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Hon Kela.
No. 8. CommandHT, HOAD CENTRAL. - Pronz C. 292.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, AUGUST 27th, 1928.
THE SPREAD OF GOLF.
INFLUENCE OF LORD BALFOUR.
A BULWARK AGAINST BOLSHEVISM,
[BYA, C. M. GROOME]
Longfellow has as the refrain to one of his shorter poems the two
lines:
A boy's will is the wind's will; And the thoughts of youth are
long, long thoughts. On the historical side, a boy's memory is as short as his thought, so called, is long. It is further circumscribed by his lack of ex- perience and study.
IL
Two or three years ago I played evilly for the Autuma Medal at St. Andrews. Mr. John Ball, the only honorary member of the Royal and
D. G. A. LOWE,
GIVING UP THE TRACK
́A·BRILLIANT FINALE.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
of
Roary, Aug. 24th. Mr. D. G. A. Lowe, the famous English runner, has announced his retirement from the track."
Although only 20 years old, Lowo has been running in active con petition against the cream athletes for seven or eight years.
At the recent Olympic Games at Amsterdam, he not only retained his Olympic title, but revealed even better for than at the previous Paris meeting. He won the 800 metres in 1 min. $1.4-5 sece, which is an Olympic record.
This be followed up by winning the 500 metres at Berlin last San- day, beating Dr. Otto Feltzer, the famous German runner, in 1 min. 51.1-5 secs. This was & revenge Ancient G.C. who is not also a
for the defeat by Peltzer in the member of the Royal Family, was
famous race at Stamford Bridge, aleo a competitor. He played with when both beat the existing world's Mr. Edward Blackwell, and natur-record for the distance.
great career on the track.
He is now going to pursue
The
THE JIX-JAW - PUZZLE,
STUDY OF THE HOME SECRETARY...
PARLIA-
[BY THE DAILY .MAIL.
MENTARY CORRESPONDENT.].
LONDON, August 5th "I am an old-fashioned Tory," anid the Home Secretary, and, again: "I am getting nearly as loquacious us Judge Jones. He might have added: "I
Atharley am proud of both, and repentant," for these virtues-or vices, as you look at them are inherent in his nature,
DEAUVILLE,
ENJOYS ITSELF IN HOT WEATHER.
WHY TOURISTS WERE SHOCKED.
CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. THE BEN LINE STRÄMERS,
LIMITED. **
"FROM LEITH, MIDDLESBRO., LONDON & STRAITS.
DEAUVILLE, Aug, eth. is in full swing. Never before has The annual anatomical congress
The Steamship #BENLAWERS,”
there been such as
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby attendance. according to the hotel proprietors landed at their rak into the hazardous informed that all Goods are being and the beach-tendens, and never and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the play of Nature's primal gift to Man GODOWY COMPANY, LA, whence, and/or before has there been such a dis-Howe Kara and Kowloon WHARF AED
and Woman
from the whares Delivery
Slightly parodying Shakespeare, we may say of Sir William Jeynson Hicks that he was born to trouble, achieves trouble, and has trouble Lido. thrust upon him. Especially and police were asked to frequently does he achieve trouble. The Prime Minister had to explain away his reference to the United States Peace Pact.
"I might have said it different was Mr. Baldwin's unmistak- able rebuke, and now the Prime Minister has again to make a state ment about another speech by his
&
obtained.
may be No Cisima will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all 99th instant will be subject to Rent Goods remaining undelivered, after the
comely woman in a tight-fitting A few years ago the sight of one-piece bathing suit would have caused a panic. To-day the ance pair of flapping "Bloomers" would be traditional bathing, robes and a
All Claims against the Steamer murt have the same effect, for Deauville before
read to the moderatgood an or has apparently decided to out-Lido be recognised.
18th prime, or they will not
It is even reported that the intervene during the first of the summer bot spells" It was a group of mid-Victorian tourists who caused the trouble. Not accustomed to Deauville's ways and forms, they protested violently when the bath- were scen taking off their clothes behind umbrellas ca beach sande instead of using the more cramped quarters of the, bathing houses,
ers
ally they drew the whole of the triumph marks the end of Lowe's Home Secretary—this time an incident as
crowd.
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BOXING.
The average "visitor took the in- nothing extraordinary, but Mr. and Mrs Smith decided that Deauville was a. place of
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godawns, wirere they will be examined on the infant, at 10 and Douglas,
• by Messrs. God
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., LTD.
Agenta
Hong Kong, 22nd Aug, 1628 16837
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
FROM NEW YORK
THE Steamship
"BOTAL FRINGE *-
vicious attraction and left the fol" lowing day, accompanied by their having arrived from the above Port flapper daughters. They informed on and instant, Consignees of Cargo. the police that they would "write are hereby informed that their Goods.
active-discretion" as to Protection,
The Home Secretary is the prin- cipal Secretary of State; for a Home Minister to embarrass the Prime Minister twice in ten days must be a record and an unenviable one to the Times about it." in the history of British politics. What would Gladstone have said about Cabinet responsibility in
BRITISH LIGHTWEIGHT BEATEN.
I was on the third teeing-groundly his career as a barrister. when they started. My caddie, who had just taken all the prizes at the intermediate school, and was a promising golfer forbye, noting the commotion at the clubhouse, remarked: That will be Blackwell etarting; he has a fine gallery.” | When I suggested that the presence of Mr. John Ball might partially account for the fact, he, sid: John Ba, John Ba,' I never heard of him."
Onco before I had received a similar shock. On a Sunday morn ing I noted that a boy, who had spent Saturday uproariously, listen
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENÓT.}.
CHICAGO, Aug. 25th. Billy Petrolie, the "Fargo Express," beat the British light weight, Jack Berg, in the fifth round of a ten-round contest Berg's seconds threw in the towel.
1928
Godowns of the Hong Kong and are being landed at their risk into the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consignses' risk and expense.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on Tuesday, 28th instant, st 10a.m.
All Claims must be presented within Fifteen days of the Steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot le
recognized.
Had they stayed a little longer, they would have witnessed even more astonishing evidence of Deau ville's transition since the war. It Yesterday when Jix came into the is not uncommon for the bathers House of Commons-iot a call him to take off their costumes as soon *** Jix."
as everyone in and out of as they are in three feet of water, Parliament does there were tre--the beach authorities insist upon mendous ironical cheers from the this depth of propriety-and there Socialists, who begged him to make have been cases of the discarded an immediate statement of a certain garments being lost and couples Home Office decision, as he may spending hours awaiting sundown not long be in his present position." so that they could enter their hotels
Never Downhearted.
without causing 4 scandal. Half the Tories countered by tail," however, to provide the It took the swimming cock cheering him in earnest; the other climax of the Deauville season.
Little raft-like traye carried by not look glam; not he. Jix is jaunty: Jix will always be popular; to the bathers. At each corner of Bronzes, Manhattans and Martinis Jix will never be downhearted.
the tray was placed a toy bal Looking at him there on the Front Bench-dressed as ever in a long stability, and the trays were pulled loon, which provided amazing frock coat, amiling, and so very, cross the ripples by corde tossed
ed attentively to a singularly dull WHERE. GOLF BALLS, GO. half looked glum. But Jix" did sermon. A discreet question dis covered that he conceived himself to be following an example set by J. B. Hobbs, of Surrey. Another revealed that he had never` heard of Dr. W. G. Grace! ̧
Signal Service,"
MAN FINED FOR TAKING 41 FROM LAKE,
Joseph John Hizes, vaged 20,
"I am reminded of these minor labourer, of Grantham Road, Nvery like his caricatures-there were out by the waiters. The innova
Park, was charged at Stratford, Police Court with stealing 41 golf balle, the property of the Wan-
stead Golf Club.
It was stated that Hires, was stopped, soon after midnight on
Goods have left the Godown and No Claime will be silmitted after the
all Goods remaining undelivered after the 29th instant, will be subject to Heat. No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned
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NORDDEUTSCHER
·BREMEN.
many who must have recalled the many storms, he has always brewed tion didn't last long, the waiters komplaining of loss of time and a or suffered..
tendency on the art of the bathers He was one of the prime movers to forget their tips upon reaching Sicamo in the break-up of the Lloyd George the ahore. Coalition (Mr. Amery then, as now, wis his ally), which occurred at
LLOYD,
" BOHLESİEN" · If Deauville styles are any BURG and Pertz, Consignees of Cargo having arrived from BREMEN, HAM- kriterion as to the trend of the are hereby notified that their Cargo is
tragedies by the fact that the Earl of Ballour's eightieth birthday has been celebrated with maimed riter It would have been appropriate to" the occasion if all the golfers in London, the mere Sassenachs as well as the exiled Scote, had form-July 26th carrying a bag contain- ed up in Trafalgar-equire, clad, if ing the golf balls When charged the famous Cariton Club meeting in French art, we are to have a period being inped their risk into the Go- possible, in red coats and carrying he said that he had found them in 1922, "For myself I have a pictare of diagonalism. Tüstead of cube-downs of the Hong Kong & Kowloos play-clubs or putters, and thence had marched in procession to his towa bouse to wish him many happy returns, of the day.
lake close to the club. to the club, said that all golf balls Mr. Herbert Gaudin, professional in the lake belonged to him.
Mr. B. Bailey, the chairman of the Bench: How often is the lake cleaned f-Every week.
A man who has rendered signal service to the community confers. on the members of it the right to
Mr. Bailey: You must have à intrude on his privacy and other- wire to molest him ever afterwards. pretty bad lot of golfers if you clean the lake out every week and It was largely through the agency this man found 41 golf balls in it. of Lord Balfour that golf became
Mr. L. Walden, the clerk: The a popular pastime in England, and subsequently all over the world: shot from the tee is very awkward. Less than fifty year ago golf was from the lake on the course. I got Hinea: I did not get them all called indifferently "the Old Man's Game"
"Scotch Croquet." the majority of them from the
lake "out of bounds," Before the Eighties were out
Mr. Gaudih: You don't get balls people spoke of it more respectfully
the game that Arthur Balfour in that lake You do. playe, don't you know. From speaking of it respectfully they there. began to play it tentatively, everybody knows what happens to people who start golfing just to ses what it is like. ·
or
Mr. Gaudin: I will give you half serown for every one you find And Hines was fined 400.
'An Exceptional Ŭase. of golf would prove itself a strong In the whole circle of my ac
bulwark "against Bolshevism. That quaintance I have only known ont measure of prevision may well have man who, after attaining to anspired one who is at once
at golf, master of metaphysics and a dis- respectable proficiency voluntarily gave up the practice of tinguished leader of men in the it. In extenuation of his conduct weightiest of practical affairs. two pleas may be advanced. He
Great And Continuous,
d.f
where Delivery can be obtained.
of him coming away from that con-like designs, the majority of the Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, saying goes, and ambitious to be or stripes of dazzling colour and ference, plenaed as Punch as the feminine bathing garhs bore signs Chancellor of the Exchequer. He obliqueness. Many were fitted with said then, I am an old-fashioned detachable capes, used only when Tory." It is a favourite phrase, of promenading ОБ the sands.
Manila Times.
bis.
Makes Home Office A Storm Centre. Instead, after a brief and very successful interval as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, he arriv. ed at the Home Office, since when what used to be the most placid hall has been the storm centre of Government Department in White the British Isles.
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.
From August 27th to Sept. 2nd, 1928.
HIPH WALL.
Hong
Koug
Standard Tire.
Height,
LOW WATER.
Hong
Kong
Standard
Time.
Height.
bia, }.in) h. av tak, 165 18 9 1143 444169m 0-23-41 9-1944 2 30 a' 1 4
When the Cabinet was trying to make up its mind to clear out the his constituency promising urgent Reda Jix was making speeches in and extreme measures. Then, too, Mon. 27m & 48 the Prime Minister was embarras sed, and explanations were made. Ther. 28 Next he was saying things about “D.O.BL.A.”, one of his protégés, Wed, 28 m 7 3 74m 1 1 39 that made people uncomfortable.
Innocently he goes to a night- | Thur.
and someone sees him club present while a bottle of champagne Fri. is being auctioned. He has to de- fend the police.
932463811
30 m 816
9 318.1979m 2:48 8 2 10 141515609 949 7 9 3 298 10 41 5 3 4 281 2m10 28 77m 4 12 26 11 10 5 6 6 12 a 15
077m 2 286
1 m and by say. Sat. ing that Lord Byng has accepted
a stern call to duty" suggests the ta worst of Scotland Yard. Another case of saying the wrong thing.
REGISTER,
All Goods remaining undelivered after the 28th of August, 1928, will be subject, to Rent
No Fire Insurance will
tis in any case whatever, Damaged Fackages 1
must
bouffected by
be left in the
Gsdown for examination by the Con- and the Company's Surveyor, Genere Meas. Anderson, & Àshë at 10 am on
1829.
the 7th of APR
No Claim
admitted after the Goods have left the Godown and al Claims must be presented within Two Weeks of the Ship's arrival baro, after
which date they will not be recognised.
Consignees are requested to surrender their Bill of Lading to the Undersigned for counter ignature.
MELCHERS & CO.
Agents NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BEZMIX. Hong Kong, 21st Aug,, 1928, (6635
HAMBURU-AMERIKA LINIE.
NOTICE, TO CONSIGNEES.
E Motor Vessel
"RHEINLAND"
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo sis hereby notified that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloos, where Delivery ca NOTICES. obtained as the Goods are landed.
Optional Cargo will be landed, unless has been given prior to Vessel's
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and al Goods remaining undelivered after the 281
August, 1928; will be subject to Bent. T **TRIEB" having arrived from BREMEN, HAM- Goods are to be left is the Godowns, All broken, hated, and damaged BULU and Porta, Consignees of Cargo where they will be examined on 27th are hereby notified that their Cargo Angust, 1928, at 10 am by our being landed at their risk into the Go-Burseyor, Men Goddard and Douglas. downs of the Hong Kong and Kowloon
must reach us before the Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, 10 where Delivery can be obtained.........
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN.
Alber, 1938, or they
will
had been in his undergraduate days Be the reason what it may, the a distinctly useful cricketer, who historical fact is plain beyond poe
Red menace, Arcos raid, Com- specialised in bard driving; he hit ability of question. No other than the first ball he received in a first- Lord Ballour gave so much impetus munist funds, shop hours, night CONSIGNEE claes match straight over. the to the great golf boom. So long clubs, Hyde Park, Scotland Yard, bowler's head and out of the Old de missionary work was needed "Tote," the Prayer Book, Feace Trafford ground at Manchester. He every newly-formed golf club of proposals, and Protection-as Jix. was also one who accepted in their any pretensions invited him, often touches them one and all the sparks entirety the fundamental principles on the flimsiest of pretexts, to be y upward.
But we all like him, and after all of the Great Liberal Party, and its first captain He has always never faltered in his allegiance to been one who avoids publicity so the political sky is never so brightHE Steamer them as and when circumstances far as a public man may one does that it cannot do with a little illa- caused them to modify themselves not recall the occasion on which he mination. materially,
has delayed the progress of a rail- The second of these two pleas | way train by delivering an oration merely indicates that some abnorat every stopping-place. "Tet for HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL mality of conduct is to be expected the furtherance of the cause he has from the man on whose behalf it endured the presence of curious i urged. The first carries more spectators at his private matches weight. He who made a habit of and has taken na steps to prevent hitting sixce at cricket was, for reports of them appearing in the some unknown reason, a compara- Press, tively pany driver on the golf course. He showed strength, por sibly misguided strength, of mind when he abandoned a game which exasperated more than entertained
I wonder whether I have bech inspired by recollection of a small tragedy to hit on a great truth: Did Lord Balfour act as chief mis sionary in spreading the evangel of golf among the heathen of England because he looked forward to the day when the dochine Marx would become a danger to civilisation, and knew that the cult (Continued on nezt Column).
Hong Kong Observatory, August 6th. the 1st of September, 1928, will ofre Imunnée will to alerted
All Goods remaining undelivered after Ed received. Premona Date On Date abject to Rent
hint
If Lord Balfour, sometimes found
Day
st
at
at 2 pm 8 pm
a gallery tiresome there is no Barometer... - 29,£9° 22.87 29.63 evidence to show that the assist Tamperstar ance of obtrusive spectators ever Humidity: impaired his efficiency, at any rate Wind- in foursome-play. As a player of -Dixsotion abgice he was less formidable. though I harp Uittle doubt that he Weather ... could give at least half a stroke to | Bain
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anyone else who has been Prime Highest open-air Temperature, 26th: 86 Minister owning a pack of clubs. Lowest open-air Temperature, 26th: 77
Lord Balfour services to the
community of golfers have been B-Blue Kky Free and continuous We Are Dri deeply grateful to him, and would
·O-Cloudy; ; D=
fain remind him that gratitude is showers; QuEqualis; É-Rain; T- largely a sense of favours to come,
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us in any cake whatever.
Damaged Packages must be left in the
by the Om
Arderedn "Anko, at 10 x.mong
Godowa for Surveyors,
on the 81st of
No C
Claim
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be admitted left the Godown And Al
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Hong Kong, 21st Aug. 1928. (6638
ON BALE.
thod with Two H FORTE of ERPING
TRONG ĐI GHAM FO
Wooks of the Ship't arrival Zes, after of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL which date they will not be tacognised. for the Bessina (1997
Consignees are requested, to surrender. their Bills of Lading to the Undersigned. for Countersignature.
Revised by Tambora
Hong Kong, 25th Aug, 1928, 16818
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