HOME FOOTBALL.
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH LEAGUES.
TO-MORROW'S PROGRAMME,
Fixtures for to-morrow in
RECREIO ENTERTAIN.
LAWN BOWLS AND SPORTS MEETING.
WEEK-END PROGRAMME.
The Club de Recreio are celebrat-
League football at Home in which ing their closing day for lawn bowls
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 1928.
CONCERT AT HELENA MAY
INSTITUTE.
LARGE AND APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE.
The concert, arranged by M. and Mme. Bonenfant, given yesterday afternoon in the Helena May In. stitute was in every way a success.
all divisions have a full programine/ with an "At Home" to the members The room was crowded well before
are as under :-
ENGLISH LEAGUE
Division I
Arsenal. Sheffield £7. Birmingham West Ham. Blackburn . Bury. Bolton Leeds L.
Derby v. Leicester.
Everton Cardiff.
Huddersfield 1. Burnley. Manchester C. . Nowcastle. Portsmouth v. Liverpool. Wednesday r. Manchester U. .Sunderland r. Aston Villa,
Division I.
Barnsley Middlesbro'.“ Blackpool . Reading. Bradford Holl. Bristol C. t. Oldham. Chelsea . Preston N.E. Clapton. Notts C. Grimsby r. Port Vale Notts F. Southampton. Stoker. Millwall. Swansea r. Tottenham. West From. E. Wolves.
(Southern).
Division Bournemouth Walsall, Brentford v. Newport Brighton v. Fulham. Charlton . Gillingham. Coventry . Swindon. Exeter . Queen's P.R. Luton Crystal P. Merthyr . Watford, Northampton. Torquay. Norwich. Plymouth. Southend v. Bristol R.
División III. (Northern). Ashington . Rotherham Barrow. Hartlepools. Chesterfield. v. Accrington." Darlington . Tranmere. Doncaster e. Carlisle. Nelson Crewe. New Brighton r. Lincoln. Rochdale. Halifax. Southport Stockport. South Shields . Wigan. Wrexham. Bradford C.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE.
Division I
Aberdeen z. Celtic.
Clyde . Dundee.
Falkirk Rangers
Hamilton . Hibernians. Hearta, v. Motherwell.
Kilmarnock . Queen's Park.
Partick v. Ayr, Raith. Airdrie.
St. Johnatone. Cowdenbeath, Third Lanark y. St. Mitren.
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ENGLAND - BEATS SCOTLAND.
THROUGH BEUTER'S ADENCY.)
LONDON, Nov. 7th.
of other Clubs to-morrow afternoon Several rink games have been arranged between the home players
and the visitors
On Sunday they are holding their first annual athletic sports on their ground at King's Park Included ia the programme is a relay race open to all Clubs, bongs or unita Teams of four will compete, two over 20 yards and two 440 yards.
As winners of the junior League this season, the Club will receive the shield from the Lawn Bowls Association at the close of the games to-morrow. The opportunity will be taken to congratulate the Club on the wonderful record put up by the "A" team in winning the cham pionship and qualifying for promus tion to the senior division next year
The Recreio "A" team lost three games early in the season and then settled down to a sequence of wins, being the only team to be unbeaten at home. Their record during the season is interesting and worthy of publication. The matches are shown in the order in which they were played.
W: L. For Agat.
65 TO 78 42 80 37 9 38 2348 69
(a) v. E. P.R.C..... (h)r. K.C.C....... 34. — (h) . C.C.C. 43
(a) r. Rec. "B"
(a), K.B.G.C. (a) R. H.K.Y.C. (h). E. P.R.C.... (a), C.C.C. (h). T.RC....... (h). C.S.C.C.... 23 (h) v. Rec. "B"... 33 (a) v. 0.8.C.C..... 13 (h) v. K.B.G.O.... 14 (1) 1. K.C.C. ......... '39. (a). T.R.C....... 99 (h).. R.H..Y.C. 27
100, 37 99 26 8D 40
82 48
53
69
34
71 42 43
Total 492 29 1113 718
Majority 395 shots. Winning average per match 24.69 shots.
* Walk over.
"SPOONERISMS."
GOLDEN WEDDING, OF A
"FAMOUS DIVINE.
It is the fortune of very few men to give a word to the English lan- guage. Dr. Spooner, who did so, now lives in retirement at Oxford, and there, with his wife, recently celebrated his golden wedding.
Dr."Spooner was for twenty years Warden of New. College," "but be will live through the word "Spoonerism," which was coined to describà a forty years ago ludicrous form of metathesis, or the transposing of initial letters to Playing in fine weather at Bir-form a laughable combination. mingham before an attendance of 25,000, the English League football team beat the Scottish League tributed to him, and Oxford under
graduates have been accused of players by two goals to one.
foisting "spoonerisms" on him. Be that as it may, there is little doubt that this story of the doctor's absent-mindedness is a legend
HOCKEY.
Dr. Spooner, who is 84, has from time to time denied the authorship of many of the slips of speech at
MIXED MATCH ON SATURDAY, Spooner is alleged to hire blushed
One day when asked by a young lady if he liked bananas; Dr. furiously and said, "I'm afraid I always wear the old-fashioned The Hong Kong ladies are play-night-shirt."
Here are some "spoonerisms," ing a mixed team on Saturday next, November 10th, at King's which may or may not be from the Park at 4. 15.
lips of the doctor:-
The teams chosen are as follows: Hong Kong Ladies:-M. Wallace, B. Laing, E. Cousins, A. Owen Hughes, E. R. Bell, E J. Coppia, 10. Bell, N. McNeillie, D. Stanion, M. Riggs, Mrs. M. J. Jarvis.
Mixed Team:-W. Borrowman,
D. Lyon, W. Woodward, O'Hageit, D. 4. Dand, M. Bird, A. C. Howell, J. Whyte, D. O. Francis, M. Hansen, G. E. Dirett..
"Shoving Leopard.**
the starting time and several extra te had to be placed in the gang-
way.
M. and Mme. Bonenfant were: assisted by Mrs. Bowes-Smith, and the programme was made up of piano, cello, and sings. M. Bonen-
fant the 'celist-made his frat public appearance, and all who heard him will hope that he will soon be a familiar figure on Hong Kong con- cert stages. A certain hesitation and lack of force in his playing was doubtless due to his unse eustomed
prominence, but with Madame to play his всестран ments and a memory of the recep tion ho had yesterday this weak- ness is not likely to be noticeable next time he plays in public.
Madame Bonenfant is of course
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used to the concert stage. Her rendering of "Tw5
dances
Spanish
by Granados gained parti- DO NOT MISS THESE LINES. ALWAYS SOMETHING USEFUL.
cular applause, and the Rachmani- no "Elegie" was also appreci ated. Her sympathetic accompani ment and partnership made the Boelmana Sonata, which she "played as a duet with her husband on the 'cello, one of the best items of the programme.
O Mrs. Bowes-Smith no more can be said than to repeat that, as always, she delighted her audience in every song" Her voice and execution were particularly good in "Deux Bergerettes" of Weckerlin and " Mainan dites moi" which was given as an encore. The dit- cult but very charming "At the Well" of Hageman was also rap- turously applauded.
So signal a success at the first concert of their season gives pro- mise that the musical programmes Arranged by the Helena May In stituté will more than maintain the reputation of former years, and the pext concert on November 22nd is being eagerly awaited by music lovers of the Colony.
Programme.
1.-(a) Larghetto
Handel..
(b) Prélude ............ A. Liadow:
Cello: M. Bonenfant. 2.-(a) La Procession ....Franck.
(b) Deux Bergerettes
Weckerlin.
Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith. 2-(a) Elegie ...... Rachmaninof.
(4) Two Spanish Dances
Granados.
Madame Bonenfant. -(a) A Birthday Song
MacFadyen. (b) At the Well....... Engeman:
Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith.
6-Sonata for Piano and 'Cello
L. Boêlimano." (a) Maestoso-Allegro con fuoco., (b) Andante. (e) Allegro Molto.
M. and Mme. Bonenfant.
LOST FORMULA IN DESK.
SECRET PROCESS OF AN OLD ART.
REVIVAL HOPES,
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Pontypool solicitor.
Mr. Bythway found the docu- He is supposed once to have said, to his father. The formula, ap- ment among old papėrs belonging Yes, indeed, the Lord is a shoving parently, had been purchased by leopard." Almost as bad was his his father from an old employee announcement of the hyum from of the producing works. the pulpit as "Kankering kongs, It was believed that the secret their titles take." On another De- died with the last member of the casion be is supposed to have refer- family of Allgoods, who produced red to the "Reversed vision of the the ware at Pontypool and Usk Bible."
for two hundred years. He exclaimed once that "It is
Connoisseurs and antiquarians empty work preaching to beery had long given up hope of hnding wenches," meaning that it WE the secret, and it is believed that
UNI..... REAT GARRISON" weary work preaching to empty |tinplate manufacturers are
SERGEANTS.
benches" Ee also asked his under graduates if any of them had over peep & hall warmed fish in his breast."
Ia a match at Pokfulam, on Wednesday, the University
Dr. Spooner, so the legend goes, defeated the team from Garrison once had a maiden aunt who receiv- Sergeants Mess by five goals to filed this greeting: "I am delighted The score, however, is no indication to see you looking as hairless and of the game, which was well con-cappy as ever." His "well boiled tested throughout, the University circle" and "blushing crow," are only managing to put in a solitary chestnuts, but many of the best gual during the first half. It was Spooneriams are an oral, not mot until late in the progress of the game that the University for printed, or printable tradition.
wards get into the mood for ac cardie passing, which, combined with good shooting on the part of Adants, Gan and Roy, was instra mental in bringing up the score to five goals.
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XVIII of France, the Duke of HUNDREDS OF OTHERS. NEW VALUES CONSTANTLY ARRIVING.
The process, which consists of hard-glazed lacquer work upon tin- plate, was invented in 1660 by Thomas Allgood, a native of Northampton, who was in the em- of the Hanbury family, of pool, the pioneers of the tifiplate industry in this country.
The Japan whre neieved a great reputation if this country and on "PLANTATION VARIATIONS" the Continett, and aiming the col
lectora of it were Eing Lönis Wellington, and Beaufort.
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ST. ANDREW'S YOUNG MEN Jack Caster's "Serenaders" gave
T.M.C.A
a new programme at the Star Theatre last night entitled Planta
the Duke of
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