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SPANISH SOCCER EXCITEMENT.

ENGLAND DEFEATED IN AN AMAZING GAME.

POLICE PROTECTION.

Madrid, May 15. Sensation followed sensation in On International soccer match between England and

Spain

THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929.

1,000 GUINEAS GOLF TOURNAMENT.

HAGEN LEADS FIELD] BY 5 STROKES.

DUNCAN AND E. WHITCOMBE STRIKE REAL FORM.

MINERS' ELECTION MANIFESTO.

STRONG ATTACK ON TORY GOVERNMENT.

SPEECH BY PREMIER.

London, May 15,

The Miners' Federation has issued a striking manifesto in the course of which it urges the mine- workers to "selze this priceless

to-day. The most enthusiastic BETTER BRITISH HOPE. opportunity" of striking a blow at

crowd that has ever witnessedTM a football match in Spain attended, and the ground which holds 40,000 could have been filled twice over There was a crowd of over 40,000 outside in a mija-long queue...

England were much the better team in the first half and led by two goals to nil, but Spain turned the tables on the restart and under somewhat curious circum- stances, defeated the vialtors, by four goals to three. England were represented by a strong international side.

There was intense excitement in the closing stagoa. England led 3-2 to within five minutes of the end, when Spain burst through and equalised. The huge crowd aurged on the pitch, and en- deavoured to embrace the scorer, but they were chased off by civic guards with drawn swords.

The game was resumed, and the mab repeated the scene. when Spain secured the winning goal just before the finish, but the palice threw a cordon round the pitch and the guards escorted the Spanish players from the Geld. Their dressing-room was placed under guard until the excitement had worn off.-Reuter.

REHEARSAL FOR

THE DERBY.

MR. JINKS BEATEN BY THE SHORTEST OF HEADS.

AN EXCITING FINISH.

London, May 15.

London. May 15 Walter Hagen continues to play superlative golf and his card of 70 for the concluding stage of the qualifying competition in the Oue Thousand: Guineas Tournament placed him Ave strokes ahead of the rest of the powerful field.

Alargen gallery, followed the American skipper, and lie enter tained them to a display of perfect golf, Hleplay was almost free of blemish. He missed putts of two yards at the 10th and 11th holes, but he more than compensated for these slight set-backs, by hollug out some phenomenally long ones.

He turned in thirty-six and then came home in thirty-four.

Stylish Player.

Only one player equalled his performance to-day, Ernest Whit- combe, the Bournemouth player, also returning a card of 70. He

the authors of their sufferings, and to show by their votes, their detestation of the. Tary Govern- manifesto ment, which the declares, became the Executive of the coal-owners in 1926.

The Federation also appeals to shopkeepera and business people to make a common cause with the mineworkers and to help to give the Labour Party an opportunity of succeeding where the older parties have lamentably failed.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, speaking at Newport to-night, referred at some length to Britain's foreign relations, particularly in regard to disarmament and war debts,

He said that foreign nations must not expect Great Britain to do all the disarming and all the debt-paying. That was not the spirit of the League of Nations Covenant.

together, he declared, adding that They had all got to march played stylishly from first hole to Britain was marching with the st, and climbed high in the list. quickest, but that the ther British hopes were also improved lions could not lag behing In-

definitely. Reuter, by a return to form on the part of George Danean, who went round

in 72.

A number of the American Ryder Cup players were well down in the list. and Turnesa did not. qualify for the competition proper except after a play-off for bottom position.

There were no notable failures. The leading scores at the end of the qualifying competition were as follows:

Walter inurn (U.S.1

A. Compatos (Consule .

(0.8,1 A. Wat

A. Mitchell Iprivatel

Buncan tunattached

E. Whilrumbe (lestrasmouth

THE JOYS OF "WANDERLUST.”

A HUNGARIAN STUDENT SEES. THE WORLD.

Three years ago Joseph Kuntzé, son of a State employee Bving In Muhlbach, and a brilliant student

69 50-150 of the Prague University, where

.71 78-144

71 he was preparing to take his de- 70 74-344gree of doctor of law, set out to -31 74-147

74 12-140 climb the Lomnic, the highest peaki 177878140 In the Tatra range, and was never

heard of again.

Other qualifying scores were;

3. Jurple (Arpentiurt

W. H. Davies (Wallasey

Prominent candidates for the Derby competed in the race for the.. Jon Fosgravel Newmarket Stakes, run at New areem (Dnattached)

market over a mile and a quarter to-day,

Singapore. There was an exciting finish

гасе, which resulted

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REAL HUSTINGS ONCE MORE.

London, Apr. 18,

the follows:

Be To (Newport).

T. Catton (Langley Parki F. Rexton Cooden Urachi

D. Dudley 11.8.A,

to leron si EU.. J. Tarbes (U.8.4.)

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news of the lad's whereabouts, and +74 78 - 14D 773-10 communicated with the father, .78 94160 32710 who at once set out and discover- ed his son driving cows to pasture In the village of Elphin, In Ire- land. Medical. reports pronounce Kunize normal in mind and body.

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•G TB-111 70-142 73 74

Only one place was available for: 18cores in excess of 152, and Torness, the American player, qualified for this position after a play-off with other 153's over, 9 holes.-Renter.

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Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon .. Major McCaimonth' Mr. Jinks .. Lord Rosebery'a Midlothian ....... Hunter's Moon won by the shortest of heads, whilst Midlo- thian was only 'n short heud behind Mr. Jinks.

The horses, of course, carried level weights.

The betting was as follows:

7 to 2 against Hunter's Moon.

5 to 4 on Mr. Jinke,

6 to 1 against Midlothian.

--Reuter.

BRITISH LADIES' TITLE.

The Last Eight in the Competition.

His own story of his disappear- ance is as follows:-

On reaching the summit of the Lomnic, 2,645 metres high, Kuntze was so impressed by the panorama spread out beneath him that he was overtaken by an frresistible attack of "wanderlust," which he was totally unable to resist. He crossed the snow mountains and arrived in Gonior, and having come to the end of his fooL

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The competition at St. Andrew's for the British Ladies' Open Cham pionship is now reaching its clos- and ing stages. The weather was from village to village, earn- against good plny, and there were ing enough for his needs by en- several unexpectedly heavy mar-gaging as a day labourer. In Trieste be shipped to Greece us a atoker, and from there worked his During the morning, the severest passage back to England. He thunderstorm in the history of the worked his way over England and

Derby betting on

dot allowed Lord Aster's Cragadour to glas be favourite at 6 to 1, other prices being Hunter's Moon 20 to 1, Mr. Jinks 100 to 12, and Midlothian 25

to 1.

SULTAN OF JOHORE.

DENIAL OF REPORT THAT HE

IS NOT RETURNING.',

of unusual sit- .untions . from the brilliant "Saturday Evening Post" story-

event drove most of the players off Scotland, and eventually to Ir]] "ON THE SHELF" the course. Miss Wethered was lund, as a day labourer. drenched and left her ball on the

Although Kuntze is willing to third green, and returned to find accede to his parent's wishes and the hole hidden in a pool.

settle down, he declares that the) Miss Glenna Collet, the Ameri- past three years could not have! can lady champion, was more for- been better spent." tunate as she was playing near s shelter at the time. An Anglo- American Anal is regarded as cer- ALIEN'S ALLEGATION. tain.. London, May 15. The Colonial office has issued In the third round Miss. Wether- the following quotation by the ed boat Miss Shewan (Strule) by Secretary of State for the five and three; Miss Glenna Collett Colonies, whose attention has been (U.S.) beat Miss Brown (Formby), drawn to a statement which has by four and two; Miss Hollins appeared in the Press about His (U.S.A.) bent Miss Boothby (U.S.) Highness the Sultan of Johore:— | by 6 and 5.

GERMAN FINANCES.

The last eight in the competition are, therefore:

Miss Joyce Wethered (Britain). Miss Glenna Collett (U.S.A.) Mra. Guedella (formorly "Miss Edith Leach).

"COMPELLED TO JOIN BRITISH SECRET SERVICE."

London, Apr. 18.

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Chirinian, ALSTORY OF LUCK, LOVE & LAUGHTER

He was convicted of stealing: a suft of clothes from John Henry Airey, 24 pairs of silk stockings Etam, Limited, and a cigarette case from Elkington and Company.

from

On Tuesday he was found guilty of

furniture stealing

Miss Enid Wilson (holder) (Brl- and other articles from Mrs. tain).

Violet Gutteridge, with whom he was said to have been in partner. ship.

The statement, which is to the In the fourth round Miss aged 37, a dentist, was found not effect that the Sultan might not Wethered beat" Mrs. Garon, the guilty at Landon Sessions yester- The appearance of the can-be returning to Johore, is entirely Essex international; by 5 and 4; day of stealing 4 gramophone didates was a signal for joyous without foundation. His High- Miss Collett bedt Mrs Mulqueen from the Gramophone Company, uprour, which consisted, as far ness's short tour to Europe, which (Canada) by 7 and 0; Mrs. Limited, and two rings from as one could distinguish the in- he intends to be ass private, as Guedella beat Miss Hollins (US) Charles Amherst Robertson. dividual noises, of cheers, boos, possible, lw being undertaken by 4 and 3. RIVAL CANDIDATES SHOUTED lasing. catcalls, and strident mainly on medical grounds, and he

DOWN.

whlatling. Evidently Mile End contemplates returning to Johore loves a noise above all things, and towards the end of the year," Hook this opportunity to make the British Wircless. Any gloomy pundit of these days loudest possible cacophony.

Gradually the hall was brought who imagines that the Victorian to silence for the first speaker, spirit of fun at election times je Mr. Teff, but the spirit of 'mer- now dead might have done, worse friment possessed the audience, or at least a scetion of it, and his than visit Premierland, Mile End,

voice was soon drowned in a last night, where an attempt, organ chorus of ejaculation and inter- ised by the Daily Express, was fruption. made to revive this glory of the

Dodge, who found it utterly in- The Relelistng has adopted the hustings.

The three candidates of the Mile Possible, in the circumstances, to Bill authorising the issue of a long End division, Mr. John Scurr, the expound such a measure as the term domestic loan of Mks.500,000,- Bitting Soetalist member, Colonel Rates Relief Act. Like the pre-000 (£26,000,000), which is design- J. B. Dodge, the Conservative, and vious speaker, he was counted out, ed to rehabilitate the finances of Then came Mr. Scurr, but no the Relch. The loan will be free Mr. Solomon Telf, the Liberal, had been invited to spar with words in sooner had he risen to his feet of all taxes; and will be offered for the ring, that is ordinarily devoted than the uproar began once more subscription shortly.

At the close, much to the joy of to boxing. They took the ring under the chairmanshin of Mr. R, the audienco, Mr. Teff protested D. Blumentfeld, the Editor of the tfint he had had a very fair hear Daily Express,

Ing.

No better fate awaltod Colonel!

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DOMESTIC LOAN BILL APPROVED.

Berlin, May 15.

Furthermore the Minister sug- goats selling the certificates for seven por cent, preference shares

Miss Doris Park (Britain), Miss Molly Gourlay (Britain). Mrs. Watson (Britain). Miss Pyman (Britain), :

-Reuter,

1

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ARMS EMBARGO OFF.

BELIGIUM REPEALING RAIL PROHIBITION.

Brussels, May 18. The Belgian Cabinet has ap-

in German Railway Companies proved the text. of Bills repealing which are in possession of the the Bleasure prohibiting the trans Relch to Savings Banks, Municipal it through Belgium of war ma Banks, and Public Welfare Instituterlal destined for China-Reuter, tions-Reyter.

Détective Sergeant S. Harris stated that in 1927 Chairman was convicted and was recommended for deportation, but there had been obstacles.

i

Mr. J. F. Eatwood (prosecuting), -He is an Armenian, and there le now no such place as Armenla.

Sergeant Harris-Ile seems to have

an imaginary grievance: against the British Government.

Sentence was postponed until next Sessions in order that a state- ment by Chirinian that he had been compelled to join the British Secret Service should be investiga. ted,

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