WEDNDAY, OCTOBER, 1, 1924.
"CRICET” INTERPORT.
HONGKON(SOUNDLY THRASHED AT NCIENT SPORT.
LOSS F PIG AND CAKES.
(Bai Ming for the China Mail.) Hongkong's dignin competi-six candareens-and they all step tive interport cont has been on the scales--would be classified seriously affronted News has as the heavies; from 5 to 6 just come from Mathat at the candareena, the welters; 5 to 51% interesting sport crickets" the lights; and under 5 the Hongkong's reprejatives did bantams. However, it should be In mentioned that tenth of a not gain a singlectory, matches for "sipast pigs," candareen is a material difference. "one roast pig" andousands of With age-all captive cricketa die cakes," Canton amacao" won overy every time.
INTERPORT CRICKET,
THIE CH
STRONG OPPOSITION, FROM MALAYA.
ALL THE TALENTS?
IRAQ
TURKS STEEL TRESPASS.
(Reuter's Service.
LOTTERIES
SIX CHINESE FINED.
Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon - Magistracy - this LONDON, September 30, morning, seven Chinese man were Reuter's Agency is informed charged with running a lottery Hongkong can look forward to that the situation at Iraq ap
at No. 205, Shanghai Street.
The first defendant admitted, strong opposition from both Shanghai and Malaya in "the pears to be that the Turkish troops that he was temporarily in charge are still within the boundary of of the cancern during the absence cricket interport to be held in the Mosul village. They have of the owner in the country, and November after Armistica Day. burned some vilayet. No offensive was fined $100 or two months' Shanghai's list of probables has has been taken by British aero hard labour $100 of two already been published and below planes since September 24 except will be found what we shall have where the aeroplanes were first to look forward to from our fired on.
Meantime both sides have established a line on which they southern opponente
are not likely to clash,
It is believed Lord Thomson is at Mosul.
ACTION AT GENEVA!
Five of the others said that they
the business and were fined $10 or 14 days' hard labour each.
were helping the first defendant in
was
The seventh defendant discharged with a caution. He stated that he is the principal tenaut and he had been away for a considerable time in the country. and left instructions to his aunt to let the vacant cubicle to any bae,
The first defendant only became who wanted to hire it a tenant of the cubicle a few days. ago and withess knew nothing about his calling.
Malaya Probables. The "China Mail" is indebted to Mr. L. S. Greenhill, honorary winter the gladiators secretary to the H.K.C.C. for the
following: become hardened and accustomed
I have received a letter from
GENEVA, September 30; At the Council Meeting, at Let it be stated i the battles to the limelight. A novice can' Were not fought onssy pitches always be detected by an under-Singapore dated September 24 in with bat and ball,Members of growth of fur around his neck, which the following names are which the Mosul Committee was the insect fraterr known as "his" because only the male given of those who are practical appointed, Low Parmoor said fresh certainties in the Malaya team due information showed the frontier here In November
situation was precarious. He em "erickets" were tcombatants species fight. and it is surprisingit they can Trainers get together, closcly
G. M. Brand, N. Grenier, J. D.phasised there must be no distur- put our prizefighted shame by scrutinising their rivals' stock and Hussey, E. W. N. Wyatt, NH. P. bance. He gave a solemn under being able to wagbattle royal matches Are made. Betting Whitley, R. T. Fisher, P. N. taking on behalf of the British unceasingly, and fupwards of language extends only to cakes Knight, Flight Lieut. Livock, Government in this connection. $100 per 1,000 and roast pigs 100 Lieut. R. A. Phayre, R.G.A. and Fethi Bey gave similar assurance. trels per carcase-
Lieut. F H Thompson (Royal It was announced both parties will
share the cost of investigation by a REGIMENTAL TOURNAMENT, Sussex Regt.).
special committee,
At Murray Barracks, on Satur- Surrey day night, the East Regiment are holding a boxing tournament.
an hour.
Like the pony drs from up North so the crickealers bring down 'their caps in the summer, from thorth River, for sale in Hongki Canton and
Масло.
Great Battlers.
A cricket fight between the elite of the species is well worth seeing. With their massive teeth interlocked and their feelers con- Careful Ting.
tinually infringing the Marquis of That cricket fight has become queensbury's ruling, they peg an art is evid from the way at one another sometimes elaborate system f training jumping two feet clear of the undergone to potential receptacle. gladiators up the scratch.
Bull-dog features in the head Items such as rrect diet, stimulants, canvadding at the and neck, body, like a race-horse bottom of the eenware jars and a firm grip with the two legs used as "stalls" The warriors, and four feelers are the main attributes of a good fighter. Faith are only trifles in whole game, is often placed in freak-coloured All the big ownemploy expert trainers who withw assistants specimens while those supposed to do nothing but terickets for have originated from snake-holes ure very precious. As much as $100 is paid for a likely looking recruit and even $500 has changed hands for a victor in the Macro jousts.
-months.
Before the Make Festival (which occurred it a fortnight ngo) eliminationtests took place to weed othe small fry and it is the and trusty survivors who proved their mettle that areought "to the Mecca of cricketers, Macao. The "Poooms,"
"I' are prepared Every year, in a big house, bicle for each "jouat." Here matchmakers get busy as thiouse" gets small percentapf the bets, giving in returntably inscrib- ed banners to thumphant.
"Bouts are for in ordinary Chinese woodensh-basins and two brush-referuct as judges
Hongkong Routed,
The Last Visit.
For purposes of comparison the team which beat Hongkong just on time by 35 runs in a sensational match is given. On that occasion
SHARE QUOTATIONS.
Messrs. Joseph Gould & Co. November, 1920- Hongkong kindly supply the following share beat Shanghai, lost to Malaya and quotations ruling on the Shanghal then Shanghai evened matters upmarket this morning: by defeating Shanghai. Malaya's team then comprised:-
F. J. H. Caryl (Singapore), A. A. Claxton (Singapore), N. Grenier (Perak)N. A. M. Griffin (Singapore), Major PH Ganner (Singapore), Dr. H. P. Hennessy (Selangor), A. E. Holman, Brown (Selangor), Dr. W. W. Martin (Penang), H. O. Mitchell (Singa- pore), V. E. H. Rhodes (Selangor), E. J. Riches (Singapore) and L. A. Tucker (Singapore).
Of the previous team, only Norman Genier is included this time. In 1920 he partnered E. J. Riches in a first wicket stand On Sunday all the crickets from which paved the way to Malaya's the different. Hongkong stables big score in the first innings. were routed. Their owners and Although Grenier only made 10, trainers have returned minus he batted very well but he did not their cash; their protégés have break, his "duck" in his second been abandoned as a defented venture as he succumbed to a cricket is liberated, able to sing, catch in the slips by the Hancock- but never to fight again since one Bird combination. defeat has numbered its days as a scrapper.
Certainly it is a case of the Burvival of the fittest. Those which remain undefeated when the season ends with the cold setting It is their busi by means of in, will have earned for their special brushes, ad one cricket masters, more than their weight against the othed in this much in platinum and are, accordingly, skill is displayečach judge has honourably pensioned off. two husky secowho sprawl un. My informant ends his story
Grenier is dazzling, if not quite infallible, as third man and his work in the outfield is exemplary so Hongkong batsman should look out,
Apropos his interport record, my colleague "Argus" tells me that they both played in their first interport match in 1899-Perak v. Selangor when they turned out for the former state. Grenier was was busy about his playing in short pants but he obtained the. pants and incidentally made a lot of runs and shone in the field.
either side of table to give with a reference to a red-blooded a lad of about 16 or 17 and gossip their chief elboom in the big cricket he possessed last year, a crowd.
bantam, which sang to "beat the band" and fought opponents much
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Classing Fighters. bigger than himself (the cricket.) Matching issually made This year he attributes his bad according to we and maturity. loss to carelessness on the part of A tael is equo 11⁄2 ounces lone of his assistants in leaving n avoirdupois. Ae is a tenth of window open and thereby letting a tael; a canda a tenth of a his charges.catch cold. mace. Crickeveighing over luck next time, Hongkong.
BRUTALTTACK.
ABSAULT COTORISTS
A
IN TESIN.
REAPING IS USED.
The many fn of Mr. R. P. Sanderson, the jlar secretary of
Better
"SPARE THE ROD.".
CHINESE SCHOOLMAS. TER'S ALLEGED BEATING.
MOTHER AND BON..
Wyatt has visited Hongkong before, sometime round 1907. Un- lesa he has been confused with somebody of the same name he is likely to prove a more-than-useful left-handed bowler. The person referred to has for many years been Selangor's bowling mainstay. Other Visitors.
Lleut. Phayre is either a Wool wich or Sandhurst man and has played in Army representative matches. According to ramour, Lieut. Thompson of the Sussex Regiment is a very fine bat.
Without the initials one cannot be too sure of Livock but "Wisden" gives the name of a Mr. G. E. Livock who kept wicket and scored 12 not out and O for Lord Cowdray's XI. v. the Best of Eng- land at Hastings in September last year. As Lord Cowdray has been, or is, President of the Air Board and Livock is a Flight Lieutenant, the implication is that G. E. Livock and Lieut. Livock is one and the same man.
Chastisement administered to a the Tientein Blub, will learn boy, thirteen years of age, resulted with sorrow andignation that in a prosecution before Mr. R. E: when he was ring with the Lindsell at the Police Court this inatron of the sin hospital on morning when Mr. A. R. Cavalier Monday evening and his com
brutal of the Education Department at panion were he of a assault. The uieting news is tended to watch a case in which contained in ttllowing Reuter schoolmaster at a vernacular school message:-
Tientsin, Bel0.-Mr. R. P. No. 20, Graham Street, was Sanderson, sedy of the Race alleged to have ill-treated his pupil. Club. and Misaenport, matron Detective Sub-Inspector Cotton "of the Victor fospital, ware was in charge of the Police case
brutally assaultst night by five coolies when ing on the out ad Mr. E. 8. C. Brooks defended. It was stated that the boy com
At first glance, I thought that fled on the app of another car.plained to Mr. Cavalier, after be Both victims wemoved to hoe had beszi punished, and in conee Hussey may have been Hennessy pital serious injured. Mr.
quence Mr. Cavalier visited the but the initials" are different. Sanderson washed by reaping school together will a Chinese Hennessy's analyses for the last hooks.
school inspector. The boy said match with Hongkong were 4 for that he had been hit on the head, 24 and 5 for 66, bawling un- face, on the fingers and elsewhere. changed (28 overs) in the second He admitted that he had played innings.
skirts of Tien The attackers
TYPHOO ABOUT. TWO WANGS FROM MLA.
The Amé Consulate General is in bt of two cables from the Man bservatory this
morning.
H. O. Mitchell who had a good deal to say in finishing off Hong- kong's second innings by virtue of two or three catches at square leg will not be coming. He is a brother of E. J. R. Mitchell and is Home on leave.
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tement and that his mother had Hongkong would certainly liked admitted having chastised him to have seen E. J. Richen included with a feather duster before hand-s he la considered to be one of the ing him over to the teacher for best all-rounders to have come up further punishment.
Evidence Of Mother.
from the South. However, only ten names are given in the list received by Mr. Greenhill In Cross-examination of the
Local enthusiasts should re- mother, who gave evidenie, Mr member that the first interport Brooks suggested that she caused trial takes place on Saturday and The first re
the boy's injuries. The mother that if the nets are put up to Typhoon inat 142 Long. E, replied that the teacher told her tonight we shall see most of our 13. Lat. Noving NNW any so at first but she now best players in action. Cyclone or tyn E of Luzon, the truth which was that the in- more than miles, distant, juries had been caused by the
diwction unk
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teacher
-W. P. C.
“A doctor's certificate was pro= | | ' Cyclone of hoon S.E. of duced; but Bts Worship insisted on telegram from.
attendance and under to-day's date, states Meldcosimoving E.N.B. the botera Typhoon in 145 Long. B. adjourned beading till noon on Zanni, the Argentinian filer and 1r. Lat.Having N.W.
thern this morning for Shanghál
Monday naxk
Tis.
BOXING
fa addition to the regimental finals, there will be a contest between Browning of the Royal Artillery and Bowles of the East Surreys, both new boxers to the Colony and between Privates Pooley and Grant of the Surreys. The former boxed well in the
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