1929-10-26 — Page 13

`SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929.

Sport Columns

FOOTBALL

SHAMEEN DEFEAT THE "MOORHEN" TEAM

{From Our Own Correspondent.)

Canton, Yesterday. Yesterday afternoon the Shumeen Football Club played their first gani of the season, a friendly against HMS. "toorben" which they won by

guala to 2.

The rameen team were:- Bakug-re; Nogaitzik and Linaker; Ramaken, Montaltis, Priessner; Luck, Osmand, Dunean, F. Lammert, and

Ozoriu.

The Club had the best of the game all the way through except for the last 10 m ates when they begun to tive. The Morken" opened after 10 ninutr Aing scoring from inside right. Su after the Club equalised with a sho from Lammer and they pressedly and fed 3-1 at half- 1inu, Lock booting the third goal..

LOCAL HOCKEY

MATCH FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY

CLUB v. S.L.I.

The following team has been Hockey Club against the chosen to represent the Hong Kong Somerset ground on Wednesday, bully-off at 5 Light Infantry on the U.S.R.C.

1. Merves, W. Woodward, J. Budan Sutter, A. A. Dand, J. E. Noronha, t. 1. D. Wade, G. E. R. Dean, R. W, Skipp. C. C. Francis and E. . Pincher.

in

Yesterday's Game Yesterday's match between the Club A” and R.O.S.B. seconds is reported

the Garrison News column.

LONDON PLAYS

TO GO TO AMERICA WITHIN YEAR

SUCCESSFUL ELEMENTS

London, from the English critics' points of view, the British stage this summer seems to be a total loss.

In the cond half the Club pressel hard and looked like scuring again and ngain but could not get through, the "Mouchen" goalkeeper making son splendid saves. Shortly before time the "Moorhen" got their second goal, flockyer putting in a "snorter."

The Past"

WAS rather scrappy. though there was some pretty play. H.M.S. "Moulien are in the running of a newly-arrived American, the But from the point of view for the League this season though HL.M.S. "Senmow," wha won last year have got as good a team as ever and are probably the hottest side. The Club, with one or two changes, should also have a very good chance, and it; Among the distractions are two probably is between them and the dozen London stage productions "ScamSew" for the League and the, whose announcements are enticing, "Watson's Shielt."

DIOCESAN BOYS SCHOOL MATCHES

On Wednesday the school met a team of hogs. from the Somerset Light In funtry. The result was a draw (44). although the schoot were at one time trading by to I

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out the gusty, rally, occasionally dramatic su is shining through-

sunny days and nights of London', August.

the phenomena of British theatri cal customs and reactions to b observed in movie and legitimate houses, three dramatic festivals investigate what is behind news in the provinces and a desire to

headlines paper

which read. America Wants Our Plays."

To the British, who, acem to be obsessed with a desire to spread Yesterday each of the four houses British empire goods and ideals into which the school is divided (Blue, all over the world and especially Brown, Green and Yellow) held their to stem own sports. The first three from each goods and ideas into the empire, American house will enter for the inter-Hous: the current New York demand for sports which will be held on Saturday English theatrical productions is next in connection with the cam-the silver lining of their dramatic memoration of the School's 60th birth-I

cloud. clasy,

Sports

RUGBY

MATCHES TO BE PLAYED NEXT WEEK

V. SERVICES

CLUB

Two Rugby matches have been fixed for next week, Both are to be played

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NOW THAT THE TIME FOR THE INTERPORT CRICKET MATCH IS APPROACHING.

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"COME TO THE FAIR

MERRYMAKERS OF OLD

ENGLAND

(By A Correspondent)

All through the summer the showpeople are trailing their cara- country, so that even the most re- vans and muchinery about the

mote villages are able to be sud- denly invaded by "fairs," although the present-day collections of steam roundabouts and joy-wheels bear but a distant resemblance to the greal national fairs from which

they are descended.

AND IM FEST ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE WHO PLAY(P)

CRICKET.

AND THAT THE KORMS PONT

CAST ANY CLOUTS (OR

WHATEVER IT IS THAT WORMS DO

CAST), BEFORE, THE

INTERPORTS OUT -

ALSO THE PRACTISING OF SITTING IN AWKWARD

"Maitions,

"POOR MOTHER"

LETTER OF THANKS TO CORONER

"FAIRNESS" AT INQUEST

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WHILST SPECTATORS SHOWING STAMINA SHOULD BE CLOSCH.

LOST FORTUNE

SUICIDE ENDS LIFE OF ADVENTURE

PLANTING IN MALAYA

The varied and adventurous life of William Forbes Grove-Price 42, of Henton-hill, Berrynarbour, North Devon, a man who lost a fortune, and coming to the end of his re- sources, shot himself on Hampstead Heath at midnight in minil week, was described at the Inquest at Hamp- stead.

States and

A letter of thanks to a London coroner was read in mail week at an inquest at Mortlake con- ducted by Dr. M. H: Taylor, on Louis Ferdinand Buckwell, 47,

Thames at Barnes. whose body was found in the

his home

Buckwell had been missed from ham, since the day before his wife's

at Protheroc-road, Ful

Edmund Grove-Price, of College funeral. He had been employed as

Court-mansions, Hammersmith, sald name from Feria or Festival, were

These gatherings, deriving their 'an assistant craftsman at the Ham that his brother, whom he had not originally held in the churchyards. His wife died in Fulham Hospital posts. He had been a rubber plan mersmith garage of the LG.O.C. | seen for five years, had filled many and when the apace became too from the effects of an injury to her

ter in the Malay limited for the trade which was the head, and at the inquest Buckwell on the West Coast of Africa, a purpose of the meeting the stalls stated that during a quarrel he gave-fruit farmer in the United States, and booths were transferred to her a heavy slap because she abused and the owner of a tobacconist's open felds. Prior Rahere was fol. him.

He had been left a fortune The jury returned an open shop.. lowing this custom when he verdict.

by his mother; and had gained ja established the Cloth Fair of Saint Reginald Louis Buckwell said commission in the Great War.

Buried Alive Bartholomew Fair was the crown his mother his father appeared to price said, "that during the war

inquest an!

"He told me once," Mr. Grove- of all the fairs which played so be very depressed. important a part in English social appearance some letters in his hand.

After his dis he was practically buried alive, but Mecca of European cloth mer-smith Bridge, together with his hat. family and somewhat mentally de

For centuries it was the writing were found on Hammer-

came out unhurt We had always chants, and people came from far

regarded him as the weakling of the and near to purchase cloth made wrote: "I am sorry that I must leave

In a letter to his son, Buckwell Incient." in Flanders, Italy ro the West

Mrs. Lorna Grove-Price, of you. I can't live without your Berrynarbor, said that she had Country.

Gran. God bless you all." mother. Poor mother! Look after been married to Grove-Price for six

years. In 1925 he went to Austra Oswald, coroner for the Western this year to Australia again.

In another letter to Mr. H. R.la, in 1928 to South Africa, and district of London, Buckwell said: Since 1927 he had had no occu

Bartholomew in Smithfield.

America Likes English Plays It seems to be true that the play- Koers of America are showing decided disposition just now to welcome English plays, especially if they are interpreted by players from English. During the past year New York and other eastern cities thusiastic on the Club ground at Happy Valley, Coward's "This Year of Grace."

support to Noel life. commencing at 5 p.m., sharp. Teums. C. Sherriff's "Journey's End," chosen for the games are as under: John Galsworthy's "Bird in Hand"

Monday, October 28, Club H.M.S. "Berwick." Buck, S. J. H. and A. A. Milne's detective piece, Fox; Threequarters, A. D: Coppin.

"The Fourth Wall" Now London 1. A. Ross, V. W. 1. Stanion. Fergu- managers are planning activities! Jesters and tumblers mingled sun: Halfbacka, 1. F. Grant, J. D. A. in North America to an extent with the crowd, and presently more Hutchison; Perwards, J. E. Henry, S. which seems not to have been ambitious entertainers set up tents, Dale, W. E. Peers, N. S. Loe; S. A. reached before.

until by degrees the commercial Gregory, Burnell, B. Sampson, V. R. Gordon.

element was swamped and Bartho- lomew Fair lost its original charac. ter. By the seventeenth century it was nothing but 揖 saturnalia,

Club v. Army

C. B. Cochran, who is London's closest prototype to New York's Florenz Ziegfeld, will present four Wednesday, October 30, Club v. The big productions in America during Army-Back, R. J. Grieve; Three, the next six months. quarters, Goldman, M. D. Scott,

The fact G. A. L. Plummer, H. V. Koop; Half, that this will give employment to backs, V. W. L. Stanion, R. M. Wood: more than 200 English artists and Forwards. R. P. Moodie, A. Suttill, technicians is one of the most im- D. L. Milne Day, E. R.. West, T. portant aspects of the announce. Riddell, W. R. Gammell, J. A. E. ment, because England is poignant- Kendrew, B. P. Massey.

I conscious of its unemployment problem.

TENNIS

Results of Kowloon F.C. Tournament Draw

London Plays will Tour First, Mr. Cochran will send a

production of Monckton Hoffe's play. "Many Waters," with Ernest

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described so vividly by Ben Jonson in his play "Bartholomew Fair." that it won him his first salutation as "Rare Ben."

to

he saw something more.

that after the

"I want to thank you for the fair pation and had apparently been Friday. Will you please thank the him in September, 1928, in Exeter, way you conducted the inquest last living on his capital. She last aaw alater and nurses Fulham Hospital."

of C ward in and last heard from him in July. from Perth, Australia. He did not say that he was returning home.

The son, recalled, said that his father was always very kind to his mother.

sound mind was recorded.

A verdict of suicide while of un-

Fair as a matter of course. "I with Mr. Pepys went to Bartholomew

my wife and W. Batelfer, and Deb: carried them

Bartholomew Fayre, where we saw the dancing of the ropes and nothing else, it became such a hindrance to every- being late." But in another August body else that the whole thing was fine fellow with trumpets before public nuisance, and Smithfield no "I met a finally suppressed in 1855 ns a Truex, an American favourite on the English stage, in the cast.

him in Leadenhall Street, and upon longer knew the gay rict of other This show will open at Montreal, enquiry I find that he is the clerke August days. Club's tennis tournament is as fol- lows:-First round-Pengelly v. Pile; "Bitter Sweet," the Noel Coward

go to Toronto, thence to New York. of the City Market; and three or four men carried each of them an F. A. White v. Kandle: Guest v.

arrow of a pound weight. It seems Spary; Mottram v. Chubb; Frost v.

musical romance now at His this Lord Mayor begins again an Jackson. Second round.-Easterbrook Majesty's theatre, is Mr. Cochran's old custome, that upon the three

The draw for the Kowloon Football

CRICKETER DEAD

At certain country fairs people these occasions were known as offered themselves for service, and

or "Mop Fairs"

Sir Walter Schroder (the Coroner): Can you say why he did not come to you on his return from Australia?

Mrs. Grove-Price: The only thing I can say la that he had come to the end of his resources and would not face me.

A verdict of suicide while of un- sound mind was recorded.

Among numerous interesting at- tractions at the "Model Engineer" Exhibition, which was opened at the Royal Horticultural Hall, West- v. Major White; Sapaud v. Hedley; next choice for American con- first days of Bartholomew Fayre, "Hiring Fairs"

minster, is a model mechanical Pilgrim v. Gregory; Simpson; Rankin sumption. Its Broadway pre- the first, there is a match of from the mops carried by would-be of a sixteenth-century Lord Mayor's pagent, with more than 200 figures, v. Skipp; "Elles v. Baldwin,

micre is scheduled for October.wrestling, which was done, and the, maidservants. Every aspirant bare Show. On New Year's eve Mr. Cochran Lord Mayor there and the Alder- the distinguishing badge of bis intends to launch in New York a man in Moore-fields yesterday: trade, a crook, a whipcord, or a production of "Wake Up and second day, shooting: and Dream," which now is at the Lon-morrow hunting. And this officer employers might see at a glance to-scrap of woven straw, in order that don Pavilion, Early in 1930 there is to perform this ceremony of rid- which man to approach. Readers are plans for a New York pro- ing through the city, I think to of Hardy will remember Gabriel duction of Sean O'Casey's "The proclaim or challenge any to shoot. Oak's experience at the hiring fair- 9ilver Tassic," first produced at It seems that the people of the faire in "Far from the Madding Crowd," the Abbey theatre, Dublin, and to cry out upon it as a great hindrance and in the same novel there is an be given a Cochran London pre- to them."

excellent account of a sheep fair sentation in Ogtober.

Member of Famous Lillywhite Family

London, Yesterday, The death occurred to-day of the veteran cricketer, Mr. James Lillywhite.-Reuter.

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