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Britain's Olympic Team And Its Berlin Chances
(BY TRIPLE OLYMPIAD.
London July 13.
The athletic team which salls for Berlin on July 29, is without doubt the strongest combination that has ever represented Great Britain.
does not by any means This
WE are necessarily imply that bound to win, nor. indeed, do as The well as in past Olymplads. truth is that the standard of world athletics has been rising rapidly. and the competition in this year's Olympic Games is going to be ter rific.
To say that any athlete has a good chance of being placed in the first three is as far, in my opinion. as it is permissible to go.
Certainly strong though the Bri- tish team is, there is only a very small proportion of the athletes capable of doing better than reach- ing the final of their events.
QUE STRONGEST TEAM.
Our strongest team in any event is, I imagine, in the 400 metres. A. G. K. Brown, G. L. Rampling or W. Roberts might any of them win
at their best.
$. C. Wooderson obviously must have a grand chance for the 1500 metres, which should suit him even petter than the mile.
miles OF P. D. Ward's three Saturday was magnificent, and he conveyed the impression that he had something in hand even though be did break Shrubb's na- tlve record. But he is a runner who expends a good deal of nervous energy, and so the preliminary heat may prove a stumbling block.
The 10,000 metres depends, I be lleve, mainly on whether 'w. Eaton can get back to his best. He himselt expects to do so, and if he does. Finns or no Fions, he
will take a lot of beating.
For the Marathon we have a live- ly trio. M. Robertson, A. J. Norris and E. Harper. How strong the opposition is one cannot tell, because conditions in other coun- trica vary so much; but Robertson. I fancy, would have won if he had gone in 1932, and now he is strong-
er and in splendid condition.
:-:- FINLAY'S HANDICAP
D. O. Finlay is handicapped by being an inch or two short of the ideal height for high hurdling, but Judging by his British record on Saturday he is in superb form.
the Americans and though highly, formidable we must not be frightened by their times achieved under transatlantic conditions.
Great Britain's rosiest One of chances would seem to lie in the
Bre
4 x400 metres "relay. Brown,
DOUBLE WIN FOR ST. LOUIS
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PHILLIES ROUTED
New York. Aug. 2. The "following were the results Of to-day's Major League Baseball
encounters:----
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh
New York
R. H. E. 2 4 I 3 9 1
Leiber and Jackson homer-
ed
Cincinnatti Brooklyn
8 1
4 10
1
3 14
1
Cincinnatti Brooklyn
2 T
3
5 12
0
Chicago Boston
3 10.
Chicago Boston"
2 8
3
5 2
1
St. Louis
13 18
2
4 12
2
11. 14.
3
3 18
· 1
J. Martin homered, Philadelphia
St. Louis Philadelphia
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston
Chicago
R. H.
E.
16
0
9 16
0
Zeke Bonura homered
11 22 1 12 16 1
Boston
Chicago
Twelve innings were played.
New York Cleveland
4 13 2 4 18 2
Sixteen innings were play- ed, the game being abandoned as a tle due to darkness.
14
Philadelphia
St. Lou's
1
9
$
$
Carey and Bottomley homer-"
ed.
Philadelphia
1 13 Pinkle Higgins and Pucci-
nelli hit home runs.
3 12 3 St. Louis
West and Solters homered.
0
Washington
Detroit
5 11 0 3 8
1
Goose Gostin homeredaka Reuter
Rampling. Roberts, Wolf-a super- ENGLAND'S EASY WIN
quartet this, though much will de-" pend on how the first three stand up to their gruelling etorts in the 400 metres scratch event.
THE TEAM
100 Metres.-C. B. Holmes (Man- chester Univ, A. C.), A. Pennington (Oxford Univ. A.C.), A. W, Sweeney (Milocarian A.C.). "
Ireland Overwhelmed By
10 Matches To 1
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1936,
OLYMPIC GAMES RESULTS
Owens Explains His Success
ARMY WATER POLO
TABLE TO-DATE
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P. W. L. D. Pts. Sth Hvy. Bde. RA 4 3 1 0 8 ("Hong Kong Usily Frem” Spacial)] 5th A.A. Bde. RA 4 1.2 1 3.
Royal Engineers
4 2 3 0 4 Berlin, Aug. 2.
3 0 1 2 3 Jaise wena, the United States 2/RW, Pus.
4 4 0 0 S Olympic runner, who in the Bta-2/E. Lan
9 1 1 1 3 dlum at the 100 metre feat created 1/R.U.R.
4.0 3 0 0 an immense sensation when he left Small Units all others behind, attaining the onds, and making a still greater existing World record of 10.3 sec- furore on Sunday afternoon in the -quarter finals by establishing a new World record of 10.2 metres, de- clared literally in a conversation after the race.
"I hardly know how it happened; I suddenly seemed to possess wings. The whole cinder track is extra- ordinarily fast, the whole beauti- fuls surrounding, where everything In such a festive mood, seemed seemed to light up flames in me, so that I ran my race, feeling that my body had lost all its weight.
The sporting enthusiasm of the Oerman spectators made a great Impression on me, above all the chivalrous attitude of the crowd,
Please tell every one that we are ali overcome by the warmth of German hospitality."— Transocean News Service.
WATCHED BY CROWD
Berlin, Aug. Herr Adolf Hitler and General Herman Goering were among the 100.000 attending the first day of the Olympic Games. It was not
the fact that Jesse Owers, negro sprinter from Ohlu University, equalled the world's official 100 metres record of 10.3 seconds in the first round heats,
Then he did the distance in 10.2 seconds in the second round. It
able for
PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS
ATTACKS ON ROYALTIES RECALLED
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London, July 16.
During the long reign of Queen Victoria there were five attempts on her Majesty's lite, between the years 1810 and 1862.
The first was made at almost the On June same spot as to-day's.
SCOTTISH LETTER
London, July 14. Following the example of most of the leading Scottish clans, the Munros are now to have a clan association of their own.
A constitution is being drafted, and membership will be open to all who are related by name and blood to the Cian Munro.
Those belonging to its sapts, or branches with a different sur name, will also be eligible.
Many of the septs of Scottish clans originated after the rebel- llon of 1745. when a number of families with Highland patrony- mics adopted English surnames.
MORE SCOTTISH THAN THE SCOTS
i
HATES PARTING
COTTON SLAVES
IN AMERICA
and
Dr Rosenbach. confesses that al- 2,000,000 IN EXISTENCE
a dealer he hates though he is parting with them. His great ambition is to gain access to old English country houses and char- er rooms in which, he says, he teels sure there are manuscripts and signatures worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
FACTS ABOUT SCOTTISH.
HEALTH
London July 18 Nearly two million mên women in the Uned States' are still lying in conditions of slavery.
Recent violence and bloodshed Dave attracted the Government'a attention to these people, who as "sharecroppers" in the Southern states, work ceaselesily in abject poverty.
Their class came into being before the Civil War, but the "abolition" of slavery made no difference to them. They are still the virtual staves of the big cotton planters.
The "sharecroppers,” negroes and whites, live on the big plantations. and are provided with land and farm implements and a drawing account of about thirty shillings a
That maternity mortality was some 50 per cent, higher in Scot land than in England was one of the startling revelations made in the debate on Beottish health in the House of Commons last night. Cian associations are particular- The failure of efforts to cope with ly strong in the Dominions, where the tragedy was admitted, but Murros, Macphersons. and Mar-was stated that a Bill initiating a new attempt to solve the problem donalds are more Scottish than their kinsmen at home. The most would be introduced on July 24.
month It was also disclosed that the distant of the Domuilons. New
rate was higher Scottish death than that of any country in Nor- thern Europe, and that infantile mortality in Glasgow was 22 per cent. worse than the average for the country.
Zealand, goes so far as to support a pro-Jacobite newspaper.
The moving spirit in the Clan Munro association is. Capt. D. 1. Munro, whÓ was responsible. in 1914 for making Scapa and the
marine-proof. 10. 1840, the Queen and Prince Al-Other Scottish naval bases sub- bert were driving up Constitution Hill in an open carriage when a crazy pot-boy called Oxford fired two pistols, The shots passed close to the Prince's head.
Oxford was arrested on the spot. In his lodgings was a book of the called a secret society rules of "Young England," whose members had taken an oath to carry swords and pistols and wear black maska. and Oxford feigned madness. was acquitted on the ground of in- sanity. After forty years in Bei lam, where he seemed sane enough, and
he
to Australia was sent
a house- earned his living s
is doubtful whether this record painter. will be recognised as he WBS assisted by a following wind..
Owens won his heat by about eight yards.
THE QUEEN'S CLEMENCY Two years later there were two further. ttempts by a man called Francis and a hunchback called Bean.
After
Tilly Fleischer of Germany won the first Olympie title. reaching a
Bean was really insane. distance of 48.18 metres in the
his attempt Parliament passed a women's javelin throw final, an
Bill empowering judges to order Olympic record.
The British trio, Powell, Mc-dogging for those who molested the Cabe and Handley, the Arst two Queen. members of the London Athletic Club, have entered the sefni-final! In 1850 a of the 800 mètres.
Sweeney and Pennington hay qualified for the semi-finals of the 100 metres.-- Reuter.
PUTTING THE SHOT
Berlin. Aug. z. Germany won her first victory when Woellke shot-put in the final a distance of 16.20 metres.
Finland occupied the first three places in the 10,000 metres race, the winner being Salminen, fol- lowed by Askola and Isoholle in
that order.
The Act was never enforced. half-pay officer called Pate assaulted the Queen with stick and in 1869 an Irish buy. O'Connor, presented a pistol at her Majesty in St. James's Park,
In both cases dogging was or- dered, but this punishment was re- mittied at the request of the Queen, who sent O'Connon to Aus- tralia at her own expense.
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The Munro tartan is distinctive It is dominantly red, with a little
Teen and yellow.
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Housing conditions were critic- ised and Bir Godfrey Collins. Secretary of State for Scotland. at the present prophesied that rate of progress in sium clearance in Scotland there would not be a alum left in five years' time.
»ST ANDREWS' SAILOR SONS
can no Although St. Andrews
FILM COUNTRY longer claim to be styled a sea-
Scotland is surely growing in port town, its sons carry on the
tradition. Wherever the popularity as a setting for screen old sea "Old Red Duster les there you stories. The screen version of Buchan's "Thirty-Nine will and them. It is a remarkable John fact that two St Andrews men are, Steps." with its fine "shots" of the Bridge and Highland at the head of two of the largest Forth steamship companies in the world. scenery, has just been adjudged Captain W. Barclay Armi, R.N.R., the best British aim of 1935, änd is superintendent of the Canadian now a Hollywood drama of our National Steamships Company at native land is halled by American International award for Captain Montreal, and
Edmund ❘ of the Alkman is superintendent at Van- 1936. On July 30 this Californian
Canadian couver of the
Paciuc reproduction of the Scottish scene Steamships Company..
will be screened when "Mary of Scotland" "is first trade shown. Preliminary information regarding this study of the Queen of Scots is somewhat startling from point of view of the student of Scottish history for Bothwell is advertised as the herd for whose love a throne was gladly sacrificed
SEASIDE
LINKS WITH THE SEA Other St Andreans who have achieved distinction in the Mercantile Marine are Comman der Louis Leask of the F. and O.
Line: Captain Robert Bennet, of the Clan Line: and Captain Alex. Crichton, lately retired, of the Blue Funnel, Line. Mr. Gilmour Annit. a brother of Captain Armit, 'is well up in the engineering service of the Cunard Line. AMERICA RETURNS TO SCOTCH
The fears
PAW AT THE
the
at the plantation stores in exchange, they have to give the plantation owners half their crop.
'VERGE OF STARVATION
It has been revealed that the average “sharecropper" in the staty of Arkansas makes an in- come af forty pounds a year. So when he pays his account at the store all his money is gone
and he is usually in debt,
their "sharecroppers," Thus. wives and families live in rags and on the verge of starvation. Efforts te better their conditions by form- ing unions for collective bargaining have met with bitter opposition.
H
Planters have endeavoured to break this movement by hiring “ Assistants to mete out corporal to dissatisfied punishment "sharecroppers" and, to attack anyone seeking to help them. This is the explanation of reports of floggings and attacks that are constantly reaching the cities from these cotton areas.
President Roosevelt is known to 10 sympathise with the "sares" their plight, and unless conditions improve there may, in the near future, be a small-scale civil war.
on the powny whin yer there.
Here's twa pennies each.
"Noo fur some pace an' quiet. well. Ahli be--there's the rain. Hey, maw. pit the, bairn in her pram quick. Frankie Jeanfite MT. co-eet"
"No, Jeannie, yer paw's no gaun tae mak' castles wi'ye the day. Ah gaun tae lle doon here an sleep. An' dinna be comin' wl' yer, Whit's this, paw?' an' 'Whi's yuz.-Mr G. L. MacLean, Toronto, paw! Lat yer paw alane a wee
SCOTS SAYINGS OF THE WEEK Scotland is the home of bowling.
.this beautifu Edinburgh and interesting city The Sheikh of Bahrein.
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Canada is closely associated with Ecotland by ties of history, kin- ship, and interest-Dr Scott Dodd. Burns is toasted by fervent scots, few of whom have ever read poems-The Archbishop of
Canterbury.
For too long have the Highlands and Islands given of her best brain and muscle as pioneers of Empire.
Mr Lachlan Grant.NA ON Scotsmen and Scotswomen have
England, who had led by five matches to one against Ireland at the close of play on Monday, pon all the five matches played yester day, in Dublin, and thus won by ner, did not compete in the 800 saw nothing. Even the footman at the pre-war.igure, and the estim sake, Jeannie. whit's a' the gree-played a conspicuous part in the
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After the repeal of Prohibition there was some anxiety lest ex- while! porters of Scotch whisky might "Hey. Frankle, you stap yer TEMPTING THE ASSAILANT
fall to recapture their pre-war fingin sauna ower me. This is good trade in the United States.
no the only bit o' Rothesay beach Queen Victoria showed
Prohibition, it was said, had they lat ye dig up. taught the "Americans bad habita
Noq whit are ye howlin furt courage at the time of the attempt by Francis.
Gle him back his spade this verras She was returning to Bucking-They had grown accustomed to ham Falace with the Prince Con-Bourbon and other local products, meenit feannie. Ey Ah git up tæe
have now been Salminen, who won by a yard. sort, when the Prince Consort saw
"Ouch! Maw, tak the bairn af returned the excellent time of 33 man step from a crowd under allayed. Repeal has brought dis-e. Ah'll sort ye.
Whit's that? She couldna' help it - Franide pushed minutes 15 4/10 seconds. Isoholio a tree and present a platal full at crimination in America's table, and finished ve yards behind. Askala, The trigger snapped but the her return to Scotch has been a chest."
For some reason not explained, Pistol migred. The Queen, bo triumphant Chia, the Chinese distance run-ing to people on the other side. Exports are now well ahead of her? Ah-ahill-ob, for goo'ness
the back of the carriage noticedate for the year 1936-1937 8 2,000,- tin fur noo? Naw. ye needna' try history and progress of Canada.- A few hours later the Queen and sallons, or approximately do ta lift yer ice-cream cupple aff Lord Provost Gumley, Edinburgh.
bie the best pre-war year. One of the most interesting
The benent to Scotland has been her Consort again drove out to give the man the opportunity of be considerable. Distlileries which games yesterday was that in which
Berlin, Aug. 2. C. E. Hare and F. H. D. Wilde, who
The second Olymple event detraying himself to the police. three years ago were almost closed recently put up suen an excellent 800 Metres.-F. R. Handley (Sal-fight against the British Davis Cup cided on Sunday was the 10.000 The same man fred once more. down are now working more of ford A.G.), B. F. McCabe (London pair, G. P. Hughes and C. R. D. metre race, where the triumph This time the pistol went on, the less full time..
Tuckey, in the final of the men's was gathered by Finland, since shot passing under the carriage. A.C.), J. V. Powell (ondon A.C.).
the Salminen, Askola, Isobella Anish-Francis was caught, tried and de- 1500 Metres.--. F. Cornes (Ar- doubles at Wimbledon, met chilles). R. Graham (Maryhill H., Irish Davis Cup bair, G. L. Rogers ed arst, second and third in the ported. Scotland), S. C. Wooderson (Black and T. G. McVeagh. The English order named thus winning the par were always more thrustrul gold, silver as well as the bronze
Olympld Medal. and won well by 6-4, 6-4-
Holmes, A. 200 Metres.-C. B. Pennington, A. W. Beeney.
400 Metres.-A. G. K. Brown (Achilles), G. L Rampling (Milo carian A.C.), W. Roberts (Salford A.C.).
heath).
5000 Metres.-F. Close (Surrey AC.), A. V. Reeve (Polytechnic H), P. D. Ward (Achilles).
10.000 Metres. A. Burns (Ets- wick H.), W. E. Raton (Salford H), J. H. Potts (Saltwell H.).
Marathon.-E. Harper (Hallam shire E. and A.C.), A. J. (Polytechnic H), D. M. Robertson (Maryhill H, Scotland).
Norris
3000 Metres Steeplechase. -T. Evenson (Manchester AC.), “J. Ginty (Belgrave H.).
10 matches to one.
A good singles was seen between Hare and Rogers. The big Irish-. man played very well, but Hare's overhead work just turned scale, and he won by 10-8, 7-5. Re- sulta:
the
Men's Singles.-C. B. Hare "(E), bt G. L. Rogers, 10-3, 7-5.
Women's Singles.--Miss J. Baun- ders bt Miss H Wallis, 6-1, 6-2.
- Men's Doubles-Hare and F. H. 50,000 Metres Walk. 3. Hopkins D. Wilde (E). dt Rogers and T. G. (Lancashire W.C.), T. Lloyd John-McVeagh, 6-4, 6-4; C. M. Jones and
metres event- Reuter.
TEN THOUSAND. METRES
WIE
time The winner's
30 minutes, 15.4 seconds, while Askola and Isobolla took " 30 mizutes, 20.2 seconds respective- 17,
Transocean Neue Service.
nothing amiss
BEATEN BY AN ETON BOY" The last attempt on the Queen's lite was made at Windsor in 1882 by a man called Maclean, who fired at her as she was leaving the station
Wis
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CANADIAN PILGRIMAGE Scotland will have many links "with the great Canadian pligrim- age to Vimy Ridge on July 28 for the King's unveiling of the impres- National Waz Canadian give Memorial. The leader of the 6300 pligrims is Brigadier-General Al- His shot was diverted by an Etonexander Ross, a Highland emigrant schoolboy, who beat down Ma- who "made good" the West and became a distinguished K.C clean's hand with an umbrella SECOND GOLD MEDAL
In her letters the Queen wrote General Ross, who had a brilliant that she Berlin. Aug. 2.
not nearly sa record of service with the Domi- Germany won her second Olym-frightened as she was at the time nion troops in France, arrived at the week-end with an advance ple Gold medal on Sunday, when or O'Connor's attempt.
Maclean was also a madman and guard engaged in the final pre event in thotpuiting, the third
parations for Canada's reverent decided on the opening day was relegated to Broadmoor.
SHOT FIRED AT KING act of homage to her war dead. 1 hear that a surprisingly large pro- of
EDWARD VIE Woelke, Germany was placed first with the magnificent throw
The band of the assassin was portion of the pilgrims are of 16.20 metres.
Baerlund, Finland was second never raised against King Edward Scottish extraction, and after the ceremony in France they with a throw of 16.12 m, thus VII. either as King or as Prince main
The of Wales in this country or in the will visit the Scottish National gairing the Silver Medal. Bronze Medal went to another Domintons. But on April 1900, War Memorial in Edinburgh and also the grave of Earl Hatg at Dry- German, Stoeck, with a but of less than a year before he came to 18:48 m.
the throne, he was shot at while burgh Abbey. he was sitting in the train at Transocean, Yews Service.
AMERICAN SUCCESSES Brussels railway station by Bipido,
a young anarchist. Berlin, Aug, 2.
The Prince, as he then was, was The fourth and last event on
High Jump, which in an armchair by the window and Cooper about to have lunch. The bullet was won by Cornelius
splintered the window glass, but Pole Vault B. Webster Johnsen, United States, with a
missed its intended victim by a jump of 2.03 metres. Hop, Step and Jamp.-E. Boyce. The second and third places few inches, Throwing the Discus-B. L. went ilkewise to the United Sta- Prendergast (St. Mary's Hosp. A.C.). the athletes Albritton and L: Reayell-Carter (London &C.). Thurber both reaching the
Throwing the Hammer-N. Hark
son (Leicester W.C.). H. H. Whit- G. R. B. Meredith (E.) bt R. J. lock (Metropolitan W.C.
Bandys and C. A. Kemp, 6-2, 6-3, .400 Metres" Relay (4 at 100
Women's Doubles.-Miss Gaun metres) (From) A. G. K. Brown, ders and Miss. 8. G. Chuter (E.) D. O. Finlay (R.A.F.); C. B. Holmes, Miss Wallis and Miss N. Stoker, A. Pennington, W. Rangeley (Bal~ 6-2, 6-2. ford A.C.), A. W.. Sweeney, J. 6. L. Thornton (Achilles), Ü. A. Wiard (Blackheath .).
1600. Metres Relay (4 at 400 metres)-(From) A. G. K. Brown, F. R. Handley, B. F. McCabe, A Pennington, V. Powell, G. L. Rampling, W. Roberts, F. F. Wolf (London A.C..
Newman (London A,C.), B. R. West (Polytechnic H.).
Long Jump-E. Boyce (North Belfast H.), G. T.' Traynor (Thames Sunday was Valley H.). · ·
110 Metres Hurdles.-D. O. Fin-Achilles), lay, A. G. Pilbrow (Achilles), J. Bt. L. Thornton.
400 Metres Hurdles.-J. Sheffield
Milocarian
K. I Kennedy
Midre
Drake (Button-in-Ashield H).
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Sipido was at once seized. The first to plead for leniency was the Prince himself, who was unperturb ed and lit a cigar immediately after the shot had been fired.
the saung
If there is one thing Scotland
"Look Ah'll tell ye. You an' wants it to that our friends from Frankle rin awa an' git anither England should visit us as much as ane the piece. Aye, an' hae a ride possible. Sir John Sutherland.
McCallway
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EQUALLED BY
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MILLION DOLLARS WORTH SCOTS WHISKY (ALSO IN PINTS AND
The display of Mr Muirhead Bono's £100 book in a Glasgow shop recalls the sensation created by Dr. Rosenbach, the bibliophile. in Boston some years ago. In his shop window he placed his first follo Shakespeares (nye, I believe) along with a ticket-For sale, 1,000,000 dollars" People gaped, and Dr Rosenbach sat inside it. fear and trembling lest some rich man should take him at word.
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