TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1931.
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OLD ENGLISH INN GAMES.
Amusement on the
Countryside.
THE
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MAIL.
middle maybe, like the atops of suspended by string from a coll- some old shring, and coins whiching boam. A sturdy hook, which have survived generations of use the ring may just reach, is fasten- are the tools for the real shova jed in the wall eight feet from the ha'penny. I know one inn in ground. You stand facing the Sussex in which the board has hook, and must swing the ring so been in use for over a hundred that it sweeps down and, up and years. Two of the coins are on to the hook. Each competitor Roman, found on the land near has, usually, twenty-one throws, by; the other three were French although some other number may currency when France had a king; be agreed upon, and he who gets The board is marked across in the ring on the hook most often lincs, just wide" "enough apart to wina. Inn games us a rule do not re-take the coins. Each space has vive their popularity until Octo- ber's long evenings give the lel to be filled thrice. You may aver- age one in five, when you start; sure they demand. But this year the expert summons cloth and oil wear; the hook had
[By Jack Heming.]
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the weather has been responsible for an abnormal activity behind many a creaking sign.
Unless you have played in the villages you
cannot guess what'
to rural Eng-with a these games mean land. Towns and cities give a sufficiency of recreation for any man, but the villager must make his own. Darts, Shove Ha'penny, Ringing the Bull-you may know they exist, but do not measure their importance.
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The
ring
I played was pitted with 880
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with
and
Berles
of packings. round where it entered the wall. Roth had been when it
Installed In the house was built nearly three hundred years ago.
Tond in the Hole,
too, is dis- This was also appearing.
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with which to polish the board surface if he gets only four.
Ringing the Bull is almost dead. It has served its purpose in pro- viding a game without rules and score which a man with
has serv ten fingers can keep. ed for many
wager before simple game of skill, easy to pro- schools, dotted the land, but to- vide for and easy to play. A day something a little more chal-square box, covered with lead at the top, in the middle of which lenging is demanded.
was a round hole, and discs which just fit the hole,' are all the fit- ments. The discs are thrown 80 as to fall into the hole, and the score is reckoned according to how often this is accomplished, or how near the shots go. I know of only one place where this is now played, and that is in Sussex. Many an old skittle alley to-day houses the table and chairs of the ubiquitous lounge. The game was never over-popular after the days of the horse traveller, although you will come
alley here and there to-day, treasured merely as a rellc rather than pre- served for use.
The first few games do not open your eyes to the fascination of darts. The clusive narrow strip, which doubles your score seems a freakish interpolation, until one memorable day you'll get one; you'll win a game. Then in a Hash all is revealed, and you ac- jquire a sudden Interest in the mysteries of stance and flight, jand, above all, arithmetic.
AUSTRALIAN "GOODWILL SHIP" | Brisbane, in which prominent
REACHES MONTREAL.
The board in round, divided from the centre outward into twenty segments, scoring various- ly from one to twenty. The usual game between two players is 101 up, and I defy a Senlor Wrangler to beat your dart experl at arriv- ing at "what's left."
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It is still played in one very old Kentish inn. An iron ring is
officials and business men took] Now, too, the shove ha'penny part, and while she was in St. boards have a wintry gloss, and Lawrence approaching Montreal the bottoms of the coins gleam she was greeted by the Prime like burnished gold, 08 they do Minister of Canada, in a unique only with constant use. This is two-way radio conversation with another game demanding the fin- the Captain of the ship which est delicacy of touch and no little was broadcast over a network of judgment. How #uch mighty Canadian stations, and trans-muscles and horny hands can and soft mitted by beam wireless to Eng-strike a blow so light land and Australia,
remains a mystery to me.
Some boards are slate, some coins are filed flat
ons side: ATLANTIC FLEET COMMAND.these, too, have usurped time. Good mahogany, worn in the
Montreal, Que. Completing the first voyage since the new trade treaty with Australia went into effect, the "Canadian Constructor" of the Canadian National Steamships has arrived at Montreal with a Jurge and representative cargo of Australian products. The ship- ments include wines, canned fruit such as pineapples, sugar, oranges, raisins and currants, veneer timber, peanuts and other tropical and sub-tropical produce. A large part of the cargo in des- tined for Ontario, and tranship- nient to the Canada Steamship Lines freighter, City of Toronto, has been arranged for the trans. ference of these shipments to Toronto. The "Goodwill Ship" will return shortly to Australia with a representative of Cana- dian goods. It is expected that the new treaty will do much to stimulate trade between the six- ter Dominions, particularly both Canada and Australia pro- duce many things which are mutually interchangeable, owing to the differences in climate and in the scasons. A hearty send-
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Admiral Sir John D. Kelly, K.C.B., hoisted hla fog in the battle-
ship Nelson at Portsmouth on! October 6 ns Commander-in-Chief,} Atlantic Fleet, in succession, to Admiral Sir Michael H. Hodges, who relinquished the post on ac- count of illness. Rear-Admiral R, M. Colvin, C.B.E., Capt. A. E. Evans, O.B.E., and Capt. F. Burges Wat son, D.S.O., continue in their ap- pointments ac Chief of Staff, Cap- tain of the Fleet, and Flag-Captain) respectively. Lt.-Cmdr. D. P. Evans! has joined the Nelson as Flag Lt- Cmdr.
was
Capt. S. J. Meyrick, who recently eclected as Naval Secretary to the First Lord, will vacate his present appointment as captain of the R.N. College, Dartmouth, at the end of December. He will be suc- ceeded by Capt. N. A. Wodehouse.
off was given the "Goodwill commanding the gunnery and tor-
Ship" at Melbourne, Sydney and 'pedo cruiser Champion.
Pretty Movie Star Arrives
Teannette Macdonald, whose role in the "talkies"! was that of a queen in "The Love Parade" with Maurice Chevalier, reached Canada on the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain recently,.
·Hurrying back to start production on a new pleture with the popular Frenchman Miss Macdonald chose the sheltered St. Lawrence waterway because it would save her 24 hours over the fastest vessal going to New York.
At Quebec when the Empress of Britain docked thantar was mobbed by a crowd of enthusiastic movie-fans. Much regret was expressed that her visit, like the title of her new picture, was just One Hour With You,"
on
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- SULTAN'S SCOTTISH WIFE.
Coronation at Bharu.
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On a certain American war- of coronation of ship there is an unhappy youth
Old German warships, once the Mrs. Wilson, a Scottish widow who who is shortly to go home to face pride of the Kaiser's fleets, are not was married to the Sultan in Lon- the music. In Shanghai there is in demand in these days of peace.
"An attempt was made by the Ger- a fascinating cabaret girl who on October last, has been)
may or may not know that she is man Admiralty recently, to sell the carried out with great magnificence mainly responsible. The sailor battleship Lothringen (18,200 tons) at Bharu on November 19. The liked the girl as sailors have a and the cruiser Nymphe (2,900 tons) ceremony was very picturesque and way of doing. Unfortunately he by auction. There were no bidders. the new Sultaness, wheh leaving the liked her so well that his navy
They have now been sold to a firm palace, met with a cordial reception pay did not cover his expenses, of shipbreakers, the Lothringen on the part of the natives, who were He wanted to do great things for fetching 306,860 marks (£15,340) attracted by the pageant.
her. By an evil chance he found and the Nymphe 61,500 marks the way to a cash box a'minia- | (3,075). Part of the purchase ture safe on the warship to price for the Lothringen was paid which he belonged. He knew by the municipality of Kiel on the the combination, He managed stipulation that the breaking-up of to get the opportunity. There the old warship is done in Kiel was a hurried entry into the for- shipyards in order to provide work bidden cabin, the extraction of for the city's unemployed. the strong box which the sailor carried with him in the dark over the side to a sampan. On the way ashore he managed to open the box, take out of it its contents $150
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The Lothringen is 27 years old, and is to be replaced, under the German naval construction pro- gramme by the second of the 10,000. ton "pocket battleships" which have gold and caused a great stir in naval circles. throw the empty box into Whang- |-→→→→ poo, says the North China Daily | drama rapidly worked itself out. News, The sumpan put him The guilt was fixed. "Treat me safely on land. He had his great light on the way home and I'll· time so, presumably had the find, every cent" declared, the cabaret girl. But a police patrol unhappy moth of the cabaret- of the American Marines, put on girl's candle. Across the Pacific to the scent, caught him on the he will have to take his medicine. way
back to the ship. The What does the cabaret girl think?
Memo-Go Fishing!
"The fishing season of 1981 may iba to barracuda, from trout to stars, but the tune, from piko to pleasin, betulle erdent angler, packing away lila of them all in many an exciting. rods and tiles with a sigh, bas still | Lattle, whero sometimes hes and. many a fishing troat fastoro quite often his quarry came off through the medium of "Memo-bast. Canada is however hls'pre- Go Fishing.” just published by tao dilection, fudging by the amount Bobbs-Merrill Company and write of apano Ziving the Dominion: In. by Bob Becker, Internationally this beak of No over and The kdown fisherman and for the past French River, Nipigon tan years editor of "Woods and Lake of the Woods region are ther Waters" in the Chicago, Tribune, sosnes of many of his adventures Mr. Becker has played swordfish in and whole chapters are devoted to the Padfc; hooked sallfah in the the wily musky, and the fighting Gulf Stream; taken Dolly Vardon has that have made these waters trout from Alaskan waters, and famous. Photograph shows Init angled for golden' trout in lakes] phase of a battle with a trout on 11000 feet up in the Blerria. From the Nipigon River.
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