1919-05-07 — Page 8

A FOKI WOUNDED.

Another daring

robbery as taken place. A money Changars shop at No. 4 Des Your Road West, was last night, at 8.20 o'clock, held up by gang of six robbers who were all armed with revolvers. They stole a large sum of money and wounded a foki of the shop.

The procedure followed by

the

robbers - Was

the

SOME GOLF PROBLEMS.

What is the fair handicap that man should give a lady in golf match, provided that the man and the lady are similar players each in their own sex ↑

been Sayed by mo very occasionally, sionally, indeed as played by men. Lady golfers have played a great part in the war, and it is doubtful if some of them. This problem was attracting will be able to get away from mach interest in 1914, but nothair war duties sufficiently sarly satisfactory salution has yet been to play very much this, summer. reached. "It is a problem which For this reason, it is most satis- will, attract much interest this factory to see that the Open summer but so large a part of Championship will not be played the solution is undoubtedly the for until the autumn, and will take place on the Burnham and personal satisfactory method of handicap- Berrow conse. The English Championship will be played also ping seems impossible.

in the autumn on the St. Annes old course.

equation" that

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Interest in this matter was first aroused by the famous match be- tween Mr. Hilton and Miss Cecil

Leitch.

usual one. Whilst the other robbers waited outside the shop, one man entered and asked for "change for a $5 note. As soon as the opportunity offered, he signalled to the robbers, who came into the shop with a rush,

In this match, Mr. Hilton gave drawing their revolvers and point- Miss. Leitch half a stroke and ing them at the fokis of the shop.both played from the men's teas. One rufian jumped over the counter and seized hold of several Miss Leitch won by 2 holes up bags containing about $800 in and 1 to play."

There could have been no better amall coins. They would have made a bigger haul, but for the test method of handicapping, for both players were about the two bravery of & foki. This man succeeded in evading the vigilant best of their respective sex, and neither of them was troubled eye of the robbers and went into with nerves. The score does not the street, where he blew his make the victory read an easy whistle. In the twinkling of am eye, the shop was cleared of the one, but Miss Leitch won com-

fortably.

marauders. They ran into the It has been said that no one street and made off in the direcwould beat Miss Leitch at this tion of Kennedy Town. In leav ing the shop, one of the robbers handicap, a statement with which turned round and fired' his

most of the best judges of the revolver at the daring foki, who game agree. received the bullet in his right

•

This same handicap-half a stroke was tried again in the summer of 1914 in a match at

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In 1914; Miss C. Leith and Miss whether any other members of Ravenscroft (now Mrs. Dobell) the Military Service contingent fought out a great final tie in are travelling by the same boat. which Miss Leitch was success- We were informed that informDA- ful by holes up and I to play tion has been received to the These two players were, per-effect that nine men of the 1/6 haps, the best known to the ants Regiment are coming to general public of all the lady the Colony by the steamer named, not due here on or about the 9th golfers, but they could be considered as standing instant, and, though no official themselves in the details have been received, it is out by same way as do the great four" assumed that these all belong to in professional golf. It was Mise the Kirkee contingent of Hong- Leitch's first championship--the kong men.

first time indeed, she had been in the final round while Mrs. Dobell had won only once; she was successful in 1912. In the 22 years in which this competition been decided, only two had players have ever won on more M. one occasion-Miss than Hezlet won in 1902 and 1907, while Lady Margaret Hamilton

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The whole affair took place Stoke, between 10 men and 10 Russel won the first three years H.K. & S. Banke s. $6921é sa. 695 Must be capable of assuming

with incredible rapidity. It was over in two minutes, and when the Police quickly came on the scene, in response to the message, the robbers had made themselves scarce.

The wounded man was remov ed to the Government Civil

Hospital, where the bullet was extracted from his ar The Police, after the robbery, made every effort to capture the gang by instituting a watch at the various wharves. 1

„OTHER SUSPECTS ARRESTED.2.

To the total number of Chinese who have been arrested by the Police in connection with the recent crop of armed robberies, two more men have to be added. Through some smart work by Sergeant Cockle, these men were

tions.

THE NEW ITALIAN CONSUL:

In the

ladies. Each side was a strong and representative one. morning, the men won by six, matches to four, and in the after- It is noon by seven to one.

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VERY YOUNG PLAYERS. A feature of the mcar important ladies' competitions has always worthy of special notice that been the appearance of very Miss C. Leitch won both young players. On many occas- of her matches, bearing ions, there have been players Captain Hutchinson very easily with their hair down their back in the morning, and Mr. H. Emere school girls. I cannot Taylor in the afternoon. Here, recall a single instance of a

a curious' thing. The schoolboy taking a part match between Mr. Hilton and the сред men's champion- Douglases

was Steamboats Miss Leitch appeared to point to ship.. Miss C. Leitch the fact that half a stroke was very young indeed when she Indos (Pref.)

made her first appearance in the Indos (Def) too great a handicap to allow. Miss Leitch's play in this team championship at St. Andrew's in Shells match at Stoke points to the same 1908, and was not defeated until Ferries conclusion, ye: the ladies' team she met the champion of that was defeated by 13 games to year, Miss M. Titterton, in the five. To make matters more semi-final round. Even then, complicated, Miss Leitch, al- Miss Titterton won by only one

feats in the great competitions for ladies. It would seem, then, that the solution is so involved with "the personal equation" that solution is impossible. It is not uninteresting to note, that in all the matches of this kind which have been played, the importance | of the occasion seemed to have rested more heavily on the ment than on the ladies.

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on Saturday afternoon arrested though certainly as good as anyhole and had some amazing luck in the Coffee Plantation where other lady player, is not an out- on one occasion. But for that, it they were lying low pre- standing player. She is certain-is conceivable that Miss Leitch paratory, it is stated, to com-ly defeated as often as she de- might have been the open mitting another robbery. This

champion long before she was 20, statement seems borne out Ly

In 1914, there were several the fact that a revolver, dagger

very young players of real aud a packet of pepper were

promise Misa, Vera Ramsay, found on their persona. The two

who was beaten in the champion- men were this morning charged

ship by Miss Harrison, Miss Joan before Mr. R. O. Hutchison at

Stocker, of Hunstanton, and Miss the Magistracy with being in

Gladys Bastin, who was beaten K. Docks unlawful possession of arms and

by Miss Grant Suttie in the fifthShai Docks remanded for further investiga

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it b. four years which have been devoid Centrals Those clubs which permit of golf and it will be interesting to H.K. Hotels ladies to play on their courses-watch their reappearance. Thes Land Invest. and there are very few who do will have missed four of the most H'phreys Est not-give the ladies special tees. important years of their golfing Kloon Lands. Their tees for the course is made lives, and they have the right to L Reclamations up from those too and to the same blame the war, as golfers, pro. West Points as the men's, par. The fairest bably more than any other player.

Cotton Mills. Cavalier Eles, who has recent-handicap then for such a match Of these three young players. Ewos ly been appointed Italian Consul as the one under consideration Miss Bastin was the most pro-Kang Yiks General for Hongkong. South would seem to be to play level-mising. Her style is very naturel Lau Kung Mows n. China and Macao, in place of if your players are equal players Had she been a man, it would Orientals Commendatore Volpicelli, who and allow the lady to play from have been said that her early S'hai Cottons hes been transferred to the her own tees. Handicapping youth had been misspent. Being Yang szepoos Foreign Office in Rome after under such conditions-this one of the other sex it is, perhaps, twenty years spent in South China, advantage allowed-would be the better to say that she must have is the possessor of a fine person. вame as for men players of been born with a club in her Green Islands ality, charming manners and different standards.

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China Borneos. speaks English. with a perfect, This method of handicapping pronunciation and ал easy was tried in a match at West delivery.

Hill in April, 1914, and answered Cavalier Eles is from Rome, remarkably well, for in the

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It is most certainly open to C. L. Borneos b. $5 old discussion if it is good for very China Providents b. young players to play, on such Dairy Farms important occasions. It must, of H. K. Electrics taking his classical courses there singles, the ladies won four course, be good for their golf in Macao Electrics and eventually graduating in the matches and the men three, while many ways; it gives them con- Ropes University of Rode, receiving the in the four-ball games the ladiesfidence, and it should teach them Trams, LowLevel b. degree of Doctor of Laws. He won three and the men one. This match play. It gives them Trams, Peak, old b entered, the Department of is the result of a solitary match opportunitunities: to learn from Trams, Peak, new boots Foreign Affairs and has been in and cannot, therefore, be taken players more experienced than Laundries. the Consular Service for several as very fair test. Further it themselves. But it is plating Steel Foundries years, .being first Vice-should be stated that the men competitions as the one thing in U. Waterboatsb. Consul in New York, the first were not quite so well known golf for which the game exists, Vice-Consul in Tunis, Vice. among men players as the ladies Surely this is wrong. It is the Wm. Powells Consul-in-chief in Biserta (near were among the lady players. It dangerous tendency of all games, Tunis, in North Africa). His is to be hoped that a similar and it leade ultimately next appointment was Italian match between the 10 best to "pot-hunting.". There is more Consul to Brazil and Consul for amateur men and the 10 best "pot-hunting" in ladies' golf than Australasia, with residence in ladies will be played this summer. in almost any other.game. In Melbourne, where he has been I think Miss C. Laitch will win many ways, the appearance of for the last five years, and then her match, but the other results very young players in such com- much on the individuality of the was appointed to his present must be doubtful.

atitions must be bad for them. player. But the advantages position as Italian Consul-Gen-

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