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HONGKONG ART CLUB. KXHIBITION AT THE HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20TH, 1923.
NAVAL MARATHON RACE.
INTERESTING EVENT AT HAPPY
VALLEY.
WINNER'S FINE PERFORMANCE,
The course
SPORT.
CRICKET.
OXFORD. CAMBRIDGE
wun.
The "aides" werg as"
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Yesterday's exhibition of pictures at the Helena May Institute, held under the
A match was played yesterday between auspices of the Hongkong Art Club, can
There were no lower than 61 competi- olevens representing the two Universities. scarcely he said to compare with the exhibitions of the last two years. In the tors in a marathon rare held by the Navy The Hongkong Club kindly lont their was ground and a very successful match re- first place there were fewer exhibits and yesterday, afternoon. those exhibited were not, on the whole from the Monument at Happy Valley, ulted in a win for Oxford by threa of quite the same praiseworthy merits along the new motor road, across the top wickets. There is no doubt but that the
of Happy Valley and back by the way of better side as on former occasions. True, there were wone beautiful water colours but our Leighton Hill Road, Broadwood Road to follows:- local artists have not apparently beca the Naval Pavilion at Happy Valley, a working with easel and brush with the distance of approximately 43 miles. The same consistency as last year, but, paint:rave was for the Titania challenge cup, ing, like poetry, cannot be turned out to and under the conditions each ship was order, and one must abide the pleasure allowed to enter a tents of twelve, the of the spirit. - Proluidy for next year the first six home in each case to count and capricious spirit of art will inspire local the team scoring the least number of artists to greater efforts and we may see points to be declared the winner-that is
to say the first una home counted a better and a larger collection,
point and so on. The result of the team race was as follows
This year Mrs. McPherson has five pictures on exhibition. One is agiun usual ink sketch of a stretch of country in Kent. It is beautifully drawn but the
• general effort of the sepia coloured ink is not typical of the country side, and if the sketch had heen carried out in some. other shade the general effect would have been more pleasing. Her painting called
English Grey and Gold" is very st cessful. It is an evening scene typical of any English city suburb. The lighting effects and the details of the trees are - a very fine achievement. Another paint- ing by this lady is catalogued as Trees" The picture has a harsh and unreal ap „pearancc. The blue background does not appear to be sufficiently modified in view of the large number of trees brought into the picture." Mysterious Night." by the same lady, represents a dark-robed figure! representing "zight." and Mrs. McPher son has caught what appears to be a seuse of brooding mystery. In "Dusk in the Park Mrs. McPherson has obtained a beautiful effect of fading sunlight and ale glimmer of newly lighted lamps and purple distances.
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Marit........... Hawking..... Despatch l'hrlixir
03 pts. 58
113
.116. 137.
Some remarkably fne individual times were put up. the first man averaging minutes per mile for the four and a half miles. The first four home were :
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Oxford.-G. R. Sayer (capt.) (Queen's),
A. V. T. Dean (Trinity), A. G. M. E. Warner (Merton), A. S. Hett (Priel), Fletcher (Trinity), A. E. Wood (Unix), Rev. A. F. Hamilton (Trinity), R. H. L. (Queen's), E. L. Wynne Jones (Jesus), and Cempertz (Worester), N. L. Smith R. E. O. Bird (All Souls').
Cambridge-Sir Claud Severn (capt.) (Selwyn), J. H. B. Nihil (King's), R. E. Lindsell (King), G. C. Harris (King's), one. Tan (King's), Rev. E. K. Quick (St. John's). W Galloway (Queen's), G. Miskin (Cains), Lieut. Col. W. Y. Nichol son (Trinity). H. W. D'Arcy Evans (Emmanuel), and T. Mander, (Corpus).
Cambridge won the toss and opened with Quick and D'Arcy-Evans to Bird and Warner In the second over Quick square! eut Warner nicely for four and Evans got the same bowler to the pavilion from full tos to leg. Rans came fast, Evans was dropped at mid-off from, a very hard drive and at eend slip from a late cut, but in the first case the ball went for two and in the road for four, neither easy chanews." Dean finely fielded a very hard At the conclusion of the race the chal-hit. from the same batsman at deep lenge cap was prescated to the winning square leg. Menumbile Quick was collect. team by Mrs. Grace, wife of the Coming runs comfortably and it waï not until The rate was witnessed hy 47 had been scored tha: Evans had the modore. many Naval officers and men, including misfortune to trend on his wicket in hook. Capt. Brodie of H.MS. Titonin.
(1) Lieut. Weymus (Titania) 21 mins. (2) Lieut. Thomson (Titania) 213 mins, (3) A.B. Smith (Cenfi»l»).
(4) A. B. Trendel (Diomede).
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ing a short one from Bird behind square feg. Nihil succeeded but was caught at deep square leg by Dean, before he had scored. Galloway hit Bird for 4 and 6 off successive balls, both shots being played to square feg with a horizontal bat. Next over however Quick mis-hit a full-toss and was a and b for a very nice 31, while a minute later Galloway, after "sweeping Bird again for 4, was caught at long on after a similar shot, which he just failed
to time.
grey day is to be preferred because the hamboos in the foreground do not occupy too large a proportion of the picture. Mrs. Brown has also two similar scenes, one of the rocks at Guernsey and the other of the Islands at Repulse Bay The latter is the more successful of the two, containing a better representation
Four for 70. Harris and of the sky and water. The artist. has also Nicholson and Misken soon left but Lied- an exhibit portraying a clump of point sell hit Sayer twice running for 4 before settas near the water's edge at Repulse being bowled by him. A four overthrow Bay. It makes an effective scone, but the previously had helped him to put together size of the flowers is out of proportion useful 16. However with eight down with the rest of the picture and especially in proportion to the tree trunk in the foreground.
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for 90 things looked very gloomy for the Light Blues. But undismayed Manders and Tan in spite of a shaky start put on 95 for the 8th wicket and Sir C.
way a great success, and there is no doubt but that the resitit represents the trus form of the sides.
Sebres:→→
CAMBRIDGE.
RABBIT.
Rev. E R. Quick, eand b Wynno
Jones .......blo
H. W. D'Arcy Evans, hit wicket, b
Bird
J. H. B. Nihil, 'c Dean, b Wynne
Jones
W. Galloway, a Het:, b Bird G. C. Harris, b Bird
R. E. Lindsell, b Sayer
Lieut. Col. W. N. Nicholson,
Fletcher, b Sayer
G. Misken, b Bird
J. M: Tan, not out":
T. Mandera, b Hett
Sir C. Severa, e Smith, 'b Bird
Extras
.R. E. O. Bird'
J. E. Warner...
31
14
14
16
129
Total
Bowling Analysie.
0. M. E $9.4
W.
0
30 016 &
5
3
OXFORD
E. Wynne Jones: 3 G. R. Sarer A. V. T. Déan A. S. Helt
G. . Sayer, b Severn J. E. Warnor, b. Quick
A. S. Hets, e Quick, b Severa .....
A. V. T. Dean: e Evans, & Nihil.. 11 A. G. M. Fletcher e and b. Quick A. E. Wood, b Severn
Rey, A. T. Hamilton, b Qaick...... R. H. L. Gompertz, e Lindsell, b
Quick .....
N. L. Smith, e Nihil, b Severn E. I. Wyne Jones, not out game R. E. O. Bird, not 'out
Extras
8
Total (for 9 wickets) Bowling Analysis.
.151
0.
R. V.
Sir C. Savern ...... 12 0 BE Rev. E. K. Quick ....15 4. 81, J. H. B. Nihil... 4
20
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CIVIL SERVICE 1ST XI.
CRAIGENGOWER.
The following will represent the Houg kong Civil Service Club on the Civil Service ground at 215 p.m., on Saturday, December 22nd. E. Wood (captain)," G. R. Sayer, B. D. Erans, F. J. de Home, A. R. Sutherland. F. J. Ling. E. B. Reed, JH. B. Nihill, R. C. Witchell, F. H. Holdman and W. H. Edmonds,
UNIVERSITY 1st XI. . H,K,C.C. The following have been selected to represent the University 1st XI. in & League match against the H.K.C.C. on the latter's ground on Saturday at 2.15 p.m.-A. A. Rumjahn (cap), H. N Balhetehet, E. E. Quick, M. H. Roffey, A. S. Hott, T. O. Yeow, S. Hachiciua, D. Laing. A, Hoalim, S. O. Shahabudin and W. M. Gittins.
Mrs. Byrd has two paintings on exhibi- tion. One is a portrait of a girl, the facial expression being exceptionally good Mrs. Byrd has not been quite so successful in other details; the girl's Irock, for example, is not so good. A painting of "An Interior" by the same lady is harmonious and pleasant, the blending of the colours making a typical drawing room scene. "A Dutch Study" by Mrs. S.Berg is a prettily coloured pic ture of two children on a dark stained
Another large exhibitor this year is plaque, and the only criticism that sug Mrs. Aubrey, with thirteen pictures. Oce Severa and Tan contributed a further "UNIVERSITY 20 XI. . H.K.C.C, 2ND XI. gests itself is the rather stilly worked portraying a clump of azealeas is very 13 for the tenth. Tan played some vory
The following have been selected to folds of the Dutch girl's wide skirts fly-pleasing in its colour scheme, whilst good shots and ran with good judgment. represent the University 2nd XI. in a ing in, the wind.
another showing a stretch of coastline Luck was perhaps a trife on the bats-League match against the H.E.C.C. 2ad from the Peak makes a very pretty vig men's side it, the cad. A total of 128 va XI. to be played on the Home ground nette. She has also an effective close up as much as could be expected after Quick on Saturday at 2.13 p.m.-J. L. Young- ye (capt.), M. B. Omar, O. A. Peterson, view of a large clump of bourgainvillea had gone as the Cambridge, XI. was on Y Lam, C. W. Lam, N. A. Kyum," growing on the hillside with a distant the weak side.
A. T. Barma, H. Y. Leong, E. Hunt, T. view of hill and water as a subordinate
F. R. Viccajee and B. P. Ng. and effective background. An equally agreeable effect is presented in an old church door in Essex,
A water colouring of Kellet Island with the fast disappearing Morrison Hill and Hongkong Island in the back ground and a few sailing junks in the foreground is a well drawn and happily conceived pie ture. The sky is successfully represent ed: This colouring is by Mr. E. A. Ram who has also on view a picture of the Ponte Vecchio, Florence It portrays much in bijou style, probably too much in so small & space,
A view from Charter House, Hongkong, by Mrs. Walter Lang, would have looked uch better on a somewhat larger can-
was. The attempt to represent the varie gated colours often to be seen in the waters of Boogkong harbour is hardly Bacetssful
Mr. Sayer has six delicate pieces of drawing of trees and water edges which show up a series of warm shades of green and brown.
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Near this group Mra Ti. K. Prossor has a very nice well-grouped picture of the in this picture are quite satisfactory lowlands at Aberdeen. 'The colourings
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BRUTAL MURDER.
PUSHED INTO DEEP CUTTING.
It has been learnt that earlier in the
day, the murdered man stopped a mañ who was cutting down trees near Hatton Road, and it is thought that he was attacked out of revenge.
THE SHANGHAI DISASTER. MESSES. PARSONS OFFER TO
REPLACE TURBINE.
Sayer and Warner came out first for Oxford and opened enationsly to Becern and Quick. The latter was batting very nicely and hit Severn for a beautiful al and a four, before he was bowled by one from Quick that came off much faster
A coolie foreman is believed to have that the, others: Sayer opened out and Hett looked dangerous when he saicked heen murdered on Tuesday at the junc one from Severn which going through the tion of Hatton and Conduit Roads, by a wicket-keeper's gloves was magnificiently number of men said to be employed by taken by Quick left-handed at first slip. a contractor constructing a new road in Nihil then came on at the Law-Courts end the locality. The man is believed to have In a group of eight exhibits by Mias and Dean swung at his first ball and been assaulted and pushed over the rail- Atr.-C. Peake Anderson has five pie Crawford, there are three lovely studies sicked it being caught one-handed by the ing of a bamboo bridge, into a deep.cnt- tures on exhibition. A view of the Peak of Fanling. Ono especially (No. 33), wicket-keeper. A. G. M. Fletcher who, ting. at sunset hardly does the upper elevation taken at sundown, is a beautiful composiwe baliero has not played cricket in the justice and looks too dwarfed in comparition of rich and lovely colouring and aug- Colony for a good many years, began very son with the rest of the picture. Mr. gests that the artist has a special love for stylishly using the typical left-hander's Anderson has caught the Peak better in the neighbourhood. Equally successful extra-cover shot with effect. Quick bow his exhibit entitled "Junks-Prays East in a different way is her water colour-erer deceived him with the pace of one Reclamation." The seene is one of three ing of a hit of scenery on the way to and he was caught and bowled. Foar for or four junks making an effective group Castle Peak, where, again, the sense of 89. The light was beginning to fail but in the fore, ground ngainat the back rich colour and beauty is evident.
it was perhaps even worse for the elders ground of the Peak, as seen on a hazy Mrs. Gompertz has the largest collecthan the batsmen, Bayer was continuing. evening. "Kowloon Bay by the same tion at the exhibition, having seventeen to play excellent cricket and with Wood, artist is a faithful reproduction of the exhibits. Some of the artist's smaller who never settled down though he hit a
The Engiaver-in-Chief and Manager of appearance of the barren hills of Kow-studies are very successful. Particularly fine six, ho raised the score to 107. Joon and reminds us how much better good is the sac of a view from Tytam Hamilton was bowled at 116 by Quick and the Shanghai Electricity Department has they would look if they were clad with dam, and also that of Little Lough next ball Lindsell béld Gompertz at rat reported to the Electricity Committee that With three within two days of the accident which verdure. The artist has also a well above Lough Mask. Among the larger slip from the same bowler. coloured view of the various gradations scenes that depicting the rocks near wickets to go and 12 to get in bad light occurred on November 15th at the River of stone contained in Monat Kellet as Castle Peak is the most successful. In it was anyone's match but Sayer and side Power Station, at which a 20,000 seen from the Dairy Farm. A view of some of the others there is something Smith rose to the occasion, and, the runs K.W. turbine was wrecked, be rewired the Island House, Taipo, by the sare lacking in colour and warmth, hot were secured with about 10 minutes to a cablegram from Mesra. Parsons & Co.,) artist is also amongst the exhibita, then one has to remember that there apart. At close of time Oxford had 151 Ltd, the builders of the turbine, express
Mra, C. B. Brown is one of the largest are times when the skies above Hong for wickets.
ing their deepest regret at the accident mahibitors with eleven pictures. This kong are strangely lacking in colour.
Bayer's knock, after a very careful start and loss of life, and undertaking to re lady has got a good eye for seascape This probably is the cause of the lack of was a fine example of forcing cricket. He place the turbine and recondition the work, but she is hardly successful in her depth of colour in the pictures. Indrovo very hard and barring a chance to whole of their plant entirely at their cost, The Electricity Committee noted with presentation of them. Her best effort in picture of Hongkong at night from the deep mid off in the forties, which the probably that of the bills at Repulse Bay.. harbour Mrs. Gompertz has met with con- fielder did not soo at all, ho gara" no
extreme gratification Messrs. Parsons' The colour and grouping in this picture siderable success. Hongkong is repro- chance. Quick bowled finely all through, prompt acceptance of liability and under- are both good. The artist has also two duced at a time when the twilight has and Sovera kept good length in spite taking to make good the damage: exhibits depicting views from a garden not ontirely gone and the newly lighted of Sayer's hard driving. Bird bowlod, na at Mount Kallet of small islands in the lamps spangle the hillside like jewels. usual, most steadily, and A. E. Wood and foreground. She has worked on one in Mr. V. Trambitsky has also a number H. W. D'Arcy Evang kopt wicket with lear fine weather, and on the other in of picturce, whilst there are several ex- & great measure of sucums. The ground loudy weather. The one depicting the cellent photographs by Mr. O. IL. Blason, fielding on both sides was excellent and
(Continued as foal of next column.) Dr. Woodman and Mrs. Murray,
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