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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1926.

SPORTS SECTION

EASY VICTORY.

How Coronach Won St. Leger.

ONE RUNNER INJURED.

Favourite in Van, Then Makes Running.

London, Supt. 8.

The time for the St Leger was

a record.-Reuter.

This race was fun at Doncas-

ter distance

yards. J

miles.

1321

HOME SOCCER.

LATEST RESULTS IN MID-WEEK.

IN 4 DIVISIONS.

Clapton

London, Sept. 8. Matches in the English Football Leaguo to-day (home team given first) resulted:-

Division I Liverpool 2... Aston Villa 1. Sunderland 1 Huddersfield 1. Division II, Bradford City 1. Orient-8.

Reading 0. Blackpool 1. Div. III (South). Crystal Palace 0, Watford 1. Plymouth Bournemouth 1, « Div. III (North). New Brighton 3, Bradford 1. Wrexham 3. Rotherham 0. Durhany 0, Halifax 1.

-Reuter.

ROWING RACE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

NAVY DEFEAT R.H.K. YACHT CLUB.

YESTERDAY'S EVENT.

An interesting sporting event took place yesterday when a race was rowed between crews repre senting the Royal Navy and the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. The was to have taken place earlier in the year but owing to Naval move ments it was decided to bring it

forward a little.

ANIMAL DYNASTIES.

THE ORDER OF STRATA.

A SOLDIER POET,

CHINESE PICTURES IN PASSING,

LOCAL SHARE MARKET.

Professor H. F. Osborn lectur- In his book of poems "Now und

just ed on August 9 before the British Then,"

'published by Association upon the work of the Methuen, General Sir Ian Hamli American Museum expeditions ton, who it may be recalled was to the Gobi Desert.

British observer with the Japan TT on London

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OFFICIAL QUOTATIONS.

HONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 9, 1926, 10:30 n., ▼

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Lay pale and luminous that

marble dream: A porcelain wine-cup. wine.

drained to the lees, So empty and forsaken

Beem. Here is his portrait of a Queen

China' Fire Insurance H.K. Fire Insurance

Shipping,

He said that in 1799 the "Order se forces in Manchuria during TT. on Shanghal of the Strath", was published by the Russo-Japan war and made an

.Banks. William Smith, of Oxfordshire. extended visit to China some Hongkong Bank In the century and a-quarter years later, thus describes the which intervened to the present Temple of Heaver at Peking a Chartered Bank meeting of the British Associa-Lew weeks after the Revolution Mercantile Bank, A. & B. tion in Oxford, the twin sciences Among the urge crowd of vial of geology und palaeontology had

An Emperor's

prayer a tors anti merabers at the Club, many reached a degree of precision

nation's bended knees. of whom followed the race which enabled them, after their launches, were the Commodore (Mr. relatively brief and intensive sur

Sad as a Tomb by melancholy E. W. Carpenter), the Vice-Commo-veys of the past four years. to de- dore (Mr. A. L. Shields), Rear clare "the order of the strata of Admiral Stirling C... R.N., and Mongolia Included in the Gobi Mrs. Stirling, and the Hon. Mr. CDesert was a strutum equivalent Mel. Messer.

The Navy jumped into a halliam Smith, containing the great in age to the Oxford clay of Wil- length lend at the start and settled giant sauropod asiattorsauros, & down to a steady pace which they frst cousin of William Smith's of Chinese singing girls: mile). They appeared to be rowing time, physicists had extended the cetisaurus of Oxfordi. Mein-

- Weave, well within themselves and always life-history period of the earth kept a slight lead, spurting well with the goal in sight and Bhishing from the momentary 5.000 years very strongly The Club boat was

of Ussher to the 1,000,000,000 four fengths behind-

years of Rutherford. That allow. Spoons were presented to

ed a comfortable margin of 400,- the winning crew in the Club house by 000.000 years' time for the won-

Take from me the soul of me ach, 100 9 against Caissot 100 7 BASEBALL LEAGUE. Stirling and cheers were derful procession of advance re- Against Fellation-Reuter.

heartily given for both crews.

corded in the

my memoryl 27 chapters of The crews

as follows, a Mongolian pre-history, beginning He is pleased to discover Royal Navy; Lt. W. G. Andrewes with Furbeck and Oxford Upper English violet in a temple garden China Sugera (bow), L. R. Hapter 127 L. Jurassic time and ending prac by Canton, where the gardenera. Malabon Sugars Duncan (), L. J. R. Highton (str. Lically with the dominance of gashing the bark of trees and und L. C. M. H. Purdos (cox),"

Chenghis Khan, and followed by rubbing in honey to tempt the Benguets

Mining. sent desert and relatively unin- wounds and keep them open, have Langkats (Combined) the decline of Mongolia to its pre- ants and centipedes to gnaw the Kailan Mining Ad. habited state.

created vegetable agonies:-

The result was:-

Coronach

Calsset

Foliation

Twelve run.

Won by 2 lengths: 6 lengths ber

tween second and third.

Starting prices 15 to 8 on Coron-

Later.

Special place betting:-64 against Palssot, 15 8. against Foliation.

RACE DESCRIBED Masked Raier broke the tapes. Southbourne was first away, leading from Plazzetta. Coronach and Steel Point.

On settling down. Piazzetta went to the front, followed by South-1 bourne and Coronach.

"CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH

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UNDECIDED.

LATEST ACTIVITIES. - In the baseball match on the Happy Valley diamond yesterday which had a bearing on the league leadership, South China, were tightly.

down without TIT: until the sixth inning when the last minute

There was no tie the acore. change in the next inning and the

natch ended in a draw

held

At the half-mile Coronach join-urprise came with two runs to ed Pinzetta, the pair being ten lengthe ahead of Glejalbyn, Foliation and Caissot

Takes the Lead. Turning into the straight, Coronach led, with Masked Ruler second, followed by Caissot, Lex. Foliation.

Making the remainder of the running. Coronach won easily..

Masked Ruler finished forth.

Moments of tense excitement! and framic cheering by partisans on both sides attended the match from beginning to end. The last inning was played in bad light.

It was fortunate for South China that the Japanese made

Several bad over-throws errors, bus for which u

The time was 3 mins, 1.3 5 aees. seemed certain. A pretty

and defeat

Lex slipped three furlongs fromture of the match was the smart

maintained all down the course (a

Were

brook (bow); K. S. Robertson (2), The R.H.K.Y.; C. B. Easter Jones ), R. M. Jurk str.) and F. P. Lanlesty cox.

SIR M. NATHAN.

HOME PAPER'S

TRIBUTE.

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WEMBLEY.

In the meantime, this new, arid roof of the world" had been the! scene of a whole succession of animat dynasties, fertile, produe tive, with a relatively temperate and invigorating climate, the homeland of waves of migrating land reptiles and mammals which successively spread into every His creed, it would seem, is a HE. & W. Docka..AN "other Continent. It was a singu- combination of Omar Khayyam's Hongkews ilar fact that this greatest of all and life-centres of pre-history was the Nature is to him a busybody with- Shanghai Docks

Shorter Catechism: New Engineerings last to be discovered, following by out an objective, and the globe Lands, Holele & Bldgs. His many friends, in the Far half to three-quarters of a cen- and all in it are projected no- LK. & S. Hotels (old).. East. which he recently revisited try the discoveries of the great whither. after a long absence, will be in-und South America, in Northern).

Hfe-centres in Australia, in North terested to learn that Sir Matthew Africa and in Southern Asia. Al- Nathan has buen chosen by the though each of these great cen- Secretary

of State for home. He was injured in the near double play by the Japanese onful organiser, the late Lordre-history of the earth, none

Colonies to succeed that wonder-1

thetres contributed its quota to the

AT foreleg and taken away in a float.many occasions when the Chinese Stevenson, as Chairman of the that of Central Asia.

looked like getting home:

played a part at all comparable to OST OF TWO YEARS' IMPERIAL Government's Advisory

.. ADVERTISEMENT.' was agreed to replay the match on Sunday at 2.30 p.in.

With this introduction, Profes- Mr. Aur Caldecott, O.B.E.. of the mittee on Rubber. Like his pre-sor Osborn proceeded to show by Malayan Civil Service, who was in Shanghai Cottons (old)

Ewo Cottona The teams and score details decessor. Sir Matthew vill take means of photography the concharge of the Malaya Pavilion uti

Orientals up his new duties with everything trast to learn about rubber, but he has geography of Mongolia and its

present Wembley in 1924 and 1925. has com-

Miscellaneous. had a remarkably successful palaeogeography as revealed re- with that enterprise,

riled an exhaustive report dealing Canton "Ices cord in dealing with problems that

Cements (comb.) were equally new to him, and his gently and exhibited a

The greater part of the material appointment has given the great world prepared by Bartholomew tury, but the report, containing China Buses

Palaeogeographic map of

do. (old) in this report, is now ancient his- do. est satisfaction in City circles. of Edinburgh under his direction, it does the fruits of two years ex-China Lights (comb.) Lord Stevenson's interests were showing that by placing North perience at Wembley; will be an about as far apart from rubber as America on the east, Aela in the invaluable guide if a Malayan Mec they could well be when the task, centre, and Europe on the west of ton is organised in the future in China Prov (comb

(old) of saving the industry fell to him an equal-area projection, we had any similar enterprise. Buccessful today in the race for the second inning and the third it was in Kew Gardens. he animal migratory, routes from if not the chief, cause of Wembley's Dairy Farms..

S. Hachiuma pitched in part of If he had ever seen a rubber tree a complete solution of all

do.

-Reuter

The full list of runners-

Coronnch

Caissot

Foliation

Masked Ruler. Booklet Comedy King Glenalbyn Hilika

Pizzetta

Steel Point

Southbourne

Lex

Childs

B. Careinke

Brennan

Esling

R. Jones

C. Elliott

Jameson Swisko

T. Weston

were as under-

Japanese

Chinese

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S. S. Lee

Murata

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K. China

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H. Chinn

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S. L. Lee

Dempery Beary'

Kamoshita

Ishimatsu

Hayase Rugby, Sept. 8. Lord Woolavington's colt Coronach, who won the derby "was

the St. Leger Stakes.

Despite Josing several lengths

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at the start he won easily by two Chinese...... 0000020-2/doubt helped him considerably in which swept over northern Asie such as the Palaces of Engineering, Hongkong Amusements.

lengths.

Lord Derby's Caissot was second and Mr. Tattersall's Folia- tion third. British Wireless Ser- vice.

HOBBS GETS. 84.

MR. THORNTON'S XI v. THE AUSTRALIANS.

FIRST DAY'S PLAY,

Scarborough, Sept. 8. First day's play in the match, Mr. C. I. Thornton's XI v. the Australians:

E. R. Gilligan (ex-captain of England and one of the Teat selec- tors) led the English side, On winning the toss he decided to bat. There was a record crowd, for the ground, of 15,000.

The weather was fine and the wicket good.

Batting most of the day, Mr. Thornton's XI were dismissed for 244 runs.

Hobbs (Surrey) made 84 and

Holmes (Yorkshire) 50.

C. V. Grimmett took 6 wickets for 68 runs and A. A. Mailey 4 for

.53,

When stumps were drawn the Australians had made 3 runs without loss.-Reuter.

The match continues to-day and

to-morrow.

FANLING GOLF

A statement of finance is

do. do.

Mackintosh

completely detached mind he Upper Jurassic time to the sixnancial failure, was the enormous Der A. Wing (full pd.) Japanese 1 0 1 0 0 0 0-2

brought to bear on the subject no great waves of human migration outlay on huge permanent buildinga Rana.-Y. Rachiuma, Murata evolving the far-seeing scheme June, K. Chinn.

into North America.. which bears his name and which This solution was graphically ernment building the Civic Hall Hongkong Electrics Industry and Act, the British Gov-H.K. Constructions "Errors.Chinese 7, Japanese 8. despite all opposition, has so won demonstrated through representa- and North Entrance. The domin- H.K. Developments Strike-out. S. L. Lee 4, S.

derfully achieved its purpose,

Sir Matthew Nathan has had a tion, methods, and actual dis- masses would have made any light

tion of the personnel, transporta-fance of these solid cyclopean H.K. Ropes (comb.) Hachiuma 1. Ishimatsu 4.

Base on halls.-Ishimatsa 3,

most interesting administrative career in widely separated parts der the leadership of Roy Chap-there is no doubt that Malaya (and Hongkong Tramways

coveries of the years 1922-26 un-structure look out of pince, and

(old) Hachiuma 2.

(new) of the Empire. but, says the man Andrews. Thus was describ- the other Overseas sections) did Lane, Crawfords To-day's Game. At 5 p.m. to-day the Hong Kong does not appear to have been con- Jurassic of Gobt and the five suc-ings to the solid type.

"China Express and Telegraph." Volunteer Defence Corps will play nected, even in the remotest way, cessive terrestrial life-zones of the

ed the discovery of the Upper well in approximating their bulld-Macao Electrics the Filipinos in their final league with the great industry upon Age of Reptiles, and, by means of pended to this report. Mr. Caldecott Peak Trams (old) game. Each side has one pre- which he now brings his talents to instantaneous photography, the writes, and some answer may

ap- Nanyang Tobaccos vious victory to their credit.

bear. Born in 1862, he began life field work from the eastern slopes expected to the question "was Filipinos in Japan.

as a soldier. In 1880 he was com- of the. Altai Mountains to the worth the outlay?" Malayan ex- Singapore Trams In the third match of their tour missioned in the Royal Engineers, Kaigan-Urga route was clearly penditure on two years of Wembley Taxis

it Sinceres in Japan, the All Filipino baseball and with them served in the Vile revealed. Following this were amounted approximately to the cost United. Asbestos team were beaten by the Keio Expedition of 1885 and in the the successive life-phases of the of a full-page advertisement run University by 1-0 in a nine-inning Lushai Expedition in India five Age of Mammals, from the smelling for nine weeks in a "leading game on August 31.

years later. After acting as Ad- became Secretary of the Colonial the Tung Karch of the eastern doubtedly greater ministrator of Sierra Leone, he archaic, mammals' of the Rocene London newspaper. Defence Committee in 1895, and Altai Mountains. Then, in 1925, have been by the latter method, and HK. Telephone

to the Upper Pliocene mammals of The publicity achieved is

Watsona (old) un- do. (new) than it wouldWm. Powells. in 1900 Governor of the Goldi the Far East, where for five years visionally referred to the Eolis cheap Coast. From Africa he went to were discovered four periods of as the cost of advertisement go the Old Stone Age of Man, pro-the advertisement was undoubtedly he proved a very acceptable Gov- thie, the Acheulean, the Azilian, ernor of Hongkong. Thence he was transferred to be Governor and the Campignian.

met the Mita, Club and played On September 2 the "Filipinos thirteen innings, but neither side gained the decision. was six runs each.

Bath the matches took place in

Tokyo.

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The score

LR.C. CRICKET TEAM.

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And in this connection a hand- .some tribute, is due to the British Press which, without regard to bookings in their advertisement tumns (only four insertions

The following will represent of Natal, at a time when that that the high plateau region of Professor Osborn's theory was the Indian Recreation Club, in a country had just come through a

Asia, rather than the traditional "friendly" cricket match against rebellion and the national question lowlands of southern and westernere to order of Malaya), gave

But the new "University Past and Present" was very

"to the Exhibition in general, and Governor's tact. clear insight, and Asia, was the home, of the vigor- this Saturday at Sookumpoo, coni- mencing at 2 p.m. sharp. S. A. und judgment saved the Colony Dawn Man of the of Mam

to the Man Pavilion in par- ous line of ancestors of the Curreem. A. H. Madar, S. A.

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paganda must always, be difficult to tary of the Post Office at home-

ssess: a harvest from broadcast the first Army officer to occupy

sowing may be gleaned in distant that post-the country was far

The residents of Нанкоска, " more peaceable than it had been village a few miles from Brighton, can at present be claimed is that and unexpected fields. All that for years. He held office at St. have appealed to the chief constable Malaya and her resources Martin's-le-Grand from 1909 to of East Sussex for additional police given their proper perspective in Mr. D. C. Wilson won the Kow-1911, and then served successfully at holiday times to check hooligans the imperial picture painted at loon Golf Club summer cup, de-as chairman of the Board of who steal fruit and destroy growing Wembley, and that so far as could

Suffad.

KOWLOON GOLF..

Mr. K. S

In the Captain's Cup (Royal feating the holder, Hongkong Golf Club) for Septem- Robertson, by 8 and 6 in the 36 ber, played last week-end at Fan-holes final. ling, Prof. C. A. Middleton Smith qualified with 96 16 80.

'score of Reminder-annual meeting of the Hongkong Football Club at Messrs. Jardine's board room at 5.30 p.m. to-morrow,

The next best score was by Mr. A. H. Ferguson. 821 81. There were 18 entries.

The optional pool, for which

there were 7 entries, was won by

Mr. N. L. Smith with a score of 877 ·80.

Inland Revenue, Under-Secretary crona for Ireland, Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions, and chair- man of the Special Grants Com- mittee. From 1920 to 1925 Sir

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Seven hundred Territorial cadets recently left London for a seven-days' tour of the battle- fields in France,

An earthquake recently caus- ad great alarm In Johannesburg. Cuzuiderable damage was done ta house property,

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