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No. 27,161

'VARSITY BOXRACE.

Both Crews Have Misfortunes.

BRITAIN'S PREMIER SPORTING EVENT.

Who Will Take the Lead?

[By "No. 7.")

To-day's Boat Race, starting at 12.30 p.m., will be a battle of Cambridge's stiff and constricted but cohesive rowing against Oxford's brilliant dashing inconsistency. Cambridge are again the favourites but Oxford's superior watermanship will give them an excellent chance in rough water or with a following wind. Neither crew is of outstanding merit (in the opinion of Reuter), but a close ruce is expected. Oxford are quicker from the mark and may lead at the start. Cambridge's length rhythm is expected to enable them to gain the advantage after two miles.

sante

It

This year the University Boat Race, blades too early, check their boat at the beginning, and bury her in the will be of more than usual interest, an

water at the finish. Mr. MucNabb en-. both participants have registered the

number of wins, there having deavoured to check this tendency and been 81 rates rowed up to the present, give them a longer stroke in the water, but this had the effect of losing somu the add race being a dead heat. remains to be seen who will take the of their uniformity, together with that *punch" from the stretcher which is Jend to-day.

greatest asset. Mr. MacNabb Both crewa have bad misfortunes their during the training period, Oxford hav-was unable, apparently, in the time Ing been in difficulties with the Pre- ut his disposal, to give them the true Rident and Coaches, while Cambridge fhish, and Mr. Haig-Thomas has once

more taken over the training. were unfortunate in losing R. A.

crew appears to be very strong in the Davics-Cooke, last year's freshman

back four, probably owing to the fact Blue, who has had to relinquish his seat to R. . H. Symonds by doctor's that three of them are from the samo, orders after a month's uninterrupted College, and have trained together be fore. It is difficult to judge form from previous year's training, As crews which have shown great promise have som.times failed to materialise, al-

training.

Too Far Forward?. Cambridge seemed a strifle too far forward in their training before they left home waters, and a certain useusi- ness was felt by some, lest they should go stale; but this feeling has not been justified, as they dre trained to a hair Oxford have hail so many changes that it has been diflicult to Julge their fit- ness, although hope runs high, and the crew is considered to be the hat since 1921.

A Definite Advantage.

It has frequently been stated that the reason for Cambridge superiority over Oxford sport is because the Light Blues have a much larger per- centage of men playing games. It is a notable fact that in the Cambridge

SEPOY DISASTER FUND.

Tho

The China Mail is informed that the Navy League has re- ceived donations of $329 plus £25 toward the fund for the dependants of the victims of H.M.S. Sepoy disaster.

Detailed lists will be pub- lished in due course.

ESTABLISHED

1346

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1930.

IN THE IT DIVISION SHIELD FINAL

WHICH WAS FOUGHT OUT

'He for MY BYE

ON

You'

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. — The

clusing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/6 1/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

"RRAT AGINT] Jowing up"

The Mary

IS NO

SATURDAY

WE HAD THINGS

THE NAVY-

THE SOMERSETS, AND THE RADIO

NNOUNCER.

WERE

GOING

Vary NICELY.

WHEN

THE SOMERSETS SCORED

FROM-A 3 WAVE LENGTH,

WHEN THE MORE

WE ARE

FULL TOGETHER TINE ARRWED

THE

•TWO BOTTLES OF

RESULT

BEER WERE SENT!

ALONG TO THE

WAS

ONE MICROPHONE ALL,

WHICH RATHER Sol GOT OUT OF "CONTROL"

PILOT DROWNED.

Chinese Plane Falls Into

West River.

MACHINE TOTAL WRECK.

the

Wuchow, Thursday. On Monday, two almon of the Kwangtung army were going up for a test flight in an old French biplane over Wuchow. When only 100 feet or so up something went wrong with the engine, and 'plane fell into the West river. One Lent races there were four divisions though those of the past have usually of the pilots was drowned and the 61 crews, whereas by this time Justified their reputation, other was severely wounded. The Oxford could beast of only three divi-This crew does not appear to be in-wounded pilot was taken to the sions with a total of 34 crews. Onferior, individually, to those of the past Stout Memorial Hospital for treat- The body of the other paper therefore, the Light Blues have two years, but on a whole their style ment. a definite advantage, but in actual does not seem to come up to the same pilot. Mr. Ma, has not been found. Mr. Ma was trained from comparison It is difficult to forecast the result, as Oxford are turning out

Canada, and had returned from a particularly fine crew.

The there only about a month ago. 'plane was a total wreck.

with

a total of

From the latest reports the names and weights of the crows are as fol- loWA:..

Cambridge.

Haig Thomas (LM.B.C.)

20 to

(First Trinity).... 13 12

standard.

Oxford's Trouble. Oxford have experienced some niere trouble after Having had a clear run for some weeks, C. F. Martineau having seriously strained himself, necessitating

News has juat reached Wuchow the that another aeroplane of

his retirement and a re-arrangement of Kwongtung army crashed into a the crew. D. E. Tinne has been moved tree top near Tung Uen, 20 miles

45 to Stroke, M. J. Waterhouse from Bow above Wuchow on the West River. Le No. 7 and L. R. C. Balding, who has The machine remained' suspended

two trial eight caps, has been introduced on the branches of the tree. It is us Bow,

In their new order Major Wiggins, not yet known whether the pilote

who is coaching, has put them through were injured or not.

their paces, and some fine work has

Bow

D.

11

2 H. R. N. Rickett

(Third Trinity)... 12

G

A. 9. Reeve (Selwyn) 12

3

4 P. N. Carpmael

(Jesus)

12

4

5 *M. H. Warriner

6 J. B. Collins (Third

Trinity)

14 434

7 W. A. Prideaux

(Third Trinity) ... 12 Stroke T. A. Brocklebank

7

(Third Trinity)

11

8

Cox

R. E.. Swartwout

und although they have been rather

(First Trinity)

7

7

Oxford.

Bow

L. R. C.

Balding

(Brasenose) ....... 12

2 R. V. Low (Univ, Col.) 12

3 N. K. Hutton (Univ.

Col.)

4 C. M.. Johnston

been achieved. The Oxford eight this BOXING AND MUSIC. year is infinitely superior to those of the last few years. Their weights are more oven then those of Cambridge, and the crew appears to be better balanced. The long, medium-speed stroke which

usually characterises them is present,

"Wonderphone" At To-night's Show.

Patrona of to-night's boxing

more backward than the Light Blues in show need not be worried about

their training, this may be an asset, arriving too early, as the Boxing rather than a disadvantage, as the re-

suite of overtraining are were than Association has made special ar-

14 those of undertraining. However, they rangements to keep things going

12 11

(Brasenose) ............. 12 10

6% should be in fine fottle for today, and by arranging to inatal the Wonder-

although they appear to have a very

6 H. R. A; Edwards

(Christ Ch)*11.... 13

2

2

12 *

12 4

8 12

favourable chance of carrying it off, phone, which will play a pro- the betting will undoubtedly, and Justi-gramme, of popular songs previous liably favour the Cantabs.

to the first bout, and will also

It is understood that the Univer-provide more "old favourites" dur- sities have been invited to compete ing the interval. against two French eights on the Seine, This British-made

machine.

6 L. Clive (Christ Ch.) 18 7. M. Waterhouse

but it is undecided whether this will be which has already been described (Ballol)

accepted. M. H. Warriner, president of In the China Mail, so amplifies the Stroke D.-E. Tinne (Univ.

the C.M.B.C., states that he has receiv-volume of ar ordinary tune that Col.)

ed three invitations for the Cambridge Cox

in all parts of H.A. C. Dourbridge

crew to race against a French crew, it will be heard (Univ. Col.)

but up to the present no decision has the City Hall to-night. *Old Blues,

been made.

The music, We are

Informed, D. Halg-Thomas undertook the laltial D. E. Tinne, the Oxon. Preside will commence at 8:45 pm, and stages of the Cambridge training, which stated that the matter was being con- continue until just before the was afterwarde taken over by Mr.sidered; but it was too early yet to come opening bout, mama m MacNabb, when the crew moved to to a decision. Henley. They were inclined to lifi

Year

Date

1910 1911: Ápr.

Mar. 28

1912

A trial. this morning proved In [Pictures of the crows in training every way antisfactory, and the appear in the coloured supplements new feature should be a most ac

ceptable, one. of the China Mail-to-day.).

UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE RESULTS.

SINCE 1910.

Time Winner Min. : 'Set: Oxford

20

Won by (Lengths)

-22

18 →29

·2% 3.

1914

Camb

1920

27

1921

1922

1928

182

1018

1925

10

TENDERS ACCEPTED.

It is notified that the following tanders have boan accepted:--|: Menara Li Yau & Co $25,278,50, for Castle Peak Road, Bection from Cheung Sha Wan to Laich kok to Town Planning layout +(605%wide) kughara

Meters, Sang Lee & Co., $67,768, for. Improving existing main Fords for

AND THE (BLUE LIGHT-

AND RED LIGHT

IN THE NAVAL Sitips'

WIRELESS ROOMS

SAND LATER, WHEN ARMY Has WIRELESS WENT "STATIC. IT TURNED OUT TO BE

TURNED A DISTINCT GREEN. THE NAVY SCORING THEIR

PERSONALLY, I

THINK WERE

INEAR THE

IT WAS TOO DARK TË

FOUALISER.

~~THE ARMY WON

So MOST PEOPLE PASHED CEE HOME HEARD THE REST BY WIRELESS,

SEE THE FLAY DURING EXTRA TIME" STAN HILL

OUR WIRELESS “

"SETS.”

EXPRESS CRASHES

INTO BUS

TWENTY PASSENGERS KILLED

AND INCINERAT

PITIFUL SPECTACLE.

Later.

FORGERY CHARGE.

European's Second Ap

pearance in Court.

DATE OF TRIAL FIXED

要

The eas in which B.-E. Carafe alleged to have uttered a forged cheque at the Fist Garage, with which he ob- tained a magneto, was again mentioned at the Central Magistracy before Mr. A. W. G, H. Grantham to-day.

The prosecuting officer applied for one of the charges to be amended and

also

one.

for the withdrawal of another

Dainty Eyeglassco

N. LAZARUS

Ophthalmic Optician.

13, Queen's Road Central.

STEEPLECHASE MEETING.

PRINCIPAL EVENT-STEEPLE-

CHASE CHAMPIONS. ·

NEW PONIES COMPETING.

[By "Wombat")

NAVAL PACT RESULT

SAVING TO BRITAIN.

OF £70,000,000.

The last meeting of the Fanling BIG REDUCTIONS.

Hunt and Race Club will be staged

at Kwanti racecourse, to-morrow afternoon. The first race

mences at 3 o'clock sharp.

Com-

A programme of five very in- teresting events are to be decided, and as the fields are all of a nlte size and are made up of first class performers, there is every indica- tion that the

EARLY SCRAPPING

OF WAR FLEETS.

The

to

afternoon's sport gations

Rugby, Yosterday.

heads of the dele-

the London Naval

will be quite as interesting as that Conference met at St. James's which preceding meetings have Palace to-day and approvad provided.

the appointment of A Com

The first event to engage the at tention of punters will be the mittee of Jurists to draft the | Apríl Avoirdupois Stakes. Eleven treaty. The Committee of Experts, entries make up the field, and as under the chairmanship of the they appear to be a rather even Secretary-General lot the winner may not be easy to

of the Con was appointed to assist

pick. Fanling Stag, Lightning,ference, Movanagher, Sunloch, and Duke of them, · The Plenary Session, which Neiblung are the best, and the will be held on Monday, will more. winner should be amongst these.

City Hall, in spite of the factly receive the reports of the First that he once won the Hong Kong Committee of the Conference, and Derby, has no performances over it is expected that the Plenary the sticks to his credit, neither has session for the signing of Peterkin or San Francisco; there-

the

fore, I shall be on the watch for treaty will be held on Thursday Huntington or Duke of Neiblung if afternoon, if by that time the work they start in the Grand Military of the drafting committee, which Steeplechase.

will sit more or less continuously November has a

very good chance in the Summer Cup. Others in the meantime, is completed. who should be amongst the plac-)

SOME RAIN.

This morning's report from the Royal Observatory states: man, anal cyclone in central and a to the marks of Tok! depressiofi genesa west of Haiphong.

Forecast: S.E., winds, mo- derate;

generally cloudy; some rain.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, in an interview with the Press, expressed satisfaction at the results of the conference, which represented a substantial step in the direction towards which they had "begő striving in the faer og dufiédlijes which at times solnedostiruöantable.

Definite Advance,

Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lard of the Admiralty, reviewed in speach at Sheffield the results of the Naval Conference. While re- grotting that

Five completa Power agreement had not been

B

Albuquerque, New Mexico,

Yesterday. Nineteen *bus passengers were killed and eight injured in a collision

This was granted, and the case inge are Sucre, Fanling Stag, achieved, he said that a gratifying *Isleta. with a train at a level crossing at

was set down for hearing on April 22, Sunloch Or Duke of Neiblungand defnite advance had been Ghastly Scenes.

in the afternoon. Meanwhile a formal Target and Buster may not alart made. He recalled that in 1927 it remand until Thursday was given.

Two very

good candidates In was desired that the naval dis- Twenty people are dead as a re- It was also intimated that the Flat Montana and Christmas Frolic armament Conference at Geneva

Garage asked for the ault of the level crossing collision.

retura of the may sport silk in the classic event should comprise all the five Powers Part of the express train was de-magnets on the ground that it would and an excellent race is sure to gathered at the present conference. get spolled if not properly looked be seen between them. As You France and Italy, however, felt railed but all the casualties were

after. The request was granted. among the passengers of the bus, the petrol tank of which caught fre. Parts of the bus were scattered along the line for half-a-mile, whilst bodies were strewn around, decapitated, armless, legloss, and incinerated.- Reuter's American Service,

EASIER GOLF.

With the growing popularity of golf, our readers either player or prospective players. will welcome a pleasing new feature "Basler Golf"-com- mencing to-day on page 12.

These attractive articles by an expert will appear regular- ly each Saturday.

KILLED ON LEAVE.

Sad Fate of Papuan Missionary.

"ABEL OF KWATO"

London, Yesterday The Rev. Charles William Abel; a as "Abel of missionary known Kwato," at Homo en furlough after 40 years' work among the Papians, was knocked down by a motor car at Leatherhead, Survey, and died from injuries-Reuter

ARMED ROBBERY;

An armed robbery, in which three. men participated, occurred in a fat in the Nga Tain Wal Village, Kowloon City, at one o'clock this morning.

Money, Jewellery, and clothing to the total value of $86 was stolen, but for

utely for, the inmates, the property

has since been recovereda

TRAFFIC RULES.

Tramcars in Shaukiwan Road.

Like It has defeated everything in unable actually to participate in his last two engagements and may the conference. Moreover, after turn up trumps if he goes to the many weeks of earnest negotiations post here. Movanagher is fairly between the three Powers, the fast and a real goad jumper, but United States, Japan and Groat I do not expect him to beat either Britain falled to arriva at an agree of the first mentioned. Bright ment. Prospect is still a maiden, and sa he shapes well over the jumps; the amended as follows.

fact that he is a stayer may allow (a) by the insertion of the words him to account for a place here.

The Traffic Regulations have been

Feeling With America.

It was useless to disguise the fact that, for the time, feeling be tween the United States and our

"or tramcar" batween the words

The last event on the card is a "any moving motor vehicle" and the race for maidens. There is a big gelves was not as happy as we de words which he overtakes" in line entry of 22 here, and as most of gired. We had now arrived at

them are unknown to steeplechss-

5 of regulation 52.

(b) by the insertion of the foling we may expect to see a good complete agreement with. Japan lowing regulation in the group of outsider come home here. regulations under the headlig "Vchi- cies," next after regulation 75,---

Conference in 1927.

was

and the United States on all King's Councel has never struck classes of ships and, what me as being one out of the box most important to remember, upon 76(1) No vehicle or tramcar in spite of the reports as to how very much lower figuren than tho shall be brought to a stop in the much he has improved by his visit last proposals made to the Genera main roadway of the portion of to the country. Still, he has cer the Shaukiwan Road between Bay tainly improved lately, and might

Taking cruisers, destroyers and View Police Station and the Junce be expected to do some good in submarines

together, the total tion of such road and Causeway Bay Road near the eastern end of this field if he can be kept on his figures for the British Empire and jumps. Lightning has a fair the United States proposed in the Polo Ground, except where and chance here, too, and the above op- 1927 was 590,090 tons each, plus for a tlume absolutely necessary toples to him, as I am informed he 25 per cent. over age, which gave enable the vehicle to leave or is likely to run out or oven refuse, a total of 780,500 tons. This total enter any, premises fronting or Diana may be reserved for this was to remain in force 'until 1996. the sald portion of the Shaukiwan event, and she should run fairly The agreement now reached with Road.

SELECTIONS.

(2): No vehicle or tramcar shall close if in condition. overtake any motor vehicle or tramcar proceeding in the same direction along or upon the said portion of the Shaukiwan Road.

APPOINTMENTS.

1st Race:

Duke of Nieblung. Sunloch. 'Lightning.

Race:

San Francisco. Huntington. Sucre or Harford.

His Excellency the Officer Adminis-2nd tering the Government has appointed:- Mr. John Archibald Plummer to be a member of the Licensing Board for a period of three years, with efect from 3rd Race: April 8

Lieut-Col. Frederick Eaves, D.9.0.,

to act as Land Officer and Mr. William James Lockhart-Bmith to act as Anxiet ant Land Officer during the absence on 4th leave of Mr. Philip Jacks or until fur- ther notice, with effect from April 9.

The Hon. Mr. John Owen Hughes to be temporarily an Unofficial 5th Member of the Executive Council, in the place of Sir Henry Edward Pollack, Kt KC, who is tempor- arily absent from the Colony.

Bir Joseph Horsford Kemp, Kt, weis:K.C., UB.E to act as Chief Justice, 9th blow with effect from April 1

ORDINANCE APPROVED.

His Majesty the King hasznot been

November. Sucre, Mowgli. Race:

Stanton's Selected. Montana.

Movanaghor, Race Sunloch.

Diana.....

Lightning.

The

Was

the United States: for these, catą. gories of auxiliary ships was to tis a total of 541,700 tons by 1936, showing a reduction on the Geneva. proposals of 195,800 tons. United States figure now 526,200, as compared with 737,500 .:- tons proposed at Geneva, showing a reduction of 211,800 tons, and s small extra reduction in total ton- nage in the case of the United States being the recognition of s larger number, of the heavy eight inch cruisers which the United States may build. The Japanese.. figure proposed at Geneva was 481,250 tons for saxillary ships, while the provisional figure agreed at this conference was 367,050, showing a saving of 114,200 tonn,

In auxiliary tonnage, therefore, the reductions of the three Powers combined compared with the pro- PoBald on which the conference broke down in 1927 was no lass than 521,800 tons, whigh constitut ed a vary significant indication of the progress of publi ding, the Yacht the direction of dis

Nights to Bulld

BATHING BEACHES.

The bathing beaches at: Tai Wan

Mr. Chaloner Greenville Alabaster, Bay OK.0.0.B.FL.Ofact Attorney-Gen-