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HONG KONG. MONDAY, JULY 1; 1929.

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY."

TIME-TABLE.

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ASTATIONS

Na. 2 No. 4

LX. LM.

Kowloon. Dep. 1 6.40; 8.05

Yaamuti. Dep. 649

Shatin...Dep. 7,011

Taipo... Dep. 7,25

Taipo

Market. Dep. 7.20

Fanling Dep. 7,30

Sheung

abai...Dep. 7,35

Shad-

chun... Art. 7.41 8.45

Canton...Arr.

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8.30 9.1510.00 12.10 1.15 9.51 3.80 4,80 5,40 7.35"

9.25 10.08 13.18) 1,23

9.38 10.2012.80° 1,85,

4.85 8,48 7.43 4.50 6.00) 7.55

9-53 10.33 12,43 1.48

5.04 6.188.08

9.58 10.37 12.47 1,59

10.10 10.47 12.87) 2,09

5.03 6.17 8.13 5,18 6.97 6,9 5.29 6.32 8.24

9.07 10.15 10.5 1.02 2.07 8.00

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5.48

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No.3 No. 7 AM. AM.

No. No. No. 17, 10 Sa No. II AM. AM F.MP.M.

20.38

P.M.F.K,

8.10

3.25

Cantor ...Dep.

Shunchan...Dep. 7.17 9:03 10.34

11.27 11.472.33 4.39 5.47 8.42

1.48 11:55 3.01

6.54 11.00 8.06 4.50 5.58

Shoungaha: Dep.

Fanking...Dep.

7.25 8.11 10.4%- 7,30 8.15 10.47

Taipo Market.Dep Taipo

4.26 7,40

(Shalin

10.67 Dop.

8.31 11.01 8.44 1114 Dep. Tanmer Dep. 8.11 9.56 11.28! Kowloon ...Art.

9.17

12.11 3.175.00 8.08

18.16 3.92 5.04 633

12.30 13.36 5.176.26

12.43 3,495.29 5.08

8.02 11.32 12.07 12.48 3.54 5.36 6.44 7.32

7.07

7.14

7.49

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HUNDRED-MILLION DOLLAR DERBY.

UNBACKED HORSES JOY TO "BOOKIES"

DRAB

DREARY DAY,

WOMEN OUTNUMBER MEN AT POPULAR EPSOM MEETING.

London papers to hand by thetachment from the Derby. Higher excitement in the canter back to last mail bring full details of the still some larks were expressing the paddock. Mr. Jinks certainy sensational events at Epsom on their astonishment in song at the June 3, when a Belfast colt-re- spectacle spread out below, but squadron of advertising garded as a rank outsider-won the when a Derby by a length and a bail. The aeroplanes arrived in the heavens following details are selected from these misguided birds" thought it seek fresh woods and

various scurces :-

No Obbers!· There was до cheering when Trigo won the Derby. Bookmakers do not cheer.

No one had, backed it. Every one was staggered.

hetter

Final Hymn-Staging.

pastures new,

Looking down at last from the top of the precipitous new stand, ene found the Derby picture all set and complete. The weather was duli and soon & drizzle began which freshened up the exquisite green of The stable had such a preference the empty course that it kept this for Le Voleur that Mr. R. G. year with the utmost vigilance from Dawson, the trainer, was even re- the slightest trespass. (Later on ported to have said, jokingly, that Lord Lonsdale himself rebuked a wherever Trigo finished Le Voleur, member of the peerage who had his stable mate, would finish a i ventured to follow the ancient quarter of a mile in front of him.practice of strolling from the stand The owner. Mr. W. Barnett, who to the paddock over the grass). is a cora and coal merchant in Belfast, advised a friend just before the race not to back his horse, hat

One of the queerest things at the Lo put something instead on

Derby was the departure of the other

the jockeyan horse. Athford, in

all their bright silk Coronation Cup the next day. colours for the starting place crowd The jockey, J. Marshal, was evened together into one motor-car, more surprised. He is only twenty, which looked as if it were full of

Brighton boy who had only rid- flowers.

As we waited for the ren in the race twice before, and horses to settle down for the start be is the first apprentice whe has we were distracted by a sudden ever won the Derby. No wonder bellowing from the popular side of there was no cheering.

the course. All the men carrying texts had formed in line and were lustily singing & hymn as a last defiance to the wickedness of race going At the same moment, with grote que contrasts

his

Several millionaire owners were bitterly disappointed because their

horses had lost.

one of threat day, bučko o

wanted holding. but "the others. were very tame.. None of them, not even Gay Day, who after li was wearing a hood, showed any an evil temperament. signs of Hunter's Moon was held back after the parade, and cantered back to the paddock.some little time after the other competitors had gone. It seemed that Weston, took him back tenderly, as it he were afraid of that leg which had trouble last week!

caused

With the exception of N.P.B. and, for moment, Reed mouth and Horus, there was no trouble at the start. Instead of being a large fed of highly stung three-yen olds, trained and keyed up to the highest pitch, this Derby field might well have been a field of old and experienced selling steeple chasers. The delay at the gate was very short helore Captain Allizan sent the field away to a good start. is his custom. begza Kopi, as slowly, as did Posterity and Leon. ard and Grand Prince. Hunter' Moon, on the other hand, was very well away, as were: Gay Day, Trigo, Barbizon, En Garde, Le Voleur. and, on the outside, Rattlin the Reefer, Mr. Jinks, and Cragadour were sufficiently well away, so that their supporter could not say after- wards that they had lost the race

at the start.

At the Top of the Hill. When the top of the bill was upzen acroplanes care Touring reached, some seven furlongs from overhead, advertising with long the winning post, Hunter's Moon- of the less serious was still in front, followed by

All the fashionable trainers had proved wrong in their judgments. Yo tipster had been right. Every that up one of the fancied jockeys had been

eaten by a boy."

Besides, it was raining. It was A miserable day and it miserable Derby..

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Women Outnumber Men.

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Coming down the hill of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL to Tattenham Corner Trigo moved for the Session 1928. up and joined, on the outside.

Hunter's Moon. The pair were now out clear from Rattlin the Reefer, Gay Day, and Barbizon. with Brienz and En Garde the most prominent of the others. At this point Walter Gay was some way behind the lenders, and not going so well as his owner's other run- ner Rattiin the Reefer, Halfway down the hill, Kopi, who was be ginning to improve his position, appeared to strike into the heels of a horse in front and came down, throwing his rider, Winter, ista, ther forelegs of the horses on his near side.

The Dreary Downs. The Dawns looked like a rather dissolute fairground, fringed with eating and drinking booths and scattered over by gipsy caravana. It was pleasing to see that.. the

Women were more numerous kipsies had won in their bold de- than men in the crowds. They fiance of the authorities we have mustered two-thirds of the passen heen trying to tidy them away agers arriving by many of the motor

so much of the old picturesqueness Coaches, and were often unescort- of Epsom has been tidied.

ed. There was little or no hesita One struggled for one's life betion among them about approach tween the wheels of charabanks asing bookmakers, and they showed steered desperately for the special activity in scouting round grandstand. There was no time to to obtain the best prices for their proat from the threatening texts of

preferences. They were no more Scripture carried hy pious sand- successful than the men, however, wichmen warning one, rather un

in discovering the eventual winner necessarily, of the danger of putting of the one event which had brought Luckily Winter escaped injury, money on favourites or indeed on the great majority of the people that several of the horses behind anything. One lingered to listen to Epsom.

Kopi were impeded, among them for a moment to the incredibly

Posterity, who had to jump over rapid and violent patter of a m

the fallen horse. All this time the favourite, Mr. Jinks, for whom so many people were anxiously look. ing, was running in the middle of the field, apparently unable to im prove his position, and as the race on he #11 never able to went emerge from that middle division, in which he finished.

An Orderly Start.

of tipstersone got up as for the The parade of the 26 starters royal enclosure. This was only took place in rain and wind. With the overplus of the crowd: one laid the exception of Kopi, who, for a glimpses of the mass of it between moment. apparently considered that the buses on the opposite hill he would like to show some signs Like a huge pinkish lake of faces of life, the whole lot of them were bordered by enormous tenta and as quiet and docile as one would vast coloured placards, and over expect a set of riding horses on hend a merry-go-round twirling in the seashore to be. They were, in the air with look of complete de short, dull. There was, further, no

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Diary of Coming Events.

To-day. (July 1.)

Dominion Day. Kowloon Golf Club meeting, Y.M.C.A.

Queen's Theatre: "Fleetwing."

"Sorrel and World Theatre: Son."

Star Theatre: "While London Sleeps"

Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, 1.30 p.m. Dinner Dances: Repulse Bay Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.

Tides-High, 4.2 am..and 4.26 p.m.; Law, 10.32 a.m., and 10.50

T.m.

European Mails:-Outward: Europe vid San Francisco and and Siberia (President Pierce), Doom

Tuesday. (July-2.)

Sale of Crown Land, Kowloon Indand, Lots Nos. 2198 and 2190, 2.W.D. offices, 3 p.m.

Chinese Chamber of CommerceTM meeting, 2.30pm.

Tea Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 |

p.m.

Dinner Dances: Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30

p.m.

Tides-High. 5.39 am: and 6.54 p.m.; Low, 12.09 p.m. and 11.31

p.m.

European MailsOutward: Europe mid Marseilles (General Metzinger), 3.30 p.m.; Europe vid Siberia (Porthos), 1.30 p.m.

Wednesday,

.." (July 3,) Tennis:-Mixed Doubles: Crai- gengower v. Kowloon C.C., Ladies R.C. v. Chinese It.C., University v. Kowloon Bowling Green

"Lawn Bowls: Kowloon C.e. v. Sports Club.

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Queen's Theatres "The Isle of Dreams."

World Theatre: The Smart

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Star Theatre: "The American Venus."

Thursday.

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Declaration of American Inde pendance 1770.

Property Auction: Kowloon In- land Lot No. 1595, China Auction Rooms, 3 ..

Queen's Theatre: "Eternal Love." World Theatre;" The Way of All Flesh."

Star Theatre: "Ramona."

Ten Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Repulse Bay Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 F.ZIL.

Tides: High, 0.30 am, and 8.18 P.m.; Low, 12.11 am and 211 p.m. European Mails:-Inward: Europe vid Suez (Khyber).

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Friday? (July L.) Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helans May Institute, 10.30 s.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Eternal Love,!! World Theatre: The Way of Ali Flesh" Ten Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.30 Star Theatre: "Ramons."

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