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THE SHAVIAN TRADITTON..
TURF TOPICS.
"ST. JOAN." SUGGESTION TO ABOLISH WEIGHT FOR INCHES.
Recently we rend of a clergyman in Amerien who took a monkey with him PROSPECTS FOR BIG MEETING.
into the pulpit in order to emphasise the [TY aqus. T
force of his arguments against Dar. Entries for the Annual Race Meeting, winism." But we are tempted to wonder, to be held. under the auspices of the whether the real reason for this eccen tricity was rot to attract the atten Hongkong Jockey Club, at Happy Valley
that
on February 16th, 17th, 18th, (Mordny,tion and arouse the curiosity of thes Tuesday," Wednesday) and Saturday, the who had never before seen the in side of a church. In our self-satisfied 21st, close at 3 p.m. to-day, HO owners will be asking their popies somo, a every teacher is faced with the same difficulty that, preach he never so wisely, telling questions on the track this morn his audience will consist of empty ben ches, if he cannot stimulate their atten- tion by some usual means.
inc.
LOCAL SPORT.
TO-DAY'S FOOTBALL.
The following games in the Hongkong League are down for decisiów today :-
Division A.
HOCKEY NOTES. [BYSHORT CORNER."]
We are a long way from the days when the principle in hockey might be der cribed as "Get goals, without man- slaughter if possible, but get goals!""
Kick-off at 250 pim-
.. Clah den those days the "rales," which varied Club de Recreio. "A"
Kowloon F.C.rently as between clubs, permitted a Reiseio P ground. Referee Me. Smyth South China "A"
South China player to make his utmost endeavour to "B," South China gromid. Rebreak an opponent'a shins with His stick, (which was as Ekely as not, cut from fored Mr. Morätt, Fast Surreys Reserves .. St. Joseph's
C. Sookups ground. Beferee hedge) if he could succeed in pushing th ball to his right in such a way na Mr. Ford.. Sered Heart East Surveys Druus,to put his opponent on his left, and thus Referer: in his way.. St. Joseph's ground..
Mr. Groes
University
Tavis...
It would be interesting to trace the e. Kowloon. Reserves, Navy
Referen Mhistory of hockey back to the earliest ground..
record. of Irish hurley" in A.D. 148, but the landmarks in the game's pro- gress which have a direct intereat for
INTERPORT PRACTICE GAME.
..
At Hongkong Club ground, at 3.15
Referer:
Smita Alr. E. Linesmen: Mears, Spence and players of modern hockey are the years 1888, the year whielt marked the found- Smith..
Prospects are distinctly bright at the time of writing, there still being 7 sub-
Bernard Shaw, himself a man with a griins in training, well over 50 Derby
message, like Joseph Addison. "a parson griffins and, in addition to ponies that in a tye wig," has solved this problem in have run during the Extra Meetings, the his own peculiar way. A journalist by following new importations: Booran (Mr-training, he has won himself the reputa- | B. D. F. Beith) Farmland (Mr. J. Htion of the wittiest entertainer of the
There will be no games in the sentoring of the Hockey Association, 1887, when the first inter-ruunty match was played. gay; he draws us to the theatre to use Taggart), Castle Syeee (Mr. H. P. White),
1860, the year the first divisional gan Baby Eyes (Mr. H. Odell), Victoria (late ourselves, gad never sends us away dis-division of the League this week. The junior league game Hongkong Club Tania Australis). Kapeshima, McKenzie appointed. (Messrs. Toeg and Priestly), Rayfield (Mr.
But, like cut American parson, he in- Reserves . St. Joseph's A has been was played between North and South, tained the first hockey side to represent England against Ireland. The first Pre-
H. Odell), Soine, Time (Sir. Paul Chater). tends that, though we go there to laugh, postponed owing to Defence Corps Trainjau 1595, whew S. Christopherson · cap-
The last named was a Kiungwan grittin in February, 1919, and has also run under the names of Stewardship, Turre of Spades and Honglist. Up to January this year, he had won 33,600 in stakes. As far as my information goes, he has
The author takes care to put us in a only started 5 times since, on one occa-good humour at the outset, and greets us with the words "No eggs, no eggs: sion finishing second to Niceolite in a
Thousand thunders, man, what do you 1 mile race at Kiangwan.
a Kiangwangrifin of mean by no eggs?!! Rayfield was February, 1924, and, ap to June 30th, had Perhaps the play is not to be so saint
He costly after all. won three times out of 5 starts.
we shall remain to pray. No dramatisting at Lo Wa so skilfully gilds the philosophic pill, and slips it down our unsuspecting throats
His latest play "St. Joan" is no excep- tion to this rule.
his previous owner, Mr. H. Morris, Tis. We are humoured at the start by the
"
There should be the usual crowd of sident of the Horkey Ascelation was Chinese to witness the game between South King Edward, then Prince of Wales, and China's junior teams to-day at Happy the basis of the Laws which govern thei Valley. The "A" team should win, but game to-day was drawn up in the first. is a tribute to the care with which sub- in their last game between these teams year of the Association's existence. It the standard of football was very low.
The two teams of the Club de Recreioquent revisions in 1900, 1904, und 1907 game has been played since that time, are due on the Kowloon E. ground re made, and the spirit in which the is expected to that it is only now that it is considered. and although the "A win, the margins should not be so great necessary to make a few alterations and ps on the last occasion when theĄ"
Laws up to present day requirementa
shot (under Use of the "scoop to nil
in the scrum tea swamped the "B" by twelve goals new previsions in order to bring "the"
St. Joseph's B will not extend the cutting, like feet up 1,700. His past forin showed him to be careless "bonhomie of the first incident, j
a mile. Since "and we are throughout kept enthralled East Surreys Reserves who should mai in Rugger, has been a ceatre of contro- a fair performer up to
take strong exception to the scoop shots arrival here, he has been on the sick-list by "a tale which holdeth children from tain theit position at the bead of the versy for some time, and all those who The East Surreys Drums should also will be glad to learn that umpires ara and it may not be found possible to get play" and old men from the chimney junior division.
corner." a play which is no less historical him fit in time for next month.
not by a big margin. Of the others, Booran was a Shanghai, because it is imaginary, and no less & bucessful against Sacred Heart but given discretion to penalise a player The University and Kowloon should scooping the ball, intentionally or with- out thought, should be consider the grifin last Autumn and has won three masterpieces because it is witty. races Castie Sycee and McKenzie are To those who know Shaw's earlier play a well contested game with the Kow stroke dangerous in itself, having regard plays it is clear that old age has not Tool aen just getting home. They will
rise to dangerous play. If umpires take proper advantage of the new pro both fair performers over
attach as he feared brought any diminution have the desistance
to the circumstances, or likely to give
Most interest, of Course, attaches to of his power, but has rather brought the wilitary,
Today will commence the Interport vision there will no doubt be a check im Victoria, the mare from Tientsin which that maturity and control of his art carried all before her in the Spring At which comes to most men arlier. St. practices for Hongkong. According to ar- the growing practice of half-backs deli- the moment, she appears the only pony Joan is not, like Getting Married", a rangements made, Hongkong will meet herately living the bait over the heads likely to extend Prince Regent in the witty satire consisting of conversation Shanghai a fortnight hence, the date of defeaders in order to cause a mélie Champions, a race which has already without action, nor is it like that nine selected for the Interport match heing the opposing circle, as this clearly days's wonder,Back to Methusalch Saturday, the 24th inst. The second day tends to create danger from over-cager- become the subject of much speculation.
biological essay in dramatic forum which of the Chinese New Year holidays has ness to secure the ball.
I may not be generally known that It is been set aside for the Chinese-Shanghai the subject. HANDICAPPING...
s not suitable to A writer in the Daily News first and forecast, a play and though, match, while should time permit the throughout the heyday of the unorthodox in all Shaw's plays, dialogue Services will probably turn out to play formations, Law 1 of the game has bad
the correct constitution of takes ine to task for having attempted as to show that it is possible to make a predominates or action. the dramon the Shanghai team. The visitors are ex-it that
two backs, and a goalkeeper: Olar for reasonable handicap over any consider moves rapidly and without pause to it's pected to arrive in Hongkong by the team is five forwards, three half-backs mations were stated to be permissible, nhle field on the weight for inches prin- end, our interest is never allowed to flag Empress boat on the 23rd inst.
but the implication has been that for ciple and as that to do so is practic and the moral background is completely
mations such as the three-back and four- ally possiblefar as I am aware sabordinate to the dramatic form.
half systems do not find favour. in the I have never made e suggestion. What
eyes of the powers thrt be. Staines and Southgate were early converts to the less orthodox systems, and Richmond have frequently dispensed with a goalkeeper in favour of a speedy, comparatively un- Which is
protected defender whose job it has been On Murray Parade ground yesterday to worry the opposing forward line wher replied the other. "I could
afternoon, a draw of one goal apiece re-ever an attack threatens and, as a last resource, dash back into goal as a last Shaw shows us ourselves without our salted in a match between teams made tell if they had their clothes on."
most important defensive weapon, tha clothes, stripped of our conventions and up from the East Surrey Regiment and line of defence debarred from using t hypocrisy and we cannot recognise our the Royal Marines of the China Fleet. selves; suddenly, with a single phrase, The Surreys fielded scratch side, feet. The drawbacks of the unorthodox their regular team not being available, formations are that they are successful play in all departments being of a high class forwards who are easily hustled,
and as forward play has improved with order.
The same may be said for the Marines' the passage of the seasons the goalkeeper team, whose forwards were very good, has come almost entirely into his own.
Laws 10 and 11, relating to the defini- notably in a fine passing movement in the first half, when the ball was sent tion of "goal" and off-side
iterests of clarity, but the sense remains Mr. Beale is to take the part of Joan from the right wing to the left entirely pectively, have been rewritten in the in "For the sake of argument we will
1 The result (1-1) fittingly illustrates unaltered. strike a happy medium and presume the at the evening performances and at the, by well judged head-toughes best performer is 121. We must allot Wednesday matinée; hut at the extra him 5lb. over weight for inches, which matinée which has been fixed for Satur- the run of the play.. rings his impost to 160. To curry day, the 17th inst.. Mrs. Salter will
SURREYS CORPORALS . H.M.S. the rôle. Mrs. Salter is no
"HAWKINS." the correspondent's argument to assume logical conclusion cuc must infer that, stranger to the Colony, particularly in he would like to
sce, bottom weight thatters connected with the theatre. She
A match played on Murray Parade 1431. This will necessitate, raising the will he remembered as taking part in
"The Tempest," "I'll Leave it to You," ground yesterday afternoon, between the The old wording was "The bull may Lep-weight: the consequence is we have top-weight carrying 18h above weight and in "R.U.R."-each time with great Corporata of the East Surrey Regiment caught (but must be immediately releas for inches, while the bottom weight has acceptance and with true artistic con- and H.M.S. Hawkins resulted in a wine to fall perpendicularly to the ground an impost of 4 less than weight for ception of the characters she portrayed. for the latter by 4 to uil. The match or stopped,
In other words, the good per. Mrs. Salter's knowledge of the stage is took place after the game against the ground former is asked to shouder all the profound, and, the presentes au praf Boyal Marines.
acknowledges the great Furden of the handicapper's attempt to.
Yet the author never forgets his mis
I wrote was that Mr. Dowlikgin, the sion: his is art indeed bus not for art's ilon Handicapper to the HK.J.C. has sake alone.
·HIB wade a point of never asking a pony to
by Samuel Butler, of whom carry inches
Handicaps, as they are under Shaw is a great admirer:---
A small boy and girl were looking at stood in Hongkong, are never made on the basis of weight for inches, as far as a book of Bible pictures, my information goes. Of course, races, Adam,
more the loib, over weight for stood of preaching recalls
in which the conditions are weight for don't which Eve? vaid one,
inches are, strictly speaking, handicaps, but these races were not the subject under discussion.
The Shanghai writer had complained that the lower weights in handicaps are,
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UNITED SERVICES FOOTBALL.
Iraquis...
3 Hollyhock Today at 2.30 p.m., on Navy "B"
HM. Submarines ground. H.M.S. Durban Reserves, MARINES. EAST SURREYS
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as a general rule, sojow that riders can he points,the reemblaree.. we recognia but they put up a very good show, their as a general rule only against second
at 15h 1
W. H. L.
not make the weight. He instinced the our nakedness, and are ashamed. case of a 12.3 pony "getting in less than weight for inches that is 1lb., when the good ponies are carrying from 3lb. to lb. over weight for inches. In commenting on the Shanghai complaint, I wrote:
inches,
“SAINT JOAN."
THE MAID AT THE MATINEE.
KOWLOON UNIVERSITY,
res-
Law 12, which bears the heading General Details." has served as a sort. of miscellaneous note of things to be done, and things not to be done, and the portion relating to handling of the ball ba as not been too clear up to the present
the
The phrase to the ΠΟΥ reads towards ground," the alteration making it clear that it is permissible, as long as the ball is dropped perpendicularly, for a player to hit it before it touches the
bring the ponies together. The help which Mra Salter has given in stage Hongkong handicapper, Mr. Dowlig direction, and in the coaching process
The following have been selected to ground, a point of some importance in gin, has made a point of never asking which, so very often, is a his part of the
It is now generally known in the & pony to carry more than 10lb. over work of production. Mrs, Salter's inter-play for the Kowloon F.C. in their play after a corner hit has been taken. weight for inches except in the case of pretative abilities are beyond question league match (2nd Div.). University Colony that the proposal for a roll-in the Great Metropolitan Handicap, on and her reading of the part will be watch on the Navy "A" ground, on Saturday, line geven yards from the touch line in-
the 10th inst., kick-off at 2.30. p.m. April 21st, when Spotted Sand was ed with great interest. allotted 16th (191h. over weight for inches, the bottom weight
tnin Hawk with 1401h
new idea of a hit-in from touch. The
Final touches are now being made to sharp:-C. Stewart; W. Parratt and B. stem of five yards has been adopted as Mr. Dowbig achievement. Evening performances com-veille and S. Randle: C. Morris, A. Casionally unsatisfactory system and the
menee promptly at 9. Late comers will Latham, C, Millard, A. Fitzgerald and go's system has worked fairly well on the whole and the top-weight has not not be admitted until after the first scene, Spary. Reserves: W. H. Brown, N. invariably won. It must always be re- and as this gives the key note to the play: Trambitzky and A. Kirby. membered that, while it is difficult to members of the audience will be well stop, certain ponies even with weight advised to be in their seats in good time. within reason, there always a cer- Any little waiting that may entail will be dain number of ponies who could not relieved by a reading of the delightful win if they were turned loose as the essay and life of Shaw, to he found saying goes. The judicial classifying in the programme.
of ponies, to my mind, is of far greater! importance than trying to allot pound- age to suit the lightweights."
RUGBY FOOTBALL. NAVY TRIÁL MATCH NEXT MONDAY.
periment by several well known London, latter system has been the subject of ex- clubs, at the request of the Hockey Ar sociation, and the general opinion, Which the writer can endorse from per sonal experience in club games at Home, has been that this hit-in imposed too heavy a handicap upon the defending On the Navy. "B" ground, on Monday, side it the hit were taken by all near at 4 o'clock the Navy trial will take
the circle.
URICKET.
H.K.C.C. D.K.C.C.,
that it is now obligatory to tako benalty corner from the side upon which
the balleroased the goal line.
I place to select a team to play against An alternation in Law 20-which affects The allotment of poundage for ponies the Club for the Colonist Cup, which the custom, prevailing in Hongkong is I am in no way advocating that the has been in accordance with weight for, takes place at the end of this month. Handicapper should base his allotment inches for many years now in China, the of poundage according to weight for Straits Settlements and India, and on inches. What I do advocate-and that the whole, has proved satisfactory. Until most strongly-is that no pony should be the Shanghai writer is prepared to asked to carry more than 10-15lbs. above advance more cogent argument than: weight for inches.
There are innumerable instances of The following have been selected to ..... However, it appears from the Shang, ponies who could not carry the weight play for the K.C.C. in this match which hai writer's latest article that he would. of their measurement and ofhers who starts at 2 p.m. to-day on the Hongkong abolish the entire system of weight for obviously could carry more the sugges C. ground:-II. Uvery. F. Goodwin, inches races and would andpt" stan- tion for a standard weight for griffins in J. C. Lyal, S. Jex, A. W. Ramsay dard, weight for griffins, irrespective of not very convincing, as the same argu-R. F. Raven, Geo. Lee, R. C. Witchell, the measurement of a pony, Subsequent ment would apply with a standard weightW. H. Baundara, E. J. Jordan, and races can be at stated level weight, or In my next article. I shall sugeest means J. Edwards. with penalties and allowances
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whereby the handicapper's task might he considerably lightened.
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·E.C.C. "A". NAVY “A” The following have been selected for this League match at 2 pm, to day on the K.CC ground.-B. Petharam, O... B. Raven, J. Hendio, A. A, Dand RJ. B. Mastore, AJ, Kow, W, F. 1. Gorvin, C. Earnshaw, J. Fraser, E. G Reiston, and I A. R. Duncan,