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HEY, YOU KIDS--
YA CAN'T
FISH WITHOUT A LICENSE!
-- WE'RE JUST WASHING OUR BUTTERFLY NET!
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
By Ernie
WE CAN'T HELP IT IF FISH JUMP INTO IT/
OH, I SEE--
!!
WELL, I GUESS IT'S
WASHED CLEAN BY
NOW, EH?
August 24, 1939.
Bushmiller
YEP-- BUT NOW WE GOTTA WASH OUR
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New County Cricket Scoring Method Wanted
Three Recent Matches
Turned Into Farces: Pity The Spectators
London, Aug, 1.
A new method of scoring in the County Cricket Championship will have to be devised bo- During the past week we have
fore next season.
had three matches turned into farcos.
Yorkshire, 183 behind Notts first table is likely to be affected, and innings tulal. with nine wickets any revision in the gloom of winter standing, could not resume batting of the preceding summer's tabie until 2,36 on the last day. Thus would be farcical. there was a little over 3 hours for play
How different in its promptness
So they scored when they could would be the procedury of the Foot not help it. Their inactivity was ball Ascoelation towards any breach"; insterly.
of rule.
would be useful if the com mitter or the M.C.C. would make
In 24 hours before lea Mitchell, Leyland and Barber added 26 runs to the folal.
Chick Chandler and Milchael Whalen take time out from clue-chasing Mitchell, in that time, made five; Monte clear ruling about these de- Century-Fox's Raving Reporter series, showing at the King's Theatre to admire lovely Jean Rogers in "While New York Sleeps" second of 20th Barber slaved an hour for five; and clarations by agreement between
to-day. LeyInd spored mine runs in 45 captains. They defeat the whole
which purpose of the rule,
minutes.
"Was
So the game drew to a dreary framed to allow a winning saplah close. T11 100 minutes. Yorkshire to force home an advantage.
cured 77 runs.
it
One of these days we shall have a championship won or lost by some freak declaration or other-and stil there will be no committee to deal with the matter till the following ByNovember.
And 1,238 people paid £62 to see
All on a summer's day. Obviously
there was 13 for Yorkshire to gain Best ning lead, but not to win the math. doing so they would lose ground in the championship. So they decided to avoid that by playing for a no- result match which
count.
would not Lawn Bowls
Lest any may say that Yorkshire. are too keen to win and that southern i counties would not do that, I must point out that. Middlesex did much the same sort of thing against Lan- cashire on the same day,
FORGOTTEN RULE
The other farco was something of
il comedy. Glamorgan and War-
wickshire, alter a wasted day agreed
DRAW FOR QUARTER- FINALS
The draw for the quarter-thals of
to a joint declaration to ensure that the Open Singles bowls champion- the full 12 points were at stake.
Warwickshire closed up at 48 for hip was made this morning and re-j
nane, Glamorgan
The sulted as follows: at 40 for one.
second declaration was legal. The. Perkins
rules say that in a two-day mutch
V. A. R. Dallalt (C.S.C.C. green)
a batting-side cannot declare later CF. Remedios v. M. R. Ablas
than an hour and forty minutes be-
(Kawinon B.G.C. green)
fore the agreed time for drawing of B. Basto stumps.
Only fifty minules were left, and H. White Warwickshire scored 43 for the loss
of one wicket.
v. A. R. Minu (C.S.C.C. green)
v. U. M. Omar or
A. J. Hall (Recreio green) Coincidence, Glamorgan were in All four matches are to be played
imilar Ineldent against Northantsjon Monday, August 28, in 1931. Their declaration
ruled illegal.
was:
NOT UNTIL NOVEMBER
An M.C.C. profouncement has affirmed that on this later ocension the captains misinterpreted the rules but not until November will the Adi-· visory County Cricket Committer : deal with the breach,
Party Beer Goes Astray
Suomeone had
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an
It is safe to assume that when free party at the expense of a beer November comes no action will be parlour proprietor here. John Bosak taken about an event of the preced-reported that a keg of draft beer, ing July. Neither the top nor the bottled beer, cigarettes, cigars and hottom position in the championship lyum were stolen.
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Fred Dyer. Ex-Boxer Believes-
GOLF IS THE MOST DANGEROUS SPORT
And Swimming is the
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London, Aug. 9.
Golf, says Fred Dyer-former professional
boxer and now physical culture expert-is the most dangerous sport in the world.
OUR GUIDE TO THE CINEMAS
"While New York Steeps" (King's. to-day).-Clue-and-cutle chasing re- porters meet a mystery sa bewilder- ing that it has to be solved twice- as they catch Killer before the killing, print the story of a murder before it happens-and then find the same man has been murdered again. With Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers, Chick Chandler and Joan Woodbury, "Secret Patrol" (Alhambra, to-da The North West Mounted Police used to be the favourite background of many a satisfying picture, but few huve been seen of late. Here the old theme is revived, with Charles Star- ret in the leading role.
"Five Came Back" (Queen's, to- day).Melodrama about a transport plane wrecked in a South American passengers only five of whom can Jungle, and an assorted group of Le flown back to civilization. Their sur- face reactions under pressure studied. Exciting, ingeniously done, Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins and C. Aubrey Smith.
firs
"On The Record" (Majestic, to- day)-involved combination of melo- drama and romance about a pair of reporters who marry, and the hard
ttle orphan whom they rescue from a reformatory and try to set on the jright path Pat O'Brien, Joan Blon- fell and Bobby Jordan take chief parts.
"The Kld from Texas (Catliny |to-day),—Romantic comedy about a cowboy who learned to play polo und then went East to put his lessons to use. A bit of romance is mixed with polo. Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Anhony, Allen, Jessie Ralph and Buddy Ebsen úre featured.
Bruce Hobbs, Recovered, Rides Again
We were discussing at his schoul; "Frequently he will finish his. in Great Portland-street, W the career with Angers te corkscrews. death of Charlie Roberts. famous due to the constant impact of the bill Soccer centre half, who died on Mon-on the finger bones." day from ¿ head injury which he Tom Whittaker, the Arsenal train-j thought was caused by heading ner, talked about the risks run by
London, Aug. 11. When Bruoc Hobbs, 18-year-old foothill in his playing days.
SOCCER
players: "Chief datger is Jockey, who rode Battleship to win local rheumatism from old injuries the Grand National in 1938, fractur- Its Intensity depends on the constitu-led his spine last November, he re tion of the man.
Other sports leave other Injuries and was Anding out what these were, says an English writer.
RUNNING RISKS
fused to believe the
doctors when
t have heard before of a player's they told him he would never ride. Said Fred Dyer: "Yes, there are, skull being seriously injured through again. more deaths from golf than from any heading a ball. The men who retir
professionals-they know how
other game, I do not mean among ed from the game within the last ten But at the Newton Abbot Races, to years are splendid. You would not where the National Hunt season has train
think that
Just opened, he rode Poor Duke in "But the elderly amateur who goes gaged in a strenuous sport."
they had
ever been en-the Ilsingter: Optional Selling Hurdle. on to the links without the training, SWIMMING.
He finished Arth in a Beld of 20. which is necessary in all gamea runs Harry Leverton, president of the According to Mr grave rise.
Hobbs was the Amateur Swimming Association, Is ever to ride in the Grand National. "BOXING is certainly one of the the least dangerous of all sports,
youngest jockey hardest sports-no Hame acquires such intensive trataing. A boxer hos "Every muscle is used, and the lungs fine. I am keen to be riding again "It is extremely healthy." he said He now says: "I feel absolutely to take so many blows on the head expanded." that it often upsets his nervous sys-
regularly.—United Press, tem and he becomes punch drunk. This can lend to further disorders which are often fatal.
"If boxers were to take as much of themselves after a fight as care they did before, there would ba fewer lasting injuries. The trained body can stand almost anything."
A strained heart, a strained back, or strained arms are the legacy of the ROWING man. J. T. ("Bossy"}} Phelps, Master of the King's Barge and leading authority on rowing, Bald:
"It is very rare thot any of these rowing injuries are fatal. Imme diately anything like that happens to on carsman, he is taken off all strenuous sport.
CORKSCREW FINGERS "Pattention is given to all; competitive oarimen. The Univer ang crews are examined by a doctor! every week. If you are strong you! can take it if you are weak you don't row."
Jack Hobbs, of Surrey and Eng- Innd, spoke as a CRICKET expert: "Nothing much can happen to you In cricket. A blow from a ban can be unpleasant, but the man who suf- fers most is the wicketkeeper.
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