1929-10-31 — Page 8

Sports News

LOCAL FOOTBALL.

ROYAL NAVY DRAW WITH K.O.S.B.

Yesterday's games in the Hong Kong League resulted as under:

Division I.

Royal Navy 1. K.O.S.B.

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LAWN TENNIS,

MIXED DOUBLÉS CHAMPIONSHIP.

SEMIFINAL STAGE,

The concluding rounds of the Open Mixed Doubles Champion 1ship of the Colony have been reach. ed, and the players have arrived at the semi-final stages. Surviving pairs of the second rouad are:-

(1) Miss Enid Lo and M. K. Lo. who beat Mrs. Chiu and Ho

Division .

EN. Res....... 1 S.L.I. Res. K.O.S.B. Res.. 4 University

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K.O.S.B., ROYAL NAVY,

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1929.

WALTER HAMMOND ON “CAPTAINCY.”

CULTIVATE THE SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE.

COURAGE PAYS: ALWAYS BE ALERT.

STRANGE RIDDLE OF THREE MURDERS. TWO SKULLS IN A GARDEN.

WOMAN'S MYSTERY FIND.

Two human skulls were found in the back garden of a house in Tavistock-road, Westbourne Park, W., Inat month:

ECHO OF WAR-TIME ANARCHIST PLOT.

Frederick Rigaudin, the thirty-, which was suppressed during the three-year-old Paris accountant, war by the French Governnicat, whose body was found at Lille but not until he had obtained station recently in a wicker basket enormous sums of money from the Captains must be on the alert to which had been despatched from the secret funds at the disposal of the Walter Hammond says: We have force homs an advantage by chang-Nord station in Paris, is believed to French Home Office. had a spell of rainy weather to ing the batting order" and that kind be the third victim of an unknown Almeyreda, because of his shatter: I immediately called in the policu,

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Writing to Londen paper

interfere with the county cricket championship at a most critical stage. As the weather has treated rest of the counties alike, however, not one of the leading sides has been able to steal a march on the others. The struggle remains as open ns ever. We of Gloucester still think how

comfortable we

have been at the head of the table if only we had beaten Notts instead Ka Lau, 7-5, 6-2;

of them defeating us by six runs. (2) Mrs. Tottenham and Major

In-and-out weather means a prob Lucas, who beat Mr Gull Iom for the captain who wins the and H. D. Rumjahn, 6, 6-4,

tess. There are times when the (3) Mrs. Sayer and E. C. Fin-skipper must have a kind of secret cher, who beat Mrs. McCaw hope that he loses, so that the res and T. Lay, 6-0, 6-1. (4) Mrs. Taylor and J. S, Me-ponsibility of the decision is moved from his shoulders. In the latter part of last week two captains. those of Middlesex and Surrey, put their opponents in frat after win- ning the toss. Doubtles Nigel Haig and Percy Fender watched the out-

Mrs.

Eachran,

who beat. Bradbury and H. Lo, 6-2, 6-3.

Semi-finals on Sunday.

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On the Chinese Recreation Club courts on Sunday, the 3rd prox.,

The game at Caroline Hill be. tween the Royal Navy and K.O.S.B was witnessed by a good crowd, and ended in a draw of one goal all The teams lined out as under- Royal Navy:-Jarvis; Spratling and Carey: Churchhouse, Perks and the semi-anals matches will be decome anxiously. Lambert: Van Tromp, Frith, Kercided, as follows:- nick, Kennedy and Dickenson,

K.O.S.B.Shears; Gardiner and) Martin; Evereat, Davey and Skiggs:: Torrie, Stock Reeves, McGlinchey and Alexander...

Referee: Lieut. Seal, M.C., B.A. The K.O.S.B. were early attack. ing and a shot by Reores gave them. the lend. "The Navy were not long. in arrears for Van Tromp was sent away by Perks and Dickenson meet-

Miss Enid Lo and M. K. Lo t

Mrs. Tottenham and Major. Luens.

Mrs. Sayer and E.. C. Fincher

Mrs, Taylor, and J. S. Me

Eachran

CRICKET.

I.R.C. r. RECREIO.

The following will represent the ing a fine centre, headed the ball Indian Recreation Club, in their into the net. Play was fast and second division league match with the ball travelled up and down the the Club de Recreio.to be played at field. Although several chances King's Park on Saturday, commenc- were offered there was no furthering at p.m. sharp :- scoring, over-keenness "on the part

ML. P. Madar (captain), H. T. of the players spoiling good foot Barma, A. R. Sulfad, A. 31. Rum ball, for there were many fouls.jabn, F. M. el Arculli, D. Mobam Jarvis the Navy goal-keeper had a med, N. B. Kitchell. A. K. Ismail. rough time during a scramble in the Salim Ismail, A. R. H. Ismail and He fell in clearing B. R Irani. Reserve: J. S. Ackber. Navy goal area.

shot and several players were Scorer: M. Y. Adal. kicking wildly. A free kick re! lieved. The Navy forwards were better together than the K.O.S.B. hut shooting

much below the standard. Reeves was closely.' watched by Spratling and the K.O.S.B. centre-forward did not get many chances. On two occasions, the Navy handled just outside the penalty area and Reeves taking the shots missed.

was

R.N, RES. v..S.L.I. RES.

&

V.R.C. SOCIAL.

PRESENTATION OF PRIZES.

at thing. Courage pay's.

strangler. The other two were his mother and a sinister personality named Almeyreda, in whose service the old woman had been.

The mother, Mme. Blanc, strangled in her Paris fiat, and to widow of seventy-seven, was found this day the police have been un- able to lay their hands on the murderer or discover the motive of

the crime. The son was also

I was interested the other day to hear there had been sent to head quarters for consideration a definite proposal, something to the effect: That the culitora of newspapers be asked not to publish batting or bowing averages during the actual season. I suppose this is another of the brighter cricket ideas, the assumption behind the "suggestion strangled and his face had been dis- being that cricketers play for their figured beyond recognition,

again the police are confronted with figures rather than for the side.

This proposition to abolish avera bailing problem of motive. Rob ages interests me for more than bery seems to be ruled out, as the I wonder, for instance, accountant "was earning only a what the editors of newspapers modest salary, and, so far, there is would say if they were asked not no proof that he had access to funds to publish the averages? Suppose or negotiable effects. they refused to accede to such a request? They could not be forced

out reason.

to leave them out.

No Diferenca.

I also feel that, even if the new papers could be persuaded not to publish averages until the end of the season, the effect would be to

Police Theory.

Mra Hinton, the occupant of the house, was digging in the garden when she unearthed a skull. She

and three detectives started to dig at the spot where the discovery had been made.

ed health, was sent to the hospital prison at Fresnes, where one of bis attendants was a convict. He was found strangled with a bootlace, and

They had not been digging long carried to his grave many dark

before the fragments of another Young Rigaudin, who lived with skull came to light. Further dig secrets left over from the war. his mother, knew of her close conging led to the discovery of a fold- nections with the anarchist, and ng iron bedstead, complete with. may also have suspected that she bedding.

was killed because of the secrets

A police surgeon and officials hur- he held. It would seem, according ried to the house. A preliminary Here to the police theory, logical to exunication was held in the gar- assume that the son also was killed den, and the remains, with the bed, to the same mysterious way, be- were afterwards removed. cause of the secret he himself car- ried with him.

The police even thus early in their investigations are inclined to the theory that Rigaudia knew hist mother's murderers, and was put out of the way because of this know- ledge, especially as he is known to have vowed to avenge his parent's death.

On the eve of the day he dis appeared Bagiduin received an ex-

press letter, and after his dis appearance there were a number of mysterioas callers at the fat in which he lived and in which his mother had met her death.

Important Link

The

Among these callers was a woman dressed in black, who, when she heard of his absence, said to the caretaken: Tell him it was the woman of last Saturday.' same day a number of young men, believed to have been foreigners, called and asked for Rigaudin They left saying they would return ly before his tragic death ho ques-on the following Tuesday. tioned Rigaudin on his merose and was found at Lille, a young man

Judge By Results. The trouble is, of course, that people are so apt to judge by re

counts-clubs-fortunately or unfortu-

Statements supporting this theory .sults, to consider the captain rightwards harm rather than good. The

or wrong according to how the nately depend in part for their were later obtained by the polico match pans out. There was a not existence on "gate money. The from two different persons who able instanes of this during the interest of the public is increased,

knew Rigaudin. One of these de Tests of 1928 ·

surely, by the publicity given to theclared to the police that when short. game. Nowspapers would not give the space to averages if they did not think their readers liked to study them.

The England captain, Arthur Carr, won the toss, and put the Maurice Tate got Australians "in. Bardsley's wicket with the first ball of the match, and might also have bad Charlie Macartney in the first over. I am prepared to wager that at the end of that first over every one present was saying the England skipper had taken the proper

course.

As regards the possible effect of here they make a scrap of differ ence. I have never yet come across a figures on the play, I do not be cricketer who rejoiced a lot because in the averages. And I certainly he had jumped up several places

in to bat, said to himself, "I must make so many runs to take me to the top of the averages.”

downcast manner, the latter re- plied: "It is because I am afraid of being assassinated like my mother."

"ABODE OF LOVE" DEATH.

THIRTY-THREE WOMEN IN

MOURNING.

The thirty thres women who live

**Abode of Love" in Sparton ip the Agapement, the mysterious (Somerset) are mourning the death of Mr. Joseph Court, aged seventy, who had been retired behind the high, forbidding walls for esven years.

Mr. Court had been the private baker and confectionar in the At midnight the day the bodyAbode of Love" for many years,

woke up the caretaker and said he and later retired to the colony.

This is the first death to occur in was a friend of Rigaudir and had

Ahode of Love" since last come to sleep in his apartment. the When the caretaker told the mid-March, when John Hugh Smyth- night visitor that Rigandin's dead Piggott, the unfrocked prica, who body had been found in a wicker ruled over the colony as its self- buried in the private chapel of the without attering a word. basket he rushed from the building styled "Messiah, died and was

Agapemone.

The police are now delving fur-

But Macartney, having escaped, have not met a cricketer who, 'going of the notorious Bonnet Rougether into the dead man's past in the

ran up

went on to score a hundred before big lunch. Australia score, and England had to fight very hard to escape defeat. Then the critics said that the England

captain bad made a mistake..

There are plenty of items connect

Mme. Blanc, his mother, was for years connected actively with anar. chist circles in France. It is a grim one of the most prominent members coincidence that Miguel Almeyreds,

gang, whose capture during the war revealed one of the worst political and defeatist scandals in France, was also found strangled in his devoted housekeeper for many prison cell. Mme. Blane was his years.

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et with cricket which arouse in terest without being in any sense. harmful. As happened, I just

Convict Attendant. managed to be first to cezpicto

"Dodger." Almeyreda was a sinister charac- 2,000 runs this season. Whysall would probably have beaten ter and one of the editors of the me if Notts had batted on the same defeatist newspaper, Donnel Rouge,

Wo day as I completed my 2,000. have now been joined by R. E. S.

belief that they will be able to establish that the tragedy was crime of vengeaned. An important thought, can be supplied by a taxi- cab driver who drove the person link in the chain of evidence, it is

registering the wicker basket with it sinister contents to the Paris railway station, and who must have helped lift it from the cab. So far the driver has failed to come forth.

There are few people, if day, who can tell just how a pitch will play by looking at it. It is only when you are out in the middle trying to do things that you really know. It was W G. Grace, Ithink who laid dowp this guiding prin- ciple for captains: "There are Watt, of Warwickshire, who has A MURDERER'S STOICISM. child and that the foster mo held at the V.R.C. on Saturday, casions when a captain should con-had a most successful season. November 2, commencing at 3 p.m.,sider the advisability of putting in

An informal social evening will be

Mention of Whyeall reminds me of

at which the Championship prizes the other team to hat, but he a good story of his early days. He won during the swimming season should never do it." will be presented.

BOXING ERROR.

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At Caroline Hill, the above teams played a drawn game the score being one goal all. The Navy opened with

attack SUSPENSION PRONOUNCED stroug but wild shooting kept the score

A MISTAKE. fast down. Clarke sent, in grounder from 25 yards and opened the score for the Navy. The S. L.L. then took up the running but failed to get home.

Half-time, Royal Navy 1; S.L.I.'

In the second half of the game the SLI. had more of the game but failed in front of goal. Sorbie had a good chance to score for the Navy, for there were three players stretch ed out on the S.LE goal-line when Sorbie shot over. D. Guest scored

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

New York, Oct. 99. It appears that the British Box- ing Board of Control acted under a misapprehension when they ordered the suspension of the British cham pion of Ernie Jarvis, the manager Levine, and the referee. Mr. Matt Wells, following the contest at The Stadium between Jarvis and Fran- kie Genaro.

It cow seems that the New York

SINGAPORE CHINESE AND

INDIAN LOVER.

"I have committed this crime. I do not want to dispute any points. I did it.on account of the provocation and oppression of the woman who has given evidence. I

ther had caused the trouble by lend ing the girl into a life of prosti- tution. Straits Times..

CHINESE ACTOR ATTACKED

MOTOR DRIVER WITH A'.

SWORD.

"THE FUNMAKERS."

Those who attended the Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. yesterday evening expecting a thoroughly ex- appointed." The Funmakers," who foyable entertainment were not dis are understood to be members of the lower deck of one of the war- of entertainers ships now in Hong Kong, are n cheery company whose program.me leaves very little ground for criticism of any kind. Their talent is well above the aver- age, but their chief merit lies in their original methods in putting their numbers...

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was playing for the Notts second Let us be careful, however, not team against Staffordshire, and was to say anything to discourage the very severe on the bowlers. After

From beginning to end, there are. spirit of adventure in the captains an over in which the ball had been

stage waits and the whole of county cricket. There is more of banged to the boundary in different

show, which is really a series it wanted-not less. It is possible directions, one of the Staffordshire

According to a brief report in a

of detached items, on the music-ball- there would be much less talk about players said to. Whysall: Do you the need for brighter cricket if cap-know who that bowler is The do not want a counsel to defend

the well-known actor, bas had an-briliant "pattern" by an announcer tains were more precise in the in- answer was No." Well, it is Sidrac, I am prepared to suffer for local Chinese paper Ma Sail Tsang, principle, is well held together by

"Oh! said Whysall," it." structions given to the players, and Barnes."

This statement was made by other narrow escape from being whilst the curtain is down in pre-

He had left the paration for the next number. it the playera felt that they would "if that's Barnes Lwish they would

Noor Ahmad, an elderly Indian assassinated. not suffer by carrying out instruc-put him on at the other end as

Well. tions.

CHALLENGE OF WOMEN JURORS.

JUDGE DENOUNCES AN

ANACHRONISM."

for the S.L.I. and the Navy pressed State Athletic Commission rein the challenge of women jurors were hard for the winning goal. Just on stated Genere prior to his fight time C. Guest beat the field but with Jarvis, but omitted to inform Botle brought off a rattling good the British Board of Control

save.

Result:---

Royal Navy Someaset L.I.

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K.O.S.B.. UNIVERSITY.

MICKEY WALKER WINS. TERRIFIC BATTLE WITH HUDKINS.

(RESTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

Los ANGELES. Oct. 30.

corder.

MODERN PIER "FOR SINGAPORE.

FIVE TIMES LARGER THAN PRESENT STRUCTURE,

Strong views on the subject of The plans have been approved, recently expressed at the Old Bailey and details are now being worked which is to be built to replace John- by Sir Ernest Wild, K.O., the Reat, for the new pier at Singapore He urged that by "an antiquatton's Pier, which has long been inadequate to handle the traffic ed power "the object of Parlia from ships lying in the roads. The ment in authorising women to as

new pier, will be an imposing struc sist in the administration of justice ture, with a large entrance hall was defeated.

and loggia, and will accommodate Counsel in a case where a man was charged with a grave offence ix launches, three on each side. There will also be a ceremonial against a girl of eight had object-landing place at the seaward end. ed to women serving on the jury.""

Bir Ernest Wild, at its conclu- The site is opposite Change Alley, siou, said that this question of the half way between the present pier right of challenge should be and the site of the former tampor- brought to the attention of Parlis-ary Post Office. It will be approxi- ment. It was a curious anathron mately five or six times the size of ism that arose from the time when the present pier, The dimensions forfeiture of goods and life could are 244 feet by feet. The height follow a conviction for felony. In of the entrance archway will be 42 When completed, the pier It is learned from Providence, such a charge a prisoner was en- feet. R... that the National Boxing titled to twenty peremptory chal-will have an imposing frontage, Association suspended Walker, lenges for which he aced give no and the entrance will lead to a Hudkins, and Jack Kearns, who is ground whatever. Walker's manager. The association Last month declared that 'Walker's title was vacant.

At Sookunpoo, the EO.S.B. Beat In a ten-round contest here to the University by four clear goals. The first goal was scored by C. M. day. Mickey Walker, world's cham. Lee who turned into his own goal to pion, outpointed Ace Hudkins of Nebraska who received terrific give the K.O.S.B. the lead. Stevens

punishment.

▲ Protest. Added two before the interval ar- rived. The second half of the game was very poor, the K.O.S.B. pen- ning the University in their own balf but only scoring once, Mason being the markemon.

Besult:-

K.O.S.B. University

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TEAM FOR ARMISTICE DAY MATCH.

The following have been chosen to represent the Rest of the Colony. against the Services on Armistice Day:

Pau Ka Ping (South China); Wynne (Police) and C. File (Kow- loon); Hedley (Kowloon), Hudson (Police) and Lam Yuk Ying (China Athletic); Tao Kwai Shing (China Athletic), Fung King Cheong (South China), Goldman (HK.F.C.), Dr. Valentine (Police) and Ip Pak Wa (South China).

Reserves:-Li Tin Sang (South China), Medreary (Police), Watson (H.K.F.C.). B. Gosano (Club de Recreio), I. Pile, and Miles Kow loon).

He, however, refuses to recog nise that the fight was for the title

CAMBRIDGESHIRE RESULT.

ANOTHER WIN FOR AN

* OUTSIDER.

(THROUGH TEUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Oct. 30. The result of the Cambridge shire, run to-day, was as follows:

1. Double Life. Va Tout.

3. Falais Royal II. Won by a neck; one head. Thero were 30 runners,

Betting:-Double Life 20/1; Va Tout 50/1 Palais Royal 11. 100/0

loggin with an ares of 2,200 square feet. In the centre of the pier will changers offices.

Biohamedan,

Such important points as tasteful.

to the Singapore; theatre in Hong Kong where he is Coroner yesterday when sent for l'appearing and was walking towards trial on a charge of murdering an a car when the driver attacked him and sympathetic accompaniment, 18-year-old Chinese gir! at Gey- with a sword. The actor grappled the quick acknowledgment and per long.

with his assailant and sustained only formance of encores and many other The woman referred to was the minor injuries to his face. The items, which are so often overlook- foster mother of the deceased. She would-be murderer, however, escaped, all have been most carefully attended to, and, in addition, "The stated that Noor Ahmad had said ed. that he was sorry he had killed the girl and that

had meant to murder witness..

Noor Ahmad told the Coroner that the girl had been his mistress for three years and had borne him

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