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Wimbledon's Idol: Mrs. Moody v. Miss Round: Terrific Duel: Crawford's Victory: Yorkshire Beat West Indies" »
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WIMBLEDON'S LOYALTIES
LONDON, July 11. The Wimbledon crowd must be one of the loyalest of sport gather ings to old friends, but nobody, touches their hearts quite like
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When he came on to the court yesterday for his doubles match the roar of applause would not have displeased Miss Round herself and it broke out again a moment later when the famous little black beret was donned.
Throughout the gruelling five-se encounter, although the opposition to the French pair was provided by an Empire team in Kirby and Farquharson, t. was' manifest that it was Borstra and Brugnun whom the crowd wanted to seg victorious. As they made up the leeway against them the cheering had n delighted note in "it."
HOW MRS. MOODY WON?
MOODY An analysis of the great match at Wimbledon, un Saturday, in which Mrs. Moody beat Miss Round in the singles championship, shows what a close" light the loser made. Mrs. Moody won 18 games to the
Miis. Lenglan's best year was 1995, when she sacrificed only five games in five rounds-one game a round. Here are the games lost by Mrs. Moody:
Year. Games, Year. Gaines
1921
27
1930
1927 193 ∙1929.
89
1032
18
1933.
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19
13 33
In her seven years Mrs. "Moody has lost four sets, whereas Mile. Lenglen lost only two sets.
TERRIFIC TENNIS DUEL
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1933
liminary knock-up, called across to Crawford, Ready to start, Lack !" and felt this, however sters. the | fight, here were two old friends en-
gaged...
one
Repeatedly there pomo ***Shot, Jack!" from Vines, or a cheery nod and laugh from Crawford 48 or the other was left standing by Often some breath-taking drive. when Vines returned a faulty first service in arror he called, "Sorry, Jack," Several times Vines was foot-daut ed. At the end of one game hè dia: cussed the penalty with the lines. man, and on reosiving an explana-
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tion, he shook his head vehemently, [[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ** HONG KONG whether in disagreement with the official or in self-reproof was not evident.
cheer..
me.
ADVANCES IN CANCER
RESEARCH
ON MICE
NEW SERUM TRIED
LONDON HOSPITAL EXPERIMENT
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LONDON, July 11.
Even the cheer which greeted favour and Vines serving. We all past two years the Association based into mice. Last year he was brought that it has now become pos |
scent the crisis. Is the "
PUBLIC AUCTION.
HE Undersigned have received
Instructions from
THE BOLDER or BILL or SALE
TO BELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
ON
TUESDAY, AUG. 1, 1933 Ár 12 O'CLOCK NOON AT THE BALES ROOM, "DUDDELL STREET
For Inspection Orders Apply to
Two sets "all Again and again SIB, With reference to your re-
lines, it has been discovered that the umpire intoned through his pert of the Hong Kong Football consider the most promising line growth and energy upon its power A fresh advance along what many the cancer cell depends for ita microphone, "Quiet, please, quiet! Association Council Meeting of cancer research is reported in of absorbing oxygen and its ability The Stock-in-Trade, and Mam but with the best will in the world should like to point out where in the tenth annual report of the Bri. to break down sugar into lactic chinery of The Nam King to obey we continued to groan and certain directions the report mistish Empire Cancer Campaign,
acid. If either of these processes represented the actual position of
Sufferers are now, being treated could be checked it would, midi Knitting Co. Ltd., of No. 207, the Association as put forward by with an anti-canoer serum discover- festly be of the highest curative Tong Mel Road, Kowloos Moments of Orisis.
et by Dr. Thomas Lumsden, of the importanos, Actually, the Association lapot London Hospital. Crawford is taking sips from an
Prof. Mellanby, of Sheffield, bas at present in any financial dif
It will be remembered that two demonstrated in the present report
Tong. intriguing-looking glass of brown Buid. Vines seems fresh and full culties. It has as present a clear years ago Dr. Lumsdes obtained, that its power to absorb oxygen is
cash balance of approximately after many failures, an anti-cancer the more vital to the mammalian the Undersigned. of fight.
Suddenly it is 4-3 in Crawford's $3,600. It is true that during the serum that could be safely inject cancer cell of the two lin Miss Round's win on Thursday was all" still functioning? As Craw-answers
losses approximately able to report that he had cured sible to obtain exact measurements TERMS:—AS OCSTOMAS). shown cannon. eclipsed by the great yell of jobs ford gathers in the points of this
75 per cent. of forty-seven mice of the rate of growth of living that proclaimed Cmford as the
My statements were made to the suffering from natural cancer, and tissues. Empire's retriever of a title for sabreathe. Oh! shouts Vines, in
crucial game
new Council for the current season had also rendered them immane,· we hardly dare
timely
Application of Tar, warning from induced cancer, hands. mang years in Franco-American generous congratulation, as Craw-
In the second line of approach, Anancial that
matters would This year he has at last left him. it has been known for many years to require ford passes him at the net. Love sidered by Council to avoid serum bo human cases. A group various animals or a condition
carefully conelf in a position to apply this that cancer can bledon," an expert said, and cer
The best final ever seen at Wim-40.
be produced i tainly the crowd seemed nuan- the title has returned to the Empire slipping into dificulties financial offered themselves--are already un- by the methodical application of one of the most at se do cheat Next moment it has happened any chance of the Association of sufferers-having volántarily created in which cancer develops the Campaigu had, he said, become mous on the point. Everyone leap everyone
ly. I pointed out that apart der treatment. is going cheerfully from the normal expenses during
tar. Coal tar, soot and allied sub- research within the Empire, and ed to their feet and shouted. Femad: Vines is ambracing his op the coming football season, the As
Inoperable Cases. ple pounded total strangers on the ponent and walking off the court sociation would be called upon to state of our knowledge, have bad sponsible element, however, has whole-hearted co-operation.
stances have also been associated, was an excellent example of what The cases selected, in the present with occupational cancer. The re- could be done in a good cause by back, From various parts of the arm-in-arm with him. stands came piercingly triumphant
end an Intärport- tam up to to be such that they were deemed not been known. calls of "Coño-eree 177
Shanghai, which would probably inoperable by surgical measures or mean additional expense of 84,000 the application of radium. They sult of a research by Mr. L. Hieger, Council, wrote: "Many of the pla- It would now appear, as the reelected a member of the Grand The Prime Minister, who was
It has to be remembered, too, as a Benspiele, of Fhich de er limes have yiblded, one by one, wers obviously, therefore, the leash of the Cancer Hospital, Fulham- gues which used to take terrible toll promising. that everything is still to learn in eventually obtained seven grains to the advance of medical know road, that this is a substance known, of the peoples of the world in form-
It was the release of a tension that had continued for two hours and through five sets packed with drama and superb play. As the
observed, If this doesn't end
von
People cast discretion side when the end eamb they scrambled over it looked as if there was to be an seats and tushions, and at one time invasion of the sacred Centre Cotist. Several women fainted in
the great crush to get out to see
rooms.
more as
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be
derived mainly from gate receipts to $5,000.
The income of the Amociation is from certain games, By, setimas
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LAMMERT BROS,
AUCTIONEER?
15 of Miss Round blit she wast set began, an American near me, the conqueror, and the conquered ing expenses of the coming year respect of dowage and the best ine- from two tons of coal tar pitch ledge and to improvements in pub made their way to their dressing as shown on the annual accounts, den is, therefore, very wisely re- the hydrocarbon synthetised inde risen in some sort to take their on the basis of last year's figures thods of application. Dr. Lums- It bears a marked resemblance to lic hygiene. Cancer, however, bas When I went to offer the winner recently submitted, and allowing ticent. Nevertheless, he is, able to pendently a year or two ago by place, and seems to be verily a my congratulations. I found him for the additional Interport expen: way that the results up to now are Dr. Cook of the same hospital. perspiring and modest in the mid-I pointed out that approxi considered to justify further and These substances are two of the üle of a throng of people trying to quire to be realised in gross rate lines of research he has so patient corproducing agents yet known mately 815,000 to $16,000 would re-intensive investigation along the most constant and powerful can shake his hand..
was to be avoided. receipts it a deficit for the yearly been developing.
The possibilities of their detection in human tissues, diet and articles the discovery may well prove to be of use are now being explored; and of very great practical importance.
Whereas Miss Round's winning only 20 more strokes than the loser. strokes in the second and third shall have heart failure?" All sets were considerably more than spectators felt much the same way. the champion's (3) to 10 in the We all knew about Vines's" can- second-set, and 18 to 11 is the non-ball service. We all groaned third; she made nearly twice as as it threatened at first to blast many errors ("news" and "outs") Crawford off the court as it did as Mrs. Moody in those sets.. Austin last year, and we all" ap- Miss Round lost four service the first set went California-wards plauded a trifle resignedly when cames and held 12. Mrs. Moodynt d--4. fost three and held 14. Miss Round
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games, but Mrs. Moodly secured 4-3 on her "service. There were 14 deuce games- three in the first, seven in the second, and four in the third set, There were four love games, all won by Mrs. Moody.
A Transformation.
But what was this The can- nonball was being subjugated. Slowly but surely we saw that- awful missile being tamed through a twenty game second set. How we ngonised? Crawford looks to bel During the seven times Mrs. I am afraid Crawford looks rather tiring No, Vines is "No, Moody has entered for the singles done. championship at Wimbledon she has lost altogether. 105 games.. When the second set was Aus Mlle. Lenglen, in her eight years, tralia's at 1-0 we gave our vocal of competition, lost 101 games, but chords a dress rehearsal for the in two of those years-in 1920 and 1921-Suzanne," an holder, did. at play through-she had only
one mateb.
grand finale." --
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The match was being played in a splendidly sporting spirit. From the time that Vines, after the pre
FOUNTAIN
"It just happened to be my day," he told me, with a sby smile. "The game hung in the balance right to the end, and then it tip- ped my way. It might easily have gore to Vines, but I was lucky, that's all."
The report contains ample evi. quoted certain figures, and at the our knowledge that have been made, To substantiate that statement, I denes of the considerable trides in same time quoted the derived from gate receipts during fully realised, of course, that can- amounts during the fast decade. It is now the last season.
cer is one of the most difficult pro- On the experience of several blems with which medical research years and particularly judging has ever been confronted. YORKSHIRE BEAT WEST from Fast Fear, I put forward a from Dr. Lumsden's researches, the Apärt INDIES
suggestion that if possible, the approach to it may be said to have more important games, wuch as theorystallised into two main channels Yorkshire beat the West Indies Basis of the compétitions should of inquiry: runs. The match by at Harrogate yesterday by 200 be staged earlier in the so- 1. The structure of the cancer means son, as interest anfong, the Chinese call, its methods of reproduction, showed the West Indies at their football fans appears to wane to and its nutritional characteristics; best. Their fielding although keen wards the end of the sesson and and occasionally indpiring, was The Council were in complete 2. The nature of the action of faulty to a degree, and their bats agreement with my suggestions and certain substances which are known men showed themselves sadly in- it was decided to instruct the Lea to produce cancer, competent against Verity on a pitch gue Management Committee to con Turning to the first of thes which was helping him to turn the sider this matter carefully, and with my spalatanes, go into the question of arranging suitable dates for these important games no thất the maximum gates might be rea sonably expected.
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DRINKS
THAN EVER
SODA
BETTER
I trust the above will explain the actual position. Yours faith. tully.
W. L. ALEXANDER.
U.S. BASEBALL
GIANTS BEAT BROOKLYN
NEW YORK, July 27. ST. Louis are reorganising thei major league baseball clubs Yesterday Roger Hornsby a signed
manager of the Browns in place of Bill Kellifer who was deposed last week. This follows Frank Frisch's appoint, ment to the managership of the Cardinale in favour of Lew 'Gaby. Results a cabled by Beuter: Walionhĩ Keague.
Brooklyn
R. H.
Hutcheson kit a homer.,
Davis, Vergez and Melvin Ott
his hometi.VITA
Brooklyn
Hutchssón bit, a homer.
New York
Circlinatti Bl. Louis
EMPIRE FLAG DAY
plague of civilisation itself." problem of cancer was the greatest Sir William Willcox said thé and most difficult medical science was confronted with at the present achieved in the cause, prevention, time. But just as success had been ad cure of such world-wide disea ses s tuberculosis, malaria and dysentery, so It was certain that the cancer problem would be solved - Drake of York's Proposal.
I in, a like, nast. Because it was the British Empire, Cancer Cam every branch of scientific endeavour, The Duke of York, president of ed many sided Embracing almost paign, presiding, at the annual there had been, and would be, de meeting, yesterday at the House lag before complete success was at of Lords, suggested that so the campaign had become Empire-wide, The number of cases treated by
tained.
so on Empire Day a collection radium in the past year had been pire to aid the work both at home and the cures effected bad increas should be made throughout the Em-four times that of three years ago, and overseas.
ed to six times.
The report and adopted.
In the ten years of its existence.
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