COUNTY CRICKET TABLE
Middlesex Assume Leadership Of Championship Table
Lancashire, unable to take full points from Worcester, have drop- ped to third place in the County Cricket Championship Láble, wbije Middlesex have assumed the lead with Yorkshire second, Yorkshire beat Glamorgan by twelve runs.
The following is the completo table:
1st inns. Unfinished. win, but Result on
match
ist inns.
County
P. W. L
ལ
Jost W. L.
T.
Pts. Awarded
12
G
4
Middlesex
20
11
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Leicester
Surrey
Derbyshitre
Noils
Somerset
Кепе
Sussex Hampshire Worcester Warwickshire
Gloucester Glamorgan Esnex
Northonts
Goodrich Safety Silvertowns
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104
100
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8,001
7.333
0.000
0.545
0,222
6.182
6140
4.100
4 400
4.304
4704
1.333
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4.000
3.001
2.857
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Coroner Wants Limit
of 20 m.p.h.
MR. INGLEBY ODDIE, the
Central London coroner, would like the speed limit in Central London brought down to 20 miles an hour.
Giving evidence before the House of Lards Select Committer on Road! Accidents, on behalf of the Coronové Sortety, he said:
Probably no one will agree with me, but i would suggest that a limit of 30 miles per hour is too high for Central London,
"In Oxford Street vehicles cannox Rent that spred, but they can on the Embarkment, and we often see them going at a faster speed,”
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Mr. Oddiy would nisu prohibit over-taking, which it said wa coinmon cause of fatalities involving pedestrians.
The communest cause of street fatalities, he said, was prople step- ping off the pavement without took- ing.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE
BOWLS DRAW AMENDED
-Changes In The Third
And Fourth Rounds
Owing to circumstances beyond the control of the Lawn Bowls Assocla- tion, changes have been made in the arrangements for the third and fourth rounds of the Open Paris Lawn Bowls Championship.
The third round game between W. E. Hollands and S. Farlow and G. N. Mitchell and J. C. Brown will now not take place until Monday, July 4. round match between the
The fourth
winner of the above game and G. Norman and J. G. Meyer, fixed for) Thursday next, has been postponed.
The following are the new arrange- ments:
To-day
Third Round—At Civil Service
C. C. Pereira ond J. C. Remedios
v. A. Bakar and A. K. Minu.
Fourth Round
K. M. Omar and A, S. Gomies v. E. Lines and ft. Duncan,
At Craigengower
C. M. Silva and F, X, Saares v. J. Hoosen and A. R. Minu
W. Hillyer and J. Hollidge v. R. Ellies and F. Booker.
Fourth RoundAt Kowloon C.8.
F. V. V. Ribeiro and H. A. Alves v. P. Barby and A. J. Hall,
To-morrow
At Kowloon B.G.C.
O. P. Remedios and E. de Souza v.
M. J. Medina and J. Cavanagh,
A. M. and U M. Omar v. J. S. Ho- well and R. G. Craig.
Thursday
At Cralgengower
T. Fergusson and T. Coleman v. C. C. Pereira and J. C. Remedios or A. Bakar and A. K. Minu.
MACAO RACING
Entries And Handicaps For Jul yMeeting
Entries and handleaps for the July Race Meeting to be held at Mucao on July 3 appear below:
Grand Stand Handicap. Five Fur-
longs-Country Flower (135) Gold Clause (143) Hopefulles (167) Merry Fatty (135) Morning Tip (149) Rothe- nfsny Boy (142) Shih Yin Grand (144). Bace Course Handicap. Six Fur- longs. African Cat (160) Cloudy
Mr. Odile said there had been a siguilicant drop in the number fatalities in recent years, und he regorded the situation London as Ballsfactory.
תו
-MANSLAUGHTER"
Central
Star (140) Daddy Longlegs (140) Double Up (149) Eagle (140) Macau Star (140) Mongolian Cat (100) National Triumph (147).
On the question of the reluctance þof curiners' jurles to return 1721733- Turf Handicap. First Section, "E
slaughter verdicts, Sir Seymour Wil-class Five Furlongs--African Cut Tiums, cotoner for South Gloucester-(185) Astrik (151) Be Yourself (152) shire, suggested that they should be | Chiu Shun (184) Double Chance (188) able find that a person was driving Emergency Call (181) Jack High to the publie danger, and the coroner (158) Lattiat (156) Men's Second should be able to commit for trial on Venture (148) Suharn Star (150) that charge.
Stymle (155) Wenning (144).
Mr. Oddie agreed that the word "manslaughter" was old-fashioned and not applicable to road accidents. Coroners' Juries should be able, he thought, to commit for negligent driving" without saying
was Heriminal negligence,"
Mr. Herber Stancer, Cyclists' Touring Club, said that the club opposed compulsory rear lights and cycle tracks and the licensing and | registration of cyclists.
will not
"Our view is that you solve the problem by infringements pal cyclists' rights," he said.
ENGLAND v. REST
London, June 25. The Football
Association has de- [elded to stage the match England v
the Rest of Europe in London on October 20~~~Reuter,
TO GOVERN FIJI
London. June 26.
Sir Harry Luke, Lieutenant Governor of Malla, has been appoint- ed Governor of Fiji and High Com- missioner of the Western Pacific. Router.
27,
1938.
The fun-making and love-mak ing sweethearts of "Love is News"
and "Cafe Metropole', Tyrone Power and Loreita Young, are back again
in "Second Honeymoon," Twentieth Century-Fox production now show- Ing at the King's Theatre.
EMPIRE NEWS
SYDNEY DOCKERS'
DECISION
Sydney,
RACING AT HOME
Mr. H. E. Morries Has A Success
London, June 25,
Mr. H. E. Morriss' Pascal, ridden by Gordon Richards and quoted at 100 to 30, won the Arthur Loraine Memorial Handicap, valued at £1.- a mile at Sandown Park At a neeting of the Sydney Water-000, over side Workers' Federation recently it to-day, beating Pegasus (9 to 2) by was decided by 3,000 votes to 100 to a length in a field of seven. Phakos raise the embargo on the loading of (11 to 8) was third, three-quarters of scrup iron, tin clippings and tallow length behind Pogasus-Reuter, destined for Japan and Germany. The embargo has been in force for four months.
also
Mr. Morriss, of Shanghai, owns Pasch, the 1938 Derby favourite which secured third place.
The resolution on which the vote was taken deplored the threat of the Federal Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, derable savings in workmen's com- In license non-union labour at the pensation. docks if the union men persisted in their
Soll attitude. It condemned
Erosion-Dr. Pole the
Evans, Government's persistence in foreing Director of Pasture Research, is go- men to load munitions for aggressor ing to Kenya this month to advise nations, but urged the lifting of the the Government there on soll erosion embargo so that the members of the problems. union could be spared suffering and misery.
Titante Survivor Drowned. Mr. John Lewis, one of the few survivors Iron Ore Embargo-A Japanese of the sinking of the Titane in 1912, protest against the prohibition of the when 673 members of the crew and export of iron ore from Australia, 825 passengers lost their lives, has announced reently, was presented to heen drowned in Durban Bay. Mr. Mr. Lyons by the Japanese Consul- Lewis, who was a member of the General, Mr. Wakumatsu. The
Procrew of the Titanic, was in a fishing- test ways that the prohibition is not boat when it capsized-Router. based on Australia's actual domestic needs, and gravely affects Japanese INDIA interests in the Yampi Sound Iron
These Mining Company.
SPREADING
could not INDUSTRIAL UNREST be dealt with simply by compensa- tion. It is unlikely that the Govern- men
will modify its decision,
Calculla, End of the Drought. Further Industrial unrest throughout India heavy ruins
the fell in the parched is growing, and
situation is ་་་ས་ཁ north-western plains of New South) aggravated by the activities of agita- Wales recently, and there is now tors and self-appointed representa- excellent promise of a definite break lives of the employees. in the draught,
New Theatrical Venture.-A new Jamshedpur, the most important theatrical company with capital of Industrial lown In Bihor, is at the Choi Ha Kul Handicap. "D" class £105,000
has been formed here to moment the centre of the unrest, and Six Furlongs--Araxy (188) Cape) take over the whole of the theatrical, | many thousands of workers are Comorin (146) Cuban Love (160) concert and broadcasting interests of striking for petty reasons. The latest Mac's Adventure (147) National J. C. Williamson Ltd. throughout move is a threat to bring out the Anthem (143) Nationni Dignity (145) Australasia, Mr. Nevin Tait will employees of the vast Tata Iron and National Force (151) Split Hand continue to represent the firm in Steel Company, celebrated for its (153).
London. The company proposes to workers. The men have been warn- build a modern theatre in Sydney ed that if they strike the company and import plays and players from will reduce its dividend, and the men Britain and the United States. SOUTH AFRICA
"E"
Turf Handleap. Second Section
class. Five Furlongs-Acme (158) Cleeve (155) Cloudy Star (140) Cricketer (152) Daddy Longlegs (147) Double Up (140) Eagle (140) Labour Day (155) Lucky Seven (155) Macau Star (140) Mustard (140) National Triumph (101) Persian Cat (145) Rexlana (158).
PRESS ASSOCIATION FORMED
and
will fase their bonus of 10 weeks'
under their | wages
profit-sharing scheme.
KENYA
FLOODS DAMAGE
RAILWAY
30 Dead In Heat Wave.—A hest wave in sweeping the United Pro- vinces, and already It has recounted Cape Town. for 30 deaths. A number of English- Representatives of both English men Arc among the vicilms.-- George Polls' Memorial Cup, One
Afrikaans Mile-Country Flower (135) Cou- Union and Southern Rhodesia recent
newspapers in the Exchange, reur Bleu (137) Fairy Auk (157) y formally inunched in
in Johannes- Fairy Ouse! (144) Gold Clause (135) burg co-operative
gothoring Hogmanay (143) Hopefulleg (140) and distributing agency, the South Meadow Eve (149) Merry Doer (158) African Press Association. Merry Fatty (135) Merry Maker (180) Morning Tip (135) Rothesay Mr. John Martin, chairman of the
Nairobi. Printing and Publishing Com-
suld pany.
that the
Three days after the Government association would be self-protecting, Impartial, meteorologist declared that the "long fall in March, April non-political, non-profit making and rains, which non-discriminatory us between Eng- and May, had failed, serious flood.
damage has affected the railway be-. ish, and Afrikaans
Afrikaans newspapers. New Insurance Company.Spon- tween Nairobi and Mombasa. The sored by the South Africa Federated line is under water for 12 miles, and Chambers of Industries, a mutual in- the embankment is washed away at surance company with a capital of several points.
£30,000, has been registered. The Air trafe is suspended at Mom- body decided that the formation of basa, where the aerodrome is water- its own company would effect consi- logged.
Day (135) Shih Yin Grand (135) Victory Life (155).
Ladies' Sprint. (Unofficial) Half a Mite. Post Entries--In connection with the "George Polta' Memorial Cup" the 6th Race on the programme, a special $1 Sweep is being conducted. The cost of a through ticket including a chance in the Special Sweep is $7 per set, and is obtainable from the Club's Omce, 2nd Floor, Gloucester Building.
Argu
Jel. 28151.
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