MOTORING NOTES
(CONTD.). THE CAR OF TO- MORROW.
HINTS FOR THE MAN WHO !
WILL BUY IT.
[By JOHN PRIOLEAU.]
If you took a referendum among all the people who own cars and the incalculable number of those who wish they could, hope to soon, and are just going to do it, what sort of motor-car do you suppose
composite" of all their desires and hopes would be? Would it, to start at the elementary stage, be a closed car, an open one or a type which can be both? Would it be simple or complicated? There are many perfectly wise and Rensible drivers who are very willing to put up with complication in order to this or that advantage Would it be well-equipped, or would there be minimum of gadgets on the dashboard and elsewhere? There are distinct schools of thought in this, too. Would it have many ur few cylinders? Would it be a ear to drive, or a car to get about
KULU FC
in Would it be both!
other people whose business it is not and who ought to know better, there is no question but that we are much further on our way, in 1927, to the One Car per Family standard than anybody would have suspected three years ago. more people are buying cars for the first time, and far more are realis-'
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 6th, 1927.
WHAT I THINK OF
MODERN SPORT.
OPINIONS OF AN OLYMPIC CHAMPION.
MR. D. G. A. LOWE, B.A..
Mr.
GOLF.
ROYAL HONG KONG GOLF CLUB.
THE CAPTAIN'S CUP.
Play in the Captain's Cup at Fanling, July 2nd-4th, resulted as
follows:-
TS Whyte Smith, £8--10=78
1
Others scores: A. E. LissaNLO
C. C. Stark
Mr.. D. G. A. Lowe, B.A., aged 25, of Pembroke College, Cum- bridge, is the writer of an interest ing article on "What I Think of qualifies. Modern Sport," which appeared a month or so age in the Western Werkly News (Plymouth). Lowe ia President of the University 71 double blue Athletic Club, (Athletics and Association Foot ball), World Olympic Champion 800 metres, and captain of the English team to tour Grebce this year.
As one of the foremost amateur athletes he is well qualified to write on Sport
Mr Lowe writes:
Mailern sport covers so wide a range of activities that it cannot possibly be dealt with exhaustively in a single article.
I propose, confiné my attention therefore, to games and more particularly to those game which are played in the of most universni open and are popularity.
02-11=$1
3=63 98-11-84
K. S. Morrison 12 cards taken out. Correction.-J. S. MacLaren's score in Eclectic Competition (June). D.W. Bay, was 20-3=20, not 29-1 as stated.
supplants that for team gaine tricket! The competitive spirit involved in track-athletics is bound always to demand individual recently received fresh inspiration contents; but even athletics have from the introduction of the reley. team idea.
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The Ideal In Sport. Do the modern boy or giri, man woman, indulge too much in sport 7 This is a charge which has First, as to suine of the evils as-
been made ever since Euripides Bociated with the great ganes of the day. One of the most malig criticized the esteem in which the nant of these is professionalisin. Ureek athlete was held by calling
him a
"reasonless animal "words This is not quite so idle a specula- This is not due to the individual not unlike these of Mr. Kipling's tion as one night suppose. Dis
and muddied counting the tales of agents and professional, who is generally Ranuelled fools
excellent fellow, ready enough to
Qals," It is a charge, however, play the game" if given the that can easily be rebutted if a chance, but to the atmosphere sur-
sense of proportion be retained. rounding him.
The remembrance of the object of games-to create a healthy body to serve a healthy mind-should- to appartion his time for recrea- ways enable any exponent properly tion. The same applies to the ques- No game tion of specialization. should be practised to such an ex- tent that it losee its joyousness; specialization to achieve superla tive results cannot, on the whole, be commended in games. At the the attitude of the vast voncourse of spectators almost identical with ghould, include scientific study of
same time anoderation can, and that of those in the Roman amphithe methode whereby perfection of theatre ?
forte may-be-attained; for the ideal should surely be to play games as splendidly as possible, whilst never losing sight of the main considera- tion-the joy and value of the exer- cise itself.
Far
The exploitation of a few fine athletes to provide a gindiatorial display can hardly be defended, even as a business proposition; and if, as unfortunately does sometimes ing that the attainment of their happen, it leads to corruption, it desires is or soon will be within is utterly sordid and degrading their reach, instead of residing per- And is is difficult to avoid describ- manently and coldly in a golden ing the average professional Soc dream. Before very long it will be ter natch or boxing contest as question of "Can we ever afford gladiatorial display; for in not a car but "What sort of car will suit us liest?"
What We Want,
I cannot refrain from a word
Well, what sort of car is it we The gloating Romans at the pri- are all hoping to get, and what sort vately-promoted boxing match seem of car are we steeling ourselves to to bear considerable affinity to the put up with If the inakers of the spectators at the recent Dempsey. world knew the answer, what a heap Tunney fight, while that other of trouble would everyone be saved. Roman spectacle-the chariot race
Why should any demand we car -was not so unlike the modern of warning, particularly to chil im horse race. The historian Gibbon dren and to women. Avoid any buyers choose to make be practicable? Who are the makers anys that not infrequently as many exercise which occasions the slight- as 400,000 people flocked to the est excess strain. The desire to but the persons appointed to pro vide what we want? That not all Roman circus and the happiness emulate men is so keen that funda- of them were appointed by dis of Rome appeared to hang on the mental physical differences are fre- cerning providence is unhappilyevent of a race!"
quently forgotten. evident, but their places can, should, will be taken by others better fitted for their high station. The ear of the near future, its
simple
The Evil Of Betting.
It is, perhaps, worth recalling that the so-called "athletic craze Mention of horse-racing brings of to-day was also a feature of design and equipment and capabi me to that greatest of all evils in Greek lile. In spite of the satire the modern sporting world-name of Euripides, the Greeks set the lities, lies in the half-formed, quas, betting. This is not the place highest store by athletics, and as- ter-expressed hopes of the huge to discuss the ethics of betting nor
sociated with them army of new buyers. We of the its legal position; the contention idealism which might not be with- preceding armies learnt in our which may properly be raised here
out value to-day. They insisted time to put up with things. is that betting ruina clean sport. upon form, upon good style, upon The new armies are going to have It does so, not necessarily among harmonious action and rhythm. it all their own way or they should the actors, who are, on the whole. And to this and they established the do so. They have an immense ad-free from it themselves otherwise theory of training, strict vantage over us old stagers in that no game could survive-but among austere, in order to attain seizena- they need not concern themselves the spectators, and, still more, trol in body and in soul. about vital things like reliability among the
open
sunerous paràsitic
or soundners of inaterial. They groups which batten on any sport have all that for a gift, which we which is highly commercialized,
with pursued painfully cheque-hook. Solidly established upon that yourfarting basis, what are they going to regard as essen- tinls One would like to have the returns of that referendum.'
Bigger Cars Wanted,.
The Perfect Man..
and
The
It has been suggested already Nevertheless, in spite of various evils, modern games pussies many that in several games to-day these fine qualities formerly non-existent.qualities are badly needed. The games of the Greeks were based associated ideal was that of the per- upon the need for physical fitness feet man playing his true and in preparation for war, allied with equal part among the equally free the nobler idea of the perfectly worthy members of the My own idea is that what the trained man taking his place in self-governing community.
At the same time there existed majority of present and potential the perfectly modelled State. To- owner drivers want is a rather big-day the latter idea survives, but the Olympian Games, whose mo dern counterpart draws inspiration ger and more powerful ear than the instead of the former we have an
type. Cerintense desire to internationalize from the same ideal-the desire to existing "popular"
abolisb wir. Every argument tainly the present owner does, as sport and to prevent war. n rule. He has served his appren- These new ideals have developed against the modern Olympic Games ticeship with the little car and only with the education of mankind; and other international athletic the lightweight enthusiast is found and the progress of education is contests can ultimately be answered now who really prefers an 11.9 h.p. revealed in the games man plays. by a proper spirit of athletic all competitors 1 a 14 or 15 h.p.; only a competi- His mental development demanded than
idealism, es representative of mul
As Lord cramped for room than not. The
titudes of sportsmen and women in little car of ten to twelve horse as his "brawn"; and the introduc- their own countries. power did us all very notable ser- tion of ball games gave his fertile Birkenhead recently said about There is nothing vice in days now happily past. imagination the scope it needed. those games:
better calculated to dispel the evil Without some of those 11.0's this Team games were also evolved, and new army of buyers would not be for anany years have been one of minemas of war." up to half its present strength. the greatest factors in English
ut most educational progress. We are gateful to them, but
in he had to use his brain as well
...
It lies with the competitors in
our present-day. Olympic Games to
to
of its are sick of them in our heartThe lessons of esprit-tle-corps and. prove that they believe in this and, of hearts. The very natural desire of co-operation, of playing for by the practice of true sportsman- for something bigger and better is one's team and, if necessary, of ship and mutual self-esteem, turning our thoughts to a vague personal self-sacrifice, are learnt work steadily for the peace of the something, mistily definable as from team games. For this reason, world. This bringing together of be More of it at the Saine Money, if for none other, may the day the nations seems, indeed, to
never come when that, fine one of the leading missions of individual game Jawn tennis modern sport. Another is certain- ly, as I have suggested, the aboli, (Continued un next Columr.)
tion of detestable gladiatorial dis- plays and revival of truc chivalry. So, at last, each nation may attain that high ideal of an-
The Cylinder Problem. Whether the car of the immediuto future will have four, six or even eight cylinders, there is no menna of telling: Nor do I believe it to be of real importance. Six and eight-cylinder cars to-day are not
by any means all as good as they should be, but the buyer of the cur
л
The dream-cur, which is the car cient Athens which Pericles epito-
of the immediate future for most of nized in these words:
us, is, I think, a roomy, enm-. "Ours is no workaday city, only
our
of the immediate future will profortable car of such horse-power as No other provides so many recrea- bably care very little for these to give it a high average speed; of tions for the spirit-games all the things. If he has the sense to-day such engine design as to give it year round, and beauty in ho can establish himself as an un really smooth and quiet running public buildings to cheer the heart
he disputed despot. He can, 35
and economy of upkeep. I think and delight the eye day by day. should, merely remark that however that the referendum would show an We are lovers of beauty without anay
his fow or
oylinders
overwhelming majority in favour extravagance, and lovers of wisdom of four-speed gear-boxes, simply be without unmanliness. I claim that to do their job properly, better cause they make anest cars much our members yield to none, man easier to drive for the novice and by man, for independence of spirit cost. Or he will ardently wish to infinitely more interesting for the many-sidedness of attainment, and know the reason why.
experienced hand-Brening Stan complete self-reliance in limbs and
brain." (Continued at foot of next column). Į dari.
new engine has, they have all got
than their predecessors, and at less
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