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MONTHLY MEETING
F. A. Council
The Monthly Meeting of the Hong Kong Football Association Council was held last night at the Sports Club with Major C. M. Manners in the chair. The meet- ing was of a purely routine na- ture.
The second round of the Chal lenge Shield, was drawn to be play-2 ed on January 26 and resulted in some interesting #les The Re- crelo-China Athletic match should easily prove to be the tit-bit of the programme. The draw was as follows:--
SENIOR SHIELD
January 26
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Club de Recreto y. China" Athleti
(Club ground)
Polica V. Kowloon
ground)
(Kowicon
Clth
Navy or S. China “A" v
(Navy or Caroline H
February 5 R.A v. 8. China "B" (Sookanpo)
JUNIOR SHIELD
Club de Recrelo v. Nav (Club
ground)
E. Lancs v. Fusillers Chatham
Road) R.A.SC. v. R.E. (Sookanpo,
February 5 RA.. South China (Sookanpo)
OPEN MIXED DOUBLES
To-morrow's Semi-Final »
Mr. L. Goldman and Miss Han-
on the Chinese Recreation Club ground when a good close game is "expected.
LOCAL GOLF
Competition Results.
Bogey (Par) Fool
The Bogey (Par) Pool which was played at Fanling on January 13 and 13 drew 32 entries and resulted as follows
D. S. Edward (5) and E. Lewis (9) 1 up, tle and divide...
Other scores were
K. K. Rounds (18) all square, R. Mörrison (10) and E. Bathurst (15)
down.
"Adamson Cup There were 28 entries in the January qualifying competition for the Adamson Cup took place at Happy Valley-
J. W. Franks 75-13-62 qualifies Other scores were:-
A. E Clarke 19~15-84.
A. T. Braley 71-7-84. ".
A. H. McBride 83-17-68. A; D. Fraser 83-17-86.
TENNIS DATES CLASH
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1935.
RUGGER AT
HOME
The International Title For Wales?
Was
(From a Correspondent)
London, Dec. 26. During the past five years the Varsity matches have been dull affairs with little to commend them hard knocks cheerfully beyond good keen tackling and This year has been a glorious ex taken. ception and produced some of the best football seen in a big match for any seasons. The crowd at Twickenhan
rather larger than of late at these games, the weather ideal, and the ground it. self locking almost like a golf green. Both sides had had much trouble from injuries, but, with the exception of K.LT. Jackson of Oxford, suffering from concussion, the teams were nearly at full strength, with Cambridge slight. favourites owing to their better scoring abilities. Oxford fisided a completely International three- quarter line, whereas Cambridge had Wooller (Wales) and Fyffe (Scotland) on the left wing, play ing behind Jones (Wales), the best flyhalf in the four countries, Wooller has completely regained his form of two years ago, when he won his cap as a schoolboy.
"
SCOTT & BLACK TRIBUTED
CHANGES IN LAW CONTEMPLATED
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
"After The Sun's
Record"
Australia.
London, Deo: 26.
1
Lord Gorell, who occupied the chair in the absence of the Duke
of Atholl, described the gathering as the greatest air dinner ever held in connection with the great est air race that had ever taken place..
Married Women's Property Act
Note-Figures in parentheses indicate number of letters in the words required.
Across
Ordinary (7).. 1 full cup (7).
B-No this is serious (4).
--Remotely distant (4).
(Special Air Mail Service). Many famous figures in aviation were present at
London, Deg, 10. a remarkable gathering held the other night the Law Revision Committee will,
The latest recommendations of under the auspices of the Royal if carried into effect, do away Aero Club when & banquet was with an snomaly: that was in honour of Mr. C. W. A. Scott and Married Women's Property Act of Kiven at Grosvenor House in ported into the law by an other wise admirable- measure, the T. Campbell Black in recognition of 1888. The old common, las rule their record-breaking fight to by which, unless protected by a trust under the marriage settle- ment, a woman's property passed. on marriage to her husband often ogical, for the husband had to workad unconscionably, but it was undertaka burdens that, theoretic ally at least, corresponded to the benefits. To the value of any property! he acquired on his mar More than 800 people were pre-riage he was liable for his wife's 4-A man, or cattle-food (5), sent, and among them were Mar- antenuptial wrongs debts, 15- strike (3). shal of the Royal Air Force Lord while his liability for her post-17-Moslem doctors (5) Trenchard Lord Mottistone, Pre- unlimited.
auptial wrenzs and debts was 18 Sundry (7). sident of the Air League of the
19--Droop (4). British Empire, Col. J. T. C. Moore conditions of the later nineteenth 22-A venomous snake (7),
Qwing to the changed social 20—Starve (4). Brabazon, M.P. who holds pilot century the legal fiction of the 25 Gauza-like fabric (5). certificate No. 1 in this country single personality of husban.I and and 1 chairman of the Royal of application. Hence the Mar 28 Part of a shoe (5).
wife became increasingly difficult 27-A slippery thing (3). Aeronautical Society. And, in ad-
ried Women's Property Act which 30-Sullerness (4). dition to Messrs. Scott and Black, primarily sought to give the poor 32-Neglect (4). there were the Dutch pilots, "Che- married woman the same protec 33 Breach of faith (7), Moll, who obtained, the second married woman might enjoy for prize in the race.
her property under the marriage
and so "disease" is eased au hat; however, though how settlement. It did rather more
(anagram) (7). much more was intended by the Legislature has never been clear.
and
Down
1-Lively (5).
2-Vein (5).
3An old-fashioned relative (3).
5 The way to go (3).
6-Actual (4).
7--Endeavour - (5).
a Colour (4),
9.-Elastic-sided boots (7).
10 Small hawk (7)......
12-Gives power of purchase. (7) 13 Is given for payment "(7), 15-Oval (5).
16-A.quaver in music (3). 21-Hollow out (5). 23-Pour out (4).
24 Darling girl. (5), 26-Kind of adder (4),
second by June 11 the third by fairly even but Oxford continually valler Parmentier and Chevalier tion for her earnings as the rich | 34-Sick people are often sent here, 29-Papal name. (4),
A the ruling body of the coun- try which holds the Davis Cup, the English L.T.A. has already fixed the dates, so far as the European one is concerned, for this year's competition for the International Championship, the first round hast to be finished by May 19, the June 20, and the final round by July 15 It is not very likely, except in the possible case of two entrants coming non-European against one another, as Japan and Australia did in 1834, that any of these matches will be played in England.
The first half of the gume was
got the ball in the set scrums. There WES fcidentally, far too much whisth or a game of this description-up in the scruit, intertional oft de etc, and I stand
uore than ever convinced that in all such matches, two reforees are needed and that one of them
should always put the ball in the serum. But this is a digression Fyffe's try was the outstanding feature of the first half, getting the hall from Wooller at the right. moment and going clean over the full-back when collared.
Cambridge Excel
But the jater-zone final, between cock are meeting Captain Manners the winners of the European and and Mrs. Grimble in their semi- of the American zone, will be final tle of the Open Mixed Doubles played at Wimbledon on July 20, Championship of the Colony to-8, and 23; and the challenge morrow afternoon at 4 pin. sharp round, between the winners of the inter-zone final and England at the following. week-end, Monday, and Tuesday. Other im
Saturday,
portant fixtures are the French championships, which extend from In the second half Cambridge May 19 to June 2, and the Chamexcelled themselves, as although pionships at Wimbledon, which they were still unable to get the ball often, when they did we saw The coincidence of the dates of what really class outsides can do. the French championships with Fyffe obtained two more tries very those of the second round of the similar to his effort in the first Davis Cup is not very happy for half, and there was a glorious bit the former event, since it will of work between Candler and Jones almost certainly prevent some of
which simply left Oxford standing Twickenham Making European tone competing in Paris; Candler, who
the Davis Cup teams in
the Jones cut through, passed to gave Jones the but the plethora of important fix reverse pass right under the cross Records
tures makes this inevitable..
One championship at this year's Wimbledon, at any rate, will:
ENGLAND'S BUSY begin on June 24
FILM STUDIO
(Special Air Mail Service?
London Dec. 26. Twenty minutes' train journey *from Waterloo to Twickenham Station, and three minutes' walk to St. Margaret's, brings you to
bar.
Then came Wooller's dropped
The Air Minister, the Marquis of Londonderry, paid a high tri- bute to the winners of the race, in which he said:
"Competitors were
il
strung out
not from Tattenham Corner to the winning post, but from Marseilles to Melbourne, while they took part in the most remarkable event that any of us have witnessed in our
lifetime.
A Husband's Liability
31-Deceive (3).
32 A singular thing (3).
The following is the solution of Sesterday's puzzle:- Across--1. Vital 4. Whipper-in: Down.-I. Vast, 2. Thenceforth, S. 9. Seeable, 10. Contact, 11. Acclain, Label 4 Weevil 6. Inch, 6. Pence, sub-section 1) is to know how far, furnout, 22. Arizona, 23. Scholar- Vectis, 14. Arcady, 15. Growl, 18, The puzzle about section 112: Nether, 15. Effigy, 17, Fritter, 217. Reach-me-down, & Nature, 13. husband of his common law liabi, 24. Tenet. if at all, these words. relieve a ity. The sub-section runs!”
A married woman shall, is accordance with the provisions of this Aut, be capable of e now see this race in propering by will or otherwise, of any acquiring, holding, and dispos perspective. We do not see it d meteoric trip across the sky, but as a combination of solid progress in British aeronautical engineer- ing and technique and in piloting and navigation."
real or personal property as her separate property, in the same manner as if she were a teme
MAILS BY ROCKET
sole, without the intervention of Experiment On Isle
any trustee. A
Of Wight
At first sight it looks as if the intention were to put a married To-day, added Lord Londonderry, woman in the same position as a we stodd on the threshold of an feme sole (which is lawyer's era of which no one could forecast French for a spinster or & woman the ultimate development. Some who by act of God or process of thing very revolutionary had cc law has lost her husband and thus curred as a result of Scott and becomes a human being). The Black's achievement. Scott had enactment, however, goes
say that her husband "need not" broken the record every time he be joined as a party in any suit socket from the golf coures here had flown to Australia, and at no of hers. Is the second, clause mere
to-day
Fired is not perhaps the best
(Special Air Mail
Hi Service) Lymington (Hauts), Dec. 24 Herr Gerhard Zucker, the Ger- on to man rocket expert, fired his
change hands, if only partially, goal from about five yards over distant period it seemed as if he explanatory surplusage or a word to use, for the rocket mis
Miss, Round will have to find a new partner for the mixed doubles, of which she and R. Miki are the present holders, for the Japanese player has played his last game in England-everyone, was glad, by
the halfway line, very aptly described by the best newspaper in would try to beat the record at pre-tation ! the world, as a "soaring wonder.sent held by the sun, The ball cleared the crossbar by 3 feet and almost went out of punds There followed another
Judicial opinion weat pretty steadily in favour of the latter construction, but the matter was not finally settled until the case of Edwards v. Porter in 1991, where the House of Lords decided wife's wrong it the plaintiff chose
fired.
It was intended to deposit 500 letters of his Majesty's mail in the nie of. Wight,
two miles from the Lymington golf Unfortunately the letters and
On the course itself and in the lale of Wight great preparations had been mada
Twist, 19. Stir, 20. Last.
At the time fixed for the fring Her Zucker lay down on the grass. He counted three. Then be prassed the button.
The air mail shot up, cir cumnavigated a curve, and eame 'down.
Not Burst
Herr Zucker was not dismayed. At any rate the rocket had fred.. When he BBW his masterpiece crash he raced to the spot to ascertain the amount of damage
to it
mails to the Western Isles, in On a previous attempt to fire Scotland, the rocket barst: How- ever, the formula of the explosive
was improved, and the rocket did not burst to-day.
Zucker estimated that the speed of the rocket would be 800 to 900 m.p.h and that it would land in the waters of the Solent-where it could be picked up a few. seconds after it was fired. It con one to the Duke and Duchess of Kent.
the doors of England's bustest flm the way, to see him win it-and is really good try by the Cambridge Black on his engagement, to Miss that a busband was Hable for his the rocket fell on stry ground tained letters to the King, and
returning permanently to his ownright wing, and all this, me Not the biggest, or the most ex-country, Since Zenzo Shimizu first against a third line composed derry remarked amid laughter: "In to join him as a party
of internationals. The
studios.
pensively equipped, by any means. but studios where they boast that every film is completed precisely according to schedule po small claim, for so extravagant and un- certain an industry.
J
Built in the grounce of a pri- vate house, where, as far back as 1910, some of the earliest, British pictures were made, the studios are owned and managed by Mr. Julius Hagen.
The fact that 28 flims have at ready" been made there this year
entirely
Cambridge pack was altogether much more alive and showed more dash in the loose and made up in this tight scrums.
Tragedy of Jackson's Absence
Mr. Black's Engagement Complimenting Mr. Campbell Florence Desmond, Lord London the old days a man tried to win his bride on horseback. Now it takes an airman on a Comet to win his lady,”...;
course.
Man Waking
Like & Shell^
It was & curious.contraption. Two rabber sponge bags, full of letters, were crammed into the
mainder of the rocket was taken like a pounder shell. The re- Does of the rocket, which lookad
up with long black stick of explosive material
ad the Rising Sun banner in England, there has been & long
Lords Birkenhead and Cave succession of Japanese players
dissented, and now the Law Revi Ohta, Satoh, and Miki, for a
ion Committee has "respectfully period of three or four years each.
upheld their opinion sad over- and other's only at intervals-not
ruled the majority. Most people one of whom has been anything
Mr. Scott and Mr. Campbell will think they are right, except but popular on English courts.
Black replied to the toast and of course the man in the unhappy Not only were, they all fine players, that Oxford were badly served at competitors. Mr. A. Plesman, Dir against a married woman who island, to signal the arrival of the It becomes increasingly evident Lord Gorel; proposed that of the position of being a plaintif Victoria near Yarmonth, in the "A" man" was waiting at Fort
but they have been an example to balf where the absence of Jackson lector-General of the Royal Dutch has been reckless with her tongue, rocket.. sportsmanship. Miki will leave Byhaif stood out as the most dazz Air Bervice, roused cheers by his separate property his only possi- waiting to receive the mails, all in their court manners" and was a tragedy. The Cambridge
pen, or motor car. If she has no many friends behind him in Engling player on the field, but remark that "the future of aviability of redress is by joining box
The postmaster of Newport was. The formula of the explosive. land and not a single grudge in whether he would have has it alltion looks brighter because of this husband as a co-defendant.
was Herr Zucker'a secret. the hearts of the many whom he so much his own way with "Jack-great race."
Herr Zucker was awake early i The last I saw of Herr Zucker On the other hand, the relief of to-day. Carefully he greased the was on Pennington Marshes, the husband under the proposed rails of his apparatus on the golf where his rocket lay. He was new rule may in most cases be course. He ran out about twenty examining its nose. It was store ment against his wife and she which was to fire the rocket. The prevent its being used again, be subject to committal arter, When this was pressed, off went rushed into Lymington, and post has no money of her own the will wire was afixed to a hell push Hert Zucker collected the mails, so in practice he will have to pay the racket.
ed then at the Post Office... just the same. It will be noted with satisfaction that the Com their recommendations that that mittee suggest as corollary to old standing grievance, the joint assessment of husband and wife in @income tax. shall be abolished,
has beaten in the course of hison to watch him, is a matter for Chevaller
Parmentier caused
and that a further twelve have to almost innumerable triumphs in all onjecture However, it was much amusement when he remark illusory for if there 28. & Judgyards of wire from the cartridge | in, and suficiently damaged to
of
be produced between now and April, 1935, surprises all but the Twickenham staff themselves;
"Twice Daily" Such a programme would be considered normal for one Hollywood's major companies, with Its eight or ten sound "stages" and unlimited picture-making, re- sources At Twickenham it is achieved only by the ingenious method of employing two shifts and keeping the studios working 24 hours daily.
three, forms of the game-especially in mixed doubles, a department in which he was probably the best player in the world during his so journ in England.
VICE ADML, WALWYN
Former R.IN. Commander:
Retires
The Admiralty announced on Saturday that Fice-Admi: Bix
lovely game to watch, with some of the movements, classical.
does not
exaggerate the
The final score of 29 points to 14
superiority of the winners, who might conceivable have collected another 10 to 20 points had they possesed Anyone with a vague idea how to place kick,
"The Coming International It is always interesting building one's Luternational aide but, he would be a bold man who predicted the English side at the moment. It
Thus, the day shift ceases work Humphrey T. Walwyn, K.C.S., appears to be in the melting pot at seven o'clock each evening to make way for the night shift. CB-DBO, formerly Flag Officer as so many of the old brigade which then occupies the floor
Commanding the Royal Indian such as Owen Smith, Burland and until the following morning. The Navy has been placed on the Re-Gerrard will probably be passed tired List, to date Dec. 19, As Vice-over. There is some good material lighting and other technical ar- rangements are soon transferred Admi. Walwyn is supernumerary up worth and at would not, bo sur- prising" to see the side consisting. from one set to the other. Ten
“of North and o'clock at might finds the new director anch' eas ready to "shoot Midnight see the noc- Walwynd beezis
urnal, production on full, swing. since 1895%
the Flag List, no vacancy
In conseque of his retireme
"A" gunner" speciali
The hims made at Twickenham Wal are not epics, nor are they cheap Quota pictures They ran to 8,000 feet and more, and most of them. whether Mr. Hagen's own output
or that of other firms who
Tented his studios,,
widely in the Empire's
Two brothers are lar
sible for the fact the turn:
B
ed: "At every place at which we the people kept telling us that arrived on our journey to Australia Scott and Black had just passed, so we knew," he added, “we were the right way to Melbouche Co. Monore-Bethazon and Mr: 0 Cathcart Jones also spoke, and a message of congratulation to Scott and Blackman read from the Prince of Wals
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