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1936 CANADIAN

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FOUNDED 1891

No. 15140

三拜禮 號四廿月二英港香

WEDNESDAY,

H. K. Champions

Draw Crowd To

Happy Valley

JOCKEY BADLY HURT

IN DANGEROUS SPILL

ONLY THREE PONIÈS STARTED IN THE CHAMPIONS STAKES AT THE VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. KING'S WARDEN WON FROM DIANA BAY, WITH COSSACK'S BEAUTY THIRD.

There was a field of nineteen starters in the first race to-day, the Leighton Hill Stakes, in which Mr. Ip Kui-ying steered Atomic Star to victory to pay backers $27.40. Happy Venture, ridden by Mr. Harris, was only. á length behind in second place, and paid a dividend of $78.60. Mr. Frost, riding Election Day, had to be content with third place.

Mr. H. A. de Botelho was hurt when, in the Jockey Cup event, for novices, he was thrown from High Honour at the Valley this afternoon. The pony was in the leading bunch when Mr. Botelho became unseated. The field passed over him, and he lay on the course for some time, but was later carried off. Apparently his injury was not serious..

A medical examination at the track showed that Mr. de Botelho sustained a fractured arm and sovere con- cussion,

As expected, the Ladies' Purse was won by Wild Life, ridden by Mr. Frost, which came in two lengths ahead of Rose-Queen-(Mr. Leighton up), with Tyne, ridden by Mr. Black, in third

place. The

purse

was presented to the winning jockey NO

by Mias Alabaster, who was later escorted to tifin by Mr. Frost,

Sets Track Record

In the third race of the day, The Adelaide Stakes, Electron, ridden by N. Deltz, set up a new track record “over a distance of about one mile and

171 yards. The pony's time was minute 65.4/5 seconds.

1

Only two ponies fuced the startér in the Lusitano Cup-Havoc Eve and Red Feather. The former, ridden by Mr. D. S. Ll, won the event by many lengths;

1.The Leighton I Winner $600,

Stakes. Second $250. Third - $150. For China Ponles, Subscrip- Griffins of this Club of this tion Meeting. Six Furlongs,

2

Mr. C. N. K.'s Atomic Star (152

lbs.) ...(Mr. Ip Kui-ying) 1 Mr. Chusta's Happy Venture (147

lbs)

(Mr. I. Harris) Dr. S. N. Chau's Election Day (158 (Mr. L. G. Frost) Nineteen starters.

lbs.)

Won by a length; half length.

Time: 1 min. 322/5 seca.

Pari-mutuel: Winner

Places $11.70; $79.60; $13.40,

$27.40.

2--The Ladies' Purse-Presented: with $500 added for Winner. Second $250. Third

For China Ponles. Once Roand (About 7 Furlongs 40 Yards).

$150.

Mr. L. Dunbar's Wild Lite (181 lbs.). (Mr. L. G. Frost)

Mr. Eu Tong-sen's Rose-Queen

(158 lbs.). (Mr. E. C. Leighton) 2

Mr. V. M. Grayburn's Tyne (161

ibs.)

if

Nine starters.

(D. Black)

Won by two lengths; two lengths.

Time: 1 min, 46.4/5 secs. Pari-mutuel:-

Winner $7.20.

3

WHO WON BIG DERBY SWEEP?

CLAIMANT FOR $66,883 PRIZE

Who is the lucky possessor of Ticket No. 136871, which won the first prize of $66,883 In the Derby Sweepstakes?

ed

Although two days have pass- since the winning numbers were announced, no claimant has yet come forward for the prize.

"We don't for

one minute anticipate that no-one will claim the money," said a Jockey Club

official smilingly "Sometimes

as much as a monthi elapses be- claimer. fore big prizes are Tickets are sold all over the Far Easi, and the winner might quite conceivably be in Shang- hal or Singapore.

Third prize of $9,554' has been claimed by a Chinese girl, who purchased ticket No. 110.108 at the race-courso a few minutes before the draw was made.

COOLER WEATHER PROBABLE

NORTH-EAST WIND

EXPECTED

HOT DRINKS PREFERRED

FEBRUARY

24,

1937. 日四十月正

EARNING BIG DIVIDENDS

Mr. 1p Kui-ying, riding Atomic Star, is here seen easing up at the post as he flashed past to win the opening race at the Valley to-day and pay, $27.40, Mr. L. Harris on Happy Venture and Mr. L. G. Frost on Election Day made a great race of it, the place ponies paying $78.60 and $13,40, (Picture by Staff Photographer),

TO-DAY'S CASH

SWEEPS

Below are winning numbers in the Cash Sweeps at to-day's Races:

Race No. I

No. 407

4

2141

314

$970.20 277.20 138.00

Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos.) 1743, 211, 902, 573, 785, 599, 140, 922, 1056, 1922, 2161, 759, 1397, 1833, 1230, 1653.

Race No. 2

No. 2007

$1,093.40

14

1124

098

312.40

158.20

STRIKERS STOP WORK ON U.S.

NAVY VESSELS

Stern Measures May Be Necessary

Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos. DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT PLANT

1500, 187, 101D, 1547, 825, 08.

Race No. 3

No. 2185

1969 100

H

$1,150,90 331.40

105.70

1488, 388, 2550, 303, 411, 1170.

Race No. 4

No. 2550

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1113

** 1513

ALSO FACING. TIE-UP

Groton, Conn., Feb. 23. The Marine Shipbuilding Workers of America, Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos. affiliated with the C.I.O., have ordered a stay-in strike in the Electric Boat Company plant here, curtailing but not halting work on submarines building for the United States Navy. $1,301.30.

Officials said they would ask for a detail of marines to guard the property should any attempt be made to damage Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos. the plant. At the moment the strikers are not in an ugly mood, but the situation is tense, since the plant is working exclusively on secret Government contracts. For this reason stern measures are anticipated if negotiations for collective bargaining fail and the workers will not evacuate the premises.

1821, 2315, 1031, 1873.

371.80 185.00

Race No. 5

No. 1202

2000

673

$1,043.00

400.00

234.00

Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos.

The Navy Department said to-day that the strike 1380, 1856, 1032, 1408, 3113, 823, 1973. might delay the construction of six submarines.

Ilace No, &

No. 2055

3100

$2,080.50 003.50

No. 2502

569

3201

Race No. 7 རྞ་

$2,000.20 373.20

280.00

Unplaced ponies ($50 each): Nos. 35,03, 180, 3850, 1432, 3243.

Itaco No. 8

No: 3400

Places $0.10; $12.70; $11.00.

403

602

$2,234.40

038.40

310,20

3-The Adelalde Stakes-Winner

$750. Second $250,

Third $160.

Following a week of intense discomfort through

high

Race No. 9

No. 2152

:son. From the Two Milo

2485

1348

*

$2,132,20

600.20 304.00

For Australian Ponies of any Sea- humidity, Hongkong may find Fost relief in a cool change within the

Once Round and In (About One next 24 hours. Milo 171 Yards).

Mr. L. Dunbar's Wild Like (161

(Mr. N. Deltz)

Mr. Fat Shan's Able Amazon (157

1bg.)

(Mr. D. S. Li) Mr. Tasma's Centre Court (155,

... (Mr. W. H. S. Davis) lbs.) Nice starters.

An anti-cyclone, which is

SOUTHERN LEADER ARRESTED

FOLLOWING C.E.C. SESSION

CHARGED WITH MURDER PLOT

Shanghai, Feb. 24.

A sensation has been caused in Nanking by the arrest of Mr. Liu, Lu-yin, one of the

The strikers paraded in the plant yard following à speech by Mr. Wil- Bam Busick, garment workers organiser, whose exact connection with the shipbuilders' strike is not revealed, though garment workers are at present, on strike in Los Angeles.-United Press;

Aircraft Plant Strike

Santa Monica, Cal., Feb. 23. Approximately 500 persons are on sirike and remaining in the premises of the Douglas Aircraft

Company

here, halting all work and attempting

to persuade their fellow-workers to

joln, the walk-out. Fights are said

demand-

said that no

SINGLE COPY 10 CFNTA 130.00 ΣΕΠ ANNUK

The Worlds

Master Tyre

New Four-Power

Pact Must Await Italian Consent

AUSTRIA BOUND TO LISTEN TO MUSSOLINI'S WILL

Vienna, Feb. 23.

Only generalities are mentioned in a communique issued at the conclusion of the meeting between Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian Chancellor, and Baron Neurath, German Foreign Minister, now on a visit here. This indicates that no major decisions were reached.

von

Reports that a Four-Power Pact between Germany, Italy, Austria and Hungary has been mooted persist to-night. It is asserted that the matter will be ́a prominent topic when Dr. Schuschnigg visits Signor Mussolini in March.

Political circles point out that not even preliminary Austrian consent to the Pact can be expected without full agreement by II Duce,

FIGHTING CRITICAL BATTLES

REBELS TRYING TO CHECK DRIVE GUNS POUNDING

~ LOYALISTS

Madrid, Feb, 24.

the

In the meantime, it is understood that Dr. Schuschnigg has not made Any concession concerning Hapsburg restoration. As a counter to the Nazi welcome given to Dr. Schuschnige yesterday," Government organisations were summoned to give Baron von Neurath an "Austrian" farewell, and a hundred thousand non-Nazis lined the route to station-Reuter,

Two Denials

the

Berlin, Feb. 23. The Wilhelmstrasse disclaims any knowledge of the proposal for a de- fensive pact with Austria-Reuter.

* "Londón, Têb, 123, 1

The Austrian Legation formally report that Baron von

The insurgents this afternoon open-denies the

ed a vigorous offensive along the Neurath has proposed a Four-Power Seville highway, sucking to stem the Fact in Vienña.--Reuter, Government drive. They commenced

Anti-Nazi Move

a furious shelling, of Morata simul- Lancously. A correspondent RAW

Vienna, Feb. 23. shells repeatedly exploding inside the city

Forty thousand ̈"members" of the Rebel batterics behind La Mar Fatherland Front, some armed with lines. Everything indicates the pro-Station to prevent any Nazi demon- anosa are pounding the Government sticks, have massed at the West bability of a major engagement. This stration on Baron von Neurath's de- may have a decisive effect on the parture for Berlin. siege, which is under way in full blast,

From Blarritz comes the report that Government troops, supported by tanks, are fighting their way, foot by foot, through the streets of Oviedo. They appear to have penetrated from the suburbs at a dozen points.

Asturian miners and Basque mill-

gains.

men are said to be making steady However, rebel reports from

4,000

Talavera de la Reina state that over Loyalists have been killed and wounded in the recent series · of attacks on the Asturian front, includ- ing the Oviedo sector. It is claimed that the rebels repulsed all attacks.

Emergency police have forced them to remain on the sidewalks, while others are guarding the area to pre vent the arrival of Nazis.-United

Press,

FARMER TRACKS

ROBBERS

At Valencia, two were idlied and AFTER LOSING $223 several were injured when rebel air raiders dropped a number of bombs. A number of residences were des- troyed. United Press.

STOP PRESS

Consolation Stakes:-1, Gladiator:

· Race No. II

No. 048

1401

"

2158

$2,325.40 034.40 332.20

IN HOLD-UP

ARMED GANG ON BORDER

fra xz

Frequent border raids by armed bandita culminated yesterday daring robbery which took place within a few hundred yards of the heavily, barricaded Lok Ma Chau

The victim of the hold-up, Wong Wing, a 25 year-old-farmer, told the story of his adventure in an interview this morning.

to have ensued and the police were 2, Honeymoon Eve; 3. Soldier of police-station. called in. No-one was arrested, how-Britain. ever, Police are watching the plant.

The strikers are said to be ing an increase in wages and the re- instatement of several men allegedly discharged for union activities.

However, the company's secretary, Mr. T. C. MeMohon,

Unplaced ponies ($50 each): formal demands had been made. He 964, 4101, 4440, 2132, 219. bellion in Canton in 1936, who added that most of the strikers were

unskilled youths had gone to the capital to attend the plenary session of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Kuomintang Party, of which he is a member. -

1forming again over North China, Unplaced panics ($50 each): Nos. leaders of the South-West re

la expected to bring dry north 009, 4005, 103, 3257. easterly winds,

3 much cooler weather.

Race No. 10

Shanghal already reports rain and

No. 1787

Yesterday a maximum temperature

11

2000

2770

$3,000.00 1,116.00

$58.00

Won by three lengths; one and a of 75 degrees, with humidity of $7

half lengths.

Pari-mutuel:

Places $5.90; 55.50; $11.20.

pre-

per cent,, was registered at the Royal

the and that (Continued on Page 4.)

Wong sold he had proceeded from Nos. Un Long to Lok Ma Chau by motor- lorry, arriving at his destination shortly after 3 p.m. He walked past the police station to the Shek Lei, ferry shelter, and was just about to enter when he was seizeit by three men, two of whom were armed with revolvers.

WORKER FALLS FOUR

FLOORS AND LIVES

Pedestrians In Ice House Street and Queen's. Road were horrified this morning to see the body of a workman hurtle through the air to the ground from the fourth floor of the new building now under construction there.

While one of the men threatened him with a revolver, the other two bound his hands and legs with wire. A bamboo gag was forced into his mouth, and was also tied into posl tion with wire,

Time: 1 mln. .55.4/5 seca. Observatory. Thus, for four con-

The accused' is being charged with (Record.)

Unplaced ponies ($100 each): No complicity in the assassination of secutive days, the humidity has been 9247, 674, 3550, 1958, 1085. Winner 30.00 within three degrees of absolute

General Yang Yung-tal, Governor turntion. During the whole 24

of Hupch, who was shot dead on the Hankow ferry in November, 1930, 4. The

ending midnight last night the Jockey

former $500. Second $200. Third

Cup-Winner humidity, did not fall below. B2 received greater patronage from race- and of Mr. Tang Yu-jen, A Cup value $100 will be

$100. degrees.

Hours than in previous years, despite Vice-Minister for Foreign Affales, The present discomforting

the well-known adage that to keep who was shot outside his residence weather ecuted to the winning Jockey. For la caused by wsum, southerly wince, cool in the Far East you must drinke in Shanghai in December, 1935,

The three men, who were joined by Chipa Ponies that have started in which, in crossing the China Sce, have something hot

United Press.

another man armed with a revolver and have not won a race at this picked up enough moisture en route

Mr. Liu, Lu-yin is extremely well-

just before they departed, then pro Meeting and that have not at any to Hoogkong to make everyone feel iced drinks, although the demand has kong. He was formerly a member of Wau Chuk Street. He suffered the ground,

Hotels report Increased business for known both in Canton and Hong-

coeded across the river into Chinese

been somewhat tempered by the ab- of the South-West Political Council

and, two #1 Hongkong. But it is an ill southerly wind that sence of patrons who are at the races in Canton under Goueral Chan such severe Injuries that he fa not feet, and it is a remarkable fact that The total distance was about 76 1 blows nobody good. While they

average citizen has mapped his brow, HOT DRINKS BEST? Chal-long a regime, but on the dis- expected to live.

-Au- Hung: was not killed outright.---. As soon's Wong freed himself ho 2 Ice and ice cream manufacturers have Actually, we all more loed drinks, Hongkong, having, recently left to scaffolding on the fourth floor of the Government Civil Hospital; He was territory, where he saw and identid

solution of, that body, he came to

somo He was taken by ambulanco to 1.6 followed the rubbers into Chinese Mr. Rojon's Flybynight (150 lbs. reported a large increase in business,

(Mr. J. A. Ackroyd-Hunt) especially for the former commodity but we also sell much hot ten," said attend the CE.C. meeting in Nan-building when he slipped and fell. still unconsdous, the morning, and one of the men. The man has her (Continued on PTSA Cooling liquors and soft drinks ab

(Continued on Page: 1.)

His body struck a projection during tle hope held for his recovery. arrested by the Chinese authorities.

time won three races. One Mile. uncomfortable,

Mr. Harbrad's Royal Highness.

(160 lbs.)...... (Mr. I. Harris)

Mr. C. B. Brown's Amberley (147

lbs.). (Mr. C. L. Gregory)

King:

The man was Au Hung aged 27,, its fall, and then crashed heavily to territory, taking $225.00 in Chinese

currency,

Au Hung was working on

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