FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928.
Sport Columns
ACCEPTED.
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MACDONALD SMITH TO PLAY
COMPSTON..
MATCH IN AMÈRICA.
London. Yesterday. Compaton's challenge to the world has been accepted by the American MacDonald Smith, for $5,000 aside over 72 holes, the match to be played partly at Lake- ville and partly on a New York course during Compston's visit for the American championship.- Rentur.
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BRITISH GOLF.
INTER-CLUB SPRINT. AS AN
- INCENTIVE.
BOWLING FORM.
R. TYLDESLEY SOON IN HIS STRIDE.
LANCS DEFEAT OXFORD.
London, Yesterday. At Oxford Lancashiro_defeated the University by an innings and 80 runs..
Oxford acored 94, R. Tyldesley taking four for 9 and 112, the same bowler securing four for 12.
Lancashire replaced with 286 for. eight declared.-Reuter.
CRICKET TRIAL.
THE CHINA MAIL,
TENNIS TOURNEY,
TWO FINALS DOWN FOR TO-DAY.
PRIZE PRESENTATION,
ARTILLERY SPORTS.
THREE-MILE KHUD RACE OVER ‚ROUGH GROUND..
HEAT RESULTS.
LOCAL SOCCER.
HARD GAME YESTERDAY AT
SOOKUMPOO.
WIN FOR C. Co.'
Misa Hancock will distribute the The hants in the annual athletic Hin Excellency Major-General C./ prizes to the successful competitors meeting of the Hong Kong and C. Luard, C.B.,- C.M;G was present in the H.K.C.C. tennis tournament Singapore Royal Artillery, were yesterday afternoon when the clos- this afternoon. This will take place | run-of on the Navy ground ating game in the Garrison Football after the match In which her King's Park yesterday afternoon,League was played on the Sookum- father, R. Hancock, and Dr. R. E. and the finals will be completed to- poo Military ground between "C" Tottenham will play the Rumjahn day, following which prizes will be Company, K.O.S.B., and an eloven cousins in the` Final of the Open distributed.
selected from other teams in the Doubles Championship of the Two new events Included in this League. "C" Company, the win- Colony. The other final, the Mixed year's programme were E Khudners of the League, won a hard- Doubles, will also be decided to-day, Race and a Wheel Race, in which fought match by the odd goal in the finalists being Mrs. Remington each competitor had to manipulate five. At the conclusion the G.O.C., arid H. Owen Hughes (owe 3/6) a gun carriage wheel whilst run- presented the League Cup and team ning. The Khud wast over a dis- medals to the stalwarts of. "C" tance of three miles of rough Company, amid applause, Amongst ground which included hill climb-other Officers present were Colonelj ing.
Comyn, O.C., K.O.S.B., and Majors Ogilvy and Lako, also of the K.O.S.B.
and Lt.-Col. and Mrs. Wyatt.
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CRICKET CLUB'S "C" TEAM.
The following will represent the TEAMS SELECTED FOR
Cricket Club" team against SATURDAY.
Club de Recreio to-morrow at 4.30 C. H. Another Hong Kong Cricket P.m.-G. F. H. Bichard, Club Interport trial will take Bradley, A. Piercy, G. S. Hugh
gow Smith.
The "Rest" started the game in
DO YOU KNOW?
Answers to To-day's Questions.
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MONEY & SHARES.
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.
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THE CHATTEL.
MAN, NOT WOMAN, SAYS OWEN NARES.
On Shanghai-
It is an excellent. feature of place on Saturday at the "Club Jones, H. R. Remington, W. Lith- Pritam Singh. Time: 12.2/5 secs, close range which just missed the have never denied it. But any-s0 day's sight (private
(By Hary Vardon.) present-day golf that the inter- team match shows a pronounced tendency to increase in favour,
ground at 2 p.m. Teams will be captained by Mr. H. R. B. Han- cock and Mr. G. R. Sayer.
"GREAT AND GROWING. EVIL."
For evidence of this one has Mr. H. R. B. Hancock's XI PLAYERS WHO WRITE only to examine the newspaper A. W. Hayward. E. C. Fincher, reports of week-end events on the Rev. E. K. Quick, Captain. J. E. links. Accounts of team contests Reynolds, A. W. Ramsey, Lt. appear from wear and far. The A. H. Musson, H. Owen Hughes, crop is wonderful to those people Capt. Erskine, H. V. Parker, S. who remember the time not Jex. more than fifteen years ago........ when such affairs were practical- ly unknown, save in the case of the University engagements.
rounds.
Mr. G. R. Sayer's XI:--W, Brace, Capt. N. Thorp, E. J. R. Mitchell, O. Moor, Lt. Commd. Shaw, E. R. Duckitt, F.. Goodwin, C. D. Wales, A. R. H. Ismail, G. R.
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L. T. A. MEETING.
London, March 28. An important letter has been sent by the Secretary of the Lawn Tennis Association to the Presidents of National Associa
Lawn Tennis Federation.
Inter-term golf is fast solving the problem of enabling the lead- Vallack. ing amateur's to maintain their form during the winter time, CRICKET CHAMPIONS READY tions affiliated to the International when struggles for individual honours are rare, and of affording Lancashire have completed
After setting out the resolution opportunities for young golfers their arrangements for the open- passed at the annual general to make progress at a seasoning of the cricket season, and meeting of the L.T.A. with refer- which formerly was restricted when Ernest Tyldesley. Mac. ence to the player-writer, the let- almost entirely to "friendly" donald, Sibbles, and Iddon get ter states that permission for back from South Africa there players in tournaments to write, Nevertheless, it appears to the will not be many days left before etc., will he given only to "such interested observer that a good practice begins at Old Trafford, persons as may be deemed by my deal remains to be done to imbue on April 16, under John Tyldes Council to be bona-filde journal- the ordinary inter-club matchley's direction.
ists." with that element of keen rivalry,
The event of-Gordon Hodgson,
Paid Large Sums. which is the soul of the inter-the former South African national fixtures, the Oxford and amateur footballer, now Liver-important ground. It proceeds:
Then the letter breaks new and Cambridge matches, the public pool's inside right, as a fast bow- schools' tournament, the inter-ler, will be (says the "Sporting portance in connection with the "This question is of special im- regimental championship, and Chronicle") the most interesting championship meeting at Wimble- the women's county champion- feature of the alterations in the don, because my Council have no personnel of the playing stuff, to doubt whether that in the past a which Leonard Hopwood returns number of prominent amateurs after two highly successful sea- competing at Wimbledon, both of sons as Wallasey's professional in British and other nationalities, the Cheshire League,
have been paid large sums by Bri
ship.
These, and a few other events, are the very salt of inter-team golf, and it is the essence of their Spirit that a player can represent only one country, or 'Varsity, or whatever the enuse, that claims
him.
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considerable promise, so that al-ports on matches at Wimbledon, Hopwood is an all-rounder of tish newspapers for signed re- together competition for places not necessarily on account of any Club matches have grown up in among the younger professions literary ability possessed by them, such a way that ordinarily an in-will be greater than ever. dividual is entitled to appear in
but because of their skill and re- putation as players of lawn ten-
Barcession for all the clubs of
800 Yards.-1, Mohamed Khan; 2, Daswanda Singh.
220 Yards.-1, Khuda Singh; 2, Pritam Singh.
Sack Race-1, Puran Singh: 2.
Ghul Jahar.
440 Yards.-1, Khuda Bux: 2,
Mohamed Khan,
Wheel Race-1, Tara Singh;
Kabar Singh.
2,
One Mile Relay Race. Firat Heat.-1. K. O., S. derers; 2, Royal Artillery. 3 mins. 39.4/5 secs.
Second Heat.1, Scots Guards; Royal Marines. Time: 3 mins, 40
terest
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Yesterday's results were:- Khud Race.-1. Kartar Singh; 2, Yousof Singh. There was also a team prize which was won by the fine style and soon forced a corner ment afoot during recent years On Singapore
Stock headed the corner kick, and prove that women are human Right Section.
Long Jump-1, Rattan Singh; the custodian was just able to put beings, writes Owen Nares.
his hands to the ball and push it is true that a large, number of Team Prize, Centre Section.
-100 Yards-1, Khuda Bux; 2, out. Then Smith took a shot from men and a fair number of women on demand
Putting the Weight-1, Ahmed not, after which Jobs scored for how, the statement is now on the Khan. Team Prize, Left Section. the Rest.
paper) ****** A ding-dong struggle followed comparatively true.
Statutes, and may be regarded as On Yokohains- Distance: 30 ft. 8 ins.
after the kick-off, both ends being It has further been discovered Gold Leaf, 100 fine
On demand visited in quick succession, and that the mind of man is very the respective goals escaping nar-like the mind of a woman; and Sovereigns
(per tael)
(Bank's rowly. Towards half-time a wing that, too, both Adam and Eve and buying rate) ...... 9.50 shot was misjudged by Martin and Robert and Elizabeth Browning Silver (per oz.) ....
26% Westland. and before they could would have granted. But many Bar Silver in Hong recover the ball rolled into the net women have gone a step beyond Kong to give the K.O.S.B., the equaliser. that, and claim that mentally and Chinese Copper Cash nom. The Reat played up with renewed emotionally women and men are Chinese Copper Cents 6% prem vigour, and receiving a pass when identical. And there the trouble Rate of Native In- well placed, Stock made no mistake 'begins. Bor-with a fast shot, thus giving the,
When you meet a woman in a Chinese Sub. Coin 31 % dis Time: Rest a lead of 2-1 at half time drawing-room, and talk to her Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par.
The K.O.S.B. played a very de- about Shakespeare and the musi- 2,termined game in the second half, cal glasses and her golfing handi- THE SHARE MARKET.
cap, it is possible that the re- casions, only to and were dangerous on several oc-
find Westland actions may be precisely those be- safe. During a melee, one of the tween two men talking on the
Hong Konf. Rest defenders fouled within the same topics.
Stock. Exchange. penalty area. The spot kick should
2/%. have put the K.O.S.B.. on level
They may be. Anyhow, let's T.T. on Shanghai
***. 7734.* terms but Davey shot wide. How take it ever, the referee ordered the kick be that as it may, it is certain
for granted! But, Hongkong Bank..... $1300 & 1200 45 to be retaken as Westland ran out that as the relation becomes Chartered Bank First Division.
to clear. Davey made no mistake Kowloon Cricket Club v. Civil with the second shot and the rival more personal and electric, a tre- Mercantile A. & R. mendous difference is revealed. P. & O. Bank.....
do. aides were again on level terms. And if the two are married, then Bank of East Asia... $75 Service C.C.
for goal Kowloon Bowling Green Club v.
for either to treat the other, in Craigengower C.C.
K.O.S.B. was attended by a good the course of their ordinary daily Canton Insurance. $680 Kowloon Dock R.C, v. Police R.C. bit of "joss." Westland left goal routine of meals and talk, as if Union Insurance..... 840% b 340 an
to stop a forward pass, and in his both were of the same sex may Yangtze Insurance... M.347
North China Insurance T140 attempt to kick out had the morti- lead to quite fatal consequences. China Underwriters.. $24 Civil Service C.C. v. Kowloon fication of seeing the ball roll into Take the case of sickness! China Fire Insurance $215
Bowling Green Club. Craigengower C.C. v. Yacht Club.
When women are sick, they like H.K. Fire Insurance Although both sides tried hard to be made a great fuss of. -So East Point R.C. v. Club de Re-after this, no more goals were scor- they do when they're nervy and H.K. Steamboats
Sibipping. Donglarer creto "A.".
ed, and when the final whistle upset. And so do children. But I.K. Tugs & Lighters $274 came, the K.O.S.B. were the win-in such desperate circumstances, Indo-Chinas (Prof)... $37 ners of a hard game in which luck men crave solitude; they want to do. was on their side.
be left completely and severely Water-boats
Shell Transporta
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LAWN BOWLS,
LEAGUE SEASON OPENS TO-MORROW.
Second Division.
C.C.
Club de Recreio "B" v. Kowloon
Friendly, Taikoo 1st v. Taikoo 2nd.
RECREIO TEAMS.
The following have been selected to play to-morrow:-~
"A" Team v. East Point Rec. Club.
The winning
the net off his own foot.
LOCAL GOLF.
STARTING TIMES FOR SUNDAY.
FANLING OLD COURSE.
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Mining. that each sex judges the other by Bunguete ... its own feelings.
A woman will always be in- Langkata (Combined). T13
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Docks, Wharves. J.'case the man gets irritated; in the Godowns, &e.
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which he happens to be a member, ships, and so on up to national nis. He may be for a certain club one championships are unceasing "It cannot be questioned that! month, and against it the next. during the season. It may be this practice, irrespective of whe- That does not seem to be the right claimed, too, that Oxford and ther such articles are actually way to encourage keenness in in-Cambridge golfers derive an ad-written by the playeya or merely ter-team golf.
vantage from the publicity which signed by them, does involve mak- A Chinese For the Cities. their accomplishments attract, ing money from the pursuit of the Already some of the younger for, no matter what the walk of game, and is therefore a practice: and more energetic players in the life, everybody is anxious to do entirely contrary to the spirit of London district are asking why well when he knows that the lime-true amateurisın. there should not be a tournament, light of publicity is on him.
"My Council is determined to conducted on rigid lines so far as The Test of Results. / make every endeavour to put an concerns the qualification to re- At any rate, the records show end to what they consider to be present a club, among the or- that the British Universities great and growing evil, and in ganisations within a certain have provided the winners of four order to avoid misunderstandings radius of Charing Cross.
of the eight British amateur in the future may I request you One who captained Cambridge championships held since the to bring this letter to the notice a few years ago put the matter war, Sir Ernest Holderness hay-of the Council or Executive Com- like this:-"When a player is at ing succeeded twice, C. J. H. mittee of your Association at the the Varsity, he has a 'ncedle' Tolley once, and R. H. Wethered next convenient opportunity with match every week on a sirange once. There were three runners-a view to informing your players, course during the winter terms. up in A. J. Graham, E.F. Storey, and particularly such of them as That makes him tak. the game and D. E. Landale. Moreover, of may be nominated by you to play very seriously and practise hard. the fourteen singles credited to at Wimbledon during the forth- so that he may be able to do Britain in the series of matches coming championships? justice to his side.
"The Wimbledon prospectus When he so far played against the United comes down he finds that he has States, seven have been won by will contain a condition based on hardly any of these matches. He Oxford and Cambridge players, the resolution referred to above.” goes out and plays people for Tolley having gained three, and
Writers From Abroad. whatever stake he is prepared to B. Darwin, C. V. L. Hooman,
This letter (comments Frank lose or win, but that is not the Wethered, and Storey one each. same as a course of desperately And even in its bluest year, the Foxon) will make a great stir in! hard matches, and his golf be- British team has not contained the lawn tennis world owing to Ribeiro, comes slack for the want of some more than 50 per cent. of Univer-the frankness of the language thing into which he is keen to get sity golfers.
and the indication that the his teeth. If we had more of The facts being unassailable, L.T.A. intends to proceed relent- these 'needle' inter-team matches, the explanation of them is worthlessly with its poly concerning we might well produce a side seeking; and seeking that Oxford the player writer. capable of beating America and Cambridge golfers, past and The referenea, to "misunder- which is what we need to do." present, probably do not number standings in the future" is spe-
Every big city or town might more than one in every hundred cially increasing. It is an open! have its inter-club tournament, in the country, the prominence secret that some famous players with, any, eight players to re- that they have achieved may from abroad will be offered on- present each club in singles-the logically be ascribed to the keen-gagements in connection with the big test of golfing ability. ness with which they play their describing of the play at Wimble If there is one lesson moré team matches in their under-don. It is clear that the L.T.A. than any other to be learned from graduate days. At any rate, if will apply their new rule irrespec- the successes of players from the that is not the reason, what other tive of the nationality or the pres- English Universities, it is that can be advanced?
tige of the players. their golf must have been estab- If we accept this premise, a It is certain that the Interna lished on a very fine foundation, good case is made out for the pro- tional Federation will back up the and at the right time of life, by motion of inter-club matches and British LT.A. their constant matches for the tournaments on the lines followed side on a variety of courses, and by Oxford and Cambridge; that in the consequent incentive to excel to say, inter-team matches with First, there la keen competition some real "bite" in them, rather to secure a place in the team, and than the eminently social spirit, then there is keen competition to pleasant though it may be, which win for it. The young British is apt to dominate such affairs. golfer who is not at the Univer- Would it not be the first step 'sity has no such preparation as towards breeding the element of this.
more strenuous inter-club rivalry
DAVIS CUP.
BRITAIN AND ARGENTINE
SHARE SINGLES.
Torquay, Yesterday,
The youthful American ama to stipulate that a man should
In the Davis Cup first round: teur has it because tournaments play for no more than one club a Gregory (Britain) beat Robson In the United States-open tour-year? In that way, club aides (Argentina) 10-12, 13-11, 6-3, 8-6 naments, Invitation tournaments, would become settled and known, and Boyd (Argentine) beat Higgs club championships, State cham- and their doinge would attract all (Britain) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-8--Reu- pionships, inter-college champion-the more attention.
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But in order that a man may be Macao Electrica wable to put up with that strange China Buser
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A newly-founded Hungarian with a man, it is necessary for Ching Sugars .... company has obtained the conces each of them to have frequent the opportunities of seeking society sion to put taxi-bonts on Danube in Budapest. The first ex- quite free from members of the 'opposite sex. That does them periment will be made with forty good; but the opportunities are small motorboats which will be
dwindling. stationed at the various. Danubian bridges.
Men and women are together in offices, they are together in clubs Dairy Farms
yes, the innermost ramparts atone are down, women have passed the Der A. Wings
Lane, Crawfords most exclusive portals, with the fackintoshs last of the majors glaring indig Sinceres.. nantly in the silence-room.
Wm. Powells. Now I am of opinion that, K. Amusements Miscellaneous, though women are all the better.K. Constructions. for getting away from men occa-A. Ind. G. Ronde sionally they rather like the new H. K. Gort Loans state of things.I am sure any-
Left to right: Dr. Otto Peltzer, famous : German runner, Bay Conger, of the Illinois Athletic Club; Lloyd Hahn, Bostan Athletis Association; photographed before the mile of the century, the great 'race'in the Knights of Columbus antinat meet held at Madison: Square Gerden? The race was run" by Hahn in 4 minutes, 15 seconde, one second-simet, of the world's indoor record had jointly by Nagid and Tele Ray.
how that man is suffering, more from it, I am sure that woman {brought it about. In fact, we are
to-day suffering from the domin- things is merely what politicians ance of, woman..
call the swing of the pendulum. In Chains.banq In a remote antiquity, which no Men la the chattel, and as in a modern man can believo ever to ¡play now on "somewhere in Eng-have existed, woman was the land,” the man tears at bis chattel of man. She is now, hay- chains. In extreme cases he may ing her revenge by joining our decide to lose his memory and clubs. But the pendulum (will Beek fresh woods and pastures awing again and the club,, ** new. But be will carry his chains And . well, do you know, with him! KALANI have the idea that even as it is Unless he enters a monastery! most marriages are tolerably I gather that there he is safe. happy,-"Daily News and West-
Probably the present state of minster Gazette.”,