THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1932.
KING'S THEATRE
TO-DAY ONLY
...
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
THE WISE-
CRACKETEER
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CURRENT SPORTING GOSSIP
PROBABLE ELEVENS
CRICKET.
League 1.
Craigengower, v., Navy Civil Service v. University
R. Artillery
Recreio University Police
v.. Hong Kong C.C. League IL
v. Indians
v. Civil Service
v. Craigengower Friendly.
Hong Kong C.C.. Engineers
C.S.C.C.:-
B. D. Evans (Captain), J. E. Richardson, G. R. Sayer, F. J. de Rome, E. B. Reed, F. J. Ling, F. Baker, D. McLellan, R. H. Griffiths, 3. Barrow, and R. M. Wood,
H.K.C.Q.:-
H. Owen Hughes (Captain); H. J. Armstrong, A. C. Beck, J. E. Davis, E. R. Duckitt, R. P. Edwards, W. D. Folley, G. E. Mirehouse. E. J. R. Mitchell, A. Reid, and J. M. Sunley.
C.S.C.C. II:~~
RUGBY FOOTBALL
Kowloon v. Medway
Kowloon:-
Skinner; Black, Whitley, Hut- chison, Ferguson; Kilby, Crozier; Cogan, Bonham, Kerr, Riddell, MacNider, Wilson, Brokenshire, Bowden.
Reserves: Davies and Muller.
HOCKEY.
H.K. Ladies' v. Herald H.K. Ladies' II. v. St. Andrew's
H.K. Ladies:-
M. Bird, E. M. Gray, J. Smalley. ¡E. O'Hagan, B. M. Pope, E. Ross, A. McElney. M. A. Jones, P. M. Harrop, A. G. Orme and H. Knill.
H.K. Ladies' IL:-
HOME FOOTBALL PROGRAMME.
English and Scottish Cup Ties.
TO-DAY'S ENCOUNTERS.
Bury Newcastle
English Cup--Fifth 'Round.
V. Stoke City vi Leicester C. Wednesday. v. Chelsea. Watford v.. Bradford Portsmouth + Arsenal Huddersfield v. Preston N.E. Manchester C. v. Derby C. Liverpool... v. Grimsby
Scottish Cup-Third Round.
J. Harris Walker, M. King, A Clyde Nicol, J. Whyte, A. Owen Hughes, Dundee U. B. Franklin, E. S. Laing, M. Smal- Hearts
H. E. Strange (Captain), A. E.ley, C. Ferguson, E. Blackburn and, Motherwell
Wood, J. F.
Edmonds, R. Randle,
McGowan, W. H.R.King.
H. Woodman, S.
F. E. Matthews, R. G. Robertan, A. W. Grimmitt, and N. Bebbington.
H.K.C.C. II.:-
R. S. W. Patterson (Captain), F. A. M. Elliott, L. B. Smith, L. A. Whipps, J. R. Way, W. Stoker. C. E. Gahagan, L D. Kilbe, R. R. Davies, J. R. Rattan, and P. W. J. Planner.
Recreio:
H. M. Xavier, A. Prata, H. A. Alves, Dr. A. P. Guterres, F. J. Remedios, J. H. Figueiredo, L. J. Silva, A. P. Pereira, L. J. Guterres, H. A. Barros and F. H. Carvalho.
GOLF STARTING TIMES.
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v. St. Bernards
V. Kilmarnock
V. Rangers Y. Celtic
The following have received: a bye into the fourth round:--- Airdrieonians, Partick, Dunferm- Hine and Hamilton-Reuter.
The Secretary of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club supplies the following list of starting times 10.12... `R, C. Webb, H. P. Bailey. for Fanling to-morrow:-
New Course, 9.28 a.m. P. S. Grant, R. C. Law. 9.36 Mrs. Sherry, S. S. Cook. 9.44 J. E. H. Cogan, H. Lowe. 10.24, 10.32 G. V. T. Marshall, E. D.
Matthews.
P
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· Old Course.
G. L. Davidson, A. S. Adamson.
10.16
10.20
R. A. Campbell, D. G. Bruce.
C. Williamson, R. Wal- aham.
10.28
P
J. P. Sherry, W. A. Stewart.
9.16-9.20 a.m. Not to be booked 10.32 by travellers on 8.28 a.m. Train.
9.24 a.m. E. Lewis*, E.
MAJESTIC
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9:20 PM.
"LASCA
OF THE
RIO GRANDE”
with
LEO CARRILLO, JOHNNIE MACK BROWN
DOROTHY BURGESS, SLIM SUMMERVILLE.
JACK OAKIE The Gang Buster"
*
a Paramount Picture
COMMENCING TO-MORROW——
RALPH LYNN YVONNE ARNAUD -
AND
IN
with
JEAN ARTHUR,
WILLIAM BOYD
Club
v. St. Joseph's Chinese League.
Sung Ching v. Athletic "A"
Yee Woo
v. Athletic "B"
8. China "B" v. S. China "A"
Club:~~
Booking at The Theatre
66 'TONS OF MONEY
ALWAYS A GREAT SHOW
Telephone No 25113
HARMSTON'S CIRCUS
Last Week in Kowloon Now Showing 3rd Complete Change LAST TWO MATINEES SATURDAY and SUNDAY
፡፡
at 4.15 p.m. Children half price to Matinees.. Sunday, 14th February last night in Kowloon.
Booking at Moútrie's.
W. HARMSTON,
Proprietor.
CLEO
R. BELL, Representative:
Why are wrinkles and furrows produced by age.
circulation and the gaseous metaboliser in Because or he skin become
become inadequate
It is very easy to remedy the matters and to preserveja face from wrinkles by practising face massage CLEO of German Scientist. Heinrich Heckel, Nails.
Use Cleo and preserve your face smooth
and free from wrinkles. Heinrich Heckel, Nails (Bayern),
Son Axents for China PJ SAERY SIRYK
Middie Road
S. J. H. Fox, R. Stock. 10.52
H. Hampton, D. S. 10.56 Edward.
W. S. Hilller, H. H. Mundy.
R. M. Henderann, T. R. Chassels.
G. T. May, F. M. Hartley,
s A. Leach, R. Young.
A. C. I. Bowker, C. B. 11.00, Brown.
H. B. Dinsdale, E. R Price:
5. S. Perry, J. N. Grant:
dea 10.36
FA
Voeux*
FOOTBALL.
9.28
J. W. Alabaster*, I. W. 10.40 Shewan",
20
J. G. Boal, R. H. Mc- Bear.
First Division.
9.32
H. W. Dulley, W. Rigg. 10.44
L. Yates, E. J. Edwarda.
"
v. St. Joseph's
9.36
Borderers Recrelo
v. Kowloon
L. A. R. Duncan, G. | 10.4% Thomerson.
10
v. Police
9.40
"
Second Division.
9,44
Navy R.A.O.C.
v. 12th Battery
v. Club
9.48
1
Third Division.
11.04
H
Engineers
v. Air Force
9.52
**
Recreio
C. W. F. Booker, W. 11.08 Mulcahy,.
>
9.56
"
G. C. Worrall, L, M. S. Lloyd.
11.12
J
10.00
2
L. R. Andrewes, J. B. Lanyon.
11.16
*
E. J. Dowley, G. W. Garrett.
10.04
#4
Rodger: Poley, Strange; Railton, Skinner, Baldwin; Duncan, Sega- 10.08
E.. O. Priestley, C. Mycock.
11.20
$4
G. H. Wilson, E. B. Lammert.
len, Strange, Bell and Fowler.
A. D. Humphreys, L. D. Denham.
ent.
J. Selby, A. 0. Brawn.
W. C. Shields, W. R. Vallance.
N. K. Littlejohn, J. E. Richardson."
* Get caddies from Superintend-|
GOLF PUZZLES THAT
ARISE
[By C. B. MacFarlane.] was being cut. The greenkeep-Some think that the ball must Why is it that so many golfer did not see my ball, and it ran make a complete turn, but this is ers do not know even the elemen-into his machine and brought him not so. tary rules of the game?
A query arose. in a match the other day which ought to have been easily decided on the spot: yet of the four players concern- ed one said that he was not sure and the other three gave a deci- alon which turned out to be
wrong.
up with a jerk.
But if a ball merely oscillates
The machine spoilt the ball; | and returns to its original posi- which was badly cut by the tion, in golf it has not moved knives, and I had to drop another and there is no penalty.
certainly onc, as the first was unfit for play.
Another little-known rule con- cerns a moving ball in the middle
Once, the player) has taken up his stance and grounded the club, if the ball moves in penalty stroke is added to the score." "And if the "ball moves during the swing there is still a penalty stroke to be exact ed, told me had no mapa Sarant
of the swing. from a Barrow.
Played Bobby Jones once landed his ball in the greenkeeper's small Playing to the ninth hole one wheelbarrow in one of his early of the four struck a ball which championships in America. He appeared to go out of bounds. He did not know what to do, so he dropped another, which finished climbed into the barrow, where within a few feet of the flag he found his ball beside an old stick. The out-of-bounds penal-shoe. With his niblick he walRecently a player in a month- ty is distance only on this course. |loped both shoe and ball on to On coming up to the place the putting green. But he could where the first ball was likely to have dropped the ball without be, it was found on a heap of penalty cut grass deposited there by the greenkeeper, and was not out of bounds. The player, suggested that he could pick up and drop without
but the others
Many golfers are unaware that they may play many shots with a provisional ball until they come to the place where the first ball: is likely to be.
If, for instance, a player, is lucky enough to hole out a long shot with the bradale with the provisional ball, he may deem the first ball unplayable whe ther it is or is not, pick it up,
demurred: **This was entirely wrong. The cut grass left there by the green keeper came under. Rule 11, which relates to course upkeep, and the proper procedure was to and count the score with one drop the ball not nearer the hole stroke being added as a penalty without penalty Had the ball for the unplayable ball. lam under a roller or a cutting machine the same procedure should
that once when
The player himself is the sole judge of an unplayabl
When Has a Ball- Then there
about a ball moying z moved
E
ly medal competition, missed a short putt and in s fit of pique struck the ball away from the holeside He claimed that he ought to be allowed, undera penalty of two strokes, to replace the ball.
struck the ball away, that was.a This be could not do. Having
stroke and he had to play the ball from its new position. iv 7 saw this actually happen in championship. The bail, finished up in a bunker from where: the disgruntled player, find to re cover and then hole out other- wise he would have been dis qualified
O
Yet if this player's caddie had lifted up his ball from the hole- xide in error sa has often been done, when he oug to have lift! ed out the flagati thed a two Latrok?
ould have been" Toper
Overland China Mail.
A WHOLE WEEK'S NEWSPAPERS IN ONE.
The Sino-Japanese dispute now proceeding space at Shanghai is growing graver and graver. Reports show that the Japanese have launched a big offensive, but that the Chinese forces are holding out meritoriously. On Sunday: (February) Japanese destroyers shelled Woosung Village, aided by Japanese troops and several armoured cars from Shanghai, C
Filled to the utmost of its accommodation, the majority of the passengers being from Shanghai, the &.&. Empress. of Russia arrived in Hong Kong on February 8.
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Interesting stories of the situation in Shanghai were told by passengers.
The situation a at Shanghai and the stories of recent arrivals from there are fully chronicled in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.,
At the 82nd annual meeeting of the Board of Education, held on February 3, the Board considered a letter from the Head Master of the Diocesan Boys' School advocating the substitution of a Leaving certificate; examination for the... present University Matriculation examination as the final examination in English schools, such examination to be conducted either by the University or by the Education Department,
The following resolution was carried.
"That the Board recommends to Government that "the Senior and Junior Local Examinations be abolished and 'that a School Leaving Certificate 'be substituted therefore." The OVERLAND CHINA MAIL gives a detailed report of the meeting.
In the witness box of the Central Magistracy on. February 9, Mrs. J. W. Franks; the wife of the Superin- tendent of Prisons gave her testimony in the case in which the driver of a motor ambulance is summoned for danger- ous driving. The case came before Mr. W. Schofield.
Mr. Horace Lo defended. The case, which was adjourn- ed, is reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
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