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TODAY!

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Thursday,

YOO HOO--- FRITZI !

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

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

March 23, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

WHY EFFIE--- I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU SINCE SCHOOL,

DAYS!

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

VANGILD-.. CAN YOU IMAGINE?

GARDEN TOOLS

Jeli 28151.

"It has been said. *-* that it ir the bad workman who complains about his tools; but thero la no doubt at all that with better tools

finer job can be done.....

First grado

SHEFFIELD

STEEL

Forka

and

Spades, Trowels, Shears. Scythes, Reap Hooks. Hoer, and Water- ing cans. Re- volving Lawn Sprinklers,

CONTINUED ---

Henry Cotton, Britain's Greatest Golfer

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 a) visit this summer and cross clubs

with her best players. But Cotton Billiards according 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 I's nsrd getting a personal | Interview with the King of England. Cotton like a Cabinet Minister. If you want to see him or make a book-j ing with him, you Arst must get in touch with his secretary and present! the

necessary credentials or

never see him,

you

KENNERLY RETAINS

HIS TITLE

London, Mar, 22.

In the English Amateur Billiards Championship final to-night, Kings-

After several tries, it was obvi-jky Kennerly, of Elrmingham, re- ous Cotton did not want to speak to inined his title against A. Spencer, reporters.

ONE LANGUAGE ONLY

of Yorkshire, scoring 4,423 points to 3,200 points.

Kennerly was runner-up in thel It's strictly put up or shut up with),

[recent Empire Champlonship held in Henry, If you want to talk to him,Australla-Reuter, there's only one language, he under- 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 hua a magnificent home, and one of the beat golfing joba in the British. Isics.

OUR

GUIDE

TO THE

Last year he didn't win a single CINEMAS

major British gofting tile and yet

he is considered "the"supreme"shooter

short course of instruction command

Henry Cotton

He is in a class by himself.

Magician At K.C.C.

British Girl

Girl Athletes

Must Be Beautiful

A team of "perfect" British girin)

is to be selected by the Women's

Amateur Athletic Association to take WANDERERS BEAT

part in the Olympic Games at Kapyla, Finland, -next year.

to

So determined are the author KOWLOON TONG 'B'

get the best available British.

team that special conching will start this spring, and "Lalent scouts" are already watching possible candidates, Women selectors will see most of

AT BADMINTON

At Kowloon Tong

Inst

avening,

the likely candidates at the indoor championships at Wembley on May Wanderers defeated Kowloon Tong

13.

Feminine types will be chosen, "B" by -1 in the "B" Division of and the girls will be advised to take the Badminton League. Scores; Care of their looks us well as their J. S. Ho and S. L. Cheung (Wan- training.

derers) beat K. M. Lee and J. Tsang

1

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

S. W. Llang and IC. F. Chiu (Wan- derers) beat Lee and Taang 21-18: beat Stephens and Lin 21-14; lost to Fletcher and Castro 13-21.

E. S. Ho and C. Y. Yung (Wander-

TWO MILLION SPECTATORS [era) beat Lee and Tsang 21-7; beat An Olympic village is being bulli Stephens and Lin 21-5; beat Fletcher

at Kapyla. Two thousand players and Castro 21-15.

und athletes will be necommodated

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

PRICES

in the land. He is the only pro "Port of Seven Seas" (King's, to over here who can get £100 for day).When this £50 to £200 for an exhibition, from trying to paint a humorous Port 1: Coin Manipulation, Bowls picking his spots and naming his atmosphere portrait of Marseille of Kwang Hst, The Missing Token, May own terms on a take it or leave it waterfront lite and setties down to Egg-straordinary,

Bramin 'S basis.

The

LATEST CABLED

QUOTATIONS

7.64/03

New York Rubber

15.80/77 15.80/80 15.80/79

DARTS LEAGUE

Recent Matches Played In Local Competition

the

Darts

The following are the results of matches played recently Lengue:

Imperial. "A"

Whitehouse

M.I.B. "A".

2 Mitchell

2 Smith

2 Keenan

3 Moore

0 Wilkie

Taylor

Gribble Pearson

Howe

Highest score-Taylor 98.

M.T.H. "

1 Moore

Stonnell Prest Basson

Keenan

Gribble

Pentsan

◊ Taylor

a Whitehouse

Highest score-Keenan 123.

Imperial "13" 1 Check

Martha]] Wells Black

3 Dodd

Fighest score.-Claro 107.

R.A.O.B.

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ANANG JA

RAO.D. (GC) "A"

New York, Mar. 22.

Cund

New York Colion

Little

Opening

Closing

Redman

Mr. E. Glamali, magician Illusionist, is giving a performance at

Oct. Kowloon Cricket Club next Friday, Dec. commencing-at--0-p.mtowhich

and

Moy

8.18/18

8.17/17

Hansell

Funnel

2 King

July

7.98/20

7.00/97

7.50/60

7.58/577.54/54.

Highest score-Hansel 124.

alm gets away

members and friends are cordially March invited, free of charge.

The following is the programme:

7.56/56 7.53 ·N 7.00b/01a. 7.56 N

-----Importai""A"

Mitchell

1 Howe

1

Spol

3.92 N

Мосге

Sinith

Wilkio

March

15.03 Ń

15.84/80 15.87/00

MT.D. "A"

15.05 N

May July Sep1.

Control Of Ball First Essential

The last Notice day for March Bako Rubber is March 28th.

Chicago Wheat

07/07% 0774/07-44 08/08

65/80 08/0834 Tuesday's Sales:-8,000,000 bushels.

Dyer Smith Calingan

Clare

League Table

P.

"A"

Imperial

Chicago Corn

MTE, “I”

May July

47/4/47% 47%/48

MTB, A

4034/4914

4035/49/4

Sept.

30%/6014

50%/60%

Winnipeg Wheat

(Continued from Page 8.)

May

0024/01%

01/01

July

014/014

8176/02

026/03

137, Keenan 123, Hansell 124,

A few weeks ago he played a week the study of how an older mon mar-Cinders, The Mystic Slates, La Dept. at a music hall for £300, was held ries a young girl to give her unborn Fume, The Crystal Water Mystery. To-day's Sales:-2,150 tons,

Part II:Cards, Fettered and over a second week for £100 and child a name, it becomes tender, Free'd, The Billiard Balls, A Strange sentimentai, drama. The picture's Recovery, The Nigard's Breakfast, merits are largely due to an almost La TissuC. matchless performance by Franki

turned down a third.

ANOTHER SIDE

1

Ho

But, there's another side to Henry, Morgan. Wallace Beery, ns the star. He plays more charity matches then of course demands a great deal of any of his fellow professionals. never has time for anything except footage in the film, but for once 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 Bent 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 sometimesi

for much money?

cost.

these were ball-game adepts recruited | Oct.

gives away instruction he could seli "Pacido Liner" (Queen's, to-day). from other sports. Such men are. He la highly disliked in some quar./Adventure on the high scas is not rare to-day and, with more and more!

ters and is a hero in others. He be- new theme but it is given several schools adopting the game as a regu- came a hero when he broke Ameri- new twists here. Victor McLaglen, lur winter pastime, they will soon ca's strangle-hold on the British Chester Morris and Wendy Barrie become unknown. Open title in 1934. Before that, the take the three principal role and title had been making annual trips manage

Weak wrists are a definite draw- retain interest to the end. back and exercises should be adopted across the Atlantic for more than a Added to the programme is the latest regularly to strengthen them, such decade.

"March of Time," which always pre-as patting a tennis ball with a two- On the links, Cotton is best des-sents a topical subject. cribed as a "Hamlet of the Golf

inch stick when out walking; or Course." Ke is tragically serious.; "A Slight Case of. Murder" (A1-running about the home lawn with Once he was unable control his hambra, to-day)-Damon Runyon-

la hockey-stick and cricket-ball. nerves when things went wrong. Howard Lindsby stage play of Now he may seeth inside but seldom comedy gangsters who find the going bands, but I do not recommend the does nike a display of his temper. difficult, but very amusing, when they cuntinual use of these. But do not To understand Cotton, they say, try to be highbrow and "legitimate." make the mistake of trying to use you have to go back to his early Warner Brothers have cast it as well a stick of more than, say 20 days when he gave up cricket to as anyone could wish, with Edward oz. in order to make up for weakc learn golf; of how he learned every G. Robinson, Allen Jenidus Ruth wrist muscles. busic principle of the game from a Donnelly, Edward Brophy und gnarled old Scotch professional; of Harold Huber- in the chief comedy without giving "sticks"

Practise hitting a stationary ball youth, roles.

and also your flick ahots

how he made clubs as a played in a converted garden be

Some men wear rubber wrist

22

(minus ball, of

hind his father's London home and "Stella_Dallas" (Oriental, to-day).course, and with plenty of spaco, or: served under three different profes--¤ old tear-compeller re-made there will be grumbles in the home sionals before he set out on his own, with a new cost. Barbara Stanwyck clcle) before a long mirror, convinced and determined to make and John Boles are the principals

n fortune.

here, and Ann Shirley is the daugh

He has made two trips to America. ter. The material is reliable and St. Paul's College

One was in 1929 to study iron play sentimental film-goers may be able under Tommy Armour. And again to shed a few tears here.

In 1931 when he was left off." "the

Ryder Cup team. He was a failure "The Last Gangster" (Stajestic, us a tournament player there. His to-day),----Great stuff and good enter- friends say he was slekt. They also tainment. Edward G. Robinson, as

Athletic Meet

The 30th Annual Athlette Sports

say that next time he goes he the last big-time gangster, holds of St. Paul's College will be held at will achieve his ambition of proving one's attention throughout, James Caroline Hill on Thursday, March 30, ho's master of the world's courses. Stewart and Rose Stradner, help the

But Henry is riding high, wido and show, along, handsome now. And he won't go to

Amarica unless

he gets plenty of

money. To do otherwise, would be

too much of gamble, and Mr. Cot-

lon is a shrewd man.

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A Look Through The Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

March 23, 1889. English people even пон seem atrongly averse to modern inventions.) London, with a population of 4,785,000, he only 4,193 subscribers Au the telephone.

A very learned dog appeared before Mr. O'Donnel in the Dublin Polleo- court, as a witness on a dispute as to the ownership. A Mr. Burke claimed

to be hia owner as against A man named Smith, who had the animal

NEWS IS KNOWLEDGE QUESTION: How will Hitler's 50th

birthday (April 20) be commem. orated in, Germany?

+

ANSWER: By the issue of a jubilee edition of "Mein Kampf," Hitler's book, coating 21⁄2 guineas, Q: How many coples of the book have been published since the Nazis came to power? A. About 0,000,000. More than 5,000,000 copies have been sold or distributed within Germany.

Have the writings of any other. head of a State received wider pub- Ilcity?

. Yes. More than 115,000,000 copies of Lenin's toork have been pub-

shed in Russia up to date.

since last August, when Mr. Burke said: Which book is circulated in for

he lost him. Mr. Burke, who has been

In India, said he taught the dog-lin

dustan and Tomli, and the dog, on

greater numbers than either. Hit-.. ler's or Lenin's work?

being brought into court and addressed As The Holy Scriptures, More than by him in those languages, Immediately responded, did several things he was desired to do, and was therefore rex- tored to Mr. Burke.

*

The New York Sus thus sume up

English Journaliam:There is nothing in the way of an intellectual produc tion that is more stupid than a Lon- don newspaper. It is not a newspaper át all. It does not print the nowa. It) in dull, heavy, platitudinous, gaseous commodity, unsatisfying, unsympathe tle, and inadequate."

25 YEARS AGO

11,000,000 copies of the Bible or extracts from it are published cach pcar by British sources alone, and it is now translated into 1,000 lan- #tidges.

Eight More Teams For Tournament

Eight further teams have entered for the Six-a-side hockey ` tourna- ment. They are as follows: March 23, 1914. HM.S. Birmingham | (3), HMS. There are now no troops in Belfast, Tamar (1), H.M.S. Scamew (1), the Regiments having concentrated at Local Defenco Flotilla (1), Motor out. It la Torpedo Boats (1), Queen's College stated that the Cavalry at Curragh niej

Highest finishes:Tunnell 104, Lumby Holywood, three millon

200 loare 93, Littlta 15.

Highest scores Little 135. Davis 135; armed with carbines Instead of lances. (1), U.S.RC. (1) ond 8th Destroyer King 133, Foole 131, Waterworth 128, Prest There te word that two Naval training- Flotilla (1).

D

BIG B-EYOND. Ok, enthusias (le-gymas rally." Photo shows then doing: the #Py

from the Hongkong Photo by Lo Ping-yot

shipe havo arrived in Dublin Boy. A detachment of 110 mon of the York- hire Regiment boarded warships in Dublin Bay and eailed for an unknown destination. Hubsaquently a destroy or anchored in the Day. The papers aro full of details about Ulster, which, the Conservative papers assort Indicato that the Government is in a panic.

Royal Visit To United States

A sensational development le a ru

· London, Mar. 22.

mour

The broad outlines of Their that a number of officers at Majesties' visit to the United States Curragh Camp have resigned as a pre-have been completed with the excep- test against the Regiments being or

dered to Ulster. The Morning Post tion of the New York' programme. nesoria that all the omeors of tho Although It is fixed that Their Think Cavalry Brigade have reained, Majesties will spend some time in and says that Colonel Seely's Secre-New York City, details, of the dura tary, when questioned on the subject tion of the stay there, and what they replied that the War Once had will see have been attended by

received similar rumours, and appro

priate action could be taken accord. Several complications. Ingly.

His Majesty tho

Buckingham

King suminoked |

Palaco Inst

A train of twelve coaches is being

Field-Marshal Sir Joun French to put at Their Majesties' disposal, for

night. The the duration of their siny-Router. King is taking n kven and", anxious] Interest in the Ulster developments.

Whereas praviacily most people was inelled to be setical over the mat. ter, the belief that a tiger, or some auch

EJ Coppin, Reserves: M. Riggs, A. Bioel, E. Torrtor.

The Senate of London University animal, is roaming about the yesterday accepted, with cordial thanks, Peak is now gaining general credence. the offer of the Crecho-Blovak Govern In fact, "stripes" is reported to have ment of a aum of from 235,000 to .been actually senn.

Sakande, a motor car driver. In the school of Blavonic languages, which is £40,000 to provido ja building · for a employ of Messrs. Law and Sons, has at present reported to the Poiles that he saw 's Callege, London.

a department of King's tiger standing under a tree outside his The affar is stated in be the outcome quarters at Puktolum. On seeing him, of the Czecho-Slovak Government's de the tiger walked away slowly down the airo to acknowledge publicly, in the hillside. The police examined the tenth year of Crocho-Slovak indepen- neighbourhood and found a number of dence, the significance of the school of footprints of some wild beast leading Blavonio students in London as a centre, from the bungalow to the reservoir..

for promoting knowledge of the Blav' countries and their efellisation.

10 YEARS AGO.

*March 28, 1929.

5 YEARS AGO

The dies Hockey Club Inter-Club

Bet gala March 29,:1084′′ game at Happy Valley. will be Information has been received that all chosen from the following members the candidates presented by the Cen- -M.. Wallace, G. Heard, G. Furgeson, M. trat British School for the Cambridge King, J. Brown, A Steele, 3

School Certificate Examination hold in P.Goodall, D. Stanlonille: December, have been successful, is mand M.-Hansen, E. Adair, M. Rusati, C.-Way, Hamet, was awarded Ionours, and B. Bakery 1 O. Belli-E Blackburn, re, Mario": Clarke" und "R. “Johas obtained Wabler, A. Cressy, B. Laing, Cousins, Presto