WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1927.
YOUNG EARLAM.
A RISING DILLIARDS
PROFESSIONAL.
COMING CHAMPION.
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But when he played his series of two-weeks' games with Smith he had very frequently to remain seated for long periods, and it re- quires tremendous nerve to go to the table and play one's beat game after one's opponent has made a break of four or five hun- ter compilations. dred, to say nothing of still great-
FOOTBALL MINDS.
THE PLAYERS' GREATEST ASSET.
CRAZE FOR SPEED.
THE CHINA MAIL,
"PATSY" HENDREN.
AUSTRALIAN TALK ABOUT, CRICKETERS,
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NEXT ENGLISH TEAM..
"Patay" Hendren, who original- ly set out from London with the New Zealand cricketers, and who was carried ashore at Colombo rived at Fremantle a week or two with a bad attack of pleurisy, ar
for Adelaide where he will act as go on the liner "Oronsay," bound
HAIRCUT PROBLEM.
PLAGUES STAID-FOLK IN QAIENT.
NEW STYLES DEFENDED.
In my last article on Rising oung Players, I singled out
Do the players who make their eigh, Earlam, and Steeples for forties and fifties frequently, articular notice, and commented their sixties and seventies now the play of the young Derby and then, and perhaps even an ac- ofessional, writes Riso Levi in a casional century break, believe ame paper. This time I shall that they would be able to display y something about Joe Eartam, anything like their decent aver- e winner of the 1925-6 Amateurge form were they to play Smith hampionship, and the holder of for a fortnight? e record break made in these
It is my firm conviction that ampionships, viz., 435. Earlum has only been playing 50 in the two weeks.
they would fail to make one single Firstly, liards for six or seven years, because, in addition to their feal t he took to the game at once, ing overwhelmed by the super- d was making 50 breaks quite iority of their opponent, they gularly when he had been play- would go to the table so few times
for less than 12 months. at each session. eing that he was likely to de- because, they would be "frozen And secondly, op into a really good player, out" by their long periods of father placed him in the waiting between each visit to the ads of Collins, the well-known table, and by reason of this they I capable Liverpool profes- would have no opportunities of nal, and under his able tuition warming up to their game, and ang Earlam made rapid pro-could thus never get going.
In my opinion, the best of Joe! Is still the greatest asset of the year, Hendren said that a very making their own laws, decreed
Aston Villa have a 60 yards
Tokyo, Dec. 12. sprinting track under cover for
The question of haircuts theatens their players, and many other clubs
to rank with beriberi and leprosy during the past two or three years
as one of the plagues of the Orient. the men to practise running with a
servatives are locked in a struggle have provided special facilities for
Bombay to Tokyo moderns and con- From Manila to Harbin and view to quickening their paces, other leading teams of a former era
haired youths which already has But neither Aston Villa nor the
about bobbed hair girls and long acquired their pace in the game couch to
the South Australian split families and business enter- through their sprinting powers. | Cricket Association.
prises, caused' columns of ink, to That famous wing formed by When spoken to on the ship, be wasted in lengthy philosophical Bache and Hall were very fast, but Hendren was very disappointed by dissertations, and given conserva- their pace was due to the speed his ill-health, as he feared that tives and radical statesmen alike ani with which they controlled the ball his coaching would be impaired. opportunity to make a bid for and made it cover the ground. It He had been warned by medical popularity by attacking or defend- was the other fellows who had to advisers not to undertake strenting new styles in the wearing of be fast to keep up with it.
The craze in football is still un-Australia until March, and will
Gus exercise. He will remain in nir.
however, has already provided a fortunately for speed. The season, then return to England for the wonderful tribute to the elderly cricket season there. player, and it has been proved that, so long as he has the ability to think and act quickly,
does not matter a great deal if physically he has slowed down. A football mind
59.
A year before he won the mpionship. he made his first break by red ball play with ry balls. When the B.A. and in the summer of 1925 came the decision that future Ama-
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Earlan has not yet been seen by very long way, and it is my firm conviction that in the years to come he will prove himself to be one of England's great and gifted
cuemen...
HOME GOLF.
player.
When Tottenham Hotspur went Birmingham, an old player con- astonishment that Grimsdell was to nected with Aston Villa expressed take part in the match.
Next English Team.. Chatting about the probable personnel of the English team to visit Australia at the end of next
one's hair, particularly if one is a The question of how to wear woman, has caused discussion in practically every law-making as- semblage in the East during the year. Legislators in China and the Philippines suggested a tax for bobbed girls while the Japanese police, whe aften are acceused of useful side should come, but the that a bobbed hair girl obviously strength would depend largely is of immoral character while a upon the fitness of Larwood for long haired boy must be a "bol Australian the tour. He believed that on shevik."
wickets Larwood
Among
There was a time, not so long Championships should be
He shook his head and declared would be most destructive.
An-ago, when all Japanese shaved all that the game had swept past the other bowler who was likely to their heads but for top-knots, and red with composition balla-&
Tottenham captain and left him
come was Jupp, of Northampton, all Chinese wore long queues, while ision which, by the way, was
tolline far in the rear.
and, it was almost certain that the women of both lands topped te ten years overdue--Earlam
At the finish of the game he was Tait would be included in the their costumes with locks atifly brice began to play with these
probably in some confusion as to side. He thought one of the first oiled and cofied and piled in fan- s, and quickly getting used to
what pace really meant, and it. men to be selected would be tastic shapes, according to the par- m, he soon made big breaks
VETERANS' TEST.
might be something of mystery Walter Hammond, of Gloucester- ticular style of the districts.. Now, them, even getting into the
why a fast wing man like York had shire, who had made a thousand however, between the spread of Veterans over 50 years of age had not been able to race Grimsdeli off enth hundred on one occasion. the opportunity of showing what his feet. There could not have been season. He was a prolific bats the Far East and the influence of runs in month during the last modern ideas among the youths of Start Early,
they could do under the relentless a better example of how intelligent man, and should do well in Aus- the conservatives who desire to pro- any people have questioned examination of card and pencil in play could negative running speed.
"flapperism" upon the maidens, lam's wisdom in not waiting the annual competition organised
tralia, as, apart from his batting long the good old days of the past ar or two longer before turn-by "Golf Illustrated" on the Ash-
Craftsmanship.
ability, he was probably the best are having a hard time with bob- professional, but, in myford Manor course, Middlesex, When Grimadell was restored to all-round fielder, in the world. bed girls and long-haired boys, ion, if a player intends to H. E. Taylor, of Royal Mid-Sur- the Tottenham team their position Hobbs was likely to come, and e professional billiards his rey, who is 58, won the scratch was a little anxious. In a few Sutcliffe seemed among the cer-in Japan when all the short-haired Bobbed hair received a set-back | er in life, the sooner he takes prize with the excellent score of 76.weeks by his steadying influence he tainties. Hendren thought that actresses of the Nikkatsu Movie plunge the better for him. It would have taken a very good has brought them back to a side of A. P. F. Chapman would probably Company's studio at Osaka, the any players have commented man of the younger generation to marked nossibilities, Much the be the captain. He thought the biggest producers in Japan, were. on what they consider the beat these figures on a course of same thing has happened at Bolton choice of a wicketkeeper would summarily discharged and told not ocity of Earlam beginning most others at this time of the year, not begin until Vizard was able to Hampshire, and Ames from Kent: hair had grown to the ordinary more than 6000 yards, which, like The revival of the Wanderers did lie between George Brown, of to come back to work until their professional career with a played to every inch of its length, reappear at outside left. ea of matches with Smith and and called for a lot of strong
man, instead of tackling second shots up to the gen.
With very few exceptions there Brown was one of the most ac- women's length again. ers of his own class, or, fail-
is at least one veteran in every complished cricketers in England. those sent away were three well- The Rev. H. A Tansfield (St. team of note at the present time. A first-class 'keeper, a bowler not known baby stars. For months the es with professionals not so Mid-Surrey) each, like Taylor, 58 who has plaved at back for the and a left-hand batsman of more hair sisterhood, continuing to re- this, of playing exhibition George's Hill and S. H. Fry (Royal Newcastle United include Hudspeth, to be despised, a crack mid-off, Tokyo police have been making things hard for the bobbed whelmingly superior to him years of age, had the second best club for 17 seasons; Everton, Tay- than ordinary ability, he was a ur two top-notchers.
scores of 79 each. Then came H. H. lor and Cresswell; Huddersfield, source of power for any team. proof of depravity, leaving the gard clipped tresses as a certain ese critics, however, seem- Hilton (Ashford) and Major Clem Stephenson; Middlesbrough, Ames might be selected before burden of proof otherwise to the
forget that a new entrant W. G. M, Savel (Beaconafield), ench Carr; Arsenal, Buchan; and Chel-him because of his youth and his girls. professional billiards cannot 80,
aca, Wilson. In each case it is hatting ability. and choose his opponents. 60 fell to Edward Blackwell, the value of these men to their clubs.
The scratch prize for players over hardly possible to exaggerate the as to be thankful for what-former Scottish international, who engagements he can get is 61 He went round in 83, with ed, he may experience the an 8 at the 17th.
est difficulty in getting any E. C. Baker (Ashford) secured all, for. as professional the handicap cup with 85-9-76. rds is a business, just like Women's Championship. other business, well-estab Only players with a handicap of men never go out of their G or better will be eligible to com- to assist any newcomer who pete in the English women's golf irous of an entry into their ciston was reached at the council championship next year. This de- it not been for the unfor- meeting of the Ladies' Golf Union e difference which arose be.
A resolution was also passed Smith and Newman at the which will preclude golfers from ning of last season, and over-seas, as well as Scottish, Irish kept them apart the whole and Welsh players, from competing senson, it is most unlikely in the English championship. Barlam would have had a C. J. H. Tolley Beater.
engagernent with either of Capetown. In the first match of players.
their tour in South Africa the Royal lam as "Gate Attraction." and Ancient team of amateurs, however, Smith and New-Cyril Tolley, R. H. de Montmorency, Major W. O. Hezlet, and Capt. A. G. were determined not to play Pearson, met the Mowbray Club other, and as they could not here. The British side won by 3 play Joe Davis at the same games to 2. they had to look round for In the foursomes Tolley and de er player who might be ex-Montmorency beat R. Solomon, the to attract the public. champion of the club, and L. lam, they knew, had been Jones by 2 and 1, while Heźlet and g to packed houses in every Pearson defeated Beattie and Smale ight through the champion-by 4 and 2. Britain thus led at this nd consequently they offer- stage by 2 games to 0.
and select circle.
n engagements. Naturally
at Leeds.
It
these players are slow, but this does As speed is judged to-day all
not impair their effectiveness. may be necessary, as in the case of Buchan, to make their particu- lar part as light as possible, but, provided the strain is not too severe, they are. able to succeed through their craftsmanship. achieved without method and the team who are content to kick and run hard, will never succeed. What are called "first-time" methods are futile. The man who kicks the ball as it comes to him without trying seriously to place it must be lucky if he is to keep it from an op- The great weakness, of modern football is that too many teams at- tempt to succeed not so much through their own skill as through the mistakes of their opponents.
This is not so marked in the First Division of the League as in the other sections, and it accounts for the fact that the promoted side have usually a great deal of difficulty in maintaining their place.
Success in football cannot be
ponent.
This is seen to-day in the case of Portsmouth, who are still play- ing that dashing type of game which served them well enough In the singles Salomon beat Inst season. Before the present
in was only too glad to avail Tolley by 2 and 1, Jones beat Pear-season started I suggested that they son by 4 and 3. Beattie halved would be in trouble if they did not
if of the chance that came with Hezlet, and Montmorency alter their methods and try to play y, and no doubt he tho-scored the only British win, beating a higher clase of game. ly' belleves that "it's an ill Smale by 8 and 2.
that blows nobody any
State Grant for Athletes.
Derby County and Sheffield Wed- nesday significantly enough have Tokyo, Dec. 14. had similar troubles.to Portsmouth e people consider that The Government has decided to and the root cause in each case has been the same. You may win a
a has played very poorly in make a grant of 7.100,000 to Japan- tches with our top-notchers se athletes who attend the Inter-Cup-tie by hustling methods, but it e in his various exhibition national Olymple Games to be held is a different matter to keep these with Smith and Newman at Amsterdam in May next-Toho, up all the season in the League. `- only managed to get into
ird hundred on five or six ns. These people, how-
ufte seem to forget that a ation of 250 or so is always tbreak for a young play- they also apparently quite that Smith or Newman do! a rule give their opponents · opportunities to make large or 'small.'- éplayers seldom go to the. dozen times during a ses lay As often as not, they their sessional points in alf a dozen visits to the nd occasionally, when they great form, they get to equisite points in just two: e innings. Consequently, Carlam was playing them, to the table so few times salon that he did not have ny opportunities to make aks which came his way
e played as an amateur,
s Beat Yet to Comer
Earlam was playing in abur Championship no'op
was superior to him, and ere well below. His stand- nd consequently the wa
tept from the table for ten for not more than two
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Now comes word that the Chin- Hendren as A Member. ese school authorities of the Man-
pany the English eleven to Aus- of the Kirin high school who had churian Province of Kirin have, Asked if he intended to accom- interdicted the bob and forty girls English cricketer was anxious to went on were expelled from their tralia, Hendren said that every their curls trimmed since the ban make the trip, and he was going school last week. The other girls
The following unclaimed tele- to try hard, although, he was not of the school are using bear grease grams are lying at the office of the yet sure of the position as regards and other hair growers in an effort Great Northern Telegraph Com- his coaching at Adelaide.
to get back what they so gayly pany (Limited) of Denmark:--- wireless of Sutcliffe's appoint
Hendren said he had heard by clipped away.
Both Chinese and Japanese ment as captain of Yorkshire, and youths of advanced ideas, who de- expressed the opinion that had stred to show their advancement Wilfred Rhodes been a few years by letting their hair hang low on younger the captaincy would have their collars, are suffering equally been his. best left-hand bowler in England cities long-haired boys are being "Wilfred is still the with the bobbed ladies of their In the Japanese acquaintance. with the possible exception of hustled off to police stations to be
Hong Kong, 22nd December, 1927. Parkin," he concluded.
examined as to any revolutionary Unclaimed telegrams are lying ideas they may be incubating, being in the E. E. Telegraph Company's warned to visit a barber, or be pre-local office for: pared for more police attention..
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WATER SUPPLY.
Level and Storage of water in Reservoir on December 1, 1927:- CITY AND BILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL
Tytam Tytam Byewash
*. 1926- 1927
8' 'B' 4"B
21' 0" 10'10"B
Tytam Intermediate. Level Lovel Tytam Tuk
Wong Nei Chung
Pokfulum
"B 11 9B
19′ 1′′ 121′′B 18'11"B 17' 1"8-1
Capnos, from Tientsin. Dorpomos, from Tientsin. Nagaike, from Nagasaki.
[Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow"; Soiguard, from Shanghai,
A denotes "Above Overflow." Durlacher Sirdar, from Shanghai. Storage in millions and decimals
of gallons. E. V. JESSEN,
Tytaja Superintendent. Tytam Byewash
| Tytam Tuk
Wong Nei Chung.. 16.02 Pokfolum
Bailey, from Richmondvir. Boxer 6 Robinson Road, from
Clarke Peak, from Shanghai. Commercial, from Seremban. Neville Mills Peak Hotel, from
Tom Holt, formerly of Walsall, In Manchuria has been appointed team manager locked youths
the Samson- of Mid-Rhondda A.F.C., who are licence. In a Mukden commercial
are given scant London. making a last desperate effort to school in November 200 students re-establish themselves. peak years after the war the club fused to obey an edict calling for Surbiton.
In the were suspended because they re- took £17,000 in a season in gates; a hair, trim. They had been warn- this season they average £4.
:
SUNRISE AND SUNSET,
Datė,
December
of Red Cross nurse reading to the slcade of dissiled service man are patients.
Mi Calvin Coolidge in ther- General Hospital, man of the Volunt
of the Red Cross and Andavapara maonskata
"
C. Hansen Hong Kong-Canton,
Total
316.19 809.86
2.28
2.78 1,801,76 1,146,25
16.52
36.17
29.94
1,808.01 1,701.25 Consumption of water in the City and Bill District in millions and de cimals of gallons during the month of November.
**1928 1927
Consumption......** 245.38 283.33
Consumption per head Estimated population 406.760 417,080
per day ******** 30.1 Fall Sapply in all Rider Main Dis
with the exception of the districts West
ed in October and given twenty Macao Steamboat Co., from Shang-tricts during November, 1920 and 1927 days wherein to locate a harber, hai.mp They preferred long hair to fur- Kitteredge Nanz, from Baguio. of Eastern Street where an. Intermit- ther education and were sent away,
Bender Hong Kong, from Calexi. shaking their locks in defiance.-| cocal, ... United PresS..
Sunrise. Sunset. a.m. P.EZ.
E. A. LEGGATT,
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 22nd December, 1927,
29
1
28....7.01, 5.47
.7.02 »
5.45
30....7.02. 5.48
27
DISCREET WHISPERS.
SOON TO BE THINGS OF PAST.
22
81 ....7.03. 5.49
T
Berlin, Dec. 7.
A new invention, soon to be marketed by a Berlin eable concern,
MARTIN EGAN.
MANILA EX-JOURNALIST
MARRIED.
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tent Supply was given from 19th to |80th November, 1927..
KOWLOON WATER WORKS
LEVEL
Kowloon Reservoir : 1′ 473 Shek Lal. Poi Ke-
servoir.
Level Reception Reservoir.
Storage in muBons and decimala.
of gallons.
for^lpa:1998) -:-1927. Kowloon Reservoir.... 338,70 269,00 Shek LaiPui. Raser-
Total in
.TB
· 100.80 -- 89,10-
430.50 899,71
1926 1927
Consumption.******* 73.52 93.41 Consumption per head Saturday, Estimated population 157,720 162.760
per day
15.5 19.1 Full Supply in all districts during November, 1928 and 1927.
Martin Egan, former editor of Consumption of water in Kowloon Is said to elongate the ear to such "The Manija Times," and in recent in millions and decimals of gallons dur- an extent that padded walls and years a member of the J. Pierponting the month of November. discreet whispers. no longer offer Morgan staff, was married to Miss the assurance of secrecy,
Cornelia Cousins от The appliance consists of a tiny, November 19, in New York City, delicate microphone, which can in-
cards received in conspicuously be attached to an according to ash-tray or placed in any niche and Manila. They were to be at which is conhected with a cable home after December 1 at 277 Park leading to the listener-in. The re- Avenue, New York City. ceiver can conveniently be atation- Mr. Egan is remembered well by Į satisfactory. ed behind a curtain or flowers, many, of the Manils residents and where it also remains unseen. The also by many in other cities of the 100.38; November 30, 1927, 106.50. « apparatus is guaranteed to trans-Orient. Mr. Egan before he joined form a whisper into a shoot.pt any the Morgan organisation was one of distance..
The "Frankfurter Keitung"
the leading rawspaper men
The Government Analyst's reports. show that the quality of the water
Total rainfall to November 30, 1820,
of HONGKONG HEIGHTS
points out that the new "prolonged America. He came to the Orient ear" can enable employers, to hear originally in 1904 as a correspon- For the information of visitors the grumbling of their employes dent in the Russo-Japanese war. He the following list of some of the and eavesdroppers to catch the came to the Philippines for the highest points on the Island and whispers of fond couples, The Associated Press and his work "Mainland is published:— newspaper brands this invention attracted the attention of Georges Island; as an abuse of technology, em- Sellner who then was the owner of phasises that employers are thus The Manila Times. He was in ikely to be made more suspicious Mr. Sellner's employ for two years. and jealous husbands and lovers
stimulated to pry into affairs that After his return to the United do not concern them.
States, Mr. Egan engaged in news paper and, magazine work, Mr. "Such an invention, conatudes the writer, "stira the little suspici Egan was married in Japan in 1905 ous Nero that lurks in each of us to Frances, Martin who died about and arouses our curiosity to know two VEBIE ro Fisher also won con- thing Howards which weren
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