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NANCY

HM--- IT SAYS. COUNTESS VANGILD Is DUB IN TOWN

**TODAY!

OH. DEAR!--- WE MUST GET TO KNOW HER --- WHAT A

SOCIAL CATCH!

Thursday,

YOO HOO--- FRITZI!

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WELL--- IF IT ISN'T EFFIE FLANAGAN !---

Henry Cotton, Britain's

Harder To Interview Him Than A Cabinet Minister In England

(By George Kirksey, "United Press" Staff Correspondent)

London, Mar. 10.

Henry Cotton may be the world's greatest golfer or the most misunderstood individual of the links.

And while everyone wonders which of these stories are correct, tall Henry goes quietly about his business making perhaps more money than any other golfer.

America wants Henry to pay it n

visit this summer and cross clubs

with her best players. But Cotton Billiards

dccording to the latest reports, wants $10,000 in cold cash and a round

trip ticket on the Queen Mary.

I tried to get to see this mystery man of the links for several days but it's on hard getting personal interview with the King of England. Cotton is like a Cabinet Minister. I you want to see him or muke u book- i ing with him, you first must get in touch with his secretary and present the necessary credentials be you never see him.

KENNERLY RETAINS HIS TITLE

London, Mar. 22.

Tau

In the English Amateur Billiards Championship anal to-night, Kings- After several tries, it was obvi-y Kennerly, of Birmingham. ous Cotton did not want to speak totalned his title against A. Spencer, of Yorkshire, storing 4,423 points to reporters.

3,260 points.

Kennerly

ONE LANGUAGE ONLY

was runner-up in

the

It's strictly, put up or shut up with recent Empire Championship held in Henry. If you want to talk to him, Australta-Reuter,

there's only one language he under-1 stands the melody of clinking coins or the crackling of bills. Perhaps that's why he had made more money from golf than any British profes sional in history. He is worth close to £100,000 has a magnificent home and one of the best golfing jobs in the British-16les..

Last year he didn't win a single major British golling title and yet

he is considered the supreme shooter

in the

Jand.

He is the

only pro

OUR GUIDE

TO THE

CINEMAS

Henry Cotton

He is in a class by himself.

Magician At K.C.C.

March 23,

By Ernie Bushmiller

WHY EFFIE- I HAVEN'T

SEEN YOU A SINCE SCHOOL

DAYS!)

1939,

DON'T LAUGH, FRITZI --N BUT I'M A REAL COUNTESS NOW I MARRIED COUNT

VANGILD CAN YOU IMAGINE?

CONTINUED--

Greatest Golfer

British Girl Athletes Must Be Beautiful

A team of "perfect" British girls)

to be selected by the Women's

Amateur Athletle Association to take WANDERERS BEAT

part

in

the Olympic Games Kapyla, Finland, next year.

to

at

So determined are the authorities best available Brillah

the get

team that special coaching will start this spring, and "talent scouts" are ulready watching possible candidates. Women selectors will see most of the likely candidates at the indoor championships at Wembley on May

13.

KOWLOON TONG ‘B’|

AT BADMINTON

At Kowloon Tong. last evening. Wanderers defeated Kowloon Tong "B" by 8-1 in the "B" Division of the Badminton League. Scores:

Feminine types will be chosen, and the girls will be advised to take! care of their looks as well as their derers) beat K. M. Lee and J. Taang

training.

"We hope

10 open R

J. S. Ho and S. L. Choung (Wan-

summer 21-13; beat J. L Stephens and H. Lin school for women athletes, and we 21-0; beat P. Fletcher and A. E. H.

a suitable Castro 21-8. are looking round for place," an official of the W. A. A. A. said. "Many of the most promising girls are school teachers or students, and they will be able to spend their summer holidays in training."

TWO MILLION SPECTATORS An Olymple village is being bulli at Kapyla. Two thousand players and athletes will be accommodated in 30 new houses,

On a hill just outside the Stadium 2,000,000 spectators will be able to

watch the marathon race, which will be staged round a five-miles course.)

U.S. COMMODITY

May

Mr. E. Glamaill, mogielan and July illusionist, is giving a performance-at-Oct- Kowloon Cricket Club next Friday, Dec. at 9 p.m., to which Jan. commencing members and friends are cordially March "Port of Seven Seas" (King's, to-invited, free of charge.

Spot over here who can get £100 for a day).-When this film gets away! The following is the programme:

Part I:-Coin Manipulation, Bowls March short course of instruction command from trying to paint a humorous

£50 to £200 for an

and naming his atmospheric portrait of Marseille of Kwang Hai, The Missing Token, May Bramin's Sept. The Egg-straordinary, picking his spots own terms on a take it or leave it waterfront life and sellics down to Cylinders, The Mysile Slates, La Dec.

the study of how on older man mar- Fume, The Crystal Water Mystery. A few weeks ago he played a week at a music hall for £300, was held is a young girl to give her unborn over a second week for £450 and turned down a third.

basis.

ANOTHER SIDE

exhibition,

Ho

PRICES

LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

New York, Mar. 22.

New York Cotton

Opening 8.18/10

Closing 8.17/17 7.00/90 7.90/07

7,64/637.60/00

S. W. Liang and K. F. Chiu (Wan-" derers) beat Lee and Tsang 21-18; beat Stephens and Lin 21-14; lost to Fletcher and Castro 13-21.

E. S. Ho and C. Y. Yung (Wander- ers) beat Lee and Tsang 21-7; beat Stephens and Lin 21-5; beat Fletcher and Castro 21-15.

DARTS LEAGUE Recent Matches Played In Local Competition

The following are the results of matches Darts played recently in the "K.B." League:

Taylor

Imperial "A"

Whitehous

Gribble

Pearson

Howe

M.T.B. "A"

Mitchell

Smith

Keenan

Moore

Wilkie

Highest score-Taylor D.

AL.T.D. ""

Stonnell

ILA.Ŭ,B. (GC) “A”

Curd

1 Moore

Little

Red:man

Prest

Hansell

FunBall

Bassan King

Highest score-Hansell 124.

Whitehouse

E

7.59/67

7.54/54

PD. "A"

Imperial "A"

7.56/50

7.53 N

Mitchell

2 Howe

7.60b/81a 7.56 N

Keenan

I. Gribble

8.02 N

Mocre

0 Pearson

Smith

Taylor

New York Rubber

Wilkle

15.83 N

15.80/77

15.84/80

.

15.80/80 15.80/79 To-day's Sales: 2,150 tons. Part 11:-Cards, Fettered and The last Notice day for March child a name, it becomes tender, if Free'd, The Billiard Balls, A Strange Rubber is March 29th. The picture's Recovery, The Nigard's Breakfast, sentimental, drama, merits are largely due to an almost La Tissue. matchless performance by Frank

15.87/00

Highest scare-Keenan 123. M.T.D. "A".

Dyer 15.86 N

Bilth

Imperial "g" Check

Marshall

Callagan

Wells

Blake

⚫ Black

Clare

a Dodd

May

July

Sept.

Control Of Ball First Essential

Tuesda

Chicago Wheat

072%/073% 074/07%

08/08/ 68/68

66%/60% Sales:-8,000,000 bushels. Chicago Corri

May July Sept.

474/47%

40/4914

47%/48 4015/40/4

50/50%

50/50%

Winniper Wheat

(Continued from Page 8.)-

May

004/01%

July

81%/61%

these were ball-game adepts recruited Oct.

01/01% 0172/62 627%/03

"Pacião Liner" (Queen's, to-day). from other sports. Such men are

But, there's another side to Henry. Morgan. Wallace Beery, as the star, He plays more charity matches than of course demands a great deal of any of his fellow professionals. never has time for anything except footage in the film, but for ence_he his work-golf. He is one of the is outshone by a secondary player. best instructors in England and when Maureen O'Sullivan, John Beal and

he plays on Sundays with a mem-Jessie Ralph are the others in the ber of his club (Ashridge Golf Club)

he never accepts a fee and sometimes cast.

gives away, instruction he could sell for much money.

He is highly disliked in some quar---Adventure on the high scas is not rare to-day and, with more and more! lar winter pastime, they will soon ters and is a hero in others. He be-a new theme but it is given several school adopting the game as a regu-

Victor McLaglen, become unknown. came a hero when he broke Amerl-new twists here. ca's strangle-hold on the British Chester Morris and Wendy Barrie Weak wrists are a definite draw- Open title in 1834. Before that, the take the three principal role and back and exercises should be adopted ille had been making annual trips manage to retain interest to the end. regularly to strengthen them, such ncross the Atlantic for more than a Added to the programme is the latest as patting a tennis ball with a two-

"Morch of Time," which always pre-inch stick when out décade,

On the inks, Cotton is best des-sents a topical subject. cribed

of the Golf as a "Hamlet

Course." He is tragically serlous. "A Sight Case of Murder" (Al-}"

nerves

stage

play

walking, or about the home lawn with hockey-stick and cricket-bill,

Some men wear rubber wilst Once he was unable to control his hembra, fo-day)-Damon Runyon bands, but I do not recommend the

went wrong. Howard Lindsay when things

continual use of these. But do not Now he may seeth inside but seldom comedy gangsters who find the going make the mistake of trying to use does make a display of his temper, difficult, but very amusing, when they

To understand Cotton, they say, try to be highbrow and legitimate. A stick of more thon, say 20 to 22 you have to go back to his early Warner Brothers have coat it as well, in order to make up for weak days when he gave up erleket tons anyone could wish, with Edward Wrist muscles.

Practise hitting a stationary ball learn golf; of how he learned every G. Robinson, Allen Jenkins, Ruth without giving "sticks"· and niso

Edward Brophy and basic principle of the game from a Donnelly,

your flick shots narled old Scotch professional; of Harold Huber in the chief comedy course, and with plenty of spate, or how he made clubs as youth, roles,

there will be grumbles in the home played in a converted garden, be- hind his father's London home and "Stella Dallas" (Oriental, to-day). ctrcle) before a long mirror. served under three different profes--An old tear-compeller re-made slonnis before he set out on his own, with a new east. Barbara Sinnwyck convinced and determined to make and John Boles are the principais a fortune.

here, and Ann Shirley is the daugh

Ile has made two trips to America. ter. The material is reliable and One waz. in 1920 to study iron play sentimental, dim-goers may be able under Tommy Armour. And again to shed a few tears here.

(minus ball, of

...WEEK-END CRICKET

and Cricket Club

Hongkong

in 1031 when he was left off the "The Last Gangster" (ta jest And Volunteers XI's

Ryder Cup team. He was a falluro

as a tournament player there. His to-day)-Great stuff and good enter friends say, he was sick. They also tainment, Edward G. Robinson, as

BOY

that next time he goes ha thelast big-time gangster, holds will achlove his ambition of proving one's attention throughout." he's master of the world's courses. Stewart and Rose Stradner help the

But Henry is riding high, wide and show along

handsome now. And hu won't go to

America unless he gets plenty of

money. To do ollierwise would be

too rouch of a gamble, and Mr. Col-

ton "is a shrewd man,

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Kilbee, G. P. Longfield, K. A. Munro,

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Tut-ankh-Amen's

May Not

IN

Tomb

be Disturbed Again

a tomb in the Valley of the Kings was

removed, and the breathless

at Thebes, Egypt, are the bones werkers saw the gleam of gold, An-

of the 18-year-old eighteenth dynasty other linen shroud was rolled back. king, Tut-ankh-Amen.

Peacefully they lic, possibly never

to be disturbed again, for the tomb can tell the world no more than is known already of that Pharaoh who ruled Egypt 3,000 years ago,

Before them lay a heavily-gilded

collin, 8ft, long, shaped like a statue.

FACE OF SOLID GOLD The lifelike face of the "statue" was a solid plece of gold. Various All the arts known to men, every objects in the ourcophagus were re- scientific instrument, have been used moved, and the work of opening the to extract from the tomb the utmost Meanwhile Lord Carnarvon, who had coffin was postponed for a year. information it character of that virtuous youth, the been the instigator of the opening ɔf age in which he lived, and the social the tomb, had died. life of the Egyptians of his day.

It was on

can give of the

day

Then came the news that the in November, Egyptian Government had put ob- 1922, that three men, suspecting the stacles in Mr. Carter's way. He and location of a tomb in the rocky bill his collaborators, in protest, refused to carry out any more scientifle work side of the valley began to probe.

They were Lord Carnarvon, Mr. on the tomb. Howard Carter and Mr. Arthur Mer- ton. Lord Carnarvon died some resumed and the tomb was stripped. years ago; Mr. Carter died recently; Gold, precious stones, amulets and Mr. Merton lives.

1

"Subsequently, however, work was

charms to carry the dead king to the other world, which were found in the tomb, are now in the museumh TREASURES FOUND

are about 1,700 al Calro. There They opened the tomb and as the articles a collection which rivals, the work progressed through many attraction of the Pyramids and the months, the world walted each new Sphinx. discovery.

Even individuals whoWhat of this curse of the Pharaohs had e Interest in things of the that is talked about so often? Mr. Sir past gasped at the apparently un-Howard Carter laughed at it. ending list of treasures which were Ernest A. Wallis Bludge, who dug up brought to light,

Yet

as many as 20 deaths are sold As a result of the archaeologists many mummies, did not believe in it. work the world learned the secrets to have been due to the "curse."

Bat the experts do not belleve in 104, Lumby of the by-gone age of Tut-ankh-

Amen.

the "curse," or they would not de-

berately run into danger.

135.

135, Davis Highest scores-Little King 131, Poole 131, Waterworth 128, Prest (27, Keenan 125, Hanseli 124.

OP

and: XI (AWAY)-E. J. R. Mitchell [(Capt)MCAW. E. Blahop, D. G. Day, G. E. R. Divett, N. P. Fox, R. M. M. KİDZ, H. 1. D. Lowe, A. K. Macken- Rie DED: Parsons, J. Potter and Unlvi

"group of ant

The contents of the tomb declosed how an Egyptian king lived, his magnificence while on earth, his pamp though dead. In the tomb

were found chariots, sacred books, St. Paul's College

furniture, food, and even, in sym- bolic form, the servants who were

to do the king's bidding in a future

life.

The last operation of all was the

fting of the ton-and-a-half granite Bld of the sarcophagus.

Athletic Meet

The 30th Annual Athletic Sports

of St. Paul's College will be held at Caroline Hill on Thursday, March 30,

The 3000-year-old mummy was from 1.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mr. Chari. disclosed. A linen shroud, some Kung-chit has kindly consented- what discoloured but well preserved, distribute, the prizes.

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