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V.B.C BOXING FINALS. mor Bowles and Seaman Codnor

SEVEN DECISIONS GO TO REFEREE,

FOOTBALL,

CHARITY MATCH AT

KOWLOON.

Saturday to witness the charity A good number, turned out on

watch on the railway ground af Kowloon botwaan; the Kowloon F. C. and the Police, the gate befog set aside for the Ministering loon, playing without McKelvie Children's Losgue Funds." Kow..

in the game through Austin; whe their captain, took the lead oarly netted from a pass by McBride. with Clarke making no attempt to save, Austin being obviously. offside.

of the Obrlisle in the final of the Toathore Bowlos was far and away the better boxer and showed" up strongly in round two, but Codnor, stook heavy punishment without a murmur and forced the fighting scoring with both left [BY WANDERER".]

and right. Codnor fought a The fact that the judges dis- splendidly clean fight and had agreed in no fewer than seven of bis man almost graggy in the last eleven contoate at the V.R.C. on round. Codnor was given the Saturday suggests either very decision, J.DJ AK evon bouts or faulty judging. In Tho big fight bad nothing choosing to taketheless controverprotly to commend sial view and admitting that the Marine Betts and Leading Stoker bouts as a general rule certainly Piper exchanged blow for blow, were evenly contestod, it is neces-dofones being cast to the four sary to add that the referees in winda. Pipor has come on tre control of the different fights gave mendously since his last appear the decision to the right man infance in the ring and at the end of

MoKelvie thon came on and oach case. "J. D." signifies that both the first and second rounds. judgas disagreed."

ho had Betts on the verge of de- Kowloon continued to have mos His Excellonoy the Governor, feat. Bette gave Piper less rope of the phy. Simpson for the accompanied by his A.D.O as in the third round. and early in Polico put in good contros, bli well as Sir Claud Severn and the the fourth applied the ko. with a the rest of the forwards ware Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak were beautifully-timed clip to the point, lagging and chances went beg amongst those present, and at the

P.O. Meen gained a clover win ging. Clarke was well placed t conclusion His Excellency gave over A.B. Ringham (Iriquois) in save a shot from Austin whor the various cups and the Welterweight final. Moon ball deflected from him well ou MoWaltar orossed over and the away medals,

punched and danood away, evid-i evening, the final of the Boys should not got near him with his fell to both sides but were not In the very first fight of the ently determined that Ringham of the reach of Clarke and Ków. loon were two goals up. Corner: Bantamweight

Championship devastating right. Moen fought improved upon. Simpson almos a surpriso

created, aleverly all through and although had Duncan guessing just bofor R. H. Ramsoy (Garrison School) Ringham did bettor in the con- the interval, but the goalie clearer wresting the title from J. Dillon eluding round, punishing Meen (St. Joseph's). Ramsey shook severely, he was unable to make just as Johnson charged, him, the latter's confidence by sailing up the leeway. in at once and landing cloverly with both hands. Dillon soon

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HEAVYWEIGHTS.

dropped his somewhat stilted Rose gained a good victory over semi-professional stylo and a taller opponent in the Heavy- fought as the ordinary common-weight final. Bdr. Lodge topped or-garden boy and in the second the claret early on, but Rose round he drew level on points.abowed little signs of inconven- Ramsey, however, outlasted him, lence, being continually aggress snoring freely in the third round. fivo. Lodge was punished in the "J. D."

second round.

A rearrangement of the Police team at the change of ends made the play: more oven and in the second half there was no score. although the Police were often. dangerous. Shots from Simpson were dealt with successfully by Duncan, but a littlo more initiative on the part of other forwards would have brought success to the Police. The game

At the close of the game, Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse handed to McKelvio, the captain of the winning team, a small memento of the occasion and on behalf of the Committee of the Ministering Children's League thanked both teams for turning out to play

game,

HAWKINS LOSE TO SOUTH CHINA:

Contesting every inch, Boy Poor stuff was sotved up" be-ended in a win for Kowloon by Fleming (Brisbane) lost to Mr. H.tween Randall and Cunningham two goals to all. Major in the final of the Men'e in the Boys Heavyweight final. Bantamweight Championship. Randall was boring in the whole Major entered the ring with a time, though Cunningham de- damaged right hand and with its clined to drop into a clinch, effectiveness, more or less pulli-Cunningham made best use of his fied. There was not a pin to 'opportunities in the concluding choose between them in the round. Cuunningham was given opening round, Major scoring the verdict. "J.D.". with left loads and right

the After doing well in the first body blows and Fleming

two rounds, K.G. Evane (KB.S.) landing "the face

to

with both

hands Major landed was defeated by G. Giron. (St. heavily OD the body in the Joseph's). Giron was a straighter. round and his clever hitter, but he was cautioned both footwork stood him in good for striking low and striking Evans when he was down. Evans, stead. In round three Major landod eight straight lefte, disregarded advice to use his left though Fleming scored with both more, but I understand that he dislocated his left thumb early in hands. "J; D."

**The

Middleweight Cham- the second round. Evans fought

"J.D." pionship Clinch by Clinch very pluckily. would be a suitable heading for Thanks are due to Dr. Black the bout between Pte. Eaton and who attended and had occasion Stoker Thomson, of the Titania. to patoh up'inaný injuries. The first round was even, the second in favour of Eaton and

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The team of H.M.S. Hawkins carried all bofure them during THE INTERFORT PRACTICE,

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN In mitigation of a somewhat. their recent visit to Singapore,

BANK AGREEMENT, and against South China on poor display by the cricket team Saturday, with a depleted sloven, which is to visit Shanghai, it can

Washington, April 26. they put up a splendid struggle, be said that it was up against a

It is reported that the agree- though they had finally to admit very strong side on Saturday, but defeat by the only goal of the the Interport batsmen undoubtedly ment between the New York Letter side all through, for while with but one or two exceptions, Bank of England, to take pound The Chinese were the did not come up to expectations, Federal Reserve Bank and the the Hawkins made many on-The result of the match was a sterling bills in the onen market as an exchange stabiliser, is re- slaughts on Lau Hìng-choung's draw, charge, their shooting was Going in to bat first, the Inter- garded by many officials es tant- woefully weak and they rarely porters compiled 148 for 9, when amount to placing the New York the third in favour of Thomson. PRESIDENT" BOATS. looked like scoring. On the other they declared. With Rev. E K. Hank's gold reserve behind the

hand, Heathcote, in the Navy Quick keeping his end up, the pound.

It is agreed that this will in goal, was constantly called upon tail-Q.M.S. Stripp, 29, and Capt

calculably aid British efforts to to effect difficult saves.

Armstrong, 21--was able to wag, The Hawkins lost their centre- and save the situation. Qulot maintain the gold basis. half soon after the interval and compiled an invaluable 42, The shortly afterwards Choi Ping-fan second highest score was "Mr. scored a good goal. The proceeds Extras," with 30. The best of of the match will go towards the opposition bowlers was F. N. defraying the cost of sending a Young, who took 3 wickets for Chinese side to Manila in the 11 runs. Far Eastern Olympice.

Thomson gave Eaton no oppor-. tunity of using his longer reach. Thomson was given the vordict after the judges had under- standably disagreed:

FIRST STAGE OF LEGAL BATTLE.

By a narrow margin of points, The following Associated Press A. B. Quinn (Brisbane) defeated massage to the Manila Bulletin his shipmate, 2. B. Shaddeck, in throws some light on the question the final of the Lightweight of the sale of the "President" Championship. The men con- linera

be

The governor of the Federal Reserve Board said the board bad not boen advised of the reported agreement, but the agreement could be negotiated by the Bank without reference to Washington, and there was no reason why the Bank should not help the movement.-Reuter's American Service.

BULGARIAN ANARCHY.

centrated on in-fighting and Washington, April 20, The

The "Rest managed to give fighting-in, Quinn realising Government today won the first

quite a good account of them that Shaddock's reach would point in the bearing of the Pacific

solves, finishing up with 184 for dangerous at distance. Mail injunction suit when Justice

8 wickets down. Lt. Comdr.) Thore was little between them, William Hitz of the supreme injunction. The case then was Jotham contributed 45 and T. E. in rounds one and two but Quinn court of the District of Columbia | proceeded with "on its merite""

Poarce 23 There were only 10 decided did better in the third..." J.D."

to proceed with the

After the dismissal of the suit extras. Both A. C. J. Bowker In tho Boys' Lightweight motion of the Government to the Pacific Mail immediately and E. B. Reed were in some- Championship, Ligoros failed to dismiss the suit. A lengthy began preparations for an appeal thing like form, the former put up a fight against G: Danen-argumont proceded the decision.

the court agreeing to make capturing 3 for 34 and the latter

DEVILISH PROGRAMME berg and was well beaten."

Opposing the motion for the dis- the dismissal effective Wednes- 4 for 42.

DRAWN UP. SCIENCE DEFEATED. missal, the Pacific Mail couneet day, and permitting the Pacifio K.C.C. VS. UNIVERSITY.

Sofia, April 26. One of the bost fights of the urged that the motion be combined Mail to take the case to the The University beat the Kow- As the result of confassions by evening was seen between Drum- with the petition for a permanent Court of Appeals,

loon Cricket Club, on the accomplices, the counsel for the latter's ground, last Saturday, Crawa is stated to have establish- in an exciting League match, ed that besides the cathedral out snatching the victory by rage the Agrárian-Communists just one run. The victors scored had planned several other at 73. F. Goodwin taking 4 for 25 tempts in Sofia and the provinces, and J. C. Lyal 3 for 21. The including attacks on the Sobranje, K. C. C..replied with 72, K. R. and central post and telegraph Mackaskill contributing 27. A. A.officos; but the plans did not Rumjahn took 6 of the club's materialise owing to the stern wickets for 31, in 9.4 overs, and I measures of the military author S. O. Shahabudia 2 for 7. Twoitiés.. wickets also fell to Sir Claud It le bstimated that two hundred Severn, who turned out for the million leva will be needed to University.

[repair: the cathedral and relieve the injured and the families of the dead-Reuter.

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INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES.

Washington, April 26, Addressing dolegates of the Clark, formerly Medical Officer American Society of Internation- of Health in Hongkong, will al Law, Mr. Kellogg declared that regrot to learn of a severe illness he heartily favoured America's he has suffered after being participation in an international]: Inoculated with the Pastour anti-tribunal for settlement of inter- rabies treatinent,

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