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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1928.
THE WORLD SPORT
"DORMY ONE ROUND."
COMPSTON'S RECORD GOLF WIN.
CRICKET WASHOUT AT HOME.
(Continued from Page 1.) strain, and it is not expected that A. W. Carr will overwork him this season. It is evident, however, SYMPATHY FOR HAGEN that during a brief period in which he was given the ball he bowled with deadly effect.
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[By A. C. M. Croome.] When I lived near Oxford and played on the University course at Radley I used to count the score against one of my more frequent opponents in an esoteric manner. I reckoned that I had done ill un- eas I bent him by at least two fields up and one to play. But I never treated my pet duffer se acurvlly as Compston treated Walter Ingen at Moor Park on Friday and Saturday. Everybody, except perhaps Compston's caddie, was, very sorry for Hagen. Cad- dies have no bowels.
DIPPER IN FORM. Just Short of Century in Each Innings.
Against Oxford University at
Oxford, Dipper, Gloucester's first wicket batsman, made 110 in the first innings and 87 not out in the second.
The match was drawn, the scores being:
HONGKONG FOOTBALL A NEW RAY FOR
FINAL POSITIONS IN THE TABLES.
The final lenguo tables in" the' Hongkong Football League for season 1927/28, just concluded are as follows:-...
First Division.
Chinese Ath, K.O.S.B. R.A... Scots Guards Queens Regt. Kowloon
| R.A.F.
HK Club Recrolo Polleo South China,
P. W. D. L. F. A. Pis 20 17 2 1 51 10 36" 20 10 8 4 34 17 20 20 11 27 33 22 24 20 9 6 5 81 17-24 20 9 3 8 52'83 21
20
93 829 33 21 20 Go 30 28 16
MEDICINE.
GERMS KILLED IN AN INSTANT.
POWERFUL LAMP.
by
ESCAPES BY CONVICTS.
'LORD CHIEF JUSTICE ON
CHANGE OF LAW.
The Court of Criminal Appeal, composed of the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Salter and Talbot, re- cently considered the cases of Henry Byrne, who was sentenced Parie, April 17. to seven years' penal servitude for and 20 An important communication was robbery with violence made yesterday
Professor months' hard labour for attempted Philibert, the head of the bacterio-rape, the sentences to run concur logical Bection of the Paris rently, and Walter Raynor, who Faculty of Medicine, to the was sentenced to three years' Academy of Science, on the sub-penal servitude for burglary. ject of a new method of bacteria Lord Hewart said that both men destruction by a metallic volatilis- were escaped convicts from Park- 20 6 3 11 24 45 15ing lamp. This lamp is the result hurst Prison, and the offences were 20 0 2 12 29 41 14 of research on the part of M. 3. committed while they were at large. Courtier and M. J. Risler, who oc-The Judge at the trial felt himself 20 6 12 14 02 13 2084 13.17 60 10cupy high scientifle posts at the compelled in the present state of the law to make these sentences The lamp is described as being concurrent upon unexpired tarms minde of extremely fine aluminium which these men were serving. In F.W.D. L. FA. Pts. threads, which burn explosively each case the net effect, if the men K.O.S.B.
18 17 1 0 0 8 85
under the action of a strong electric behaved themselves, would be that St. Josephs... 18 18 2 3 41 23 28
current. The rays emitted from it they would be in prison very little Chinese Ath... 18 11 2 5 36 16 24
are of greater intensity than ultra-longer than if theso sentonces had Kowloon
18 3 4 0 26 23 20
violet rays and approximate to the not been passed. S. Chinn "A 18 3 4 6 19 23 201
The Court would certainly have R.A.
18 9 1 8 29 21 19 wavelength of X-rays. It is claim- Recrolo
18 4 3 11 17 63 11 University 18 3 6 10 17 85 11 S. China "A" 18 4 2 12 15 50 10 H.K. Club 18 1 0 177 21 2
H. K. Chub Teserves withdrew from the league on 24/2/28.
Junior "T" Division.
Junior "A" Division.
Sorbonne.
on Byrno
ed that the lamp, without neces-increased the sentence sitating the expensive installation but for the fact that he had not of high-tension current required for been warned of the possibility con- X-rays, provides a mechanism for sequent upon appealing. the production of rays of great! "It is unsatisfactory," said the therapeutic value.
Lord Chief Justice, "that sentences
M. Rister, in using the lamp in should have to be passed in this connexion with microbe life, has way. As there are materials which F. W. D. L. F. A. Pts. achieved remarkable results. The go to show that these escapes from Chinese Ath. 14 12 2 0 43 12 20 staphylococcus, the bacillus which convict establishments are by no forme pus, was destroyed in one means rare, and that when convicts 2Kung Woo... 14 10 3 2 32 10 22
S. Chinn "R" 14 7.2 5 24 23 10 twenty-fifth of a second, or one so escape they sometimes commit S. China "A" 14 7 10 27 22 15hundred and fifty times foster than offences that cause terror to per St. Josephs. 14 545 29 29 14 by means of a mercury vapour lamp sona living in the neighbourhood, 14 4 19 18 30 giving off ultra violet rays with it seems highly desirable that the Moslem ......
14 31 10 19 447 3,500 candle power. M. Risler has mode of passing sentence in such Kowloon ....
14 1 1 13.22 443 already shown that a selective in-cases where a person is alrendy Boy Scouts ...
fluence can be exerted on microbes undergoing a sentence of penal by means of rays by treating them servitude could be further con- with florescent substances. It is sidered and considered no doubt it thus hoped to render possible the will be." sterilisation of microbes in the liv- ing body without at the same time destroying the tissues.
Gloucester: 344 and 182 (for
2 wickets). Oxford: 315, and 44 (for
wickets). It was hard that the American Dipper'a 110 enabled Gloucester professional golfer should run up to gain a lend of 29 on the first against a world-beating perform- innings, and in the second they ance when he was short of prac-declared when Oxford needed 212 tice, and possibly also of physical and prevented the conclusion of condition. The poor fellow was the match.', not even allowed to forget the score! A man walked round carrying a bourd bearing Comps ton's name with an incredibly large and increasing tally of figures after it!
Yet Hagen played by no means badly quite well enough at any rate to make a word of warning to his competitors at Sandwich timely. No man may reasonably back his score in the Open Cham- pionship against Hagen's, unless he is confident in his ability to return 300 or better.
The Will to Win.
I arrived at Moor Park on Saturday just in time to kee Compston play the odd on to the
or so-to win the holes. That was
he
practically decisive. Unless
PROMISING YOUNGSTER. Gibbons Hits Another Century.
COMEDY OF DIVIDED VILLAGE.
INHABITANTS WEDDING
RUSES.
An extraordinary
the
The fluorescent substances have
The appeals were dismissed...
"REPLEVIN."
At Southampton, Hampshire won' on the first innings against Wor-
effect of making microbes cester, in spite of another fine dis-
ekpecially sensitivo to the action of.. play by Gibbons, who hit his
the rays, and it is regarded as pos- L.C.C. TRAMCAR SEIZED AS second century in successive mat-
situationsible that this fact may lead to the
DISTRESS, ches, and incidentally, the second exists in Hockliffe (Bedfordshire) discovery of a means for directly century in his first-class career.
He is a former member of the owing to the fact that half the attacking the tubercular bacillus ground staff at Lord's and is dis-village lies on the opposite side of in the human, organism.
Watling Street and in a different tinctly promising.
ecclesiastical parish' from the Lother half.
The scores were:
A WASH-OUT.
One Wicket Falls at Lord's.
A
gers.
The "symbolic seizure" of a tramenr belonging to the London County Council last July on a dis- tress warrant, came before Mr. Justice Wright in the King's Bench Division in the form of a claim in replevin to test the validity of the distress,
JERSEY'S ANGER AT Worcester: 244 and 134 (for The Rector, the Rev. T. B. Tat-
INCOME TAX. 6 wickets),
ham, told the Eton Bray Rural Council that unlf of the villagers APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL, Hampshire: 320.
"Replevin" is an action to recover For Worcester, Gibbons scored belonged to a parish three miles
Since the introduction of the possession of what has been dia that he had to seek first green He aho had to play 107 and for Hauts, Mend contribut-away, so
the Local Income Tax Bill, strong op trained on a promise to try the from special permission the old on the second green. But ed 129.
ecclesiastical authorities to be position has been manifested in legality or illegality of the seizure. Jersey, but, notwithstanding, the The London County Council were Hagen missed a pult of ten feet
chairman of his own school mana-Bill was passed by the small the plaintiffs, and the Mayor and majority of three at the third read- Aldermen of the Borough of Hack- When the villagers wanted to Ing. Now the BI has passed and ney the defendants,
The tram was seized in a depot get married at their own church the date has been made retrospec they had to resort to all kinds of tive, the opposition are attempting at Camberwell by the Hackney London against the uses, such as renting a room or to stop it by appeal to the Privy Corporation action on a distress living with a friend on the other Council, by whom all local Bills warrant
County Council for the non- side of the road while the banns must be approved.
A largely attended public meet-payment of £700 for rates alleged were published,
ing was held at which a petition to be due on certain property. was rend. The chief points of the
The tram was returned to the If they did not they had to be petition are that the retrospection L.O.C. on an official depositing a clause is unjust and unconstitu- bond to the value of the rates claim- married at Chalgrave Church, tional; that a Bill based on an Eng-ed, with an undertaking to bring the minds of the spectators. We Imuch the same, where Essex bat. three miles away. Even when lish Act is inapplicable to a small the present action to determine the they died they difficulty in
was going to take all such chances
The South of England experi- as that he was bound to fall für- ther behind, for Compston didenced weather much worse than in not mean to lose holes. An hour's any other part of the country and inspiring practice after breakfast the match between the M.C.C. and with his shorter iron clubs had the West Indies at Lord's was a Marylebone fixed his tail firmly to the nape complete wash-out.
нcored 65 (for I wicket) and there of his neck.
was no further play.
The tale of the third round can be told, quite briefly. The stand- ard of the golf was so high as to affect the sense of perspective in
At the Oval,
Conditions at the Oval. were
A Century.
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Burial Difficulties.
was
репяе.
"The arguments in the case had getting buried in their own parish. deduction at source would create a
The Watling-street boundary of vast amount of unnecessary ex-not concluded when the court rose. the parishes, he said,
Sponsors of the B state that thousand years old, und was made
A Shanghai merchant, Kwok Fu- when there was not a single house the island deficit on the Budget is ting, has made a gift of 2,300 in what was now the village of £31,000, and that no further source copies of Chinese literary.bunks to Hockliffe.
of income is available ércept in the Hongkong University ard an
The Privy Council will The Rural Council decided to come tax.
Middle Chinese taxution.
course, but we also wanted the 2 wickets. Sarray of course had stranger within our gates to enjoy no oppurtunity of batting. himself within limits. When Hagen put his ball on the green. with a shot which we would At Chesterfield, Derbyshire scor- gladly have taken for our best, ed 164 runs for the loss of seven we shook despondent heads and wickets against Somerset and Mr. remarked that he had not "play G. R. Jackson then declared. ed it. It was not his day for Somerset mude 38 for I wicket but petition the Bedfordshire, County holing long putts, and he mis-rain prevented further play. The Court to alter the boundaries. directed at least two short ones. match does not count in the cham- Once, and once only, Hagen pionship owing to the fact that found the proceedings amusing-less than six hours play was A fine approach to the 15th green possible.
gave him a chance to get a hole The same applies to the match back. Compston's odd stymied at Hull between Sussex and York- him hopelessly. Hagen's grimshire. Sussex went in first and countenance beamed for a moment
scored 247, the principal contribut- with a smile, and he tapped his tor being Cook with 105. York- ball up for a half..
Ahire made 49 for 1 wicket.- Reuter.
PING PONG MATCH.
ST. PETER'S CLUB DEFEAT
R.E.
A ping pong match between the Royal Engineers Sergeants' Mess
Winner's Three Mistakes. Compston made three mistakes. He pulled his approach to the Becond into a shallow bunker, and clipped his ball doad off the amoothly-raked sand. He pulled again with his fron at the ninth, and again lay dead with his next, This was one of the shots of the match. A.lesser man would have pitched and trusted to luck Compston played his ball firmly and the St. Peter's Church Young on to the low fronting bank of Men's Club was played at the Club the green, and it bounced up with house last night, and resulted in a Just enough life to make it run to win for the Young Men's Club by the hole.
117 games to 58. From the fourteenth les Comps- The Military men are to be con- : ton drove into a narrow drain gratulated on putting up such a which crosses the course (say) good show in their first public 200 yards in front of him. His appearance and after a little more drives had averaged about 280 experience they will no doubt prove yards. So it was a foolish action worthy opponents of the local to take his driver and hit a full teams. shot with it!
.:
When Hagen saw Mr. Roger
Wethered beat Mr. Robert Harris Out
HAGEN,
543 5 5 5 3 4 4-48
in the final of the Amateur Cham-Home ... 3 4 3 5 4 3 4 4.3-34-72
plonship at Deal he remarked: "If
this young fellow can play
ke
Out
that he has got the Open won by six strokes." He has once again Home Been golf played as Mr. Wethered
Out....
played it on that memorable occa- Home... sion. It is impossible to pny higher compliment to Compaton.
A
Second, COMPETON.
4 4 2 4 5 4 4 5 4-36
2 3 3 4 4 3 4 4 8-30-60
HAGEN.
4 6 8 6 4 5 4 4 5-39
3 4 3 5 6 4 6 4 4-37—70
Third. COMPSTON
It may be worth while to give out .... 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 4 4–34. the full scores in this memorable Home run-away match:..
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First Round.
COMPSTON.
442 5 3 4 348-
Home... 2 4 3 0 3 4 4 5
Out
358 45 45.4 5-30-70
HAGEN.
44444445-97
Home... 3 4 4 5 5 4 5 4 887-74
Fourth One hole only, halved in 4.
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