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CHAMPIONSHIPS
(Continued from Page 9.)
The Y.M.C.A Ladies, who brought off a brilliant victory in the 200 Yards in the H.K.L.A.S.A. cham. pionships, will again be favourites with the South China Ladies offer- ing a stern resistance.
Leung Favoured in 50 Metres The Men's 50 Metron Free Style Championship is expected to be one
night's programme.
that he will register a time within twenty seconds of the World's Amateur record of 2 mins. 44.2/5 seconds, set up by W. Spence of Canada in
1931.
HOW CUBA WON HER FREEDOM
(Continued from Page 6).
To harry the royal troops from ambush, and, when conditions were |favourable, to charge them with the machete, were the tactics of the insurgents.
Handful Against Horde ·
"The Handful and the Horde" is
The Spaniards sometimes had an The Ladies' 100 Metres Back exaggerated idea of the numbers of Stroke Championship may possibly (the Cubans, for it was the practice of see a new champion in Miss Leung the latter to fire on the enemy's of the best events on the final Wing-han, but she will have to columns from
a hill here and a give of her very beat to overcome wood there. Leung Wai-sang, who qualifed Misa Yueng Sau-king, in spite of for the Men's 50 Yards Free Style the latter's entry in the Invitation Moreover, the Cubana would! Championship at the H.KIASA. relay and the Ladies' 400 Metres. Jereep,up to a camp of soldiers at |championships, is the favourite, but The following is the complete pro- night and make a demonstration of
will have to go all out to beat gramme in order of events:-
force by discharging volleys at Cheong Wing-kwong, a very fastTO-MORROW: swimmer, and Kwok Chun-hang. Men's 200 Metres Invitation Relay them. "Don't let them sleep," was
(H.K.L.A.S.A.); who may possibly record his "re. Race
Ladies' 50 their motto. Metrea Free Style Championship; ble
Children's 50 Metres Free Style (Un The Long Plunge championship der 15); Men's 100 Metres Free Style the title of one of the author's which is still A popular evont
Men's 100 Metres Free chapters. With their handful the among the Chinese Swimming hibition: Ladies: 100 Metres Free Style the Spaniards acquitting themselves Clubs will be featured in Thurs Championship: Girls (Under 15) day's programme. It will, how Metres Breast Stroke Handicap; Boys' dismally with their horde. ever, be a combined event for Men
(Under 15) 100 Metres Free
Style Handicap; Senior Competitors (Vete- and Ladies, which is rather unique, inns) 60 Metres Free Style Handicap: not in their work. Pay was months The Men's 100 Metres Back Men's 400 Metres Free Style Cham behind, they were thrown into the Stroke Championship will probably pionship; Ladies' 200 Metres Breast field with scant training, and they witness wok Chun-hang's
Stroke Championship and South China südered dreadfully from malarin "tre- Ambulance Brigade's 100 Metres Free and yellow fever. tle". His sensational victory
In Style.
Worst of all. the Men's 100 Yards Back Stroke THURSDAY:-
they were incompetently led. at the recent HKLA.S.A. Cham-
There is no accounting for the Ladies' 200 Metres Invitation Relay shameful defeat of the Spaniards at pionships over Leung Shui-man Race (H.K.LA.S.A.); Men's 60 Metres (Chinese Bathing Club) in the last Free Style Championship: Bays (Un-Saratoga, which was largely a anip- two lengths will still be remember-der 18) 100 Metres Breast Stroke ing victory by the Cubans, who Championship: Long Plunge Cham were indeed a handful, 400 infantry planship (Ben and Ladies); Men's 200 and 100 cavalry. Metres Breast Stroke Handicap; Chit dren's (Under 12) 50 Metres Free Style Handicap; Men's 100 Back Stroke Championship; Ladies Meire
The Cubans had no alternative 480 Metres Free Style Champion-but to employ guerrilla tactics. In hips Mixed Diving Exhibition: Mens'
the sense that they ambushed the 160 Metres Back Stroke Handicap;
raided Ladies' 100
towns carelessly Metres, Breast Stroke enemy, Handicap: Men's 200 Metres Breast guarded, cut off straggling com- Stroke Champlonship; Ladies" # 100|mands, feigned to attack In Torce Metres Back Stroke Champlonship by sniping from every point of the
Yle Championship: Life Saving Ex-Cubans often performed wonders, |
ed.
Clean Sweep For Miss Yeung The Ladies' 400 Metres Free Style Championship looks like an other victory for Miss Yeung Sau In fact I am sure that she king. will obtain a clean sweep in all the Ladies' events.
The Men's 200 Metres Breast Stroke Championship should see Kwok Chun-hang in hla element, and it is quile Hkely
South China Sailors Under Water
The heart of the royal forces was
Fighting Methods
Swimming and Committee Members' compass, and, charging with the machete, riding straight at the Spanish formation.
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The young soldiers were more afraid of such a charge by the ragged insurgents than of all the' bullets they could fire from their in-! forlor rifles.
Neither side was 1. rationed, but the Spaniards never bad to con- sume "grass soup.” In the ranks)
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thing for Cuba." No sacrifice was too great to make.
The author saya: "The Spanish soldiers were exposed to more than, a hostile enemy. Fevers, including the dread yellow fever, dysentery, and all the discomforts of tropical The campaigning were their lot, treatment they received from their officers was often inhuman."
The insurgents seldom used Beld Such a piece was a curiosity gunu. in their ranka, The royal troops were well supplied, but handled their guns incompetently.
Sometimes the Insurgents re- plenished their stock of rifles and cartridges by seizing a local arsenal.
Americans And Cubans
General Shafter's troops did not have a good opinion of the Cubans as combatants, but their work had already been done. They realized that they did not have the equip- ment of the stalwart Americans and understood that when their allies |began to fight they were expected 10.30 a.m. to remain in the background to per-
form any duty assigned them.
Before the Americans landed at
1.45 p.m. 2.30 p.m.
| Daiquiri the Cuban Insurgents had, distinguished themselves so gali lantly as to win the respect of the Spaniards themselves. Of the march of Gomez and „Antonio Maceo from Oriente: to Occidente General Sick-/ (Dub Brisbane, October 4) (A) les said that "it was as notable from (To connect with the me. "Nicus ja military, polit bf view as that of Holland” at Singapore: leaving Sherman to the sea.” He placed Singapore on September 19) the two Cuban generals "in the Letters
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