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WHY LONNON CANNOT ROW FOR CAMBRIDGE

Work Must Come First

NEW LIGHT BLUE

PRESIDENT ELECTED

London, September 18.

"I have decided that I must get down to work,” said M. P. Lonnon, last year's president of the Cam-

term.

Lonnon had received the unusual

RACING

HONG KONG

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 16, 1937.

FOR SMALL CRICKETER IS

YACHTS

INTERNATIONAL TALKS

KENT STALWART

Splendid Deeds In County Matches

TAM PEARCE AND REFUGEES

Shanghai, October 9.

the Kent innings, but which also fundoubtedly inspired Spencer (who

scored 53) with confidence."

AGAINST MIDDLESEX

London, September 17.

In the next match the Kentif A conference of the Interna-

men were besten but not before tional Yacht Racing Union will

they had given Middlesex, the new be held at the Hyde Park Hotel The name of Pearce Tam, the County leaders, the fright of their on Wednesday next, when

fathers T. A. the son is evergreen lives. Chalk and Ames had been principal business will relate to on the cricketing fields of Hong playing with brilliant certainty and small yachts and their rig.

Kong and Shanghai and now the Kent seemed bound for victory

the

The activities of Tam Pearce have lately found a far wider horizon than the field of cricket. He has been easing the lot of the refugees at Hong Kong and has been scoring deep gratitude.

The conference will discuss the fame of the name has spread to when nemesis arrived in the shape practicability of fostering inter-England. T. A Pearce, on leave of spin bowling Valentine and national racing between inex-from the Colony, has been playing Pearce valiantly stemmed the col- pensive craft of small size, a sub-for Kent in a manner that gave llapse for a time. Then Valentine Ject which concerns the vast ma-considerable worry to the bowlers went for 23 and the Hong Kong batsinan played a lone hand while jority of yachtsmen who take of at least two counties.

He played a stalwart part in the the remaining four wickets went part in this class of racing. The bridge University Boat Club, in ex-conference is not concerned with Anzust match against Gloucester cheaply. He carried his bat for 16 plaining yesterday his decision not vessels of what may be called in which Kent needed 218 runs in runs as bravely made as those of

America's Cup size.

an hour and fifty minutes and won any centurian. to take up residence again next

Sir William Burton, President of gloriously.. the Yacht Racing Association, will This is what "The Times" had to distinction of again being elected preside. The Crown Prince Olavsar about his first innings of 59: of Norway will be the delegate of "Fortunately for Kent T. A. Pearce president and it was thought that his country. Mr. Philip Roosevelt was there to stop the rot. and he he would lead Cambridge against and Mr. Clinton Crane will attend made two cover drives which were Oxford in next year's Boat Race.

on behalf of the sister union of not only two of the best strokes of "I am going into the engineering yachting in the United States, the profession," he said, "and in time North American Yacht Racing. I hope to go abroad for a year or Union. Amongst the foreign na- two.

P. L. Bosse, a 22-year-old right- I am afraid my time will be tions which have accepted invita-ped the right way up. He walked too occupied to do any rowing intions to the conference are Austria,

back along the way up. He walked half, who until this season was future.

back along the track and an am-with Margate, was transferred Belgium, France, Finland, Ger-

bulance hurried Mrs. Petre to hos-from Arsenal to Northampton many, Holland, Norway, Poland,

pital"

Town. He will turn out for his new Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland.

Mrs. Petre was driving a 747cc club in their League match with The Permanent Committee of the

Austin and Parnell was in an M. G. Southend United at Northampton IZRU. will meet on Monday and

Magnette.

to-morroW. Tuesday and the full conference on nominated his choice for the presi-Smith is secretary to the confer- Wednesday. Major B. Heckstall-

dency, but he declined to give the mame. The new president will be ence. All the principal designers of racing yachts will be in attend- elected shortly.

ance.

GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT "My greatest disappointment is that I shall not have the oppor- tunity of avenging last year's Boat Race defeat".

Lonnon added that he had

Lonnon was generally regarded as the most powerful bar in last

་

year's Cambridge crew, in which FAMOUS WOMAN

he rowed No. 5, and was one of the

best ever turned out by Westmins-DRIVEN IN 90

ter School. He is only the fourth

man in a hundred years to be elect M.P.H. CRASH

ed president in successive years.

QUARANTINE

FOR CHEETAHS?

Racing Against Grey Hounds

(By "PETERBOROUGH")

Trapped Under Car

At Brooklands

MRS. K. PETRE'S BAD LUCK

London, September 18. Following a collision between two racing cars travelling at 90 m.ph. at Brooklands yesterday, Mrs K. Petre. the woman motorist, was taken to Weybridge Hospital News that Mr. KC Gardar with a fractured skull. Dower, the all-round sportsman, is now racing his cheetahs against conscious and her greyhounds at Harringay reminds stated to be grave. me that this branch of his activities

London, September 15.

Late last night she was still un- condition was

She is the holder of the woman's

has already received Parliamentary/ap record at Brooklands with a

attention. -

speed of more than 180 mp.h. Last Last February Mr. Messer, the Saturday she set up a new woman's Socialist member for Tottenham record for the Shelsley Walsh hill South, asked the Home Secretary if climb.

race

500 KILOMETRES, RACE

he had heard that Mr. Gandar She was practising yesterday at Dower had brought a team of cheetahs to this country for "cour sing with live game,” and if he would consider prohibiting this new from of cruelty to animals."

The eetahs, parried Sir John Simon

In any event have to

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Brooklands for the 500 kilometres which takes place fo-day. She

Pamell, another racing driver, collided with a car driven by Mr. Both cars were on the Byfleet

fence, jumped a ditch and yet stop-

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