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H.R.C.C. TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

HONDA WINS OPEN CHAMPION.

SHIP.

A SPLENDID STRUGGLE WITH RUMJAHN.

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The Anal of the Opon Championship of the Colony, which has been postponed no less than four times on account of bad weather, was played yesterday afternoon in the presence of a record crowd this The two contestants were T. Honda and S. A. Rumjahn, both well known, and after a magnificent struggle Honda won by 3 sets to

season.

Rumjaha put up an exceptionally good fight and won the first two sets against stiff opposition. Ho slackened in the third and fourth, sets and was unfortu nate in being troubled by cramp in the closing stages of the match. Seldom, if ever, as he been seen to play so cau- tiously. At the same time he mixed his shots well, and give Honda a lot of trouble by his frequent cutting.

CRICKET.

THE AUSTRALIANS,

THE

· BEGIN MATCH AGAINST DURHAM.

{THOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]:

LONDON, June 9th."

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SCOTTISH SPORT.

CRICKET IN FULL SWING

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]

EDINBURGH, May s Cricket was in full swing on May Day, a large programme being gone through. There was considerable local excite. The weather conditions were not very ment at Sunderland about the two-day good, bowever; there was a cold and match between the Australians and Durgusty wind and rather heavy pitches ham and alter sixteen thousand specta-Batimen had a bad time of it, and the tors had been admitted to the ground, bowlers exacted heavy toll. Grange match against St. the gates had to be closed leaving thou opened with

Katherines, and had an eary victory, sands outside.

by 76 runs Carlton travelled south to Hawick and came home with a majority. Glasgow Academicals fell down softly their game with their Edinburgh

Durham batting first were all out for 125, Mailty doing good work with the ball, his sight wickets costing only se

runs. »

The visitors had scored 252 for the loss of only two wickets when stumps were drawn Collins was defeated when he had scored 69, but T. J. E. Andrews had contributed 110 brought the closure.

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GOLF TOURNAMENT.

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POISON SECRETS LOST TO WORLD. PERILOUS BOTTLES OF MYSTERY THROWN AWAY.

S THE WAR ON INSECTS.

The work carried on for years by my predecessor, Professor Maxwell-Lefroy, who was overcome by poison gas in this laboratory and died last year was large ly concerned with spraying poison to kill insecta. But the whole of his unique collection of mixed chemicals, the result of years of private work, is now useless, for he trusted nothing to written records, and his secrets died with him."

To an interviewer Professor Balfour- Browne.thus indicated some of the diffi- culties that confront him in his new post as Director of Entomological Studies at the Imperial College of Science in South Kensington.

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The battle of man against insect for

the mastery of the earth is going on

inction was what abould be done with THE UCEAR ACCIDENT AND

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"We were very chary, indeed, about even going into the room where they GUARANTEE CORPOLATION, were, and where he was fatally poisoned. Though nothing explosive or inflammable was feared we realised that everything. he bottled represented one stage or an- other of an attempt to make poison-gas.

FRESH AIR PRECAUTIONS. "Every window was open wide, and when a good current of air was blowing through the battles were taken down and their contents dispersed in safety. The liquids were poured down the sinks.

*No one has yet found out the nature.|

has died with him.

of the poison he died from. His secret

"But apart from Professor Maxwell- Lefroy's school of poison-spraying, there school exists among entomologists a which believes in promoting healthy plants instead of waiting to kill their parnsites.

"An example of the loss to industry caused by inscets is that of the cacao

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night and day, at the top of a tall build moth, which attacks the stores of cocoa GILMAN & Co., Ltd.,

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namesakes, whose bowlers were in fine ing overshadowing the art students pain form, R. S. G. Strachan, taking sting, etching, potting and spinning It is seriously stated by one antho- wickets for 4, and Graham-Youll 4 for

man or the insect must beat the other 15 Not for several years have Dunity," said the Professor, that either fermline opened the season 60 success-

in attaining the domination of the earth, fully; F. G. Wailes had, a score of 40 and their trundlers made short work of the Royal High School. Stewart's had a handsome victory over Kirkcaldy.

NATURE'S BALANCE UPSET. The damage caused by insect plagues is tremendous, particularly in new coun- tries, where the balance of nature has

been upset by the advent of man. But, even in old countries like ours the pest must be fought.

beans.

AEROPLANE SPRAYERS. "America loses £40,000,000 &

year

Swarms of seroplanes have to fly through the ravages of a cotton weevil.. over infected regions scattering chemical rain. The losses to the world caused by insects are unimagined by the man in the street, and we spend our time Eght- ing them.

When I was an entomological student years ago people asked me why I didn't do something useful.

Now I can answer them."

Honda, however, played with remark- able consistency throughout and his

TIES, LEADERS. pulling the game out of the fire" after being two sets down must be classed as

Loxbox, June" 9th. anc performance. He was best in the

The Northern Professional Golf Cham- last three sets and defeated Rumjaba pionship at Formby was, continued to repeatedly by good placing. He also suf- day, all the competitors returning scores prise, and their best men went out early knowing that certain results wadid fol- Gardan, Garage, $450 Unfurnished; Furnished |

fored from the effects of strain. It was his greater match experience that gave him the final set..

THE PLAY

Honda won the opening three games casily and led nt. 4-1. Then Дumjaha, striking form, took the next five by good all-round play. "The struggle continued in the second set and showed both play- er at their heat. Neither could secure

a commanding lead and the games went to all. Then Rumjaha put in some excellent shots and won the next two, making him two sets

up.

The third set opened with some very fast play, but Rumjaha began to fail in the control of his shots and suffered the conscquence. Honda won the set 6-2 He continued his success in the fourth set and won it with the loss of only two games, bringing the score to sets all.

Both players had a rub down in pre- paration for the final set. Rumjahn broke through his opponent's service, but failed

twenty less than the leader. being com pulsorily retired.

The leading qualifiers ware C. Adwick (Olson) W. Melhorn (America) George | Gadd (Rechampton) each of whom had a score of 16. Gadd went round in 10 yesterday, but took 76 'oyer to-day's eigh teen holes

Amongst the others were:- Jim Barnes (America)

Davies (Prenton) Howard

Archie Compston French. (America)

148

149

140

151

131. 781

Kirkrood (Amerien) "Walker (America) ............ 151 -

Thomas Armour and Walter Hagen, the remaining. American competitors took 155 and 150 respectively. There were no sensational failures. Hagen did 74 to-day.

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"YESTERDAY' SCORES.

LONDON, June 10th.

A sensation was caused at Formby to

disqualified for late arrival.

to hold his own. He showed great deter-day when Barnes and Kirk wood were mination and made great efforts to secure the lead but Honda still continued to force the game and led at 4-2, 5-3, 5-4, and eventually won at 6-4,

The full score in Honda's fayour wast 4-0,4-0, 6-2, 6-2, and 6-4.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES..

At the conclusion of the match the prizes were distributed by Miss Robert- BOD. The winners in the tournament |

#ere:-

Melhora led the field this morning, aggregating 2-2-2; E Whitcombe, -4.

Watrous broke the course record of 20, with 68-2-2-3.

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TENNIS IN FRANCE.

FRANCO-AMERICAN FINAL.

PARIS, June 8th.. The semi-finals of the French Fard

Open Championship of the Colony-court Championships played to-day re

T. Honda; runner-up: S. A. Rumjahn. Bulted as follows:-

Open Doubles Championship of the Colony H. D. and S. A. Rumjaha; runners-up: Major W. W. Pratt and Major W. R. Stevenson..

Club Singles Championship:-S. E. Green; runner-up: F: A Redmond.

Handicap Singles "B":-W. L. Dunbar; runner-up: R. L. Moncrieff (rec, 15.2).

Mixed Doubles:-Mr. and Mrs." E. Grimble; runners-up: O. C. Womack and Mrs. E. R. Childe.

"Miss Robertson was presented with bouquet, and three cheers in her honour brought the proceedings to a close. ".

In the Western Union there was an exciting inish to the principal, contest, Greenock versus Drumpellier, the latter défenting the Champions by only one wicket. Greenock showed lack of enter

"Maxwell-Lefroy, my predecessor, was remarkable man, who with a daring no other scientist would shov-calmly mixed chemicals to see what would hapROM 15TH Jux, "ANFRED," STUBBS pen. Whereas the chemist would work

Road, Maven Booms, Six Batha, Lava

law, he mixed totally unknown chemicals if Required. Also "DERRINGTON," No. 8, in the game. In all departmente Kelas the only way of finding out whether PL, Two Tennis Courts, Nine Rooms, Sir burne were superior to West of Scotland. they were poisonous

When he died we found heaps of bot Baths; For LEASE or SALE, The win of Uddingstöc from Ferguslietles containing sheer mysteries. The SMALL INVESTORS. was a personal triumph for J. A. W. Kirk, the Scottish International. Pollok“ suffered a six wickets defent at Ayr, but on both sides there was some good. batting..

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CLUB MATCHES.

St. Katherines, 43; Grange, 119. Hawick, 57; Carlton, 78.

Glas. Acada, 71; Edin. Acads., "153. Dunfermline, 182 for ; R. H. S., 28 Edinburgh Indiana, 76 Earlston, 7- Stewart's, 48; Kirkcaldy, 83.

Glas. H.S., F.P., 37; Heriot's F. P., 113.

WESTERN UNION.

Greenock, co Drumpellier, 110. Kelburne, 130; West, 89. Ferguslie, 63; Uddingston, 68 for 8. Pollok, 158; Ayr, 181 for 8.

ASSOCIATION.

Charity Cup ties were played in Scot- land, and notable results were the victories gained by Leith Athletic" and Clyde over the Hibernians and Rangers respectively.

RUGBY SEVEN-A-SIDE.

In the last of the Border seven-a-sides, played at Langholm, in the final, Heriots defeated Kelso,

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FORTUNE LOST FOR 87 YEARS. £30,000 ESTATE RECOVERED FROM"

CHANCERY.

DOCTOR'S QUEST...

A piece of extraordinary good fortune has fallen to Mr. J. G. Cottam, o, Beckenham-road, Nottingham. With a brother and sister, he shares a fortune of £30,000, which has been hidden away in the archives of Chancery since 1839.

Mr. Cottam is a well-known Notting- ham engineer. He was born at Harby, near Lincoln, 50 years ago, and comes Miss Mary Browne defeated Mdle of ancient Lincolnshire stock. Mouman &-6, 6-2.ˆ

Mdl. Suzanne Lenglen defeated Miss Joán Fry 6-2, 6-1..

This means a Franco-American final..

A BAED MATCH.

*PARIS, June 9th.

Mr. Cottam's father Mr. Thomas Cot tam, was in business in Lincoln as a tailor and draper. He prospered, and was more than 70 years of age when, three years ago, he sailed for America to visit his younger son Dr. Joseph A. The inest exhibition in the Inter-Cottam, Ph.D., author, lecturer, instrue national Lawn Tennis Tournament was

tor, and traveller. A year later he died. the match in the quarter finals of the men's singles, in which Borotra (France) beat Howard Kinsey (United States) by

HONGKONG TENNIS LEAGUE. 24, 0-4, 6-1, 3-6, 7-5.

DIVISION.

B.I.C.C. V.

KOWLOON.

To be played on the H.K.C.C. ground to-morrow (Saturday) at 4.15..

H.K.O.C.-R. M. Henderson and A. Brearley; G. Miskin and B. Raworth; G. W. Sowell and A. D. Humphreys.

"B" DIVISION..

E.R.C.C. V. KOWLOON.

To be played on the Kowloon ground to-morrow (Saturday) at 4.15.

H.K.C.C.-Capt. Bloxham and M. L. Dunbar; JG. Lauris and E. J. R. Mit chell; M. W. Lyons and L. M. S. Lloyd.

"C" DIVISION.

X.X.CE. V. TAIKOO,

To be played on the H.K.O.C. ground to-morrow (Saturday) at 4.15.

H.K.CC-E. W. Hamilton and G E. Hugh-Jones; H, G. Sheldon and J. T. Prior; M. M. Watson and 8. M Garrard,....

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Miss Mary Browne will meet Mlle. Longlen in the women's singlese final.

RECORD BIBLE YEAR.

THE SCRIPTURES IN 597.

LANGUAGES.

Dr. Cottam, who was the executor of the estate, began to make investigations with a view to administering it. Little by little the estate of a former member of the family, the late Mr. Robert Cotta, of Lincoln, was traced. He died worth £30,000, and this sum was left in Chan- cery, and had been sought after many years ago by a Mr. Phillips, a member of another branch of the family.

Mr.Thomas Cottam had also pursued this quest without success, but eventually his son established a claim to the fortune, and it is how divisible between him, Mr. J. G. Cottam and their sister, Mrs. Bonner, of Lincoln,

BROTHER'S. DEVOTION.

Dr. Joseph Cottam is a man of remark-

Last year was a record year for Bibles. The Bible Society sent out 610,000 Eng-able attainments. Through the devotion lish New Testaments, the largest number ever issued in a year.

of his brother John, who helped him to complete his education, he graduated at a univerity before going to America.¡

He is to-day connected with the Coile Albes Chuntauqua and the Swarthmore Chautauquas, and has travelled the States from end to end teaching, preach-

During its history the society has dis tributed the Scriptures in 579. languages. Last year it added seven new languages. Four of these are "African. "In regarding and lecturing. to Rusia," says the society, we bare regretfully to report that all our efforts to gain an entrance have failed."".

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In China, in spite of civil war, anti- Christion agitation, and other lawless ness, 4,281,000 volumes of Scriptura were circulated by the society, an increase of 385,700 over the previous year, which had been the highest on record..

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Mr. J. G. Cottam has spent all his life. in the Nottingham district. He describes himself as an engineer in a small way of business.

# Interviewed on his return from a motor run to Ollerton, Mr. Cottam said he learned of his good fortune gradually. As the development had taken place be had been notified by his brother. It is my intention to liva quietly," he said, and I shall never give up business."

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