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LOCAL "LEATHER-PUSHERS."
WHO'S WHO AT OPENING BOXING TOURNEY,
WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP AT STAKE.
[BY BANTAM.}
Boxing fans are no doubt pleased, to learn that the season opens on
Can't Stay Out... Harry Major, a nifty little bán- tam, and who gave a splendid ac-
THE HONG KONG DAILY
| SCOUTS' 'ANNUAL AQUÀTIC
SPORTS.
14th TROOP WIN BIRD. CHAL LENGE CUP.
The annual swimming sports of the Hong Kong Boy Scouts Asso- ciation took place at the V.R.C. bath on Saturday afternoon and there was a large entry of Cuba, Scouts and Rovers for the events.
The Challenge Cup presented by Mr. H. W. Bird was won rather
PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29th, 1928.
SILVER SCREEN.
THE INANITIES OF SUB-
TITLES...
"THE MAGNIFICENT FLIRT,"
Almost every patron
of the cinema expresses at one time or another impatience with the illiter acy and inauity of fim sub-titles. English people who are apt to com. plain of American idiom, which is
tbem, are mory thau disgusted when they find grammatical mis takes and trans-Atlantic slang in the English pictures.
A GERMAN ON ENGLAND.
"FEW WORDS BUT MUCH
SENSE."
a
LESSON SERMON,
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG..
"PRODATION AFTER DEATH" WOR "Most Englishmen are honour- able and straightforward ... if I the subject of the Lessos-Sermon in a Churches of Christ, Scient- had to trust a stronger in
of moment crisis or danger I on Sunday, October 8th.
The Golden Text was from John should give the Englishman the
11, 95, "I am the resurrection, and preference."
the life: he that believeth in me.
It is a German's tribute-not to
Saturday next at the Theatre Royaeount of himself in Hong Kong easily by the 14th Troop, while the sometimes quite unintelligible to Jones had for some years been following from the Bible: "I be-
i with a grand tournament in which the welter-weight championship of the Colony will be at stake...
Thanks to Mr. J. Brook, the capable manager of the Hong Kong Boxing Association, patrons of the square ring will be treated to five attractive fights. Although the cruiser squadron will not return to Hong Kong until December, Mr. Brook has succeeded in getting five pairs of well-seasoned leather pushers to raise the curtain..
In the championship contest,
of Signalman Morris, H.M.S. Magnolia, will be matched against Marine Fraser of the Hermes. The fight is scheduled for fifteen rounds, and from past performances, it is quite likely that both contestants will go the full distance.
Hoth men are well-known here. Morris has delighted the igna or several decisions with his boxing science. He disposed of de Silva, of the Portuguese Transport, Pero Alenquer, and also Morrell, who nade a big hit in Shanghai by standing up against the redoubtable Ducean. Morris had an easy job with Morrell and showed himself to be the superior in many ways. Although welter-weight, Morris fought in the middle-weight class and won the belt outright.
while he was in the Service, had packed up his mitt and said good. bye to the ring, after he had obtain ed employment in a big commercial firm here.
While watching the fights last year, Harry was burning to step in and mix it." He restrained himself with some success, but even tually the ring held too big an attraction for him.
Cup for the runners-up presented by the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotwal, C.M.G., President of the Hong Kong Boy Scouts Association went to the Sea Scouts.
The whole question of sub-titles might well be discussed in relation to The Magnificent Filrt." Several Association records were
Here is a polished, light and broken at the meeting. The 30 amusing fim in which Miss Flor- yards back stroke was won by Ipence, Vidor plays the part of a Kwan Hung in record time, while sophisticated French-woman with a string of admirers, and a regular the Inter Troop Relay Race, won technique both for acquiring new by the 14th Troop, was also accom- ones and for disposing of old ones, She wears beautiful clothes, in plished in record time,
habits an elegant dat, her gestures and her bearing are distinguished. She also has a charming daughter,. played by one of the prettiest and most 'natural
the younger actresses, Miss Loretin Young.
The story is trivial but elever, just steers clear of impropriety in the manner of the best French farces, and has been ingeniously and smoothly put on the screen by its director, Mr. d'Abbadie d'Arrast.
Major is back again and in the opening tourney, his supporters will see him matched against A. B. Vahey of the Seraph. They will try conclusions over six round contest in the bantam-weight class. At the conclusion of the Sports, Major and Vahey are both good Rev. G. T. Waldergrave, Commis lads. They have put in a great deal of honest training. Old Harry sioner of the Hong Kong Scouts, Major, as he is known, has been thanked the V.R.C. for the loan of sparring with Morris and is likely the bath, and those who had help- to ent-fight Vahey. He has had more ring-craft and bad at ceed to make the occasion a success. time fought in the feather-weight Mrs. Lin Ping Chaea was
thanked for distributing the prizes. Mr. Lin Ping Chuer is the Prezi dent of the 25th Troop.
class.
Shons of HMS. "Seraph."
Castle would have to be a castle
The prize-winners were lower-
The Results.
troops
Hong Kong, etc.
aiso
ax fol-
O
in 1784
your reasonable service.
NON-STOP MUSIC BY GRAMOPHONE.
RECORDS ON COILS OF THREAD. WHOLE OPERÄ "REELED OFF."
Gramophones that can play a whole opera without stopping to change needles are a possibility of the near future, thanks to a British invention by which a coil tapecial ly, prepared thread replaces the ordinary disc records. ·
One coil of thread, weighing a fow ounces, it is clalined, will hold as much music as ten disc records.
The new device is easily adaptable to the ordinary gramophone by 15 means of 1 special attachment
costing a few shillings.
And
textbook
It is claimed that it will be pos
portable
4 thread coil may be dropped gramophone; and knocked "about without being
can be mended without making any hoticeable effect on the record.
spoiled. If the thread is broken it
our present-day countrymen, but tough he were dead, you shall he our ancestors who lived, when
Among the citations which com Squire Western may still have been carousing in Somerset, and Tom prised the Lessen-Sermon was the seech you therefore, brethren, by peacefully married to his Sophia.
Mr. Wendeborn, Minister to the the mercies of God, that ye present German Church on Ludgate Hill your bodies a living acrifice, holy for two decades, was a abrewd ob acceptable unto God, which server of the pation among whom he had settled, and his conclusions be not conformed to this world: ate set out in A View of England but be ve transformed by the resible to carry twelve hours music towards the close of the Eigh-newing of your mind, that ye may in thread records in a teenth Century," which appeared prove what is that good, and as ceptable, and perfect, will of God." Some illuminating extracts from (Rom 12: 1.9).
The Lesson-Seriton also includ the German edition of this booked the following passages from are given by Mr. P. E. Matheson
Science the Christian in the October number of the Science and Health with Key to Cornhill Magazine. Our schools,
Years of research work have been our dress, our tastes in food and the Scriptures, by Mary Baker
first patent was taken out five deiak are commented on by a visi. Eddy: "Paut had a clear sense of devoted to the new system, and the tor who seems to have been both the demands of Truth apos mortals years ago, when a telephone con-
in his physically and spiritually, when he broad-minded and exact
said: "Present your bodies a live versation was successfully recorded
on thread. ing sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto
Other Wendeborn
interesting discerns
possibilities God, which is your reasonable ger-
arise from the invention. A busi-" great merits in the English school. vice. But he, who is begotten of First, boys of all classes wear the beliefs of the desh and serves
ness man could dictate his office their hair merely combed and them, can never reach in this world correspondence at home and carry brushed back a little, but without the divine heights of our Lord." it to his obce typist in his jacket being dressed or powdered. I
pocket. The entire day's correspon- dence of the busiest man 'could, it could wish that this laudable habit (P. 35).
is claimed," be recorded on two were copied in Germany, where the
or three thread coils weighing half boys are taught early to admire the follies of France. Secondly, to
a pound. bring them up naturally, they are dressed as lightly as possible, so far as the climate allows.....
surveys, Mr.
two
And So To Bed. "Their waistcoats are not but- toned over the chest, and they are allowed to go without a stock and with their shirt collar quite open.
While the Eaglish boy jumps into bed in bis plain shirt open at the neck, it is often the practice
Like A Rustic Flapper. Only "when sub-titles the
in heroine addresses the equally. flirta- tious hero does The Magnificent Flirt become ordinary, even vul gar. The hero tells her that she is the most marvellous woman he has ever met. Instead of saying some- thing deft, provocative, aflusive as zuch a woman's whole character should induce her to do, Miss Vidor is given this speech. "How many other women have you told that
weather. itship:ist, Chan Ki Cheung (14th). A rustic flapper might be excused
The record is held by A. May (4th) for saying this, but, not an accom
plished heart-breaker. with 70 sees. established in 1929.
Junior Diving:-1st, Ip Pin Kee (7th), 83 points.
he · 100
Yards Senior
Champion
I am glad to see Shons of H. M.S Seraph is back again. He is a pug nacious fighter, and those who suw him in action last season, will no doubt be glad to know that he is
In the results giver below, the fighting a ten-round contest in the feather-weight class. His opponent various
will be denoted will be B. Castle, ut H.M.S.by(S.) des Scouts, (14th) 14th Cumberland. indeed if he is to stand up against 1st, Chan Ki Cheang.
30 Yards Senior Championship: Shons. Full of tactics and won-
30 Yards Junior Back Stroke: derful stamina in taking any amount of punishment, Shons 113, Kwok Ying Tai never happier than when
in the Paneity in action does not appeal to Shoes, as was clearly shown in his fight against Davies last year, Fraser has also made his bow to which fight, boxing fans unanimous Hong Kong and is the presently declared to be the best of the holder of the welter-weight title. season...
In this connection. I must say that he did not have to fight very hard to annex the title. He had only to beat Whitey Roberts, of the C.S.S. Black Hawk who was not much of a boxer.
However, from what I have seen of Morris and Fraser in action, have no doubt that these two old timers will give each other a ding dong battle. They are both in ex-| cellent trin and are going through some hard training. There is just the chance that Frazer might prove too slow for Morris,
་་་
very
thick
of
Castle, 1 understand, has been doing quite well in Shanghai. He is said to have a hefty left and has. iseen known to dispose of his man in two rounds.
50
Yards
Life Saving Rave:-st, Wong Kai Choy (14th).
Junior Champion ship:-1at, Ip Pia Kee (7th). The record is held by A. McCubbin with 33 secs, established in 1997.
Scouters, Cubbers and Rovers A. D. Moore, of the Cumberlani,
Race ist, Ho Pak Ping (13th), and A. B. Saunders, of the Seraph, 32.3-3 sets, The record is held by will fight ten rounds in the welter-Ho Pak Ping, when in 1926 he weight contest.
Both contestants are keen fighters covered the course in 32.2-5 secs. and are training hard. Saunders, it will be remembered threw up the sponge to de Silva the Portuguese
boxer last season.
Another six round contest will he Piper Smith, of the between K.O.S.B. and Gunner Avis of the are evenly matched and a good fight is likely
RGLA.
to result.
These lads
WHY HAVE A NEW GOLF | CANTON "ATHLETES' VISIT.
BALL?
BASKET BALL, VOLLEY BALL
30 Yards Senior Back Stroke :- 1st, Ip Kwa Hung (14th).
Senior Diving:-1st, Chan Ki Cheung (14th)."
Inter-Troop Relay. Race: -1st. 14th Hong Kong, 91 secs. ; 2nd, Sca Scouts, 93.1.5 seen 3rd, 4th Hong Kong.
Obstacle Race:-lat nad 2nd places taken by the Sea Scouts.
The Bird Challenge Cup:-14th Troop.
The Presidents. Cup: The Sea Scouts
HOCKEY.
The lack of imagination, the lack of probability of such sub-titles one can perhaps pass over in the But what of the ordinary film.
minent, when titles will be repro- time. which we are told is im-
deced audibly 1. Either we shall find them very boring, or the film producers will have to find some new, intelligent and creative title- writers.
Good Young Actor.
•
63
A
CYNICAL LONDON.
AMERICAN RELIGIOUS METHODS FAIL.
The thread is of fine silvery tex-
A person in England could send coils to relatives abroad, who could. reproduce on their gramophones a message in the actual voice of the sender, at a cost only slightly, more . LONDON, Oct. 8th. Thousands of people rushed the than the letter postage. doors at the Albert Hall yesterday ture. The indentations made by evening when Mrs. Aimee Me the voice waves are only visible un- Pherson, the evangelist, opened a
der a powerful microscope. It re six weeks'
Great campaign in Britain. The police, fearing that sembles a very fine violin string or a panic would occur, closed the grey hair. doors. When eventually the doors were re-opened the hall was pack-
a few minutes ed within It is a mistake, to think that throngs were turned away. the English are melancholy A large choir sang for an hour until the appearance of Mrs. Me was attired in a Pherson, who
black white dress covered by cloak.
In the course of an impassioned address, she went so far as to im
the executioners of personate Christ
in Germany to send children to bed dressed as it they were going coach in cold for a drive ont
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people. They love their pleasures; artisans and apprentices alike are all for holidays, and a classes are full of eurosity, credulity, and the love of new things.
Apparently the German minister was sometimes offended with the capital, for he declares: "The further you go from. London, the purer you and both air and man- ners: the people are more polite, agreeable and sociable."
If there was one thing on which the English were positive, it was that "there is nothing so splen. did as
vast had cooked round of beef and a 10b, plum pudding. and then he mentions the drink that washed down this fore.
Wind And Song.
In taverns
anding CENTRAL 30. For:-
The Daily Express and the Daily Telegraph agree that as the service proceeded enthusiam waned, for obviously the methods which are attractive to Americans were less successful with the English. The With the progress of the plot of
Daily Mail, in the course of a con- "The Magnificent Flirt," the
temptuous report, says that Mrs. dramatic interest passer from the
McPherson talked like a "school adventures of the mother to those
marm" from the Middle West. of the daughter and her boy sweet;
Sir Sidney Low, writing in the "Nearly every sort of red wine Mirror, says that he found neither tor this. by name Mr. Matt Kemp.
is to be had in London: the com- eloquence. learning, wit nor style heart, a most engaging young ac Boy and girl love has seldom been.
monest is port, and to my mind it in Mrs. McPherson, but he is con- more truthfully or more touching is that which goes best with Engvinced of her sincerity. The Times ly depicted on the screen than in
fish food. It is stronger than the ignored the service. some of the scenes here, which al-French wines, and for this reason most compare with that mast is thought to be better for digest lyrical of all film wooings, when
ing strong meat... John Gilbert, and Norma Shearer and coffee houses most of the pro-mouth before the sailor throws his are hardy out of the captain's met each other in the woods, in
f is made on the wine. The price hat and wig, if he wears them, on "He Who Gets Slapped."
of a bottle of part is s. ed."
deck, and is soon half-way up the Miss Del Rio's "Ramona."
mast; while the German or Dutch sailor wastes a good deal of time The part of the half Indian girl which Dolores del Rio plays in
tying on his hat or cap, buttoning "Ramona," is not as well round
his coat, and measuring the height ed, as human as that which she
of the mast with his eyes."
Finally. "if
Englishman At the House ground on the 28th took in "Resurrection. In fact, instant the University Hockey 2nd "Ramona" is romantically pretty
speaks less, he often talks more pretty free from the sense in ten words than others in XI. defeated the Kowloon Indian rather than a great picture on the
wbo poets
a hundred. If he assures me with goals to whole, though at the height of the trifling Anacreontic Association by 2
wine and a word and a grasp of the hand that he is my friend, I trust his Messrs. C. W. Lam and D. Roy misfortunes which befal the heroine write of nothing but
scorers for the University and her Indian husband Miss del love." side. The game was fast and to Rio touches dramatic greatness. One sentence reveals in a few word more than any number of idle
too in the Poetry there is
words the spirit which made Eng. compliments.' The visitors volley baft team de-
wards the end of a very exciting
It seems, on the whole, that our game the visitors made a final glimpses of the life of a typical land's maritime greatness. Rames to fcated St. Paul's two
Their match with China effort to level up and a regular rich Spanish landowner in earlier English sailor is ordered to climb forefathers were not bad fellows. Rabbit on a fine sunny day bang one.
ene mêlé ensued near the home goal Californian days, with its sheep- aloft in stormy weather, the words At least they were able to enforce
(Continued on next Column), the respect of the foreigner. goon the ball about 300 yards down! Athletic was left drawn at
just as the referee's, whistle blew shearing festival, its colour, and the first fairway, and be immediate amo all owing to light failing.
dignity, the olive-skinned servants, At tennis the visitors were de- for time.
the wandering Indians. Mr. War- ly sets about growing a crop of
ner Baxter, as the Indian hero, re- tigers' whiskers, which, of course, feated by St. Paul's. hurts Mr. Tiger's pride.
presentative of that strange, proud race now almost gone for ever, makes a compelling figure.
PLEA FOR LEAVING WELL-
ALONE.
UNEASY RABBITS."
Brer Our old golfing friend, Rabbit, is not too happy with him- self these days. And no smal! wonder either. For the "Tigers! are after his blood!..
One can scarcely blame the "Tigers," of course. Out goes Brer
"Now, now, my little man," he says, that has got to stop. And the way to stop it is to give you a larger and a lighter ball. You won't hit that so far, and it won't be so easy to control.'
Golf Olympians."-
AND TENNIS.
The basket ball and volley ball teams of Chung Shan University, Canton, visited the Colony last week and played several matches
with local teams..
At basket ball Chung Shan heat Chiza Athletic. by 81-96; St. Paul's College by 31-17 and. Ying Wa College 39-19.
Too Easy!
In championship after champion- ship and tournament after tourna ment the expert band go forth and prove to the world that the game, of golf and the present ball are their masters, and yet they have the effrontery to argue that the game is
UNIVERSITY 2ND XI. BEAT
were
KOWLOON LA.
HARDER-TO-DRIVE GOLF BALL.
AMERICAN "PROPOSAL TO MAKE IT MORE DIF FICULT.
Miss Poulton's Acting. Among the new films without doubt the English picture based on Miss Margaret Kennedy's novel, "The Constant Nymph comes So the Olympians who guard our
Informal and desultory discus first in point of interest; the novel sions which have been proceeding itself was so widely read and dis golfing destinies in the holy of
for a considerable time between holies in the auld grey town of St.
If St. Andrew's is prepared to
for so long and was so highly Andrew's get busy in an effort to pander to a small band, whose chief American and British golfers concussed, the play based on it ran appease Mr. Tiger's wrath, and reason for playing golf is the money standard golf ball,, to make long-casion of the entry of Mr. Basil
cerning the adoption of a new
praised, and the film was the or immediately send Mr. Norman Bonse
the cinema scurrying away across the Atlantic they make out of the game directly distance hitting more difficult, are
tu say about it all.
all so serious it
funny.
too easy!
But
Were it not vast majority who are the backbone tailed stage. The United States chiefly it will be the acting of Miss
of the game, than it will
*
gravely misinterpreted facts as they that the size of the new ball has heroine which will remain longest
in mind. exist, and will bare laid the first not yet been definitely passed. Well, Mr. Bouse has come back stone of its own mausoleum.
The game of golf at the present The preserit Ball weighs 1.82
There are scenes of exquisite from the United States of America. and he tells us that we shall know moment is in a more healthy and punces and has a diameter of 1.32 beauty at the beginning of this all about this larger, and lighter virile state than it has ever been inches. It is not difficult for pro- picture, taken against Tyrolean ball-the proposal is to replace the before. For pity's sake, then, cut fessionals and players like Bobby backgrounds The unafferted way Jones to hit this ball so far as to in which Ivor Novello plays present 1.82 x 1.62 by one of 1.88 the cackle and leave it alone!
render many hazards largely in the part of the musician hero, be 1.65-in' three or four months' time. What, too, of the golf ball manu- That means round about the Newfacturers? Any alteration in the effective. It is proposed to adopt sides the convincing and natural manner in which almost all the Year, but St. Andrew's can take it present ball is going to cost then a larger ball, which could not be now, without the trouble of going thousands on thousands of pounds. driven so far, even by the best other roles are drawn and played, makes of "The Constant Nymph' into a prolonged discussion, that Are they to be ignored? The bene players.
Bobby Jones is understood to a picture which is at once unusual the general body of golfers does not valent co-operation of golf ball
and arresting. want this larger and lighter ball.
manufacturers has meant much to favour the new ball as giving a
It is not dramatic and perhaps Boiled down to hard facts, what St. Andrew's in their deliberations better test of golf, Most officials the question resolves itself into is in the past. It will be but a poor of the United States Golf Associa insufficiently crisp for those who simply this that 90 per cent. of return for them if they are left out tion, too, are believed to be pri- have not read the book and con golfers, who are entirely satisfied in the cold on this all-important vately supporting the agitation, sequently do not know the story. which, however, is opposed by a But there are a dozen good things with the present ball, are to be
large number of mediocre players.in it, including the extremely well dictated to by a 10 per cent, who, in an arrogance totally unsupported
It is estimated that there are be- satirised highbrow evening party 3,000,000 And 4,000,000 and the glimpses of the heroine at by facts, contend that the game is
tween
in golf players duffer"
the the elegant boarding school which
he so much dislikes United States. (Continued on next Column).
too easy.
question.
No, St. Andrew's would be well advised to leave well alone. Let the rabbits" carry on growing their "tiger's" whiskers. That won't do any harm
He complains sorrowfully that many of the nobility put sugar in their Rhenish, wine to make it more palatable; and then suggests that the dearness of this and French wines may be the reason why the country is
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