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THE TENNIS LEAGUE.

YESTERDAY'S MATCHES.

"C" DIVISION.

Three matches previously post- poned on account of the weather were played yesterday in the "C"

GOLF.

"BOBBY ** JONES SPLENDID PERFORMANCE:

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.).

ST. ANDREWS, July 13th. In the British open golf cham- Division, the detailed scores being pionship contest at St. Andrew's, Baby" Jones played amazing

BB under-

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Hong Kong 0.0. r. Recreio. Played on the Hong Kong Cricket Club courts, the Club de Recreio winning by 10 games. Scores:

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY

BASEBALL NOTES.

THE TIGERS" AND "DRAGONS:**

on. Sunday At Happy Valley South China Dragons" will play in the South China Tigers" Baseball Leagne. Both of these these teams are South China A.A. products and the officers of this organization hope to make the

"POPULAR" DAY AT ASCOT.

BIG CROWDS SEE HUNT CUP RACE.

SUNSHINE, MUSIC AND HAPPINESS;

Ascot

15th, 1927.

CRIME IN AMERICA.

WOMEN THE IMPELLING.. MOTIVE.

BIGGEST BUSINESS IN THE STATE.

The Advising Counsel to the

ASCOT, June 10th.

Roosevelt line, Mr. Mark O. 'Pren- was convalescent to-day tiss, is well-known in New York after the severe bout of first day circles as a criminologist and one fashion sickness. Expert opinion interested in the suppression of golf in the first round, doing it gaine, which starts at four o'clock reported the patient able to sit up crime in America. He had been

and take a little gentle interest in racing. It is even expected that a

morrow over the Gold Cup race, little excitement may be shown

Not that the colours were leas bright, or that the dresses fluttered eagerly, but it was Hunt Cup

the

popular day" of Ascot's day o

The crowd came early and grew steadily until the

in 09, a 32 and 36, boating the amateur record for the course by three strokes, and equalling Dun

G. 8. Hugh Jones and H. R. Re-can's professional record. mington (H.K.C.C.):

lost to A. A. Remedios and

heat R, Hyndman And L.

Carvalho

A. V. Remedios bent F. Ribeiro and H. Re-

medios

6- D

5- 8

6- 5.

7-10.

M. M. Watson and T. G. Bennett (H.K.C.C.)

lost to R. Hyndman and L.

Carvalho

5 0

bent A. A. Reuidics and A.

V. Remeding ...

Jest to F. Ribeiro and H.

Remedios.

C-5

4-7

15-18

Jones' Play.

Five thousand people followed Jones, who did the eighteen holes

as interesting ns' possible, and the teams will be selected to give as even a struggle as possible. It will be the first time in local his tory in which two Chinese teams have met in the League, and the S.C.A.A. are making it a special

in 4, 5, 4, 4, 3; 3; 4, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, occasion. 1⁄2 4, 4, 4, 4.

He was bunkered at the second, and took two to get out, then holed a 12-yarder.

He was on the fifth green, a die- tance of 580 yards, in two, and holed n 30-yarder, ainid cheers, for three. Thereafter he had an "eagle" und three birdies."

The first had shot was at the tenth, when he drove short and

J. R. Hinton and A. H. Penn duffed a chip shot. He also had a (H.K.C.C.)

The Americans hope to have thrụn new players for the rest of the season. They are Lieut. P. Leaser, U.S.M.; Lieut. T. Craven, U.S.N.; and Mr.. . Boyd, of National City Bank of New York. They are play ing next Thursday afternoon at the Happy Valley Diamond, a from South China "Dragons" and "Tigera.".

Leam

nasty lie at the fourteenth, which

Jost to R. Hyndman and L.

Carvalho

lost to A. A. Remedios and

A. V. Remedios... lost to F. Ribeiro and H.

Remedios

4-7

2- B

cost him three to reach the green. lie holed out at the eighteenth tʊ.

deafening ovation.

NO "INCIDENTS "

TENNIS.

AT

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The leadors in the first round are Jones and the Australian, Nettle- fold, with 6 and 71 respectively. next coming Dobson, of East Rea-

Total:-H.K.C.C., 40; Recreio, 69. frew, Storey of West Hill, Hudson of Tenby, Kirkwood, W. Torrance Netherlands T.C.. Nippon. Played on the Netherlands Tennis of Edinburgh, and Murray of Sker- Club courts, King's Park, Kowloon,vies each-with-79. the Nippon Club, winning by 20 games.

Scores:

Amongst the others are Comp ston with 74, Braid 75. Barnes, Robson, Aubrey Boomer, and Tay

1 de. Brayn and A. Bamonde lor. 76. Tolley and the Americans Naboltz Melhorn. 77, and (N.T.C.);

Tweddell 78.

lost to Isamura and K.

Nakano

st to Y. Oish and Wata-

rube

TT-3_B

Just to -Y. Hachiuma-and-K..

Yoshikawa

1.7

4-7

11-22

P. Marks and (N.T.C.);

G. Heintzen

lost to Y. Oishi and Wata-

nabe

7

lost to Y. Hachiuma and K.

Yoshikawa

-lost to T. Tsomura and K.

Nakano

3- 8

11-22

F. Lafleur and H."); Knotther (N.T.C.)..

lost to Y. Oishi and Watas

nabe

3A

lost to Y. Hachiuma and K.

1.7

5

1-201

Yoshikawa ...... beat T. somura and K.

Nakarios

Total:-Netherlands. T.C., Nippon, 64.

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K.B.B.F.P.A. . Chinese R.C. Played the Kowloon British School, Former Papils" Association courts, King's Park, Kowloon, the Chinese Recreation Club winning easily by 47 games..

Scores: Pile and Puncheon (K.B.S:F.P.A) lost to Ma Wei But and K.

K. Ip lost to Cheng Chi Wing and

Chi Chung Châu "... 4- lost to Un Hin Fand and Lau

Man Kwong ukiagoeng.

4-7

12-21

Hedley and Greenhalgh (K.B.S. F.P.A.):

lost to Ma Wei. But and K

K. Ip.... ..................20 beat Cheng Chi Wing and

Chiu Chung Chin lost to Un Hiu Fan and Lau

Man Kwong

WIGHTMAN CUP.

MISS RYAN NOT AVAILABLE FOR U.S.A. TEAM.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

NEW YORK, July 13th. Miss Elizabeth Ryan, owing to personal affairs, which will keep her abroad all the summer, will not be available for the team which is

to

[BY STANLEY 'N. DOCST.]

start of the big race.

A plentiful sprinkling of felt hats and bowlers disturbed the in- human suavity of grey and black

in the paddock. "toppors

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the train from Waterloo were hatless and with white lanen.coats party of medical undergraduates, over their arms, fresh from a de- monstration,

By half-past two the stands were tightly, packed, and the crushed yellow grass of the lawns by the course was a fluttering patchwork of summer frocks. It was easier to each rumours of the Hunt Cup race than to see it.

Rumble of the Hoots.

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lishment of the National Crime largely instrumental in the estab Coinmission, which has since been able to do much good work.

Interviewed, Mr. Prentiss said that crime was the biggest business in America as it involved more men

and money than any other concern. The one canker of American life was the crime situation. During the five yours following the Armis tice more men had been killed than they had lost in the War. The cost than what America had expended of crime in America was greater on the Great War. In one year the coat of crime had been over nine billion dollars. That figure had been arrived at not only by considering the cost of the police. the

the penitentiaries, judiciary, but also by estimating the econo mic loss to the community of per- sons killed, executed or imprison. cd, and of damage to property and loss by theft,

To Satisty a Woman's Vanity.

I stood in the middle of the Grand Stan, feeling like a Secret

The chief motive for crime was Service man picking up subter- ranean information while the pad- women. A glance at the criminal ded rumble of the hoofs of twenty records showed that the gravest With lawn tennis ever growing nine horses grew louder down the crimes had been cominitted merely and the number of tournaments in-course, Then for one darting to satisfy & woman's vanity or to Nival out of the way.. In- creasing the problem of umpires is second they flushed past, the first keep

three hunched neck and neck factor to crime, was not the chief temperance, though a contributory finished-Asterus, Priory

cause of it, as it could not be they Park, and Delius.

An unrehearsed and rather start-responsible for premeditated netion. demonstration preceded the As a subject incidental to erime ling arrival of the King and Queen Mr. Prentiss had a few interesting

prohibition Shortly after half-past twelve a remarks to make on the subject of miniature bonfire broke out on the heath beyond the popular side and America. continued to flicker and smoke for sometime.

sent,

£

cult one Many a good match has been spoiled by had umpiring, but as it has been, up to the pre voluntary undertaking, tournament committees have only how too glad to accept any kind of person who is good enough to offer himself.

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But in important tournaments, like the French hard court cham pionships and the Wimbledon one, it is very necessary to organise perfest system of umpiring long before the tournament begins. Thus at Wimbledon there are gathered together all those who are room

"good" umpires-and- mended as there are a large number of them. the Lawn tennis has become

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the

movement

in

Prohibition, Speaking of the history of the prohibition movement, he said that it first originated sorne 25 or 30 years ago as a result of certain

The Royal procession was even gaver sight than on the first day. The scarlet and gold out- ridere, fiaming in the sun, seemed companies refusing to employ per- to float along on a waving sea of sons addicted to liquor. The pub- hats, borne-upward by the cheerlic-in-all parts of the world had- wrong ideas of the beginning of the ig

The day was the ideal of an prohibition movement.

The rail- English June. Wispy white cloud-way companies enforced total ab greatest international game in the lets drifted in a virgin aky. In the stinence not on grounds of morals, work, and it often happens--as in distance the sky met the woodlands but as a question of public safety. Paris-that when the best man of of the heath in a shimmering baze. A few years later nearly 35,000 one nation meets the best of another, A pleasant breeze stirred the trees banks in the United States decided the match becomes tense in the ex-by the course and kept the crowd not to employ persons who drink. treme. In such a match there is 'calls the score, but there are eight stand constantly moving, so that the same attitude, as liquor was i not only the central umpire who in the paddock and round the band-1 Firms of manufacturers took up the colours never shape, but linesmen and a foot-fault judge. flowed in eddies and whirlpools The central umpire anust take the like oil on running water.

The light music of the band hung decisions of his linesmen and call

on the wind, moarer and further the core accordingly.

as it blow, lending a kind of come

With all this array of umpires

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defend the Wightman Cup one would imagine that to control opera grace to the warm afternoon. beramawo-thirds of America i

against the English ladies lawn feanis team, at Forest Hilkin August,

BOXING

HARRY WILLS KNOCKED OUT.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE:]

The

NEW York, July 13th.

Paolino Spanish boxer, Uzeudun, knocked out Harry Wills, the negro heavy, weight, in the fourth round of a fifteen-round contest at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn.

Detalls of the Bout.

a match, however tense, would be easy. Unfortunately, such is not always the ease. In Paris, it must be admitted, the umpiring was bad and the umpires weak, but bad as they were the behaviour of certain It needed a players was worse. very strong hand to deal with the inédents that arose and the strong hand was not forthcoming.

Good-Natured Crowd.

thought to be detrimental to indivi dual efficiency. Then followed the corporate action of different States their particular districts. who decided not to have liquor in short time

and

the Federal ̈ Government merely approved of Over on the popular side one the action of the States by enfore on ing prohibition by State regula- could hear some serious talk racing, but not enough to disturb tion.

In a vast country like America,. Ascot's traditional composure. It was warm there, not only from the prohibition had not yet had time of smuggling and the guard of the but with a human, shoulder to be effective because prevention rubing warmth:-

Hata were pushed back from const line required an army of moist brows and ice-cream vendors police. Other methods though slow There is a regulation of the Lawn and lemonade men shouted every were now being followed and pro- Tennis Association for the manage where. I turned away from the hibition was likely to be a success. Prohibition though not popular ment of tournaments which reads offers of a balloon man and a mas-

The decision of an umpire cot seller to find myself besieged with the alien population was by American public shall be final apon every question by a lady who was trying to point favoured

opinion. In the big cities where of fact and any competitor ex-out the nutritious qualities of cold

imprisoned between there was a large foreign element prohibition pressing disapproval of it, either fried fish

WLA not popular. by word or action, will render lumps of white bread.

Eighty-five per cent. of those im himself liable to be disqualified

prisoned in the penitentiaries in by the committee.

Under foot was a litter of torn betting, slipa, representing a thou- sand and one dashed hopes. Over head. the bookies pleaded rather the reign of Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen apologetically as if excusing then it is to be hoped that there will selves for carrying on the charit

In Paris there were scenes that put in the shade any happenings during

LATER. Wills, aged 35, weighed 15 stone governing committees will

strong and stern action. If so they 4 pounds, while Uzcudun, aged will be applauded by all good 25, weighed 13 stones, 13 pounds.

sportsmen who rightly consider the Wills was expected to win, but game greater than even the greatest WOMAN WINS NEWDIGATE Uzeuden, displaying an unexpect player. ed punching power, soon put an opponent's end to hie veteran Hopes.

be to wobbling in future but that able business of offering "dead berts" on such a pleasant June take

afternoon.

After three rounds of desultory 6.5mauling, the Spaniard suddenly felled Wills with an axelike right- 2-bander.

10-23:

Fuers and Murphy (K.B.S.F.P.A.) lost to Ma Wei But and K.

K. Ip ..... lost to Cheng Chi Wing nad

Chịu Chung. Cháu

1-10

n

20.

1-10.

Tost to Un Hin Fen and Lau

Man Kwong

Total: K.B.S.F.P.A., R.C., 76.

4-20

KOWLOON G.C. TEAMS.

The following teams have been selected to represent the Kowloon Cricket at 4.30 p.m. on the K.0.0. ground to-morrow:-

Staggering from the 'count at wine, Wills was focred & second and last time with crushing right

handers.

JIM CARTLIDCE WINS AT PLYMOUTH.

and he won on points.

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NIGHT ON A MAST. SAILOR DROWNED AFTER HELPING BOY.

PARIS.

PRIZE.

THE LEGEND OF "JULIA, DAUGHTER OF CLAUDIUS."

the United States prisons were aliens either of the first or second

generation.

70 CROCODILES IN A BATHROOM.

WIFE LEAVES HOME.

PARIS.

Rin Tin Tin, the £400-a-week dog film setor, which figured in the Miss Gertrude E. Trevelyan's divorce suit by Mrs. Charlotte A. Newdigate Prize Pon, the first Duncan against her husband, Mr. ever won by a woman, was publishLeland A. Duncan has been sur- ed yesterday by Mr. Basil Black passed as a sower of domestic dis- Mias Trevel cord by a family of 70 young well, Oxford (29),

The husband, yen, who is a student of Lady Mar- crocodiles which have upset the a Colonial official; garet Hall, declared that she wrote felicity of a Parisian home. the poem for a joke, but there. is

him 70 baby nothing humorous about her work. returned recently from abroad,

It is entitled Julie, Daughter bringing with of Claudius," and is based on J. A. crocodiles which he installed in the Symonds's description of the dis bathroom of bis flat.

His wife, beside herself with in- covery in 1486 of a marble tomb in

..and anid: The the Appian Way containing the dignation, called upon the police "body of a most beautiful girl of commissary 18 preserved by precious ungue was home, all these little crocodiles first day, that my husband brought According to the legend In about an hour Kerdreux be removed to the Capitol, and then I thought it was a joke. Now disgusting animals are came exhausted and, after saying began a procession of pilgrims to these goodbye, disappeared in the raging gaze upon this saint of the old crawling all over the fat and life waters. Quintric had tried to hold

At last Innocent has become unbeatable, pagan world.

A graphic story of the sun was told by Pierre Quintric, the 14-year old apprentice of the fishing boat Dirmude, which was lost off the Isle-de-Sei, near Brest.

When the boat sank 3 injured men were drowned. Pierre Quintric climbed up the mast, which remain ed above water, where he found a sailor named Kerdreux bolding on. Kordreux gave the boy a piece of rope, with which he lashed himself to the mast

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Fighting at Plymouth recently; Jim Cartlidge, the ex-light-weight champion of the Colony, defeated Chinese the light-weight champion of Corn- wall in a fifteen-round contest. His opponent was younger than he was but the older man's experience in the ring served him in good stead, bis companion first with one hand I fearing least the orthodox "They cause my children dread- and then with the other, but in faith should suffer, had the body ful nightmares, and I have come to inform you officially that. I am In his second 6ght under Andre vain, and he would himself have secretly buried.

Mass Trevelyan describes the going to leave my husband and go Dupre's management at Saigon, be carried away but for the rope

with my mother in the Iron" Bug-drow with the middle-which Kerdroux gave him. weight champion of Saigon, Litors. He remained in this position all legend in smoothly-flowing blank to live with my

verse, of which the following lines

country"

The case raises an interesting Popular opinion was that Bux night with the waves constantly

are a good example: " should have been given the verdict, washing over him. At 7.30 a boat

not! In one soft noon- legal point, for if a woman refuses

to live under her husband's roof tide shower 18 who the steered by with an 80-years-old Stoker Morris,

There shine all suns that ever crocodiles or no crocodiles-she ex- Colony's welterweight and middle fisherman named Tenniou on board.

poses herself to divorce proceedings weight champion is to be invalided The boy cast off the rope and tried

Weep not for youth's swift under French law, in which she homie shortly, and is expected to to reach an oar which was thrown.

could be the respondent. morning hour leave toward the end of this month. towards him, but his strength failed

The ripening corn knows no res General regret will be felt at this and he bank. He was saved, how-

Lever, with a boat hook.

gret. among local, boxing enthusiast.

"B" team v. Club de Recreio.- C. H. Atkinis. and D. J. Purves, W. Woodward and K. A. Carstensen, P. M. Pinguot and G. 8. Ford.

O team v K.B.5.F.P.A.-O H.. Ledra and W. Brown, R. Strange and J. S. Smith, Geo. Lee add A. J. Law.

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Weep

set.

The next step in the tragicomedy is awaiteil with interest.

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