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AQUÀTIC SPORTS,
SOUTH CHINA COMMAND MEETING.
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FROM THE COURTS.
Willesden Magistrate (tp has- band): Your wife must have a RA. WIN AGGREGATE CUP. separation, otherwise something dreadful may happen-Husband: In spite of inclement weather, Yes, twice Intely she has driven there was a fine attendance at the me to suicide. Victoria Recreation Club од Saturday for the day
the Aggregate Cup.
R.A.O.C., R.A.M.C.
OFFICIALS.
concluding
Private Johnstone,
Time-keepers: Lt. Pyper, D.C.M., 2nd R.O.S.B., Master Gunner Fogden. K.A.
2nd K.O.S.B.
"I have never
•
A NEW GROUND.
FOR THE SACRED HEART
COLLEGE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
"TEST" PROSPECTS. FRENCH ACADEMY.
POINTS ABOUT ENGLAND'S IMPOSSIBILITY OF FINDING A
BATTING.
AN EXCELLENT SCHEME OMEN FOR 'LONG-DISTANCE."
lelement.
respondent enya:——
since Macdonald. and
t
SUITABLE APPLICANT.
"INCREASE AND MULTIPLY."
that of.
Faria, Aug. 18.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1928.
POINTS OF VIEW.
I have destroyed my boxing gloves-Gene, Tunney."
The future of the world is wrap" ped up in the question of peace,
Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P.
I hope soon to fly from Europe
New York Charles Levine.
Cowdray.
who wear trousers.-Dean Inge,
I, who have had a good deal of practice in public speaking, have never earned the praise of being That is the general opinion.-Vis- count Grey.
SILENT MP's
NERVOUSNESS AND ELOQUENCE.
"CHILL OF FEAR.”.
Writing with reference to the
Obituarios of the late Sir James The Sacred Heart College, Kow-
Agg-Gardner noted with singular loon, has always been the nursery West Indies cricket team's tour at
The French Academy means to
unanimity as one of the striking heard language of prominent local athletes who are Home in general and the last Test most people a body of forty literary
non-stop. Mr. circumstances in his career, that like his in my life, and I am no making history in China's sporting match in particular, a London cor-gentlemen, who meet from time to to
although he sat in the House of the fourth of
Commons for about half a century, of angel myself," said a. Newton Ab-records, and it is very gratifying aquatic Aperts meeting equsouth China Command. Finals bot man when fined for assaulting to learn that the. College has. at West Indians. As the England cap-in Paris to discuss a few pages of England profited by playing the time in, a picturesque old building
-There is no much needed in the he made only two speeches. A's'an to whom he
last been presented by the Govern-tain well said, our men, until meet the next edition of the official dic-world that one cannot were decided and Mrs. Luard, wife a 'building foreman
afford to
instance of extremo Parliamentary of H.E. the General Officer Com-had applied for a job.
ment with an opportunity for Its ing Constantine, Griffith and tionary of the French language, throw away. a farthing-Lady
reticence, this does not stand alone. manding (Major-General C. C.
One of two men charged at Tot, students to exorcise their sporting Francis, had not faced real fast.
and who occasionally perform, be-
When Mr. Henry Tollemache' was Luard, C.B., C.ALG.), presented the
tenham with housebreaking exabilities in every way. Thanks to Lowling prizes.
Savages who wear no clothes are member of a Cheshire division, he, The Royal Artillory easily won plained that they were unemploy the untiring efforts of the lead- Gregory played so much have in fore a fashionable and admiring
ed, and, being fed up with doing master, Mr. J. S. Shak, and to the 1921. Thus the mission of the West audience, a traditional ceremony, usually much better made about etated in an address to his con
It concession of the Government, an Indios man, although failing of its nothing, broke into a house.
unique distinction of the late Sir Watkin Wynne, of having been In Patron: H.E. Major-General C. C. was their first offence, and they area of rough ground facing the main objective, has done much to in which a new member is received the lower limbs than Europeans stituents that he "held the almost
School on the west side, approxim-put England on her mettle in view with graceful and learned speeches, were bound over.
ately one quarter of an acre, has of the sterner task ahead in Aus- writes a correspondent to the
the House of Commons for twenty Luard, C.B., C.M.G.
been allocated to the awe of the tralla. President: Lt. Col. L. J. Comyn,
four years without making speech." (of a Policoman at Tottenham
"Observer.” C.M.G., D.9.0., 2nd K.O.S.B.
Now there is considerable appre-
It would hardly occur to anyone
four years without making a Judges: Lt. Walter, R.A., Lt. motor-cyclist summoned for riding College, who will provide tennis
Habitual silence,, whether in or Dangerfield, R.A., Major Robertson, at night without a light): When courts and grounds for basket bail
retain the Ashes", so hardly won
the richest charitable. Institutions R.A.M.C., 2nd Lt. Duncombe, 1st/asked him' why he hadn't got a and volley ball, three branches of hension Test-we should be unable to to think of the Academy as one of eloquent. They say I am lucidi speech."
out of. Parliament, may be capable It is, however, the in France.
of learned psychological explana-, Queen's Regt., Lt. Joy, R.A., Lt, light he replied: "Why, because I sport very popular with the young two years ago from Australia after the cricketers of that great Domin-
It is the special quality of tion. The man-in-the-street will Martin, R.E., Capt. Perfect, 2nd haven't got a lamp.”
The area allocated was original-ton had had possession of them for fact that the property of which it
is the owner is estimated as being Liberals that one permitted most likely attribute it to extreme K.O.S.B., Staff Sgt. Blackmore, Husband at Wood Green? When ly in a very rough state, but this
tanny years.
worth more than 600 millions of reasonable degree of disagreement sensitiveness or nervousness-to my wife came home I went for is being gradually transformed.
So Many "Liven."
francs, or, well over £4,000,000,
with -one's follow Liberala. Hallke of being in the limelight. ward to kiss her and she slapped When complete it will be fenced
It cannot be said that the last Over half of this sum.ie represent Liberals are not a dragooned party. But the curious thing is that around by wire netting 12 foet
the chateau of Chantilly, Sir John Simon, K.C.
nervousness, more or less naute, is “ my face.
high and will provide an excellent day's play in the Test Match wased by
present in some of the most pro "My wife's tongue is like a sjam-outlet for the energy and sporting re-assuring. Slowness of the open-whose last noble and royal owner-
lific speakers, and has been an ad- M.C.: Regt. Sgt.-Major Parkinson, bok," pleaded Christopher Strange, activities of upwards of 800 stuing bats (Hobbs lingering long in bequeathed it to the Academy.
. “You'll get run in," said the pede mitted trait of some of our most at Croydon, to a charge of assault, dents, and partially solve the very the nineties, as he did against Aus- There are other chateaux, however.
There strian to the cyclist, "If you ride eloquent statesmen. Committee: Lt. Mattingley, 2nd and was bound over to keep the vexed question of junior play-tralia at Lord's, in 1926, scored at There is that of Chaalis.
an average pace of fewer than 40 is
Langeais, in without a light."
Between nervousness and the gift K.O.S.B., 2nd Lt. Duncombe, 1st peace and pay 43. costs.
grounds on the Peninsula.
This excellent scheme has not runs an hour) and failure of the Touraine, with its fine collection,
"You'll get run into," responded of eloquence there seems indeed to Queen's Regt. Lt. Dangerfield,
There are R.A., Staff Sgt. Blackmore, R.A.O.C.
Willesden Magistrate: You are been carried through without the middle batting (Hammond, Leyland, of medieval furniture.
The tub-thumper who disclaims welcome, but you live in Padding whole hearted help of the College Hendren and A. P. F. Chapman those of Nohaut, where George the rider as he knocked the other be a large measure of sympathy. C/Sgt. Dodds, 2nd K.0.5.B., Pte.ton, so why do you come to me? from the Headmaster down to the made. 22 among them) were hardly Sand lived, and Abbadia. There You'll get run in, too," said the tremors in any sort of situation may All have volun- compensated for by an unexpected are many other smaller properties, policeman as he stepped forward and talk and babble as he may, but he The Applicant: I've read so much youngest pupil.
stand between two bowlers. One and peasants have even been known
is never effective. On the other about Willesden, sir.
tarily contributed to the expenses absorver says that when Hobbs re-to leave their farms to the Ag-Beized the cyclist. of the playing ground, but the ul-turned to the pavilion he looked ademy, with their cows and their along without a light, so the police power in the finely strung tempera Just, then another scorcher came hand, there is a secret driving. Final results were as follow:
Fisherman at Southend: I earn timate cost of completing this en- Inter Battery-Company-Detach-
Sunday's rest had evidently not been Much of this caermous capital man was run into, too, and had to ment that may procure eloquence, “I can always tell when I am going ment Relay, teams of 7. 400 yards what I get. The Chairman: But closure will be considerable, and "pale and haggard," and that his pige.
to make a good speech by the chill in all (cup presented by Soldiers how much do you earn? Fisher- the promoters hope that support enough to get rid of his fatigue.does not produce a revenue. Chan: run in two. Club)-1, 12th Heavy Battery, man: What I get. And I earn it, will be forthcoming from gentic This looks ominous for Australian tilly and Langeals are kept up as
born of fear of failure which runs long-distance cricket. It is true show places, and there are restric-
through me," said Canning. Royal Artillery; 2. 20th Heavy Bat-too.
that on three successive occasions tive testamentary dispositions with sum for the first discoverer of the tery, R.A.: 3, "B" Company, 2nd
welfare of the local youth general-we have put up good scores against regard to some of the other places, cure of Asiatic cholera, and there GLADSTONE'S APPREHENSIONS Batt. King's Own Scottish Border-
Gladstone once remarked to a bowling as good as we are likely to The Academy was nevertheless are also smaller prizes for the all- meet in Australia, but Hobbs, able in 1927 to distribute nearly thor of the best work on the amell-friend "Every great orator from Sutcliffe and Tyldesley will not there five millions of france in prizes. oration of the human race Demosthenes to Burke has suffered from nervousness on the eve of an have so many lives given them be-
Now those who have occasionally physically, not morally--and A
not Important speech; and although I hind the wicket.
read on the title page of a French scholarship for a zoologist, book the announcement that it is being a Government official, who cannot share their gift of silveru "crowned by the Academy," or have shall study the invertebrate animals speech, I can claim more than a fair share of their defect of nerves." heard of its literary prizes, may of Egypt and Syria. envy the French author for the INCREASE AND MULTIPLY." large eum which is yearly, at his
Dr. Lewin E. Hertalet of the ease.
be mistaken. Not quite four per Lee./Bdr. Hall, R.A.; 3, Plc.
Transvaal
I am not a crank or a faddiet, cent of the five million francs was Conway, at Bait. Queen's Royal
Man at Romford: He hit me in
There is one organ of the body, and am well aware of the danger given in prizes to writers; the re- Regt.
the face, and, of course, I had to reoccupying two to three thousand of overstressing the value of any mainder went in' what have come Officers' race, 75 yards (cup preturn the compliment.
square inches of space, and weigh new method; I am also fully alive to be known as "prix de vertu," or ented by H.E. the G.0.C.):-1,
in several pounds, that is directly to the practical difficulties surround-prizes to working-class parents who Capt. P. Perfect, 2nd K.0.S.B.; 2, Nottingham Defendant: The tem-and intimately associated withing the matter, especially in Eng-have large families. Lt. R. Q. F. Johnstone, Durham par is all on my wife's side; I am practically all the great systems, land, but I ask the following ques Light Infantry; 3, Lt. Martin,
such as the circulatory and itions in the hope that they wil Royal Engineers.-Lt. Johnstone, peaceful and angelic.
excretory, and that
Recorders: QMS. Warne, R.A. Claridge, 2nd K.O.S.B.
ers.
RESULTS.
P
men in the Colony who are inter- ested in the College and in the
Charged at Croydon with being drunk and disorderly, a man said: ly. "I was born, bred, and broke in Army Boya' handicap, 76 yards: this town." -1, John Green, R.A. (rce, 5 neca.); 2, James Crossan, 2nd K.O.S.B.
(ree. 6 scca.); 3, Sydney Hutchin-band off, but I used, no vulgar
Bon, R.A.P.C. (rec. 7 seca.).
Army Championship, 75 yards breast stroke, 75 yards back stroke
Derby Woman: I told my hus-
fractions.
SKIN AND SUN.
WONDERFUL EFFECTS OF
NEW TREATMENT. -
Many ardent sun bathers.in.the
"The Irishman who can give up East will endorse the opinion ex-in appearance and texture of the and 75 yards free style (cup pre-drink at any time ought to have a pressed in the following letter to skin itself, toning up of muscles, nented by Lane, Crawford, Ltd.):-
down.
*Lance/Bombardier Norris, R.A medal.". Mr. Pope, the North Lon- the British Medical Journal from as well as the actual cure of dis-disposal as rewards. They would Sciences and the literary prizes of of remaining long in any one place
A.D.C. to the General, won 1925-6-7.
don Magistrate,
In
ed a bottle of beer at the driver of a 'bus. Woman (indignantly): It was an empty bottle.
Army Girls' handicap, 50 yards: 1. Nan Crossan (rec. 5 secs.) 2, Joan Leppard (rec. 3 secs.); Gama Fleetwood (rec. 5 secs.). ·
160 yards championship (cup presented by officers of the Small
live. Gifts of boots and Units)-1, Lee./Cpl. Finlayson, 2nd K.O.S.D.; 2, Lce./Bdr. Norris, clothes won't feed us.
summ
Behind the normal composure of John Bright there lurked a consider
It is only
It la said of this great man that for These prizes, of the Academy of some days before he introduced bis Home Rule Bill he was incapable the French Academy are, however, or position, and that it was only as nothing as compared with the en- the care of his devoted wife that ormous sums devoted to encourag saved him from becoming a nervous ing the French people to multiply wreck. encouragement which meets with peculiarly little national result, may be said in passing.
able degree of trepidation. It was FREAK PRIZES..
It was at the beginning of the very near the close of his Parlia There are also a certain number nineteenth century that the Baron mentary life that he said, "I sup bas more receive full consideration and due of freak prizes, of which the de Montyon left a
of Constable at Old-street: This functions than most of the other support..
pose I ought to be ashamed of my capital left by the testators
has money in rentes, producing self, but the fact is that I never rise woman was very drunk, and hurl-
organs put together; it has, how
1. Have not, by our towns, been slowly accumulating in con- 18,500 francs
year, for ever, heen neglected for centuries,smokes, clothes, houses, windows, sequence of the impossibility of the Academy to distribute annually trembling at the knees, and a secret. in the House of Commons without a except by the manicurist, the chiropodist, and the dermatologist. climate, and civilised conventions, finding a suitable applicant. These to the father of large families. The wish that somebody else would However, in these days of, acting starved our skins of sunlight, shut prizes are even more frequent in fund has been increased. by many catch the Speaker's eye and enable Wife at Willesden: We've got to therapy this delicate and influential them off from healthy contact with the Academy of Sciences, the sister other legacica, meat of them anonyme to sit down again.
of the French Academy, mous. The servant girl who left when I have succeeded in getting old organ
is slowly coming into its moving air, and by systematic body
ician is neglect and bad treatment hindered Such is the Pierre Guzman prize her savings and the farmer whethe ear of the House that I get away rightful place.
them from playing their Important of 100,000 francs, which in to be left his pigs to help France to be- from myself and my wretched
and strong were awaking to its value in diagonals
: nerves." and its importance, as a medium part in the maintenance of normal handed to the first person, of any come numerous
nationality, who may succeed la among the donors, who, however,
So also with Disraeli; to him of treatment, but it is the helio-
2. May it not be that this con- communicating between the earth also included givers of larger sums, there was torture in the anticipation a case by therapeutist who is realizing, as
especially directly and any other heavenly body, the and
вли of an important speech to te never before, the surprising direct dition of things is and indirect effects which the pro-responsible for many of the diseases rules of the game being that he Madame Cognacy, the childless delivered before that most chilling per contract of sun and air with from which civilised people suffer? must not only send a signal, but founders of the Samaritaine shop, and nerve-destroying audience in 9. Is it not possible that here receive a reply Mars, by the way, who far exceeded the gift of the the world the House of Commons. being barred, as the testator con- original Baron Montyon, by placit is common knowledge that on lies the way of escape from Local cricketers generally will
I have had experience for three ravages of tuberculosis cancer, and Bidered that it was already suming at the disposal of the Academy such occasion, his anxious wife lay, teams of 7, 400 yards in all;-
ciently known, and doubtless that a sum which produces four and a usually accompanied him to the 1. British Heavy Brigade, Royal be pleased to learn that Mr. F. M. years in giving (real) sunlight other diseases?
4. Should not the following his money would-be too easily and half millions of francs a year. This House, but her attitude was that of
eum was given by Monsieur and Artillery; 2, 2nd Battalion, el Arculll, the Indian Recreation treatment and taking sun bathe,
a tactful woman: she did not worry K.O.S.B.; 3, Small Units.
Club bowler who was involved in under what, I admit, are ideal con-axiom of Leonard Hill apply to die quickly won.
The pro-
As for the interest on what may Madame Cognacy in their lifetime him with conversation, because,
did not although he was the sweetest Enlisted Boys' Race, 50 yards: a motor accident on Thursday, is hitions so far as altitude, sunshine ease of many kinda? 1, Boy Durrant, 1st Queen's Regt.; progressing favourably. The hours, and climate generally are perly fed and well sunlit person be called these dormant prizes, the Monsieur Cognace, who
(sub Academy is fortunately empowered long survive his wife, died last
tempered of men, ho was always 2, Boy Dunlevy, 2nd K.O.SE.; 3, extent of his injuries is such, concerned. This experience, and need never fear the cold"
occasionally to employ it in what year.
very irritable when he was going to Well may Richelieu have said to Boy Bathgate, 2nd K.O.S.B. however, that it is not likely that my reading on the subject, convince stitute "disease”).
5. Knowing, as we do, the great are described as "urgent works."
spook," 25 yards dash: 1, Lee./Bdr. he will be out of the doctor's me that we are on the verge of great
I increase brought about in the re- Some of it was recently devoted to the first president of the Academy!
LORD CURZON. Hall, RA.; 2, Staff Sgt. Blackmore, hands for another two months.
discoveries in this particular. have seen and personally experienced sisting powers of the tissue by the the repair of the life in the his name was Jay, like the mai some of these effects, such as the graduated action of sun and air building of the Institute, which was den name of Madame Cognacq Sandy, the genial Scot, was hav- increase in bana! metabolism, im on the skin, does not this open a perhaps as good a way as another "The Academy has before it a very invariable sign which the late Mar- different destiny from that which quis of Salisbury gave of his in- & Singapore Brigade, Royal Artil- ing a look round London when he provement in weight, rise in blood wide field for activo preventive of getting nearer to a planet.
There is also a prize of a similar may at first be supposed."
R.A.; 3, Pte. Faulkner, 2nd K.O.S.B. -Lee./Bdr. Norris won in 1926-7.
"Absolutely a masterpiece," said High Diving, 12 feet dive (cup Mr. Hay Halkett, at Marylebone, presented by Messrs. Steel and of a plan drawn for Coulson, Ltd.)-1, Pte. Cole, lat P. C. James Hogg... Queen's Regt.; 2, Lce/Bdr. McGee,
R.A.: 3, Pte. Conway, 1st Queen's
Regt.
MR. F. M. EL ARCULLI.
Inter Battalion and Brigade Re-
Royal Army Ordnance. Borps; 3,
Lee./Cpl. Finlayson, 2nd K.O.S.B.
* Indian Relay Race:-Hong Kong
the whole skin can produce in the body generally.
health?
Jery beat 3rd/15th Punjabi Regt. happened to meet a comrade who pressure and temperature, change | medicine?
Services Relay Race (cup pre- was delighted to-meet his fellow- sented by the H.K.V.D.C.)—won|countryman and for conversation
by the Hong Kong Volunteer De-they both adjourned to a saloon. fence Corps.
After a while Sandy askeel his friend
+
Points gained towards Aggregate if he would have a drink,!"Weel; Cup-Royal Artillery 60, 2nd Batt. it's a hot day," said the other. "It's King's Own Scottish Borderers 88,no matter what I have, but gie me. 1st Batt. Queen's Royal Regt. 11, somethin' wa guld head on it!? Small Unita 9.
"A" reicht!" replied. Sandy, then to the barmaid. "A drapo", Scotch Major-General Luard, said that for mean a halfpenny stamp for before making his wife to give away ma friend hero!".
GENERAL'S SPEECH.
the prizes he would like to kay a
-Lew words with regard to the after-
noon's sport... This was the fourth
year that the South China Com cession. Another man of his bat
and had held its annual swimming tery had given him a rare struggle arts but he had no hesitation in for the coveted honourg Ma
ying that he had seen improved After referring to other events, wimming; they had, however, a including the diving, in which they great deal more to learn before had been treated to some graceful bey reached the required standard. performance by Private Cole of the He-referred to the excellent per- Queen's Regt. His Excellency said formance of the Hong Kong Valun- that he would like to thank Lt.Col. tor Defence Corps which was bet Comyn and other officers associated ter than that put up by the men of with him for the trouble they had the Command. Nevertheless he was taken in connection with the after- ared to say that the latter had noon's sport. He thought that in swum hard that afternoon, spite of the weather, they had had Referring to the children's an enjoyable afternoon. All the ovents, His Excellency said that events were carried out with the they had done very well indeed, minimum of delay, adding consider showing evidence of having been ably to the success of the meeting. well taughtrice
B92 Finally he thanked the Victoria Re- The Army champions wad creation Club for the use of the won again by Leu/Bdr. Norris, bath and the services of the Hinos-
his being his second: vescein zue, mén
BALL CHAMPIO Colony Championship: C. P. Of Murtagh, U.S.
the
BASEBALL CHAMPIONS.
Monsieur
for the
extreme fight Nis
Old Parlamentarians recall the
tention to speak, of a nervous vibra- tion of the knees. Sir WXHam Harcourt would hardly have been auspected of any degree of timidity. but when once asked if he ever felt nervous, he replied: "Of course I do; and if I did not I should think · it quite time to retire. Nor did the late Marquis Curzon, of clam, collected mien, always approach the making of a big speech without some Indication of nerves." When a member of the House of Common, he once said "I cannot simagine a worse fature punishment then the dreadful anticipation of a House of Commons speech when one is al- ways fearing to catch the Speaker's eye...
Though tco old and practised a⠀ hand now to suffer nervous - dis- comfort from either the anticipation or the delivery of a speech, Lord. Balfour in his earlier days-was a victim to the common ailment. I presentiment am 50 oppressed by
of failure,che onde aald
of a set spesch
the eve
I would give
anything to be allowed to turn taŭ
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