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CRICKET CLUB BEAT UNIVERSITY.

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The Hongkong Cricket Club, team paid n visit to the University yesterday afternoon and returned home with a creditable victory of 13 games over their hosts, the score in their favour being 16 games to 43.

Detailed results are as follows: Dr. SAM Septer and H. Y

Leong:

best Capt. Bloxham and W. L

Dunbar

beat. B. E. Coxon and L. Baines 7- best C. C. Stark and E. J. R

Mitchell

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The last match in the second-round, that between F. M: da Cruz and A. Me- Ginley (both eving 200) was played leat night and proved to be as interesting as the other matches. It was witnessed by good number of supporters of both con-

testants

Crus led from the start and ran out winner by 115 points. He scored the following breaks: 25, 10, 92, 24, 19, 2. 17, 25, and 34.

McGinley reached 133 and made breaks of 24, 28, 1, 91 and 197

The third round matches will com mence next Monday.

WOMEN AND CRIME,

WHERE THE WEAKER SEX SHINES.

HIGHER MORAL SENSE THAN MEN

It has been said that a woman is rarely wicked, but when she is, cho "is worse than a man," Women as a sex, have higher moral sense than those of the stronger sex, and do not lapse into crime by the force of circumstances as easily as a man. It is an open question whe ther criminala are born with a criminal 8-25 tendency, but if there is any truth in this belief is applies more directly to women criminals, who display a more warped outlook than male criminals.

To the lay mind the idea of a woman. criminal conjures up the vision of a beautiful and ravishing adventuress with Peculiar powers for the fascination and subjugation of men. such, but the majority of women criminals who pass through our Courts of Justice are, anything but beautiful.

43-50

The following have been aolested to play for Cricket Club on Saturday, July 3rd, at 4.15 p.m.--

"C" team w Kowloon CC. on the Hongkong CC ground:-Hon. Mr. W. 1.Bouthora and E. W. Hamilton; H. G. Sheldon and G. S. Hugh Jones; M. M. Watson and W. L. Smith.

LAWN BOWLS. CHINA LIGHT" WIN AGAINST

HK. ELECTRIC,

There are many

Women make good criminals but be- cause of their physical frailty seldom engaged in crimes of violence, but resort to the more subtle forms of crime, where they can bring into play the love of acting and intrigue which is inherent in every woman.`

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WHAT THEY DO WITH THEIR LEISURE:

Few women criminals embark on a career of crime of their own free will out of sheer avarice, but are coerced inte The China-Light-and-Power Company-in-breaking by some man generally players added another victory in their some lover who ill-deserves the love of sports competition with the Hongkong his dupe. Some women steal, of course, to gratify their love of finery, to procure Electric Company by winning the law the means to buy clothes with which to bowls match which was played, two make themselves pleasing to the eyes of side, at the Kowloon Bowling Green Club, their lovers, and in some cases to make their female friends envious. Buch is the on Tuesday.

complexity of the nature of woman, that! the girl recently who had never stolan before in her life, and was of respectable upbringing, stole a fur from an Oxford Street shop because she desire to out- shine a rival who, the day before, had time? secured similar adornment

R. E. Nicholls and A. W. E. Davidson (China Light) held the lead half way by 11-1, but they wore being gradually aver hauled by W. B. Muskett and A. Webster Hongkong Electric) when at the eigh, teenth head, Nicholls played a-wonderful shot which made victory sure for his

side.

The final scores were thing Light, 23; Hongkong Bbctric, 16.

Standing to date in points:-China Light, 10 Hongkong Electric,

DIFFERENT MEN DIFFERENT TASTES.

THE ENGLISHMAN'S CALM.

WHAT ASTONISHES THE WORLD.

Whence comes the astonishing calmness of the English race in times of crisis, that calmness which enabled a general strike to be lived through without a shot being What do publie men do in their spare red and which is, deed, a puzzle to the whole world? inquires John Blunt in the Mr. Amery, who used to be an amateur Daily Mail. The average Englishman boxer, how gets rid of his superfluous her in his veins the blood of many races. When murder caters a woman's heart energy by climbing mountains – Sir Wil- He is the combined product, front far-off her mind immediately fies to poison, the destructive weapon used by murderesses liam Jeyason-Hicks has recently taken times, of Celts, Saxons, Scandinavians,

and Normans, and that product, moulded" from the time of Borgina to Mrs. May to shooting but he stalks his real big brick. This is where the woman crimina

THE SEX MOTIVE..

employs se ence to her ends. It is seldom game from the public platform. Mr. over centuries in the special climate of that women murders for gain, it is Dear Walter Runciman, like the late Mr. England, has given him the mingled bal- ly always a sex motive for there is no Joseph Chamberlain, does not believe in ance, adventurousness, and sense of

fortunate heritage truer adage than "Hell, has no fury like Physical exertion, but loves to spend a reality tinged with romance which are his When & Woman quiet Sunday afternoon in an arm-chair- What Emerson wrote many years ago a woman scorned:" ANNUAL MEETING TO-MORROW. murders she does so for one of several before the fire... Viscount Grey is a fisher of the English remains true to-day-

FOOTBALL LEAGUE.

It is as a jewel thief, however, that woman really shines She is rarely-sus rected, and has an unerring judgment in selecting her victims.

CRIMES OF CRUELTY. -

Lord Balfour, who never took polities as seriously as he took philosophy, play ed both golf and tennis even in the most

The English character is extraordinarily sane: It has developed from various races a blend of qualities that by balane-

ing one another, at it were, tend to Compromise has been said to be the ehminate extremam in any one direction.

a compromise founded upon a knowledge basis of our constitutional laws, but it is

·will

-GOOD-HUMOUEZD ALWAYS,

It is in the deep traits of race that the motives: either to remove a husband, to and a student of bird-life

Mr. Baldwin has told us that he pro- fortunes of nations are written; and bow- Those interested are reminded that the be later supplanted by a lover to remove

a rival more favoured than herself, or, ceeds to the eloistered seclusion of his ever derived whether it was a more gift postponed annual meeting of the Hong in some cases, to revenge herself on a club; there to reflect for an hour and ed tribe or mixture of tribes, the air, or a half in the middle of each day, on the what circumstance, that mixed for them kong Football League in being held to

fickle lover who has discarded her morrow evening at 5.30, at the Hongkong

There are some fields of criminal ac-eternal verities of this and the other the golden mean of temperament here Volunteer Defence Corps Headquarters.tivity which are entirely monopolised life.

exists the best stock in the world. by women Prominent among theso Lord Oxford, now released from the best for depth, range, and equability-men THE MOTOR-CYCLE GYMKHANA."lines" are shop-lifters, baby-farmers, tight leash of politics is browsing among of aplomb and reserve, great range and railway carriage blackmailers, in which the sceptics and committing his Gibbores many moods, strong instincts, yet spt for The motor-cycle gymkhana, organised a woman criminal enters a carriago alone que sentences on Christianity to paper, culture. by the Mounted Infantry and Armoured with a man, disarranges her clothing in In those days of keener puranit, when he The calmness of the average English Car Company of the Hongkong Volun-a tunnel, and then accuses her fellow was chasing the electoral fox at Paisley, man is not the phlegmatic calmness of teer Defence Corps, which is to be passenger of molesting her, and three- he gave what time he could in the kennels some northern races, bat yather an in- held on Saturday, July 10th, at Sookun tens to give him into custody unless he to the reading of light French literature, aginative calmness which knows that poo, is likely to prove a very attractive pays her compensation. Decoys for He has been known, it is true, to per- excitability is liable to distort judgment sporting event, judging by the large gambling dans are nearly all women as subulate, club in hand, on-the-golf-links and that nothing is to be gained by

are many agents of the White Slave with Sir John Simon. But neither be violence or exaggeration. Emount of interest being taken in it.

nor Sir John has patronised persistently Many motor-cycle enthusiasts, apart trafic. from members of the. Unit mentioned

a game which inadequately-slakes their have responded with regard to the entry

thirsty brains list, which it should be remembered, de finitely closea on Baturday

Beveral other firms in addition to those previously mentioned, have offered. Another direction in which the woman active moments of his career Nor has adsistance Mesara Alex Boss & Co. crook is to be found in great numbersMr. Lloyd George yet abandoned the of character and not-upon-a-weakness of Ltd, have offered to maintain a repair is in crimes of eruelty, generally to child-course. He drives a ball with a sharp. depot on the ground, where competitors renWhen she likes, a woman can be low swing and plays both straight and will be able to secure adjustments or extraordinary hard-hearted and cruel, moderately long. He could not, how-

When put to some great test the Eng assistance free of charge. The Jardins and can watch with equanimity the ever, best Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who

seen in the war and as has been seen Engineering Corporation have donated agonies of both body and mind of others, hos, I believe, a handicap of seven.lish are extremely determined, as was four gallons of fabricating oil as a prize. An appalling case of cruelty, by a end As everybody knows, Lord Birkenhead again in the general strike, but once the in addition to presenting the Armoured in female form was reported in prefers tennis and yachting. He has crisis is over and the battle won there is Car Company with two 1-gallon Fire not long 380. A peasant woman who had Also tasted the delights of the chase singularly little bitterness, and the main Buds extinguishers. The same firm has two unwanted step-daughters, kept, the Triennially Mr. Churchill mounts & polo

The Englishman does not lose his calm-- agreed to loan six 3-gallon extin- day and night for weeks amongst the pony, and that keeps him fit for the next idea is to come together again for the guishers for use in case of emergency pige she farmed, never allowing them out three years. He exercises, as he does good of everyone

of the pigsties, and forcing them to feed everything else with tremendous violence rest of good humour during e crisis, and during the competitions.

The Cafe Wiseman are to be responsible on the filth which she threw to the swine, and vigour. He once found himself in therefore, he does get have to recover for the catering, and the bar will be in Paris has the questionable distinctions bunker, and as he was incapable of them spasmodically after the crisis is the hands of Messra. Donnelly and of having more women criminals than getting out of it, although he mowed it any other city in the world. In fact for some time, he has never I am told Whyte GA

France Hiel has contributed more than consented to risk a repetition of the any other country towards the roll of experience. He once went in for farming women criminals throughout the cen- at East Grinstead and expressed bis, de

termination characteristically enough, to The two well-known race ponies (Melody turies.

There are in Paris to-day a class of " make it pay whatever it cost and Daisy Dahlia) were sold by auction women criminals who place themselves at There are no Gladstones among us now, bin Messrs Lammert Brothers at the the bead of bands of speches and lead This in the kind of thing we find in the Hongkong Jockey Club Stables, Causeway them to commit extraordinary crimes of Great Man's diary - Bay last night we w willThe first bid for Melody was $10, and violence and rapine. Such a woman i

L'Osican de Paradis who is to-day when 8100 was reached the pony was still at the head of a ferocious gang of knocked down to Mrs. R. J. Paterson

Bidding for Daisy Dahlia commenced apaches, and is eagerly being sought for by the Paris Folice. Strangely enough at $10 and went to: 870, at which figure this woman worked for the French Red Mr. L Keidy became the owner.

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And having an imaginative, romantic mind--English literature is far the richest in the world in imagination and romance the Englishman is always able to see his "opponent's point of view and thusy while not yielding his own insist on fair play. The qualition have made us pioneers are the qualities that make us just in our dealings.

Hawarden, Jadnary 18th, 1869 Wrote out a paper on the plan of a measure respecting the Trish Church, of the temperaments of the two men. intended perhaps for the Queen Work Darnell was a creator, Gladstone a de- ed on Homer.We-felled a lime.

stroyer principally of abusen Glad 14th-We felled another tree, Work-stone walked incredibly fast. Disraeli ed ou Homer, but not much slowly and ruminatingly

15th-We falled an ash. Three hours No man can be completely judged on Arobdescon

GILMAN & Co., LTD., The Hongkong Jockey Club have dis day wound her work of three conversation with the Viceroy and the his public work. It is from the occups:

Hongkong Bank Building. Tel C 290

patched, the order for the 60 subscription carrying on marey griffins required by members. They are England le singularly free from woman. dus arrive in October and will begriminals the moral characteristics of supplied by Mr. Larsen from Kalgan English womanhood are, of an excep at a considerably cheaper price than the tionally high standard, which probably,

mcconta for this. previous batch received..

Disraeli, on the other hand, did not fell trees he planted them and the difference

ites the diversity Conti

nest column

tions of his leisure that we obtain that evidence which alons enables us to form a satisfactory estimate of his disposition and his character. HORE BLAISHA in Daily Express