Page
2
VICKERS LONDON CIN
The Label which is A CERTIFICATE of PURITY!"
Both Braids are Beneficial" FINEST LONDON Old Tom FINEST LONDON UNSWEETENED
Price: Fer Case, 1 doz. qts... Duty Paid $28.00.
SOLE AGENTS:
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
"SCOTTISH SPORT.
A BRITISH GOLF VICTORY.
N
[mou OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT-]
EDINBURGH, June 20th. Alter two days' `interesting 'play and a most exciting finish the Open Champion ship has been won by a young English professional from Coombe Hill. Thus the coveted trophy, after two years de
THURSDAY, JULY 26TH, 1938.
THE INDUSTRIAL AND QOMMÉROL BANK, LTD.
HUAD OPrice: York Building, Obater Road Hongkong BRANCHES: Shanghai-51. Kiangue Road. Hankow.-British Concession,
CORRESPONDENTS IN:
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO
INCORPORATED.
HEAD OFFICE:
NEW YORK CITY.
wwwww.cam.a
INTERNATIONAL
DEMOCRATIC GOLF.
There is a certain one-inch map of th environs of London, known to most golfer who dwell within its area, on which the position of every golf course is indicated. those D more has now to be wided to blue lots-there are more than a hundred of them within a twenty-mile radius of Charing Cross-and it deserves to be a larger and a bluer dot than all the rest: for opening of the new public course in liche Vancouver, B.C., Honolulu, Singapore, Pensag. BANKING-SHIPPING-TRA VEL. Bional Park tention in the United States, returns
June 9th, is all on Saturday.
an |
Fighty Offices are established in the Prisal pa this country. Nevertheless in the sterni event, and may well prove to be a turning-mercial centres of Chins and abroad,
point, in the history of the game.
The Priner
PROMPT SERVICE. · ·
Cities of the World to provide Commercia fight for supremacy the challenge of the of Wales, who performed the trulitional
Attractive rates for all kinds of Deposits Organisations and Private Individuals with American and overseas contingent, re-opening ceremony of driving off a ball from
complete World Wide Rankung, Shipping and mained menacing up to the very end, and
Travel Serviço. only (xceptionally brilliant play by Arthur Havers wrested the honour for Britain. It is trus that his golf is not of the record-breaking örtler, but
London, New York, Ohicago, San Francisco,
Tientsin, Svat, w, Macao, Chaton and all Com-
the first tos, is the head of British golf by Inquiries are welcome. T. E. MAI
virtue of his captaincy of the Royal and Ancient Club at St. Andresses; and this is the first course to be brought into
Play Prince spoke of the event as the begin. ompter in golling history
with three 73's and a final 76 he gave a thuch hononzable auspices. But when remarkable exhibition of consistently ning of "a new, he referred to the speci
good play, and right worthily has he in this country he earned the distinction of becoming Bri- character
The idea of tain's premier golfer. It is good this tng reter of this fine walition to the sport- for the game that a member of the young
those who have, not without termin
the. lificulties, brought vr school should attain the highest honour a in British golf. Over a long period of Park course into existence is to bring a years the ascendancy of the great Trium, great game within the reach of any mac
who is in a two
exercise and keen en- any possibh chance for a newcomer.joyment in beautiful surroundings, a sum George Duncan for years was knocking at
virate was 'so pronounced as to rule out in hours' Mition to pay for more than
*1969)
· Manager. ·
An improved shoe Ince
METALACES
combining efficiency, ense and economy:
Let us fit you.
COMMERCIAL LETTERS OF CREDIT. DEPOSIT AND CURRENT ACCOUNTS..
FOREIGN EXCHANGE, LETTERS OF CREDIT.. TRAVELERS CHEQUES. LETTERS OF CREDIT. STEAMSHIP PASSAGES. EOTEL RESERVATIONS BAGGAGE INSURANCE. CABLE AND FOSTAL REMITTANCES.
the championship door, but just. Sailing ather less than is paid for looking on at HONGKONG CIGAR STORE. LTD. PURCHASE OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE.
ninety.. minutes football. There is no club
to secure an entry. The emergence of connected with the Richmond Park course Havers and C. A. Whitcombe, another though there is a very fine and well-
PRICE @ CO., LTD., of the young English generation, bave appointed building to sorve all the pur
GANDE,
Tel. Central No. 135.
No. 8, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
HONGKONG;"
FARM NEWS
DAIRY FARM
FISH
JUST RECEIVED
An Assortment of
CANADA'S CHOICEST
INCLUDING
CHICKEN HALİBUT. RED SPRING SALMON DRESSED SILVERS BLUEBACKS
Every Bit as Good as Freshly Caught.
LOTOL
ND
ITS USES
Lato Meana Sudden Death
·TO
Cockroachim, Fleas, Bags, Ants, Silverflab and Mosquitoes.
LOTOL
is guaranteed to destroy and extirpei-
every kind of insect part
LOTOL
(183
disinfvets and will destroy-in 24 miantee the Bacilli of Typhoid or other Fever,
NO PLAGUE
Where LOTOL in, there can be NO PLAGUE nor any kind of [INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
LOTOL IS MADE IN AUSTRALIA".
THE GENERAL COMMERCIAL CO., LTD.,
10, Des Voeux Road Central.
Phone 326F
Sole Agents for Hongkong and China.
[836
KELLY & WALSH, LTD.
· HONGXONG : SHANGHAI : SINGAPORE, YOKOHAMA : HANKOW
Printers
Stationers
Bookbinders
Lithographers
Account Book Makers
Loose Leaf Ledger Specialists Rubber Stamp Manufacturers
AN EXPERT PRINTING REPRESENTAȚIVE IS ALWAYS IN ATTENDANCE AT YORK BUILDING, CHATER ROAD, HONGKONG
(83
Every approved Basking Shipping" and Travel Transaction.
P. J. VANHECKE,
Manager.
When in doubt about your øyek, or your glasses Consult
CHINESE OPTICAL CO.
Eye-sight Specialists.
ASK FOR
Hon kong.
raised new hopes of home golf. Since posed of the typical club-house. Anyone the war there has been a gap. The great can play on payment of a fee of Is, sil, for names that dominate world golf so long the round: for which small consideration were needing: the American advance was he purchases full rights. For the time being. definitely established. And Havers is over one of the best courses within the surely the portent of the new era
metropolitan golfing area already men In the qualifying stage, Walter Hagen. tioned. It has all the natural advantages only succeeded in getting into the eigh that an island course cun possess; and these have been turned to account, in the laying- ties. But he played a vastly improved have be game in the latter part of the week, and out, by on less an artist than J. H. Taylor 67, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
himself. It has been purely a
a labor of made agallant and desperate effort to love for that, genius of the game. Cheap retin his hell on the championship, for Londoners has long been an ideal finishing only a single stroke behind the with him; and now, through the public- leader. Macdonald Smith, who gave us
spiritel
of Lord Riddell and generosity of the one real glimpse of his true form on hali
a dožen other guarantors, it has been the last morning, was third with 297. brough Kirkwood was fourth, and Tom Fernie, brought to ralisation. Other courses, it is true, are in existence in the London nrea who played two fine days' golf, was fifth. which are open to all for a small fee. The Duncan, Mitchell and Ray, were never City Corporation maintains one at Ching- really in. it, and one is forced to the conford, and the Lonrion County Council But for clusion that the day of a new generation another in Hainault Forest. has arrived, Robert Scott, juzr., Glas. one reason or another they have not gow, led the amateurs with 07, with enjoyed the high popularity which believers Cyril Talley next with 1. None of the in the virtues of the game would like to see, British ex-champions finished in the first Richmond Park is a more easily attainable four places, but happily a representative place; and the character of the golf there is
better beyond comparison. of the younger school-Hayers is only 25 years of age was able to take ap their impetus given by the Prince's inauguration, mantle, and he came through the ordrat new movement in the democratising of the with flying colours. Such a performance 80 may be expected with confidence.
It is not for us to sing the praises of # gurs well for the future of the British
game whose charins no man can tralise until ghlf, no matter how many "intagious
he has been player, and which is en gar young players may be called upon to mothy treated a fiat umable pointed
by uninitiated. What est, however, is the very remarkable ten deney in The long driving competition-it is not
English golf, since its sudden ap yet dignified with the title of champion-pearance at the end of the last century, to develop class character which, in the ship-cecupid" "the blank afternoon at
land of the game's origin, is
meet MIGHTY SWIPES AT THOCK.
With
the
*པ་
Troon Portul Links. The wind was known, and always has ixen (yun.
the
turies ot
of Sevtland's golting history. While the game was sprending 4
all over Erg land like a prairie öre, it
no intercat
half with und half across, auil most of the hitters attempted to get pull on their shots and gather a drift on the finish of their ball with the wind helping The result was that a fair namber did not keep the course, which was staked out 50 yards in breadth and 450 yards, in length. The ran on the ball was less than normal after the very heavy rain. for in a
P. D. WHISKY
F
Ir You ARE A CONNOISSEUR
in the multitude It was regarded by the working man, when it did happen to attract his attention, as a rather ludicrous recon tricity of people better of than himself, and OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE as lacking in the manliness which he looks for in a physical
sport.
This attitude to been slowly changing,
A professional won the bonour for the wards the game the internationsal ele-
longest drive, and an amateur the hun-mently since the
our for the best average. The longest hit ment in was by Donald Curtis, Bournemouth. The best average of four balls was by Mr. Rozer Wetherelt-266 yards. CRICKET,
bogan to be developed; but there
remained the fact that golf in England was organised on a club basis; and that a club, in order to create a golf courso the modern plain, had to face pot in
This considerable
capital outlay. has been meti
t.in many parts of many more places than is commonly in the South-by the provision of golf courses.
dithculty
realised
Manchester, municipal
It was a good but cold week for eric krt. Aberdeenshire code into favour agub in the Scottish Counties competi tion by reason of their start win over Stirting County, who gave an inexplic Nottingham, and other towns in the North ably poor batting display. While rain and the Midlands possess sach courses; on interrupted the Perthshire Clackmannan the South Coast there are others, and
has twa, which d do
much themselves. But it remains
County match on the North Inch for c
1. RUTTONJEE & SON
2
(463
RUSSO-ASIATIO BANK.
CAPITAL (FULLY-FAID) RESERVE FUND
+++
CAPITAL CONTRIBUTED BY THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT
RESERVE FUND
HEAD OFFICE:
Faris 9. Rue Bondresn. LONDON OFFICE:
64, Uld Broad Street, E.U. 2.
-BANKERS 1
Boubles $5,000,000 26,960,000-
Kun. Tia
3,500,00 1,750,000
LONDON: Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co.
Bociste Generale pour Favoriser lo Desaloppement du Commerce et de l'Indus tria en France.
PARIS: Societe Generale pour Favoriser le Developpement du Commerce et de l'Indus- trie en France.
Banque
de Paris et des Pays-Bas
LYONS: Societe Generale pour Favoriser le Developpement du Commerce et de l'Indus trie en France.
NEW YORK: The Irving Bank-Columbia
Trust Company. SAN FRANCISCO: The Crocker National Bank
of Ban Francisco.
BRANCHES IN ASIA:
Changchun Hankow Manchouli Tientaln Chefoo
Earbin Newchwang Urumtoh
Pairon Hongkong Peking Yokohama
Hailar
Kasbgar Shanghal
HONGKONG BRANCH:
Interest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits. Terms on application. Local Bils discounted."
Foreign Exchange on the Principal Cities
the World bought and sold.
537]
RA. RODGERS,
Manager
NOW ON SALE.
THE
DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE
esting. Clydesdale's meritorious "win over the Champions and West of Scot land's draw at Uddingston have given the
more about 93 minutes, it was really the big than
to all for a slight golf county's lapse in the field that robbed true them of any change they had af victory. expenditure, is the exception, whereas in The Western Union matches were inter the home-land of the game it is the rule. The English artisan golfer is not the rare figure ckbone
that he once was but + in Scotland be
one of the game as a
national
interest with which in those
the points: table a new look, Greenock pursuit. Some of us may remember the
years
by reason of their failure falling three before the war which seem so distant, the plves and Drumpellier rising two.
In
Club matches, the collapse of Cala was comity
a great surprise.. The Grange proved far too strong for a Services team. PRINCIPAL RESULT: ~
H
Counties Championship. Aberdeenshire, 135: Stirling County, 84. Clackmannan County, 230: Perthshire,
154 for 4.
Western Union, Clydesdale, 174; Greenock, By: Ayr, 127 Poloc, 200.
Club Matcher. Forfarshire, 159: Arbroath, United, 150
for 1.
Cartha; 68; Glas B.B.S., F.P., 03.. Carlton, 156; R.H... F.P. 07.
of
heard of the golfers English South of a team of fishermen from Fraserburgh, captained by Scottial ber of Parliament, and of the formance of those
Farlinjer fine':
against a leadership of the kee Mr. A. J. Balfour.
the
team
tein-
pur
experts under the
Them who was then i
is no reason in become for the English working-man the nature of things why golf should not source of pleasure and health that it is for bis Scottish fellow citizen if the municipal example, and that which has now been so honourably set by the founders of the Rich mond Park cours sbould be widely follow- el. The superstition that golf is in its nature an expensive game is made ridiculous by the facts of its Scottish
expen.
Watsonians, 182 for 6, declared; Herio Like other games, it can be evelopment
conians: 82 for 0.
Glas, Acads., 909; Edinburgh Acads..
192 for 8.
Army and Navy, 81; Grunge, sis for 7. Edin. Indians, 53; St. Andrew's Univ.
Edin. "Acads., 52, Loretto, 96. Merchiston, 126; Wateons, 50, Stirling County, 920 for 3; Grange, 103
for 0. Cariton, 223 for 3: Merchiston Castle, 95. Edin. Univ., 199; Greenock, 134 Forfarshire, 284; Glenalmord, 210, for 8.
· ÎNTER-UNIVERSITY SPORTA,
must not forget to ment; and we
Works-
sively; that is all. We cordially welcome the Richmond Park.
the Office
ce of on allowing itself at length to be. persuaded out of its opposition to the scheme. With the Prince Wales, we believe that this course will be a benefit to a very large number of workers"; and if that. should prove to be the case, and a
4 genuine trute for the game should be acquired by the great public, we shall see the fulfilment of The Prince's hope that there may soon be pany more courses like this, and that golf may become as much a national game as cricket and football are already,Daily Telegraph.
The Inter-University sports at Craig lockliart, Edinburgh, resulted, as gener. ally anticipated, in a hollow victory for the Edinburgh students, who won nine of the twelve events outright and tied ané, the three miles. The champion's in one of the others. Glasgow, who time in the hundred was 10 1-10 secs- finished second, made a much better ap- Liddell has evidently a fondness for the pearance, than they did nt Aberdeen a straight furlong on this ground, for it year ago, but the representatives from the was here in May 1922, that he put up the Granite City very disappointingly finished native record of 21 4-5sees. He now a poor third. Four new records for the covered the distance in a fifth less. His inter Varsity context were created, while time for the quarter was 2 2-5 seconds the time urrued for the furlong cop better than that of W. H. Welsh made. stitutes a new Scottish native record.
as long ago as 1905, C. H. Johnstone, of E. H. Liddell, Edinburgh, was.credited Malvern and Glasgow, did the three with three the bundred, furlong, and miles in 15mins. 18secs, which was 10 quarter mile and C, E. Johnstone with 1-5 better than C. F. Crighton's time in
(Continued at foot of nezi Column:) | | 1911.
#
..
CHINA, JAPAN, BRITISH MALAYA, INDO-CHINÄ, SIAM, PHILIPPINES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, ETC.
FOR
1.923
SIXTY-FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION...
LA NOW BEING ISSUED AND CONTAINS
ALPHABETICAL-LIET OF FOREIGN BUAINZANKA, THRIA PERSONNEL AND LOENCIES, CLASSIFIED BUSINESS. DIRECTORY OF THE CHIEF TRADE CENTRES 'ALPHABETICAL LIFT OF FOREIGN EXSIDENTS IN THE TAR ZAST GOVERNMENT AND OFFICIAL DEPARTMENTS.
15 UP-TO-DATE coloured' MAPS OF THE PRINCIPAL PORTO IN THE FAR KASTY DESCRIPTIVE AND STATISTICAL AUCOUSTE OF THE VARIOUS COUNTRIES · AND
TRADE-UINTIES OF THE VAN ZÁRT.
TRRÁTIES, TAKUJE, STAMP DUTIES, BROKERAGE CHANGES, POSTAL GUIDE, ETC. BRITISH, AMERICAN AND JAPANESE NAVIKA.
1,800_Pages.
Complete Edition Abridged Edition
1,800 Pagsa.
812, local currency
LEHELY USEFUL" BOOK.
Writing from Singapore, under date March 31st, 1922, Bir Godfrey Thomas, Private Secretary to E.BEL THE PAYOR OF WALES, Bays
B-I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd instant and am desired by the Prince of Wales to thank you for the copy of the 50th annual edition of "THE DIRECTORT & CHRONICLE FOR CHINA, JAPAN, THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, ETC., sro," which His Royal Highness has beer pleased to accept, and which will be extremely useful during the remainder of the tour.
The Managing Director, HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, LTD.,
HorGrond.
Yours faithfully,
GODFREY, THOMAS,
(Private (cretary.)‹