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FOOTBALL.

TO-MORROW'S SHIELD FINALS.

WHAT WILL WIN'

LEAGUE TABLES,

Goals.

First Division

P. W.D.L.F. A. Surreys......13 120 142 7 24 Chioa: "A." 13 82 3:30 13:18 Kowloon 12 61 523 15 13 Club

12615 20 12 13 14.5.3 6.12 19.13 12 6 0 6 15. 26 12: 14 41 9:12 15 9 ...T4 013 654 2

Second Division.

Police

[By "Dutchie.”] The following is the football A programme for to-morrow:

SHIELD FINALS.

Junior:

Kowloon Reserves" v Surrey Reserves-Club ground, kick-off at 2.45 pm: sharp,

Senior. Police v Kowloon-Club ground, kick-off at 4.30 pm. sharp,

LEAGUE-DIVISION II.

University Club Reserves, Chinese ground.

St. Joseph's "B" v. Recreio "B," St. Joseph's ground.

Drums v. China "A". Sookum-. poo ground.

Sacred Heart v. St. Joseph's "A" Navy "A" ground."

Kick-cff, at 3p ni. sharp.

Both the Senior and Junior Shield finals will be played on the Club

The ground to-morrow. Junior game between Kowloon and Surreys should be a very close one.

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Goals

P.W. D. IF A. A Rec. "A" 22 2011.101 541 Surreys 1916-1 2 57 14 33 St. Jos. A.20 12:2, 6 37 21 26 Drums ....... 20 12 1727 27 25 Kowloon

21.10 1.10 37 34 21 China""A".....19 67.6 34 30 19 St. Joseph's "B.19 46.9 14 46 14 Club

1954 10 13 38 14 Rec. "B" 20 5.4 11 24 41 14 Sacred Heart 19 53 11 25 45 13 20 34 13 15 53 10 University China "B" 22 24 16 13 51 8

GOLF MATCH.

TO-MORROW'S VARSITY

CONTEST.

OXFORD V. CAMBRIDGE

Kowloon have disposed of the

Tomorrow being Boat Race Moslems, Drums and China Day, goif, match has been while Surreys have defeated St. arranged in the afternoon between Joseph's, Recreio "B"

and sides chosen from local representa- Recreio "A."

tives of the two Universities. time to play foursomes, the match As there will not be sufficient will be decided by singles only..

Sir Claud Severn, and the Hon. Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher will be on opposing sides.

Of the two, Kowloon seems to have had the hardest fight for the honour of appearing in the final. They will rely on the same taam

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The Senior game between the

will be strengthened by the in

WHAT CHANCES?

TO-MORROW'S CRICKET

PROGRAMME.

Unless there is a marked im- Police and the Kowloon first team provement in the weather to-day, will also be a close one. Kowloon the possibility of a full pro- clusion of G. Duncan at outside gramme of cricket matches to- right, while Post returns to the morrow seems remote. Police team.

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Kowloon have only played one game in this competition beating the Club th the semi-final. The Police have two wins to their credit, defeating the Surreys in the first round and the R.A, in the Kowloon won the Shield in 1923 for the first time and were runners-up last sepson, being beaten by the Surreys after a replay. They will be all out to win to-morrow, but should the luck of the Police hold good then they are likely to be disappointed. I think | the Police (will wings, big

The fixtures, "weather permit ting," include three First League matches:-

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Hongkong C.C. "B". Indian R.C.; on the HK.C.C. ground,-!

Kowloon C.C. v. University, on the Kowloon ground...:

Chinese R.C. v. Civil Service C.C., on Chinese R.C. ground. ⠀

On the Civil Service Cricket Club ground the home "A" team will play a friendly game with the Royal Engineers.

Some Of The Teams.

In the league fixture with the C.R.C., the Civil Service C.C. will be represented-by:-G. R. Sayer, The following are the teams E, B. Reed, II. G. Wallington, L. C. Police: Clarke; Wynne and Fincher, F. J. Ling. F. J. de Rome, McWalter Britton, Dewar and B. D. Evans, F. E. Lawrence,, F. Fenn; Oram, Post, Johnson, Dr. Baker, and F. H. Holdman. Valentine and Simpson.

Kowloon A. Duncan; F. The following will represent the Wheeler and F. Read; A. W. Civil Service C.C. "A" in the Turner, J. McKelvie (Capt.) and B. friendly game: F Harper, F. L. Pasco; G. Duncan, S. G. Hayes, J. Squibbs, C. Alexander A. W. McBride, W. Austen and J. Muir. Grimmitt, H. F. Westlake, C. H. Reserve: H. G. K. Wheeler. Beardall, W. H. Edmonds, S. B. The Kowloon Reserves team Spillett, A. G. M. Fletcher, and H. will be:-B. Rasmussen W. H.Strange. Reserves: W. Cullip, Brown and D. Urquhart; A. W. and R. Smith. Brown (Capt.), C. Caveille and The following will be

CAPTAIN WARD'S RECENT STORY OF EX-OFFICER AND QUESTION TO HOUSE OF

EXPEDITION.

The following is taken from the Geographical Journal of December, 1924, and since it was written Captain Kingdom Ward and Bar Cawdor have returned to Calcutta after a botanical expedition of over some six months in the Himalayas and Tibet.

We have recently received from Captain F. Kingdon Ward a short account of the progress of his present" expedition into south

From eastern Tibet.

this it

$35,000,

LORD OSSULSTON'S SILVER...

The trial of Arthur James, 40, & merchant, who pleaded not guilty

CLERGY.

At a meeting of the House of Clergy of the Church Assembly, at Church House, Westminster, the Archdeacon of Cleveland, durlug consideration of Prayer Book to stealing and receiving a quantity revision, moved that the arch- of silver articles belonging to Lord bishops be requested to appolot a Old Bailey David Vivian Dudley, and canonization of saints and the Ossulston, was concluded at the commission to make an historical investigation of the beatification

grounds for their selection and Inclusion in the calendar

The Archdeacon of Maccles

an amendment,. field, moving

the expressionsTM and canonisation."

Thomas, 36, Independent, pleaded guilty to a similar charge.

"What is a saint?" he inquired. James, in the witness-box, said Who is to say? What are the appears that much previously unhe returned from America last principles on which we are, to known country has been covered, August, and in October for though following in part the Thomas, whom he had known for what is the procedure? It has been met decide? What is the method and routes of Captains Morshead and about 15 years. Bailey in their journeys in 1914 Thomas told him he had once England that she had no mathod ajibe against the Church of the present expedition has in seen the safe open, and a strange of making a saint, though it might places diverged considerably from man there, and was certain there be sufficient answer to say, We them.

Captain Kingdon Ward and was going to be a burglary, and as have been content to produce

he could not have the worry and them."" Earl Cawdor left Kalimpong last trouble of all the stuff in the house, March, and after a week's stay at he told him to take it away. He Gyantse took the Lhasa road over pawned the sliver, giving the the Karo La to the south-west money and tickets to Thomas beatification

remarked that corner of the Yamdrok lake. The money was not split up of Leaving the Lhasa road, they between them. skirted the southern shore of the fake and struck north-east over a high pass to the Tsangpo, which they followed down to Tsetang, arriving there on April 21.

During the next section of the journey Balley's route down the Tsela Dzong was Tsangco 10 followed, except that at Trap, two days below Tsetang, where there is an impassable gorge, a three days". detour

was made

to

saints" were essentially Roman and might be misunder- James was found not sulity, the stood. "God knows we have foreman adding that the jury enough to divide us," he said thought he had acted in an

calendar later. "Let not the extremely foolish manner.

"divide us." The Recorder, in discharging | After discussion, agreement was James, said he entirely agreed

and reached,

the following with the verdict.

resolution was adopted:

Themas sald he had been ill and

£25,000 GONE. «

That an authority shall be appointed which shall judicially. Investigate and report on the claims of each name proposed.. for addition to the calendas... Among the names proposed were

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ACTORS

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proposed taking a trip to the tropics, asking him (James) to go as his companion. He said he would pay all expenses and, a the north, whereas Bailey had salary of £50 a month. Ho! turned southwards. On this detour, accepted the proposal and looked those of John Wesley, Florence which took them through Ogaapon himself as in Thomas's

Nightingale, Charles, King dzong and over the Lung La, about employ, and went to Chesterfield " kept, though no latitudes were let to Thomas, practically daily. 17.000 feel, a compass traverse was Lodge, which Lord Ossulsion had Martyr, 1649, and Henry VI obtained as the weather was bad. Thomas was drinking a good deal Tsela Dzong was reached on May and wanted someone to look after 11. Here they remained for three bim. weeks, when they moved their base to Tumbatse, reached by following the Tsangpo' down to Temo Detective-Sergeant Wood said Gompa, and then crossing the that Thomas's grandfather was a Temo La. During this time pie big landowner in Wales and left a In an effort to forestall the grow. parations were made for mapping fortune-le believed it was about ing movement for a consorship of the district, and two peaks above £25,000 to Thomas's father, who the stage a group of leading actors Taela Dzong, one on either side of in turn left it to Thomas, who had and actresses met at the Little the Giamda river, had been fixed lost the greater part of it in gam- Theatre, New York, and signed a by re-section. from Himalayan, bling.

pledge never to appear in angu peaks, when the rafns broke on He was educated at Eton and play "in which obscene fines June 8, a fortnight before they Cambridge, and during the war occur. were expected, and prevented held a commission in the Royal They arranged to call a general further work. Before this, they had Engineers, afterwards holding an meeting of members of the noticed to the north of Tsela a range administrative post with the rank theatrical profession to extend the

scope of this movement. · mountains, trending of major in the Royal Air Force. apparently porth-west to south- After being demobilised he got! The agitation has arisen spont east. Later they hope to fix some into the hands of professional aneously as the result of a protest of the peaks of these mountains, gamblers, who, knowing that he made by Miss Helen MacKellar, which they assume to form the was well known in society, got the leading lady in the new play, Salween-Tsangpo divide. In June him to take houses in the Mayfair A Good Bad Woman". She has they went over the Nyima La, and district which might be used for served notice on the management that unless they consent to modify Crossing the Tsangpo at Pe to the gambling. Himalayan side ascer'ded the Detective-Sergeant Word said her Boes she will abandon her Doshong La. Next month they he had no doubt that it was not part. "I believe that censorship from withh the crossed the Tang La above Turn Thomas's money which had paid must come batse, and descended the Tsangpo for Chesterfield Lidge. There theatre," she says. "If the public to Gyala, where they crossed and was no evidence that Chesterfield once revolted we should have a climbed to the Nan La, the most Lodge had been used for gambling State censorship, and that is what. eastern pass over the Himalayas, except on the occasion, but that we should above all try to avoid." The Public Prosecutor says! This pass is occupied by a snow-was the intention. When arrested

"Managers are driving people to- field feeding a glacier, so that Thomas had only 7s. IId., and he they experienced difficulty in (the detective) believed that was seek a censorship as the only reaching it, and were unable to go all he possessed in the world. He means of protecting themselves down to Pemsko. Returning to had given way to drink very York stage."

against indecency on the New Gyaia, they crossed the Tra La to seriously and was a wreck. Tumbatse.

of snow

SHOT IN A JOKE

Mr. G. D. Roberts, defending, The New York World publish

ed a statement by a leading. This was practically the and of suggested that the fortune which the plant-hunting season, during had been left to Thomas was artist that plays on Broadway are which fifty species of rhododennearer £14,000 than £25.000 After getting so bad that no decent. dron, about forty primulas, and ten he had taken the house Thomas people want to see them.", poppies, many of them new, had contracted double pneumonia and been collected. It was then de-was in hospital for six weeks. He cided to attempt to reach the was instructed that Thomas had Salween. On reaching Tongkyuk not lost his money in gambling so the rains began again, and prevent much as in loans to so-called MASQUERADING AS A MAN.. ed them from joining their survey friends which had not been repaid... the to the peaks of Namcha. A The Recorder passed' sentence The danger of some pratical S. Randle; C. Morris, C. Millard, University team in the league compass traverse was however of nine months Imprisonment in jokes was illustrated by the K. A. Mason, A, Latham, and A. match with the K.C.C.-H. N. kept. Turning west, they the second division, and made an examining magistrate at Riom, in Fitzgerald. Reserve: V. Hast.

vezy easy pass the order for restitution of the property the centre of France, when he Balhetchet (Capt.); Rev. E K

dismissed a charge of homicide Quick, A. A. Rumjahn, Professor Nambu La-and found them to Lord Ossulston.

against a young farmer named Junior League games F. A. Redmond, A. S, Hett, W. M. selves in the snow-capped range

Tixier should result in University getting Gittina, T. O. Yeow, J. I Young seen from Tsold. From the pass their revenge at the expense of saye; S. O: Shahabudin, S. (Pasang) lake and marched round they descended to the Pasum the Club Reserves. Recreio "B" Hachiuma, and B. P. Ng.

it, being unable to find an exit at, will defeat the College "B" if the

its head. They then returned to latter turn out. Chipa "A" if at full strength, should beat the

Shoga, Dzong, and first turning Drums and St. Joseph's "A" ought

westwards worked round to the to be strong enough to account for

northwards, again finally crossing the Sacred Heart

The

pening

For the match between the University

and the H.K.F.C.) Reserves, the club team will be S. H. Garrod, D. Lyon (Capt.), E. Hanlon, P. Richmond, E. Rallion, G. Puncheon, B. Bell, E. A, Roberts, 5.0: Hill, A. Ferguson, J. Dixon

MID-WEEK GAMES.

The Kowloon CC. teams:-H very, B. Petheram, J. C. Lyal, Goodwin, A. W. Ramsay, S. Jex, K. R. Macaskill, Geo. Lee, A. R. F. Raven, JC. Fletcher and L. A. R.

Duncan.

BILLIARDS TOURNEY. ·

P. Yvanovich, who has been champion and challenger in pro- vious years, defeated E. D. da Roza by 800 points to 712 at the for round of this year's Billiards V.R.C. last night, in the first

Championship.

The following are down decision', on, Wednesday next, April -

Heart, Kowloon ground.

Sookum

League-Div 11

Da Roza led by 410 to 386 at

410 Kowloon Reserver Sacred the end of the first session. His highest break was 34 and he had six others of over 20, Yvanovich ran into the twenties on ten occa Bsions, the thirties twice and his

highest was 45.00 Clubs |_To-night Lieut Colonel · F. £. Montagne Bates plays P.Q. Ogden, the winner to meet Yvanovich in the second round on ApriNG"

- Surreys v. China

poo ground.

Drums v. St. Joseph's

"Chinese ground.

St. Joseph's

eserve, St.-Jose he ground.

Kick-cf at 5.35

Sharps

sharp

Crossed

TALE OF TWINS.

AMERICAN HUSBAND

DECEIVED.

It was stated that two girls whom he knew thought "they- would frighten him as he returned- home late at night. They dress/d in men's clothes and, stepping: 'suddenly in front of him in a dark lane, shouted, "Your money or your life!

CANADA AT WEMBLEY.

EXHIBIT LARGEFAND-

a pass just under 17,000 feet and A tale of twins is telegraphed to

M. Tixier had a sporting gun descending to the Atsa (Archa)

the Chicago Tribune from with him and at once fired. The Like, It was now too late to hope

Muskegon (Michigan)

charge fatally wounded-M}}e, to reach the Salween, so it was

The children were born in Marthe Bouchon, one of the decided to turn to Tsela via hospital 11 years ago, and, to help masqueraders. The farmer was Gyamda, and then to cross the the mother, who was unmarried horror-stricken when he found: Temo La to Tumbatse

At the time of writing Captain one of them was adopted by that he had Lilled a girl

another patient, a Mrs. Dick, who Kingdon Ward had reached allowed her husband to believe it Gyands. The travelsers proposed was her own. W following the Tsangpo down from Gyala to Gompo Ne, then striking effecting a traverse through the over to Tongkyuk and one more snow range to the Lhasa, road at

Mr. Robb, the Minister for Atsa. Before reaching Lhasa they a child whose resemblance to her Immigration and Colonisation intend to turn south through Oge supposed niece as so remarkable announced that Canada" would dong, regain the Tsang po above dut she told her brother and be carry on at Wembley, this year Teetang, and then proceed across altar a coversation with his wife, with an even better exhibit than the Himalayas to Towang. They went to the Ridouts, claimed the last year's hope that on this second journey and girl, as his own, and took After conferences with conditions may be more favour her home.

Canadian Exhibition Commis able for observaitons

The other twin was adopted by another family in the town, named Ridout.

Three years later a sister of Mr. Dick noticed playing on the beach

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He Tately removed to Omaha, stoner (Mr. Tolmie), who has come and there put about the story of here from London, the Govern pro how near he had been to losing ment, Mr. Robb, sat March 26-The one of his little daughters owlog.vinced of the desirabilit

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