CLEAN SPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1920, Page 9

CLEAN SPORT.

MIWM f SCI HO YJM( BILL TO ENIT FOOTJALL BETTING u„ -«.;■:■ r-rrr,: '.-.Mi - r,i \i. r A Bin designed^to,.stamp put,.the cbupo'n 1 , beating matches I ' ! Bas'be,erJ .'given a' wriauinjous second 1 to' the. fiouse of .C!bmmone."i'" y -''"'" ■'"' ''"■ '' '" '"'"' i ' { ''.'-

varieties of wheats, barleys, oats, and potatoes;, and many of these illustrate strangely newly discovered secrets of /heredity'.- ' ' ' Some iof the varieties are for yield,, There, is. a new. wheat, Imown as "Yeoman," which has yielded 12 .quarters' to' tie acre.''.That is three times an ordinary Crop—ail event of real world importance;: _ ''But iperhaps the most.startling discoveries of the new science are .in producing'plants''that ar.e proof against, ■specific diseases. The Cambridge botanists -or.lfldctors have now reached such a that, they can make almost •snjre, of breeding. plants that; are absolutely I ''Resistant to certain diseases. At present they are most eagerly in pursuit of. the ipotato that shall be immune from a wart pj;, scab disease, lately threatening ; to 1 become. a. national, calamity.- But a special investigator is being turned on te ea<ffi'tf the mere common farm pro. ductfrr-wheat, oats, barley> potatoes; and' , r00t5.,,., The results are ,to be shown, in the to a distinguished assembly of (I the medical profession. The ' inffefrence is that this strange secret of-heredity,' -kuown ( ,as the Mendelian law,,by, wjvicji Uae Cambridge' botanists are helped .to t their moat striking succeSß^,'may I 'be'ap-' 1 plfed to men and other .animals .as well ■'.a* ■ plants* ](]> /, Z l ) I fl '•< J.

It &>'■*. ; m«mber's''nieasu] i troduted by GoliSir He*y NorrlsV chair-1 man of *HetAfsenal Ctai: -THe preamble 1 deaeTibes it as a BiD : to "pre-' vent ,th*iwritmg,: pTintrair, 1 or circutetißg in the United Kingdom of coupons of any re^4y f mpney,.football betting bu5ine55.",,,,,,,,. ,„;),.., ni! ! .-,.,«,.:,: ..,-,,.:i."I atn of the Football Association,.theiigoyeming body of clepoeiatia'fporjt, under wpose jurisdiction 8000 matches are pliyed yeek,'' said Sir, Henry. Norris' rn"Roving. : tte. second reading, "There' iff »id ! ,stop individual bettiiig'oirfootteiil imctcneVor the' fitwf ball competition I p^MoW<f%y''rypon l -' newwapert, but the object is to fs& anend td the wholesale issue by boo&oa£ets of «oupon circulars by which working men are induced to part with money t»e>: nevW'Wa *■»/ T ' "In a raic? Tewbtry 51,000 coupons «Hteidiaeo\ered, and it was-found that those reapc&siMe-were! making £2o,oga a year fiti.eh-» thing is e menace to sport." .Wfts?! A^ifjW 6 ™? did not suit thent the bookmakera went to the payers,and, tried to fiidttce thein,.,^o,Jojje'.jinatches. "The other day a bookmaker teJd me it would be. to my advantage to hAPe a chill or s,ore throat when the Bill ca>;ei; on, otherwise I should be opposed at tie's next elfefiofi'.*" (Cries "oi. '^apff'*) Mr. X'tt thomas supportep lie Bill in the"&tefes|s of clean, spXßrt; V "I ate-aesired by; the : Astoij Villa FootbaH-'Olur> to support, this Bill and to say hW necessary-they think it in the intewste of clean sport," said Mr. EvelynfC3*ciL!- ..• . - • -- "-I

at thaliduprunV C'otrft;-'■jH.'.stcrday, for •sentence: * - .Mr. A- B. Mievewrigbt, in appealing fur <lgl)te!£y.'lnlaid thaU'Sakborry hadnot been before a Vourl, for over live yewtfi,i and, diu'mg that/period;, he hadsnrved with, <|isUni'tii->n ; as :i member of the XZ'O'. '[-!,.' had been sever'e,l\ jWoiindyli. and had'ftlbo jbtwlifiiitf aii<{i!nnuhj.y! u» n.'-'pri-omir of war. f'ui) i!ji: .past months hi' had hern in lii)iipit«l almost continuously, .and even now he--was far" fronf well, and might hi tho near- future" have to have au arm amputated. Counsel ...Uldfd.-tliaj. tire- -frt-iKoiior.'JitiiV ; .rated ,on .the Jiekl for, aiufe*-! .pj-cs.sed the opinion that he. was* to-be .sympathised witli. .... i . ;.•.,■■.:,,./■ ; /, si'\ 1 ' Kt:«lri)a-n said tiiat mo'hvar «:;ou]d justify a man,,in commltB!S> ~r" te'J ur-;ault.,on two.wojut'ii. At'jvhefi'y; had fo;■<-.•<) his \vay,.|into, 'ni iia'tee'''iiTt.lie early hour.sot' tlie .ppr.n-, "iil& taken ,hold, of ,'ii woman! by ItHi'oat, I 'and when' she scraiubled'ouj,' of %<d th ,J hcr 'had ' beaten her with an iron 'bar. '- It' hi s one'of the ".H'-it ,f«'i9 n,i cases thai/had ,<:p|ii,e funder' : his 'notice, and he 'purposed .'i'nllieting «. I 'severe'sentence. • Netfberryf M"Mm^i - }' ,bnd r-eeord.i J-Je had twice'been convictr' ;.ed| .Qf.-forgery.-aiid hitterlnft' IrtvicV of' ; ,breal>j,njj. ; aijd entering, and;he mUo 'had' ibo»jn.,declar«d an habitual- criminal.""All #°s. e i Pfl'ences Bad. beefi eoiiiuiit*ed,> bei wept to tlie front, -biijt-Hb Sooner■<k^:hv - rfitujucil to the, Dominion ilth'slij , lie ; agjiiu embarked on. a cawer/of piffebjier' would be/seniwiced ip rftyq 'years' imprisonment witli'jiard lauor <qn the first charge, and three year's on tho teecond ; cbimt, tHe term's''to'i-tni' '(!olleur J rently. ■■■ •' v