GOLF NOTES.
[BY RHH]
Players at Fanling over the week. end were a very depleted band. Yet the course was in fine condition and playing easily and'it was fairly cool. It certainly did rain Saturday, in short and violent bursts, but the course can stand plenty more of that without coming
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LAWN TENNIS.
SINGLES TITLE CHANGES HANDS.
HONDA BEATS RUMJAHN.
The meeting of T. Honda and S. A. Rumjahn, in the Final of the Open Singles Championship of the Colony yesterday, attracted are
THE
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 1
“CINEMA” NEWS.
ASPECIAL PROGRAMME TOMORROW AT THE '
QUEEN'S.
SONGS, PIPES AND BAND.
ANNIE LAURIE,"
A stirring romance woven round
Alm
·A BATAK CUSTOM.
DENTAL HORRORS IN CENTRAL SUMATRA.
The announcement that before the end of this year Malaya will be training her own dentists at the College of Medicine, Singapore, brings to mind a scene witnessed by the writer, and not likely to be forgotten by him for a long time, at
time ago.
1928.
EVOLUTION AT LONDON'S ZOO:
BIRDS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT.
THE STARLING MIMIC.
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hunger. How many birds in the past have died of hunger in Zoos, because they can only feed when the light is bright7 Darkness starves them.
WOMAN CAT BURGLAR.
LORD
ORANMORE~, AND BROWNE ROBBED AT MONTE CARLO.
MONTE CARLO,
police believe to be an athletic Cat burglars, one of whom the young woman, have carried out a daring series of thefts at leading Monte Carlo hotels at the expense of English visitors.
to any barm. The ground is still cord crowd this season to the Hong the Massacre of Glencoe, the big the weekly market at Brastagi some į almost s biological witticiam, at could catch the accent as accurate Mitchell, and Miss Mary Robertson.
very hard, so that during the last few days the greens have been fast to pitch on, but, thanks to the rain,
easy paced for putting." Anyone who
at the
I have never heard imprisoned birds from the hot countries in bet-"| tor song. Bulbula, tanagers, and long-tailed rollers; but the bird that beat them all, that won, was the gorgeous white-bellied amethyst starling, who was busy, in the man ner of his tribe, imitating the call [BY SIR WILLIAM BLACH THOMAS] of most birds within rango. It did not matter to this linguistio muai-
The victims at the Hotel Hermai The latest change at the Zoo is Guiana or South America.
cian whether
Lord Oranmore and they
tage werd came from
Brown, Sir Athur Bennett, Sir Hey William Bennett Mrs Patricia any rate a biological symbol Who Queen's Theatre,
The Bataks, as everyone knows would have thought that feather if it was spoken at home, The thieves entered the rooms at "Annie Laurie," will be screened who has spent holiday on the and wing would have followed for the last time to-day.
bleak highlands which they inhabit, scale and fin in the romance of
The Ventriloquist.
the dinner hour, taking awels 3 Gish is in the title role as Annie, the upper row in the case of the thought that the old reptile-house rock garden at the Chelsea Showing about £40, and jewels
Lillian
cut their trout teeth to the gums, evolution And who would have little efort as real scenery-like the same hotel of a wallet, contain In one corner is an excellent valued at £4,000 A few days ago Mr. Gerald Bennett was robbed at daughter of Sir Robert Laurie. women and the lower in that of that cellar of crowded gloom, ft
and in the clear water below the ing to Mr Bennett and Miss Norman Kerry plays lan, chieftain the men. This operation is per- for the "slow bellies could over of the clan Macdonald, and son of med hen a child reaches the have emerged into a charming persuasive layers of strata, a stilt,
Eileen Beunots were also taken. age of puberty, and any market day home for charming birdat .The old the Wolf of "Glencoe." Huge re- in the patar at Brastagi the visitor Small Birds' House" was not
plumage, expressed its
It is believed that a band of rob pleasure by standing indefinitely hers is working all the big hotels, consideration giving it something of/800d as expected. Long baseline productions of ancient Scottish may see it done. I found the tribal much better, and now it is empty pleasure. Many of the birds in-bee reported. Recently the room of on one leg. That is its form, of for several other losses have also castles are to be seen in the picture the market, waiting for patients, birds by a sudden mutation have
dentias ensconced in a corner of it looks almost repulsive. But the dulged in spring calls and "atmosphere" is provided at
One alias Bileen Kendall at the Hotel anager gurgled like a nightingale Métropole was entered, but a each performance by the playing and while he was unoccupied become birds indeed, not within a
Scottish piper, and at examined hie instruments. They billion years, but within a week The Loucans croaked serenely.
intruder the 19.90 performance popular
consisted of a handy bone mallet, They sing and fy and have their garbird whistled like a black-cream frightened the Club houses, about which I wrote often would cleverly surprise his Scottish airs, selected and arranged lead, a small steal chisel, a file, reptiles crawled and writhed in the but so ventriloquial' that I never the victim of jewel thieves here. at one end with cheerful being, where just now the triumphant call, often repeated, Another English visitor has been heavily loaded
bird. There was one clear liquid way.
Nicz, March 16th. by Mr. W. H. Fitz Earle, A.R.C.,
made out of a clock dark. The conversion of the old located the author. Even Words Mrs. Maud Altaras, who is staying are rendered by the Band of the and a 2nd Battalion, the King's Own spring. It was a fearsome array,
house into a sunny, sweet-smelling Scottish Borderers, playing by kind and no pretence was made of keep bower will bear comparison with worth who hated importatious in one of the leading hotel ins
the making of Or
the rather
might have quoted himself—
been robbed of a bracelet valued at permission of Lieut.-Colonel Ling the mstruments clear, Comyn. "C.M.G.,
word unknown to members of the aquarium and the newer reptile-
£1,500. D.S.O.. and
dental profession in central Suma house, on which these home-builders tra-sterilised.
of genios, Misa Procter and Mr. Boulenger, have expended the best of their architectural skill.
The
out-of-door
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Work has been started on the widening of the approach to the
Kong Cricket Club Stand Court he struggle lasted for over two hours at the end of which the Japanese emerged victorious by is energetic enough to go to Fan-sets to 1. ffe thus wine the Title ling at present is certainly reward for the 3rd time, his two previous ed by a course in splendid condi-occasions being in 1921 and 1928,
The standard of play was not as tion, and no crowding, the last
duels formed the principal method adopted by both, and steady play was seen throughout. Honda' had the better of the exchanges and a week or two ago. The Committee, opponent by a clever placement. having decided to do the job, are He maintained very good form doing it well, and there will be lots right through and hit with un- of room for everything when it is canny accuracy especially when he finished. It will, I suppose be had an opening. He worked his way up to the net on numerous oc- job of a certain amount of difficulty casiona and was invariably success as there are concreto side channels į ful. sad one or two other things of the same sort which will have to be "moved, but the work seems to be going along at a good pace.
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It is a far more easy to remember
the sins than the virtues
of
caddies, but undoubtedly many of the caddies at Fanling are extreme If good. Especially if one can make kabit of taking the same one, it is surprising how rarely one has
to suffer the irritation of having an obviously wrong club thrust upon one. Also they act as an admir- able check upon the groundless optimisms of a gulless week. One arrives on the course with the Grm conviction that some theory or other has added 1 yards on to every club in the bag, but all good caddies are ataunch conversatives till they see good reason to change their views,
and the perpetual proffering of the
right club is bound sooner or later
of
officers.
The Misses Woods And An Ali British Garaits,
Operation On Batak Giri. Presently a patient `arrived, & about ten or eleven years of age, comparatively pretty Batak girl, escorted by her parents. down on her back on the pavement, She lay and the dentist, an elderly Batak, took her head firmly between bis
new
S. A. Rumjaho failed to produce the form he showed in his previous at the Queen's Theatre to-morrow,
are not yet ready. The hardier A novel item in the programme
apologies for so inadequate a word cages with match against Ng Sae Kwong. His when The Battles of Coronel and shots lacked sting and he played Falkland Islands" begins a run
wait a fortnight or three weeks birds, which are to fill them, must on the defensive, throughout. "He of four days, will be a gazette
before the plumbers and decorators found, however, Honda, as stendy called
a rock and bard to beat. He
Our Britain, which shows
are out; but the spacious inner showed weakness in his backhand set Empire's fighting services in kreça. The girl opened her mouth, rooms, adapted for the tropical
netion and gives some charming strokes and on the whole could not glimpses of the Homeland. Woven disclosing a set of white teeth in and semi-tropical birds, are fully him on the run most of the time Land of Hope and Glory," which got the commenced to chap rath- architecture, the escape from the central his shots well. Honda had into this gazette are the words of splendid condition, and the dentist populated. You may tell by their to work With the mallet and demeanour how they enjoy the new and the strain of the match told on will be sung by Miss Alleen Woods, lesely away at those perfect teeth. old slums A long and wide-slop both players visibly. Rumjaha at the audience joining in the chorus At Arst the chisel fall upon the ing skylight to the South leta in though playing a losing game stuck Miss Woods will appear at all per outer enamel, sad little pain was the sun. Every room and Bat has on without losing heart, but was formances during the run of the outed, but after a few minutes an attractive equipment of electric autplayed by a better man on the film, and her singing is sure to gits us of pain began to run merose light, which maintains gaiety and, day.
what is more important, creates
THE PLAY
The match opened with Honda jahn, making an effort, reduced it securing a lead of 3 love, Rum to 3.2. Then Honda played up strongly, and took the next three games for the first set.
as much pleasure as it did during the screening of 7th Heaven," when she and her sister, Miss Doris ing" Diane. Woods, shared the honours in sing
The Wrong Mr. Wright." Jonn Hersholt, a fine character actor has the leading part in
the girl's face, and I could stand no longef. The thought of that infernal tool catting into live teeth and teeth; moreover, which are notoriously the most sensitive in the mouth-eends a shedder down the epine merely to write about it. For any reasonably humane-minded
The struggle started in the end set; Rumjaha opened up strongly "The Wrong Mr. Wright, which person it is intolerable to watch. and led at 3-1 but some faulty will be shown at the World Theatre What must it be to endure,
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from this physical ordeal and dis- figurement. Market-day is just as Batak-land as it is of the English much a feature of rural life in counties; the Batak peasant's exist
play on his part brought the score to-day and to-morrow. The story is I did not see more than five eace centres around the weekly to 3-3. He secured the head again woven around the life of an old minutes of the proceeding, but I pasar. What could & keen, train to win one back to sanity. These as 4-3 but Honda attacked at this fashioned vice-president of a nearly knew what would happen. The ed, sympathetic dentist not do at caddies do get an amazing insight stage and won the next two games. defunct corset company, who, after operation would last about to these gatherings! Local Rocke- into one's game after a round or Rumjaan retaliated and making his twenty years of business, decides to hours, and every upper incisor from tellers and Carnegies, here is your two. One always wonders how they best effort of the match snatched take a holiday and visit the sweet canine to canine would be cut down opportunity! could play themselves if they got the chance. Sorce of them, when one catches them at it, seem to swing a club very well.
the next three games to made the heart of his youth. When he finds to the gum. When the chisel be. scoro set all.
that she is enormously fat and has came ineffective the dentist would The struggle continued in the 3rd two children he assumes the identity resort to that Bendish little saw of set and many exciting rallies were of another man with laughable and his, and after that to the file. The seen. Both players had a lead by exciting results. Enid Benuet ap- operation is quite openly perform. an odd game alternately until 44 pears as a "vamping" woman de ed, and anyone who doubte my was called. Honda won the next tective, and nets her part with von-authority can find out the details game on his own service and broke siderable restraint. Other members of it for himself if he knows enough through Runjahn's in the next for in the cast include Dorothy Devare Malay to do so. The dentist's fee
and Edgar Kennedy,
One occasionally hears it suggest ed that it would be a good scheme to organise a definite championship of the Colony, but I do not think this is really a practical suggestion. the set. Honda took five games at To begin with, such a championship a stratch in the fourth set in an would almost necessarily be played amazing manner. Rumjahn showed over Fanling, so that any entrant signs of weakness and sent many from outside the club would start balls to the cet. He made his last with the initial disadvantage of leas fort at this stage and snatched knowledge of the course than almont the 6th game. A hard struggle was all his opponents, while secondly sten in the 7th game but after many the membership of the RH.K.G.C.deuces had been called Honda end is so immeasurably greater than the match by taking the game. that of any other golf club in the
Colony, Shek-0 after all is general- ly an extra and not an alternative club, that by the laws of averages
alone this tournament would become little else than a second club cham- pionship. Still further, Fauling is, on such a different scale to any other course in the Colony that the ability to play the Kowloon City course say, in-perfect figures, would not really carry ons very far towards the conquest of Fanling.
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is exactly a guilder and a half, and if his patient dies within four days the fee is not paid! That showE clearly enough the risky nature of the operation.
A Number of Deaths.
4 The Manicure Girl." Bebe Daniels has the leading part in The Manicure Girl" the main Attraction at the Star Theatre to-day and to-morrow. The Mani cure Girl" which was specially Actually a number of Batak boys written for Miss Daniels tells the and girls als every year from it, story of a young girl who loves and it does not require expert beautiful clothes and all the know.edge to appreciate the an luxuries of life. She is popular with ger or any instruments and' open the wealthy men who patronise the root canals. Nor does it neeu 2
THE SWERVE FETISH IN manicure establishment much to the powerful imagination, to realise
ENGLAND.
WHY BOWLERS FAIL.
WICKETS.
ARTIFICIAL
[BY H. 2. HENLEY.]
displeasure of her young man. For what torture tant unfortunate. girl, a time she accepts the attentions and many thousand boys and gard
of a richer man than her sweetheart of her generation have to suter only to be disillusionised when she Ends out he is already married. adolescence...
when they enter.. upon the age of There are some serious moments in the picture, but comedy pre dominate.
The origin of this custom is, a matter for the anthropologut, but the Bataks will not be able to help kim very much in his research. They do not know why they cu The colossal victory of Archie
Now, obviously that sort of thing their teeth themselves, Humorous Compston over Walter Hagen must There is no doubt that a big was not good for the health of crisy, and with the obvious intention have come as a very great surprise county cricket problem is concern- két. It wore out bowlers. It made or staving off awkward questions, to everyone. Hagea and Compstoned with inflated scoring. So many the task of fieldsmen so hopeless they tell the Orang Puteh that they included. Hagen is about the only
runs are made that an absurd pro- that they became slack. So bad did do it to prevent wives getting man on earth who could win by portion of matches are left drawn, the position become that the M.C.C. angry and biting their husband auch a margin without being sur- even when rain does not enter to requested the committees of the and vice versa. Anyway, there is prised. 14 up after the first day cause long delays.
counties to forbid their grounds- the situation. Out of a race i and a win by 18 and 17 makes it
It was significant. that last men to use top dressing The comover a million people several hun look as if Hagen can have put up season, although made notorious by mittees loyally obeyed that request dred thousand etill continue this very littlo opposition. On the other wet weather, produced high batting for a time, But the old evil eruel and futile practice. In the hand, Compston's figures are amaz-averages and undistinguished bowl-practice of giving turf an artificial southern parts of Hatar-land, ingly good, for Moor Park is no ing averages.
children's play ground. His figures As many as 16 batamen had for the first three rounds were 67, averages of over 50-and of these 60 and 70. His first round set ap had figures of above 60, & new record for the course, which
Thirteen others averaged over 40. he immediately proceeded to break.
The Real Villain, The homeward half of his second round was a wonderful pises of work-three over 3's. The figures were 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 3
Hagen, of course was unwise to
What were the causes
surface has returned.
Around Lake Toba, the German The Pre-Mari Ago.
Lutheran missionaries have BUG- There are those who argue that ceeded in stamping it out to a cou- to prepare wickets without artifi-tiderable degree, and all honour to cial aid would be to make the game them for it. After seeing a set of dangerous and unscientific. Water, perfect young teeth subjected to mower and roller, to their way of the attention of a tribal dentist one In the first place, I think, the thinking, are inadequate. But is inclined to champion any mia craze of bowlers to put swerve and surely cricket had its high science sionary who will fight against this spin. They bowled so many bad Grace and Shrewsbury, Hanji and Catholic, a follower of Bishop googly before length and finger before top dressing was invented, custom, whether he be an "Angle- take on a match as big as this one balls on rain-affected wickets thet Palaire to go back no farther-Barnes, or s believer in the Second within day of landing. He was big scores were made when a Rhodes scored some of their best runs in Coming in man short of practice, but it looks also at his best would have kept the the pre-marl age. And who would Contacts With Civilization." as though he under-estimated the score down to below a hundred. question the scientific essence of the opposition.
But the real villain of the piece game that they played f
A hardy, simple, agricultural
M
za represented by All-out-of-Pro-We don't want our county people, the Bataks are still only Compston has devoloped, the portion scoring was the artificially grounds to become battlefields, a generation removed from canni capacity for taking pains until he prepared wicket.
young batsman who had placed too balism, and the fact that sixty can outdo most of the American It is many years since professionals in this most notable genius-unfortunately for cricket-wicket and who had got a nasty membered. The Dutch administra some much faith in a naturally prepared years ago they ate a couple of
American missionaries. I still re characteristic of theirs. It was not invented a top dressing which pre knock in the ribs na consequence tors have done a good deal for the many years ago that Compston was vented even fast balls from rising said to me last seasonAVIDA only known as a young giant from more than half-stump high unlear No. But neither do we want our inhabitants of Batak-land, buat ep Lancashire who played his re-pitched absurdly short. And wickets to become Turkey carpets-parently they have, like their coteries with such vigour that he Scores rose to such altitudes that pitches which take all the life out British neighbours, been chary of frequently broke his niblick. Now it became almost an impossibility of the ball," as C. B. Fry wrote touching matters of native religion in view of his present brilliant form, to finish a match in three days." A of them just before they were and customers but and the proximity of the Open total of 500' was a commonplacs officially condemned more than There is not a shadow of doubt. Championship, he is one of the lead-
Here is an example of the cheap- twenty years Turkey carpets ness of runs at the period when Unhappily it is the practice of doctoring" pitches that they are rapidly becoming was general: Yorkshire 704; again. Surrey, 551 for seven wickets. Match drawn.
in British hopes. “Any
He has, by the way, issued a world challenge to any golfer for any atake. It would not be very sur priting if Hagen were to try his luck again.
Hence
those run-glutted draws, Cannot the M.C.C. act again as Continued on nezt-Column). they acted twenty-five years agot
Batak deatists, working among that half a dozen, Singapore-trained their own people in the market towns of Batak-land, would go very far indeed towards eating the next generation of Batak boys and girls
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in fina
I must believe, do all I can, That there was pleasure there. There certainly WES plemure among the very few onlookers who had found out this latest addition.
really see looking over the park. You can It is at the subay southeast corner
light, and watch the strange de these rainbow birds, whose feathers are made for bright velopments: the tails of the birds of paradise, the beaks of the horn bill and toucans, the throat colours that hide the queer syrinx of the
place is roomy, bright with an up- minnhs, who can out-talk any par-
per light, and with golden mand rot or cockatoo in the world. The
and refecting water. There is no smell, no overcrowding. This Ca be said without exaggeration; dad yet perhaps our pleasure, in this new aviary is the measure rather of our dislike of the old than un abstract commendation. Much re mains to be done. The birds are still far behind the fish and the reptiles Most of them still need more room and more equipment in pink ibises in their out-of-door the way of shelter and perch. The pool--naw most gay and playful aze not extravagantly housed, but how much better off they are than the storks in their old reserves or the hornbills and cuckoos in their new!
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The Naw Reptile House.
The conversion of the old reptile house is ip ita degree a triumph of Bourish set on the new reptile adaptation, but it has not the
cans do not get such sunshice as house, at any rate from the ob- server's point of view. The tou delights the monitors and great iguanas at the southern end of the new reptile house; and the stilts pond is the only bit that can in
rapin paddle, where to bond, any way compare with the wholly delightful science modela whore ber-
vanish in the self-coloured sand, 'where alligators and crocodiles dis- light at the frogs end of the sof play their lazy length. The green ridor id & triumphant whitsta.of an underwater atmosphere; and every pond is a pleasant picture to look upon. A in some reck gardens the stones are so attrac tive you scarcely look at the living occupants Certainly the new rep- tile-house is the greater triumph; from the old. That amethyst star- but everyone will get pleasure ling sang as naturally in his cage as the pigeons cooed "their "Take too cows 'no stoppid in the flowery elme of the park outside; and in guise as in note he gava a taste of the tropics only less real than the pigeon of England.