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Sports News
CHARITY FOOTBALL.
INTERESTING GAME.
TO-MORROW,
Local fans will have excellent | opportunity of judging the class of football to be "served up" this Hanson if they journey to the Hong Kong Football Club'Ground, Happy Valley, to-morrow, when the South Chios Athletic will meet, a combined Services XI in a charity match H.E, the Governor bas kindly consented to kick-off at 4.30 p.m., and, judging by the anthusiasm displayed; n record gato is anticipated.
It is unnecessary to culogizo" thu Bouth China Tram. Their record. in the Longue and Challonge. Shield' matches is still fresh in our minds, whilst their overwhelming success in the games played during their recent tour is realised when one considers that out of a total of twenty games played-17 were won and the remaining 3 drawn, an achievement of which any team might be justly proud,
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LAWN BOWLS.
TWO SPEY ROYAL CUP
MATCHES,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1931.
HONG KONG ALL CHINESE MEET:
SOUTH CHINA'S POSITION" STRONG,
The Hong Kong All-Chinese Athletic Mast will be held at | Carolino Hill on Sunday. Entrios have now been closed, The 100 metres and 200 metres heats (men) hand 20 metres, 100 metres, and 200 metros heats (Indies) will be run to-day at 8 pm.
Both the semifoals in the Spey Royal Cup Lawn bowls competition will be decided on Sunday next.
As already announced. Club de Recreio and Craigongower will moet
It is learned that a group of on the K.C.C. ground at 3:30 p.m..
students from Lügnam University, The Kowloon C.C. have arranged Canten, will represent South China to play their tie with the Kowloon at the most on Sunday. Among the group ie Soto Kwong, who holds Dock on tho Club de Recreio China's record for hop-step-and. ground, commencing at 3.30 p.m.jump. South China's position in Kowloon C.C. will be represented truck and fold is very strong.
Among the entries for the 100 by H. Hampton, 7. Gibson, J.metres are Los Hah Clong (Hong Frasor and A. E. Silkstone (Skip).
LOCAL FOOTBALL.
ARGYLLS BEATEN BY K.F.C.
"SECONDS. 2
The Kowloon Football Club's 2nd X1. entertained the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders second Cantring in friendly game on
Wednesday on the K.FC. ground.
We can always rely upon good football from the Services. The interest which the authorities taks in this favourite sport, and the keenness with which the men enter into the game is an indication of the high standard which is ronch- ed... With the absence of most of
Kong University), Chiu Ping Hang, Cheng Siu Nam, and Lam Yuk Ying Log Hah Liong has covered the distance in 11.3/10 sece, while Chi Ping Hang, it is learned, esa, do it in 11.2/5 B3c8,
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10,000 Metres,
H. H. Ma of Hong Kong "Varsity is among the competitors in the 10,000 metres. He captured Srat. place in this event in the Inter- Varsity Meet this year. If he is in form, he should win sasily.
In the long jump the most likoly winner will be Chiu Ping Hang, whose record is 20 ft, 3 inches. K. P. Gan of Hong Kong 'Varsity "eun cover 21 feat, but he is not an entrant.
After a very fast first half, the Argylls led by two to one, Gillott scoring for Kowloon, After the riterval, Kowloon came more into His record is oft. 4 inches, but it Chiu Ping Hang again stands a the picture and delighted the learned that in practice be bas chance of winning the high jump.
spectators with some really, nice the Fleet in northers waters, the football, goals being seared by cleared 5 feet 7 inches. majority of the Sorvices team drawn from the Army, but the whilst the Highlanders registered Gillott (2), Cotton (2) and Noonan, selection is nevertheless. a very DRC. good one, and a very interesting match is promised.
The Band score was:-Kowloon,
The proceeds of the game are to: Highlanders, 3. be divided between the Kwong Tung Flood Relief Fund and the Sailors and Soldiers' home.
Teams:
Cheung Inside Eeft: Les Wai. Tong: Left Wing: Ip Pak Wa.
BASKETBALL.
HONG KONG TO COMPETE IN NATIONAL MEET.
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For the purpose of selecting a team to represent Hong Kong in the Chinese National Meet on October 10, the following basket ball matches have been arranged:
Yesterday:Y.M.C.A.
South China B."
To-day-Fukienese v, winner of
It is hoped that the generous support of the public, which has, Combined Services:--Goal: A in the past been so tinselfishly B. Savage "Soraphis," Right forthcoming, will be manifest on Baek: L/Cpl. Mullane, S.W.Bs; this occasion and thus assure suh Left Back: Pio, Henderson, A. & stantin financial assistance ter S. H; Right Half Cpl. Hay, A. wards the objects for which the& SH; Centre Half: Pte. match bas been arranged, #Eynon, 8.W.B; Loft Half: Labove).
St. Gardner, R.A; Right Wing: South Chinn Athletic:-Goal: Pte. Hughes, A. & 8. H: Inside Chung Nam.
Sept. 10:-South China "A" 2. Pau Ka Ping; Right Back: LiRight: CSM, McTavish, A. & S. Tin Song: Left Back Tam (Captain); Centre Forward Kwong Pak: Right Half Leang Pte. Louden, A. & S. H; Inside Yin Chan; Centre Half: Leung Left: "S.B.A. Rawson, R.N. Hos Wing Chin: Left Half Tong pital; Left Wing: AS. Dickinson Kwang Right Wing: Cheng Siu "Seraph" Hong; Taside Right: Chu Ewok Lun Centre Forward: Fung King (Continueit on next Golumn.).
Referee: Mr. J. W. Baldwin, ` Linesmen: Serut. G. Caswell, R.A., A.B. Godsell, R.N.
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Sept. 20-South Chini “A” #. winner of the match between Chung
Sent, 18,
am and winner of the match en
The basket ball champions at the last National Meat were the Kai Nan Univeraity, Tientsin, which represented China in the Far East- ern Olympic Games.
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SUTCLIFFE CREATES NEW RECORD.
MAJOR POORE'S FIGURES BEATEN BRADMAN
AVERAGES 98.66.
LARWOOD HEADS BOWLING AVERAGES: FREE?
BAGS MOST WICKETS,
LONDON, September 10. Herbert Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire and All-England opening bats- man by averaging 96.00 runs por match in Arst-class "cricket-this season, established a new English record. The previous record was held by Major Poore, who averaged 91.3 for Hampshire in 1600. Don Bradman, the Australian wonder bataman, returned an Average of 08.06 at the conclusion of the last Australian tour in
England.
The best batting and bowling averages for the season were:---
FINAL FIRST-CLASS CRICKET AVERAGES,
(Sussex)
BATTING, MA
Innu Runs:
H.S. NO. Avor. Sutcliffe (Yorkshire),,42 3,000 230 Nawab of Pataudi (Oxford).
15 90.00 05 1,484 239** D. R. Jardine (Surrey)
69.23 30 1,101 -106*.
13 Rev. J. H. Parsons (Warwick)
04.04 1,202 100
00.10 Headron (Middlesex)
2,548 932 Hobbs (Surrey)
66.63 49 2,418 -153
56.13 K. S, Duleepsin
53 2,080 109
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BOWLING,
M R. W. Aver. 431 1442 1,553
120 12.03 1,137
2,542 188 13.52 1,320 396 3.125 $10 14,90 "550 170 1,111 78 14,61 3,253
398 2,170
141 10.43 599 144 117 72 15.51 1,618 360 4,307 270 15.60
denotes not out.
Larwood (Natts) Verity (Yorkshire). Parker (Gloucester).
8. Marriott (Kent) Tato (Sussex)... Townsend (Derby) Frenman (Kent)
CENTURY FOR JARDINE,
BROWN BOWLS WELL AT:
THE OVAL
(THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 16.
The match between Yorkshire, the Champion County, and the Rest of England at the Oval ended in a
EXHIBITION TENNIS.
'RUMJAHN AND HAZELL TO
PLAY IN CANTON..
TOPFLITE."]
Tennis enthusiasts in the Colony will be interested to learn that Mr.
draw. Batting honours went to D. R. Jardine who made 104 while Leyland bad ea not out and F. R. Brown captured 5 wickets for 44
runs.
The scores were:- The Rest: 194 (Bowes 4 for 16); 200 for 9 dec. (D. R. Jardine 104). Yorkshire: 200 (Leyland 06", F. R. Brown 5 for 44); 55 for one wicket,
HOME FOOTBALL.
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH LEAGUE RESULTS.
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(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Sept. 10.
football matches played to-day:
The following were the results of
D. H. Hazell, the Eastern Director of Messrs. William Sykes, Ltd, the well-known English sports manufae. turers of London, and Mr. C. A. Derby
Rurojahn have been invited to Liverpool
Fortsmouth go to Canton to play a series of Sunderland
Division I.
3 Everton
0:
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7 Middlesbro'
0 Arsenal
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2 Birmingham
Division IL
3
Bradford 3 Charlton Manchester U. 1 Stoke Notts Forest Plymouth
exhibition tennis matches to-mor- row and Sunday. Some very good tennia is anticipated as "Canton have emerged victorious in the singics in the last two encounters when Mesars, B. A. and H. D. Rum- Jahn, played in Canton, though the Colony Champions won the double event both times, D. II. Hazell and Bristol R. C. A. L. lumjahn make a very Crystal P. strong doubles pair. I saw them Exeter in a friendly game against the Swindon Rumjahn cousing as well as the ArstTorquay interport pair and on both ocea Watford. sion they wore, victorious. It seems
a pity they are not going to Shang-
Division
2 Preston
Bristol C.
III (Southern).
2 Clapton O. 2 Brighton
0 Northampton
1 Queen's P.R..
2 Fulham
4. Mansfield
Division
III. (North)..
'. | ħajto represent Hong Kong in the
Interport at the end of the month, Chester as with two players of their stan- Darlington dard in the team, Hong Kong York
would stand, a better 'chance,
The Governor of Canton and
414.
2 Hartlepools 2 Hull 3 Gateshead
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Scottish League,
Admiral Chan Chak huve kindly
consented to act as Patrons of the Motherwell
exhibition games over the week-end Partick
Third Lanark 0
3 Dundee
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and the proceóds the games for
both days are to be sent to Nanking
in aid of the Flood Relief Fund,
C. A. L. Rumjaha will play Leung,
A. Cassumbhoy who is going to
Canton as a second doubles partner
The programme is:-To-marrow STATE LOTTERY IN EGYPT.
followed by D. H. Hazell and J.
£1,000,000 PROPOSAL, ·
Alexandria. The Egyptian u
to Hazell. In the afternoon Hazell thorities are considering a proposal
and Rumjaha play G. Bodiker and
weepstakes or the Madrid lottery.
Leung. The next day Rumjohn to organise a gigantic State-coa-: will play, a singles against G. trolled lottery similar to the Irish Bodiker and Hazell and Cassumo- hoy Leung and Chan in the morning. In the afternoon Hazell and Rumjahn will play a return fivo set match against Bodiker and Teung.
It is interesting to note-that W.
The object is to provide funds for the construction of a new hospital and School of Medicine at Kasr el- Ainy King Fund laid the founda
A. H. Doff who partnered Hazel!tion-stone of the institution in 1928,
at Wimbledon has been chosca' as Shanghai's No. 2 singles man for the forthcoming interport.
CANTON FOOTBALL.
POLICE BEAT BRITISH SAILORS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
on the occasion of the International Tropical Medicine Congress: The Egyptian Government, however, And it impossible in present condi- tions to provide the necessary meney, viz., £1,000,000, except on a scale that would mean at least eight years for completion.
The hospital and school are part of the Faculty of Medicine of the State University and are urgently CANTON, Sept. 17. needed to meet the growing require British sailors from Shamcen ments both of the population of again went down to the Canton Police in an exciting football match Cairo and of medical education. I yesterday afternoon which was play. | understand the University. Council ed on the Taj Foal Chi football favours the proposal for a lottery held on Was Book Bond, Eset-The-
Inat score being 6-0 in favour as the solo solution of the present the Chinese Over 2,000 people, anpasse, and that the Government, mostly students, watched the game,, is sympathetic to the scheme,
FASCINATION OF SNAKES.
BASELESS POPULAR
BELIEF.
ETERNAL YOUTH RAYS.
SAVANT'S CLAIM FOR RADIUM.
Scarcely a day, passes when I" DEAD * SEEDS MADE ALIVE. do not everhear parents and toa chers in the Zoo roptile house 20, form.
their charges that mankos fascinate their pray by the power of
Paris. In a paper recently tend al Congress of Radiologists in to the members of the Internation.. Paris, Professor Stoklasa, o
the cy, and this despite all the Czechoslovakia, holds out the pros efforts at popularising naturar-that his researches have just shown pect of eternal youth. Ho explaini ay" opposed to unnatural history that the Alphin, Beta, And Gam writes E. G. Boulonger, a well-ma Rays of radium are capable, if... known London naturalist. Truth properly used, of preventing pow may be stranger than fiction, but pla from growing old. it is often far less popular.
Old age-according to his theory Those who believe in the hypno- simply a state in which the tio power of sankes, should visit tissues of the body have became cortain Continental Zoos, where deoxidised, and the state of com these reptiles are fed on live plote deoxidisation is death. But animala in public. They will soo the Alpha Rays are capable of there, as I have, three or four arresting this process, while the sparrows hopping round a rattles Beta and Gamma Rays, by re nas capable of killing most of the oxidising the coll, tissues, give human, onlookers or a mouse sit them now life" ting upon a snake's back upon which it feeds, dozes, or perterras. a leisurely toilet, p
The writer was an eye-witness of an episode which illustrates this indifference on the part of "the quarry" popularly supposed to be fascinated or hypnotised by terrur Theory and Practice, as soon as confronted wine snake. A pat serpent, known by markable results in experiments The professor has obtainci ret the sweinspiring title of the Afri" with plants, having caused "dond"*" can Infernal Snake, which was
would appear to be no reason why Theoretically, therefore, there
petually renewed. The human worn cut tiesure should not be per body would thus bocomo practic ally indestructible
owned by a well-known naturalist,ds to germinate under the in- was kept some years ago in a ram French soientists, consulted on this fluence of the rays Certani. in the Natural History Museum,
where on a certain autumn day promise of everlasting youth, have sanks was not hungry and lived in looks so well as a theory can over it was given a white rat. The pressed doubt whether what harmony with the rodent until become a matter of practice. winter came, when, prompted by instinct, it dug for itself anus burrow, in which it proposed to forget all winter illa-not the least of which stable companion.
its high-spirited
Wha
Not for long, however, was the snake left in poner, for the rat showed the ingenuity of its species in appropriating the ready-made nest. He hauled the snake out of his newly constructed home, taking over the cosy burrow na his duo. The wretched snake, faced with a winter in the open, dug a fresh hole and once more settled himself in, but the rat, apparently decid- ing that the reptile's. last effort was better than its first, plumbed": for the better hole" and again evicted the rightful owner
How long the might have gone an I cannot say, but spring awak ened the snake's appetite, and without wasting time on fascing tion it engulfed the autocrație rat.
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In the olden days in the Zoo 1 have seen ducks worrying the coile
of a huge python till they had
frankly declares his opinion that humanity is much better off with- One of them-Dr. Vachet
prolongation of life. To enable out any prospect of such artificial men to live to an average age of
most of them would be quite ready 100 may be an excellent thing. but he believes that by the time to take the long rost that Natura has ordained, and to make way for the rising veneration.
Alpha, Bota, and Gamma. Rays are the spontaneous emanation of any of the radioactive elo- monts, the best known which is radium. Alpha and Beta Bays
Are
streams of material particles given off at high velocities by. the spontaneous disintefration. of radioactive elemente." Gamma Rays are other waves resulting from the emanation of Aipho y and": [ "Bots" "Rays. / Gamma Raya bave exendingly short wavelengths shorter even than those of X-Rays.
forced them into a nest-like forma less or otherwise, are held. The tion meeting with the birds apsinuous wanderings ocmmon to att proval. So far as is known, only species are also doubtless prejudt- one kind of anako omploys any vious, since many other related kind of "fascination," and this is orantures, such as worms and eels, nct achieved by the age. A tropihaving similar movements share eal tree snake possesses & Janco- the snake's unpopularity shaped head of striking colouru. tion. The long forked tongue "fascination may be mentioned" One curious instance of possible similarly patterned, and being in connection with a numerous. thrust in and out creates tha illa tribe of small and degeneratorT- sion of a head that is telescoping penta known as burrowing or in a truly night-mare fashiën," The inquisitive lizard, faced with this thick and rounded, and the eyes worm anukes. In these the tail is phenomenon, gazes at it in perara so hidden by the head shio.da plexity, as well: ho may, and by the that the two extremities are al- time his interests are fully arous ed the snake is within striking many ignorant persons have re- mést indistinguishable, so that distanco-hnd the curtain falia.
It is quite likely that the snake's This belief no doubt originated warded them as being two-headed. unwinking stare, due to its lack from their habit when pursued of of ayelids, has much to answer for harrowing their heads beneath the As regards the almost universal absand, but leaving the tail exposed horrence in which all snakes, harm and cocked in a threatening at
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