TENNIS CHAMPION,
Ng Fre-kwong Retains Title.
wiped of the arrears of games and, in brilliant fashion, he took the ninth and, tenth games, winning the set at 7/5.
Rumjaba was obviously played out when the fourth get started the pace being altogether too bat for him. The champion opened with a love rame, and, playing with great confidence and all round superiority, he only allowed At on stage in the match Rumjahn to get one game, win- between Ng Sze-kwong and O.ning the set and match at 6'1. Rumjabs for the championship
WINS SECOND CUP
OUTRIGHT.
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
ment to put up a toll-gate at the The proposal of the Govern- door of the British Museum would have distressed nobody more than its founder, Sir Hans Sloane. One of the conditions of his noble gift was access to rich and poor alike.
absolute freedom of Upan this principle-service without money and without price The full results of yesterday's-his whole life was directed.
Every peasy of his salary for 30, Championship Singles years as physician at Christ's player icsing his title after hold-Challenge Round): Ng Sze-kwoDS Hospital went to the poor: hel ing it for five years in succession.beat O. Rumjaho, ti-1, 4-6, 7-5
of the Colony last evening, there matches were seemed a possibility of the former
With the match one set all, the 6-1. Indian player had a lead of 32 in the third set and only wanted,
pen
Club Championship: S. Green test A. Brearley, 6-2, 6-3, 54,
turned no sick person from bis
door, whatever their means; hel helped to establish the Foundling Hospital; and be was the chief agent in creating the first public dispensary, whose offspring have Two hundred years have passed since spread all over the land. since this great Scoto-Irishman flourished, and it is now proposed to honour his memory by erecting beat a cash barrier to his life-long Edwards collection of treasures!
a point to win the set. Again Handicap Singles "A": W.R when the score stood at 54 in Cornsby (15) beat . Miskin his favour a winning stroke 4, 6-2, 63, would have given him the set, but a lucky shot by bis opponent, the ball just topping the net and dropping over, made the score 5 all. Thence onward
Bazilicap Singles "B": C.W.E. Bishop to beat W.S. Nito sen 1 mg, 7-5, 6-4.
Handicap. Doubles: Ng Szend .D. Humphrey kwong took the coutest entirely F.. Harrison and M.. in band and won the match 21, 86. 7 with ease. He thus secured the championship for the sixth year in succassion, and, incident.
ally, for the second time won the tropby outright. Victory was at- tained by 3 sets to 1 and 23 gamesį to 13.
The Champion's Superiority.
But although Rumjahu came
nearer to success than was gec.:
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FOUR TIMES FINED.
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Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Lady Augustus, whose husband was Minister at Copenhagen, in a letter to a friend id Loudon des-. cribed the exceeding loveliness of Princess Alexandra as early as 1861, and in course of time her portrait was brought under the the notice of the Prince of Wales.
Four counts were contained in
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erally expected, there is no the summons against Fung Fai- abadow of coubt but that the 10g, as manager of the Yee We Chinese player thoroughly de-Steamship Company, served his win, In all departments Police Court this morning, for The ides of the match was far- of the game, he was superior, and, certain breaches of the portther suggested by Sir Augustus, as on many former occasions, he regulations.
two then Mr. Paget, in diplomatic sbowed a marked capacity to separate occasions to send the circles. Eventually the young wipe off a heavy defcit. Ng manifest for cargo carried 10 couple met and fell in love. Sze-kwong always seems to have Canton in the Company s steamer September 24, 1861. The Princess an extra trick up his sleeve, and Saichow
explained by proceeded with her parents to a when, after pulling the third set Cofendant to be due to the fact family gathering at Rumpenheim out of the fire, he began to de- that the firm's one clerk who Castle. Gossip had preceded her, monstratebisreserve ofskill, there could understand English and when chsted on the rumour, was only one player in it. The suficiently to lock after this about "a certain Prince." she champion proved himself the far more resourceful man of the two, with a much greater variety of strokes and markedly superior tactical skill. These were the factors which gave him success.
work had been called away on urgent family matters. in each case a fine of $50 was imposed.
laughingly said, "I have got hitu in my pocket," and produced the portrait of the Prince of Wales.
...
The third charge dealt with an error in another manifest, which Mr. S. J. Roe. prosecuting for! Mommsen, most learned of Ger- the Imports and Exports Departman pundits, referred 39 years ago. ment, characterised es being in his monumental book on the) carelessness." On this, a fine of Roman Provinces. to the "com- $25 was imposed.
plete absence of Roman trances in the interior of Wales." Know- ledge has moved since then. Dr. F. A. Brutob,, who bas just edited to account of one of the latest excavations - ibat of "Caer Llugwy by Mr. J P. Hall- enumerates two legionary camps. British
The fourth charge, referring to failure to provide the Department with a manifest in the case of the steamer Sun Ping-on was met with another fine of $50.
A Plucky Challenger. The Indian, however, put up very plucky fight against a more experienced man, and he is to be congratulated on doing so well He is rather inclined, however, to go in for too much chopping and slicing, especially in his backhand atrokes, upon which he almost en- As the detendant expressed tirely relied. Excepting ocea- astonishment at thus being Enec sionally, when the other man is at in succession, the interpreter told legionary fortress. Romano. the baseline and a short chopihim he could consider himself over the net will outplace him, lucky in escaping the full penalty cutting the ball is not of much of $250 that might have been utility agains: such an old hand expected for each offence. at the game as Ng Sze-kwong. as Ramisha often discovered. Rumjsbn's hard driving did not seriously incommode his oppon. ect, either. and it was only when he went in for placing and lobbing, as in the bird Bat,
A PUZZLE A DAY.
town, three Roman amphitheatres, several Roman houses, a.score of forts, and ten (or eleven) of the so-cailed mile. stones (out of only. 55 in Britain) all within the bordersj of Wales and Monmouth!"Caer. Llugwy itself a mile and a balf only from Moel Sinbad, and but a short walk from Tryfan, the Two boys each had severs striking proof of the thoroughness Glydrs, and the Carneddi, is a that the challenger made any marbles. If the first boy gave with which our first civilised. headway. However, with more one marble to the second boy,
see each would have the same num-power in the most mountainous conquerors established their Rumisbn making in even better ber. But if the second boy gave attempt to secure the champion-one to the first, the first would
districts. ship in the future, as he is still have twice as many as the second. quite young player and certain How many marbles did each boy iy has the makings of a first-rate hava? exponent of the game.
experience we expect to
The Play.
The tiret set was a runaway win for the Chinese player. Rumjann managed to take the Recond game, but this was all he go, the champion outplaying him from every standpoint. Ng .Sz-kwong won by 6 1.
Yesterday's answer:
S
GEM PERIL GENERAL SERENADER MIRACLE LADLE LEE R
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In these days, when so much interest is being taken in the discoveries recently made, and still being made in Egypt. it may be of interest to our readers to know that in 1900 there was great discovery of ancient manuscripts made in the North- West of China, which discoveries! have provided scholars with vast material for research. Happily the sands of Turkestan are as The opening game in the next In the word diamond shown effective as the sands of the Bet went to the Indian as the above the words, "gem." "peril," Egyptian deserts is preserving result of two excellently-placed "general" "miracle," "ladle" and ancient objects, and among the balle, which quite beat the "lee" read across and from top things discovered have champion. At the end of the to
been bottom just As the word inscribed slips of bamboo, which fourth game, Ng Sze-kwong had "serenader" does.
are the earliest manuscripts io existence, and also private letters! written on silk and many business notes. It appears that in the eleventh century, because of sn
3/1 lead, but by steady play his
opponent made the score 3-all.
At the end of the eighth game, the
pair were again level in games, i
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the Chinese player falling away) as you feel A pair of correctis invasion, many personal posses- badly. Faulty play on his part, fitted glasses is a powerful factorsions of the people, including rather than winning strokes by in making you feel you literature
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the other man, gave Romjahn Efficiency demands
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the lead at 5/4. In the next game, wear glasses if your eyes are not were buried, and these have the Indian made some really perfect. Fully fitty per cent. of been accidentally discovered in brilliant recoveries, and this, the people who do not wear a large grotto. Among the articles coupled with some good placing glasses should do so. A great found are thousands of documents, later, caused the champion to lose any are unaware of the real deeds, notes, concerning Bud- bis service as well as the set. condition of their eyes until the dhism and many other subjects. Rumjaha won by 64.
examination is made. The Hong-Professor Pelliot states that they In the third set, Ng Sze-kwong kong Optical Co., successors to have now a record of every year, was still playing indifferently at Clark & Co., refraction and manu- every month and almost every the start, and mistakes on his facturing opticians, located in 53, day of the twenty-four dynasties part resolted in Ramjahn leading Queen's Road Central, have the in China from 100 B. C. down to by 3/1. The latter player had a equipment to test your eyes sc modern times. All this is at 40/love lead in the next, but Ng curately. Testing the sight and present unindexed. eventually took the.
fitting glasess is their exclusive fessor Pelliot's most interesting One of Pro- Rumjabn was standing 40/15 in business. the sixth game, but deuce was
finds is part of an ancient called twice before he won, mak
Nestorian liturgy. ing the score 4/2 in his favour. GERMANS AT OXFORD, In this game some wonderfully
'London: The accustomed sustained rallies were witnessed. scholastic calm of Oxford has The Indian took the following been being violently disturbed game, thus leading by 5/2, and, through a section of the universi- as previously stated, he was twice student body inviting twelve within an ace of winuing the set. German students to spend & The champion, however, then month at the famous English Fettled down to serious work, Beat of learning.
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