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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, MARCH 12th, 1928.

MACAO RACE CLUB.

SLY EXTRA MEETING.

LARGER GOLF BALL.

A DAY IN MY LIFE

BIG CROWD PRESENT,

BY RAPIER 7

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GOOD FOR SECOND SHOTS,”

+- For the Guildford and District Golfing Alliance meeting over the North Hants course at Fleet on The above meeting was held February 9th & specially designed under favourable conditions yester-bail of a larger size than that in day afternoon and attracted a large general uso was made the subject number of people from Hong Kong of a test All the competitors and olding Mr. and Mrs GC to play with it, and the fact timi Mackie and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. the Quidford Alliance can bosat H. Birkett, Mr. and Mrs. H of the membership of many of the Priestley, Major and 3irs. Hogs.

lending gollers of the day made the Major and Mrs. Lake, Mesurs. W

experiment particularly interest EL Shenton, G. H. Potts, Fag Sutton, G C Moxon, Ho Leung, and most of the Hong Kong jockeys There were not many ponies running ning but most of the races produced helds of over half a dozen as the same animals wore seen twice but in different positions. Some of the ponies were not very fast but they

were evenly matched and this made

BY THE ONLY WOMAN BOOKMAKER:

SECRETS OF HER SUCCESS.

FUL CAREER.

1,000 NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF CLIENTS IN MY HEAD."

I have spent the whole day in the open air, met many charming prople, and won fifty pounds, what could be nicer 1" Thus, in a nut shell, one of the most remarkable women in the work summed up a day in her life, Frites Marjorie Harrison in the Daily Bapress The ball under test had beenShe is Mrs. Helen. Veruat, who is specited to weigh 16ca and to the only woman bookmaker

a familiar figure to racegoers as have a minimum diameter of 1.88in. The weight is the same as that of the orthodox ball in common use, but the latter, under the ruling of the Royal and Ancient Club some seven or eight years ago, can be as little as Login in diameteran appreciable difference in site.

Mis Vernet forgot to mention the the is an optimist and remembera other side of the picture, because only the happy things in life. The long hours five days a week and ingin all weathers, blazing the sixth usually spent in travel-

us alect.de, rain, snow, a

winds, moW OF

SOVIET GOLD.

SITSIN

MERICA:

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NEW YORK March 10th: The Bank of France has begun a suit for the possession of C. $3,000,000 – deposited with the Chase National Bank, alleging that

THE SPLENDID

EXILES

THE LAST OF BLASCO IBANEZ

HILL TOP 'BURIAL:

BY NEWMAN FLOWER:]

Last week I locked upon Blasco Thaner, the most popular writer of modern Spain, lying in his codin in that wonder house by the Medi-

it deposited an equal sum in the State Bank of Russia before the Soviet Revolution.

A provicus message reported errancan which was his home in |

LADY ABE BAILEY

TO FLY FROM LONDON TO

CAPETOWNSE

(ORITIAR : WIRKLESA KKAVIOK]

ed to accept for assaying gold bul. the seashore till I found the big that the U.S. Treasury had declin-... I went up the narrow lane from

Lom, valued at 0.85,000,000, recent gato a gate Brilliant, in Eastern. y skipped to America by the Soviet colouring with the names of Government and consigned to the famous writers inscribed above it. Chase National Bank and the Dickens Cerantes, Baltic: they were all there. I pushed open the Equitable Trust Company, 1

heavy door, and stepped into garded to remarkable that it seem- fu a place of magic, too dang

The film is more powerful than the printed page, so it comes about that the populace in this region knew Ibaner as a creator of pic- tursa Tat the high walls of his garden hid a pleture more entranc ing than any he bad conceived in Rrosy, March 9th.

his books. It was a picture from Lady Bailey, wife of Sir Abe the Arabian Nights. A moment ago are left Croydon aerodrome, un-Orient, The garden was a blaze of Bailey, the South African milion- I was in France; now I was in the accompanied, this afternoon, on a colour, not of fewers, but of tiles fight to Capetown. Hee pro is to tiles, unvulgar and arranged on reach her destination an quickly as a grand colour scheme. The entire possible m long hops, man garden had been visualised, not fes The route will be rid France, any startling effect of the grotesque, Italy, Malta, Egypt and Soudan. but as a triumph in the blending Lady Bailey is flying a De Havil of high colour, an art which only and Moth seroplane, capable of the Oriental and seems to know. remaining in the air ten hours at a timet:

the racing interesting. After all

The depressing occasions when. Eighty players entered the test the favourite wine every time and the public is not concerned with the the largest number of entries ever heavy lossen have to be faced. The class of ponies running so long as received for a Guildford Alliance mental strain involved in keeping there are no easy victories. The competition favourable to the ime abreast with prices and answers pression was favourable to the new at least a dozen people all asking reason there were so few entries ball, though some of the players questions at once. All this, too, in from Hong Kong was on account of were of the opinion that its larger the midst of a crowd of men size emphasises the penalties of mis" bookies, shouting, pushing, and the meeting at Happy Valley on takes Jack Smith the junto jostling on Tattersall, rails whers Saturday next. The dividends were professional at Westworth, who she has her stand. fairly high and Ching Hoi rather won the morning competition apset form by winning the fifth race was round in He afterwards and paying $131.40 and in the last was difficult to play, and had declared that the larger ball race Ullswater crented a bit of a sensation by paying $101 for a place, not the same "feel" as the ordinary Messra, Sutton and Seth officiated variety. It meant an average lom as Judges and Mr. H. H. 10 yards to each drive but he 43 Timekeeper.

liked it for the second shots-an It is said that you can always GERMAN SUSPECT RELEASED and there and coloured pille:

Priestley The course was in excellent state and the Belds were got well away by Mr. Fidden Wilson assisted by Major Hogg and the staff work generally was satisfactory. There is no doubt that the Macao Race Club have gained the sympathy and encour agement of the Hong Kong racing community and the latter can always be relied upon to give any assist- ance in their power. The reapon sibility for the conduct of the meet-

ings, however, rests solels with the Macão Club and feel sure those concerned are fully conscious of their duties in this respect. The next meeting is provisionally, fixed for April 15th and I understand it is proposed to effect before then certain structural alterations which will greatly improve the existing arrangements

The Stewards were Mr. G. H. Potts (Chairman). Major F. Hogg, Mr. G. C. Moxon, Mr. P. N, Wong, Dr. Barros Carneiro.

THE RESULTS.

Mile.

The Sun Hien Plate: Winner 200: 2nd $100, 3rd $50. Mr. S. W. Cheng's Wuchang

(Mr. Loo) Mr. Hau Un's Little Sit Tang

(Mr. Roza) Air. Luen Fick's Warlordship

(Mr. Wong)

Bix starters,

·Dividends:

Winner: $23,20. Places: 1st $6.50; End, #5.00.

2. The Chun Chit Pisto "Half Mile',

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Winner $200; 2nd $100, 3rd $50. Mr. Hee Cheong's Man-of-War

(Mr. C. Charles).1 Mr. Special's Valour

(Mr. Proulx) Mr. Yam Man's Cherry Brandy.

(Mr. Wong)

Soven startera. Dividends:

95.00

opinion endorsed by most of the expert players.

Thoughts of a woman book maker conjure up a vision of a tweed. Imagine, then, my surprise, horsey woman loud of voice and when I was shown into

charming roomjns reventeenth century house in Gray's Inn

judge a woman by her drawing- room. But here there were no sporting prints or racing papers to be seen. Nothing to indicate the cccupation of the owner. Just a lovely old panelled room, painted Adam brothers. Two or three por that unusual green beloved by the traits, the colours dim and mellow with age. Blue china in a recess The shining darkness of old furel tuxe, and the whiteness of burnish superior called steal about the hearth

Other Opinions, 500 Among other views expressed were the following: Ge

George, Duncan (Wentworth). A better ball for all types of players

Tom Mounce (Camberley Heath professional): A great improve ment but I pity the 18-handicap pera!

Mr. W. C. Lemarque (President of the Alliance)

for iron thos

Mr. J. S. F." Morrison (formEY Cambridge triple Blue) There may be some loss of length, but it is a much better ball altogether.

Mr. J.: H. Beavis (formerly secre tary of the Hindhead Club): Easier for the long-hand cor play ers; more scientific for the experts F. H. Frostick (St. George's Hill protessicant): A good ball, but will people buy it if they think they are going to lose distance 7 Detance is undoubtedly last playing against the wind, but it is regained with the wind at your back owing to the urger surface.

Mr. J. A. Board (West Hill) Diminishes the difficulties of bad kieg

This room spoke of a woman of fine", taste and discernment, of Sraciousness and restraint. It shat- tered my conventional picture of a worm bookmaker into a thongand fragments

Mrs Veret is slim, white-haind with a complexion a schoolgiri might cary. She proves once and for all that a clever mind and s quick brain are not incompatible with attractiveness in a woman, and that it ta unnecessary to apa masculinity to win success in come petition with men. But Mr Vernet is no feminist. She laughs at the idea that mm are jealom of successful women and are out to keep them book, peke

MEXICAN POLITICS.

{{[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

MEXICO CITY, March 9th. The German, so-called bomb ex- pert, Max Haking who was ar with the plot to assassinate Presi recte on euspicion in connection dent Calles and General Obregon, has catablished his innocence and has been rabeatest an

MR. BOTTOMLEY AGAIN

IN THE COURTS.

SPECIAL-ISBEE TRIAL ON MARCH MR.

The broad walks were paved with large flagstones, pale pink, French grey,lavendor, and fresh sand calour, and between each stone was three inches of grams cropped with the signs of continuous care. Here

supported a carmine treselling, the base of the pikarstiled in exquisite contrasts. Here and there stood garden seats built entirely of highly coloured tiles that Atted into a congruens whole the imagination of the perron-a to completely that one marvelled at colour genius who had conceived them.NE

His Higa Gods, and

In aceret corners under trees that, End bent to the Mediterranean winds were bronze busts ca pedes tale Just inside the gate was Dostoievsky, a little distance away was Dickens, and rear bim Flaus bert. And at the back of the dwel- ling place was a large tower labell ed ·" Aquarium”- building of grem tiles, on which fantastic yel- low fish sprawled

LONDON, Feb 4th. Mr. Horatio Bottomley made an Standing in this garden, which application in a label action he is he had kept so secret, one glimpsed bringing against the News of the the mind of the man who had done.

orld and Mr. Houston, that an this thing He lived with colour, early date should be fixed for the and he could not write without it. trial of a special issue of mixed law Strength and colour are the virtues and tact which Master Jelf in of his books; not literary brilliance. Chambers had directed should be How be crowded all these colours disposed of before the libel action together without a single discord. I italf was heard :. The Master had do not know. He had a mind that ordered a speedy trial mared beyond the ochres and buffs Mr. Justice Horridge: The de- of his Spain. And he used tile--- fence is that you have given the tens of thousands of tiles to build an Endemnity, have up the pizce of his imagining; and

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Men have always been most kind and helpful,” she says. “My brother" bookmakers have often FOX ATTACKS MOTOR-CAR.saved me money by a timely warn-

ing. At first, they rather resented There is a defence of justifica-walled it high for secrecy, a woman, but when they realised ton, Mrs./Bottomley replied.. A few gardens stood in melan- A motorist was, one night, driv-that I was taking the work serious But then there comes the special choly idleness. One neked me if I defence that by an alleged agree would like to see the master. - Ar at the top of Wrotham-hick, to mily north of Maidstone, when his head lights revealed what appeared to be a dog in the centre of the road. On closer investigation it proved to be a full-grown fox.

Lag along a lonely stretch of road ly, why, they took Dent I am estopped from bringing I followed him I wondered if he

The fox ran along the road in the beam of the lights for more than half a urile. It then turned and sprang at the car, but was tem porarily stunned by the force of

the impact with the radiator

It recovered, however, and ran off again down the road, still in front of the car. After another Winner: 18.30.

half mile it collapsed from exhaus Pincos: 1st $5.40 and $0.70; 3rd tion, and the motorist was able to

kill it.

3.The Sun Chun Plate: Seven Furlongs, Winner #950; 2nd $125; 3rd $75

Umon's Fook Shau

(Mr. Clarke) Mr. Chin Lee's Wing Sin

THE (Mr. Wong) Mr. B. W. Cheng's Pitchfork:

(Mr. Proulx)

Four starters.

Dividends

Winner: $7,80

- Places: 1st $5.10; 2nd $5.20

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The Lit Chun Plate: One Mile, Winner $200; 2nd 100: 3rd $50. For all China ponies

Mr Recreation's Wild Fellow

(Mr Wong) MrKH's Chemal

(Mr. Roza) Air Huen Chung's Chów sze (Mr. Loo)

6The Tuan Bin Plate: Mine. Furlongs Winner. $200, 2nd 100; 3rd 800. Mr. Tang's Sutherland

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Mrs. Vernet demonstrates the this action. Until this issue is de were the person who had no Comercial value of the bright cided the action is at a standstill assiduously locked after the three idea," "I suddenly thought of it in the middle of the night, the News of the World, said he dil Books And Death.

Mt. Comynts Cang, K.C., for the | inches of grass between the tileer. told ase. "There seemed to be an not oppose the application, subject opening for a woman hookmaker to to a reasonable tame being given take bets from women. They want Having regard to an allegation to stake small amounts, and men that a document, which was signed are apt to be impatient with small while Mr. Bottomley was in prison bets. I went to Ladbrokes and awaiting his appeal, was not per naked them to let me try my scheme, mitted to be read by him without They told me to go ahead."

the authority of the governor That was fifteen years ago. To the prison, and that such authority day Mrs. Vemet is probably, the was not obtained, it would be necer most successful woman in the busi zary to procure the attendance of ness world. She claims that the re- the then governor of Wormwood markable increase in the number Serubs Prison, as a witness. He of women who attend race meetings and been transferred to another unaccompanied by a male escort is prison

a direct consequence of her provi- The hearing of the issue was fized sion for their needs. But the num- for March 8th. bers quite as many mon as "Women among her cliente, quas

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The fallow led me to a little building apart from the villa. Here was the library it which Thaner had always worked. Two cervants with bared heads stood at cloths of black covering their bodies ↑ the entrance, ask

and hands, cloths sprinkled with went in. The room was murky silver atars. An aged Jehu, with full of hooks row upon row of coat, and grey stockings that cover with drawn blinds It was a room three-cornered bat and a black books. He lay there in a brighted a pair of spindle legs, tried to coloured colli, rows of Tauchaits stem the foundering of the animals editions immisdiately above his they manoeuvred the coach into head A single palm leaf reposed potio

his chest. At his feet was a

The Virtues Of Tame.

and violets. The tramp of those couple of gendarmes had striven to smother at red carnations, ruinos Then into the clearing which d who adored him bed trodden some make in the mob came the frit of the carnations to the carpet speaker. He read a long oration. ws

I have seen many men in death, Other speakers followed; they said (Mr. Harriman) 1 of her smile, by her courtesy, and not think many awundlers would but never one who impressed me very much what the previous pak Mr. R.C.6 Gleamerin

by her amazing aptitude for pass that shrewd, straight a heightened the aggremion of these declaiming continued.

more The whitenem of death bad had said. For half an hour this MON CỀ Clarke) 2 memorising faces, f. carry a of hers.)

The breadth of his ach speaker concluded, and with Mr. P. N. Cheng's Fir Deathousand Dames and addresses in

With the credit system the black eyebrows FURNIZER (Mr. Proulx) 3 my head," the remarked.” In sadi- capita. required is enormous.⠀

forehead was significant and trembling hand pushed his Five starters.

tion she is able to tack the names ire Vernet continued “That Pressive On his face was an ex- speech into his pocket, he was taken Dividends si

to their respective owners, which is alone would debar a woman from Pression grim and sinister. It was to the dead men'si

$9.50.

Places: $15.90; 2nd $8.30; 3rd a much more difficult fentarting on her own My expenses challenge sod defiance. Even it pret

kissed of I watched her at work at Ban-Corsa expendes, apart from office death he seemed to buri challenge cham The Bhang Yuen Plate:

down. Her provision against the expenses-work out at about £2,000 at his enemies weather was a silent reproach to a year. Besides, if the betting tax Ibanez, the splendid exile, may in our English chmale She had come is not altered there will soon be heap of riches. He had spent

thousands prepared for frost, rain or Row no bookmakers left. Another your

trying to make his Spain Warm coat over her pretty will see the end of us all. No one daylight He hated the King golden brown suit, & scarlet macin- can stand the loss it enters se bo hated religion, which he des tosh handy, and a pair of furlined have paid tax on as much as clared bad defeated the progresa snowboots. She had a cheery word a thousand porde when my actual of his country. And next morning.

The and a recognising mile for all her winnings have been only gy 10 they buried ham without the t clients, lowers and winnere. Only After all, to thx on the book is to of the printe once was sta fustered, and that was tax something that is nou existent.It was a strange

making cemeter when there owned a chance of mixs" No, the frizure the mo

fall of at the back Placer: 1st 85.70 2nd $0.90 3rding the last race train home, sud source of the future $18,507

aftar hours on her feet in bitterly ideas for making cold weather that was not surpris 1had time. But

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Winner: 400; 2nd $125; 3rd $785. Mr. Luen Vick's Mo Kau Sing

(Mr. Roza) Mr. K.H's Chemal..:(Mr. Usher) 38: W. Cheng Wuchang

(Mr. Charles) Seven starters, fact Dividends:

Places Ist $5.90; 2nd $6.30: 3rd-

Winner 200

Mex Yamy Man

ardi 50%

Winner: 10:40.

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Dividends

Winner: 19:10:

Places: 1st #9.50; Sud 30,10;

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Places? Tat: $5.80- 2nd $1orandreat knowledge of the

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