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COME AROUND ANY MORE!

April 19, 1939.

By Ernie Bushmiller

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Jel. 28151

CRYSTAL

AR.

SOLUTION TO HOOKING PROBLEM

Rest Of Rugby Season INTERNATIONAL Could Be Devoted To

Scrum Experiments

By Peter Lawless

London, Mar. 22.

With the match between the Army and the Royal Air Force at Twickenham on Saturday the representative games of the season come to an end. But there are hosts of club games to come, to say nothing of the Barbarians' tour, before the season dies. Why not use the balance of these games for experiments in restraining the destructive activities of back-row forwards, and in finding a practical solution to the hooking problem?

to

"There is one very important word

this article

morning: your A sub-committee is to be formed to study the existing crummage in laws, and their recommendations are Positive. You are referring speci

scruminaging, in which the International feally to come before Board on the eve of the Calcutta Cup connection it is well to remember match in 12 months time. This, us that Arthur Marshall in his supmitted and the already announced, was decided by suggestions sald: When the ball is In Edinburgh last week. Well, that International Board

all into their favoured, but ill-advised, plenty of time in leaves us

negative: No foot shall be raised, conscience,

But before going any further let &c.a very different matter from honorary what we, down here, hoped would US remember that the secretary of the Board may at any come out of the suggestion. time convene a special meeting of

ATHLETIC AGREEMENT

Tokyo, Apr. 18. Negotiations will shortly be start- ed between the sports authorities of Japon and Germany for the conclu- sion of an agreement providing tor co-operation in athletic undertakings, in accordance with the recently- concluded German-Japanese Culturai Agreement.

DARTS LEAGUE Imperial "A" Load R.A.O.B. "A" By Three Points

Imperial "A" lead R.A.O.B. "A" by in the H.B. Darts three points League, Intest results of which are the Alven below together with League standing to date:

R.A.0.B. "A" v. RA.OB. "T"

2 Orrom Pringle

Waterworth Carter Redman

of the proposed | Curl The desirability athletic agreement was unanimously of the upheld when the officials Foreign Once n.et representatives of the Japan Athletic Federation on Monday.

With the promotion of mutual

understanding and friendship through sports as the objective, the proposed Japan-German agreement will pro- vide for exchange of players, sport- in goods, and documentary and literary materials,

of the Through the good offices Foreign Ministry, actual negotiations the be conducted between

German and

Athletic will Japanese Federations.

the International Board at a meeting in any foot shall be d it back cluded between Japan and Germany,

for

"I am pretty sure that a code of the Board upon the request of any rules on the lines of Thou Shnit, Union, provided the purpose which the meeting is desired be instead of the negative rules of the intimated to the different Unions at present, could be formed, working least three weeks before the meeting. on the theory that the player is right, Judging from certain statements in and building up the game round that various letters which have reached instead of, as the somewhat juundiced me, it may not be out of place here leads of affairs maintain, the player to draw attention to some points In is wrong, let's nall him down with the laws affecting wing-forwards and another negative. That retards the hookers, who are the joint villains game once more instead of leaving ebbing afternoon's exercise for 30 of the piece. A player is oft-side it, or helping to be a flowing and while the ball is in a scrummage, irresponsible, husky lads. not being in the scrummage, remain with either foot in front of the bail, "remain" and "either" being in black type in the law. Alter "in front of the ball to "in front of his own scrummage" and Rugby-becomes-an entirely different game.

UNWORKABLE

In the event of an agreement con- negotiations for a similar agreement will be opened with the Italian authorities.--Domei,

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NEEDED

JACK ROPER KNOCKED OUT IN FIRST ROUND

Los Angeles, Apr. 17.

Joe Louls, 201 lbs, knocked out Jack Roper, 2044 lbs., In the first round of their 10-round bout at Wrigley Field to-night in exactly 2 minutes 20 seconds.

Louis and Roper met in the middle of the ring and sparred cautiously. Roper landed a light left to Joe's chin, followed by a loft to the jaw. Louis came back with a right to Roper's jaw, followed by another to more to the same spot and two Roper's head.

Then Louis staggered Roper with

a series of lefts to the jaw and, when

2 Roper backed away, Louis dropped

D

him with a right to the jaw, for the count.-United Press.

Reuter adds that Louls started a

12 to 1 on favourite to beat his 30-

5 year-old opponent.

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All Over Quickly

Los Angeles, Apr. 18.

Quickly warming to his task after

a few qulet exchanges, Joe Louis eagerly accepted his latest sacrifice and knocked out Jack Roper in 2 minutes 20 seconds, including a count before a crowd of 25,000. Louis took

£9,000 and Roper £2,000.

After a cautious opening, Louis left-booked Roper and the Call- fornian engaged in a short but merry barrage of lefts and rights to Louls hend. Louis retaliated by giving his opponent a terrific jolting in n 2 head attack. He cut Roper's left

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"Why should there be any differ- July ence between the joyous games at Oct, school and addit Rugger, with its Dec.

0.03 N I am afraid it is beenuse Mar. lopment? cribbed, cabined and confined deve--Jan. referees have many letters of The First Notice Day for cotton is. many laws to abide by that they ure April 26th, and the Inst Day is May forced to spend their time doiting 'i's and crossing "t's.""

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Then we came to: "It is illegal

TOO MANY PENALTY GOALS fur more than three players to form

And here, written before England's Sept. either front row of the scrummage | before the bull has been put in The ball shall be put in without de-victory at Murrayfield, is another Dee.

lotter: "I see that Peter Lawless is putting in the agein urging the The player

revision of the laws bail shall stand not less than three of feet from the scrummage and with of the game; and he is of course right. Match after match is to-day being both hands below the knee shall put decided by penally goals, which ac the ball fairly in at moderate speed so that it first touches the ground count for 50 per cent. of the points this means is as unsatisfactory to the beyond one foot of the nearest player red. The winning of a match by May incuch front row. It is illegal wines as to the losers, who for any player in either front row to win his match through some small of the scrummage to raise or advance his foot until the ball is fairly in."breach of an obscure rule committed I've left out some of the twiddley accidentally by one's opponent? blts but you get the ident

wants

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15.70/79 WINE SOLD IN CAFE 15.81 N Mar.

The First Notice Day for May.

Allegation Made Against the

last

Unlicensed Premises Day is May lost. rubber is April 27th. and

To-day's Sales:-1,410 tons.

Alleged to have sold liquor at the Chicago Wheat

09/6016 09%/09 Mo Hon Cafe, Shanghai Street, on licence, Leung April 13 without 07%/08 68/08

68%/08 Kam-tong and Leung Che-wong, ap- neared before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- Monday's Sales:-

5,212,000 bushels.

fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. Chicago Corn

Mr. C. d'Almada was present for 48/48/4 40%/48%

both defendants, and pleaded guilty 4934/4074 50%/504 50%/50% 50%/50% to the charge for the second defen- Winnipeg Wheat

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was the licences and his statement In answer to the charge. He said that information was received about 3.15 p.m. on April 13 that liquor was on sale at the ente und that frume- diate action was necessary if results were to be obtained. He therefore arranged for some people to go there and order wine.

May

endless streams of penalty May kicks must either mean that Rugby July It won't work. Referees do their best to interpret the law, and hookers, players are mighty poor sportsmen, Sept. knowing it won't work, do their best or that there is something radically to company with the referee's inter-wrong with the laws; and when we

see more than a dozen penalty kicks July international match, Oct. pretation. Let the first step be to awarded in an intern. have a sub-committee of people in which the players are the leading be the arena. Two good hookers, say exponents of the game, we may Travers and Toft; two good referees, sure that the fault iles with the rules. say Gadnoy and Ireland; add four It surely cannot be beyond the in knowledgeable front-row forwards, telligence of the pundits in authority a slow motion eine camera expert to to devise some means of restoring photograph tho experiments and the balance, and making tries and the members of the International goals rather than penalties the de- The Hongkong Stock Exchange

matches." Board to watch them.

ciding factors in our

official sumraary issued at 4.00 pm. Strong meat, my masters, bui-yesterday, says: England Scotland 61

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A somewhat better tone was evinc- Even so, to misuse an ancient ed in the market during the day, joke: "The game isn't what it was; coupled with rather more enquiries,

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UNİVERSITY TALK Lecture on Indiscriminate

Bombings in China ...'

A most Interesting lecture was Igiven in mandarin on "Indiscri

minato Bombings" by Dr. Hra Shu- hist, PIL.D., Professor of International Law. of Yen-ching University, Pel ping, at the Fung Ping Shan Library last night.

Dr. Hau dealt with the subject from a legal.point of view. Part of his lecture was a summary of his recent book “Threo Weeks of Bombings."...

Canton

Mr. Chan Kwan-po was chairman of the meeting, which was held under the nusplees of the University Chin- csa Boctoty. Tho

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warmly thanked by Professor Klan, lecturer of Chinese Literature COMFORTABLE) at the Hongkong University, at the

conclusion, of his talk.

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On entering the premises about 4.15 p.m., zaid Inspector Post, found three persons in the cafe with wine in front of them.

Slu Kam-chuen, district watchman, sald he arranged with three others to go to the cafe. After ordering which was served.

food, he asked for Chinese wine, In reply to Mr. d'Almada, Slu sald about five he. anked for the, bill' minutes after the raiding party had The character for "wine" arrived. was not on to the bill, and second defendant was asked to have the denied that word second defendant had said there was no wine for sale but that he would get some for him.

Hearing was adjourned until April

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Sentimental Relic

Fort Worth, Tex. A wooden leg, stored at the police atation, held such 1 sentimental fascination for policemen that they refused to sell it when other odds- and-ende were put up for auction. "We'll just keep it," said one officer. "Maybe somebody will need it some day,de

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COMING WEDDINGS

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Mr. Andrew Simpson, civil servant attached to H. M. Dockyard, has un- nounced his forthcoming wedding to Miss Francis Vera Stroud, secretary to H. M. Trade Commissioner, Hong-

kong.

Other weddings that will take place shortly in Hongkong are: Mr. Andrew Petrovich, (widower), merchant, to Mrs. Efrossinia Usouroff, widow, of 3. Hankow Road, Kowloon; Mr. George

Ho, merchant, to Miss Chan Cheung-ho, of 210 Wing Lok Street; Mr. Chu Kwan-shan, merchant, to Miss Kwan Yiu-dem, of 33, Bonham Strand, East; Mr. Chiu Yat-keung, student, to Miss Young Mon-ming, of 102. Prince Edward Road; and Mr. The Fook-wai, merchant, tp Miss Lau Yow-hor, of 37, Mosque Street.

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