WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1929.
Sport Columns
FOOTBALL
BURNLEY BEAT SUNDERLAND IN DIVISION L
POSITION IMPROVED
London, Yesterday,
In Division I of the Football League to-day, Burnley defeated Sun- terland by two goals to nil-Reuter,
Revised Table"
P W. D. L.
Derby Middlesbro'
4
3 1
0
Gonis. F. A. Pts. 11 - 9
7
7 6
H
Burnley
Grimsby
21 0
10 8
3
Б
421 115 11
&
West Ham
Wednesday Arsenal...
Birmingham Everton
430J 14
A 2 2 0 9 8
POLICE SPORTS
AQUATIC EVENTS AT THE V.R.C.
SATURDAY'S PROGRAMME
The programme of events for the 8th annual aquatle sports meeting of the Police and Prism Departments, to be held at the Victoria Recreation Club on Saturday afternoon, is as under:—
Plate Diving,
Championship of Police and Pri- son Depts. Indina and Chinese).
Chumpionship of Police and Pri- son Depts. (Europeans).
Two lengths harulicap (Indians and Chinese).
Long Plunge.
Two lengths handicap (Euro- peans).
Two lengths
2 10
Boys' Club).
Nomination race..
Newcastle
Leicester
M'chester C.
Aston Villa
Sunderland
3 1 0
1 0
1 0 2
Leeds
Huddersfield
M'chester U.
Liverpool 3 1 0 2
Bolton
Sheffield U.
Blackburn
Portsmouta
0 1 2
4 0 1 3 ..3 0 1 2
7 12
9
1
3 0
1
HOME RACING
CAVENDO SCRATCHED FOR
ST. LEGER
14 NOW LEFT IN
London, Yesterday, Cavendo has been scratched for the St. Leger. The list of probable starters and riders is now:--
Trigo
Hotweed
Bosworth
Totalisator
Posterity
Haste Away
Mr. Jinks
Marshall
Garner
Weston Perryinun
Taylor
Joe Childs 1. Beusticy
Tom Prartree Harus Engure
Dines Elliott
Gordon Richards
K. Jones
P. Beasley
F. Fcx Jellies
Brienz..
Cuttlefish
Delo
Pennycomeqnick
-.-- Reuter.
POLO CLUB
TOURNAMENT FOR "LADY
STUBBS CUP"
handicap (Street
Two lengths breast stroke. Boys' two lengths handicap (sons of members of Police and Prison Depts.).
High Dive..
Life Saving (second method of re- lease and rescue).
Two lengths Police Reserve race. Comedy-race.
CHAPMAN'S TEAM
BIG SCORE IN SCARBOROUGH FESTIVAL
• All a
MEET LORD HAWKE'S XI
¡
THE CHINA
1929 CRICKET
LOOKING BACK ON PAST PERFORMANCES
WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
Froin whatever point of view
MAIL,
the
season
CHINESE PORCELAIN
COLLECTOR'S' BEQUESTS TO MUSEUMS
RARE PIECES
Forty-two important pieces of Chinese procelain have been bé- queathed to the Victoria and Albert and the British Museums under the will of Mr. Henry Blackwall Harris, 37, Kensington-square.
Mr. Harris
For the Victoria and Albert Museum nineteen pieces, ranging in date from the. Sung Dynasty (960.
of the eigh 1279) to the middle teenth century, have been selected.
is a rare The most modern
bowl
style of minutely painted with birds in the Ku-yueh hauan. The Sang pieces include an exquisite "wine-pot of ying ch'ing ("shadowy blue") ware, and the Ming dynasty is represented by a stem-cup painted in underglaze red with three fishes, Hsuan Te; & large Cheng Te and bearing the mark of
enamel-painted vase, and a beauti- ful red and yellow bowl of the reign of Wan Li.
London, Yesterday. The cricket match at the Scar-situation is reviewed, it is impossible hrough festival between Lord Hawke's to get away from the fact that a eer XI. and an eleven drawn from the tain amount of uneasiness exista in M.C.C. team which A. P. F. Chapman cricket cireles in regard to the form of took out to Australia during the Inst the England players in the Test
far played this close season (to win the rubber down matches there) ended in a draw.
against South Africa. Coming home
was an enthusiastic collector and a The M.C.C. team in Australia batted from a triumphant tour in Australia member of the Oriental Ceramic Erst, the innings being declared closed in which, as everyone knows, the only Society, and his bequest was con. at 553 runs for five wickets, To this lefeat sustained was in the Gifth received "in the most liberál terms," Suge total, Philip Mead of Kent (who presentative engagement, our players permitting selection, it is stated, by had taken a comparatively unimport- were expected to accomplish grant
the museum authorities. ant part in the Tests) contributed 233 Things against the comparatively in- TUDS, Patsy Hendren, of Middlesex, experienced young теп under the who was picked for the Test "down leadership of H. G. Deane. Yet what "under" and has also rendered service do we find: They have had to rest sgainst the South Africans in England content with a draw in each of the this season, also reached three figures, games at Birmingham and Lord's be his score being 150, Mead and Hendren we proceeding to 2, victory at Head took part in a wonderful partnership.intest success, recourse was had to the And in order to achieve this ingley. Sam Staples Bowling Lord Hawke's XI were dismissed, at expedient
of bringing in Frant the first time of asking, for 310 runs.
Woolley, about whom very many R. E. S. Wyatt, the Warwickshire people held the opinion that, for him, amateur all-rounder, who found his Test cricket was a thing of the past. place against the South Africans, was
It will be granted that in the first two matches the Selection Committed responsible for 100.
did their utmost to give players the opportunity of showing if men, Staples, S. J.. (Notts) came off best, capturing five wickets for 113
they were yet ripe for big cricket. runs. Sam Staples, it will be recalled, No fault can, of course, be found with hed hard luck down South, being sent this procedure, for, with the Austra Изгле casualty before the Tests helians coming here next summer, the *20. Still, he was a member of the future had to be looked to. Taken in conjunction with the third encounter, the experiment went rather to show that we must still rely upon our older players for the best assistance in en- abling us to win our Tests, even if one cannot resist the impression that the drop those cricketers to Selectora were in rather a hurry to awarded their fast England caps.
whom they So, although we are one victory to the good over South Africa, and that, but for defective light we should, in all probability have won at Lord's, it must not be forgotten that in every another, in no little danger. At Bir match England wore, at one point or
mingham we had six men out for 128; on the last day at Lord's five wickets were down for 117, and we were not theo 100 runs ahead; while at Leods
Of the bowlers among Chapman's
Two lengths race for Chinese clari- cal staffs of Police and Prison Depts.C.C. team and he did good work in
and the Fire Brigade.
Team ruce.
WATER POLO
AN EASY VICTORY FOR V.R.C. "A" TEAM
Scoring five goals in the first half and another four in the second, the V.R.C. "A" team had an easy vic- tory over the K.0.S.B. "B" team yes. terday at the V.R.C. in the Water Polo League.
The teams were as follows:- K.0.S.B. "B": Bolm, Turner, Smith, Freeman, Kindle, Bachelor and Rennie. V.R.C. "A": Knight, Soares. Weill, Marcel, Stewart, Laing and Roza Pereira.
Another Match Postponed Two Chinese teams-"A" and "B"- wore to play yesterday but both sides. were absent, and no notification had been sent to the officials.
BASEBALL
U.S. SHIPS' TEAMS TO PLAY
TO-DAY
Yesterday a friendly game-more in the nature of a "work-out"-was play- ed at Caroline Hill between players. From the U.S.S. "Cuam" and the locat Americans and resulted in a draw. The score was 10-10.
During this month a 'tourna ment is being held at the Hong A good game is promised for this Kong Polo
Club for the "Lady afternoon wher two U.S. ships will be Stubbs' Cup." Play is by "Ameri- in conflict. The "Guam" outfit is play-
Tournament"
conse-ing the "Mindanao" crew. of the six teams quently each entered meets the other during Games the course of the month.
can
and
are scheduled for every Monday and Friday, weather permitting, and the following sides are com-" peting:
Typhoons. Colonel Brownrigg, Major Wolfe Murray, Mr. Ileard, M. Stanton.
K.O.S.B. "A"-Mr. Welch, Mr. Scott Elliott, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Clarke.
K.O.S.B. "B"-Major Lake, Mr. Maxwell, Major Miles, Mr. Mattingley,
Gunners 1. Major Hewson, Mr. Dangerfield, Mr. Walter. Mr. Herbage.
Gunners 2-Mr. Barton, Mr. Wolfe Barry, Mr. Graham, Mr. Sugden,
Somersets. Colonel Little, Maj. Philby, Captain Bakewell, Mr. Worrall.
While the tournament is on a handicap basis, general opinion rather favours the chances of the Somerset side, although some close matches are assured and the final decision is really very open.
By the courtesy of the respec tive Officers Commanding the K.O.S.B. Pipers will play on the ground, on Friday, 18th inst, and the Somersets Band on the 20th
inst.
On both these occasions good matches are promised and, as } usual, tea and refreshments are obtainable at the Club's Pavilion.
this match.
second
Follow-On
The follow-on having been enforced against them. Lord Hawke's XI batted
time. When stumps drawn to day, the third day, the score were was 271 for eight wickets, says Router That is to say, with only two wickets to fall, Lord Hawke's team were 37 runs ahead. Sam Staples bowled well
02.00
more, his analysis being six
wickets for 76 rune.
Altogether 1,143 runs were piled up in three days and only 23 wickets fell Of these 23, Staples claimed 11 at a total cost of 189 runs.
TENNIS
C.A.A. TOURNAMENT. AT NORTH POINT
our young
only the great match-winning abilities of Woolley removed the feeling of die comfort when, on a worn wicket on the last day, 74 runs were still requir. ed when the fifth wicket fell, and of those left Larwood was handicapped by a damaged foot. The first round of the C.A.A. tourna
These several points clearly suggest that, as a team. ment was concluded yesterday at the England are at the moment not the
North Point Stadium.
Results:-
M. W. Lo beat W. Bray 6-4, 6-1; S. E. Green beat. K, L. Ho, 8-6, 6-8; T. Honda beat W. Hardy 6-2, 6-1; John Lim beat H. Yoshida 6-3, 6-4.
The tournament will be continued at North Point to-day.
Hong Doubles
The Hong Doubles competition has now reached the closing stages, there being only four pairs left.
Has Cupid Snared Them?
wonderful combination they showed themselves to be last winter against Australia.
AB
Dragon Box Among the British Museum's twenty-three specimens are Beven ware, including a pieces of Sung
with vase and bowl of Ju type, ying ch'ing glaze; a shallow bowl of ivory white Ting ware, with en- graved designs inside and out; a lavender-blue Chun-Kuan dish with lovely purple splashes, and a fine celadongreen dragon designs.
dish with raised There are six
a re-
Ming specimens, including markable box with incised dragons
green in and lotus scrolls coloured turquoise a deep blue ground, and two dishes with coloured designs in yellow ground.
Post-Ming pieces include a lovely figure of Kuan-yin, standing on a crayfish, in cream-white Fukien pro- celain: a yellow libation glazed cup with green handle in the form of a lizard-dragon; a cylindrical vase of exquisite creamy white. "soft paste" porcelain, carved with lotus scrolls in low relief; a bottle with
In addition to these bequests, the Department of Prints and Drawings has received two water-colour
drawings by P. Wilson Steer, and two oil paintings by the same artist were given to the Tate Gallery, and one to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
pale lavender (clair de lune) głaze; a large saucer-shaped dish with Im- perial dragons and a border a flower- The Place of Youth
ing plants, finely etched and colour- ed with purple, green, and white That being so, one is inevitably drawn to the conclusion that, were the glazes in a yellow ground, and a Australians bere instead of the South lantern of "eggshell porcelain." al- Africans, England might find them- moat as thin as paper, and decorat- selves hard pushed to escape defeated-with a typical Chinese landscape Perhaps the time is ripe, therefore, to in famille verte enamels. offer some observations on the relative C. B. Brown and H. R. Forsyth of strength of the three countries Linstead and Davis (ree, 15/1) quali- { afforded by what we saw in Australia fed for the semi-final last evening, during the recent tour, and what has when they defeated Major C. Willson already taken place here this summer. and E. W. Hamilton, of the Magis- A. P. F. Chapman said in his speech tracy (scratch) by 4-6, 8-6, 6-2. at the dinner given by the Lord Mayor
at the Mansion House recently, Eng land need be under no false impres. sions in regard to the task they will have before them next season. From what I myself noted while I was watching, not only the Tests but all the other games during the recent tour, I am firmly convinced that Australia will be exceptionally strong in batting. Unless any of them show a sed falling off during the forthcoming Australian which aroused so much enthusiasm Kodaly's opera, "Hary Janos," season one can definitely pick nine men for the team-Ryder, who is almost among the crities on its first pro- certain to be captain, Woodfull, duction three years ago, has just Fensford, Kippax, Jackson, Bradman, been given a remarkable presenta. Fairfax, Oldfield, and Wall-with tion by a company cf peasants who Grimmett, A'Beckett,
Hornibrook, have never seen a theatre nor had Hooker, and Oxenham all knocking any previous experience as actors loadly at the door. It will be seen that and singers. The performances from these, Australia could pick an clever capable of very great things; fine batting strength, useful and varied bowling, a first-rate wicket-keep- er, and excellent felding all round. In Ryder, Kippax, Jackson, and Bradman not to mention Ponsford, are batsmen able to score at sufficiently rapid pace for three-day matches, while Woodfu) | and Fairfax supply the necessary steadying influence.
According to current rumours from the tennis courts, John Van Rya, youthful Davis cup star, left, and Marjorte Gladman of Call- fornia, a ranking terris star, are engaged to marry.
PEASANT OPERA
DISCOVERY OF TWO GREAT SINGERS
took place in the village of Csakvari the birthplace of Bela Paulini, one
of the collaborators in the libretto of the
were opera, and
carried through without the aid of a prompter.
The entire scenery cost the modest sum of 50 Pengo, and the orchestra consisted of a single Tzigane, who accompanied the in- Upholding Great Traditions tricate Kodaly melodies faultlessly Meanwhile we may take heart of by ear. The singing of two of the grace from the fact that there are quite principal masculine roles was al- a number of young cricketers who, most phenomenal, and the first when another year has passed over performance aroused so much on- their heads, may be regarded as the thusiasm that the entire society of legitimate successors of those who in the comitat, as well as the artistes course of time are bound to drop out, from the Budapest opers, were pre- and who worthily will uphold the pres-
the second performance. tige and great traditions handed down to them. As Mr. Warner Baid The peasant singers were, broadcast recently at the Mansion House dioner, by the Eudapest radio. cricket at the present time in England
sent at
is as good as ever it was. I for one | Australia and retaining those. Ashes. fail to believe that we cannot produce so splendidly acquired at the Oval three a teanı next suntmer capable of beating years agoS.J.S. in the "Observer."
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