1934-02-27 — Page 9

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934.

RACING RESULTS

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Continued from Pupe 1).

HAVE YOU WON?

-Race 1.

No. 338

$665 190 95

48 316

THE CHINA MAIL.

227, 117, 157, 278, 380, 132, $50 each: 218, 94, 192, 120,

2.-12.09 NOON. THE TIENTSIN(T. L. Wong); De Minimis, 157 STAKES-Winner $750. Secondlb. (B. A. Proulx); Iron Grey, 154, $300. Third $200. For China Panics, bone fide Grifins of this (Y, Y. Shar; ). Na Sonul Day, 162 239,

(S. Sun); King Salmon, 165 lb. scale. Winners barred. b. (D. S. Li); Philanderer, 158 lb. 86. Jockey Allowance. Entrance $10. One Mile.

(E. 0. Butler); The Panther, 159 Hem's Gladiator 158 lb.

Ib. (G. A. Harriman); Valley Hall, (Heard) 1155 lb. (J. C. A. Ingram).

11 starters. Dynasty's King's Worthy 158 lb.

(Y. S. Chang) 2 L. Dunbar's Onk Bay 161 lb...

(Frost) 3 Also ran:-Banquet Hall, 161 lb. (S. N. Pan); Ebony Idol, 165 lb. (R. H. Charles); Fair View, 161 Ib. (T. L. Wong): Fudge, 158 lb. (D. Black); High Life, 158 (S. Y. Liang): Limelight, 158 lb. (N. Deltz): Morning Sun, 158 lb. (F. Marshall): Mortmain, 158 lb. (B. A. Proulx); Racing Luck. 161 lb. (H. P. Chanson); Shaughraun, 156) Jb, (H. V. Pearse); Soldier of Germany, 161 lb. (8. Y. Sun); The Redshank, 159 lb. (C. O. Butler); Waterloo: 155 lb. (8. W. Pan): What A Chance, 153 b. (P. P. Botelho): Zero, 158 lb. Harriman).

(G. H.

Time: 2 min, 10 1 5 secs. Won By: 1⁄4 len. 2 len. Pari-mutnel: Winner $8.50; Placer $6.20, $20.10, $6.90.

3.-12.30 PM.—THE CORAL PLATE.

-Winner $750. Secund $300, Third $200. For Australian Ponies of any Senson. Weight for inches.

Won by a length and 21⁄2 lengths Time: 2.27.1.

Pari-mutuci, winner

6-3.00 PM-THE SUBSCRIPTION |

GRIFFINS CHALLENGE CUP -Value

$1,000, For China

-

to

Race 2.

No. 158

436 328

$735 210 105

Race 3.

No. 84/

$1,085

"

499 '32

310. 155

246, 112, 400, 207, 418, 68, 41.

Ponies, Subscription Griffins of this Club of this Meeting. Weight 254, 444, for inches as per scale. won two years consecutively by Ponies the bona fide the same owner or owcars, Win- property of Ter receive $600 and 70 per per cent., Second $300 and 20

per cent. Third $200 and 10 per cent.. of the Entrance Fees until the Cop is Anally won, when the Second Pony whit receive 75 per cent and the Third Pony 25 per cent of the Entrance Fees ins addition to the place money. En- trance $10. One and Quarter Miles.

Race 4.

No, 409

*

294

320

12

$1,442 412 206

$30 each:-487, 513,

Race 5.

No, 190

$1,358 388 194

To-day's Short Story,

THE LAGOON

By Joseph. Conrad.

The white man, turning his back,

both arus over the four of upon the setting sun, looked along

white man, leaning with

the little house in the stern of the empty and broad expanse of the, the boat said to the steersman: sea-reach., For the last three miles! "We will pass the night in of its course the wandering, hesitat- Arsat's clearing. It is late." ing river, as if enticed irresistibly The Malay only grunted, and by the freedom of an open horizon, went on looking fixedly at the river. flows straight into the sea,, flows $50 each:-326, 37, 233, 244, 4. The white man rested his chin on straight to the cast-to the eart $247.10; 204, 339, 423, 148, 80, 30, 21, 152, his crossed arms and gazed at the that harbours both light and dark- places, let $32.50; 2nd $14.10; 3rd 36. 151.

wake of the boat. At the end of ness. Asters of the boat the re- $24.10.

the straight avenue of forests cut peated call of some bird, a cry die- by the intense glitter of the river cordant and feeble, skipped along the sun appeared unclouded and over the smooth water and lost it- dazzling, poised low over the water self, before it could reach the other that shone smoothly like a band of shore, in the breathless silence of metals. The forests, sombre and the world. dull stood motionless, and silent on: The steeraman dug his paddle each side of the broad stream, into the stream, and held hard with At the foot of big, towering trees stiffened arms, his body thrown trunkless nipa palms rose from the forward. The water gurgled aloud;] mud of the bank in bunches of and suddenly the long straight leaves, enormous, and heavy, that reach seemed to pivot on its centre, hung unstirring over the brown forests swung in a semi-circle, and swirl of eddies. In the stillness of the slanting beams of sunset touch- the air every tree, every leaf, every led the broadside of the cance with bough, every tendril of creeper and a fiery glow, throwing the slender every petal of minute blossoms and distorted shadows of its crew seemed to have been betwitched upon, the streaked glitter of the into an immobility perfect and final. river.

Nothing moved on the river but the eight paddles that rose flashing regularly, dipped together with single splash; while the steersman swept right and left with a periodic and sudden flourish of his blade, describing a glinting semi-circle above his head. The churned-up | water frothed alongside with a con- The white man turned to look! fused murmur. And the white ahead. The course of the boat had} man's cance, advancing upstreambeen altered at right-angles to the in the short-lived disturbance of its stream, and the carved dragon-head own making, seemed to enter the of its prow was pointing now at portals of a land from which the gap in the fringing bushes of thei very memory of motion had for ever overhanging twigs, and disappeared | departed.

C. N. K.'s Tiny Star 159 lb.....

(Mr. D. S. Li) 1 Triumvir's Surprise 161 lb.

(Mr. S. Marshall) 2 Leung Kwok Cheong's Caval-

cade 155 lb... ..(Mr. Reard) 3 Also ran:-Bran Tub, 168 lb. (J.

a per scale. Winners during 1933 C. A. Ingram); Chow Fan, 155 lb.

of one race, 5 h.; of two races

7 lb of three or more races, 10(T. L. Wong); Dare Devil,, 162 lb.

b. penalty. Griffing of this (S. W. Pan); Jibsheet, 161 lb. (R. Meeting allowed 5 16. Jockey H. Charles): Little Beauty, 155 lb. Allowance. Allowances accumu (Tang Man Wa); Utopian, 188 Ib. lative. Entrance $10. Six Fur

(S. Y. Sun). longs.

1. Dunbar's Woodland Stag 159 1. Mr. L. G. Frost) Hall & Shenton's The Goose 144

th.

....(B. A. Proulx)

D starters.

1

Time: 2.82.1.

2

Won by length; 1⁄2 length. Pari-mutuel, winner $23.70 places. 1st $6.80; 2nd $6.40; 3rd

Lady Peel's Lucy Glitters 164

16.

(D. Black) 385.90.

Also ran:-Changte, 150 lb. (H.

V. Pearse): Cossack's Cholce, 164|7—1.30

Ib. 1. C. A. Ingram): Evening Star,

149 15. (S. N. Pan); Mountain Cat,

166 lb. (R. H. Charles); Night Star, 159 16. (D. S. LI); Polar Star, 169 b. (E. O, Butler); Portia, 159 lb. (A. J. P. Heard); Racing Streak,; 161 b. (H. M. Pih); Roxy Morn. 156 b. (N. Deitz); The Giraffe, 159

lb. (T. L. Wong):

13 starters.

Won by length and 3 lengtha.

Time: 1.24.2..

Pari-mutuet.

winner $0.90;

P.M. THE AMERICAN CLUB CUP-Presented by Mem- bers of the American Club, with $500 added for Winner. Second $300. Third $200. For China Ponies, bona fide Griffins of this Meeting Weight for inches as Winners of one TBCC, 3 per scale.

b. of twn races, 6 lb.; of three or more races, 7 ib.; penalty. Sub- scription Griffins of this Club of this Meeting allowed 10 lb. Jockey. Allowance. Allowances accuma.

319 344 $50 each:-237, 462, 19, 536, 519.) 633, 497, 511.

Race 6.

No. 50G

$2,114

ZE

587

604 384

302 $50 each:—120, 700, 735, 176, 677,

427.

Race 7.

No. 824

$2,072

265

+

#

534

592 296

$50 each:-300, 244, 382, 626, 839, 340, 681, 598,

Race 8.

No. 372

$2,380

317 720

OBO

340

BODY OF SAILOR FOUND.

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lative. Entrance $10. From the A.B. Bain Missing Since

Two Mile Post Once Round and In (about One Mile 171 Yarda).

Li Shiu Pang's Soldier of China

161 b... (Mr. S. Y. Sun) T

places, 1st. $6.10; 2nd. $9.10; 3rd-Hem's Macaroni 164 lb. ......

$27.50.

February 18,

WARRANT FOR DESERTION

of

MRS. HUNTER'S

ASSAILANT

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "On Leave," by Henri Barbusse.

from the river like aoine slim and amphibious creature leaving the water for its lair in the forests.

The narrow creek was like a ditch: tortuous, fabulously deep, filled with gloom under the thiu strip of pure and shining blue of

ON TRIAL the heaven. Immense troca soared, Plea Of Temporary Derangement.

+TY

5,

ADJOURNMENT TILL FRIDAY

up, invisible behind the festooned draperies of croepers. Here and there, near the glistening blackness of the water, a twisted root of some| tall tree showed amongst the tracery of small ferns, black and dull, writhing and motionless, Ilke 20

A submission of temporary de-arrested snake. [rangement of mind following a The short words of the paddlers! fit, was made by Mr. H. C. reverberated loudly between the Macnamara, al the Supreme thick and sombre walls of vegeta-- (Mr. Heard) 2 The body of A. B. Bain,

Court this morning before the tion. Darkness oozed out from be- H.M.S. Whitshed, who was report Puise Judge, Mr. Justice R. E. tween the trees, through the tangle ed missing on February 18, was Lindsell, on behalf of Tong Wing-maze of the creepers, from behind * and Exchange Brokers 's!

(Mr. F. M. L. Soares) 3 found at the naval anchorage near kwok, charged with wounding the great fantastic and unstirring Hong Kong. Volue $1,600 to Also ran:-Dawn View, 155 lb. (TH.M.S. Cornwall yesterday after Mrs. Florence Annie Hunter, on and invincible; the darkness, scent- Winner.

Second $300,

with intent and with wounding leaves; the darkness, mysterious $200, For China Ponies. Weight Wong); Great Hall, 161 lb. (S. N. noon.

4.- 1.00 IM. — THE EXCHANGE PLATE.Presented by the Bank-

ль

Third

not woll race of one mile or

over

n

this

this

1st

July, 1933, and two or thros subsequent to that date, allowed

b. Subscription Grifins of this

A. M. L. Soares's Prima Donna

IG1 lb.

11 starters. Won by a length and 3 lengths. Time: 2.23.1.

Club of this Meeting allowed Pari-mutuel, winner

b. Allowances secumulative $6.60. Entrance $10. One and a Quarter Milen.

L. Dunbar's Gleneagles 155 lb.

(Mr. L. G. Frost) I A. M. L. Soares's Sadko 153 lb.

(Mr.. F. M. L. Soares) 2 Dynasty's Helman 160 lb.....

(Mr. Y. S. Chang) 3 Also ran: Gay Crusader; 155)

b. (N. Deitz); King's Parade, 150) Ib. (D. Black); White Jade Stag, 161 b. (H. V. Pearse).

$ starters.

Won by length and 2 lengths. Time: 2.42.2.

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eye at first thought.

He suggest.

the

for inches as per scale. Winners Pan); High Speed, 161 lb. (S. W. Bain left duty at 7 a.m. on the the afternoon of November 30, ed and poisonous, of Impenetrable

this Meeting 7 lb. penalty. Pan) Hot Sun, 158 b. (F. Marmorning of February 18 for recess, at 66A, Nathan Road, Kow forests.

{Continued from Column 43 Pontes that have started in and shall); Midday Sun, 16: lb. (A. A. and when required for duty at 9.30

loon.

room and washed away the blood, fed that for the boy to attack - Mrs. The men poled in the shoaling but feeling faint, I gently laid my Hunter without any reason at all The defendant pleaded not water. The creak broadened, open-self on the floor." Meeting allowed R. Botelho); Racing Bluck, 158 1b.a.m. was found to be missing. En- 3 th. Griffins of this Meeting altH, M. Pih); Racing Triumph, 156 quires revealed that a splash was

guilty.

must necessarily mean that he was lossed 5 lb. Ponies that have ran b. (S. W. Tang); Tummel, 158 1b. heard shortly after 8 am. and torney General, appeared for the ceded from the marshy bank, leav-

Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant At stagnant lagoon.

ing out into a wide sweep of a

Later Mr. Hunter came and sho temporarily deranged. in at least Ave Extra Meetings of

The forests re-was taken to hospital,

Although the defence ware not Club

during 1933, two

(N. Deltz). three of euch Meetings previous tu

search of the ship showed that one Crown, while Mr. H. C. Macpaing & level strip of bright green, first statement that the accused's insane now, they would call the Mrs. Hunter corroborated her suggesting that the accused was of the buckets were missing.

While diving for a case of am defence

mara, has been assigned for the reedy grass to frame the reflected attack was almost as if he had gone ovidence of Dr. J. H. Pringle, of the munition which lind fallen over-

blueness of the sky. A fleecy pink out of his mind. She could not sug- Government Civil Hospital, whe 10 ib., of previous Sepsons allowed places, 1st $6.40; 2nd $6.50; 3rd with A. B. Bain's belt attached, was (foreman), Mau Chi-liang, L. A. Runder the floating leaves and the porarily gone out of his mind.

$12.60; board some time later, the bucket empanelled:-Messrs. F. H. Barnes the delicate colouring of its image tacked her, except that he had tem observation, for sometime, as

The following special jury were cloud drifted high above, trailing gest any reason for him having at had had the accused under special found.

Duncan, J. H. da' Roza, L. E. Po silvery blossoms of the lotus,

question was whether he was in The authorities, however, were liti, Ho Tung-sang and E. A. Grif‹ 84,00 P.M. THE GOVERNOR'S

"I thought that from the first and ane at the time of "this Savage CLP-Presented by His Ex-not satisfied with the suicide theory the.

A little house, perched on high I thought it all along as he had and altogether unexplicable as- cellency the Governor, with $750. and a warrant for his arrest was! added for Winner. Second $200. issued, on the charge of desertion the case, after which medical evi-palms, that seemed to have come out

Mr. Fraser outlined the fact of

piles, appeared black in the dis-never got like that before" said Mrs: sauit.” tance. Near it two tall nibong Hunter.

Evidence would be produced, he Third $200. For China Ponies The funeral will take place this tence was recorded i Weight for inches as per scale afternoon, leaving the Royal Hos

Questioned about the accused said, to show that at the time of Griffins of this meeting spital at 4:30 pm. for the protest the accused had been fu her employ with a suggestion of sad tenderness that he did seem a bit annoyed but pointed to this was the accused's

allowed 7 lb.

of the forests in the background, muttering when she spoke to him the assault the accused was tom- Mrs. Hunter in evidence said that leaned slightly over the ragged roof about the bread, Mrs. Hunter said porarily out of his mind. One of Subscription Grifins Club of this Meeting allowed 10 ant Cemetery. Happy Valley, ib. Winners at this Meeting The Band of H. M. S. Berwick, the cook had left she and the accused and soaring heads.

for seven or eight months. After and care in the droop of their leafy she latter thought that it was her words just before the assault took the most striking things which 16. penalty. Jockey Allowance. Allowances accumiuative. Entrance and a bugler, will be in attendance, shared the house-work. He was a

imagination as there was no rea place. He said, "Master.say this $10. One and a Quarter Mües and the service will be conducted very good worker, bright and good paddle, said: "Arsat is there. I Evidence was also given by Mr.

The steersman, pointing with his son to think that. Mrs. Pearce's Trentbridge 161 by the chaplain of H. M. S. Tamar. tempered,

belong copk's knife.” lb.

(Y. S. Chang) 1 H. M. naval ship in port will be

see his canoe fast between the plies." Hunter, who said that they had never if he was sane he would not have Mr. Macnamara suggested that Mackle & Grayburn's Brechin

On the afternoon of November 30, The polers ran along the sides of had any trouble with the accused as mads such an "Idotic" remark. half-masted from 4.30 p.m. to 5.30 the boy took the dog put for a walk the boat, glancing over their a boy and in fact he was one of His statement to the police 161 lb. .....(N. Deltz) 2p.m. ae a signal of respect, Lan's Blue Star '161 lb.

and was told to return at 4.46 pm shoulders at the end of the day's the best he had ever had anything also an instance of this aimless (T. LA Wong) 3

and ordered to buy bread but he was journey. They would have prefer to do with". He had been studying spanking. CUP Presented by the Officers

Jout,

Shortly after 4 p.m. the accused else than on this lagoon of weird night school with intentions of get-person to all intents and purposes red to spend the night somewhere English for several months at s of H.M.'a Navy, with $600 added

"It all tends to show that this for Winner. Second $300. Third

and the dog returned. She asked if aspect and ghostly reputation. ting an office job, said witness, was out of his mind, at the time. $200, For China Ponies, Sub.

he had remembered the bread and be Moreover, they disliked Arsat, Arst The accused's father, Tong Blu, "Epileptic Ats produce pecallar scription Grifina of this Club of $5.10,

muttered something and went into as a stranger, and also because he said that his son was born on conditions of mind and this is any Season. Weight for inches

the kitchen. A few minutes later who repairs a ruined house and January 23) 1919. The accused had borns out in text books," said Mr. Ar per scale. Subscription Grif. 94.30 PM-THE ROOTY-HILL The main object of the treaty she decided to make tea and was dwells in it proclaims that he is not Been seriously ill as a boy and after Macnamara, de Aus of this Meeting allowed 8·1b. DERBY A Sweepstakes of $20 was to settle the question of jon her way to the kitchen when she afraid to live amongst the spirits he recovered suffered from head- Winners anywhere during 1983 each; $28 additional for Starters, the Brontier between the Protec. met the accused in the hall. He that haunt the places abandoned by aches. "He used to stare about him The prisoner, in witness box,

two races, 5 Ib.; of three or

with $2,000 added. For Austra more races, 1 lb.; at this Mont

lian Ponies, Griffins of this Most torate and the Yemen. This had was holding a knife in his left hand mankind.

Fits Since Childhood. ing, 3 lb.; penalty, Subscrip ing, Winner to receive 70

feet been done by a mutual undertaking and rubbing the blade with the Buch a man can disturb the said the father,

since the age of 10. He the had me and pay no attention, as if in a fit said that he had suffered from fite tion Urimins of previous Sessons,

cent, Becond, 20 per cent, Third providing for the maintenance of thumb of his other hand, He was course of fate by glances or words: Evidence was given by the police four Ate which he could remember. that have not won at least two

10 per cent, of the total amount the situation In regard to races at race meetings of this| Weight for Inchas: as per ✨ scale,

he muttering, and said something while his familiar: ghosts are not of arrest and by the Chinese In One in the country, and three in Club barred. Winners of the

One and a Half Missou

frontier as it existed on the date about Master say this belong easy to propitiate by casual way terpreter who said that the accused Hong Kong, Garrison Cap at any time, barred.

Also ran:-Able Amazon, 155 lb of signature and for the proven-Chan's knife." Jockey Allowance. Penalites and (D. S. Li); Alacrity, 152 lb., (Y, S. tion of its violation pending The Attack.

farers, upon whom they long to in his statement to the police said: Raferring to the, assault he said Allowances accumulative. En Chang); Atlas, 155 ib. (Heard); Bag negotiations for a final settlement Mrs. Hunter said that he was master. White men care not for treated him very well. He had no ground he came back to himself, wreak the malice of their human that this master and mistress that when, the knife fell to the trance-$10, From the Two Mile Fost Once. Round and In Cabont Tor, 152 lb. (T. L, Wong); Bronze to be initiated before the expira about two yards away when, "befor One Mile 171 Yards), dann Era, 152 Ib. (Proulx); High [tion of the present treaty, which I could say or do anything he struc

such things, being unbelievers and reason to strike, bis mistread but He saw the blood on the knife and. Helenaide's Helter Bueller 152 Finance, 149, 16, (8, W. Pan); Just is to remain in force for 40 years at my head with the knife

in league with the Father of Evil, had suddenly gave way to At of ran away. 16. 47.(Mr. A. J, P. Heard). 1 That, 152 Ib. (S. V. Sun); Mutiny Bir John Simon added that the up my arm to save my has

add them unharmed through temper and now that he had thought Witness said that he had men Lea's Bistre 160. 1b) m Bay, 149 lb. (Batler); Prince Government regarded the settle struck four or five times. Then he

the Invisible dangers of this world. it over dery carefully he was very tioned temper" In his statement" (Mr. B. N. Pan) 2 Angeline, 155 lb. (Frost); Racing men K.H.W's Gay Butterfly 168 lb. Heart, 155 lb. (H. M. Pih); Swan, consider that it reflected great and screamed but

most satisfactory, and went out the backway und-7

dings of the righteous sorry

See Instead of Smadanas" because he offensive pretence of (Mr H. M. Pih) 155 b. (H. V. Pearse)...

body beard me

hat is there to be Also ran-Burgomaster, 168 Ib.

$20,00;

Pari-mutuel, winner places, 1st $8.00; 2nd $5.80.

5.-1.30 PM-THE ROYAL NAVY

S Starters. Time 2 mins. 54 1/5 secs, Won by 1 len, 4 len.

Pari-mutuel winner $5.20; places,

BRITAIN'S RELATIONS WITH YEMEN

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Deranged Mind, was frightened and the police in: Mr. Macnamara addressing the terpreter had hurried him one Jury said that was something more The hearing was adjourned until in the case that actually met, the 2.80 p.m. on Friday,