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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28RD, 1926
KOWLOON MARATHON RACE.
ENTRIES FOR THE EVENT.
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ANOTHER LADIES' RACE.
The 6th Annual Kowloon Marathon
YESTERDAY'S EVENT SAILED IN DAD WEATHER.
Race under the auspices of the St. Andrew's Young Men's Club is to take An extra event for the ladies was sail-place on Monday, March 1st. All the ed off yesterday in very depressing woa necessary arrangements have been car ther. There was very littls wind, and Fried out by the Committee of the Club. the boats suffered from occasional calma,The entries closed on Saturday last, and The course was from the Club to Channelno fewer than 19 names have been re- Rocks, Cust Rock and to Kowloon Rock, with the finish at the Club The dis tance was a little over 8 miles.
ceived.
The East Surrey's Regiment has sent in S representatives, as against 13 last year,
Bandsman R. Haunen," and others who also participated at the previous race.
OUR RACE NOT YET RUN." INSPIRING SPEECH BY THE PREMIER.
Remarkable analogies between the his- taries of the two greatest. Empires the world has ever known-the Roman and the British were drawn by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, in an ad. dress to the Classical Association in London recently.
A COMMON BOND.
Believing as I do that much of the civilization and culture of the world is bound up with the life of Western Europe, it is good for us to remember that we Western Europeans have been in his- torical times mèmbers together of a great empire, and that we share in common," though in differing degrees, langsinge, law, and tradition.
That there should be war between There were, said Mr. Baldwin, fears nations who learned their first lessons in amongst these responsible for govern-citizenship from the sans mother seems went to-day that the Great War, by the t
rather be our endeavour to help ourselves me fratricidal insanity. It should
and to help each other to recover those
The starters were Badjum (Mrs. Mit-and amongst them last year's winner-destruction of our best lives in such num chell), Joan (Mr. Davison), Ger! (Mrs.
· Barraclough), Ailan (Mrs Bailward), Sealark (Mrs. Crano), Adone (Miss) Hollingsworth) and Pierrette (Mrs. Yeoman).
Loan and Beejum kept on the Hong. 'kong side of the harbour on the beat up to Channel Rocks and gained good lead. The remaining boats found calms and drifted along. Off Ebloon Dock a breeze sprang up and kept up until the two leading boats were over the line. It then fell again, leaving the rest of the boats to struggle over a best they could.
Boojum Joan
Guel
Skutark Adunac
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THE RESULTS.
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qualities of character so 'peculiar to the Romans, the pictas, the gravitas, and the truth of the spoken word. On such foundations alone can civilization be found
On such foundations alone can
bers, had not left enough of the breed to carry on the work of Empire.
Mr. G. R. More, last year's second, did
"Our task is hard enough," he de
not enter.
Two entries from H. 1LS.clared, but is will be accomplished yet Onslaught, one from H.M.S. Despatch, Who in Europe does not know that one
more war in the West and the civilizationcivilization stand. of the ages will fall with as great a shock as that of Rome? She has left danger signals along the road. It is for us to read them.
one from the Kowloon Naval Depôt, one from the Hongkong Naval Yard-Mr. E. C: Evans, who will be the youngest con testant to run in the Kowloon Marathon, two from the HQ & D.E.-R.A., while amongst the civilians--four in number, two are representing the Club-Mr. Mason and Mr. Hammond. These make up the complete list of this year's entries.
The roue will be started by Mr. C. 4.18.54 Whitley outside the St. Andrew's Church 4.21.04 at 4.30 pm sharp. The distance is ap- 4.41.36 proximately 6 miles. The course to be taken will be the usual one, along Nathan 4.50.0)
load and then past the Kowloon Mor. 3.03.11 3.11.43 taary to Kowloon City. The return jour- ney will be by way of the Victoria Home Carough Hunghon, along Chatham Road turning into Nathan Road by Middle Road and then back to the Church
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Time.
H'cap. Finish- Correct- ing Course. Tima. 1.30 .4.20.33 9.12
4.23.10 .ACT. 4.44.50 243 3.01.48 1.39 5.04.50 1.39 0.13.24
SHOOTING MATCH.
On Sunday H.M.S. Inguis met the Hongkong Volunteers in a rifelgur match and won by the margin of 71 points...
Weather conditions were bad, drizzling rain falling the whole time. Visibility was poor at 500 and 100 yards." Although the H.K.V.D.C; were defeat-
ed they were by no means disgraced for
they bad to fro with three men short.
Individual scores were
R.M.S. IROQUOIS."
The following are the officials:- Judges: Rev. G. R. Arrowsmith (Presi dent of the Club), Rev. C. R. Lindsay and Mr. P. Sands (Vice-Presidents) Starter: Mr. C. Whitley; Time-keepers. Measrs, Frank N. W. Doodha, Baldwin, and Bannister.
The prizes, which have been generously
presented by "Sir Paul Chater (Patsen), Mesara. R. M. Dyer, and W. S. Bailey, will be distributed by Mrs. V. Arrowsmith in the Church Hall immediately after the
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The semi-final at Padling on Sunday
ARRESTED AS A SPY.
AMERICAN VICE-CONSUL TO
INVESTIGATE.
Our race is not yet run, continued Mc Baldwin. "But we shall run more worthily so long as we base our lives on the stern virtues of the Roman character. and take to ourselves the warnings that she left for our guidance."
Mr. Baldwin, speaking of his personal love of the classics, told bow, when be was fighting his first cléction, he found recreation and solace in Virgil and Horace.
VALUE OF PLAIN FOLK.
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experience to guide her, Rome ran her Over a course infinitely hard, with little mighty race, bearing her torch on high. followed after, none ran so far, none so Of those who came before, of those who
surely. And when her course was run the torch came into other hands, who bore it forward according to the strength and guidance that was in them, until after many centuries it was passed to us, thu Bat. we-shall rub more worthily so long youngest son. Our mace is not yet rum. as we base our lives on the stern. virtues
of the Roman character and take to our- selves the warnings that she left for our guidance.
THE PERSONAL TOUCH. Ending what be termed "these modest reflections," and bidding the statesman
By away and the ordinary man step for vard, the Premier made reference to the question whether the Greeks or Romana, indulged in swearing.
words which build up the most exquisite "In our own time," he said, "the poem we have known to be used in other contexts; to have provided a rhyme for a sentimental song, or patter for a low
Mr. Baldwin said that though he had no qualifications for delivering a presi- dential address to that association, he took beart from the thought that while the lamp of classical learning must be trim-comedian.. mcd and kept burning by the scholars, yet the light that was diffused depeaded to some extent on the fuel, and that was provided by an army of plain folk with conviction and enthusiasm in their hearts. Proceeding. Mr. Baldwin said:"-
To be an Englishman, native of a ecun- try which was an integral part of the Roman Empire for period as long as from the Reformation until this present Dight, and to be ignorant of the history of that Empire is to be without that sense of perspective in viewing both the change of events and their day to day reactions which is essential to see our national life sad to see it whole.
It was not for nothing that Western Europe was forced on the anvil of Roze, and who can say how much we owe to those long years of Roman law, Roman discipline, Konun faith, and partnership in a common empire! During the first four centuries of the present ers Roman thought and Roman manners imposed themselves upon
our island and made themselves a home here.
rating in the Piraeus found, his rations It may be that when the Trireme's
short, or the Centurion was jostled in the words used by Homer or Virgil were crowded by-ways of the Suburra, winged pressed into the service of each to become the vehicle of their complaint, or abuse, and that these same words in their day had many a frivolous or debasing task to da. But none of this has reached our
ears.
It was distressing, he added, to "find ourselves saying in ten words what the aan said in five How different from the ancients were many of our English scribblers, who swathed the thinnest of thoughts in a profusion of words, is the hope maybe that it would appear larger from its wrappings.
HIS FIRST ELÈCTION..
If he might strike a personal note he would say that he was indebted to his carly truimng more than he could ever Srst election I fought," he continued, hope to repay. I remember well the
it was what was called an old-fashioned election in an ancient borough, now dis franchised. The candidate was expected to spend three evenings a week during the time of his probation in one or another of the public-houses, which jostled each "THOSE "GREAT ROADS-,
other through the constituency, listening Rome must have seemed very real and to and vociterously applauding what, for present to the children of the near-by want of a better name, was called, on the hamlets na they saw the great roads creep-lucus a non-lucendo principle, comic or. towards them, past them, and ever on- humourous song. After a time I felt the in the junior championship of the Royal' According to telegrams from Hankow warda, in ruthless and undeviating course, need of a moral purge, and a literal seda Hongkong Golf Club resulted:- the Rev. John Bly has been arrested by making the furthest ends of the island tive, It was the work of a moment tu
G. Layton beat A. W. Shovelton, & up. the Kuominchun and charged with having trafickers coming from wild fastnesses uy
pervious to the legions tredil Shy tind what my soul needed. A. O. Brown meets A. Humphreys next acted as a spy. Sunday in the other semi-final.
The American Vice-Consul has been they chanced upon a Roman highway and, ordered to Hsinyangchow. from Hankowhading their eyes with their hands, saw to investigate with regard to the Rev Bly awed at the thought of the great heart it pass into the horizon, must have been and the Rev. Nelson
The Rev. Nelson, of the "Lutheran Misthat beat at the end of that giant artery sion, was killed at his home in Hsinyang Mr. R. Hancock presided at the meet-chow by stray bullet. It is stated that ing of the Lawn Tennis Association held the mission buildings are riddled with yesterday evening in the pavilion of the shots.
LAWN TENNIS,
ASSOCIATION MEETING.
"When I came home at night from these orgies I seldom went to bed with out reading something of the Odyssey. the date of the election i had read all the the Aeneid, or the Odes of Hornet. By last named and most of the others, not fowers, now so familiar, came in the always with ease but with care and in- Beautiful buildings, kindly plants and without labour in the dictionaries, Dot wake of the eagles and sank their founda.reasing joy, and with the desired result tions and their roots in English soil. that though defeated I had passed
It may well be that sub-conscious mera was not on my garments."""
through the are, and the smell of burning ories of those days, and the mingling of blood for four centuries, played their part no less than the arrival of the Normans
TEIBUTE TO LORD OXFORD.
Hongkong Cricket Club, at, which repre- | The directory of Protestant missions "sentatives of the following Clubs were lista a Mr. and Mrs. D. Nelson. as con present, viz. Hongkong Cricket Club,nected with the Lutheran United Mission Kowloon C.C., Chinese Recreation Club, ut Hsinyangehow, Mr. Nelson was one India R.C., Taikoo C. Craigengower of the pioneers in Norwegian Lutheran in modifying certain characteristics of our to enjoy with unmixed pleasure the choice C.C., Club de Reercio, Netherlands Club Mission work in Hooza..
He came to Teutonic invaders, and saved us from of words and the phrasing of those speak. and the Valunteers.
China for the mission 36 years ago, join-becoming what Carlylo called "A gluters who modelled themselves on the
The Hon. Secretary, MT. B. W. Eing the mission at Hsinyangchow in 1800, Bishop, read the minutes of the last meet the year after it was opened.
ing, which were confirmed. The state-) ment of accounts showed a credit balance i
of $80.79, which will be carried forward
to this year. ..
THREE LEAGUES FOR THE SEASON.
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THE GRAND NATIONAL.
FLY MASK BREAKS HIS NECK,"
It was unanimously decided to three Leagues for the current season, viz, | Press from London on
A special cable to the Singapore Free the "A"B" and "C" Divisions; and
February 4th SAYA
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it was further resolved that, "Any perir. H. Laidlaw's Fly Mask, one of the son who plays twice for a higher division most strongly fancied candidates of the ahall be inelligible to play for a lower sixty entered for the Grand National on one"
The following have already en March 27th, broke his neck while racing tered:
"A" Division-Hongkong C.C., Kow at Haydock Park yesterday.
loon C.C., Chinese RG. and Indias garded as the most reliable pair for the Fly Mask and Old Tay Bridge were re- R.C.. "B" Division.-Hongkong C.C., Kow. Grand National, in which Fly Mask would. have been making his third attempt this loon CC, Craigengower C.C. year. He was generally accounted un- Chinese R.C.. Indian R.C., and fucky, when he finished four lengths behind Club da Recreio.. "C" Division,-Hongkong C.C., Bow last year he was third behind Double the winner, Master Robert, in 1924, and Зоод OC. Craigengower, C. Chance and Old Tay Bridge.. Chinese R.C., Taikoo, R.O., and the Club de Recreio.
It was also decided to play return matches in all the divisions.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS,
It was proposed by Mr. Bishop (Hon. Secretary) and seconded by Mr. 0. Young (Taikoo) that Mr. R. Hancock and Mr. SR Bayer be re-elected President and Vice-President respectively of the Associa tion for the ensuing year. The motion was passed unanimously.
HOCKEY.
YESTERDAY'S FIXTURE
POSTPONED...
He had been able, said Mr. Baldwin,
tonous race of Jutes and "Angles, capable classical tradition. "Without a rival in of no grand, combination, humbering that style I would place one of the most about in pot bellied equanimity, not distinguished members of this association, dreaming of heroic toil, and silence, and the Earl of Oxford. Amongst our great endurance, such as leads to the higher places of this universe, and the golden mountain tops where dwell the spirits of the dawn."
FEARS, FOR FUTURE:
"
speakers we have those whose inspiration is obviously that of Athens and those whose debt is to Rome. The Earl of Ox ford is a Roman in his lucidity, in his phrasing, in his felicity. It requires but There are fears amongst those who are him in the courts delivering a defence, little stretch of the imagination to picture not yet gripping us by the throat bat: responsible for government to-day, fears shall we say, pro Georgio." (Laughter.) taking grisly shape in the twilight, that cerity as a member of the association I
"If I bave convinced you of my sin
best lives in such numbers has not left repeat to you what I have said to my the Great War by the destruction of our
am happy," added Mr. Baldwin. I may enough of the breed to carry on the work friends, that when my work in politics is but it will be accomplished yet. of the Empire. Our task is hard enough, completed I shall take down all my old Who in Europe does not know that one once more with dictionary and grammar. companions from my shelves and work more war in the West and the civilization I have always Rept the embers aglow that of the ages will fall with as great a shock they may easily be blown into fame to as that of Home? She has left danger warm my senile bones.” read them. signals along the road. It is for us to
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THE MODERN BOY.
The boy home for the holidays, remarks recent London paper, has had the op portunity of reading during the week, on
That he will be a better man than his father.
That he should cat, as much as he
And as we do so we may look as sho did at another history.That Roman Em-1 pire of which we were once a part om- braced all the countries occupied by people of Hellenic blood. Less in the direct historical succession, though more. in the spiritual, the statesman has much various eminent authorities, to learn from Greece. Her history, ast has often been pointed out, is one long Owing to bad weather prevailing yes- failure to create an Empire. Her problem terday, the last hockey match in the Sim was, nearer ours in kind than that of Shield competition arranged for yester- Rome, for her solution had it been effect- day afternoon between the Arme and ed would have resulted in a common Mr. G. W. Bewell was unanimously the Hongkong Club at the U.S.R.C. wealth of nations rather than an Empire elected Hon. Secretary on the proposal ground was postponed. This match will on the Roman model. There was no ex of Mr. G. Miskin, seconded by Mr. Bishop now take place on Friday afternoon and periment she did not try to win organic
A yote of thanke was accorded Mr. at the olose of the game the presentation Bishop, the retiring Hon. Secretary, who of the Sim Shield will be made to the is going on Home leave next April, for his winners of the competition (the Royal good work during the past season, Navy).
founded on high moral principles
That his reluctance to washing" is
is much exaggerated.
That the importance of book learning That teaching is overdone,”?"
unity, but she was defeated by these very The solitary note of criticism is Dr. characteristics of intellect and tempera Cannan's Curiously enough, he finds the ment which raised her to such heights in modern boy nearly entirely undisci poetry, art, and philosophy,
plined "
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