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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17тa, · 1926
LOCAL BASEBALL.
FILIPINO STARS BEAT OUR -CHAMPIONS: -
"South China, the local baseball-chám- picns, were blanked out in all nine innings in their meeting with the Ali Star Filipina visitors at the Happy Valley diamond yesterday afternoon,
The locals, bowever, gave a very good account of themselves in the field until the seventh inning when they, made the greater number of their errors and let through eight men on seven hita,
CHINESE MEDICINES. --
A SERIOUS, HANDICAP TO
ARCHAEOLOGY:
....." DRAGONBONES."
China is the despair of the archeologist for many reasons, but principally be cause the Chinese cat their fossil remains instead of putting them in museums, To the Western reader this may seem a strange diet, but in China fossil bones and teeth, particularly teeth, ari reput- "Fed to possess first-rate therapeutic Features of interest in the match were qualities, and in consequence are in con- a home run hit to centre held by Rivera stant demand by the ailing. A very in the seventh inning; double play by popular drug is compounded of the boces South China between. Erst, catcher and; and teeth of fossils ground into fine accond in the fourth inning; six beauti! powder. The fact that they are so crush. де eated, provides the ful dies by Leung (South China) and two ed, as well
Archaeologist with another grievance, by Rivera (Stars).
When the visitors found the outfeld. These drugs are supposed to be parti hitting unsafe, they adopted low but cularly beneficial for liver complaints, fast drivers, and this led to the discom-incipient insanity, and the presence of
Ature of the local men.
The teams and score by inning were
as under-
The
A record number of spectators watched obnoxious fluids in the stomach. They the game.
are known by the name of dragon benes and dragon teeth, and some time ago it seemed to Sinologues that probably they might shed some light on the dragon! in Chinese art and folk-lore. Chinese dragon is a creature of poly. genetic nature, with the body and limbs of a crocodile, the head of a lion, and the horns of a deer-if anything, an extinct reptile. - As with almost every thing in this country he is poles apart: from his Western prototype, being a very benevolent beast with omnipotent powers
SOUTH CHINA.
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PODOSTELLOUR BALL. F
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T. Chinn Choy
Casimero Bernales
M. Platon
Changes:-South China: . Chian, r.f.; Shim, p; and S. L. Lea, cf. Stars: Bertulla and Tombo, p.; Ylanan, 2b;in controlling angry rivers and giving
fertility to the soil.
and Torbio, c..
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5 China... 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 Stara 1 1.9 0.0 39 3
Hits:-South China, 3; Stars, 19. Strike-outs:-Liboon, 3; Bertulfo, Tombo, 3.
and
6;
Bases on balls-S. L. Lee, 9; Tombo,
Errors:-South China, 10; Stars, 1.
TO-DAY'S MATCH,'
SOURCES OF SUPPLY.
But there is nothing of the reptile in
Runa- Platoon, 4; Casimero and the remains that are so religiously eaten by the Chinese. These are pure mamma. C. Platoon, 3 each; Bernales Ylapas, each; Bertullo, Montalbo, lian, and the fact is established by Mr. Walter Grainger, the chief painologist Regis and Rivera, 1 cash.
in the Central Asiatic Expedition, who bas employed the winter intervals be- tween Mongolian trips for the last few years in following clues to the soures of supply. For a time he was baffled by the non-committal answers of the city medicine men, and even when he had. traced the raw material to the wholesale markets he was put off by the auspicuous Eventually his quest was re- dealers. warded, with the help of a British Consul, Mr. Langdon Smith, who former- ly held a post in the Yangtze provinces.
The trail took Mr. Grainger to the province of Szechwan, where he found a very lively industry prospering in the eastern villages. Here the chief occupa tion of the inhabitants was found to be the excavation of fossils from
caves
The U.S.S.
the Helena will meet visitors in the second match at 4.30 p.m. to-day.
LAWN TENNIS.
CHINESE EC'S NARROW WIN AT MACAO.
VILLA FRANCA" AND FERNANDEZ "STARS."
There can be no doubt now that Macao is a tennis field worthy of Hongkong very sericus consideration. Two weeks ago they defeated a local Indian team in sensational style and over the week end, a strong Chinese team could onlying people. get the better-of them by one match in
a series of nine.
Villa Franca and Fernandez proved to be the "ata" pair of the two sides and came off undefeated, beating Ng Sze Kwong and M. W: Lo in straight sets.
The detailed scores of the matches are as follows:-
"Ng Sze-Kwong and M. W. Lo: beat A H. de Mello and
C. A. da Silva
..... 6-3, 7-5 beat R. M. Xavier and M.
A. da Silva
6-2, 6-9 lost to Villa Franca and
Fernandez
1-6, 3-8
Ho Ka Kau and Yew Man
Tsun :
lost to A. H. de Mello and
C. A. da Silva
7-5, 6-8, 5-7- beat R. M. Xavier and M.
A da Silva
6-6, 6-2
40, 06
lost to. Villa France and
Fernandez
37
36
39
44 45
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1. Shack 6. Composer.
12. Space.
13.
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Dash...
Burrows.
Relating to healing.
Pointed as a cross.
41. Varnish.
OR. Hoarfrost.
24. Hansom.
25. Assembled.
£6. Number:
27. Applaud,
20. Goddess of Corn
31. Spanish wine."
39. Fete...
34 Composition.
36. Disarranged
38.
Purchasers allowance.
32 Public school.
42. Peel
44. Shut in.
47. Character. 49. Mineral. 50. Fish. 51. Gained.. 52. Edges.
Burdened.
58. Footwear.
57. Watered silk fabric.
Storm.
59.
61. That which is lect. 69. Trip.
63. Indian province.
61. Fish-hawk.
Down.
Bag for small articles.
KHi
3. Composed "Rule Britannia."
4. Born
Mineral
7. Achilles' "spre point.""
$. Aged.
9. Couple.
10. Eggs..
11. Plaster.
14. Full supply.
16. Mountain range.
17. Soveral.
13. Companion.
19. So be it
92. Agitated.
25. Father.
Bacial division.
30: Sedate.
31. Royal house.
33. Rest
25. Fondle.
37. Games.
39. Quiver.
40. No place.
41 Principles.
43. Tune.
43. Flesh.
46 Peruvian falcon.
48. Famous battlefield.
33. Biblical City.'
34. Russian river.
55. Suares.
5. Urge.
55. Horse.
60. Grimace.
"The Solution will appear in the Daily Press on Thursday,
IMPROVEMENT OF CHEFOO HARBOUR.
WORKS RESULT IN TRAFFIC DEVELOPMENT.
"
1
godowns by means of trucks running-on the existing rails; to construct roads of formed by the dissolving action of water
approach to the main street and to the on the limestone of overhanging moun-
boat harbour; to construct a seawall at the base of the mois on the northern tain ridges The fossil resources of the enves seemed inexhaustible; yet they had
boundary of its recently acquired pro- been worked for hundreds of years, sup
"perty; to reclaim this property by filling plying the great medicine markets in the The breakwater having been completed it to the level of the mole surface and Yangtze valley with the material used in in December, 1920, and the mole in De- to construct thereon sheds for trucks, prescribing for the maladies of a team-cember, 1921, it devolved on the Chefoo workshop, etc.; to culvert to the sea the Harbour Improvement Commission to creek which empties itself at the base. The price of dragon bones last winter develop these adjuncts of the harbour in of the mole; and, finally, when all these was fairly high, but by offering a little the fullest possible measure, says the works have been completed, to open the
To mole to traffic. more than their commercial value. Mr. Cheloo Customs report for 1023.
Other improvements to the harbour, now Grainger obtained enough specimens to secure roads of approach to the mole and | enable him to pursue a winter's study. land for the Commission's purposes was in course of completion or to be under- He identified a stegedon (an anime half the first necessity.. Great difficulties were taken, are the dredging of the North Tai way between an elephant and a mastodon experienced in bringing these questions Ping Wan to a sufficient depth to allow that became extinct with carly man), a to a successful issue. Negotiations with cargo-boats to work at all stages of the " rhinoceros, a giant deer, a tapir, a loos, Chinese landowners,, who had not been tider and the dredging of the approaches and mare smaller carnivorous animals. slow in realising that sooner or later the to the jetties-and-to the mole quay, the Only cut complete skeleton was offered Commission would have pay dearly for latter to a 25-ft, depth to permit of the him, the remains of a big bison, similar the omission in previous years to secure successful berthing of deep-draught ocean to those Dow found in Indo-China. These land and approcches to the mole, lasted steamers at the quay.
were the dragon bones of China, so call ed apparently because they represented Fauna not met with in life is the pro- ducing regions..
FAMILY SECRETS.
The tug purchased at the beginning of until August. The Commission finally secured some 38 muw of land below high the year from the Haiho Conservancy is water level to the westwards of and adjustifying its existence by assisting deep... joining the base of the mole and a 20-ft. draught steamers to their berths and by wide road leading to the main street, towage and salvage" when needed for which besides the existing road leading these purposes. A Priestman grab-dred. Most of the compounds made up by to the boat harbour, will meet all reger, self-propelling, fitted with hopper the Chinese doctors and pharmacists are quirements. The majority of the com doors, "was also purchased during the jealously guarded family secrets. They mercial element at this, port having ex- year and is doing as well as can be ex are passed down from generation to pressed itself in favour of the erection of pected considering the difficult nature of M. H. Lo and lu Tak Cheuk:
The appoint geperation, and their possession is suf storage godowns on the mole quay, light the soil in the harbour. beat A H. de Mello and
fcient guarantee of professional pro- steel sheds of the removable type, and ment this year of a berthing pilot is not C. A. da Silva
State No Royal College or ficiency. *
6-4, 10 €
measuring 400 feet in length by 60 feet only of great material assistance in the beat R. M. Xavier and M.
examination is required to enable in width, were ordered
berthing of ocean steamers, but also pi A. da Silva
8-6, 6-2" doctor to set up a practice. Neither, does
great moral value for insurance purposes.. lost to Villa Franca and
the pharmacist require a passport to ply
Thanks, in a great measure, to all these Fernandaa
..: 4-6, 0-6 his trade Chinese drugs are not of any
harbour facilities, a direct ocean-steamer constant strength, and small errors in
traffic, is developing favourably. compounding, therefore, do not cause much inconvenience. The pharmacists, in IRON AND STEEL IN THE FAR fact, are notoriously careless..
EAST.
MARKET CONDITIONS IN 1995. *
"A SCORPION PIE There is a classic story of one such Shanghai worthy" who maintained a In the past Japan has been a very bakery in his pharmacy. A magistrate important market for American iron and in the Mixed Court sent to hini for a steel, states an American Commerce Re-meat pie to eat during a long session. port. The year 1995, however, registered The pie duly appeared, but it was found a sharp loss of business with the Empire. to contain a trio of scorpions. The dish Nearly all fines" of iron and steel were was intended for a patient suffering from represented in the 1925 shipments, but a serious illness, but the prescription had tinplate, which aggregated 29 per cent. been mixed up with the order from the of the total and black steel sheets (28 magistrate for a less noxious pasty..." A per cent) dominated Nine per cent of scorpion pie might seem a weird remedy the Japanese receipts was rails and acces for any complaint, but many other sories, 8 per cent. was welded black pipe, Chinese prescriptions are equally hair- 6 per cent. was wire rods, and 6 per cent, raising. The following ingredients were was scrap. Light rail made up close to contained in a recent medical-compound: one-half of the exports to Kwantung Wool lice shells, elephants' teeth, orange (leased territory). Russia in Asia took peel, a red fungoid growth from the root a couple hundred tons of American car of a tree, bamboo leaf, bata' apines, wheels and axles.
fragrant root (Angelica refracta).
One one-third of the consignments to Because of these singular remedies it China was tinplate, another third was is the fashion to disparage Chinese heavy rails, and the remainder was made medicine and the resources of the Chinese up of a great variety of products, pro-pharmacopoeia. But there are many minent among which were scrap, gal-native cures that deserve scientific atten- vanised sheets, and rail accessories, tion. This is now being accorded, parti- Serap and tinplate constituted the bulk cularly by, the Rockefeller. Foundation, of the material destined for Hongkong," which has long been engaged, in explor
More than one-third of the exports to ing the mysteries of the vegetable and British India was tinplate, nearly one-mineral compounds prescribed since time third was galvanised sheets, and nearly immemorial by the Chinese medical body. one-fifth was caning and oil line pipe. The The Chinese, have a forty centuries-old Straits Settlements took mostly galvani experience behind those remedies, and sed sheets and timplate, and the trade certain of, them are sufficiently successful with the other British East Indies was to warrant respect.Manchester Guar virtually all in tinplate.
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