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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.
TELEGRAPH.
LOCAL CRICKET.
£60,000 SURPRISE.
|VOLUNTEERS ENGAGED WITH DISINHERITED SON TO
KOWLOON C.C.
CHARLES ZIMMY TO GIVE EXHIBITIONS.
Hongkong has been invaded by yet another world champion. This is the holder of the endurance swimming recard which he established in Hono- Julu last summer by remaining in the water for just over 100 hours, cover ing, in the meantime, approximately 78 miles during the three days and nights that he was swimming. The champion Ret 14 the record withnist the nid of legs-for he is the legless wonder, Charles Zimmy, whe nrrived here yesterday morning from Mann where he had been giving s perles of exhibitions.
A unique character in aquatic spur Charles Zimny, who is to make an attempt to swim the English Channel from Dover to France and then without hack to England again landing on Fernch territory, an nchievement that has never yet been accomplished, nerived in Hongkong Ig the Aanana Maru yesterday morn ing and is staying in the Colony for a short period during which time he is to make several appearances before local nulie-nces,
Zimny, who lost his lega in a tram accident in Chirago when he was right years
age, has adapted kim- ult to many spheres of life that would are impossible to a man who has been deprived of the assistance uf his logs. An ndeja at diving, Zimmy has thrilled nudiences in ronny parts of the world with his quatic fent. He has overcome hin disad vantage on the golf links and also in the driving of a motor var. He in all to do ymnastic stunts arul moves about with incredible speel on a large alintz which he straps to the stump of his right test. He furnishes motive power with his arina and wan the stump of the left leg as a brake when he wants to stop quickly.
Swimmer, Aerobat. Dancer!
futh
Ris dimeuity in controlling a motor car has been overcome by equipping napecial hard braking device while the clutch is equipped with elongated pedal which he works with the stump of his left leg. Whilst playing golf he has a caldy to enrry i stool for his une nad is able to
of a manter play all the shots
Rolfer.
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Zming in to appear at all perfor- of the King's Theatre o71 Wednesday and has been engaged for four days. He is to give exhibitiona of under water swimming in a glan Funk which he has been taking around the world with him. He will give suple arobatic turns and will end up his programme with a dance!
Zimny called at the offers of the S. C. af. Post yestertiny and outlined is plus for his attempt to swim The Chanel. After he had introduced himself our representative was na loss to know how to invite the leg Jos marvel to sit down. He managed to stutter, "Can you sit down" and an reply was surprised to see Zimmy elimb imby antu a chair. He ex- plained that sitting down was my thing but a diflicult task for him, AS he climb ladders 150 feet high.
Speaking of the loss of his limbs Zimny said that he lost them in a tram nevident in Chicago 20 years ago at the age of eight. He was then a nows boy and, in jumping from a tram, was run over by another, couldn't swim a strake when I nd them" he said. "One day I went to swimming pool with some hogs and they pushed me into the water. discovered I couldn't sink and I have been swimming ever since. Legs are the heaviest part of the human buy in water. They are dead weight," explained Zimmy.
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Bon came into the nido as it was one man short. Is, karo was crocked, and he could not take as active part in the game an would have done.
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TO SHARE IT.
TAXING THE FOOD OF THE POOR.
SHOWING
TO-MORROW WED., 24th, FEB.
ALL
At the
KING'S
BRITISH NEWS
REELS
FISH TOO DEAR ALREADY.
The fish merchants of Billings. The two-day fixture between the Volunteers and the Kowloon Cricket
A settlement has been reached gato are anxious to know whetheri Club was begun yesterday on the in the strange case of the owner-ish will be included in the 10 per latters ground,
ship of the estate--valued at cont. revenuo tarif. The Volunteers and first lease uf | £00,000—of the Inle Mr. Francia "If it is Included", said one of the wickets, and could only total 163 Capper. Brooke, of Ufford Pince, the leading merchants to a report. runs. McLellan was the top-scorer Suffolk, who disinherited his son, er, "the price of fish, which is ni with a well-played 43. J. E. Richard- Colonel Reginald Brooke, 47 years leady too high for many of the
K.
poorer people, will go stili higher." By his will of 1885 Mr. Brooke The merchants have asked Sir he otherwise provided that his estate should be John Gilmour (Minister of Agri- left to the male heir of Sir culture and Fisheries) receive The home team were fighting hard Thomas Brooke, who died 514 a deputation. When the mer- for rans, when stumps were drawn years ago.
chants see the Minister they will Steps to Stardom. After the first few wickets had fallen cheaply, E. F. Fincher and Goodwin ed last year for this heir, five peo- of Ash.
Since an advertisement appear-put the case for the free import" Improved matters. Fineber-vas un- defeated at the close of play. Thele, including Lord Cobham, Lord This case they summarised match will be resumed this afternoon. Strabolg! and Lord Burgh, have thus:
Scores:
claimed the estate.
"London merchants have dif In the meanwhile the estate has | ficulty
getting sufficiently Making a Tooth Brush. 1 remained in the possession of large quantities of North Sea The Secretary Bird.
Major Eardley S. Bois, whose an-quality dish regularly. cestors married Into the Brooke It would be ruinous to hundreds Atlantic Antica.
Volunteers Int Innings, R. H. Griffiths, c and b Burnett E. J. R. Mitchell, b Burnett W. D. Folley, b Burnett
A. C. Beek, e Hampton, b Lyal
H. Owen Hughes, cand b Burnett D. McLellan, b Skinner
F. Bak, e Burnett, Lyal
A. J. H. Woltt, b Goodwin
D. Kilber, e Lawrence, b Lynl J. E. Richardson, not out .. R. R. Davies, { Lawrence,
Skinner...
Goo win Barnett Eye)
Skinner
Extras
In
Now a compromise regariling If they still came in at the estate has been reached be higher price, the results would 14) tween Major Bronke (Bois) and[alño be bad.
at 11.45 a.m. Continuous Programme.
Ponies.
Listen to the Band.
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name to Brooke.
family, He was recently allowed of shopkeepers if the supplies
his coming from Denmark
were Britain's Brightest Babies.
driven away by a tariff.
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the Bonnie Scotland,
and
Many Othora,
Prices
Stalls
20c.
50c.
Colonel Reginald Brooke, the dis British trawlers cannot supply] „9] Inherited son, who is 77 years of all the fish needed. At least 30
age am lives in London.
firms Billingsgate depeml on
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Wolf, & Owen
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C. Fincher, e Hoghes
Lawrence, & wen Hughes
E. F. Fincher, not out
N. A. F. Mackay, b Beck
P. E. Skinner, e Griffiths, b Owen
Hughes
G. Lee, b McLellan
P. Goodwin, c Foldry, b WoNT G. Q. Burnell, b Owen Hughes 1. Hampton, not out
Extras..
"I have signed an agreement | supplies of foreign-caught fish.
The bulk of the forei en sup-| whereby receive a proportion of the estate," the Colonel told theplies are of the chomper kinds of Irh. Therefore a tarif on them རིི?T༤༠༢༥-
would hit the poor hardest. Fried ish shops would have great dif- ficulty in enerying on.
The Only Malchelr. Colonel Brooke was cut out of his father's will because he made a complimentary speech about a man his father disliked.
When the disinherited son con fested the will in 1923 he won in the court, but lost on an appeal, and Maor Bois was given posaEN» sion by order of the Court.
"The curious thing," said Colonel 13 Brooke, "is that, although I was 20 disinherited. I am the only male heir in the male descent from Sir Thomas Brooke. The other claim- forward re- ants who have come
the descendants in
The merchants made it clear. that they were well aware of thei difenities of the British trawler- owners in finding the right sait of fish in the North Sea.
AUSTRALIAN FLIERS
INJURED.
MACHINE CRASHES INTO HIGH TENSION WIRES.
Melbourne, Feb. 22.
D. Circio
Complete Change of Programme
Weekly.
PREMIER'S RETURN.
GOES INTO CONFERENCE WITH MR. BALDWIN.
London, Feb. 22. Mr. Ramnay MacDonald return- ed to Downing Street from (Chequers early this afternoon. ant immediately went into con- |ference with Mr. Baldwin.
MacDonald remaining in "I cannot afford to contest the
Flying from Sydney to Biel- London until Wednesday when he matter further, so I have agreed hourne after attending the Air returns to Chequers. Meanwhile to the compromise."
Forve reunion at Laverton, Mr.
the doctors prohibit his atten C.T.P. Ulm, one of the famous dance in the House of Commona. "Southern Cross" fliers and a pas-Router's Special Service.
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WOMEN LIKE ROUGH TREATMENT.
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Received by the King.
London, Feb. 22. The Prime Minister is expected
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it all depends on the stick. In the Athens. - old days a man was allowed by law Buenos Aires...BING.
and then. Shanghat, to heat his wife now
New York. Nowadays stirk won't bent dox,
Amsterdam. And that's half the trouble,
Viennn For all their modern notions,
Madrid. women have a secret love of being Bucharest bossed, All the successful male Hongkonɛ. film stars look as if they couldBrussels... beat a woman if necessary. Women Milan like the iron hand, but it must Stockholm. be in the velvet glove. They love | Prague..
Lisbon to be beaten. But the caress must
Rio.. follow.
Bombay.. One of the reasons of marriage Yokohama.
Montevideo,. Montreal .......3.04
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failures is the fact that the hus- band cannot boss. He hands his wife his cheque book, and tells her Silver (anot)... 199 to get on with it. He says lazily, "Oh, you know more about that than I know!" She does. But she hates him to let her know ahe docs.
Men allow their wives to choose their clothes, drive them in cars (a horrid sight, this. The Inac-
When asked how he propelled him self in the water, Zimmy calmly re- plied, “i niwoys use the Austrilintive male crouched like milk erawl without the kicking."
His Channel Swim.
In July Inst Zimmy broke the then existing endurance record by remain ing in the water for 100 hours and 15 sec, and when speaking of his impending attempt to conquer the English Channel from Dover to France and back Zimmy appke cu fidently of his success. "I can do it," he said, and expressed the opinion that it would take him at most 76 hours to accomplish the fent.
Elaborate preparations have been minde for the attempt, Zimmy ex- plaining that he had expended about $25,000 all told. He had a band of experts with him and bad engaged special dietitian from Australia to join him in England two months be- fore the netual attempt is made. After he has succeeded-for he on- tertains no doubts whatever of hin Ruccess he intends to make a brief stay in London where he will give exhibitions before returning. to the United States. The swim will be inade during the last week of August. Zimmy has many achievements to his credit and claims at least two world records. By remaining in the water for 100 hours and 15 secs. be beat the previous endurance record held by Mra, Myrtle Haddersion by nearly 14 hours. He has remained under water for 4 minutes and 17 seconds which he claims as another recurd. For three minutes he has shuked a cigarette under water.
churn beside his wife t the wheel). They let them continue the neglect of their careers to their homes,
Men do not know how helpless
be. women love to
How they ndore the strong man who will say with loving firmness, During this isn't your job. It's and how happy they are when kepl Men are too lazy in their place. nowadays to bengster. The benpecked husband-ieure, be- cause he takes care to do nothing Victorian husband was less wise, to cause a peck. The hespecked to felt he ought to be master, and tried to be, and became the victim the of the female contempt for man who can't boss.
And in those days a woman had no outlet for that contempt, be- yond making a perfectly horrible arrow for the peor toad, To-day merely she lets him alone, and goes off to be a film star ar an
aviator.
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A woman loves the man whom he knows would give her thundering good hiding, far bet ter than the man whom she knows would never dare.
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HONGKONG SHARE
MARKET.
OFFICIAL SUMMARY BY STOCK EXCHANGE.
No change to report, the market being practicnity cfoned during the Racer.
Sales. Hungkong Banka, $1950. Hongkong Trams, $20. H. K. Electrics, $75. Buyers.
Union Insurances, $105. Hotel (0), $13. Chinese Estates $95. Singapore Tractions (pref) 11/ Amusementa $10. Goyt Loans, 3% prem.
Sellers, Hongkong Banks $1350,
Decks, $29. China Lights (Old), $21.
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
The following cable at the close of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messrs. Pen-. treath and Co,
London Terminals. March 6/2% down 24. May 6/5% down 2d. August 6/8 down 20. December 6/11% down 2%d. Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-d. more.
New York Terminal. Holiday Washington's Birth-
But he must be fond of her. He must boss her becauso le thinks she is too dainty and sweet to do all the horrid jobs herself. His chastisement must be a form From the age of twelve, four years of love-making. A woman loathes after losing the use of his legs a man who tries to boss her with Zimmy has been appearing before the out loving her. The text for all day.
and has public giving exhibitions iravelled in various parts of the good marringe is. "Tako a world although the intended trip to and a stick," Neither is any good England to swim the Channel will by itself.
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be the first time ho ha been to When I see those rows of nice, Europe. During his appearances in ժորոո ով Minis ho has thrilledpineless young men in the train. large audiences who have marvelled each one reading his paper and at the wonderful agility of a man who giving his neighbour D has lost the use of his legs.
Zimmy is a strongly bulit individual with a pair of powerful arms which ho uses to lift his enormous weight
of eleven stones.
Zimmy has a charming wife and two chlidren, a boy and girl
much
know elbow room as possible I
CROWN LAND SALE. REPULSE BAY LOT GOES CHEAPLY.
334,
At the Crown Land Office yester they will all be unhappy husbands. day, Rural Building Lot No.
The whole trouble in that there altuated near the Rural Building Lot are not enough bosses born and No. 332, Repulse Bay Road, was gold not enough sticks to go round. The by public auction to Mr. A. H. Comp- husband of to-day has handed his ton, of Mesara David, Sasscon & Co.
club to his wife.
for the upset pries of $2,400.
The property has an arOR of ap. proximately 12,000 square feet.
-British Wireless.
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