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FOURTH TEST MATCH.

R. ABBIT REVIEWS THE GAME.

WHAT OF THE FINAL TEST?

Yet once more the elements have gone back on us, and rain over the week-end came to ruin the Fourth, as it ruined the Third Test Match The only difference, was that there was no interest whatever in the last game, as, once the rain bad come there was less than an hour's cric- ket on the Monday, and none at all on Tuesday. As a matter of fact, even had it cleared up on

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 31,

V.R.C. VICTORIES.

BOTH TEAMS WIN IN WATER POLO LEAGUE.

REFEREES STRONG ACTION,"

The V.R.C. water polo teams gained an additional two points each last evening when the senior team accounted for the Navy and the junior beat the University.

In the senior game the Navy went Reflections on the Game.

under by four clear goals. Gitters, Ons point that is a little difficult he was well-fed by the backs, scor- to understand is the increase in theed three goals in the first half.. number of extras, on which I have Stewart, who played centre-half for touched already. As they are not the Club, was in fine form and was itemised in the cables, one cannot completely at home in his place. put it down entirely to byes, though The home team scored only one goal probably there must be a substan-ia the second half, the effort coming tial increase therein. Duckworth, from "Silva-Netto, who was playing

of course, hud probably never kept in place of Laing. Weill, one of to Peebles before, and had seldom, the regular backs of the V.R.C., wind

Monday night, it is almost impos-if ever, met Nichols and Goddard.also absent from the team, his place

sible that a conclusion could bare been renched. The Australiana would have been about 70 runs 'on,

probably after half-an-hour's cric ket. Then they would have had to collect at least 200 runs before de- ! claring, and, with the exception of Bradman, they do not seem to be a fast scoring side by any means. Then they would have had to get England all out, and this inside the limit of one day's cricket. I don't think it! It may be said that an English collapse may have on sued on a bad wicket, bat in that case it was not going to be easy for Australia to collect their two hundred rups; for the wicket can

hardly have played plum for them and abominably for us. And, short of a real terror of a winket, you are not going to get a side like the English team collapsing.

The Match by Stages.

But Okifield had 23 extras in 231 runs, a far higher average than is usual with him, and he was well acquainted with all his bowlers.

"Catches?

There was rather a disquieting remark in the cabled account to the effect that Kippax had as many lives as a cat." This may, of course, simply mean that he was putting the ball in the air but clear of the the heidsmen, and having numerous narrow escapes from being bowled. But it may mean be was dropped two or three times.

being filled by Remedios.

The Junior Game,

In the junior game the home team. beat the University by goals to 1, in spite of the fact that the V.R.C. B had to play with only six men throughout.

Early on in the game, the reierce, Mr. Weyman, had occasion to warn Foraita, a V.R.C. player, for per- sistent fouling. A little later he stopped the game and ordered Roza- Pereira out of the hath, though his reason for doing so seemed obscure. When the referee awarded a foul against Roza-Pereira, some of the spectators. “booed "

The Bowling. Personally, I was most impressed by the steadiness of the bowlers. IFereira was then ordered out!., have taken out their average of runs per over approximately, and the following table sets things out

at a glance:-

Runs.

NINE SETS TO NIL.

U.S.R.C. ACCOUNTS FOR CLUB DE RECREIO.

At the U.S.R.C. ground yester- day the home team accounted for the Club de Recreio by nine sets to nil in the Mixed Doubles 'League."

The full results are as follows:- LG Goldman and Mrs.

Taylor (U.S.R.C.) beat M Oliveira and Miss

E. Osmund

best G. Noronha and Misa.

O. Oliveira beat Rocha and Miss Leise - 1 Grimble and Keary (U.S.R.C.)

6-0

beat M. Oliveira, and Miss.

E. Onnuid

BOXING.

1930.

CARNERA KNOCKS OUT

: COOK.

(REGTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

New York, July 20. Carnera knocked out George Cook, the Australian heavyweight, in the second round of a bout

cheduled to go ten rounds.

U.S. BASEBALL RESULTS.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE, }

NEW YORK, July 29. The results of the baseball league matches. played, to-day are as fol- lows:-

beat G. Noronha and Miss

Oliveira

6- 3.

beat Rocha and Miss Leite

National League.

New York Boston

11 Philadelphia

4" Brooklyn

Cal. Skinner and Mr. Dook

(U.S.R.C:).

beat M. Oliveira and Miss

E. Osmund

beat G. Noronha and Miss"

Oliveira

64 Pittsburg

Chicago

beat Rocha, and Miss Leite 6 1

6 St. Louis 5 Cincinnati

American League,

St. Louis Cleveland.

BISHOP'S ATTACK ON Philadelphia

CHURCH OF ROME.

A CRITICAL LAMBETH

CONFERENCE.

* CUCKOO IN THE NEST.".

that

The Bishop of Ripon (Dr. E. "A. and Roza- Burroughs) preaching in Ripon

Cathedral last month, said Lawrance, who was in great form,never since the Reformation itself scored four of the six goala cb had the grasp of and allegiance tained by the V.R.C. Victor scored to the principles underlying the English Reformation been so close-

the remaining two:

Hammond. bowled 21 overs for 10 Fairfax

1.0 Tate

1.3

1,5

1.6

TEN MILES UP.

1.6

171

., 2.0

2.1

2.4

-35" 53

2.7

11 3.0

Goddard Hornibrook Nichols Leylard Wall McCabe Peebles Grimmett Pretty good going!

It has occurred to me that it may be interesting to some of my read era if trace the various stages of expectation, and of excitement per- haps, through which one passed during the varying stages of the match. As everyone is aware now, the lunch time score only is avail- able in the morning papers while the evening papers have up to the close of play on the previous day.

On Saturday morning the Aus- tralians had made close on eighty. runs, and no wicket had faller. One felt this was bad news. zate of scoring had been uncommon. Peebles so much more than any of ly slow, "but it looked as if our his regular men, but he was no bowlers were being worn down by doubt troubling the batsmen, being Woodfull and Ponsford. It was therefore with considerable relief practically unknown to them, and that, in the afternoon, one learned we know that a lot of the runs that the Australians had taken a scored from him came at the end of

the first day whru be was tiring Goddard and Nichols, the other two newcomers, "both did credit- ably.

It may at first glance appear

that

Chapman bowled

The strange

whole day to make 275 for seven wickets. It seemedy however; to in crease the prospects of a draw, for which the visitors would alone be to blame.

Not So Good.

The Batting.

The Australians' score of 313 was

It was, however, distinctly upset- ting to find from one's Sunday nothing particularly epoch-making paper that, instead of being all out in view of the fact that they took for about 300, as one hoped, the their time about it and had first tail, evidently batting with more inaings. Apart from the failure of confidence than the earlier batsmen, Hammond and Chapman, there was

CHANGING MAYFAIR.

MORE LONDON LANDMARKS

TO BE DEMOLISHED.

Demolition will begin in August of Numbers 4 and 47, Brook-street, W.1, in preparation for extensions that are to be made to. Claridge's

Hotel.

ป

Thus will vanish yet a little more of the Mayfair that is famous all over the world.

No. 47. Brook-street was occupied until a few months ago by Sir John Bland-Sutton.

...

£100,000,000 ** Change." Will Mayfair, as we have known it, totally disappear, and be re- placed by a business areat

Mr. Samuel Wallrock, a West Ead estate agent, and past presi- dent of the Incorporated Society of Auctioneers, told me yesterday:

"Mayfair will be entirely com mercialised within ten years, in my opinion, and in 20 years Park-laas will be the finest shopping street in the world.

"The total cost of the change will be about £100,000,000,"

The decline of the West End`së ́a residential ares coincides with a revival of popularity of Padding He built there aBall of ton, St. John's Wood, and Chelsea. Darius," a reproduction to scale of Marylebone may partly supersede Mayfair. A service fat and a the "Hall of a Hundred Columns"

house 10 or 20 miles from town is a. at Persepolis in the fifth century common alternative to-day to B.C.

house in a Mayfair square. High taxation and the servant problem The Hall has been disposed are important factors in the change.

of.

Brook-atreet until a few years ago was one of the exclusive residential a streets occupied solely by houses of the titled rich. To-day doctors and dentists have na neighbours millin- ers auctioneers, decorators, and 6 court hairdressers, while antique and fine art dealers are side by side with the Guards' and Savile Clubs

9. Chicago

14. Detroit

3 New York

MAN IN THE GREEN HAT.”

SENATORS BOOTLEGGER

CAUGHT.

[UNITED PRESS. ]

な

Washington, July-George Cassidy, well-known as "the man in the green hat" who was nabbed

by prohibition operatives with liquor-apparently for sale-on the Capitol steps some months ago, was sentenced to guoi for 18 months to-day on charges of possessing and transporting, liquor.

The case aroused wide interest and no little scandal, as it devolop

S. B. Wong" obtained the, calyly tested as they were likely to be goal for his side. *

tested at the Lambeth Conference.

The time had come he thought ined all kindliness to ask those of his fellow churchmen who, when they spoke of reunion" really meant "Rome," to be content with such things as they already had in the English church or else to seek their ideal elsewhere. Very large accom-" modation had of late been made

GIANT BALLOON'S VENTURE.

COSMIC RAYS.

A Giant balloon-cie of the

ever

mhost remurkable aircraft built-is being prepared for two brave the terrors of the great cold, scientists in Brussels, who will 10 miles above the earth's surface, to investigate the mystery of the cosmic rays.

M. Piccard, Professor of Physics at the University here, is the lea der of the expedition.

The cosmic rays, which scientists at one time believed to emanate from the earth, are now known to be stronger at high altitudes than at sea level.

for them to think in the Church. of England at considerable sacrifice of its interests as the church of the English people and at no little discomfort to many "of its "sober, peaceable and truly conscientious

sons.

"Not to Play the Cuckoo."

Some of them had recently pre- rather seated to the Bishops a shrill and petulant demand for more generous recognition of their claims, which they stated in the Apparently they interpenetrate most sweeping form. Others had threatened secession if the South the whole universe, and one theory India proposals were endorsed at is that they are given off by the

Lambeth. But no great church disintegrating atoms in space.

Professor Piccard v believes it could submit to dictation by one' section of its members, especially about ten miles to study the rays when submission would imperil the to advantage.

very principle of comprehensiveness Consequently he is having con- by which that section found a place structed at Augsburg, Bavaria, within it. However great the de- hermetically closed, to protect him to that section, it must be made a special balloon, with a metal cabinsire to afford reasonable comfort

the dangers of cold-calculated at thority of and accommodate them- and his fellow investigator against condition that they respect the au-

selves to the peculiar character of the church they belonged to, and net to try to play "the cuckoo in the Anglican nest.

added a valuable seventy runs, and nothing much wrong with the Enecessary to attain a height of gave us an awkward half-hour befsh batting, "but in this match re fdre tifin. However, the fact that probably had more of a tail than Hobbs and Sutcliffe survived it the Australians. cheered one up a little,

The Final Tussle, The fifth and last Test Match of 1830 will be played at the Oval on August 16, and as the sides are level

Monday morning's news again was given. Five were down for 91 and England had a distinct tail to tao batting, It looked as if our chance of a first innings' lead was

as regards wins, it will be fought about 60 degrees below zero--and af pretty poor. Incidentally one to a finish. The winning of the toss the low atmospheric pressure. paused to wonder at the unusual will therefore be even more im

The height record made in. an number of extras-33 out of 345, portant, and, as both skippers have and 18 out of 221 for 5 wickets won twice, one hopes that Chapman aeroplane is at present only 13,000

will do his stuff.to get one up..

Rain!

The Next Team,

feet.

The professor's balloon will be 971 feet in diameter and will have a capacity of over 18,000 cubic yards. It will have no net..

The Vatican's Reminder.

It is perhaps providential, said the Bishop, that the Vatican, by its action in Malta, bas chosen this When it leaves the earth it will moment to remind the English be filled to only one-seventh of its speaking peoples of what Rome is. total volume, but will swell dur- and stands for, and how inconceiv ing the ascent, owing to the dilable is it that the Roman Catholic tion of the gas.

And then on Tuesday morning came the old story-rain! No play It is very difficult to make many until lunch. This seemed to do suggestions as to the composition of Away with most of England's the Home team, as current form, chances of a win, and made on a fielding ability, and various other bit apprehensive of what might hap details have a tremendous bearing pen to our last five wickets. There on the selections for the last two or might well be a collapse and that three places.

religon, in anything like its pre- Probably Hobbs, would give the Australians a chance Sutcliffe, Tate, Duckworth, Ham

sent form or with its present pre- The Air Supply". of forcing a victory. Later news, mond, Leyland and "Duleepainghi

suppositions and claims, can ever The problem of an air supply become the religion of the British however, although it showed that are certainties, while they will hard. thanks to a fine piece of bowling by ly change Captains now even if for the scientists has been solved race with its instincts for freedom McCabe, we had lost three more Chapman has not had much success by means of apparatus similar to and respect for human individu- wickets for thirty runs, there was, with the bat apart from his contury. that adopted on submarines, by ality. One may perhaps even thank little chance of a finish. I have Besides his brilliant felding alone which the air is dosed with oxygen the author, of the concordat be discussed this position in detail makes him wall-nigh a certainty, and the carbonic acid and other tween the Church and State in Italy, which has made the Church already.

Peebles, on the strength of his cap-toxic gases absorbed An Abrupt End.

ture of Bradman's sicket, may well Professor Piccard hopes to make of Rome once more a foreign And then came the bathos. The retain his place. I confess I should his experiment at the end of the power.

Anyhow, this new and curious match was abandoned so early that like to see Robins ia, as he would summer from Augsburg, where the

ex development in our political rola the morning papers yesterday pub-strengthen the batting and fielding meteorological conditions are lished the result, instead of the It is a curious feature that these cellent and the chances of the baltions with the Vatican is one more lunch time position! It was a sad two young amateurs are the only loon being carried out to soa are fact which adds significance to the finish, and, incidentally, the finan-bowlers to dismiss Bradman cheaply relatively small.

meeting of the Lambeth: Confer- ciál results must have bean seri- in a Test. It is a trifle uncertain if there are probléias other than ence at the present time, and that of the cosmic raye which we marks it as the ordeal.. of Anghi- ously affected.It is, of course, a Nichols and Goddard will both re amall point beside the ruination of tain their places. It is very doubt wish to investigate," said the pro canism, the supreme test of whe effe game but Shoo big toure useful if England will risk leaving out fessor, in an interview, "but apart ther we understand and can rise serious financial propositions, and Larwood on the Ural Vicker, if he from these the period travel of the to our mistian like, sapridelo Rome had not dared so far to the dividend at the end of its not acorked or out of form. I future will probably have to won, paid out to the County, Clube assume, of course, dry wicket.made at deignes of Bo w teme or cocks Sour by the M.C.C., has saved several If the pitoh is likely to be soft, his more, and our experiences in such cil, which adjourned in confusion from bankruptcy-or what practic inclusion is unlikely. As the match rarified atmosphere and low tem- in 1870 after proclaiming the in- ally amounted to it. Firat class is to be played out it is probable perature, should prove instructive, fallibility of the Pope, and there

The "Aeroplanes at present flying at by creating a new schism. cricket must cost at least a hundred Chapman will go back to his shock per cent more than in prewar tactics with his bowling, 125 miles an hour should be able Lambeth Conference met every ten Pay, and the incomes of most of Well, we shall see. But I do later, under such conditions 11 years. A Vatican Council, as that the first-class Counties have certain hope Reuter will do us a bit better ours will be, to make a speed of 1670 proved was there in effect three times a great without extra to say "Amen" to what the Vat- ly not increased in a similar pro- over the final match,

RABBIT:- coat of energy per mile,,""

can desired. portion

in conjunction with,“dry” charges that the Senators and Re presentatives were keeping the country arid while partaking liberal. ly. of alcoholic beverages them selves.

Now Houses for Old. Women have played an important part in the revival of Chelsea and a number have made small fortunes.

A house agent closely concerned said to me: Love of antiques in art has been accompanied by a growing fondness for old, quaint houses.

Women of taste and artistry- titled women among them-have been buying three or four-year leases of old attractive houses, tak-

A sprinkling of titled people re-ing them on a new 20 or 30 years'

main:

Hobleman's Vow.

The story of Brock-street is in greater or less" degree the story of Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, Hanover-square,

Portman-square,

Park-lane, Grosvenor-square and Cavendish-square.

The house from which the Duchess

street is now available for business purposes.

of York was married in Bruton-

"શ્ર

An artificial silk firm has premises in Hanover-square, a Court dress inaker is now on the west side of Berkeley-square, near the Earl of Powis's house, mannequins are en- tering Grosvenor-street in growing numbers, and I am told that a nobleman's house in Park-lane, on which £1,000,000 has been spent, will shortly be sold..

lease exploiting the artistic tastes of themselves or friends in decora- houses for as many thousands as tion. They then dispose of the

they paid hundreds, a jump from £600 or £800 to £8,000 or £3,000 is. what I mean.

"The Mall, Hammersmith, and. the neighbourhood of Brompton- road-Montpelier-square, for exam- now becoming fashion.

ple-are able."

A woman recently complained to Mr. Snell, the Old-street magis trate. that her twelve-year-old daughter bad be sent home from school, with a suggestion that she was not properly dressed, and should be provided with a coat The girl stepped forward. She wore a blue sleeveless frock, and Mr. Snell inspected her attire. The mother said that she would get into trouble if she kept the girl at home. Mr. Snell: If you were summoned, and the case came before me, 1 should know how to deal with it,

As recently as two years ago the owner declared he would never leave Park-lane, but the invasion of hotels, banks and other business premises, has helped him to change Mother and daughter then Ift the

bis mind.

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