NO CRICKET Relegation Would Solve Problem
By Frank Thorogood
All the cricket world is talking of the cricket reform proposals of the M.C.C. commission.
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY.
JANUARY
13, 1938.
JONAHS
FOR 3
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 line with public fancy, but ease the congested programnic of the championship.
Instead, we have the present- dar ing recommendation that the number of competitors should be reduced from 17 to 15.
-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 stand by each other in the hour of need.
Who are to be the Jonahs in the case of reduction?
I can Imagine x storm of protest from the followers of the doomed counties. As the secretary of Hamp- shire naively puts it;
"Reduction would be a good thing
ARMADA GOLD? NEW BID
Still one more chapler parently to be added to
15 tho
long
so long as iny club is not one of those to go out."
THE WAGES QUESTION
One important monetary and per (sonal effect of such a reduction has been pointed out by Nichols, the Essex and England fast bowler, who says!
"Under this scheme the majority of professional players will be losing muney, as in nine cases out of ten. they are paid so much per match."
The "Jonsh" disaster might, ng suggested, be avoided by amalgama- tion, and a vice-president of Leices tershire, Mr. C, E. Loseby, advocates the fusion of his own county either with Northants or Lincolnshire.
Meanwhile ahould be under- stood, on the authority of an in- fluential member of the M.C.C., Chat no reduction, if any, is con. templated before 1840, Another legislator
Bays:
is no question of forcing extinction on a club," and he sug- gests the likelihood of the two de- posed clubs taking part in the Minor Counties Competition.
That suggestion seems to pave the proTM way for a future scheme of molion and relegation.
NON-STOP TESTS?
In the plea of the Commission for the reduction of matches in the cham-i plonship I read a strong inference that the heads of the cricket world story of attempts to find a treasure, in this country are preparing for the introduction of non-stop tests, parti- £2,500,000, intreag be worth reputed to which may or may not-have fain cularly against Australia.
I think the question of "negative" for three and half centuries
of Tobermory bowling has been exaggerated. beneath the waters
steps in dealing with the Hay, Isle of Mull.
The story is that when the Armada funtions rest with the coun
will call their committees," was beaten and scattered by storms les, about the coasts of Britain, one ship an M.C.C. official said yesterday. After this a meeting of the Advisory reached the Isle of Mull,
Her commander wanted food and County Committee will be summoned. "Some of the proposals may be water. The MacLean said he would provide stores if soldiers from theudopied for 1938." galleon were lent him to night the islanders of Rum and Muck.
SPANISH LEAVE
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His little war completed, he fused to allow the soldiers back on board till he was paid for his stores. The commander agreed to his price, and the chief sent Donald Glas to collect the pieces of eight.
YEARS HENRY COTTON
JAPANESE BOMBER BROUGHT DOWN
Anglespike
GOLF SHOES designed for golfers by a golfer.
ACCURATE ANTI
SOVIET BUILDS HUGE brought down
ARCTIC NAVAL BASE
Great Ice-Free Port
Finnish Border
Near
London, Dec. 29.
AIRCRAFT
firo by Chinese troops in Canton this Japancso bomber, which fall into the river. The occupants were killed.
RADIO BROADCAST
Studio Talk on Air
Raid Precautions With a view to strengthening its defences in the northern
LONDON RELAYS regions, and thereby gaining undisputed control of the Arctic maritime, routes, the Soviet Union has constructed a great new
Radio Programme Broadcast by naval dockyard and base at Poljarnoje (formerly known Alexandrovsk) in the Murmansk district of north-west Russia, zaw on Frequencies of 845 k.e's.,
Finnish9.52 m.c's, per second. and comparatively close to both the Norwegian and frontiers.
The entire district has been strongly fortified, the fortifications] being said to extend to a radius of
centre of the ten miles from the town. In addition to new barracks, workshops, and naval stores being ut present under construction, large be converted into 16 caves Here are a few opinions on the pro-hangars for the use of seaplanes. posals expressed yesterday,
THESE APPROVE
Warwickshire: "I am in favour of) the proposals. The suggested change in awarding points is good."-Peter Cranmer, county captain.
approve of a reduction in the number of first-class counties."-Mr.
Bainbridge, chairman of
But the Spaniards held the High-H. II. lander and set sail. Just as the ship county club.
ire: "The report is an ex- Lancashire: east off, however, Donald found the powder magazine and fired it, send-cellent piece of work. I am all in ing ship, men-and-the-pay thesis of favour of brighter, that is, attacking, Tobermory Harbour. All this was in cricketCaptain R. Howard, coun-
ty club secretary, 1680:
its
Mr. Alas als MacLeod, secretary of Each century since has scen treasure hunters at Tobermory, work-Hampshire, thinks that the drawing of lines across the wicket would ing with divers and grapnels.
A seventeenth-century diver nam-make cricket more like baseball. It would be much better in his view if ed Miller found
"one paper of Latin extracted out captains instructed their fast bow- of the Spanish records that there lers to pitch the ball up
от
13 an
arc
The new base, some observers con- sider, will be the chief base of the Soviet Union, instead of Kronstad!, near Leningrad.
The port, which is well within the Arctic Circle, is kept free of ice by
from current
Gulf
Д
warm
Stream.
the
The transfer of the Baltic fleet to Poljarnoje from Kronstadt would necessitate-an-entire-revi sion of naval strategy in the Baltic, and the Soviet's plans are arousing widespread interest, in Scandinavian countries, accord- ing to a dispatch from Copen- hazen.
Danish officials are already consi- lley-Aneta-Trans-Ocean.
was thirty millions of cush on board extreme mensure send the offenders dering its effcets on Danish naval the said ship, and it tells it lay off the field.
under the sill of the gun-room." Twelve pounds Scols were equivalent of one pound sterling.
PIECES OF EIGHT
the
A bronze cannon dredged up by the second Duke of Arglyy in 1740 slands Inversaray now in the gardens of Castle. On it is the monogram Benvenuto Cellini, with the arms of Francis 1. of France.
01
A blackened skull, the skeleton of
hilts
a boy of 14, pieces of eight, word
the gallcop.
the wreck, He did not find it, nor, n
Her
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Mr. W. J. Kerr Dies At Home
Long A Resident In This Colony
09
at Bedford, The death occurred England, yesterday of Mr. William Jonn Kerr, formerly of the Hongkong Police Department and later, until his departure on retirement, of the Royal Hongkong Golf Club at Funding:
The inte Mr. Kerr, who was years of age, spent over three and a and, de- half-decades-in Hongkong spite his advanced years, the report
his is death will come as a shock to many friends in the Colony. It his proud boast during his Jong, re- sidence here that he never had a physician in his house, because he had never been 11.
of
0.05-11 Chinese Programe.
Relay--Dance Orchestra from the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong {fate).
1. Melody for 'two; 2. An excuse for Dancing; 3. September in the Rein; 4. I Never Knew.
д
5.15 Interval of recorded dance music from Z.B.W..
little Bamboo 3.20 5. On
Sweet Lellani; 7. Blue Bridge: 0. Hawall; 8. Medley of Hulos
5.35 Interval of recorded dance
Z.B.W. music from
5.45 9. More Power to you; 10. You're my Dish; 11. Lovely one; 12. Turn on that Red Hot Heat.
5 Studio Children's lour.
7 Beethoven-Concerto No. 1 in. Major Op. 15.
Played by Arthur Schnabel and. the London Symphony Orchestra.
7.37 Stock Quotations and Hong- kong Exchange Market.
Gerhardt (Merro 7.40 Elena Soprano).
Fischerweise (Fisher-ways) (Schu- (The Was bert); Das Fishermadchen
Fishermaiden) (Schubert): Geheimes Der Secret) (Schubert); The Musensohn (The Foct); Das Rosen- Base-Garland) (Schu- band (Tho bert).
7.60 Studio Talk on "Air Raid Precautions" by Lt. Comdr. Douglas. An- and Weather 8.00 Time rouncements.
0.03 Chinese Programme-Studio Concert.
The late Mr. Kerr arrived in Hong- in which he had served three months, po-kong in 1898 from the Glasgow Police, From 1913 to 1020 he was seconded from the Police. In 1920 he took his well-earned pension and joined the Fanling Golf Club as the guardian of the courses and club-house, and bolh Mr. and Mrs. Kerr were most popular identities in the New Territories.
Moon Lore May Aid Farmers
By LOUISE MORGAN
neth Foss held a licence to search for During the past 20 years she has experimented with year later, had Captain Lochnell nearly a million seeds of all kinds of vegetation, from Campbell better luck.
marigolds to ragweed, carrots to oak-trees.
Pro-
11.00 Close down. 8.03-11.00 b.m. European gramme from ZER; On a Frequency of 640 Kilocycles.
8.03 Variety.
Mr. Kerr's keen interest in shooting game and wild pigeons led him to breed many first-class gun-dog in
Plano Solo-I was Lucky (From the Hongkong, and his knowledge of the Film "The Man from Follies Bergere) canine world was most extensive. Meskill & Stern; Rhythm of the Mr. W. F. Kerr, of Stores Rain, Intro: "Valentine" Meskill &
Vocal The Branch of the Public Works Depart-Stern)....I
Rennara;
the
Farmers may some day sow their crops according to
Timers are other finds claimed from the discoveries of Frau Kolisko, a wisp of a woman refugeement, is the eldest son of the late Naughty Nineties.. Part 1-Londen:
Mr. Kerr, and was married in Hong-Part 2-Romance....Old
An only Sketch Company: with Fred Hartley's only recently. kong From 1012 til 1920, Colonel Ken-from Germany.
aughter, Miss P. L. Kerr, is employ- Quintel; Vaeal-Dancing Into Heaven with You; Chinaman. (From the Film The late Mr. Kerr is also survived Die Sieben Ohrfeigen)......Lilian ed by the Dairy Farm Company. by his widow and two your ger sons, Harvey and Willy Fritsch with both of whom are still at school.
orchestra: Cinema organ-Medley of old time songs. Part 1-English; Part 2-Scottish....Sydney Custard organ of Gaumont (Played on the Palaces Cinema. (Chester).
8.30 London-At The Black Dog". Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar- parlour; Presented by Pascoe Thorn-
Note-A famous British gazetteer
(editor a Scot) lists Tobermory thus: The work has been done in her, these seven metals, she has found
Tobermory, spt-vil, police bur., garden and laboratory at Stuttgart, recently that each species of and 9.9. par. Kilninian and Kilmoro and during the past two years at an has an affinity for one of them.
centre at Bray-on- par., Mull Island, Argyllshire, an agricultural Sound of Mull, 20m. N.W. of Quan Thames. ...pop. 850. P.O., T.O. Tobermory has a harbour and pier with fixed light (while with red sector) seen 3m Has a distillery."
You sec-a distillery, but no men- tion whatever of the treasure, though it is quite as famous as that upstart beast in nearby Loch Neu.
LOSES JOB AND PENSION FOR STEALING MEAT
An employee of the Dairy Farm Co. was charged before Mr. It. Ed- wards at the Central Magistracy this morning with stealing pork.
Inspector, Ponytz said that the de fendant, Kwong Cho, was zeen by Mr. C. J. Grover to open a refrigera- tor and walk out of the depot in a suspicious manner. When searched half a pound of pork was found in his possession.
plant
Gladiolus, for example, thrives wonderfully when treated with sul- She showed me some records of phide of copper, and sunflowers gala her evidence recently at her house lover a yard in height when the seeds have been soaked in a certain solu- In Regent's Park,
of ton of tin.
We spread yards-long strips microphotographs (enlarged photo-
"My interest in the moon was first "when graphs of microscopic objects) on the floor and examined them on hands roused," sald Frau Kolisko, and knees.
as a small girl, my mother used to
TAILOR ADMITS STEALING $100
FROM POCKET OF DRESS LEFT IN SHOP
The master of a tallors' shop at 25, was charged before Mr. Forrest purely objective scientifle tests over before the full moon every month.
"My mother and grandmother both at the Central Magistracy this morn- long periods and with a large number
ing with the theft of $100 in bonk- nutes belonging to Mra. Helen To.
Detective-Sergeant J. R. Bentley
ton.
9.00 Musical Comedy Selections. London Rhapsody-Vocal Selection. (Carr & Kennedy)....The London Palladium Orchestra; New Moon-- Vocal Gems, (Hammerstein 2nd &
Light Opera Company.
I have applied a vast number of cut the ends of my long hair Just No. 101 Thomson Road, Wong Choi, Rombergon World Allair. -
of controls, so that there can be no attributed their long and beautiful question about the selentine necuracy hair to this practice." of my researches," she said.
.
slx:
Frau Kolleko has left for FOLKLORE
months' experimental work with crops Her 150,000 or more photographs in Indin. confirm by the evidence of modern selence the ancient bellet of peasants world and mystics throughout the that the moon influences the growth and health of plants.
and all
Cucumber, mnarrows watery vegetables flourish best if
MANILA SHARES
mcc:
snid that Mrs. To visited Wong's shop
9.15
A talk by H. Wickham Steed, 9.30 London-News.
3.50 Richard Tauber (Tenor). Indian Love Lyrics-Till I Wake. Kashmiri Song (Lourence Hope...
on January 10 for the purpose of Amy Woodforde-Finden); Rokoko
dress altered. They did not Love Song (E. Meyer-Helmund). having a come to any agreement on the matter, with Orchestra. and Mrs. To then asked if she could
10.00 Variety.
Orchestral-Six Bits of the Day: cuve the dress in the shop while
Accordion she called on her alster. She had No. 14....Primo Scain's
short while, when Band, (With vocal Chorus); Vocal been away for The following business done quota- she suddenly remembered that there Lullaby (Film "Let's Sing Again") (Johnson and planted during the fall moon, Frautions were received after the close of was $100 in a pocket of the dress.(Hautrik & Riesenfeld); Crying my
the morning session by Swan, Cul Hastenint back to the shop, she heart out for you Kolisko has found, and potatoes
(Continued on Page 4.) and other tubers grow best It bertan & Fritz from their Manila questioned defendant, but he denied Hopkins)....sung by Kitty Masters planted in the waning quarter,
Businem Done all knowledge of the money.
maller to Mrs. To reported the the police on January 11, and de- tendant was subjected to inquiries. He then admitted having $75 only, but on his shop being searched, a sum of $57 was found. Later total defendant confessed to stealing the money.
Atak
In her work with the moon she stumbled on another synthesis of folk- Antamok lore and selence.
nagulo Cold She found that each of saven metale Mr. Grover stated that the defen-
enguet Consolidated" dant had been in the employ of the is associated with a certain planef-Coco Grove Company for 22 years. Defendant silver with the moon, gold with the Consolidated. Mines would lose his job and his pension. kun, lead y 'th Saturn, Un with Jupi-Demonstration
His Worship bound dafendant over ter, iron th Mars, copper in $60 to be in good behaviour for a Venus.
with Parmenia umana
Man Mauricio, United Fatsenio Germinating seeds in solutions of The" tons of the
year, remarking that he had learn- INVITED BY MAHARAÑEE ad of Ickson.
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Wong was bound over in a bond of $50 with one surety to be of good behaviour for a year.
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