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LAWN BOWLS.
THE SPEY ROYAL CUP STARTED ON SATURDAY,
The first match the Spoy Guy was played on the
Civil Service tween the Police Recreation Club and ground on Saturday afternoon bo the Kowloon Bowling Green Club, the former winning by three shots.
The scores were:
Polico.'
Rold
Marka
West Mair
Bowling Green.
W. Hedley
'R. Duncan
W. Macfarlane 20 W. Russell
The Police will now meet the win- ners of the Kowloon Dock-Recreio match.
The League.
In the last match of the Lawn Bowls League, Taikoo seconda met and easily defented the Yacht Club, the margin of points being 41.
Scores:
Taikoo.
J. Sloan
F. Doyle
D. Walmsley
C. B. Matthews
.(skip)
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Yacht Club. Wood Hammond
Sutherland Davies
23 (skip)
Abraham
Croucher
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1927.
CHINESE AT HOME.
the
TENNIS VICTORIES CELE- BRATED ON SATURDAY.
The hospitality of the Chinese Re- creation Club is proverbial and on Saturday, on the occasion of the annual "At Home," committee made adequate arrangements for the entertainment of over 500 guests,
Among the large gathering were Lady Clementi, the Hon. Sir Show-son Chow, and Lady Chow, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, Mrs. Southorn, Dr. S. W. T'so, Mr. A. E. Wood, Mr. E. Ralphs and many other well-known people.
YACHTING.
THE SEAWANHAKA CUP CONTEST.
Oyster Bay, Sept. 24. The series of yachting races for the Seawanhaka Cup has been in-
crossed to six.
Norway and America had oach won two and one was abandoned owing to the weather. The final race was won by Prince Olaf's "Noreg," which 12 miles defeated "Clytie," course. Norway thus won the cup.- Bentor's American Servico.
Over
Scandinavian Cup.
Throughout the afternoon the
Oyster Bay, Sept. 25. band of the Punjabi Regiment played, Merenneito (Finland) Won selections while, the orchestra of the first race in the international yacht the Lyric Band provided music for dancing competition for the Scandinavian ing during the latter part of the Gold Cup, finishing 88 seconds ahead evoning.
of Prince Olaf's Noreg, with. Admiral De Ruyter (Holland) third.
Merenneito led from the start over
A large portion of the lawn was, ns in former years, reserved for tos, while other refreshments were obtain uble in the pavilion.
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· LATEST FLIGHTS.
LEVINE FORCED DOWN AT VIENNA.
Vienna, Sopt. 24. The premature landing was due to a defect in the propeller.
Levine. will await repairs before deciding whether to resume the fight to India-Reuter.
An Air Lock.
MILLIONAIRE'S ESTATI
UNSUCCESSFUL MOTION BY COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK.
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Chicago, Sept. 25. Superior Court Judge Denn. Sullivan has denied the motion Marguerite Hyde, Countess Suffolk, to set aside her brothe Joseph Lelter, a Chicago millor aire, as trustee of the estate their father Lavi Leiter, ʼn Chicap merchant, valued at $30,000,00 The late Marquess Curzon daughters participated in the a
tion against Joseph Leiter, whi the latter's sister, Mrs. Nand
took his side. Campbell, a widow of a Britis army officer, Colonel Campbel
London, Sept. 24.. The American monoplane "Miss Columbia, with its owner, Mr. Laving, aboard and piloted by the English airman Captain Hinchliffe, storm last night, when attempting landed at Vienna in a heavy rain
a non-stop flight to India.
The Judge-stated he did not`aj It is stated that an air lock oe curred in the oil feed and that the prove of all Joseph Leiter's tran now metal propeller sent from Amoriactions, but nothing dishones The en to replace the one broken in Ger- had been shown. With regard ́· many fail to work satisfactorily. the statement of witnesses the Ser-British Wireleas.
Leiter had lost $9,000,000 b speculating in wheat, the Judg noted that the money had bee lost before the death of Lay Leitor, who know the type of ma he was putting in as trustee of th estate.
the six miles triangular course. ultimate winner must have three vice. victories-Reuter's American
WEMBLEY STADIUM.
Much of the interest of the tennis was lost by the absence of Messrs. Ng Szc-kwong, Gordon Lum..and Khoo Hopi-hye, who, it was original ly hoped, "would have been included in the Chinese team. The absence of 10S, A. Rumjahn, the Colony's cham-
pion, and T. Honda, also considerablyLENT TO LONDON SCHOOL weakened the Rest first team.
H. Maxwell
D. C. Speirs
D. Munro
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H, Dinnen
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LEAGUE TABLES.
Division I.
Secretary's Welcome,
CHILDREN.
Off to Basra. fonstantinople, Sept. 24. Kooanecke left Angora at this murning for Basra.-Reuter. ·
PARACHUTE RECORD.,
6.30
London, Sept. 24. The Chinese put up a very credit- The Stadium at Wembley has been able performance and won both the placed at the
of "the disposal first and second division exhibition National Playing Fields ASU matches. Owing to the non-appear-sociation for organised games ance of the full teams in the third played by London school chil. division, this series had to be can-dren, and will probably be used for by nine Marines and sailors, who
cricket, football and 'netball,
12 celled.
Before asking Lady Clementi to 41 distribute the prizes for the various tournaments held during the year, Mr. C. F. Lee, Hon. Secretary, in his capacity Acting President, review. ed the activities of the Club and ex P. W. D. L. Pts, pressed regret at the absence of the president, Mr. Ng Sae-kwong. Ha 12 12 - - 24:
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Kowloon D.R.C.
Taikoo E.C.
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Nine Men Drop in Succession. Washington, Sept. 24. The parachute record is claimed
successively. parachuted The decision to allow its use for three-engined transport zeroplane this purpose was made by the Wem-flying at 120 miles per hour from n bley Stadium and Greyhound Race- course CompanyBritish Wireicaa height of two thousand feet, all landing safely at Bolling Field.- Reuter's American Serice.
POLO."
VICTORY FOR 'SANDS POINT' TEAM.
It is with the greatest of pleasure, on behalf of tho Committee and members of this Club, that I extend to you all a most hearty welcome to- day, and we are indeed honoured by
Westbury, Sept. 26. the presence of such a distinguished.
The Sands Point polo team, with gathering. Lady Clementi has again For Agst. Up Dn. most obligingly consented to honour Hitchcock of the victorious United
States Westchester Cup team the Club by presenting the prizes to their star at number two, defeated day, but we are truly sorry that His the United States Army team by 13 Excellency the Governor is not able goals to 10 in the open champion- to be present.
ship series-Reuter's American Ser- vice,
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Kowloon D.R.C. 701 587 174 Taikoo R.C.
733 658 76 Kowloon B.G.G.... 723 605 Civil Service C.C. 723 706 17 Police RIC....... 688 729 Cruigengower C.C. 061 715 Kowloon C.C..... 562 761
Division II.
Kowloon C.C.
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We are also sorry that our Chair- man, Mr. Ng Sze-kwong, has not been able to retura in time for to- day's occasion, but from the latest reports to hand, he is still in the meet, and incidentally were most ex-
cellent hosts. (Applause).
P. W. D. L. Ps. North, where he is upholding the prestige of this Club in tennis, and 14 11 3 22
incidentally, the Colony's prestige as woll. 4 20
Taikou R.C.
14 10 1 3 21
East Point R.C.
14 10-
Kowloon B.G.C.
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Civil Service C.C. 14 5 -- 9, 10 Craigengover Q.C. 14 4 – 10 1-13
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AIR ACCIDENT,
With regard to the suggestio that antagonism between Josep Leiter and his sisters would detrimental to the estate, th Judge held that Leiter had no asked the other trustees to leav the country and that the departur of the sisters was almost an aban
donment of their trusteeship" Reuter's American Service.
AMERICAN FORCES.
UNIFICATION OF ARMY AND NAVY OPPOSED.
Washington, Sept. 24.
In view of the opposition of th Army and Navy, President. Cod A CRACKED PROPELLER.
lidge is of opinion that unific tion of the two services. unde Berlin, Sept. 24.
one head as recently recomment Exports enquiring into the aeroed by the Dough Boys Conventic plane accident at Schleiz, in which meeting in Paris is unfeasibi Baron von Maltzan, the German An announcement from Whit Ambassasor to the United States, House on the matter makes n was killed in company with five mention of un independent ai others, have issued a preliminary force to be co-ordinated with th report attributing the disaster to Army and Navy in the defence de rracked propeller-Router.
partment as proposed in the plan of the American Legion.
No Definite Programme. The President also opposed an naval building programme grea failure of the Geneva limitatio
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Incident Recalled. In conclusion, he wished the Club
Berlin, Sept. 20.` the best of luck next season.
Among the many incidents illus- plause).
After Lady Clementi had distribut-trating the career of Baron Von Activities Reviewed.
ed the prizes, the little grand-daugh- Maltzan published since the Amer than that planned before th Before the distribution of theter of Dr. Wan Man-kal presented bassador's death is a newly divulg prizes, I should like to review briefly her with a beautiful bouquet.
On the call of Mr. Un How-fan, our sports activities during the past Lady Clementi was accorded three
hearty cheers.
years w
Tennis Results..
"A" Division.
ed account of how Von Maltzan conference. He had decided o was chosen as the German Govern no definite naval programme fo ment's envoy in 1918 to go to recommendation to the next Con Shots for and Against.
Amerongen and persuade the Kal greas and it is understood he in In cricket, we have not done as
ser to abdicate.
tends to refer the subject to th For Agst. Up Dn. well as we would have liked, and in
Wilhelm greeted the Ambasa- General Naval Board for con spite of the "fact that we have lost
The results of the tennis matches, dor thus: "So you are one of the sideration. He would not suppor most of the matches-of course, the
scoundrels from the Foreign Office an extravagant programme, bu better teams must win-I am sure all were: cur players thoroughly enjoyed the
"who misled and deceived nie." favours the construction of onl 20 game. We now have quite a num-
Von Maltzan spiritedly remind- two or three cruisers annually i 86ber of young members, who are very M. K. Lo and M. W. Lo (C.R.C.) 101 keen to take up the game, but we beat Lt. Frowen and S. E. Green 7-4;ed the Kaiser that he had repeated a five-year programme, so thi 300 are curbed in our activities through lost to B. C. Fincher and H. D. Rum-ly warned him in reports from the burden would not fall to jahn 6-6; beat C. E. Millard and D. Peking of the danger of embroil-heavily on any one year budge the inadequacy of our playing field.
There are other lines of sports also S. Green 7-4,
Hment with Russia. Wilhelm ex-Reuter's American Šervice. and Ng Sze-cheung in which we would like to take part,
tended his hand and subsequently but unfortunately, we have to drop (C.R.C.) lost to Frowen and Green signed the decree of abdication the idea of any extension until such 5-6; lost to Fincher and Rumjahn Reuter. time as more grounds can be obtain- 5-6; lost to Millard and Green 3-8.
891 755 136 Kowloon C.C.
862 733 120 East Point R.C. 845 722 123 Kowloon B.G.C... 845 735 119 Club de Recreio 786 806 Civil Service C.C. 752 838 Craigengower C.C. 745 840 Royal II.K.Y,C... 680 980
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Tennis Successes,
In the Hongkong Tennis League this year, we were fortunate enough to repeat our record of last year in win- ning the Shields of all the three Divi- Bions. This has only been brought about by the keenness of our teams captains and the ready co-operation of all the players.
and Ho Ka-lau Yow Man-kit (C.R.C.) beat Frowen and Green and Ramjahn G-5; lost to Fincher 4-7; beat Millard and Green 9-2.
(Total: C.R.C. 51, Rest 48).
"B" Division.
C. Choo and Kwok Po-kan (C.R.C.) beat W. A. Nowers and L. M. S. Lloyd 9-2; lost to J. Leonard' and In Tak-lam 5-6; beat J. Silva and F. Remedios 7-4.
Lau Fuk-ki and Iu Tak-chouk (C.R.C.) beat Nowers, and Lloyd 9-21. beat Leonard and Ia 6-6; lost to Silva and Remedios 5-5.
LAWN TENNIS.
INTER-SCHOOL MATCH ON
SATURDAY.
The Diocesan Boys' School played the Queen's College at tennis on Saturday and won by 70 games to 29. The scores were:.
Lee and Wong (D. B. S.) lost to Choi and Tau, 5-6; beat Soonderam and Ramjahn, 11-0; beat Ho and Kew and 8-3.
Lau Man-ching and Cheung Wing klu (C.R.C.) beat Nowers. Lloyd 7-4; lost to Leonard and Iu
Ma and Chau (D. B. 5.) beat Chel Whilst on the subject of tennis, I-61 lost to Silva and Remedios 5-6. and Tau 6-5; beat Soonderam and would like to mention that the Com- (Totals C.R.C. 58, Rest 41).
mittee of this Club had in mind on the There was no match, in the "C"Rumjahn 9-2; best Ho and Kew 9.2.
return
of Messrs. Khoo Hooi-hye Division. and Lum Po-wah, China's represen tatives in tennis in the Far Eastern Olympiad this year, to stage some
The Prizes.
D
The prizes were distributed to the
exhibition matches, the gate receipts
Pfollowing:
of which would be donated to some
charitable institution, preferably the Hongkong League Shields.. Ministering Children's League, who in
"A" Division-Acting
Captain,
the past have done so much for Chi M. K. Lo; Members of Team, M. W. nesc charities. But, most unfortun-Lo, Ng Sze-cheang, Yew Man-kit, ately, this could not be put through Yew Man-tsun, Ng Sze-kwong,
"B" Division.Captain, C. Choa; owing to Mr. Khoo's inability to make
a longer stay in the Colony when he Members of Team, II. Lo, Lau Fuk passed through last week, and Mr.ki, Cheung Wing-kue, Lau Man- Lum's return at the present time is ching, Iu Tak-cheuk.
"C" Division Captain, Un How- most uncertain,
Before I conclude, I wish to thank fan; Members of Team, Chin Taun- all the donors towards the prize fund chiu, Cheng Chi-wing, Ma Wal-but, and the Officers of the Punjabi Regi- IP Kau, Lau Man-kwong, Reserves, ment for allowing their hand here to Chau Po-wah, Choy Ping-fai. day to enliven the occasion with their pleasant music (Applause);. \\
Amazing Performances,
Shirazeo and Cheong (D. B. S.)' lost
to Choi and Tsu 5-6; beat Soonderam and Rumjahn 10-1; beat Ha. and Kew 7-4.
29.
Totale: D. B. S. 70; Queen's College
THE BIG FIGHT.
PICTURES SEIZED.
SEAMEN'S UNION.
SENSATIONAL EXPULSION OF
SIX OFFICIALS, PRE
London, Sept. 24. Six officials of the National Unio of Seamen, including the Genera Secretary, W. J. Davies, have bee expelled from the Union by th executive for the "intimidation o loyal officials and members and, un constitutional conduct,"
The executive voted confidenc in Mr. Havelock, Wilson and policy. This action is a sequel t the conference which decided t lend money to
the miners political union:—Reuter.
SHELLS EXPLODE.
ARMY MUNITION DUMP
FIRE.
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Baltimore, Sept. 24 Residents over a wide area were kept in a state of alarm by the con tinual explosion of shells when a Chicago, Sept. 24.
fire broke out in the army ammuni The United States marshal bare tion depot. at Curtis Bay. They has seized five sets of the Tunney were relieved when the detonation Dempsey fight films and has had died down, signifying that the ex Henry Sonenshine, the president of the company holding the sole film plosives were consumed-or that rights, arrested at a suburban airport the fire fighters had got the upper Championship Singles.--Winner, whence he was preparing to depart, hand-Reuter's American Service. Ng Sze-kwong; Runner-up, Yew on a charge of violating federal laws by transporting the films, to Man-tsun
Championship Doubles Winners, other parts of the United States.
Sonenshine maintains he intended Ng Sze-kwong and Ng Szo-cheung; Runners-up, Yow Man-tsun and Ho to fly to Canada to display the films Ka-lau.
thore. His lawyers Intend to make
Club's Tournament 1926.
:
EGYPTIAN QUAKE,
In the absence of the president of the Hongkong Lawn Tennis Associa tion (M HR. B. Hancock), Mr. G. Miskin, vice-president, heartily congratulated the Clab on Handicap Singles A-Winner, it a test case-Reuter's American SHOCK REGISTERED IN CATRON winning the three Tennis Leagues. Ma. Wai-but; Runner-up, Ho Ka-lau.| Servico. They had won with the loss of only Handicap Singles "Winner, one match, which was extremely good. Tsang Chung-nin; Runner-up, Un (Applause)" "Not being content with How-fan.
beating all the other teams separate Handicap Doubles Winners, Yow ly, that afternoon they had beaten Man-tsun and Ho Ka-lau; Runners-
Mok the Rest collectively, which was oven, up,
Hing-kiu and Mok more amazing.
Hing-cheung
Continuing, Mr. Miskin said that ho. had played himself throughout the
Cricket. season and knew what he was talk
Best Batting Average ing about. He could quite safely tell Yook, them that the C.R.O. were as good
Best Bowling Avera sportsmen as they could hope to low-fan
Mr. T. E. Mr. Un
THE CHESS DUEL.
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ANOTHER DRAW.
Sept. 25. Capablanca yesterday drew with Alekhine after forty-nine moves. Router's American. Service.
Cairo, Sept. 24.1
The Heluan Observatory recorded
an earthquake at 2:29 am today, centre being five Hundred kilometres away. A slight shock was felt.Reuter.in
Crimea Again Shaken
My Moscow, Sept. 25,
A fresh earthquake in the Crime has damaged and demolished butte Inga in Sebastopol and Yalta, Reuter
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