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SATURDAY'S RESULTS.

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DIVISION I.

Arsenal 2, Liverpool 0. Aston Villa 1, Bury Blackburn R, Wednesday 2. Bolton W., Cardiff City 0. Derby C. 1, Newcastle U. 1. Everton 3, Leicester City 4- Huddersfield T. 9, W. Ham United L Manchester United 2, Burnley 1 Shetheld United 1, Leeds United 0. Sunderland 3, Tottenham H. 2 W. Brom. A. 1, Birmingham 2.

DIVISION II.

Blackpool 1, Darlington 1. Bradford City 0, Chelsea 1. Clapton Orient 2, W'hampton W. 0. Fulham I, Oldham Ath. 1. Grimsby Town 0, Portsmouth 0. Middlesbrough 2, Hull City 0 Notts County 1, Nottingham F. 2,' -Port Vale"4, South Shields 2

Reading 1, Manchester City 0. Southampton 1, Preston N.E.. Swansea Town 5, Barnsley 2.

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DIVISION III. (SOUTHERN). Chariton A., Queen's Park R. "0. B'mouth, and B.A. 1, Crystal Palace 1.. Brentford 0, Millwall o

Bristol City 3 Coventry City C. Brighton & H.A. 9, Swindon Town 3. Luton Town 2, Merthyr Town 1. Newport C. 1, Gillingham 0. Northampton 3, Bristol Rovers 0. Norwich City 4. Exeter City 4. Plymouth Argyle 4. Watford 0.. Southend United 3. Aberdare A. 1.

DIVISION III (NORTHERN). Ashington ; Doncaster R. 1. Barrow 1, Hallifax Town L .Chesterfield 1, Stoke City I Crewe A. 3, Lincoln City 3, Hartlepools United 3, Accrington S. 1. Nelson 5. Rotherham U. 3. New Brighten 3, Wigan: Borough 1. Southport 1, Tranmere R. 3. Stockport C4, Durham City 0 Rochdale 3, Wrexham 1. Walsall 1, Bradford 0.

SCOTTISH LEAGUE (DIVISION I.). Aberdeen 6, Morton 1. Airdrieonians 5, Cowdenbeath 2 Celtic 2, Hamilton A. 2. Dundee United 3, Clyde 1. Dunfermline A. 4, Hibernians 2 Hearts 0, Rangers 2. Motherwell . Dundee "5. Partick Thistle 5, Kilmarnock 0. St. Johnstone 4, Falkirk 0. St. Mirren 3, Queen's Park 1.

AMERICAN BASEBALL.

RESULTS OF LAST WEEK'S GAMES.

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New York, September 18th. The following were the results in the National and American Baseball League games played last week:-

National League.

Saturday:-

Philadelphia 6, Chicago 13. New York 5, Brooklyn 3. New York of Brooklyn 6. Pittsburg 6 Cincinnati 10. Boston 0, St. Louis 2. Boston 4, St. Louis 3. Sunday:-

New York 1, Pittsburg 5. New York 1, Pittsburg 7. Brooklyn 0, Cincinnati 5. Brooklyn 3, Cincinnati 4... Monday:-

Pittsburg 2, Now York 3. Brooklyn 0, Clocinasti 4. Boston 5, St. Louis 4. Philadelphia 1, Chicago a Tuesday:

New York 0, Pittsburg 3. Brooklyn 1, Cincinnati 5. Philadelphia 5, Chicago 4. Wednesday :-

New York 6, Pittsburg 5. Brooklyn 2, Cincinnati 7. Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 9. Boston 1, Chicago 0. Boston 3, Chicago 1. Thursday:

New York 0, Cincinnati 3 Brooklyn 2, Pittsburg 1. Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 23. Philadelphia, St. Louis 10 *** Chicago 4, Boston.1. Friday:-

New York 5, Cincinnati Brooklyn 3, Pittsburg 1. .Philadelphia 1, St. Louis 10..

American League.

Saturday:-

Detroit S, New York 10. Cleveland 8, Washington 1. Cleveland 3, Washington 2. Chicago 5, Philadelphiz 11. St. Louis 4, Boston 5. Sunday:-

Cleveland 14, Washington 4. St. Louis 3, Boston 11, St. Louis 1, Boston 1.

Monday:

Detroit 4, New York 2 Detrait 4, New York 1. Chicago 2, Philadelphia. 5. Chicago 2, Philadelphia 2 Cleveland 6, Washington 3. Tuesday:-

Detroit 2, Washington 1. Detroit 5, Washington 2. Wednesday-

Cleveland 4, New York & Chicago, Boston 1. Thursday:

Cleveland 2, New York 1 Cleveland 5 New York 0. Detroit 2, Washington 3. Detroit 4,, Washington 6. Chicago 6, Boston & St. Louis 1, Philadelphia 0.

St. Louis 1, Philadelphia 6. Friday:-

Cleveland 5, New York 1. Detroit 4. Washington 5. Chicago 3, Boston St. Louis 8, St. Louis 3..

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---(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

1928

much to diminish the dialects "of this island: they have almost abolished the a-droppers and those who wantonly

A STANDARDISED SPEECH.

THE SPREAD OF THE COCKNEY sound the A. The number of people in

ACCENT.

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"England under the age of forty who misuse the aspiräte must be very small, yet, when I read articles and booki descriptive of English life by American The appointment by the British. Broad-authors. I generally find them putting casting Company of a committee of into the mouths of English working peo- eminent phoneticians, led by the Poet Ple such misprcaunciations as “Ho!” for "Oh!" and "Hi" for I," and Laureate, to consider the standardisation | hupper for upper." of speech for their announcers is a sign:

Drilling The Butler, It is said that English "butlers before of the general interest in the proper pronunciation of the English language. going to New York for employment take I believe it to be à partent of the in- lessons in pronouncing A's before initial fluence which broadcasting will have vowels because no one in that city will upon the general speech of this country believe that a butler, English unless The immense correspondence received the aays, Ho, hi ham habsolutely hun- Savoy-bill includes. I am told, a large able to hunderstand hanything hat hall number of letters on this subject, and when he means, Oh, I am absolutely can well believe it, for when I broadcast unable to understand anything at all!

I have myself heard a very intelligent- a fifteen-minutes "talk" on pronuncia.

American woman, who has paid many tion some months ago I received more than three hundred letters, a few of visits to England, repeating a remark which were extremely abusive, not only made by her English butler, and, in her from every part of Great Britain and imitation of his speech, using the & in that way. I happen to have stayed in Ireland but also from places abroad.

The number of people in Holland who her house in America and to have had listen to English programmes must be many conversations with her butler, and very considerable. The vast majority of never once have I heard him either drop ex-mercantile marine officer and son of tu persons like myself, on right pronun- not to be pronounced!

the people who write to the B.B.C., orano pronounce one where it ought a former Commander of Lord Lever-ciation seem to be absorbingly interested Dramatists, more, perhaps, than any hulme's yacht.

LONDON, September 17th Mr. Norman Derham, the Englishman who awam the Channel on Friday in 13 hours, 36 mins, entered the water at Cap, Gris Nez at nine at night. The sea was rather rough and fog came up at four in the morning and blotted out everything. But it lifted at eight o'clock when the swimmer found that he was off St. Margaret's Bay. He landed amid the enthusiastic cheers of the crowd which waved Union Jacks to signify the victory of the Englishman. Some dashed into the water, whilst others including ladies in bathing dresses, swam out to Derham, He has won the News of the Worli prize of £1,000 to be the Brat Britisher to beat Miss Gertruide Ederle's time. He is an

The record, just over 11 hours, is held by the last swimmer to succeed, a French

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RGB September 17th. Great enthusiasm prevailed at Saint Margaret's Bay when the Englishman Mr. Norman Leslie Derham came ashore this morning having swam the channel 13 hours 30 mintes. Several local women swam out to meet him when he

was about half a mile from the shore. They accompanied him on either side and cheered him on his way to the shore. When he stepped out of the water, he was seized and hoisted shoulder high and car ried in triumph to a neighbouring ina, accompanied by a cheering crowd, many

waving Union Jacks

in it. Many of them are shocked by the discovery that words which they habitual ly pronounce in one way are habitually pronounced in another way by people living only a hundred or more miles from them. The differences of pronunciation, apart from the differences of accent, are so great that inhabitants of this small island. no farther apart than Hull is from Winchester, have difficulty in un- derstanding each other. When to this difficulty is added that caused by local able affectations, by bad enunciation, accents, by the use of dialect, by fashion- and by sheer ignorance, it is not hard to realise why it is that when a North-to hear "oney" for ambrian meets a Southern Englishman they sometimes cannot understand each other.

The Dickens Fallacy. This is not an exaggeration it is a about seven hundred miles long--which is fact. The island of Great Britain is considerably less than the distance from New York to Chicago and about three hundred miles broad; but it has within

those narrow boundaries three countries very sharply distinguished from ezch Much of the enthusiasm was due to the other and a great variety of accents and fact that an Englishman has accomplish. dialects. In England alone the variety of voices is amazing It was Dicken, ed the feat of swinning the Channel no doubt, who made, even Englishmen after an interval of fifteen years. The imagine that the speech used by Sam Weller was the common speech of the first and second conquerors of the Chan-English people, and to this day Ameri- nel were Englishmen, Captain Webb cans firmly believe that the majority of being successful in the year 1875, and the inhabitants of Great Britain drop Burgess in 1911. Since the latter date, Americans claim dour victories and Argentina, France and Germany, one cacb. Derham's time is, of course, far

better than that of the other two English men, Captain Webb and Burgess, who took 21 hours 45 minutes and 22 hours 33 minutes respectively. It also beats that of the two American women Miss Ederie and Mrs. Corson, who this year took 14 hours 39 minutes and 15 hours 28 miutes, respectively. It is, however, not so fast as that of Wierkoter the German, and Michel, the Frenchman, who swam across recently in 12 hours 43. minutes and 11 hours 5 minutes res- pectively..

GOLF.

BOBBY JONES DEFEATED.

· {KKUTER'S, AMERICAF · SERVIC")]

BALTUSRAL, September 17th.

In the American Amateur Golf Cham- picnship, Bobby Jones bent Francis Quimet in the semi-final round, by five up and four to play.

Von Elm In Final.

Von Elm beat George Dawson by 11 up and 10 to play. Jones and Yen Elm will meet in the final on Saturday. If Jones wins it will be the first time the same player has won the Amateur Cham- pionship for three years, and also the first time any player has held the British and American open amateur titles.

At the end of the morning round Yon Elm was one up on Jones.

The Winner.

BALTUSROL, September 18th. Von Elm beat Jones by two up.

U.S. TENNIS CHAMPION-

SHIP.

VICTORY FOR LACOSTE.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

FOREST HILLS, September 37th.

In the lawn tennis national'champion- ship, Lacoste bent Cochet in the semi- final, 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3.

Richards Beaten.

other men, were responsible for the survival of this legend. They generally made servants speak in this comic way. à servant-girl could not open her mouth on the stage without some maisusage of speech. It took the dramatists a long time to realise that servant-girls nowa. days speak as well as, or sometimes bet ter than. their mistresses; but they did at Inst discover the fact, and it is now rare to find a play in which comic relief. is provided by a mispronouncing servant. That particular fault of speech is dis- appearing; it is unusual to hear "hup- per " for "

It will soon be rare "honey." But there are graver faults than the dropping or improper pronunciation of 's. One could at least hear a Cockney dropping an or unwarrantably pronouncing it. The man who said "hupper" left his auditors in no doubt about his meaning: say "hupper" in mumbling manner. he did not mumble. It is impossible to The old-fashioned Cockney, so far as bis zapirates were concerned, was not in- audible. The new-fashioned Cockney is

upper.

Cockneyisms in Mayfair. Masses of our people now speak in what I have called arefaned" way. They flatten their vowels, elide their 's, and speak through their clenched teeth; and this vice is common in all grades of society. The Cockney voice is as common now in Mayfair as it formerly was in Walham Green; it has spread all over the Home Courties and is beginning to their h's, and that all of the working and spread through the Southern Counties lower middle-classes in England habitual-It began in Essex and in parts of Suffolk, ly put A's where they ought not to be

but it is not staying there, and if we I remember several years ago reading are not careful we shall soon have a

AXI a sociological work by author in which he made Scotsmen drop

American Cockney tongue in every English hoad, for Cockney is an extraordinarily in- their 's or put them in front of words fectious speech. Thousands of men and beginning with vowels. This gentleman women come every year from other parts had actually lived and worked with of Great Britain and from Ireland to working men in Scotland, yet he was so London, but none of them succeed in im- bemused by the American tradition posing their accents on the Metropolitan derived from Dickens that he could listen population. On the contrary, they lose to them and believe that he heard them their accents to some extent and their speaking in a way that no Scotsman ever children talk like Cockneys. speaks and that few Englishmen now speak.

Bermondsey is full of Irish families who have lost their brogues; and few The A is still dropped in England, things in the history of Ireland have as- though the number of people who tonished the Irish so much as the dis- habitually drop it is steadily declining, covery that one of the Ministers of the but it is rarely dropped in Scotland, and Free State Government, bearing a 'most only in certain districts and in certain romantic Irish name, spoke with a per- words. It is seldom sounded where it feet Cockney accent. Wireless broadcast- ought not to be sounded, either in Eng-ing will undoubtedly create a standard and or in Scotland. Fifty-six years of speech. What sort of a speech is it to free and compulsory education have done I be?-Daily Mail.

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