WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1929.
Sport Columns
TO-DAY'S SOCCER
INTERPORT PRACTICE
GAME
LEAGUE MATCHES
An Interport practice game will take place at 4.30 p.m. to-day, the following meeting a Royal Navy eleven on the H.K.F.C. ground:-
DOG RACES
LARGE DROP IN WHITE CITY CROWDS
CLOSE SEASON SCHEME
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The public are notified that gll wireless receiving licences auid | during 1923、expired December 31,,
1928.
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The White City, where, a year ago, den crowds packed the stands for greyhound-racing mest- Ings, presented a different specta-year cle on a recent Saturday night. Fifteen months ago the peak at was placed at 87,000. On Saturday a
generous estimate placed the crowd at 20,000.
Clarke; Wynne (Capt.) and Lai Yuk Tat; C. F. Remedios, Hill and Hedley; Larkin, A. Gosano, Gold-tendance man, Suen Kam-shun and Rocha.
Interport practices will take place on the Hong Kong F.C. ground every Tuesday and Thurs- day under Mr. R. Campbell,
Trial games will be played on Wednesdays until the Chinese New Year All games will be played on the Hong Kong F. C. ground. ·
Hong Kong League Small Units and R. A. moet on the Sookumpoo ground in a Divi- sion 1. League match at 4 p.m; to- day. Referee: Mr. F. Smith.
Mid-week League (Kick-off at 4 p.m.) P.W.D. Chinese v. China Athletic, China Athletic ground. Referee: Cpl. Shond,
Hong Kong Polkce v Hung Kul School, St. Joseph's ground. Ite- feree: Sgt. Bunting.
Lam Long Wan v. South China, Caroline Hill, ground. Referee: | Cpl. Lees.
The above games complete the fixtures in the Mid-week League. Two gumes have been ordered to be replayed, South China v. Ewo and South China v. Hung Kui School. Dates to be arranged.
M.C.L. SOCCER MATCH
The special M.C.L. Football Match, The Army versus The Rest of the Colony, resulted in a sum of $1,150.44 being handed over to the Ministering Children's League, The Committee are very grateful to all who supported this match and helped to provide this splen- did donation.
RUGBY
The Hong Kong Fooball Club (Rugby Section) will field the fol- lowing, team against Mr. Matting ley's Services XV. on Saturday at 4 p.m.
at Happy Valley:-S, J. Fox; H. G. Mills, G.. A. I Plummer, H. V. Koop. (Capt.), R. H. Dowler; J. L. Bonnar, V. W. L. Stanion; P. L. P. Thomas, H. F. Akehurst, W. Lithgow Smith, J. Riddell, E. R. West, B. P. Massey, W. Beveridge, R. P.. Moodie. Referee: H. F. L. Ewin. There will be a full practice to- morrow at 6.15 p.m.
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The average attendance last year at the White City is claimed to have been 50,000. In the last few
months well-informed people estimate the average at 14,000.
attendance
People Interested in the sport are now suggesting that it would benefit by a close season of two or three months. An effort la being made to get all the tracks to close for a month at least.
the the
In the White City Stadium spectators seemed lost in vast arona, though there scenes of great anima- round the bookmakers in the cheaper enclosures. There were whole tiers of empty seats.
were tion
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The most deserted part was the "Worryin 10s enclosure, where there were | "Happy," only a few hundred people.
There
John Henry. Comedian.
De Groot and The Piccadilly Orchestra.
were only eleven bookmarkers in the ring where there were once | fifty. One of them informed a representative of "The Daily Tele- graph" that there were only 350 They Called 'It You," bookmakers present at the track
"La Sourge Ballet,"
Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. ""Senorita,"
Melville Gideon. Baritone. compared with a thousand former- "Gems from "Rio Rita," ly. He also complained that basi-"Gems from "Maryland," ness was tame.
· Victor Light Opera Company. "The Hair,"
Most of the people who attend greyhound racing at the White City now, it seems, are habitues. They go week after week with un- failing regularity. Among these regular patrons it was not denied that interest in greyhound racing needed stimulating.
reasons for the declining attend- ance were advanced.
are
Related by Bewick Rolland. "I've Something In the Bottle,” "Same As His Father Was Before
Him,"
Sir Harry Lauder. Numerous "Ballet Egyptian Suite,"
Victor Concert Orchestra. Some blam- "Mrs. Cohen At The Beach,"
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"I have no doubt," said one man, "that the majority come now for the betting only. thousands flocked to see it as a At first new and diverting spectacle."
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"Vocal Gems From The Bohemian Neopolitan Trio,
Giri,"
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"Such a Li'l'Fellow,"
young tennis players it is almost certain that some real champions will arise, and therefore one can say with confidence that the outlook for the future is bright. It is just as well that this is so, for we cannot That's a very promising lad.regard the 1928 soason with any Carpentier on Dave Forbes, the considerable degree of pleasure."Cohen On The Telephone,"
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Mla Suzanne Lenglen. In a letter.
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Alma Gluck Soprano. "Stradella," Overture.
10 p.m.-News Bulletin.
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