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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 1934.

BRIGHT FUTURE FOR BRITISH SPORT

"1934 CAN BE FACED WITH OPTIMISM”

LAURELS THAT MAY BE WON

(By J. H. Freeman.)

The British are finding the Iman Yahya of the Yemen a dificult sub- ject. A fresh attempt is now to bel made to conclude an Anglo-Yemeni treaty. The Chief Commissioner of Aden, Colonel Reilly, is journey- ing over the difficult mountain road from Hodeida on the Red Sea to Sanan, the picturesque capital of the Iman, for a conference.

This year will see greater main strength. It is a case of Mahomet going to the Britain has ever

activities in wider fields of sport the mountain.

London:

solidity of our cricket that is`its).

It is a position in which the witnessed presence of a man of the outstand

ing batting ability of a Bradman. might indeed be a handicap,

Tennis Hopes

and which, ten years ago, could The supreme British negotiator scarcely have been visualised. *. * in the post-war Middle East was If 1934 should bring a series of Sir Gilbert Clayton. He died at triumphs to British athletes, men Our lawn tennis players hold the his post as High Commissioner of and women, that has not been Davis. Cup, with a firm grip, and Irak in 1929.

|paralleled for a quarter of a cen- Wimbledon, long a stranger to this British officials said that if ho tury, it would not surprise thos: tournament, will see the inter-zone could not get on with the Imam who have been watching closely the finals and the challenge round" Yahya no one. could.......

march of events since four years of fought on its courts. And he failed completely in 1926, war cut off a generation - in -its, Nothing has happened in the | Two years after that failure, In- prime.

world tour of the British men's deed, the Royal Air Force had a. The coming year can be faced team to shake one's belief that little war with the Iman. They with an optimism that is based on what F. J. Perry and H. W. Austin- succeeded in driving the Yemenis solid foundation.

accomplished in Paris six months out of much of the territory which We have been so accustomed to ago can be repeated next July. had been filched from the Aden defeat in cricket, lawn tennis, and Perry has strong claims to be rank Protectorate, but not all.

golf that it is scarcely realiseded first among the world's best

The dispute mainly concerns the with what efficiency our players in players, and if, as seems likely, future of the tribes in the hinter- the senior of these games have Mrs. Wills Moody is unable to come- land of Aden. They are under the stemmed the tide of international over from the United States, Miss protection of Great Britain, but the disaster and turned it definitely in Dorothy Round and Perry may carry off the two singles titles for Iman has claimed them as his our favour.

Beginning with the victory over Dritaln at Wimbledon, rightful subjects.. LTD.

Australia at the Oval in 1926, Eng- But competition will be keener lish cricketers have beaten their than ever.

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Census Of Airplanes

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dour opponents in three out of the We are assured that J. H. Graw-

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It is surprising to discover that last four series. pf Test matches, ford; the present champion, will there are more privately and com-two of them in Australia, and if, make the journey from Australia, mercially owned airplanes in Lon- na may well be so, fourth victory and Japan is expected to reveal an has been proceeding don than in New York.

awaits us in the coming months, the exceedingly strong hand. apace, with the expeditions of New York, in fact, does not achievement will be remarkable

Golf Prospects Shackleton, Wilkins, Byrd, and possess the most airplanes of any indeed

The presence of the Walker Cup/ - Mawson. And it is a matter of city in America.

If the strain of playing cricket team from the United States will justifiable pride that, in the his-

A census was taken recently by continuously for two years in Eag-intensify the attack on the British tory of the conquest, a history the United States Department of land, Australia, England again, and open and amateur golf titles. abounding in glorious records of Commerce. It was found that Chi- India, together with the respon-Densmore Shute will be bere to herole courage and endurance by cago headed the list with 287 air-sibilities of captaining an English fight for his title in the Open at explorers of many nations. Bri-

planes (military machines includ-team in the two tours abroad, does Sandwich at the end of June. Just over twenty-two years tish and Australian names figure New York with 246, Los Angeles again leading the M.C.C. team at may be his own countryman, Bobby

(ed),.

The next three cities were not prevent Douglas Jardine from His most formidable competitor on December 14, 1911 largely on the roll, whilst of the with 189, and 'Detroit with 122. Amundsen planted the Norwe-thirteen deaths, that have been

Nottingham in June, the first step Jones. But Sydney Easterbrook gian flag at the South Pole, the paid as toll to the spirit of dis-

The English List

towards an outstanding accomplish- and A, H. Padgham of our profes- ment will have been taken.

sionals, with Henry Cotton coming discovery forestalling by four

The latest list of civil aircraft. There may be doubts, at present, over from Belgium, and ⠀ Cyril- weeks only the ill-fated party of very in the Antarctic all but

It was only in Great Britain is registered at of Larwood's physical fitness to Tolley again able to strengthen our Captain Scott. To-day Rear-Ad-two are British.

Lloyd's.

take his place in an England' side, amateur ranka, may have it in their miral Byrd, an explorer of un-fitting that in February of this

year a British Order-in-Council It shows that 300 airplanes are and apprehensive eyes may scan the power to withstand an opposition. surpassed experience, is penetrate should declare that his Majesty London, 47 in Bristol, 39 in: Man- finding his successor. But I be-finitely stepped over the border-line privately or commercially owned in list of players in the vain hope of This, country-has, in golf, dan ing the Antarctic again, the

the King has sovereign rights" | latest of many such entures.

chester, 32 in Brough (Yorkshire),lieve that England has more varied of a new era. A The Bear of Oakland, a wooden over the Australian sector of the 31 in Glasgow, and 29 in South- talent at her call than Australia With the exception of, Abe Mit- ship, is accompanying the steel-lie Land, and place it as a de-bians.

Antarctic territory, except Ade-ampton, of which two are amphi- can yet hope to command..

chell, the older school of profes- built Jacob Ruppert, and will pre-pendency under the control of

full significance of the sional players has been replaced by cede it through the dangerous the Commonwealth of Australia. turn of 29 is accounted for by the lia last winter was clouded by the mination, rapidly acquiring the Realfar's 'unexpectedly high re- M.C.C. team's successes in Austra- men of youth and vigour and deber-- ice-choked waters of the Ross The writ of Australia now runs presence of an aero club. Sea to Little America, the win from the equator to the South

smoke-screen of an acid contro-temperament that has so long been The City of Liverpool has two versy, but no Australian with whom a dominating part of the American ter base. The present expedi

Pole, and with the British Em-machines less than Reading, Birm- I have talked has any doubt of their golfer's equipment. tion is in many respects the most highly equipped one that pire's acquisition of authority ingham has only 14, and Leeds 10. completeness.

Racing Outlook Bright: over one-third of the Antarctic] An entry which si not surprising Nor can he see the arrival of a In racing circles I have found a has sought to wrest the secrets continent, the greatest interest is Aberdeen 1.

new bowling genius who, with rising note of cheerfulness "and. jof scientific knowledge from the

O'Reilly, will create an attacking optimism. Attendances at meetings frozen wastes of the Antarctic should be taken in the Byrd ex- pedition, which may increase so

Facts You Did Not

combination of the weight and under Jockey Club rules have shown, continent. The two ships carry greatly the knowledge of the

Know.

power of the famous 1921 pair, an upward tendency. Racecourse. no fewer than five 'planes, in-

Gregory and Macdonald. cluding an autogyro and the often may not realise the tremen

new dependency.

executives are moving with the There are 20 English players spirit of the times and increasing Research chemists have found from whom, with Jardine; at their the attractiveness of their fixtures

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giant Curtiss-Wright Condor dous importance of such know after more than 10,000,000 miles of head, I belleve two teams could be and catering for the greater com plane in which the explorer pro ledge, though the commercial road tests that addition of a minute chosen each capable of retaining fort of the spectators. poses to fly over the South Pole. possibilities of the whaling in amount of lubricating oil to auto- the Ashes. It is the presenti.: (Continued on. Page 15)

mobile gasoline increases motor But, as Profes-power and decreases fuel costs.,

In addition to tractors, fifty dustry and seal-fisheries are now sledges are being taken for the being realised, various expeditions, and the sor Griffith Taylor has well Jacob Ruppert carries 350 tons pointed out, "no scientist ever The Italian government will ex- of material. In order to ensure needs to be converted to a bepedite the electrification of several a supply of fresh milk, it also car lief in the value of Antarctic sections of the railways connecting ries three pure-bred Guernsey "exploration. There is hardly a with the Austrian and Yugoslav cows, who will be housed on the "branch of science which is not "ystems, trunk lines into France ice barrier in a specially heated "waiting help from data to be

being given consideration later: barn, whilst an entirely unex "studied properly only in the in pected-and undesired-feature "accessible lands of high lati wing like rotors that a Chicago Modela of a boat propelled by of the party three stowaways "tudes." Valuable observations engineer has invented have shown from New Zealand. The dis can be made in regard to the that the rotors, operated solely by covery of the stowaways, as well lines of magnetic force which the wind, have almost four times as the expedition itself, forms an are important for, navigation; the the propelling power of ordinary illustration of the lure to adven-polar "flattening" and effect of salla. turous spirits exerted by the gravity, which form part of the mysterious polar region. The problem of the determination of perils which beset those taking the shape of the earth; and the part in the venture can now be auroral displays, which are fully appreciated by the grave abundant in the polar are news of the past few days that The fossiliferous beds of forty-four members of the Byrd tica can throw a flood

Ight expedition are marooned and in the fascinating problem danger of starving. This news, plant and animal life

climates and they w following the failure of the Lin expedition is settir coln Ellsworth Antarctle ex-definite scientific obj pedition, vividly Illustrates the and carries export hazards confronting the Intrepid special purposes, explorers in the

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