KINGS THEATRE
SPECIAL EXTRA SHOWINGS
οτι
Sat, 6th, Sun. 7th, Mon. 8th, Tues. 9th
at 11.45 am,
Adults .. $1.50 $1.00 55c. 35c. Children, 415 .30 30c. 20c.
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
Is she "Just another Another woman"?
plaything to be cast
aside? No! For her
he pledges
POWER
LOVE
LIFE!
VIRTUOUS SIN
THE
Booking at
The Theatre)
a
Paramount Pictur:
with
WALTER HUSTON KAY FRANCIS and
NEXT CHANGE
KENNETH MacKENNA
If You Have Ever Loved You'll Love These Lovers!
JANET GAYNOR
and
CHARLES FARRELL merely
Mary Ann
Her love melted the bars
of caste and convention which enged their souls
| ALWAYS A GREAT SHOW
The
China
Bail
SPORTS
Telephone No 25313
ALMANAC
THE BEST 50 CENTS WORTH
THE CHINA MAIL.
AUSTRALIA WIN GUSH ABOUT GAMES
FOURTH TEST.
Grimmett 14 Wickets for 199 Runs.
TEN WICKETS VICTORY.
Adelaide, Yesterday.
Australia won the fourth Test
ABANDON TALK ABOUT THE
INTERNATIONAL
BROTHERHOOD OF SPORT
[By R. H. Bruce Lockhart.)
1.
here to-day when they defeated Do international games make for A little extravagant, you will South Africa by ten wickets. International peace? Is the com-ssy, yet no more axaggerated than Expected resistance from Mit-petitive spirit in sport a factor in the sentimental gush you will hear chell, Taylor and Christy was not, the creation of International at any international sports dinner however, supported by the remain-friendships?
after a victory which the visiting! Ing eight batsmen who collected The GenevA mind says yes. team has been discreet enough to but 32 runs between them.
Earnest young men and brilliant concede to the home side. Requiring 205 to save the inn-athletes like Harold Abrahams and inge defeat the South Africans Douglas Lowe say yes.
Spectators With Daggers Old gen- It is against this gush and were only able to set their oppon- tlemen; who believe that Waterloo against this entirely false value ents 70 runs for victory. This was won on the playing fields of which is attributed to games that Woodful! and Ponsford found a some obscure educational establish-I wish to register a mild protest. simple matter.
ment and that a straight bat is an Twenty-five years' experience of Full scores as cabled by Reuter excuse for a vacuous mind, answer games in every corner of the globe were as follow:-
in the affirmative.
has made me cynical, and to-day I have come to regard the competi- tive spirit in international sport as one of the greatest potential fac-
South Africa-1at Innings.
S. J. Curnow, c Ponsford, b
Grimmett
B. Mitchell, c and b McCabe
J. A. J. Christy, b O'Reilly
H. W. Taylor,
Grimmett
e Rigs.
The noble army of martyrs who every four years endeavour to ex- 20tract money from our pockets for
76 the equipment of the British team tors of international discord, writes
7
78
b
62
and b
0
H. B. Cameron, Lb.w.,
Grimmett
D. P. B. Morkel, e
Grimmett
|K. Viljoen, c and b Grimmett
C. L. Vincent, 1.b.w., b O'Reilly
Q. McMillan, b Grimmett .......
N. L. Quinn, c Ponsford, b
Grimmett
A. J. Bell, not out
Extras
Total
308
Bowling: S. McCabe 1 for 34; O'Reilly 2 for 74; C. V. Grimmett
7 for 116,-
Australia First Innings.
W. M. Woodfull, c Morkel, b
Bell
W. H. Ponsford, b Quinn
D. G. Bradman, not out
|A. F. Kippax, run out
S. McCabe, e Vincent, b Bell.
W. Rigg, c Taylor, b Bell
W. A Oldfield, L.b.w.,
Vincent
b
C. V. Grimmett, b Bell Hunt, e Vincent, b. Quinn O'Reilly, b Bell
Thurlow, run out
Extras
Total
0
2
at the Olympic Games plead the R. H. Bruce Lockhart in The international spirit as an excuse Evening Standard. for their importunity.
war,
New Era Dreamers. A blind and ignorant democracy, echoing the voice of the interna- tionalists, saya games will replace Teach the Latin, the Rus- aian, the Portuguese, the Argan- tine, and the Slav to play games as the English and the Greeks used to play them, and peace and interna tional brotherhood will reign upon the earth.
By games these advocates of a new era, which will make Locarno and the Kellogg Fact unnecessary, include such highly professionalis ed contests as the Olympic Games, football of both codes, lawn tennis,
Historical precedent is on
my
side. In the days of the Roman Empire the rival factions of the Blues and the Reds in the Constan- tinople circus nearly cost Justinian his throne, and both players and spectators were accustomed to ap pear at the festivals with daggers concealed under baskets of fruit
In the Middle Ages the stone- throwing. contests at Perugia had to be abolished owing to the num- ber of deaths, and the bridge game at Pisa-a glorious forerunner of the Rugby scrum-was abandoned because of the number of deaths it caused.
"Devilish" Football.
82 golf, International polo and even Our Own history is full of
5 bridge.
diatribes against the evils of com.i
299
0
Hear the voice of Mrs. Ely Culpetitive sport which in the six-i bertson, the heroine of the recent teenth century was inter-county
2 Anglo-American bridge Test, who, rather than International,
35 after praising the game "for its Stubbes's "Anatomie of Abuses" merits of teaching patience, forti (1583) football is described as "a
23 tude, courage of thought, and the
0 peace will be won through the 23 ethics, the sportsmanship, and the
common sense of bridge." 513
Bowling:-Bell 5 for 142; Quinn
2 for 114; Vincent 1 for 110.
South Africa-Second Innings.
B. Mitchell, e Thurlow, b
Grimmett
S. J. Curnow, b McCabe
HL W. Taylor, b. O'Reilly
|J. A. J. Christy, b Grimmett .
H. B. Cameron, b 0.'Reilly
C. L. Vincent, b Grimmett
K. Viljoen, b Grimmett
devilish pastime, and hereof
groweth envy, rancour, and malice, and great effusion of blood.”
21 ability for taking decisions quickly and accurately," declares that "the 23 world war
to create a universal. Have we progressed beyond this point to-day? Frankly I doubt it. The one good thing that can be said about the Olympic Games is that they have not yet provoked a war. The day is not far distant' when football may lead to war be- tween the Argentine and Uruguay, It has already caused the sacking of a Legation, and my sympathies are with the manager of the French team in the Argentine who declared with the satisfaction of security: "We were diplomatic enough not to win."
95
3
61
84
4
5
1
D. P. B. Morkel, b Grimmett
15
Q. McMillan, C Hant,
Grimmett
3
N. L. Quinn, b Grimmett
1
0
12
274
A. J. Boll, not out
Extras
Total
Bowling: S. McCabe 1-for 51; O'Reilly 2 for 81; C. V. Grimmett
7 for 83.
Our Sports Diary,
HOCKEY --To-day-University v. St. Andrew's Club.
Friday-Hong Kong Club II. Y.M.C.A. at King's Park at 5 p.m.; Incogniton v. St. Andrew's
at Caroline HIL
GOLF-To-morrow-Completion
of Faurth Round of Taggart Cup (Ladies)
Friday Completion of Second Round of Ladies' Championship.
CRICKET Saturday- Hong C.C. Y United Services; c.o. v. Indian R.C. Second Division Police v. C.C. (L): University v. Hồng Kong Có.
FOOTBALL-Saturday First
Division-Borderers
V1
V
Police;
Club Navy;
St. Joseph'a v. Kowloon; Second Division-Uni- versity v. Navy; Club v. Kowloon; 12th Battery v. Borderere; Third Division-R.E. Recreio; Bor
THE HONG KONG C.C. ders v. Radio: Chinese League
ELEVENS.
Holiday Cricket,
The following teams will repre- sent the Hong Kong Cricket Club inf their matches over the Chinese New Year holidays.
The first eleven against United Services at 11 a.m. on Saturday and Monday.
H. Owen Hughes (Captain), H. J.
-South China A" v. Yes Woos Sung Obing v. South China "3",
I, myself, should not endeavour} ¡to referee, Impartially, a football match between Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary without a machine-gunį battalion on the touch-line.
If A French Bradman-! The visits of our professional teams to the Continent have pro- duced every sentiment except that of peace and brotherhood, and why we continue to play France Rugby football passes my compre- hension.
st
International lawn tennis is little better and sooner or later will pro- voke an international scandal, We can also thank our stars that the! Latins and even the Americans do not play cricket. 1 sbadder to
ASTON VILLA DRAW think what catastrophe might be
WITH GRIMSBY.
First Division League Football.
caused by an I.b.w, decision against a French Bradman in Bordeaux or a cricketing Babe Ruth in New York.
Nothing is more ridiculous than the lamentation that our receat failures in international sport are In the only English Leagueus abandon the whole sorry: Com
a sign of national decadence, Let
London, Yesterday:
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1932.
With
MAJESTIC
TO-DAY ONLY
AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
YOU'LL BE THERE: Where the fiery, war-bonneta appear on the hills! Fighting the thrilling fights, living the throbbing dan- gera!. Feeling the dush of vie- tory, the thrill of an inspired romance! It brings love to your heart! Laughs to your lips! Tears to your eyes!
Zane Grey's
FIGHTING CARAVANS
Gary Cooper Lily Damita Ernest Torrence.
A Paramount Picture
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS
NATHAN ROAD, OPPOSITE PENINSULA HOTEL, KOWLOON.
NEW PROGRAMME TO-DAY.
MATINEES Ery Saturday, Sunday and during Chinese New Year Holiday at 4.15 p.m.
Children Half Price to Matinces only. PRICES OF ADMISSION (Including Tazi Full Box to hold six ..822.00 Second Chairs $2.20 Single Beat in Box...1 4.40 Stalls Carpets 1.19 First Chairs pon.-€ 3.80 | Gallery
- 55 Booking at Moutrie's. Sundays at the Cirens. Boldlers & Sailors in uniform Half Price to stalls and second chairs only. Menagerie Open Daily from 8.88 AM, to 6.06 P.M. W. HARMSTON, Proprietor,
R. BELL. Representative.
NO NEED TO BUY A NEW DRESS.
TO GO TO THE SPECIAT HOTEL DANCES.
JUST SEND US YOUR OLD ONE. WE WILL MAKE IT
LOOK LIKE NEW.
THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEING CO. 19, Wyndham Ste 143, Wong Nei Chung Road,
Hong Kong.
Happy Valley.
36, Nathan Road, Kowloop.
73, Calne Road, Hong Kong.
BY SPECIAL REQUEST!
AT THE
Armstrong, A. C. Beck, E. football match played to-day As-mercialised business in which the QUEEN'S Duckitt, R. H. Griffiths, D. McLel-ton Villa visited Grimsby and few rich men who can afford to
lan, E. J. R. Mitchell, J. E. Richard-forced a draw of two goals-all-play are swamped by the host of
son, L. T: Ride, G. R. Sayer, and Reuter.
R. M. Wood.
T
The second eleven against the University at Pokfulum: P
R. 8. W. Paterson (Captain), R. B. Davies, J. E. Davis, FTA, M. Elliott, R. W. J. Planner, J. R Rattan, LB. Smith, W. Stoker, J. M. Sunley, J. R. Way, and L. A. Whipps, 192
the
RUGBY INTERPORT
"CANCELLED.
"Regret Interport must be was the wording of "received by the g-Kong, Rugby Club yes-
of the cancellation. of the Soccer Interport.
CIVIL SERVICE CC terday This follows close ou
LEAGUE TEAM.
Against Recreio.
The folk
Civil
the
HOCKEY
CANCELLEI
poor man who cannot afford to do anything else.
Games have a definite value In our lives provided that the "win, tie or wrangle" spirit is eliminated, and provided that we recognise frankly that they are a miniature form of warfare excelled only, as Sir Robert Baden-Powell says, by the more glorious sport of A hunting. For that reason games should be national and not Inter national.
Keep To T
Empf
TO-MORROW
ONLY
LIONEL BARRYMORE CLARK CARTR
A FREE COUL
NORMA