TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1931.
Rugby
JUST A QUIET GAME
[By Robert Magill.]
Rugby football is not a bad game,
Every
1 like it because it is the same as a political debate in Ireinul. body gets some of the fun.
two people In Association only can play at a time, the chap who kicks, and the one who gets kicked instead of the ball, but in Rugby
some know when body is going to pick on you just inclined to bung the, ball on to some- body else.
you
never
It is the nearest appifanen 'to the feminine sport of attending a bar gain sale that we have, and if it were not for having to watch where the ball is occasionally, it would be a very pleasant and chummy way of You spending a wet afternoon.
full oftener when it is muddy, but you are not so likely to shake things Anti- off the mantelpiece in the poder.
I have played a Bitle. 1 used to until some co- play stand-off half wardly big brute stood me on my hend before i had time to get rid of the ball to a three-quarter.
Said one, ing over the fence. "Look at that, how. They've only been playing half-an-hour, and one! or two of them are out of breath al- ready. When 1 WIL A young man→→
"What can you expect?" said No.
"They're not in training. They| dash about on these dratted motor- bigysles where we used to walk. reamber"
2.
There was a serum that lasted before somebody three minutes
a couple of worked a wheel, and men lay down.
"Flabby lot!" said No. 1. "We' didn't call it n serum unless it lasted! twenty minutes, and we'd dug! emselves so deep in the ground that the halves used to have to help us out.. Now in '92-"
the
At Blackheathi
The referee blew for a forward: pnas, and everybidy obeyed him, ani stopped, It was charming to watch how they forgot all their enmity at the sound of the whistle.. But my old friends didn't think so. Bah!" said No. 2. "In my The Ini ia
never heard an embarrassing young days you possession. It attracts the atten-whistle unless the referen blew it to tion of all the other players, and call the police. they are so eager to play with it once--" that even the most selfish person is inclined to hung the ball on to somehudy else as soon as possible, After that i went forward, but I was too ticklish in the scrum to make a success there, and when I went to full back they told me I was 100 kindhearted. I hated to inter-
But
He broke off to watch a full, back, i who grabbed a mun as though he'd; just, met his income tax inspector,! and tore his jersey off. The two old boys nearly. wept.
"Did you hear that?" said No. 1.) "He actually apologised, the sissy." | At this I could stand no more, I.
stones
THE CHINAL MAILL
Christmas At Home
"In half minute Mr., Dickens Veems to have gathered; Cratchit entered flushed, but together all the reasons, why smiling proudly with the every year Canmilians from all puiding, like a speckled cannon- over the Dominion look towards fall, so hard and Bem, blazing England and the old-fashioned an half of half a quartern of ignited brandy, and berlight with Christmas holly stürk into the top."
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fere when some sixteen-stone op-bribed two Httle boys to throw ponent was coming for me at more than twenty miles an hour. apparently the game is not what it I stopped the other afternoon to watch a match, and there were
at the bloodthirsty olden K wretches. And I don't believe them!
was.
Not very many words, ut words Chartes those few
anyway, because in those days play. Wall, e Morkel, b Bell ers wore sidewhiskers, and they Ironmonger, e Cameron, b Bell
Total dare not be rough in case somebody,
two pessimistic old gentlemen lean-pulled them.-Sunday Pictorial.
AUSTRALIA'S BIG
VICTORY.
'
1
C. L. Vincent, not out
South Africans Lose by
An Innings.
VINCENT AGAIN BATS WELL.
Sydney, Yesterday. Australia gained an overwhelm- ing victory over the South Africans here to-day when they won the Second Test match by an innings and 155 runs.-Reuter.
Scores:--
South Africa-1st Innings.
B. Mitchell; b McCabe ...
3. A. J. Christy, e Nitschke, b
Grimmelt
D. P. B. Morket, st. Oldfield, b
Grimmett
H. W. Taylor, e Lee, & Grimmett
1. B. Cameron, b Wall
E. L. Dalton, b Grimmett
K. Viljoen, b Ironmonger
HAND
E. L. Brown, b McCabe
N. A. Quinn, 1.b.w., b McCabe
A. J. Bell, b McCabe
Extras
Total
Grimmett Ironmonger Lee
31 Bell
2.Quinn
5. Morkel
Christmas.
And the ghostly smell of that Christmas pudding, "like an eating house and a pastry. caul's next door to gach other, with a laundrera's ngxt door to
6
0
151
Our Sports Diary.
Total
469
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
LOCAL
0. M. R. W.
46.5 6 140
5
0 0 95
1
0
-0
33 1
0 0
75
2
0
0 100
1
0. Vincent
1
4 Brown
South Africa-2nd Innings.
159 J. A. J. Christy, c Woodfull, b
Ironmonger
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
41
0. M.
B.
WB. Mitchell, e Oldfield, b Wall
24
Wall
18
3 46
H. B. Cameron, b Wall
0
McCabe
12 5,
13
4
24 12
28
4
D. P. B. Morkel, 1.b.w., b
Grimmett
17
12 1. 3B
1
H. W. Taylor, e Grimmett, b
7
1
24
0
Ironmonger
Australia-1at Innings.
K. Viljoen, c and b Grimmett
0
5В
C. L. Vincent, e Ponsford, b
Grimmett...
35
127
GE. L. Dalton, c Bradman, b
Ironmonger
14
W. M. Woodfull, e Mitchell, b
Vincent
W. H. Ponsford, b Quinn
K. ligg, b Bell
1 D. G. Bradman, c Viljoen, b
Morkel
14 S. J. McCabe, e Christy,
Vincent
2011. C. Nitschke, b Bell ......
7P. K. Lee, c Cameron, b Brown
11 W. A. Oldfield, e Cameron, b
Bell
21
37 Grimmett, not out
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E. L. Brown, c Wall, b Lee
112 N. A. Quinn, st. Oldfield, ́ b
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79 A. J. Bell, not out
47
0
Extras
Total••••KA
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
Wall
McCabe
Grimmett
Ironmonger Lee
9
7
1
14
161
R. W.
31
2
25. 0
44... 4
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RUGBY FOOTBALL-To-day-- Army v Navy at Stokunnos at 4.15
Tourna- pn. (Triangular
meat).
BOXING-To-morrow-H.K.B.A. Tournament at Theatre Royal at 9 p.m.
HUNTING - Te-morrow -- Fan-
Hunt Rounds (Kennels) a p.nl.
Saturday-Fanling Hunt Meet (Anandale) at 2.46 p.ňí.
HOCKEY-To-morrow
Hang
Kong Hockey Club v. H.K.S.R.A. on the U.S.R.C. ground at 5 p.m.; Borderers v. Radio Sports; Uni-
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GOLF Thursday to Sunday- R.H.K.G.C. Christmas Meeting.
Sunday-Completion of Round of Kowloon Golf Junior Championship.
FOOTBALL- Friday
GLASC
an influence on that!", las steamship passenger officials as they make up their sailing lists.
This year
the Canadian Pacific is arranged four sail- ings from Saint John, N.B., de- signed to allow home-ward bound Canadians to reach even the re motest parts of the British Isles In time for the great Christmas festival.
SERAPIS DEFEAT THE R.A.M.C.
Ng Sze-kwong. Billiards Tourney:
H.M.S. Scrapla met the RA.M.C.
in
MR. WELLS DOES NOT SEE IT THROUGH
SOME GLOOMY FEARS IN HIS. NEW
250,000-WORD BOOK.
Fr
"Are you dealing with hard fasts like the pound and the gold standard?"
Mr. H. G._Wells, prophet, and, scientist, has, written his greatest wark-a book of a quarter of a million words on the preasing pro- Yen. As a matter of fact, that, blems that face you and me and the particular chapler was written moro world in general.
than a year ago.”
The author revealed to me thei scope and aim of the book, which will shortly be published (writes a Daily Express correspondent.)...
It will be called "The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Man-
kind."
We walked over from Mr. Wells' spacious suite in Baker Street to e favourite corner of his in the Botanic Gardens to talk about it.
Mr. Wells is a lover, of nature,
the sixth match of the first He looks down from his sumptuous round of the Services billiards'
Prophecy Danger,
He mentioned the names of many. financial experts who had looked through that particular chapter.
"What is very pleasing," said Mr.: Wells, "is to find that although thes Tense has had to be altered things. have so come to pass that no funda- mental alteration of the chapter has had to be made.
"There is a petty enreful analysis of the whole alump, from 1929 on- 'wards,"
"
"Is this book very abstruse?”! "If I am not told that it reads. lika a novel I shall feel that I have missed my vocation."
"Does it deal with economic facts in advance; in the near and distant future 22
"It is a descriptive book, but it is not a
prophetic work.
It goes as far as to say 'If so and so is done, so and so must follow."
"You are not going to tell us we should all sell out and run for our lives ?"
"There is always difficulty in pro- phecy; You can never tell which horse is going to be a head in front- of any other. People may be all TUI for trying to sell out and safety; but there is ne 'safety for individuals.
"Either the situation itself is go- Ing to be safe or made a catastrophe. by panic and stampede.
Jt. is just those fellows who are rahing about and trying to make n turn on the market who are going to upset the ship."
Social Breakdown.
Mr Wells talked of the social breakdown that might be brought about.
"It would be rather appalling to tournament for the Ng Sze-kwong fourth-storey flat, with its rooms challenge cups at the Sailors' and lined with books, on the human have to fare, but I think a social Soldiers' Home last evening, and anthill swarming with life beneathbreakdown due to want of unity, won handsomely by four games to him; then he strolls quietly round to shart-sightedness, and cowardice is where the Hags and water-lilies more likely than not at the present
the chrysanthemums time.. grow and
one..
Scorea:-
H.M.S. Serapis. P.O. Hiscock
C.P.O. Welch
the ntass
bloom in glory. Here he can digest "I shall take a deep breath, and of information which feel myself very much safer if I books and people give, and solve in quietude the problems of, the modern
150.
150
S.B.A. Kearney
150
C. Stoker. Leclere
100
CJamos,
First Club
P.O. Parker .... R.A.M.C.
118
Sunday
Sergt. Tidd
129
140
86
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The next match...is to be held to-morrow evening between H.M.S. Suffolk and the Argyll & Suther land Highlanders.
LIP-READING IN THE DIVORCE COURT.
Deaf Mute's Marriage,
! reading."
ANNOUNCEMENT!
Not "An Outline."
find myself in a stealy world in. 1934."
I was anxious to know why he had fixed this date. Was the world
And here he led me to talk about to be a storm-tossed, sea for three- his book.
"No," he said, in reply to my in- "L.do not call it an 'outline quiry. of economics. I have indeed been a good deal exercised in finding, a title.
As the work has grown have found the title changing-the changes amusingly show the way the book has developed.
"At first I was going to call it "The Conquest of Power!,"
years?"
We are
"I think," said Mr. Wells, "that by that time we shall know if the boat is going over or not. very much up against it now,”
"What do you mean by a social breakdown?"
"I mean," he said slowly, "the destruction of confidence in money so that you won't be able to carry
You
hava will industry. Mr. Wells explained that the idea enormous masses not only of un- then was to show mankind being re- employed people, but starving peo leased from toll by the coming of ple, who will be angry, disposed to
on
power and the difficulties arising violence.
"
In the Divorce Court Lord from that adaptation. Then he "You will have people in au Merrivale granted decrees, nisi thought of writing in collabora thority, frightened by the crowds Nearly everything required in.
in eighteen nullitysuits, the tion with a man of engineering and provoking them in all sorts of this country for food or manu-
majority being husbands' peti-knowledge and an industrial ways by repression," facture could be produced in the The economist's task is done tions, There was no defence ex-scientist.
Then, with, the utmost serious- British Commonwealth, the part when he has diagnosed the disease cept in one instance. ·
He collaborated in "The Science ness, he added:-
"Behind it all famine, pestil ners in which should devise some and indicated the remedy; the rest!, One of the petitioners was a of Life" with Professor Huxley
ence, The world carries nearly arrangement whereby its potentimurt-be left to the men of action. deaf mute, whose evidence was and his own son, Mr. G. P. Welle. alities could be developed to their Professor T. Gregory (London interpreted by means of "lip- "But this time," said he, "It two thousand millions of people mutual benefit.—Mr. J. H. Thomas. School of Economics.
didn't work, for the idea of "The Well, It can't do that. unless the Conquent of Power was not.com-crops grow and the trains run and
the shops are open. prehensive enough."
title, "And if the trains don't run and Then...he, considered the "Selence of Work and Wealth," and the shops don't keep open and there. last of all; "Work, Wealth, and Hap-13 no money in people's pockets to buy anything, what else can you piness," which stands.
And "These changes really mark the have but a famished crowd? increasing realisation of the domin:what will a famished crowd do?
Curious to know more concerning ant importance of, the, psychological factors in human affairs," he said. the bid of the book, Dasked Mr.
"For instance, the development. Wells if it were sectionised.
Map of Humanity. of a thing like a Diesel engine is a wonderful matter in its way, but a "Yes," he said, and proceeded much more comprehensive and in Indicate the sections.
"A review of the regions of teresting thing is the way in which human beings behave in contempla human and social organisations, tion of a Diesel engino,
sections on how mankind is, fed, how "Gradually the book has become mankind is clothed, ald how man more and more a statement of the kind is housed, transport and com present situation of mankind... It munications between man and man, Is the first attempt to get... the working of the Industrial ma- diagonale of the human problem,chine, loading up to a study of with all the factors assembled in money, which is the flux of the oce one picture."
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"And so on to an examination of monetary, financial, political and: educational methods.
"And what I have been really at- ***If,” he concluded, "you can find! Lampting, now he said, "bar been a human being who will not fit is ta make a similar sort of survey of Lomewhere in the book you will have? of the whole social body of man-joought me napping. It will bot kind, and not only to describe. Its small scale map, but even with a processen, but to find out what is go small scale map you ought to be able, ing on with a view to Anding out to pat your finger on it and say, I what has to be done."
am there
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