Sportsman.

Samoans Stone Tongan Sportsman.

Ugly Scene at Apia Wharf.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Apia, Oct. 2.

BY the last “Waipahi,” the team of Tongan footballers who had played several matches against Fijian teams, arrived to play a match against a selected team of Samoan footballers, who had been training in camp for the preceding two weeks.

The Tongans, who had been unlucky in Fiji, were more successful in Samoa, beating the local team by 15 to 9.

In a boxing match between a Tongan heavyweight and the local heavyweight champion, Kilifi, the latter was given the decision on a foul in the third round, though the Tongan was by far the superior fighter. In a second heavyweight bout, the Tongan, Visa

vaka, knocked out the Samoan, Paulo, in the third round.

The Samoans showed a deplorable lack of sportsmanship when, after the boxing bouts, the Tongans returned to the wharf to embark on the “Waipahi.”’

A large crowd of Samoans booed and stoned the Tongan sportsmen, appar ently resenting the Samoan defeat, and police had to be requisitioned to pro tect the Tongans from serious assaults.

The world lost one of its greatest benefactors with the death of Ronald Ross, whose researches resulted in the discovery that the female anopheles mosquito was the carrier of the dreaded micro-organisms responsible for mal aria, a scourge which has destroyed many great nations. Ross’s discovery made possible counter-measures and to-day a considerable portion of the world formerly malaria-stricken has

been freed from the curse. In the In dian Medical Service this brilliant scientist was long reckoned something of a crank; how he triumphed over pre judice and ignorance is one of the romances of Science. But his material rewards were scanty. Though he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902 and was given several Government ap pointments there was little money in them.