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the Naval Dockyard effected tem- porary repairs
The Seamew was holed in the forepeak and two compartments were Hooded, but the damage is reported to be not considerable.
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RIVER BOATS, IN COLLISION
When attempting to berth at the Ping On Wharf on Tuesday at 2 p.m.. the ss. Lee Hong,
a river boat on the Hong Kong-Canton Une; collided with the ss. Tai Lee.
It appears that while she was turning to go alongside the whart the Lee Hong crashed into the stern of the Tal Lee which was berthed on the west side of the Wharf. The as. Lee Hong escaped with a few scratches, but the Tal Lee had some of her plates dam- aged.
GUTZLAFF STREET FIRE OUTBREAK
New South Wales Championships
STRANGE GOLF
INCIDENTS
A Stunning Putter
Strange thing's in games usually For the first time since last
owe their origin to one of three June P. J. Perry, Wimbledon causes Folly, Violence, or "Inad- champion, has lost a best-of-five-vertence. In rare instances thase sets lawn tennis match. His old Australian opponent, J. H. Craw- ford, beat him by 7-3, 2-8, - 6–3, 1-6, 7-5 at Sydney in the final of the New South Wales Cham-
"plonships,
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three are found together, as when a golfer was fool enough to top six consecutive balls into a pond, then so violent as to crack-his
set of hickories over his knee, finally, so inadvertent as to take out his teeth and throw them after the clubs; for surely honour would have been sattsäed, by just throwing them on the ground. or even gnashing them noisily.
Perhaps one should add another Handbooks cause-Interference."
How near was the issue will be seen from the fact that Perry led at 54 in the final set come-and with his service to falled. Perry, since the early summer defeat mentioned at the racket of G. de Stefani in the French on golf tell us how crows, ravens, Championships, while the English-hawks, and seagulla frequently man was handicapped by injury-- | carry off golf balls. Among ex- has carried all before him in our perts there is a belief that gulls habit because they own, and the American Champion- pursue this
the balls to be cockles, ships and the Davis Cup Challenge think Round His record against Craw-which when carried to a height stands at six wins to and then, dropped, will smash and ford.now
provide a meal That, doubtless, two.
is the reason why so many gulis can be seen hovering over links with a disgruntled look. They have dropped a cockle that won't burst.
Chance Of Revenge No one can ing the gauntlet down with the persistency of Perry without losing a match now and then and no one is in the Crawford least surprised, that should for once "hit back.”
One can only hope that· Perry's morale will not be lowered for next season's big events He will, of course, have his chance of meeting Crawford again in the Australian Championships.
Ball-Swallowing Cows
"It is A common incident,” cow swallowing a golf too, "a bail" Surely this assertion is a trife strong. Balls have been driven into sheep and disappear- ed, presumably into their wool, "A very one performance by but cows are not only faizły Jack Crawford" was the comment uncommon on fairway and green,Į ⠀
but also known to be averse from of Perry's father, Mr. S. F. Perry,
Miss Dorothy Round won the eating golf balls. A professor of women's title for England by Biology in a leading University Three fire engines from the Can-beating Mrs. Westscott, the hard-once placed Ave golf tral Fire Station were rushed to a hitting Queenslander, 6-2, 6-0. fire in Gutzlaff Street, on the cor-
Wild Enthusiasm Crawford's victory was greeted ner of Queen's Road, Central on
the with wild enthusiasm by Tuesday night at 9.40 p.m.
The fire was extinguished with crowd, who waved programmes first aid jets, and is thought to and threw hats into the air. A have been caused by the fusing of feature of the play was that the
big Australian hammered electric wires which, set light to a quantity of celluloid articles which volleyed Perry's backhand. Not were on the premises,
often in previous matches has
and
No one was injured and the Crawford come to the net against damage is not yet known. SHAMSHUIPO OUTBREAK,
A small fire was reported yester day at 1.30 p.m. when engines from the Mongkok Fire Station rushed to an address in Shamshuipo. The ground floor, a paper dyeing shop was involved, but it was not long before the blaze was put out.
OVERHEATED CHIMNEY
CAUSES. FIRE
Perry, preferring to fence with him in long "chess-play" rallies off the ground. Now he attacked,
In the first set, Crawförd, by these changed methods, advanced to 5-2 He was caught af 5-all, but then Perry dropped his service and the set.
balls in a cow, which row in front of a merely breathed on them heavily. As a meal they were contemptible to her. I have yet to see a cow eating a ball, though I once She bellowed, hooked into and I found my ball in deep rough, just beyond the cow, states home newspaper correspon- A dent.
one.
Other animals, besides the cow have interfered at golf. We are told how a match was approach- ing a hole in a rather low-lying inland course, when one of the players made a crisp (chip.” from about thirty yards from the hole. The ball trickled slowly across the green and eventually disappeared into the hole. After a momentary pause the ball was suddenly ejected on to the green, and "out jumped a large frog."
Perry speeded up and volleyed well in winning the second set In the third Crawford sliced to the English back-hand and volley-
Again, once when # M ed effectively; in the fourth Perry was the more accurate player, M'Gregor, of, Ontario, needed to The final set was exciting in-hole a long putt to win a matcli landed deed. Crawford broke service and "a large grass-hopper" led 4-2; but the next three games "squarely on the ball" and caused About 5.30 pm-on Tuesday were Perry's The Londoner now it to drop into the hole. It will night a fire occurred at No. 2 Kwong had to serve for the match, but be noticed that in each of these Yuen Street, West. It was extin-lost the crucial tenth game through instances of what one may call "animal ex machina” the good guished after the roof and part of volleying errors, the wall had been cleared away. Two games later, Crawford creature was large." It was as Three engines from the Central whose angled shots and pace- well A smaller frog might have Fire Station were again on the changes were "exquisite reached resented the ball, and instead of spot and had the fire under con- home after Perry had saved a electing Itself and the ball on to the green, have remained "sulking in the tin. “A lighter grasshopper have any might have failed to
trol a few minutes after their ar- rival. The are is thought to have overheated been caused by an chimney.
THE RYDER CUP
Cotton Will Not Play In Match
(Special Air-Mail Bervice)
match point.
A GREAT ORATOR effect on Mr. M'Gregor's ball, and
Death Of Lord Buckmaster
(Special Afr:Mail Service)
London, Dec. 6.2.
Lord Buckminster, who has also died recently was a magnificent orator. The late Lord Oxford, after hearing him in the famous London, Dec. 5.
Paisley by-election, declared that There is not the slightest proste was the most brilliant speaker pect of the deed of gift being he (Lord Oxford) had ever heard. altered to allow either. Cotton, or any other British player residing abroad, to play in the Ryder Cup golf match."
He was at his best on the plat form, where he could really let himself go. He spoke with great fluency and great force, like a rushing torrent as a colleague once said, and used gesture freely. In Parliament he spoke rarely
Heckler Bilenced
just sat on it, making that merry sound peculiar to grasshoppers.
Acts of Violence
Leaving rather unwillingly, the subject of Interference let ปริ return to acts of violence † and
· folly and inadvertence. A com- petitor, ance, in an open tourna- Inénk, ekrited because he hadi
holed a twenty-yard putt on thef st green, ung his club into the ar, and it came down on his partner's head, knocking him tem- porarily unconscious. An unfor- tanate incident, which, at this distance of time-some eight years we can see to have been a disguised blessing. For no one in the club-house was likely to hear much about that game. The haler of the putt, we presume, was silent through shame and concern, his opponents spoke little, because
TRAINING GALLOPS
Particulars Of Yesterday's Tryouts At The Course
(BY "MORNING DEW")
Many ponies were put through their "paces yesterday and some of the Australians moved very well Indeed.
Of the Griffins Trowbridze put in a great finish and pro- mise to become one of the outstanding ponies during the train- ing, season. Another good mover is. Mr. Ho Kom Tong's Pacific Hall. The subscription griffins are still on the slow side and it cannot be said that any of them are showing outstanding pro- mise.
The times clocked" yesterday were as follows: Rose Queen"(G)
13 44 1.25 2.03 2.37 Gold River (A)
1 34 1.01.3 1.38 2.06
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1.17 1,31
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1 48 Bonny Dundee and
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Beginner's Luck (8) 1 38
17th of September (8) 145 1.242 1.67.1 2.29.1.
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11 44 Victoria Hall and
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lowers do speak listies and the THE ROYAL AIR capital, but the step had been ex
Lord Buckmaster was never a fourth player being stunned ch man and was proud of his could not be held in conversation humble origin;⠀⠀
This statement was made by Commander R. C. T. Roe, secre tary of the Professional Coltera Association, with reference to America's request for Cotton to play for Britain against America in next year's match:
Cotton, British "Open" cham- It is recalled that at a meeting in plon, was born in England, but his own constituency of Keighley because of his residence in Belgium before the war, when an interrup be is barred from taking part inter shouted at him: We don't the match.
want any gentleman to represent us at Keighley
"I have no omcial knowledge of any letter from the American
Mr. Buckmaster, as he then was, P.G.A; continued Commander Roe drew himself up and quietly but
If any communication is received with devastating,
replied, it will, of course, be considered by My father wIE'S my committes. Our first const- In private life deration is the date of the match, and until that is settled we are not-guing: to' discuss any other caspect, M
It is understood that the Britim P.G.& are adhering to their. mand for the mat to be cizred in the Iste autumn.
aster
was a man of wide interests and great plertness
He was one bf's, group of m who used to meet daily, after in the smoking room of t Club and disenïa shairs, Arnold Benn other regular memb
A few accidents of a comunéra-
tive nature are on record. dollers have killed hares and trout and have ended the lives of
A reverend golfer, a few was addressing -- his his ball at the mouth
the tabbl moment of lost the
to bellaye that
trout-and: Cowk
FORCE
Air Attache At Tokyo
Air Mail Service) London, Dee.
RW. Ch
an Air Attache to the Japanese.
pected for some time in view of the number of such appointments mude to other centres, including Shanghai and Moscow, Wing Com- mander Chappell passed in Japan- ese in 1927, and requalifed as s first-class interpreter last year He was seconded for duty with the Japanese Navy in 1930-31....Y
|_ Wing Commander Chappell lett | Brighton Collega in 1913, and his
service": "began -- with
Hots
OTO, and folded Becond Leut
HIS ALU, was gained
He Had led
of to hostile alzeran.