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Mr. Lammert, said the Hongkong Telegraph, has been a member of the V. R. C. since 1888 and well remembers the time when the club's headquarters were behind the present substantial site.
The Committee's ambitions grew so large that fresh pastures were looked for, and we find that Kowloon was the scene of the club's activities for a few years. They had become comfortably installed there when the destructive typhoon of September 1906 severely damaged the clubhouse, boats, etc., In fact, added Mr. Lammert humorously, all we saved was half a tub.
Those days were before the reclamation was completed, and during the cricket season some inconvenience was experienced for the cricket balls appeared to take a liking for the water.
Ten years ago (1899) the club took over the management of the annual athletic sports, and since then some memorable days have been spent.
Mr. Lammert is a gentleman to whom the committee can always go for guidance, and it is no doubt due to his energies that the club occupies so prominent a place at the present day.
He is an old "sport" and follows the doings of the club in all its branches, as only a secretary can.
May 25, 1909, was the day on which the club was installed in its present commodious quarters and since then it is a pleasing to record that the membership of the club and the interest taken by its members have increased in no small way, and there can be no doubt as to its future.
A very big scheme is being contemplated at the present, that of building proper baths at the front of the existing site. It is estimated that $20,000 will be required, but there seems little doubt, that next year the swimming enthusiasts will be able to have a "dip" in a clean and sanitary pond.
The silver jubilee of the V.R.C. was celebrated on June 10, 1909, with a water fete in the afternoon and a smoking concert at night. These functions were well attended and were highly successful both from a monetary and social point of view.
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And now after three days of legal argument "I turn to the Royal and Ancient game of Golf and its association with the Colony.
On November 23, last year, the history of the various golf clubs in Hongkong was published. It was then shown that the game was first played at Happy Valley about the autumn of 1888.
The Hongkong Golf Club originally had its quarters under the Mace Course grandstand. Its next home was in a mat-shed but when this was found inadequate for the calls made upon it, the Hongkong Golf Club applied to the Government for a site for a permanent Club House. The application was granted and on March 1896, the first real home of the Club was formally opened by Commodore Boyes in the presence of a number of Club members and their friends. The designs for the building were prepared by Mr. E. A. Ram...
In reporting the opening of the new Club House, the Hongkong Telegraph had this to say of the events leading up to its erection and opening: Started about six years ago by a few gentlemen,
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