1930-05-20 — Page 9

TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1930.

BOY WALLEY,

IN Singapore Once Again.

THE NEXT FIGHT.

POPULARISING POLO.

International Team Star Practices.

London, April 8 Capt. Tremayne, Capt. C. T. Boy Walley, who left Singapore Roark, Major Phipps-Hornby and and sought fame In America, re- Mr. Humphrey Guinness, the team turned some weeks ago, and follow to represent Great Britain in the Westchester Cup at the Westchester ers of boxing were, of course," very anxious to see him in action again. Polo Club, Meadowbrook, U. S.' A., Singapore promoters have been In September, started practice in keen to fix up a fight for him, but Wiltshire last week, it was announc the trouble was finding a worthy op-ed by Lord Cowdray in a speech at ponent, bat it is thought a luncheon given at the Savoy Hotel this dimenity IN Dow solvin their honour to-day. etl,

the Singapore Free The Hurlingham committee and Press, and articles have been, the members of the team are ap- signed for Boy to meet Chua Lal, a well known Chinese bantam, who has been doing big things in Manila, on May 16.

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pealing for public support.

Lord Cowdray pointed out that the day had passed for the rich patron to undertake the burden. He mentioned that the ponles, thirty of which were in readiness, had cost many thousands of pounds.

Ho

Lord Cowdray referred with, ap- proval to the fact that the selection of Great Britain's team had been entrusted to Capt. Tremayne. said a number of other players were available, if the necessity arose, in- cluding well-known men from India, two of whom, Capt. George and Major Atkinson, played in the inter- nationals three years ago. There were also others who were recently playing in the United States.

Chua Lai, who arrived in Singa. pore on the President Polk, is con- fident that he can best Walley. He has done a lot of boxing in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and last year, when he wont to the Philippines, he earn- ed a name for himself by defeating several good Manila boys.

Negotiations are being made for a piece of ground close to the centre of the town, and the promoters are going to erect a stadium specially for this fight. It is hoped to be able to fix up another contest for Roy Walley at the end of this month, Arrangements are made for several good supporting contests, which will include Little Lewis, Young Aman, Mutsu and several other well-known local fighters. All The ponies would go to America the fights will be three-minute at the end of July, and the first rounds, the promoters thinking that practice games on Long Island longer rounds produce more inter- would take place in the second week

in August.

esting fights.

FEMALE SPECTATORS

New Problem for Sports Organisers.

The flourishing condition of sport in Britain is largely due to the in- terest taken in it by women. Their attendance at the chief sporting events of the year is creating a new problem.

The afgeet grounds in the coun: try are too small to accommodate al the men and women who wish to see the "big" matches. Thus it is that although the Football Associn- tion Cub Final is still nearly three months ahead, the Wembley

Lord Cowdray stated that practice would be carried on at the Beaufort Club until early in May, when they would transfer to London.

Expressing high hopes for Bri- tish success, Lord Cowdray declared: "We have got as fine polo players as America, and we are determined to send the best. I have no doubt we

will make our opponents gallop to

the last second of the last chukker." Major Lister, manager of the Roehampton Polo Club, announced that the Club had decided to con- duct a second ground, admitting the public at a shilling a head.

He added that this revolutionary action was necessary as it was the first step towards making polo a popular game.

WAR ON BRIBERY

Stadium authorities have been Drastic Action Taken in

forced to announce that no further applications for tickets can be con- .aldered.

More than 350,000 applications have been received enough to fill the ground nearly four times and it is estimated that about £60,000 In ticket money will have to be re- turned.

. Applications for tickets for the lawn tennis championships at Wimbledon in June closed at the end of January, Major Larcombe, the secretary of the All-Britain Club, expects that the amount of money which will have to be returned to those unsuccessful in the ballot for seats will be larger than last year, when the sum exceeded £30,000.

&

Women will certainly form fairly big section of a huge crowd which is expected to watch the big event of the Rugby season the meeting of England and Scotland at Twickenham. Seats for this game have already been applied for nearly twice over.

SCULLING TITLE.

Afghanistan.

broke out.

The evil took a new lease in Habibullah's time, but now King Nadir Khan has taken up the question in earnest.

THE

LIONS ROAMING IN

SOUTH FRANCE.

RESULT OF THE RECENT

SEVERE FLOODS.

THREE ANIMALS FREE.

Paris, May 5. The recent catastrophe in the south of France caused by terrible foods has had a curious sequel. The police authorities at Agen have been compelled to organize an expedition

CHINA

MAIL.

SNAKES WITH FEET

1:

Not Uncommon in India.

NOT FREAKS OF NATURE.

Snakes with feet are not such

Have You Heard?-

Flannagin: "What's the use of

freaks of nature aa the layman choppin' down a tree?" would imagine.

a,

Commenting on the discovery, at Rangpur, of a large snake with two feet, each an inch long and ending in three toes, Lieut.-Colonel R. B

· Finnegin (resting on his axe): "Why not?".

Flannagin: "Shure, ya'll only have to chop it up agin."

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A young doctor said to a girl: "I have a 'heart affection' - for you."

"Then you had better 'asthma"," she softly Raped,

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to re-capture three Hons' which be longed to a travelling circus and Seymour Sewell, Director of the which were believed to have perished Zoological Survey of India, told the "Have you had it Tung'7" she when the spring floods overtook the Statesman of Calcutta that the oc-coyly inquired. circus at Moissac and the roaring

"Oh, yes, I feel that I will waters carried away the lorries,currence of rudimentary hind limbs "liver troubled life without you,"

in certain snakes had been known he fervently responded. cages and other paraphernalia of the cireus. It appears the three animals of many years and was one of the escaped from their cages and made arguments put forward in support their way to dense forests in the district where they preyed on cattle of the view that snakes had been

"So you want to join our com- and sheep belonging to remote ham. evolved from a quadrupedal lizard-pany?" said the theatrical mana- lets. The terrified inhabitants of like ancestor, "

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X "I know, however, of no Instance "In what piece have you ever ap- todo-China?(Preļ.) n.3 these lonely spots were at first ridiculed when they attempted to in which the rudimentary limb has.„peared?" convince the authorities of the pre-terminated in three digits" added sence of these wild beasts. When, Lieut.-Colonel Sewell, "and without however, they produced the mutllat-making an examination of the speci- ed carcasses of sheep the authorities men shot at Rangpur one cannot say took alarm and ordered an investiga- to what species it belongs or whether tion which revealed apoors and other the reported presence of three toes indications of the ravaging of the is due to an unusual case of exces- lions whereupon they engaged a sive development of the normal hind

ex-limb, or whether the owner has been famous lion-tamer to head an pedition to recapture or kill them. tempted to try and improve upon

Nature.

SAVED BY A SHOT.

A Thrilling Camera Adventure of the Prince.

The Prince of Wales has found animal photography as interesting as big game hunting and equally hazardous.

A thrilling experience bafell his

"The presence of rudimentary limba is a normal occurrence in four distinct families of snakes, the Typhlopidae, the Glauconidae, the Ilysildae and the Boidse.

"My last engagement was "The Blot on the Escutcheon'."

"What character did you act?" "I was the Blott"

* * *

The young fellow with all the "bounce" had had a sumptuous meat at the Restaurant, and the bill had been presented.

Nonchalantly calling the mana- ger, he said, "Of course, I'm not paying this! I've got no money!" You come here and eat! No money" spluttered the manager. "Why, indeed"

"Oh, I'm just having my Aling!" was the reply.

"Then," said the manager (a big man), grimly, "it is my turn to have mine!" And the defaulter phot out into the gutter with

"The development is, most rudi mentary in the Typholopidae, the family that includes in India some thirteen species of small, worm-like, burrowing snakes of the genus Typhlops, in these species there is bang!

Royal Highness during an excur only a single small bone on each

slon in the Teng! River country.

A timely shot saved him from the onrush of an infuriated bull | elephant.

side. Representing the Glaucomi- dae the development is somewhat greater and we find a rudimentary pelvis and A sinul legbone, or

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Beast Crushes. Peshawar, April, 17.

Such an animal was actually One of the curses

of modern encountered. Не came tearing down upon the camera with his Afghanistan is bribery.

Ex-King Amanullah, on his re-ears a-sail, gathering pace down turn from 'Europe, waged remorse-hill and bent on mischief.

The pythons, of which there are and less war against this evil,

Shouting failed to turn him, two species in India, possess a dismissed several officers from and by this time he was within rudimentary pelvic girdle with a Wire service, but the reform had hard-thirty yards of the Prince, who pair of small hind limbs, ending in On demand ly succeeded when the revolution was still working his motion-pic- a single law on each side of the ture camera, intent upon pictur- vent. Mr. D. Abreu, F. Z. S., who ing the angry on-coming bull. has bred pythons in captivity in the The hunters, therefore,

wore Nagpur Museum, has shown that obliged to stop the determined these rudimentary hind limbs are charge by shooting, and the pic- relatively more prominent in newly- Public Ignominy.

ture was still being taken when hatched

Individuals then in full. In addition to the dismissal of the great beast crasked to the grown adults. a colonel, one Mirza Habibullah, ground, the length of a cricket of the Ministry of Durbar, has pitch from the camera. been arraigned on a charge of On another occasion, a fine receiving a bribe from a book-maned lion was encountered near, binder. He was found guilty, Wadelal, but he made a bad sub- and, after having been publicly ject for a picture owing to the taken through

of long grass. It would have been Kabul, has been sentenced to Im-easy to collect him with the rifle, prisonment.

but the Prince contented himself Advices from Kandahar show with trying for a picture. Hay- that, in spite of the fact that a ing already bagged one lion he is quarter of the past Afghani year now more interested in getting was spent in chaos, the province their pictures than their skins. Is fast settling down to normal.

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Rugby, Yesterday. .**.123.92

Barry Meeting Phelps on conditions and, through the exer- south and the other from east to ed.

May 31,

The race for the world sculling championship between Bert Barry, the holder, and Ted Phelps, chal- longer, will take place over the Putney to Mortlake course on Satur- day, May 31. The stakes are £500

tions

of the Governor, the re- west. venue receipts. have reached a It is a city of narrow, sunny satisfactory level,

bazaars, old flower gardens and

Richards was having his dining- room and his bathroom re-paper- The men arrived to do the Job just as he was leaving for the office."

"Make a good job of it," said A national relief siclety has yellow clay and brick buildings. Richards. been formed at Kandahar and Several times it has been razed When he returned home be according to the newspaper to the ground by various Invad- found that the work had been Talualafghan, has done good workers from the north. Ghengiz done very well indeed. But the in collecting donations for the Khan alone, it is sald, massacred mon had made one mistake. They a alde.

Govern Government

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adays is yearly dwindling.

the bathroom, while the dining- title since Barry won it from Major The newspaper Ittfagislam, of The town is as dirty and un- room was tastefully adorned in a Goodsell at Vancouver on December Herat, states that the Horatis, even as in the olden days, when design of green tiling, and purple 26, 1927, Both Barry and Phelps who have been busy building, a Alexander the Great made it a water-lilles L-w-; - belong to Putney and are undoubted new city, will shortly move to the strategic point on his Journey to. What are you going to do. ly the best.mon'in Britain.

new buildings.— Herat, which is India. The work of building the about it?” demanded Richarda y Snowy Burns, the Australian situated on the river Harrud, a new city of Herat was begun in "I dunno, sir,” replied the champion, has expressed his willing-one. of Afghanistan's oldest the time of Amanullan, but credit | workman, scratching his head. ness to challenge the winner for a cities. Two large highways in- for finishing it goes to Nadir “I'd willingly move the bath, but race on the Thames in the autumn. tersect here, one from north to Khán.

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