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NANCY

I'M SICK OF HUNTIN' FOR

THAT OLD

TREASURE CHEST---

I'M TIRED!

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

PHOOEY--

I GIVE

UP!

SAY--- THAT SOUNDS KINDA

HOLLOW!

SLUGGO!---

I THINK I FOUND IT!

HELP ME DIG!

NAW--- IM FED UP WIT' DEM WILD GOOSE CHASES!

Cam. 197)

CLUNK

LY-17

August 15, 1939.

Bushmiller

OH; SLUGGO!---

HELP ME LIFT THIS WILD GOOSE,

WILL YA?

Leslie Ames And Wright Beat Gloucester

Brilliant Innings By Kent Batsman Feature Of A Thrilling Match

By J. P. JORDAN

Auldstone (Second Dap).--Kent brat Gloucestershire by 96 runs.

London, July 18.

ANOTHER Extraordinary day's cricket was seen yesterday when 20 wickets foll for 292 runs,

and Kent gained a great victory.

A little rain had fallen over-night) and it shower or two held up play once от Twice, This caused £1 normally playful ich to become more playful than usual, and Sinfeld, in the morning, and Wright in afternoon, wrought havoc on it.

the

Two balsmen only, Chalk rel

Ames

performed with any skill or stayed in for any appreelible time, Chalk's efor! was on extremely valuable one, though dwarfed by Ames's brilliance.

Ames played one of his most agren- ! sive innings, as if he wanted to make absolutely certain of scoring the

Sporting Tit-Bits

ÞERKHAMSTED'S second

hole,

which measures 149 yurds, ap- peared to have magnetic powers,

fastest hundred of the year. Right for a hole in one was accomplished from the start he was on top of the there twice within a short space of bowlers, driving and hooking magni- time. First, G. E. T. Roberts (6). feently,

SIXES BY AMES

playing with A. J. B. Bamfords (8). holed his tee shot, and a little later

So fast did he score that although in the day the fent was repented by he had Chalk, who is no slowcoach, Dr. H. O. Skelton (12), who was as his partner he reached hin 50 out partnered lsy Mrs. Vernor Miles of 68 in 34 minutes, with nine fours (4).

included.

•

He then began hitting sixes-he THE British boat, with Lieutenant got three off Goddard and added Woodcock at the helm, won the another boundary before he was out International Marine Cup at the na for n

scintillating 79 out of 111 made val regatta at Kiel. The yachts com- in 53 minutes,

peting were star-class boots, built After that en extraordinary col-this year and provided by the Ger Inpse set in, eight wickets going down man Navy. They were drawn for for 65 runs,

Sinfeld taking tour of atresh each day. The final placings over the series of races were: 1, Few people thought that 201 would Great Britain, 66 points: 2, Germany, be enough to beat Gloucestershire, 58 points: 3, Sweden, 53 points: 4, but the whole Kent team rose to the Holland: 5, Italy: 0, Estonia: Den- occasion splendidly.

mark: 8, Roumania; 0, Spain.

them for 12.

Every possible" catches were taken. Levett

man was on his toes. "Im-

and Harding especialy distinguish CURTAILED

ing themselves, and with Hammond. falling for the second time in the match the rout of Gloucestershire was complete.

Wright proyed so devastating with

BASEBALL

his leg breaks into the wind that} PROGRAMME

his six wickets cost him only 20 runs. At one period he had taken:

lhem for 11.

New York, Aug. 14,

The following were the results of

"This was Kent's third successive matches played in the Major Base- victory, and they are the most im-ball League to-day: proved team in the country.

KENT.--First Innings: 1 (Fad 77;

Scott B-41),

SECOND INNINGS

Forge Scott, Lambert

F. G. H. Chalk, b Goddardl

Ames e Lambert, b Goddard

N. H. Vaentine e end by Goddard

P. G. Foster. lby, b Sinfekt

Todd, h Goddard

T. C. Langileld. Laninbert, Sinfield

Harding, Hammond. b Sindeld

Wright, not out

Wati, Scolt

W. I. V. Levett, e Crapp, b Sinfield

Extran (5 2, 3h 2, w 2)

Total

Dowling-Scott

C

Merle Oberon und Laurence Olivier in a poignantly dramatie scene from Samuel Goldwyn's "Wuthering Heights," picturised from the great Emily Bronte novel of that name. The picture is being shown at the

King's Theatre to-day.

H. K. Stock Market

The following quotations were issued on the Hongkong Stock Mar- ket this moming.

BANKS

ILK. Banks $ H.K. Banks

INSURANCES

China Underwriters

H.K. Fire S

SHIPPING Douglases $.. Steambouts $. Indo-Chinus, P.$ Indo-Chinus, DS. Shells Bearers s/- Waterboats $

1,260 n. 73 11.

£ ..70 .

Dutch Girl Breaks Swimming Record

Rotterdam, Aug. 14. Miss Heselarrs of Holland to-day swam the 100 yards breast-stroke in the record time of 1 min. 15.6 secs.

Miss Dillard, of the United States, hold the previous re- cord of 1 min. 16.6 sces.--- Reuter.

LETTERS

Sport And Politics

To the Editor,

Hongkong Telegraph.

Sir, From a Chinese point of view, the action taken by the Tsui brothers not to participate in the Interport tennis match between this Colony und ibal of Thailand is highly com- mendable.

Theoretically you may be right that "politics" and "sports" should not mingle; but in realty, they come along the same route. Why, was It not the very way how, in the year

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And bere is an extract from a letter to the Lincoln

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"... As for me I ma concerned, the LincolnŽephze will out-perform and out-demonstrate anything on four wheels regardless of cost or sumber of cylinders. The readability La something to meet œ. The soundness of lis engineer- Ing larsomething that only Henry Fard could ever hope te achieve and the good judgment in ostection and coordination of accessories can refret unly credit to the Ford organlar

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Here is the latest model of the car Mr. Austin was talking about:

sequently dissolved, because Japanese wanted to engineer entry at the puppet "Manchukuo Why, was not many a game between Britain and Germany duly cancelled of the

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GLOUCESTERSHIRE. - First 170 (A. H. Brodhurst 64).

SECOND INNINGS Barnett, Todd, b Harding Sinfeld, o Valentine, b Todd Emmelt, e Todd, b Wright W. R. Hammond, b Harding

Cropp, e Levelt, b Wright

E. D. R. Fager lbw b Wright

Innings:

A. H. Brodhurst, e Harding, b Wright

Wilson, not out

Scott b Wright

Lambert, St. Levett, b Wright

Goddard, e Chalk, blanding

Extra (bi, nbt)

Total

Cleveland

Detroit

Ten innings Trosky and Keltner homered for the Indians. Battery- Indians, Allen and Hemsley.

Chicago

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Battery-Cubs, French and Man- 21 cuso-Reuter.

103

Cardinals Purchase Dodgers' Short-Stop

St. Louls, Aug. 14. The Cardinals have announced

Bewilngiarding 9.7o. im. 4r. 3w that they have purchased the Brook- Todd 6, 2, 12, 1: Watt 6, 0, 21, 0; Wright lyn Dodgers' short-stop Lyn Lary 5, 2, 20, 0..

but they did not announce the price they paid.

OUR GUIDE

TO THE

CINEMAS

Lary will fly to St. Louis in order to enable him to play on Tuesday- United Press.

covered domestle tranquillity again when he had lost a

championship

bout Fred MacMurray, Irene Dunne. Charles Ruggles and William Collier,

"Wuthering Heights" (King's to- Sr., are the principals. day)-Film from the novel by Emily

"Heritage of the Desert" (Alham- Zanc

Bronte, handsomely photographed, bra, todaydi

to-day)Another

carefully acted, and skilfully direct-

splendid stories made into a ed, relating the tragic romance of movie. Donald Woods and Evelyn Heathcliff and Cathy

background of the winst a wild Venoble supply the romantic interest.;

English

M0078,

"The Kid from

from Texas" (Majestic.

The sombre atmosphere of the novel to-day).-Romantic comedy about a has been caught by the movie. cowboy who learned to play polo and Laurence Olivier, Merle

Oberon, then

went Enst to put his lessons to David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald use. A bit of romance is mixed with Crisp and Geraldine Fitzgerald have polo. Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, the chief roles.

Anthony Allen, Jessie Ralph and "Javilation to Happiness" (Queen's, Buddy Eban are

featured. to-day)-Domestic drama of a prize- "Elephant Boy" (Oriental, to-day). fighter, who married an heiress, found ~This is the picture in which Sabu, his pugilistic ambitions interfered the young Indian actor, made his with the happiness of his family, dit-name.

Hongkong Mines cls.

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Tractions

(Prof.) s/- INDUSTRIALS

n. Wight, are to-morrow to be trans- In my opinion, it is hardly for that 164 n.ported by troop-carrying planes from you should criticise the Tsuis to such

n. Ryde Airport to Wiltshire to take extreme. They are just as

6 n. part in manoeuvres.

MANILA SHARES

as they

Chinese

are human, mind you. Sup-

pose Japan should send a delegation ..8% n. of players to this port too; now, Mr. Editor, you certainly don't expect the Tsui brothers to play .33% n.

with them. ant 1024 b. shake hands with them, smile .001 them, while the very impression exists ..14/3 n. In their minds that thousands of their

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Mr. Editor?

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