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DUNLOP SOUTHPORT

MEETING

W. J. Cox Two Ahead; Fine Round by King

COTTON ENCOMPASSED BY

DISASTER

He

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

THE CURTIS CUP

A Halved Match

London, May T The match between Great Bri- tain and the United States for the a halved Curtis Cup ended in match over the King's Course of the Gleneagles Hotel yesterday, each side winning four matches on the day's play. The foursomes were halved at one match each. with the third properly all square, were and in the singles there three wins to the credit of each country.

There was a thrill in the very "Seventh and the fourteenth. London, May 8.

rate; The kaleidoscope of fortune in was badly bunkered from the tee last stroke of the day; one that,

at the leventh, took three more to for the spectators at any the Dunlop-Southport golf tourna-

of things happily ment here to-day has been vio- reach the green, and then had two immediately consigned the weather lently shaken, and sharp new out-putta. At the fourteenth he was to the limbo

when lines began to appear to-night with again bunkered and played an ex-forgotten. This stroke was played

by Miss Jessie Anderson, The finish of the second round of plosion shot which landed on the

was dormy one On the We have W. J. green at high, speed and bounced America the final stages.

thing Cox (Wimbledon Park, who play-off into the ratiway lines og of day and looked as certain as any- can be in golf to win the ed such a great game. yesterday. bounds. Apart from this his card

Cup. It was a forlarn hupe, but leading the field with a score of contained only one Ave ara a fine

showing of six threes. His most Miss Anderson, to a short burst of 141, followed by R. Burton (Hoo- ton) and S. King Knole Parki, brilliant, hole of the day was the delighted applause that was surely

he justified each with 143, and J. J. Busson 363-yard eighteenth, (Pangul) and J. Adams (Romford) played a beautiful nibilck shot to within our fest of the pin and with 4: a stroke behind these two

noted out with one patt for a three. Colton and Padgham appear some- what dimly on the horizon, Padg- But for those two sixes he might the ham striding along with all the well have broken this week's lowest

for 88--Cotton's leisureliness of the village police score man, Cotton distinctly fussed, and Southport course.

There ou of joint.

There is remain for

trouble with his shoes seriously the third and fourth final rounds to-morrow 07 competitors who afected his drives, for he manag- have qualified with cards of 153ed his 13 largely by means of a and under.

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The weather has been without the benilsh of

a single drop of rain and the air has had all the oft warth haze of early summer. The crowds have almost assumed Wakes Week proportions, and one would hardly have been surprised lad they put on paper caps, slung oloured streamers into the air. and broken lato song and dance round the tufted hillocks at the sixteenth, or stuck a maypole into the pinhole on the home green and capered their. way through a lively Bergamask. Cutton, set on edge by his calamitous eight strokes at

Ot

where

and which one is sure Mrs. Vare and her team 'would in no way grudge, turned it into Florious

and amazing certainty for Great Britain. Mrs. Vare and the most ungrudging praise for her companions must be accorded the way in which they stood up

THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1936.

YACHTING

MIXED CLASSES

RACE

ST. LOUIS ON TOP

BASEBALL RESULTS

The Royal Hong Kong Yacht

New York, May 19, Freddie Lindstrom, veteran out- Club held a Mixed Classes Race

Murrayfielder of Brooklyn Dodgers, has yesterday starting from Pler at 17.20.

asked to be placed on the volun- The course was Channel Rockstarily retired list, saying that he (P), Kowloon Rock (P), Club line,

feels he is finished and cannot help his club any more.. a distance of 5.75 miles. follow:

Detalls

Yacht Finished Corrected P. Artemis, A4.... 19.17.21 19.17.24 1

(Mr. G. G. Wood). La Linda A6.

Jan A6, sier

D.N.F.

19.21.47 19.26.47 2 (Capt. Krogh-Moe), Painted Lady A14, D.N.F."

(Miss Crawhali-Wilson). Widgeon 75. 19.30.35 19.27.14 3

LAWN BOWLS

Pairs Championship Started

In the Colony Lawn Bowls Pairs

played championship

yesterday and E. Noronha afternoon, J. and C. Dowman by the score of 25- Kowloon Bowling FX.M. da Silva overcame C. Pile

14 on the

G. C. green, while R. O. Read and

no doubt that King's to the elements, which certainly { G. H. Sherrif defeated J.. W. Leon.

consistently fine display on the greens, where he took only 12 putts in his outward journey or 32: he

came back in 35.

fought for Great Britain.

ard and W. Ward 23-18. Both In matches were evenly contested. the latter game, Read and Sherriff scored a five in their total, also two

fours..

next five greens and so were twɔ down at the 10th.

The following were the resulta ut the League baseball matches played to-day.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

E.

R. H

5 13 0 Chicago.

8 Boston

15 1 The following games were post- Cin- fused on account of rain: annat! v. Brooklyn: Plitsburgh v. New York: St. Louis

Phil- adelphia.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

Boston

4

4

'

Chicago

2

8

2

Washington Detroit

24. I

80

Philadelphia St. Louis

4 9 1

B

11

0

10 14

2

7 3

New York Roife and Lou Gehrig hamered.

4 Cleveland Sullivan hit a home run.— Reuter. i

WOMEN'S GOLF"

Last Eight Drawn At Southport

THE FOURSOMES When the foursomes started the

the easterly wind, which had been in the east, "haar' that for two days had blan bringing with it all keted Fife. "backed towards the brief interval there were hopes of better things. north, and for a But this, however, was not to be,

The third match, which went to and the mist came down again out Great Britain, was a curious one. of the east, making visibility veryThe start was terrible. America Mrs. O, S. Hill and Miss Charlotte Glutting) winning the first two lengers for the British boles in 7 and 5 respectively. After that Great Britain (Mrs. A. Holm and Miss Jessie Anderson) gave of their best, reeled off the next eight holes in level 4's (grand figures), were three up, and won eventually by three and two.

Cotton's collapse on his outward journey with a fantastic 44 was all but overshadowed by the recovery of his homeward 34, four under the standard scratch score: but nothing can quite remove the stain from the memory, of those dread-poor and conditions most trying ful Arst nine holes. At the sixth he was over the green with his approach and short with his first utt; all clearly, was not well. At the next Cotton's driving troubles came suddenly to a head. He sliced his drive into the rough and his ball lay in long grass on a hillock. Instead of using his mashie he took a spoon and pulled the ball at an angle at forty-five degrees into a the always smiling Cox, with Padg-bush on the top of a sandhill. He hum in his majestic way hanging chopped out, a few yards into a deep hollow. Another shot ar- not so far back.

the seventh, might reasonably have been" expected to protest, but one Theis certain that the first to join hands in a ring of roses in the mid- die of his game would have been

for the rest of the morning, In these damp and chilly circums- tances the visitors, unused to such weather, put up a very brave show.

The "gallery," shepherded by stewards with red and yellow fings and with a Union Jack and the stars and Stripes to mark the players' balls, naturally followed the first match, between Mim W. Morgan and Mrs. Garon "Great Britain); Mrs. E. H. Vare and Miss Party Berg (U.S.A.)

This on the play ended quite fairly in a half.

The match started with three It has been a day of lively and ried the ball only a few yards fár- halved holes, Then America took ther. His fifth landed off the green the lead. Great Britain squared depressing incidenta rather than with the exception of Cox's super-ina banker. A chip and two sup-with a grand 3 at "Blink Bonny"

bly played 72, one of remarkable golf. We had King discovering the loss of a shoe just as he was about to leave the clubhouse, and being forced to play in an unequal pair, one of which was leather-soled and the other of rubber. He had R. H Pemberton (Sutton Coldfield) hol- ing out in one at the fifteenth. We had a lovely display of the older style of golf by A. Mitchell and almost crude melodrama from Cot Lozi

pressed putts completed the picture of disaster, with a total of eight strokes for the hole. Again, at the ninth, he drove into the hillside frum the tee to a bad lie and an awkward stance. He played a short spoon which falled to reach the green, played over the green into a bunker with his approach, and took two putts for a six to blow up his figures to 43 for the first nine holes.

A FINE RECOVERY

Padgham, who to-day returned an uneventful and uninspiring 74, terday's putting, but his play which put him with Cotton in sixth through the greens was of the place, seems once more to be play- kind that draws whistlings and ing his favourite game of retiring "Ooooooha!" from the crowds.

Cox is a stocky young man in the for a space the better to soring

figure

forward on the morrow.

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ALL TO FIGHT FOR After luncheon, accordingly, all was to fight for, but with the wea- ther in favour of Great Britain. In the light of that thrilling finish the earlier play must be passed excellent over, and with it some golf. In the first match Mrs. Vare inned one up on Miss Morgan. and with always a Uttle in hand. at the turned her lead into two 14th, the end coming at the 18th. where both were bunkered, but Miss Morgan took two to recover.

Mrs. Holm, playing great golf, went out in 38 against Miss P. Berg, but turned only three up, and went on to win by four and three. Gallant Mrs. Garon then put Great then came Mrs. Britain ahead with a runaway vic-

shot. aron's memorable again Miss Morgan was

BRITAIN AND THE LEAGUE

"Taking Stock"

FAILURE OF STEPS TO STOP AGGRESSION

Premier And Deputation

HOW DOCTORS WILL CLOSE SAFETY-PIN IN BABY'S LUNG

London, May 2.

One of the most skilful operations known to surgery is to be perform. ed at King's College Hospital, Den- park Hill, S. E, next week, writes correspondent,

Two attempts to remove the pin have already been made at the Royal Manchester Children's Hoe- pital, Pendlebury:

London, May 5,

It is the ramoval of an open After a deputation from the Lea. gue of Nations Union had waited salsty pin from the lung of a 21- upon them at the House of Com-month-old baby, Thomas Christy.

of Crawley-lane, Oldham, Lancs. mong last night, the Prime Minis ter and Mr. Eden emphasised that the Government would have to take stock of the League of Nn- tions position in the light of the apparent failure of collective action in the Italo-Abyssinian dispute. The question of the reform of the Covenant, it was stated, would need very careful consideration.

The deputation had been ar- ranged ten days ago. It was intro- duced by Lord Cecil,

I was shown today the delicate instrumenta which will be used for the operation.

An instrument called a laryngos. cope is first inserted through the mouth and down the windpipa.. This has the effect of straightening the windpipe for the passage of a the called foot-long instrument bronchoscope.

PINHEAD LIGHT The laryngoscope is lighted by

An official communique, issued after the meeting with Mr. Bald- win and Mr. Eden, stated that the two tiny electric bulbs which shine deputation expressed the conviction "lown the inside of the tube and that H.M. Government would re-form a centre spotlight.

ceive vigorous support in pursuing a courageous polley in the critical situation caused by the apparent success of Italian aggression in Abyssinia,

The bronchoscope is separately lighted by a bulb no larger than a pinhead. This is fitted on the end of a wire which passes down groove of the bronchoscope.

The instrument is then pushed down through the contre of the laryngoscope and into the lung, which is located by the bending of the baby's body to the right or left

whichever lung is sought.

Once this instrument is in place the laryngoscope can be removed by sliding off the top section.

The Union had consistently urg- ed, ever since the outbreak of hos tilities. that the most effective measures should be taken collec- tively in order to stop the war. The Union had not altered in its conviction that this polley should still be carried out. The alterna-

INGENIOUS INSTRUMENT tive was frankly to admit the com- plete fallure of the League. with The next operation is to close the the implied admission that it wassufety pin by means of a combined rot of forceps and a tube on the end Southport, May 19.

Impossible to prevent military ar-

of which is a swivelled ring.- international Only one of the American chal-gression by joint

This instrument passe down the women's action; this alternative could not

centre of the bronchoscope and the are two pieces of open golf championship now re-be contemplated without great in forceps, which mains with the third round com- jury to the moral authority of spring steel opened and closed by pleted. Marion Miley is the single Great Britain and the imminent the movement of the tube which en- unser them, grip the head of the survivor, both Mrs. Glutting and

it over the body of the pin and Mrs. Crews who won through to the

pin while the ring is passed beneath. third round being defeated at that

pulled towards the head, thus clos- stage.

ing it.

Even Marion Miley was taken to ne 19th hole in her third round the with Elsie Corlett, the Lan- cashire county champion, who had previously eliminated the American Patty Berg by one up.

The draw for the last eight, zone of whom have previously won the title is as follows.

Kathleen Garnham (Essex) v. Mrs. Rhodes (Yorkshire), Pamela Barton (Surrey) v...Doris Wilkins (Essex), Bridgett Newell (Derby shire) v. Marion Miley (US), Jean Hamilton (Surrey) v. Molly Gour layTM (Surrey).

danger of European war. "A foreign, policy based on the League was the only one upon which the British Empire could be united..

It was necessary

to consider

what could be done, in view of the inadequacy of the League's action in the present case, to make it a more efficient instrument, for the prevention of war rather than for attempting to arrest

Hostilities after they had begun.

CONTINUED ECONOMIC PRES- SURE ON ITALY? British public opinion was, the Union believed, deeply humiliated by the failure of the League of Nations to save Abyssinia, from in.. vasion and from the horrors of Third round results were:-

gas warfare. Unless Italy were pre- Kathleen Garnham beat Miss

vented by the economic pressure. 7 and 5, Mrs.

of the League from enjoying the Blake (Ireland) Rhodes beat Mrs. Crews (America) fruits of her unjust victory it was at the 20th. Pamela Barton beat doubtful whether the British people Mrs. Glutting (America) 3 and 2 would be ready to come to the as- Doris Wilkins beat Mrs. Temple sistance of other members of the Dobell, the 1912 champion and the League. who might be victims of the like, was a case of cut-and-thrust, with lust surviving holder by 4 and 3. aggression in the future.

where Mrs. Garon put an iron shot close to the hole and Miss Morgan holed the putt. "America, however, became two up at the Whaup's Nest, where Miss Morgant missed a short putt. Great Britain, halved of a the ninth with the help stymie, but found trouble at 10th, and that was two down again, America took three putts at the short 11th, and

the

The 15th saw Miss Berg tall at a

cerning the

Bridgett Newell beat Mrs. Newton

Mr. Eden gave the deputation the 3 and 2, Marion Miley (America) latest information available con- situation in Addis beat Elle Corlett at the 18th, Jena Hamilton beat Vyvian Lamb (Scot land) 3 and 2 and Molly Gourlay beat Phyllis Wade 3 and 2 -Reuter

£20,000 LEGACY FOR LORD BADEN-POWELL

London, May 5.

A bequest of £20,000 on trust to Lord Baden-Powell for life, with remainder to his two daughters, 1s contained in a will, published to- day.

Once tory against Mrs. Hill, who found bunkered the combination of wind. driving

The best scores were the seventy-

It was a dismal affair, with Cot-off the tee and Great Britain had mist, and golf too much for her.

50 yards In the other three matches it ghes of R. Burton and N. Sutton

ton, dark-browed and with a boce to play the odd from Leigh). By far the most beautiful jock of hair blowing picturesquely away, with America, in Tound to watch, however, was that over his forehead, the picture of lying safe for a 5. It looked like very little in it, that little being in Two down with six to play, but Mrs. favour of America. The first was In which Cox and Mitchell were a deposed emperor. It is proof of

man Was partners. The older

Cotton's mastery over himself that Garon holed her pitch and run for between Miss Pam Barton and Miss a 4 and won the hole to square the Charlotte Glutting. Putting prov- swinging effortlessly like a youth he managed such a steady home-

on the and disappointed only

ward nine. At the twelfth he sank match. America were in trouble ed Miss Barton's downfall It was greens, where he was plainly at-

a four-yard putt and at the fifteen all the way to "Braid's" Brawest. the same story with Mrs. J. B. fected by nervousness; even so, he

three-yarder: he finished by and Great Britain took the lead Walker against Mrs. J. D. Crews, for the first time. At the next whom most of us will remember as he almost pulled off a minor mira-nking a six-yard putt for a three

hole America squared with a per- Miss Maureen Orcutt. Mrs. Crews! cle at the tenth, where he missed

at the eighteenth, and so came

ap played the more convincing golf fect 3, Miss Berg laying "an sinking a twenty-yard putt by not home in 34.

going out, turned three up, and was still two up going to the more than a couple of inches. Cox

proach by the hole side. had lost much of the bloom of yes-

mort put, and it did look as "Denty Den." At the "Denty Den" Great Britain right scramble Mrs, Crews was 15ft, from the hole, Alas! Misa Morgan pulled and above it, in 3, whereas Mrs. home, Vare made no mistake, and ones pant. She putted not dead, but to her tee shot to the short 16th: Mrs, Waiker in 2 was some six, yards again it was a level match with within a yard. Mrs. Crewe, seeing а with middle twenties,

two to play. The 17th provided aa báre, possible chance, banged her bearing a marked resemblance to

surprise almost a startling as the ball straight down that slope and u spinning top.. He hits a terrific ball from the tee, and for his trans H.K ELECTRIC BOWLS 12th. Great Britain were pinhigh, holed it. Mrs. Walker missed and 10 yards to the left. in 2 Mrs. was three down instead of one be seems to roll up his sleeves to

RINKS FOR NEXT

Vare, unbalanced by a couple of down. She did win two holes of

The testator was Col. John get down to the game, and golf to

Kinder Spilling, of The Red House, stray wanderers crossing the back the next three, but the Fates would SATURDAY him is plainly a job of work. He

of the green. tuffed her second.not forgive,

"America, therefore, was dormy Windlesham, Surrey, who died on plays with a complete absence of

Miss Berg played a very good run- broodiness, and if his first putt

The following will represent the

Cheney to come 431, with net personalty £371,- Vare holed out from that distance, son and Mrs. L falls to go down he may be noticed Hong Kong. Electric Recreation Up to within 10ft. of the hole; Mrs. one with only Miss Jessie Ander- March 22, aged 87. He left £371.- amling down at it in a friendly sort Club in the Second Division of the Great Britain took three putts, in, very, very late in the day. This 257. (Eatste. Duty 111.642 118. There is also a similar legacy of of way and sometimes may be Lawn Bowls League next Saturday

At the 16th one square at the turn. To-day, he against Club de Recreio at Ming and, instead of being dory cae, was a rare fight. They were all .8.). heard urging it on.

na seemed very likely, were was, taking two pults all the way Yuen:-"

down with one to play. To the (the "wee bogle") Miss Anderson £5,000 upon trust for Lady Baden-

from Powell, J. H. Barton, T. P. Saunderson, ging's Hame" Miss Morgan made made a grand recovery

Colonel Spilling also left 25,000 to the turn, which he reached in 37. At the tenth he sank a twenty-3. Sloan and S. Deacon (skip).

to his late wife's maid, Ann Cads- V. Borby, J. L. King, G. T. Pad- ample amends. Left to play a full bunker and holed a part of five iron to the green in the like after yards to square the match. The gett and A. F. Paul (skip).

W. Orchard, G. G. Thompson, W. Mrs. Vare-in trying to drive over 17th came as an anticlimax, for by, £20,000 to Edward Nanney the hill-was bunkered, she sud-Miss Anderson nuffed a pitch (why Wynn, of Towyn; £10,000 to Grace Stoker and W. H. B. Muskett (skip).

Reserves: C. E, Gahagan and Fdenly found her true swing and will so many ladies take a lofted Nanney Wynn, £20,000 to Herbert crisply and club to play this shot?), and then William Bainbridge, of Lamington, whipped the F. Duckworth.

sweetly to within two yards of the Mrs. Cheney missed a very short and after other bequests the re-

too That was pin.

much for putt to become dormy. To the side of the property to Mr. Wynn, A member of Colonel Spilling's "Evening America, and Great Britain was home hole both were short of the left with 2 for the hole and a hal-green in 2, and both played brave household told the

approaches in the stress of the mo- Standard:"

"Colonel Epilling was a great ved match.

The second match ended in a ment. Mrs. Cheney had to play well-deserved victory for America the odd from eight yards and laid friend of Lord Baden-Powell and by two and one. In this Mrs. her putt stone dead, leaving Miss was with him in the same regiment "Although the colonel had not Cheney was the heroine, for she Anderson with her putt of seven-the 13th Hussars, The next meeting of the Council played very steadily. Mrs. Walker yards to save all. Miss Anderson of the Hong Kong Football Asso- and Miss Pam Barton were two up went very calmly up to her ball been connected with either the clation, will be held in the Sports with five holes played, but a quick and hit it smoothly. The ball tra- Army or the Scout movement for

Lady Baden-Powell R. Burton's round of 71 was mar-Club, Hong Kong, at 5.30 pm, onchange followed, for Great Britain velled on and suddenly disappear-21 years, he often saw Lord and

took three putts on, four of the bed. The match was all seven. red by two unfortunate sizes at the Monday next, May 25, 1936,

yard putt for a birdie four, and at the eleventh was down from twelve yards for a birdie three. At the next hole, where his ball lay in an awkward ile in the crutch of two bunkers he played a superb spoon to the foot of the green and took two putts for a scratch four. His only mistakes, if they can be called mistakes, were on the greens, for at the sixteenth and the eigh- teenth he was reduced to three pults. His figures, which hardly. indicate the quality of his game, were: 3, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 3, 5-37 'out; 4; 3, 4, 4, 4, 3, 5, 3, 535 in.

R. BURTON'S GOOD ROUND

HONG KONG F. A.

Council Meeting

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It is then possible to remove the closed safety-piss through the tube without fear of tearing the wall of the lung.

The condition of the baby is at present very weak, but it is hoped that with special treatment the operation can be performed within the next few days.

BRITISH MEDAL FOR DR. ECKENER

London May 2 The British Gold Medal for Auro- nautics has been awarded by the Amulrea Committee, ou the recom mendation of the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society, to Dr. Hugo Eckener for his technical achievements ia Lighter-than-air

craftTM

The Silver Medal has been award- ed to Mr. AJ Howledge, for his scientific achievements in the de velopment of aircraft, engines.

The deputation consisted of Lord Mr. Noel Baker, Mrs. Corbett Ash- Cecil (president), Professor Gilbert by, Dr. Maxwell Garnett, Lady Murray (chairman), Lord Lytton Gladstone, Mr. G. M. Mander, M.P., (vice-chairman, Lord Allen, Sir Archibald Sinclair, M.P.. and Norman Angell. Mr. Arnold-Forster, Mr. A. G. Walkden, MP.

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