HONGKONG THE
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, JANUARY
13,
1938.
NO CRICKET JONAHS FOR 3
.
Relegation Would
Solve Problem
By Frank Thorogood
All the cricket world is talking of the cricket reform proposals of the M.C.C. commission.
I think it a geat pity that the scheme advocated many years ago for a competition on the basis of promotion and relegation was turned down.
Such a plan would not only come into ne with pubile fancy, but ease of the the congested programme
championship.
so long as my club is nai one of those to go out,"
THE WAGES QUESTION
Instead, we have the present dar- One important monetary and per- ing recommendation that the numbersonal effect of such a reduction has of competitors should be reduced jbeen pointed out by Nichols, the from 17 to 15.
Essex and Fugland fast bowler, who
THE TIME FOR UNITY
I hope a solution will not be sought In that way.
In my view, it is the sporting duty of each county to slund by each other
in the hour of need.
Under this scheme the majority of professional players will be losing money, as in inne rases out of ten
are pait so much per match.' they
The "donal disaster might, as ggested, be avoided by an
amalgama- tershire. Mr. C. E. Loseby, advocates the fusion of his own county either with Northants or Lincolnshire.
Who are to be the Jonahs in theflon, and a vice-president of Latices case of reduction?
I can Imagine a storm of protest from the followers of the domed counties. As the secretary of lamp- shire naively puts it:
"Reduction would be a good thing
ARMADA GOLD? NEW BID
Die
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Still one more chapter parently to be added to story of attempts to find a treasure, reputed to be worth £2,500,000, which may or may noi-lave lalu for three and half centuries beneath the waters of Tobermory Boy, Isle of Mall.
The story is that when the Armada was beaten and scattered by storms about the consts of Britain, one ship reached the Isle of Mull.
Her commander wanted food and water. The MacLean said he would provide stores if soldiers from the galleon were lent him to ight the islanders of Bum and Muck,
Meanwille It should be under- stood, on the authority of an in-!
al no reduction, templated before 1910.
YEARS HENRY COTTON
JAPANESE BOMBER BROUGHT DOWN
ACCURATE ANTI-AIRCRAFT fire by Chinese troops in Canton. this Japanese bomber, which fell into the river. The occupants were killed.
HUGE brought dawn
fluential number of the MC.C.. | SOVIET BUILDS HUGE
any, is con- j
Another legislator says:
"There is no question of forcing. extinction on a club," and he sug- Rests the likelihood of the two de
I pored clubs taking part in the Minor
Counties Competition.
That suggestion seems to pave the way for future schente nf pro- motion and relegation,
NON-STOP TESTS?
In the plea of the Commission for the reduction of matches in the cham- pionship I read a strong inference that the heuds of the cricket world this country are preparing for the introduction of non-stop tests, parti-
Australia, cularly against
I think the question of "negative" bowling has been exaggerated.
"First steps in dealing with the recommendations rest with the coun- ties, who will call their committees." an MC.C. official said yesterday. After this a a meeting of the Advisory County Committee will be summoned. "Syne of the proposals may be utopied for 1938."
THESE APPROVE
ARCTIC NAVAL BASE
Great Ice-Free Port Near
Finnish
Border
London, Dec. 29.
With a view to strengthening its defences in the northern regions, and thereby gaining undisputed control of the Arctic maritime routes, the Soviet Union has constructed a great new naval dockyard and base at Poljarnoje (formerly known, as Alexandrovsk) in the Murmansk district of north-west Russia, and comparatively close to holl the Norwegian and Finnish frontiers.
The entire district. has been The fortifications strongly fortified,
being said to extend to a radius of ten miles from the centre of the town. In addition to new barracks, workshops, and naval stores being at construction, largu present under caves are to be converted into Here are a few opinions on the pro-hangars for the use of scaplaurs, i posals expressed yesterday.
Warwickshire: "I am in favour of The new base, some observers con- Ifis Bttle war completed, he
the chief base of the fused to allow the soldiers back anthe proposals. The suggested change sider, will be board til he was paid for his stores. In awarding points is good."-Peter Suviet Union, instead of The commander agreed to his price, Cranmer, county captain.
near Leningrad. and the chief rent Donald Glas to collect the picces of eight.
SPANISH LEAVE
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"I approve of a reduction in the number of first-class counties."-Mr. 11. Bainbridge, chairman
of
But the Spaniards held the High-11. lunder and set sail. Just as the ship county club. east off, however, Donald found the Lancashire: "The report is an ex- powder magazine-and-fred-it-send-cellent-piece-of-work.-1-am-ali-in- ing ship, men-and the pay chests of | favour of brighter, that is, attacking, Tobermory Harbour. All this was in cricket."Captain R. Howard, coun-
ty club secretary.
1588.
Ench century since has seen 11 Mr. Alastair MacLeod, secretary of treasure hunters at Tobermory, work-Hampshire, thinks that the drawing ing with divers and grapnels,
of lines across the wicket would
A seventeenth-century diver nam-make cricket more like baseball. ed Miller found
"one paper of Latin extracted out of the Spanish records that there was thirty millions of vash on board the said ship, and it tells it lay -under the sill of the gun-room."
Twelve pounds Scols were the equivalent of one pound sterling.
PIECES OF EIGHT
A bronze cannon dredged up by the second Duke of Arglyy in 1740 stands now in the gardens of Inversaray Casile. On it is the monogram Benvenuto Cellini, with the arms of Francis I. of France,
oí
A blackened skull, the skeleton of a boy of 14, pieces of eight, sword¦¦ hiits are other finds claimed from the galleon.
From 1912 till 1929, Colonel Ken- neth Foss held a licence to search for the wreck, He did not find it, nor, a
would be much better in his view if explains instructed their fast bow- lers to pitch the ball up extreme measure send the offenders
off the field.
Her
or as
Kronstadt,
The port, which is well within the Arctle Circle, is kept free of tee by a warm current from the Gulf Stream.
"The transfer of the Baile-feet- from Kronstadt to Polarnoje would necessitate an entire revi- slon of naval strategy in The Baille, and the Soviet's plans are arousing widespread interest in Scandinavian countries, accord- ing to a dispatch from Copen- hagen.
Danish officials are already const- dering its effects on Danish naval po- licy-Aneta-Trans-Ocean.
Moon Lore May Aid Farmers
By LOUISE MORGAN
Farmers may some day sow their crops according to the discoveries of Frau Kolisko, a wisp of a woman refugee from Germany.
During the past 20 years she has experimented with year later, had Captain Lochnell nearly a million seeds of all kinds of vegetation, from
marigolds to ragweed, carrots to oak-trees.
Campbell better luck.
Note.A fumous British gazetteer
(editor a Scol) lials Tobermory thus:
Fresh Air
Won't Aid
Longevity
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12-12.20 Relay of Special Service from St. John's Cathedral.
12.30 New Variety Records. Vocal-Rex Cavalende of 1937 com- pered by Gracle Fields and Sandy Powell.
Piano Sol-Charlie Kunz Plano Medley, No. D. 9-You needn't have kept a Secret': You're Here, You're there: So Rare'; 'Stardust on the Moun; That old feeling. Charlie Kunz. Comedy Sketch -- Sandy's .. Sandy Powell and Happy Home Company, Vocal-Ever So Quiet: At Bobble -EXPERT the Battle of Waterloo
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1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea-
By Martin Kane United Press Staff Correspondent
New York. Dr. Alexis-Carrel,-Nobel-prize-ther-Repur
1.03 Carrell Gibbons, His OrchestraTM winner who has kept a chicken's theart beating in a bottle since and Frances Day (Soprano),
Stars Fell on Alabama (Perkins); 1912, reported to the Association Judy (Carmichael and Lerner). of Life Insurance Presidents Carroll Gibbons (Piano) and His Boy that while fresh air and sunshine Friends. Life is Just and plenty of exercise may be all right in their way, they have no true effect upon making Man live longer.
He warned the insurance men that a sudden increase In the life span would create economic and social entastrophe.
of
11 Bowl Cherries (Brown and Henderson): Sleepy Time Down South (L, & O. ftene and Muse)... Carroll Gibbons Is This Thing (Abrahams) (From the (Piano) and His Boy Friends. What Flim: Temptation); Show Me the Way George to Romance (From the Film: Templa- tion)
Day. Frances Gershwin--Medley; Jerome Kern Medley... Carroll Gibbons and The Savoy Hotel Orpheans (With Vocal Chorus).
Press; 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Weather and Announcements.
Prolongation of man's life span, the blologist said, depends upon improve- ment in the body's tissues and blood, not on hygiene and medicine, which, 1.40 Songs by Paul Robeson (Bass).
I Don't
What's Wrong Know have almost fläished their work in
(Dyrenforth and Eric Ansell); Roll longevity.
Up Salterman. (From the Film 'Big "Each one of us knows," he said, Fella'); (Ege and Eric Ansell). "that hygiene, comfort, good food, Wanderer (Arr. Palmgren). | tresh air, sun baths, have failed to
1.50 Debroy Sommers Band. Increase the spun
Review of Reviews. Swing Along deterioration will manifest itself in--Selection... With Vocal Chorus.
2.15 Close down. the future at the age of 80 to years, as it does to-day and did in
the past.
of life. Senlle
8.03-11 Chinese Programe.
The
5 Relay Dance Orchestra from "Any true prolongation of life will the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong require, not only protection against Itotel.
An excuse The work has been done in her these seven metuds, she has found disease, "but Improvement of the 1. Melody for two; 2. Tobermory, spt-vil, police bur., garden and laboratory at Stuttgart, recently that each species of plant quality of issues and blood.. That for Dancing: 3. September in the and 4.8. par, Kilninian 'and Kilmore | and during the past two years at an fhus an affinity for one of them, is, more resistance of the body in Rain; 4. I Never Knew. par, Mull Island; Argyllshire, en agricultural centre at Bray-on- Gladiolus, for example, thrives wearing out."
5.15 Interval of recorded dance Sound of Mull, 28m. N.W. of Oban Thames.
wonderfully when treated with sul- Experiments un mice, he related. musle from Z.D.W.
5.20 5. On д little
Bamboo ...pop. 450. PO, T.O. Tobermory She showed me some records of phide of copper, and sunflowers gain showed that longevity, although a has a harbour and pier with fixed her evidence recently at her house over a yard in height when the seeds hereditary tendency, can be modified Bridge, B
Sweet Lellant; 7. Blue light (white with red acctor) seen 3m.In Regent's Park.
have been soaked in a certain solu- in a large mensuré
Hawall; 8. Medley of Hulns. Has a distillery,"
We spread yards-long strips oftion of lin.
LENGTHENING OF LIFE
5.35 Interval of recorded dance music from Z.B.W.
"TO THE FOUR WINDS"
7 Beethoven-Concerto No. 1 In
You acc-a distillery, but no men- microphotographs (enlarged photo- "My interest in the moon was first It was discovered, for instance, that tion whatever of the treasure, though graphs of microscopic objects) on the roused," said Frau Kolisko, "when mice allowed to run free in a green- 6.45 9. More Power to you; 10. it is quite as famous as that upstart floor and examined them on hands as a small girl, my mother used to house had 34 per cent, shorter lives You're my Dish; 11, Lovely one; 12. - beast in nearby Loch Ness.
and knees.
cut the ends off my long hair just than mice confined to small boxes. Turn on that Red Hot Heat. "I have applied a vast number of before the full moon every month.
5 Studio Children's Hour. although both were fed the same purely objective sclenUfc tests over "My mother and grandmother both diet. long periods and with a large number attributed their long and benulital "Such was the price of liberty," C Major Op. 15. of controls, so that there can be no hair to this practice."
Dr. Carrel observed. Changes in Played by Arthur Schnabel and question about the scientifle accuracy
diet, he continued, also had influence. the London Symphony Orchestra.
7.37 Stock Quotations and Hong- of my researches," she said.
In one group the percentage of mice reaching extreme old age quintupled, kong Exchange Morket.
Gerhardt (Mezzo 7.40 Elena of "Lengthening life," he said, "was accompanied sometimes by the Soprano).
Fischerweise (Fisher-ways) (Schu- appearance of important characteris
(The sub- bert); Das Fishermadchen were re Two populations jected to fasting for several genera- Fishermolden) (Schubert); Geheimes Secret) (Schubert); Der Hons. The expectation of life at (The weaning increased by 17 per cent. Musensohn (The Poet); Das Rosen- (Schut❤ The
smallor mler became
and band (The Rose-Garland)
· SYDNEY'S - FLYING HEARSE
Sydney now has a flying hearse in which mourners make post-cremation flights with the nahes of relations or friends. It is the outcome of many last re- quests that, after cremation, sahes should be scattered from the sky.
FOLKLORE
Frou Koliko has left for six months' experimental work with crops In India.
Her 150,000 or more pholographs confirm by the evidence of modern science the ancient belief of peasants
BAD world and mystles throughout that the moon Influences the growth
and health of plants.
the
Precautions" by t. Comdr. Douglas. (Continued on Pago 4.)
IN THE BEST OF US" Poetry was also quoted by Mr. stronger. They were found also to bert).
7.50 Studla Talk on “Air Raid Registrar Friend u Clerkenwell be much more intelligent them the County Court to a man who admitted other groups." that he had been to prison..
But there is no urgent necessity for prolonging man's life, Dr. Carrel "There is so much good in tho' bellever. "The Importance of human
worst of us,
life," he explained, depends on its And so much bad in the best of us, quality, not
Its Tengih. To- That it ill behaves any of us,
day, the prolongation of life, for themselves nor society.
Cucumber, marrow and all watery vegetables flourish best t planted during the full moon, Fran Kolliko has found, and polators and other tubers grow best if planted in the waning quarter. The special aeroplane has just In her work with the moon she- made its first fights, says Austral stumbled on another synthesis of folk- Nows. Monthly regular flights have lore and science. now been arranged. The neroplane She found that ench of seven metuls flies a few miles out to sea where is associated with a certain planet- the ashen are scattered after a short silver with the moun, gold with the committal service by * clergyman sun, lead with Saturn, Un with Jupi- who accompanies the fight. It is ter, fron with Mars, copper with or what you have been," the registrar But, rightly or wrongly, humanity
stop maith "Very often we escapețuli sorts) will never helleyed that this is the only nero- Venus. plane in the world which is regularly-_INVITED BY MAHARANEE of things just because we are n bli the wecret of eternal youth." used in this way,
Germinating seed in solutions of luckier than in next man."
un
To say any ill of the rest of us." a great many people, would profit "I don't care what you have done neither
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