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Is It Big
Money?
'It
By HENRY LONGHURST
Mrs Close Waits For JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,LTD.
on
Big News Of Her Little Lad
BY
RHONA CHURCHILL
went on in grey
FREIGHT AND PASSAGE DEPARTMENTO
18 Pedder Street, Tal. 80$11.
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3rd Dec.
3rd Dec. 13th Dec.
In a little grey council a loaf of bread and it became junior team. Too small to wear
you trousers, he the hill above a Rugger ball-something house
Close bowl Mra Leeds the mother of Brian, cent sailing over the goalposts shorts. When the captain put
be him on to handy tree —and every
"Haw- "WINGSANG" Close sita waiting for the came a goalpost. The fact that heard a spectator say,
. "PRONTO"
Calcutta & Straits' #... "KUTOANG" her he invariably caught the lost don must be hard up for bow- news that will make
It dropped
ed behind the lers to put on such a little the proudest, happiest
did not save it from Ind." Then she watched her Cargo accepted on through Bill of Lading for 'MADRAS & "goal-line" mother in all Britain.
little Ind get six wickets for PONDICHERRY vie Singapore and for KUDAT, JEBBELTON, partial" disintegration.
LADUAN, TAWAU, LAHADDATU . SEMPORNA via Many time Mra Close 19.
Gandakan. They lived near Hedley Veri- The good news she awaits would clip Brian twopence for and seems likely to receive a bus fare rather than have ty at the time, and Verity was hero. The whole very soon is that her boy him walk, "It's cheaper that Brian's
she would tell his neighbourhood knew this, and has been chosen to play in the first of the current
per to let Brian ride if he had stunned at the news of Ven series
Test matches lost his ball, since otherwise he ty's death: of
Mr Swaine, the milkman, would be kicking a stone along against Australia.
the pavement. He was "some-voiced the feelings of all when lea-he patted young Brian on the If he does he will be, at thing terrible" on shoe
shoulder and said, "It's up to ther. 19, the youngest lad to play for England against Australia.
ever
date, Mre Close,
Despite his good showing to a cautious Yorkshire woman, refuses consider her son "in the team" until she sees his name on the printed" list.
way." father. It always was chea- the whole neighbourhood
It was a standing joke that you now, lad."
for
was
the window cleaner would find
IN HIS BLOOD more "ost balls" in the gul- ters than dirt on the windows of course, it's in the blood." Mrs Close will tell you that,
be Her dad
Leeds It was less amusing to
played for to called upon to pay
the League, and her husband and But Mrs his father for Bradford. windows he broke.
Asked whether the is not a Close was inclined to say "God love lilm" even then. For when lttle nervous that such great spoil he was eight his sports master success so young may had told her, "There is a great her son, Mrs Close shook her motherly Yorkshire head. career in cricket for your son.
Two years later he was Brian has been made a fuss! knocking up half-centuries for of by local cricket fans since his school and winning bene- he was 11," she said. bients. The crowd pald 48. 20. "It never went to his head;
seems strange that, while envious congratula
the lady who 10th Jan '1tions greet 10th Feb. 31 won in a football pool an amount equivalent almost to the net emoluments of one of His Majesty's judges SLEEPLESS NIGHTS for 50 years, people should
That does not stop her from raise pious eyebrows at the day-dreaming, or from having recent news of a man back-sleepless nights every time her ing himself for £1,000 at boy plays in one of the
Australian matches. golf.
10th Dec.
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the first time the hat went then and it won't now. He's
a sensible lad, God love him,! Playing for money has She did that the night her tound for him. He was ten.
"BRECONSHIRE" A year later he was playing and he's got his head screwed been one of the spices-or Brinn scored his unbeaten cen-
Out) in the with 18-year-olds in the local on right." curses-of golf since the tury (108 not
MCC's recent match against game began. Why, even in Western Australia. 1766. the Council of the In the front parlour of her Honourable Company, then little home she told me about at Leith, were decreeing that night.
that "no match should be
irst
"I lay awake all night know-
big
played for more than 100ing he was playing his
Australian match. I
merks on the day's play, or couldn't sleep. I worried," she
all. "I seemed very near him.
a guinen the round."
to
John Macadam's Column
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Hats often i say, to the man tries and EMOTIONAL TEAR..
Please
well.
I kept praying. God help him play
off, who not only has £1,000, but will back with it his own efforts rather than those of his fellowi "Then, a bit tired. I got the them creatures, four-legged or other-amily's breakfast, saw wise.
What, for instance, could all off to work and school, and be better than the challenge never thought to switch the match which, strangely, escaped wireless on for news of Brian. notice ut a provincial club the other day?
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ها
on
"A neighbour called round to Four of them were concerned, say how glad she was: I said, Glad about what?' and she with handicaps of 2, 3, 5 and 10. Stimulated by some midnight told me the wonderful news. refreshment, they made their
"Oh, God love him,' I said,
to come Three
to play, Five and Too
top of me and take the use nut then it seemed
level, one round, for Jevel
£1,000
I had to sit down, I'd the of me. Coming to against £300.
been praying on and off all 17th, the big battalions were two
night, but I'd never expected down. In a silence needing no comment Three holed from five anything like a century in his yards to keep the flag lying. Hearst big game there.' holed another on the 18th worth about £200 a foot to save the match, and four ashen warriors, Trembling and mopping their brows, retired to the clubhouse to reflect on what might have been.
BOOKIES ARE QUICK
Bookmakers,
Mrs Close remembers when started practising Brinn first fielding-with the family's pro-
Visions.
Us
The tax-collector has never been regarded particularly good friend of ours any more than have any of the major pools companies whose dividends appear to this critical mind to go too often to ageing ladies who have never done a coupon in their lives before."
Lest this appear to be the comment acrimonious, let us hasten to add that we have nothing but envy of the ageing ladies and little less than admiration for the cavalier generosity of the major pools companies.
In
Nor do we regard the tax (a) read, and (b) count up to man as any less than a fellow 85.
dimcult job, skilfully. doing a
-(London Express Service) both Nevertheless, we have
and the tax the pools boys boys mingled inextricably the informations to hund that NOTICE TO the pools boys in the larger reaches are in way of becom- lag collectors of taxes for the Government and see how they having arrived like that....
CONSIGNEES
M/Y "SALLY MAERSK"
from New York and Ports of coli. Consignees of
notified hereby
that The fact is that current 30 CATRO are CRAZY ON GAMES,
their goods are being landed and percent taxation on pools re-
placed at their risk and expense & Kowloon from Inlo the Hongkong He was
has crazy about ball venue
eliminated
Godown Company's games as scon as he could national competition more that Whart
A1 crawl.
three he
could 200 of
soon as the
the less-dividended at Kowloon, were delivery
May be obtained as goods are landed. appropriately dribble a ball past his elder pools and the big money enough, have always been quick
girl.
a
is
it
is second of now concentrated on the major to back their funcy at golf. I brother. He
one pools, who always wanted shall not lightly forget the scene family of four boys an
that way, anyhow. at a London club before the war, when several were present, and a challenge with a strong personal, Bavour was put out.
run
By the time he could errands it was almost useless To send him. Send Brian for
Remarkable
Belgian
"I have 158," said one in- stantly. "I have 75," said an- other, while a third pricking up his cars, said, "I'll have a pony. In a moment Who's playing?" the total was £400 and their man won by 12 and 11.
As to whether some of the selling
into sweeps running thousands and played on handi- cap do not lead to bit of this,
Twenty-two-year-old Jan that, and the other, I am not so sure. Indeed I am sure, for was Seyers, flyweight champion of
Belgium, who meets ex-world | not present when a man came in, having gone round in 61 net champion Terry Allen for the the 19th, European flyweight champion- beaten at protesting to high heaven that ship at Nottingham on Novem- his conqueror's handicap was, ber 30, is a remarkable young to put it politely, open to sus- picion?
and been
man.
Optinal cargo will not be landed here. unless notice has been given 48 hours prior to veci'a arrival, but carried on from port to part to the final port of call to which the option extends
TAX INCREASE? Now the Government, to say No claims will be admitted after nothing of the Football Asso- the Goods have left the Godowns,
and all goods remaining undelver inexorably ed after the ciution, has eyes
1st December, 1830, fixed on this lavish pools will be subject to rent. money, and it would not be at
All broken, chafed, and damaged
Bre to be in Goods
Fort in the all surprising to anybody
where they Godowns,
will be the business to find the tax at examined on 30th November, 1958, the next Budget increased to at 10 a. by our Surveyors Messrs. 50 percent.
Goddard & Douglas,
Considering that the tax, now
of brings in upwards
£14,- 000,000 a year, it is easy to see the added
per- money at 50
would be cent taxation that grist to a lot of offcial and unofficial mills.
And if the Government can without get their dough thus
thut any rancorous legislation would bring in the Sabbata-
Generat To comply swith the Bended
Warehouse Regulations Revenue consignees must have a Officer in attendance when dam aged dutiable, goods are examined.
All claims must reach us before tio 24th December, 1959, or they will not be recognised.
No Insurance will be effected. JEBSEN & CO. Agents.
rians and the ant-gamblers Hongkong 24th November, 1930.
their féry swords weaving around their heads why they NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, can sit back and collect their money without as much as a' by-your-leave.
M/V· "HÁLLAND" PROM' U.S.A.
Cargo on the above vessel will be arrived by in/v "Ceylon" due
Don't tell the promoters, but maybe any day now they'll be giving them peaked caps and Hong Kong 26th November, 1950. but forms.
In addition to having a very The cynic might observe that most of these events prove educated left hand, he's a fine nothing more than the identity cyclist and table tennis player, of the competitor whose handi- and he claims that he does cap bears least relation to the three-quarters
of his boxing truth. Nor is the temptation to training on a cycle, with the the caddies, as Interested par-
remainder in the gym. Perhaps tles, to be overlooked. Many is the tale of lost balls being that's one of the reasons why he miraculously found via the has no weight troubles.
www. trouser leg and a hole in the
He'll be bringing over his) pocket.
Best of these tales perhaps own refrigerator with plenty of
as well as his cycle. pools people are beginning to wes that of the late W. C. Carr steaks, who, on finding his. ball deep About his coming Oght he says put themselves on a wide so- in divot mark at Walton little, except that if he wins clological basis. They
at Dado Heath, observed to his codule he that it would be a "niee one to Marino, and that if necessary get in the Medal."
ho'll cycle to Honolulu to get It in it. Mind my bike! "You'd never 'ave and
W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD. the Medal," said the man dark-
York Building.
Tel: 34105 & 38710.
ly.
1
Pacific Far East Line, Inc.
DIRECT
Fast Regular. Trans-Pacific Servico
AAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES
OVERLAND
NEW YORK-CHICAGO DETROIT-TORONTO MONTEBAL AND ALL AMERICAN & CANADIAN CITIES
wants a crack
dis-
football
THEM SIIOOKED
rudely Breakfast wDS turbed for every
the news) manager who read
for
that Len Shackleton, the word for whom Sunderland paid £20,000 only two and a half seacons ago, was thinking
football of retiring from look after his ice-cream neas..
to
busi-
THEIR ARGUMENT
As a matter of fact the
argue
this way: Before. pools came groups tended to in family break up in mid-week and go their #everal ways-to cinemas, to pubs, to dogs, and points cast, north, south.
Nowadays, they claim,
01- most any night is discussion night around the fireside and Thursday night is definitely filing-up night.
BUTTERFIELD & SWINE,
De La Rama Lines.
Agenta,
Hong Kong. November 23, 1950,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
/* "LISUOLT",
Having arrived Hongkong con signees of cargo are hereby notifled
that all goods have been · landed) and placed at their risk and ex- petuse to the godowne of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. where delivery may be obtained po soon as the, goods are fandod.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the godowns, or failure to attend he survey.
goods are to be left h, the godowa¦
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It .... 10th Jan. 1051
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"See what we're doing for the British public," they say, with the light of benevolence All broken, chafed and damaged. §. a. "JEFF DAVIS” shining out of their great, stor- where they will examtand in the ry, honest eyes. "We are keep presence of Mesora. Guddard and the 25th November, Douglas on ing families together
around 1930, at 19.5. their own hearth,"
Forgive us as we wipe away nonded
To comply
General with, the Warehouse Regulations, salt, emotional tear...Some- consignees must have a
Revenus how, we feel, Charlie Dickens Officer in sttendance when examin- should have been here to in-claims einst the vessel must be
ing damaged, dutiable goods. Al This wasn't surprising as, if corporate this social revolution presides to the Undersigned with ship' you, reckon Shackleton is good in "The Christmas Carol." for another ten years football,
Within a few hours," -how- ever, William Murray, Sunder- land raanoger, sald "Nonsense," and that was that,
From
Arrivos
Dals
Vergel
Var
FEDWARD LUCKENDACH!*
San Francisco
*Y. JĄ LUCKENBACH”
NORTHWESTERN VICTORE""
San Francisco
Straita
"CALIFORNIA BEAR"
Ban Francisco
Dec.
Dec. 12
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Dio, 22
Des. A
Dec. 14
Dec. 19
Dec. 25
Ban Francisco & Los Angelës
via Kobe Singapore, Djakarke, Bombay,"
Karachi & ·Basrah- San Francisco Vie Kobo,.
Yokohama de Vancouver San Francised - via,
i
Manila
he was throwing Feliputi:"49,000 .......
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overboard
in fourteen days of the nestval, or they will not to re-
Danbod.
"LAFAYETTE"
.......... fails about ...
12th Dec, 1950 "JEFF DAVIS”
11th Jan. 1951
ALSO ACCEPTING TRANSHIPMENT CARGO FOR GULF PORTS.
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