THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1929.
Sport Colymas
HOME FOOTBALL
CELTIC GET A POINT AT DUNDEE
NOW IN THIRD POSITION
Dundee, Yesterday,
in Division I. of the Scottish Football League to-day, Celtle visit- od Dundee United, the match and ing in a draw of two goals each. Reuter.
Celtic improve one position in the
TREVESSA TROPHY
JAVA LIJN'S "CREMER" VICTORIOUS
SPECIAL BOAT COMPETES
Twelve boats took part yesterday in the semi-annual race for ship's life bouts, for the Trevessa Trophy, under the auspices of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, commemorating the won |derful fent of a merchant vessel's crow
is a fight for life.
The course was from Channel Rock table, by superior goal average over to Kowloon Rock, Cust Rock buoy, Kilmarnock, and also have a goal intinish at the Yacht Club The Java The clubs stand as indient-Lijn's "Cremer" provided the winding hand. ed below:-
and the third crews. Goals.
One entry from the 5.8. "Neleus" P. W. D. L. A. Pts. Holt's) was ineligible and the Club Aberdeen ...12 8 3 1 33 19 19 offered a special prize of $80 if it won, 128 13 16 bal it took fourth (unofficial) position. The winners of the last race, a erow from the Douglas Co.'s as. "Haiyang," led by Mr. J. H. T. Twibill, Anished fifth, having the misfortune to use a leaky boat.
Rangers Celtic Kilmarnock
Huarts
Motherwell
St. Mirren
Partick
Hamilton
Bundle
Ayr ...
8 1 2 18 6 17
295
7 2 2 25 15 16 21 15 21 1 14 6 23 21 1 6 1 4 23 13 13 62 4 20
20 17 12 21 20
Cowdenbeath 14
Falkirk
St. J'atone
Airdrie
5 23 25
5 12 14
4 2 5 17 24 16
3 2 0 17 20 10 7 13 19 Dundee U...11 3 2 6 16 24 Clyde ....1 2 2 7 18 26 Hibernians 11 2 2 7 Marton 21 22 7
11 Queen' P. 11 2 1 8
TWO 2ND DIVISION LEAGUE MATCHES
· HIGH SCORING
Times returned were on follow) —
Time. Entry.
1. Cremer, J.C.J.L...
(Mr. Klasen)
2. Haiching. Douglas,
(Mr. Johnson)
3. Gremer (Mr. Hyder)
Neleas, Holt's, (Mr. Broad)
(Mr. Ide)....
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THE CHINA MAIL,
HARBOUR RACE·
GOLF
VETERAN SWIMMER COMPETES | STARTING TIMES FOR SUNDAY
AT LAST MOMENT
JOHNSTONE WINS
Altogether 17 competitors faced the startar yesterday in the annual har- bour awin. Among them was the veteran, Mr.. C. J. Cooke. The start was made at 5.20 p.m. at the Railway Pier.
From the start Pereira shot for- ward with Johnetone in close attend. ance, Cooke was left behind for the first two hundred yards, but he kept
straight course.
Juhnstone soon overtook Pereira, and at the quarter-way mark had taken the lead.
course.
Cooke maintained the straighteat courge and got second place, with Pereira and Finlayson next, the latter two taking a more easterly Johnstone made a audden deviation from his course, and swam obliquely to wards the east, but shortly afterwards realised his error and then swam straight towards the winning line.
Cooke, Pereira and Finlayson were in a straight line parallel with the winning mark, but the veteran had the best course and finished second to Johnstone, who took 28 minutes 32 Reconds to complete the course. Cooke's
time was mine. 22 secs,
Only nine seconds separated Finlay. san from Pereira, while Chan Chan hing, who finished fifth, was nearly 57.26 four
touching the
minutes later in winning mark. 59.27:
Only one swimmer falled to complete 1.00.49 the course, Leung Sui-tong returning 1.01.11 in a ampan
AT KOWLOON
Remedios and
I
A. T.
The following are the starting times at the Kowloon Golf Club on Sunday for the qualifying round of the Club Championship:
9.04.-W. Borrowman and H. G.
Howard. 0.08.--F.
Braley. 0.12.-R. W. Sapsod and H. W. Page. 9.16—J, S. Smith and A. Eastman. 0.20.-J. H. Austin and E. da Rozs. 9.24.-A. A. Dand and W. 9. Hillier. -0.28.-J. O. McLaggan and H. Overy. 9.32. D. C. Wilson and J. D. Thomson, D.36.-J. McKelvin and T. J. Price. 9.40.Mackintosh'and J. J. Cameron. 9.14--W. Groves, A. A. Lopes and
da
F. E. Remedios. 9.52.-F. E. Skinner and A. W.
Roza. LURE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RULES
(By Harry Vardon) Thore la certainly no game like golf in its capacity for creating long and lively discussions on the subject of the rules.
In
Any
I suppose the reason is that un- expected situations are bound to occur more frequently at golf than other sport, game, or pastime, because it is the only com- petitive recreation which people pursue in a setting of Nature, over the sand dunes by the sea or the expanses of the countryside, with all their inherent features.
Hunting has this attribute of naturalness, but it is not exactly a
The following were the finishing 1.02.08 positions and the times of each com- competition between individuala.
2 C. J. Cooke ... 3 L/C. Finlayson
4LRoza-Pereira
The other sports and games take seca place in fields of prescribed size
and character.
PUBLIC MONEY
SUPPLEMENTAL VOTES FOR THIS YEAR
OFFICIAL EXPLANATIONS
At the meeting of the Legisla- tive Council to-day the following Supplemental Votes will be con sidered:-
Education Department:-Labora- tory: $250.
Provision made in Estimates: $2,400.
This equipment was provided for in 1928 Estimates. Owing to late arrival of the goods this amount was not spent. The equipment has now arrived and a Supplementary Vote of $250 is re- quired to meet the cost of goods. Public Works, Extraordinary: Cheung Sha Wan Refuse Dump: $1,800.
Provision made in Estimates: $5,000,
timates: $7,500.
Amount provided in 1928 Es-
The increase in expenditure is brought about by more rock than was anticipated having been on- countered on the cutting face when getting the soft material necessary for covering the rubbish
deposited from Sanitary Barges.
The above la to be met from savings under Married Quarters, Laichikok Prison.
Police Force-Telegrams: $300. Provision made in Estimates:
$600.
Owing to an Increased number of telegrams sent in connection with Indian deportees and infor- mation received concerning pro-
An interesting question concern-jected piracies: the vote of $800 Is
ing the rules of golf (and the sup- ply of such points seems inexhaus- tible) will bring every player in the company in the thick of the do- 49bate, no matter what his age or 14 handicap.
13 21 19 32
4. Hinsang. Indo-China,
21
5. Haiyang, Douglas,
petitor:
(Mr. Twibil)
2.03.11
4. Kaying, B. and S.,
1
J. R. Johnstone
(Mr. Parker)
1.06.03
28 82 31 22
Kwangchow, B. and S.,
82
50
(Mr. Fox)
1.05.30
32
50
8. Cermer, (Mr. Van de
Berg)
3.06.02
9.
Kwangsanig, Indo China, (Mr. Harrison)
Chan Chan-hing E. W. Railton Look Man-wai
36 40
87 01
39
39
1.00.58
Loung Sul-man
39
Henry Keswick, Kowloon
Young Yuen-wah
39
Docks, (Mr. Groundwater) 1.15.1810
not in official count.
H. M. Remedios
35 28
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11
Pte. Parkes
39 49
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Presentation of Trophy
12
W. Foraita
41
03
13
Mr. H. S. Rouse, in the absence of the Vice-Commodore of the Yacht Club
E. da Roza
43
14
Lau Ming-on
4.1 17
15
(the Hon. Mr. A. C. Hynes) observed
L/B Greenway
46
00
10
Ceorge Wood
49 08
17
Leung Sul-tong did not Anish.
Yesterday two matches in the 2nd 'Division were played. The contending teams were K.O.S.B. and R.A.M.C., and the Somersets and R.A. The re-† 16. sults were as follows:- K.0.5.B. Somersets
The first game was played at Soo- kampoo. It was a tame affair, and
5 R.A.M.C. & R.A.
.... I
the K.O.S.B. had matters all their own
way.
that it was the 12th race held, and ex The Somersets and R.A. match on pressed considerable pleasure in pre- the Railway Ground, resulted in an-senting the trophy to Mr. Blaise, De- ather uneven match,
puty Superintendent, Hong Kong, of
The Division 1 game, K.O.S.B. v.the Java-China-Japan Lijn.
I heard recently of a profound argument which raged round a rulo
that is unknown, I should say, to
exhausted.
It is estimated that a further sum of $300 will be required up to December 31.
Sanitary Department:-Rent of Quarters for Scavenging Coolies: $60.
Provision made in Estimates: $3.160.
48 nine golfers out of every ten. It The rent of No. 187 Woo Sung
is Rule 33, and it reads: "When Street occupied by
scavenging
a player has holed out, and his op.coolies was increased by $10 per ponent has been left with a stroke month as from July 1, 1929. for the half, nothing that the player who has holed out can do |shall deprive him of the half which
Police, was not played, the Police fall- Mr. Rouse also presented a silver DEBTS OF HONOUR he has already gained.""
ing to field a team. The K.O.S.B. tura-cup to Mr. Klasen, the successful
red out at Soakumpon, and after wait-coxswain. ing 20 minutes, Mr. F. Smith declared the game off.
Kowloon Tenms
The following will represent the Kowloon 1st team versus Royal Navy on their own ground on Saturday,
Nicholls; Gillott, Pile; Hedley, Downinn, Bliss; Pile, Gallaher, Easter- brank; McKelvie, and Miles,
Reserve: Eastman.
The following will represent the Kowloon Second Eleven versus Club de Recreio on the latter's ground on Satur- day. (Kick off 3 p.m. sharp):---
Augu; Hannan, Hast: Seddan, Springett, Campbell; Exotman, Spary, Moss, Contes, und Bickford.
Reserves: Moore and Morgan.
Mr. Klasen said he received the trophy with pleasure. They could bo sure that on the occasion of the noxt race, if there was one of their steam- ers in port, they would do their best to keep the trophy. (Applause).
CRICKET
ANOTHER INTERPORT ON SATURDAY
The following elevens will play in an Interport trial match on Saturday at the H.K.C.C.:-
H. R. B. Hancock (Captain), A. C. I. Bowker, W. Brace, Major Crake, E. C. Fincher, E.. F. Fincher, H. Owen Hughes, A. H. Musson, H. V. Parker, T. E Pearce and J. R. Reynolds.
SHAMEFUL CONDUCT BY SUNDERLAND PUNTER
WOULDN'T PAY UP
The above is to be met from savings under disinfectants.
struck by the opponent's ball, in The founder of the argument which case the player so interfer. asked:"What on earth does this ing would ordinarily be penalised mean? I have discussed it with by the loss of the hole. But the friends and also with our profes- golfer who has holed out does not sional, wito is regarded as an take that risk, and the only way authority on the rules; and nobody he might conceivably suffer the can give me an explanation. How penalty would be for his rival to could a player who has holed out,aim deliberately and truly-at and made certain at least of a half, him.
"If people bet they incur debts of honour, and those debts ought to be paid, but the law says that any one who likes to plead these Gam- be deprived of his half? It seems So that Rule 38 may be said to ing Acts can escape their gambling to be one of several rules that are exist as a provision against this debts," commented Judge Richard included for the purpose of mak- unthinkable action. That is sure- Bon at Sunderland county court re-ing the code as long and pompously good ground, for expunging it, cently.
as possible."
.
Herbert Marn White, a provision
Facing Both Ways merchant, of Cleveland Road, Sun- It must be confessed that this derland, successfully pleaded pro-rule can even cancel another rule, tection under the Gaming Acts and that does indeed suggest that when he was sued by a London com- one or other of the two rules is mission agent for a £52 bat.
wrong and unnecessary. White's conduct, said the judge, was shameful.
A case bearing on the point came under my notice. We will call the
If a player after holing 'out does interfere with his opponent's ball, he deserves to lose the hole for his carelessness, even though he has seemingly made certain of the balf. The other side is still contesting the hole,
Parochial Politics In local rules-now so flourishing Charles Clarke (trading As sides A and B. A had holed out. a growth that they threaten in time E. B. Reed (Captain), D. J. N. Charles Read, of Panton Street, B, who had played four strokes, to undermine the St. Andrews code Anderson, L. Goldman, C. Hold Haymarket, London) was represent- asked A how many he had taken.incongruities are rife. man, W. Hung, Kelly, W. A. H.ed by Mr. L. Cowen, of Newcastle, A replied, "Six; you have that putt Maxwell, A. Reid, A. A. Rumjahn, who said that in the first and second for the hole." J. E. Richardson, V. W. L. Stanion weeks. White lost £3 and 2 and B putted and missed. A then said: and F. Wyatt.
then be had a winning spell. In "I'm sorry, I had only played five; the three successive weeks he wou you had that putt for the half." over £65.
In Rule 4 it is explicitly atated that "a player is entitled at any
H.K.C.C. 2ND XI.
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WHITE STAR LINE PROJECT TO VIEW AMERICAN GAME
Within recent months, in Rugby football circles, a growing interest has been taken in American Rugby, a game which, beyond the name, is a closed book to British players, most of whom regard American Rugby football as a game which is a cross between a prize fight and a wrestling -match. The interest has now taken HL D. Armstrong (Captain), T. H. a practical turn, and the White Star Ashworth. G. E. R. Divett, G. P. Ling, at the desire of a number of Lammert, E. J. R. Mitchell, O. Moor, prominent "Rugger" men, has or. H. R. Remington, C. A. L. Rickett, ganised a tour-the first of its kind J. A. Summers, E. R. West and R, 3
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This tour is intended to appeal primarily to Rugby men who are no longer on the playing list, as it must necessarily take place during the British Rugby season. The match chosen for the tourists to witness is the one between Princeton Universi- ty and U.S, Naval Academy, at Princeton, NJ. on October 26.
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There is, for example, the locali condition that obtains on nine courses out of every ten, that a ball may be cleaned on the putting green. No doubt it seems very un- fair to have to play a putt with a lump of mud sticking to just that BOOKBINDING. The H.K.C.C. Recond eleven to this he paid, and asked that his time during the play of a hole to part of the ball which has to be meet the R.A. will be:
credit should be extended to £50. ascertain from his opponent the struck. During a long period of "This was permitted" proceeded number of strokes the latter has the year, and in any case in wat Mr. Cowen, "and in the first week played; If the opponent gives weather, mud is inevitable on most White backed up to the hilt, and wrong information as to the num-courses. lost £52, which is the subject of ber of strokes he has played, he Some clubs interpret this local this action. During the few weeks shall lose the hole."
proviso so rigidly that they allow he had business with Clarke, White In this instance, A admitted that the ball to be cleaned only within was the winner to the tune of over he had inadvertently given wrong the legal confines of the putting £40,"
information, and the penalty for green-that is, within twenty yards actually he had taken the fewer players who, returning the lowest that is plainly loss of hole, although of the hole and I have heard of
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scores in competitions, have been disqualided because they conduct- cut turf generally regarded as the ed ball-cleaning operations on the|
putting green, but rather more than the statutory twenty yards from the hole.
the merits of the American and Brit-White's explanation that his specu
Judge Richardson, upon hearing ish codes.
lation had been successful, said: "You took the £40 that you won, and apparently you knew that in gambling for £60 you were unable to pay the losses."
In the organisation of the tour, a pamphlet has been published, which includes a full report in the journa lese jargon of the American Press as exemplified in the New York "Times", of last year's match be- tween Princeton and U.S. Navy; a comprehensive survey of American football; and a programme of the Itinerary.
The party, which will be person- ally conducted by a White Star offi- cial, himself a player and well known in the Rugby world, will be limited to 50 members, and it is fully anti-
The tourists will leave from cipated that this number will travel. Boston on Sunday, October 27, in the They will hear a lecture on Ameri- White Star liner "Albertic," for can football before the game, and Liverpool, being due in the Mersey after it there will be a discussion on on Monday, November 4.
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The baseball game scheduled for Saturday between the Filipino Club and the Hong Kong Club has been for fetted to the latter Club. Instead there will be a special game between the U.8. Navy and the Kiaoras Club at 3
p.m.
Rule 83, which proclaims that once But then there is the negatory a player has holed out and left his opponent with a stroke for the half, nothing that the player can do shall deprive him of the half.
There is no cross-reference in either of these rules, although they contradict one another.
I suppose the object of the rule of absolution for the person who has, holed out, and made certain of a half at least, is to guard against any such contingency as that of him or his caddie, or his clubs, being
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