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FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY SPORT DRAMAS
|U.S. NAVAL 'COINCIDENCE
If there is any direct connec- tion between the Japanese "Hands -Off China!" declaration and Presi dent Roosovolt's anxiety for au thority to speed up the navul building programme the commen- tury it affords on the state of
& COMEDIES
By J. H. FREEMAN TO Boat Race crew in recent possible N°
on Derby Day yet in history duffered such a ample time for the race. But al- world polities is and indeed. At sequence of buffets from misfor- most from the moment April the tune as the Oxford eight which Fifth was boxed, delay piled on the best, it is-oxceedingly ill-timed
was bonten coincidence, certain to be mis- precedent and not form were a with exasperating frequency; a this year. Yet if delay. Trame jama Occurred understood. Civilisation will reliable guide they could have fow yards and a stop; a quarter of rapidly drift into chaos and con- Laken courage from sport's his-a mile and a quarter of an hour's fusion If every apparent threat story books. Their pages toam wait. to be met by a potential counter with instances of gallant victories threat. Statesmanship all round on in the hour of seeming dis-
aster. the globe seems to be deplorably incking in both tact and wisdom.
FRESH COUNSEL
•
The Very Idea!
HANDS OFF KELLY
By Viscount Edward Salto Kelly
Wo pushed in the ignition key, and turned off the lighta
"It's our tum to write "The Very Idea to-morrow." we mighed, an we put our arm around her.
There was a moment's silence. "What are you going to write about?" she asked.
"Dunno," we replied, morosely. There WOR another moment's silence. Then, auddenly-
"Hands of, Kelly" sho Bald. Roverely.
"Thanks," wo said, "The Very Iden!"
Now read on.
Ultimately it was decided to -Could any
walk the horse across the Downs. have had a worse beginning than the hurrying crowds, was taken great sports arena So April the Fifth, unnoticed by Wembley Stadium? In the first F.A. Cup Final played there (1923) motor-coaches, threading his way past gypsics" vans and parked dister of the Arst magnitude polling people and all the N
was avoided only by 1 of
combination
*
ṬEWSPAPERS are kick-
The sober comments. of The
events which, in retrospect, Karish, noisy paraphernalia of an
ing up so much fugs Times on the Far Eastern situa- read as the story of a miracle. English Derby Day,
about this Hands Off China tion are well worth pondering. In the summer of the center racking hour through which his policy, that we've decided to
Cannot you imagine the nerve- If there is any spirit of reason: the vast arona was the весло о left in Tokyo, fresh counsel should one of the greatest boxing fias owner-trainer passed?
posse, naturally enough, has been told.
When April the Fifth renched,
start a little campaign on the be taken. Japan has said her say, coes of all time-the inside story over-bluntly. Much of the res-of which has not yet been fully the paddock there was barely time same lines ourself.
Nor can it be in our for his appearance in the parade. And the ordeal through which
Henceforth, our policy is the horse had passed might have going to be "Hands Off left him shrlaking and unrespon-
Kelly,"
in the same tene, challenging and generation. militant, even on the defensive. The Times comment, without mincing words, comes an a cooling draught, setting forth the facts and inferences without invective and producing an easier frame of mind where there is a willingness to respond. The calm appraisal,
The central figures were the sive, talled off from the start. British heavy-weight champion, Jack Bloomfield, and the young and virile American Tom Gibbons. The two were billed to fight for the biggest purse that any promo- ter had had the courage to put up in this country-a
total sum
this day in the life of April the What a story for the finia was Fifth and his actor-owner!
It will take some time to get [started, but onco wo can get the
The history of Rugby is full of newspapers interested, there's the dramatic and unexpected.
no telling where it will end. W. J. A Davies, whose captaincy of England was not marred by a
First of all, there will be the
attempt by Japan to seize contralf which, I have reason to belleve single defcut, was saved in 1922 declaration (by Edward Kelly)
of a Monroe Doctrine, only wo will call ours the "lon. 'owel Doctrtue.
Then the fun will start. For instance, the London Times:
"There can be no doubt that Hong-
even when attention is drawn to the suspicions of an opportunist
of China
was between £15,000 and £16,000. while Europe America are preoccupied, should were financially responsible that a
It was anticipated by those who by a pair of over-size boots--worn
by someone else! assist in producing a happier outerqwd of from 90,000 to 100.000 It was the day of the match with come than may now seem probable could be attracted.
France at Twickenhamn. H. L. V. If it gives warning that Britain is not. to be hoodwinked. it also Half an hour before the adver. Day, one of England's wing three- marks a disposition to concede ised time on the summer Satur-quarters, arrived on the ground something to Japan's pecullar day afternoon, the mere sprink without his football boots. position.
None could be found to fit him. ling of spectatura senttered about, the huge amphitheatre seemed naj He turned out in a pair lent kong taipans are genuinely disturbed men lost in n wilderness of space. by 1. J. Pitman, two sizes too big by the fent issued by Edward Kelly,"
Gibbons arrived by car., walked for him. Yet he kicked three from his dressing-room to the con- goals, two of which were penal the Times will say editorially, "That tre of the field, and made up his tics, almost from the halfway line, the present financial depression has mind.
and the game was drawn,
prompted Kelly to issue an ultimatum "My money must be paid in When the University Rugby
to the shroffs in unquestionable, and, it is only there that it ean De eash here and now," he said. necessarily, it is still possible to money, no fight."
"No match series was resumed after on the account, it is premature to ended. Without sympathising.
the war, Oxford were in a quand-condemn Kelly without hearing his understand
were closed; the ary on the eve of the last contest side of the question." alderations provoking pronounce-been but a drop in the occun,
money in the ill" would have played at Queen's Club because. their stand-off half, F. A. Wal-
ONUS ON JAPAN
The onus lies on Japan.
The rumpus was started in Tokyo and
some
of the con-
The banks
•
There is not enough room in this column to show the Daily Mail streamer headlines:,
Disapproving Mr. Saito's some- meats such as that of April 17. Hurried conferences were held.dock, who later played cricket for what wild words, it is still possible Fast cars were sent north, cast, Somerset, was injured. to appreciate his motives. They mouth, and west. 2500 cone from
V. II. Neser, who had been given Sums of his Blue the previous year as a may be wrongly based or false in here: 100 from there. conception, but. The Times sug-
£50 dribbled in. But there was forward and had played in the gusts, there is no need for over never any chance of reaching five pack in the 1920 season, was any in its editorial. "It would be à haste in condemnation. Quite figures.
inken out of the forwards to take suspicious. The Manchuria com- clearly. Japan has been
Waldock's place, undaly
effective
to
the race did April the Fifth reach to the field a beaten side. But a utes the other way and its name sible; the decision to cancel tand, in opening the meeting, made a the course in time. A few min- snowstorm had made play imposent hotel keeper, occupied the Chair would never have been placed on was taken the day before-of violent attack upon Kelly, the scroll of winners.
"This man," said Mr. T*g*rt, "is destroying the very foundation of
recognise our shroffe.”
Supporting the
Chairman, Mr. R*tt*nj**, a well-known brewer, sald that he was placed in the dimeult position of having to either "supply Kelly, or work a shift less.
Other speakers «poke.
"Leavo Kelly Alone," the paper will
benefit to the entire, civilised world, and not least to journalists де д ly ignorant of the fact. Con-plex will always play an important
whole, if Kelly succeeds in his exer- Eventually, with about one-fifthi trolled areas are marked by red part in the shaping of her policies of the stipulated sum available,
It was
tlons to end the mania of debt-collec- a happy inspiration of ting that had taken triangles, and in the area mer-
and ideas until it ceases to be a
possession of Gibbons was persuaded to go into D. D. Duncan, the Oxford captain, factor in Worli politles. It la the ring for a contest which lastedNeser played a great part in Ox-longkong talpeny." tion these are placed near not surprising that Japan should two rounds and which gave to the ford's victory by the bare margin the Cathedral and at the term- be thinking that the world, neg-promotion of open-air boxing
of a try. inus of Kennedy Road. They in refusing to accept the fait ne-
ative in direct action, but positive blow that staggered it for years. Porhaps the most trying exper- Cablegrams will fash from Now Wembley Stadium is the fence that any international team Hongkong to the leading newa- may not be very prominent. but compil, is also wurking surrepti-scene of orderly and highly suc-has ever gone through fell to the papers of the world: they do exist, and they can cer- tiously against her. The alterior cessful sports pageants year after lot of the Scottish XV, last season.
mative is sought for in everything. year.. tainly be seen by the observant The most harmless activities are
Violent gales-and-a-strong sen
"Hongkong; Apr. 27------- It would be difficult to imagine made their crossing to Ireland a motorist. It is to be feared, misinterpreted.
In worse ordeal than that through log of torment.
That the Kelly "Hands Off Kelly"" however, that a large number of
The bont ar declaration is likely to have violent which Tom Walls passed on the rived in
Dublin on the morning repercussions in Hongkong was evid- motorists not only take no notice SPAIN'S TROUBLES
morning of Derby Day 1932. of the match 28%1⁄2 hours late. of such signs, but. even when
Only after adventures that were
Fenced to-day whon a mass miceting of not revented until some days after hausted and would have gone position. Mr. J. II. Tggit, promin
The team was physically ex-
talpany was held to consider the they do see them, they have no
The disturbing atmosphere in precise knowledge of the restric-Spain has been gathering for some tions which apply in the areas time. The resignation of the Ler ronx Cabinet is a symptom rather covered. Actually, controlled than the cause of the tension,
course, unknown to the Scottish arcas are subject to definito which is the outcome of the great Mr. Walls decided that the XV. speed-limits, and there is a fur- Marxist defeat at the polls in go by motor-box from his Epsom off later in the BCason, Scotland business by his policy of refusing to
horse, trained by himself, should When the fixture was brought December when the ther proviso that no moving strength of the Socialists in the stable
to the course ns late as won by 2 goals to none. vehicle may be passed therein. country remnined but }{ttle The speed-limit is not uniform diminished. Senor Lerroux's bid in all areas, but in no case is a
for strong government, the attempt to win over the Conservatives to speed exceeding twenty miles full support with the bait of an per hour permitted. A greatesty for their political pri-
soner-friends, merely served deal of confusion undoubtedly furnish the opposition with ex- exists at present regarding plosive materini, ready to go off these signs, and although it is
at the slightest spark. Complica- tions are added by the threats the business of all motorists to
of youthful GI Robles to seize acquaint themselves with the the reins of government and his regulations, steps might reason organisation to meet the Faselsts challenge Lo the Syndicalist ably be taken to make the posi-In the streets to settle their can- tion much clearer than it is.flict of ambitions. The forces The controlled area in Nathan of Anarchy have been let loose three times since the Republic Rond, Kowloon, is very plainly was established in 1931 and it fa: marked with a big sign alating doubtful if the end of the speed-limit in force.. The bloodshed has yet been seen. result is that there is fairly general observance of the re-scen to be clear, is obviously quirement. One necessity, absurd. The whole question of therefore, is that all areas sub-motor speeds is admittedly diff- jeet to control should be indicat-cult and complex, but the neces- ed just as prominently as that sity does exist for some measure in Nathan Road, with the speed of control in the busy urban restriction definitely
stated.arcas,
Perhaps the problem The rule that no motorist may would best be solved by fixing a pass another moving vehicle in general speed-limit for the whole a controlled district appears un-of the busier parts of the island necessarily stringent. In any and Kowloon, but eliminating case, it is more often than not the rule in regard to passing infringed. To expect a motor-moving vehicles. This would car to crawl along behind a bus undoubtedly remove cause for elimbing Garden Road at a confusion, and possibly result speed of seven or eight miles in a marked curtailment of an hour, when the road ahead is street accidents,
the
"Lot him come in now. Ife's waited long enough to realize
I'm a busy man.”
•
Hongkong, Apr. 28, An important pronouncement on the Kelly Manifesto was made. by Mr. J. H. R*tt*nj** this morn- ing, in
press Interview. Mr. R*tt*nj** said that the Hongkong Brewery
neither desired nor intended to "close the Open Door" to Edward Kelly, especially in view of the fact that such action would. be inimical to Hongkong trade.
Declaration of Independence I'm ending this humility, This wormish, soft servility 1 From now on I am hard and wise,. Enslaved no more by dusky eyes." No more shall pretty martinets Number me among their pets. The way they treat you is n sin.... Say Who's the blonde that just
came in?
Suspicion.
Then there was the wife who wanted to know who the other woman was when her husband decided to take out a third party insurance on the car.