1928-06-26 — Page 9

TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1928;

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WIN FOR HOOD."

BRITISH WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.

MANCINI OUTPOINTED.

Birmingham, Yesterday.

In a 15 rounds contost for the British welterweight championship Hood outpointed Mancini.-Router.

BOWLS.

SHANGHATS INVITATION

ACCEPTED.

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SEPTEMBER INTERFORT.

THE CHINA MAIL,

"FAST YOUNG” MAN.

£5,000 GONE IN TWO YEARS.

40 MOTOR FINES....

Southampton,-John Leslie Court- enay, aged 22, trading as the South- ampton Marine Motor Company, admitted at Southampton Bank ruptcy Court having lost £5,000 in less than two years. He admitted owing £2,047, and said he had no

ELECTION PRICES.

CUT IN COUNTIES, BUT NOT IN THE TOWNS.

TORIES FAVOURITES.

(By Hugh Martin]“

As a result of the Equal-Fran- chise Bill, which passed through its Committee stage, in the Commons on April 23, elections will cost Par- liamentary candidates more, but not so much more, in all cases as if a new clause had not been added to the measure.

Shanghai's Invitation to local assets. lawn bowlers to send a team to the He said he had been a pilot in the Northern port was yesterday as Royal Air Force. In August 1926,

The Bill swells the electorate by cepted. Messrs. H. Ovary (K.C.C.) he became entitled to about £3,000 one quarter, and in its original G. E. Alderman (0.3.0.0.) and D, and bought a moter-launch. He form would have increased maxi- Munro (Talkoo) with the president had a motor-car and a motor-cycle, mum expenses which are on a per PROVES HIS WORTH. and honorary secretary of the H.K. for which he paid £300.

capita baals, by 25 per cent. After Lawn Bowls Association, will com-f Mr. J. L. Wilkinson, the Official the night'a series of free votes. Receiver: Did you appear before the however, the prospect is that the prise the selection committee.

Names of players able and will local magistrates for speeding?-full: Increase will only have to ba ing to make the trip should be with Dozens of times. :

borne by, candidates in town con- And there were dozens of fines? stituencies, the country candidate's the honorary secretary by August

expenditure being restricted to 6d. per voter, instead of 7d, as at pre-

MCMILLAN'S FIGHT WITH

PADDY JONES.

[By Blily Wells.]

I am able to give you what 11. Players will pay their own-Yes, about 40 or 50. think you may take as a definite fares. The interport games will

and authentic statement regarding no doubt take place between Sep- Did you

the Tunney-Heeney fight. That is tember 1 and 16.,. that there is not tha remotest chance of its being staged outside America.

-+

I was talking to a man, the other day who knows the full details of Tex Rickard's overtures to Wembley -and elsewhere in London, I may

add-and I also also know the tenor of the conversations which Mr. Bernard Mortimer has had on this subject, and the effect of my in- formation is that quite apart from stipulations which Gene Tunney mado for his title, the guarantee question absolutely rules out any chance of the contest being put on

in London.

"That's All."

appear before the sant. magistrates in any other cir- cumstances?---Only for attempting to shoot a man, that's all.

fight. It would be a great display Courtenay said his losses in re of science and real sound boxing, Ispect of the launch "My Molly" am sure, and in my opinion the were altogether £2,809.

and Russell Whallen, the much- You have done yourself advertised American boxer who is well?-Fairly, yes.

The announcement that Minister: Inlists would be at liberty to vote as they wished on this vexed question was made with considerable unction by Sir William Joynson-Hicks, who

had consulted the Prime Minister. since the Bill was last before the

issue would be so much in doubt Mr. Wilkinson: Over £2,300 gone that the fight would be a keen one, in 12 months-Exactly 12 months. House. Mr. Arthur Henderson had Fights For Home Boxers First. At what rate were you living for put down a motion for the reduction Although not actually a witness. household expenses?-£1,800, pos-of both town and country allow ances by one penny per voter, and of the fight between Archie Sexton_sibly more..

pretty Sir William proceeded to show that at any rate in the Case of the now working in London, I had. You have been grossly extra- counties this will be

more than ample. an account of it from a friend who vagant? No doubt about that.

I am With motor-cars, was there, and the reason

In the Scottish boroughs it ap- pears that successful candidates at the last election spent only 24d. per head fristead of the maximum of 4d. now proposed. (English and Welsh laughter.)

of CR88

motor-cycles,

referring apecially to it is that we and a chauffeur; is that right? I

Д believe there were two or three. There was a talk at a seaside have here another

. Nothing to Show. place in the summer, and Blackpool foreigner being given more kudos

than the home protiucts.

May we take it that in addition was mentioned, so I hear. But any

I don't know what has got hold to the £9,000 you received under likelihood of that coming off is also

When the House divided only 71 Is it out of count. In any case, June of some of our promoters. would be too early for a crowd of that a man comes from America your parente will for marriage members all Tories-were found!

have lost bold enough, to vote for the reten the necessary dimensions to fore, lots of the things that were said £2,047, making £5,047 In less than tion of the whole of the present!

that a man comes from America,two years?—Yes.

gathor at any place like Blackpool.

A mention of Blackpool reminds or France, or Italy, or anywhere me, by the way, that the ever-enterprising

It

and

settlement in 1926 you

scale in town and country,

Plea for Economy.“

Mr. Payne, the registrar: And else but home means to them that he

nothing to show for it?-Nothing. The Labour Front Bench was "Pa" Taylor must be "some class?"

Russell Whallen, according to my Several people went out of their evidently wondering whether it had a George is going to stage

way to assist me to spend money.. been wise in asking for so little Cook-Frank Moody fight at the informant, is no more

Mr. Payne: You did not want when Sir John Simon rose to pro- Liverpool Stadium.

less than a showy Hightweight who ought to be an excellent fight, for among has certainly a degree of science but much persuading.

The examination was adjourned pose that the permitted expenditure in countries should be reduced from the big men both Cook and Moody nothing so wonderful as to justify

the 6d, for which the House had can be lots of the things that wore aaid for a month." stand out as fellows who

He is in

just voted, to 5d, which seemed to relied upon to put up a good show and written about him. as real triers. The fight should

him, In view of the Home Secre- tary's figures, to be needlessly_gen- give us some idea of Moody's pro- spects for the fight later on for the would no more set out to run down MRS. CAMILLA MARIA GRACA erous. title with Gipsy Daniels, who, it is Whallen than I would any other stated has been treating some of man, British or foreign, and I the German boxers like ninepins hasten to say that I have not the slightest prejudice against foreign- ors as such.

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This shocked Sir William Joyn- Government, Bald son-Hicks. The It is with regret that we have to he gravely, is reforming Govern- announce the untimely death, which ment, but must check its zeal before Mancini Ready For Hood,

occurred at her residence, No. 1, the point is reached at which a Discussion is still rife at the But I still harp on the note I have Observatory-villas, Kowloon, last candidate is not permitted to spend

"There is a danger that the ap 4d.; in 1929 it was £599. 198. Bd.; National Sporting Club and In-rounded-many-times-in-these

$1 boxing generally as to the B.B. of columns: give our own men the/zorio, wife of Dr. F. M. Grach enough to educate -his-constituon proval given by all Parties to the and in 1924 it was £572 10s;”-----

When Mr. Snowden, on behalf of

What Candidate May Spend.

647- B.C. suspension of Hood and Bloom- fights first, unless there is some de-night, of Mre. Camilla Maria Graca

Üzorio, the well-known

local the Labour Party, supported the principle of the new Franchise Bill

may divert public attention from an "Yet the authorized expenditure Langkats (Combined). T12.20

do. had Simon amendment to Labour's own incidental effect of the Bill which, was, on average, 5750, and if the shanghai Explorations 32.45 (Single). T5.90 field, but the main comments are finite reason for matching our

medical practitioner, who with imported products.

were Minis- now being made to sympathise with fellows

un-Shanghai Loans...... unless corrected by amendment, will Equal Franchise Bill passes terial sniggers. Alf Mancini who through no fault In the case of Johnny Hill, Emile served two terms as an unofficial original figure there

nember of the Sanitary Board.

do serious injury to the working of amended it will become £987 188. Raubs of his own is being penalised by the Pladner was a natural opponent for The late Mrs. Graca Ozorio, who Some Interesting figures suggest our representative Institutions. ́ ́ The figures for the countles tend Tronoh Minas

him, and there was no man who was a member of an old and highly ing how rauch too expensive the "The Equal Franchise Bill is es- in the same direction; at the 1822 Do Wharves, welterweight title.

It is truc

that the .N.S.C. could either have put up auch a respected Portuguese family of political life is at the present time timated to add 5% million women election the average was £794 6. H... Wharves .giving

fight good fight from our home flyweights Hong Kong, was the third daughter were also given by Captain Garro to the electorate, and this is an in- 6d.; in 1928 it was £767 (s. 7d.; and H.K. & W. Docăn with Laffiner of France, but it can as Pindner did on both occasions, of Mr. C. M. Castro of Messrs. Jones. They showed that members crease of about 25 per cent. The in 1924 it was £729 88. 3d. Yet China Providents

Hongkaws hardly be said that this will make nor was there anyone else to dis- Lane, Crawford, Ltd., and of the who fought the 1922, 23 and 24 average constituency to-day con- the authorised maximum Was New Engineerings up to the Notting Hill man for the pute the point at fasue,, namely the late Mrs. Castro,

elections must have spent In a large tains about 86,000 voters, and the £1,050, and unless the present Shanghai Docke

Cotton Mills. cancellation of his fight with Hood, European title.

And when

Besides predeceasing her husband number of cases quits £8,000, allow new Bill will increase this number scala is cut down it will become it comes to brass-

Ewo Cuttons for it will neither get him nearer

Oriental Cottons, his ambition-the welter-weight backs, what about the manner in and five children, the deceased lady ing for the necessary disbursements to 45,000. What effect is this go- £1,312 108.1

Ing to have on candidates' expenses with these facts and figures in Bhal Cottons (Old) title and belt-nor can it possibly which Phil Scott has been and is survived by her father and eight between-while.

brothers Messrs. Richard, Joe, Two Ministerialists who supported at clections?

mind last Wednesday's debate in the do. (zew) being treated in "God's own coun-

Lands, Hotels & Bldgs. One of fighting an election should be makes Interesting reading.

Hongkong Lands .... $65% ba away busily at Alec Lambert's as far off recognition by people who David and Edward Castro--and Charteris and Major Hile.

The House smiled cynically when materially increased by the change, Conservative member described the Shanghai Lands ... T134 place off the Edware-road, and matter over there as he was at the two sisters, Mrs. F. M. France, Jr., is keeping himself at there to beginning of his first trip to the land Mrs. J.. H. O'Brien, with all of Miss Wilkinson described, her ideal for the area of the constituency is effort to reduce, the scale of expen- Humphreys Estates whom much sympathy will be felt election and why it would be cheap. unaltered, the period of the contest diture per voter as 'the attempt to Hongkong Realties

HK. Territorials box Hood as soon as the latter

in their bereavement by a large "Appeals to reason," said the, "call is not increased, candidates already curtail the activities of the Con- Prince's Buildings has the ban lifted. One of Man-

Milligan's. One Idea.

circle of friends,

for much less. B. d. than do ap- hold as many meetings as they can servative Party!

Public Utilities. cini's sparring partners, or I met Tommy Milligan again The late Mra, Graca Ozorio, who, peals to prejudice. Quiet meetings in the time, and the same number

"Another Conservative member HK. Tramways brothers in training I should say, at the N.S.G., and I discus-was the possessor of a very fine cost far less than shrieking of committee rooms will suffice.- (who made an admirable speech in Peak Trams (old)

do... (new). is Lord Knebworth, who, coming sed the unfortunate Edinburgh soprano voice,

Was a well-known posters."

"There will be a slight increase support of the reform) thought it Star Ferries from Alec Lambert's gym., went to affair with him. Tommy is now figure in local amateur concerts in The most outspoken opponent of due to the necessity of printing and necessary to plead with the mem-China Lighte (ceb) Ilford the other night and stopped very philosophical about the bus-Hong Kong, and before her mar- any further retreat was Mr. Sande distributing a larger number of bers of his own party to be "Indul-do (ok) 311.40 114T a police constable at the K. Divi- ness and takes the attitude that it rings during the War, she was a man, Tory member for Prestwich, copies of the necessary election do gent sional tournament, there.

le no une crying over spilt milk but favourite performer at the open air who had been one of the 71 against cuments, but it is manifest that "The Conservative Government M'Millan's Progress. he told me that his one whole idea concerts held in the public gardens even the penny reduction. This, this could not justify an increase has already found it Impossible to H.K. Electricr $710

now was to see the Harvey-Ireland by the Hong Kong Police Reserves, he cried, "would be absolute mud- by 25 per cent, of a candidate's resist the temptation which this Macan Flectrice contest over and then to get to im-She also sang at many concerts and ness Would the Socialista give authorised expenditure.

Bill offers to add to the number of HK Telephones mediate grips with the winner.

took part in a number of plays away anything they've got?"...

plural voters,

China Bucas Candidates" Expenses Law." "We shall know on April 80 from Singace Tractions "Yet this increase in expenditure the Home Secretary whether they do. Pref. will be automatically permitted if Government can realat, the demand, the Equal Franchise Bill is carried made by many of their own sup- Mambon Brgars in the form in which the Govern portera as well as by the united canton Ice ment has seen fit to introduce it. Oppositions, to do something to Cements (comb.) For, under the existing law, a can- decrease the money power in poli- aldate may spend (apart from his tica

However, Mancini is working, try 7" It would seem as if he fa Henry, Antoin, Eugene, Alfred; the Simon amendment.were General There is no reason why the cost House of Commons on the subject & 8. Hotels. $9.20 b 8% 65.

I saw the Johnny M'Millan

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ligan at as early a date as possible. The funeral takes place at the rejected the Simon scale by 216 to

of the best fights from every point. One that score, I confess I have

of view that I have witnessed, for a no information, and I don't think long time.

anyone else has either. This, how-

he considers himself a batter boxer

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view of Mr. Sandeman's party. It

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́IN PALESTINE.

clause with the object of retaining voter in a county constituency, and b. as the maximum expenditure in a. for every registered voter in a and a title and belt contest is now. putting into practice, new ideas he being spoken of between him and has absorbed, he will prove himself

Jerusalem The excavations borough constituencies.

borough. Harry Corbett a more than a match for, Harvey or now coming to a close which are A number of Conservatives op-

M'Millan shone in two directions, Ireland or any other riddle-weight being conducted by Dr. W. F. posed this polloy, but Col. Vaughan-Increase the number of regis his timing of punches and his in this country.

Alright, of the American School Morgan's amendment was carried tored voters by 9,000, and a candl speed of footwork. It is indeed a Lull in Bantam Division of Archeology In Jerusalem, with by the narrow margin of 8 votes date who can afford it will at once long time since I have seen better. One department up is undoubted the co-operation of Prof. M. G. 181 to 173. footwork than M Millan displayed. ly the bantam division, and it is Kyle, of the Xenia Theological The result must be regarded as a sevenpences or ver Paddy Jones is no sluggard If the high time that Mr. Jop Morris fixed Seminary, Ohio, have been re- feather in the cap of that astute result to colle ring, but M'Millan, had him left up some work for Baldock if he warded at the last moment by the politician, the Home Secretary. a long distance beblad when it wants the erstwhile Poplar wonder

with the odium of sel came to speedy moving to retain his place in the public discovery of a unique object of Without saddling the Government Inflicting

worship-illustrating Canaanitish "I do not jump to conclusions eye quickly and I would not like to Why there should be such a lull worship in the pre-Israelite period, tage from the weal

The monument consists of a candidates, he had,.. get too enthusiastic over any man among the 8 stone G brigade I can limestone stela (inscribed slab) 12tically the whole of wha from one fight alone. But I must not imagine, for surely there is no Bay that I can think of me feather other section where there are so inches by 24 depicting a figure, the weight in the country at the pre- many likely men clamouring for sent moment who is better than shot at the title still held "officially "M"Milan," with the possible, excep-- by Johnny Brown of St. George tion of the title holder, 96There is plenty of talk going

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