TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1926.
SPORTS SECTION
CARR PEEVED?
SENSATIONAL INTERVIEW
FOLLOWS.
ENGLAND'S TEST XI
Selector Explains Why He is Left Out.
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A startling development has followed the dropping of A. W. Cair from the leaflership of the England XI for the Fifth Tost Match with Australia, beginning, this Saturday.
London, Aug. 9: Yesterday's official statement that A. W. Car had resigned owing to ill-health was followed by a sensational interview with Carr in the morning in which he says "I did not resign be- "enuse of ill health... I am as fit .us a fiddle.
"It is true I told the selec tors that they could have my resignation at any moment bui did not ask to be omitted from the team."
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One of the selectors, Mr.. Percy Pervin said that Carr's pmission was purely due to gricket form.
The critics point cut Chap- mars inexperience in the cap- "Baincy but expect that Hobby and Rhodes will be consulted.-- Reuter.
The Selectors.
The selection committee com- "prises-Mr. P. F.. Warner (an lux-captain of England and of
THE AUSTRALIANS.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE EASILY DEFEATED,
ENDED IN 2 DAYS.
COUNTY CRICKET,
Cheltenham, Aug. 9. The Australians 'defeated Glou-pool. cestershire in two days.
Overnight score:-Gloucester 144
The
58.
Goddard took wickets for 58 runk. G. A. Wedel 3 for 39 and Parker for 78.
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LANCS EASILY DEFEAT GLAMORGAN.
LOW SCORE MATCH.
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ALEXANDER.
SIR AUREL STEIN'S DISCOVERIES.
AORNOS IDENTIFIED.
Chills known
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The following decount of what (By F. H. Brown, C.I.E.)
was happening in the envig, day" j In the county cricket champion- ! The great and many-sided con-of the siege of Santa capital of TT, on London ship, Lancashire defeated Glamor-tributions to archeological, geo-Shensi-for two meutas no lettors T.T. on Shanghai gan in two days.
graphical, and Haguistle knowledge have got out of the city--is sent The match was played at Black made by Sir Aurel Stein for a genus by Mrs. Evelyn Watson, staying Hongkong Bank
Scores:-
eration past by explorations Int. Kuling. It is suficiently in- Glamorgan
do (1st innings) 140 Central Asia. in Kashmir, on the structive of the ways of life up Chartered Bank runs. Macdonald (the Australian¦ Afghan Frontier, and in the country in these days. Mrs. Mercantile Bank, A. & B. runs. B. H. Lyon 36. Grimmett damon bowler of 1921), took & wic- North-West Frontier Province have Watson says
do." now been crowned by researches in for 57: Australia 238 runs for 6.keta for 68 runs.
Those who have friends. Chinese & 0, Bank Taylor 35. Andrews 62.
Lancashire" (1st) 172 runs: Wat-tribal territory leading to the or foreign, will be interested in, and Bank of East Asia Second day's play: The wicket son made 94. Mercer took 5 for identification of the site of Aorno grateful for Mr. Rodney Gilbert's today was ensy after rain.
Marine Insurances. the seene of one of the most bril-statement in your issue of July 23. Canton Insurance weather was showery,
Glamorgan
runs. lint military exploits of Alexander to the affect that Marshal Wu bag China Underwriters The Australians added 59 run Watson took 4 for 14 and Macdonald the Great. Sir Aurel Stein's ge-expressed the opinion that the mis- North China Insuranes.. for their last 4 wickets, being all 4 for 26.
tailed report giving his reasons forsionaries (and. therefore, the Tafon Insurance .... out for 287 rune.
bancs (2nd) 42 runs for 2 wie-identifying the part of the Swat people in general) are in no real Yangtze Insurance
as Torwal with the physical danger, since the attack-j Lanenshire thus won by eight virgin stronghold captured
Fire Insurances. bying General Lin Chen-hua has nol wickets. Reqter.
Alexander 2.288 years ago, will be artillery, with which to shell, the China Fire Insurance. . subjected in due course, to the city.
H.K. Fire Insurance TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP. critical examination of scholars.) It is a relief to know that Gen
Shipping. Pat he is patient, cautious, and urul Lin's artillery in now all spent, Douglases For the match which may decide thoroughly competent in handling That the foreigners Lame in for Hongkong Steamboats.. she: senior championship of the such a problem, and the brief sele-their share whilst it lasted is a HK Tues & Lighters.... Tennis League, the following team graphic summary of his enelusions purent from the following extracts Indo-Chinas (Pref.). will represent the K.C.C. "A" given in "The Times" has
do. coin-of letters, despatched during thei
(Def.) L'd. aguinat the Chinese R.C. (at Kow-mended itself" to such authorities Frat month of the bombardment.
(..) H. |loon) to-morrow?--S. E. Green and as Sir Francis Younghusband. Dr. before the city was completely cut Oriental Navigation
E. C Fincher, T. Lay and NF W. Thomas. Professor L. D. of from communication with the hell Transports Trambitaly. E. F. Fincher and 6. E. Barnett, and Sir Denison Ross. <utside world., and Whilst any whe Star Ferries
chose to do so were at liberty to
Water-boats First Modern Expedition. Though the discovery comes after leave Sant'u be the West gate. generations of discussion of an his- April 23, Mr. Watson, writes "I China Sugars Montreal, Aug. 9.torical problem of great military had a bullet through the north Malahoo Sugars
window of the bertroom. I've taken
Mining. Maederald Smithy of New York. interest, it could not well have been
Such the hint and have now moved into has won the Canadian open golf made at any earlier date.
secrets of the past as have been another room." championship with an akgrezave
extracted from the rocks and
April 24. "Te-day there has been score of 281-Reuger's American valleys of the unadministered triballa terring bombardment, but people
country have been secured almost!re getting used to it now." exclusively in the course of one! Unpleasant Visitors.
Gloucester
tismiss! In their 2nd Innings for 178 runs. Dipper made 42. C. V. Grimmett took 4 for 69, A. A. Malley 4 for!
61.
The Australians then made 39 rans for the loss of the wicket, and thas won by nine wickets,
There were 8,000 spectators to- day-Reuter.
HOME TURF.
LIVERPOOL SUMMER CUP RESULT.
LESS THAN EVENS,
London, July 23. Middlesex); Mr. A. F. R. Gigan The Face for the Liverpool tcaptain of Sussex and England's Summer Cup 1 mile fur. 170 captain in the last series, alsoyards resulted as follows:--- ugureat South Africa); and Mr. Percy Perrin (the Essex amateur). Hobbs "representing" the South) and Rhodes (the (North) are the co-opted profes«.
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Spectaler's Timely Warning a Sir Aurel Stein, who is in, his sixty- May 4, Mr. Shorrock "writes: Lands, Hotels & Blige..
tourth year, should have been, able "For nearly three weeks the at-HK & S. Hotels, (old); to explore this wild country with-tacking forces have been converg A Chinese constable ((83) at ut acrious molestation is in itself ing, on this place, and we have Hongkong Lands tached to the Wanchai Police demonstration that the British been subject to heavy shelling and F.K. Resity Station was charked before Mr. policy of seeking to evilise the ride fire night and day Our RE Territorial R. E. Lindsell at the Central tribesmen, in preference to
frehouses here are very near the walls Humphreys Estates Magistracy this morning with uently fighting them, is yielding of the East Suburb, so we have Princes Building
rich results. Speaking from the had more than drunkenness and misconduct.
our share of the Rural Lands .... the Bombay Dinner on racket and Hanzer. On the second The constable in his drunken chair at
Cotton Mills. | Friday night. Lord ·Inchcape ex- The Hongkong "Angling Club state had got in the midst of aloressed his gratification that the day of attack a shelf landed right Ewo Cottona propose to hold another deep sea hostile mob Rugby. Aug. 9.
last night and folone) Freyberg bandantit his fishing competition at the end threatened to draw his revolver on enlly immune to the raids of the in the sides door and crashing into Shanghai Cottona (old)
is now practi-into our house, making a neat hotel Orientals the crowd. Eventually he drew semi-barbarous inhabitants of the
a wall opposite "and through second attempt to win the English this month. Channel at 4.45 this morning.
The competition will probably be is truncheon and struck at
floor in the passage. Other shells! He was forced, to leave the water" beld" in the vicinity of Taikoo Docks crowd while those at the rear with the roads
He observed that have come very near, one through Miscellaneots.
now completed by constant trouble with an out full details and particulars will kept on shouting to the people in along the whole frontier, with the the garden wall, another on an out" Canton Ice
Cements (comb.) wound in the lex sustained during be published later.
front to snatch the revolver away.arrison
our house, and many have, burst over- I Razmak, with In the meantime members of "the Freyberg had covered 15 miles in Hongkong Angling Club who wish It was just at a point when mat- magnificent and gallant Frontier head. Mr. Watson's house has just about 2 hours before he abandoned to enter for the competition are ters were getting serious that a force and devoted, civil officers, the had a corner of it blown out by a the attempt.--British Wireless Serrequested to send their names in to spectator ran and reported at the tribes are dominated, and with the huge shell. and two shells have
struck the roof Police Station.,
of the Girls' the railway running, through the hon secretary Mr. E. B. C
A hawker of curdled beans gave Khyber the frontier is controlled.
School's new dining room.” Hormelt, Messrs. Jardine's).
evidence of the constable's un-
A Lost Language.
Why So Much Delay. steadily gait when he walked up It will be a matter for investiga-i Mr. Watson says: "The Girls te his stall to inspect his licence. tion, to what extent the country School has had six shells atrike it, Witness appeared to be more con-Anciently known as Udyana, three of which have gone through Dairy Farms cerned with the consequences to hich Swat occupier a central posithe roof and damaged the building. LT A Wing (full pd.).
has undergore
da. physical only just vacated by the boarders." Standings in the U.S. Major his. wares and livelihood should tien,
** (part" pd.). the constable have dropped un-his changes in the last two millennia In the last letter to come out, Hongkong Amusements. stall. Continuing the witness rendering it less hospitable than before all mati service was stopped, K. Constructions. said that the constable Inspected in the days when the Macedonian on May 16, Mr. Watson writes, Hongkong Blectrics another Stall-holder's licence, said conqueror marched his great army "One wonders what Wu Pei-fu is HK Developmenta it was false, and struck at people | through the Hindu Kush. We doing. that a big city like this! E. Ropes (comb.). with his fist.
from Arrian. that when should be so long besieged by what
(old) do. (now) Defendant smelt of Chinese Aornos was taken it was found to after all is a comparatively unarme wine and was violent, said Divi- be well supplied, with water, anded host." and, "Two shells have Hongkong Tramways sional Inspector Blackman, and to comprise arable land requiring just landed
Lane, Crawfords One. came: had to be locked up. When Acting the labour of a thousand men for through the garden wall and ex
Macao Electrics Chief Inspector Aris looked in at its cultivation. We read of import- ploded on the graves. One landed
Mackintosh 9:15 p.m. the constable was stated ant towns and cities in the line of right on the roof of one of the Nanyang Tobaccos The suggestion put for- houses. Had it fallen a few feet Peak Trama (old) to be rolling on the floors and march
ward by some commentators that short, it would have landed! do. (new) "aughing happily."
The defendant termed the evid- the inhabitants of the frontier in amongst about, 50 women and child- 3inceres ence as to striking with his trun, Alexander's day were like those of ren refugees. "A part of the suburb Singapore Trama
vice.
Earlier messages:--
London, AUR. 9. A holder of the Vietoria Cross. Colonel Freyberg. entered the Channel at Capé Gris" Nez just night, but gave up after envering
nine miles in eight hours;
The water was very cold.
Frenchman Also Fails.
Later.
The Frenchmäh, Perrault, aban- doned the Channel swim from Cape Gris Nez, after 12 honis.
Col Freyberg has decided never again to attempt it - Repter.
The Colonel is the hero of a previous gallant attempt, when he gut very close by sheer determina- tion, and then had to be lifted out.
TEST CAPTAINCY.
EVENTS OF NOTE AT TH MATCH.
CARR POPULAR.
In view of A, W. Carr's resigna-
tion as captain of England's Test
XI (as reported yesterday), the
following, during the Fourth Test, is rather interesting:--
This time it wa a doubtful
blessing to win the toss. Bardsley
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cheon and threatening to draw his our own time, fierce and intractable wall was blown in a few days ago. United Asbestos. revolver as false. He expressed and only semi-civilised, is not sup- There is however, nothing more. a desire to call L/Sgt. Clark as ported either by the Greek Als- than spasmodie attempts, and some- torians or the Buddhist travellers thing more sustained and serious a witness.
This witness who attended from China. As late as the seventh will have to be attempted before after an adjournment did not century A.D. Huian-tsang noted Lin gets in." help defendant's case, as he said the religious culture of the people
102 Days of Slege. It is now over two months since that at about 8 p.m. he saw the and their remarkable skill in-
magic arts, and recorded various the last of these letters was writ constable examining a stall-
evidences of a tolerably high de- ten. London, July 81.
It is 102 days since the Shenai holder's licence, when there ap The A.A.A. have suspended peared to be nothing wrong with Udyana was less sparsely peopled on the approuch of Lin Chen-hua, gree of civilisation. Undoubtedly Tupan and Sheng Chang resigned, B. J. Toms (Southern Counties) his behaviour." The next time the and less deficient in means of sub who forthwith proceeded to besiege for one
year and A. C. J. F. witness saw the constable, at 11sistence than in modern days the city. It is true that until May Worrall (R. A. F. Uxbridge) for p.m. in the charge room, he was Hulan-tsang writes of its forests17, the West Gate was left open, two months for disobeying the in a drunken staze, refusal of the Association to sanc-
und its good climate and rainfall.
but refugees from all the country Captain Bloxham produced the The people had a language of side crowded in, adding to the DR Carr last time (3rd Test, when tion these athletes' participating constable's record, which His their own, in which some Buddhist number to be fed. Although it
put his opponents in.) in the International Meeting at Worship remarked as bad, defend- books appear to have been written true that the foreigners might have Da Far Nevertheless, he decided to bat, Rotterdam on July 18..
ant having been dealt with de- Sir Aurel Stein's discovery of left the city by the West Gate had presumably remembering
The successes of Toms have partmentally five. times since short Kharoshti inscription has led they not felt it their duty and severely Carr was criticised.
been over 440 yards, and Worrall leaving, the Training School one Dr. Thomas to express the hope opportunity to remain, yet it would We may at this juncture stress is the R.A.F. two miles walk year ago.
that sufficient inscriptions or man have beert useless for them to have the fact that Carr is a very popular
His Worship imposed a fine of uscripts may be found to permit of done so, because their route lay to taptain.
$100, or six weeks' hard labour. the re-construction of the language the East, through the enemy lines. He recolves an ovation nowadays
of the people of Udyann. wherever he playa, the crowd appre- ciating his sporting declarations.
The Selection Committee, how- ever, are not Bo popular.-Ex.
was in much the same predicament
Carr
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HOBBS'S BENEFIT.
London, July 31.
There was a huge crowd present
at the Oval to-day, when J. B. Hobbs
SUN'S PHASES.
Calendar for August.
WATER POLO LEAGUE.
took his beneft in the match which Sunrise and Sunset in Hongkong The Srst match in the Water commenced between Surrey and for August, 1926. (Standard Tire Polo League was played yester Nottinghamshire.
of the 120th Meridian, East of As an act of courtesy, P. G. H.Greenwich). day at the Victoria. Recreation Club at 6 p.m., when the Royal Fender, the Surrey skipper, allow Navy team defeated the Kowloon ed Hobbs to toss for choice of August British School "B" team by five inninga.
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