Show MILLS CLOSE AND STOPPAGE GROWS CROWS GRAVE CRAVE Defeat of English In Sport Fails To Cheer People BY Y A G C G IR Foremost Liberal Editor Special Rario Dispatch to The Tbt Standard Standard Examiner CopyrIght Copyright- l 1926 By Dy The Thi Th dated datel Press Press Press- AssociatiOn LONDON LOo Juno At 26 26 At the tho end endor end endo or of the second 1 month of the con con- con conflict filet the tho country Is not visibly any iny nearer n D settlement of the th coal strike Arthur J 1 Cook and Herbert I h-I- hISmith II H Smith th the thO miners miner leaders declare they sIl 11 resIgn rather than thian make concessions to toward to- to towar toward ward war 1 an hour eight day although both now admit the possibility of discussing some somo omo reduction In wages Meanwhile the effect of the stoppage on Industry Is beginning to assume grave Brave proportions Fac- Fac Factories Fac Fae Factories tories and work shops of o all nil kinds ore oro closing down dally daily News News- Newspapers papers Newt papers like liko every other industry are aro suffering se owing to the Iho discontinuance of n advertising 1 Time Tho proprietor of ot one ono of the Lon London Lon Lon- London London don dailies dallies told the tho writer that the strike had bad already resulted Ina In ina II a loss of ot business amounting to toI I It i Is la estimated 1 that the defeat of Cook will cost the th country not less than the Doer Boer war coil cott Incidentally the eov I disclosure of o correspondence l co be be- be between tween be tween tween Moscow and British com communists com com- I show ebow how bow trivial trl are aro the of oC th the tho movement here Cook represents an fraction traction of ot tin labor the labor movement but the Influence alice ence of that fraction on the tho ma- ma machino machine ma machine chine chino Is entirely out of proportion to Its numbers to it methods of working anti anil the Iho fear of the tho moderates openly to fight the extremIsts extremist The most Interesting parliamentary parliamentary tary Incident of oC the week Is h I the tho rejection by the house of lords of permission to peeresses In their own right to sit In that chamber Last year the th proposal was de- de defeated de defeated 1 by only two votes but this week the tho die hard called II a halt I and came clIme to the tho defense of ot th the I sex privilege to the tir last litt la t ditch I and defeated the tho bill by 45 41 votes I Lord Astor whoso wife was the first woman ever elected 1 to com com- commons commons com com- mons men mad made an appeal for tor the admission of ot women to the upper house houe In spite spit of the th coal strike the London season cason Is I not visibly af- af af affected although the th theatrIcal orld Is complaining of ba bad 1 busi busl busi- busi business business ness an and 1 a halt half dozen Important theatres are aro ar closing It Is al al- al 01 that the tho main cause cau o of ot the slump Is the Iho flooding o of the mar mar- market let ket with American plays and plays on the tho sex problem with whIch the public Is I becoming r bored There Is plenty of oC demand for something oft off this dreary line all and 1 Ruth Draper Is f filling the tIme Gem Gar Garrick Gemrick rick Gar rick nightly hUy unaided simply by bythe bythe the attraction of ot her ber sprightly sketches Suzanne Lenglen has hIlS provided the tho customary sensation at the tho great Wimbledon tennis meet Avast A Avast Avast vast company Including the Queen assembled Wednesday e to see seo her lIer play She Sho did not appear and sent no explanation The whole andI I lay was ruined by the tho complete disarrangement of the tho program I and her subsequent explanations andI I were vere confused contradictOry and unsatisfactory When 1 Mile lenglen appeared Thurs Thursday the she was 1 In stony tony silence and for tor n IL tim time It was doubtful whether he woul would 1 fulfill l her engagements as ns her defeat In the doubles by Eliza Ellza- Elizabeth Ellzabeth Elizaboth beth both nan and Mary Browne Brown was WL followed by a II fainting lit tit The Tho impression prevails that the th un- un Unexpected un unexpected expected bold fight flint put up by Miss lIss Brown rO n against her in the tho I singles was not unconnected with what followed One wonders what will w happen when Suzanno Suzanne comes a real cropper Much criticism has hM ha been direct direct- directed directed ed e 1 against th the managers for tall tall-Ing f fail fail- failing ing to eliminate Mile Mlle Lenglen on her non appearance without ex explanation ex- ex as os would have been done In the case cas of any other player It Is 19 unlikely that the interests of the tho ho great tournament will 1 be allowed to ho bo Imperiled 1 a again aln by bythe bythe bythe the vagaries of one performer however howe eminent I I A great depression reigns In Sn the English golf colt world at ot tile the lie poor display made ma by the tho leading ex cx exponents ex- ex exponents of the tho earn game against the American crack players In till the British open championship Front the Iho tart the tho Americans went away first In II a a bunch of a n half hair dozen an and 1 kept the th lead without fear of oC o challenge the th tournament resol ln resolving Itself Into a struggle Among Bobby Jones Wal Walter Wal- Wal Walter al ter Hagon and an 1 Al At A Watrous for I first posItion Jones Jone wonderful feat In the preliminary rounds made him a II favorite from th the be beginnIng ginnIng the Ibe result justified this confidence The Tho character of corn com com comment ment on the event Is In Illustrated by the London Stars Star's Star dc description The rhe first American champion champion- championship championship championship ship In played England From rom disasters disaster and humiliation In tennis and on 1 golf w we 0 turn to I the tho greatest popular event of the tho ear car the tho test match between en Eng Eng- England England England land and an 1 Australia Australla which began beRan Sund Sunday y for tho the cricket champion champion- championship championshIp championship ship The Th Interest In hi this Is phenomenal owing to the Ih sue sue- successIon uc cessIon of o victories for A Australia both In lit and Australia |