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LOCAL CRICKET.
LEAGUE AND FRIENDLIES FOR WEEK END.
The following is the list of matches for to-day:— ·
League: Division I.
Indian R.C. "A" y. Royal Navy. Cralgengower v. Kowloon C.C. University v. Chinese R.C.
Division II.
LOCAL GOLF.
STARTING TIMES FOR SUNDAY,
9.24 a.m. T. D. E. Pendered, L. E Andrewes v. United Services (Foursomes).
9.28
Royal Navy v. Civil Service C.G. 9.32 Kowloon C.C. v. Royal Engineers.
Friendly.
Hong Kong C.C. v. C.S.C.C.`
E
ILM.S. "Tamar" v. H.K.C.C. 2nd
9.36.
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XI.
Recreio v. University 2nd XI.
B.K, Electric Co. v. Queen's R. Regt.
9.40
To-morrow.
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9.48 ..
9.62
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9.56
24
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University 2nd v. Indian R.C.
Teams.
The following will represent the University 2nd XI. in friendly matches against the Club de Recreio and L.R.C. at 2 p.r. to-day and to-morrow!-
Against Club de Recreio (at) King's Park)Dr. M. B. Osman (Capt.), K. T: Loke, S. R. Kermani. |
A. B. Suleman, S. F. Chen, A. A. | 10.00 Aziz, G. E. Yeoh. B. H. Schroter,
F. Hoshimi, H. T. Burma, and A. N. Other.
10.04
Against L.R.C. (at Home ground); -F., Hiptoola (Capt.). W. AL.
Gittina, B. N. Sudan, R. Chan Fook. 10.08 K. T. Loke, N. P. Karanjia, S. R. Kermani, S. F. Chen, A. B. Sulle!
man, B. 11. Schroter, and H.. I. 10.12 Barma
H.K. ELECTRIC TEAM.
A
The following will represent the Hong Kong Electric Recreation Club in a friendly match against the Queen's Royal Regiment to: day at King's Park:-S. Deacon,
L de Rome, J. C. Dunbar, C. E. Gahagan, W. N.. H. Ulmdock, W.
B. Muskett, F. Normington, T. P. Saunderson, S. J. C. Stancaby.
G.
G. Thonison, and J. R. Way (Capt.). Reserves: J. F. Lunny, and H. S. Jones.
LOCAL YACHTING.
FULL PROGRAMME FOR WEEK END.
There is a full programme yachting for the week-end.
ef
To-day the racing yachts com. peto in the 7th Championship race of the season, the course being;— North Fairway (S). Cust Rock Buoy (S). Distance: 7.6 miles.
To-morrow (Sunday) the cruisers take part in the race between the Commodore and the Club,
On Monday the Ladies sall their 6th Championship race, the course bölng:-Channel Rock (S), Mark in Quarry Bay (S), Kowloon Rock (F). Distance: 5.16 miles.
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F. H. Bloxham, H. G. Sheldon v. United Ser vices (Foursomes),
G.. Murray, C. O. Stark v. United Services (Four- somes).
F. A. Redmond, F. J. de Rome v. United Services (Foursomes).
SNOBBERY
THE CHANCES AMATEURS ARE REFUSING.
THE CHINA MATE,
Surety,in, a county. like “thbier there must be several good, Ama.. tours, but as the Yorkshire, Com- mitted' want the ready-made article] straight away, these amateure da not get a game.
The public schools - and univer=|| YORKSHIRE'S CRICKET ERROR.- sitios ara: nurseries; of amateur cricket, and in them, as well as in the professionals, lies the, great hope that English cricket will reach the high plane it occupied in the past.
Are there too few first-class ama- teurg in sport, or, alternatively, are there too many professionals? anke J. H. Lockon, the well-known Surrey cricketer and amateur inter- national footballer.
In Soccer entire professional
teams have become the rale rather than the exception, and it would appear that we are tending towards anobbishness in sport in conge quence.
School after school has changed its code of football, Why?
An old boy Soccer player, see5, that League football has been pro- fessionalised and the incentive to play regularly, though he may be good enough for a particular club,
An old boy Rugger player of note has a far bigger choice of good C. L. Edwards, F. M. class clubs when considering his week-end amusement, and one who is only of average class has a far T., Ramsay, H. A; Lam-greater chance of getting a game than the corresponding Soccer players have.
W. Adamson, J. Coul. Is small. thart,
Enis.
mert.
H. A. Mills, W. C. Clark.
It would not do for cricket to become professionalised entirely We must keep this wonderful Bri- tish game for all classes in those fales and the Empire beyond the
poat
A Soccer Puzzle..
210 A SIDE.
ROYAL PROCLAMATION VETOING CRICKET.
Extraordinary effects followed
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928.
WARNING BY DEAN. MONEY & SHARES.
CREAM OF THE RACE THROWN AWAY,
SAYS DEAN INGE,
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS, On London
Bank wire
2/.
Bank on demand... 2/9/16
Bank 30 day's sight-
Bank 4 months' sight. 2/- Credits 4 months sight 2/1
2/1%
1266
-
On New York- On demand er
49%.
wire
Credits 60 days' sight 51%
On Bambay
135
185
874
AN UMFIRE STORY.
How Englishmen have carried Those who have succeeded by Documentary 4 months cricket to the ends of the earth, their energy and ability are more and how, on at least one occasion, likely than failures to have dis. On Poría--- their action evoked the sauc of a tinguished children, aald Dean Inge On demannd royal proclamation suppressing the at the Oxford Lunch Club. The Credits 4 months' sight 1340 game, is related by Mr. F. S children of the professional classeH **On Berlin- Ashley-Cooper in his interesting are better endowed naturally than On demand volume "Cricket Highways and the offspring of manual labourers, Byways
Society favoured the increase of the introduction of cricket by men slum-dwellers children and the de A final note about Soccer foot of EMS. "Diamond" into Samon crease of professional men's sons, ball will not be out of place, as I in 1889. The natives, took to it This was very grave. Feeble On demand
consider ita need is more pressing with such avidity that they on minded women at present showed
On Calcutta- than Is the case in cricket.deavoured to improve it.
the highest birth-rate, Blüm: Wire WAS In League football to-day there "Matches of 200 a side took place dwellers next, and miners next. The On demand AN is a great chance for the amateur, with four or fiva umpires and three lowest birth-rate characterised On Singapore but he is not taking it. He appears batsmen at each end, the contests doctors and after them the clergy On demand to prefer to play for his amateur lasting for weeks. Work was
On Manila- club. Is it that the amateur does neglected, and steps had to be "We are throwing away the On demand ......... 100 not want to play in the best class of taken to compel the natives re-
On Shanghai.. football7 I cannot answer this.
When I say that there is a great chance for the amateur I mean this: there are not enough, good-class professionals to go round now that we have three divisions of the league.
pre-
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I say this in all seriousness and I know persona'y many amateurs who could step straight into A Headmaster's Verdict.
fessional football, and, given What, are we heading for? One short time to settle down, would K. S. Morrison, H. L. chief game for the public school- improve he game and bring new boy, and now the secondary school-ideas into League football. Do boy too, and another for the ele- they want to do this-In larger V. M. Grayburn, T. G.mentary boy? This would be dis- numbers than at present, I mean? Wen!!.
astrous.
Apparently not. Hear the words of the headmaster
Mackenzie.
Tait.
II. G. Mills. W. K. of Shrewsbury, a short time ago: "The campaign against Soccer in favour of Rugger was urged with a R. fanaticism that bordered on the ridiculous. Various reasons were advanced, but the driving force was The F.A. realise this, but what have they done? They have talked a lot about public school football, but have done practically nothing to help it. They have helped the elementary schools in every possi, ble way-and a jolly good thing, too. But, let them bring in the other schools as well. What about the "Oxford cricket scheme" applied to Soccer?
H. R. Sturt, G. Waller.
A. Sommerfelt, E. R. snobbery." Hallifax.
Walter. Hagen, who recently, won the Professional Golfers' Association championship for the fourth conse- cutive year. He also won it in 1921, giving him the title five times out of the ten the P, G. A. tournaments have been held.
The first half of the yachting season has nearly been completed. There remain two more Champlon- abin races for the racing yachts (on Saturday, January 21, and Saturday, January 28) while 10.16 cruisers have another Champion- ship event on Sunday, January 29. 10.20
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;
J. H Raikes, L. G. S. Dodwell.
E. D. Black, R. K. Valen-
tine.
W. MacMahon, F. G. Fowle. E.. B. Clarke, H. E. Standage.
J. K Shaw, C. P. Ross.
R. E. Macdougall, W. L. Dunbar.
H. H. Lennox, G. G. Mackie.
10.24
MYSTERY ILLNESS.
10.28
10.32
BÉNORITA ALVAREZ FEARED POISONED.
10.16
10.40
2+
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F. Taylor, N. K. Little- john.
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T. G. Bennett, A. P. Bungey.
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L. Yates, W. M. Lyons.
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T. L. Christie, `D.. J. Gilmore.
A. Nicol, S. T. Butlin.
A mysterious illness of Senorita | 10.44 Alvarez of which.
une in
England was aware, and of which | 10.48 the cause is still unexplained, was revealed in a cable from Nice. 10.52 The cable states thut the famous 10.56 tennis star has been dangerously
ill at Monte Carlo for more than 11.00 twenty days. She has been suffer- 11.04 ing from poisoning believed to be
Doctors were at first unable diagnose the complaint, and at one 11.12 time they feared for her life. She
is now batter, and intends under-│11.16 going severe training for the forth- 11.20 coming tennis tournaments.
dua to eating oysters.
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A. Leach, F. H. Crap- nell.
G. E. Costello, B. D. Evans,
A. E. Lissamon, K. 3. Robertson.
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A. R. Cox, W. A. Weight.
W. B. Cornaby, II. M.
Muir,
A. Piercy, A. W. FL.
Edie,
W. Ironside, W. A. But- terfield.
S. A. Arthur, E. C.
Frederick.
H. G. Hegarty, A D
Humphreys,
The Corinthians, the A.F.A., and the Casuals (particularly the Casuals are the only bodies who try to keep the Soccer flag flying at the schools.
or
Practically every Wednesday you will find the Casuals visiting some school ground — first-class selond-class public schools, if they can be so graded, or secondary schools.
was
Effect on Army Games. To go one step further, and con- sider the offect on games in the British Army. I believe It Brigadier-General Kentish who said that “if many more schools went over to Rugger we should eventually have one game for the Tommies' and another for the offi- cers"-another disaster..
Snobbery Not Dead, Many of the professionals in both cricket and football are delightful fellows, and I believe I am right in saying that, were they to be can- vassed, they would tell you that they would rather be led by an amateur than a fellow professional, always provided he was ability and not a nonentity.
one
turn to reason.
and teachers.
Men who played cream of each generation because
On demand working classes wore expelled from Church and the the best of the King had to issue a decree." absorbed by the professional classes 80 day's sight (private
paper)*** become sterile,"
Op Yokohama—
WAR PROPHECIES.
FRENCH STATESMAN'S
FEARS.
Proclamation. Malleton, King of Samoa, issued proclamation, To all the dis- tricts of Samoa. Notice:- village to travel and play cricket It is strictly prohibited for a
with another village. It is strict-! y prohibited for two villages to
It is also! play cricket together. prohibited for a village to play cricket among themselves. Should any village or district fall to keep this law in any respect, they will the next war were made by M. de be fined a sum not exceeding 45 Jouvenel, the French statesman, in dollars or in default be sent to a message to the London War Dan- fall for three months with, hard ger Conferences labour.
"I look forward to 1985 with The law was afterwards relaxed; dread," he said. "Those who con- and to-day Apis is the centre of
Startling propheales regarding
a cricket association, with two ducted the peace negotiations built!
up a structure that will be good for white and four Samoan teams.
An Oxford and Cambridge team 16 years. But what is 15 years? I played "All the World" at Rome repeat that 1985 is the crucial year. of as far back as 1843. The Surrey France will then be at its minimum team were to have played a match strength, and will have lost the pro- in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris tection afforded by the occupation late in the eighteenth century, of the Rhine, I hope with all my when the outbreak of the French heart that the League of Nations Revolution, stopped the project, and before 1985 will have gained it was not until 1818 that the Duke
I have many charming fellows in mind at present, of the Rev, K. R. G. Hunt type, both in cricket and foot hall, whom the geniuses such as Jack Hobbs, Wilfred Rhodes, Steve Bloomer, Charlle Buchan, etc., would all have been delighted to serve under.
To sum up, I thought that the war had killed all snobbery, but I heard concerning school games am afraid that arguments I have during the football season are caus- ing me to alter my opinion.
RUGBY SENSATION.
WARATAH FORWARD ORDERED
OFF THE FIELD.
A sensation was caused in this afternoon's Rugby match between the Waratahs and Cardiff, before a Let us now turn to cricket. Would crowd of 25,000 people, when J. Ford, a Waratah forward, was it not be a great catastrophe if the ordered off the field. schools in future years (I do not
The score mean the immediate future) were Waratahs, 9; Cardiff, 3. The final at half-time was: to look around for other
games score was; Waratahs, 15; Cardiff, and there are other popular sum- 9. mer games, in the same way as they have done in the footer season?
Since the war one has frequently
heard criticism concerning the al- INVITATION TO LORD HARRIS. most entirely professional element
in the Yorkshire team.
Supporters of Yorkshire wish that one or two forcing batsmen of the amateur type could be unearthed, for this is all they want to make the team once again the finest county eleven.
Can they hope to discover auch men, however, when they will not play them occasionally?
WONDERS NEVER CEASE
'AT 2.30PM THE 'CLUB
RESERVES FIELDED A FULL.
SIDE, AND PLAYED
OFF A FIXTURE AFTER
THIS THINGS BECAME NORMAL AGAIN
AND THE CLUB.
1ST LOST TO THE
QUEENS
THE
QUEENS
HAVING WON
London, Dec. 31. The Australian Board of Control
the
of Wellington witnessed a match authority necessary to prevent a at Cambrat between British mill-recurrence of war." tary officers. French people ro-M. de Jouvonal concluded by ex- garded the game as dangerous, and preasing the opinion that in the the tale is told of a gendarme who event of another European war so fnat, sir, if you please, not a side as England. solemnly warned a bowler! "Not America would not be on the same fast.”
Cricket was carried to the Iber-
General von Schoensleh, described
ian Peninsula by British officers as the idol of the German mill- In Napoleonic War days. Lord tariat Press during the war, gaid Geschen, when on a special mission that the danger would not be from to Constantinople in 1880, foster- German militarism or nationalism, ed the game in Turkey. Three of but from big owners of Important the Russian Czara were interested, raw materials. When oll kings and Nicholas II. had a cricket pitch cannot agree, other people must | made at the Imperial Palace at fight for them," he said.
Peterhof.
Play in Perala.
Persia saw its first cricket match in 1856, when it is related that the British expeditionary force, who conquered Herat, found it neces- sary to bore holes for the stumps
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LONDON EXCHANGES.
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Shipping.
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QUEENS AND THE CLUB.
-THE CAPTAINS HAD HARDLY
(Continued at foot of next
Columni)
•TOOK THE LOCENT PIECE
BUT IT EVENTUALLY CAME DOWN 'HEADS'
TOSSED UP WHEN THE WIND! OUT OF THE GROUND,
WAIT TEL THIS LOT
11:24
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11.28
20
BEAUFORT CLUB
RECONSTITUTED.
11.32
THE TOSS
DECIDED
11.36
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London, Dec. 31.
TO
The Beaufort Club, which it was announced a few weeks ago, would; have to got out of existence, has been reconstituted management,
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THIS IDEA WORKED
Loudon, Dec. 81
Penn,
C. W. Jeffries, A. H.
A. B. Furves, A.
INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY.
11.56 J. Cameron, W. Wright,. 12.00 p.m. D. J. Lewis, G. David
In a hockey match in Paria the 12.04 H. R. Forsyth, H. Spicer,
Stade Francaise and Oxford Oc- 12.08 casionale draw two all,
Paris University met Middlesex 12.16 Hobpital and won by the odd goal
WELL AND
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GREYHOUND RACING..
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS RACKETS,
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son.
London, Dec. 81.
London, Dec. 81.5-
With the idea of combating the In the semi-finals of the Fublic forces that are opposed to the sport Schools Rackets Handicap Eton boat. Greyhound Racing Protection Clifton and Winchester beat Chel- Bociety to being formed.
tenhain
OF DUST CAME ALONG
INTO ANOTHER CLOUD OF.
DUST TO FIND THE QUEENS THAT
WHO PLAYED.
ALL FOR
THE LATTER SLIPPED OUT AND ADDER A SECOND
Soldiers Win in Dust Storm.
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*To all good doctors disease mystery."
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"Those perfect woman invariably have cade In their lives."
"What a lot we know about everything except life."
"A strange codeless race, women. Always ready to sacrifice them- selves and every one else to the thing they love.""
it was first played in St. Helena. Its introduction into South Africa |dates from the early part of the last century, while British officers of regiments stationed there firat played the game In Australia in 1803, and thus sowed the seeds from which in after years blossom ed such players as W, L. Murdoch, F. R. Spotforth, Geo. Glen and Victor Trumper.
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China BuzON -- bowler stepped over the crease. "Wide," he added, as the ball ap Industriais.
Singapore. Tractions peared to be so. But the batsman China. Sugars reached out and struck the ball. Malabon Bugars
Well hit," shouted the umpire, and Canton Ieen: "Well caught," as a feldaman Cements (comb.) brought off a catch. Then he ex- claimed. “Hout, Hovér,” and 'strol- led meditatively towards square leg
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