1935-08-17 — Page 13

WYATT AND

HAMMOND IN

GOOD FORM

Somerset Surprise Notts

HARDSTAFF'S CENTURY TOO LATE FOR TEST RECOGNITION

London, To-day

RE'S (Bob) Wyatt: the War wick and all-England. skipper, just missed his century vester- day when - Warwickshire conced- ed first innings points" to Surrey in their County Cricket Cham- pionship match at Edgbaston.

In this game. Fishlock; the Sur- rey left-hander. scored his third century of the season having knocked up 113 not out in the first encounter between these two teams, and 12 and 105 against: Middlesex.

Laiquzzup-hire severely trous- ced Hampshire.by an innings and 2 runs at Portsmouth chere W. Smith, who scored his first cen- tury of the season. and Berry were associated in a big stand

Berry has two other good knocks to his credit. having scor ed 124 against Northants and be ing undefeated for 118 against Sir Lindsay Parkins" eleven.

Versay, above, the man with the rubber legs, is one of the comedians and dancers in the Tropical Express Company's revue coming shortly to the King's Theatre.

AMERICA SHOCKED BY

PLANE TRAGEDY

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1935

"GREAT GAMBLER'S To-day's Short Story.

HUGE LOSSES” -

£650,000. In Two Continents

EXECUTORS SUED

REVERSAL

H

By Mary Atherton

E was hurt, disappointed, her intangible, nebulous, roaming

rather stunned.

like" lost-wraiths in the usually Fantastic figures of a iman's Standing over her couch, well-ordered chambers of her mind. [gambling 'operations «in two con-looking down at her with keen She frowned,

tinents were given by counsel in restless eyes, the corners of his "You are so restless," she said. a case in the Chancery Division mouth turned down a little bit-"So full of the desire to do things, recently.

terly at the thought of the mis-so industrious." Enlarging. "It is

Counsel told how the man. take he had made in thinking nervous energy, I suppose. Could Major Edward-Arthur Fitzgerald, that she would accept him with I live with you? Ask yourself. of Marsden Manor, Cirencester, out question. He had not Could 17 You would always be last ·$400,000 in America and dreamt that she would, have to wanting to go on and on, like the about £250,000 in England by determine whether to marry child in the fairy story, on and on. {speculation

him was the desire of her heart until you could go no longer and

Major Fitzgerald died in Janu-Man-like, and because they had then you would try and manage a jary 1931, aged 59, and the case known each other for so long. few more yards on all fours.“

before the Court, heard by Mr.he had come to take that mar He sat down and took her coot! Justice Clauson, related to his riage for granted

fingers and held "them lightly. They were soft and white, tapered. perfect, like everything about her.

estate.

He wanted her. Some primitive Summonses Issued

instinct to awaken her out of the The plaintiff was Mr. Henry sleep induced by her naivete had Yizel St. Valery Former Major promoted him to try and win her!! Fitzgerald's stepson, who had: She was so cool so like a wintry issued summonses against Mr dawn, so utterly complete in her- Winthrop Dwight and Mr.self; so content to sit quite still, Michael de Tchihatcher. Major quite still so happy doing nothing. Fitzgerald's executors.

Making of enforced idleness a positive pleasure.

The summonses were heard by ja Master last February and May. jand Mr. Justice Clauson was now asked to vary the Master's cers ficates.

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "The End Of The Play." by J. Somerville Walker-

From the first he had been at-1 tracted by the calm beauty of her, the smooth way she moved and did things, and he had wondered if he

He reflected; and suddenly he Continued from Page 1 Cameron's First Century

Mr. T. J. O'Connor, K.C. (for could ever do anything that might imagined her performing tasks to He said, that Rogers was Somerset

pro- Mr. de Tchihatchef). said that ruffle a little the still waters of her which she had never been used. took first innings bably the most widely known Mr. Dwight was

"We'd be poor. points from Notts as the result of citizen of the United States, and with the present proceedings, Mr.

you know. not concerned life, Cameron scoring his first

He did. For once he had made Fainting doesn't provide much of cen- he was certainly the best loved. de Tchihatchef was a descendant ber uncertain as to what course to a living these days.

Could you tury of the season. Hardstaff. He made fun for all mankind with or the old regime in Russia and take. She could not decide. the Notts and England batsman. never an intentional sting.

She put up with having little, and secured his fourth century in this was kind, generous and patriotic. who had held a commission in the had always been hers.

He was a naturalised British subject, missed the great assurance that could you put up with the storms of a man who hates failures aud **All the nation Hardstad's best feats this sea-great citizens.

these British Army.

He had often said: "It puzzles too often fails himself ?". son include: ..

They were both Both he and Major Fitzgerald me to think how on earth

She sat up with a new glint in representative of the highest type were members of White's Club, in manage to remain so calm, so col- her light grey eyes. of manhood.”

the West End.

lected, so still.” And she had "I've sometimes wondered why Cariously enough the news of

Will Provisione

smiled at him from her shadowed you do not definitely decide to Post's death coincided with the By his will of September 19. corner of the sofa--a thin faint practise architecture.

You are

encounter.

163

Hants

123 not out v Leicester

154, S. Africans

'172 not out v Northants.

82 not out Surrey

125 r Somerset.

STACLOTH

you

presentation of a Bill in the Senate 1929. Major Fitzgerald appointed smile, like a breeze, parting gently fully qualified. You would have

to pay him $25,000, which is the Mr. Dwight and Mr. de Tchihat-the petals of a pale flower.

your father's name, his great re-

In spite of a century by Walter plane "Winnie Mae." in which he legacy of £10,000 to Mr. de Tchi-led over her face, fitted across her you. You don't concentrate or set- nation's purchase price for the chef his executors, and left a But now a new expression pass-putation as an architect, to back

Hammond, the Gloucester and few round the world. It will be hatche England batsman. Middlesex won

presented to the Smithsonian In- Major Fitzgerald, who was

brows, and out of her eyes. She the down. To make a success of an did not, for once, know what she any profession one must concen- had wanted. Her desires seemed to trate, follow a straight course.”

She leaned back, and her eyes narrowed in contemplation Hel envied her this power of contem- plation.

by wickets on the Cheltenham stitute collection of historic planes. Irishman. seemed to have College ground.

The Bill passed the Senate and more than the native genfus-for Hammond, who is playing in the was forwarded to the House of speculation.

Representatives.

HAMMOND'S COMEBACK

very

ROOSEVELT SHOCKED

"He was a great gambler both in England and Amèrica,” said

WIGHTMAN CUP

(Continued from Page 1

She was so restful, too.

TO him, with his quickly-moving mind.

final Test to-day against the South Africans has been much in the limelight recently-New-York, says

A message from Hyde Park Mr. O'Connor, "and. in the later yesterday's effort being his second Roosevelt said: "I am shocked to met with grave financial disasters that President years of his life, at any rate, he successive century sad his fithhear the tragedy which has taken in both countries during the season

In the Doubles encounter, Missa mind that could speedily bury a Helen Jacobs and Mrs. Sarah subject and as speedily resurrect Rogers and Post from us. Will "In America in the last few Palfrey Fabyan (US) defeated a i-was an old friend, beloved by all. years of his life, he lost £400,000, tired Miss Katherine Stammers son in the world.

it, she was the most restful per- Post leaves behind a splendid con- and in England he lost about and Miss Freda Jaines in straight tribution to aviation. Both were quarter of a million pounds. įsėts. outstanding Americans, who will be greatly missed."-Reuter.

Hammond's

best feats

clude:

116 v Somerset

160 Worcester

163 v Kent

123 S. Africans

124 v Vididesex.

Results as cabled by. Reuter, SKELETONS UNEARTHED BY

were:

Surrey heat Warwickshire on the first innings at Birmingham. Warwick: 371 and 261 for 5 (R. E. S.

Wya 99).

* Surfer: 409 (Fishlock 137)--

WORKMEN NEAR CHURCH

SCORCHING HEAT.

"Wildly Generous”. "He had an income of £6,000 or The first match opened in £7,000 a year under a trust, and scorching heat, Miss Jacobs, with

"One Inst concentrate. follow a straight course.

He would.

So he went. He had to gu. Why he went, except that he had

also had a considerable amount sizzling drives down both wings, to go; why he stayed away so long. of capital with which he speculat-took the first set from

Miss are not really necessary. explana-

Leicestershire beat Hampshire human skeletons. Altogether the man, and was in the habit of mask- (continually netting and driving ships like theirs, when he wished

by an innings and 27 runs at bones of 18 persons have beening large gifts to people.

found

Com

ed in all kinds of concerns from Stammers In the next set, how-tions to the story. The facts, Workmen who were laying a

a Bond-street dressmaker's busi-ever, Miss Stammers rallied, and naked of conjecture, were just Įtelephone cable under a path beness to various automobile inven-her spirited driving and volleying these she was wealthy and he was

side Chelmsford Cathedral church-tions.

had the American champion run-not, and there came a time, as it Byard unearthed 2 number

"He of

was a wildly generous ning all over the court, the latter always comes in settled relation-

Portsmouth.

out of the court-

to marry her, and to choose be- Hants: 305 and 169.

"On one occasion, to assist a The final set produced a titanic tween living by his art and making Leicester: 501 for 9 dec. (W. Smith

friend, he bought (for £10,000) a struggle Miss Jacobs led at 64 her his by setting aside that art- 125 not out, Berry 151).

A Government Gazette notifica few curios which were sub- and again at 65, but Miss Star- So be went away."

He Somerset beat Nottinghamshire the Tung Tak Knitting Co., Ltd.

tion announces that the names of sequently included in his estate mers took the next two games to menced again to practise as

lead 7-6 when she held match architect, and turned out work on the first innings at Weston-and the Eumigating and Disin-

Separated From Wife point. Throwing all her reserves that was pretty useful, super-Mare.

fecting Bureau, Ltd, have been

"For 20 years he was separatinto the game, however, Miss Notts: 28 and 294 (Hardstaff 128). struck off the register.

Time does things to people: Somerset: 289 (Cameron 111) and 94)

ed from his wife, but when she Jacobs levelled at 7—all only to The better-balanced part of him, for 3.

was ill in Egypt, he ́ paid a wo-crack up after this for Miss Stam-that part which had been able to Lancashire beat Sussex by an man doctor £10,000 to go and at-mers to take the two remaining bury youthful enthusiasms and Middlesex beat Gloucestershire

innings and 105 runs at Manchestend her, and he made a gift of games for the match. by 4 wickets at the Cheltenham College ground.

ter.

Sussex: 245 (Sibbles 5 for 66).

134 (Pollard 5 for 31).

Gloucester: 344 (Hammond-124) and, banes: 44 for 5 dec ( Tyldsley.

· Middlesex: 300 and 225 for 6.

EARLIER RESULTS

Yorkshire beat Derbyshire by

10 wickets at Scarborough,

Yorks: 304 and 5 for 0.

Derby: 132 and 174.-

137. Paynter 113).

MATCHES IN PROGRESS

as worth £500.

29,000 to his stepson.

was

"In other ways he was extreme-

In 1921 Stajor Fitzgerald met ly generous and open-handed.”

Mr. De Tchihatchef, who then about 30 years of age and Oval-ENGLAND ▾ SOUTH AFRICA was earning a living, partly as a

(Fifth Test Match) Dover-Rent v'Lancashire

Derby Derbyshire Worcestershire. Worksop Nottinghamshire y Glamor-

gan.

Leeds-Yorkshire v Middlesex

Yeovil-Somerset v Surrey

wine-merchant and partly commission agent.

as

a

In 1928, when Major Fitzgerald ·

WORLD DEMAND FOR BEER

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Geneva

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ideals, became accustomed to the new existence, the more mechani- cal work of modern architecture.

His big chance came when he Won & World-wide competition for an international building.n

He knew, afterwards, that it was from the first his intention to claim her. He wanted her, deep down he wanted her, as he had

Although, according to League always wanted her. He had meant

of the most intimate of Nations statistics, in 1983 to have her, some time.

and Mr. De Tchihatchef had been on terms

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CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE TO DATE

YORKSHIRE (6): DERBYSHIRE (3)

MIDDLESEX (10). SUSSEX (2)

LANCASHIRE (1)..

WARWICK (4)".

NOTTS (9)

(KENT (5)

LEICESTER (12)) -SURREY (11) -

LESSER (8) MA

GLAMORGAN: (13) ►

WORCESTER (6)

HAMPSHIRE (14)

SOMERSET (15)

GLOUCESTER (7)

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***£3,000 A Year,

tion in America, this total rose to through her. This had served so to cut his life in two, so wrenched |30,000,000,000 pints. 20 In 1929 Mr. de Tchihatchef was

The United States brewed the at his heart strings, so seared and given wide powers of attorney, most beer last year, with Germany torn his spirit, that something stupendous had been required of 1st. In No

and was paid a salary of £3,000 a second, and Great Britain third PW L WL Res Pts Pts. Pere (year by Major Fitzgerald.

him to live some of the hurt down. 15.05 34-

Mr. de Tchibetchef had kept

A notification in the Government He was not forgetting any of this Gazette announces that any reciHe would have to reopen the old 702 little in the way of an account, 635 but the suggest made against him plent of the King's Silver Jubilee subject; fresh wounds 20-3 4 5 1 1 167 300 556 was that, in carrying out his Medal may have his same might still lurk ip it; how cou 27 13 8 1 2 3 218 405 538 duties, he had "swindled Major saved on the rim of it at his ow 25 11 6 6 1 1 202 375 538 Fitzgerald of over £60,000, and expense if he so desires.

24, 15 1 26 0 253 360

24 14 6 3 10 228 360

21 9 5 3 4 0 162 315 511 certificates to that effect bad

24 3 5 5 2 183 360 508 been granted by a Master 25:10 8 4 2 1 180 375 480

Mr. O'Connor, added that,

8 2 2 0 136 300 453 the death of Major Fin 742 129 315 409

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