EAST AND WEST IN FRIENDLY RIVALRY.
ST. PETER'S, CLUB SUCCESSFUL MARATHON RACE,
PTE. TIERNAN · WINS IN FINE STYLE.
INDIANS CAPTURE TEAM SHIELD.
A spirit of comradeship and goodwill was the outstanding fea- ture of the first marathon race, held on Saturday, under the aegis of the St. Foter's Church Young. Men's Club, when Indians and British soldiers ran side by side. Competing against them were several young Chinese athletes and the fact that the race was a very real succeas went to show that the East and West can meet in rivalry of a kind that does much to foster good fellowship
Pte. Tiernan, of the Royal Army Medical Corpa, won the race in fine style, completing a course of nearly ten miles in 53 minutes. The winner of this race also won the St. Andrew's Young Men's Club Marathon Race jum over a month ago in Kowloon.
The Indian competitors ran a fino race and captured the team shield. One of their competitors would have given Pte. Tiernan a close run had he not mistaken the course. He came in first by a short-cut but was disqualified.
At the conclusion of the race, the prizes were given away to the successful competitors by Mrs, 'Swann, wile of the Very Bev.. A. Swann, Dean of Hong Kong,
There were 74 entries, of which ✪ faced the starter at 4.30, p.m. sharp, The course was nearly ten miles, up
and down several hilla No fewer than 36 finished the course. Among a number of Indian soldiers from" the Mounted Battery, who captured the Nes tanglo Team Shield, getting Ave men passed the winning post one alten the other.".
the entrants wate
THE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 23rd, 1928.-
LEARNING IN DECLINE.
THE PLIGHT OF SALAMANDA UNIVERSITY,
PAST GLORIES,
was.
One of the oldest universities in the world is that of Salamanca, but its plight to-day is ad indeed. Whereas Oxford is still lovely and Bourishing, Salamanca, her junior by a year, is, but a shadow of post greatness, with halls poor, and bare, and cloisters half in ruins.
The University of Salamanca was founded in 1415, and its western facade decorated sixty-five years later with beautiful busts and sculptures by order of Ferdinand and Isabella, whose stately figures still look down from above the ten- tral doorway. Famous throughout Europe, ten thousand students crowded the lecture-rooms, amongst her brilliant sons Sala manca counted Ignatius Loyola, Fray Luis de Leon, and Calderon de la Barca.
ANTI-WOMAN "CON- SPIRACY."
DAME ETHEL SMITH ATTACKS MEN.
"SELFISHNESS."
Is there a conspiracy among men to prevent women in the same line from obtaining recognition 1
Dame Ethel Smyth, the composer and Doctor of Music, alleges that there is in a lively new book, "A Final Burning of Boats."
Dame Ethel suggests that "the instinct to cling to any monopoly you possess is no more an exclusive. ly male characteristic than colds in the head," but she asserts that and owing to the roost-rule in the past men are in a better position for Practising collective selfishness than
Within her walls, enthusiastic undergraduates of the fifteenth century carried Peter Marts shoulder high when he came to give his opening lecture on Juvenal in
what he named "this New Athens."?
WAB
women.
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rate in the musical world, to "an It amounts, she suggests, at any anti-social combine to keep women out of the running as long as pos sibio or when that can't be done, to prevent their getting the big plums," and it is all the more dangerous because so often it is done in searet.
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BRIDEGROOM FAILS TO
APPEAR.
MOTHER ARRIVES INSTEAD.
"NOT IN A POSITION TO MARRY."
UNDERGRADUATES' ARE-
TOO OLD.
18 TO 21 THE PROPER AGE,
SHOULD TAKE RESPON. SIBILITY EARLIER.
[BY A COMPANY DIRECTOR]
often
WELSHPOOL, March 18th. Arrangements for A wedding which was to have taken place at Young university Dien Welshpool to-day had an abrupt wonder why they have difficulty in termination. Every detall had been making a start in business. prepared, including the wedding
It is my belief that under breakfast and the ordering of car-graduates come down from the riages, and by the morning's post universities too late in life. They are still young men, it is true, but the bride received a letter from the in most cases they are young men. groom stating that everything was of 23 and 24 (or even 25), at least in order.
three years beyond the age when a man of their type should begin his career.
Shortly after the delivery of the letter and within an hour of the time arranged for the wedding, the prospective bridegroom's mother arrived with the news that her son did not intend to turn up for the was not in a position to get wedding, having decided that he married.
The clergyman who was to have performed the ceremony was in formed, but declined to believe that and proceeded to church where he the wedding would not take place, waited for the parties, who did not
appear.
Here Fray Luis de Leon was Lee. way, to foster a spirit of social inter-
turor in Theology, and course and coniradeship amongst a suspended by the Dominicans and large circle of people who happen imprisoned for four years for bay in many walks of life, women whe Thus it coure that even to-day, to and themselves resident in Hongg dared translate the "Song of have a message to deliver find them- Solomon "into the vulgar tongue Kong for a short while. This after as a splendid poem worthy of his scives confronted with a barrier of moon's Marathon Race is another poet's pen. And here he enchanted prejudice and ill-will such as the attempt, which I hope will now be his hearers when, at long last, he who have erected and keep it an annual one, to get together & entered his lecture room by the in repair are never called upon to face. Indeed, they will even deny historical words, "Gentlemen, as | number of people in friendly rivalry, we wite saying the other day.
12 its existence till you point to facts vote with the liken the orchestral taboo-one of a It is in such ways that people of ignoring past
dignity of a true Don and hundred such " different races can get to know Spaniard. To-day, the MSS. of his and appreciate one another.
poems lie almost forgotten in the It is especially gratifying to the library of the University, as do his promoters of this race to have hast ashes in the tiny chapel in its old Rosa Bonheur's brother was honour- autumn (1997)-possibly then only'
cloisters.
so many entries, "namely 74. It
Povarty Stricken Studenis. clearly shows that such an effort
Time has dealt cruelly with on the Club's part has not been Salamanca, and the erstwhile proud wasted. Although the organisation University is now but a school for of this race has been in the hands some four hundred youtha and of the Club I am sure it could not are pathetically poor, unable to budding theologians, most of whom have been the success it was with-afford more than four pesetas a out the splendid support we have day for board and lodging. Others had from various firms and indivifixed price, but by far the greater are boarded by townspeople at a duals in the Colony."
number come in from distant coun-
Pte. Tiernan, of the R.A.M.C., galloped home in fine style, doing the course in 33 minutes.
The men got off well together and after passing Robinson Road, Tiernan took the lead, being close ly followed by the Indians. He gradually increased his fead and when nearing the Chinese Protes tant Cemetery, he was comfortably ahend. The Indians doggedly kept after him and they were followed by a couple of runnens from the K.O.S.B. The rest of the field--at I should like on behalf of the this stage, were well in the rear.
Club to thank first and foremost Of the leading fourteen mendensed Milk Co. for presenting the the Nestle and Auglo-Swiss Con- Abdul Gaffar was the last, but to Championship everybody's surprise he was leading Shield.
Cup and Team Nestle's interest in the soon after passing the Cemetery. He Anished the race first and much have branches is well-known and ublic welfare in places where they ahead of Tiernan, but when the their many gifts to the public are cards were checked, it was found evidences of their interest in their that Abdul Gaffer had taken a short cut through the Cemetery. He was disqualified and the first place was given to Pte. Tiernan...
The Teams And Contestants. Running in teams and individual ly were the following:-
St. Peter's Club-R: Leong, F. S. Tong, W. Cunningham, Lau Fa Chung, S. Chenalloy, Harold Kew, J. King and J. Hahnan.
HMS. Titania.-D. K. "H. Gawn, W. R. Fell, D. H. Nelson. H. S. P. Watch. Six other mem- bers of this team arrived late and did not start.
k
customers' welfare.
This interest, we find. is world vide, extending from Europe to the Far East and from Australia to America. A concern such na this cannot fail to give everyone the im: pression that only by service do we grow, L
the Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd, We are also deeply grateful to for presenting the first and second presenting the Club Members Cup prizes, to Mr. Andrew Cheung for and to Mr. Lytton for presenting third prize,
Scots Guarda-Lee. Corp. the opportunity of asking Mrs. We are taking. this afternoon, Macdonald, Lee. Corpl: Lilley and Swann to present the prizes for the Guardsmen J. King, R. A. Collins, J. Kelly, W. C. Leonard, D. God Club Billiard Championship for ward and Hart.
1925 Here again we are indebted Indian Mounted Battery Mon- to firm and individuals for helping shi Khan, Yousef Khan, Babu us by presenting so many of the Singh, Abdul Gaffur, Kartar Singh, has been our Patron since the Club prizes. First to Dr. Kotewall, who Tara Singh, Daswanda Singh, Karam Hussain, Mohammed Khas, was formed and who has evinced Din Mohammed, Darka: Ali, Dakh his interest in many helpful ways, Taur Singh, sr., and Dath Taur and who has kindly presented the Singh, jr.
Championship Cup. We are also grateful to the Wing On Co., Ltd., for presenting the first prize and to Lane, Crawford, Ltd., for presenting a cue for the highest break.
Queen's Regt-Corp. F. Allen and Ptes. A Dry, A. Warner, G. Jennings, A. Woolard and G. Crafta
K.O.S.B.-Sergt. Watts, Sergt. D. Falconer, Lee, Serge Canning, Lee, Corp. Year, Lee-Corpi, Mylic, Len-Corpl. J. Gilchrist, and Ptes Hislop, Scott, Anderson, Richie, Torrens, Dougins, Nelson, Skinner, Banas, Walls, Belk and Mulvery.
Other Entries-S, Cutforth, A. L. Nelmes, H. O, Davies, E. Harvey, P., W. Burchell, H. F. Regie, Gooding, and Pte. J. Tiernan, R.A.M.Ö.
2:
The First 14 Homa. The first fourteen home were:-
1.-Pte. Tiernan, R.A.M.C. Time:
63 minutes. 2-Gar. Katar Singh. Mounted
Battery, 3.-Gar. Deewanda Singh, Mount
ed Battery,
4.-Gar. Babu Singh, Mounted
Battery. 5.Pte. Anderson, K.O.S.B. 8.-Gar. Monahi Khan, Mounted
Battery,
7:-Lec.-Corp. Year, K.O.S.B. B-Pte. Banns, K.O.S.B. 8-Pte. Nelmes, R.A.MC. 10-Bergt. Waits, K.O.S.B. 11.-Qnr. Mohammed Khan,
Mounted Battery, 19-D K. H. Gawa (H.M.S.
Titania). 13-Gor. Darkat Ali, Mounted
Battery,
1:
14. Lee Corp. Mylie, K.0.8.B,
• Chairman's Thanks,
If a Club such as ours. is going to carry on in the way in which it has started it is obvious that the support of firms and individuals is needed and once again I should like to say how grateful we are for the support which has been given to us by so many,
Our best thanks are due to all those gentlemen who, this after noer, have helped to make this our first effort such a success,
The Prize Winners. Mrs. Swann then presented the trophies to the winners who wer the following
Nestanglo" Challenge Cup, (pre- sented by the Nestle and Anglo- Swiss Condensed Milk Company) Pte, Tiernan, R.A.M.C., who also
received the first prize cup present ed by the Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd...
Second Prize Cup (presented by
try places, bringing with them their own bedding and provisions, dried fish, including the inevitable chick-peas, peppersausage, aad, maybe, dates and figs. They con- tent themselves with the most eight pesetas a month, and drink modest of lodgings, spend less than the dubiously fresh always on sale in the streets
agua frasen."*
These lads form a marked con- trast to the Irish undergraduates well-fed, well-groomed, housed in one of the loveliest palaces"in this lonely city of past grandeurs-who also attend the University, and Colegio de Santiago Apostol. But carry on their studies in the old
Irish, their thirst for knowledze whether the students he Spanish or
them to these walls, within which must surely be immense, if it leads
tions of philosophy and science, all dreams of progress, all tradi- have been forgotten for many year, and toʻan Alma Mater whose learning is in decay.-Times.
The Dean's Tribute. The Very Rev. A. Swann paid signal tribute to the St. Peter's distribution of the prizes. He said Church Young Men's Club after the that first of all be wished to thank the Clab for asking Mrs. Swann te give away the trophies, which task she felt it was a honour to perform.
The St. Peter's Club, the Dean, said, was live institution and to be able to organise a race of this nature and also to carry it through auccessfully, as they had done this afternoon, was well worthy of respect and admiration. He wi also glad to see that the aim of the Club to foster goodwill among all nationalities was bearing fruit and the fact that the Club had received auch splendid support that after- noon conclusively proved that its existence was justified.
The speaker congratulated. Pte. Tiernan on his fine win and the Indians for so gamely competing in that they have captured the Team friendly rivalry. He was very glad
Shield The Indians, the Dean said, were our brothers-at-arms, and to have them competing against us in the field of sports was a distinct' pleasure
ST. PETER'S CLUB BILLIARDS
CHAMPIONSHIP.
the Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd.). MR. PHILIP TAI WINS
Ganner- Katar Singh, Mounted Battery.
Third Prize Cup (presented by
CHALLENGE CUP.
Famçuş: Names. Florence Nightingale was denied recognition until she was dying, ed by the French Academy for Rosa's pictures, and it was propos ed to confer the Legion of Honour on M. Curie for Mme. Curie's dis- coveries, until the French sense of humour suddenly intervened.
had board Sargent speak a dozen times.
BIG BILL AND A BISHOP.
A GOOD COMPANION.
The Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney (Dr. Beane), who recently anado a tour of America, told the Aberdeen Rotary Club that be fell in love with
Big Bl
Thompson, Chicago's anti-British Mayor. He makes that appeal to the heart of a parson which all big, good-natured, thorough-paced, "old rasals make.
"He is the kind of man I should like to go with for a day's duck' shooting. One feels instinctively what a good companion he would make." He was sure that Mayor Thompson had no malice in his nature, but he was a rascally politi ciar in a country where the game of politics is a parlour game.
Chicago was a city composed very largely of Irishmen, Germans, Swedes, Poles, Russians, Jews, and Italians, and they liked a man who twisted the British tion's tail. It made thean laugh. Big Bill's" attitude is only a pose. Americans as a whole are utterly sahamed of it. They are relieved when they hear that in this country we take
In the days before public schools were so numerous or so large, the universities of Oxford and Cam- bridge admitted undergraduates at. very early age. William Pitt when he was 14: Cardinal Wolsey the younger went up to Cambridge it as a joke.
the boy bachelor-graduated avoid. In other words, they find at Oxford at 15. their contemporaries were equally themselves beginning at the bottom
In the main, youthful. This naturally reduced like everyone else, and for the time that of a schoolboy (the old rule the status of the undergraduate to being they are very conscious of it. at Cambridge forbidding the play lag of marbles by undergraduates on the steps of the Senate House still existay, and that was a state Bat now the movement has swung of things by no means desirable.
tendency is for boys to leave school to the opposite extreme, and the late, pass three or four pleasant years at the university, only to find themselves well out of the running with those whose education has
"One notices, too, that Laura Knight, whose name was never men tioned in the lista (drawn up by men, of course) of contemporary has been famous for decades, was English painters, though her work not made a A been less prolonged. from dread of a recurrence of the Swynnerton scandal."
At A.Disadvantage. The effect upon them is two fold. Not only do they start work at Council st
It appears that when the R.A
a disadvantage in years, but more conferred honour of A.R.A. on Mr. Swyn the less do they welcome the change the serious still, the greater the delay
merton it discovered that she was from their leisurely undergraduate periences of painters and sculping it, so they hastily bundled her an office or works. They find them
beyond the legal age for retain-existence to the strenuous life of tors, says Dame Ethel, except into the Senior ARA' class, selves doing jobs which, by going that it look the RA. Council fifty which might he called the class of Mrs. Swynnerton, of whom I myself supposed to be too old to serve on
up to the university, they (and years to acknowledge the genius of Senile Associates, since they are often their short-sighted parents too, I am afraid) had thought to Continued on next falumni.} committees, let alone hold office!" (Continued on next Column).
"I know Httle about the ex-
This
After the Marathon Race on
Mr. Lytton).-Gunner Daswanda Saturday, held under the auspices Singh, Mounted Battery.
of the St. Peter's Church Young
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Challenge Cup (presented by the Hon. Dr. Kotowall), Philip Tai.
1st Prize (presented by Wing On Co.), Philip Tai.
Fourth. Prize. Medal-Gunner Men's Club, the opportunity was Bahu Singh, Mounted Battery. taken to ask Mrd. Swann to dia- Nestangle Team Shield (pre- tribute the prizes won in the Club't sented by the Nestle and Anglo- Billiards Championship as follows: Swim Condensed Milk Co.).—Won. by the Mounted Battery, the first five of whose team to complete the course being Gunners Kartar Singh, Before distributing prizes to the Daswanda Singh, Babu Singh, winners, who had gathered at the Manshi Khan and Mohammed Khan. Club house at the conclusion of the In addition to the Shield, each race,the Rev. N. V. Halward member of the team received a Chairman of the Club, said,
St. Peter's Club has since its Club Members Prizes-1st Prize inception not only tried to provido Cup, Harold Kew; 2nd Prize Cup, recreation for its own members butt: Leong.
has also attempted, in a smallt
silver medal.
(Continued on next Column.)
2nd Prize. Ernest Zimmern.. Ko: 2nd, W. A. Youngaaye and G. Doubles Handicap-1st, Tai and S. Zimmern.
Singles Handicap-let, George Ko 2nd, Maurice Weill,
Highest Break Cue (presented by Lane, Crawford, Ltd.).-P. Tri (63 points).
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The other day a man in my office remarked to me. "I wish I'd never gone to Cambridge." He is 27 and he is resenting the drudgery of still have been wiser to any, "I wish I learning his job. But he would
had come down from Cambridge when I was 21"-for if he had, that drudgery would be over by
Twenty-one is, in my opinion, the right time for a university man to begin his career. He is old enough then to realise the responsi 6ility of work, and he is young enough to recover easily from hu mistakes. Moreover, he is at age when a man should be getting the feel of his own independence. He point upon which an increasing should have left school by 18, a
number of schoolmasters agree. bridge follow, and then-well, then His three years at Oxford or Cam-
we should encounter fewer of those dissatisfied, semi-successful young. men whose constant complaint is that they are fed up with their
job."
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