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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1st, 1928.
LAWN TENNIS.
HONG DOUBLES.'
FRANCE RETAINS HER TITLE.
M.C.C. AUSTRALIAN
TOUR
GOOD COMPETITION SEEN.
Y
:
TILDEN'S GREAT
STRUGGLE.
INVINCIBLE COCHET,
[THRUTON AIUTER'S AGENCY.}
July 30th.
Two exceptionally fine matches were seen on the Hong Kong Cric ket Club courts yesterday in the Hong Doubles Tournament. In the Arst Col. Wyatt and Rev. F. P, W.' Alexander (owe 15/3) defeated W.
France has retained the Davis M. Lyons and L. A. R. Duncan Cup by matches to one, vibing (A.P.C.) scr. in the third round by the remaining two singles matches two close sets 97. 7-5. The mili- tary pair will now play C. Lay from the United States
playeta.
Lacoste best 'Hennessey 48, 6-1, 7-5, 6-3.
Sandee and H. Graves (Mercantile Bank) rec. 15 in the fourth round.
An even better struggle was icea
Cochet best Tilden 9-7, 86, 6aik, between R. Gordon and W. D. Fiddes Wilson (Jardine, Matheson) It was a new Cochet who beat Far, and D. J. Gilmore and T. L.Tilden. The winner added to his Christie (Chartered Bank) rec. 15 love of fine, overhead volleying also in the third round Long and the taking of risks a long rallies wore the feature of the game range control which made us and the match did not finish until game absolute perfection. Eight began to fail. The first two sets were divided and a protracted and exciting struggle for the final eet made the match one of the most interesting since the Tourna- meat started. The Jardine pair eventually won at 6-1, 5-7 and 9-7.
When necessary, Cochet stone- walled as steadily as Lacoste him- seil and kept Tilden running. Tilden much oftener came to the net but Cochet was quite unmoved and continued slogging away from the baseline.
Tilden Was conspicuous with terrific drives and brilliant flashes
FRIENDLY BASEBALL GAME” at the net.
“ASHEVILLE" DEFEATS FILIPINOS.
Playing with a scratch team, the Filipino Baseball Club lost to the U.S.S. Asheville crew in a friendly game played at the Happy Valley diamond yesterday.
Zafra the pitching ace for the losing team was unable to twirl Owing to a sprained elbow, and Kuno the star centre feld of the Colony was unable to turn up for the Filipinos owing to another engigement.
The game on the whole was a patchy oue. Neither team was at its heet and the inning dragged on rather tediously.
The Asheville boys managed to secure the victory by runs to 4, five of which were added in the Inat two innings.
NEW YORK POLICE
SENSATION.
wwwwww.
TWENTY-TWO MURDERS
UNSOLVED.
CHIEF TO GO?
NEW YORK, July 3rd. Great prominence is given in newspapers here to the announce- mest of the appointment of General Viscount Byng of Viny to be new Commissioner of the Metro- politan Police, in succession to Sir William Horwood, writes
the Daily Express New York corres- pondent
The New York police department
crisis. is also passing through The troubles here, however, differ from those in London, in that they are laid to the inefficiency of the police.
At the conclusion Cochet was carried off shoulder high.
BRITISH SUCCESSES.
TRIUMPHS AT OLYMPIC
GAMES.
GERMAN PROWESS.
(THROUGH KIUTER'S AGENOT.}
AMSTERDAM, July Slet. - Further Olympic results are sa follow:-
Hundred Metres Fial..
“
F. Williams (Canada)
J. E. Landoa (Britain)
1
9
Lammere (Germany)
3
Time: 10.4-5 seconds.
Throwing The Kammır.
O'Callaghan (Ireisad).................
Distance: $1.39 metres. Skoeld (Sweden)
1.
9
51.29 metres. Black (U.SA) pazzianki 3
19.03 metres.
Weight Lifting Points. The final placings in the weight- lifting competitions are a follows:
Germany: 24 points. France 19 points. "Austria" 16) points.
Italy: 13 points Hailand 8 points. Egypt: 6 points.
-"COLD” LETTER TO A
HUSBAND.
PINNED ON HIS BREAST BEFORE SUICIDE.
STRONG TEAM SELECTED.
A. P. F. CHAPMAN AS CAPTAIN.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 3lit England's Teat selectors today announced the team which has been
to represent the M.C.D. in Australia this year d
follows:
chosen
Mr. A. P. F. Chapman (Kent),
Captain.
Mr. X. U. White (Somerset), Vice-
Captain.
Mr. D. R. Jardines (Surrey), J. B. Hobbs (Surrey),
H. Sutcliffe (Yorkshire).
E. Tyldesley (Lancashire).
W. R. Hammond (Gloucester).
M. W. Tate (Sussex).
M. Leyland Yorkshire).
H. Larwood (Notts).
I Anca (Kent).
E. Hendren (Middlesex).
P. Mead (Hanta).
G. Duckworth (Lancashirë), S. Staples (Notts).
A. P. Freeman (Kent).
It is probable that another player will be selected to go as seven- teenth,
45
A WELL CHOSEN, TEAM,
GOOD SPORTSMEŃ ALL.
A good deal more subtlety has probably gone to the choice of the above team than one usually asso- ciates with a Selection Committee. The only surprise is the omission of Hallows, the lancashire left hander, who headed last year's batting averages and has done wot- He has derful things this year. been regarded as possible successor to Hobbs and it is a little strange to see him omitted and say, Phil Head, of Hampshire, a veteran and a poor fielder, selected. That experience has been preferred to youth is the only really serious criticism that could be raised.
RACING.
NAVIGATOR WINS AT GOODWOOD.".
THE STEWARDS CUP.
{THROUGH "HLUTER'S JUENCY.]
The result of the Stewards Cup, run over six furlongs at Goodwood, wast
1. Navigator.
9. Endowment..
Stranathro.
3
Won by two lengths, with half a asth between second and third. Sixteen Ta
BETTING: Navigator 8/1 Ea- dowment 10/1; Stranathro 20/1.
TIENTSIN GAMBLERS
RAIDED:
ARRESTED,
MANY RUSSIAN AND CHINESE
***"WOMEN.
TIENTSIN, July 20th. There were exciting scenes in the ex-German Concession late on Wed- besday night when a large force of plainclothes policemen from the Tientsin City Headquarters raided three zileged gambling houses in the locality and arrested no fewer than -200 people of various nationalities who were enjoying themselves in these resorts.
The raid was remarkably well- planned and wai apparently carried out "without the pre-knowledge of the police of No. 1 Special Adminis tritive Area. The houses (which are quite near to one another) were secretly surrounded by a large number of police officers and at given signal, shortly after 11 o'clock, all the entrances to the three places were simultaneously rushed There was a mad scramble by those within the house to escape but so effectually had the polics isid their plans for the attack that very few About one-fourth of succeeded. those arrested were women.
Most of the players were Chinese and Russians with a sprinkling of other nationalities although it is British subjects among them. understood that there were no
MINDEN · DAY.
K.O.S.B. - ANNIVERSARY,
AQUATIC SPORTS AND DANC
ING COMPETITION...
TOO MANY RUNS IN
CRICKET.
- PLEÀ FOR, REVISION OF L.B.W. RULE.
DOCTOREN WICKETS.
BEATEN BY BRER RABBIT.
GOVERNMENT DEFEAT IN
THE LORDS.
REBELLION IN THE BACK- WOODS.
-House of Lords. Brer Rabbit caused a defeat of
The Hon. R. H. Lyttelton, 'n scion of the famous cricketing family of which Viscount Cobham is the head, believes that there is a crisis in cricket, and he has written & little book to prove his case. He calls it "The Crisis in Cricket and the out a bill designed to hasten his
Leg Before Eule" (Longmans,
This measure, which had pre- a dd).
the Government, when an unusual- ly large gathering of Peers threw
extermination.
To-day that very popular and important section of our garrison, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, are celebrating the anniversary of the Battle of Minden. It was one of the innumerable fights that have taken place between France any Germany, and on this occasion England was only concerned to a was minor degree. The battle fought on August 1st and with the The trouble with cricket. Mr.viously been passed by the House of Commons, was originally intro six British Lyttelton contends, is that too many duced by the Government at the Prassian Army were
scored in fist-class Regiments including, the 25th Foot, runs are
request of the Farmers' Union. the name by which the K.0.5.B.'s matches, and, in consequence, there Under its provisions any person were formerly known. The British are too many deawn games. If this who could prove that damage is contingent played a desperately state of affairs persists he foresees being caused on his land by rab- gallant role. As at Balaclava "some-a progressive diminution in public bits coming from a neighbour's". one had blundered," but a single interest and a slow decay of our fields might appeal to the county line of infantry broke three lines national. aunimer game of cavalry and turned the fortunes of the day.
Each year the Regiment remem- bers the let of August and this year the programme includes aquatic sports at Tai Wan Beach, during the afternoon and a Highland Dancing Competition, for a cup given by the Commanding Oficer, Col. Comyn, C.M.G.. at 8.15 p.m., on the Murray Parade Ground.
TELEVISION.
THE LONG VIEW,
ONLY IN ITS CRUDE BEGINNINGS,
IET GA ATTIso]
Television, as understood by most people, suggests that a day will come when we shall be able to see, in a screen or mirror, the image of a distant event as it actually and simultaneously occurs, whether it be the finish of a race or the performance of a play.
realized, but it is not likely to be
This consummation
realised in our time.
may ho
The cinema industry, which has been entertaining a notion that television would turn out to be a kind of rival, may breathe freely. The most that I ever expert to see of television is the flickering and misty image of some one's head and shoulders in the act of deliver ing a wireless talk, or similar per- formance...
Pad Play.
council, who would have the ulti mate power of sending an official on to the neighbour's land to des troy the rabbits by any means ex- cept the use of steel traps.
Why, in Mr. Lyttelton's opinion, does the bat dominate the ball and give the game a lop-sided aspect He is in no doubs about the causes.
"All the Peers agreed that rabbits The first is pad play by the bats
are an udmitigated nuisance on 'men in defiance of the spirit, if not the land when alive, however thsty the letter, of the Lb.w. rule, and they may be when dead, but the the second is that modern wickets idea of an invasion of property by have been artificially "doctored to some official destroyer had produc- such an extent that they do noted a rebellion in the backwoods, ve the bowler a chance to reap whence came many Pears strangè the rewards of his skill.
to the House to defeat the measure.
Mr. Lyttelton makes out a power-
Placating The Farmera." tal case under both counts of his
"A bad and ridiculous Bill,” indictment. He thinks the Lb.w. rale should be amended in favour exclaimed Earl Wemyss "If we look into its history we shall find of the bowler. At present, no bats- man is adjudged out to a ball that that the Minister of Agriculture is
not really its father, but only its · hits, him on any part of the hody. unless it has been pitched in a foster-parent. It is a Bill not so straight line between wicket and much to extinguish the rabbit as wicket, and, within these limita to placate the Farmers' Union." tions would, in the opinion of the umpire, have hit the wicket. Mr. Since the Government was re- Lyttelton would alter the rule so turned by an anonimous majority, that, no matter where the ball he proceeded, the agricultural in- pitched, the batsman should be out terests had expected a great deal
he intercepts it with his legs, and, in the opinion of the umpire, more from them than they had got. The Farmers' Union was very it would have hit the wicket.
much annoyed and was almost The famous Arthur Shrewsbury is ready to pass a vote of censure on blamed by Mr. Lyttelton for the the Government, when the Minis- introduction of leg play. He was its first exponent, and he has had ter of Agriculture, Mr. Guinness, many imitators among modern bats to placate them, introduced this
Indeed, according to Mr. | Bill. Lyttelton, it has become a cardinal principle of batting that the legs are to be regarded as a second line What qualifications, for instance. of defence, and because this is so he were to be possessed by the council
men.
Fun Expoñent.
Its principles were all wrong.
And yet one can see very good reasons when one comes to each. instame in turn. Why J. C. White and Pal Hendren There is this about it. The first essential for any team is that it should be a "happy family" and White and Hendren are two of the best fellows who ever put on pads. It is that quality of good fellowship that has made Sussex and Kent the two most popular teams in England and Villiers Club, enid to be conducted semblance of life they must reach of the flashing cut and the lust grocer, or a poacher. The cost of
and
Even that calls for marvellous or- ganisation in mechanism mathematica the
"A Clean Sweep. The premises raided were the house formerly known which was at one time a well-known Louvre in Woodrow Wilson Street "Lotto "house, the pear-by Ermit- age, and a place known as the
by an Englishwoman. The former houses are alleged to be run by Russian people.
Each television picture has to be larger the number of details the built up from tiny details. The longer the delay in transmission.
If the pictures are to achieve a the spectator's gaze at the rate of about sixteen per second. Eight-Building."
anathematises the developments in official sent along to destroy rab- modern batting which have followed from it the so-called two-eyed bits! He was vaguely described i stance, the cramping of style, and the Bill as any person." He the almost complete disappearance might be a chiropodist, a green-
straight drive,
Mr. Lyttelton does not believe the extermination was to be paid that the best of our bowlers to-day by the occupier. are less skilful than their famous predecessors. He thinks that if leg
How nice for him to lie awake
it is more important that an Aus- tralian team should have that
All the gambling equipment, quality of sportsmanship and the
roulette wheels, layout boards, Television, for all practical pur- real cricket spirit than that they chips, etc., as well as safes and poses in our time, will be confined piny were more severely penalised at night listening to a chiropodist should win matches. But incident money, were taken from the pre- to what the film-producer calls and wickets less like polished con- shooting at his rabbits and to say. mises to police headquarters, with close-ups," and although close-ups crete, the balance between bat and ally it is the fret essential in a
the players, who were detained in offer some dramatic scope they are ball would be more redressed and to himself every time he heard a tean. It was because he got loyalty, custody and charged with gambling of little or no use in connection the game restored to its former at shot: "Another twopence gone!"
Lord Darling's Suggestion, with news-events, or happeningstractiveness. He cites some interest. enthusiasm and love of the game yesterday morning.
On vestngation it was found in which the background plays a ing facts about the late Mr. F. R
Lord Darling, with a twinkle in for its own sake out his men that
that the majority of the police part.
Spofforth. In the years 1882 and I do not know how many sepa- 1884 in this country the great Aus his eye, offered the most original P. F. Warner a quarter of a century headquarters' big baul consisted of age "Recovered the Ashes" with Chinese (among whom were 40 rate light points" would be retralian bowler obtained 404 wickets, suggestion Starting with the pre- since by no means the strongest material | Chinesa women), the Russian con- quired to build up a picture about and of these only six, were Lb.w., miss that foxes are the natural
The last thoughts of sa estate agent for his dog before commisting suicide were expressed in a letter fead by Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the A new agitation has developed minster coroner, at as inquest in the police department concern on July 3rd on Mr. James Ernest ing the inability of detectives "to.
King, aged fifty, a member of the obilin evidence in twenty-two un- solved New York murder cases, W., who was found hanging in his firm of King and Hall, Cork Street, and Д general shake-up of the
office. police is threatened. It is possible Mrs. Florence Jessie King, the that Mayor Walker will be coma- pelled to remove Police Commis widow, said that she and her hus- sioner 3. A Warren, his personal band had been separated
March 17th. fricad.
What was
Yorkbootlegger, was blown to
two years.
*
the
The coroner: Chicago Gangsters.
ground of the separation-Finan Indications are accumulating that cial. He never had any money, Chicago gangsters are beginning
The coroner (perusing letter): to leave Chicago, and are turning This is rather a cold blooded letter. their attention to New York, in is it not 1-Well, I did not feel an effort to join the New York much about it. I had practically bootlegging trade."
Benjamin Kanowitz, the New to help to keep the home going for The coroner: You wrote your pieces on Sunday. He entered his husband, with whom you had lived motor-car, atarted it going, and a bomb, which had been placed in for eight years, that it he wrote
motor-car, exploded. The to you you would not answer him.
The coroper
added that Mr. police convinced that
the King pinned this letter on his merder was the result of the boot cheat and then hanged himself. He leggers' war.
Frank Yale, known as the Bean suggested that Mrs. King might have been a little more tender Brummel of New York's under- world, was also killed on Sunday hearted.
Gambling. while driving his motor-car in Mr. King said that it her hus- car overtook him, fired into his hand had not gambled everything
the
BIO
Brooklyn. Four men in a saloon
in England. Equally A. E. Gilligan came very neat success during the lean years of English cricket, and with atrocious luck as regarda casualties.
The team for the. Tests more or less selects itself with allowances for garies of form. Mead and J. C White will probably be in- valuable in the Minor matches, but will probably not figure in the lead- ing fixtures unless either of them strikes an extraordinarily brilliant patch-more than a possibility by the way
Hobbs and Sutcliffe, the best first wicket pair, judged by achievement and not reputation, that England has ever had will be there to open matters. D. R Jardine and A. P. Chapman have casentially the big match temperament while for shees the equal of bis earlier namesake The Bowling.
tingent was composed of 31 ben and about 12 women, and the other foreignera included one. German man and one American man- Feling and Tientsin Timer,
SHANGHAI WOMAN'S
CRIME.
INSTIGATING MURDER OF
SON
one inch square, but I think. I am or one in sixty-seven. within the mark in saying that the number is not likely to be fewer than 3,000, and each point has to be transmitted separately.
If the picture has to fill a screen
enemies of rabbita and their most i Wickets.
humane killers, he proposed that "Spofforth," Mr. Lyttelton writes, the Bill should be amended to "made the ball break back from
the off as often as anybody of his allow county councils to subscribe of the smallest, convenient pace did, and his 404 wickets were to fox hunts.
family size, say seven inches by got at the expense of 18 runs per This was the line of reasoning: four, the number of light points re wicket. If batsmen who played Fox hunt committees, quired to provide a distinct image Spofforth had used their logs, as
thus
sup-
increases enormously, and if the. W. Hearne and many modern ported, would see that there were area concerned is as large as the batamen do, by standing clean in enough foxes on the land for their ordinary cinema-screen the opera front of the wicket with both legs; bounds to kill, and the foxes would tion involved in transmission, he would always have been a great kill the rabbits Thus would would seem to be of the most bowler, but he would not have out the necessity for any interference formidable and costly kind.
80 effective, because there would
Getting Rear
have been scores of cases of bats by council officials be obviated, BRANGHAI, July 28th. On a charge of instigating the Inventors of television processes sien saving their wickets with their and, since farmers kncy that hunt murder of her son, an ex-Nation-have, turned up during the past legs to balls pitched outside the offing men were their best friends,
plessed. allt officer who left the service to fifty years with the regularity and stump and breaking back and his everyone would be ple start a newspaper called the San persistence of recurring decimals. average of runs per wicket would Rather unexpectedly appearing The idea has long been acienti have been nearer 20 runs thans a champion of the rights of pri- Mina Chinese woman, aged 63
vate property. Earl Bussell, the years, was sentenced to three years' fically practicable, but it would | twelve."
Socialist, condemned the Bill "on" now seem that it is getting near m
the ground that the intrusion of imprisonment by Judge Tseng and
both in Thirty Years Ago.
Lyttelton's indictment of the county council killers would cause Deputy, in the Provisional Court England and abroad.
America, thanks to the enterprise have the support of the vast The Marquess of Salisbury, hap. yesterday. Four members of a gang employed to do the murder each of one of her big telephone com- majority of followers of the game, pily returned to his place as leader The bowling is the anxiety. Lar- received eight years imprisonment. panies has been experimenting writes the Daily Express Balsmen of the House after a long illness, Evdenevet at previous bear-avishly in television, but it is not may not appreciate a return to the had noted with evident alarmn the wood is not too strong physically
easy to accept American reports at wickets of, say, thirty years ago, appearance of so many Conserva and it cannot be said that eitherings was to the effect that the son
was murdered on his own doorstep their face value, except in the case but they were good enough for tive Peers up from the country of the slow Bowlers, White and Free-
on May 24th last when he answered of the veteran motion-picture en Grace. Steel, Alfred Lyttelton, to defeat the Bill, and to them, as man have proved themselves of
call at the door. As soon as he gineer, C. Francis Jenkins, Test Match calibre,
Hammond is usefal change made his appentance at the Hor her. Jenkins seems to have no Ranji, Try, Stoddar, and Mae they sat behind him, he aero, as
doubt but that he will shortly learn, and it can scarcely be said almost impassioned appeal,
The rabbit has few friends, be that the game was less attractive man and Beyland can take a turn was shot Detectives were summon- I ask one last favour. Cap you Staples has the first esentialed and Det.-Sub-Izspr: Telfer was able to broadenst films with ease then than it is now a declared, but there is a lingering
th that and clarity
An authentic experiment in that Mr. Lyttelton's arguments, but affection for it on account of the direction was recently undertaken tressed as they are by facts and amount of pleasure it first gave us al Chicago, in connection with the figures which cannot easily be die in our youth, but very sternly- visit of Vilma Banky whose image counted, catry conviction. His little "Get it will fixed into your minds was transmitted to New York, I book deserves serious attention. that it is a nuisance and treat it
Ineffective.
mətor-car, and escaped. The police would have been all right, He was steadiness E. Tyldenley is almost Dr F. Bamonding, Senior Conial's the first commercial stage modern doctored" wicket will great, friction in the countryside.
The coroner read the letter writ ten by Mr. King to his landlady, in which he stated
have discovered that Yale was aca teetotaler. He had been finan customed to financing Brooklyn cially embarrassed for two years.
in for murder jobs Mrs. King added that her hue- guamen
band's landlady at Challoner Chicago.
Street, West Kensington, told her Drug Paddler Killed. Another murder was revealed to that he owed her £80.0 day, when the police found the body of James Senter with seven bullet woulds in the Head; and his fast teeth knocked out, lying in A vacant piece of ground in Brooklyn
Beater had a prison teced as drug peddler and bootlegger in Yale's district, and the palice be lieve he was concerned in the feud which edissed Tale's death
Yale lies in a silver coin dram
, -י
Dear Mrs. Seaton, You have been so very good and kind that
get Mr. Banton or Mr Henner- sey to take care of Bhiricy (his favourite dog) to-night, and to morrow get a vet to sent him
ground 1
ed in a dinner jacket, with a rosty I know I should have done this
in his hands & great cross elec trically lighted fiasties on and off at the head of the coffin, while at the foot is a box with an opening through which visitor may drop money for flowers. Twd women, each of whom has declared herself Yale's wife, have claimed the body.
for the interminable Australian informed by one man arrested that struggles steadiness but possibly three others had taken part in the another medium paced bowler may critic, and that they had bees paid be included, Macauley, Mercer, 8500 to cominit the murder by the peacefully to the happy hunting Kennedy or Clarke according to mother of the victims dims per understand, and then transferred The M.C.C., as we know, is slow! to as sucheng MAG
form. At present there ate Ave The motive for the crimp.
regular and two change bowlers plexed the Follc, but it so another trundler, would not be out of place when one remembers the strain entailed. by an dus walian tour and the vital necessity or not overworking Tate and Lar- wood in those most sporting fix thret against 16 of somewhere In the Back of the Bush:"
myself, but he has been much a pal for five years I could not. Yet it would be a real kindness to me, and I set it s the last favour of the kindeet-hearted woman I ever knew. The coroner recorded a verdict of Suicide while of unsound mind."
fit, following on the constatt re- quats for money by the son to keep bi propaganda journal going, the mother thought it would not be very long before her money would be all gene did, since her husband was did, her livelihood as well.-Y. Daily News,
thatre,
hia Binger on two weaknesses which division, the Bill was rejected by The entire operation took bine certainly need to be rectified, 03 votes to the total number, at hours, but that was not so much Drawn matches are the bugbear of Peers thus voting being only a very television as telephotography, the player and the spectator alike, few less than those who attended The secrecy with which television and if Mr. Lyttelton's two suggest for the second reading of the re experiments are surrounded, varied ed remedies would help to diminish tent Women's Franchise Bill The by occasional spasms of optimistic thent then surely they are worth result was received with cheers,
Daily Mail publicity, is not a good sugary consideration.
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