1931-06-23 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL

TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1931.

KINGS THEA

THEATRE

ITS FINEST CINET

THE MOST COMFORTABLE AND THE ONLY AIR-CONDITIONED THEATRE

.

IN THE COLONY.

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M;

INA CLAIRE and

FREDRIC MARCH

IN

"The Royal Family

OF BROADWAY"

With

MARY BRIAN

and Henrietta Crosman.

a Paramount Picture

THE MADDEST, MERRIEST, MOST AMAZING' SHOW EVER SEEN ON THE SCREEN!

NEXT CHANGE

ED WYNN

• IN

"FOLLOW THE LEADER

BOOKING AT THE THEATRE.

"

TELS. 25313, 25330.

LOUIS

LE PLUS MODERNE SALON DE COIFFURE A HONG KONG.

Finger waves of feminine refine ment. A finger wave is, a subtle thing. The most successful Finger Waves are merely suggestions of a Wave and are preferred by many) smart women. Louis Finger Waves are famous for his delicate symbol of feminine refinement.

Phone 27411.

King's Theatre Bldg,,

Floors

GRAY'S YELLOW LANTERN SHOPS

lexandra Bldg," corner of Des Voeux Rd. C. and Chater Road.

SMART SPORT AFTERNOON and EVENING FROCKS featuring the latest fashions. shipments received every

fortnight;

GEORGETTE HANDKERCHIEFS, SIDIT, SCARVES, MULES

CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP

HENRI COCHET ELIMINATED

NORTHERN ELEVENS

TRIUMPHANT.

YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE,

Gloucestershire Are` Humiliated,

THREE CENTURIES.

London, Yesterday. Yorkshire and Lancashire both won handsomely to-day at the ex- pense of two strong southern con- tenders. As the result of to-day's matches Yorkshire now occupy fifth!

place with a total of 71 points out of a possible 150 points, and Lan- cashire take fourth place with 85 points out of a possible 180.

NIGEL SHARPE WINS IN STRAIGHT SETS.

HIS SECOND DEFEAT.

Jiro Satoh Overcomes Nervous Player.

THREE U.S. VICTORIES.

London, Yesterday. of the All-England Championships The sensation of the frat round ut Wimbledon was provided when Nigel Sharpe, a veteran in British Henri tennis circles, defeated Cochet, ene of France's lending This-is

LEAGUE TENNIS RESULTS.

I.R.C. OVERWHELMED. Y.M.C.A, Lose to the Chinese R.C.

"C" DIVISION GAMES.

One postponed game in the Hong Kong Lawn Tennis League' "C" Division Was played yesterday and resulted in the Chinese Re-

from the Y.M.CA. creation Club capturing the points On Sunday the Indian Recreation Club lost to the South China A.A. at Sookun-

pos.

Full results were as follow:- The Chinese Recreation Club

Scores (C.R.C.):

Batting first at Lord's, Yorkshire players, in straight sets, scored 302, Sutcliffe hitting up 120 the second time within one month beat the Y.M.C.A. by 6% sets to before being forced to retire as the that Cochet has lost to a British 21⁄2 on the former's courts. result of a nasty knock. Bowes (6player-In the Boal of the Italian for 39) was oainly responsible for Championship at Milan he was de- forsing Middlesex to follow on 191 feated by G. P. Hughes in straight sets, France's "wonder man" of runs in arrenre. The home county fared little better in their second lawn tennis has indeed reached his venture and were diamisser! for 126 zenith and is now on the slow but runs, Bewes bringing his total to sure downward path. 11 wickets for 102 runs during the course of the game.

Here

Kirby, the twenty-year-old South African "hope" was attacked by nerves in his match against Jiro Satoh and lost in straight sets.

F. K. Lnu`and' W. K. Cheung

drew with T. J. Price and E. R.

Price brat J. Ferguson

MeLellan... beat S. A. Gray and H. Burson 6-2

D.

G. 6

.0- 1

W. I. Chos and K., Mow

brat T. J. Prize and E. R. Price 6. 2

C.R.C.) beat J. Ferguson and D.

MeLekan

6. 2

beat S. A. Gray and H. Burson G- 2

F. H. Kwok and S. W. Leung (C.R.C.):-

At Manchester, Gloucestershire found Tyldesley (R) in a very de structive mood and

dis. Reuter cables that the ever modest missed cheaply.

Thanks to cen- Jiro handsomely paid tribute to the turies by Hallows and Tyldesley youthful South African whose (E) Lancashire were in a position schoolboyish timidity and display to declare with only four wickets of nervousness before a great Wim-lost to T. J. Price and E. R. Price 3.6

bledon crowd took all the sting out lost to J. Ferguson and D. down. Requiring 200 runs to save

Satoh said "I was McLellan the innings defeat Gloucestershire of his game. failed miserably in collecting but disappointed that Kirby was not hest S. A. Gray and H. Burgon & Q

If I had played him Gi runs, Hopwood a youthful all-at his best.. rounder, claiming four wickets for

ong run.

Full results as cabled by Renter were as follows:

Yorkshire heat, Middlesex by an innings and 65 runs at Lord's, Yorkshire: 302 (Sutcliffe 120). Middlesex: 111 (Bowes 5 for 39).

126. (Bowes 6 for 63). Lancashire beat Gloucestershire by an innings and 147 runs at Man-

chester.

Scores

on a private court there might have been a different story to tell."

The impassive little Japanese player was a man of iron compared with his South African opponent. Kirby tried lobs and valleys to entice Satoh to the net but could not rely on himself and was forced to submit to Satoh's dominating drives. He rallied his resources in

the third set and held Satoh to four games all, but could not keep

it up.

K

Jiro now meets Lyttleton Rogers, Gloucester: 101 (Tyldesley (R) 7 the Irish Davis Cup player, in the Becond round of the world famous for 39).

tournament. 61 Hopwood 4 for 1). Lancashire: 309 for 4 dec., (Hal- lows 100, Tyldesley (E) 127).

יי

LEN HARVEY STILL CHAMPION.

Middleweight Belt Won at Albert Hall.

JACK HOOD OUT-POINTED.

London, Yesterday.

The remaining matches' provided no surprises, except perhaps the defeat of Googory Mangin, the American player, by Lyttleton Rogers after four sets.

Results of the first round of the Men's Singles at Wimbledon were as follow:

Nigel Sharpe (Britain) beat H.

Cochet (France) 6-1, 6-3, 6-2.

J., Van Eyn (U.S.A.) beat Schaeffer (Yugo-Slavia), 6-0, 6-2, 6-1.

I.R.C. Defeated.

3- 0

At Sookunpoo the South Ching AA. beat the Indian Recreation Club by 7% sets to 1%.

Scores:-

זי

J. S. Ackber and A. R. H. Esmail (I.R.C.):~~~ lost to C. S. Chan and Wong'

Fook-nam.. lost

Hin-kan and Lui to Ho Kwai-fan drew with Chan Kwang-iu and

Luk Chun-cheung

F. Shields (U.S.A.) beat P. D. B. Spence (South Africa) 6-1, 6-1, 6-2. Lyttleton Rogers (Ireland), beat, G. Mangin (U.S.A.)· 0-6, 8-6, 6-8, Jiro Satoh (Japan) beat Kirby (South Africa), 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.

At the Albert Hall to-night Len Harvey retained the British middle-6-3. weight championship, out-pointing the Jack Hood, welterweight champion, in a 15 rounds' contest. -Reuter.

CHESS CHALLENGE WITHDRAWN. Capablanca Finds That

"Money Is Scarce.

LARGE SUM REQUIRED.

Paris, May. 29. The world's chess champion." Alekhine, received a cable to-day from Capablanca, the ex-champion, now in South America, withdraw. ing the challenge to the title which he issued on February 20

Capablanca's reason is that the general economic crisis makes it Impossible for him to put up a large sum of money as a deposit, which every challenger is bound to do..

WATER POLO LEAGUE

RESULTS.

Borderers.

ONE-SIDED MATCHES,

Aoki (Japan) beat Duplaix (France) 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.

S. Wood (U.S.A.) beat Singh (India) 6-4, 6-2, 6-2.

Hyotare Satoh (Japan) beat Prince Mogaloff (Russia) 6-3, 6-2 0-4.

STAR

JAPANESE

DEFEATED.

Argentian Player's

ccuracy.

LONDON, CHAMPIONSHIPS.

4-6

5- 7

6- 6

S. A. F. Bux and M. P. Madar (LR.C.)

lost to C. S. Chan and Wong

Fook-nam

1- 6: lost to Ho Hin-kan and Lui

Kwai-fan

30

2.0

Chun-cheung lost to Chan Kwong-iu and Luk

A. K. Sulfad and A. Mijid (1.R.C.):- lost to C. S. Chan and Wong

Fook-nam...

fan.

6-

beat Ho Hin-kan and Lui Kwal- lost to Chan Kwang-in and Lak

5- Chung-cheong

FIRST WEE GOLF TOURNEY.

Miss. Pestonji and Mr. Wright Victorious.

TROPHIES PRESENTED.

The finals of the first Wee Golf Championships of Hong Kong were staged on the Nathan Road course on Sunday before a large and interested gallery and resulted in victorfes for Miss Bella Pestonjl in the Ladies' Championship and Mr. C. A. Wright in the Men's Championship.

Full results were as follow:- Ladies' Championship.

1. Miss Bolla Featonji. 2. Miss A. E. E. Steele..

3. Mrs. R. C. Whitney.

4. Miss M. Kacher.-

Men's Championship.

1. Mr. C. A. Wright,

2. Mr. E. C. Fincher..

3. Mr. M. E. M. Oakshott. 4. Mr. A. Wheeler.

At the conclusion of the play

London, June 16. Playing at the Queen's Club' In the first round of the London ten- nis championships here to-day Adriano Zappa, a member of the handsome silver trophies were pre- Argentine Davis Cup team, defeat-sented by Mrs. Ramsey to the win-

ners and runners-up, od Hyotaro Satoh, of Japan, by n

score of 6-3, 4-6 and 8-8-

THE CHINESE LIKE WEE GOLF.

Billiards Loses Its Popularity.

Zappa took, five straight games in the first set after losing the firat game. One of these was i love game against servico. Zappa Chinese Athletic Swamp drove viciously and placed his shots deftly.Satoh overdrove the base line and Wad guilty of double | faults,bedr In the second games, Zappa be gan strongly during Satoh, to the At the V.R.C. last night the net and then pakain Bim But Chinese Athletic defeated the Bor Inter Zappa wenkerjed and lost his derers by, eight goals to all in the accuracy, Satob Lound the longth division to the League, As of the courad -cessfully lob-

Peking, June 14:1 the-acoro suggests the game, was bed and Bard to win the second Midget golf has ousted billiards though the soldiers set. The third set was ding dong as the popular pastime of Pe- played pluckily against a much. Zappa, had three match points on kingit lded youth. The former specdier teams

elfth reme, but Satol fought Chinese capital now has four the courses, including one. In section of the Forbidden City, which was playground of the Emperors. —- Associated

TION

KIMONOS,

bont by

Batter

mination

faulted on

Press

PEKING ACTIVITIES,

AT THE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

STAR At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20′

A MUSICAL ROMANCE OF THE SOUTH!

"Cameo

Kirby"

with J. HAROLD MURRAY - NORMA TERRÍS.

AT THE

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW

WORLD At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.20

Warner Baxter

in his latest

role as a quick shooting but

quicker love- making.b a d

hombre.

The

ARIZONA

presented by

William Fox

KID

Alfred Sastell production

G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD

·WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS

F.

DIAMOND MERCHANTS.

Union Building (opposite G.P.O.),

Agents for ADMIRALTY CHARTS,

ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES,

KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, · ·

| ENGLISH ⠀ SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers, High Class English Jewellery.

Majestic

NATHAN ROAD,

TO-DAY ONLY

at 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

́ ́A HEART THROB A MINUTE

-Tuned to the strenuous, exciting

rhythm of battle, the hunt, the con- flict with nature's fury - Of all the incredible adventures of the hardy men and women who pierced the heart of the virgin west ----

That's

Raoul

Walsh's

THE

BIG TRAIL

Spectacular

Pioneer Days

by 20,000 peop

"JOHN WAYNE

Fully Mar