THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1925.
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st Godown No. 3 Lower, The Hongkong & Kowloog Wharl & Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon
250 Camps Window Ging (Sizes:--14 20, 16 x 94, 18 x 26, 20 x 30, 22 x 3, 26 x 36 and 32 x 42)
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TUESDAY, 5th May, 1923.
at 2:48 p.
at No, 109, The Penk
A Quantity of
Valuable Hongshold Farniture. Comprlaing--.
Toak Halatand, Book Cases Fire Brasses, Tesk Overrusatul Brave Ornaments, Carpets, Rugs, Curiospelo.j
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Teak Dining Table: Chairs, Teak Bidaboard Dinner Waggno, Dianer Crockery, Ice Chest, etc., etc.,..
Tosk Single and Double Bedsteads, Iron Single and Double Bedatonda, Jouble Wardrobes with Bavelled Mirror Doors, Dreaming · Table, Markslo Top Washatand, Chest of Drawers, Block. wood Majong Table, etc., më.
Also
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Que Pisao, by Thekrana »
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THE
WORLD
GILLIGAN'S HOPES.
KANGAROO SHOWN NOT INVINCIBLE,
PROSPECTS FOR 1926.
The English skipper, Mr, Arthur Gilligan, as he appeared on bourd the P. and O. liner Colombo in the company ef his team mates, hardly presented the appearance of a captain of a team that had failed to recover the
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"Axhes."
Talking about the tour the English captain remarked that it had been, a most enjoyabla and profitable one, despite the fagt that the results of the Tests did not turn out to be altogether
favourable to the tourists..
"But," said Mr. Gilligan, "we have at last broken the spell of continuous defeats and shown the public that Kangaroo is not altogether invincible. I think we have no reason to be ashamed of ourselves. I need not grumble
source
CHINA MAIL.
OF
THE BEST FIELDING.
SPORT.
"Where did you enjoy any superiority?"
LAWN TENNIS
THE DAVIS CUP IN 1925.
LON THE OBSERVER'S CORRESPONDENT, }|
UL other
was affected by rain Kilner bowled extremely well, but on good wickets he was not great. although he could worry the bats- men with his persistently good length and variations. Hearne al times bowled very well, Tyldesley, somehow, never repro- daced his English form. He could not spin the ball enough.playpes of all, nations the Duris To the younger lawr, tennis think Australia have found a Cap competition is animily be treat bowler in Grimmett." ming more and more the great
"What is he ko?"
"event" of the year. Not that to "He is a short man, like our fach ation its own championship Freeman, and bowls with a meeting does not still representa peculiar round arm action. Lut heat of vital interest; but the in- enn flight them very deceptively rational character of the com and spin a lot. He was certainly pottion for the Davis Cup tends⚫ the bowler who troubled us most to make each nation interest to of all. He ought surely to have see how its own champions will played in the earlier Texts. I am fare against those afraid he will be very successful countries. on English wickets. Gregory has 1 is a far cry in 2000, when lost a lot of his pace. In 1921 he the first Davis Cip battle was was really fast and difficult to fought out between Haglund and play." On this tour our best bats-America. At that time. these Mailey was as good as ever and a contries that, played. iawn tennis men played him confidently, we practically the only two
Australia. There was no one dog, but it has had a development of great strength to seriously. It was small begin- else really great among the rest." that is little short of amazing. that the luck was not more often
Even in that land of vision, the with us than it was, but think I am justified-in saying that con
of the cup, the players in that first U.S. of America, could the donor sidering everything we did well
I think it was undoubtedly in ntch, or y of the few.onlookers We had a magnificent opening
our fielding. Everyone is agreed ve dared to insugine that twenty- pair of letsmen in Hobbs, and Sutcliffe. I doubt whether Eng that finer fielding has not been five years later, instead of two: land ever had or ever will have a
seen in Australia. As a team we lower than twenty-six would he natious fighting for the cup, no finer pair. They bore a tremen-fielded far more safely than our dous burden for us and exaupt in opponents, some of whom were engaged in the contest for it?
But that wonderfi! sinte slow and below international the last Tel gave us a wonder-
standard. The ful start. Hobbs, so the, Austrit
things has con to-pass. Australians lian cricketers told me, was móre
realised that, think some ofs of the twenty-tive challeng sedate than on previous tours.
these well-tried old champions tous were drawn at But he has lost tffe of his old will drop out of the national side vietor among which will have Washington on Wednesday ligt, the Australian team Andrews and meet the Cited States in the in the next series of Tests.
the right-a rather forkuru right the value of his influence on Sutcliffe, who proved an admiralor were really wonderful Challenge Round in September. able pupil of the master. And if fieldsmen. He has improved For convenience sake the opi Hobbs was wonderful what can I treinendously since his last visit petition is nowadays divided into say of Sutcliffe? Surely super-
fo England. Andrews is also an ave, zones, European and Ameri- latives are not out of place in improved player, I did not see, the winning countries in cach speaking of his work for us. For too much of Kippax, but I believe or playing one another for the a batsman making his first ap. he will be a success in England. right to elitet this Challenge pearance is Australia, on strange Oldfield kept remarkably well. Bound. wickets in a strange light, amid but I think and so do all good drawn in the Europe and nine in Sixteen countries are strange surroundings, he surpass critics that in Strudwick we have the American Zone. Vigtery in the ed all previous achievements and the best wicket-keeper in the former should evenly go either set up a record that truly world. He did better than he had to England or to France, but these believe will not be beaten, at least ever done before."
two countries are in the same half- "Has Warren Bardsly gone off of the thaw, "and if play does uos, in my time. He has truly realised the greatest expectations
as a batsman?"
helie reputation, bonil meet in h "I do not think so. He played the semi-final round. The winner of those good judges of the
Kame
of the best innings I saw will probably "neet and defeat who a few years ago predicted one that the Yorkshireman would take played against us That was in India in the final round of the Hobbs's place in time to come.
the first N.S. Wales match when European part of the contest, His temperament was of the rare
he scored a century. I still think Those who may rub their eyes at he will be in the next Australian finding kind that one associated only with
India playing in the team, especially as he is at his "European" zone ung be informed master batsmen. He really was
best on English wickets. He is that every cuntry has a free choice
SHOEMAKERS. brilliance. One cannot estimate
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BATTING TAIL. "In what respect then were men inferior to the Australians?"
your
lish
be but he is by no means a weak Most of India's representatives feldsman."
will be in this vanity during the "What do you think of Eng-summer, so that it is, in any case, land's prospects for the next more convenient for them to play series of Tests?" "I think our batting tail was
on this side of the Atlantic. ne "Of course, that is not easy tone reason accounts for Spain ap-1 our weak point. The Australians say at this early date as the next wearing the draw for He time after time Showed, us what set of Tests will be played a year American
formidable tail they had.
zone, because Manoel Some of our batsmen never got far better in England when the for some time just been living in hence; but I feel,sure we shall do Alonso, Spain's best player, lus really going in Australia. But Australians come over. We shall the U.S.A. Spain, indeed, ought this is no hew thing for Eng- have a wider field of selection to go to the fhal of the American
cricketers in Australia. and on our own wickets I think zone, but there should be a good; Great players, like G. P. Jessop, we have the bowlers who will beat buttle between Australia and Japa and N. F. Druce in years gone by the Australian bowlers. never reproduced their English have not unearthed any new rather in favour of Australis. They in the other half, with "the "odds förm in Australia. Sandham talent except, Grimmett, whereas When the zone winners meet it failed to do so. Only towards the I think England has a good many will surprise most people if the close was the batting tolerably promising young bowlers who two competing nations do not tura. well Chapman, too, never really have not yet played in Tests. realised expectations as 'n pats-think the last series of Tests have But everybody would be ch I out to be France and Australia. not shown English cricket to dis- more surprised if the winner of Personally I could never get advantage. Candidly there was these to any other) two were going on the Australian wickets. very little between the two sides, be successful in the Challenge They were not as fast as we were Australia deserved their success Road against the U.S.A.: less, told they would be, except in they reason of their more uniform inleed, the councils of the holders last Test, when the pace at the strength in batting." start of our innings beat and sur-
selcction committee should be form prised us. The wickets seemed to
by internecine quarrels, or its, deci- fail to meet the support of its lack fire and we did not have the
players or its public. bowlers who could spin the ball as much as the Australians did. Had our later batsmen profited by the splendid starts given them. by Hobbs and Sutcliffe we should have done far better than we
mar.
did."
80.
I
Were the Australians stronger in bowling than you were?"
TATE'S BOWLING. "should not say think. and so do the Austra lians, that in Tate we had the best bowler in the world. He has a great heart indeed and with a little more luck he could have had o far greater record. I think the Australian batsman generally more unorthodox than. ours. Most of them do not wield n very straight bat and playing with a cross bat to Tate is fatal. He was tremendously fast off the pitch and he worried even their
SPORTING CROWDS. "What can you say of the Australian public and your recep- tion in Australia?"
to
"We shall never want to play before a more fair-minded crowd. They were most enthusiastic and OLYMPIAD EXPENSES. impartial. They were just as happy when Hobbs or Sutcliffe The travelling expenses, of the got a century as when one of their party of 157 Japanese sportsmeh own men did so, and when we beat taking part in the 7th Far Easter them at Melbourne we could not Olympic games to be held in the have had a more cordial recep- Philippines in May this year will tion. I think our team
were he met by a grant from the Foreign where in Australia, and the tour tion, though the Jupan Physical extremely well treated every Office al Department of Educa has been an unqualified success Education Society Fuch Depart- | - in this respect, that it has ment has allotted Y.34,000. strengthened the ties that bind the Australians to the Mother Country." We could not have wished for a better reception anywhere."Timea of Ceylon,"
BOY M'CORMICK.
Boy M'Cormick, he
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POLO
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THE BARNES CUPS,
The Singapore Polo Club's American tournament for cruiser Barnes Cup has concluded.
The result was a win for O team,
Woodruffe, Mr. Manassch and Twelve contests have been ar- Cap Shackel. beaten and bowled and then he ranged for him in Canada. Ha would get the ball away in a expressed the hope that he would lucky manner. Really I was not meet Gibbons in a return match. impressed by Ponsford. T'do not
instance, Ponsford was lucky to Halifax on the White Star. liner composed of Lieut. Bourke, Major
score his first century at Sydney. Cedric. Time after time he was morally,
think he will be a success in Eng- land. I may be wrong, but
unless he strengthena bis defence
SWIMMING.
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