MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.
·CHINA'S EXPORTS TO AMERICA.
THE SENATORS IMPROVE THEIR POSITION.
A GREAT VICTORY FOR THE CURS.
VALUES OF COMMODITIES FOR THE YEAR 1930.
Figures have been compiled at the American Consulate General in Shanghai showing the declared
returns at all American Consular offices in China of imports to the United States. The following su
ary of the table gives the values of the different classes for 1930:--
New York, May 4.~By defeating the New York Yankees by 7 to at the Stadium hero this afternoon, the Washington Senators climbed up inte scound place in the Ameri- enn League, while the Cleveland Tudians held on to first place, al-Group 01-Ani- though they were vanquished 3 to 1 by the Browns at St. Louis.
On their own home grounds in Detroit, the Tigers went on a ram- page to whin the Chicago White Box by 9 to 3 and at Shie Park' in Philadelphia the Red punished the Athletics by 7 to 5.
mals and ani- min products cible
Group 02-Ani
mala and ani-“ mal products,
1920
1030
U.S.8 11.5.8
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1931.
GOLD RUSH IN BRAZIL.
BIG STRIKES" AT ONCE
FAMOUS. MINES?
Rio de Janeiro.-A gold fever has gripped Brazil, and the excitement can be likened only to the days of 49 in California and the early days of the Klondike.
Repeated reports that new big goki etrikes have been made in the State of Minas Geraes have caused
rush to the mining camps.
The picturesque scenes of earlier gold rushes are Incking," for 'now-&- 7,300,283 4,458,74 dnya prospectors travel-by train
inedible 32,917,403 13,516,377
Group 1-Vege Sox
Playing at Boston, the Braves need out the Phillies by 4 to 3, while Jawn McGraw took his New York Gianta to Ebbetta Field in Brooklyn to defent the Dodgers y 6 to 3. In Chiengo, the Cuba went on an old-time slugfest to trounce the Cincinnati Reds by, 13 to 1..
No other games were played in the National League for to-day.
Bill Terry of the Giants was one of the thief factors in New York's. win over Brooklyn. He went to bat four times. The first time he crnek oat a threysackey, the second time he doubled, and the next time Th b was given a base, on balls. all, Terry scored, three runs.
iable food giro. duels and be-
and motor-car, and scientifle organi, sation by practical mining seientists replaces the rough and ready ninthods of the "old-timers."
Little towns which were once famous as mining camps, but have
verages 0.007,782 4,301,435 for 100 years or more been engaged, Groups -Vege..
table products, inedibilo except fibres and wood
13,521.183 14,702,004
Group 3-Tex-
tiles... 31,785,192 24,407,170 Group 4-Wood
and paper ... Group -Non-
Metallic Miner-
791,009
106,866
972,586
als
in farming rather than mining what was believed to be "worked out?" country, are taking on a new-lease of life."
Gold Dusi la Their Hair. The district in which the strike has been made has as its centrca Morro Velho. Ouro Preto, and 642,500 Pessagem, all famous in mining his tory. Gold, was found at Ouro Preto in 1893, and the town became the richest in Brazil.
5,109,001 3,546,753
241
Scars of vast mining and pro- specting operations are to be seen 341 here
Group 6-Metals and manufac Lures, except machinery and vehicles.....
Ma Group
chinery and vehicles. Group Yo
Chemicals and related фто- drels: 7,198,511 1,080,102
052,565 cvllaneous .....
dag. He tripled, singlod and scornap 1-Mis-
Mel
Out, also of the Gauls, had a good
"ed once.
Babe Ruth played agnin to-dny for the second time since his recent
If injury and out two singles. stored once.
Grand
Pat Malone gave, a brilliant pitch- ing performance for the Cubs. He fanned five of the Reds and fuss to help to win his own ball game he singled twice and scored twa runs. Matone held the Reds to six The Iteda scored scattered hita. only one run. They played a sloppy game, while tho Cubs werd Hack Wilson " -hit-spree.
for pounded out a home run Chiengo, as did Bell
.OF
Rothrock and Pickering ench hit a home run for the Red Sox and Whitney did it again for the Phii- lies.
Following are the sores:
NATIONAL LEAGUE,
Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
Brooklyn
- Philadelphia
Boston
: Detroit
Chicago
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Cleveland
St. Louis Boston
Philadelphia
828,337
Total 1.8.8123,027,920 95,417,140 Shanghai's Exports this Year. Through the courtesy of Mr. Edvin S. Comingham, American
the Consul General.
following pures giving the value of exports from Shanghai to the United Stater for the quarter ending. March 21 of this year are published:-
First First Quarter Quarter
1931 1930 U.S.8 17.5.$
Group 01-Ani-
From Ouro Preto can be seen a grent vista of pits, shafts and tunnels from which gold was ex- tracted more than 100 years ago. This gold enabled the most beauti- ful enthedrals in all Brazil to be | built, and great palaces to be erect
ed alongside the river, from whose bed came gold in dazzling quan-
tity,
Stories are told of how negro miners would go into the cathe drals, kneel on the carpet before the altar, and shake a shower of pure gold from their kinky hair. This gold was collected later. The cathedrals bad golden altars, and during one Corpus Christi proces- sian the horses taking part were 31,273 shod with solid gold.
hair 2,151,380 1,225,637 the former "gold kinga
table products,
inedible except
mals and ani-
mal products,
edible
247,507
Group 02-Ani-
mals and ani-
R. H.
E
mal products.
inedible, CX-
.0
1
13
1s
1
cept woul and
12
.0
1
2 Group 1-Vege-
table food pro-
3
3
3
duela and be
verages
105,5
07,336
Group 2--Vege-
R. H.
E.
3
1
ባ
fibres and
1
D
wood
3
5
1
Group 3-Tex-
7
15
tiles
10
Group 4-Wood
Washington
?
1
and paper......
103,492 243,360 .9,836,000 5,565,033.
8,052 7,171
New York
R
Group 5-Non-
NATIONAL LEADER.
metallic
nineralu......
52,653
39,328
Won Lost
Fot.
Group 6-Metala
St. Louis
11
3
.785
and manufao-
New York
11
5
.097
tures, except
Chicago
9
6
.000
machinery and
Bostan
10
.599
Pittsburg
9
.500
Group 7-Ma-
vehicles.
118,012
42,394
Philadelphia
9
400
chinery and
Brooklyn
3
12
294
Vehicles
niz
Cincinnati
14
.195
Group Fre
AMERICAN LEAGUE,
Chemicals and
Won Lost
Pct.
Related pro-
ducts
.Cleveland
11
,646
Group 9-MiB
Washington
10
B
,635
New York
9
8
.629
Philadelphin
*
M
500
Grand
:'
Chicago
8
8
,500
- Detroit
វា
0
500
Boston
C
D
,400
St. Louis
B
10
333
The
NOTE ISSUES.
OFFFICIAL MONTHLY
RETURNS.
returns of the
average amount of banknotes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hong Kong, during the month endod April 30, 1031, as cortified by the Managers of the prespective Banks. is as follow:--
Average Spacie Banka -Amount. In ReseTVO, Chartered
Bank of In-
dia, Austra-
lin
and
Hong
Kong'
cellaneous ......
18,034
50,173
091
17
Cripple Creek Hopes. Only the cathedrals remain to tell of past glories. The palaces of
are it ruins; the gold dinner services from which they ate are gone.
Now these old places are taking on a new life, and the mining lever is breaking out afresh as proof is forthcoming that gold has heen ̧re- discovered. It is hoped that their atory will repent that of Cripple Creek, Colorado, which revived Infter experts said it had been
"worked out."
FIRMER PRICES FOR RUBBER.
SPOT AND FORWARD HIGHER
IN NEW YORK.
STABILISATION TO BE OR NOT TO BE.
Our Artist suggests that the game be played under catch as catch can
Rules on a ground marked out.
6" 7" 8" 9" 10" 1
as above,
忄
51-
1/3 1/6 4/9 2/-2/3 2/6
ما
give
II
them a chance to keep the $ doum the
ground should.
be Raid
out.
seeing that the broken those in favour
are vastly outnumbered in order
would have
where
this
might
happen
and
May
Visions of looking
Somewhere on the Peak
when there
against will
still
like this look like this
but whatever the
Eresult we wonder
how the & will look after the match
or possibly
this
in the future
13 2
like this
this
2/16
or this
A Football Match has been arranged between the Hong Kong Retailers and the Brokers to decide finally for or
THE MOZART CONCERT.
THIS EVENING AT THE HELENA-
MAY INSTITUTE.
This evening the Mozart Com. memoration Concert will take place" in the Helena May Institute at 0.15 p.m. It is being held so that? Hong Kong may take its" part in the world-wide celebrations which mark the 175th anniversary of the, New York, May 4. Opening a birt of this wonderful composer. 6,533 new week's trading on the New
Mozart only lived thirty-five yeaTS York rubber market to-day prices 7,493 were firmer. At the close the May and yet he composed a prodigious
position was quoted at 6.09, up
of music of all kinds, from Saturday's close at 5.00 The futures prices were correspondingly opera, orchestra works, chamber higher. Trading was only moder music, piano and organ composi atly active with the contract turn- tione, violin sonatan, master and over for standard No. 1 rubber
amount
against Stabilisation,
ITALIAN ORGAN- GRINDERS.
DISAPPEARANCE FROM LONDON EXPLAINED.
"DISCOURAGED" BY MUSSOLINI.
Mussolini has, to all intents and purposes, beca responsible for the recent disappearance of the Italian organ-grinders from England.
For generations their picturesque appearance, and their, red-coated monkeys which danced attendance
were familiar sights to Londoners.
the first quarter of 1931 was US, totalling 38 lots as against four sacred music. It is naturally im-But some little time ago Mussolini
Total U.S.813,107,22 7,299,631 The value of goods exported from Shanghai to the Philippines during 8427,030 46 against a value of U.S. 8603,155 in the corresponding period of 1930, while for, the 1931 quarter the value of Shanghai's exporta te Hawaii waa U.S.820,395 minut U.S.819,241 in the 1930 quarter.
Total 8156,705,832 8121,850,000 In addition Sterling Securities are deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £1,351,000.
In addition Securities deposit od with the Crown Agents and Straits Governinent valued at. £2,032,618
In addition Securities deposit- ed with the Crown Agents valued at £180,000.
The following statement of the
China ......$27,630,815 & 8,300,000* securitics. lodged with the Crown
and Shang-
hai Banking
Corpora
tion 136,218,251 112,000,000+ Mezatile.
Bank of In-
dia, Ltd... 3,661,303, 1,350,000§. (Continued at foot of nezt column.)
Agents by the Mercantile Bank of Indin, Limited, against their notes in circulation, is published for general information--
Amount Latest
market price.
lots on Saturday. Following are the closing futurea price quotations for standard number one rubber:
Month
May 2
May 4 0.00
May June
5.00
5.05
0.23
July.
0.00
0.10
Aug.
0.06
0.20
Sept.
6.13
0.26
Oct.
8.21
0.34
Nov,
0.31
4.43
Dec.
6.39
0.52
Jap..
6.40
0.02
Feb.
6 57
4.70
Mar. Apr.
8.64
0.78
8.74
6.87
HOCKEY.
R.S.C., MACAO,
In their match with the Macao Hockey Team ni Macho yesterday, the Radio Sports Club won by 4 goals to 2.
The play was fast and exciting throughout Macan lead by 2-1 in the first half but the R.S.0, equal ised and scored two more in a fast in 1033/35 £180,000 1021-102 and thrilling second half.
Security
5 per cunt. The
sury Bonds pay- @ 100 .:.able
possible, in a small community like expressed his opinion that the this is, to give & representative Italian hurdy-gurdy man did not aelection of his works of all kinds, refect credit on his native country;. and the most ambitious composi-
and the emigration laws were tight- tions to which we can aspire areened with a view to discouraging chamber works such as those in-
Italians from coming to England on the off-chance of earning a living with a barrel-organi
cluded in to-night's programine. It is so rarely that we hear chamber music in Hong Kong that the per-
Evidently this "discouragement " Piano Trio and a formance of String Quartet on one prograzame has been effective; for inquiries is rather an outstanding event disclosed the fact that only thre The instrumentalists are Meters, 1.
Harry Ore, F. Gonzales, L. Szente, jer four genuine Italian organ II. Evelie and J. M. Rozacio, and grinders are left in England. All Mr. Harry Ore will give in addition the rest have died of old age, or a pianoforte sonata. Arins will be Hung by Mrs Sanger and ra, have returned to their native land, Bowes-Smith and the programise taking their monkeys with them. will be opened by a few introduc- tory remarks about Mozart, by Mr. Bowes-Smith.
The price of admission is $1 and already almost three-quarters of the tickets have been sold, so that it is hoped there will be a fall house for the concert. The German com minily there have been giving pecially enthusiastic support to this
Commemoration.
The barrel-organ trade, however, still prospers" in certain parts of London; and when I called at Pro- fessor Luigi Pesaresi's organ factory in Camden Town, I found evidence of a thriving business, The, bar. rel-organ has changed during the last forty years," Mr. Spinelli, & partarr in the business, told me. "The instruments are much softer than they used to be. Nowadays
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the demand for modern tunes is in- creasing, but the old favourites still have their appeat"
Surprise for the Soviet.
going out of fashion in England; Mr. Spinelli told me; but there is still a considerable demand for it in our countries. Recently the little factory in. Carden Town ro- In his spare time Mr, Spinelli has coived an order for six instruments No to be sent to Soviet Russia perfected a new model, called the
Synphonin Piano," which has the indication was given either of the usual adjuncts of a barrel-organ and audience for which they were in- also two complete peals of bells, tended or of the type of music Another model is equipped with &required; but the young. Italian tremolo,, a "mandolin-piano," and whose duty it, was to choose the Jazz set, all of which can play tance possessed a grim -zons of Aggressively Imperialist melodics simultaneously.
The barrel organ-ot to give it its humour, and selected a mixture of proper name, the piano organ-is and hymn tunes.