TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1927.
SPORTS
LOCAL HOCKEY.
FULL LIST OF GAMES FOR SEASON.
SOME GOOD OPPOSITION.
The following is the fixture Hat
FREDDIE WELSH.
THE "PETER FAN" OF BOXERS.
A FINE FELLOW..
LOCAL RUGBY
CLUB TEAMS TO MEET MILITARY.
THE CHINA MAIL,
TROUT FISHING.
SOUTHERN SEASON
FISHING.
A TEST IN AUGUST,
below the eddy! As it is, even if one can get the fly right under the eddy will pull the line away and bank where the, fish is lying, the make the fly drag. And the wind- la here down-stream, and the spikes of purple loose-strife and
BIG WHIRLWIND.
180 HOUSES DESTROYED IN PHILIPPINES.
were destroyed
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of the Hong Kong Hockey Club for says Hypo Igoe. One of the finest Akehurst, J. Raikes, Lieuthis trout-rod to Scotland it is his A cast is aimed too close to the tral Luzon, did considerable dam- Credits 4 months' sight 1295
the season which opens on Octo-
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1est Eleven.
Date Opponents Ground Time.
1927.
W.
No mat-
The
Oct. 6. H.K.S.R.A. U.S.R.C. 5,00 donth of a man who didn't have Stewart, A. G. Gordon, I. E. L. an August week-end on the Test time, to drift the fly lown to the towns of Cabanatuan, Santa Rosa,
12. Queen's Regt.
19. K.O.S.B.
26. 6/2 Punjabis.
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Dec. 7. K.O.S.B.
14. H.K.S.R.A.
1028.
21. Wanderers.
28. 5/2 Punjabia.
U.S.R.C. 4.45
Jan. 4. Queen's Regt.
11. Army (Sim Shield). 18. Navy (Sim Shield), 25. Army (Sim Shield)
Feb. 1. Navy (Sim Shield)
8. H.K.S.R:A.
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2nd Eleven.
In the bar-
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reede hang over the water, so that More than 150 houses, mostly of The folldwing XV, has been select-
one must cast loft-handed and light materials, ed to represent the Hong Kong
under-hand in order not to get by a whirlwind which passed Rugby Club against the Northamp The end of Southern trout-fish-caught up.".
through the town of Pasig, Rizal, tonshire Regiment at 5.15 p.m. on ing is near. After the beginning
Cast After Cast.
and the neighbouring barrlos. The Wednesday at Happy Valley: C. E. of August your Test expert doss Backhouse, A. E. Pritchard, R. F. not often go down to the river,
Cast after cast le made, without damage to property is estimated at Wright, M. D. Scott, G. Pad by the middle of the month, putting the fly close enough to the P8,000. Lammert, C. D. Wales, A. W. If he is lucky, he is away to the bank to cover the fish; each time The whirlwind, apparently born Chisholm Batten, T. L. Foster, R. North for other game. If he take the wind blows it back and out. of the typhoon which awapt cen- Freddie Welsh never grew up.)
second-best one, for an off-day on
to be hand-lined back. Macati and Pinagkaisahan. characters boxing ever produced. Keeley, Troyes, H. C. Williams, the Loch: for trout-fishing, as he and hand inevitably the my catches age to property in barrios Olympia, understands it, with its joys and he just couldn't get down to the R. N. Andrews and R. E. Leo.
The following will represent the thrills, is over for him till next till the fish rises. At last the fly lementary school of Macati was
falls right and comes down over importance of taking life seriously. He played hooky from respon-Club against the Northamptonshire season, writes a correspondent to the fish. But, alas! it drags bor among the buildings destroyed.
The Times.'
The province, of Nueva Ecija sibility right up to the closing days Regiment on Saturday at 5 p.m.:
But for those who are kept in ridly, and the rises cenes, of his eventful career. It is with C. E. Backhouse, B. W. Sampson, onun and has not tasted the ter. We go up above and wait till was hard hit by the typhoon. The feeling of the deepest sorrow M. G. Mills, A. W. Summers, R. L. cream of the year in Hampshire, try, with the wind behind us this destroying houses and crops in the the rings begin again. We will Pampanga 'river flooded its banks, that I find myself writing of the
Mackay, S. T. Jordain (Capt.), W. means two long days of happiness, fish. That means that the distance Alings and others. an enemy in all this wide world.
Men Worth while liked Freddie Beveridge, M. G. O'Connor, R. eagerly looked for and thoroughly must be calculated absolutely ex-rios of Aduas and Samon, Caba-
not expect too Welsh for his fairness, his ab- MacIntire, Llout. Wates, L. R. enjoyed. We do
actly, and the dy put above the Wo
of people fled Wire fish with enough line to uncoil natuan, hundreds solute honesty, his gentle charac- Billinghurst, M. D. Hoare and F. much in the way of trout.
know that there will not be much with the stream. If there is too from their homes to escape the ter, his gloriously boyish attitude L. P. Thomas.
rise all day-that most of the big much line the cast goes over the fury of the ranging flood. Hun- toward life.
fish have been caught or pricked, fish before the fly; if there is too dreds slept in trees and on roofs that the evening rise may be short, little, the cast straightens too soon of houses. or patchy, or never happen at all. and the fly drags it must be right Never mind, in early August. One the first time or the fish is put can still see to fish till 10 o'clock down. The worst occurs; the dis- at night nearly. And one can be tance is misjudged, the fly hanga on the water before 10 o'clock in and pulls, and the fish stops ris- the morning what more can the heart of man want? Lord Gray of The following gentlemen have Fallodon says somewhere that 18 been selected to represent Shang- hours' fishing is enough for any- hai in the forthcoming interport one's day but I have always Hubbard admired Welsh greatly. Lawn Bowls game to be played in found the day too short! In the boxer's splendid library are Hong Kong on or about October, 10. many valuable arst. copies of The team will leave Shanghai on Hubbard's best known works. One October 8 by the "Empress of Rus- Is a bound volume containing little
sia." scraps on which Hubbard jotted) down bright sayings as they flash- ed across his fertile brain.
He had one big dream in life after the loss of his lightweight title. That was to create the most celcbrated health farm. In the world.
He and Elbert Hubbard planned this farm. Long before Welsh ever; became champion he and the bard,
of Aurora had worked out the plans
for a somewhat different resort
where the rich and the poor could scek life's real treasure-health.
treasures.
LAWN BOWLS.
SHANGHAI INTERPORT
Perves.
TEAM.
Dificulties Great.
Ing.
We climb, heavily to our feet and walk up the bank to a plank some We cross 300 yards up-stream.
governments,
He added
AIRLINE TO U.S.”
PROPOSAL BY GOVERNMENT. OF MEXICO.
Mexico City, Sept. 11. Mexico is ready to institute air the river and turn down on the on-line service with the United States posite bank, through a jungle of vegetation (how good the wild as soon as an agreement is reached
the two mint smells in the warm sun), between and find ourselves opposite the Cosmo Hinijosa, postmaster general eddy instead of below or above It. of Mexico, said here. The reeds are high here growing that recent experiments had proved that Mexico had pitats and planes out of an evil mixture of mud and.
With the left foot on a for carrying mail and passengers water. tussock (the left gum-boot has a on long flights.-Associated Press. hole in the ankle) and the right the mud, we slowly sinking into smoke furiously to keep out the flies--the high reeds keep out any air-till we see the fish rise again. We have to raise the arm high while getting out the line, to clear the reeds, and to avoid a pollard willow dangerously near the right hand. But it is a good way across, and happily the trout, in his dark corner, does not see the rod wave and goes on rising. This time the distance is judged right, the fly falls gently on a reed that droops over the water and slips lightly on to the right place over the fish, there is a gleam in the dark cor. ner, a momentary resistance-and the fly comes back.
For, on the Test, there is always a fish to be found rising some- Mr. R. C. Allkenhead will cap you have
where, even in August, and even if to look long for him. tain the team and also skip. The difficulties are great, but all Messrs. T. G. Main will play No. the greater excitement in the ap- Bright Beautiful Record,
3; A. A. Malcolm No. 1; J.proach and the stalk. The river Little cards, cuffs, a menu card, Brierley No. 2; and J. E. Harvey is full of wild duck this year, and Pullman slips, pieces of maps, every and A. G. Borras will go as re- one promising, place was spoiled imaginable kind of make-shift note:
when a mother duck played the old paper he used to record the
game of a broken wing in order There is no doubt (says the "N. to decay, the fatruder away from thoughts as they came to him, All these ha compiled in a beautifully C. D. News") that the Shanghai her young family. She flapped bound book and gave to the boxer. team will give a good account. of down-stream, putting every trout This book was one of his many themselves, as they are a very down till the next bend, while her strong four, and should retain for Inte brood scuttled away up-stream Then, too, Hubbard had his Shanghai the cup and
into the reeds. This. is hardly a pennant workers at Aurora fashion into which we won last year.
normal hazard in trout-fishing-t Apart
is more to be expected, and a more permanent disability, that parts of bowl the river are shaved clear in the second weed-cutting: there is no act as need, now that fishermen are scarce, to leave uncut patches as cover for the trout. But without that cover the trout are extraor- dinarily wary. There, in the mid- Was the strike too soon or too dle of the stream, is a fish rising late? One will never know, and There isn't any question that!
steadily, visible 30 yards away, that fish is down for the day. But Freddie Welsh's death was brought;
We know it is hopeless, but put ait has given us infinite pleasure to By over him: as it falls he is off try our wits and skill against him about by his intense grief at loa-
A little higher he has driven all the worries of New York, Yesterday.
like a torpedo. ing his health farm. One of his estate
there is
a ring under the near fe out of our mind for a whole supposed friends, a real
Vincent Richard's won the first bank, above a swirling eddy, caus- hour and more.
We tell ourselves shark, tricked him so that the place American Professional title was sold over his head, even as he G.$1,000 by defeating
anded by a clump of cut weeds which (without conviction) that it is just Howard have stuck. on some obstruction as well he got away, and perhaps was making a desperate effort to Kinsey 11-9, 6-4, 6-3.-Reuter's projecting from the bank. A di- he was not a three-pounder after 10. 5/2 Punjabis King's P. 4.45 | rally his friends around him to 17. Y.M.C.A.
Only American Service.
cult place: if only the fish were all Hatlafy a mortgage claim.
Oct. 4. K.O.S.B. King's Park 5.00 great leather bound scrap books in from the interport game, there will
which Welsh pasted all the news be games played with all the paper stories of his career, from
11. Queen's Regt,
18. 5/2 Punjabis.
25. Queen's Regt.
8. H.K.S.R.A.
15:
Nov. 1. Tamar,
R.N.O.S.C.
22. Tamar
29. 5/2 Punjabis. Marina
Dec. 6. K.O.S.B. King's Park
1929.
13.
20. H.K.S.R.A. 27.
Jan. 3.
24.
31. H.K.S.R.A.
Feb. 7. Club de Recreio
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the beginning to the end. There ing clubs in Hong Kong.
Mr. J. E. Harvey will
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24. K.O.S.B.
Date. Opponents Ground
1927.
Oct. 7. Club de Recreio Knig's `
Park 5.15
14. 5/2 Punjabls.
21. University University, 28. --
is one story-the saddest in his
term on earth which he never will secretary to the team.
paste up. Even this little expres-
sion of my appreciation will never
find its way into the great books)
he so treasured.
two weeks ago he told me that Mayor Frank Hague and some, of his New Jersey friends were about
to make it possible for him to re-
TENNIS IN U.S.A.
PROFESSIONAL TITLE WINNER.
claim his beautiful place at Sum- an inch of the floor. Before night, it had touched the floor. Welsh
mit.
Shortly before that, he had ot and his patient kept the secret to the promise of another friend to themselves. They wanted their They come to the rescue. He was to little joke on the doctora. give Freddie $40,000 in cash to save kept on patiently with their experi his place. On the morning that ment.
Then one day, Welsh contrived Welsh was to call on him, this friend dropped dead of heart d to have all the doctors and the ease in his office. That is only a nurses meet in the big room where their patients lay. Welsh walked sample of the way things were breaking for this fine fellow of to the door and opened it and in late, He died dead broke. When walked the aviator, slowly, care- he had it, he tossed money into fully as a child just learning to
walk but walking! the four winds. There never was
such a thing as to-morrow in
:
It was the first time that any one
Time. Freddie Welsh's life. He lived as had known that army doctors had it came. When money rolled in hea hip hip hoorah in their systems. rode the crest of the wave like a They turned them loose in chorus the cats. King.
Laughing morning, noon with the fellows on and night, I can't recall his ever Welsh, with his great confidence so much as frowning. He had the in Nature, had shown them some finest nature of any men I've ever thing they said was impossible. met, in or out of boxing.
Feats With Lega. Doctors Startled.
There were A dozen Welsh startled the learned doc- young chaps in the hospital with tors with some of his feats of re- amputated legs. The doctors des- claiming at the Walter Reed Hos-paired of bringing those pitiful pital in Washington after the war. stumps back to anything like phy- One in particular was an individual sical fitness so that false limba triumph.
could be employed.. Welsh, under- young aviator had been took the job. brought down behind his own lines. He told me about it only the
Nov. 4. Y.M.C.A. King's Park 5.00
11. K.O.S.B.
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the legs with flying gasoline as he "I took them off by ourselves for! my first experiment of exercising creaked down.
they stood
In the end he was bed ridden. what was left of their lege. I lin- The burned muscles had contracted ed them up and as
there renting on their crutches, I
so that his left leg was drawn up told them that we were going to until it almost touched his knee. The doctors said that he never de stunts with those legs, just as Fab. 8. University. University 6.15 would walk again and advised am- If they had them. I told them to
10, 8/15 Punjabla. K. Park 6.00 | putation. Welsh always fought point their toes down toward the
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that decision, no matter how des- ground, the toes that weren't there perate the case. He asked permis- at all. Some of them laughed. I sion to treat the fellow. He began stopped that quickly. It was seri with a painstaking series of kneed- ous business with me. It was Ing and massaging. He worked strange, however, to ask a man to faithfully
those distorted point the toes of his left foot to- muscles until he found them beward the ground when there re- coming pliable under his expert mained only a stump close to his fingers. He got his man up on hip. But they caught the idea. Mentally, I Had them go through crutches. He got fashioned all possible evolutions with legs sort of long barred spur for the that were not there. I walked be patient's shoe. It extended from fore them and insisted that they his heel, straight out and into a kick my cap out of my socket at the end of this bar he hold it over my head. placed a lead shot, four times the only wish the rest size of a baseball world could have seen the earnest- This was done in order to create ness on their faces, as they tried and maintain a graduel, and con- to kick for distance. I worked stant bearing down pressure long and hard with them and we constracted-leg Inch by Inch, the got resultsLife came back to leg came down toward the floor. what they had left of legs. They Many long weeks did Welsh watch were developed so that walking that experiment, carefully adjust was made easy when artificial limbi ing the ball so that each day would were adjusted.
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the Second Division Ba Bleyer's foot to the floor Welsh was fered in hopelessness until a noble- certain that the muscles had, not man, among nurses came along:-24
beat Leeds by two goals to one.
A And it properly balanced for a fur tell this story lest we forget ther effort toward getting the fly that there was a war, that men suf-
ozid (will: probably forget
Walter Reed Hospi
ttish League match between been destroyed by the burning The
Aberdeen And St. Johnstone was wón być the former by four clear goals,
ctors shook that
* His heart beat, ast the day' that, boy fants adjustment" of in the weight 40
brought the man's tos; within half min
ddle Welsh. Not those
a genuine graf