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THE tennis world, and even those who have but a very passing interest in the game, becomes Wimble- don-conscious to-day, and during this next fortnight another page will be written in the annals of vrodigious Centre Court deeds, of the now comparatively prosaic "Sensational Unsets," the falling of favourites and the inevitable "Discovery."

To those in Hongkong who have enjoyed the thrills and amenities of the Wimbledosi meeting, there will be recalled vivid recollections.of that cluster of emerald green lawn courts which nestle at the foot of the winding Church Rond. They will bewildering traffic mazes up the easily recapture the scenes

[historic Wimbledon Common Hill Jund re-live the spirit of carnival which reigns both aside and outside of the All-England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club,-

of

As has been-truly said, Wini- bledon is something more than a sports meeting. It is a social event: a fashion parade. It combines the dignity of n Royal Garden Party, the colourful dis- Stubbs Road play of Ladies' Day at an Eton and Harrow cricket match, and the thrills of an English Cup final.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Mr. 1). Tolian and family desire to Lender their heartfelt thanks to Dr. Canaval, and sisters of the War Memorial Nursing Home for their kind attention to the late

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1936.

BRITISH MOTOR

İNDUSTRY

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Sports

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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 1 few minutes before two, the players are conducted on to the court by an afleinl. A knock-up for n this brings him into all sorts of couple of minutes and the day's exciting and unexpected con- programme at Wimbledon has tacle.

begun.

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

frontier.

same

I WOULD HATE TO BE TRIED BY A JURY!

INTIL it fell to my lot to be fore-) individual minds about

But now

chosen this

to

crowd in scampering 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 Lime passes quickly. He finds scramble for ten, strawberries himself next to an Indian Army and cream and lemon squashes, officer back on leave from the the same weird tunes from the North West

Ha's blind old lady playing the violin come ffóme to see his youngsters outside of the West Gate, the for the first time in three years, same uproarious stories from the IT is exclusive and cosmopoli- WIMBLEDON, perhaps, has but the kids haven't yet broken gentleman who has walked all fewer taboos than other up for the summer vacation and the way from Manchester to tan at the same time. The sports events of the same magai ha has takes advantage of this entertain you while you wait, young clerk who has begged a Ludo. Autograph hunters, for "freedom" to see: Wimbledon, the same newsvendors assuring"

the office day from

rubs example, can hunt, invariably And they will share their lun- you that you will know all about Mrs. It. W. Tollan, and to friends shoulders with high dignitaries, with great success, to their cheens, which, like wise people, Wimbledon in the "Daily Wail" for their condolence, floral tri-jof the social world 41H he hearts content. Your Dorothy they have brought with them. will be re-enacted every day

·butes and ́attendance at tho

his pursues funeral.

way the Round, Helen Wills Moody, But the young clerk, in his ex--during the next two weeks! free standing part of the Helen Jacobs, Borotra, Perry, citement to catch the train, for- Wimbledon with its "while- centre Court while Ilis Lordship Austin and the rest of the fav got to pack up some fruit; and it you-walt-to-go-in" diversions, its Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

seeks his reserved seat. If he ourites, are always prepared to can be terribly thirst-provoking trafic problems, its thrilling wants diversion the young clerk sign on the dotted line, and the at Wimbledon. So the officer interludes and gay atmosphere, Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

can concede his precious position hunter is usually further re- shares his fruit, is offered an egg is fast threatening the glamour on the Centre Court, or his even warded with a charming smile. sandwich in exchange, and the of the Derby, Indian, Love Call-Fox Trot ..Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

more valuable cumshaw seat on Only once throughout last two become members of the Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

Tennis? Oh yes! There's ten- Rose Marie-Fox Trot

the No. 1 court and take part in year's Wimbledon did I see an great Wimbledon tennis fra- nis. But as I heard one en- Let's face the music and dance-Fox Trot

the everlasting parade of beauti-.autograph seeker turned away. ternity.

thusiast exclaim last summer as Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

fully dressed women escorted by And she, a little girl of about ten,

At 1.46 p.m. the first signs of he took a "constitutional" after But where are you-Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

famous tennis players both past unwittingly

#1 famous activity appear.

Groundsmen sitting for two hours on the BD-5060 Wah-hoo-Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

and present, or by prominent player who had just been unex- bring on the posts and nets and Centre Court, "you can have too leaders of London Society, which pectedly beaten in the doubles place the men's chairs in much of a good thing." Per- I'se a-muggin'-Fox Trof... Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

motor-movca slowly but graciously up by a comparatively second-rate position. Dozens of tins of ten haps that is why there are so And so to bed-Fox Trot

and down the spacious drive be- pair!

nia balls are placed in the huge many other things of interest at Jack Jackson & His Orchestra.

tween the East and West Gates. The various aspects of the fee-boxes on the Centre and No. Wimbledon. You have that extra something-Fox Trot

Wimbledon meeting seem to pre- Jack Jackson & His Orchestra.

sent an excellent illustration of a police officer took particulars is approximately £75,000,000, how the Englishman refuses to BD-5056 I'm nuts about screwy music-Fox Trot

of this strange new wonder which is equal to about three take his sport too seriously. It The Ballyhooligans. I got Rhythm-Fox Trot

which had invaded the capital of times the invested capital. The requires an exceedingly exciting .The Ballyhooligans.

for important match to keep him the Empire. This was the first total number of workpeople em-1 The Ballyhooligans.

away from his tea which he likes BD-5049 Goodbye Medley-Fox Trot Oriental Medley-Fox Trot

The Ballyhooligans. time that a motor-car figured in about a quarter of a million. becomes very peeved if the ployed in motor manufacture is to take promptly at 4.30; and he

the verdict the records of the Metropolitan All the large manufacturing con- queue at the tea tent enforces & UNT

man of the jury trying a murder they are to give, a jury is far more Police. And it was not given cerns have built up a sound ex-wait of half an hour over that case I had, in common with most like a debating society in which one Ile will often find other people, n supreme confidence in man mukes up his mind one way, an as much fun and interest the fairness and efficiency of the jury other the other way, and each tries

to convert the rest of the crowd system. who saw it! The progressive value of motor-vehicles

his way of thinking. in standing obsequiously be

Had I been falsely accused of

My experience, on at least two of group of well-known crime I would have maority recognised its marvel spare parts exported was £12,- hind

200,499 British motor vehicles tennis players, covertly watching method-of-putting-my-case-to-a-jury the juries with which 1 sat, was that lous possibilities and speculated.

and taken our places round the table are now exported to nearly every then converse, as he will follow of my fellow nien as the surest means as we had vacated idle box. in the little room behind the Court, enthusiastically on its probable country in the world, though the ing a brilliant display of tennis of establishing my Innocence.

..? I am not sure.

found ourselves we immediately 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 swayed by one or two of the more sharing in the parades and finds left in the hands of one wise; im- forceful, strong-willed personalities majority feared and bitterly op-fined to comparatively few mar the sidewalks around the outside partial Judge. For although juries among us. Except in cases where the kets. Moreover, whereas not courts offer him unusual oppor- are awayed by the eloquence of Judge had practically commanded the posed it. Fortunately the

at times, Judges are not.

amazing to see how vacillating Jury pioneers-as was ever the way of many years ago there was a con- tunities for striking up acquain-counsel, and obviously swayed strong bringing of a curtain verdict, it was

I have been trying to truce siderable import motor trade, tanceships without the

There was the poor fellow in the pioneers!—were undaunted in British manufacturers have now tomary formality of introduc- disillusionment about juries down to members could be.

tions. An unfailing medium for its ronts, and I think it may have dock. There were we, shut up in our started from my finding that instead their efforts to popularise the virtually secured the home mar- these meetings he discovers, is of being a gathering of men and wo.little room behind the Court, And I

gravely new toy. The initial mechanical ket for British goods. Great the ability to talk "shop", and men

making up diflculties and the mental reser-Britain is a small country, vations of the conservative-densely populated; and it is the most "densely vehicled" country: minded were gradually over- in the world. 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 n driving licence, and one in every in the fateful Paris to Madrid

nineteen a motor-car. And the race in 1903, and many people number rapidly increases. . Last hurriedly sold their cars 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 cannot be built immediately to manufacturers. Again the en-

accommodate the newcomera: thusiasts set to work; gradually During the three months which public confidence was restored, ended on the 29th of February 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 trade licences-during the three the Great War there was great months was approximately 2, | activity in the industry and in 171,268, 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 £20,018,420, com- Hcences was of the largest and most import-

pared with £18,803,957 the pre- ant industries in the country-vious year. One final figure may The

exact total value of be given to round off this story the output during the of the development of the motor- twelve months which ented cur and the motor industry in 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 -conservative estimate 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.”

their am sure that in at least two cases in which I was involved one determin- ed man among us could have swayed the rest inio returning the oppo verdict to which we did i in fact

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- Hem which faced us. Others found the whole thing too much of a strain. In the end the verdict was virtually returned by one or two jurymen.

I am not sure if, In any given case, not. we returned a true verdict or But I do knew that if 1, an innocent man, were to find myself in the dock next week, I should be, horrified 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 suggests, they are really swayed by all kinds of unconscious prejudices. That is one reason why I think it is unfair to a prisoner to take all of Jury from men living in the same small district.

The Weal Jury, from the point of view of Justice, and from the point of view of the prisoner, would surely consist of a dulce, a dustman, a doctor, n. tencher, business man, s miner, and so on. In a thoroughly mixed- jury like this there would be much less likelihood of paychologieal bins than in a jury consisting exclusively. of small tradesmen ar clerks.

case

The way jurles aro so-often empanelled now lends to too great a trades- A jury of atolld ARMENCAR. nien, for example, does not start absolutely unbiased in considering the of an kimorat, spendthrift, society butterfly, even If her in- morality is totally irrelevant as far as her alleged crime is concerned.

But if you ask me what substitute there is for a jury, I reply, frankly, that I don't know. Personally, having served on juries, I would prefer to be left to the rigidly impartial wisdom. of any three Judges.

J. A. H