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TENNIS LEAGUE.
IMPORTANT MATCH IN B
DIVISION.
TO-DAY'S FIXTURES.
JUNE 19ra, 1926-
BASEBALL
TENNIS WIGHTMAN CUP COMPETITION- BEGUN AT WIMBLEDON. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGXNOY.]
THE WEEK-END MATCHES. There will again be thres baseball matches this week-end, providing the weather remains fine; two games this The original schedule has been played afternoon and ene to-morrow afternoon. out and had, it not been for rain and In the first watch, at 2,30 this after-tween Britain and the United States for other unforeseen circumstances, the chan-noon, the Japanese Baseball Club will pionship would have been decided by meet the Club Recreio.
now. Many matches have yet to be. In the second match at 4.30 p.m. the played, however, and pot one of the six H.K.V.D.C., are opposed to the Filipino Clubs competing has finished its pro-side.
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LONDON, June 17th. The International Ladies Match be
the Wightouan Cup was begun at Wim- bledon to-day,
Mia Ryan (America) beat Miss Joan Fry (Britain) 6-1, 6-2.
Mr LA. Godfree (Miss Kitty McKine) beat Miss Mary K. Browna (United States) 6-1, 7-5.
The doubles were postponed on account of rait
THE JEWEL SPY.
"
So far the South China baseball team-
CARLO. has been the only one undefeated in TOURISTS SHADOWED AT MONTE Hongkong. To-morrow's line up for China will be as follows:-Bhim, p.;
Tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock the The first of the postponed matchesS.C.A.A. (last season's champions) will will be played to-day at the United take the diamond against the H.K.B.B.
Club. Services Recreation Club ground begin- ∙ning at 4.15 p.m. between that_Club and the Hongkong Cricket Club. The visit ing team is the strongest fielded this season by the Cricket Club, A. D. Hum. phreys, who will partner Sewell, is ap. pearing for the first time and his inclu. sion should strengthen the side a great deal. The other players have appeared regularly in the League.
"B" DIVISION.
A very interesting and important match will be played to-day between the second strings of the Chinese Recreation Club and the Indian Recreation Club, These two Clubs have been rivals for second division honours for the past few years and the match to-day promises to enhance the competition between them. The Chinese enjoy the privilege of play ing at home and are folding their regular strong team in Yew Man Kit and Lou Man Kwong; C. Choa and H. Lo; Lau Fook Ki and Kwok Po Kun, all of whom have had previous experience in the Longne. The Indians have selected their atrongest, players and the team includes 8. H. Ismail who was in the winning I.R.C. "A" team for two years and who on account of pressure of work has not been able to turn up for the First Langue matches this year.. He partners S. A Hamid, an old but reliable player. The others are 8. A. Iemail and S. A. B. Ismail; O. Ismail and 8. 8. Hussain. Both teams feel confident of winning.
M.B.K., who are in the running for the second division, play Craigengower. away. The team has lost Fujita, one of the most popular Japaness players, owing to his departure during the week for Japan on holiday. The home side are expected to put up a fight, but are hardly good enough to win.
The other matches are:-
""DIVISION,
Hongkong C.C. v. N.T.C. Civil Service v. Kowloon C.0.0.
" DIVISION.
Taikoo v. Chinese R.C. Kowloon C.C. v. Craigengower,
LAWN BOWLS.
TO-DAY'S FIXTURES.
The following are the list of games to
be played this afternoon, weather per- mitting in the Hongkong Lawn Bowls League.
FIRST DIVISION. Craigengower .. Kowloon D.R.C. Police . Taikoo.
Civil Service v. Kowloon E.G.
SECOND DIVISION.
Indian v. Civil Service.
Yacht Club . Craigengower. Taikoo v. Kowloon C.C.;
East Point v. de Recreio.
K.0.0.
L Lee, s.; June, 3b.; S. 8. Lee, ci Loung, If.; Sling, 2b.; Choy, c.f.; Chin,
b.; and H. P. Chin, r.f.
(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY."} OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. BOBBY JONES LEADS THE "QUALIFIERS.
LONDON, June 17th. Bobby Jones, the American amatour, who broke Sunningdale course record yesterday with a round of 03, yas only two strokes worse to-day, and his aggre- grate of 134 for the thirty-six holes con- stitutes the most remarkable two-round score ever returned in the first-class championship.
He, of course, led the Sunningdale qualifiers for the British Open Golf Championship, the competition Propór of which begins next week.
U.S. DETECTIVES BUSY.
"Some of the most exclusive models are shown here for the first time," said a jeweller, standing in front of his shop, catching a ray of sunshine, eloss to the celebrated room at Monte Carlo. Yes, they are designed in Paris, of course, but as everyone who in anyone, is here, rather than in the capital, just now, we let them get first view. Later on I. show them in my Paris establishment, and then at Deauville and Aix, with the summer models. We do a lot of business down here of course. Easy money is won in the Rooms, and it is just as easily spent. Look at that woman"- lady was seated on a bench among the flower- ing trees, in the gardens some kind of Now Rich. You wouldn't imagine what she has just spent on a pearl neck- lace!"
The woman, by no means an aristocrat, looked atill lose a leader of fashion. Not that this particular class of trade interests us, it means a single big pur) chaas.and nothing more. Hore the wo George Gadd (Rochampion) was second roen, being strangers to the place, can with a score of 141, Archie Compstongaze into shop windows, something that
unattached) took 149 and third place.
Amongst the other qualifiers were
"Aba Mitchell
J. Kirkwood
Cyril Tolley
George Von Elm W. Melhorn
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Stein, (American) failed to qualify. He took 161.
THE ST ANNE'S HOUNDS.
Another group, including practically the whole of the American contingent (all of whom qualified) were required to play of their thirty-six holes at St. Anne's.
Walter Hagen (American) topped the list with a total of 143. Williamson
(tts) was second with 144, and Jurado (Argentina) third with 140,
Other qualifiers amongst the Ameri- cans were Jim Barnes (148) Watts Gunn (148) R. Walker (149) MeCleod (149) Bob Armour (149) Al Watrous (140) French (153) and Roland Mackenzie (180). Mackenzio was the last score to qualify.
WENTWORTH" MATCH,
"Probably someone Is watching us as we stand here. If you will entor the shop you will see what happens. Come in, and I'll show you some diamond braceleta. They are wonderfully pretty, even if you can't afford anything of the kind.".
A man, evidently an amateur detective, crossed the road from his carefully chosen shady, spot under a waving palin
of the latest Gas-using
Appliances at our Showrooms:
West Foint.
tree. Ho strolled up to the shop, and 16, Des Vaux Road.
"I've fixed the curtains to prevent tried to ste what we were doing inside. spying," laughed the jeweller, and now come back into the back shop: that will worry him no end. He will be ser tain large transactions are being entered upos,"
Three-quarters of an hour later, after taking an aperitif with the friendly LONDON, June 18th. jeweller, the man was still thore, doing The greatest stake-money match in the sentry duty in front of the shop. He fol history of golf was at Wentworth, this lowed on our tracks to the restaurant meming, when Walter Hagon and Abe with the sea view, watched us lunch, and Mitchell met, over 18 holes, for £1,000. also take cafe in a magnificent establish- The match was the outcome of a chal-mart near by, and it was easily three lenge in Golf Illustrated on behalf of o'clock in the afternoon when we parted. Mitchell of E500 aside.
The man had had no lunch, but felt ha was hot on the trail. Game for some fun instead of going back to the hotel, we- F and the jewel spy-took a trin along to Mentone by tram, and only came back in time for dinner. Theis changing was a necessity. The man, weary for want of food, entered the hotel only to dis cover that I wasn't an American at all, only a plain Cockney. All his work of amateur spying was in vaip.
Mitchell was three up at the end the first round,
SLOW CRICKET.
of
SHIRE-AUSTRALIAN: MATCH
COMMENCED.
LONDON, June 17th. The wicket bad not recovered. at Sheffield this morning though there were, twelve thousand spectators The start was delayed until one o'clock owing to the wet wicket.
It didn't matter what costly transac tions had been entered into at the jewel. lers, I was not going back to the States, and was, therefore, not suspected se a The Australian captain won the toss
jowol smuggler. All the same, the mute and sent his men in Brat. Runs were surveillance, the constant spying of this kind is making life a burden to wealthy Blow in coming and when stumpa were drawn the visitors had scored only 148 tourists in France. Chambermaids are for the loss of six wickets. C. G.
constantly trying to get information from personal maids ahout the jewellery Macartney was defeated when he had
in the possession, of their ladies. With scored fifty-four. He was the principalskoleton koys, they even push indiscre
· The following have been selected to re- present the Kowloon C.C. against Tai-scorer for the Aussies koo R.C. on the latter ground:-
W. Goldenberg, R. Abraham, C. J.
Tacchi and W. Hill (@kip).- F. Goodwin, L. E. Lammert, J. Fraser,
and J. Gibson. (Skip).
WORCESTER V. LEICESTER.
In their match against Leicester, Wor- castershire at Worcester knocked up 140 and 297 (1. Forster 59 and 150). Leices tor scored 137 and 98, Root taking wickets for 24, and 6 for, 27 respectively,
TAN KENT 9. KUSIKIA
tion farther, and sometimes the look of a jewel caso is spoilt, by this tampering with unskilled hands. Something like the spy fever during the Great War, suspicion fastens upon the most unlikely.
For the ordinary maid at an hotel the waiter and even distoval jewellers a sistants are unable to distinguish between South Americans, Australians, Can- Sussex against Kent scored 214 (Tate dians or oven British women of fashion The following is the K.B.G.C. team. 10) Kent replied with 167, Cox taking and their cousins from the States.
A. C. Burford, V. C. Labrum, J. P.
Robinson and H. Overy (Skip).
K.3.0.0.
against the Civil Service:-*
Hazel, Hatt, Farrell, and Whibley
(Skip). Chapman, Pearman, Nicholls, and
Guy (Skin).
Nish, Maclachlan, Holland, and W.
Maofarlano (Skip),
LEAGUE TABLES.
The positions in the League Tables at present stand as under-
DIVISION I.
P. W.-D. Creigengówer: 0.0, 8-14, Kowloon Dock 4. Taikoo R.C
fivo
wickets for 31 runs.
LANCASHIRE BEAT GLOUCESTER. Lancashire at Manchester entertained | Gloucestershire. The former knocked up totals of 170 and 203 (E. Tyldesley 08) and Gloucestershire 145 and 08 (R. Tyldesley taking 6 wickets for 49 and 4 for 34 respectively. Lancashire thus won by 38 runs.
SHOTS FOR AND AGAINST.
DIVISION I
For. Agat. Up. Dn.
05 Craigongower C.C... 325 200
40
L. P.
.D
I
B
0.
B
0
Kowloon .C.
Civil Service
1
3
Taikoo R.C.
Police R.C.
1
Civil Servics
Kowloon B.G: ... 4
DIVISION
0
0 Police R.C.
Kowloon B.G.
D. L. P
It is only the latter that interest the jewel spy. For the American custome bar offered immense rewards to versons giving information leading to the con- viction of jawel smugglera The in- former gets 23 ner cent. of the 80 per eent. duty on the value of the jewels, up to a limit of £10,000. This sum in American dollars is a great temptation. Great. publicity has been given to the. whole thing in the French papers by the American Jewellers Protective Associa tion and the U.S. customs are flooded with telegrams giving information about the nurchases made by the American tourists in Europe.
0 No doubt such information brings money, to the American Treasury, but at the ante time imperils the safety of jewels and their owners, because infor mation obtained about gems is also uso ful to the hotel "rat" and train thief, and is very often passad on to them, Dn.where the spy finds to his disgust that!
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Sr. Jona's CATHEDRAL, Hongkong,
June 20th, 1926, 3rd Sunday after Trinity –
Holy Communion at 8 a.m. Ühildren's Servico at 10 am. Matins at 11 dire
fraacher-Bov. H. Copley Moyle: Holy Communion at 12 noon. Evensong at Up.m.
Freecher Bev, N. V, Halward,
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Hynna: 255, 12, 778, 140 and 340. - P.S.A. in Lecture Hall at 4
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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
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The following unclaimed telegrams are lying in the Great Northern Telegraph Company office at Hongkong :-
,00,
**ADDRIBS ADM Kee naught Road
Chen, Yuan Tang Tung Lee, Sheung Wan Choy, Yuen
Bhai Kheng Goranrai
FROM
Feriag Shanghai Bhanghai: Amoy Dairi
Wan Allen, Empresa
Shanghai -Amoy.
Haong
Kobe
Kabe
Krokkh
Hong On, Wei Sun South lid.. Shanghai
241 201
0
254 217
37
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214 238
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289 304 =0.8
0
For. Agat. Up. -295.201 04
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ho has wasted time over a British tourist
33
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0
Craigongower
230 22010;
0
1
3
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9
3
Civil Service
247 252
0
5
3
2. Yacht Club
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ADDRESS
0
Club de Recreio.
226 250
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(Continued at foot of next Column.,
Indian R.C,
220-
90
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THERAPION No. 1 THERAPION No. 2 THERAPION NO. 3
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Indian R.C.
Exalons 1925.
PRICE
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6. Kowloon 0.0.
4 East Point R... 101. 159
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