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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927
SPORTS SECTION
$5,000 PRIZE.
Good Joss And Cash Sweeps.
MR, J. C. COTTON'S LUCK.
YACHT CLUB.
LADIES PREPARE. FOR CHALLENGE.
CLUB CRUISER #TYPHOON.""
Sunday
8.7 low at 11.21 6.7 high 18.28 4.7 high
12:57 2.9 low. 17.16. 6.1 high
[By Chau Hung".J.
Mr. J. C. Cotton, bar manager
The table of week-end tides of the Hong Kong Hotel, is to be reads:- Saturday congratulated on winning the first prize in the Fanling "B" ($1) sweep drawn last Saturday. For his ticket No. 1,141 he gets $5,090.55 as it drew the winner, Kwan Tao,, in the third race of the Fanling Hunt China New Year meeting,
At the previous meeting, Mr. Cotton was also "connected" with the first prize. . A number of tickets came into his hands and the winning number was passed on to a friend. Apparently wiser this time, Mr. Cotton managed to keep the "jons" out of two books which he held.
The second prize of $1,487.30 was drawn by ticket No. 9,204, purchased by a Chinese: Meaars, Wing On'a sold ticket No. 4,780- which drew the third prize of $718.65-both of these sums have not yet been applied for.
WATERLOO CUP..
100/1 CHANCE IN THE FINAL.
FAVOURITE'S PATE.
At Altear in the coursing Waterloo Can final. Mr. A. Gordon Smith's Golden Seal beat Mr. N.
Dunn's Demetrius.
The betting was 2 to 7 against Golden Seal
On the night of the draw, Golden Scal was quoted at 33 to 1 against and Demetrius at 100 to 1.
Mr. F. Pilkington's Pentonville was favourite at 15 to 2 but was beaten in the first round-Reuter.
£582 TO 10.
An Extraordinary Totalisator Dividend.
Cape Town, Feb. 24. The tetalisator machines at yesterday's race meeting paid $382 on one ten shilling ticket on one of the raceg-China Press.
LADIES TEST.
LAWN TENNIS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
ENGLISH TEAM BEATEN,
Cape Town, Jun. 29. The first Tent between the British lady lawn tennis team and South Africa, which was begun on Jan. 26 was continued to-day.
Mies Dix, 6-4, 6-2.
The at
Duke
23.26
The members of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club as losers in the event of last year are sending of
TEN FOR NONE!
Cricket Side All out for "Ducks."
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Melbourne.
Victoria had reached the limit in scoring 1107 against the New South Wales. Sheffield Shield
eleven.
But there was yet another re- cord to be beaten in low acoring. So North Fitzroy United sent in Coles to bat in Northern Suburban Association match and diamissed them, without run being scored.
Il
R. Michie and S. Wardly were the bowlers and each took five wickets..
challenge to the competitors of the ladies' championship held under the auspices of the Club. for a team match to be sailed on Sunday, March 6. 1 understand that, the challenge in to be taken up in no uncertain manner and moreover, having anticipated it, the ladies are nominating the following as their foam-
Lady Clementi & Mrs. Miles: Mrs. Ratsey & Mrs. Hunt; Mies. Lewis & Mrs Faussett; Miss Butcher & Mrs. Claridge; Miss Hazeland & Miss Thewaites; Mrs. Mitchell & Mian Yates; with Mrs. Lambert and Misg Carson in re-
sarve.
The rucing is to be for teams of aix 'boats of the smaller classes and I learn that the ladies are extremely keen to keep on showing them how it is done" as they did last year
.we shall see!
The rating over the week-end is
for the Preserted Cups by cham pionship winners of the racing yachts over a 9.6 mile course of:
Channel Rocks (p), Cust Rock buoy (8) Kowloon Rock (2), Lye- mun Beacon (s) while on Sunday the cruisers will try to get a re sult for the 1st championship event on the course
of Hong Kong Island (port).
THE CHINA MAIL.
OFF TO SHANGHAL
RUGGERS WITH THE COLOURS.
IN 18T/MIDDLESEX.
Saveral, Rugby Union footballers: are among the troops ordered from Home to Shanghal'
PEARSON CASE
WRIT TO BE ISSUED AGAINST PUBLISHERS.
"A HARMLESS LITTLE LIE:"
London, Jan. 28..
Mr. Hesketh Pearson who was
STORM AT HOME.
DETAILS OF A RECENT GALE
ROOFS TORN OFF INTACT.
London, Jan. 28. Showers of tiles and chimney They include Worton, England's tried on a charge of unlawfully pots clattering down in the streets scrum-half Clinch, an Irish for obtaining from a firm of pultish-and causing innumerable minor ward, both of whom are in the laters, John Lane & Co., a chequee casualties were common experi- Middlesex. They had to miss the for £225, by means of false preences during a gule which involv international match on February 12. The Harlequin's crack three-tences, with intent to defrauded the whole British falen,
It blow in ferce, sudden gusts, quarter, Haydon is in the same was acquitted to-day.
The cross-examination of Mr. Occasionally attaining a velocity battalion. P. Chambare, late of the Air Force, and K. Herbert, of the Allen Lane by Sir Patrick Hast of 100 miles per hour. London Scottish, are with the ings was directed to show that Borderers and the Richmondite, the firm published undesirable
Douglas, with the Devons.
DURHAMS' PROWESS.
Regiments Which Paused Through Hong Kong.
"This is what the Shanghai Times" says of the Durhams and the Gloucesters:
books.
Mr. Lane admitted that he to a "harmless little he" when he wrote to the papers saying that he could vouch for the authen- ticity of the book because he knew the diarist. personally.
Sir Patrick Hastings contended that it was a cruel thing for Pear One of the best teams in all India son to stand trial while his prose- and without any aporting kit!. That is the state in which the Dur-cutors had got his money in their hams' soccer eleven and themselves pockets, although they sold his on their arrival in Shanghai... At books. Sir Patrick announced the time of their departure from that a writ would be issued India they were away from their against them as soon as the case regular station, it is understood, was over. and made such a rapid trip to the
Mr. Pearson, in giving evidence, troopship that there was no time said that he wrote the whole book for them to collect. their sporting
kit before leaving. The Durhame himself. He assumed that young are said to have won the Army Cup Mr. Lane, knew it was all a fake. in India two years in succession. He mentione Sir Rennell Rodd's They have a team which should give name because the latter was the the best that Shanghai can put up most unlikely person to have
very hard run for victory."
written the book, and so show it to be a lie.
*
Boxing and Hockey: Not only are the Durhama a foot-
After the attack on the book in ball regiment: They have
useful very
polo
'aide.....
It the Press he got frightened and is unfortunate for them that told a whole series of lies.
it
now an off season for polo The judges in summing up, said in Shanghai, but those who are keen that there was not the slightest evidence that Mr. Lane knew it was all humbug.
on pony exercise can rely upon it that they can get as much as they want with the Paper Hunt Club and the Shanghai "Hounds.
The Gloucesters are reputed to have a good rugger Afteen and two useful soccer elevens. In addition they possess some good fighters, reports they have According to several classy middleweights, who would have no objection to mixing it with some of the local stars. The Gloucesters AND.
possess a good hockey team.
“TOTE" FRAUDS,
Ten Paris Men Sent to Prison:
was
Paris, Feb. 2.. By waiting till the race won and then backing the winner, ten men employed in working the totalisators on different Paris racecourses were charged with despoiling the pagi-mutuel of part of its' profits.
They were sentenced to terms of from two years' to a month's imprisonment, 'together with small fines.
BETTING TAX. TREASURY OFFICIAL TO THE
The Committee have extended the ime limit to 7.30 p.m. with the hope of completing the course. This extension was of no avail on Sunday fast; and the fleet, after Indulging in a series of the puf Mr. huntings, found their leaders off the
CRITICS:
SCORN FOR AGITATÖRS!"
SILENT LEAGUE,
MR. MACDONALD'S PLEA FOR
PUBLICITY.
Pedestrians and vehicles were played havoc with the telegraphs tossed about like corks. The gale.
throughout the country.
A curious feature is the number of roofs, which were torn off in tact and sent sailing for a long
distance.
At Kinghorn, Fife, a. roof cår- ried away a workman over the adjoining railway bridge and pre cipated him on the railway line, with fatal results.
Newcastle express had an alarm Passengers on the Berwick-
ing experience. The locomotive the gale and remained stationary was able to, proceed against..
for 40 minutes. The carriages. rocked like a ship at sea, rain and gravel being driven through the windows.
sembled a cauldron and its con
The North Sea, off Berwick, re- dition engendered anxiety for the fate of fishing and other vessels. The casualties at Glasgow alone
ed and 100 injured. reported to date include eight kill-
LONG-LOST SON.”
CLAIM TO A PRINCE'S FORTUNE.
A REMARKABLE STORY.
Paris.-The First Chamber will shortly have before it an extra- ordinary succession case bearing London, Jan.. 14.
on the fortune of Prince George "We know alf about, the Earbou-Stirbey, who was heir to the and failures of the throne of. Wallachia before its in- troubles League of Nations, but next to corporation in the kingdom of nothing about its normal work" Roumania. The prince who had a writes Mr. Ramsay MacDonald remarkable career died in 1925 at the age of 96, and left his fortune in the Spectator," with refer to the two daughters of his wife, ence to a suggestion by Mr. Mur-the widow of M. Achille Fould, a 'ray Allison that the League's former Minister of Napoleon 1, work should be given organised whom he married at the age of publicity Mr. MacDonald pro66. His father had reigned as ceeds: "Unless there is a row or Rovereign of Wallachia for sevon a Mark Antony speech the news. years, and when the Treaty of papers reject Geneva dews. It Paris of 1856 suppressed the inde- is deplorable, but a fact. On the George Barbou-Stirbey, who had pendence of this State, Prince other hand, the advertiser can been educated in France and was a array the dullest facts in the favourite at the Court of Napoleon most attractive form to fill up III., occupied important positions in the tragic blanks of the news his country, fncluding those of coloumns. The sum required War Minister, President of the might be distributed over the Chamber of Deputies, and Minister army, navy, and air force estim-of Foreign Affairs. It was he who was charged to report the result of ates. It would be more effective the plebiscits to Prince Charles of in the long run for our defence Hohenzollere calling the latter to than their arma, while to make the Roumanian throne. them remove the need for their own existence would be both good humour and good business."
Two hundred pollee have been
to prevent disturbances. PÄTHETIC EXPERIENCE.
a professor of philology, who claims
George Barbon-Stirbey as his father...
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Coming to, France, Prince George became a naturalised Frenchman. In 1888 and after his marriage he made his wife' daughters, the Mar- STUDENTS ON STRIKE.
quise „de 'Grau and Mlle. Fould,| whom he had adopted, his heiresses. A claimant to a part of the fortune London, Feb. 1, Cairo-Students of the El Azhar He is Dr. Schutte, 78, years of age, appeared after the prince's death. London, Jan 28.
University and certain. Elementary Discussing the Betting Tax yield, Colleges are on strike owing to It was hot and glary.
Ronald McNeill, Financial Parliament's decision to return the to be a son of Prince Barbou Secretary to the Treasury, speaking Darelalum College and the Cadis Stirbey, and states that he was born tendance was large and the and Duchess of Athlone were clock tower at 6.50 p.m. with little at Maidenhead, said: again present.
er no wind and a foul tide. "U." think it quite likely that we to the jurisdiction of the Ministry chambermaid. In support of bis School and Elementary College at Vienna in 1863, his mother being Mrs. Everitt (South Africa) bent" and "La Cigale" hailed one shall not get £1,500,000. We put of Education.
claim he points to his certificate, of Misa E. H. Harvey, 6-2, 0-6, 6-4,
another and agreed "to call it even," it down at that na a rough gueas for Mrs. Watson beat Miss Heine but "Coquette" managed to cross this portion of the year, but it will teachers in Arabic, and the Cadis was baptised in the Orthodox The Derélalum College trains baptism, which sets forth that he (South Africa), 6-2, 7-5,
the line somewhere about 8:45 pm probably not be until this time next School trains Judges for the re- Church in Vienna, and gives Prince Mrs. Peacock (South Africa) "Norseman was on the Yaumati year that we will be able to say ligious Courts. beat Miss Joan Fry, 3-6, 7-5, 6-0;,
Miss Heine and Mrs. Fall (Southshore and "Feathers" on the Hong whether the particular form that.
Kong. Ladys Jean" and "Queen this tax takes is the right machin-sent Africa) beat Miss Saunders and Bee" were not located but I would ery for collecting the tax, but it is
Miss Harvey and Mrs. Mellquhan boldly assert that there is no truth working perfectly smoothly.
"The agitation against the tax in the story that the gallant crew beat Mrs. Peacock and Mrs. Mac-of the latter were in any way con comes from bookmakers and what arthur (South Africa), 6-4, 6-3..
South Africa won by 5 matches nected with the armed robbery They are not the people upon whom Medical Service, had the pathetic}
are known as professional backers, which was perpetrated cu Lamma deponde either the success of ras-
Dr. Middleton West, of the Indian for the previous day. South Island on Sunday evening thoughing or the industry of horse-bread- experience of seeing his brother, a Africa and Great Britain each won they did hang round there foring, but they are the people who Midland's farmer, expire under an long time and had a "Gunn" toll us that the result of the anaesthetic administered by him- tax will be that there will not be Belf, preparatory to the extraction
of teeth by dentist.
The Club cruiser was duly phecy comes true, we will go down Trent, a verdict of death by miaad-] "All I can say is that if that pro- At the inquest held at Burton-on- christened by the Vice-Commodore, in history as the greatest moral venture was returned, the Coroner who named her "Typhoon" and reforming Government of any age.
**pointing out that the anaesthetic
For the first time on record, a wished her fuck and all who all in Mr. McNeill, referring to the new was skilfully and properly adminis- number of periodicals are display- her. Unfortunately the height of basis of taxation en motor vehicles, tered.
ing startling advertisements Credits 4 months aight/1-5/16 the tide did not permit of the said he believed it would be far bet launching taking place at the same ter if, instead of basing the taxa- ENGLISH TOURIST SHOT DEAD, Ecoming the Parliamentary De Dementary, 4 monikeright 2/1-7/16. time but when she did take the tion on horse-power, it was based
bates and informing readers of On Far The above radiogram was receiv-, water in the presence of a few en-upon the fuel used. There were
Parle, Jan. 16, the "high class fare they will On demand... ed last night and is self-explana-thualants it was found that she many difficulties in the way that the An Englishman believed to be miss if they don't read Hansard
Credila 4 months Acated just above her marks. By system could surmount, but he did William Brown, a mechanic of regularly,
Da Berlin the time she has taken up and not think they would hesitate to Newcastle, was killed in a Monte The advertisement point out. On demand, ...
martre boulevard at midnight be that the Debates reflect, in a man. On New York has been rigged she will be very adopt it.
cause he spoke French with for her unique in periodical litera- On demand eign accent Brown was talking to
to 4.
two matches.]
RACES, OFF.
MACAO'S 1ST MEETING POSTPONED!'.
"China Mail, Hong Kong- Races postponed, bad weather.
Race Club, Mecao."
tory.
Macao's Inaugural race meeting, fixed for to-day and to-morrow, has been postponed.
aboard.
"
near to her designed water line,
If she sails as well as she has como:
Further information is awaited. There has already been one post-to her marks than I believe that ponement owing to the course not being ready.
"¿ NO QUORUM.
V.R.C. ANNUAL MEETING POSTPONED,
Messrs. Goulborn and Rouse, to- gether with the Club members who: use bar, will be satisfied.
seemed
All who inspected. her pleased with the roominess of the cabin and the leg room of the cockpit.
another, bet made-
LOVE FIRST.
MLLE SUZANNE LENGLEN CONFESSES.
WOULD GIVE UP TENNIS:
Havana
I would give up tennis for love
if necessary," said Suzanna Lenglen when her friends inquired
she
Sir Thomas Lipton has not sent was engaged to young Baldwin The annual meeting of the his challenge and we shall have to the heir to Lucky Baldwin's mi Victoria Recreation Club was to wait another year before he can lions, and to a famous have been held last evening The do so; but in the interim there may horse-breeding.estabils meating was called for six o'clock, be some iterations brought about He is here to sea but as a quorum (30 members) in the conditions of the America They first mat repor failed to turn up the meeting was Cup race if the meeting of the gates. "postponed until next Friday at Nowth
pm, when it is hoped that there Union.
will be a good muster of members, të pro
The non attendance last evening for:
“was attributed to the heavy rain, kwani wa
.
London, Feb. 1
For the prince's adopted daugh- ters, it is pointed out that a man who believes himself to be a right- ful heir does not usually wait until he is a septuagenarian before establishing his claim.
CURRENT HISTORY.”
BOOMING OF HANSARD, REPORTS.
London, Jan. 80,"
EXCHANGE.
Hongkong, 19th February 1927.
`On Loddoa-
LONDON EXCHANGES.
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a woman when a passer by exclaim ture, the many-sided and fre- ed "Talk French, not a foreign lan quently conflicting interests of On di madd guage. Brown resorted, Mind the myriad groups malding up the your own business, whereupon the social life of England
On damazo passer by whipped out a revolver. Indeed the advertisements are shot Brewn and escaped..
so flattering that peop dering whether Hansai ed to be
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