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The Sport Of Kings.
mounts, not on your racing life, {never. They ride the best they
HERE THERE.
and
EVERYWHERE
Trouble Over A Poster
Posters recently placed in many London stations have attracted at- tention by their display of the in large words "Travel by Rail" capitals, underlined in red, at the top, and "Road," in similar style at! the bottom.
SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1934.
BRITAIN STANDS HIGH
IN SPORT
RECORD SEASON. OF
EVENTS COMING
THRILLING
PROSPECTS
(By Frank J. Coles.)
Closer inspection showed them to
London, Ing. But Miss Jacobs, her girl be an appeal by a hospital for funds. It was coupled with a sug- The recent announcement of the hood friend and rival-they lived street and were gestion to the public to travel by names of the Australian cricketers in the same rail rather than road for reasons of chosen to visit England brings a educated at the same school at safety.
reminder that we are approaching Berkeley, California-is returning an enhanced re- An official protest has been made what promises to be the greatest to Europe with about these posters by the, mad in-earnival of outdoor sport this putation as American women's terests.
champion. country has ever known,
From the middle of May to the There is a chance, too, that Eng- the will be welcoming end of August Great Britain will land be the battleground of world rivalry greatest of all golfers, Bobby The Motor Hirers and Coach Ser- in sport. Here is a catalogue of Jones, in the coming summer. But
Association, which is the outstanding events:
if he makes the journey it will only official organisation of the road Tht fight for the Ashes begins be as a spectator of events of interests, have written to Lord In June with the first Test match which, four years ago, he was the
at Nottingham.
dominating figure. Beatty, the chairman of the hospita!! concerned. His nante appears on ↑ the poster.
vices
Official Protest
They point out that the statement | in the posters that 1400 patients | were "bought off the roads" to the hospital in a year bears an unfair impllention.
"In fact," it continues, "the 1400; patients may have been on their way to or from the adjacent railway station, and it would be as reason- able for us to alluck to that fact the lelaim that these accidents were all
attributable to rail travel."
The letter ends by asking for the Immediate withdrawal of the pust
erk.
Your Daily Smile.
At lawn tennis Britain defends While we may never see another the Davis Cup at Wimbledon for Jones, many atriking American the first time for twenty-one personalities are to take part in years.
our leading golf events. Also at Wimbledon, our tennis One is Francis Ouimet, who, women will challenge America | starting life as a caddie, is now captain of America's Walker Cup for the Wightman Cup.
Leading amateur golfers of team. Quimet, a bond broker in Britain and America meet in the Boston, Mass., has had a remark. Walker Cup match, at St. An-able career. At 20 he was con~· drews.
cerned In one of the most sen- thosational encounters in the history
Athletes from all
Dominions will be at the White of the game. In a triple tie for the City in August Bank Holiday U. S. Open Championship he de- week for the second Empire feated two famous English golfers, Gamer
Vardon and Ray. Subsequently he
At long last England approaches was barred from amateur golf be- the fray with her head in the air.jcause he accepted employment in a For a decade and more after war sporting goods house. our sporting stock was at zero, We
Golf And Cricket Golfers here know Ouimet well. Hong Kong. Saturday, March 3, 1934.know, trusting to luck for some-
were beaten, giten badly beaten, in thing to happen, and not infre
In a recent beauty competition the games we them
gave to Europe, to The young man they are looking quently Lady Luck lets
an English girl tied with a Pari-America and the Dominions. Good
forward to meeting for the first past by a short head.
sienne for first place. A miss is and
Last year the pendulum swung time is, Johnny Goodman, aged 24, straight lads,
doff we
as good as a mile,
back. In the winter of 1933 Jar-who as a barefooted boy earned a our beret
Hong-Kong's to
dine's team regained the Asher precarious living as a caddie at riders.
China The
lost at the Oval three years Omaha in the Middle West. He is Young Wife (returning to village earlier. In the summer Perry and now open champion of America.
and their colleagues In his early days, when money, nine brought home the Davis Cup, was scarce, Goodman "worked his
which we hold for the first time passage" to championships as 'an ́...
a member of the
There is no record of a reign-amateur
Badly Pul
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BRAVO!
ing monarch ever being seen oupony, many think, is far from an the Happy Valley Race Course. ideal racing animal. But it has Princes perhaps. but not a real points that suit both the localer runaway marriage): "I. sup- Austin honest-to-God anointed King-owners, and the local public. It pose my elopement was
{days' wonder," Kings of course are neither so is cheap to buy, responds won- Villager: "It would "ave been since 1913; Miss Dorothy Round attendant on long-distance cattle" numerous nor so popular as of derfully to good feeding and vore, and a good percentage of careful exercise, with the resultum, ly Hogben's dog went mad reached the women's final at Wim-trains. He fe
the same evenin' and everybody bledon: Perry went to New York American amateur team which will such as remain in jobs are rather that it is Hong-Kong's vaunt
and won the American champion-play in the Walker Cup match at futile personages, holding on by that this is one of the few places was talking about that.”
ship.
St. Andrews. the skin of their teeth and the where horse racing is available)
Easterbrook last year was within In the professional golf sphere, kind consideration of a dictator to the man of moderate means camouflaged as a prime minister. and not a game reserved for the the boy who had plunged into the golf championship, and Britain re-who
two strokes of winning the open Densmore Shute, a tall, lanky man And the majority of Kings are plutocracy.
gives the impression of à at the other side of the world. pony, considering the weights be anal and effected a rescue.
"That was real bravery my little captured the Ryder Cup from walking lamp-post will be at Sand-
America.
wich to defend his title as British Of course there is Henry Pu Yi, carries, can make quite respec-i
We should do even better in Open champion. but it is doubtful if Henry's civil table times, when he feels like it.man," exclaimed a by-stander.
"Bravery, be jiggered." replied 1934. Indeed, when the dust of
The one honour America has list will run to race horses for That is his peculiarity, he owns!
Again when both a temperament and a tem-the dripping here. "He had four battle has gone I believe that Ear never held is the British women's some years yet.
of my conkers in his pocket." the world gets back to normal, per. He also often and the dollar is stabilised at mouth that makes you think
Also the China
owns a
An admiring group surrounded
*
Fifty-Fifty
half-a-crown, and Imperial Air-you are steering of four-ton truck The master of ceremonies, after a)
No finger-tip
rest cure
As a
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I believe It is very doubtful whether Mrs. Wills Moody will be well enough to participate,
Lawn Tennis Players.
(Continued on Page 11).
CHINESE PAINTINGS IN ITALY
Tang Dynasty Art Exhibition
land will have fully regained her golf title. This year she is send- supremacy in the world of games. ing over Miss Virginia Van Wie, a Every title at stake is within our dark-featured Chicago girl. In all reach.
probability Miss Van Wie will be ways lands you here from Lon-in a paddy field,
It is a thrilling prospect, this accompanied by Mrs. Glenna don in four days Kings might do sfeering for him. Which makes flowery speech at a banquet. ex-
of big cricket, Collett Vare, who since her last worse than take a fortnight's both the riding and the racing claimed: "Gentlemen, the toast is coming season
"The Ladies," bless them; and, after tennis, golf, and athletics. It will visit here has given birth to a Pecu- and get in a week's interesting and peculiar.
he anticipated with all the more daughter. racing in the middle of it. Wellar from the jockey's point of all, they are the sweets of life!"
A handsome bachelor rose to sup-liveliness from the fact that in all The Australian cricketers arrive know we would. if we were view, and interesting from the
He may be able to port the toast.
these sports new personalities will in this country towards the end of King. But then of course Kings backer's.
"Gentlemen,” he said, "the_ladles be seen among the entrants. April. They are going to be a cannot know much about win quite easily and probably
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do. as we
Lawn tennis is a good example. specially interesting side, because Hong Kong
They knows it, but he only wins if he are the sweets of life. One half of cannot know of our unique and wants to win, and he doesn't al-them are seld drops and the other For six weeks, from mid-June to exactly half their party of sixteen the end of July, Wimbledon is to be are coming to England for the beautiful hill-girt_race course, ways want to. Some days a half humbugs."
the centre of world tennis. Many first time. One of the newcomers and the big dividends our "Tote" win means nothing in his young pays-sometimes, and our lovely life, and another day he lays to Facts You Did Not freth faces will be there. Some likely to make his mark is W. J. familiar ones will be missing, too, O'Reilly, in whom Englishmen will. racing weather-when it does not it as if he had no other object in
Know.
famous for since the last Wimbledon Henri see a revival of the rain in buckets-full, and our life than to leave his stable com-
Cochet and Ellsworth Vines have medium-paced bowlers Austraila Hong-Kong pretty girls all in the panions lengths behind.
Adjustable mechanism has been
poined the professional ranks, and used to produce. latest, and especially the dainty racing machine he is entirely things Chinese in their split distinctive and undependable, invented to tilt an automobile seat
all to to the most comfortable position. skirts. Kings cannot know of Which makes things these things, but we know, we the merry merry for that know.
Any king that was a solid supporter of the totalisar Spain has Banned the use of coin of operated machines except for the King would of course stay at the the optimistic picker
In the wake of Vines will come Frank Parker, whom America C Peninsula, and whenever he en-outsiders. In the history actual sale of merchandise or service, tered the portals of that palatial of racing in Hong-Kong (t
An extension trunk and spare claims as her future champion. A caravansary he would know he once happened that owing to a had come to a high-class burg. war up North, it may have been tire carrier have been combined for few days ago Parker celebrated his 18th birthday. He will be one But he would not quite realise the Boxer Rising, 'the supply of the rear end of an automobile. of Wimbledon's youngest seekers of So If any the lawn tennis crown. I am fold his bill. And we have no doubt their place was taken by Wakers any other breed. the EL & S. Hotel Company would That was a sad year for the sportive-minded lad under thirty he is a colourful personality,
Beginning at a ball boy at a do him well, and perhaps con- backing fraternity. For the has a few hundred dollars he' descend to pay a small dividend trained thoroughbred or near doesn't want to soak away in local club at Milwaukee, Farker, to the shareholders on the head thoroughbred, clocks to: the Cements, or other permanent in whose real name is Polkowska (he of the royal connection. What second day in and day out, and vestment, we can tell him where in of Polish origin); was taken in was that about a blind horse? the favourites came in with unto get value for his money, A hand by Mercer Beasley, the man Another thing our royal visitor falling and fated certainty and tip from one who knows. Join who first coached Vines, Last year would get in Hong-Kong that he you were lucky if the Tote the Jockey Club, and totter down this young prodigy best the Ameri- would have trouble in finding paid sixty cents on your five to Happy Valley when the clean cand, Sutter, Shields, Lott, and anywhere else and that is dollars. So loud the wall went dawn is making a glory of the Wood, and the Australian Mc honest racing, Our riders are up give, ob give us back our dew-drenched lawns and waking Grath. Wimbledon will watch his opened by the Duke of Bergamo, a distinguished gathering of artists all members of the Jockey Club, China ponies The Walers are hills. You won't make the ac- progress with eager interest, amateur riders, and ride to win. with us again, but only a limit-quaintance of any King's but Miss Helen Jacobs is defending and critics was addressed by Mr. They ride only for the sport of ed proportion. They are pretty you'll be made free of the bro her women's title, and with her Yu-peon, the Chinese painter, who of clean hard-riding will be three newcomers from expressed the gratitude of Chinese the thing, the fame and the to look at, and make better
lads, go Bortsust like your California-Miss Alice Marble, artists for the facilities granted by glory. They often own their times, but they can never have
early rising and the Miss Carolin Babcock, and is the Italian government for the own ponies, and such training as the kick for the backer of the
air will neutralize the rosephine Cruickshanic Miss holding of the exhibition, spo the pony gets he gets from his China' pony. All the history and
Accumulated during your Marble, we are told, has a “smash' Professor Pagliaro then gave AD owner. If they do not always traditions of Hong-Kong ra
urs, you will loarn the and service, like a man's, and is re- address on Chinese painting, back their own, mounts you can- belong of right to this sturdy,
Immal and garded is America's best women ancient and modern.) not blame them, as, they may wronghended unreliable, Inde
most of them, player after Miss Jacobs and Mrs This unusual exhibition; hai know from the more or less pendant-minded, travesty of a
even place Moody
tracted
derable public records of the times made rate horse, and ... it!
just how high it was till he saw China ponies" was cut off, and
on the trials that their own sorry flay mount is hopelessly out of it Bus
But do they scratch their Hon
Cont
and
the record, of Wimbledon, must be the
Idden Derby 17 MAYZA
lindar prevents her from attend-
BIG INTEREST'. AROUSED
Milan.
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An exhibition of 'Chinese palating from the TADE dynasty to the present day has
been held in the Royal Palace
of Milan,
It has been organised by Signor Antonio Morrassi, the noted critic." After the exhibition had been
and has been