1934-12-07 — Page 9

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BABE RUTH SPEAKS

Continued From Page 1)

"The Japanese have two very good pitchers. One Is a student who might make a big name for himself in the future."

The crowds at the baseball games in Japan had been very sporting and displayed great enthusiasm throughout, but in Shanghai. apurt from the American community and a few hundreds of Chinese, the crowds were conspicuously absent.

BASEBALL AT OLYMPIAD Asked what the re-action in America was regarding Germany's introduction of baseball into thoj World Olympic Games of 1936, Babej Ruth said that it was all-right from the Colleges' point of view, but, apart from America and Japan, there was little or no interest in the game at all. He thought that it, was quite probable that America would send her finest Inter-Colle- giate team, while Japan would make a similar gesture.

Babe Ruth said the standard of play had improved tremendously in Japan recently, and the visit of hia!

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Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Australia's premier airman, la pictured with his young son at Brisbane, shortly before the Øyer took off on his sensational flight from Australia to America..

COMBINED

FORCES

IN SAAR REGION

team had done much to keep up the BRITISH GOVERNMENT

enthusiasm," which is now burning

up the Inpanese baseballera."

PLAYING MANAGER

Babe Ruth said that his plans for

CONGRATULATED

next year had not been made, but SIR JOHN SIMON'S

he was sure that he would not play again, except in the capucity of play-

ing manager.

The Babe, his wife and daughter.. accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Me-

Nair, are leaving the team at Manila and re-joining them again in New York. He proposes to tour Europe. via Italy and France Frst; before returning home.

STATEMENT

London, To-day,

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1934

Leaders of both the Labour and Liberal par-

To-day's Short Story.

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ROMANCE IN EGYPT

!

By J. B. Connie

INDOUBTEDLY bringing lounge. Her knees were crossed, Kathryn here was taking a and she dangled onio shining silver big chance. Sometimes Adrian shoe from her toes. cursed himself for a fool, for Adrian, staring intently at her, there must have been other less noted the smooth sheen of her dark drastic ways than this kill or hair as it swept in waves back from cure method that he had adopt her face, and was colled in a ̈knot ed. He sat in a deck chair and at the nape of her white neck. Her watched the sun disappearing eyes were deep pools of shadow, and behind a sandy desert waste.. A her mouth darkly vivid. Her fea- string of camels coming along atures were outlined clearly; flawless, rise were sharply etched against they were, and could have been de- the red and golden glory of the scribed as patrician. She inherited sunset; nearer on the river them from her mother, who had dahabeah went skimming by been an English: aristocrat. lits sails bellying in the stiff That night Kathryn was breeze. Egypt seemed so age-old quieter than usual, and Adrian re- to Adrian that the significance of aented her preoccupation. his own trouble was dwarfed by "Don't you ever comparison; but for a while only, mooning?" he demanded irritably.

get tired of then all the disturbance and poig- nancy returned to him. He won More coffee?"

"I beg your pardon, Adrian. dered that the people who spoke so glibly of a honeymoon had not How she could always defeat him. He moved restlessly in his chair. invented a name for the last holi-Her very politeness was a barricade. day a man spent with his wife.

eveu

The Nile steamer on which he wonder what you married me for?" "Do you know, Kathryn, I often

voyaged was passing a village on

She nodded her head: "I've won-

the banks; he could hear the cries dered myself," she replied. of the natives, and could see the bronzed figure of a workman stand-five years of their marriage he had He looked at her sharply; In the ing by while an old gamoose turned always sensed that feeling of being la water-wheel. From the ancient shut out. Not that she made any look of the bulky animal its unces-show of excluding him-but, though Germany and France have both agreed to the the same work in the days of the tainly was something between then. tors had probably been performing he could not explain it, there cer- proposal that an international force, in which nei-Pharaohs. ther is represented, shall be present in the Saar merged swiftly into an opalescent

The vivid colouring of sunset word bitterly.

"Perhaps, love!" he spoke the to maintain order during the January Plebiscite purple that enwrapped the world. she murmured, almost to herself.

"One marries for love but once," period.

The golden desert sands changed "What do you mean?" that spread out from each bank of she had married him, she was stay- and became a dark velvet carpet She told how, two years before was the intention of several of the ties in the House of Commons yesterday congraed it to the jewelled night sky.

the river to where the horizon welding in Cairo, where she met a young party to return to the Colony by the tulated the Government on the initiative it had His thoughts winged him back to

archaeologist: back from Manila, when an exhibi- taken in that matter. The decision was warmly that night a few months ago when were married in a funny little mis- "We fell desperately in love, and commended by practically the whole of the press he and Kathryn had dined al fresco ston building in the native quarter and Members of the Commons showed their ap-their house,

on the stone flagged terrace outside of the city. So strange and unreal for the night was it all was," Kathryn's voice waver- faint whisp of a breeze occasionally talked. "At the time it was like a of Baron Alolai, and his Spanish and Argentine colleagues on the from the table, so that she could myself. We spent eight days to- In a long statement, Sir John Simon paid tribute to the work had moved her chair slightly away wanted to keep my happiness all to

eddied, then died down. -Kathryn dream. I told no

оле because I committee of three. in making the agreed recommendations, which had been accepted by both the French and Germans, relat THREE WEDDINGS

Connie Mack, the veteran Philadel- phia. Athletics manager, said that it!

Empress of Canada on their way

tion game might be arranged.

ARRAY OF STARS

Led by Connie Mack, veteran

manager of the Philadelphia Ath-proval when further details were given them yes- stiflingly hot indoors. Out here ed a little here and there as she

letics, and Babe Ruth, of the New

York Yankees and former home-

Yankee first

run king of the major leagues, the party is made up of some 40 per sons, including 14 players, officials, and members of their families; **

The touring nine includes such renowned sluggers as Lou Gehrig, baseman: Jimmy Foxx, of the Athletics; Charles Gehringer, of the champion De troit Tigers, Erie McNair, of the Athletics; Earl Averill, of the Cleveland Indians; and Babe Ruth! himself. The team also includes four outstanding. pitchers in the big leagues-Lefty Gomez, of the Yankees; Earl Whitehill, of the Washington Senators; Clint Brown, of the Cleveland Indians; and Joe Cascarella, of the Athle tics.

PHILADELPHIA CAPTAIN Others on the. team are Charles Berry of the Athletics

cat-

cher; Harold Warstler, also of the Athletics; and Bing Miller, un til last year outfielder and captain

of Mack's Philadelphia team.

visit Hong

It is the greatest array of base- ball players ever to Kong..

Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, and Gehrin- ger alone, not to say Gomez, are worth the price of admission. This quintet, classed among the dia- mond greats of all time, are at the peak of their careers, with the ex- ception of the Big Bam who en-

terday afternoon by the Foreign Secretary.

would arise in the event of the Plebiscite result being favourable ing to the number of difficult 'financial" and other questions which to Germany, and also to the spirit of co-operation shown by the countries most immediately interested in the future of the Saar.

ANNOUNCED

Two Brides En Route To Colony

gether on a trip up the Nile; then

he

had to leave to join his expedi-

tion--I never saw him again,"

"I suppose he's married a dozen times since in the same way-an expedition is a splendid excuse," No recommendations, however,

said Adrian sarcastically.. had been made by the committee

"He died," went on Kathryn, regarding the measures for se- are announced to-day:-John Eddied of thirst in the Arabian

Three forthcoming marriages Ignoring her husband's

thrust, curing due order there'in the per-ward Jessop, Police Sergeant, Po- desert." iod before, during, and imme

lice Training School, to Violet Lau

The silence between them was as diately after the Plebiscite, he

of No. 755, Nathan Road, Kowloon,heavy as a blanket, muffling even said. The primary responsibility of 21, Cameron Road, Kowloon, to

Herbert Vincent Steer, marine, their thoughts; until Adrian burst for that rested with the Saar gov-Mary Louise Bennetta, of Lelant,

"Why didn't you tell me before?" erning commission, and had hi-Cornwall, England, who is now an about my marriage to anyone-you "I often tried, but could not talkk therto been discharged most suc-route to the Colony by the P. and cessfully. But the ultimate res-O. liner s.8. Nalders. ponsibility rested with the Frank Keralake, engineer of the League and the Chairman of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co. So, I've been living with a ghost Saar Commission, Mr. Knox, Ltd., to Jean Yvonne McQueen of for years--a ghost whose living who,

on Wednesday, informed Glasgow, Scotland, and now the Council that the means at its route to the Colony on the P. and disposal, namely the limited num9. liner 8.8. Ranchi.

ber of police, did not enable an

en

out:

are the first person I've ever men- tioned it to."

He spoke with intense bitterness:

heart is forever with the bleaching bones of a dead man."

Yola and Paul, the two celebrat- ed European dancers, will appear could be maintained throughout during the Gala-Night-Dinner-the critical period. Dance in the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel to-morrow:

assurance to be given that order LOCAL ESTATES of his remark. Without-a-word-she

EUROPEAN'S DOG BITES CHINESE SCHOOLBOY

Mr. Knox,

་

$36,000 Left By Kobe

Chinese

Hung-chun,

She stood up, and swayed a little he realised, too late, the cruelty crossed the terrace indoors.

and

went

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"Independence of the five Yuansi of the National Government is in however, stated that if an inter-

accordance with the Party prin-j [ciples and one of the peace terms," national force of the nature now

For hours he paced up and down the telegram said. "Nevertheless, proposed were to be stationed in

beneath the maple tree at the bot-the five Yuans are not independent, the Saar in advance of the Ple- Chan

tom of the garden, where he was and all its chiefs have to consult biscite date, the commission keeper, late of Tai Mee Village in like a mourner. His past life with headquarters in Nanchang or The ceremony of the launching

restaurant lost in its black shadows. He felt Marshal Chiang Kai-shek at his nounced his retirement as an active) player at the end of last season. schoolboy of No. 6, Crescent biscite and the subsequent dif-11911, left local estate valued at much he loved her she

Cheung Ying-ming, a Chinese be maintained and that the Ple-who died intestate on October 21, vividness. He understood now how

would feel sure that order would the Toi Shan District, Kwangtung, Kathryn came back with painful Kuling before anything can And of course there is Connie Street, was bitten by a dog own-ficult period would pass off peace-$6,700.

be of the new Orient liner "Orion”; done. Mack, 72-year-old mentor of the ed by Mr. A. D. Coppin, of No. 3, ably.

at Barrow-In-Furness to-day, is to Athletics, who is himself a remark- Braemar Terrace, yesterday. The Sir John Simon recalled that at been granted to Chan Mang-seung, problem was before him, like a finance and to prevent the use of led by his Royal Highness the Duke

was his!

"The peace pact also calls for the be broadcast in the Empire pro Letters of administration have What could he do? For days the alon to supervise and audit public

life. able baseball figure.

formation of a Finance Commis-grammes. boy was sent to the Government one time it appeared that the only json of the deceased. BATTING TALENT Civil Hospital for treatment and source from which outside help Leung Wai-chee, late of Kobe, attention away from everything civil war.

The ceremony will be perform- Excluding the pitchers, who are the dog to Kennedy Town for ob- could be drawn in the case of em- Japan, who died on July 14, 1934, else. Then he decided to make this has been formed, while public Returned Soldiers and Sailors' poultice on his mind drawing his public money for the purpose of of Gloucester, who will be attend- not expected to be great hitters servation. the team has an imposing batting

ergency was France. The British at the age of 69, left local estate trip to Egypt, so that Kathryn money was used to finance the civil Imperial League at Brisbane. The No such commissioning a concert given by the average of 305, with a total of an average of 368 for the season. In view of the special interest which,

Government had always held that.valued at $36,100. 1323 hits out of 4926 times at bat. The unofficial Gehrig, the American League bat- for the 1934

batting figures both France and Germany were Chan Lal-jyng, widow of the de- romance, There was just a possi

Probate has been granted to formed the background of her and Feng Yu-hsiang."

could again visit the scenes that, war with Generals Fang Chen-wu concert will be interrupted for the season are ting champion, tops, the list with lows:

as fol- bound to entertain in regard

Duke to press a button which will the future of the Saar, this was a of the Lan Yan Commercial Bank worship of the past but Adrian ed, and that the lost provinces slipway. As she moves, a to ceased, who was the compradore bility that she might change in her chow, in Fengtlen, must be defend- to set "Orion in motion down the The telegram states that Chin-provide a radio impulsa sufficient most undesirable source to use and the. Java-China-Japan Line, in felt, that the possibility was remote. (Mancharia) must be recovered: "tripper" will be actuated a to 'R. .H.: RBI SD. Ave Both France and Germany hoped Kobe."

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London,-To-day.

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Aren't you dressing for dinner. While nothing has been done in matically which will break a Adrian?"

this direction, Nanking has scaled bottle of Empire wine against her He started, and turned to find, down the tariff withou Kathryn standing by his chair.proval of the Legislative Yuan, and

the ap-bowa "I suppose so," he replied, stand- has concluded through railway and ing upgra

postal communications with Man:

2254 GENERAL TEMPERLEY DUE AT 4-Storey Building Badly She leaned on the deck rall. and chukuo, Thus the

Heading the list of pitchers, is losses for a percentage of .818. Lefty Gomez, who led the Ameri- Gomez also topped the llatin can League in the mound depart strikeouts with 154.)

Damaged

her sombre eyes dwelt on the peace agreement mysterious desert. She was Fire badly damaged four storeys a green velvet gown that

message concluden General Temperley British at No. 65 Bonham Strand East at lovely gure as litary representa at the

to-day, though no one was corolle

Wand stand and image is as yet unknown; feast

"ment" with 26′ wins against five The folowing are the re- League of Nations,

Gomez

CBrown

Whitchill Cascarella

cords of the four leading pitchers:

GH BB90 WL

38 22593 154 26

1783 13

471

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to-day

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