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FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1931.

SCHNEIDER TROPHY UNITED STATES AND

RUMOURS.

France and Italy-to- Participate.

NO WITHDRAWALS.

-it is learned that the rumours to the effect that France, and Italy have decided to withdraw from the Schneider Trophy contest have no foundation in fact..

It was stated at the Royal Aero Club that no suggestion of the kind had been made. The Air Attaches

DUELLING.

Carolina Prefers Car Encounters.

SIR JONAS' DISGUST.

The recent announcement of a fatal duel in New York will come as

surprise to most English people. | Yet, quite apart from the im promptu excitement afforded by gangsters, duelling is by no means extinct in the United States.

It still flourishes, with a mixture

at the French and Italian Em-of old-world, formality and news- bassies had likewise heard nothing world weapons, in North Carolina. The favourite method is the duel by about any withdrawal.

The secretary of the French | motor car. Aero Club explicitly denied the rumours in so far as France is con-

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JACK

THE CHINA MAIL.

+

HOBBS' GREAT RECORD WASHINGTON CRIME PLOT TO DYNAMITE

BAFFLING BRIDGE PROBLEM.

When Is A Player:

a Professional?

FLUCTUATING FORTUNES.

| FOUR-FIGURE_TOTALS ON 22 OCCASIONS.

ONE SEASONTM FAILS,

Operation Allows Only Six Innings.

RECORDS ABROAD.

SHOTS FOR THE COURTS.

Hints-for Tennis- Aspirants.

ART OF VOLLEYING.

WAVE.

U.S. Capital Holds Its Head-Up

D

SHAMEFACED PRIDE.

Washington, which for some,

LAW COURT:

Police Discovery at

Chittagong.

CANISTERS IN HOLES.

Four large canisters believed to months, has struggled against the contain dynamite were unearthed by stigma imposed upon it last year the authorities near the Divisional by the President dd, being the Commissioner's office which is ad- "country's model city," is rejoicing jacent to the Court building on in a small but undeniably authen Kutchary Hill, Chittagong. tie crime wave.

The canisters, approximately tea In one week a steady aver- inches high and 20 inches in dia- Can the game be taught? Of age of two crimes of violence per meter, were retrieved from holes 15 fcourse it can.

day was maintained. Jack Hobbs, in reaching his

Technical Inches deep. The District Magia Nearly every first class volleyer terms such as "big shot territory," trate was presont together with the 1,000 runs on June 15 against

war on the aouth side," and "north Superintendent Sussex at Horsham

"agrees that volleys should be "chop side gangs" rolled with gusto Additional Superintendent of Police, 'did

of Police, the for the twenty-second time in ped."

from the tongues of perfectly and the Deputy Inspector-General twenty-three seasons, his one

hitting the easy balls than missing

Moro matches are loat by mis-respectable citizens.

Wrapped in oilcloth, the canisters While they deprecate these events were bound with electric wires as a matter of form, it is plain which ran below the surface for a the hard ones.

that they take a somewhat shame distance of 50 feet. The canisters It is want of pluck alone, which faced pride at the thought that were scaled and removed by the prevents anyone with an overhand Washington may soon hold its head police. service smashing with success,

high even in the company of such Dunce or demigod, the testing aristocrate of crime as New York named Nibaran Ghosh belonging to Subsequently young man time of drudgery and defeat must and Chicago. be endured before mastery can be

Laldighi while carrying a canister, Tipperab Was arrested TeAf achieved. ::

"hell" known as Fontaines had similar to that found on Kutchary For complete control of a apin-been discovered just outside the Hill and it is believed that a state-

Is Mr. Jones, who by good luck and industry is half a sovereign in pocket on the year's turnover at a The combatants take their places Hampsted bridge-table, an ame- in cars a mile apart. On the seconds' teur or a professional? signal the two cars start and pass cerned.

Equally, what is the status of the failure being in 1921, when, com Reports that the French and each other at full speed, the

West End clubman whose bank bal-pelled to undergo an operation, he Italians

meanwhile not hopeful of drivers

exchanging success in the contest should be shots, It no hit in recorded, the ances swell by four figures be played only six innings. In 1925 accepted with

Great cars are reversed, and the duel cause

he made his record aggregate- reserve.

of skill at the card table- 3,024-while on fifteen other occa Britain, is true, has the initial starts again.

Quite a number of them earn £2,000 sions he has exceeded 2,000. In this country we no longer Advantage of previous success and of the contest being held in Britisk breed the race of he-men which a year there; a select few even

1,900. In 1905-his first year in -waters, but the two new British to-day inhabits Carolina. The last more.

first-class cricket-his-aggregate seaplanes now under construction, recorded duel fought on English soil- ure to

was 1,317, and in 1927, when illness some extent unknown took place nearly eighty years ago. quantities. It is quite possible The participants were two French-la a man of fluctuating fortunes an kept him out of the field for five

amateur in a losing year and a pro-weeks, he scored 1,641, runs. that the SG type which won, the men.

In Ireland, however, duelling last-fessional in a winning one?

The following is a list of his ag- race in 1929 may still prove the best.

1905: Less than fifty years ago there was

In that event a reliable Italian or French seaplane, even though not a record breaker, might win, or at least take second place.

Also (a third and last question)

famous duel between. Sir Jonas purist of golf, lawn tennis, foot- Barrington and a certain McNally, ball-almost any game you like--to writes Londoner" in the Evening ponder. Standard..

The weapons were pistols, and at

LAWN BOWLS TEAMS the first exchange McNally fell with about it?

FOR TO-MORROW.

League Programme.

A moan of "I'm done for."

What is the newly-formed

When the seconds rushed up they nothing. Problems so complicat-. found no trace of a wound. The ed would need so much solution bullet had been turned aside by the buckle of McNally's braces which, that there would be no time for

Thee times his total

Was

over

you

are

After much research a gambling

personal representative in Washing- ton for the past few months a man bearing the romantic named of Doc Gooch.

ว

ment made by him led to the dis- covery of the canisters near the Court. Three other canisters were Nalapara quarter. recovered from a house in the

city limits, hiding behind a high green fence. The most flattering It is the rabbit who lets the ball thing of all, it is reported, is that always-oxcept when making a stop to notice the city and has had as the great Al Capone has designed or drop shot. Remember

playing against a human being, not a ma chine. Temper and temperament add up to more than people reckon. And still people say that they are

The police, however, are acting content to play "for fun," indicat as though they are apoi, sports, ing thus a choice for brainless as They merely snort when those against intelligent exercise.

momentous facts are brought to You must try spins, and learn to their attention, and assert that impart swerve as well. Nearly there are no "big shots" in the or everyone does go but it is general-ganised gangs of Washington, but ly a case of unconscious humour. just a lot of small town amateurs." dard time of the 120th Meridian, Imitation is the sincerest proof of. The first man in Washington to East of Greenwich) are as fol- Incapacity and to insist on a slav- have the distinction of being put lows:

ning ball your return must reverse its apin, of the curve of its flight in

ed until a considerably later period.Here are posers-for-the-amateur/gregates in first-class matches since the air.

Under 2,000.

Year 1005

Aggtc.

1,817

1900

1,001

Bridge Association going to de

1908

1,904

1910

1,982

1921

1027

312 1,641

Wisely. It is likely to do exactly

Total... 9,057

Over 2,000.

Year

Aggtė.

1907

2.140

1909

2,114

2,070

1012

2,042

1913

2,605

1014

2,697

War Years.

1010

2,594.

So the new Association, which is coming into being in order to pro- mote inter-team, club, county and

1920

2,827

102%

2,552

1923

2,078

national matches, will step round this quagmire. Everyone who plays bridge well enough-provid-

1924

2.094.

3,024

1920

2,949

1028

2,542

1920

2.268

1930

2,102

Total

to be investigated and awkward

The following are the probable-Ulster-elang-are-still-known as bridge. Bank balances would have

"gallows." teams for to-morrow's games in the Lawn Bowls League:-

Club de Recreio.

Recreio senior team (home) v. Craigengower at 4 p.m.-A. S. Gomes, R. R. Robarts, L. C. R. Souza, and R. F. Luz (Skip):

Dr. R. A. C. Basto, C. A. Lopes, A. H. Basto, and C.. G. Silva (Skip).

Junior team away). v. Craigen- gower at 4 pm.-L. F. Xavier, J. M. S. Rosario, H. A. Alves, and

F. X. M. Silva (Skip).

Sir Jonas, having ascertained questions asked about the profes that his opponent was unhurt, left alons of men who win solidly at the fleld in disgust, remarking: their clubs.

"That is the first rascal I know

who has been saved by the gal-

lows."

THE HARDER LAWN ed, of course, that his bridge is

TENNIS BALL.

H. Rozario, A. E. S. Alves, International Committee

A. V. Barros, and J. G. Ozoria |

(Skip).

J. M. M. Alves, J. J. Basto,

F. V. Ribeira, and A. C. Ribeiro (Skip).

Civil Service C.C.

Civil Service senior team (home) v. Kowloon Dock:-J. Jones, H. Westlake, J. Deakin, and J. Hollidge (Skip).

Jas. T. Dobbie, A. O.. Bráwn, L.E. Longbottom, and W. E. Hollands (Skip).

Appointed.

BATTLE ROYAL,

.

STANDARD TIMES.

Sunrise and Sunset in Colony.

Suprise and Sunnat in Hong- Kong for July, 1981,

ish copy of some selected model is on the spot la Jack Cunningham, to risk unnatural evolution.

who died in hospital. He was July The three essentials in an over- (shot_ down from a motor 10 hand service are:-(1) Correct ball as he was entering his home. throwing; (2) loose grip of racket; He was a bootlegger, who acted as and (8) the deliberate attempt to police informer. Wallace Middle hit up instead of down.

ton, a policeman, who acted as the With the coming of the true-sur- bootlegger's informer, has been ar its purview when honours are con

faced courts came the method of rested on suspicion of complicity. cerned. Here at last is a game

..... 39,000 Complete totals to 1930: In Eng-taking the ball on the rise, and from which will have no amateur pre-land, 48,057; in Australia, 4,570; in there to the half volley is merely blem; the Association will sensibly South Africa, 2,688; aggregate, 55,810; another step on the road to perfec 1931, 1,011; aggregate to date, 58,351.tion-i.c., an equipment of all the

AGGREGATES ABROAD,

above suspicion-will come within

refuse to create one.

The man who wins morc money than his fellows at the same- stake is obviously the man to play for England.

Start

Sunrise Sunset

1.M. p.m.

5.45

7.11

11

5.45

711

12

5.46.

7.11

13

6.46

7.11

14

5.47

7.11

15

5,47

7.12

16

5.48

7.10

i 17

5.48 7.10

THREATENED M. BRIAND.

18

5.49

7.10

13

-5.49

7.10

strokes.

22

18

19

924 138

1

17

365-154-

1

18 962 142

The Comte de Malroy has been condemned to four month's impri-] Essential points to remember sonment, with suspension of sen- Australia.

(1) Follow through; (2) ease and tence, and a fine of 50 francs. On Ins. 8. H.S. N.O. Aver. suppleness of carriage; (3) side: October 6, 1930, he addressed an

1 876 115

41.11 ways stance for hitting: (4) both unsigned letter containing threats 9:43:187 1 54.91

48.65 eyes on the ball; (5) loose grip and to M. Briand. In the course of the 51.88 speed; (6) top spin and its value; hearing the Count expressed regret 1 -56.00

20

5,49

7.10

21.

5,00

7.09

-22

5.50

7:09

+29

5,51

7.08

24

5.51

7.08

26

5.61

7.07

26*

5.52 7.07

27

5.527,08

(7) different spins; and (8) how to for the terms of the letter. The control these,

Bentence was suspended on "account"

28

5.62 7.06

29:

5.58

1.08

.Tatal ..

4,570

Year

South Africa. Ins. R. H.S. N.O.

Aver,

Note how a good volleyer crouches of the briliant military record of and gets his own head down, keeping the prisoner. the racket head up. This habit

80.

5.59

7.05

81

5.54

7.05

.... 20 1,194 187

1

82.84

22 1,489 178

2

74.45

Total

2,683

Year The new body has as its provi-11007-08 elonal committee Mr. Frank Eng-1920-21. Li011.12. An international battle, involv-land (bridge correspondent of the 1024-26 Ing thirty to forty months, is being "Evening Standard"), Mr. A.. E. 1928-20 waged in secret over the question Manning Foster, Colonel Wolter of a harder lawn tennis ball.

Buller, Mr. Jack Dalton and Colonel

The International Lawn Tennis Walsh. It is emphasised that' in Federation, at their meeting in encouraging competitive team S. Randle, S. A. Alderman, A. H. Paris, resolved to form a ball com bridge it is not seeking to

en- 1909-10 Oawick, and J. Gregory (Skip), mittes of six men, consisting of croach on the legislative authority 1913-14

Junior team (away) v. Electric representatives nominated by Aus-of the Portland Club. R.C.-P. Knight, R. R. Wood, tralia, Austria, France, Germany,

Great Britain, and America, to con- Jsider a proposal that the ball

should be hardened.

Holland, and H. E. Strange (Skip).

Luck, N. Bebbington, L. Massey, and F. H. W. Haynes (Skip).

H. Lockhart, C. Strange, W. Bickford, and R. R. Davies (Skip). Reserves: J. McGowan, and J. Willmott.

Electric R.C.

Hong Kong Electric R.C. team (home) v. Civil Service C.C. at 3.30 p.m.-T. F. Saunderson, W. Stoker, J. R. Way, and W. H. B. Muskett (Skip).

R. C. Butler, C. E. Gahagan, D. S. Hill, and A. Webster (Skip). J. Sloan, F. Normington, G. T. Padgett, and A. F. Paul (Skip)..

Reserve H. S. Jones.

English players have spoken con temptuously. of the "thistledown" ball used in the American contests. Similar charges have been made against balls played in Europe.

to

The ball, by Rule 3, must be of the fixed offelal size, weight, and bound. The problem is how make a harder ball and keep it within Rule 3 of the game.

Women players may think the Will ball hard enough already. the international committee differ- entiate between the ball to be used by men and that by women?

Outstanding among the outstanding

alone earned a veteran his place in replace-pretty little pearlfes for the team for years. But what his shirt front! bushels of buttons his wife had to

Eton crop notwithstanding, moat girls, for physical reason--and most bankers, for mental habits-require to be encouraged to hit the back. stop netting. But their brothers and harumscarum Dianas' need the brake on their swipes, to the boun- dary.

The colloquial expression of the rule "Keep your eye on the ball," in fact, is so valueless as to be al most absurd.. Almost everyone does keep one eye on the ball-It is difficult not to do this. You must learn to keep two eyes on the ball, and this can be done by turning the head down and towards the ball as you make the stroke.The Sports Dispatch,

ELEVEN TIMES MARRIED.

Her Last Husband Was So Lary.

Mrs. Carolyn Paschall, a wealthy woman of Alexandria, Louisiana, has just married hor eleventh husband.

Two days after she obtained her freedom from Mr. J. W. Willis, her tenth husband, she married Mr. Louis Paschall of Florida, having secured er divorce from Willis on the ground of laziness.

.'

In her 64 years Louisiana's most married woman has obtained seven divorces and three of her husbands have died.-

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