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BASEBALL.
SHANGHAI ». THE DRAGONS.
HOME SIDE SAVED BY FAIL- ING LIGHT,
A KEEN STRUGGLE.
[BY CL C}
The Chinese interport--baseball played yesterday at the Happy Valley-diamond-between-South- China Dragons and the, Shanghai Chinese crew was witnessed by hun dreds of Chinese. There were only a few European ball fans present, and the game dragged on without much thrill until darkness interven- Led. The game thus ended in a draw but the local team was lucky to escape defeat.
COUNTY CRICKET.
CRICK THING
MANY GOOD BOWLING FEATS.
RAIN HINDERS' PLAY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, Aug. 21st. Yorkshire". Kent,
Match draw Hair interfered with play
Kent 261 (Macaulay Q for 86). Yorkshire 43 for one wicket.
Warwickshire v. Hampshire.
the first innings.
Warwickshire beat Hampshire qu
Hampshire. 935 and 147 for 3 wickets"
Warwickshire SN.
Northants. Glamorgan. --Northants beat Glamorgan-by- TUDA.
Northants 166 (Ryan 6 for 71) and 200 (Ryan 6 for 50). and 160 (Jupp 6 for 84).
Glamorgan 132 (Jupp 7 for 63)
Sussex v. West Indies. Sussex beat the West Indies by an innings and 87 runs. 14) and a (Wensley & for 41).
West Indies 188 (J. Parks & for Sussex 361.
Gloucestershire v. Worcestershire, Gloucestershire won by an innings
THE HONG KONG
ROYAL NAVY
NIGHT FETE:
H.M.S." CASTOR" AND H.M.S."BERWICK " SHARE HONOURS.
EXCELLENT SWIMMING.
DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22nd, 1928.
*CABARET.
GILDA GREY AND THE
WHY THE RED-HAIRED ARE PUGNACIOUS.
DEFENCE AGAINST
DERIŠION.
IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL VALUE.
"Don't poke fun at the red-hair- ed boy," was the plea made by Dr. H, Crichton Miller, at the Summer School of the British Social Hygiene Council, at Cambridge on July 29th
BLACK BOTTOM.
MAGNIFICENT SETS.
» (UT OUR FILM CRITIC_)
"Cabaret" now showing at the Close finishes, hearty cheering Queen's Theatre, is a glorification and excellent swimming were per of the "Black Bottom" by means of haps the outstanding features of Gilda Grey, the star dancer of the last night's Royal Navy night fète.creen world, and some amazingly Men from all naval ships in lovely sets. The story of the dan- harbour competed and every race cer's brother and a crook gang was well supported-
added to give Miss Grey something Ship mates of competitors turned cleo to do besides dance, but it up in full force and encouraged the does not succeed in gripping the owners. They may grow to regard swimmers to the best of their
ability.
H.M.S. Berwich took both
The raca
interest of the audience because the main attraction of the film is H.M.S. Berwick and H.M.B. to very much better done.... Castor were noticeably to the fore
Those who are sufficiently old fashioned to disapprove of white and shared the honours for the even, The Dragons played a good game
ing.
women performing negro until the last frame. Lee was
dances team races but in the individual had better keep away from "Caba pitching in great form. and the
races the men from the Castor ret" for Gilda Grey dances it as. visitors did not have much to awing at, while the fielding was also good.
few can and makes of it something The evening was enlivened by a showed slightly superior speed.
at once extraordinarily fascinating Taoy who diabed them out for
team race open to the members of and truly evil. As you watch Mise Shanghai was sadly out of form,
demonstration of how speed swim side of the negro mind; those the F.R.C. who gave an excellent Birdwell dance you see the child their batting and fielding were also
ming should be done. below par
and 168.
went to Mr. D-Lyon's team after grotesque shufflings and wriggles Shanghai opened the inning and
Worcestershire. 35 (Hammond a very close finish. registered a
are light-hearted- and blank. The local for 23) and 167 (Hammond 6 for The water polo match between the
amusing, Chinese met with the same treat-105);"
Royal Navy and the Queen's Regi charming sometimes as the awk. ment, and in the second cantó, d'oucestershire 30 for 6 wickets, ment was very evenly contested and word movements of a child, and both teams had one ran, chalked innings declared closed (Hammond finally ended in a draw. The Navy never really ugly; but Mies Grey to their credit. In the next two 8D).
got the first goal in the first half, in her silver tights and feathered frames, the visitors were also dis-
but after many fine attempts the missed with a, "zero," and the
Queen's scored and drew level a few"to" strikes a very different Dragons scored two runs in the
minutes before time.
chord. To see her do the "Black fourth. In the Gifth" stanza, the
During the interval an exhibition Bottom" is an experience and a Roza and Lionel Pereira who were most interesting" one which you diving display was given by Eddie warmly applauded for their ex- will not easily forget. cellent diving.
Most of the action takes place in The evening closed with dancing, cabaret of which the decor is the music of which was supplied remarkably fine, both lighting and by the Band of H.M.S. Kent, who, staging being effective and beauti: incidentally appeared for the first ful Besides the dancer there is time in public, and showed them. Tom Moor as a detective and her selves to be capable music-makers over. Mr. Moor is always plea Following the end of the swimming sant and the atmosphere of sanity events the prizes were distributed and good humour which he diffuses to the winners by Mrs. Pearson, helps "Cabaret" a good deal.
Chester Conklin has a small part as a taxi driver who is also the dancer's father, and is supposed to give the comic relief which is not really needed. There is a very well The results of the evening's races, trained chorus of dancers, and the are given as under:
100 Yards Scratch Race, Free beauty as the habituée at the usual galaxy of male and female Style-Dead heat, Sigl. Smith cabaret, besides the rather unneces (H.M.S. Castor) and P.O. Mesary band of crooks. Kenzie (H.M.S. Cartor), Time:
visitors equalised, the score stand- ing at three all
South China Dragons struck a bad patch in the seventh, when they allowed the visitors to bring four men to the home plate. The Shanghai crew was going strong and was taking full advantage of
errors in the field.
When the game was called of, the visitors had one man down and two to bat. There was also a man on third. Their chances of getting another couple of runs were good, but as for the Dragons, they had only one ianing to go, and it was quite, unlikely that they could have piled up another four or even six runs in one frame. Under the, cireuinstances, one may consider that the draw was very much in Favour of Shanghai.
The line-up and scores were as follow:-
S.C. Dragone.
T. Chian
Shanghai.
S. L. Lee
p.
Troy
W. Sing
R. Shim
Pb. c.f.
Char
Tsing
1b." Chang
-S."8. Lee
Liu
D. Chinn
1.E.
Loo
To Kwan
I. £.
Choy
3.8.
Woo
Kim
3b.
Chen
June
BCORE BY INNINGS.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total.
智
Shanghai.0 1.0 0204
(Inning not finished),
S.C. Dragons... 010200-
(One inning, to go).
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THE FILIPINO-DRAGON "PROTEST" GAME.
REPLY TO MR. H. HONG SLING.
[BY C. LC.] ན་
am deeply indebted to Mr. Harry Hong Sling for his most elucidating, but somewhat belated letter, explaining why the Fili pino-Dragon game on July 21st, was not replayed, although the Filipino Club. vociferously protest- ed against a certain decision made by the umpire-in-chief.
his own reasons for allowing me to
PING PONG LEAGUE.
SOUTH CHINA A.A. DEFEATS
CHINESE CATHOLICS.
Playing in the first match of the Ping Pong League, the South China Athletic Association met the Chinese Catholic Young Men's Society at the latter's premises, Caine Road, on Monday evening. Despite the absence of their champion, Ewan Man Ching, South China A.A., over whelmed their opponents, securing
แ
87 points out of a possible 108. who with Commodore J. L. Pear very steady display was given by son, E.N., C.M.G., was an interest the Association's
ed spectator from start to finish. ex-Champion, Wong Lan Yiu, who obtained the
The Remits. individual record of the match for feiting only one game throughout, Results are as follows:-
Points.
Wong Lan Yin
17
Wong Tung Hoi
16
Ko Yau Cheong
16
Gesers..
Lee Wai Choy
147
13... 11
-Fok Hin Chu
Yuen Yu Cheung
Total
AFTER-DINNER DRIVE.
CORONER CRITICISES TWO UNDERGRADUATES.
200 Yards Scratch Race, Free Style: 1, Lt Armstrong:(EM.8., Castor), 3min. 28seca. 2, Lt. Ballison (H.M.S. Berwick), 3min. 30seca. 3, Lt. Stafford (H.M.8. Stormcland),
50 Yards Invitation Team Race.- Eight men per team. Teams from H.M.S. Kent, H.M.S. Berwick, H.M.S. Tamar, and H.M.S. Castor: -1, H.M.S. Berwick, Amin, 51sec.;| 2, H.M.8. Castor.
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TIVOLI'S NEW OWNERS.
BRITISH CONTROL OF FAMOUS CINEMA.
TALKING FILMS,
"We all think red hair a joke," said Dr. Miller, because none of us here has it in any marked de- gree, but it is not a joke to the
it as a joke when they reach mature years, but the experience in earlier
into a schoolroom or going down a years of having bean on their entry street the signal for
a joke has twisted their whole attitude to the human herd.
"We have all sorts of misappre- hensions about the red-haired per- son, especially the red-haired boy, the choleric temperament, which is We think that red hair goes with
thought that rebels and adventurers a complete misapprehension. It is
hair as a physical symptom of their and wild people like that have red temperament.'
That might be true in a slight degree, but the real fact of the attitude of self-defence, and the matter was. that red hair led to an owner might become aggressive try ing to compensate himself for what he felt to be an injustice.
Why Mental Defectives Oksat. mental defectives towards life. Dr. Dealing with the attitude of Miller said: "The mental defec- tive is haunted with the feeling that he is different from others, and his life tends to become one long attempt to prove to himself and others that he really is as good as others, or better.
The mental defective is always wanting to cheat simply because. the feeling that he has thwarted the normal person, that he has proved to himself how clever he is meat and drink to him,
Speaking of the effect of the ab- sence of a sense of personal value, Dr. Miller mentioned a girl who had become beyond the control of girl in the family and had always. her parents. She was the seventh
been even more de trop than the others. The complete absence of personal value led her to try to get ber own back. on life.
Then there was nineteen-year-old Bobbie, a girl whose mother had wanted a boy, and had not hidden; that desire." Mothers who call their little girls Bobole are telling them something they have no right to do."
Professor Winifred Cullis, speak- ing on adolescence, said that a girl at that time needed as much, food as an adult woman living a very much food as active life, and a boy needed as an active man.
LONDON, July 28th. 50 Yards Naval Team Race.tres, Ltd., the most important
Provincial Cinematograph Thea Four men per team Teams from cinema circuit in Britain, com-Grown-ups leading ordinary lives. The inquest on Lawrence Edward H.M.S. Kent, H.M.S. Berwick, pieted yesterday the purchase of Landsay Duncan, aged 22, an Ox H.M.S Foglove and H.M.S.50 per cent, interest in the Tivoli, the adolescents.
did not require as much, food as ford undergraduate, of Bristol, who Castor-1, H.M:8. Berwick, 2min. the Strand theatre, seating 2,600 was killed when a motor-car turn- 23seca. 2, H.M.8. Foxglove.
Do not ever restrict girls and ed a somersault at Dachwood Hill 50 Yards Team Race. Open to
wholesome food. boys when they are willing to eat on May 13th, was resumed at High members of the Victoria Recreation
them feel they are greedy. When Do not make Wycombe,, Buckinghamshire. Club:-1, Mr. D. Lyon's team
one looks back upon one's early 2min. 33seca.
bread and butter at that time years and thinks of how one wolted
well, do not restrict young people."
White, but recently owned by the people, built By the late Mr. James Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation of America
Water Polo: Royal Navy has been little more than a tied The Tivoli, which for some years Queen's Regt. :-Draw, 1 goal each.
Hie companion, Frank Philip Iases, an undergraduate, of the Savoy Court Hotel, London, who bas just recovered from his injuries, stated that, he could only remem ber starting from Oxford after £21,000 FRAUD CHARGE. dinner. He did not remember who was driving.
Asked if it was a joy ride," h replied, "It was just a ride after dinner,"
M
He first remembered a constable)
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standing over him and saying, "Al When the extradition charge right, you are in hospital,"
against Edouard Louis, aged 66, The coroner, in returning a ver. commission agent, of being con- dict of Accidental Death, said there cerned in defrauding Sir Walter The latest talking him" system was no doubt that the car was Herivit Cockerline, the millionaire will be installed, and arrangemente It is indeed very kind of Mr. being driven at a fast speed, on the shipowner, of Hull, was called on are being made to inaugurate the Sling to dispel ay hallucination, wrong side of the road, to the at Bow-street it was reported that theatre's new ownership with the but I wonder why he has waited danger of the public and the occu either Sir Walter nor Louis had presentation of a great film, not till now to give us his version of pants.
appeared.
Glenealies yet selected. "P.C.T." now have The case had been adjourned for two important key-theatree in Lon the facts. Of course, he may hava
Sir Walter's attendance, and at the don, the other being the New make this mistake time after time Filipino Club would assuredly have previous hearing Louis was allow Galley, the first cinton in Europe
ed bail in £1,000.
to be equipped with a talking film thought the proper moment had had the support of the Rules Com
It is alleged that Louis was one raittee. When a protest is won the of a gang of international con
apparatus. Committee invariably allow a refidence tricksters by whom Sir field's chairmanship, has made re The company, under Lord Ash- Let me appeal to Mr. Sling: Don't you think, Mr. Sling, that play so as to satisfy both parties.
Walter was swindled out of £21,000 markable progress during the past Now, Mr.ling, you must under while staying on the Riviera in five years. It is at present eu- by adopting this course you were stand that ither I, nor my co 1923. making yourself an accessory after the fact you, an official leagues, are conversant with the
Det. Sergt. Sprackling, of Scot aged on a building programme of the Hong Kong Baseball Asso- rules which the Hong Kong Bastland Yard, said he had telephoned which will cost more than £1,500,000. ciation? Look around, Mr. Bing but the fact remains that the Pres staying and was informed that open large theatres at Bristol, Dud ball Association have drawn up, to an hotel where Louis had been During the next few months it will and you will find that I was not
was not informed whether a meet Louis had left there that morning: Stamford Hill, and Bournemouth, ley, Preston, Dundee, Hanley, the only one labouring under this
and then correct me
come.
when he
Cockerline also is not here.
Mr. Sauterne, for the French
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wild imagery of hallucination," ing had been called or not. The Mr. Barring-Ward, KC, for with an aggregate seating capacity I suppose you want to know how game was protested against by the Louis: I think you ought also to of nearly 20,000.... I come to the conclusion that the Filipino team in the presence of all be informed that Sir Walter, Filipino Club had given away the the spectators, and they as keen
New London Theatre. replay, My informant told me followers of baseball, have the right
These will be followed by the that originally the Filipino Club to know the result of the protest. Embassy: It is common knowledge New Victoria Theatre, with a seat protested against a part of the The Hong Kong Baseball Associa that he is very much concerned else ing capacity of 4,000, occupying & game, namely the run which was tion has never sent out any official where.
site near Victoria Station. This allowed in error by the umpire. statement as to this matter. The
It will be remembered that will probably be the largest then- The Rules Committee supported only information is your illuminat changes of evading full payment of tre in London. the protest and the run in ques- ing letter.
income tax are being preferred Other theatres are projected for. tion was quashed. My informant Really, Mr. Bling, I do not think against Sir Walter at Hull.] Bradford, Edinburgh (two), Swin- went on to explain that in the your letter will satisfy ball fans Bir Chartres: It is no good sydon, and Ipswich, and the Majcatis, ordinary course of events, the even though you sign yourself a ing about that until we know whe Clapham, I understand, will be Filipino team should have asked Manager of the South Chins ther Louis has been arrested. I taken over during the next few for the game to be replayed. Win Dragons. Unless you get, the Hong have the power to issue, a witness days. ning a protest gave them the right Kong Baseball Association to is summons, and I. shall certainly do to make this demand, but they felt an official statement regarding tha that it it becomes necessary, because it would not be sportsmanlike to knotty and unpleasant point, the I suppose Sir Walter can get away make it. It was also stated that public will not accept your state on certain dates. if such a request were made the ment as the last wood on theThe magistrate then signed the
ontinued on next Column) subject
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