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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY JUNE 22, 1936.

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1 courts. The nets are fixed and measured. The linesmen parade on to the court and take up their positions, and a few minutes before. two, the players are conducted on to the court by an official. A kriock-up for a

this brings him into all sorts of couple of minutes and the day's exciting and unexpected con- programme at Wimbledon taets.

When the big gates open at noon he will join the rest of the

begun.

has

crowl in campering for the THE same ritual, the same ex- best positions, and there he will citement, the same fashion contentedly wait two hours for parades, the same rush for the tennis to begin. But the favourable positions, the same time passes quickly. He finds scramble for tea, strawberries himself next to an Indian Armiy and cream and lemon squashes, ofheer back on leave from the the same weird tuses from the North West frontier. He's blind old lady playing the violin come Home to see his youngsters outside of the West Gate, the for the first timb in three years, same uproarious stories from the fewer taboos than other up for the summer vacation and the way from Manchester to

IT is exclusive and cosmopoli- WIMBLEDON, perhaps, has but the kids haven't yet broken gentleman who has walked all tender their heartfelt thanks to

tan at the same time. The sports events of the same magni- he has takes advantage of this entertain you while you wait, Dr. Canaval, and slatern of the War Memorial Nursing Home for young clerk who has begged a tuda. Autograph hunters for freedom" to see Wimbledon the same newsvendors assuring **their Kinkl attention to the late lay from the office

Ms. R. W. Tollan, and to friends shoulders with high dignitaries with great success,

rubs example, can hunt, invariably And they will share their lun- you that you will know all about for their condolence, florn} triof the social workl

to their cheens, which, like wise people, Wimbledon in the "Daily Wail" Lutes and attendance

FIN he hearts content. funeral.

Your Dorothy they have brought with them. will be re-enacted every day pursues his Way to the Round, Belen Wills Moody. But the young clerk, in his ex- during the next two weeks. free standing part of the Helen Jacobs, florgtra. Perry, eitement to catch the train, for- centre Court while His Lordship Austin and the rest of the fav got to pack up some fruit: and it you-wait-to-go-in" diversions, its Wimbledon with its "while- seeks his roserved seat. If he purites, are always prepared to can be terribly thirst-provoking traffic problems, its thrilling wants diversion the young clerk sign on the dotted line, wad the at Wimbledon. So the officer Interludes and gay atmosphere,. can concede his precious position hunter is usually further on the Centre Court, or his even warded with a charming smile. sandwich in exchange, and the of the Derby.

re- shares his fruit, is offered an egy is fast threatening the glamour more valuable cumshaw seat on Only once throughout last two become members of the the No. 1 court and take part in year's Wimbledon 'did I see an great Wimblerton tennis fra- nis, But as I heard one en- Tennis? Oh yest There's ten- the everlasting parade of beauti- natograph seeker turned away. fernity. fully dressed women escorted by And she, a little girl of about ten,

thusiast exclaim last summer as famous tennis players both past unwittingly chose

At 145 p.m. the first signs of he took a "constitutional" after and present, or by prominent player who had just been unex- bring on the posts and nets and Centre Court, "you can have too activity appear. Groundsmen sitting for two hours on the leaders of London Society, which pectedly beaten in the doubles place the samen's chairs in much of a good thing." Por- When the first British motor-moves slowly but graciously up by a comparatively second-rate position. Dozens of tins of ten-, haps that is why there are so

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nis balls are placed in the huge many other things of interest at The various aspects of the ice-boxes on the Centre and No. Wimbledon, Wimbledon meeting seem to pre- a police officer took particulars is approximately £75,000,000, how the Englishmann refuses to sent an excelent illustration of of this strange new wonder which is equal to about three take his sport too seriously. It

AN much Sun

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I WOULD HATE TO BE

TRIED BY A JURY!

man of the jury trying a murder they are to give, a jury is far more

.

erime would have chosen this

·But now

The Ballyhooligans, which had invaded the capital of times the invested capital. The requires an exceedingly sleit The Ballyhooligans. the Empire. This was the first total number of workpeople em-or important match to keep him! The Ballyhooligans. time that a motor-car figured in ployed in motor manufacture is to take promptly at 4.30; and he away from his tea which he likes? about a quarter of a million. becomes very peeved if the the records of the Metropolitan All the large manufacturing con- queue at the ten tent enforces a INTI, it fell to my let to be fore- individual minds about the verdict Police. And it was not given cerns have built up a sound ex-wait of half an hour over that case I hat, in canzon with most like a debating society in which one exactly a warm welcome by all port trade. Last year the total time. He will often find other people, a suprynu confidence in man makes up his mind one way, an who saw it! The progressive value of motor vehicles and

and interest the fairness and efficiency of the jury other, the other way, and ench tries to convert the rest of the crowd to in standing obsequiously be #ystem. minority recognised its marvel-Spare parts exported was £12hind a group of well-known Hnd I been falsely accused of his way of thinking.

a

My experience, on at least two "art" lous possibilities and speculated

200,429. British motor-vehicles tenitis players, covertly watching method of putting my case to a jury the juries with which I sat, was that are now exported to nearly every them-converse as he will follow of my fellow men as the surest menas 43.2001 as we had vacated the box- enthusiastically on its probable country in the world, though the ing a brilliant display of tennis of establishing my innocence. and taken our places round the table line of development; but the bulk of the export trade is con- on the Centre Court. He enjoys think I would prefer to have my fate wo

... I am not sure. In the little room behind the Court, immediately found ourselves majority feared and bitterly op-fined to comparatively few mar-sharing in the parades and finds left in the hands of one wine, fi awayed by one or two of the more posed

the sidewalks around the outside partial Judge: For although juries forceful, strong-willed personalities. It. Fortunately

kets. Moreover, whereas not courts offer him unusual oppor- are swayed by the the

among us. Except in cases where the Judge had practically commanded the. pioneers as was ever the way of many years ago there was a con- tunities for striking up acquain counsel, and litiously swaged strong bringing of a certain verdict, it was

at times, Judges are siderable import mufor trade, tanceships without the cus- pioneers!--were undaunted in British manufacturers have now tions. An unfailing medium for its roots, and I think it may have dock. There were we, shut up in our

I have been trying to trace

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There was the poor fellow in the

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dtarted from my finding that instead

gravely making up their am sure that in at least two cases.

in which I was involved one determitt ed man amung us could have swayed the rest into returning the opposite verdict to which we did in fact return! Some members of the Jury were merely apathetic; they were, willing to fall in with the majority. Others talked a great deal about almost everything except the immediate pro- blem which faced us. Oilers found the whole thing too much of a strain. In the end the verdlet was virtually returned by one or two jurymen.

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their efforts 10 popularise the virtually secured the home mar- these meetings he discovers, is of being a gathering of men and waittle room behind the Court. And I

new toy. The initial mechanical ket for British goods. Great difficulties and the mental reser-Britain is a small country, vations of the conservative-densely populated; and it is the minded were gradually over-

most "densely vehicled" country in the worki. That is one of the: come, and after a few years features of the motor industry buyers were plentiful. Then which is not an unmixed bless- came a set-back., A number of ing: one person in every four- persons were killed and injured teen of the population has a in the fateful Paris to Madrid driving licence, and one in every race in 1903. and many people number rapidly increases. Lust

nineteen a motor-car. And thef hurriedly sold their ears or can-year the number of new cars on celled the orders for new ones the roads increased at the rate which they had placed with the of 450 a day-and new roads manufacturers. Again the en-cannot be built immediately to thusiasts set to work; gradually

accommodate the newcomers. public confidence was restored, ended on the 29th of February During the three months which

and the motor-car was establish this year, there was an increase ed in the world. In 1913 there of 168,549 cars licensed. The were 34,000 motor vehicles pro-total number licensed—excluding| duced in Great Britain. After tramcars and those requiring the Great War there was great trade licences-during the three months was approximately 2,- activity in the industry and in 171,263, compared with 2,012,- 1922 the total number of motor-714 during the corresponding vehicles. produced was 73,000. period last year. The gross Now the motor industry is one amount received in payment for of the largest and most import-licences was £20,018,420, com- ant. industries in the country.pared with £18,803,057 the pre- The exact total

vious year. One final figure may Value of

be given to round off this story: theof the development of the motor twelve months which ended car and the motor Industry In on the 30th of September, Great Britain: In 1914 there

were 14 motor-cars on every ten; 1935, cannot be definitely given, miles of road; to-day there are but a conservative estimato 140. -

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SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark.

"I'm going to be a little worried after you're married, whether you will know just how to coax him to cat.”.

I am not sure if, in any given canse, we returned a true verliet or nol. But I do know that if I, an innocent nan, were to find myself in the duck next week, I should be horrifled to think of the arbitrary way my fate was being decided behind the closed. doors.

The trouble Is that jurymen think they are. being fair, when, as modern psychology miggests, they are really swayed by all kinds of unconscious prejudices. That is one reason why think it is unfair to a prisoner to take all of a jury, from men living in the same small district.

The ideal jury, from the point of view of justice, and from the point of view of the prisoner, would surely consist of a dulce, n duitman, a dockor, a teacher, a business man; a miner, an an. In a thoroughly mixed jury like this there would be much less likelihood, Psychological blas than in a jury consisting exclusively of amafi: tradesmen or clerks.

And

The way furios are so often empanelled now leads to too great. n kameness, A Jury of stolid trades- men, for example, does not start absolutely unbiased, in considering the case of an Immoral, spendthrift, Im- bultorily, even if her

ROCIC I totally irrelevant as far na her alleged crime is concerned. **But 迎 you ask mo what substituto there in for a jury, I reply, frankly, that I don't know. Personally, having served on Jurios, I would prefer to be left to the rigidly impartial wisdom: of, my three fudges.

J. A. II.