Western Mail Friday April 23rd 1926. There are thirty entries in the Welsh section qualifying round for the £1,200 professional tournament, to be played Newport on Wednesday next. Seven will qualify for the final stages at St. Andrew's The draw resulted as follows. E. KENYON (Creigiau) and S. HILL (Ystrad Mynach). R. STEVENSON (Ashburnham) & A. BENNETT (Aberystwyth). J. HORN (Holyhead) and F. BOWEN (Aberdare Valley). F. BENNETT (Oakwood Park) and T.W. JONES (Llandudno). G. WELDEN (Monmouth) and H. SKILTON (Bangor). J.W. HARRISON (Howells) and J. SHARRATT (Bridgend). T.E. GRANT (Tenby). and E. BRADBEER (Southerndown). J.W. MILNER (Royal Porthcawl) and A. BREESE (Wrexham). C.S. MORIN (Rhos-on-Sea) and Gus FAULKNER (unattatched). G. WILLIAMS (Newport) and A. GAINEY (Tredegar Park). A.S. MOSES (Morlais Castle) and J. MUSTY (Borth). B. HUDSON (Newport) and R. WALKER (Cardiff). A. ATKINSON (Pontnewydd) and W. MOSES (Abergavenny). W. HILL (Langland Bay) and W. IVORY (West Monmouthshire). D. HILL (Aberdare) and Victor KNIGHT (unattatched). Fined £20 at the previous court, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment, in respect of a charge of keeping a betting-house, Thomas MEREDITH, of Pentre-road, Mardy, told the bench on Thursday that he had made up his mind to serve a term of imprisonment in respect of a portion of the fine. He explained he had been given a week in which to make his mind up whether to pay or to serve time, and he decided to do the time. Superintendant J.L. REES stated that £9.9s.6d. of defendant's money was in the hands of the police. After deducting this from the amount of the fine there would be a sentence of six weeks' imprisonment to serve in respect of the balance. Defendant thereupon elected to do the six weeks, and he was removed into custody. No fresh evidence was called at the inquest at Pontypool on Thursday on William Thomas JONES 59, collier, of The Tranch, Pontypool, who died after receiving a blow outside a public-house late on the night of Saturday, April 3. George WALKER 53, another collier, who has already been committed to the assizes charged with the manslaughter of JONES, was present. The evidence given conformed with that given before the magistrates. Dr. James Fleming said the cause of death was a rupture of an aneurism of the aorta. Replying to the deputy-coroner (Mr. W.Pitt LEWIS), witness said that but for the blow JONES would not have died. There was present however, a thickening of the walls of the great vessel leading to the heart and the rupture might have occurred ultimately. The blow and the fall accelerated the rupture. The jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter" against WALKER. A St. Dunstan's car, driven by John Nicholas TURNER was proceeding along Church-place, Porthcawl, at a moderate rate on Thursday when a private motor-car collided with it at the Junction of Victoria-avenue. The St. Dunstan's car was badly damaged, the driver sustaining shock and bruises. After medical treatment by Dr. PEARSON, however, he was able to proceed home. A mother's disapproval of the attentions paid by Stanley CROFT, a labourer, of Mount Pleasant, Porth, to her sixteen-year-old daughter was described at Porth, on Thursday, when Ceridwen O'BRIEN summoned CROFT for using improper language towards her. Complainant said that she had asked defendant whether he was going to leave her little girl alone, and he then used the words complained of. CROFT had been keeping company with her girl, and when she was fifteen years of age he took her away to his own home. Mr. David SENWICK (from the bench): Does she go with him? Mrs. O'BRIEN: I cannot stop her, but she is only sixteen and he is a man of 25 and ought to have more sense. Defendant, who denied using bad language, was bound over in the sum of £10 and strongly advised by the chairman (Dr. Glanville MORRIS) to keep away from the girl. Thomas FRANKLIN, described by his wife as a bookmaker, admitted in the Cardiff Stipendiary's Court on Thursday that at one time he was looked upon as one of the best dressed men in Cardiff. "I am not now" he added. FRANKLIN appeared in answer to a summons issued at the instance of his wife.Lena FRANKLIN, who asked for a variation of a maintenance order. Applicant was represented by Mr. Barnett JANNER. Mrs. FRANKLIN said that she was at Ely races last Easter Monday and she saw her husband "making a book." He appeared to take quite a lot of money. Defendant answered this allegation by saying that he was backing with someone else's money. His practice was to go to the race meetings on the off chance of getting a job as clerk. The Stipendiary increased the order to 15s. a week in respect of the wife and 7s.6d. in respect of each of the two children. John Patrick ]