARACTER COMES FIRST.
Mr. Norman Clark, the boxing referee and a judge at the National Sporting Club, writes in the San- day Dispate as follows-
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1929,
Money and Markets
HONG KONG SHARES. CANTON TRADE
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MID-WEEK REPORT.
NOTES.
Trade with Wuchow is very slack "The following report on the share and shipping firms complain that Market has been received from the there is very little cargo and hard- offer of Mr. Harry O. Odell, stockiy any passengers for that part. and share broker:—
A fair amount, of business has also taken place in Unions and Indo-China (Preferred), with out- ports.
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HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS...
JULY 3, 1929,
H.K. Banks - $1,200 bar.
1242}/1,340 **
Dos London,£181† nom. Chartered Bank. ......$19 buy. Mercantile Banks, A. &B...233 nom.
Do
C...215.nom.
P9) nom.
P. & 0. Banks East Ans Banksom Canton InEDiTAROOF...
..#630 val. 1311) bay., 844 an Union Insurances North China Ins........... Tia buy.
Insurances.............. M, 130 nom. Angtase Chins Underwriters.....$2.10 sel. China Fire Insurances...$500 bay, EK Fire Ins..
Steamboats
nom.
20 bay.
$9.60
....$70 nom.
96). nom. 1999 nom.
in Kwangtung. Demand for Siam (Prof.)......$63 buy.
rice in limited."
Canton is exceedingly
Is it accident or design that has drawn Mr. Bernard Shaw and Mr. Gene Tunney to the lonely Brioni Island, off the coast of Istria, in the Adriatic, where they are lead-
A little more nativity has been in The price of Siam rice has drop ing the simple life? They arrived evidener in our market in generalped by about a independently; Mr. Shaw is stay with Cements and Trams attracting
dollar per picul in ing at the Golf Hotel while Tunney has taken the Villa Punta Nasocial attention, resulting in Hong Kong dae to the new harvest Both are to remain two months. Sinart rise in both these stocks. It seems that their simultaneous vizit to so isolated a spot (the is Jand is only 10 miles by five an hardly be the outcome of chance.
It is not generally known that Mr. Shaw has already met Tunney in England. I happened to run in to Shaw shortly after Tunney had miled at his London House." He told me of their meeting and seemed very favourably impressed by the retired champion. At the time I had just completed a series of in- terviews with G. B. S.; so thinking what he had told me of Tunney would make a valuable addition to my article. I later wrote to him asking if I might introduce it.
Protecting His Guests. Bus apparently Shaw insists on protecting his guests from any nice things he says about them. In due course there came the following letter frem G. B. S. :-
Banks-Sales have been effected at $1,210 and $1,212.50, with fire ther buyers at the latter price. Canton Insurance-Have
mained quiet at $600.
re
Hong Kong Fires.-Are being in quired for a $720, but sellers are holding out for slightly higher prices.
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Unions-Have been deal in at 800 to 8324, and at the clony can
placed at 23241
Indes (Prof.). Have been taken off the market as 8471 and 840.
Paks Mining-Have been done at $7.
Wharves Are wanted at 8124. Dyks-Arr obtainable at 834).
Lands-Have changed hands at ll and 61, with further sellers
at the latter price.
It is quite out of the question Providents.-Have come to busi- for me to give to the Press anythingness at 84. that passes between me and my private quests or to criticise them i public in any way. Besides, you have not got the hang of Tunney at all. On the evidence of the films I should say that he is an ex traordinarily difficult man to hit. Carpentier's rights looked as fatal, as ever; but as they produced ab- solutely no effect they cannot have get home.
Trams-Have risen from $15.90 to 81.20, with busintar recorded at intervening rates for Cash, $10.30 July, $10,55 August and $10.75 September.
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Indo-China Da
(Daf.)
Shall S..!!
nion
$3 nom. .83/9 noza.
IMPORTS-PRICES CURRENT.
The reports and prices are published as supplied by Importers, and the Chamber oannot accept responsibility for the accarney thereof.
Motala
Local market stronger, upward tendency, IRON AND STRIL
Nail Bods
per pical # 6.70
Stool Barı(round 3 to 17}***
Angles
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Boda
Joista.
Sheets
Plates
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Swedish Bars... Small round rods
Hoops, black steel
Tabor,
galvanized Black
galvanized
SHIPBUILDERS,
SHIP REPAIRERS,
BOILER MAKERS,
FORGE MASTERS,
OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS,
4.50-4.60
4.40
3,00
4.10
8.10
5.00
11.10
"
5.00-8.20
7.70
11.10
蝎
7 per cent.
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ENGINEERS.
Wire Nails, 114 per pics! 7.00
Galvanized corrugated sheets,""
9421
per 100-16s. 240 17.20 "Galvanized Bat sheets,
1/32′′, 1/8* ... por 100 lbs. 283 $8,30' Galvanized 1/39” x4′ x 9 p. picul $0.90 Galvanized wire 18/22 Galvanized wire 37 2 7/
(Japan made)
B.M., Spot
Tia, 14 mol. Ta
Benguets....... The value of the Canton Central Kala Mining Admin Bank of China nates has rises dur Langkats (combined)..
Do. (single)..........! ing the last few days. On Tuesday.shan. Explorations they were quoted at 37 per cent. of Shanghai Loans I
$8.90 buy, 7 be their nominal value and in Hong | Bazb......
Tronch Mines ............... Kong the $1 note, was quoted as
All buy. HE, & E. Wharf ......#194 buy.. FL.K. & W. Dooka....................... 135 som. about 63 cents.
China Providents.... $3.951
bay. Hongke, I
Ts. 169 now. The Capten cotton yarn market New Engineerings Tie.64 buy. was more active and on Tuesday,hanghai Dook..... Tls. 1871 nom. Ewo Cattons eduk Tis. 13.30 bay. ...Tis, 20 buy.. the prices went up by one to two Oriental Cottons... dollars, as there has been a big Cottons (aki)...... I'le 75 bay.
12.2716L demand from the country districts.
(now) ............. Tls. 34j bay. In Shanghai, prices have also gone HK. & S. Hotels.. $3.65 bay, 8.70 za
E.K. Landa şêl buy, 6% i. up by about one täél and a half.
Shanghai Lands
la. 147 buy. Humphreys Estates.....$18 buy. HK Realties H.K. Tramway $19 buy, 189 $11.80 pou Peak Trams (pid).*****
Do. (new).......$6.86 ACAL Star Ferries
$851 01.
$18.95 hey, Unins Ligble, Cum.
Rights.. 13.90 Er Right1985 buy
#54.85 buy., 56 un..
$164 nom. .....
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Since the New Tariff was in gugurated price of condensed milk from abroad has risen from forty cents to fifty-five cents per tin. But recently, the price has dropped by about five cents on account of the establishment in Canton of a con- densed milk factory.
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The piece goods market in Hong Kong, as in Canton, remains very inative and merchants have made little pront. In view of the New
Do Electrics-Hase been placed at Tariff, unusually large orders for foreign piece goods ware sent, and the market has been overstocked. The merchants are anxious to sell their stock even at low prices.
Furries-Have been sold from 1804] to Noi Tunney never crouches; always has his head as far back as it will go, and has a peculiar biff that stalls off every attempt to rush him. He systematically gets away and makes his opponent miss antil disappointment and exhaustion have brought him down to a condi- tion of definite inferiori
and $56. Lights (Cum Rights). – Have ‘im- proved to $13.10.
Telephone-Are on offer at 87,10.
· Comert (Courbined)-In conse. quence of persistent demands, have appreciated from $5.15 to 9.73. The Rabbit Punch. When Dempsey, after three get 18.70 and $19.50
Dairy Farnis-Have been done' at aways, had him against the repes
Watsons-A small los changed and managed to get his arins round. him for his terrible rabit punch, hands at 811.30, Tuney simply held him until the Sinceren-Are being offered at refree interposed, in spite of every $323, but here buyers at 812... arm-breaking trick that Dempsey Amusements.-Have sellers at
His confidence in himself and $291 and buyers as $0. his system amounts to something
Constructions-A fair number of like contempt for his most famous shares changed hands from 81 to adversaries: reputations cannot frighten him; personalitics carinot hypnotise him. He does not need to be a brilliant boxer like Car-
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knew..
pentier or a terror like Dempsey he wins by mental and moral su periority, combined with plenty of, strength, an inaccessible head, and that very disheartening biff that. sickened Dempsey when he rushed for an apparently certain victory after the count in the seventh round.
to $1.75.
B. Ind. Bonds-Can be obtained at €7 per cent.
"
H.K. Government Loans.-Have buyers at 7 per cent. premium.
SHANGHAI MARKET." Cotton, shares, after having re muined comparatively quiet for the better part of just week, close firmer. Ewas дре Tls. 18.30, Orientals Tia 24. Shanghai Cottons With Tunney's character Car-| (Old) Tls, 75, and Shanghai Cop pentier could have beaten Dempsey: tons (New) Tis. 35, as per latest Carpentier never looked like a baby | called advices.
in Dempsey's hands, though he was smashed in the first ter secouds, but Depses in the firet fight with Tunney after the first two rounds did look like a schoolboy larking with an instructor.
Not the Hardest Puncher.
I never said to you that Tunney was the only big man who can box. I don't know that he can box any better than you could. In an ex- hibition spar with soft gloves Car- pentier could cutshine him. He does not knock out his opponente: he wears them out.
The Exchange rates for the day
are:-
T.. on Londen 3/11-3/19. T.T, on Shanghai 394.
Next Settlement Day, Tuesday, July 30.
BRAZIL'S IMPORTS.
GROWING PACIFIC TRADE.
[United Presa.]
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According
telegrams from Foochow the trouble due to the new taxation is over. When Likin, was abolished the authorities in Foo-
The mer-
chow imposed a tax on all imported and exported goods. chants replied by refusing to do any business with other places und the strike lasted over a month. Everything has now been settled to. the satisfaction of the merchants, and during the last two days, large consignments of goods, especially sugar, have been sent to Foodiow from Hong Kong.
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buy.
bay
Do. H.K. Electrica Macao Electrios" Sandakan Lights Talephones... China Buses .....
I buy Singapore Tractions......11/- sel. China Sugars
(Pre) 19/6 buy.
90 cts. bay. Malabon Sugars ... .32% DOM. Cauton Ites 2.10 buy. Cements (combined).. $84 buy.
Do (old) ......$7) bay. Do.
(new)40 noma. HE. Ropes United. Asbestos.... $5 buy. Dairy Farm.....
18 Watsons ...... Der A Wings ........
Lane Crawfords.... Mackintosha.. Sinceres..... sinceres WIL. Powells
$13 nom 80 cta, buy. $1 Bel. 318 Day $19 bay. $3 al. HK. Amusements..... #2 nom. H.K. Constructions. nom. B'que. Izdus, G. Bonds...67% man. HK, Govt. Loans......7% prem. buy. bay,-bayers; sel-sellers; enlos
nom-cominal
SINGAPORE WILD ANIMAL DEALER SUED.
The present silk crop is more satisfactory than the previous one and the quality of cocoons superior, But the silk latures have made little profit and fear that they will sustain losses in the future because HATTER OF TWO ELEPHANTS. of the unusually low price of silk. The Canton silk market remains quiet On Tuesday, eighty bales of raw silk were sold. The prices were:-
Per Picul. .H.K.8940 1,060 010
14/18 Common 13/15..... 13/13 Best 1.
HONG KONG MARKET REPORTS.
Yesterday's quotations for rice and other foodstuffs were as follow:
Rica.
Common White- Broken, Red Seal Granulated, No. 2 Cargo Rice, Black Scal... Cargo Rice Bran .......... Round Rice, Black Seal Miscellaneous.
Per picul. 26.60-0.91
"In short, he is neither, the smartest boxer nor the hardest pun- cher of his time; but be most San Francisco, Cal-An unusual certainly is the most remarkable story of world trade between the character; and it is on character Pacific Coast of the United States that he has won.
and South America, particularly Brazil, is told in figures compiled by the General Steinship Corpora- Course granulated sugar, No. tion, which operates between here and South American porta.
"You might say that he wins be- cause he has the good sense to win. Fifty years ago he would have too inuch good sense to be in the ring
but to-day no other profession could The figures reveal that purchases Sago
have done as much for him. "
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I quite agree with all Mr. Shaw says about Tunney's character; but when be speaks of him as a boxer
I think he understimates his skill. as much as he overestimates Car pentier's.
8:13 5.63 3.92 3.35 8.57
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$6.29
Coarse granulated sugar, No.
24
7.18
6.30
28.00
23.00
96.20
7.20 8.60
21.40
of Brazil from the Pacific Coast Honey have increased from $336 in 1913 to Bear's paw
Dried Mussels 81.135,000 in 1997.
Brazil's shipments to the Pacific Soy Bean Coast are increased eight-fold, Small green bean
to Groundnut Oil $1,693,000 in $12,833,000 in 1927.
.from
1913
The High-Brow,
Market for Fruit. However, not Tunney's technical boxing skill so much as his charac In a bulletin prepared by thè ter, attracts G. E. S. Here the pair shipping concern for the Coast have much in common. Each comes shippers the poreibility of develop. of Irish stock, both are teetotallers; ing markets for California grapes and like Mr. Shaw, I believe, too, and other fruits was pointed out. that Tunney is a non-smoker. But
"This largest of South American 22 mildness" ceases. with this their Under a sensitive exterior each has nations exacte no duty on Pacific a great standard of courage. Const fresh fruits, thereby offering a unique market which has practic In the boxing world Tunney iB regarded as a high-brow and Ially no limits in its possibilities dare say something of a crank. the bulletin stated. Brazil already Tunney is really more a man of imports large quantities of apples nction than a student, and will 1- and pears from the States of Wash ways make ideas his rvants ratherington and Oregon,
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TO-DAY'S RADIO.
Judgment was delivered in Singa- pare last week by the Chief Justice (Sir William Murison) in "the suit in which Mr. A. M. Deane, a zoolo- gist, claimed damages from Mr. W. L. B. Baaapah, a dealer in wild animais, for alleged breach of con- tract by refusing (on the "ground they had not been paid for) to permit plaintiff to ship elephants, part of a consignment be had bought from defendant for Bartels and Co. of New York.
two
Because the elephants did not arrive. Bartels and. Co. refused to pay plaintiff's expenses and conf- mission, and the sum of these two items constituted
the damages claimed.
His Lordship found plaintiff had not discharged the onus, which lay upon him, of proving that he com- municated to the defendant the terms of his contract with Bartels, „which plaintiff said was really two contracts, or one contract in two parte, the frat for necessary ani- mals, and the other for "extra" It was part of plaintiff's case that by communicating to defendant the terms of that contract be made a similar one with defendant. That had not been proved.
As to plaintiff's contention, that defendant by witholding the ani- mala had committed a breach of con- tract, his Lordship accepted the evidence of the captain of the Japanese Prince as far as he could remember two elephants were not on the list of animals supplied with the prices marked against each Item, which appeared on a recipt produced by plaintiff and signed by defendant. That receipt, accord- ing to that witness, bore the condi- tion that all the animals had to be The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Govern- paid for before they would be al- meat. Broadcasting Station Z.B.Wlowed to be shipped. op 250 metres
"THE SINCERE CO" TO BE RELAYED,
1.48 p.m.-Weather report. 5.50 to 6.30 p.m. Programme of Chiness music. (Records supplied by The Sincere Co., Ltd.).
7.43 p.r. Evening weather ra.
east port.
thon his playthings He is certain A new direct service to Rio de ly in a peculiar ption. At the Janoiro, Santos and other age of 30 he finds himself with more conet points of South America, win 8 p.m.-Evening programme re- money than he wants; but unless be inaugurated this year by the tayed from The Sincere Company' I am very much mistaken be is not Westfall-Larson line. These ports Roof Garden Programmes consist the type to remain idle. One won serve. one-half of Brazil's popala of music given by well-known girl terhoilla toda tier and will be reached in 25 days- singer and the staff on Brioni will help bim to decide. schedule.
His Lordship also accepted the evidence of the defendant, whose
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LAMY GLASS3 SWILL MOTOR SPIRT
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per 2 tina 3,42
per cass 6.80
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Australian No. 1
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Java Molasses per plcul $5.55-6.03 (Beported sales 8 873 picula. Epot) Java Crystal No. 24......por pical 18.48
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(Reported sales 19,860 picule.) Java Boft White
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Mrs. Martha Sinfield, aged seventy-nine, of St. John-street, Clerkenwell, gassed herself because an old friend of here had been taken to hospital.
offer to accent the bill of lading as security and let the elephante go was not accepted by plaintiff, his Lordship thought, because plaintiff did not desire Bartels and Co, ta A friend stated at the inquest, know he had bought from de- that Mrs. Sinfield lived alone. fendant.
I often asked her," he said From a sum of 8385, balance "if she was lonely, and she would always my Bible owing to plaintiff by defendant, his reply, No, I have Tudgment-for-printi Strait Times,
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