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DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH. 1936
LAWN TENNIS.
SHANGHAI MEN'S DOUBLES
CHAMPIONSHIP. .⠀
The man's doubles championship of the Shanghai Lawn Tennis Association was decided on the 22nd inst., at the Country Club, Kuwabara and Canavarro winning in three sets from Wade and Sullivan, 3Core, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.
“TENNIS FEET.
[DY A SURGEDN.)
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Tennis elbow has long been a recogniz ed. if rather uncommon, occupational disease. Tennis fert" is to-day, in the aver-growing popularity of the game, filling the waiting rooms of arthopaedic surgeons with devotees whose foot and leg muscles have failed to keep pace with their enthusiasm.
It would be outside the scope of this article to touch upon the relative ad vantages of the naked foot, to which the flexible, soft-soled tennis shoe is the nearest approach in use to-day, and the stiff-soled and comparatively high-heeled shoe of everyday wear. What is indubi table is the difference between the two. The human foot has been compared often to an arch. A better comparison would be a bow, held bent and faut by the muscles and ligaments that run from heel to ball. The bony structure of the arch would not pass the serutiny of aay architect. Deprived of its muscular support it will sag, and the result will be the splayed-out, aching, incipient flat foot that is beginning to be known as
tennis feet."
Muscles and ligaments are living things, and living things grow tired.. They will dire less quickly if they are) given a little assistance, a little respite from the, unrelaxed strain of holding to-
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that is the arch of the foot. The stiff sole of everyday wear gires that, but takes away while it gives, for the muscles, which are (as is the nature of all living things a lazy folk, forget that there maş a time when their strength will be needed. The bowstring relaxes and the foot Battens into an unshapely and mechani- eally unsound assembly of bones. and muscles. 7
The remedy is, as usual, to remember that the human hody can adapt itself almost always to new conditions, pro- vided only that it be given reasonable time in which to do it. Any athletic trainer knows as well as, a doctor the folly of the sudden transition from a sedentary life to hard exercise.
And what is true of the body as a whole is true of a part of it. The feet must be broken in gradually to their new conditions, accustomed to dispense with supporting leather, as the young. gymnast is trained to do without the helping hand of his instructor. Given that one condition, there is little reason why any player should be put out of action by tennis fect."Daily Mail.
TRADE OF CHINA.
HINDRANCÊS TO COMMERCE.
*
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CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
SEPTEMBER 2Stæ, 1938. Rongrong Bank $1,091 bay. 1.090 an.
Do London 2123 nom. Chartered Bank..............
...£21 bay.. Mercantile Bank, A. & B£30 nom.
Do.,
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bay.
*WOE.CFO$
$1 no
P. & O. Haak".. East Asia Bank ... Caston Insurance China Underwriters...... North China Insurance T. 125 no Union Insurance in
$296 bay. Alox. $35 bay. Yangraze InsurKOUS. Union Fire furance
1900 buy. Hongkong Fire Ausurance ...$600 buy. Douglases
buy
HK,, U. & M. Steamboats...($19) bay, 291/
Hongkong Tugy..............
buy, Indo-Chins (ret.) ...............................130 bay. (Del.), ...........342 buj. Shell Transports .......... Star Ferries...................... buy. Waterbosti.....
...$15 nou China Nugara
$21 bay, 25 ma. Malabon Augus Bengacts............. Kalian Mining AdA
Langkata (combined)
Do! (ringle)......... Shanghai
Explorations. Baul Bhangbai Loans made Tronoh Mines Ural Caspians HK & K Wha... HK. & W. Dock.. Hongkowi
New Engineerings. Shanghai Docks.. H&M. Hotels Hongkong Lands Bongzong Resitys FK Territorial Prince's Bailings.... Humphreys Estates...
Ewo Cottons.......... Haral Lands
Dr. C. F. Remer, at one time Professor of Economics at St. John's University, Shanghai, in a volume entitled "The Foreign Trade of China," compares the foreign trade statisties of China with those of India. He finds the former rela- tively low, and attributes this smallness to the passive resistance which China offers to the penetration of trade. By this he means not an organised, or even a con- scious, opposition to the spread of trade, though he admits there have been boycotts from time to time, but the hampering and confning influence that Bows from the very nature of Chinese civilisation. Developing this theme, Dr. Remer says: In the first place, China consists of a vast number, of small agricultural com- munities in which probably three-fourths of the Chinese people live. The Chinese people are a village people. It is be lieved that there are no fewer than--A hundred thousand villages within the country, each with its group of perhaps Taxis
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• 231 buy.
Tla, 11
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Th. 5 nom
Tla, 7 nam
„Jised buy.
"Ang "jor"
$120 buy. Jong buy. Tis. 170 bay.
la, 5.10 buy.
T. 115 bar.
$10 35 buy..
364 bay, 81.
пода
$4 sel.
$134 bur. $39 nom $1 nom Tis, 81 bay, Tlx. 2 bay. Shanghai Cotions (old)...... 61 buy. (new)......Tis. 26 buy. China Busce Hongkong Tramways... Peak Trams (old)
Do (ww).. Bingapore Tractions
Do.
"ten hamlets about it. The circumstance Amusements ....................
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$7.bu nom. ..15/8 bez.
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Do (old).......$1ź nom. 26, ..
(DOW).......... nom. China Lights (combined) ......$204 bay..
(old) ...bay. Da.
(new) .......$10 bay. Constractions ......... China Providents.........
.$5.35 bay. Dairy Farmı.......
$i nom Der A Wings...
$17 bay. Hongkong Euctrice
....46 sel.. Macao Electrics
that the Chinese people live in these scat-Canton Icos ..........................87) nom. tered villages, each with a considerable Cement (combined). .....................$134 buy,, 14 sa. degree of economic independence, brings it about that serious restrictions" upon the development of trade are tolerated. The most important of these restrictions is the lack of transportation facilities. There are a few railways in China, and there is, a network of canals in certain parts of the country sa, for example, in the districts around Canton and inland from Shanghai. There are, finally, the great navigable rivers, such as the Yang taze and the. Weat River. Away from the rivers, the railways, and the canals, the only means of transportation are carts, pack animals, and coolies. The expense of transportation by these means is evident.
Another restriction is a currency system which, by the standard of uni- formity, is probably the worst in the world. The intricacies and complications of money changing in China are almost beyond belief. The state of the weights and measures is one of endless confusion. The lack of certainty and uniformity in taxation and the "decen tralisation of the Government, which is one of the chief political problems of the country, constitute further hindrances to trade. These restrictions are frequently. commented upon, but it is not so fre- quently pointed out that they would be intolerable if the Chinese people were not divided and separated by their village life.
In charging a Chinese youth before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis tracy yesterday with possession of 28 taels of illicit opium, Chief Preventive Officer 8. J. Clarke said that the drug was found tied round the defendant's waist when he was searched on the Tung On Wharf. His Worship imposed a fine of $2,000, or six months' hard labour.
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